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FEDS URGE BANKS TO CALL COPS ON CUSTOMERS WHO WITHDRAW $5,000 OR MORE The Justice Department is ordering bank employees to consider calling the cops on customers who withdraw  $5,000 dollars or more, a chilling example of how the war on cash is intensifying. [Full] “Do you need to withdraw cash to purchase a used car from a private seller? Or perhaps you are pulling out some emergency cash for a loved one,” writes Mac Slavo. “Either one of these activities are now considered suspicious and if your cash withdrawal amounts to even a few thousand dollars your bank teller is under a legal requirement to alert officials about your suspected criminal activity. And before you argue that you can’t possibly be a suspect because you have done nothing wrong, consider that even being suspected of being a suspect is now enough to land you on a terrorist watchlist in America.” With everything else Obamunists have pulled  ... .  Ahem.

Robert Reichhh

+ =    OPINION Redistributing wealth may be all that staves off collapse By Robert Reich   "Workable model needed" Don't bother.  He's hopeless.

Su Casa Mi Casa (Dems)

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What's to return to?

Southern Democrats Urge a Return to Party Basics

What does that mean?   Slavery?  Segregated Schools?  Anti voting rights legislation?  What? Oh. More Taxes

The easy life WTF?

Like a Ton of Bricks “ I Just Realized Something: My dog sleeps about 20 hours a day. He has his food prepared for him. His meals are provided at no cost to him. He visits the Dr. once a year for his checkup and again during the year, if any medical needs arise. For this he pays nothing, and nothing is required of him. He lives in a nice neighborhood in a house that is much larger than he needs, but he is not required to do any upkeep. If he makes a mess, someone else cleans it up. He has his choice of luxurious places to sleep. He receives these accommodations absolutely free. He is living like a king and has absolutely no expenses whatsoever. All of his costs are picked up by others who earn a living. I was thinking about all this, and suddenly it hit me like a ton of bricks ~ MY dog is a damn DEMOCRAT!! Tom "the villiage" Smith ”

Acid rain my ass

WHAT GUMMINT DOES      Capitol Dome damage is so bad, 'We're going to lose it,' warns Senator Shaheen (D NH).     “ Guess what?  The real value of the Capitol building is as a symbol of our nation's committment to honest government.  Sen. Shaheen.  Y'all have destroyed that almost entirely. Lawmakers are rallying around the 150-year-old U.S. Capitol Dome, weather-whipped and torn open by acid rain, worried that if an 11th-hour restoration isn’t fully funded, its most important traits could be lost forever. “If this work isn't done,” warned Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., “we're going to lose the dome, we're going to lose it as it truly, historically is.” A big fix, added Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is needed, “so that we don't lose these treasures forever.” The two Senate appropriators are joining to help Architect of the Capitol Stephen T. Ayers secure the money needed to complete the $60 million restoration projection, set to go into final stages next month with the erection of scaffolding to surround the whole dome, just like that done recently at the Washington Monument. The interior is also in need of restoration, and the Capitol Rotunda is temporarily closed as interior safety netting is installed to begin that $21 million project. Didn't we just repair the dome?  What? Oh.  Just the statue atop of the dome?   Wow, seems like yesterday, but it was ca. 1993, when  "the United States Capitol Preservation Commission provided $780,000 in privately raised funds, which covered all project costs." Quaint, that. Kind of a slap in the face today though, to hear Democrats like Shaheen fuss about finding $81 Mil to restore the dome inside and out.  Hell, that's vacation pocket money for the Obamas, ain't it?  But this is what really pisses me off about Bedard's article. "Capitol Dome, weather-whipped and torn open by acid rain ... ." In the 1980's Congress authorized the most extensive (and expensive) study ever on the effect of "acid rain."  That issue was the linchpin of what became the "1990 Clean Air Act." In January of that year, I read in a science magazine that the study had been completed, with no evidence of acid rain. I kept waiting for this paper to be introduced during the debate, but it wasn't, and congress blithely passed that abortion of a bill, and Bush 41 signed it.  That Fall, 60-Minutes aired a show on the myth of "acid rain," as though the results had just been released.  And here it is again.  Pass the red whiskey and an ammunition belt.. ”

