Sunday, March 25, 2012

Re: What’s going to happen during 3 days of SCOTUS arguments on health care?

 "If the
government can force you to buy health insurance, why can't it force
you to buy broccoli?"


This is the crux of the matter.....


On Mar 25, 12:30 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-the-supreme-court-debates...
>
> What's going to happen during 3 days of arguments on health care?
> By Jeffrey Rosen,  PROFESSOR OF LAW Published: March 23
>
> Starting Monday, the Supreme Court has scheduled six hours of oral
> arguments over three days to consider the constitutionality of
> health-care reform, the most time given to a case in more than 45
> years. We're certainly in for a historic event — but it might be an
> entertaining one, too.
>
> Oral arguments are always theatrical: The lawyers stand only a few
> feet from the justices, who loom above them on a curved bench, and
> they are barraged with so many questions that they often have trouble
> completing a sentence. The hearings are also an opportunity for the
> traditionally secretive Supreme Court to cut loose. In fact, the
> Roberts court is known as a "hot bench" — not a reference to the
> unusual sexiness of the justices but to the fact that eight of the
> nine are unusually chatty during oral arguments (Justice Clarence
> Thomas hasn't uttered a word since 2006). Even though the justices
> rarely change their minds during oral arguments if they already have
> strong views about a case, the hearings can clarify their thinking,
> offer some lively give and take, and occasionally lead to humor.
>
> So, will the oral arguments over health-care reform produce some
> laughs? Here's a preview of what might transpire when the commerce
> clause becomes a punch line.
>
> Justice Antonin Scalia
>
> According to a 2010 study in the Communication Law Review, Scalia is
> the funniest member of the court, based on how many laughs the various
> justices have elicited in the courtroom. But his wit sometimes has a
> sharp edge. In 1988, when a lawyer fumbled for the answer to a
> question, Scalia exclaimed, "When you find it, say 'Bingo!' "
>
> Expect some zingers from Scalia in the health-care argument, perhaps
> focused on the not-so-side-splitting subject of whether Congress has
> the authority to require people to buy health insurance as part of its
> power to regulate interstate commerce. Imagine, for example, the
> following exchange:
>
> Solicitor General Donald Verrilli: "In 2005, Justice Scalia, you held
> that Congress has the power to prevent California from authorizing
> people to grow marijuana for their own use. Surely, the decision not
> to buy health insurance has a far greater impact on the economy."
>
> Justice Scalia: "Depends on what part of California you're from."
>
> Justice Stephen Breyer
>
> Breyer's jokes often follow a long question identifying the hardest
> issue in the case. He cares about legislative history and may focus on
> a striking irony in the health-care law briefs: During the debate over
> the legislation in Congress, Republicans insisted that the mandate to
> buy health insurance should be considered a tax, and Democrats
> countered that it shouldn't. The moment President Obama signed the
> bill, though, both sides rushed to court to claim the opposite:
> Democrats now insist that the mandate is absolutely a tax (and
> therefore authorized by the taxing clause of the Constitution), and
> Republicans are equally confident that it's not.
>
> This debate is also relevant to whether the court has the power to
> hear the case in the first place. If the mandate is a tax, according
> to a 1867 law, litigants may have to wait until it goes into effect in
> 2014 to challenge it. If Breyer can get a laugh out of the "is it a
> tax?" debate, he deserves to be promoted to funniest justice.
>
> Chief Justice John Roberts
>
> All eyes will be on Roberts to see whether he is inclined to interpret
> the commerce clause of the Constitution as narrowly as he did in an
> opinion that gave rise to one of his most memorable one-liners as an
> appellate judge. In 2003, Roberts dissented from a ruling holding that
> the federal government could use the Endangered Species Act to prevent
> development on the habitat of the arroyo toad. He said the federal law
> couldn't be applied to "a hapless toad that, for reasons of its own,
> lives its entire life in California." Verrilli will try to convince
> Roberts that the interstate economic effects of thousands of uninsured
> sick people are far greater than those of the hapless toad, all the
> while avoiding the word "toad."
>
> As the crucial swing vote, Kennedy is most frequently flattered in
> Supreme Court briefs. Some libertarians hope that he will strike down
> the health-care mandate by invoking the same right to privacy that he
> recognized when he reaffirmed Roe v. Wade in 1992. "At the heart of
> liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of
> meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life," Kennedy
> wrote; Scalia later ridiculed this as the "sweet mystery of life"
> passage. For Scalia and the other conservatives, Roe v. Wade is the
> root of all constitutional evil. So if Paul Clement — who will argue
> before the court for the health-care law's challengers — wants to
> appeal to Kennedy without alienating the other conservatives, he may
> try to murmur "sweet mystery" so quietly that only Kennedy can hear
> it.
>
> Justices Elena Kagan
> and Sonia Sotomayor
> These justices weren't yet on the court during the period covered by
> the 2010 laughter study, but Kagan may have her eye on Scalia's
> "funniest justice" title. She delivered the best one-liner of the
> current Supreme Court term. Noting that the Federal Communications
> Commission had interpreted its TV indecency policy to allow the
> cursing in "Saving Private Ryan" and the nudity in "Schindler's List,"
> she said: "It's like nobody can use dirty words or nudity except for
> Steven Spielberg."
>
> It will be hard to top the "Spielberg exception," but perhaps Kagan
> can make something of the "Romney exception" — namely, the fact that
> the same arguments about the economic effects of self-insurance that
> Mitt Romney used to justify health-care reform in Massachusetts are
> the ones that lawyers challenging the Affordable Care Act are
> rejecting before the Supreme Court.
>
> Sotomayor has made her mark in oral arguments and in recent separate
> opinions by wondering aloud whether long-established Supreme Court
> doctrines should be reexamined. During arguments in the Citizens
> United case in 2009, she suggested looking again at the idea that
> corporations are people. "There could be an argument made that that
> was the court's error to start with," she said. In the health-care
> argument, perhaps Sotomayor will press the government to explain why,
> if corporations are people, they can't be forced to buy health
> insurance, too.
>
> Justices Ruth Bader
> Ginsburg and Samuel Alito
>
> Though not prone to punch lines, both are respected by lawyers for
> asking the most technically difficult questions about a case.
> Ginsburg, who once taught civil procedure, may be especially
> interested in the complicated question of whether, if the court
> strikes down the individual mandate, it should grant the government's
> request to wait for future cases to decide whether other provisions
> should be struck down as well.
>
> Alito may be interested in the question of whether the expansion of
> Medicaid unconstitutionally coerces the states by threatening them
> with the loss of federal funds.
>
> Justice Clarence Thomas
>
> Thomas is considered the justice most likely to strike down
> health-care reform. He alone among the current justices has signaled
> willingness to overturn a landmark 1942 case in which the court
> allowed Congress to regulate a farmer's cultivation of wheat in his
> own back yard for his own use. Thomas also ranks as the least funny
> justice, since he hasn't asked a question at an oral argument for the
> past six years. (Still waters may run deep, but they don't run funny.)
> Nevertheless, he has been known to speak when he cares passionately
> about an issue, as he did in a 2002 argument about a Virginia law
> banning cross-burning.
>
> Lucky ticket-holders will be waiting eagerly to see whether Thomas can
> restrain himself from leaning forward in his chair, pounding the bench
> and exclaiming, as those challenging the law have asked: "If the
> government can force you to buy health insurance, why can't it force
> you to buy broccoli?"
>
> Jeffrey Rosen is a law professor at George Washington University and
> the legal affairs editor of the New Republic. He is also an editor of
> "Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change."
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-the-supreme-court-debates...
> --
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> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
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> Have a great day,
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What’s going to happen during 3 days of SCOTUS arguments on health care?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-the-supreme-court-debates-health-care-get-ready-for-some-memorable-quotes/2012/03/21/gIQAeC4KWS_story.html

