Saturday, July 14, 2012

Re: The Outlaw Josey Wales: "Doin' Right Ain't Got No End"

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On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:21 PM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

UncleBob's Treehouse
Saturday, December 29, 2007
The Outlaw Josey Wales: "Doin' Right Ain't Got No End"
Bob Wallace on Lots of Stuff

When I was in college I lived in an old two-story frame house, built in the 1890's. It was a co-ed house with 13 people in it, and ha ha! I was the only renter who had a room to himself! Because I got there first, before everyone else, that's how! Downstairs was the family room, or living room, or community room, or throw-all-the-beer-cans-in-it room, or whatever you want to call it. It came with a TV, which finally disappeared into some cokehead's car and was never seen again.

The year that we had the TV, it brought in three things: the only broadcast channel in town, which had a newscaster who would change his coat when he went from news to sports; another channel from 35 miles away, and a cable channel from who knows where. I think it might have been Chicago, and don't ask me how we got it. This was a good ten years before everyone else got cable, and I didn't have a clue how it worked. It was just there.

The whole setup was pretty pitiful, which was probably the reason we drank so much. Or maybe it was because we were in college, and that's what college kids do instead of studying, which I didn't do in high school or middle school, and I sure wasn't going to start in college. So while drinking we watched that cable channel, which for a year did nothing except play the same two movies, over and over: The Ultimate Warrior, with Yul Brenner, and The Outlaw Josey Wales, with Clint Eastwood. Brenner, who had no hair at all, was offset by Eastwood, who looked like the inside of a horsehair mattress.

My roommates and I saw those two movies so many times (perhaps 50) we memorized the scenes and the dialog ("Right here is where Josey plugs two guys and spits tobacco juice on one's forehead"). Even though you might think we got bored with just two movies, we never did. It was a ritual, a rather comforting one, to watch and rewatch those movies. Especially, in my case, with Josey Wales, which even at the age of 21, I realized was a great film. It was one of the first movies I bought, when they began to appear on tape. I still have it. I haven't bothered to upgrade to DVD yet.

Certain scenes and dialog are more vivid in my memories than others, although all the scenes are permanently bound in my brain. Someday I might end up being 99 years old and not knowing what I had for breakfeast, but I'll still be able to tell you what a Missouri Boat Ride is ("BLAM!"). One scene that is stuck is the speech Wales gives to the Indian, Ten Bears, who's wondering if he should rub out Wales and everyone with him:

Josey: Governments don't live together. People live together. Governments don't give you a fair word or a fair fight. I've come here to give you either one. Or get either one from you... I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another...

Ten Bears: It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double-tongues.

"Governments are chiefed by the double-tongues." A world of truth in seven words. They should be taught in kindergarten, engraved on stone tablets in town squares! They should be added to the Bible, taught in church!

Another scene that has stayed with me is the discussion between Fletcher and the mass-murdering leader of the Kansas Redlegs, Terrill, who is the Union officer who killed Wales' family -- even though neither Josey nor his family ever owned slaves. Both of them are hunting Josey, who, after his tragedy, turned Missouri Confederate (I suspect from the Ozarks, because I hang out in that area and know what it's like):

Fletcher: We get [kill] Josey Wales and it ends.

Terrill: Doin' right ain't got no end.

"Doin' right ain't got no end." That cold-blooded sentence is the motto of every tyrant -- indeed of most rulers -- in the world. That belief is ancient: both Jesus and Aesop noticed that tyrants always call themselves benefactors. As it is with rulers (who are the most prolific killers of all), it is with murderers: all must justify what they do, rationalize it to themselves. Murderers do their crimes for their own selves; rulers always claim it is for the greater good. "I'm from the government," goes the old but scarily true joke, "and I'm here to help you." You may think you are, but, no, you're not!

The story of The Outlaw Josey Wales is a simple but well-known one: a man who wishes to live peaceably with his family sees them slaughtered by agents of the government. So he seeks violent revenge. (By the way, does anyone in the government understand how that eternal truth applies to Iraq? Hello? Hello? Anyone?)

