tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87793692024-03-06T23:42:51.224-08:00InsoluBlog: Always separates when shakenInsolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.comBlogger370125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-1132549240817095952016-11-07T10:28:00.001-08:002016-11-07T10:28:35.652-08:00Thanksgiving UnDived photo version<div style="position: relative;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful to live in the comfort and security of an American home. So many Americans have made this possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful to the founders for securing my life, my liberty and my tranquility. I can speak freely. I can worship freely. I can protect myself and my family, thanks to the fathers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for the American economy. Economic freedom has given me the means to buy my home, my food and my comforts. I have the freedom to work for a job I enjoy, and save for my retirement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for the Americans who built the home that shelters me from the rain and the snow. I did not have to saw my own lumber, nail my own shingles and plaster my own walls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for the Americans who bring fresh clean water to my home. I do not have to trudge out in freezing weather with a bucket. I can bathe with my water. I can drink my water. I can cook with my water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for the Americans who remove the waste from my home. They keep disease and vermin away. I don't have to trudge out to an outhouse in freezing weather. I don't have to dig my own landfill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for the Americans who bring heat and light to my home. Without this energy, I would have to chop my own wood, light my own lamps and stoke the fire of my own furnace. I would not have the freedom to cook when I please. I would not be able to preserve my food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for the Americans who grow, pick and slaughter the food I eat. I do not have to dig for potatoes. I do not have to eviscerate poultry. I do not have to wait in long lines for hours, with hunger in my belly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for the Americans who built my car, deliver my mail and packages, and ship all the goods I buy and consume every day. They are the blood in the arteries of the country. They bend the branch of American prosperity to my home, so I can just reach out and pick the fruit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for the Americans who bring electricity and communications to my home. I don't have to wait for letters, or send telegraphs or venture out. I have emergency services at my fingertips at all times. Thanks to you, I can rejoice in good news. Thanks to you, in tragedy, I can reach out to my family for comfort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for the Americans who protect me and my home from fire and crime. You see the worst in us all, while you give us your best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for the Americans who protect my home from foreign invaders. They stand between my civilization and the barbarians. They protect my American rights from the tyranny abroad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for the Americans who will take me from my home when I die. They will let me pass with dignity and grace. My family will not have to dig my grave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for the Americans who fix my body when it fails. They provide the skills, the medicine, the machines and the science, to help me live a long life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for animal companions. They bring comfort and loyalty into our homes. We may live and work in places of steel, concrete and glass. Our pets remind us we always have a foot in the natural world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />I am thankful for every small questing hand that grows to the old experienced hand. I thank those hands that span many years, by bearing arms, turning wrenches and shifting gears. Hands that touch young shoulders to calm young fears, and lift up cloths to wipe away tears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 130%;"><br />Our founders, who lived in the past, never experienced the wonders of their future. They still gave thanks during this holiday. America gives us <i>so much</i>. The least we can do, is give thanks.</span><br />
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<a href="http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=166609">From the Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Herald:</a><br />
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In a move slammed by Gov. Mitt Romney as “the triumph of arrogance over democracy,” lawmakers took a pass on a proposed gay marriage ban and virtually dashed any hopes voters will get to decide the issue in 2008.<br />
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Same-sex marriage on the ballot:<br />
Outraged proponents of the ban loudly protested outside the House chamber, with one of their leaders waving a copy of the state constitution.<br />
“The oldest living constitution in the world, and this Legislature is thumbing its nose at it - is playing games with it,” shouted Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute and spokesman for VoteOnMarriage.org. “That’s not democracy. Welcome to the People’s Republic of Massachusetts!”<br />
