Federal Employees Average $126,141 in Pay/Benefits or More than Double Private Sector Wages of $62,757

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Much has been written about how highly paid and overpaid federal employees are in comparison with comparable private sector jobs, although I doubt that federal employees work anywhere near as hard as private sector employees.  Amazingly, the compensation packages of federal employees continues to widen relative to the pay of the private sector.  To be sure, there is no austerity in the public sector that continues to plunder the private sector to support their outsized lifestyles and compensation packages.

Yes, Federal Workers Are Overpaid Heritage Foundation

The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report last week on federal and private-sector compensation showed that four recent studies agree: Federal compensation is higher than the private sector’s.

Unlike private sector employees who pay for a substantial portion of their benefits, federal employees pay for practically none of their costly benefits and when these benefits are factored into the equation, the pay gap between federal and private sector employees widens even further.

Overpaid Federal Workers Cato Institute

In 2010, federal civilian workers had an average wage of $83,679, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.5 By comparison, the average wage of the nation's 101 million private-sector workers was $51,986....

When benefits such as health care and pensions are included, the federal compensation advantage over private workers is even larger, according to the BEA data. In 2010, federal worker compensation averaged $126,141, or double the private-sector average of $62,757.

As more and more data surfaces relative to federal pay and compensation, federal employees are lashing out and bitching that that they've already sacrificed over $100 billion in pay cuts.  The nerve of these thieving blood sucking parasites!

Feds mobilize against additional hits on their pocketbooks Washington Post

As the White House and Congress look for ways to avoid a Jan. 1 “fiscal cliff” of budget cuts and tax increases, federal employee groups are increasingly mobilized against more hits on their pocketbooks.

The Federal Workers Alliance (FWA), a coalition of 20 unions representing more than 300,000 employees, scheduled a “federal employee day of action” on Tuesday to pressure officials not to take any more away from the workforce in the name of deficit reduction.

“With so little time left and so little progress being made, we agreed that something had to be done,” said FWA Chairman William R. Dougan. “Federal employees have often been a scapegoat of first resort in last-minute budget deals, and we won’t let that happen again. Federal workers have already seen $103 billion in cuts to their pay and benefits, but many in Congress still don’t get the message. That’s why we’re encouraging our members to contact their elected officials in any way they can, and tell them ‘the bank is closed.’ ”

The alliance is urging workers to contact elected officials by personal visits, phone calls, e-mails, social media, whatever, to deliver this message: “Federal employees have already sacrificed $103 billion in pay and benefits — enough is enough.” 

Sacrifice? I can't see where federal employees have sacrificed a damn thing except for a incredibly modest and insignificant decrease in the rate of plunder.

Racist Origins of Gun Control and the War on Drugs

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Much has been written on the racist origins of gun control from a variety of perspectives ranging from the conservative, the liberal, the victims of gun control and and the libertarian view that deems the right to bear arms as a natural right.  If one doesn't possess the right to defend themselves and their families against violent predators, then what rights can any human being possibly have?  None whatsoever.

Gun Control: White Man's Law 1985 issue of Reason Magazine

Chances are that you've never heard of General Laney. He hasn't had a brilliant military career, at least as far as I know. In fact, I'm not certain that he's even served in the military. General, you see, isn't Laney's rank. General is Laney's first name. General Laney does, however, have a claim to fame, unrecognized though it may be.

Detroit resident General Laney is the founder and prime mover behind a little publicized organization known as the National Black Sportsman's Association, often referred to as "the black gun lobby." Laney pulls no punches when asked his opinion of gun control: "Gun control is really race control. People who embrace gun control are really racists in nature. All gun laws have been enacted to control certain classes of people, mainly black people, but the same laws used to control blacks are being used to disarm white people as well."

Laney is not the first to make this observation. Indeed, allied with sportsmen in vocal opposition to gun controls in the 1960s were the militant Black Panthers. Panther Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver noted in 1968: "Some very interesting laws are being passed. They don't name me; they don't say, take the guns away from the niggers. They say that people will no longer be allowed to have (guns). They don't pass these rules and these regulations specifically for black people, they have to pass them in a way that will take in everybody."

Some white liberals have said essentially the same thing. Investigative reporter Robert Sherrill, himself no lover of guns, concluded in his book The Saturday Night Special that the object of the Gun Control Act of 1968 was black control rather than gun control. According to Sherrill, Congress was so panicked by the ghetto riots of 1967 and 1968 that it passed the act to "shut off weapons access to blacks, and since they (Congress) probably associated cheap guns with ghetto blacks and thought cheapness was peculiarly the characteristic of imported military surplus and the mail-order traffic, they decided to cut off these sources while leaving over-the-counter purchases open to the affluent." Congressional motivations may have been more complex than Sherrill suggests, but keeping blacks from acquiring guns was certainly a large part of that motivation.

There is little doubt that the earliest gun controls in the United States were blatantly racist and elitist in their intent. San Francisco civil-liberties attorney Don B. Kates, Jr., an opponent of gun prohibitions with impeccable liberal credentials (he has been a clerk for radical lawyer William Kunstler, a civil rights activist in the South, and an Office of Economic Opportunity lawyer), describes early gun control efforts in his book Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptic Speak Out. As Kates documents, prohibitions against the sale of cheap handguns originated in the post-Civil War South. Small pistols selling for as little as 50 or 60 cents became available in the 1870s and '80s, and since they could be afforded by recently emancipated blacks and poor whites (whom agrarian agitators of the time were encouraging to ally for economic and political purposes), these guns constituted a significant threat to a southern establishment interested in maintaining the traditional structure.

Consequently, Kates notes, in 1870 Tennessee banned "selling all but 'the Army and Navy model' handgun, i.e., the most expensive one, which was beyond the means of most blacks and laboring people." In 1881, Arkansas enacted an almost identical ban on the sale of cheap revolvers, while in 1902, South Carolina banned the sale of handguns to all but "sheriffs and their special deputies--i.e., company goons and the KKK." In 1893 and 1907, respectively, Alabama and Texas attempted to put handguns out of the reach of blacks and poor whites through "extremely heavy business and/or transactional taxes" on the sale of such weapons. In the other Deep South states, slavery-era bans on arms possession by blacks continued to be enforced by hook or by crook.

The cheap revolvers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were referred to as "Suicide Specials," the "Saturday Night Special" label not becoming widespread until reformers and politicians took up the gun control cause during the 1960s. The source of this recent concern about cheap revolvers, as their new label suggests, has much in common with the concerns of the gunlaw initiators of the post-Civil War South. As B. Bruce-Briggs has written in the Public Interest, "It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the 'Saturday Night Special' is emphasized because it is cheap and is being sold to a particular class of people. The name is sufficient evidence--the reference is to 'niggertown Saturday night.'"

