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    Presidential Race (Respector Edition)

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    Something I saw in an interview from a few years back with economist Doug Casey that has stuck with me. Lou, I'll save you the trouble http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Doug_Casey Have fun with the jalapeno cheese cornbread, Wendy...

     

    "I'm convinced that most people don't vote for candidates they believe in, but against candidates they fear. But that's not how the guy who wins sees it; the more votes he gets, the more he thinks he's got a mandate to rule – even if all his votes are really just votes against his opponent. Some people justify this, saying it minimizes harm to vote for the lesser of two evils. That's nonsense, because it still leaves you voting for evil. The lesser of two evils is still evil."

     

    From Jim Rogers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rogers

     

    "If they raise taxes, that's bad. If they delay everything, that's bad," he said. "None of this is good for us. Do you understand that the United States is at least in relative decline? They don't understand down there [in Washington]. All they want to do is get re-elected."

    Even if Washington had the political will to do something about the fiscal cliff, Rogers said, it would make no difference.

    "Let's say there's a fiscal cliff or not a fiscal cliff. We're gonna have serious problems next year and the year after," Rogers said. "For 2013 and 2014 you should be very worried, and you should prepare yourself."

    Presidential Race (Respector Edition)

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Lou, what you feel about Ron Paul and others who you don't agree with on the issues is the same I feel about Obama, Bush, Romney etc. They are crazy mothers IMO. Why do you get so riled up? I'm just providing a different spin on the issues. Like you said, there are many reasons for the problems we have. There are no easy solutions, but doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same result is insanity. By participating in the system it gives their policies legitimacy. Like P. J. O'Rourke says, "Don't vote, it only encourages the bastards." So this is my perspective on the political situation. So, it's not yours. Who cares? I'm really not looking to go tit for tat with you on every issue. At least I provide sources and opinions from those who might have more knowledge than you or I even if you don't like their resumes. If you think they ar wrong so be it. I am fully aware of the obtacles facing those who wish to see a return to a more free-market based economy and a more fundamental approach to the interpretation of and adherence to the principles of the Constitution. It's not going to happen in my lifetime. I'm not stupid either. But one can always hope. Read what I post or don't. You are taking my posts way too seriously. I know the Cubs haven't won a World Series in your lifetime but you have Theo now. Relax. :D The more you respond the more you encourage the bastard. :thumbup

    Presidential Race (Respector Edition)

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Lou, you believe the government is the solution to all our problems. Fine. You will probably never believe otherwise. I get it. However, everything the government touches gets worse or more expensive. How's the war on Poverty Working out? We have more poor people today than any time in our history after spending several trillion dollars. How's the War on Drugs working out? More billions upon billions of our money spent with no solution or end in sight. How did all those bank and corporate bailouts work out? They need to insititute QE3 to infifnity to keep them afloat. The war on terror? Obamacare? Unfunded government mandates? More trillions down the sewer hole. I can go on and on. We have reached the limit in this country. The debt is astronomically larger than just ten years ago. I was once like you and believed there was a government solution to these problems. There isn't. Change is going to come if we want it or not. The numbers don't add up. The Ponzi Scheme is reaching its' conclusion. I'm sure you have believed in things that some might consider crazy at some time in your life. Did you ever change your mind? Did you ever accept a view you one time thought was far out or out of the norm? Do you think the pundits on mainstream TV or the media are any different than some of the folks you criticize me for refering to? You take information and utitlize it to form conclusions. Everyone thought Galileo and Columbus were crazy. Everyone thinks Ron Paul is nuts. He is the only one who gets it. Time will tell.

     

    Other than your reservations about the authors so-called beliefs, what in the articles or the videos posted is not factual or blatantly untrue? Is the Federal Reserve a private banking cartel that has the interests of the banking world at heart? Is Obama's foreign policy not failing? Is Romney not surrounded by neocons?

    Presidential Race (Respector Edition)

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Squeezing out Sparky

     

    sparky fly on E street when the boy prophet walks handsome and hot

     

    sparrrrk star shining

     

    and the sound that you're hearing

    is only the sound

    of the low

    sparky

    of high heeled boys.

     

    Thanks for ignoring me. You are so concerned about what I post you fail to see your country being destroyed right in front of your eyes. Worry about what Obama, Romney and their corporate controllers are doing and are planning on doing than wasting your time trying to be cute attacking someone who doesn't agree with your narrow mindedness. Spend more time doing some research on the issues that you claim to be of such importance to you and you might actually learn something. It seems no one ever has a challenge about the facts or information provided in the things I post. All you can muster is an attack on the messenger or the author.

    Presidential Race (Respector Edition)

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    From the former head of the CIA's bin Laden Unit. Another expert who doesn't know what he is talking about. Some choice...