Here I inject an aside into the Josey Wales story. His Celtic last name has the same root as the names "Welsh," "Walsh," and "Wallace": "wealh," originally meaning "foreigner," and later, to the English, signifying "slave" or "serf." You'll soon see what this means.

There are three other movies I admire that tell the same story as The Outlaw Josey Wales: two of Mel Gibson's films, Braveheart and The Patriot, and the Liam Neeson vehicle, Rob Roy. All have the same story: peaceable men who have their families and lands attacked and taken from by those from the government. The result? Murderous revenge, of course. It always is. It's a law written on the human heart.

There is something else all four films have in common: they tell the story of the conflict between the English and the Scots/Irish/Welsh. In Braveheart the attempted English genocide of the Scots is shown; in Rob Roy it's the Irish; and in the case of The Patriot and The Outlaw Josey Wales that conflict has been mapped onto the United States, especially, in the case of Josey, as it showed in the War Between the States. (This same English/Celt conflict transferred onto the U.S. as the North/South conflict is also the basis of what is probably the Great American Novel: Gone With the Wind.)

Each film also very clearly zeroes in on the villain: the English. In the United States, these people, roughly speaking, transformed themselves into meddling, murdering East Coast Ivy League WASP Puritan Imperial Yankees Neoconservatives (yeah, I know it's a mouthful, but it's a fun mouthful, ain't it?) They're still around today, and are not only still meddling in the United States, but have, since their invasion of the Philippines in 1898, expanded their meddling throughout the world. Their motto: doin' right ain't got no end. No matter how many people die, no matter how much is destroyed.

That motto is how the world ends up with the hallucinations of someone like Richard Perle, who, while not a WASP, is the Zionist traitor version of it, said of Iraq, "If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now." Say what?

People like him believe that the Josey Wales of the world would offer a drink to their invaders for "liberating" them, or the women would show them their breasts and throw flowers at them. Uh huh.

Since two of the films have been made by Mel Gibson (which is a Scottish name), I'd say it's pretty clear that Gibson does not have a high opinion of the English, especially since, being Catholic, I'm sure he knows about how Cromwell (who styled himself "Lord Protector") caused the deaths or exile of up to one-third of the Irish population (most of them Catholic), and of the Highland Clearances in Scotland, when many, many people were burned out of their homes, including mine own ancestors (somebody owes me a lot of money and land, and a great big apology). Such butchery and theft was, of course, lauded as "progress," as it always is.

Cromwell was the first and only military dictator in England, and after his death he was treated as a traitor by his own people! -- his miserable but unfortunately dead body was dug up and drawn and quartered. Boy, that is a lot of dislike ain't it? No that's not right -- it's downright hatred. Even today, he is hated in Ireland, and no wonder -- he bumped off or kicked out one-third of the population.

As Jimmy Cantrell asserts: "...the English Empire began not around the globe but with Anglo-Saxons slaughtering Celts [featuring massacres of civilians that were all but unheard of in European warfare] and stealing all their wealth, the Yankee Empire began with the slaughtering of Southerners and the purloining of almost all Southern wealth." Wealh, remember?

Propaganda has taught us the English are our allies, and the Germans, who are supposed to be genetically genocidal, are not (here's food for thought: about 90% of English are Anglo-Saxon, i.e. German). Silly me to believe that not only is England not our ally, but that no country is. The English were just as guilty as the Germans in World War I and World War II, probably because both are blood brothers joined bloodily, Siamese-twin-like, at the hip.

Most people don't know it, but it was the English who invented the concentration camp, during the Boer War, a war in which they burned Boer farms (sound familiar?) and murdered more women and children in the camps that Boer soldiers in combat (all of whom were shot instead of being taken prisoner).

The U.S. came in on the side of England in World War I (when the combatants were exhausted and ready to quit) and won the peace, a peace which imposed crushing reparations on Germany. There's no fight like a family fight, huh?

Those reparations led to WW II. We came in on the side of the English, again against the Germans, and this time delivered the whole of Christian Eastern Europe to atheist Communist Russia, for over 50 years. What did we get out of all this? Hundreds of thousands of casualties, and just about nothing else except for some blather about "the Greatest Generation."