It's no secret that that the Ku Klux Klan was the first organization in America to lobby for gun control laws and that these gun control laws were specifically designed to keep African Americans from ever owning or possessing firearms.  It's also important to note that nearly all gun control laws in America originated in the South and were indeed an overt form of racism as well as an abridgment of the civil rights of African Americans.   This issue even managed to catch the attention of the Wall Street Journal in September, 2011 in a review of the book Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America by Adam Winkler in an interestingly titled article.

Love Your Gun? Thank the Black Panthers, Says New Book

In his research for “Gunfight,” Winkler also noted a close intersection between guns and racism. “It was a constant pressure among white racists to keep guns out of the hands of African-Americans, because they would rise up and revolt.” he said. “The KKK began as a gun-control organization. Before the Civil War, blacks were never allowed to own guns. During the Civil War, blacks kept guns for the first time – either they served in the Union army and they were allowed to keep their guns, or they buy guns on the open market where for the first time there’s hundreds of thousands of guns flooding the marketplace after the war ends. So they arm up because they know who they’re dealing with in the South. White racists do things like pass laws to disarm them, but that’s not really going to work. So they form these racist posses all over the South to go out at night in large groups to terrorize blacks and take those guns away. If blacks were disarmed, they couldn’t fight back.”

Winkler also said that in the 1960s, laws passed by social conservatives to disarm black urban radicals like the Black Panthers in turn sparked a backlash that became the modern gun-rights movement.

Adam Winkler's extraordinary piece published in the 9/2011 issue of leftist leaning The Atlantic basically says that white conservatives were largely behind gun control laws because they opposed 2nd amendment rights for African Americans.

The Secret History of Guns

The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers? They required gun ownership—and regulated it. And no group has more fiercely advocated the right to bear loaded weapons in public than the Black Panthers—the true pioneers of the modern pro-gun movement. In the battle over gun rights in America, both sides have distorted history and the law, and there’s no resolution in sight.

THE EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENTS gathering on the west lawn of the state capitol in Sacramento were planning to lunch on fried chicken with California’s new governor, Ronald Reagan, and then tour the granite building constructed a century earlier to resemble the nation’s Capitol. But the festivities were interrupted by the arrival of 30 young black men and women carrying .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns, and .45-caliber pistols.

The 24 men and six women climbed the capitol steps, and one man, Bobby Seale, began to read from a prepared statement. “The American people in general and the black people in particular,” he announced, must

take careful note of the racist California legislature aimed at keeping the black people disarmed and powerless Black people have begged, prayed, petitioned, demonstrated, and everything else to get the racist power structure of America to right the wrongs which have historically been perpetuated against black people The time has come for black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late.

Seale then turned to the others. “All right, brothers, come on. We’re going inside.” He opened the door, and the radicals walked straight into the state’s most important government building, loaded guns in hand. No metal detectors stood in their way.

It was May 2, 1967, and the Black Panthers’ invasion of the California statehouse launched the modern gun-rights movement.....

OPPOSITION TO GUN CONTROL was what drove the black militants to visit the California capitol with loaded weapons in hand. The Black Panther Party had been formed six months earlier, in Oakland, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Like many young African Americans, Newton and Seale were frustrated with the failed promise of the civil-rights movement. Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were legal landmarks, but they had yet to deliver equal opportunity. In Newton and Seale’s view, the only tangible outcome of the civil-rights movement had been more violence and oppression, much of it committed by the very entity meant to protect and serve the public: the police.

Inspired by the teachings of Malcolm X, Newton and Seale decided to fight back. Before he was assassinated in 1965, Malcolm X had preached against Martin Luther King Jr.’s brand of nonviolent resistance. Because the government was “either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property” of blacks, he said, they had to defend themselves “by whatever means necessary.” Malcolm X illustrated the idea for Ebony magazine by posing for photographs in suit and tie, peering out a window with an M-1 carbine semiautomatic in hand. Malcolm X and the Panthers described their right to use guns in self-defense in constitutional terms. “Article number two of the constitutional amendments,” Malcolm X argued, “provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun.”

Guns became central to the Panthers’ identity, as they taught their early recruits that “the gun is the only thing that will free us—gain us our liberation.” They bought some of their first guns with earnings from selling copies of Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book to students at the University of California at Berkeley.

While the Black Panthers, Bobby Seal and Huey Newton vigorously defended the 2nd amendment and raised the very legitimate issue of horrific police brutality against African Americans, they were also Marxists and socialists who were perceived as advocates for violent revolution.  The 1960's were extraordinary times for America.  From the assassinations of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy to the civil rights marches to anti-war protests, the Vietnam War to the quest for racial equality, the 60's literally ripped the soul of America apart as a new national conscious and consciousness were born.

While it's absolutely true that gun control laws are the Ku Klux Klan's favorite laws, it's also true that Caucasian liberals and conservatives have done everything humanly possible to guarantee that African Americans and other 'brown folks' are unarmed.  In modern American history, the first major gun control legislation was the 1968 Gun Control Act that was signed by President Lyndon Johnson as one of his 'Great Society' schemes to churn America into a Soviet styled 'command and controlled' police state with a state run redistributionist economy. LBJ is reported to have told 2 governors on Air Force One "I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years." according to Ronald Kessler's book Inside The White House, here.

The Brandy Handgun Violence Prevention Act, signed into law by Bill Clinton on 11/30/93, required background checks on all gun purchasers through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, here, and there's an online quiz to determine eligibility to own or purchase a firearm, here. A 'yes' to any of the following questions will generally disqualify an individual from legally purchasing a firearm.

Q: Have you ever been convicted of any crime for which the maximum punishment was two years or more in prison?
Q: Have you ever been indicted for a crime punishable by more than one year?
Q: Do you currently have outstanding criminal warrants?
Q: Are you a user of illegal drugs?
Q: Have you ever been involuntarily committed to a mental institution?
Q: Are you in the United States illegally?
Q: Were you ever dishonorably discharged from the armed forces?
Q: Have you ever renounced your U.S. citizenship?
Q: Are you currently subject to a restraining order for threatening violence?
Q: Have you ever been convicted of a crime involving domestic violence?

It is well documented that African Americans and people of color are arrested, criminally prosecuted and imprisoned at far higher rates than Caucasian folks, probably because they are easy targets, tend to be much poorer and lack the financial means to defend themselves in a court system that is stacked against them.  In a world with sane and equal justice, the criminal justice system should be based on "No Victim, No Crime" but people of color are frequently victimized by a perverted judicial system that bases its success on arrests by the police and convictions by prosecutors.  Many folks of color are arrested, convicted and imprisoned for victimless crimes like pot possession.

In a piece titled Marijuana law just creates criminals CNN reported on June 6, 2012:

More than 50,000 people in 2011 were arrested in New York City for possessing small amounts of marijuana -- the majority of whom were black and Latino -- at a considerable judicial and financial cost. New York City spends about $75 million every year on arresting people for recreational marijuana possession.

But what many people don't know is that the state decriminalized this offense more than 30 years ago, making private possession of less than 25 grams of marijuana a violation punishable by a $100 fine. Possession of the same amount in public view remains a criminal misdemeanor.

