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[Warph]

COMPETING WITH CHINA

Obuma keeps telling us that we need to get our Socialism on to be able to better compete with China.  But is that really a wise idea?

China's economic ills are far more deeply rooted: an overbearing state squandering capital and squeezing out the private sector, systemic inefficiency and lack of innovation, a rapacious ruling elite interested solely in self-enrichment and the perpetuation of its privileges

It's almost as if we're a little too much like China already under Obuma.

Han Zhiguo, an economist with more than 2.5 million followers on Sina Weibo, offered a sarcastic tweet calling the whole matter a "Chinese miracle:"

   1. The bridge was slated to be built in three years but was actually finished in 18 months. Such progress can be called a "Chinese miracle."

   2. The bridge collapsed after it has been opened to traffic for 8 months. Such quality of construction can be called a "Chinese miracle."

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/how-chinas-phony-economy-fooled-obama/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-29/china-s-bridges-are-falling-down.html


Can you think of any Obuma miracles?

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HURRICANE CHICAGO


10 people were wounded in shootings across Chicago last night.  28 more have been wounded.  Over the weekend, 9 people were killed in Chicago and 37 were wounded.

More Americans were shot this weekend in Chicago than in Afghanistan.  That makes Obuma's hometown an official war zone.  Hurricane Isaac has not killed any Americans.  The same can't be said for Hurricane Chicago

...from Celebrating While Black People Are Dying

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/celebrating-while-black-people-are-dying/  

UPDATE: 8 US deaths blamed on Isaac; 100,000 remain without power.
http://www.krdo.com/news/Isaac-death-toll-rises-in-Louisiana-heat/-/417220/16463158/-/kl7pin/-/index.html



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THE LAST CAR YOU WILL EVER BUY

The Obuma Car:




Planning to buy a car?  Forget about it.

The Obuma administration has finalized new fuel economy rules that will require the fleet-wide average of new cars and trucks sold in the U.S. to double over the next 13 years.  The average fuel economy must reach 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, up from 28.6 mpg at the end of last year.

That bonus will raise the price of a car by $15 thou$and dollar$.

When Romney spoke out against the move, Obuma said, ""Maybe the steam engine is more his speed"

At this rate steam powered cars will be the only cars we can drive.

 


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THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS


The US does hold the record for the fastest military aircraft, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, flying at just over 2,193 mph. But that record was set while Gerald Ford was president, in an airplane built when President Obama was still in pull-ups.

The fastest passenger ship is American too, the SS United States, with a top speed of 38 knots. On July 7, 1952, it won the Atlantic crossing "Blue Riband," beating the fourteen-year-old record held by the RMS Queen Mary by ten hours and two minutes. Today the United States sits derelict and rusting at a dock in Philadelphia.

The largest passenger ships in service are Royal Caribbean's Oasis Class trips-to-nowhere cruise vessels, built in Finland. The largest container ships, floating testimonies to the decline in American manufacturing, are launched in Denmark. The largest supertankers, with their proclamation of continuing dependence on nineteenth-century energy technology, are made in South Korea.

P.J. O'Rourke, via American Digest

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/thee-i-sigh-baby-boomers-bust

Where did all that greatness go? It went from innovation into bureaucracy. We make different things now. We don't make products. We make government.

This is what we make now.

The Reuters said State Veterinarian Taylor Woods told them they could get a free permit to exempt them from the law and allow them to be a garbage-feeding swine operation. The permit process would include several inspections of the farm each year. The Reuters said Woods told them he would send a government veterinarian to their farm to inspect the property and clear them for the permit.

U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinarian Dane Henry and state Department of Agriculture veterinarian Kent Haden arrived at Chert Hollow Farm with bad news. Woods had decided not to issue the farm a permit.

"When those two vets came out, they told us that Woods had changed his mind and was no longer going to issue any permits for any kind of garbage-feeding whatsoever,

Build massive supertankers? Hell we can barely run farms anymore. If the American colonists had disembarked to this kind of nightmare, there would be no America. All of America would be Croatoa.

When you need a permit to feed your own vegetables to your own pigs and you can't get that permit, how in the world are you going to build a supersonic plane?

We have inventions sitting around that could change the world. We have working technologies that can never be deployed. We have supercompounds that could revolutionize everything but we aren't going to use them to do anything bigger than make a newer and better smartphone and that will be done in Asia, even if the design is carried out here.

We could do great things, but we are not in the great things business. We are in the big government business. And this isn't just a Federal phenomeon, it exists at every level from the county on up.

We don't make ships or planes, we make inspectors and government buildings and rules and committees that debate the new third quarter 2013 rules that will go in effect and require the hiring of 10,000 more inspectors nationwide to enforce the new rules and trainers to train the inspectors and human resources people to manage the trainers and new buildings to house all that morass of parasites.

And then a politician will get up, put his hand on his heart, stand next to the flag and tell us that we need to sink another trillion into the whole system if we want to ever be able to compete with China.