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Backers of same-sex marriage, currently allowed in the state, said the issue is a matter of civil rights that should not be decided by voters. Lawmakers must approve the proposed constitutional amendment two consecutive times to clear the way for the issue to make the ballot.<br />
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Backers of the citizen initiative gathered 170,000 signatures, more than enough to put it before lawmakers. Under Massachusetts law, it needs the approval of at least one quarter of the Legislature, or 50 lawmakers.<br />
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Romney said the 109 lawmakers who voted to recess the Constitutional Convention session, virtually killing any chance of the question appearing on the 2008 ballot, “disgraced their oaths of office.”<br />
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By recessing until Jan. 2, the last day of the legislative session, lawmakers made it highly unlikely the measure will be acted on before the session ends.<br />
Sen. Jarrett Barrios, a Cambridge Democrat who is gay and married, pointed to his wedding ring and warned that putting the question on the ballot will open the doors to a campaign vilifying gays.<br />
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“You don’t have to live next to us, you don’t have to like us,” said Barrios. “We are only asking you today to end the debate so that we can sleep easily knowing that while you may not live next to us or even like us that we will at least have the right to enjoy the same rights the rest of you enjoy.”<br />
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Insol: End the debate. Squash the discussion. That is what the Gay fascists in Mass. Think of the process of free speech. In spite of their cultural stereotype, they some of the most violent, uncivil and narcissistic people mingling about in their ranks. When they don’t get their gay way, you had better get out of the way.<br />
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Gov.-elect Deval Patrick favors gay marriage, which was legalized by the state’s highest court in November 2003. Romney, aggressively courting conservatives and the evangelicals in his bid for the White House, has made national headlines attacking it. <br />
Praising the 87 lawmakers who voted against recessing, including Senate President Robert E. Travaglini, Romney said, “Whether or not you favor same-sex marriage, you should be very concerned that the rule of law and sovereignty of the vote of the people have been trampled.”<br />
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What Mitt is talking about is article 48. <br />
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The Massachusetts Constitution could not be clearer on the point. Article 48, which establishes the right of initiative and referendum, specifies that when amendments proposed by initiative petition come before the Legislature, a roll call is mandatory. They ``shall be voted upon" as written, the Constitution directs (unless amended by a three-fourths supermajority). What's more, the Legislature is permitted to take action on them ``only by call of the yeas and nays." (Italics added)<br />
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Lawmakers are not given a choice in the matter. The Constitution requires them to vote. If it didn't, initiatives opposed by the legislative leadership could be aborted by simply refusing to bring them up for a vote. Instead of operating as a check and balance on the Legislature, Article 48 would then be a toothless sham.<br />
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At the urging of House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, many lawmakers were planning to block the ballot question.<br />
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Gay marrage advocates, who crowded into the State House by the thousands, praised DiMasi as “a true champion of individual and civil rights.”<br />
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Way to go, champions. Civil rights cannot be championed by uncivil, lawless behavior. Without the rule of law, none of us have civil rights.Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-11483470698062507822014-01-28T17:25:00.001-08:002014-09-23T19:47:13.738-07:00Where we are<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-84942524218799027942010-11-09T10:12:00.000-08:002010-11-09T10:12:06.085-08:00Worldwide Printing Press(Sung to the TV classic 'Rawhide') <br />
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Keep movin', movin', movin', <br />
Though they're disapprovin', <br />
Keep them dollars movin' Worldwide! <br />
Don't try to understand 'em, <br />
Just print the stuff and damn 'em, <br />
So, for now, we'll be living high and wide. <br />
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My banker's calculatin' <br />
An empty wallet will be waitin', be waiting at the end of my ride. <br />
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Print 'em up, head 'em up, <br />
Head 'em up, move 'em out, <br />
Move 'em on, print some more .. Worldwide! <br />
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Throw 'em out, write 'em down, <br />
write 'em in, let 'em out, <br />
Cut 'em right, write 'em in Worldwide. <br />
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Rollin', rollin', rollin' <br />
Though the debt be swollen <br />
Keep them dollars rollin' <br />
Worldwide! <br />
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Rain and wind and weather <br />
The presses roll forever <br />
