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Can Rick Perry Clean Up The Mess He Made For Himself?
As I watched the debate Wednesday night between the eight Republican presidential primary opponents, I was overall pleased, both by the way the candidates handled themselves and by the answers they gave to the myriad of economic questions they were asked. It was a debate that I personally think all Republicans won, and while many like myself may think that Perry is finished, the ultimate loser was CNBC. CNBC lost because they could not make the Republican candidates act like a bunch of toddlers fighting over the only toy in the room.
The moderators tried their best to get any of the candidates to admit that taxes must be raised to save the economy, but to no avail. All the candidates agreed that raising taxes would be the worst move a president could do. Instead they all called for taxes to be cut, spending to be reduced, and various agencies to be eliminated along with repealing Obamacare.
The un-debate ~ the most talked about moment in tonight’s CNBC debate in Michigan came when Texas Gov. Rick Perry had a cringe-worthy meltdown…
It goes without saying that the most talked about moment in tonight’s CNBC debate in Michigan came when Texas Gov.
Rick Perry had a cringe-worthy meltdown struggling to remember the three government agencies he wanted to eliminate. But there was a telling moment earlier in the evening, when Mitt Romney was asked about his record of taking inconsistent positions, and he responded by citing his long marriage, time at Bain Capital and church membership as evidence of his steadiness.
Perry followed Romney, and didn’t attempt to attack him as a flip-flopper. That was the trend all evening, as Republican rivals refrained from criticizing each other.
PARALLEL UNIVERSE: Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
Lord Acton‘s famous saying is often misquoted as “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Either quote applies to the power of the United States, says Judge Andrew P. Napolitano in his 2010 book “Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History” (Thomas Nelson, 368 pages, notes, index) which I found while dropping off a bunch of my review copies at our local library. I can think of no better good deed than to help a public library in times of need — and they’re always in times of need!
What convinced me to check out the good Judge’s book was the book’s foreward by Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX, who’s my congressman (Texas 14) and the guy I voted for in 1988 for President when he ran on the Libertarian Party ticket. I’ve voted for him twice in his re-election bid, in 2008 and 2010. I met Paul at a function in Calhoun County, Texas, where I live, and he autographed my copy of his book “End the Fed”. (for my review: http://archives.huntingtonnews.net/columns/090916-kinchen-columnsbookreview.html).
Like Paul, Napolitano hates the Fed and devotes “Lie #8 “The Federal Reserve Shall Be Controlled by Congress” to a discussion — and dissection — of the Fed. For one thing, it’s a private organization of banks and bankers and there’s nothing “Federal” about it. It also has no “Reserve” and is backed by neither gold nor silver. I call it the “Creature from Jekyll Island,” the offshore Georgia island where a band of bankers and political leaders met in secret in 1910 to come up with the idea for a backdoor central bank.
Google’s CEO Hates Gmail
Google’s CEO Hates Gmail
gawker ^ | 11/10/11
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 9:09:52 PM by george76
Larry Page is a busy man. The Google CEO wants his company moving quickly and decisively. That, in turn, means eliminating the plodding exchanges fostered by Gmail.com. Who invented that thing, anyway?
KFC digs up ‘secret’ Col. Sanders manuscript
KFC digs up ‘secret’ Col. Sanders manuscript
CTVNews ^ | 10 Nov 2011 | Vanessa Greco
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 8:42:09 PM by smokingfrog
The man who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken apparently had one more trick up the sleeve of his ubiquitous white jacket.
Codex Alimentarius – Dare you ignore it?
Codex Alimentarius – Dare you ignore it?
Natural Health ^ | ??? | N/A
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 7:03:30 PM by Indy Pendance
More and more people are becoming concerned about the shady, secretive organization that is Codex Alimentarius – the thinly-veiled propaganda arm of the international pharmaceutical industry that does everything it can to promote industry objectives whilst limiting individual options to maintain health (which would diminish mermbers profits).
Codex alimentarius is one of the major bodies behind the effort to limit access to nutritional products and information. Its motivation is not rocket science and neither is the source of its funding – money that somehow expected to return a profit to its members . . .