Because folks how are we ever going to compete with China if people aren't going into debt to graduate from college to get jobs in human resources to take care of workplace disputes involving the managers of the inspectors who make sure that no one feeds vegetables to a pig?



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I HAVE A DREAM


The latest nightmare entertained me with the idea that Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, who held that office from 1933 to 1944, was being influenced by a deputy chief of staff by the name of Karl Fynn Abercrombie. The nightmare wasn't that specific. It came and went in a flash, too quickly to contemplate in any detail. But some of the faces were familiar, as well as the style of dress of the 1940's, and I recall peering into a dimly lit House of Representatives. In the dream, investigations were indeed initiated, and Congress and America learned to their collective dismay that Karl Flynn Abercrombie was none other than Karl Kluge, a Nazi spy, and that Hull knew it. As did FDR.
 
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/a-four-year-nightmare        


                             

[Diane Amberg]

I think you'll find hurricane Isaac killed 8 in the US. I wish it had been 0.

[Warph]

Michelle's Mom Is Spreading Rumors: Obamas Are Moving to Hawaii in January 2013
9/3/12


According to HillBuzz, rumors are

1.Obama's Chicago house will be sold soon.
2.The Obamas are planning to move to Kailua, HI.
3.Michelle's mom says the estate that they will buy is worth $35 Million.
4.Only one property in Kailua matches that description.

HillBuzz:
http://hillbuzz.org/the-obamas-already-preparing-for-move-to-hawaii-in-january-2013-hyde-park-neighbors-talking-about-chicago-house-being-sold-soon-63935

Barack and Michelle Obama will be moving to Hawaii in January of 2013 and preparations are now being made to purchase an estate in close proximity to land owned by the University of Hawaii, where the Obama presidential library and "political center" will be located.

I have a friend whose family knows Michelle's mother; they have been crystal clear that the elderly Mrs. Robinson regularly says that she'll be in Hawaii next year permanently with her daughter and granddaughters. There is neither talk of returning to Chicago to live nor of living in the White House for another four years — instead, there's a sense of "it was fun while it lasted" coming from Mrs. Robinson in her talks with her Chicago friends.

UPDATE #2: Found it! Here's the only property that matches all the clues we've been given. It is on the market for $35 million, which matches what Mrs. Robinson has been saying about the "$35 million house she'd be living in soon". ...

According to the Honolulu Magazine, the address is 210 N. Kalaheo Ave. Kailua, HI.

[Diane Amberg]

I hate to say this but, 35 million dollar places in Hawaii aren't rare. That photo might indeed be it, but it wouldn't be uncommon. The ground is so valuable there they commonly tear down beautiful multi million dollar homes just to build even more impressive, more expensive homes ,or buy two huge places and tear them down just to have more land to build one huge one on. It is just mind boggling.

[Warph]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/paper-details-obama-admins-alleged-secret-note-sent-to-iran-if-israel-attacks-we-wont-get-involved/

Obama Administration Passed Secret Message
to Iran: U.S. Won't Support Strike Against Iran

Excerpt: The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot published a startling report Monday
detailing a message it says was conveyed by the traitorous Obuma administration...
via two European countries... to Iranian officials.  This would be hard to verify (over here)
but speaks volumes about our support (or lack of it) of Israel if true.  There was a time when
this would have been impossible to believe.  Now?  With Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma in charge,
Who Knows?

                                     

[Warph]

I hate to say this but, 35 million dollar places in Hawaii aren't rare. That photo might indeed be it, but it wouldn't be uncommon. The ground is so valuable there they commonly tear down beautiful multi million dollar homes just to build even more impressive, more expensive homes ,or buy two huge places and tear them down just to have more land to build one huge one on. It is just mind boggling.

And HOW do you think Obuma.... who's worth is around $3M... can afford a $35M dollar pad

George Sore-ass?  Tax Payers?  Special Interest?  Hidden Bank Accounts?  Muslim Brotherhood?  Extraterrestrials?

[Warph]

"In a way Obama is standing above the country, above the world.
He's sort of G-D. He's going to bring all different sides together."
- Newsweek editor Evan Thomas



Only he didn't.  The plasic Clown has helped
bring America to the brink of ruin.


Meanwhile back at the funny farm the mantra of Obuma as a kind of god-like figure is being replayed one more time.

I guess they feel it worked the first time why not try a second.  The Democrat National Convention has deleted references to G-d from their platform.  They must remove the competition, you know.

http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2012/09/04/democrats-drop-god-from-party-platform.aspx

Exclusive: Democrats Drop 'God' From Party Platform
Guess what? God's name has been removed from the Democratic National Committee platform.
This is the paragraph that was in the 2008 platform:
"We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential."

Now the words "God-given" have been removed. The paragraph has been restructured to say this:
"We gather to reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most prosperous nation on Earth – the simple principle that in America, hard work should pay off, responsibility should be rewarded, and each one of us should be able to go as far as our talent and drive take us."