I consider movies to be modern-day myths, and like all great myths, they tell us great truths. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a movie is worth ten million. The four movies I've just listed tell us that when governments (which always call themselves protectors) slaughter families and steal land (for the greater good, of course), the outrages are never forgotten, even after several hundred years, and, invariably, bloody revenge is sought, as surely as night follows day. There are no "cakewalks," no showers of flowers, no beckoning naked grateful babes, no bottles of booze offered. Just death and destruction.

Countries don't have friends, just shifting alliances. Anyone who thinks otherwise is as deluded as Richard Perle listening for those non-existent children singing to him.

What's that old saying? "With no justice, there will be no peace"? It's true, no matter how many centuries -- or millenia -- pass.

http://uncabob.blogspot.com/2007/12/outlaw-josey-wales-doin-right-aint-got.html?m=1

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Re: Divine retributions are continuing on the tyrant kaafirs as an end result of the persecutions on Muslims

Muhammad Julhazuddin,

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On Jul 14, 11:02 am, Muhammad Julhazuddin <julhazud...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> All the kaafirs of the entire world, the jews, christians, fire-worshippers
> and mushriqs are bringing outrages on the Muslims at every turn in the
> world here and there, in lanes and roads, killing and making Shaheed of
> them, plundering assets belonging to Muslims, violating Muslim womenfolk
> and degrading and humiliating them by calling them militants and
> terrorists. Besides oppressions, they are hampering Muslims in observing
> their Far'd-Wajib items, Sunnate Muaqqada and even the Shariah itself. On
> behalf of the entire tormented Muslim class, The Imaam and Mujtahid of the
> age, Imaamul-Aimmah, Qutwubul 'A'alam, Mujaddide A'azwam, Habeebullah,
> Mamduh Hajrat Murshid Qibla Alaihis Salam of Dhaka Rajarbagh Dorbar
> Shareef, urges to the Shahi Dorbar Shareef of Allah Pak to save the
> Muslims, the way Allah saved Ka'aba Shareef from the tyrant hands of kaafir
> Abrwaha and also to destroy the kaafir community, the way abrwaha was
> destroyed. Owing to His Mubarwak appeals and supplications, Allah Ta'ala is
> battering the kaafirs by showering different kinds of punishments and
> retributions on them! The outcomes are the recent natural calamities like
> severe earthquakes, tsunami, heavy snowfalls, cyclones and tornadoes, wild
> fires of unusual dimensions in various countries of the kaafirs including
> Europe-America along with the severe economic recessions! Relevantly,
> Mujaddide A'azwam, Alaihis Salam Warned them, "If the jews, christians,
> kaafirs and mushriqs don't stop repressions on Muslims, they would turn to
> be street-beggars and shall eat from the dustbins. At one stage, they won't
> find food from dustbin even while they would fight with dogs for foods from
> there. And yet if they don't stop Muslim repressions, then they would be
> rolling on the streets not finding places (accommodations) to live. At one
> stage, shall roll down to the waters not finding lands to live on. They
> shall sink in there! Analyzing the available information and data, it is
> experienced that the time onward, Mujaddide A'azwam, Alaihis Salam began
> such supplications and making such predictions, Europe-America and the rest
> of the tyrant world of the kaafirs are being attacked in series by heavenly
> outrages like economic recessions and various natural disasters!
>
> http://www.al-ihsan.net/FullText.aspx?subid=6&textid=9479

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Divine retributions are continuing on the tyrant kaafirs as an end result of the persecutions on Muslims

