892 – Arizona Shooter – Blaming Sarah Palin & The Tea Party

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On Today's Show:

• Once again, politicians use a horrible act of a crazy person to attempt to slap more controls on our freedom and blame on every conservative from Sarah Palin to the Tea Party. I'm tired of politicians using these tragedies to further their own political agenda.


• Gun don't kill people - people kill people


• No one but the man who pulled the trigger is to blame. No one can say that someone was driven to it, other the the one who did it.

891 - The Great Digression - Melting Democrats

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On Today's Show:

Getting tired of talking about politics day in and day out. So I talk about computers - installing Windows Vista is just such a huge pain. If you've ever tried to upgrade a computer, it just seems like it takes forever to do anything. Am about this close to punting the whole thing to the curb.

I talk about DEVO, Hot Tub Time Machine, Perfect Push-ups, kettlebells.

I mean, talking about politics is serious. America is like a patient on her deathbed, and we are all here trying to revive her, all the while the Obama admin is trying to kill her.

A bit on Jerry Brown, the Pope of California, building a fence to keep the taxpayers in. Some on the seperatists out here who'd like to see California, Oregon, Washington State and British Columbia and split it off of the US and Canada, and create a whole new country called Pacifica. Although you can say we are pretty much on our own already.

And as the Constitution was read out loud yesterday, many Democrats, like the wicked witch with a bucket of water thrown over them, melted into puddles. Ah but we can only hope....

The Constitution IS Our Sacred Text

If you ask me, the Constitution IS our scared text, and should be read and treated as such. When I went through the Naturalization process in order to become an American citizen, I probably learned more about the "supreme law of the land" (the Constitution) than most Americans do in school. At least new legal immigrants understand what makes America great.

From the Washington Post:

For more than 200 years, Americans have revered the Constitution as the law of the land, but the GOP and tea party heralding of the document in recent months - and the planned recitation on the House floor Thursday - have caused some Democrats to worry that the charter is being misconstrued as the immutable word of God.

"They are reading it like a sacred text," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the outgoing chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties, who has studied and memorized the Constitution with talmudic intensity.

via Reading between Constitution's lines.

890 - Reading The Constitution - Is It Too Late Already?

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On Today's Show:

• Reading The Constitution Historic: why do we have to read it - its sad that we don't already know and understand the constitution


• Is the Constitution too old to understand? What about the Bible, The Koran?


• Is just reading the Constitution going to make a difference? I mean we need to compare every bill against it.

You Deserve Every Penny You Earn

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Where did anyone get the idea that the reason we work is to put money in other peoples pockets. We work to support ourselves and our families. We start businesses so that we can be successful and make enough money to survive and thrive. We deserve every penny that we make.

Work is an exchange of time for money. Period. It's a contract between parties, an agreement that entity A will give up some of their time and perform a task for entity B, and in return, A will receive compensation. Both A and B agreed before any work was completed what the task was (sometimes it’s specific and sometimes its general) and what the compensation will be.

This goes for the lowest paid burger flipper at a fast food chain, all the way up to the executive in the corner office. In an ideal world, without the states intervention, everyone gets every penny they agree to, when the job is done. A does something for B, B pays A for this thing.

When the state steps in and steals money from A and B (they usually steal money from both, but when they steal from A, then A has less money to buy things in order to provide profits for B, and B has less money to pay A, so no one wins) then gives the money to C, D and E, who did not agree to or participate in either the work done or the money made, then C, D and E have no incentive to work. A and B are both forced to support C, D and E.

Eventually, we run out of letters of the alphabet that want the entitlement, and A wont have enough left over to survive, and B won’t have enough money to survive either. So everyone suffers.

Except of course for the state, who skims a little off the top for “operations”. No one but the state wins: we the people always lose.

The only solution? Stop the state from stealing, then get rid of as much of it as you can.

Hybrid Cars Are Just Symbols

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The next time you see a Prius or any hybrid, understand that really, in the end, they are no more than simply a giant AIDS ribbon. They are symbolic, but don’t really do anything helpful. It’s been proven that none of what these cars promises is true:

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   The amount of fuel that is saved is about as much fuel that is used by smaller cars. Toting that massive battery around requires more fuel


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   The cost of running a hybrid over its whole lifespan is much much more than any other gas powered car


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   The materials which go into the creation and eventual destruction of the car are much more toxic to the environment than a typical car

If you really want to save money, fuel and the environment, think about what you are trying to transport from point A to point B.

