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Combined State and Local Sales Taxes: Here are the states with the lowest and highest sales tax.

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Today we released a new report on local sales taxes, which updates a study we published in February. The new report updates the state and local sales tax rates across the country and ranks each state on its combined state rate and average local rate……………

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Shaking Up The GOP Field

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After his win today in Florida’s Presidency 5 straw poll, former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain declared, “This is a sign of our growing momentum and my candidacy that cannot be ignored.” With all due respect to Mr. Cain, it is more likely a sign that none of the candidates have been able to gain any lasting momentum and there is still no clear frontrunner whose message, skills and record are good enough for primary voters.

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THE 144,000 SEALED

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Washington Post Column: President Obama shouldn’t be afraid of a little class warfare

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On Monday, defending his plan to raise taxes on the rich to pay for job creation, President Obama said: “This is not class warfare, it’s math.”

No, Mr. President, this is class warfare — and it’s a war you’d better win. Corporate interests and the rich started it. Right now, they’re winning. Progressives and the middle class must fight back, and the president should be clear whose side he’s on.

The class war began in 1971. That year, soon-to-be Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. wrote a confidential memorandum to a friend at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce about the “Attack of the American Free Enterprise System.” In the mid-20th century — from the New Deal to Social Security to environmental and civil rights laws — the government had cut into corporate profits while creating middle-class prosperity. Falsely believing that capitalism was under attack, Powell wrote: “It must be recognized that businessmen have not been trained or equipped to conduct guerrilla warfare with those who propagandize against the system.” His proposal, from which the modern conservative movement grew, was to equip business elites for that battle with aggressive policies to make Americans believe that what’s good for wealthy chief executives is good for them, too.

Between 1979 and 2007, the income gap between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the poorest 40 percent more than tripled. Today, the richest 10 percent of Americans control two-thirds of the nation’s wealth, while, according to recently released census data, average Americans saw their real incomes decline by 2.3 percent in 2010. Though our economy grew in 2009 and 2010, 88 percent of the increase in real national income went to corporate profits, one study found. Only 1 percent went to wages and salaries for working people.

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Gunny G: STORY OF A MARINE WHO FOUGHT FOR THE FRENCH! (Sent to me by Ben Frank) « ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

September 24, 2011 2 comments

Gunny G: STORY OF A MARINE WHO FOUGHT FOR THE FRENCH! (Sent to me by Ben Frank)

March 1, 2011 Gunny G Edit Wednesday, April 23, 2003

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COLONEL PETER JULIEN ORTIZ, OSS MARINE

Written by Benis Frank, a now retired Marine Corps historian

While preparing the Marine POWs appendix for Victory and Occupation,

vol. V of History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II, to

locate the names and places of the various POW camps in which Marines

were incarcerated, I had to use the casualty report prepared by the

Reports and Statistical Unit, Personnel Service Branch at Headquarters

Marine Corps. This report was prepared in 1952, and is the final

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POTUS Usurper Chester Arthur Forced Military To Salute British Flag.

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POTUS Usurper Chester Arthur Forced Military To Salute British Flag.

POTUS Usurper Chester Arthur Forced Military To Salute British Flag.:

Back in December, this blog broke the story that former US President Chester Arthur lied – in newspaper interviews with the Brooklyn Eagle – about his parental heritage. These lies covered up the fact that Chester Arthur, at the time of his birth, was a British Subject due to the fact that his father, William Arthur, was not a US citizen at the time Chester was born.

This fact, had it been discovered back when Chester Arthur was running for Vice President, would have been an impediment to his nomination.

As fate would have it, Chester Arthur became President when Garfield was assassinated by a rabid Chester Arthur supporter.

Recently, there has been attempts in the main stream media (Colbert Report and AP propaganda) to normalize the fact that Chester Arthur served as President while also being a closet British subject…..

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The American `allergy’ to global warming: Why? (barf)

September 24, 2011 1 comment

NEW YORK -Tucked between treatises on algae and prehistoric turquoise beads, the study on page 460 of a long-ago issue of the U.S. journal Science drew little attention.

“I don’t think there were any newspaper articles about it or anything like that,” the author recalls.

But the headline on the 1975 report was bold: “Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” And this article that coined the term may have marked the last time a mention of “global warming” didn’t set off an instant outcry of angry denial.—

EDITOR’S NOTE: Climate change has already provoked debate in a U.S. presidential campaign barely begun. An Associated Press journalist draws on decades of climate reporting to offer a retrospective and analysis on global warming and the undying urge to deny.—

In the paper, Columbia University geoscientist Wally Broecker calculated how much carbon dioxide would accumulate in the atmosphere in the coming 35 years, and how temperatures consequently would rise. His numbers have proven almost dead-on correct. Meanwhile, other powerful evidence poured in over those decades, showing the “greenhouse effect” is real and is happening. And yet resistance to the idea among many in the U.S. appears to have hardened.

What’s going on?

“The desire to disbelieve deepens as the scale of the threat grows,” concludes economist-ethicist Clive Hamilton.

He and others who track what they call “denialism” find that its nature is changing in America, last redoubt of climate naysayers. It has taken on a more partisan, ideological tone. Polls find a widening Republican-Democratic gap on climate. Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry even accuses climate scientists of lying for money. Global warming looms as a debatable question in yet another U.S. election campaign.

