February 2011
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Not bad...
Just got home from the gym and I ran 82 miles in the Month of January.
Hoping to get closer to 100 miles in a month by March. Since February only has 28 days I’d be happy to do another 80-85 miles or so for that month.
“Most people who read “The Communist Manifesto” probably have no idea that it was...”
– Thomas Sowell (via missdaisyvo)
Rep. Ron Paul calls Egypt a "mess" made by U.S.... →
January 2011
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“if a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by...”
– Senator Obama 2008
New federal dietary guidelines released: Limit... →
whimsicalallure:
Federal officials Monday released the government’s latest advice to Americans on what they should be eating, including specific new recommendations to limit salt intake. “The new Dietary Guidelines provide concrete action steps to help people live healthier, more physically active and longer lives.”
STFU, you can’t tell me how much salt I should put in my body.
Once...
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Newt Gingrich the corporatist
Here he is defending ethanol subsidies.
Try to stir up support for a 2012 Presidential run. How can one call himself a free market capitalist then support and lobby for subsidies?
If there was such a huge demand and need to ethanol there wouldn’t be any reason for the government to help support it.
Ethanol is just too damn expensive and is a horrible substitute for gasoline.
Very...
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Doesn't get much better than this
Rand Paul
PAUL: I think what you’ll find is when they see what we’re talking about, today we talked about a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. The vast majority of the Republican caucus agrees with that idea. In fact, it may be universal.
We’re already talking about that here in Washington. The Republican senators are talking about a balanced budget amendment. I...
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Why are we still so dependent on foreign oil?
How much higher does a barrel of oil have to go until we can start drilling our own oil?
The price is only going to continue to climb. In this economy people are having a hard time affording to heat their homes. Home heating is well over $3.00 a gallon in Massachusetts, my home state, and will continue to rise.
If we drilled our own and flooded the market with oil the price would drop...
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How soon until this is over turned
Federal judge declares Obamacare Unconstitutional.
The full text of the decision from Federal Judge Roger Vinson is not available yet, but according to reporters who’ve seen the decision, he’s ruled the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. The ruling favors of the 26 state attorney generals challenging the law. The judge ruled the individual...
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Sad news for baseball fans
ESPN is losing one of its best baseball sports writers in Rob Neyer.
He is one of the reason I’m a baseball stat nerd. I can never understand why so many people completely dismiss sabermetrics with out even trying to understand them. Any tool that can help you better judge something is always a good thing.
Hopefully Rob continues to write elsewhere so I can keep on reading him. First...
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If we don't raise the debt ceiling we will default...
Where the Hell do people come up with this logic? Here is a brilliant thought, pay off the loan payments first then if you have money left over you can spend that.
What a hard concept to understand.
Sure I’d like to buy a HD TV, a new car or just waste money on strippers. Hell I don’t know. But I prioritize my money better than that. First thing first is my mortgage, then my...
What is happening in Egypt is not our business →
There is no question that we will feel very tempted to try and control events and maintain regimes which, however morally loathsome, are seen as sympathetic to the West.
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Make a pledge
I’m going to pledge $50.00 to see Paul Krugman debate Robert Murphy.
Welcome to KrugmanDebate.com, your headquarters for the Murphy-Krugman Debate! Robert Murphy has a PhD in economics from New York University. He is a firm believer in the Austrian theory of the business cycle, which blames the boom-bust cycle on the Federal Reserve, not the free market. In contrast, Paul...
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“Egypt doesn’t have control of its people the way we do here.”
– Joe Biden, today on MSNBC (via statehate)
This statement is sad from so many different angles.
(via johnr48)
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This is a joke coming from Karl Rove
Karl Rove is trying to criticize Obama for all the excess federal spending. This is coming from Bush’s right hand man who is just as responsible for all the spending during the Bush years.
Does Rove think we are that stupid? That we don’t know what happened under Bush?
Obama is just doubling down on the Bush economic and spending policies. Does Rove not get that?
Paul Ryan is...
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Neo-con take on Egypt
I heard John Bolton say basically the same thing when I was listening to Mark Levin’s show Friday night.
FOX News recently rolled out its expert on “diplomacy,” neocon John Bolton (the guy with the white Hitler mustache) to explain to us Rubes why the U.S. military may have to intervene in Egypt. It would not be in “our” national interest to have a “hostile” government in Egypt, he...
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Now Egypt is all Bush's fault
Bush can and should take the blame for a lot. He was a horrible President. But at some point liberals like Chris Matthews have to give up blaming everything that goes wrong in the world on Bush.
Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews in Washington.Leading off tonight: Unrest in Egypt. Proving the Iraq war wasn`t needed, these protests in Egypt, as well as in Yemen and Tunisia, are all aimed at...
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Obama starts talking
So I change the channel to ESPN.