What's going to happen during 3 days of arguments on health care?
By Jeffrey Rosen, PROFESSOR OF LAW Published: March 23

Starting Monday, the Supreme Court has scheduled six hours of oral
arguments over three days to consider the constitutionality of
health-care reform, the most time given to a case in more than 45
years. We're certainly in for a historic event — but it might be an
entertaining one, too.

Oral arguments are always theatrical: The lawyers stand only a few
feet from the justices, who loom above them on a curved bench, and
they are barraged with so many questions that they often have trouble
completing a sentence. The hearings are also an opportunity for the
traditionally secretive Supreme Court to cut loose. In fact, the
Roberts court is known as a "hot bench" — not a reference to the
unusual sexiness of the justices but to the fact that eight of the
nine are unusually chatty during oral arguments (Justice Clarence
Thomas hasn't uttered a word since 2006). Even though the justices
rarely change their minds during oral arguments if they already have
strong views about a case, the hearings can clarify their thinking,
offer some lively give and take, and occasionally lead to humor.

So, will the oral arguments over health-care reform produce some
laughs? Here's a preview of what might transpire when the commerce
clause becomes a punch line.

Justice Antonin Scalia

According to a 2010 study in the Communication Law Review, Scalia is
the funniest member of the court, based on how many laughs the various
justices have elicited in the courtroom. But his wit sometimes has a
sharp edge. In 1988, when a lawyer fumbled for the answer to a
question, Scalia exclaimed, "When you find it, say 'Bingo!' "

Expect some zingers from Scalia in the health-care argument, perhaps
focused on the not-so-side-splitting subject of whether Congress has
the authority to require people to buy health insurance as part of its
power to regulate interstate commerce. Imagine, for example, the
following exchange:

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli: "In 2005, Justice Scalia, you held
that Congress has the power to prevent California from authorizing
people to grow marijuana for their own use. Surely, the decision not
to buy health insurance has a far greater impact on the economy."

Justice Scalia: "Depends on what part of California you're from."

Justice Stephen Breyer

Breyer's jokes often follow a long question identifying the hardest
issue in the case. He cares about legislative history and may focus on
a striking irony in the health-care law briefs: During the debate over
the legislation in Congress, Republicans insisted that the mandate to
buy health insurance should be considered a tax, and Democrats
countered that it shouldn't. The moment President Obama signed the
bill, though, both sides rushed to court to claim the opposite:
Democrats now insist that the mandate is absolutely a tax (and
therefore authorized by the taxing clause of the Constitution), and
Republicans are equally confident that it's not.

This debate is also relevant to whether the court has the power to
hear the case in the first place. If the mandate is a tax, according
to a 1867 law, litigants may have to wait until it goes into effect in
2014 to challenge it. If Breyer can get a laugh out of the "is it a
tax?" debate, he deserves to be promoted to funniest justice.

Chief Justice John Roberts

All eyes will be on Roberts to see whether he is inclined to interpret
the commerce clause of the Constitution as narrowly as he did in an
opinion that gave rise to one of his most memorable one-liners as an
appellate judge. In 2003, Roberts dissented from a ruling holding that
the federal government could use the Endangered Species Act to prevent
development on the habitat of the arroyo toad. He said the federal law
couldn't be applied to "a hapless toad that, for reasons of its own,
lives its entire life in California." Verrilli will try to convince
Roberts that the interstate economic effects of thousands of uninsured
sick people are far greater than those of the hapless toad, all the
while avoiding the word "toad."

As the crucial swing vote, Kennedy is most frequently flattered in
Supreme Court briefs. Some libertarians hope that he will strike down
the health-care mandate by invoking the same right to privacy that he
recognized when he reaffirmed Roe v. Wade in 1992. "At the heart of
liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of
meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life," Kennedy
wrote; Scalia later ridiculed this as the "sweet mystery of life"
passage. For Scalia and the other conservatives, Roe v. Wade is the
root of all constitutional evil. So if Paul Clement — who will argue
before the court for the health-care law's challengers — wants to
appeal to Kennedy without alienating the other conservatives, he may
try to murmur "sweet mystery" so quietly that only Kennedy can hear
it.