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BILL MAHER, MICHAEL MOORE BACK TONY BENNETT ON HIS AMERICA ‘CAUSED’ 9/11 COMMENTS

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BILL MAHER, MICHAEL MOORE BACK TONY BENNETT ON HIS AMERICA ‘CAUSED’ 9/11 COMMENTS

BILL MAHER, MICHAEL MOORE BACK TONY BENNETT ON HIS AMERICA ‘CAUSED’ 9/11 COMMENTS:

Bill Maher and controversial filmmaker Michael Moore defended singer Tony Bennett’s earlier comments this week that America “caused” the Sept. 11 attacks.

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A No Confidence Vote in Orlando [Kristol: Cain Vote Just Means "None of The Above"]

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A No Confidence Vote in Orlando SEP 24, 2011 • BY WILLIAM KRISTOL

Having watched the debate Thursday night, and having heard the candidates speak and having mingled with them over the subsequent couple of days, 70 percent of the activists attending the Florida Republican gathering this weekend cast a vote of no confidence in the two GOP frontrunners.

So, with all the usual caveats about not over-interpreting straw polls, I’d suggest:

1. There is resistance to both Rick Perry (15 percent) and Mitt Romney (14 percent). Perry’s poor debate performance hurt him—but it doesn’t seem to have redounded to Mitt Romney’s benefit. Perhaps neither Perry nor Romney will end up as the nominee. After all, the two GOP frontrunners in national polls in late September 2007 were Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. The Democratic frontrunners in a Gallup poll on September 24, 2003 were Wesley Clark and Howard Dean.

2. Herman Cain (37 percent) will obviously get a new, more serious look. Still, with all due respect to Cain, to some degree voting for him is voting for none of the above.

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CFP: Obama’s ineligibility: All members of Congress have violated their oath of office

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CFP: Obama’s ineligibility: All members of Congress have violated their oath of office

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141st Anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s death

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141st Anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s death

141st Anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s death:

Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2011 7:14:02 PM by BigReb555

General Lee died at his home at Lexington, Virginia at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, October 12, 1870.

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Over 50 ‘occupiers’ cuffed in Union Sq. chaos

September 24, 2011 1 comment

Over 50 ‘occupiers’ cuffed in Union Sq. chaos

Over 50 ‘occupiers’ cuffed in Union Sq. chaos:

The one-week Wall Street protest took a violent turn today, with a near-riot breaking out between marchers and the police.

The chaos erupted during an afternoon march of about 500 demonstrators to Union Square as part of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. Cops were seen making arrests, herding protesters onto a bus, and in one case, getting into a fistfight with one of the demonstrators. “Police are going to suppress anything that challenges the status quo,” complained college student Moses Appleton, 24, who made the pilgrimage from Virginia Beach. A police source said protesters had no permit to march, and extra cops were called in to get the crowd under control.

Cops confirmed several arrests but said a final tally wasn’t immediately available. Protesters claimed 55 people were arrested. Organizers took to Twitter to give a blow-by-blow account of the mayhem, claiming that cops were pepper-spraying women, with at least five being maced in the face. Protesters, based in Zuccotti Park, first pitched their tents Sept. 17.

As they marched, they chanted “Banks got bailed out — we got sold out!” The two-month occupation, pushed by left-leaning groups such as Adbusters, claims it seeks to “restore democracy in America.” Organizers boasted that 20,000 people would participate, but those numbers have yet to materialize.

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Canada more economically free than the United States but [...] (partial title)

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Canada more economically free than the United States but [...] (partial title)

Canada more economically free than the United States but [...] (partial title):

TORONTO, ON — Canada has surpassed the United States for levels of economic freedom, according to a new report released today by the Fraser Institute, Canada’s leading public policy think-tank.

Canada ranks sixth in the world for economic freedom with score of 7.81 while the United States fell to 10th overall with a score of 7.60, according to the Economic Freedom of the World: 2011 Annual Report.

But Canada’s score actually decreased this year from 7.95 in 2010, part of an overall decline in levels of economic freedom around the globe. This year’s report shows that the average economic freedom score worldwide fell to 6.64 in 2009 (the most recent year for which data are available) from 6.67 in 2008.

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“Lost Its Way”? ~ Some Little Known History Regarding The “R” Party! (By: Alan Stang!)

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GEORGE WASHINGTON, farewell address, Sep. 19, 1796

September 24, 2011 1 comment
GEORGE WASHINGTON, farewell address, Sep. 19, 1796
  If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. 

But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.ï…

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The Beatles Would Support Ron Paul by James E. Miller

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The Beatles Would Support Ron Paul by James E. Miller

The Beatles Would Support Ron Paul by James E. Miller:

As Ron Paul wrote in his newest book Liberty Defined:

“People must understand that we can’t use violence to have our own way over others – nor should the agents of our government have that power. Even a majority vote should never be accepted as legitimatizing government’s use of violence against the people.”

