Chicago Tea Party

Looks like people have had enough.

Let's show them who's boss. Go here and sign: http://americanfuturefund.com/sign-the-petition-for-a-chicago-tea-party/

The Insurance Scam

I'm talking about the government mandated car insurance you have.

Take a look at the premiums you pay. How much? Go ahead, look. I'll wait.

OK, it should be about $300 per year.

It's not? Why? Because if you get injured in an accident the health care costs are so high? No that's not it.

Because car repairs are so spendy, and if it's you're fault, it's twice as much (not to mention what it would be if you smack a Lexus - YOW)? No that's not it either.

It's because the Trial Lawyers want the right to sue when there's an accident.

That's right, the premiums you pay just go to pad the ins companies' law suit fund, because no matter how much they pay out, they're going to be sued. Even if they win, the cost of the law suit is astronomical. Your premiums don't really protect you at all. If you cause an accident that hurts someone, you and your insurance company (because they are the deep pockets party) are going to be sued.

Why bring this up now? Well, if states would pass no fault insurance, and limit law suit payouts, your insurance premiums would be about $300 $400 per year.

Do the math, would you spend the extra money, oh I don't know, buying a new car, TV, or BluRay player?

Can you say 'stimulous'?

Storm The Bastille Edition

The Stimulous Bill is illegal. But then most of the laws passed by the federal government violate the 10th Amendment with the full acquiescence of the peeps who either want the state to care for them, or don't sweat the small stuff that don't affect them too much.

Well, your chickens are coming home to roost.

"Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just as the framers intended: few and explicitly enumerated in our founding document and its amendments. Search the Constitution as long as you like, and you will find no specific authority conveyed for the government to spend money on global-warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other items in the stimulus package and, even without it, in the regular federal budget." --Independent Institute senior fellow Dr. Robert Higgs

"Americans have long ago abandoned respect for the constitutional limitations placed on the federal government. Our elected representatives represent that disrespect." --economist Walter E. Williams in a worthwhile read

"[W]hat could possibly be more reckless than spending a trillion dollars you don't have on a plan that you have no evidence will work? What could be more irresponsible than doubling the generational debt for your partisan pet projects in a time of crisis? And what could be more selfish than stifling debate by deploying fear to induce voters into supporting it all?" --columnist David Harsanyi

Thanks to the Patriot Post for these quotes.

T Jefferson Quote

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Thomas Jefferson warned us 206 years ago

Thomas Jefferson warned us 206 years ago

JFK once said "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Let's review TJ's wisdom:

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson

Very Interesting Quote:

In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance" - Thomas Jefferson

Winds Of Change

Hypocrisy edition.

Some comments on current events, in no particular order.

The woman with eight new hatchlings. Why all the ink? Even the No Spin Meister is prattling on about her.

So what, I say. She's got a bidness plan, let it sink or swim.

B-HO, excuse me, President B-HO has issued an edict on CEO pay capping it at $500K, Barney Frank says, hey it's good for some so let's cap every CEO's pay. Ask the average doofus on the street if he thinks it's fair that CEOs make so much while the proletariat is starving, and you'll be lucky if his or her manic lamentations against the CEOs doesn't get spittle on you. The Big Nanny dictates minimum wage, it dictates maximum wage, how long before it dictates all wages? One of my customers e-mailed me that he had talked to a salesman on the floor who told him that the selling price of the car he wanted was $800 more than what I quoted him on the same car. Evidence, he said, if our criminal attempt to maximize profit. Not long, I'm betting.

Kelloggs' Corn Flakes has sacked Phelps as a spokesman (heh, heh, heh, a flake pimping Flakes, and they don't want him?) because of the video of Phelps smoking dope. Sends the wrong message to our young, no doubt. Course, the Chief Executive of the USA smoked dope (and yes, he inhaled, 'that was the whole point' don't you know?) and snorted some crack, but he's just dreamy and mommas is naming theys babies after him. Maybe Kelloggs should put B-HO on the cover, or maybe the country should have the standards of Kelloggs for those we lavish with public adolation.

The Porkulous bill, described by The One as a spending bill because that's what pork, I mean stimulous is all about, should be a budget bill. WTF don't these people elected to leadership positions in our country understand about the government?

The One has delayed the prosecution of the mastermind of the USS Cole bombing. The Left is is high dudgeon over the decision because the poor mister Nashiri was tortured or something in order to get his confession. Course, The One didn't free Nashiri, just took his case off the court docket so he can languish in Club Gitmo interminally while B-HO figures out what his policy on the these sphincters of humanity will be. Isn't holding detainees without charge, without trail something the left wants to prosecute Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeldt for?

There's more, but my honey needs me......

Civics 101

From Lew Waters, comes this primer on government.

There are so many good websites out there, it's a pity this one doesn't get more ink:

http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment/

From Big Dog's Site

Oh dear, someone is way off the reservation and has made the spot on observation that being independent isn't the same as being an Independent......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h61kZ2Oyljs&eurl=http://www.onebigdog.net/zos-new-post-i-pledge/comment-page-1/