     

    Pity Poor America: Obama, Romney, and Foreign Policy

     

    In the coming debate, Obama will no doubt brag that he killed Osama bin Laden. Well good, about time, well done! But what has he done to stop the spread of militant Islam and its armed forces across South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa? This is a presence that now sits directly on sea lanes vital to the United States in the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, and is nearing oil reserves and deposits of uranium and other strategic minerals in West Africa that are indispensable to the U.S. and Western economies. Obama has done nothing but lie to Americans about the genuine religious motivation, numbers, and growing armed strength – thanks to his policy facilitated arsenal-looting in Libya, Egypt, and Syria – of al-Qaeda and its allies. At the end of Obama’s term, America is far weaker militarily and far more vulnerable to Islamist power than it was when he took office....

     

    And, in foreign policy, Romney will be no better. Amazingly, Romney has surrounded himself with the same brain-dead, Israel-first Neoconservative cabal that brought on the war we lost in Iraq and which made bin Laden‘s defensive jihad self-perpetuating, the latter proven by the continuing post-bin-Laden geographical spread of war-making Islamist organizations, Islamist-controlled states, and Islamist-caused violence. Listen to the media and hear Bolton, Krauthamer, Hannity, Kristol, Wolfowitz, Keane, Lieberman, and the crazed war boys Graham and McCain mouth exactly the same America-defeating nonsense spouted by Obama, Rice, Brennan, Mrs. Clinton and their acolytes at MSNBC and the mainstream media: Muslims hate America and the West because of their freedom and liberties, gender equality, freedom of speech, and elections.

     

     

    http://lewrockwell.c...cheuer16.1.html

    Presidential Race (Respector Edition)

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    As with everything Sparky posts here, it needs to be pointed out that Andrew P. Napolitano is a right wing ideologue who was according to Wikipedia was asked by Glen Beck to replace him on Fox news. I don't spend much time on any of this, but I always do feel it necesessary to check on these things because taking these things at face value is dangerous.

     

    Where mistakes made? Of course. Obama took responsibility for this at the debate the other night. In a dangerous and chaotic world shit happens. It is sad to be sure. Making a partisan issue out of this is even sadder.

     

    LouieB

     

    Thanks, Candy. He's also one of the nation's leading constitutional experts and someone who exposes those out to destroy our liberties no matter what party they belong to. That's why FOX dropped hid popular Freedom Watch show.

     

    Shilling for war...

    Second Ad Featuring PM Netanyahu Airs in Florida

     

    http://tipggita32.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/second-ad-featuring-pm-netanyahu-airs-in-florida/

    Presidential Race (Respector Edition)

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Who Is Responsible for the Mess in Libya?

     

    by Andrew P. Napolitano

     

    What's going on here?

     

    What's going on here is the unraveling of a value-free foreign policy and its unintended consequences. The whole reason that the streets in Libya are not safe and the country is ruled by roving gangs of militias is because the U.S. bombed the country last year. In an unconstitutional act of war, the president alone ordered the bombing. It destroyed the Libyan military, national and local police, roads, bridges, and private homes. It facilitated the murder of our former ally Col. Gadhafi and ensured the replacement of him by a government that cannot govern.

     

    The consulate attack defies the claims of the president, articulated loud and long during this presidential campaign, that because he killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is dead or dying, and the terrorists are at bay. Thus, in order to be faithful to his campaign rhetoric, the president has been unfaithful to the truth. I personally have seen excerpts from intelligence cables sent by American agents in Libya to Washington on September 12th, the day after the attack and four days before Rice's TV appearances, acknowledging the dominant role played by al-Qaida in the attack.

     

    So, who is to blame here? The president. He is responsible for destroying the government in Libya, and he is responsible for the security of U.S. personnel and property there. He is accountable to the American people, and he is expected to tell the truth. Instead, he has leaked the possibility of more bombings in Libya. These bombings would be more than a month after the Benghazi consulate attack and would attack the very government that Obama's 2011 bombs helped to install.

     

    Is it any wonder that Bill Clinton, in an unguarded private moment, referred to Obama as "the amateur"?

     

    http://lewrockwell.c...litano72.1.html

     

     

    Costs of wars so far 2001-2011...

