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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Ferris Bueller’s Teacher Wakes Up

Ferris Bueller's Teacher Wakes Up
Posted by Christopher Manion on March 22, 2011 03:23 PM

After a decade of oozing tepid treacle glorifying George W. Bush's wars, Ferris Bueller's substitute teacher trips over the Constitution, awakens from his sycophantic slumber, and says " Ouch! Omigoshthis war's unconstitutional!"

So are the other ones, Ben, but W started those, and that apparently exonerates all the guilty and absolves all their sins.

But only in the dialectic of the Manichee. The better to understand this tsunami of contradictions, read this , this, this, and this .

xxx

One World Government Obama
By Ben Stein on 3.22.11 @ 6:09AM

Maybe I missed something, but wasn't that The Constitution of the United States of America that we just laid to rest this weekend?

It was buried in a private ceremony by Mr. Barack Obama of Chicago as he silently signed America on to the One World Government some of us have been worried about for decades.

Look at it this way: Where did Mr. Obama get the authority to commit United States forces to war in Libya? There was no declaration of war. There was no authorizing resolution by Congress allowing money to be spent on a war against Col. Gaddafi. As far as I know, there was no meeting of Mr. Obama and top leaders of Congress to discuss the subject in even rough form, let alone detail. There was no lengthy buildup in which the Congress was "allowed" to express the people's opinion on whether we want to be in a third concurrent war.

There was just a vote by the United Nations Security Council, a very far from unanimous vote, and suddenly, the President's Secretary of State, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton, solemnly announced that we were at war.

But, when did we amend the Constitution to declare that the United Nations had control over our military? When did we abolish the part of the Constitution that said Congress had the right to declare war? Now, I well know that in recent postwar conflicts, we don't have declarations of war. But we have Congressional debates. We have funding votes. We have a sense of the Congress or some kind of resolution.

This time, zip. Nada. Nothing. Just France and the U.K. and Norway saying that it's time to go to war, and off America goes to war. And off Mr. and Mrs. Obama go to a South American "fact finding" trip for the POTUS and a fun sightseeing junket for the Obama girls.

(I wonder if there has ever before in history been a national leader who sent his country to war -- and the same day went off on vacation. Has that ever happened before? )

Something's missing here. Libya and Col. Gaddafi were and are no threat to the United States. It is sad and cruel that the Gaddafi regime was murdering its own civilians, but so do many governments all across the world, including North Korea, Iran, the Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, and Cuba. Are we going to war with all of them, now?

Meanwhile, again, what the heck happened to the Constitution? Is this Mr. Obama's legacy to our children? The junking of the Constitution in the middle of the night and the turnover of our sovereignty to the United Nations? (By the way, this is the same UN where Libya until recently sat on the Commission on Human Rights.) Why aren't any questions being asked? Is the Constitution that meaningless to us? Are we that pitiful now? Are we willing to toss overboard the Constitution for the writ of the United Nations? I guess so. Sad days.

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/03/22/one-world-government-obama

Re: Trouble in ObamaLand: Democrats are saying Obama launched attack on Libya...for Oil!!!

Whoa! Dennis Kucinich is talking impeachment!