Wishin' we had gold bars by our side. <br />
All the things we'll be missin', <br />
Good vittles, gas.. then listen, <br />
As Ben puts our savings on the slide...Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-83706779982282961172010-07-20T16:09:00.000-07:002010-07-20T16:39:08.534-07:00FinallyAmerican Thinker: <br />
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<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/conservatives_and_republican_v.html">http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/conservatives_and_republican_v.html</a><br />
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Publishing an article of everything everyone on my sidebar and myself have advocated for a DECADE.<br />
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The <a href="http://insolublog.blogspot.com/2008/07/audacity-of-dissent.html">Audacity of Dissent</a> is now ripe.<br />
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My point is: There is an enormous volume of blog content, and commentary, which can be summoned, to refresh peoples minds, with the facts already discovered and expressed. <br />
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Much of this is good, solid info. We all had a good laugh over it, in our own interactive correspondence, but now it matters. Spread the data around.Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-28129265445555048212010-07-14T16:41:00.000-07:002010-07-14T17:16:01.411-07:00A reprint of a 2005 race card post<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Why? Because it is more relevant than ever, given the latest race card hysteria, by the NAACP. Given it was a link love post, it is interesting how many of my blogger friends were also observant of the Katrina race card, being abused for political purposes.</span></span><br /><br />This is an Insolublog link love letter on recent events. My sidebar readers can look for their links within the content. If I didn't include you, it wasn't personal. (Katey you need permalink capability.) I was looking for recent posts which fit the theme. The theme concerns all of the absurd accusations of racism in the Katrina disaster.<br /><br />If we had MLK's dream in mind, it would be illegal to ask a persons race on a job application. Gathering racial statistics is never used for its quoted intention, to keep a level playing field. It's used and abused like a blunt force weapon, in race based extortion and promotion. The population race statistics are being used in the same way, by all of the usual Professional Victims.<br /><br />The only white racists are the ones who shackled poor minorities, in the chains of government entitlement programs.<br /><br />The only white racists are the ones who told them they don't need to achieve, because the government will take care of them.<br /><br />The LBJ war on poverty produced projects, not progress; There are genuine statistics to prove that assertion and its failure to produce any self sufficient results, like <span style="font-style: italic;">no reduction of poverty</span>. A self sufficient person becomes a wealth producer in society. They do not become the recipient of another producer's wealth.<br /><br />Here are the gifts of the LBJ and Robert Byrd style democrat:<br /><ul> <li><a href="http://pitbullsyndicate.blogspot.com/2005/09/bwhahaha.html">No property ownership</a>.</li> <li>No social status.</li> <li>No paternal family accountability.</li> <li>No choice in education, other than the incompetent government bureaucratic one.</li> <li>No useful, merit based training in economic responsibility. (<a href="http://drphattonys.blogspot.com/2005/09/aftermath-shopping.html">Which is why they go off buying $800 purses with food money</a>)</li> <li>No dignity.</li> <li>No long term hope of stability.</li> <li><a href="http://michaelfitch.blogspot.com/2005/09/what-political-party-is-this.html">No concept of American opportunities.</a> Only a head full of resentment and a stagnant pessimistic heart.<br /></li> </ul> What they get is a hand to mouth check from the government. How can the poor <span style="font-style: italic;">ever be anything but poor</span>, under these physical and psychological conditions? Opportunity means hard work, not handouts. But when you are free to have it and it lies before you, you are responsible to make the future you want. This means taking risks. This means working hard. This means you might fail, and it might be hard to get up!<br /><br />The real white racists just give the poor minorities a meager stipend, a pat on the head, instructions on who to vote for and a smelly bus ride to the polls.<br /><br />So what <a href="http://fmragtops.blogspot.com/2005/09/news-flash-louisiana-politicians-are.html">type of government do you get, when this vote is given form and function</a>? It wasn't conservative white politicians who dropped the ball here. I would remind our friends from the left that poor african Americans are not minorities in the city of NO, because they are in the majority!<br /><ul><li>Was the mayor of NO white?<br /></li><li>Was the governor of LA a member of the conservative blogosphere?<br /></li><li> Are the looters we see in most of the pictures, <a href="http://drphattonys.blogspot.com/2005/09/aftermath-shopping.html">like Dr. Phat Tony's post</a>, white?</li> <li> Was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/03/AR2005080301914.html">William Jefferson</a>, who diverted National Guard rescue resources, to pick up luggage at his home, a white congressman?</li> <li> Are those all white officials and community 'leaders' pushing their faces in the cameras and hurling racial epithets?