Unions Furious at Obama for Killing Pipeline Jobs
Unions Furious at Obama for Killing Pipeline Jobs
Daily Caller ^ | 11-10-11 | Neal Monroe
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 7:04:51 PM by Driftwood1
Statement of Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA, On Delay of Keystone XL Pipeline Construction
Washington, D.C. (November 10, 2011) – Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – made the following statement today in response to the U.S. State Department delay of the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline:
Newt Gingrich and No Teleprompter (This is a keeper)
Newt Gingrich and No Teleprompter (This is a keeper)
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:35:17 PM by sneakers
I received this in my e-mail today. This is a speech Gingrich gave at David Horowitz‘ Restoration Weekend, Nov 2009. Worth viewing. (and it’s short!) Regardless of who you support for president, this is worth a listen.
Suffolk Law School Prof On US Military: “Killers,” Sympathy For Them “Not Rational In Today’s World”
Suffolk Law School Prof On US Military: “Killers,” Sympathy For Them “Not Rational In Today’s World”
Michael Graham.com ^ | Thursday, November 10, 2011 | Michael Graham
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 5:15:47 PM by Boston Blackie
I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings. I understand that there is a residual sympathy for service members, perhaps engendered by support for troops in World War II, or perhaps from when there was a draft and people with few resources to resist were involuntarily sent to battle. That sympathy is not particularly rational in today’s world, however.
Be Honest CNBC-You Are Biased Against Ron Paul
Those of us who have supported Ron Paul since his presidential run in 2008 (and some who supported him long before that) have come to expect an astonishing array of mainstream media tricks, lies, and censorship when it comes to the “journalistic” examination of the good doctor.
This doesn’t mean, however, that we have ever or will ever come to ACCEPT this consistent trend of deception and disinformation as a forgone conclusion of our political lives.
We will never throw up our hands and walk away from the mess the MSM has deliberately created, because that is exactly what they would like us to do; give up, shut up, go home, vote for Romney (an establishment crony with the creepy grin of a pedophile), and watch him lose to Obama (yet another establishment crony) in 2012.
Obama Learns Newspeak: The Administration’s Perversion of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Obama Learns Newspeak: The Administration’s Perversion of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Forbes ^ | 11/9/2011 | Harvey Silverglate
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:00:00 PM by bruinbirdman
President Obama should know better. Our constitutional-law-professor-in-chief has, once again, taken the government to unprecedented levels of secrecy while institutionalizing the perversions of our seemingly never-ending war-on-terror. On October 30th, the administration, without seeking Congressional authorization, proposed an executive rule that will license governmental agencies to issue bald-faced lies to the citizenry, making a mockery not only of the Freedom of Information Act, but of the President’s supposed promise of transparency.
Early in his presidency in 2009, in a “memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies” regarding proposed changes to the operation of the Freedom of Information Act, President Obama extolled the virtues of governmental openness, stating that
A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency. As Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” In our democracy, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which encourages accountability through transparency, is the most prominent expression of a profound national commitment to ensuring an open Government.
Plug-In Car Industry Goes Up in Smoke
Don’t display American Flag in American school.
Don’t display American Flag in American school.
volokh.com ^ | 11/10/11 | Eugene Volokh
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 5:40:34 PM by MrNJ
Dariano v. Morgan Hill Unified School District (N.D. Cal.), decided the day before yesterday, upholds a California high school’s decision to forbid students from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. (See here and here for more on this case.)
On Cinco de Mayo in 2009, a verbal exchange and altercation arose between a group of predominantly white and a group of Mexican students. This altercation involved an exchange of profanities and threats were made. A makeshift American flag was put on one of the trees on campus.
U.S. Delays Decision on Pipeline Until After Election (Obama destroys hundreds of thousands of jobs)
U.S. Delays Decision on Pipeline Until After Election (Obama destroys hundreds of thousands of jobs)
ny times ^ | 11/10/2011 | JOHN M. BRODER and DAN FROSCH
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 5:52:56 PM by tobyhill
The Obama administration on Thursday said it was delaying a decision on the contested Keystone XL pipeline while it studies an alternate route through Nebraska, effectively pushing any action well past the 2012 election and into 2013.