On Mar 22, 2:54 pm, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Steve Lynch (D-MA), has been tearing Obama a new one for 2 days now,
> and shows no sign of slowing down
>
> On Mar 22, 1:50 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Trouble in
> > ObamaLand: Democrats are saying Obama launched attack on Libya...for
> > Oil!!!<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/trouble-in-obamaland-de...>
> > *Scotty Starnes
> > <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>*| March 22,
> > 2011 at 11:30 AM | Tags: cap
> > and trade <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=cap-and-trade>,
> > Libya<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=libya>,
> > oil <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=oil>, President
> > Obama<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=president-obama>,
> > renewable energy <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=renewable-energy>,
> > Rep. Edward Markey
> > (D-Mass.)<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=rep-edward-markey-d-mass>|
> > Categories: Political
> > Issues <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?cat=35145> | URL:http://wp.me/pvnFC-4Ox
>
> > He's breaking constitutional law. He's doing it for oil. Most would think
> > his was being shouted by Republicans. However, these shouts are coming from
> > Obama's own party. Trouble in ObamaLand.
>
> > The Hill<http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/151041-key-dem-attac...>
> > reports:
>
> > The United States military action against Libya is motivated by a desire for
> > affordable and accessible oil, a top Democrat on environmental issues said
> > Monday.
>
> > *Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), the ranking member of the House Natural
> > Resources Committee, said that he agreed with President Obama's decision to
> > launch, along with allies, attacks against Libya and its leader,
> > Moammar Gadhafi. But Markey said the attacks were primarily motivated by
> > oil. *
>
> > "*We are in Libya because of oil," *Markey said on MSNBC. "It all goes back
> > to the 5 million barrels of oil we import from OPEC on a daily basis."
>
> > "I think all Americans know why the president made this strike," he said.
> > "As long as no American soldiers are on the ground ... then I think it's a
> > good decision for the president."
>
> > Markey is the same Democrat trying to push the cap-and-trade scheme.
> > Basically he is trying to say that if the U.S. had 'renewable energy,' Obama
> > wouldn't have attacked Libya. However, being a dumb Democrats, Markey
> > doesn't know that the U.S. doesn't import any oil from Libya.
>
> > Political unrest in Libya and other Middle Eastern nations with high oil
> > production contributed to higher prices per barrel of crude oil, which
> > translates to higher energy costs — particularly in gasoline. (Oil was up to
> > above $102/barrel as of midday trading on Monday.)
>
> > The increased energy prices led Obama to hold a press conference earlier
> > this month in which he renewed calls for *more production of renewable
> > energy*, and said he would consider opening the Strategic Petroleum Reserves
> > if oil prices continued to rise.
>
> > Just don't ask him to allow U.S. companies to drill for our own oil. That
> > would be common sense and go against his plans to make energy prices
> > skyrocket.
>
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13 Illegal Aliens Disguised As U.S. MARINES Caught Sneaking Into America At Mexican Border

twg2a PitBull | March 22, 2011 at 13:00 | Categories: Illegal Immigration, Military and Veterans | URL: http://wp.me/pMJTI-Ot

Clad in U.S. Marine uniforms, the illegal immigrants were apprehended at the Campo Border Patrol Westbound I-8 checkpoint at 11 p.m. on March 14 near Pine Valley, Calif., according to a March 15 report by California's El Centro Border Intelligence Center. Officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection are investigating a report that 13 illegal [...]

What does it take to over-populate the planet?

We already have too many people and are crowding it . .

One measure of that is that it is unsafe to live in the cities. When I
was a kid, we never locked the back or front door. Now, we have to
have bars on the windows and double cylinder deadbolt locks on the
doors.

What was causing the change? When the Earth becomes over-crowded, it
presses upon our natural resources and they become depleated. We sense
that over-crowding. As we all know in economics, when something
becomes too abundant, it loses value. It makes no difference what it
is; it applies to people as well as all else. As we become more
crowded, we each intuitively view the others with less compassion and
more disinterest, even hostility. We resent the hostile driver who
crowds us from behind or cuts in too close up ahead. We both feel
hostility.

And it is a hostility that grows. Now, we see "the too-many other
people" as having less value. What will it be like in years or decades
to come when we become even more crowded? We will see "the other
people" as having zero value. But it follows that things can grow even
more crowded. Then we must reach the point where we see "the other
people" as having NEGATIVE VALUE. Is that improbable?

It is already happening! Why else do people break down emotionally
under the strain, pick up a weapon and go out seeking to kill as many
people as they can? They are so stressed that they have no further
interest in living and want to die wrecking as much vengence as
possible on "the others" (society) which they blame (not unjustly) for
their misery.

Anyone interested in broadening their information on this subject can
find it in the the science of social evolution available by way of:
civilization-overview dot com

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Fwd: Atlas Shrugged Movie

You can also use this to "demand" it be shown anywhere

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As many of you are probably aware, Atlanta did NOT make the list of cities where the Atlas Shrugged movie will be initially released. I know--I'm as baffled as you are.

It's a little thing, but we can show the movie producers we'd like to see their movie by using the Demand It! feature at Eventful.

Click this link: http://is.gd/M5fwSi

(Note: I have no idea if you'd need to register in order to vote--I'm already registered at Eventful so I can't tell. Will someone let me know if registration is a requirement?)

Maybe it'll work; maybe not. But it only takes a second, so why not?

~Jenn