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The first step is "sin taxes" to try to discourage you from buying things. Then come outright banning. You might remember a little ting from the past called Prohibition? Even you should be able to see the obvious prallells to the way they treat tobacco, fast food, and alchocol now. Yes these things are all bad for you but so what? Try this article: http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail...-responsibility As for Napalitano, sho should have been fired, then strung up for this: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/a...wing-extremism/ Shows loud and clear what the administration thinks of veterans. I mean after all they voted for McCain by a margin of 16:1

I don't get it. If I am opposed to Keynsian top down control economics (and I am) how does that make me automatically in favor on unfettered lassiez-faire capitalisim? Especially after I just posted such nice things about the Glass-Stengal act. It is not all of one or the other. It is more of one or the other. I am in favor of something you g******d liberals seem to be coming to hate (or at least vigorously oppose): Freedom. I know the US prospers best when it's citizens are able to enjoy the maximum amount of freedom, economic as well as social. That does not mean we dispose of social saftey nets, or even reasonable government controls. Believing that obviously makes me an enemy and an object of ridicule to Obama and his ilk but as we will see in November, there are a hell of a lot of people like me who are more than a little sick of Obama and his "fundamental transformation" of America. Freedom is a term that is thrown around a lot and never really defined, especially in context. Typical. Obfuscating the obvious when you have no argument. How's this for a definition, living your life with a minimum amount of government interefernce? No Big Brother ordering you to buy health insurance or face jail time. No Big Brother helping itself to 35-50% of what you EARN. No Big Brother sabatoging your investments, telling what kind of car you can drive, telling you you cannot smoke or drink or eat what you please if you choose to. How about not having the government issuing instructions to the police to watch out for 'domestic terrorists" like returning veterans and people with Gadsen Flag sitckers on their cars. How about not worrying the government will seize your home and sell it to someone else because they could earn more tax revenue on it that way? Need I go on?

I don't get it. If I am opposed to Keynsian top down control economics (and I am) how does that make me automatically in favor on unfettered lassiez-faire capitalisim? Especially after I just posted such nice things about the Glass-Stengal act. It is not all of one or the other. It is more of one or the other. I am in favor of something you g******d liberals seem to be coming to hate (or at least vigorously oppose): Freedom. I know the US prospers best when it's citizens are able to enjoy the maximum amount of freedom, economic as well as social. That does not mean we dispose of social saftey nets, or even reasonable government controls. Believing that obviously makes me an enemy and an object of ridicule to Obama and his ilk but as we will see in November, there are a hell of a lot of people like me who are more than a little sick of Obama and his "fundamental transformation" of America.

One other thought, to Calax and others. Do not dismiss the Tea Party movement. It is very large and has teeth. A number of very prominent politicians havew already been dispatched by Tea Party candidates and a few more will be tonight. On November 2 they will make their presence felt nation wide.

I saw a great sign at a Tea Party rally. I wrote it down: Five Undeniable Truths: You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, the nation is finished. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

I'd say indirectly to blame, but they bear a LOT of indirect blame. Following the 1929 stock market crash a lot of safe guards were put into place to help prevent that from happening again. There were several laws but the main one was the Glass-Stengal Act. Over the next sixty or so years Glass-Stengal was chipped away under several administrations but the biggest changes came under Nixon, Carter, and Clinton. Once again none of those admins were entirely to blame because each did small things that seemed inconsequential but in the aggregate were very destructive. Under Carter we got the Community Reinvestment Act (forced banks to make a certain number of loans to low income with lowered credit requirements), and the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act (In short brought all banks under control of the Fed and changed how interest rates were set). Under Clinton the CRA was revised so that more borrowers could obtain loans even if they could not afford them. Under Clinton we got the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Repealed the part of Glass-Stengal that prevented deopsitory banks from also being investment, mortgage and insurance banks). Also under Clinton the CRA was modified so the government began guaranteeing loans by buying them through Fannie May and Freddie Mac. Under GWB the CRA was modified again lowering credit requirments even further. When the bubble burst real estate vaues tanked and billions of dollars in assets became worthless. There were a lot of bad acts by private mortgage brokers "predatory lending" and all, and LOTS of stupid business decisions by John Q Citizen but it was Uncle Sam who laid the foundation that allowed it to happen. Or more accurately removed the safeguards that prevented it from happening and then all but created the crisis by forcing banks to take risks they would not otherwise have. Thats is a vvery brief summary but you can look those laws up in Wiki and get a pretty good idea how they all combined to make a pretty foul stew. Just don't cite Wikipedia in your paper. Your instructors would laugh you out of the room. Lexis-Nexus is an excellent news search tool even if you do have to pay for it. Now on the idea of limited government and the Tea Party I could go on for pages and pages. But just to get you started here is a great article that came out just yesterday in the UK Telegraph that touched on your topic a bit, even though that was not the topic of the article. Here is an excerpt:

Interesting reading: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/09/13/mf.nf...x.html?hpt=Sbin How about them Bucs? Nice freaking pass Freeman! Defense needs help though. If the Browns can run on our boys like that God help us in New Orleans.

I hired an editor to go over my book. I just got the manuscript back today. Can I still call it a manuscript when it's in RTF on a CD? Time to begin re-write #1. I just poured a drink (Knob Creek on ice with a spalsh of Canada Dry) time to get to work.