Even Pardon the Interruption is better than listening to him
Sometimes I'm so happy to live in Florida.
And you don’t have to dig yourself out of feet of snow like us in the North East.
whimsicalallure:
Especially when it comes to Politics, Laws and even prices of gas lol
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Hawaii found a way to balance its budget
By selling copies of Obama’s birth certificate.
I really thought the whole birther movement was dead. But the Hawaiian governor had to come out and bring it up again. Still I find this pretty funny if it does happen.
The state would charge $100 for a copy of President Obama’s birth records under a bill introduced in the Legislature by five Democrats. It would change a privacy law...
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“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth - and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so...
“[M]ost of the power of the government comes from the perception that it is...”
– James Ostrowski (via laliberty)
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More governors could learn from Chris Christie
Doesn’t get much better than this.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is ramping up his attack on Illinois Governor Pat Quinn saying he will propose a further cut in the state’s corporate tax rate during his budget address in February.
Mr. Christie made the remark during an interview with CNBC on Wednesday.
The proposal is the latest twist in the saga between Mr. Christie and ...
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Ponzi Scheme
The official government definition.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new investors. Ponzi scheme organizers often solicit new investors by promising to invest funds in opportunities claimed to generate high returns with little or no risk. In many Ponzi schemes, the...
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If you're outraged about Egypt shutting down the...
Surprised they didn’t put this in the Unconstitutional Patriot Act
thenoobyorker:
“A bill giving the president an Internet “kill switch” during times of emergency that failed to pass Congress last year will return this year, but with a revision that has many civil liberties advocates concerned: It will give the president the ability to shut down parts of the Internet without any court...
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I love how neo-cons rationalise the War on Terror
Just ask any neo-con. The only reason we haven’t been attacked on US soil is because we are over there defending freedom. Our presence in the Mid East makes it harder for them to train in Afghanistan and Iraq. Which that part is true, I’m sure training in Afghanistan and Iraq must be tough for the terrorist. But instead they just move to Pakistan, Yemen, Iran or else where in the...
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“When you defend freedom, you defend freedom of choice. You can’t be picking and...”
– Ron Paul, Ron Paul on marijuana, prohibition, and personal freedom (via fuckyeahdrugpolicy)
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End foreign aid
Even to Israel. Why should we be sending money to foreign nations when we have are $14 trillion in debt. While we are running a $1.4 trillion budget deficit this year alone. All while borrowing money from China to do so. Let the country we aid go beg China for money or they can learn how to fend for themselves.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul wants to end all foreign assistance, including aid to...
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So if war is good for the economy?
Why don’t we just bomb Detroit to stimulate their economy?
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“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via combattant-de-la-liberte)
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Ronald Reagan: Hawk or Dove?
Neo-cons could take a lesson from Reagan.
I don’t think Reagan would have us bogged down in 2 meaningless wars with no end in site. Maybe all the so called Reagan conservative should actually see what Reagan thought of meaningless wars.
In a recent issue of Foreign Policy magazine, journalist Peter Beinart reassesses the legacy of Ronald Reagan by first restating the most common...
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Even though voting is pretty much worthless
No matter who you vote for, 99% of the time anyways, you’ll be voting for a big government Republican or a big government Democrat. Even with that said I like any law that makes it harder for people to vote. And Texas is trying to make it law that you have to show an ID to vote.
To me, that sounds like common sense. Otherwise I can just walk into my local voting location and look...
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More states should start doing this
Texas is outright defying the EPA and building a Coal Fired Power Plant.
Texas environmental regulators on Wednesday approved a crucial air quality permit that paves the way for construction of a coal-fired power plant in Corpus Christi, defying a request by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to deny the permit.
The three-person Texas Commission on Environmental Quality voted 2-0 to...
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Facts about of the Afgan War.
How much longer do we have to be over there?
(1) The American command wants to run raids across the Afghan border into Pakistan and Tajikistan to attack Al Qaeda guerrillas who currently enjoy safe havens in those countries. This is needed, say officers, to save American lives. But in Islamabad, Benazir Bhutto’s Falafel ...
Daisy Vo: I wish more Americans paid attention in... →
darrrby:
Specifically, I wish more people were fully educated about the Prohibition Era.
I talk to a lot of people about Prohibition of drugs and alcohol, and unfortunately, a lot of people believe that Prohibition of alcohol for citizens under 21 and Prohibition of drugs are both working.
L.A. Liberty: 2011 SOTU: Libertarian Response... →
laliberty:
John Stossel’s State of the Union Address
We Can’t Win the Future By Repeating the Past
Nine Cato Experts Break Down the 2011 State of the Union Address
State of the Union shows Obama is now pro-business. He should [instead] be pro-growth.
Back to the Future: Further Thoughts…
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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the...”
– Winston Churchill (via missdaisyvo)