All the kaafirs of the entire world, the jews, christians, fire-worshippers and mushriqs are bringing outrages on the Muslims at every turn in the world here and there, in lanes and roads, killing and making Shaheed of them, plundering assets belonging to Muslims, violating Muslim womenfolk and degrading and humiliating them by calling them militants and terrorists. Besides oppressions, they are hampering Muslims in observing their Far'd-Wajib items, Sunnate Muaqqada and even the Shariah itself. On behalf of the entire tormented Muslim class, The Imaam and Mujtahid of the age, Imaamul-Aimmah, Qutwubul 'A'alam, Mujaddide A'azwam, Habeebullah, Mamduh Hajrat Murshid Qibla Alaihis Salam of Dhaka Rajarbagh Dorbar Shareef, urges to the Shahi Dorbar Shareef of Allah Pak to save the Muslims, the way Allah saved Ka'aba Shareef from the tyrant hands of kaafir Abrwaha and also to destroy the kaafir community, the way abrwaha was destroyed. Owing to His Mubarwak appeals and supplications, Allah Ta'ala is battering the kaafirs by showering different kinds of punishments and retributions on them! The outcomes are the recent natural calamities like severe earthquakes, tsunami, heavy snowfalls, cyclones and tornadoes, wild fires of unusual dimensions in various countries of the kaafirs including Europe-America along with the severe economic recessions! Relevantly, Mujaddide A'azwam, Alaihis Salam Warned them, "If the jews, christians, kaafirs and mushriqs don't stop repressions on Muslims, they would turn to be street-beggars and shall eat from the dustbins. At one stage, they won't find food from dustbin even while they would fight with dogs for foods from there. And yet if they don't stop Muslim repressions, then they would be rolling on the streets not finding places (accommodations) to live. At one stage, shall roll down to the waters not finding lands to live on. They shall sink in there! Analyzing the available information and data, it is experienced that the time onward, Mujaddide A'azwam, Alaihis Salam began such supplications and making such predictions, Europe-America and the rest of the tyrant world of the kaafirs are being attacked in series by heavenly outrages like economic recessions and various natural disasters!

http://www.al-ihsan.net/FullText.aspx?subid=6&textid=9479

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We should rename the Cucumber the Pelosi

 


because it is a fruit that acts like a vegetable but has a more
practical use as a dildo.

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The ‘Aints’ Are Marching In




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The 'Aints' Are Marching In

by Terry

NO-this is NOT the New Orleans Saints, my beloved football team! I would LOVE to see these godless, pathetic souls try this at the SUPERDOME! I gar-on-tee they would be looking for a savior after the 'Who-Dats' finished with them!

This group of 'Saints' are a minor league baseball team in Minnesota, pandering to the wrong crowd. The'ain'ts' don't care about the national pasttime, hot dogs, country or Mom's apple pie, and I hope they lose the support of their faithful fans who do.
What will they do for an encore. Have a 'Muzzie Night' and give out free baseball bats to those who wish to beat their wives?

'Saints' become 'Aints' to honor atheism

Baseball team encouraged to hold 'infidel practice' during celebration

by Bob Unruh / WND
July 13, 2012
 
The St. Paul Saints, a minor league baseball team in the Twin Cities, will become the "Mr. Paul Aints" for one night in August in honor of atheism, the team and the Minnesota Atheists have announced.
 
"The stadium will be adorned with banners promoting both Minnesota Atheists and American Atheists. We will have a table with free swag (stickers, pamphlets) hosted by MN Atheists members at the front entrance gate to greet fans," the Minnesota Atheists announced on their website.
 

"To enhance the evening even more, every mention of the word 'Saints' will either be covered or changed to 'Aint,'" the atheists said.

 
 
Fridays have seen "unbelievable fun" over the years, the team said.
 
"Whether it was mimes, the Randy Moss hood ornament, or the Tweeting Wiener boxer shorts giveaway, the edge has been pushed and laughs have followed. Tonight, we hope for more of the same as the Saints become the Mr. Paul Aints for one night only."
 
At NBC's Hardball Talk, Matthew Pouliot noted that the Saints "definitely stepped it up a bit this this one."
 
"The night will be sponsored by the Minnesota Atheists, with the president of the American Atheists throwing out the ceremonial first pitch," he said.
 
"No word on what else the Aints have planned for the night, but I'll be disappointed if some fans aren't invited on to the diamond for infidel practice," Pouliot wrote.
 
 
In a statement to Fox Sports North, team General Manager Derek Sharrer said the team has worked with "hundreds and hundreds" of faith-based groups over the years so "when we were approached by the Minnesota Atheists, we felt like it was within our nature to be inclusive and certainly work with them to provide them the opportunity to provide their message in the same way."
 