Justices Elena Kagan
and Sonia Sotomayor
These justices weren't yet on the court during the period covered by
the 2010 laughter study, but Kagan may have her eye on Scalia's
"funniest justice" title. She delivered the best one-liner of the
current Supreme Court term. Noting that the Federal Communications
Commission had interpreted its TV indecency policy to allow the
cursing in "Saving Private Ryan" and the nudity in "Schindler's List,"
she said: "It's like nobody can use dirty words or nudity except for
Steven Spielberg."

It will be hard to top the "Spielberg exception," but perhaps Kagan
can make something of the "Romney exception" — namely, the fact that
the same arguments about the economic effects of self-insurance that
Mitt Romney used to justify health-care reform in Massachusetts are
the ones that lawyers challenging the Affordable Care Act are
rejecting before the Supreme Court.

Sotomayor has made her mark in oral arguments and in recent separate
opinions by wondering aloud whether long-established Supreme Court
doctrines should be reexamined. During arguments in the Citizens
United case in 2009, she suggested looking again at the idea that
corporations are people. "There could be an argument made that that
was the court's error to start with," she said. In the health-care
argument, perhaps Sotomayor will press the government to explain why,
if corporations are people, they can't be forced to buy health
insurance, too.

Justices Ruth Bader
Ginsburg and Samuel Alito

Though not prone to punch lines, both are respected by lawyers for
asking the most technically difficult questions about a case.
Ginsburg, who once taught civil procedure, may be especially
interested in the complicated question of whether, if the court
strikes down the individual mandate, it should grant the government's
request to wait for future cases to decide whether other provisions
should be struck down as well.

Alito may be interested in the question of whether the expansion of
Medicaid unconstitutionally coerces the states by threatening them
with the loss of federal funds.

Justice Clarence Thomas

Thomas is considered the justice most likely to strike down
health-care reform. He alone among the current justices has signaled
willingness to overturn a landmark 1942 case in which the court
allowed Congress to regulate a farmer's cultivation of wheat in his
own back yard for his own use. Thomas also ranks as the least funny
justice, since he hasn't asked a question at an oral argument for the
past six years. (Still waters may run deep, but they don't run funny.)
Nevertheless, he has been known to speak when he cares passionately
about an issue, as he did in a 2002 argument about a Virginia law
banning cross-burning.

Lucky ticket-holders will be waiting eagerly to see whether Thomas can
restrain himself from leaning forward in his chair, pounding the bench
and exclaiming, as those challenging the law have asked: "If the
government can force you to buy health insurance, why can't it force
you to buy broccoli?"

Jeffrey Rosen is a law professor at George Washington University and
the legal affairs editor of the New Republic. He is also an editor of
"Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change."

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In 2010, when 99 percent of working families were scrimping and saving, the top five oil companies sent their CEOs home with a total of $73 million in executive compensation.

President Obama has called on Congress to vote to end government giveaways to Big Oil. Senator Robert Menendez has answered that call by proposing a bill that ends wasteful oil subsidies and the Senate will vote on it this week.

If you agree that Big Oil should stop getting help and start paying its fair share, please ask your Senators to vote in support of Sen. Menendez's bill.

Republicans in Congress have voted in lockstep to keep these subsidies going, even as they tell us that we can't afford essential public services like education, child care, sanitation and emergency response. They say there's no money to create new jobs or invest in the industries of the future, but they keep shoveling cash to these outrageously wealthy, dinosaur oil companies.

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Insider Reveals CIA Heart-Attack Inducement Weapons (Probably Cause Of Andrew Breitbart Death)

Friday, March 02, 2012 10:53
100% of readers think this story is Fact.
By Josey Wales

"The CIA is a state-sponsored terrorists association. You don't look at people as human beings. They are nothing but pieces on the chessboard."
-- Verne Lyon, former CIA agent in revealing documentary Secrets of the CIA

On July 13 2009, the New York Times ran a story about the CIA running an assassination squad using U.S military special forces.

The covert CIA program allegedly began in 2001 soon after the 911 attacks. The unfolding revelations of CIA death squads using U.S. military special forces personnel coincides with the online release of video testimony of a former U.S. Navy SEAL who said he was recruited to perform 18 assassination assignments for the CIA, and also targeted U.S. citizens. Source: examiner.com/exopolitics-in-honolulu/testimony-of-cia-assassin

Secrets of the CIA is a revealing 45-minute Turner Home Entertainment documentary available for free viewing at the link below. In this riveting exposé, five former CIA agents describe how their initial pride and enthusiasm at serving their nation turned to anguish and remorse, as they realized that they were actually subverting democracy and killing innocent civilians all in the name "national security" and promoting foreign policy agendas. www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/secrets_cia


So with the history of the CIA as high level assassins, willing and able to kill U.S Citizens at the president's command, it should not be hard to imagine that Andrew Breitbart would eventually become a target of Obama's CIA. Throughout history Presidents and Vice Presidents have used the CIA to further their agendas. Andrew Breitbart was a real threat to President Obama and his political agenda. By now most of you know that Breitbart single handedly went after the political system, ACORN, Anthony Weiner, and was about to destroy Barack Obama's political future, by Obama's own admission with videos of Obama during his college years hanging out with extreme Communist radicals.

So how does the CIA go about Assassinating targets like Andrew Breitbart?

Well there are a couple of weapons that the CIA has at their disposal that most people have never dreamed of, let alone heard of. One is an electromagnetic type weapon used by CIA and off-budget deep black ops. Called the "Venus Technique Shooter". It puts out a small beam, and if you're caught in that beam, it throws your heart into uncontrollable and wild oscillation; fibrillation; you have about 10 seconds to get out of the beam or you'll die; autopsy will show "heart attack". There is no way for a coroner to detect any fowl play as there are no drugs or chemicals needed and there are no signs of electrocution. This simply disrupts your heart beat and causes a heart attack.

Then there are Ice Darts. Ice Darts containing quiary(sp?) are fired from a special little gun, from close range of 3 to 4 feet.