They have also banned any pro-Israel, pro-Jerusalem language from the platform,  throwing yet another American ally under the bus.  They must placate the nations that despise Israel at all costs... even at the cost of truth.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/09/04/obama-attacked-over-party-platform-on-jerusalem/

Fox News and several others report  that a giant church-like stained glass window will back up the stage at the DNC as Obama is once again declared the deity horse's-ass of the world.  You can read about that here:

http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/09/04/artwork-portrays-obama-jesus

and here:

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/dnc-artwork-likens-obama-to-jesus.html

His acceptance speech in 2008 was given in a replica of the Pergamos altar of Zeus.
Ego much?  HA!

Posters claiming prophetic fulfillment about him don't seem to trouble his poor mentally challenged followers as the continuous references to his being some kind of god-like figure didn't bother then in 2008.

These deity associations are creepy and ominous, plastic and fake... as fake as he is.





....Warph

[Warph]

DNC: "Government is the Only Thing We All Belong To"

Based on "We the People" written in the U.S. Constitution, we do not "all belong to the government," the government belongs to us.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Reality check: The United States government is paid for by the people and the politicians who serve in the United States government are elected by the people.



We've Heard it All Before, Bozo!

Mitt Romney has also responded through Twitter.

[Warph]

Political  Cartoons by Antonio F. Branco at http://legalinsurrection.com/tag/a-f-branco/

[Warph]

                           


Is American atheism heading for a schism?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/02/american-atheism-schism-spit-venom

Oh Boy...

Someone tell me, when will these atheists stop bickering among themselves and start acting like good Christians?

Oh, wait.  They already are.  In the passionate world of American atheism, the venom usually directed at believers has now been turned against the wrong kind of atheists.

Hmmmm....

The cause of this freethinking furore?  A new movement called Atheism+.  According to its website, "Atheism+ ...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2012/08/atheism-its-time-to-walk-the-walk/

....is a safe space for people to discuss how religion affects everyone and to apply skepticism and critical thinking to everything, including social issues like sexism, racism, GLBT issues, politics, poverty, and crime."

A+ was born when Freethought blogger Jen McCreight (the mind behind Boobquake) made a passionate call for a "third wave" of atheism, one that extends atheist activism into progressive politics and calls for a part of the movement to be one where women can exist free from the harassment that has plagued women publicly involved in the atheist movement.

The founders of Atheism+ say clearly that "divisiveness" is not their aim, but looking through the blogs and voluminous comments in the two weeks since A+ was mooted, trenches have been dug, beliefs stated, positions staked out and abuse thrown.  A dissenting tweeter is "full of shit", while, according to one supporter, daring to disagree with Atheism+'s definition of progressive issues and not picking their side makes you an "a**hole and a douchebag".

It took 700 years from Constantine renaming Byzantium in his own honour to papal legates circulating letters of anathema that split the Roman and Orthodox churches. Atheism, in its public, online life, has started exchanging internet anathemas.... perhaps we should call them inathemas... in little more than a decade.

Well, they do fashion themselves progressive... and so, they're progressing apace.

It can't be easy deciding what not to believe in.  So many things to reject, so little time.  And who is to decide what's not true and what's merely a matter of negative conjecture?  How skeptical is one allowed to be about skepticism before one has transgressed the boundaries of orthodox nonbelief?

For example, if I say I do not believe in God, does that mean I do not believe in the God other people who believe in God believe in?

Or does it mean I do not believe in God the way some people believe in Barack Obuma or the infield fly rule?

Or does it mean I believe there is no God, which makes me a believer in something, namely, that there is no God.  But doesn't that require proof of a negative?

And the crapulous tone of some of their tonier crap!

Fellow Freethought blogger Richard Carrier goes further.  When one commentator suggests "atheism does not have the luxury of kicking people out of its movement", Carrier gives him a rare old quilting in most splendid prose:

"Yes, it does. Atheism+ is our movement. We will not consider you a part of it, we will not work with you, we will not befriend you. We will heretofore denounce you as the irrational or immoral scum you are (if such you are). If you reject these values, then you are no longer one of us. And we will now say so, publicly and repeatedly. You are hereby disowned."

come on.... disowned?  Oh the humanity... to be displaced when one is already lost in the cosmos.  Where does that leave one?  Trapped in humanism's cecum awaiting expulsion like yesterday's fajita.

Before these amateur Übermenschen start engaging in some Great Purge, I suggest they hold a council of some kind and choose a "universal atheist" to have final say on contentious issues, like whether to treat women badly at conventions, or whether to use only unionized labor when building labor camps for the heterodox.

You know.... stuff like that.

I would spare my atheist friends the tumult of a full-blown civil war.   Because, as the saying goes, there are no atheists in foxholes.  Only foxes.  But that's sexist.

.....Warph