The State Department, which announced the decision, has been reviewing the proposed project since 2008 to determine whether it is in the national interest.
Freedom Watch – Fox Business
The Government’s Skewed Statistics
Judge Napolitano explains how the government fools us with inaccurate economic measurements, sells illegal drugs to foreign cartels and why it’s time to alter or abolish it.
Sonja Al-Rassi: The Americans Carried Out 9/11, Told the Japanese Which Day to Attack Pearl Harbor
Sonja Al-Rassi: The Americans Carried Out 9/11, Told the Japanese Which Day to Attack Pearl Harbor
MEMRI TV ^ | October 2011 | OTV (Lebanon)
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:29:54 PM by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Following are excerpts from an interview with Sonja Al-Rassi, daughter of former Lebanese president Suleiman Faranjieh, which aired on OTV on October 23, 2011.
Sonja Al-Rassi: The Muslim Brotherhood is more than welcome to operate in the mosques, but they cannot express their views out in the streets. By the same token, I’m not happy when I see a priest expressing his opinion in political matters. That’s not his business.
Rick Perry’s Brain Freeze — and Why the GOP Establishment
Rick Perry‘s Brain Freeze — and Why the GOP Establishment
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | November 10, 2011 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:30:15 PM by Kaslin
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: And greetings, ladies and gentlemen. Great to have you here. This is Rush Limbaugh. We are in Los Angeles. This is the EI… what is it again? What’s the name of the network? I can’t… mental block. Jeez. Well, you know, it slipped my mind here. What is the last letter of my… B! That’s it! It’s the EIB Network. Oh, man, how embarrassing was that, folks. Oh, my gosh, I don’t know that I can continue the program. Nothing went wrong today, everything’s smooth as silk, but look, I forgot the name of my network. Just not a slick talker and I resent the fact that radio stardom is dependent on being a… gotta be good at it… see, what was I gonna say? Debate society. Yeah.
Anyway, how are you, folks? I hope everything is fine and dandy. It certainly is here. I’m a little bit disappointed. I realize that I started the program yesterday in a fit of rage unlike I have experienced on previous broadcasts in a long, long time. I’m not feeling a fit of rage, anything of the sort. But we got lots of good stuff here today. (interruption) What? No, don’t screw anything up on purpose. I’m being asked by helpful staff, highly overrated staff, if they want me to have them screw up, if I would like for them to screw up. No. Look, it’s going to happen anyway. Don’t try it. Just let it happen naturally because it does every day. I just never tell people when you screw up. I always take it on myself. Anyway, here’s the telephone number. It’s 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
30 Old PC Ads That Will Blow Your Processor (A trip down computer memory lane)
30 Old PC Ads That Will Blow Your Processor (A trip down computer memory lane)
Informationtechnologyschools.org ^ | 3/31/2010 | Admin In Technologhy
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:31:20 PM by Signalman
Many people today either are too young to have ever seen some early pc’s or have forgotten what they looked like and how much they cost. Today we complain about the cost of a laptop running 2Ghz with 4GB ram for a cost of $ 400.00, however it wasn’t that long ago that laptops and pc’s were priced quite a bit higher. Here are 30 Old PC ads that will make you laugh and possibly appreciate what you have today. (Images at link)
Sowell: The Real Scandal
Sowell: The Real Scandal
gopusa.com ^ | November 10, 2011 | Thomas Sowell
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:46:24 PM by Iam1ru1-2
The real scandal in the accusations against Herman Cain is the corruption of the law, the media and politics.
Let’s start with the law. Some people may think the fact that the National Restaurant Association reportedly paid $45,000 to settle a claim made by one of its employees against Mr. Cain is incriminating.
Most of us are not going to part with 45 grand without some serious reason. But that is very different from the situation of an organization in the present legal climate.
The figure $45,000 struck a chord with me because, some years ago, my wife — who is an attorney — was fervently congratulated when her client had to pay “only” $45,000 in a jury award when the plaintiff was demanding a million dollars, in a case that was as frivolous a lawsuit as you could find.