     

    http://coto2.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/costs-of-war-2001-2011.pdf

    Presidential Race (Respector Edition)

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Wow. Seems like folks can't handle reality. Sorry to offend you but you should be offended with your own president's actions. I suppose the issue of droning people and its' consequences isn't a good topic during a presidential election discussion. My bad. Collateral damage isn't pretty but is it accepted or taboo to discuss because Obama isn't Bush? Back to discussing Paul Ryan's abs I guess. I understand you taking the photo down but you all act as if this isn't happening and shouldn't be an issue. Be disgusted at the actual killing rather than the posting of a photo of the atrocities that are ongoing in our name. That photos is tame compared to the other more gruesome photos most Americans want to make believe don't exist. I'm sorry I can't play the game of acting like this election is going to give us a real choice in changing our policies both domestic and foreign. Most of you seem too afraid to admit it to yourselves and don't want to see the myth die. Enjoy ignoring me. It's your right. I would ignore me too if I wished to only hear or read views and opinions that jived with mine. Boy, that Mrs. Romney is one hot babe. I wonder how much she spends on dresses? I bet Michelle Obama shops at Goodwill. What do you guys think? :yawn

     

    Where's the liberal media outrage about those crazy left wingers who are inciting violence and who own guns???

     

    Death threats against Mitt Romney proliferate

     

    http://twitchy.com/2012/10/14/death-threats-against-mitt-romney-proliferate/

    Presidential Race (Respector Edition)

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Romney has the Bush's, and he's made it a mission to pretend they never existed.

     

    Oh, you crazy conspiracist... :D Romney has all the neocons actually, including Bush Sr. His views on war and the military not much different from the current guy, however, despite what liberals want to believe. Just a little more vocal about it. Obama speaks through his actions. Just ask these kids...

     

    Admin edit: photo removal. 2:32 p.m.

    Presidential Race (Respector Edition)

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Obama’s War Record

     

    When Sen. Barack Obama ran for the presidency in 2008 many wishful-thinking Democratic voters viewed him as a peace candidate because he opposed the Iraq war (but voted yes on the war budgets while in the Senate). Some others assumed his foreign/military policy would be along the lines of Presidents George H. W. Bush (whom Obama admires) or Bill Clinton. Some who identified as progressives actually thought his foreign/military policy might tilt to the left.

     

    Instead, center rightist that he is, Obama’s foreign/military policy amounted to a virtual continuation of George W. Bush’s Global War on Terrorism under a different name. He extended Bush’s wars to Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and elsewhere while greatly expanding the war in Afghanistan, hiking the military budget, encouraging the growth of militarism in U.S. society by repeatedly heaping excessive praise on the armed forces, and tightening the military encirclement of China.

     

    Summing up some of his military accomplishments a few months ago, Obama declared: “We’ve succeeded in defending our nation, taking the fight to our enemies, reducing the number of Americans in harm’s way, and we’ve restored America’s global leadership. That makes us safer and it makes us stronger. And that’s an achievement that every American — especially those Americans who are proud to wear the uniform of the United States Armed Forces — should take great pride in.”

     

    Obama actually has little to show for his war policy after nearly four years. Most importantly, Afghanistan — the war he supported with enthusiasm — is predictably blowing up in his face. A symbol of the Bush-Obama 11-year Afghan folly is the recent 2,000th death of an American soldier, not at the hands of the Taliban but a U.S.-trained Afghan police officer, our supposed ally. The truth is that public opinion in Afghanistan has always overwhelmingly opposed the invasion, and rightly so...

     

    http://www.globalres...-record/5308209

     

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    Presidential Race (Respector Edition)

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Johnson 95% Well, I might have my man, Lou. But he's no Ron Paul.

     

    Goode 82% Who's he?

     

    Romney 82% (It probably depends on what position he was taking on the issues at the time the survey was concocted)

     

    Obama 56% There must still be a little socialist left in me.

     

     

    The 2012 US Presidential “Non-election”: Which Brand of “Fascism” this Time?

     

    No matter who “wins”, humanity loses.

     

    On one side, the Obama administration, and the traditional brand of neoliberal imperialism and international consensus, and false domestic populism. On the other side with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, militant right-wing extremism, an apocalyptic war agenda and the politics of sadism at home.

    The interests of the elite (Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberger, etc.) is dutifully served with either Obama or Romney in the White House. The question for the elite is purely over style and execution.

    Obama has been a servile facilitator and protector of the political establishment; an insidious capitulator and “consensus man”. For Wall Street’s billionaires, the Pentagon’s warmongers, and Washington’s most shamelessly corrupt, there has been no greater gift than Obama and his presidency. But with Romney and Ryan, the agenda simply speeds up and destroys faster, more violently, with true theocratic maniacal fervor.

    The final choice will not be made by voters (who will be disenfranchised again, via electronic vote fraud and other manipulations), but by the criminal elements who seize final control of the apparatus over the final month of the “contest”.

    The “children” are being allowed to fight it out amongst themselves. The side with ultimate command of the corporate media propaganda, the most effective back door deals, and the most effective dirty tricks and election night shenanigans, will prevail, the pre-determined result promptly encrypted into the software of controlled Diebold voting machines.

     

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-2012-us-presidential-non-election-which-brand-of-fascism-this-time/5308307

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