Despite this change in law, arrests for small quantities of marijuana over the last decade have skyrocketed, with more than 400,000 people arrested and unceremoniously run through the criminal justice system. Marijuana possession is now the No. 1 arrest category in New York.

Why is this happening?

Each year, hundreds of thousands of people in New York are stopped, questioned, frisked and searched, often without justification, under the "stop and frisk" policy. The vast majority of these people live in communities of color, and almost 90% are immediately released without arrest or even a summons.

Most of the folks arrested in NYC for marijuana possession are blacks and Hispanics. Furthermore, the NYPD's draconian 'stop and frisk' policies specifically target people of color. You better believe that Fuhrer Bloomberg's Militarized Police State is blatantly racist. While this is an issue that gets some media attention, nothing ever changes and these horrid police assaults on folks of color continue unabated and so do the arrests and prison sentences.

The War on Guns and the War on Drugs are closely related as well as overtly racist because because the criminal justice is guilty of imprisoning folks of color for victimless crime convictions like marijuana possession and at far higher rates than Caucasian folks are prosecuted for the same crime despite there being no difference in the rate of marijuana use by people of color and Caucasian folks.  Some folks are awake on the issue of how punitive and racist the War on Drugs really is.

Ron Paul: Drug War In U.S. Has Racist Origins  The Huffington Post

Dylan Ratigan: Racism was rebranded ‘the war on drugs’  The Raw Story

The War on Drugs Is Really a War on Minorities  Alternet

The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste
Common Dreams

Racism and the Drug War  The Future of Freedom

Not only is the War on Drugs immoral and racist, it's a hugely expensive waste of money.  Cato estimated a few years ago that we were spending $88 billion a year on the War on Drugs.

Drug criminalization policies in the United States drain $88 billion annually from state, local and federal government coffers, according to a report released Monday by the Cato Institute.

"The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition," by Harvard economist and Cato Senior Fellow Jeffrey Miron and Katherine Waldock, concludes that current drug policy costs governments $41.3 billion each year to implement, while depriving their budgets of $46.7 billion in potential revenues from taxation of legal drug sales.

The revenue figure was derived assuming roughly the same taxation rate currently used for alcohol and tobacco sales. Also factored in is the tax revenue on the income earned by producers--currently concealed in a shadowy black market--that would be subject to standard income and sales taxation.

"State and federal governments in the United States face massive looming fiscal deficits," Miron and Waldock write. "One policy change that can reduce deficits is ending the drug war."

Read the rest hereCato Institute

Over a period of 40 years, we've spend over $1 trillion dollars on the idiotic War on Drugs, here.   
The War on Drugs is a BIG fail; we totally failed to even put a dent in the flow of drugs and we have more drug users than ever, plus a whole lot of recreational drug users in prison and with criminal records.  The economic impact on the poor who are the primary victims of the government's War on Drugs is devastating.  The War on Drugs needs to be renamed the War on the Poor.

Folks with criminal records can't get jobs, their family suffer enormously and their lives are essentially ruined.  

But then again, that's what government does best - it deliberately and maliciously ruins human lives for the exclusive benefit of the Police State and the Prison Industrial Complex.  The racist origins of the War on Drugs is also well documented and DrugPolicy.org addresses this issue.

Race and the Drug War

The drug war has produced profoundly unequal outcomes across racial groups, manifested through racial discrimination by law enforcement and disproportionate drug war misery suffered by communities of color. Although rates of drug use and selling are comparable across racial lines, people of color are far more likely to be stopped, searched, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated for drug law violations than are whites. Higher arrest and incarceration rates for African Americans and Latinos are not reflective of increased prevalence of drug use or sales in these communities, but rather of a law enforcement focus on urban areas, on lower-income communities and on communities of color as well as inequitable treatment by the criminal justice system. We believe that the mass criminalization of people of color, particularly young African American men, is as profound a system of racial control as the Jim Crow laws were in this country until the mid-1960s.

The Drug Policy Alliance is committed to exposing disproportionate arrest rates and the systems that perpetuate them. We work to eliminate policies that result in disproportionate incarceration rates by rolling back harsh mandatory minimum sentences that unfairly affect urban populations and by repealing sentencing disparities. Crack cocaine sentencing presents a particularly egregious case. Since the 1980s, federal penalties for crack were 100 times harsher than those for powder cocaine, with African Americans disproportionately sentenced to much lengthier terms.

When we think about all the injustice and racism we have created with an insanely unjust criminal justice system, by far the biggest victims are people of color.  Yet, hideously immoral and racist Caucasian liberals and Caucasian conservatives continue to endorse this supremely overt and systemic racism.

How Can Anyone Not Realize the War on (Some) Drugs Is Racist?  LewRockwell.com

The drug war is a violent campaign against black men and by extension the black family, among many others (not all of them black, by the way); it has been so since it started. Furthermore, almost every prohibition of substances consumed in the United States of America has had as its raison d'̻tre the subjugation of one group (generally some "minority" group Рwhatever group happens to partake of that substance) to the benefit of one other specific group of statist, power-mad megalomaniacs.

Equal Protection Under the Law?  Forget it.  It just doesn't exist.  Folks of color are routinely persecuted, prosecuted and denied justice.

If America truly wanted to do something productive and just for folks of color, it would DECRIMINALIZE all victimless crimes and empty the prisons of non-violent folks.  However, the top five lobbies against marijuana decriminalization are the police unions, prison guard unions, the private prison corporations, the beer/booze industry and Big Pharm.

In America, public sector union job security and corporate profits always trump justice.

The Death Tax Makes Obama and the Democrats the Grim Reaper

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With a slew of new taxes scheduled for implementation in 2013, including Obamacare taxes, and with the 12/31/12 expiration of the Bush tax cuts that will indeed have a profoundly devastating effect on the middle class, small business and the economy, 2013 is destined to herald in more government planned gloom, doom and misery.

But of all the draconian measures to plunder the American people, none is more permanently confiscatory than the estate tax because it constitutes an outright expropriation of small family businesses.

The Bush tax cuts had a $5 million dollar exemption on the estate tax before an estate tax rate of 35% kicked in. When the Bush tax cuts expire, the floor for the estate tax drops to $1 million and the tax rate jumps to 55%. The estate tax will have a devastating impact on small family businesses who simply don't have the cash to pay the tax.

What does this mean?

Are New Inheritance Tax Laws Really Aimed At The Rich? Or Is The Average Joe Getting Caught In The Cross Fire?

What Are The New Inheritance Taxes Going To Be?

Currently, there is a $5 million estate tax exemption, and only those who stand to inherit an estate that exceeds that amount have to pay a tax rate of 35%. In January, 2013, many liberals have been celebrating what they consider to be a fair tax on the rich person. What they don’t realize is that the$ 1 million exemption and 55% taxation for those whose estate exceeds 1 million, will affect many Americans who could hardly be considered as wealthy. In this day and age, it doesn’t take much for an estate to add up to a million dollars. If you consider house, 401(k), savings, and other investments and assets, many people will fall into the new tax category.