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  If it is one person, a scooter or motorcycle is a much better option. They use hardly any fuel, have incredible mileage, emit very little carbon dioxide, and are cheaper than cars.


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  If you need to transport more than one person, buy the smallest car you can find, and make sure that it’s a manual transmission. One of the best kept secrets of fuel efficiency is having a manual transmission. Can’t drive one? Learn.

If you really care about this then lobby the government to reduce and repeal all of the regulation which makes cars so big and expensive: do we really need all of those emission standards and safety features in really small cars? I say, lets open things up to more innovation and experimentation. Do we really need a two ton tank to transport one person 50 miles back and forth to work on clear roads each day? I don’t think so.

In Europe and Asia, there are plenty of cheap (and cheap to run) tiny cars, which emit hardly any gases. Why can’t we have those here? Government rules and regulations. If you really cared about the environment, you’d lobby to let us have those cars here.

889 - America Is Foundation - Minimum Effective Government

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On Today's Show:

• Another ramble fest including
  
  
  
  • America is foundation
  
  
  • Redistribution is nowhere in our founding
  
  
  • Taxes/Compromises
  
  
  • Forcing a culture shift towards a more authoritarian culture
  
  
  • Obama uses the fakery of global warming to force this cultural change
  
  
  • Incandescent bulb bans
  
  
  • Every reason for having a hybrid electric is completely wrong. A Prius is simply a symbol: it has nothing to do with actually saving money, fuel or the environment
  
  
  • Minimum Effective Government
  
  
  
  

31,000 New State Laws

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Sobering thought: despite the fact that we are pushing back hard against big government, we still have a long way to go. If the Federal government isn’t bad enough, we also have to deal with all other levels of government, state and local. And as of January 1st, 2011, there are 31,000 new laws which take effect at the state level.

I don’t know about you but this doesn’t smell like less government to me. Sure, the Feds are the biggest offenders, and its easy to look at the Constitution and say:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people” (Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights)

And justify our pressure against the expansion of the Federal government. But what happens if the state governments simply take up the cause? We can and should focus on what the Federal government is doing, but our jobs just not done there. We’ve got to take it all the way down the line: from the bottom up, by local action, dissolving programs that are wasteful and we don’t need, or privatizing them as quickly as possible.

We need to work hard, at all levels, to reduce the size and scope of government. This is not a single generation’s worth of work either. Remember to teach your kids as well, that:

"That government is best which governs least." Thomas Paine

Keep Moving Forward AKA Don’t Impeach Obama

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My personal motto is something I lifted from a Disney film (crazy eh?). The film, which did pretty well but wasn't a blockbuster by any means, was called Meet The Robinsons. since I’m a sucker for movies about inventors and inventing, this drew me in. The key motto of the company that the principal character founded was “Keep Moving Forward”, which apparently was a contraction of a much longer statement by Walt Disney, way back when.

Anyways, over the last year, we’ve seen some pretty serious damage done to this country, by powerful politicians, promising hope and change, but really just driving us back to more failed policies of the past, namely socialism, communism and fascism. Even though these systems have been proven not to work and are actually anti-ethical to humanity period, in the name of fairness, they all seem to be rehashed every so often.

In November, we pushed back against the radicals, and started to take our country back. Once we did, we get this tendency to punish those who drove us to this, to look back and investigate, charge, and even attempt to impeach those responsible. I say: forget it. Keep moving forward: undo the damage, keep your eyes on where we are going, and not where we’ve been. Pretty soon, all those responsible for this damage will be gone anyways.

888 – Keep Moving Forward

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On Today's Show:

• My motto: Keep Moving Forward: sure, learn from your mistakes, and the mistakes of others, but don't let it bog you down


• How many millions has Obama spent on vacations?


• Time to rapidly step up the repeal, reduction and defunding of government.


• Over 31000 new laws went into force as of Jan 1st, 2011. That doesn't smell like smaller government to me. And thats just state laws.