</li> </ul> Where are the re-builders in this list?<br />Where is the leadership?<br />Where is the shared accountability and multicultural unity they like to lecture us about?<br />Who was stepping up to be a source of <span style="font-style: italic;">positive action</span> before, during and after Katrina?<br /><br />This is the government <span style="font-style: italic;">freely chosen </span>, through the democratic voting process, by the same souls supposedly empowered by liberal social programs. Is this is what the taxpayers want and expect for their entitlement dollar? As soon as the government checks are interrupted, the hand is bitten. The hand is then stitched back up and stuck right back in the jaws of the Pitt Bull's mouth. We are then told that we are duty compelled to feel sorry for the Pitt Bull, since we made him the vicious dog that he is. You know what? We didn't make him that way, <span style="font-style: italic;">the liberals did</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://theconservativeuawguy.blogspot.com/2005/09/not-that-it-matters.html">What about Ivan? What about Charlie? What about the Mississippi floods?</a> Those poor, underprivileged Americans picked themselves up and moved on with their lives. They were given no more consideration by the federal government than any other red blooded American hit by a natural disaster.<br /><br />It looks like the <span style="font-style: italic;">only</span> government official <a href="http://pointfiveblog.com/index.php/2005/09/351">taking verifiable large scale corrective action</a> to fix the NOLA problem is a compassionate conservative white guy named George Bush!<br /><br />But that's <a href="http://peakah.blogspot.com/2005/08/burnt.html">what the liberal argument is about</a>, isn't it? <a href="http://conservathink.blogspot.com/2005/09/not-funny.html">It is about hating Bush, with a hate that blinds them and delights us</a>. I hope they keep kissing the posteriors of Michael Moore and Howard Dean.<br /><br />Show me any of the Solons, over in that aisle, lifting a real genuine finger, to help these people, instead of churning them through the media hate machine. No, they throw scraps at them for a camera shot, all the way from DC to <a href="http://sharpshooters.blogspot.com/2005/09/i-dont-want-to-live-in-america.html">Hollywood</a>. Bush is the only man <a href="http://gunnnutt.blogspot.com/2005/09/cpt-zs-katrina-answers.html">pushing for increased home ownership in the rebuilding process</a>.<br /><br />It is scaring the hell out of the American left. Oh No! Their base might actually walk off their government emotional debt slavery plantation. I would cite Uber's post on <a href="http://pjmax.blogspot.com/2005/09/abc-showing-bias-again-surely-not.html">the recent ABC segment immediately following Bush's speech</a>, as proof of a new sun rising on the horizon. Thank God the decades of pimping poverty for politics, are ending in this country.Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-21693939756686276322010-03-22T09:54:00.000-07:002010-03-22T09:55:24.018-07:00Heritage SpeaksIt is very rare to see the Heritage Foundation speak in such stark terms. These are the times we find ourselves in.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zU7-G50Xvus&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zU7-G50Xvus&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="385"></embed></object>Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-49730848263850199212010-02-21T15:09:00.000-08:002010-02-21T18:02:48.684-08:00Stunningly Georgeous KickbackFrom Andrew Breitbart at CPAC<br /><br />The latest race card attempt...<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_AfWkDrPvNA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_AfWkDrPvNA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />Here's the original volley...<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MIeByOeERpY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MIeByOeERpY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Some original inspiration...<br /><br /><object width="518" height="419"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=Xdnznzuz8z" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=Xdnznzuz8z" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344" /></embed></object><br /><br />The race card is in serious overdraft. Now it's time to pay up.<br /><br /><br />Thanks Andrew. What needs to be done... Every interview, EVERY SINGLE ONE, must be shot and documented by a citizen journalist. No person should submit themselves to filming, without an objective parallel source filming the same shot.<br /><br />Editing and context framework are the weapons of the MSM.Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-1969523355094688232010-01-19T18:44:00.000-08:002010-01-19T18:48:35.536-08:00The Kennedy Dynasty is DeadThis is my favorite attribute, of the election in Mass.<br /><br />I have been suffering through <span style="font-style: italic;">so many years</span> of listening to Kennedy legacy rubbish, spewed into our faces, every time this unpunished criminal waddled to the polls to be re-installed. <br /><br />I can only hope that this is truly a new American revolution.Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-73449152102703286682010-01-19T18:26:00.001-08:002010-01-19T18:26:47.513-08:00WE DID IT!Badda Bing!Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-9575839134384382912010-01-19T18:10:00.000-08:002010-01-19T18:14:43.817-08:00Barney FrankWe have a TPS (Tea Party positioning) guided JDAM, headed for your fat ass target, next November.Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-83169110693052491852010-01-19T12:16:00.001-08:002010-01-19T14:11:28.048-08:00It could be a Brown landslide.When I voted this morning, the ground support for Brown was <span style="font-style: italic;">very<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span> uncharacteristic of Massachusetts.<br /><br />He's leading in typical Bell Weather towns:<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Scott-Brown-leads-in-bellwether-towns-81996647.html"><br />http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Scott-Brown-leads-in-bellwether-towns-81996647.html</a><br /><br />If Coakley 'wins', it will be by the exertion of <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> massive voter fraud</span></span>.Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-46858893145399094802010-01-18T17:50:00.000-08:002010-01-18T18:54:36.177-08:00The Real Father BarryNot the one elected president in 2009, but this one, played by Karl Malden:<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eDH3wvlC9pY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eDH3wvlC9pY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br />Note that this masterpiece is NOT about the exploitation of the common man, by evil capitalists. It is about the brutal abuse, beating and robbery of the common man, by New Jersey thugs, who plugged themselves into the bureaucracy, to steal the common man's meager wages. No doubt they learned this from the Chicago crowd.Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-74356444773928385312010-01-13T17:30:00.000-08:002010-01-13T17:34:43.170-08:00Stall the JuggernautFrom Newsmax:<br /><br /><blockquote><br />It would be a historic win for the GOP: The last time a Republican represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate was in 1980.<br /><br />The political stakes could hardly be higher. A Coakley defeat would be a devastating blow to Democrats' plans to transform national governance. It would further alarm already-skittish Democrats about their electoral prospects in the November midterm elections, and would cost Democrats the 60th vote that they may need to pass their healthcare reform compromise.<br /></blockquote><br /><br />I hope with all the power in my fellow Massachusetts citizens, that we can stall the socialist juggernaut, until the 2010 general elections.Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-1677943665079306802010-01-09T19:04:00.001-08:002010-01-09T19:05:03.675-08:00I will be voting for Scott BrownThis could be the most important, historical vote of my entire life.Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-74733759247399573452010-01-07T20:42:00.000-08:002010-01-07T20:48:22.433-08:00Another Gorey FactThe very <a href="http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/quiz-global-warming.html?source=sem_G2300_ESV&esvcid=S1262925639_ADOGOE_AGI3690178_ADI4994878_TRMZ2xvYmFsJTIwd2FybWluZyUyMGhvYXg%3d_RFDd3d3Lmdvb2dsZS5jb20%3d_RAWZ2xvYmFsJTIwd2FybWluZyUyMGhvYXg%3d&gclid=CPCQh9H8k58CFQk75Qod-3f7dQ">first question in the National Geographic Global Warming Quiz</a>, assumes that you actually accept that it exists. It then asks you whether the cause is 'natural' or not.<br /><br />Yeah. That bears no resemblance to the question: 'So, have you stopped beating your wife and kids Mr. middle America?'Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-12657377668464362462010-01-07T18:58:00.000-08:002010-01-07T19:20:16.341-08:00McLame Rides AgainSo, the champion of Washington D.C. Rino surrender and prostration is now experiencing a new and vital blood circulation. Yes John McCain is now talking about the liberal crusade.<br /><br />Well, <a href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2010/01/mccain_vs_obamas_leftwing_crus.html">no #$%#$% Sherlock.</a> What finally opened your eyes?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">It certainly wasn't the American people. HERE THEY ARE, TRYING TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT, WHILE YOU SHOO'ed them off as if they were flies on shite</span>...<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZBOanwShb0M&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZBOanwShb0M&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/u-nVJGsTdKU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/u-nVJGsTdKU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />We do not want to hear about your slow witted ignorance John.Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779369.post-84668974778024432792009-12-08T18:07:00.001-08:002016-11-07T08:54:16.981-08:00The Gipper saw this Coming<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/SHQwQA172FM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param>
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Hu Jia was denied the Nobel Prize today, because there can be only one. So, it must go to the One.<br />
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By Hu Jia and Teng Biao<br />
Saturday, April 5, 2008<br />
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This week, a Beijing court sentenced human rights activist Hu Jia to 3 1/2 years in prison for subverting state authority and to one additional year's loss of his "political rights." He was arrested in part for co-authoring, with Teng Biao, an open letter on human rights. Below, The Post printsHuman Rights Watch's translation of the Sept. 10, 2007, letter.<br />
