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I got this in a SPAM, but I think it is true.

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of Athenian Republic some 2000 years earlier: “A democracy is always temporary in nature: it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.”

“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.”

“From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.”

“During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage

Professor Joseph Olsen of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 presidential election:

a.. Number of states won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29
b.. Square miles of land won by Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
c.. Population of counties won by Gore: 127 million; Bush 143 million
d.. Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties by Gore:13.2; Bush 2.1

Professor Olsen adds: ‘In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country.

Olsen believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some 40% of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.

If you think Barack Obama’s Change is going to help with free medical for all and taxing anyone making over 250,000 who already pay 46% of all federal income tax, think again.

The total income tax paid in 2004 was $832 billion. Those earning $75,000 or less paid $182 billion (22 percent) and those earning more than $75,000 paid $650 billion, or 78 percent of all taxes. Further, those earning $200,000 or more paid $389 billion in taxes, which is 47 percent of all taxes paid.
For those of you keeping score that means the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans paid nearly half of all the taxes. And now consider this: The wealthiest 2 percent of Americans pay an average of $322,000 in taxes while the remainder of taxpayers (98 percent of them) pay an average of $3,037. That is a pretty big difference.
Barack Obama is going to INCREASE Social Security tax by raising the cap from $102K, to $250K, This is a tax increase, Capital Gains tax increase from 15% to 28%, When your Parents retire and sell their home for Capital Gain they will lose over 1/4 of the value to taxes. This will also cause a large # of investors to cash out to avoid paying the tax and could really disrupt the market. The companies that we are going to tax will pass these increases onto the consumer ( YOU and ME) It may not be a actual Tax increase but something will increase. Call it whatever you want, this is economics 101. America has been living outside its means for a while now, 50% off blowout sale, have your credit card ready, 0 down and no payments for a year, everyone approved, drive it home today, America is a sucker for deal. And if you find you can’t afford the payments, just blame whoever’s currently in the driver’s seat.

Best Little Pork Game on the Internet

Try to beat level one, and see what it says.

The Democratic National Party is Pathetic

I can’t believe what a racket the Democratic National Party is. Not only are they the most “elite-pompous-asses on the planet”(save the English Crown), they don’t care about their own base. Is it just me, or was their pathetic power-play to exile two whole states from voting for the President of the United States about the most transparent power mongering ever. Why would the biggest goof of a leader, Howard Dean, actually think that he could disenfranchising his own party? That is worse than hanging chads. At least, the guy is willing to put Florida back in play, but only at the approval of the two candidates.

I Honestly, Truly, feel sorry for those blue collar Democrats that have to be led by such Asses.

Iraq Military Deaths- not so bad

I saw this post on snops.com- Military Deaths. And while I am beginning to notice an liberal bias in the writing on snopes in terms of their explanations- especially in dealing with Obama, the fact is they do provide stable facts to look at.

This is the latest tidbit I saw on military deaths.

So what do I find interesting about this?

The fact is, liberals have been giving crap about how terrible the Iraq war is. How many soldiers have died.  But when looking at the numbers, you can see how bad it actually is, or isn’t (relatively speaking).  During Clintons presidency, whose only form of ground combat included pulling out of Somalia, has a total of 7,500 in eight years.  Now compare this to the presidency of George W. Bush, who has been involved in two ground wars that have been going on for the majority of his presidency.  The grand total of military deaths is 8,792 in six years.  Lets be fair and add the deaths of 2007 and 2008 according to Snopes.  In 2007, the war deaths in the wars were 1,014.  So far the know deaths in 2008 is 100 at the end of March.  Multiply that number to give an estimate for the whole year, we get 400 deaths in 2008.  While this number is most likely going to be lower than the true number, we will work with what we got.

The estimated grand total deaths for W, will be 10,206.  Lets compare this number to Clinton. 10,206 compared to 7,500 shows that the amount of military deaths during Clinton’s reign is  about a 73% the amount  of W Bush’s reign.  While that is a lot, you need to realize that Clinton’s deaths happened in PEACE TIME, whereas Bush’s deaths happened in a time of MULTIPLE WARS.  Its not too shabby for W Bush.