 
The Minnesota Atheists said the players "will wear special game jerseys with the new name."
 
"The player-worn game jerseys will be auctioned during the game and there will also be an option to order your own custom-made jersey. Proceeds from the jersey sales will benefit Minnesota Atheists."
 
The atheists group said the game is being sponsored in conjunction with a day-long conference the next day in St. Paul.
 
 
 
 
I will try to give an update after the Aug. 10th game, on attendance and survivors of the HUGE LIGHTNING BOLT!  (well they did advertise "Big Fireworks")
 
~Terry
 
 
 
 
Terry | July 13, 2012 at 7:25 pm | Tags: atheists, Baseball, God, Minnesota | Categories: Atheists, God, Inspirational, Religion, Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-fG9

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Dreams from Obama’s real father



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Dreams from Obama's real father

by Dr. Eowyn

A Story of Reds and Deception

H/t FOTM's beloved Miss May

For more on Frank Marshall Davis and Obama's relationship with this card-carrying communist, see my posts "Obama's childhood mentor called Jesus a "Dixie nigger" and "Obama's disturbing poem on man-boy relationship".

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Why voter ID is needed: dogs and dead people recruited to vote



I don't mind dogs voting.  They are a lot smarter than democrats.



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Why voter ID is needed: dogs and dead people recruited to vote

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Mike Baker, GOPUSA 7/13/2012 The voter registration form arrived in the mail last month with some key information already filled in: Rosie Charlston's name was complete, as was her Seattle address. Problem is, Rosie was a black lab who died in 1998. A group called the Voter Participation Center has touted the distribution of some [...]

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27 Things That Every American Should Know About The National Debt

 






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July 13, 2012

27 Things That Every American Should Know About The National Debt

Michael Snyder, Contributor
Activist Post

The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day day.

The 15 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the greatest standard of living the world has ever seen, but this wonderful prosperity that we have been enjoying has been a lie. It isn't real. We have been living way above our means for so long that we do not have any idea of what "normal" actually is anymore.

But every debt addict hits "the wall" eventually, and the same thing is going to happen to us as a nation. At some point the weight of our national debt is going to cause our financial system to implode, and every American will feel the pain of that collapse. Under our current system, there is no mathematical way that this debt can ever be paid back. The road that we are on will either lead to default or to hyperinflation. We have piled up the biggest debt in the history of the world, and if there are future generations of Americans they will look back and curse us for what we did to them. We like to think of ourselves as much wiser than previous generations of Americans, but the truth is that we have been so foolish that it is hard to put it into words.

Whenever I do an article about the national debt, Democrats leave comments blaming the Republicans and Republicans leave comments blaming the Democrats.

Well you know what? Both parties are to blame. Both of them get a failing grade.


If the Republicans really wanted to stop the federal government from running up all this debt they could have done it.

If the Democrats really wanted to stop the federal government from running up all this debt they could have done it.

So let's not pretend that one of the political parties is "the hero" in this little drama.

The damage has been done, and both parties will go down in history as being grossly negligent on fiscal issues during this period of American history.

Sadly, neither party is showing any signs of changing their ways.

Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney is promising to eliminate the federal budget deficit in 2013. They both talk about how the budget will be balanced "someday", but as we have seen so many times in the past, "someday" never comes.

I didn't mean to get political in this article, but the truth is that the national debt threatens to destroy everything that previous generations have built, and our politicians continue to give us nothing but excuses.

The following are 27 things that every American should know about the national debt....

#1 It took more than 200 years for the U.S. national debt to reach 1 trillion dollars. In 1986, the U.S. national debt reached 2 trillion dollars. In 1992, the U.S. national debt reached 4 trillion dollars. In 2005, the U.S. national debt doubled again and reached 8 trillion dollars. Now the U.S. national debt is about to cross the 16 trillion dollar mark. How long can this kind of exponential growth go on?

#2 If the average interest rate on U.S. government debt rises to just 7 percent, the U.S. government will find itself spending more than a trillion dollars per year just on interest on the national debt.

#3 If right this moment you went out and started spending one dollar every single second, it would take you more than 31,000 years to spend one trillion dollars.