Establishment Media Describes Police Beating OWS Protesters as “Nudging”
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November 10, 2011
The Associated Press describes police beating students at the University of California at Berkeley as “nudging.” The video below clearly shows cops beating students with batons.
HANGING…”BY THE MOST TENUOUS OF THREADS…” ~ “The people are ready to rebel.”
HANGING…”BY THE MOST TENUOUS OF THREADS…”
“The people are ready to rebel.”
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DEFINING SOCIETIES VIA THE OWNERSHIP OF 2 COWS
DEFINING SOCIETIES VIA THE OWNERSHIP OF 2 COWS
iChat | 11/10/2011 | unknown
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:02:25 PM by JoeA
Found this on iChat and thought it was worth sharing.
DEFINING SOCIETIES VIA THE OWNERSHIP OF 2 COWS
FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and as many eggs as the regulations say you should need.
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
Diplomats defend themselves against Perry criticism
Diplomats defend themselves against Perry criticism
CNN ^ | November 10, 2011 | Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jill Dougherty
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:47:52 PM by Cincinatus‘ Wife
Foreign Service officers are firing back at Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry‘s charges that some State Department employees are not working in the best interest of the country.
VANITY: Dennis Prager puts Rick Perry goof in perspective
VANITY: Dennis Prager puts Rick Perry goof in perspective
Novemeber 10, 2011 | Me
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:29:35 PM by JNRoberts
Today, Dennis Prager, who does NOT support Rick Perry for President, spent about half hour talking about how foolish, petty, etc. it is for people and the media to make such a big deal about a guy who forgot something during a debate.
Freedom Watch – Fox Business
What do Governments Hate but Can’t Control?
The Judge explains the history of prohibition, free trade and how the black market is the true free market.
What Happens when Government Tips the Scales? – The Plain Truth – Freedom Watch – Fox Business
Does the government work for us or do we work for the government? Why do we let the government dupe us? Tonight, there is danger when the government is wrong.
Periodically, the huge apparatus of the federal government uses its power to give us information about itself and about ourselves, in the form of statistics.
Whether it is the Department of Labor, the Congressional Budget Office, the Treasury Department, or even the Federal Reserve, the feds are fixated on statistics and they use statistics to make things appear to be better than they are, and to manipulate our thinking.
Prison Planet.com » “The President Wants To Know If He Can Wipe Out The News!”
“The President Wants To Know If He Can Wipe Out The News!”
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via Prison Planet.com » “The President Wants To Know If He Can Wipe Out The News!”.
Woman, 25, spots her stolen bike on Craigslist… and ‘steals’ it back after posing as a buyer
Woman, 25, spots her stolen bike on Craigslist… and ‘steals’ it back after posing as a buyer
Daily Mail ^ | 10th November 2011
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:54:42 PM by george76
A 25-year-old student who had her bike stolen turned the tables on the thief after finding it posted up for sale on Craigslist.
Kathryn Lucas from Colorado used the website to track down her stolen bike and posed as an interested buyer before stealing it back after going on a ‘test-ride’.
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After filing a police report, she began searching Craigslist to see if the thief was trying to sell the bike.
“America Better Damn WAKE UP!” Jesse Ventura On His Lawsuit Against The TSA Being Thrown Out
YouTube
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Jesse Ventura talks to Judge Napolitano about his fight against the TSA.
Nixon’s long-secret Watergate testimony coming out
Nixon’s long-secret Watergate testimony coming out
AP via news.yahoo.com ^ | Nov 10, 2011 | CALVIN WOODWARD and NANCY BENAC
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:36:59 PM by posterchild
WASHINGTON (AP) — Richard Nixon’s grand jury testimony about the Watergate scandal that destroyed his presidency is finally coming to light.
Four months after a judge ordered the June 1975 records unsealed, the government’s Nixon Presidential Library was making them available online and at the California facility Thursday. Historians dared hope that the testimony would form Nixon’s most truthful and thorough account of the circumstances that led to his extraordinary resignation 10 months earlier under threat of impeachment.