Now reading True at First Light. Yeah, yeah, I know. But what can I say, I'm a Hemingway fan.

Who won last year? I don't even remeber. Well we can at least make Super Bowl predictions I've got Indy over Dallas in the superbowl.

I went to work, after went to the VFW for a few beers, then came home. When did my life turn into a Clint Black song?

You should join this club!

My post game advice is "don't screw it up by over thinking it". If she brushes you back, just take it in stride. If she wants to see you again, go for it.

At that point futile gestures are all that is left to anyone who desires only to live in freedom. But as far as the ammo goes, I do my own reloading/pressing. I have enough brass, projectiles, and propellant to make that much but it is not all put together right now. You would be shocked how cheap it is though. If you buy in bulk and make use of surplus auctions. For example a box of fifty 240 grain, copper jacketed .44 magnum hollowpoints costs around $40 retail. I can load around 150-175 on my own for that much. But firearms are not the only defenses that can be employed in an emergency. For example you would be absolutely amazed at what you can make using nothing more than a few empty peanut butter jars, a box of nails, some saran wrap, a 9V battery, and a few common household chemicals mixed in the proper proportions. Isn't a military education a beautiful thing?

Those of you who have asked me why I own so many guns (eight in all) and so much ammunition (over 4000 rounds of .308, .44 Magnum, and 12 GA shotgun shells) just read the last two posts. If people like Pope and Malcador ever actually get the political power to do what they think needs to be done, I suggest they send well armed and unmarried men with no families to think of when they come for me. I will not go without one hell of a fight. Heck I've been preparing for that for years anyway. And prople like them have gotten politcal power in the past, I'm sure they will again.

Gotcha. So, let me see here... you are not a fundamentalist, in fact you are the opposite of that. So what you are really advocating here is solving the excess population problem by killing off people whose social/politcal opinions you disagree with. Does that about sum it up? It's ok, you can admit it. You are hardly the first to come up with that plan. It was pretty big in Europe in the 1930s and 40s too. In fact there are a few groups in the world today, most are around the middle east area.

So, lets see here. The Bucs spent some forty million bringing in Micheal Clayton and Derrick Ward as free agents and signing them to long term contracts. Last year they were the most productive RB & WR on the squad. This preseason they have cut both of them (which means they got no value for losing them and STILL HAVE TO PAY THEM!!!!) and have nothing to show for them but less salary cap space. Jesus F***ING Christ Domanik! What the bloody f**k are you doing??? You bring in a 30 year old nobody to be the head coach who, so far, does not seem to have a clue what the hell he is doing. You fire your offensive coordinator TWO F***ING DAYS before the season last year, and replace him with a guy who has been fired three times as a freaking assistant. You create a whole new defensive scheme last yeare that nobody understands and you end up dead LAST in combined defense (which at the very least kept the offense from feeling bad about being next to last) then in mid season change you mind and go back to the Tampa 2. There was just one problem, you got rid of all the personell you needed to ACTUALLY RUN A TAMPA 2 D! Trying to run that defense with two no name safeties is like showing up at your wedding wearing flip flops. So, lets see here, this year you have cut our two best players and insulted some of the others, publicly I might add. That Donald Penn incident is more than enough to know you are an absolute idiot. I think the Glazers should fire Domanick, Morris and the whole bloody lot of the coaches and just start the f**k over! Maybe we can get a troop of drunken baboons to replace them. They certainly could not do worse. Freakin' Bucs!

Ok, it took some doing but I finally choked down The Blade Itself. Overall it was not bad, but it really was not great either. I guess I'm not a big fan of the fantasy genre in general but there are some I really like, this one I could take or leave. My biggest criticisim is the language he used. I find modern day venacular, slang, and profanity a little out of place in sword & sorcery fantasy. Don't get me wrong he has to tell his story but... some phrases just do not fit. I did like the charachters though, particularly Glotka. I'll get to the next one, but just not now. There are three other books in line in front of it.

If something happens to the infrastructure anywhere most population centers are screwed because food production usually takes place far away and in cities, food supply is finite. The folks who stand the best chance of survival are those who have the knowledge and means to be reasonably self sufficient. Japan depends on desalination for a good bit of it's water so as long as those plants are maintained they would be fine. It only makes sense of everyone to lay up a two week store of food and essentials for emergencies. When I lived in Florida and hurricanes came rolling in 3-4 times a year it was just understood that everyone did this. But now I own a good size piece of land that has a small river on one border so I could actually grow/hunt/gather food and fuels if the need ever arose.

Here is me at a Preds game last year

I nominate this as "Comment of the Year"! I laughed so hard I had beer shooting out of my nose....

So, what groups of people do you think we should be killing off then Pope?

The season begins this Thursday, any interest in making picks this year? Someone else has to tally though, I've been real busy between work and writing and that just figures to get worse later this year.

Bah, rubbers ruin the whole thing. But they are necassary somtimes. Anyway, good for you Sluggo.

Now reading Bullpen Gospels by Dirk Hayhurst. Volo, LadyCrimson and everyone else who like baseball or sports books, you must give this one a look. It is perfect, insightful, self depricating, funny and inspiring at the same time, Great book. You will be laughing out lound in the first three pages.