#4 Since Barack Obama entered the White House, the U.S. national debt has increased by an average of more than $64,000 per taxpayer.

#5 Barack Obama will become the first president to run deficits of more than a trillion dollars during each of his first four years in office.

#6 If you were alive when Jesus Christ was born and you spent one million dollars every single day since that point, you still would not have spent one trillion dollars by now.

#7 The U.S. national debt has increased by more than 1.6 trillion dollars since the Republicans took control of the U.S. House of Representatives. So far, this Congress has added more to the national debt than the first 97 Congresses combined.

#8 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more new debt than it did from the time that George Washington became president to the time that Bill Clinton became president.

#9 If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for 15 days.

#10 As Bill Whittle has shown, you could take every single penny that every American earns above $250,000 and it would only fund about 38 percent of the federal budget.

#11 Today, the government debt to GDP ratio in the United States is well over 100 percent.

#12 A recently revised IMF policy paper entitled "An Analysis of U.S. Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: Who Will Pay and How?" projects that U.S. government debt will rise to about 400 percent of GDP by the year 2050.

#13 The United States already has more government debt per capita than Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland or Spain does.

#14 At this point, the United States government is responsible for more than a third of all the government debt in the entire world.

#15 The amount of U.S. government debt held by foreigners is about 5 times larger than it was just a decade ago.

#16 The U.S. national debt is now more than 22 times larger than it was when Jimmy Carter became president.

#17 It is being projected that the U.S. national debt will surpass 23 trillion dollars in 2015.

#18 Mandatory federal spending surpassed total federal revenue for the first time ever in fiscal 2011. That was not supposed to happen until 50 years from now.

#19 Between 2007 and 2010, U.S. GDP grew by only 4.26%, but the U.S. national debt soared by 61% during that same time period.

#20 The U.S. government has total assets of 2.7 trillion dollars and has total liabilities of 17.5 trillion dollars. The liabilities do not even count 4.7 trillion dollars of intragovernmental debt that is currently outstanding.

#21 U.S. households are now actually receiving more money directly from the U.S. government than they are paying to the government in taxes.

#22 The U.S. government is wasting your money on some of the stupidest things imaginable. For example, in 2011 the National Institutes of Health spent $592,527 on a study that sought to figure out once and for all why chimpanzees throw poop.

#23 If the federal government used GAAP accounting standards like publicly traded corporations do, the real federal budget deficit for last year would have been 5 trillion dollars instead of 1.3 trillion dollars.

#24 The Federal Reserve purchased approximately 61 percent of all government debt issued by the U.S. Treasury Department during 2011.

#25 At this point, the U.S. national debt is more than 5000 times larger than it was when the Federal Reserve was first created.

#26 If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over 480,000 years to completely pay off the national debt.

#27 The official government debt figure does not even account for massive unfunded liabilities that the U.S. government will be hit with in the years ahead. According to Professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff, the U.S. government is facing a future "fiscal gap" of more than 200 trillion dollars.

As the U.S. economy continues to crumble, even more Americans are going to become financially dependent on the federal government.

For example, spending on food stamps has doubled since 2008. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs and have needed some assistance from the government. Since Obama became president the number of Americans on food stamps has gone from 32 million to 46 million.

But the Obama administration believes that a lot more Americans should be enrolled in the food stamp program. The Obama administration is now spending millions of dollars on ads that urge even more people to sign up for food stamps. In fact, their efforts to get even more Americans to sign up for food stamps have become very creative....

The government has been targeting Spanish speakers with radio 'novelas' promoting food stamp usage as part of a stated mission to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps.

Each novela, comprising a 10-part series called 'PARQUE ALEGRIA,' or 'HOPE PARK,' presents a semi-dramatic scenario involving characters convincing others to get on food stamps, or explaining how much healthier it is to be on food stamps.

I'm all for helping those that cannot feed themselves, but do we really need to run ads urging more people to become dependent on the government?

Of course Obamacare is going to cause our debt to balloon in size as well. It is being projected that Obamacare will add more than 2.6 trillion dollars to the U.S. national debt over the first decade alone.

