tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706163917430060912024-03-13T22:37:35.781-07:00There is Hope for ArizonaThis blog was originally created to highlight events and issues surrounding the post-passage of Prop. 207, Arizona's Property Rights Initiative in 2006.
I have now updated its bold mission to educating and disseminating information that advances conservative ideology in Arizona and regions beyond.Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-43720875291682175092012-11-07T06:56:00.001-07:002012-11-07T06:56:38.138-07:00The GOP Died Last Night<div> </div> <div><em>by Bob Lonsberry</em></div> <div> </div> <div> <p>The Republican Party died last night. <p> <p>Somewhere in the suburbs of Cleveland, on the shore of Lake Erie, in the decisions of some suburban voters, the Republican Party stopped being a nationally viable political organization. <p> <p>Oh, it will continue to exist. <p> <p>But it will likely never again truly contest for the presidency. The nation has changed, the values have been replaced, the demographics are different. <p> <p>The demographics are insurmountable. <p> <p>Last night was a tipping point, a dance on a razor's edge, and it went the other way. What was undoable last night will become increasingly impossible with each passing year. The margins will grow, the base will shrink, the tide will turn and the day will pass. <p> <p>The Republican Party died last night. <p> <p>Oh, it will continue to exist. <p> <p>There will be the name and the elephants, but nationally, conservatism is playing against an impossibly stacked deck. <p> <p>The nation had a clear choice. Each party ran candidates who were true to type. The Republicans ran conservatives and the Democrats ran liberals and it was a rout. Nothing changed except that Republicans got rebuffed across the board. <p> <p>America wants Democrat. <p> <p>More specifically, America wants liberal. It wants an activist, empowered government, imposing fairness and supporting entitlement. <p> <p>That's what America wants. <p> <p>At least half of it wants that. Half and a tiny bit more. <p> <p>And the inexorably shifting demographics of the nation ensure that that tiny bit more will grow steadily, cementing the liberal majority and creating an electoral impossibility of replacing it. <p> <p>Last night was the last chance. <p> <p>It was the last chance to gain a last national electoral victory over the Democratic coalition – Latinos, blacks, gays, feminists, trade unionists, government employees and welfare beneficiaries. The last chance to let a Republican president advocate the conservative, constitutional principles upon which American society was built. <p> <p>But America said, "No, thanks." <p> <p>The majority preferred more of the last four years to anything Mitt Romney and the Republicans were offering. <p> <p>The constituent communities of that majority are only going to grow in size and prominence in American society. They are going to increasingly dominate our society and politics. <p> <p>Four years from now, more of the older conservative voters will be dead, and more of the younger liberal voters will be registered to vote. The Latino community, essentially co-opted by the Democrats into an aggrieved permanent minority status, will, like black voters, be larger and more Democrat. Four years from now, the cultural shift away from traditional values will be more advanced, thanks to more brainwashing by school teachers and sitcoms. <p> <p>Those members of our society who typically identify with the Democratic Party are increasing. Those members of our society who typically identify with the Republican Party are shrinking. <p> <p>You do the math. <p> <p>Certain, Republicans will keep running. And some of them, no doubt, will win. But they will be a different sort of Republican. <p> <p>They will not be conservative. Certainly not socially or morally conservative. <p> <p>They will bend over backwards to avoid the principles of moral conservatism, so as to not disrespect a social norm. <p> <p>They will be Democrat-lite. <p> <p>Or they will not win. <p> <p>Last night was our best chance. <p> <p>And America chose the other team. <p> <p>Almost $3 billion was spent on the presidential campaign. Untold tens of millions of dollars were spent on congressional campaigns across the country. And nothing changed. <p> <p>Obama is still in the White House. The Democrats still control the Senate. Republicans still control the House of Representatives. The pundits say America voted to break the grid lock, that it voted to demand team work. It did no such thing. It voted to maintain the status quo. <p> <p>So we have gone on a long, painful and expensive national journey, and it has left us exactly where we started. <p> <p>A couple of House seats this way, a couple of Senate seats that way, and Obama on top of the whole thing. <p> <p>That isn't change, that is business as usual. <p> <p>Conservatism has become a regional philosophy, the Republican Party a regional party. It will win governorships, it will win seats in the House or Senate, but it will essentially be a phenomenon of the South and Midwest. <p> <p>Where traditional values endure and dwindle, the Republican Party will still be relevant. <p> <p>But those places will shrink and shrivel. And each year, the gap between those who support conservatism and the number needed to win a national victory will grow. <p> <p>Last night was conservatism's last stand. <p> <p>And it lost. <p> <p>The Republican Party died last night.