This throws the heart into violent paroxysm, causing a heart attack. The dart from this secret CIA weapon can penetrate clothing and leave nothing but a tiny red dot on the skin. On penetration of the deadly dart, the individual targeted for assassination may feel as if bitten by a mosquito, or they may not feel anything at all. The poisonous dart completely disintegrates upon entering the target. The lethal poison then rapidly enters the bloodstream causing a heart attack. Once the damage is done, the poison denatures quickly, so that an autopsy is very unlikely to detect that the heart attack resulted from anything other than natural causes.

Sounds like the perfect James Bond weapon, doesn't it? Yet this is all verifiable in Congressional testimony.

There are not that many who specialize in these things. Only those who are highly familiar with advance assassination techniques would be familiar with these tools. If you have intelligence friends, ask them; deep operatives, in theory, they don't even exist. But the Video and other links provided in this article tell a different story. The more people like you who know these things, who know what is going on, the better. Please help raise awareness by sharing this article.

Much of the information in this article was provided by an associate of Sterling Allan, CEO of PES Network, Inc. (PESWiki.com and SterlingDAllan.com), who wishes to remain anonymous, for obvious reason.

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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Halliburton Heart Transplant; Bush Still on Waiting List

One would think that you would be a little more kind to a supporter of
the LGBT cause.

On Mar 25, 8:04 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dick Cheney is still heartless. -T
>
> Cheney Receives Heart Transplant; Bush Still on Waiting List for Brain
> Halliburton Performs Reconstruction of Former VP
>
> FALLS CHURCH, VA (The Borowitz Report) – Former Vice President Dick
> Cheney received a heart transplant today, but former President George
> W. Bush remained on a waiting list for a brain, hospital officials
> confirmed.
>
> As part of a government contract signed while he was still Vice
> President, Halliburton performed the reconstruction work on Mr.
> Cheney's circulatory system at a cost to taxpayers of $14.2 billion.
>
> The doctor who performed the surgery called the procedure "extremely
> invasive – just the way the Vice President wanted it."
>
> A hospital spokesman said that Mr. Cheney was expected to make a full
> recovery, but that he was "somewhat disoriented" coming out of
> anesthesia: "When we asked him who the President of the United States
> was, he said, 'Is it still me?'"
>
> Former President Bush made an appearance at the former Vice
> President's hospital, hanging a "Mission Accomplished" banner in Mr.
> Cheney's room hours before the operation was completed.
>
> More:
> TheBorowitzReport.com
>
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Dick Cheney Receives Halliburton Heart Transplant; Bush Still on Waiting List

Dick Cheney is still heartless. -T

Cheney Receives Heart Transplant; Bush Still on Waiting List for Brain
Halliburton Performs Reconstruction of Former VP

FALLS CHURCH, VA (The Borowitz Report) – Former Vice President Dick
Cheney received a heart transplant today, but former President George
W. Bush remained on a waiting list for a brain, hospital officials
confirmed.

As part of a government contract signed while he was still Vice
President, Halliburton performed the reconstruction work on Mr.
Cheney's circulatory system at a cost to taxpayers of $14.2 billion.

The doctor who performed the surgery called the procedure "extremely
invasive – just the way the Vice President wanted it."

A hospital spokesman said that Mr. Cheney was expected to make a full
recovery, but that he was "somewhat disoriented" coming out of
anesthesia: "When we asked him who the President of the United States
was, he said, 'Is it still me?'"

Former President Bush made an appearance at the former Vice
President's hospital, hanging a "Mission Accomplished" banner in Mr.
Cheney's room hours before the operation was completed.

More:
TheBorowitzReport.com

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Seven Signs of a Sociopath


March22nd
Seven Signs of a Sociopath
Tom Woods

Our politicians exhibit all of them. The great Doug Casey writes:

The US is already in a truly major depression and on the edge of financial chaos and a currency meltdown. The sociopaths in government will react by redoubling the pace toward a police state domestically and starting a major war abroad. To me, this is completely predictable. It's what sociopaths do.
There are seven characteristics I can think of that define a sociopath, although I'm sure the list could be extended.
Sociopaths completely lack a conscience or any capacity for real regret about hurting people. Although they pretend the opposite.
Sociopaths put their own desires and wants on a totally different level from those of other people. Their wants are incommensurate. They truly believe their ends justify their means. Although they pretend the opposite.
Sociopaths consider themselves superior to everyone else, because they aren't burdened by the emotions and ethics others have – they're above all that. They're arrogant. Although they pretend the opposite.
Sociopaths never accept the slightest responsibility for anything that goes wrong, even though they're responsible for almost everything that goes wrong. You'll never hear a sincere apology from them.
Sociopaths have a lopsided notion of property rights. What's theirs is theirs, and what's yours is theirs too. They therefore defend currency inflation and taxation as good things.
Sociopaths usually pick the wrong target to attack. If they lose their wallet, they kick the dog. If 16 Saudis fly planes into buildings, they attack Afghanistan.
Sociopaths traffic in disturbing news, they love to pass on destructive rumors and they'll falsify information to damage others.
 
The fact that they're chronic, extremely convincing and even enthusiastic liars, who often believe their own lies, means they aren't easy to spot, because normal people naturally assume another person is telling the truth. They rarely have handlebar mustaches or chortle like Snidely Whiplash. Instead, they cultivate a social veneer or a mask of sanity that diverts suspicion.

Read Doug Casey's article.

http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/we-really-are-governed-by-sociopaths/

Why Is the Recovery Slow?


