Friday, November 30, 2012

Who Wanted Stevens Dead and Why?

We have a national security emergency being swept under the rug.
(8) Operation Benghazi Accountability:: www.facebook.com/events/366396453448168
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Thursday, November 29, 2012

This Chart Says it All

This chart shows that while government employment and welfare have grown over the last decade, the tax-paying part of the economy (private employment) has shrunk. I would suggest that private sector total employment is one of the best indicators of economic growth/recovery. This chart proves that we have not had a real recovery in the last decade and given what we are doing should not expect one. Who knows though, maybe the energy boom will hold off our reconing day and allow us to grow government even bigger before it rolls over.
America's Lost Decade In One Simple Chart | ZeroHedge:: www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-27/americas-lost-de...chart
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Secular Humanists Evangelizing

The Secular Humanists have launched another nationwide campaign targeting children. The reason I post this out is not to support it. It is to suggest that while they claim to be non-religious, I think that they are very much so. In fact we all have a value system, philosophy of life, or worldview, all of which are different ways of describing religion. What you assume to be true about mankind, God (authority), morality, and truth, will very much determine where government gets its authority and what roll it should play. Our founding fathers argued from a Christian worldview that "all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights...", resulting in rule of law, limited government, individual rights, and free markets. It is no accident that Secular Humanism and secular states give moral and legal authority to the majority, to a set of elites, and to government itself since secularism must by default do so. It is also no accident that secular states, which default to Collectivism, Socialism, and Communism have a horrendous record on human rights, especially as they become more faithful to the fundamental assumptions that come with their worldview. The secularist worldview is being promoted in the media, in our schools and in government policy and so it should come as no surprise that we are therefor losing the political system built on a whole different set of assumtions.
Kids Without God:: www.kidswithoutgod.com
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Student Loan Debt Bubble Popping?

In a system saturated with debt, where will we turn next for more credit to keep the Keynesian game going?
The Scariest Chart Of The Quarter: Student Debt Bubble Officially Pops As 90 Day Delinquency Rate Goes Parabolic | ZeroHedge:: www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-27/scariest-chart-q...ate-g
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

More on Access to the Land

One organization active in the fight to protect the access and use of our land in the west blogs here: americanlandscouncil.org/blog.html. They are worth looking up and following. They are engaged in the fight over western land and resources.
Powderhouse Becomes Powder Keg:: better-community-news.com/page129.html
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Logging Jobs Under Threat

This article reveals how the noose of federal restrictions and activist litigation is possibly being tightened around our logging industry. How is it that you can read the limited, enumerated powers delegated to the federal government in the constitution, and not find commerce or natural resource management listed and yet they control/oversee almost everything? It seems obvious that Agenda 21 explains where this is heading.
HAMPTON: Millions of jobs at stake in logging case - Washington Times:: www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/26/millions-...-case
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Death Sentense for Hobby Lobby

Given the size of the penalties they aren't just punative, they are a death sentense to the company that refuses the culture of death the federal government is promoting. So where is the state government on this issue? Should it not protect the liberties of these business owners? If the states are independent sovereigns, why dont they act like it?
Hobby Lobby files appeal in battle against ObamaCare contraception provisions | Fox News:: www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/21/hobby-lobby-fi...-case
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Attention Liberals

Many liberals like to eat organic and yet love big government, which by the way, always responds to big corporate lobbying. In this instance big government is backing Monsanto sized business to make (as usual) the small grower carry the cost of genetic polution blowing on breezes. You have got to be Progressive to like this experiment.
Organic farmers condemn U.S. report, claim it favors GMO - Yahoo! News Canada:: ca.news.yahoo.com/organic-farmers-condemn-u-report....html
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Update on Race to the Bottom

Here is an update on foreign demand for our dollar. Your dollars are only as good as they are popular.
China Persists In Refusing To Buy US Paper As Foreign LTM Purchases Of Treasurys Plunge To Three Year Lows | ZeroHedge:: www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-17/china-persists-r...ee-ye
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Bernanke Encouraging More Fiscal Recklessness