What Will Happen To The Average Small Farmer When The New Inheritance Tax Is Imposed

97% of farms, small ranches, and small businesses will be affected by this tax. The problem is, the recipients of the inheritance are small-time people who barely make enough each year to scrape by. Individuals like this will have no option but to come up with the 55% tax to give to Uncle Sam, or they will be forced to sell the family farm or business that has been in the family for generations. Most farmers don’t just have $500k just sitting around as a tax fee for a property worth 1 million dollars.

The new inheritance tax could represent the end of an era. The death of the “family farm” as we know it to be today. Even if you are not a farmer or a business owner, your inheritance may be at stake.

The above estate tax scenario is a crushing blow to small family businesses. Basically, the entire tax structure at all levels is a war on small business, a war on entrepreneurship, a war on the family farm, and a war on the ability of ordinary Americans to earn a living and support their families. Meanwhile, the Democrats can't wait to sink their carnivorous fangs into those productive and entrepreneurial bourgeois that they hold in the highest contempt and vow to reduce to serfs and beggars. A farmer really doesn't have anything of value except his dirt and small family farms and entrepreneurs aren't swimming in cash like trust fund babies.

Welcome to the New America where toiling to earn money to feed your family is verboten and if you dare have the blazing audacity to even attempt it, the government confiscators will be there to crush you.

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November 22, 1963 - A Day That Will Live in Infamy
The 50th anniversary of the murder of President John F. Kennedy at Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas will be November 22, 2013.
James Douglass, author of the extraordinary 'must read' book above, wrote on page 142:

We have no evidence as to who in the military-industrialcomplex may have given the order to assassinate President Kennedy.  That the order was carried out by the CentralIntelligence Agency is obvious.  TheCIA’s fingerprints are all over the crime and the events leading up to it.  

LewRockwell.com has covered the issue of JFK's murder over the years and recently posted a piece by a well known JFK researcher, John Judge.

A Call to Ocupy the Grassy Knoll in 2013

Few people know that Robert Kennedy believed his brother was murdered by a political conspiracy and told close associates that he would reopen the investigation if he was able to be elected into the White House. Even fewer people know that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was high on his list of possible running mates for the presidency in 1968. All these deaths served to kill public hope for social and political change and left the rising Military Industrial Intelligence Complex warned about by outgoing President Eisenhower in 1963, and a permanent war economy and Cold War and nuclear arsenal were left in place to grow, along with the power of the intelligence agencies and the national security and police state who were clearly suspect of playing a role in these murders.

Anticipating ever larger crowds on the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination on November 22, 2013, the Coalition has applied for a legal permit in advance over the last three years, only to be told no permit can be issued more than a year in advance. Despite that rule, the Dallas Parks and Recreation Department informed me this year that a permit has been issued to the Sixth Floor Museum and the City of Dallas for the use of Dealey Plaza for the entire week from November 19-24, for exclusive use of the area and that no other permit can be issued for our event. The Director of the Sixth Floor Museum, Jessica Langford, has stated in the Dallas Morning News that they have no event planned for the Plaza, but they wanted to be “proactive” in preventing “a circus atmosphere” and the presentation of “conspiracy theories” in 2013. They also know quite well how many will be there listening. At one point she was asked what sort of an event they want to hold and she told the DMN reporter that she was not sure, “maybe a Moment of Silence”. This direct and content-based refusal of permit for the use of a public and historical site violates the protections of the First Amendment for free speech and expression.

The City of Dallas and the Dallas Police Department were key players in covering up the JFK murder investigation, largely because Lyndon Johnson was an extremely powerful and ruthless.Texas senator with considerable control over everything in TX, including the Texas Democrat political machine, the police and LBJ also had deep ties to Texas billionaires and Wall Street.  Some researchers believe that LBJ was the mastermind behind JFK's assassination and researcher Phillip F. Nelson wrote a book documenting his investigation on this issue: LBJ: The Mastermind of JFK’s Assassination.  

Now the City of Dallas is denying a permit to the JFK organizers, truthers and researchers  for the week of November 19-24, 2013.

EconomicPolicyJournal.com has also followed the JFK murder and recently posted a most interesting piece that asserts that George H.W. Bush was on the ground at Dealey Plaza as a CIA operative carrying out the murder of a popular president.
The George H.W. Bush Photos that You Won't See

A few points to start out: NBC is not an impartial media outlet. George H.W. Bush is not a respectable, admirable man or a national hero. And "33" is not an insignificant number- It is quite relevant and meaningful, in some circles at least.

NBC is owned by General Electric, a "defense contractor and the 2nd largest company in world according to Forbes", which has received over $16 billion dollars in bailouts from American taxpayers. They build and sell engines for the F-16 fighter aircraft and Apache Block III helicopters. For them, war is literally a profit racket; so it makes sense that they would "honor" warmongers.

NBC news far from impartial- they shill for the military-industrial complex and in 2003, fired Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Peter Arnett after Arnett reported the truth from Iraq....

There are no photos of George H.W. Bush in Dallas on the morning of John F. Kennedy's assassination standing in front of the Texas Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, but the photos can be seen here. The photo of the FBI memo acknowledging that Bush was a CIA opeative at that time can be seen here: "FBI director J. Edgar Hoover wrote this memo 5 days after the assassination, naming George Bush as a CIA officer... "The substance of the forgoing information was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963, by Mr. V.T. Forsyth of this Bureau."

Despite the well orchestrated government cover-up at all levels (Congress, LBJ, FBI, CIA, Dallas PD, Texas public officials), much truth has surfaced on JFK's murder and researchers continue to diligently pursue the truth despite the 1964 Warren Commission ordering that all non-published official material be sealed for 75 years (2039).  The public only got the government sanitized version of JFK's murder.  However, Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK stirred up an intense hornets nest and Congress passed the 1992 JFK Records Act that created the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), a committee that supposedly decides what records will be released. Although many records were released, it's generally believe that many critical records were not released and researchers continue to fight for the release of these records, here.

President Kennedy’s remains may have been laid to rest but his legacy and the quest for truth, justice and peace have not and continue to haunt us to this day. During JFK’s presidency, Vietnam combat deaths were 182 (16 in 1961, 53 in 1962 and 118 through 11/22/63). On 10/11/63, JFK issued National Security Action Memorandum 263 making it official that the US would withdraw from Vietnam. On November 21, 1963, JFK was given a list of the recent Vietnam casualties and he told his Assistant Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff  “After I come back from Texas, that’s going to change. Vietnam is not worth another American life”. The next day, JFK was dead. Had President Kennedy not been murdered, there would be no Vietnam War Memorial with the names of 58,261 dead Americans from a senseless war he morally opposed and was committed to ending. Nor would there be millions of dead Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians and others.

The Vietnam era is far from being consigned to the dustbin of history and in fact still lives on today in the very same US foreign policy that was responsible for the murder of President Kennedy. If anything, the evil forces that murdered President Kennedy are far more powerful and insidious today than they were in the 1963.

