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onventional and lawful means it is a movement replete with individuals that understand the importance of the rule of law the difference between a representative republic and a democracy and appreciates the role that individuals have in society it embraces a person s rights of life freedom and the unfettered pursuit for a better life all of these things are in stark contrast to not only the progressive left but also to centrist politicians who have adopted a belief that government should provide for individuals and identity groups those things that they fail to provide for themselves irrespective of any attempt to self provide and sometimes whether the providees even desire the interjection the tea parties seek change at the ballot box most progressives will settle for a ballot box solution if one is readily apparent particularly if enough illegal or dead voters are able to partake in the effort but absent their candidates being elected will just as opportunistically pursue change through judicial fiat or bureaucratic regulation that is except for those high called brave statesmen that flee beyond the nearest state border an obvious example of this is when climate change legislation ground to a halt in the us congress epa regulators in the obama administration predictably assumed an unprecedented expansion of regulatory powers they justified through hazy interpretations of the clean air act another recent example of these shenanigans is the national labor relations board nlrb seeking to block boeing s attempt to build aircraft in south carolina rather than producing them in union dominated washington state the nlrb is positing that boeing s attempt to produce aircraft in a right to work state is in direct response to belligerent union activities that interrupted production at their established factory now mind you boeing is not shuttering any seattle area plant in fact employment in that area is actually increased over the past few years and boeing is not shifting the production of one aircraft from seattle to south carolina the factory in sc is for the new dreamliner aircraft and yet the nlrb is seeking to halt production in south carolina in direct appeasement of the deep pocketed labor unions in washington state that helped elevate president obama to victory when president obama bought himself a couple of car companies he said out loud and on many occasions that he had no desire to run a car company however it should be noted that many of the new products being touted by gm today are ones blessed by government authorities for their harmony with government environmental and energy policy he also was able to seat a more union friendly board provide some ownership of the new entities to the unions kick out a few established industry executives to be replaces with government chosen alternatives and continued to fund speculative industries whose production would fishtail nicely with government s energy and environmental policy boeing is a different and perhaps even more sinister matter here government regulators are attempting to interject themselves directly into the managerial matters of a private enterprise in order to grant its most favored electoral constituency unprecedented powers over a company they draw their paychecks from there is no doubt that businesses are under attack in america they are seen as greedy corporations with few redeeming qualities the wealth that they generate for workers are largely ignored because of the wealth that is also generated for stockholders and company officers as the valued presidential adviser bill ayers said recently in an interview with great wealth comes great theft capitalism is unfair boeing as such is a thief and government regulators are today s robin hoods setting matters of wealth aright while assisting themselves in perpetuating their continued regulatory status debt and the growth of government along with the fact that the republican party offered up a centrist candidate in the last presidential election were the primary causes behind the growth of the tea party movement it is the overreach of government regulators and their unrelenting invasion into the private sector that will provide the incentive to keep the movement vibrant and growing this fight is just beginning posted by roug at 12 45 pm 0 comments wednesday april 27 2011 the un punishes syria in a way only the un can in the past six weeks the syrian state has reportedly murdered over 450 citizens who have rallied against their tyrant dictator bashar al assad tanks are in the streets and government snipers shoot indiscriminately into demonstrating crowds many people around the globe are noticing five eu member states have summoned their syrian ambassadors to diplomatic conference rooms to be thoroughly excoriated in strongly worded conversations amid offerings of herbal tea and delicate flaky scones but if you think the eu is tough wait until you hear about what the un is doing to syria next month the un will elevate syria to membership in the human rights council the brutal crackdown by syrian president bashar assad may finally be getting the attention of world leaders but apparently not enough to stop syria from becoming the newest member of the u n human rights council and despite calling for an independent investigation into the crackdown which has left hundreds dead u n secretary general ban ki moon apparently won t do much about blocking syria s path to the human rights group that s not really for the secretary general to suggest to a member state said martin nesirky a spokesman for the secretary general when asked if the u n chief would ask syria to drop out of the running for the post when asked if ban had brought up the point during his telephone conversation april 9 with assad nesirsky told fox news that s not really something the secretary general would raise specifically because it s for other member states to decide on the membership of the human rights council one has to wonder what legitimate purpose the un even has any more posted by roug at 9 10 pm 0 comments racism abounds this is where the lovely garden path of hate crimes leads pub singer arrested for racism after chinese passers by hear him perform kung fu fighting from the mail online a pub singer has been arrested on suspicion of racism for singing the classic chart hit kung fu fighting the song performed by simon ledger 34 is said to have offended two chinese people as they walked past the bar where he was singing but after one of the passers by reported his routine on sunday afternoon mr ledger was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated harassment in the uk feeling offended gives any interpreter the power of having someone else arrested rather similar to the situation down in dearborn now that i think about it h t darlene at protein wisdom posted by roug at 7 44 pm 0 comments monday april 25 2011 speculators president obama is going to get to the bottom of rising oil and gasoline prices sure he was insistent during the run up to the last election that under his energy policy that energy prices would necessarily skyrocket but that sort of incidental comment shouldn t stand in the way of some good old political posturing especially when there is an evil corporation or greedy wall street gougers to take aim at from fox news with a hat tip to cold fury shell oil company has announced it must scrap efforts to drill for oil this summer in the arctic