The Daily Bell – America’s DARPA Wants to ‘Protect’ us From the Internet
Elite DARPA cyber heroes will protect interwebs … DARPA is upping its cyber game in order to protect the internet it came up with, increasing its research budget from $120m (£74.6m) to $188m (£117m) for the fiscal year 2012. “DARPA’s role in the creation of the internet means we were party to the intense opportunities it created and share in the intense responsibility of protecting it.
The Daily Bell – CNN Defends the Fed – Calls Ron Paul Economically Illiterate
Every 2012 contender attended college. They all graduated. They went to schools like the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Texas A&M, Morehouse, Penn State and Emory. But decades have passed since these Presidential candidates first stepped onto campus as freshmen.
Is it time for an Econ 101 refresher course? America’s Econ 101 professors say yes. In their view, the candidates continue to offer ideas and policies that wouldn’t pass muster in their classes – populated by 18 year-old college students. “There are so many economic ‘misstatements’ being made,” said Jonathan Lanning, a professor at Bryn Mawr who is teaching two introductory economics classes this semester. “And it isn’t confined to any one candidate.” … Another professor who teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Michael Salemi, was able to identify statements from six candidates that “would earn failing grades in my Econ 101 class.”
CNBC Cans Debate Poll Because Ron Paul Was Leading
Network Managing Editor claims having well organized political support constitutes “gaming”
Prisonplanet.com
November 10, 2011
CNBC pulled an online poll 25 minutes after last night’s GOP debate, reasoning that “one candidate” was leading by a large margin – that candidate was, of course, Ron Paul.
As the following video shows, Ron Paul was ahead of the pack by a large margin, before the poll was unceremoniously pulled from the CNBC site altogether and replaced with a generic article titled “Who won the debate – Attendees weigh in”:
CNBC Managing Editor Allen Wastler issued the following statement explaining the reason the poll was removed:
Gamed Poll…So We Took It Down
We had a poll up from our Republican Presidential Debate asking readers who they thought won. One candidate was leading by such a margin that it became obvious the polling wasn’t so much a reading of our audience, but of the Internet prowess of this particular candidate’s political organization. We have therefore taken the poll down. Yes, we’ve gone through this exercise before.
Wastler included a link to a previous statement from 2007, where exactly the same thing happened.
Are Bush And Obama War Criminals?
Are Bush And Obama War Criminals?
OfficialWire, DavidRivkin.com ^ | 11/10/2011 | Colin Fuess
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:51:58 PM by american_steve
Ralph Nader and the Center for Study of Responsive Law’s “Debating Taboos” series continues Friday, November 18 with “Bush/Obama: War Crimes or Lawful Wars?”
The debate format consists of two moderators and four debaters. Arguing against the proposition that Bush and Obama engaged in war crimes are attorneys David Rivkin and Lee Casey. Rivkin served in the Department of Justice under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and is renowned for articulate commentary on the U.S. Constitution and presidential war powers. Casey, Rivkin’s frequent collaborator, also served in the DOJ under Reagan and H.W. Bush, and currently specializes in compliance issues under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), U.S. trade sanctions regimes, and federal ethics requirements. He has also served on the United Nations Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.
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Arguing for the proposition that Bush and Obama engaged in war crimes are attorney and constitutional scholar Bruce Fein and retired Lt. Colonel Tony Shaffer.
“America Better Damn WAKE UP!” Jesse Ventura On His Lawsuit Against The TSA Being Thrown Out
“America Better Damn WAKE UP!” Jesse Ventura On His Lawsuit Against The TSA Being Thrown Out
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Jesse Ventura talks to Judge Napolitano about his fight against the TSA.
“The President Wants To Know If He Can Wipe Out The News!”
“The President Wants To Know If He Can Wipe Out The News!”
YouTube
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Judge Napolitano highlights how the government is manipulating economic figures.
Rick Perry Debate Meltdown Could Help Ron Paul…
Rick Perry Debate Meltdown Could Help Ron Paul
CNBC pulls post-debate poll to prevent Ron Paul victory
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Rick Perry’s sensational meltdown during last night’s CNBC debate in Michigan could not only serve to doom his entire presidential campaign, it could also help Ron Paul cement his position as a top tier challenger to Herman Cain and Mitt Romney.
