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Better Not Discuss
Some topics too painful for Quin. Dems sound like a broken record. Enforcing the fairness doctrine everywhere. Plus more.
DAILY DOSE OF DEPRESSION
Re: Quin Hillyer's
Not Gonna Write About It:
Your despair at the current political situation in this country regarding the Stimulus Bill has led you to a rock solid truth: that the Stimulus is a political bill, not an economic bill. It is designed to deliver Democrat votes in areas of the country that are changing from red to blue. The earlier TARP concept to unfreeze credit markets is a legitimate economic concept that should be continued. But the Stimulus Bill is a lie, an assault on common sense.
We know it is a lie because its underlying assumption is a lie. Global Warming caused by human induced release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has not been proved. Indeed it has been disproved. Based on the assumption of Global Warming, the Democrats say they will bring alternative energy sources to market with government subsidies and eliminate carbon as a pollutant. These alternative energy sources cannot make it to market on their own dime. Meanwhile abundant natural resources, trillions of dollars in oil, gas and coal, enough to meet our energy needs for decades lay wasting in the ground and in the sea.
To fund the Stimulus, the government will borrow huge sums of money. Yet the oil, natural gas and coal are commodities which are the equivalent of money. So why do we have to borrow money from foreigners when our natural resources can provide the money to fund economic growth?
Again the reason is that the Stimulus is really a plan to take
control of the Country. So take heart that the truth is in sight
and right makes might.
-- Howard Lohmuller
Two things: 1) The artwork with this article is reminiscent of Soviet art of the last century.
2) One of the best adjectives I have heard to date to describe Obama, his works, his minions and others of his ilk: "Obamunist." (Obama plus communist)
I guess now I should start to worry about the knock on the door
in the middle of the night by Obama's STASI, er, the "Peoples'
Army," or whatever the new domestic "peacekeeping" organizations
will be called.
-- Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia
Two books explain much of what is happening in America. The first
is "The Vision of the Anointed," by Thomas Sowell, and the
second, more frightening, is "The Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich," by William Shirer. The former gives the motives, and the
latter describes the means for subjugating a free people. The
parallels with pre-1936 Nazi Germany are so striking as to be
make one believe he is reliving history. Obama's apocalyptic
language is appropriate, but not in the way he intended. We must
commit to live free or die.
-- Larry C. Roberts
BRACING FOR IMPACT
Re: W. James Antle's
The Democrats' Greatest Hits:
Frightening piece, Mr. Antle.
The four horsepersons of the new apocalypse -- Obama, Emanuel, Reid, and Pelosi - are using me as an economic crash test dummy, securely buckled in and headed toward a wall at a hundred miles an hour.
Thud!
-- A. C. Santore
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DSAMMIS| 2.18.09 @ 11:54AM
Why in the world are we wasting time and space with PINGBACK's mindless references
Sons Of Sam| 2.18.09 @ 3:33PM
hello to Mike Sheeran: there WAS a fairness doctrine back in the 1770s! It's precisely because of foreign oppression by a far away king that we set up the "committees of correspondence" in the first place. That's what we need to be doing RIGHT NOW. The modern day "hate America" oppressors are trying to strangle our free speech, so we need to start fighting back, NOW.
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Roy| 2.18.09 @ 6:03PM
Re: Lincoln: No, slavery was not any worse an abomination in 1861 than it was in 1619. The morally decent had been trying to eliminate it that entire time. But it's a lot easier to embed a brutally evil institution than it is to eliminate it(see: abortion).
They had to move very, very slowly. At the beginning of large scale slavery Bartolomeo de Las Casas knew he had no chance of stopping slavery as a whole or even slowing it down. He was forced to argue for using Africans as slaves as opposed to Indians, believing they would be better able to survive it. Think about being reduced to that. After a very long time, and building on a foundation of fundamentalist let-justice-be-done-though-the heavens fall, along with more secular beliefs about the rights of man, they finally brought things to the point where most people saw slavery as morally wrong. After that there was still the very long struggle for morality to triumph over economics. And life had to go on that whole time, meaning all kinds of awkward compromises such as those embedded in the original Constitution.
In reality, Lincoln was pursuing a slow, incrementalist strategy. He was not going to just get elected and say "OK, no more slavery." He and his party were going to outlaw slavery in the federally administered territories. Obviously, then, slaveowners wouldn't move there and when those territories became states, they would have been free states. Then the slave states would have been outnumbered in the Senate and eventually the Constitution would have been changed.
This would have taken decades to work, if it ever had. It takes a 3/4 majority of the state legislatures to ratify an amendment, and 15 states had legal slavery, which would still be more than 1/4 even today. But the slave states decided that even seeing the balance tip decisively against them like that was enough to cause them to violently secede. They were the ones that forced the issue, not Lincoln.
Alan Brooks| 2.18.09 @ 9:59PM
i worry not about dems or libs.
i've been reading william jennings bryan's bio-- and what a likeable fool was he.
but Commies, Marxists literally sicken me; i dont want to even be remotely exposed to their caterwauling.
and yet we'll hear what they have to yowl as it will walk on cat's paws into the national 'discussion' (catharsis).
What was marginally charming in '68 is no longer.
Alan Brooks| 2.18.09 @ 10:04PM
DON'T complain about pingback, DSAMMIS,
you do not bankroll AS.
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