ocean off the northern coast of alaska the decision comes following a ruling by the epa s environmental appeals board to withhold critical air permits the move has angered some in congress and triggered a flurry of legislation aimed at stripping the epa of its oil drilling oversight shell has spent five years and nearly 4 billion dollars on plans to explore for oil in the beaufort and chukchi seas the leases alone cost 2 2 billion shell vice president pete slaiby says obtaining similar air permits for a drilling operation in the gulf of mexico would take about 45 days he s especially frustrated over the appeal board s suggestion that the arctic drill would somehow be hazardous for the people who live in the area we think the issues were really not major slaiby said and clearly not impactful for the communities we work in the closest village to where shell proposed to drill is kaktovik alaska it is one of the most remote places in the united states according to the latest census the population is 245 and nearly all of the residents are alaska natives the village which is 1 square mile sits right along the shores of the beaufort sea 70 miles away from the proposed off shore drill site here shell oil has speculated in excess of 4 billion on a site that the government continues to deny access to despite pocketing a cool 2 2 billion selling the lease incidentally these represent some of the same leases that dolt progressives point to when they scoff at drill here drill now enthusiasts why open up any new areas to drilling when there are currently so many leases already leased but undeveloped while obama and company decry the evil deeds of gougers and speculators they quietly help to issue in a situation where intentionally crippled american consumers cannot afford to buy as much fuel however obvious this doesn t make a very good policy plank on which to get reelected so they need a scapegoat blame it on evil speculators if you like or blame it on hugely profitable and greedy oil giants but the historical profit margin of big oil will remain roughly the same through the entire ordeal oil speculators like airlines that must lock into fuel contracts in order to guarantee supply and the evil gouging owners of big oil such as countless public retirement funds with shell in their portfolios will forever do what they can to keep their businesses and shareholders afloat this is exactly what corporations and pooled capital funds are designed to do but this doesn t jibe with what has become the model for a good citizen of the earth the sooner that we all become good little citizens and reduce our carbon footprints the sooner we will all become content with necessary gasoline prices suck it up ya whiner posted by roug at 5 11 pm 0 comments for the children american border control draws the line at confectionery products with non nutritive embedded objects you can almost feel the safety h t overlawyered 8edited to add h t posted by roug at 12 27 pm 0 comments eight bits a buck won t buy you what it used to i remember the good old days in texas where a mere american dollar could get you a gallon of gasoline or four loaves of the hardest generic white bread ever produced armed with only a couple bucks in your wallet you knew you could still jump in the old gas guzzler travel to the nearest piggly wiggly and come home laden with two loaves and ten boxes of macaroni and cheese that the textures of the bread and the packaging of the mac cheese were roughly equivalent was of little matter to a country boy trying to cut out a life for himself in the big city alas the 99 cent gallon of gas the 25 cent loaf and the 20 cent mixed box of pasta and powdered simulated cheese food are now but historical markers of poor nourishment and higher efficiency transportation but americans should be pleased to know that these days in dearborn michigan the cornerstone of world currency is making a tremendous comeback despite inflation despite world unrest and despite advancing statism a single greenback can still buy you an inalienable and self evident natural right ah freedom one shivers at the thought of what ten bucks might garner we discovered this thrilling benchmark for eight bits last week when pastor terry jones of florida traveled to michigan to protest against both sharia law and radical islam at the doorstep of one of michigan s oldest and largest mosques while he professed to have come in peace his pilgrimage was seen in a more sinister light by dearborn s mayor wayne county prosecutor kym worthy and many local religious leaders who proclaimed that jones primary mission was to cause violence tolerance used to be a wonderful thing in the old days back say when you could pick up five eight oz yogurts for a buck tolerance meant that mature americans could and would allow differing americans to live speak worship and dress as they saw fit in the seventies and eighties it must have been hard for some rednecks to pass by a black church without launching a firebomb but somehow america with a population of over 200 000 000 with a few exceptions managed but somewhere along the line tolerance stopped meaning tolerance now tolerance has come to mean that our benevolent caretakers sometimes occupying the offices of mayor or prosecutor may run interference between varying groups to enforce an atmosphere devoid of potentially offending speech while tolerance used to demand the active attention of those who might hear words or observe lifestyles that they disagreed with now it means that those in power have the ability indeed the charge to preemptively filter out any speech that they find offensive pastor terry jones was not deemed to have said something violent or damaging on the steps of a dearborn mosque we know this because jones was not even allowed to speak prior to his intended peaceful protest he was hauled into court so that a jury could decide for him if he had intended to create violence all personal protestations aside he was found guilty by the jury and asked to post a 1 bond by the judge a trifle compared to the 100 000 peace bond originally asked for by prosecutor kym worthy there have been other juries that have found other defendants guilty for inciting violence but this is an odd twist for in those other instances it was the defendant who incited his own followers to violence by fanning the flames in this case the speaker is being held hostage by those on the other side of the issue who all but threaten violence if the guilty is allowed to speak what chilling effect does this have on free speech it is the equivalent of any one of us forming a mob that threatens to riot if we hear anything directly or rumored or see anything directly or rumored that we simply refuse to tolerate a gay couple seems interested in buying a house down the street saddle up what the constipated american justice system fears is that the ugliness of our expression might in some way result in the taking of lives in this country or overseas and that it might further damage our relationships with muslim countries and masses around the world in a woefully candid bit of language used in a manner to emphasize rather than offend i proclaim that i don t give a shit generically speaking muslims are not interlopers in this country being an american can mean to wholeheartedly bring to the american table what talents you have and the rest of us americans english spanish italian irish finn swede pole african 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