For this reason, President Kennedy’s soul and legacy will never rest until truth and justice prevail and neither will America, the American people and the Kennedy family. Indeed, truth and justice are what President Kennedy not only devoted his entire life too but also sacrificed his own life for in his courageous and relentless quest to save America and humanity from the scourges of murderous militarism gone mad.

It’s as if this injustice has inflicted an evil curse upon America from which we will never be able to recover our personal, family and national honor until truth and justice prevail. In many ways, the American people and the Kennedy family are forever and umbilically connected to that fateful day in Dallas on November 11, 1963.

Above all, it should be about what President Kennedy would want and anyone even remotely familiar with the works of this extraordinary man would categorically conclude that that President Kennedy would settle for nothing less than the truth because above all, he was truly a champion for truth and justice who abhorred the raw and absolute concentration of the very same secretive powers that murdered him.

But so long as that truth remains buried, the curse will follow all of us. If President Kennedy’s life meant anything to him, his family and the American people, it’s long overdue for all of us to honor his life and death with the truth because his scared soul can never rest in peace until he knows that his life had meaning and that his death fulfilled his destiny.

Taxes: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the Fiscal Cliff Bill

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Everybody is hysterical over the Obama endorsed senate fiscal cliff bill that passed the House on 1/1/13 in a 267-167 vote. The Democrats are unhappy because this bill will only raise $700 billion in new tax revenues instead of the $1.6 trillion that they sought. The Republicans are unhappy for a mixed bag of reasons because more House Republicans voted NO than voted YES. 85 House Republicans voted Yes but 151 voted NO. Conversely, 172 House Dems voted YES and only 16 voted NO.

As far as the federal debt ceiling is concerned, the outcomes of these media hyped up debates are always the same - there is no debt ceiling and it's borrow and print to infinity.  There is no debate on borrowing and spending.

To understand what passed, you first have to understand what was at stake here: the Bush Tax cuts (scheduled to expire on 12/31/12)and and Obama's stimulus that reduced the payroll withholding tax by 2%.

On the payroll tax, the workers really got screwed because they will immediate incur a 2% tax hike. The payroll tax hike has been dubbed the $40 a week tax on wage earners because that is, on average, the amount their paychecks will be immediately reduced.

Payroll tax hike to take $1,000 bite out of average worker’s annual pay

Before the 2010 deal, payroll taxes were 6.2 percent, deducted from the first $106,800 of workers’ paychecks. Inflation raised that ceiling to $110,100 in 2012.

But for the last two years, the payroll tax rate has been 4.2 percent.

Last December, the White House and Democrats staged a campaign to preserve the expiring payroll tax cut, asking individuals to detail what the average $40-per-paycheck tax hike would mean to them. Over the course of a year, that adds up to about $1,000 lost to taxes.

Obama and the Democrats really socked it to the poor and working class that they claim to love and represent, and with more than a little help from their Republican partners in crime.  Congress did absolutely NOTHING to keep the lower payroll tax and neither the Republicans or Democrats even fought to prevent this draconian taxes that definitely will be taking a big chunk out of the paychecks of the poor and middle class. The working poor and middle class will suffer the brunt of this 2% payroll tax hike because the earnings ceiling is now $110,000.  Rich folks or trust fund babies don't pay the payroll tax because it's a tax that only applies to wage earners and not unearned income.  Unearned income isn't subject to FICA or Medicare payroll taxes.  The year that John Kerry ran for president, his mega wealthy heiress ketchup queen wife paid an effective federal tax rate of about 12% on unearned income of over $5 million (mostly dividends and interest income).

Astoundingly, the Washington Post admitted that half of the new taxes will come from the payroll tax increase, in addition to being one of the largest tax hikes in US history.

Tuesday’s tax increase is the biggest in decades

....a little over half of the tax hike next year will come from the expiration of the payroll tax cut, which affects every American worker. That tax cut has been in place for two years, replacing a similar tax cut that was in effect in 2008 and 2009.

Because of the expiration of the payroll tax cut, all workers will pay 2 percent more in tax on their salary next year. A worker earning $50,000, for instance, would pay $1,000 more in taxes in 2013 than in 2011 or 2012.

Payroll taxes haven’t gone up since the late 1980s.....

What does Congress do with all those Social Security taxes it collects?  It doesn't save the money to pay Social Security benefits because Congress has actually plundered the Social Security Trust Fund over a period of decades to the tune of over $2.5 trillion bucks to fund wars, pork and other slop.  That's a side issue covered here: Yes My Fellow Americans, Congress Really Did Steal Your Social Security.

Moving on to the Bush tax cuts, they were really two tax cutting pieces of legislation.

Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA)
Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (JGTRRA)

The Bush tax cuts were scheduled to sunset in 2010 but Obama extended them to 12/31/12 as part of a stimulus that also included the payroll tax cuts.

Effectively, the Bush tax cuts lowered the top tax rate from 39.6% to 35%.  When the fight commenced over the tax rates as well as the income threshold for the restoration of the high tax rates, President Obama and Speaker Boehner were at loggerheads in the negotiations because Obama wanted taxes raised on all income over $250,000 while Boehner was willing to let the tax cuts expire on all income under $1,000,000.  While the Obama/Boehner negotiations fell apart, they were close - letting tax cuts expire for everyone under an income threshold of $400-500 a year.  Then Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell  tried to cut a deal and failed.  Finally, Vice President Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell struck a deal that was passed in the Senate 89-8.  The Biden/McConnell deal is the deal that passed in the House and set the income threshold at $450,000.

How crappy is the Biden/McConnell deal?  It doesn't include any spending cuts and Bloomberg is reporting that 77% of American households will pay higher taxes.

Senate-Passed Deal Means Higher Tax on 77% of Households

The budget deal passed by the U.S. Senate today would raise taxes on 77.1 percent of U.S. households, mostly because of the expiration of a payroll tax cut, according to preliminary estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington.

More than 80 percent of households with incomes between $50,000 and $200,000 would pay higher taxes. Among the households facing higher taxes, the average increase would be $1,635, the policy center said. A 2 percent payroll tax cut, enacted during the economic slowdown, is being allowed to expire as of yesterday.

A tax increase for 77% of American households is what Congress call the "American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012".

Can you stop laughing? But it gets worse. A trillion dollar Obamacare tax also hit the American people January 1, 2013.

$1 Trillion Obamacare Tax Hike Hitting on Jan. 1

On January 1, regardless of the outcome of fiscal cliff negotiations, Americans will be hit with a $1 trillion Obamacare tax hike.

Obamacare contains twenty new or higher taxes. Five of the taxes hit for the first time on January 1. In total, Americans face a net $1 trillion tax hike for the years 2013-2022, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The five major Obamacare taxes taking effect on January 1 are as follows:

The Obamacare Medical Device Tax...The Obamacare Flex Account Tax...The Obamacare Surtax on Investment Income: This is a new, 3.8 percentage point surtax on investment income...The Obamacare “Haircut” for Medical Itemized Deductions...The Obamacare Medicare Payroll Tax Hike...