When looking at the table, we can see the Bush senior had 6,223 in four years- if it was eight years it would be estimated at 12,446- that is 2,000 more deaths than W, during peace time (minus the 1st Iraq ass kicking), yet Bush senior never got any crap for it.  During Regan’s legacy there were 17,201 deaths, a huge amount of military deaths.  Granted Regan was noted for constantly kicking crap and being a badass, his presidency was not known for being in a continuous combat war (the cold war doesn’t count).  The point I’m making again?  Reagan didn’t get crap.

Carter had over 2000 deaths in one year, he was a freaking PACIFIST do nothing, yet he had more military deaths in one year than any one-year-totals for W Bush.  HE GETS NO CRAP!

Lets compare the American casualties of the Iraq war to other wars according to Wikipedia. 116,708 in the one year the US fought in WW1.  416,800 in the four years the US was involved in WW2. And the over 400,000 dead in the Korean War. 58,217 in the six years of Vietnam. At 4000 in the five years of the Iraq war, things don’t look so bad.

Bush has done a lot of things I don’t agree with.  The boarders and the lack of spending control come to mind.  But one thing that I think is not a blunder of his is the Iraq War.  I may be going against the fray, but I don’t really care what popular opinion is, I look at the numbers.

Another reason our system is screwed, “Wrongful Death Lawsuits”

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/04/ritter.trial.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories 

“His family is suing Lee and a radiologist, Dr. Matthew Lotysch, who did a body scan on Ritter two years earlier, for $67 million. The current lawsuit follows settlements with the hospital and eight other medical personnel for about $14 million”

I like John Ritter, he was funny, but his death and wife’s lawsuit are no laughing matter.  I think the whole system is broken, and his wrongful death lawsuit is a perfect example.

John Ritter had plenty of money, he probably had a great life insurance policy, and his greedy wife needs more.  So he died, in the care of a doctor, that had known him for literally minutes of his life. The first question that needs to be asked, are doctors “God”? NO.  Do doctors like to fail when helping people, or better yet, like to kill people? No and No.  Should a doctor, and the health care system be responsible for the deaths of all people? No. 

So why then, should minutes of a persons life, be 100% the responsibility of the health care system?  Why should the broken system have to pay $67 Million dollars to the widow of John Ritter?  Is that fair? NO.  Is John life more valuable than the rest of ours? No. Is it more valuable than a soldiers? No.

WHY then do ”WE” accept these greedy lawyers, the greedy clients, and the outrageous lawsuits to be legal and just in our society?

Obama the Communist Revolutionary

I saw this on a myspace post.  I don’t know if my friend is the actual author or where it came from.  But none-the-less, its an intresting outlook on Obama.  Something, that doesnt surprise me, but I’ll talk about that later.

“Information about what Barack Hussein Obama actually stands for, besides “hope” and “change,” isn’t easy to come by, since he speaks in vacuous platitudes and doesn’t have enough experience to have left behind a record. But the clues are out there.

In his autobiographical Dreams from My Father, Obama writes of a father figure named Frank who apparently influenced him profoundly with his “hard-earned knowledge.” He acknowledges the words of wisdom “Frank and his old Black Power dashiki self” shared with him before he set off for college. This advice included not to “start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that ****.”

This Frank guy in the Black Power dashiki is Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Communist Party USA, which received subsidies from the Soviet Union to advance its goal of destroying America from within.

Davis wasn’t Obama’s last contact with the radical Left:

Obama became a “community organizer” and came into contact with more far-left political forces, including the Democratic Socialists of America, which maintains close ties to European socialist groups and parties through the Socialist International (SI), and two former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), William Ayers and Carl Davidson.