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On July 13th 2001, when Beijing won the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games, the Chinese government promised the world it would improve China's human rights record. In June 2004, Beijing announced its Olympic Games slogan, "One World, One Dream." From their inception in 1896, the modern Olympic Games have always had as their mission the promotion of human dignity and world peace. China and the world expected to see the Olympic Games bring political progress to the country. Is Beijing keeping its promises? Is China improving its human rights record?<br />
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When you come to the Olympic Games in Beijing, you will see skyscrapers, spacious streets, modern stadiums and enthusiastic people. You will see the truth, but not the whole truth, just as you see only the tip of an iceberg. You may not know that the flowers, smiles, harmony and prosperity are built on a base of grievances, tears, imprisonment, torture and blood.<br />
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We are going to tell you the truth about China. We believe that for anyone who wishes to avoid a disgraceful Olympics, knowing the truth is the first step. Fang Zheng, an excellent athlete who holds two national records for the discus throw at China's Special Sport Games, has been deprived of the opportunity to participate in the 2008 Paralympics because he has become a living testimony to the June 4, 1989[,] massacre. That morning, in Tiananmen Square, his legs were crushed by a tank while he was rescuing a fellow student. In April 2007, the Ministry of Public Security issued an internal document secretly strengthening a political investigation which resulted in forbidding Olympics participation by 43 types of people from 11 different categories, including dissidents, human rights defenders, media workers, and religious participants. The Chinese police never made the document known to either the Chinese public or the international community.<br />
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Huge investment in Olympic projects and a total lack of transparency have facilitated serious corruption and widespread bribery. Taxpayers are not allowed to supervise the use of investment amounting to more than $40 billion. Liu Zhihua, formerly in charge of Olympic construction and former deputy mayor of Beijing, was arrested for massive embezzlement.<br />
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To clear space for Olympic-related construction, thousands of civilian houses have been destroyed without their former owners being properly compensated. Brothers Ye Guozhu and Ye Guoqiang were imprisoned for a legal appeal after their house was forcibly demolished. Ye Guozhu has been repeatedly handcuffed and shackled, tied to a bed and beaten with electric batons. During the countdown to the Olympic Games he will continue to suffer from torture in Chaobei Prison in Tianjin.<br />
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It has been reported that over 1.25 million people have been forced to move because of Olympic construction; it was estimated that the figure would reach 1.5 million by the end of 2007. No formal resettlement scheme is in place for the over 400,000 migrants who have had their dwelling places demolished. Twenty percent of the demolished households are expected to experience poverty or extreme poverty. In Qingdao, the Olympic sailing city, hundreds of households have been demolished and many human rights activists as well as "civilians" have been imprisoned. Similar stories come from other Olympic cities such as Shenyang, Shanghai and Qinhuangdao.<br />
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In order to establish the image of civilized cities, the government has intensified the ban against -- and detention and forced repatriation of -- petitioners, beggars and the homeless. Some of them have been kept in extended detention in so-called shelters or have even been sent directly to labor camps. Street vendors have suffered brutal confiscation of their goods by municipal agents. On July 20, 2005, Lin Hongying, a 56-year-old woman farmer and vegetable dealer, was beaten to death by city patrols in Jiangsu. On November 19, 2005, city patrols in Wuxi beat 54-year-old bicycle repairman Wu Shouqing to death. In January 2007, petitioner Duan Huimin was killed by Shanghai police. On July 1, 2007, Chen Xiaoming, a Shanghai petitioner and human rights activist, died of an untreated illness during a lengthy detention period. On August 5, 2007, right before the one-year Olympics countdown, 200 petitioners were arrested in Beijing.<br />
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China has consistently persecuted human rights activists, political dissidents and freelance writers and journalists. The blind activist Chen Guangcheng, recipient of the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award and named in 2006 by Time Magazine as one of the most influential 100 people shaping our world, is still serving his sentence of four years and three months for exposing the truth of forced abortion and sterilization. The government refused to give him the Braille books and the radio that his relatives and friends brought to Linyi prison in Shandong. Chen has been beaten while serving his sentence. On August 24, 2007, Chen's wife, Yuan Weijing, was kidnapped by police at the Beijing airport while waiting to fly to the Philippines to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award on behalf of her husband. On August 13, 2007, activist Yang Chunlin was arrested in Heilongjiang and charged with subversion of state power "for initiating the petition 'Human Rights before Olympics.' "<br />