Lennon’s criticism of Chairman Mao and communism in “Revolution,” is certainly in line with Ron Paul’s beliefs. Paul has always acted on the side of liberty and decentralizing power, not empowering the state for the sake of achieving his ends. In an interview with Reason magazine:

Paul: “Martin Luther King is one of my heroes because he believed in nonviolence and that’s a libertarian principle. Rosa Parks is the same way. Gandhi, I admire. Because they’re willing to take on the government, they were willing to take on bad laws.”

Ron Paul’s position is one of peace and cooperation. The State, by definition, supersedes voluntary cooperation by establishing itself as a monopoly on coercion and violence. This has grown to include drug prohibition.

Just in the federal prison system alone there are approximately 103,000 people locked up for drug offenses, that’s 50% of the whole federal prison population…..

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AMERICANS: STUCK IN DENIAL STAGE…OR… STUCK IN TERMINAL “ACCEPTANCE” ? (CLICK PIC!)

September 24, 2011 1 comment

AMERICANS: STUCK IN DENIAL STAGE…OR… STUCK IN TERMINAL “ACCEPTANCE” ?

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Gunny G: US Constitution Not As It Was Thought To Have Been… (CLICK PIC!)

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President too Nice to His Enemies, Congresswoman Says

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Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) took President Obama to task for “being too nice to his enemies.”

“We are at war for the soul of this country,” Waters argued. “Yet, the president insists on treating those who oppose him as if they are just friends who disagree. I mean, playing golf with Boehner, inviting the boys over to watch the Super Bowl and drink beer—this is ‘pussyfooting.’”

Waters called on Obama to “show an iron fist” and “to crush the opposition under the heel of his boot.” “These people are trying to kill him,” Waters ranted. “He’s got to get them before they get him. It’s as simple as that.”

The Congresswoman said she was generally pleased with the President’s “jobs bill,” but that there were still some unanswered questions about it. “I love the president,” Waters said, “But I still need to know where’s my money in his bill? He shouldn’t be taking the support of fellow Democrats for granted. We need to get paid.”

In related news, former Ways & Means Chairman, Representative Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) was be honored by his peers in a ceremony at the House of Representatives this past week. It’s quite a turnaround from the censure Rangel received last year for tax evasion from these same peers. “To be fair, the censure may have been a bit too harsh,” said former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif). “Most of his tax evasion occurred during the Bush Administration—a time when I think we can all agree that tax dollars were being misused by an out-of-control regime. So, in a way, Charlie was merely diverting funds that otherwise would’ve been mostly wasted.”

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Panel Approves Ending Saturday Mail Delivery

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In an effort to save the failing U.S. Postal Service, a House of Representatives panel approves a bill that would end Saturday mail service.

WASHINGTON – A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday approved a bill that would end Saturday mail delivery by the U.S. Postal Service and establish a process that could lead to worker layoffs at the cash-strapped agency.

Republican lawmakers overrode the objections of their Democratic counterparts to approve the bill which would also phase out delivery to front-door mail slots as part of an overhaul of the service.

The Postal Service has seen mail volumes plummet in recent years as more customers send email and pay bills online.

The agency has said it needs to reduce payrolls by about 220,000 by 2015 and is studying thousands of post offices and about 300 processing facilities for possible closure.

“The only way out of the U.S. Postal Service’s current mess is to vastly restructure its operations, reducing the organization’s workforce and labor costs and providing it the tools needed to compete,” said subcommittee Chairman Dennis Ross.

Several lawmakers from both parties criticized the cost-focused bill proposed by Republican Darrell Issa, chairman of the powerful House Oversight Committee, saying it would limit the Postal Service’s ability to serve its customers by allowing the agency to stop delivering mail on Saturdays.

The Postal Service has asked for that authority, saying weekend mail volumes are too low to justify Saturday delivery.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican, said reducing service could cause customers to send even less mail.

Analysts have said the move to five-day mail delivery could hurt e-commerce businesses who rely on the Postal Service to carry their products to consumers.

Democrats tried to paint Issa’s bill, which moves to the full Oversight Committee for consideration, as anti-union. They pointed to a provision that would form an independent group to cut costs — including laying off workers and moving others to retirement — if the Postal Service misses mandatory payments.

Republicans said the bill would help shrink the Postal Service to a sustainable size.

Officials announced last week plans to end next-day delivery of first-class mail to reduce overnight work.

Reps. Elijah Cummings and Stephen Lynch earlier on Wednesday had announced a new bill to return to the Postal Service $6.9 billion it says it overpaid to a federal retirement fund, allow the agency to offer new products such as wine and beer, and give it more flexibility to raise rates.

Cummings said the bill, which closely follows an Obama administration plan released on Monday, would be more successful in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

The White House says its plan — which differs from the Cummings bill in that it would cut Saturday mail — would save about $20 billion in the next few years.

Democrats and the White House also want to restructure a massive, Congress-mandated payment to prefund retiree health benefits that is due at the end of September each year.

Lawmakers voted down on Wednesday a continuing budget resolution that would have extended until mid-November the deadline for this year’s $5.5 billion payment, which the Postal Service says it cannot afford.