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.boblonsberry.com/writings.cfm?go=4">http://www.boblonsberry.com/writings.cfm?go=4</a><br clear="all"></p> <hr size="1" noshade> </p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p> </p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></div> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-85847053144236576622012-02-17T14:30:00.001-07:002012-02-17T14:30:39.896-07:00All Options From Here are Bad<div><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/daniel-hannan-channels-upton-sinclair-warns-all-options-here-are-bad">Hat tip to ZeroHedge</a></div> <div> </div> <div><strong>"All the options from here are bad, I am afraid"</strong> is how MEP Daniel Hannan describes the way forward in Europe in this FOX News interview. In one of the clearest and least status-quo-hugging explanations of what has occurred (gentile and bloodless coups in Italy and Greece), the 'cruel and irresponsible behavior' of European leaders stuns him and all in the name of the 'wretched single-currency'. </div> <div> </div> <div>When asked why they (the EU leaders) just don't get it (channeling Upton Sinclair's now infamous quote), Hannan replies "<strong>It is remarkably difficult to make a man understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it</strong>" as he makes it clear that the vested interests in keeping the Euro going (well paid and powerful government jobs for example) means they are prepared to inflict this shocking poverty on the Mediterranean countries. </div> <div> </div> <div>Summing it up nicely: <strong>until they leave the Euro, the Greeks have got no light at the end of the tunnel</strong>, making the point that Greece's least painful option is to Default, Decouple, and Devalue.</div> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-7380303956861993222011-12-19T11:09:00.001-07:002011-12-19T11:09:48.465-07:00The Federal Government Budget Explained Clearly<p>Our Federal Government budget explained in simple English: <p> <p> <p>United States Tax Revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 <p>Fed Budget: $3,820,000,000,000 <p>New Debt: $1,650,000,000,000 <p>National Debt: $14,271,000,000,000 <p>Recent Budget Cut: $38,500,000,000 <p> <p><strong>Now, remove eight zeros and pretend it's a household budget: </strong> <p> <p>Annual Family Income: $21,700 <p>Money The Family Spent: $38,200 <p>New Debt on the Credit Card: $16,500 <div> </div> <div>Outstanding Balance on Credit Card: $142,710 </div> <div> </div> <div><u>Total budget cuts which some politicians are proud of</u>: $385</div></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-12908468173070419082011-06-29T07:12:00.001-07:002011-06-29T07:12:41.464-07:00The Tyranny of the Common Good<div>Let me get this straight . . . ... </div> <div> </div> <div>We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, which purportedly covers at least ten million more people without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it; passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! </div> <div> </div> <div>What the hell could possibly go wrong?</div> <div> </div> <div><em>-- Author Unknown (as of now)<br clear="all"></em></div> <div> </div> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-24502156892502084852011-03-01T20:37:00.003-07:002011-03-01T20:42:30.220-07:00Union Protester of the Year! (WI)Behold, the most descriptive photo of a Wisconsin union supporter to date!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p_-ZqGqLolw/TW2704E1KAI/AAAAAAAAAPo/vfMQY5XQDTU/s1600/WisconsinProtester110301.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 600px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579322030462150658" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p_-ZqGqLolw/TW2704E1KAI/AAAAAAAAAPo/vfMQY5XQDTU/s400/WisconsinProtester110301.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Hat tip: <a href="http://americanglob.com/2011/02/28/wisconsin-protester-photo-of-the-day/">American Glob</a>Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-68075407408044203962010-10-22T17:57:00.001-07:002010-10-22T17:57:47.396-07:00White House Chart Proves Stimulus Worked!<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/TMIzDHbeOYI/AAAAAAAAAPA/wGbivv8p8ME/s1600/Stimulus_Worked-767398.gif"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/TMIzDHbeOYI/AAAAAAAAAPA/wGbivv8p8ME/s320/Stimulus_Worked-767398.