So where are we going to get all this money?

We can't keep spending money that we do not have. We have got to prioritize. Every single category of government spending needs to be cut.

But instead we feel like we can keep ripping off future generations of Americans and that we will always be able to get away with it.

What we have done to our children and our grandchildren is beyond criminal.

The truth is that we should have listened to the warnings of our founding fathers about government debt. For example, Thomas Jefferson once said that if he could add just one more amendment to the U.S. Constitution it would be a complete ban on all borrowing by the federal government....

I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.

Where would we be today if we had taken the advice of Thomas Jefferson?

That is something to think about.

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This article first appeared here at the Economic Collapse Blog. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here.

 


 


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Terrorism: Quebec woman dispels stereotypes about muslims by supporting terrorists.

""Diab used to be an activist and travelled to small-town Quebec in 2007 to try to dispel negative stereotypes about Muslims."

Even small town Quebec isn't safe from our imported nutcases.

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Que. woman charged with terrorism for allegedly exporting gun parts: RCMP



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First posted: Friday, July 13, 2012 11:38 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, July 13, 2012 05:50 PM EDT

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MONTREAL - A Quebec woman was charged Friday with aiding what the Canadian government considers a terrorist group by allegedly trying to smuggle gun parts to Lebanon in 2011.

The RCMP told QMI Agency that Mouna Diab, 26, was allegedly working with a contact in Lebanon associated with Hezbollah, a political party and militant group that is on Canada's official list of terrorist organizations.

Diab used to be an activist and travelled to small-town Quebec in 2007 to try to dispel negative stereotypes about Muslims.  

She was originally arrested in May 2011 at Montreal's main airport. Police said she was caught on her way to Lebanon with parts of AR-15 semi-automatic rifles in her luggage.

She was charged in 2011 with contravening Section 3 of Canada's Regulations Implementing the United Nations Resolution on Lebanon: "No person in Canada and Canadian outside Canada shall knowingly export, sell, supply or ship directly or indirectly, arms and related material, wherever situated, to any person in Lebanon."

She was released on $15,000 bail to her Laval home, just north of Montreal, pending trial.

However, police said they didn't know at the time that she had alleged ties to Hezbollah.

RCMP Cpl. Carine Cordey said police received information about a possible link between Diab and Hezbollah, which led police to re-arrest Diab and charge her with committing an offence for a terrorist group. She appeared in court Friday morning.

The RCMP, Quebec's provincial police and Montreal police started an investigation in February 2011 into the purchase of AR-15-type firearm parts in the Montreal area.

The RCMP alleged that Diab recruited members of Montreal's Lebanese community to unknowingly transport gun parts in their luggage to Lebanon.

QMI Agency reached Diab by phone Friday afternoon. She directed all calls to her lawyer, Pacal Lescarbeau. She wouldn't say if she will plead guilty or not guilty to the charges.

"I have absolutely nothing to say about any of this," she said. "You'll have to speak with my lawyer."

Lescarbeau didn't want to comment either and wouldn't say how his client would plead.

Cordey said she didn't know how many people Diab used to export gun parts, nor if any of them will be charged. However, considering police don't believe the people knew they were allegedly transporting weapon parts, Cordey said that charges against them were unlikely.

Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews released a statement Friday that said: "Canadians can rest assured that terrorism and those who support terrorist activity has not and will not undermine our way of life."

--with files from Kinia Adamczyk

 


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Tonight’s Anus & Ammo episode: GANG BANG

 


No Joke: Al-Qaeda Operative Has Fellow Jihadis Sodomize Him To Widen
His Anus So Suicide Bomb Can Be Inserted…
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=141253

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Top Ten Felons, Fugitives, and Shady Characters in Obama’s Life




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Top Ten Felons, Fugitives, and Shady Characters in Obama's Life

by Harold

John Nolte, Breitbart News 7/13/2012 Now that the increasingly erratic and desperately sleazy Obama campaign has decided to cavalierly throw around the word "felony" when it comes to pushing a campaign of lies surrounding Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, this seems like a good time to jump in the wayback machine for a look at [...]

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