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The Abraham factor: Defeating the West Via the Womb – the Islamic Invasion

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The Abraham factor: Defeating the West Via the Womb – the Islamic Invasion

The Abraham factor: Defeating the West Via the Womb – the Islamic Invasion

VJDEO !!!!!

by Chuck Ness

While the citizens of Western civilizations have been preoccupied with their own selfish interests, those of the Islamic world have been busy populating a world their children and grandchildren will control. In America, Canada, and Europe, the citizens have been limiting the number of children in their families. Personally, I believe the reasons they chose to limit the number of their offspring are purely selfish.

Women want to have a career, and that is difficult to do if they are having children every 2 or 3 years. As for the men, they have bought into the idea that they will never be able to make enough money to support more than 1 or 2 children. Then there is the desire to put off having a family until they have made it, but in a world where everyone is trying to keep up with each other, no one really ever makes it. Regardless the excuses given, this behavior has led to the citizens of the West reproducing at a rate of about 1.8 per family, which is not even close to the reproduction rate of immigrants.

I could also go on and on as to the methods women in the West use to limit the number of their children, but this post is not about the methods of birth control used to achieve their goal. No, as you will learn from the video below, this column is about the devastating consequences we must now face because of their decisions.

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Defeating the West Via the Womb – the Islamic Invasion (Scary Video)

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While the citizens of Western civilizations have been preoccupied with their own selfish interests, those of the Islamic world have been busy populating a world their children and grandchildren will control. In America, Canada, and Europe, the citizens have been limiting the number of children in their families. Personally, I believe the reasons they chose to limit the number of their offspring are purely selfish.

Women want to have a career, and that is difficult to do if they are having children every 2 or 3 years. As for the men, they have bought into the idea that they will never be able to make enough money to support more than 1 or 2 children. Then there is the desire to put off having a family until they have made it, but in a world where everyone is trying to keep up with each other, no one really ever makes it. Regardless the excuses given, this behavior has led to the citizens of the West reproducing at a rate of about 1.8 per family, which is not even close to the reproduction rate of immigrants.

I could also go on and on as to the methods women in the West use to limit the number of their children, but this post is not about the methods of birth control used to achieve their goal. No, as you will learn from the video below, this column is about the devastating consequences we must now face because of their decisions.

The result of such selfish decisions by Western civilizations as a whole, is the capitulation of their children’s freedom to control their own lives in the future. While the citizens of the West are preoccupied with living a life that is free of anyone’s control, even God‘s, they are condemning their descendants to a life of bondage at the hands of a religion that…..

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Govt’s Illegal Net Neutrality Internet Takeover to Begin November 20th – But It Can Be Stopped

September 24, 2011 1 comment

The Federal Register’s publication of The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s illegal Net Neutrality regulations happened this week. That is the final step towards their illegal implementation on November 20th.

The Federal Communications Commission on December 21st illegally voted themselves – in 3-2 Democrat Party-line fashion – Internet Overlords with their unauthorized imposition of the job-killing regulatory nightmare that is Network Neutrality.

The opposition to this unauthorized power grab was nearly universal. The D.C. Circuit Court had already unanimously ruled that the FCC had no authority to do it. The House of Representatives almost immediately passed to overturn the order a Congressional Review Act (CRA) Resolution of Disapproval. Lawsuits to undo the order were readied by (at least) Verizon, Metro PCS and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.

This multi-front push to undo this power grab – which everyone and their mother saw coming – froze the FCC in its tracks. So the Commission slow-walked its illegal order’s illegal imposition. And to aid in so doing violated another law – engaging in the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) process after voting, rather than before. Now, more than nine months later, the FCC is finally about to give birth to its illegal Net Neutrality power grab.

It is now officially time for the Senate to do as the House did – pass the Congressional Review Act Resolution of Disapproval. Thankfully, the serially obstructionist Senate Democrat Majority can’t filibuster the CRA; it requires only 51 votes to pass. But the Senate must pass the CRA – and President Barack Obama must sign it – by November 20th. Else the illegal, job-killing Net Neutrality power grab goes into terrible effect.

The Senate needs to immediately pass the CRA – and give President Obama the opportunity to put his pen where his deregulatory mouth has been. He’s talked a good game, let’s now see if he’ll put those words into action – and sign the CRA so as to kill this illegal, job-killing Net Neutrality order…..

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Why Were Infrastructure Improvements Not Paid For By The Last Stimulus?

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President Barack Obama wants to improve infrastructure. His $447 billion “jobs bill” has in it $50 billion for infrastructure repair/improvement, and $10 billion to start a National Infrastructure Bank. So the questions are, Why were infrastructure improvements not paid for by the last stimulus? What happened to the money for infrastructure in his $787 billion stimulus bill? To answer these questions, let’s examine both stimulus bills, stimulus spending, and infrastructure spending.

Stimulus Spending

Obama’s original $787 billion stimulus bill left America‘s economy in disarray. Having learned nothing from this failure, Obama recently unveiled another stimulus bill – the American Jobs Act, proposed to cost $447 billion. “Obama spent $787 billion of our money on his first stimulus, and the economy sickened,” says Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. “Now he is back with another $400 billion in stimulus. Leeches! He gives us more leeches!”