Obamacare taxes are already causing health insurance costs to soar because: The Problem with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is that Nobody Can Afford It.  Obamacare is another direct hit on the middle class.

Is there anything good in the deal struck by Biden and McConnell? Actually, there is and especially on the estate tax front.

The Bush tax cuts had a $5 million dollar exemption on the estate tax before an estate tax rate of 35% kicked in. When the Bush tax cuts expired, the floor for the estate tax drops to $1 million and the tax rate jumps to 55%. The estate tax will have a devastating impact on small family businesses who simply don't have the cash to pay the tax.

What does this mean?

Are New Inheritance Tax Laws Really Aimed At The Rich? Or Is The Average Joe Getting Caught In The Cross Fire?

What Are The New Inheritance Taxes Going To Be?

Currently, there is a $5 million estate tax exemption, and only those who stand to inherit an estate that exceeds that amount have to pay a tax rate of 35%. In January, 2013, many liberals have been celebrating what they consider to be a fair tax on the rich person. What they don’t realize is that the$ 1 million exemption and 55% taxation for those whose estate exceeds 1 million, will affect many Americans who could hardly be considered as wealthy. In this day and age, it doesn’t take much for an estate to add up to a million dollars. If you consider house, 401(k), savings, and other investments and assets, many people will fall into the new tax category.

What Will Happen To The Average Small Farmer When The New Inheritance Tax Is Imposed

97% of farms, small ranches, and small businesses will be affected by this tax. The problem is, the recipients of the inheritance are small-time people who barely make enough each year to scrape by. Individuals like this will have no option but to come up with the 55% tax to give to Uncle Sam, or they will be forced to sell the family farm or business that has been in the family for generations. Most farmers don’t just have $500k just sitting around as a tax fee for a property worth 1 million dollars.

The new inheritance tax could represent the end of an era. The death of the “family farm” as we know it to be today. Even if you are not a farmer or a business owner, your inheritance may be at stake.

Fortunately, small businesses and farms who would have been hit the hardest by the estate tax escaped the tax collector's noose.  According to Politico "The estate tax will have a $10 million exemption per a couple with additional inheritance taxed at 40 percent", here.

Although the Democrats couldn't wait to sink their carnivorous fangs into those productive and entrepreneurial bourgeois that they hold in the highest contempt, the Democrats lost on this issue and probably because reasonably astute Dems understood that ballot box blowback would be potentially severe. A farmer really doesn't have anything of value except his dirt and small family farms and entrepreneurs aren't swimming in cash like trust fund babies.

Financial blogger Dan Mitchell summed it up best: Grading the Fiscal Cliff Deal: Terrible, but Could Be Worse.

I was expecting even worse, so this deal....almost seems like a relief.

Sort of like knowing that you were going to have your arm amputated, but then finding out that at least you’ll get some anesthetic. You’re not happy about the outcome, but you’re relieved that it won’t be as bad as you thought it would be.

But let’s not delude ourselves. This deal is not good for the economy. It doesn’t do anything to cap the burden of government spending. It doesn’t reform entitlement programs.

And we may even lose the sequester, the provision that was included in the 2011 debt limit that would have slightly reduced the growth of government over the next 10 years.

What a dismal ending to 2012.

The Democrats didn't get all the tax increases they lusted for during this round of negotiations.  They wanted $1.6 trillion in new taxes on top of the $1 trillion in Obamacare taxes.   They ended up with $700 billion in new taxes plus the Obamacare taxes.

Nobody, Republican or Democrat, cut one cent in spending and in fact the deceptively titled American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 also contains typical big spending pork because absolutely nothing passes in congress without doling out taxpayer dollars to their crony capitalist pals who fill campaign coffers. ABC reported a few corporate welfare highlights.

‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal Also Doles Out Millions for Hollywood, Railroads, Rum Producers

$430 million for Hollywood through “special expensing rules” to encourage TV and film production in the United States. Producers can expense up to $15 million of costs for their projects.

$331 million for railroads by allowing short-line and regional operators to claim a tax credit up to 50 percent of the cost to maintain tracks that they own or lease.

$222 million for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands through returned excise taxes collected by the federal government on rum produced in the islands and imported to the mainland.

$70 million for NASCAR by extending a “7-year cost recovery period for certain motorsports racing track facilities.”

$59 million for algae growers through tax credits

to encourage production of “cellulosic biofuel” at up to $1.01 per gallon.

$4 million for electric motorcycle makers by expanding an existing green-energy tax credit for buyers of plug-in vehicles to include electric motorbikes.

Moving along, the American Taxpayers Relief Act did offer some relief to tens of millions of middle class taxpayers who would have been ensnared in the Alternative Minimum Tax (ATM), a nasty piece of legislation that's been around since the 1960-70's as a measure to close tax loopholes for high income earners.  However, inflation has now pushed many middle class wage earners into the ATM so Congress has been patching the ATM for many years.

Finally, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the American Taxpayers Relief Act will add $4 trillion to the $16 trillion pile of debt, here.  The CBO is notorious for underestimating the cost of everything and overestimating anticipated revenues.  Spending always escalates and reductions in spending never materialize.

FISCAL CLIFF DEAL: $1 IN SPENDING CUTS FOR EVERY $41 IN TAX INCREASES

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the last-minute fiscal cliff deal reached by congressional leaders and President Barack Obama cuts only $15 billion in spending while increasing tax revenues by $620 billion—a 41:1 ratio of tax increases to spending cuts....

In 1982, President Reagan was promised $3 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax hikes,” Americans for Tax Reform says of those two incidents. “The tax hikes went through, but the spending cuts did not materialize. President Reagan later said that signing onto this deal was the biggest mistake of his presidency.

In 1990, President George H.W. Bush agreed to $2 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax hikes. The tax hikes went through, and we are still paying them today. Not a single penny of the promised spending cuts actually happened. 

Meanwhile, Obama and the Democrats have vowed to continue their crusade to raise new taxes and new revenues, even if the entire US economy is nuked into impotency and America is blasted back to the Stone Age.  The Republicans have vowed to help the Democrats, so long as their precious and endless wars are protected from the budget scalpel.

But make no mistake.  At the end of the day, many folks will be paying higher taxes, 77% of American households to be precise according to Bloomberg.  The rich won't feel the pinch nearly as bad as the working class wage earners because for the working class the pinch turns into a big painful bite when these folks loose $40 bucks a week while struggling to house and feed their families in a statist run economy that sucks and offers them nothing in the way of job opportunities or upward mobility.

Links to eleven potential 2013 news stories that might be off of your radar (but shouldn't be)!

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Because in 2013 there's more facing the United States and the rest of the world than just the fiscal cliff and debt ceiling!

Although you wouldn't know it by watching and listening to the priorities of the Obama administration, or by the performance of our MIA Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who is apparently on the 21-day disabled list, there are some serious political, social and economic crises brewing both at home and around the globe for 2013.

