"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."--Ernest Benn

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On this day in 1947, President Harry Truman (1884-1972) makes the first-ever televised presidential address from the White House. Politics would never be the same...

On this day in 1793, The revolutionary government in France abolishes Christianity.
Proving the French wrong again.

On this day in 1921, The WJZ radio station in Newark, New Jersey, broadcasts the first radio play-by-play coverage of the World Series, between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees. Thus started the American obsession with broadcast sports.

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Subject: Economic Stimulus Payment

Sometime this year, we taxpayers may again receive an Economic Stimulus payment.

This is a very exciting new program. I will explain it using the Q and A format:

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China ?
A. Shut up.

Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:

• If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China .
• If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to the Arabs.
• If you purchase a computer, it will go to India .
• If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico , Honduras
and Guatemala .
• If you buy a car, it will go to Japan .
• If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan .
• If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.

Instead, keep the money in America by:

1 spending it at yard sales, or
2 going to ball games, or
3 spending it on prostitutes, or
4 beer or
5 tattoos.

(These are the only American businesses still operating in the US .)
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I'm going to go to a ball game with a tattooed prostitute that I met at a yard sale, and drink beer! Yay!

Maybe Obamanomics ISN'T so bad!

CARPE DIEM !

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Let's get this straight,

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it.

Passed by a Congress that hasn't read it, and whose members will be exempt from it.

Signed by a President who smokes.

Funded by a Treasury chief who did not pay his taxes.

Overseen by a surgeon general who is obese.

And financed by a country that is broke.

Now, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?

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In 1941, Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."

In 1990, East and West Germany reunite after 45 years.

In 1863, expressing gratitude for a pivotal Union Army victory at Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln announces that the nation will celebrate an official Thanksgiving holiday on November 26, 1863.
(The speech, which was actually written by Secretary of State William Seward, declared that the fourth Thursday of every November thereafter would be considered an official U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving.)

In 1917 Congress passed the War Revenue Act. Under the 1917 act, a taxpayer with an income of only $40,000 was subject to a 16 percent tax rate, while one who earned $1.5 million faced a rate of 67 percent. While only five percent of the U.S. population was required to pay taxes, U.S. tax revenue increased from $809 million in 1917 to a whopping $3.6 billion the following year. By the time World War I ended in 1918, income tax revenue had funded a full one-third of the cost of the war effort.

(Congress realized what a Golden Goose they had in the WRA and never looked back.)

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"We should stop the comparisons (of Obama) to Hitler. At least Hitler got the Olympics to come to Berlin." --LC Lone Haranguer

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Roland Burris, the winner of Obama's vacated Senate seat lottery, stated that it's "Bush's fault" that Chicago didn't get the 2016 Olympics...

President Bush has been out of office for nine months, yet he's so diabolically eeeevil that everything that the Left doesn't like is still his fault...to the point where even the Obamamessiah couldn't do anything to correct it....Riiight.

The IOC must be composed of all racists, since they wouldn't swallow the Obamamessiah's crap sandwich!

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Mostly Cajun has a great post up that flies in the face of the apologies the Pretender in Chief has made to the world recently about how badly the developed nations, notably Britain, treated the world in the past, and the effect that had on those nations.

Kipling had it right in his poem The White Mans Burden. As bad as conditions indeed may have been in the subjugated areas in the Colonial Era, those conditions WERE ultimately vastly improved upon by the presence/actions of those Colonists.

H/T Rurick

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Bobby Earl has a good Op-Ed piece demonstrating the blatant double standards applied in our political system today.

Rep. Joe Wilson shouted "You Lie!" during an Obama address to Congress on health care (yes, it was rude; but demonstratively true), and in spite of a sincere apology, Rep. Wilson is being brought up for censure; meanwhile Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) states on the Congressional record that Republicans want Americans to "die quickly" if they get sick. In his "apology", Grayson states that he is sorry that "he and other Democrats didn't do enough to prevent their death" to some of those that have recently died and their families. Some apology - NOT!