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China still practices literary inquisition and holds the world record for detaining journalists and writers, as many as several hundred since 1989, according to incomplete statistics. As of this writing, 35 Chinese journalists and 51 writers are still in prison. Over 90 percent were arrested or tried after Beijing's successful bid for the Olympics in July 2001. For example, Shi Tao, a journalist and a poet, was sentenced to ten years in prison because of an e-mail sent to an overseas website. Dr. Xu Zerong, a scholar from Oxford University who researched the Korean War, was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment for "illegally providing information abroad." Qingshuijun [Huang Jinqiu], a freelance writer, was sentenced to a 12-year term for his online publications. Some writers and dissidents are prohibited from going abroad; others from returning to China.<br />
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Every year in mainland China, countless websites are closed, blogs deleted, sensitive words filtered. Many websites hosted abroad are blocked. Overseas radio and television programs are interfered with or strictly prohibited. Although the Chinese government has promised media freedom for foreign journalists for 22 months, before, during, and after the Beijing Olympics, and ending on October 17, 2008, an FCCC [Foreign Correspondents Club in China] survey showed that 40 percent of foreign correspondents have experienced harassment, detention or an official warning during news gathering in Beijing and other areas. Some reporters have complained about repeated violent police interference at the time they were speaking with interviewees. Most seriously, Chinese interviewees usually become vulnerable as a result. In June 2006, Fu Xiancai was beaten and paralyzed after being interviewed by German media. In March 2007, Zheng Dajing was beaten and arrested after being interviewed by a British TV station.<br />
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Religious freedom is still under repression. In 2005, a Beijing pastor, Cai Zhuohua, was sentenced to three years for printing Bibles. Zhou Heng, a house church pastor in Xinjiang, was charged with running an "illegal operation" for receiving dozens of boxes of Bibles. From April to June 2007, China expelled over 100 suspected U.S., South Korean, Canadian, Australian, and other missionaries. Among them were humanitarian workers and language educators who had been teaching English in China for 15 years. During this so-called Typhoon 5 campaign, authorities took aim at missionary activities so as to prevent their recurrence during the Olympics.<br />
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On September 30, 2006, Chinese soldiers opened fire on 71 Tibetans who were escaping to Nepal. A 17-year-old nun died and a 20-year-old man was severely injured. Despite numerous international witnesses, the Chinese police insisted that the shooting was in self-defense. One year later, China tightened its control over Tibetan Buddhism. A September 1, 2007, regulation requires all reincarnated lamas to be approved by Chinese authorities, a requirement that flagrantly interferes with the tradition of reincarnation of living Buddhas as practiced in Tibet for thousands of years. In addition, Chinese authorities still ban the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet and a world-renowned pacifist, from returning to Tibet.<br />
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Since 1999, the government has banned many religious beliefs such as Falungong and the Three Servants. Their followers have experienced extremely cruel and planned persecutions. Many died from abuse, suffered torture, brainwashing, imprisonment and labor camp internment for persisting in their faith, possessing religious books, making DVDs and writing articles to expose the truth of the persecution.<br />
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China has the highest death penalty rate in the world. Execution statistics are treated as "state secrets." However, experts estimate that 8,000-10,000 people are sentenced to death in China every year, among them not only criminals and economic convicts, but totally innocent citizens, such as Nie Shubin, Teng Xingshan, Cao Haixin and Hugejiletu, whose innocence was proven only after they were already dead.<br />
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Another eight innocent farmers, Chen Guoqing, He Guoqiang, Yang Shiliang, Zhu Yanqiang, Huang Zhixiang, Fang Chunping, Cheng Fagen and Cheng Lihe, who confessed their "crimes" after being cruelly tortured by the police, have been sentenced to death and are currently held in prisons in Hebei [province] and in Jingdezhen [in Jiangxi province].<br />
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Torture is very common in China's detention centers, labor camps and prisons. Torture methods include electric shock, burning, use of electric needles, beating and hanging, sleep deprivation, forced chemical injection causing nerve damage, and piercing the fingers with needles. Every year, there are reported cases of Chinese citizens being disabled or killed by police torture.<br />
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Labor camps are still retained as a convenient Chinese system which allows the police to lock up citizens without trial for up to four years. The detention system is another practice that the police favor, freeing them to detain citizens for six months to two years. Dissidents and human rights activists are particularly vulnerable targets and are often sent to labor camps, detention centers or even mental hospitals by authorities who want to simplify legal procedures and mislead the media.<br />