These are links to articles concerning some of these potential flash points from a variety of different sources.

Global news you need to know about!

1. Potential escalation of the Japan-China conflict over the Senkaku Islands! "Chinese Aerial Patrols Over Senkaku Islands"
2. Concerns over the fiscal health of Japan evidenced by the declining value of the Yen! "Here's What's Behind The Collapse Of The Japanese Yen — The Biggest Economic Story In The World"
3. The relationship between the United States and Russia is strained despite the concessions the Obama administration has made during its 1st-term. This is currently being seen in the pending ban for the adoption of Russian children by U.S. families! "Russian Ban on U.S. Adoptions Reflects Strained Relations"
4. The chance that the United States spills over the "Dairy Cliff" with milk prices doubling on January 1, 2013! "Get Ready for the Dairy Cliff"
5. Could the U.S. head over the "Container Cliff" on December 30, 2012 with a strike at the nations ports by the ILA? "The Looming Container Cliff: Longshoreman threaten to shut down the nations ports on Sunday!" Update: It is being reported that as of approximately 11:40 AM on December 28, 2012 an agreement for a 30-day extension has been reached that will avert a strike for now that could have closed U.S. ports!
6. What will happen next in Syria? Will Assad step-down or will the killing in the civil war continue and who exactly are these rebels that could take over the country? "Russian FM meets Syrian envoy in improbable attempt to revive peace plan"
7. Is there going to be an escalation in the Israel-Iran conflict over the Iranian nuclear weapons program? "'We will respond to any threat'"
8. What is the impact of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt going to mean for Israel and the entirety of the Middle East? "The New Egypt: Sharia And The Muslim Brotherhood Triumphant"
9. Will the EU financial crisis be ending or just beginning to come to a head in 2013? "Looking ahead, Europe faces a difficult 2013"
10. An overview of other pending issues including Al-Qaeda and Iraq! "Predicting 2013 - Opportunities and Threats"
11. North Korea nukes, North Korea nukes, North Korea nukes! "AP Exclusive: Photos show NKorea nuclear readiness"

Poll: Does a Hitler statue belong at the Warsaw Ghetto?

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Or is it merely an unnecessarily provocative and insensitive attempt at a version of "art"?

Recall the decision in Cologne, Germany during the summer of 2012 that sought to ban circumcisions, despite the fact that this practice is an integral part of the religious rituals of both Jews and of Muslims.

The ban, coming mere decades after the Holocaust, made one think that this decision purportedly made for public health reasons was either incredibly insensitive or was meant to send a different message.

At the time I wrote an article titled "Keine Beschneidung für euch Juden" which loosely translated  means "no circumcision for you Jews!"

So in the case of the statue "HIM" pictured above showing a praying Hitler by Maurizio Cattelan being displayed in the Warsaw Ghetto, what should we consider that to be?

An expression of artistic license designed to force viewers to reflect on the nature of evil or, as the Simon Wiesenthal Center wrote, "a senseless provocation which insults the memory of the Nazis' Jewish victims"?

Should this statue of Hitler appear in the Warsaw Ghetto?

Obama and the American Sheeple! (video)

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TweetThe American sheeple and the mainstream media both live by following credo concerning the Obama administration: See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil!

There is little that this administration has done or not done that is ever questioned by either the mainstream media or by those American citizens who reside anywhere to the left of the political center!

In effect this creates an environment where Barack Obama presides over a large segment of the population of the country comprised of a rare breed of animal known as the sheeple. What are sheeple you ask?

Sheeple: "The term is used to describe those who voluntarily acquiesce to a suggestion without critical analysis or research. They undermine their own individuality and may willingly give up their rights." (Source)

As the country stares down the fiscal cliff the President and the Democrat leaders in Congress will tell the American people that should we go over the fault will lie squarely on the shoulders of the Republican Party.

As untrue as this might be, this story will be seconded by the mainstream media and believed by members of the Obamabot nation.

Remember this: "Does anyone actually believe that President Obama or many of the Democrats in Congress really want to avoid going over the fiscal cliff?
It's been their plan all along! For anyone who doesn't believe that there is a word that describes you. Okay perhaps more than one but in this case I will invoke the word naivete. Make that ÐºÑ€Ð°Ð¹Ð½Ñ�Ñ� наивноÑ�Ñ‚ÑŒ for all of you socialists/marxists out there.
For you see it is perceived by this President and his Democrat cohorts that there is great political gain to be had from going over this cliff. And truth be told when could a Democrat politician pass up the potential for political gain even if it will inflict intense pain on the very Americans they say that they want to protect..." (Source)
Democrats and the economy!

H/T Western Journalism

Prison lingo describing the majority of Senate and House Republicans! (Rated PG-13)

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TweetUpdate Tuesday January 1, 2013: The Senate "fiscal cliff" bill passes in the House qualifying many House Republicans to be labeled with the term "bitch" along with the majority of their Senate counterparts!

The application of this term stems from the fiscal cliff "deal" or "compromise" passed in the Senate pending the outcome of today's action in the House! (see update above)

After the vote in the middle of the night on January 1, 2013 the US Senate, one that passed with the full agreement of the majority of Senate Republicans, a fiscal deal has been approved providing $41 in new revenue for every $1 in spending cuts.

This vote has thus given the President and the Democrats everything that they wanted out of this deal, in effect making these Senate Republicans the political version of a prison bitch.


For those of you that have never seen Oz on HBO, here is the urban dictionary description of a so-called prison bitch, and after reading it you can tell me if I am wrong!

Directions: Simply use politics in place of prison, politicians in place of inmates and political instead of sex.

HowTo:Get Along in Prison, for Wimps


Newer inmates are often controlled and dominated by more experienced prisoners in a process known as being someone's bitch. The bitch provides a happy, healthy sex life and acts as personal assistant.


Definition: Uncyclopedia
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Watcher's Council nominations: "Failure of leadership" Edition!

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TweetThe fiscal cliff deal that passed in both the Senate and the House was a colossal failure of leadership from the Right and a masterful piece of politics from the Left!

The ultimate loser of course, as usual, are the American people who at some point in the future will pay a large price for both of these things.

An article yesterday at TPC titled "Prison lingo describing the majority of Senate and House Republicans! (Rated PG-13)" provided the "new fish" jail equivalent of the Republican legislators who bent over backwards capitulating to the Democrats.

And now without further ado, for the week of December 31, 2012, the article nominations from the Watcher's Council!

Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – When the lights go out in America
• The Colossus of Rhodey – More media hypocrisy on guns
• The Political Commentator – God, country, family, party and partisan politics!
• Joshuapundit-Let’s Give Up on the Constitution!
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Velayet 91
• The Right Planet – Musings About The Trees
• Simply Jews – Dmitri Yakovlev bill – the cannibal’s mistake
• The Glittering Eye -We Have a Social Disease
• The Mellow Jihadi – Corporals of the United States Marine Corps
• The Razor – Alinksy Tactics Used Against Legal Gun Owners
• VA Right! - Betrayed! Only 5 Republican Senators Voted ‘NO!’ to a Tax Increase
• The Independent Sentinel – Tax Ammo As If It Were Cigarettes
• Rhymes With Right – When The Free Press Advocates For Abrogating Rights, Suppressing Speech, And Murdering Dissenters
• Bookworm Room – Found it on Facebook: a story about a mass murder that didn’t happen
• Gay Patriot – Now that they’ve raised taxes on the wealthiest Americans, what is the Democrats’ plan to address nation’s debt crisis?

Honorable Mentions

• Liberty’s Spirit – I Support the Pro-Israel Lobby: Bring it on Bitches
• Right Truth – Obama Hammers and Sickles America – Obama’s Coup: The final chapter
• Tina Trent – Naomi Wolf, Aaron Greene and Morgan Gliedman: Retro Radical Chic
• The Pirate’s Cove – Bummer: Some Dealers Say “Nyet!” To Carrying Chevy Fuego, Er, Volt

Non-Council Submissions

• Sultan Knish –First Plane Out Of Benghazi submitted by The Noisy Room
• Cato@Liberty – The Stephen Glass Problem in Intelligence Oversight submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Sultan Knish -Someone Else Will Pay submitted by The Political Commentator
• Dave Barry – Dave Barry’s Year in Review 2012 submitted by Joshuapundit
• The Diplomat – A Frightening Prospect: War in the East China Sea submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• ConservativeDailyNews.com – The Climate of Fear & Powerlessness submitted by The Right Planet
• Jonathan Spyer – A Nation Once Again? submitted by Simply Jews
• Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion – Extra-constitutional power is what they’ve always wanted (Update — blaming those ancient “white dudes”) submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Too Young To Be A Curmudgeon –You Better Think About It Before You Start Packingsubmitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Mike Hunt –Demand A Plan? Demand Celebrities Go F*ck Themselves [Extended Cut] submitted by The Razor
• Shark Tank – Allen West Calls Senate ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Compromise “Illogical and Disrespectful” To Americans submitted by VA Right!
• Doug Ross – President Obama’ Fiscal Cliff Olive Branch To The GOP: “You Get Nothing” submitted by The Independent Sentinel
• Bob Owens – What You’ll See In The Rebellion submitted by Rhymes with Right
• P.J. O’Rourke – Dear Mr. President, Zero-Sum Doesn’t Add Up submitted by The Watcher
• NRO Symposium – Crystal Ball 2013:Looking ahead submitted by The Watcher

Real life explanation of Washington economics!

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TweetIf a family ran its fiscal house the way that Washington or many local governments run theirs, then personal bankruptcy would likely be the only option!

Politicians, however, have no problem running huge deficits with other peoples money (OPM) because they can always raise our taxes to get more without ever having to reduce the amounts that they spend!

That, is a recipe for fiscal disaster the likes of which we are watching play out in Washington right now!

Washington finances versus a family's personal finances!

God, country, family, party and partisan politics!

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Is that how the saying goes? God, country, family, party andpartisan politics?

I looked around the Internetand nowhere could I find party and partisan politics in the equation thatdescribes the priorities or responsibilities of elected officials.

Therefore I will personally optinstead for God, country, family, party and partisan politics!Period!

But that's just me. I don't workin Washington and therefore I can have any priorities that suits my conscience.

The people who we send toWashington on the other hand will speechify endlessly about their supposed priorities. 

They will tell you that it'sabout the folks on Main Street, protecting the middle class, jobs creation,economic growth, fiscal stability, national security and of course reaching outto their friends across the aisle to get the job of legislating done!

They will say it's about keepingthe United States in its position as the superpower and world leader it hasalways been.

Unfortunately, as my mother would say whenI was growing up, actions speak much louder than any words ever could.

And the actions are despicable! These representatives inWashington will pass bills without ever having read them, make back-room deals that feather their own nests and vote party overprinciples at every turn.

They will vote themselves raises,be out of Washington more than they are in it and enjoy the perks of office that aren’t available to the constituents back home that put them in office in the first place. All of this iseven more disturbing now as it is taking place during extremely difficult economic times.

Some will indulge in questionableexcesses that would get you or I thrown into jail, only to be exonerated bytheir colleagues who would expect the same treatment in return.

For most of the pariahs in Washington winning an election, regardlessof the office won, simply means that it is time to start running for the nextelection along with everything that process entails.

What about the concept of votingwith their consciences and core beliefs over the demands of party leadership?

For these public servants doing thatwould be an extremely low percentage play as it could mean losing committee appointmentsor other goodies that go along with the territory of being a good party soldier.

So what do they do instead? They go alongto get along!

Good for them! Not so good forthe American people!

The fiscal cliff and upcomingdebate about raising the debt ceiling for the federal government are perfectexamples.

What are critical decisions forthe current and future economic viability of the United States have insteadbeen turned into nothing but a partisan pissing match.

One side panders to the emotionsof the American people while the other side seeks to take responsible action toreduce spending and cut the deficits that if left unchecked will at some point turn the United States into the equivalent of Greece.

The end result of these back andforth “negotiations”? Nothing of any substance will get done, the US economywill suffer while the elected officials will point fingers at the other sideattempting gain an edge in the opinion polls.

And the big losers will be theAmerican people who will end up paying the price.

Despicable performance in a countrywhere true political leadership has become a lost art!

Monday thoughts: Hilary Clinton and blood clots!

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Hilary Clinton is in the hospital for treatment of a blood clot that developed as a result of her recent concussion!

First off let me say that if the following sounds a little cold and/or insensitive I apologize!

That said, have we reached a new low (or maybe just I have reached a new low) in American politics when this story about the Secretary of State is met by some people (or maybe just by me) with a certain amount of skepticism.

My initial thought was that in some way it is a ruse to keep her from having to testify about the botched security at the embassy in Benghazi.

But then on second thought and knowing deep down that President Obama, like all Americans, absolutely wants to drill down and get to the truth about this failure that cost three Americans their lives, implementing a clever ruse could in no way be true. Right?

In any event, assuming that I am just a crazy conspiracy theorist, I wish Hilary Clinton a speedy and full recovery and a happy and a healthy 2013!

Jewish humor on New Years Day!

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A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time.

To check it out, she went to the Wall, and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy site.

She watched him pray, and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, using a cane and moving very slowly, she approached him for an interview.

"Pardon me Sir, I'm Rebecca Smith from CNN. What's your name?

"Morris Feinberg," he replied

"Sir, how long have you been coming to the Wailing Wall to pray?"

"For about 60 years."

"60 years! That's amazing! What do you pray for?"

"I pray for peace between the Christians, Jews and the Muslims. I pray for all the wars and all the hatred to stop. I pray for all our children to grow up safely as responsible adults, and to love their fellow man."

The reporter listens and then asks "And how do you feel Sir, after doing this for 60 years?"

Say Morris, "It's like talking to a brick wall."