Tax Day Special High Road to Serfdom “Indeed, it could almost be said that wherever liberty as we know it has been destroyed, this has been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people,” Hayek wrote. The startling thing about the books academics typically dismiss as relics of the past is the uncanny manner in which they anticipate the present. “Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1848. “Democracy attaches all possible value to each man while socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number.” “Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”  The de Tocqueville quote was resurrected nearly a century later by Friedrich A. Hayek in The Road to Serfdom. The Austrian economist and philosopher himself proved to be quite prescient in his own analyses. “Indeed, it could almost be said that wherever liberty as we know it has been destroyed, this has been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people,” Hayek wrote. “Even among us we have planners who promise us a ‘collective freedom,’ which is as misleading as anything said by totalitarian politicians.” “‘Collective freedom’ is not the freedom of the members of society, but the unlimited freedom of the planner to do with society that which he pleases.” Think of some of the exotic freedoms we have been promised lately. Here are some other Hayekian insights which arguably still resonate 70 years after they first appeared in print: “Almost all the traditions and institutions which have moulded the national character and the whole moral climate of England and America are those which the progress of collectivism and its centralistic tendencies are progressively destroying.” [In case you wondered where the progressivism comes in.] “Great danger lies in the policies of two powerful groups, organized capital and organized labor, which support the monopolistic organization of industry.” [Crony capitalism, anyone? Perhaps someone should build a statue of Hayek that overlooks Detroit.] The distinguished émigré also offered a poignant coda for those of us with grandparents who left their homelands because they didn’t want to be born into the job they would die in: “Nothing makes conditions more unbearable that the knowledge that no effort of ours can change them. It may be bad to be just a cog in a machine but it is infinitely worse if we can no longer leave it, if we are tied to our place and to the superiors who have been chosen for us.” Finally, read this little passage of Hayek’s, written before World War II drew to a close, and realize how long we have been bereft of accuracy in either the media or academia: “The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which, in school and press, the spirit of commercial enterprise has been represented as disreputable and the making of profit as immoral, where to employ 100 people is represented as exploitation but to command the same number as honorable.” © Accuracy In Academia As an aside: Diana West Discusses Obama's Forged Birth Certificate and Forged Selective Service Reg

A Democrat Halloween

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Cookie Monstrosity

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Demotax talks,Wealth walks

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Stupid Words from a Silly Man

When Democrats are in charge                                                Obama: 'Raising the Debt Ceiling...Does Not Increase Our Debt,' The lowest common denominator is either growing,  or this guy is sinking rapidly into that state named Delusion.  Let's hope things do not progress into the Woody Wilson stage— where a Non compos mentis presidency was kept alive by wife Edith making decisions in his name—!  Can we survive a "President MooChelle too?" I know, that's begging the question."  The real story, of course, is that Democrats have obviously identified that this message will pass muster with a majority of  American citize, er, voters.

Durbin- What a Roach

Bill Maher: Oink Oink

Answer "I just saw these statistics. I mean [the "rich" pay] something like 70 percent. And here in California, I just want to say liberals - you could actually lose me. It's outrageous what we're paying - over 50 percent. I'm willing to pay my share, but yeah, it's ridiculous." Question: What does a liberal pig sound like when hoist on his own bayonet? Bill Maher- Oink Oink

Exit Tax

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Insane Government

Why People Cheered the Movie... and would prolly cheer the real deal “ Let's say you own a home and your mortgage is $1,000 a month. If, however, you instead rented the home from a landlord your rent, let's say, would be $2,000 a month. To the mandarins at the IRS, you are "earning" an implied $1,000 a month because you own and not rent, and that "value" should be added to your taxable income. If you own your home out-right and don't have a mortgage at all, you would be "earning" $2,000 a month which the IRS thinks should be added to your taxable income. [The Most Absurd 'Loophole' in the Tax Code] ...   the feds list this exemption as one of the top "loopholes" in the tax code. They estimate that it "costs" the feds over $50 billion a year to not levy this tax. ”

Mike Bloomberg's Childhood Interests

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Tips From Shaniqua

When Democrats are in charge                                                Here's a quick lesson in why we've got a problem, folks. According to our Poster Girl, if you have enough babies you can be rich!  And.... she can vote. Which is why California is broke and expects us to make up the shortfall so Shaniqua doesn't have to curtail her lifestyle. cuzzin ricky

Brother in your Yellow Recycle Bin

Police State Culture                             Big Brother in your Yellow Recycle Bin “ About 50,000 radio tracking devices have been distributed to homes in Anne Arundel County - “Under what conceivable reason would I want anyone looking at my trash that closely?” Morrison said. “I don’t like the idea of our government monitoring us like this.” including to a residence on Bay Street in Pasadena. But when county trucks came to Candy Morrison’s home to deliver bright yellow bins, she told workers to take hers away. She doesn’t want one. Not after she learned the chips, known as RFIDs, can be used to transmit information about recyclables from each address. [Full Horror] The county's response is more bizarre To activate the chips, the county must purchase a computer system to collect and store the data. Also “readers” must be installed on collection trucks to identify the cans. Diehl said the county has no plans at this time to activate the chips. “Right now, they’re useless,” he said. “It’s just another part of the container, no more invasive than the handle or the wheel.” So, the county spent a trillion dollars on recycle bins with radio monitors, but the radios are not activated and the county have no intention to do so.  Welcome to Maryland. ”

She love President Obama and them food stamps

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-cuzzin ricky