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China has the world's largest secret police system, the Ministry of National Security (guo an) and the Internal Security Bureau (guo bao) of the Ministry of Public Security, which exercise power beyond the law. They can easily tap telephones, follow citizens, place them under house arrest, detain them and impose torture. On June 3, 2004, the Chinese secret police planted drugs on Chongqing dissident Xu Wanping and later sentenced him to 12 years' imprisonment for "subversion of state power."<br />
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Chinese citizens have no right to elect state leaders, local government officials or representatives. In fact, there has never been free exercise of election rights in township-level elections. Wuhan resident Sun Bu'er, a member of the banned political party the Pan-Blue Alliance, was brutally beaten in September 2006 for participating as an independent candidate during an election of county-level people's congress representatives. Mr. Sun disappeared on March 23, 2007.<br />
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China continues to cruelly discriminate against its rural population. According to the Chinese election law, a farmer's right to vote is worth one quarter of that of an urban resident. In June 2007, the Shanxi kiln scandal was exposed by the media. Thousands of 8- [to-]13[-]year-old trafficked children had been forced to labor in illegal kilns, almost all with local government connections. Many of the children were beaten, tortured and even buried alive.<br />
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The Chinese judiciary still illegally forbids any HIV/AIDS lawsuits against government officials responsible for the tragedy. AIDS sufferers and activists have been constantly harassed by the secret police.<br />
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The Chinese government has been selling arms and weapons to Darfur and other African regions to support ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The Chinese authorities have forcibly repatriated North Korean refugees, knowing that they would be sent to labor camps or executed once back home. This significantly contravenes China's accession to the "Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees" and the "Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees."<br />
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· Please be aware that the Olympic Games will be held in a country where there are no elections, no freedom of religion, no independent courts, no independent trade unions; where demonstrations and strikes are prohibited; where torture and discrimination are supported by a sophisticated system of secret police; where the government encourages the violation of human rights and dignity, and is not willing to undertake any of its international obligations.<br />
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· Please consider whether the Olympic Games should coexist with religious persecution[,] labor camps, modern slavery, identity discrimination, secret police and crimes against humanity.<br />
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As the Beijing Olympics slogan says, we live in "one world" with "one dream." We hope that one day the Chinese people will be able to share universal human rights, democracy and peace with people from all around the world. However, we can see that the Chinese government obviously is not yet prepared to honor its promise. As a matter of fact, the preparations for the Olympics have provided the perfect excuse for the Chinese government to restrict civil liberties and suppress human rights!<br />
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We do not want China to be contained or isolated from the rest of the world. We believe that only by adhering to the principles of human rights and through open dialogue can the world community pressure the Chinese government to change. Ignoring these realities and tolerating barbaric atrocities in [the] name of the Beijing Olympics will disgrace the Olympic Charter and shake the foundations of humanity. Human rights improvement requires time, but we should at least stop China's human rights situation from deteriorating. Having the Olympics hosted in a country where human dignity is trampled on will not honor its people or the Olympic Games.<br />
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We sincerely hope that the Olympic Games will bring the values of peace, equality, freedom and justice to 1.3 billion Chinese citizens. We pray that the Olympics will be held in a free China. We must push for the 2008 Olympics to live up to the Olympic Charter[,] and we must advocate for the realization of "one world" with "one human rights dream." We believe that only an Olympic Games true to the Olympic Charter can promote China's democratic progress, world peace and development.<br />
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We firmly hold to the belief that there can be no true Olympic Games without human rights and dignity. For China and for the Olympics, human rights must be upheld! </blockquote>
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I'm sure glad it went to a deserving person.Insolubloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693379911278686634noreply@blogger.com0