On July 8, 2011, economist Veronique de Rugy, in her excellent article, offered three myths about stimulus spending. She says:

* Myth 1: Stimulus spending can jump start the economy and fix unemployment

* Myth 2: Additional infrastructure spending is an effective way to stimulate the economy and create jobs

* Myth 3: Tax rebates will stimulate the economy

Infrastructure Spending

President Obama, in his “American Jobs Act,”is asking for $50 billion additional infrastructure spending, such as grants and guaranteed loans, investments on highway and rail projects, high-speed rail projects, and Amtrak. But, as economists Veronique de Rugy and Matt Mitchell point out:

* In 9 out of 10 transportation infrastructure projects, costs are underestimated

* For rail projects, actual costs are on average 45% higher than estimated costs

* For fixed-link projects (tunnels and bridges), actual costs are on average 34% higher than estimated costs

* For road projects, actual costs are on average 20%higher than estimated costs

* For all project types, actual costs are on average 28% higher than estimated costs

* These same cost overruns exist in all public work projects

When Democrats passed the $787 billion stimulus bill in February 2009, they promised an historic investment in roads, bridges and rail. Obama’s next stimulus won’t do any better than his last one. Only 3% of his last stimulus went to infrastructure spending because such programs are not politically popular. Once the stimulus money is gone, the jobs are also gone. This “stimulus” calls for 11.2% spending on infrastructure. The original $787 billion “stimulus” called for 6.4% to be spent on infrastructure, but 3% (less than half) was actually spent on infrastructure (see above). And, according to a Washington Times article, infrastructure projects were supposed to be “shovel ready.” But we all know how Barack Obama laughingly dismissed that requirement. Infrastructure spending will not provide much of a stimulus, and it will not provide the jobs promised by Obama.

The White House said that President Obama, in Ohio on September 22, 2011, would visit the Brent Spence Bridge, described as “functionally obsolete,” in order to highlight the “urgent need” for infrastructure improvements. The 48-year-old bridge is a double-decker inter-state bridge. But there is absolutely nothing wrong with the bridge upon which infrastructure money could be spent. Federal and state officials have been moving ahead with a repair plan for the bridge. But despite the attention given by Obama, the timetable suggests it is not “shovel ready” and won’t spur increased employment right away.

In an article in Investor’s Business Daily, John Merline, on September 15, 2011, cited five myths about infrastructure spending.

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MSNBC Host: GOP Candidates Want to Go Back to a Time When ‘Slavery was Cool’

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The racism charges keep coming at the Republicans.

The same day actor Morgan Freeman said the Tea Party was “racist” in its attempts to get President Barack Obama out of office, an MSNBC anchor said the GOP presidential candidates would like to go back to a time when women couldn’t vote and “slavery was cool.”

Thomas Roberts’ comments came in response to former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum‘s answer during Thursday’s presidential debate about gay service members in the military. Santorum said the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell“ amounted to ”social experimentation” and, if elected, he would re-instate a similar policy.

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Internal Revenue Service Solicits for Behavioral Engineering Experiments

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

Behavioral Experiment Transparency vs Burden

Solicitation Number: TIRNO-11-Q-00349

Agency: Department of the Treasury

Office: Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Location: National Office Procurement (OS:A:P)

Solicitation Number:

TIRNO-11-Q-00349

Notice Type:

Combined Synopsis/Solicitation

Synopsis:

Added: Sep 16, 2011 11:03 am

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to issue a sole sourced purchase order to the University of Minnesota’s Social Behavior Science Division Research Professors: Marsha Blumenthal and Laura Kalambolidis, for research experiments, data to explore the impacts of Behavioral experiments of alternative reporting regimes: transparency vs. burden.

BACKGROUND: The project involves a three-stage laboratory experiment to explore taxpayers‘ willingness to accept increased reporting burden in exchange for either earnings or non-transparency of earnings to the authority. The first stage is designed to induce subjects to reveal their tendency to under-report taxable earnings in a voluntary reporting system with random audits and penalties for under-reporting. The second stage tests subjects’ willingness to pay for burden reduction when there is no opportunity to under-report earnings. The third stage presents subjects with two alternative regimes. One regime shall have no reporting burden, there shall be no opportunity to misreport. In the alternative regime subjects shall have to track their earning (a burden,) but subjects shall have the opportunity to increase their payoff by misreporting. Using our knowledge from the first two stages about subjects’ tendency to under-report, analysis of third stage behavior shall tell us whether the regime choice is an effective mechanism for separating compliant and non-compliant taxpayers.

The proposed experiment is related to previous research on matching vs. rebate subsidies for charitable contributions. However, the setting for these experiments shall be in the context of income reporting and thus more broadly applicable to voluntary reporting of income and deduction items.

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A Tea Party Conservative’s Defense of Ron Paul…and His Supporters

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

A Tea Party Conservative’s Defense of Ron Paul…and His Supporters

A Tea Party Conservative’s Defense of Ron Paul…and His Supporters:

I want to state at the outset that this essay is not intended to be an endorsement of Ron Paul. While I respect and admire many of his positions and his fidelity to the Constitution, I have strong misgivings about some of his stances on national security. If you could hear the debates between myself and my 20-year-old son, a passionate Ron Paul supporter, you would readily accept the sincerity of my disclaimer.

That said, as the political season has heated up, I’ve been surprised at the tone of the discourse as it relates to Ron Paul. In fact, I can hardly believe what I’m seeing and hearing from my fellow Tea Partiers and conservatives. My assumption that conservatives are more thoughtful and logical than my emotion-driven liberal friends has taken a bit of a hit….