Perry’s embarrassing gaffe, in which he spent minutes stumbling over the name of a government agency he wanted to abolish, has virtually ended any lingering hopes he had of recapturing his early lead that has evaporated swiftly over the last few months.
Lee Duigon — How Pure Crapola Becomes Settled Science
People understand that Congress is unspeakably corrupt. Many also understand that our “news” media suppress and distort the news; that our public schools and colleges make their students dumber instead of smarter; or even that certain churches train their congregations more in the way of worldliness than godliness.
But Science! There’s an institution we can still believe in. And most of us still do—as if fallen, sinful human beings turn into angels the moment they don lab coats.
Thanks to Science we have learned to believe in some of the most preposterous and malignant notions ever dreamed up in this poor, sin-laden world. We believe, for instance, in Evolution, or in Man-made Global Warming—because we are told, over and over and over again, that we must believe in it.
Dave Daubenmire — The Bible-Belt is Unbuckled
But the church has shirked the responsibility. We have passed the buck and hired mercenaries to do our dirty work. We call them Pro-life Republicans, politicians, but they are surrogate salt. They are vote counters, not Truth defenders. Why would we expect them to do a job that the pastors will not? It is so much easier to send another to war than it is to go ourselves. Voting is so much easier than fighting.
Cutting Down the Cabinet ~ “GOP contenders are talking like the elimination of entire departments is a foregone conclusion”
Cutting Down the Cabinet
WhiteHouse.gov and others ^ | November 10, 2011 | Pan_Yan
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:34:51 AM by Pan_Yan
The big media story from last nights Republican Presidential Primary Debate on CNBC was Governor Perry’s gaffe when he tried listing the departments of the federal government he would eliminate. Maybe lost in the sensationalism is the change in our national politics that this topic represents.
The majority of the GOP contenders are talking like the elimination of entire departments is a foregone conclusion. It might be election year politics, but the idea is immensely popular among conservatives judging by the crowd reactions every time someone in any of the debates has suggested it. Now we all know that a President by himself can not create or abolish an entire department by fiat. A good deal of congressional arm twisting, threats, pandering, pontificating, high horse riding and the obligitory “widows and orphans thrown out into the streets” stories would all accompany any serious attempt to eliminate a federal department. However, it is encouraging that it has become a more broadly accepted theme that in years past.
The existence of the Cabinet dates back to the first American President, George Washington, who appointed a Cabinet of four people (Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson; Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton; Secretary of War Henry Knox; and Attorney General Edmund Randolph) to advise and assist him in his duties. Cabinet officers are nominated by the President and then presented to the United States Senate for confirmation or rejection by a simple majority.
Obama in 2007 – Get this clip to the RNC
Obama in 2007 – Get this clip to the RNC
youtube ^ | 11/10/2011 | GTV
Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:29:07 AM by GlockThe Vote
Kidnapping and Ransom Rampant in the US by Jeff Berwick
RANSOMS RAISED
The kidnappers, hard up for money in these tough economic times have begun to raise their ransoms. Kidnappers in Arizona allow you to visit the person kidnapped but they demand a fee of $25 per visit.
And now one criminal cartel that controls the area called Riverside County in California has stated that they will be kidnapping people and demanding a ransom of $142.42 per day. Cartel boss, Jeff Stone, released this statement to the media about their increase in operations:
“I think we’re blazing a new trail here. In these very challenging economic times, I believe this can be a source of revenue … I believe this can return 3 to 5 million (dollars) a year during these very challenging economic times.”
Other cartels throughout the US are likely watching this with great interest.
KIDNAPPING CONDITIONS IN THE US
Often times those kidnapped in the US are placed in very overcrowded conditions, brutally beaten and sodomized by other hostages. One particularly brutal cartel boss who operates in the southern Arizona corridor, with the nickname “Sheriff Joe”, has been very active abducting people from their cars after leaving bars and putting them in concentration camps in the Arizona desert at temperatures often above 110F and feeding them spoiled food and dressing them in pink jumpsuits – a strange fetish of the crime boss.
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