Why Is the Recovery Slow?
Posted by David Boaz

Here are some news stories you could find in Friday's Wall Street Journal:
  • The Federal Reserve is holding an international conference of central bankers to reassure themselves that their "easy-money policies" are working and won't cause too much inflation this time.
  • The IRS is ramping up audits of the most successful people in the economy. If you make more than $5 million in a year, you can pretty much expect a time-consuming audit.
  • "Federal regulators are preparing a drive to tell workers at nonunionized businesses they have many of the same rights as union members, a move that could prompt more workers to complain to employers about grievances ranging from pay and work hours to job safety and management misconduct."
  • "The Department of Energy has placed nearly one-third of its clean-energy loan portfolio on an internal 'watch list' for possible violations of terms or other concerns, according to a copy of the list obtained by The Wall Street Journal, highlighting how such concerns have spread beyond the now-bankrupt Solyndra LLC."
  • The European Union is beefing up its permanent bailout fund to keep failed businesses alive.
  • States are circling Amazon and other online retailers, about to pounce with new taxes.
  • The Labor Department has "stepped up pressure" on PulteGroup, demanding thousands of records on its contracts with employees and subcontractors.
That's one day's stories about new government assaults on wealth creation and new political transfers of wealth. And so maybe it's no surprise that the paper also carries these stories:
  • FedEx scaled back its forecasts for domestic and global growth.
  • "New signs of a slowing global economy rattled investors on Thursday and put stocks on pace for their worst week this year."
  • Burton Malkiel writes that, while stocks don't look as bad as bonds, "we are likely to be in a low-return environment for some time to come."

Note that few if any of these stories made headlines, or even appeared in other newspapers. Many voters know about Obamacare, the massive 2009 stimulus bill, and Cash for Clunkers. Many fewer realize the tax tsunami planned for 9 months from now. Hardly anyone knows about the costs of stepped-up regulation and regulatory enforcement. But everyone wonders why the recovery is so slow and unemployment remains so high. Just read the papers ­ in detail.

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/why-is-the-recovery-slow/

Winning


Winning
by Anthony Wile

We track dominant social themes here at the Daily Bell, and the spectacular implosion of the "Stop Kony 2012" campaign is a further example of how these memes are disintegrating under the pressure of what we call the Internet Reformation.

We commented on this in this past week, in " Kony 2012 Debunking Shows How Far Alternative Media Has Come." But we wrote that article before the spectacular implosion of the "artistic creator" of the video, who apparently had a nervous breakdown due to the reception of the video and was sent to a psychiatric facility.

I am not one to rejoice at this sort of thing. In fact, it is a personal and familial tragedy for the person involved, obviously. On the other hand, the video itself was fairly despicable, in my view, and obviously and evidently the intention was to create a power elite meme.

This is not idle speculation. Alternative media reports may have firmly fixed the producers of the video, "Invisible Children," within the larger framework of the State Department and its infamous AYM sponsorship.

The "youth movements" that the power elite has assiduously cultivated over the past decade or more are responsible for destabilizing numerous countries around the world now.

The Invisible Children non-profit seems to me to be firmly entrenched within this Intel paradigm. No doubt, if their funding stream is analyzed closely it will emerge that various strands of support lead back to elite foundations and personalities.

What was the meme? It was to create a groundswell of support for a kind of neo-colonialist attack on Africa. Some of what is intended has been clearly elucidated now by alternative media and some has not.

The alternative media, as we have pointed out previously, has been superb in rising up to denounce the video and the intentions behind it. Alex Jones led the charge with a hundred – maybe a thousand – websites and blog-sites all focusing on the true disinformation inherent in the "Invisible Children" effort.

Many facets of what the video was intended to do have been analyzed by now. But let me try to sum up in a few sentences:

The video may be part of a larger power elite plan to take control of the Middle East and Africa more directly. In the Middle East and upper Africa, as we've reported many times, the power elite has destroyed a number of secular regimes (Egypt, Tunisia and Libya) on their way to installing what seems to be a region-wide Caliphate.

The idea seems to be to create a wider war on terror by building a Muslim-oriented Caliphate using the Trojan Horse of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is apparently CIA connected at the very top. The Kony video is obviously aimed at providing a wider justification for more African military involvement by the West.

All the above actions are CONTROL oriented. There are other reasons, as well, having to do with gold, with the world's next reserve currency and, of course, natural resources. Some of these we've pointed out in the past. But the larger issue is the one-world government that elites are continuing to pursue.

The moves in the Middle East and Africa and even the Kony video itself needs to be looked at within that context. And seen in that context, I think we can come to certain conclusions.

The main conclusion we can come to is that the elites' dominant social themes are really in a kind of free fall now. The elites RELY on these dominant social themes to organize society and instill belief systems that allow for the gradual implementation of what has been called a New World Order.

The idea of a consolidated global government run by the current elite – and at the top it is apparently composed of dynastic banking families – ought to be scary to anyone. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. A one-world government cannot be anything other than tyrannical.

But these dominant social themes, having worked so well in 20th century and even earlier, have certainly been undermined by the availability of 'Net information. One by one, they are toppling, or at least losing credibility. I'd like to think we've contributed to this trend.

Whether it's global warming, the so-called "war on terror" or various scarcity memes having to do with food, water and oil, people are a lot less likely to take what they read and hear from the mainstream media at face value anymore. There are too many other outlets via the Internet.

This is why the powers-that-be have tried to crack down on Internet information via such ploys as copyright enforcement. It's exactly the same tactic that was used after the Gutenberg Press began to change the way people thought about the Way the World Worked.

As we've often pointed out, this is a big problem for the power elite. Lacking the ability to propagandize the masses, the elites have turned to more brutal techniques. They are trying to accomplish via the brute force of law and regulation what they cannot accomplish via the propagation of memes.

Even worse, the elites have increasingly turned toward and encouraged, in my mind, economic disintegration. The idea is to make people so miserable and insecure via "austerity" and various wars that we will simply cry out for "order" at any cost. At that point, world government will start to become a reality.

But wait just a minute. As far as I'm concerned, however, "Kony 2012" and the pushback it has received mark a kind of watershed moment for the Internet. There have been several I recall.

One was when Dan Rather was fired after the Internet exposed the phony documents he was trying to use to attack then US President George Bush. I have no admiration for Bush, who was a deliberate war-monger, but Rather was rightfully caught.

Another watershed moment, in my view, was the "ClimateGate" exposure of emails that showed fairly convincingly that global warming was a contrived hoax. The "movement" has never recovered from this setback.

And another, very recent, watershed moment has been the unraveling of the case against Dr. Andrew Wakefield who first identified a potential link between autism and the MMR vaccine. One of Dr. Wakefield's colleagues just had disbarment from the British medical establishment reversed.