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Iron Mountain – A Blueprint For Tyranny

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

Iron Mountain – A Blueprint For Tyranny

Iron Mountain – A Blueprint For Tyranny:

There is a video everyone should watch titled; “Iron Mountain – A Blueprint For Tyranny.”

It discusses a Top Secret study commissioned in 1961 by JFK to determine the problems facing the USA if we moved from a war footing to peace.

The report was finished in 1966 and LBJ ordered that it never be released. One of the participants writing the study decided to release it anyway. It was published by The Dial Press, Inc. 1967, New York, Library of Congress Catalog card Number 67-27553.

The document reports upon bringing the USA and the world under the control of the UN. This blueprint is now being implemented without our knowledge or consent……

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Dispute over $16 Muffins Heats Up

September 24, 2011 1 comment

The revelation that the U.S. Department of Justice has been paying exorbitant prices for food and drink ($16 apiece for muffins and $8 a cup for coffee) at official functions sparked a heated exchange between Congressional critics and Administration officials.

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) labeled the outlays “extravagant and wasteful. We’re in a recession. The budget is in a big hole. Families have to scrimp and save. What kind of a message does this sort of ‘lord of the manor’ attitude toward federal spending send?”

Representative Frank Wolf (R-Va), who chairs the House appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department, also condemned the expenditures as inappropriate. “How can we tolerate splurging on snacks at a time when taxpayers are forced to tighten their belts?”

Presidential Press Secretary Jay Carney called the criticisms “off-base” and “incredibly wrongheaded.” “Economists all agree that the remedy for recession is higher spending,” Carney maintained. “Quibbling over the prices paid is, at best, nonsensical nitpicking. As Keynes pointed out long ago, spending the money is what counts. Whether anything of value in the tradition sense is obtained in exchange is irrelevant.”

“The speed at which money can be pumped into the economy is crucial,” Carney continued. “From this perspective, paying $16 for a muffin is far more effective than laying out the more typical $2 that the average person might pay for such an item. That the government has the wherewithal and the sense to do this is something we should all be thankful for.”

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Agenda 21 – What Is It? Apparently is is a plan to reduce the population

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

Agenda 21What Is It? Apparently is is a plan to reduce the population

Agenda 21 – What Is It? Apparently is is a plan to reduce the population:

Alerting the ping list to some new entries on the Agenda 21 thread beginning at post 451. They are replies to previous posts regarding Chinese compounds being built on US soil.

Thanks to all our participants and lurkers!

Please Freepmail me if you want to be on or off the ping list.”””””

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“Flush-Ready” Gubmint:(Owner-Operated) The Only Good Gubmint! -A GunnyGism…

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

“Flush-Ready” Gubmint:(Owner-Operated) The Only Good Gubmint! -A GunnyGism…

FREEDOM “THREATENED” BY GOVERNMENT “IS TYRANNY”!

“Flush-Ready” Gubmint:(Ownwer-Operated) The Only Good Gubmint!

-A GunnyGism…

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Citizen to County Sheriff: Investigate Obama| The Post & Email

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

Citizen to County Sheriff: Investigate Obama| The Post & Email

Citizen to County Sheriff: Investigate Obama| The Post & Email:

“IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO REPORT TO YOU THAT I HAVE WITNESSED A CRIME”

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In how many ways has Barack Hussein Obama disrespected our Constitution, White House, and national culture?

(Sep. 24, 2011) — The following letter was sent by certified mail, tracking #70093410000060783060, to Sheriff Robert M. Huston of Tazewell County, IL. The writer included the following note to your editor:

Sharon,

Good evening. I pray you are well. Thanks for doing such a good job on keeping the spotlight on the treasonous and traitorous acts going in with our government and the media. I wanted let you know I do pray for you. May the Lord Jesus Christ keep a special hedge of protection about you. I also wanted to let you know that I just sent off two certified mail packages, one went to Sheriff Arpaio, and the to my local county Sheriff.

They received them…..

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Obama’s ineligibility: All members of Congress have violated their oath of office

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

Every member of Congress is required to take the following oath of office:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

And each member of Congress is now in breach of that oath for violating the Constitution and conspiring to cover-up their malfeasance, a crime which continues to this day.

At the behest of the Democrat and Republican leadership, all Senators and Representatives pretend that they don’t know the definition of natural born citizenship and insist that Obama’s forged Certificate of Live Birth is legitimate.

Members of Congress continue to feign ignorance when presented with evidence that Obama is using a stolen Social Security number and has forged his Selective Service registration.

It is like trying to have an intellectual conversation with someone who believes the Earth is flat.

It is not, however, stupidity, but a criminal conspiracy at the very heart of the US government and every member of Congress is now liable.

(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com …

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Prison Planet.com » Mountain Guardian Exercise Takes School Children to Sports Stadium

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

Infowars.com reporter Darrin McBreen reported today outside Denver’s Mile High Stadium that the facility would be used for “processing activities,” according to a handout.