The SDS laid siege to college campuses across America in the 1960s, mostly in order to protest the Vietnam War, and spawned the terrorist Weather Underground organization. Ayers was a member of the terrorist group and turned himself in to authorities in 1981. He is now a college professor and served with Obama on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago. Davidson is now a figure in the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, an offshoot of the old Moscow-controlled CPUSA, and helped organize the 2002 rally where Obama came out against the Iraq War.

Given the circles Obama moves in, it’s hardly reasonable to expect his wife to be proud of America.

A radical on a communist website appraises Obama’s first primary victory:

Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary “mole,” not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through.

If by some tragic lapse of national judgment Obama were to end up the White House, the Soviet Union would achieve its greatest Cold War victory nearly 20 years after its demise. But as with other mortal diseases, it doesn’t matter if the host dies — so long as socialism can find a new host to invade.”

Vote or be Taxed.

Based on using the actual tax tables (see link below), here are some examples on what the taxes were/are on various amounts of income for both singles and married couples. so let’s see if the Bush tax cuts only helped the rich. http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

Taxes under Clinton 1999                      Taxes under Bush 2008

Single making 30K – tax $8,400           Single making 30K – tax $4,500

Single making 50K – tax $14,000         Single making 50K – tax $12,500

Single making 75K – tax $23,250          Single making 75K – tax $18,750

Married making 60K – tax $16,800     Married making 60K- tax $9,000

Married making 75K – tax $21,000     Married making 75K – tax $18,750

Married making 125K – tax $38,750 Married making 125K – tax $31,250

Saddam asks to dye by firing squad

Atleast someone is making sense these days,

BAGHDAD — A thinner but combative Saddam Hussein said yesterday he would rather die by firing squad like a soldier than hang “like a common criminal,” as the defiant ex-president made his final appearance before the tribunal until it renders a verdict. – The Washington Times

Al Jazeera in English

Ever wonder what they really talk about on Al Jazeera?  Well I came accross a site that translates it for you. Memritv.org aka the Middle East Media Research Institute. It’s fair to say, they hate us westerners, especially us Americans.  Here are two videos that show an Arab American arguing with Al Jazeera about why they want to kill.  There are also videos of clearics telling kids to be terrorists and such.  It is clear that they dont want to kill us because we are encroaching on them, they want to kill us because we are infidels.

Illegal Immigration Boycott – It’s Time America Stands Up

Today is the day that all the Illegal Aliens in America are going to boycott work in an attempt to display their importance to the American economy. While I doubt that it will hurt our economy, unless it turns into a riot, I am writing this because I am tired of being quite and letting criminals tell us how to run our country. I encourage you to take 5 minutes out of your day to also write to your senators and representative, you can simply copy and paste this message into an email. If you don’t know their email, here is a link to a Congressional Email Directory.

Dear Senator/Congressman,

I am an American, I vote. Right now, there are millions of people who snuck into our country and are demanding we pander to them. They do not pay taxes, they do not want to be a part of American culture and they funnel our money into Mexico. Yet they want the same benefits that Americans receive. They form gangs, make up a huge percentage of federal inmates, and have been transforming the south into an enormous barrio. They leave Mexico because it is so horrible, yet they wave Mexican flags at their protests. They even have the gull to change our National Anthem to incorporate themselves.

I have grown tired of this situation. Two thirds of the 12 million illegal immigrants have arrived here in the past ten years. Yet, Instead of building a wall, there are now discussions of allowing amnesty. I will not support amnesty of any kind. I do not believe in rewarding the criminals who have been breaking the law the longest. As for worker permits, I believe we already have a guest-worker program called “green cards”. I am in support of legal Immigration and I am in support of enforcing the laws that have not been enforced; the laws that American citizens, like the minute men, are forced to enforce because our government is too impotent, even in these post-9-11 days. Therefore, I will make a deal with you. Unlike these illegal immigrants, I vote. I will monitor your voting record. If you vote for any amnesty legislation, of any kind, you will lose my support and you will never receive another vote from me ever again.

Thank you for your time,
An American Citizen