But the rapid and seemingly complete collapse of the Kony gambit must rank as the most astonishing yet in my view. The anger of seemingly the entire alternative media community is palpable and the "nervous breakdown" of the man who made the video when see in this light is perhaps no accident. They're under enormous pressure.

The elites will continue to do what they do. They've been doing it for thousands of years apparently, and the exposure of their thematic mechanisms won't stop them from trying to achieve their goals.

But above all the elites seek justification for what they do, and the Internet regularly strips these self-serving and manufactured justifications away from them.

This leaves the brutality of planned depressions, manufactured wars and unjust laws supported by crony favoritism. How long they can manufacture consent via fear rather than conviction remains to be seen.

There is a reason that the elites counted on the dissemination of their memes in the 20th century. There are a lot fewer of them than us.

Maybe at some point, as the Internet Reformation rolls onward, the top tier of elites – the powerful banking families themselves – will see fit to take a step backward. This won't be something done within a vacuum, of course. They will have to be convinced it is in their own self-interest to keep a lower profile.

It could happen, in my view. Perhaps it already is.

http://www.thedailybell.com/3711/Anthony-Wile-Winning

The Law Is Dead


The Law Is Dead
by C.T. Rossi

Thus from the four preceding articles, the definition of law may be gathered; and it is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, First of the Second Part, Q. 90, Art. 4

The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose of acting in the sphere in which they have a right to act, of doing what they have a right to do, to secure persons, liberties, and properties, and to maintain each in its right, so as to cause justice to reign over all.
-- Bastiat, The Law

As a member of that noble profession that concerns itself with the above subject matter, I take care to proclaim that the great Law is dead (or, at best, feeling quite unwell in 21st-century America). There is little hope for a resurrection of Law until the most important question is answered – whodunit?

Like any good suspense novel there are a retinue of likely suspects. Was it the pompous and hypocritical Politician, who rather than acting as guardian of the Law, turned his sacred trust into a tool for personal benefit and needed to off the Law before she squealed? Was it the shadowy Corporate Special Interest in the dead of night who needed the Law out of the way to effect his dastardly plan? Or was it the Professor, envious that Law always took center stage over him and his work? Perhaps it was the unassuming John Q. Public, who seemingly had no motive. Was Public put up to it by the seductive Media – who had an agenda of her own? Or was it – the unkindest cut of all – Lawyer, the Law's own lover, the most natural suspect?

I will spoil the plot by telling you the ending of this mystery – stolen directly from Murder on the Orient Express – that there are two possible explanations. First, as the sleuth Poirot explains, we can blame the murder on a random stranger – a tragic twist of fate. Alternatively, we can posit that all of the suspects took their turn plunging the blade into her bosom. Poirot suggested adoption of the former in his mystery. I suggest the latter in ours.

The Law died because she had to in order to make room for what Bastiat called "legal plunder" which "destroys for its own profit, and in different degrees amongst the rest of the community, personal independence by slavery, liberty by oppression, and property by plunder." The story is too in-depth to be told in a single article, so I hope to provide fuller detail in the future. But for now, I briefly want to provide an outline of the roles and motives of the players.

The Politicians: Individuals whose skill set, natural or acquired, consists of those things necessary for getting elected. The main skill is the art of telling people what they want to hear (or avoiding what they do not want to hear) – otherwise known as pandering. However, there is a prerequisite to really successful pandering – acquiring the resources necessary to pander – also known as begging.

The essentially negative, passive, and defensive nature of Law is an impediment to promising a chicken in every pot, in the case of the voters, and delivering said chickens in the case of moneyed special interest. To give cover to the fact that special interest gets the gold mine and voters the shaft, the Law has to be replaced with a brummagem system of regulation underpinned by a purely positivistic concept of law, i.e., unreasonable ordinances against the common good, made by those receiving questionable delegations of power, and concealed as much as possible.

Corporate Special Interests: As opposed to those individuals and entities attempting to engage in lawful commerce, these are promoters of perverting the Law either to win themselves graft or to use the power of government to bludgeon their competition in a way the market would not normally allow. In short, they want the game rigged in their favor and are willing to pay to make that happen.

Academia: This is bifurcated entity: there is the institution and there are the individuals. The legal profession was once learned by apprenticeship and largely self-regulated on state and local levels. The advent of the law school was ostensibly done to elevate and standardize the level of legal learning. But eventually the law schools hungered for the profits that only monopoly could bring and the path of apprenticeship was largely outlawed. Controlling the doorway for entry into the profession, the law schools soon learned that they could teach what they wanted – first out of hubris and later the curriculum could be put up for auction. Through partnership with the politicians and special interest, the law schools soon learned that opening a floodgate of free-flowing student loans – specially exempted from bankruptcy – meant they could charge what they wanted.

Then there is the individual law professor. Under the strictures of "publish or perish," legal innovation is his friend. There is nothing more exciting than when the Supreme Court makes a "major ruling" in his specialty – for with such rulings the dreams of new law review articles (prestige) or the revised 8th edition of his treatise (money) come. Those that choose as their mistress the mastery of sound principles of Law find themselves relegated to the dusty corners of the law library.

Then there are the select few, the legal rock stars, who labor proactively to change the law and advocate new policy positions. But to carry out such designs, the would-be legal divas need two things – access to the power brokers and money – things that bring these legal geniuses directly into the waiting arms of politicians and special interest.

The Public: Beginning with Prohibition, the hoi polloi were gradually inculcated with a disrespect for law and a tolerance for corruption. The disdain for (positive) laws is not wholly unjustified as Joe Six-pack can intuit that the game has been rigged, that the bureaucratic regulation of his life inures not to the good of the common man but rather to special interest. The only line from Shakespeare he knows (and he may not know it be Shakespeare, and certainly does not know it to be a villain's line) is "let's kill all the lawyers." While one may forgive Joe for failure to brush up on his Shakespeare, it cannot be denied that he is the product of an educational system which has robbed him of the ability to tell that there is a difference between babies and bathwater. When encountering the reality of "legal plunder," Joe is ill-equipped to appreciate that "Law" exists – or might be possible. So for Joe the only good lawyer is a dead one, unless – of course – he needs one.