WHEN will we see a censure motion against Grayson? (here's an offer for you; if you believe that there WILL be a movement for censure placed against Grayson, I have a great bridge I'd love to sell to you, cheap)

JUST ONCE, I would like to see parity in the treatment of politicians of both Parties when they do idiotic things...

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Unlike any other President I can recall of, The current pResident seems to be the focus of an almost religious type of adulation by his supporters...The MSM media discounts this view, but ZoNation demonstrates this with video proof that it is indeed so:

This is indoctrination heretofore only seen in such egalitarian societies as North Korea, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union...

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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" --Albert Einstein

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On this date in 1959 Writer/Producer Rod Serling debuted a new television series that coined a term that succinctly describes the worldview from which the Liberal/Progressive factions of our society operate from.

The term?

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''I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.'' -- Ronald Reagan

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"The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it." --American writer H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity." --American author Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

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One of my former CYO teachers sent me this on FaceBook this morning and I think it's hilarious.. Love the Tennessee accent!

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GEOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN

Between 18 and 22, a woman is like Africa: Half discovered, half wild, fertile and naturally beautiful!

Between 23 and 30, a woman is like Europe: Well developed and open to trade, especially for someone of real value.

Between 31 and 35, a woman is like Spain: Very hot, relaxed and convinced of her own beauty.

Between 36 and 40, a woman is like Greece: gently aging but still a warm and desirable place to visit.

Between 41 and 50, a woman is like Great Britain, with a glorious and all- conquering past.

Between 51 and 60, a woman is like Israel: Has been through war, doesn't make the same mistakes twice, takes care of business.
Between 61 and 70, a woman is like Canada: self-preserving, but open to meeting new people.

After 70, she becomes Tibet: Wildly beautiful, with a mysterious past and the wisdom of the ages....An adventurous spirit with a thirst for spiritual knowledge.

THE GEOGRAPHY OF A MAN

Between 1 and 80, a man is like Iran , ruled by nuts.

THE END.

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This is one of the best descriptions of what is currently going on in today's realpolitik.

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"Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism. Take the financial crisis. One-third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, the Federal Housing and the Veterans Administration. Banks didn't mind making risky loans and Wall Street buyers didn't mind buying these repackaged loans because they assumed that they would be guaranteed by the federal government: read bailout by taxpayers. Under a capitalist system, financial institutions would not have been intimidated or encouraged into making risky loans and neither would they have been bailed out if they did so. Social Security, Medicare and its coverage of prescription drugs have an unfunded liability that exceeds $100 trillion. When those roosters come home to roost, they will make the financial meltdown we've been though look like child's play. Not withstanding all of the demagoguery, it is capitalism not socialism that made us a great country and it's socialism that will be our undoing." -- Walter Williams

"I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country." --President Andrew Jackson

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The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech before the U.N. yesterday that may stand in the annals of oratory as one of the best ever delivered. The simple truth was all that was delivered, that, and the simple charge for the U.N. to live up to it's own charter.

I hope along with Mr. Netanyahu that Winston Churchill was incorrect when he talked of the "confirmed unteachability of mankind" and the "want of foresight, the unwillingness to act when action will be simple and effective, the lack of clear thinking, the confusion of counsel until emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong.”

Surely we have progressed in the intervening 6 decades ? I would like to think so, even in the face of the incontrovertible evidence present all around us that we really haven't progressed as far as we should have hoped. It seems it's an all too human trait to not confront Evil until it has gained enough power to affect us on a global scale in terms of the consequences.

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I had heard this explanation of the Pledge when it was first aired on Mr. Skeltons show when I was a boy.
Someone in my Second Amendment group sent it as an attachment to the group, and I found that it moved me even more today than when I was a boy. Please listen and if you would, send it on to your friends, we need this reminder more than we ever have before.

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