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Friday, August 07, 2009

Hey, Just Like Most Police Internal Investigations

When a cop is accused of some nefarious doings, say shooting and killing an unarmed suspect, and citizens demand an investigation, an internal investigation is often inititated. Nine times out of ten, the internal investigators, fellow cops all, make public their findings of no wrong doing. Things work exactly the same if an individual is part of the congressional club.

Panel: Senators’ VIP loans broke no Senate rules

Posted by John Venlet on 08/07 at 12:56 PM
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Massive, Passive, Civil Disobedience Now, or Armed Civil War

Back in 1996, Billy Beck wrote a piece, in response to a Usenet post, titled “Too Late For a Political Solution?” I’ve had this post bookmarked for a number of years, and I occasionally re-read it as I observe the freedom destroying events taking place on a daily basis here in the United States. Billy’s piece is distinctly more relevant today.

This commentary by Billy is particularly relevant today as so-called debates about DeathCare, and other State programs which destroy productivity and reward incompetence, degenerate into anger, physical violence and arrests, as I noted in my previous post titled Tick, Tick, Tick. And make no mistake, politically things are tick, tick, ticking into some type of confrontation.

Tea parties, letters to Congressmen, townhall meetings and the like, news of which only make it into media headlines when uncivility rears its head, are ineffective and simply relieve pressure, temporarily, from the dissatisfaction actual freedom honoring individuals are burdened by.

Politically, life for individuals is becoming increasingly restrained and gagged. Note the protests against cash for clunkers, bailouts of financial instiutions and what have you. Have the protests against such forced socialist programs had any traction? No, those who protest are laughed at, ignored, or, as in regards to Obama’s DeathCare program, those who criticize, pointing out the fallacies and implicit dangers of the State’s ideology, are flagged as dangers to the State’s grip around your neck.

I’d quote from Billy’s piece, but his insights deserve full review, so I shall not. It is time for massive, passive, civil disobedience, now, or armed civil war will be brought to fruition.

Posted by John Venlet on 08/07 at 10:28 AM
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Cloud Ships - Definitely a Scheme

The “global warming” alarmists, and their coterie of adherents, just do not give up in their attempts to further their agenda. Of course the alarmists’ agenda always is funded with dollars from actual productive members of society, stolen or otherwise misappropriated for our own good, so they say.

Here is the latest scheme.

Ships with giant funnels which travel the world’s seas creating more clouds to deflect the sun’s rays could help cut global warming, say scientists.

Here’s Bjorn Lomborg’s take, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, on cloud ships.

“The space sunshade is really just science fiction but cloud whitening ships deserve serious scrutiny,” he told The Times.

Here’s a question for Bjorn. If space sunshades are “really just science fiction,” why in the world should any individual give such a scheme any serious scrutiny what-so-ever, let alone any funding?

‘Cloud ship’ scheme to deflect the sun’s rays is favourite to cut global warming

Posted by John Venlet on 08/07 at 07:44 AM
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That Obama/Joker Poster

Best comment on the Obama/Joker poster, so far.

...the other question is whether there are any real substantive comparisons between Obama and the Joker. On the surface, they don’t seem at all alike. The Joker is psychotic, and I’ve heard Obama called a lot of things — arrogant, incompetent, deceitful, a Communist — but not psychotic. Obama doesn’t seem like he’s out to kill anyone — not even terrorists — and only leaves the option of killing people on the table to help make ends meet in his health care plan.

Also, the Joker seemed chaotic but was very careful in his planning, while the chaos from the Obama administration seems much more explainable by pure incompetence.

Furthermore, the Joker was actually somewhat subtle in how he tried to destroy Gotham by psychologically breaking down the will of its people, but Obama’s methods for destroying everything are a bit more ham-fisted, such as proposing expensive new programs while we’re already hugely in debt. Finally, the Joker has always been depicted with normal-sized ears.

From a piece by Frank J. Fleming titled Is Obama Really Like the Joker?

Via Reynolds.

Posted by John Venlet on 08/07 at 06:28 AM
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