The Media: There was much wisdom in Jefferson's preference for "newspapers without a government" but what would he have made out of the chimera known as the corporate media? Most likely it would have filled him with dread second only to the corporate farm. The corporate media, owned by corporate plunderers and designed to (give) cover to political plunderers, exists to make the public think that there is a difference between "High Popalorum" and "Low Popahirum" – the two official brands of legal plunder. Implicit in the media's pimping of official two-party plunder is the marginalization of any other politico-intellectual flavor –see Ron Paul as exhibit A.

The Legal Profession: Modern legal practice is fueled by insurance companies, i.e., corporate special interest. For plaintiff's attorneys, the presence of policy monies means that a judgment is recoverable and that they can afford to take the risk in investing time and money (usually in the form of a line of credit) in the prosecution of a case. For insurance defense attorneys, the insurer fuels his practice by supplying the firm with (the attorney hopes) a steady stream of cases to litigate. This, in essence, places the insurance defense attorney in the moral hazard of serving two masters – the insurer, upon whom his livelihood depends, and the single-event client in the form of the insured. While the ethical codes are clear about the insurance defense attorney's loyalty to the insured/client – such a system calls for moral courage on the part of the attorney as he risks alienating his primary source of income.

The insurance companies evaluate lawsuits, not on the legal merits, but on cost/benefit of litigation. The potential "hit" that the company will take determines the vigorousness with which the defense will be pursued. The companies have no qualms with settling somewhat dubious smaller claims but will fight to the death larger claims where liability is almost certain.

Rather than trim the fat they pay out in small claims, the insurance companies attempt to job the system they created by resorting to politicians in the form of tort reform. Tort reform is in essence wage and price controls applied to the legal system. The "reforms" usually consists of heightened evidentiary hurdles and damage caps. The heightened evidentiary hurdles mean a greater investment of the plaintiff attorney's time and resources – sometimes stretching to the point where the claim becomes economically unfeasible. The caps not only aid the insurance companies in their cost/benefit analysis, but exploit the economy of scale of large insurance defense firms in order to financially exhaust the plaintiff into settling the case before it becomes cost prohibitive to maintain.

We should not forget the third attorney present in every litigation – judges. The great majority of judges are elected, meaning that they are to some degree forced to become politicians whether they wish to or not. The sober qualities of a good trial judge seem antithetical to the qualities generally comprising "electability." The alternative is the appointment of judges – placing the bench under the direct control of the special interest-dominated politicians.

Is there a way to resurrect the Law? It may be possible to find her again but not unless we pursue her and we cannot pursue her if we passively accept as bona fide the system of legal plunder.


http://lewrockwell.com/rossi/rossi20.1.html

President Paul?


President Paul?
by Joseph Sobran
January 25, 2007

Dozens of people have announced their candidacies for the White House in 2008, and if I had to bet at this point, I would put my money on the old woman. Hillary may be awful, but at least she is predictable. I suppose I can learn to resign myself to her.

What difference does it really make? Our next president will have his or her hands full cleaning up after George W. Bush. In a negative sense, he has already set the agenda for his unfortunate successor. Just getting this country back to normal would be a labor of Hercules. And Hercules isn't in the race.

Politics doesn't often produce good news, but I am slightly heartened to learn that Congressman Ron Paul is contemplating a run for the presidency. The Texas Republican has now taken the standard preliminary step of forming an exploratory committee.

Paul, a pro-life medical doctor, is a genuine political maverick. When the House votes for something 434 to 1, you can safely bet that Paul is the 1. He really fights for the principles other Republicans only pretend to stand for, and does so with carefully reasoned explanations of his positions.

In essence, Paul appeals to that subversive document, the U.S. Constitution, long since abandoned by both major parties, not to mention the U.S. Supreme Court. He tests every proposed law by asking whether it exercises a power authorized by the Constitution. The answer is seldom yes.

Many years ago Paul told me, with his affably ironic smile, that he felt more pressure from his fellow Republicans than from Democrats, because the Democrats weren't embarrassed when a Republican voted like a real conservative, but the Republicans were. Showing up his own party has been the story of Ron Paul's career. No other Republican has voted against President Bush as consistently as he has.

Paul isn't flamboyant or defiant about it; his style is quiet and reasonable, not combative. Being a maverick isn't a pose for him. It's a matter of conscience and logic.

As a result, the GOP doesn't care much for him and, if he runs, will try to stifle him. The allegedly right-wing Newt Gingrich, when he was riding high, once supported Paul's opponent in the primary race; Gingrich knew what he was doing. A genuine conservative's worst enemy is a fake one. And vice versa.

Paul ran for president once before, in 1988, when he bolted the GOP to run on the Libertarian Party ticket. Much as I admired him, I voted for George H.W. Bush, afraid of "wasting" my vote on Paul, who had no real chance of winning. Silly me. I soon realized I had really wasted my vote on Bush. It made no difference to Bush, after all, since he was going to win no matter what I did; but it made a difference to me. I still regret it. (And to this day, Bush has never thanked me.)

Paul has no chance of winning this time either, but he may make a real difference just by being himself. He is what liberals used to call a conscience-raiser. He makes people reflect. After six years of supporting George W. Bush, conservatives should be in a reflective mood. American democracy has come down to an unappetizing choice between the War Party and the Abortion Party. Paul could offer an alternative to this bitter dilemma.

The Constitution must never be mistaken for Holy Writ, but at least it is based on the idea that there should be what William F. Buckley has called "rational limits to government." At this point, even that may well be a utopian hope.

But we have subscribed to the principle that the Federal Government must confine itself to powers actually enumerated therein. And after all, our rulers are still sworn to uphold it, just as Bill Clinton is still legally bound by his wedding vows.

Taken literally, this would reduce the government to about 5 percent of its current size. That would be a huge improvement. If nothing else, the Constitution stands as a reminder of what normality used to be.