Bernanke says that we could enjoy a "very good year". We just have to ignore the long term and borrow and print and spend like madmen, and it will be great next year. The fact that he and others are calling cutting spending and raising taxes a "fiscal cliff" indicates that they are committed to outspending revenue until the whole system goes off a real fiscal cliff (not that raising taxes wouldn't backfire). In other words we are addicted to borrowing, printing, and overspending and don't have the courage or the political will to rein in spending and go through the difficult economic adjustment necessary to get back on a healthy, sustainable footing. Will the new American energy revolution in oil and natural gas development save us? It is helping us avoid much of the pain already, but could perpetuate these horrible economic policies by holding off the consequences they would otherwise bring on with great force. QE III is targetting mortgages so we will probably see some re-inflation of housing prices until that shot of cocain wears off and it begins to look like Housing Bubble II instead. Who knows, but all this manipulation doesn't create wealth but transfers massive amounts of it. Hard work and honest trade becomes less and less rewarding, while working the corrupted system becomes the easiest way to make it in a system with less and less accountability, transparency and integrity.
Budget Fight Threatens U.S. Recession, Bernanke Says:: www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/fed-bernanke-cliff-re...D4E-1
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The Argentina Road

Slide 1:: docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid...https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=d8092e024f&view=att&th=13b199bf84192b98&attid=0.1&disp=safe&zw&sig=AHIEtbQYnqEo7pzMhNkqNLP9iTXjEjCNjw
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Monday, November 19, 2012

The Destruction of Charity

If you want to destroy a people or a culture you put them on a program of government dependency and hand outs. They become useful political slaves with destroyed spirit and dignity. Consider this quote from the attached article: "In his 1935 State of the Union Address FDR admitted as much when he said,"The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. . . .”"
Letting Down Abraham Lincoln:: www.meeke.org/apps/blog/the-great-let-down-of-abra...ncoln
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Blowing Our Money

When I see the horizon lit up with the red lights that mark the wind-mills, I immediately think of the taxpayer dollars being thrown into the wind, as well as being reminded of the corruption that government control over industries generates (Solindra). Speaking of government control and corruption, don't forget to call governor Otter's office to voice opposition to a state managed Obamacare exchange. The number is 208-334-2100.
Americans for Prosperity Leads Coalition of 88 Organizations Opposing Extension of Wind Energy Subsidy | Americans for Prosperity:: americansforprosperity.org/newsroom/americans-for-...bsidy
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Friday, November 16, 2012

Obamacare Surcharge

When businesses are taxed, they either must pass on the cost or profitability suffers, and too much of that and they are out of business. So a tax on businesses is really a tax on customers. The cost of everything we buy is inflated by the taxes paid by the producers. It is always the working poor and needy who are impacted the most by raising taxes on the producers, since their money goes for necessities that are more expensive than they should be.
Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with cost of legislation | Mail Online:: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233221/Dennys-ch....html
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Virtual Breadlines

This site points out some relevant info on our virtual breadlines in the current chronic economic decline.
Food Stamp Nation: What a Modern Day Bread Line Looks Like (Infographic) by Crisis Watch:: www.24hgold.com/english/news-gold-silver-food-stam...risis Watch
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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Friday, November 9, 2012

Montana Health Freedom Referendum

Montana's citizens took up the battle where their representatives in state government failed them. Do Idahoans have the same independent spirit that Wyoming and Montana's people have? Or will we cower under the federal boot with a wimper? I think we, the people of Idaho, need to resist even if you elected representatives roll over. The lobbyists for big insurance and medicine in Idaho are pouring money into this in support of Obamacare, so if you want your rights defended, it is up to you.
Montana Health Care Measure, LR-122 (2012) - Ballotpedia:: ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Montana_Health_Care...(2012)
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Ron Can Do Math

Ron's world is the real world where two plus two still equals four, and "there is no such thing as a free lunch", which by the way means that QE is just another form of taxation. But it is a form exercised with no accountability, controls, or disclosure of who ultimately pays and who benefits. It is taxation without representation if ever there was any.
Ron Paul: We’re Already Over the Fiscal Cliff:: www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/paul-fiscal-cliff-econom...A51-1
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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Wyoming Health Care Freedom Act

Cheers for Wyoming! They stood strong on the wolf, and now on freedom of choice in healthcare.
The Federal and State Implications of Wyoming’s Health Care Freedom Amendment | Wyoming Liberty Group:: wyliberty.org/liberty-brief/the-federal-and-state-...dment
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

DISTRICT 5 SENATE RACE

I would like to congratulate Dan Schmidt on a clean campaign. While disappointed with yesterday’s results, I feel a great debt of gratitude to all of my supporters who have given so much and been such a blessing to me. And I encourage all of you to continue to take seriously the responsibilities that come with what freedom we have left.
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