The handout is a news advisory disturbed to press by authorities in Colorado. It states that a “terrorist-driven catastrophic situation” will include the “processing” of students:

Catholic Charities and Sports Authority Field at Mile High will participate in an administrative fashion to test student/teacher processing activities.

“In terms of the drill or even real events, the goal is to get everybody here to reunify with their parents,” Scott Snow, director of the Victims Assistance Unit of the Denver Police, told Infowars.com.

Darrin McBreen talked with a Denver firefighter on a security detail who admitted that she was playing the role of a mother who was at the stadium to pick up fictitious children. She had a print-out of fifth or sixth grade kids, according to McBreen. The woman said she was instructed not to talk with the media and her comments were off the record.

An employee confirmed that the south entrance and tunnel of the stadium would be used to bus children in for processing. Buses were spotted at the location with digital destination banners reading “Special,” according to Aaron Dykes…..

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The Real DiLorenzo A ‘Southern Partisan’ Interview…. « ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

September 24, 2011 1 comment

The Real DiLorenzo

A ‘Southern Partisan’ Interview

How did you get on to Lincoln?

I was real interested in the War, and I started thinking about how I could combine my profession with this hobby of mine: the history of the War.

More and more, as I read about Lincoln, I realized he was a tyrant. He was all about money and power. He was the political water-carrier of the Northern big business interests. Of course, he was a centralizer. I’m sort of a libertarian, although Clyde Wilson would say “Jeffersonian.” Jeffersonian is pretty much the same thing to me. Most people hear the word “libertarian” and think of people who advocate taking drugs, and that sort of thing. Jeffersonian is more like it.

It really struck me that the War destroyed the Jeffersonian ideal of government. I started writing a few articles about this, and turned it into this book.

What do you think will happen?

It seems to me that the American public has been dumbed down so much by the government schools that they’re just going to go along with this until it either bankrupts us all or we make enough enemies out there that September 11 will seem like child’s play. You can’t do this without making a lot of enemies in the world. That’s my biggest fear – that we won’t get rid of these Sons of Lincoln who run the Republican Party……….

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“Here’s What it Will Take” – Part 2| The Post & Email

September 24, 2011 1 comment

AMERICANS MUST BE WILLING TO FACE THE TRUTH

by One Pissed-off Vietnam Vet

The Social Security Administration has refused to release information regarding the social security number Obama is using

(Sep. 24, 2011) — For some unknown reason, some people, well, a lot of people, seem to have become allergic to facts. Now, we all know the saying “There’s the right way, the wrong way, and the Army way: we’ll do it the Army way.” That, ladies and gentlemen, is a fact, an indisputable truth with no chance of stray ambiguities getting in the way of any possible misunderstandings. Fact. We’re surrounded by facts, and just because we don’t like a particular fact doesn’t mean that fact can be ignored, overlooked, or forgotten. Facts have a nasty habit of coming back to bite people. You know what I’m talking about if any of you ignored that strange noise from under the hood of your car…..

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There are facts about the person masquerading as the president of the United States, facts that have been ignored by the mainstream media which has cost Americans dearly and will continue to cost us all for their refusal to report “Just the facts, ma’am.” The majority of Americans get their information (news) from television, and if they don’t see it on TV it just doesn’t count. I was telling an elderly lady about Obama’s fake Certificate of Live Birth and her retort was, “Well, I didn’t see it on television,” as if, since it wasn’t on the idiot box, the subject wasn’t worth reporting. End of story, in her mind. Being ignorant of certain facts will bite her, and millions of our fellow citizens, one day, of this we can be sure.

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Where Is Activist Post?

September 24, 2011 3 comments

Where Is Activist Post?:

It appears that one of my newest favorite websites, Activist Post (www.activistpost.com) has been taken down by its host, Blogger.com.

Activist Post posts original articles and articles from other websites that highlight the news items of what various government agencies and the military are up to, and investigative reporting on the latest injustices, corruption and crimes, that we don’t hear about from cowards government lapdogs gutless weasels mainstream news sources.

I am suspicious of this, especially given that Blogger.com is owned by Google.

And we know about the cozy relationship between Google and the Obama Administration.

This’s very suspicious.

TPTB do not like their corruption and crimes being exposed, and they have been very happy lately with the complicity and cover-ups of the mainstream media, the subservient, obedient stenographers of the so-called “free press.”

It would not surprise me that Blogger shut down Activist Post for political reasons, not particularly from the web people and managers of Blogger.com, but from pressure from TPTB.

Does this mean that they are going to shut down MY website, too?…..

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Market Havoc & Denver Live Drills: Bob Chapman Reports

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

Market Havoc & Denver Live Drills: Bob Chapman Reports

*The Alex Jones Channel

Sept 24, 2011

Looting the 401k’s has started, the government wants your taxes and retirement, Greece awaits default, and Pandora’s box will open, Europe financially upside down, NYC legacy banks could lose billions, no COLA increase for retirees.

VIDEO…

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Is The U.S. Government Stockpiling Food In Anticipation Of A Major Economic Crisis?

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

…..Is the U.S. government stockpiling huge amounts of food and supplies in anticipation that something bad is about to happen? Is something about to cause a major economic crisis that will require large quantities of emergency food? For a while, I have been hearing things about the government storing food through the grapevine and I have not been sure what to think about those rumors. Well, today I received a phone call that blew me away.