Well, I can dream, can't I? And today I'm dreaming of President Ron Paul, with a Congress he deserves.

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We've always been intrigued by the last words of others. What did a person use his final mortal breaths to utter? What were they thinking about? Were they scared as they glimpsed the great beyond? Or did they brace up and stoically give up the ghost?

The following 16 men looked death in the eye and embraced whatever came next.

The 80-year-old Corey was accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem trials, but he refused to enter a plea to the court. As punishment, he was laid naked in a pit in a field, and slowly pressed to death over two days. Heavy rocks were gradually placed upon his chest--but he refused to cry out in pain, or enter a plea, and each time he was asked to do so, he simply replied: "More weight."

During the War of 1812, Lawrence's ship, the USS Chesapeake engaged in battle with the Royal Navy's HMS Shannon. The captain was mortally wounded with small arms fire, but encouraged his men to keep up the fight. His orders became a popular Naval battle cry.

These were Childers' last words to his firing squad before he was executed in 1922 during the Irish Civil War.

Thomas More was tried and executed for treason in 1535 because he wouldn't support King Henry VII's marriage annulment and denied that the king was the head of the Church. Before being beheaded, he said his last words in reference to his beard. He positioned his beard on the executioner's block so that it wouldn't be harmed while he was beheaded.

On the 800-mile return trip of Robert Falcon Scott's unsuccessful attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole, his team desperately slogged through freezing temperatures and blizzards, trying to stay on schedule and reach the supply depots along the way. Oates' feet were badly frostbitten, and he was slowing down the rest of the men. He volunteered to be left behind, but his comrades refused to leave him. So finally he simply walked outside his tent and into a blizzard, telling the others, "I am just going outside. I may be some time."

Hartley and his fellow band members continued to play as the Titanic sunk, in order to keep the passengers and crew calm. When the last lifeboats had been loaded, the musicians grabbed the railing on top the Grand Staircase's deckhouse, and Hartley said this farewell to them just before a wave hit and washed him overboard.

Patton died in 1945, right before leaving Europe. He was in a car accident en route to a hunting excursion that left him paralyzed from the neck down. He lingered in a hospital in spinal traction for 12 days; twas not the kind of glorious death the lifetime soldier had imagined for himself.

Passionate about the idea of manned flight, Otto Lilienthal was known as the "Glider King" and made over 2,000 flights in glider models he designed himself. In 1896, his glider stalled, and he fell 56 ft, critically fracturing his spine. These were his last words to his brother before he succumbed to the injury.

 

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    Witness Says Trayvon Martin Attacked Zimmerman Before Being Shot



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    Witness Says Trayvon Martin Attacked Zimmerman Before Being Shot

    by doctorbulldog

    Yup, looks like self defense to me.

    However, that won't stop Obama from playing the race card and embracing Trayvon Martin as his own son for political gain.  Gee, whatever happened to Obama urging us all to use caution before jumping to conclusions?

    Meanwhile, Obama's bosom buddies over at the New Black Panther Party are distributing Wanted: Dead or Alive flyers for Zimmerman:

    Witness: Martin attacked Zimmerman
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    ORLANDO - A witness we haven't heard from before paints a much different picture than we've seen so far of what happened the night 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed.

    The night of that shooting, police say there was a witness who saw it all.

    Our sister station, FOX 35 in Orlando, has spoken to that witness.

    What Sanford Police investigators have in the folder, they put together on the killing of Trayvon Martin few know about.

    The file now sits in the hands of the state attorney. Now that file is just weeks away from being opened to a grand jury.

    It shows more now about why police believed that night that George Zimmerman shouldn't have gone to jail.

    Zimmerman called 911 and told dispatchers he was following a teen. The dispatcher told Zimmerman not to.

    And from that moment to the shooting, details are few.

    But one man's testimony could be key for the police.

    "The guy on the bottom who had a red sweater on was yelling to me: 'help, help…and I told him to stop and I was calling 911," he said.

    Trayvon Martin was in a hoodie; Zimmerman was in red.

    The witness only wanted to be identified as "John," and didn't not want to be shown on camera.

    His statements to police were instrumental, because police backed up Zimmerman's claims, saying those screams on the 911 call are those of Zimmerman.

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    WHAT THE MSM ISNT TELLING YOU..RE: Trayvon Martin

     


     


    What the protestors and MSM are saying:

    -- "Trayvon Martin was a helpless child."--
    Don't be fooled by the pictures from his 7th grade graduation. Trayvon Martin was 6'3, 170 pounds, and a football player. Far from helpless against a 5'8, overweight, Zimmerman.

    --"Trayvon was a child of high moral standing."--

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    Actually, from his facebook posts we can assume he was a known drug dealer.

    --"Zimmerman was told by police not to follow Martin."--
    Wrong. Zimmerman was told that by a 911 dispatcher who has no authority.

    --"Zimmerman shot at Trayvon without reason."---
    Wrong. According to the POLICE REPORT, Zimmerman was bleeding and had wet, grass stains on the back of his shirt.

    --"You can hear Trayvon yelling for help in the 911 audio files."
    According to EYE WITNESS accounts, Zimmerman was underneath Trayvon Martin yelling for help.

    --"Trayvon lived in the nieghborhood."--
    False again. Trayvon was serving an 8 day school suspension at the time and staying with his father.

    More to come as the investigation continues.


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    Comments made in the year 1955!

    I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $10.00.

    Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000.00 will only buy a used one.

    Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents just to mail a letter.

    If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.

    When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.

    I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE
    WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it.
    I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas.
    Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if
    Someday they'll be making more than thePresident.

    I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They're even making electric typewriters now.

    It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having towork to make ends meet.

    It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.

    I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to awhole lot of foreign business.

    Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to government.

    The fast food restaurant is convenient for a quick meal, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.

    There is no sense going on short trips anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel.

    No one can afford to be sick anymore. At $15.00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for my blood.

    If they think I'll pay 30 cents for a haircut, forget it.

    Know any friends who would get a kick out of these, pass this On!
    Be sure and send it to your kids and grand kids, too!

     

     

     

     

     

     

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