I debated for quite a while before I decided whether or not to share this information with you all. Normally I do not like to talk about anything unless I am able to prove it by pointing to an article in the mainstream media…..

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Gunny G: NOW BLOG THIS !!!!!

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment
Gunny G:
NOW BLOG THIS !!!!!NOW (Right Now!) is the time for all good Americans to come to the aid of our country, while we still can!
Real Americans: Get your own blog, free and quickly, online and Blog (Vote?) Daily–the only way left for your voice to be heard at all !!!!!You’ve heard the expression, “vote with your feet,” well, I say, VOTE WITH YOUR OWN OUTSPOKEN BLOG DAILY!Guess why “they” are now putting so much energy into getting rid of bloggers, and even the internet itself!!!!!

IMAGINE ALL REAL AMERICANS BLOGGING!!!!!

Myself, I have used Blogger.com ~ WordPress.com ~ Netwok54.com ~ has many formats of forums, and also a Blog format!
Call it a blog, forum, website, whatever–they all work.

DidJa Know: Many think Thomas Paine (patriot author: Common Sense, etc.) may have been the first blogger (pamphleteer)!

“Thomas Paine was a pamphleteer over 230 years ago. If he were alive today, he would not be a glam television anchor. He would not aspire to be a loud-talking or abrasive political pundit on a cable news channel. No, if Thomas Paine could be among us, he would be one of us. Thomas Paine would most assuredly be a blogger.”
http://www.everydaycitizen.com/pamphleteering.html

NOW BLOG THIS !!!!!
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Five Ways to Screw Up Your Life with the Internet

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

One of the odd things about the Internet is that so many people don’t seem to understand that it’s real. Sure, they realize that there’s a computer in front of them, a “series of tubes,” and then…it gets kind of foggy. It’s like they think there are magical pixies from the land of Lulz on the other end, as opposed to their family, friends, co-workers, and old boyfriends who are obsessively poring over their Facebook page.

Granted, they are aware that they do need to be careful about a few things: viruses, hackers, identity thieves, Nigerian princes who want to give them millions of dollars — all the standard stuff. But there are some lesser known dangers of the Internet that can steamroll your life like Paris Hilton stampeding towards a line of cocaine.

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Romney Has Shovel-ready Rhetoric for Schools

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

Romney Has Shovel-ready Rhetoric for Schools

Romney Has Shovel-ready Rhetoric for Schools: Consider:

(READER RESPONSE: Gunny G…)

All politicians (R & Ds) should be seen as “flush-ready” at all times.

We spend too much time and thought on poly-tiks and their operators. Remember Cong David Crockett’s quote on poly-tiks.

Just Plain Dick

Semper Watching!

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Former Staff Sergeant Daryn Moran Challenges Local Officials to Take Action on Obama’s Alleged Forged Birth Certificate| The Post & Email

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

Former Staff Sergeant Daryn Moran Challenges Local Officials to Take Action on Obama’s Alleged Forged Birth Certificate| The Post & Email:

“WE ARE NOT A FREE PEOPLE”

September 23, 2011

Image released on April 27, 2011 by the White House as a certified copy of his original birth certificate

To Whom It May Concern:

This 14 minute recent video will show clearly the flyer for the Arrest of B. Obama and Reward sought to be raised of $100,000.

The Air Force, the new military, and the illegally sitting President think they got rid of me when I was discharged from the military under lies and ruse by a Muslim superior officer and the new military.

Those who think this is all about hating other people couldn’t be farther from the truth; however, class warfare is the new modus operandi in the new socialist Amerikan society. We are not a free people.

I lost my job just like millions of other Americans, though not for all the same reasons…..

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Lying despots make a mockery of UN

September 24, 2011 Leave a comment

…..This marks the opening of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly when free people of open democratic societies are deluged with advice or insults by dictators and despots from around the world.

This year is no different than previous years ever since the failed League of Nations was given a new lease under the banner of the United Nations.

Those individuals who can recall history will remember the League was the grand scheme of progressive politicians, such as Woodrow Wilson of the U.S., who ardently believed fine speeches, lofty ideals and covenants devised by an assembly of representatives from sovereign nations could go a long way to outlaw war and herald a new age of peace.

There was urgency then, for the First World War of 1914-18 had bled the nations of Europe of its young and its able, and few doubted the genuine commitment of Wilson and his peers to never allow another such war to break out.

But the hyenas and jackals of Europe gnawed at the entrails of the League, made a mockery of its ideals, preyed upon the weak, uncorked the toxin of racial bigotry, and unleashed another war in Europe and beyond — a war far more cataclysmic than the one that had barely ended 20 years earlier.

The problem then, as it is now, was ideals are insufficient to contend with lies — lies spouted by dictators and despots from the pulpit of the assembled nations whether in Geneva or in New York.

These lies infect the healthy bodies of open democratic societies and what inevitably follows is leaders of the free world, fearful of conflicts instead of repudiating the lies, engage in the politics of appeasement.

Right from the outset of the UN’s founding, open societies were confronted with a barrage of lies from leaders of totalitarian powers — the former Soviet Union, its satellite states of Eastern Europe and Communist China…..

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