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531039420991289730" /></a></p><div><br> </div> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-3362689743333029332010-05-28T05:15:00.001-07:002010-05-28T05:15:10.431-07:00Caption this photoCaption this photo<br clear="all"><br><img src="http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web02/2008/12/24/15/14f496403e83c9b249c9e95586cea4f7_4.jpg"> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-36759746973273220952010-05-12T17:15:00.001-07:002010-05-12T17:15:30.738-07:00PHOTO: Saguaro cactus on Arizona border near I-10 incoming from Los Angeles<div>Saguaro cactus on Arizona border near I-10 incoming from Los Angeles</div> <div> <p><img src="http://exurbanleague.com/Portals/0/AZcactus.jpg"></p> <p>Hat tip: <a href="http://www.exurbanleague.com/">www.exurbanleague.com</a></p></div> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-78025064803835598082010-04-16T08:24:00.023-07:002010-04-16T08:54:24.244-07:00PHOTOS: Prescott Tea Party 4-15-10Here are photos from 2010 Tax Day Tea Party in Prescott, AZ<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iGJboSk6I/AAAAAAAAAOc/VA0iTkVephA/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0002.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460762044780417954" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iGJboSk6I/AAAAAAAAAOc/VA0iTkVephA/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0002.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iGCH8j0jI/AAAAAAAAAOU/uABW5ppN12Q/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0018.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460761919237640754" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iGCH8j0jI/AAAAAAAAAOU/uABW5ppN12Q/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0018.JPG" /></a><br />The local Congresscritter Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (Liberal CD1)<br />voted for government takeover of health care.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iF0wmY63I/AAAAAAAAAOM/2M8cSP-5odo/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0001.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460761689632336754" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iF0wmY63I/AAAAAAAAAOM/2M8cSP-5odo/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0001.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iFotiGwtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/yVtGWRQMW34/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0004.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460761482650632914" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iFotiGwtI/AAAAAAAAAOE/yVtGWRQMW34/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0004.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iFejdsMII/AAAAAAAAAN8/OD9LvKL-D5o/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0005.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460761308149067906" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iFejdsMII/AAAAAAAAAN8/OD9LvKL-D5o/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0005.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iFVP0rX5I/AAAAAAAAAN0/vFMzUkiA5JA/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0006.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460761148257951634" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iFVP0rX5I/AAAAAAAAAN0/vFMzUkiA5JA/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0006.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iFJPu907I/AAAAAAAAANs/sbF4b22LFIE/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0007.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460760942075564978" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iFJPu907I/AAAAAAAAANs/sbF4b22LFIE/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0007.JPG" /></a><br /></div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iE_tAuRzI/AAAAAAAAANk/c7qnAkeM8EA/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0008.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460760778135979826" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iE_tAuRzI/AAAAAAAAANk/c7qnAkeM8EA/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0008.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iE15vQVfI/AAAAAAAAANc/STW9Cb7fzNg/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0009.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460760609753683442" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iE15vQVfI/AAAAAAAAANc/STW9Cb7fzNg/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0009.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iEuxTaCPI/AAAAAAAAANU/w0J7a57AMAc/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0010.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460760487230310642" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iEuxTaCPI/AAAAAAAAANU/w0J7a57AMAc/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0010.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iEknYiVaI/AAAAAAAAANM/_tAM-FU2OSY/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0012.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460760312768779682" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iEknYiVaI/AAAAAAAAANM/_tAM-FU2OSY/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0012.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iEcV3owWI/AAAAAAAAANE/e7TFRf3xsNo/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0011.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460760170628432226" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iEcV3owWI/AAAAAAAAANE/e7TFRf3xsNo/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0011.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iEQpHFg1I/AAAAAAAAAM8/x_pGlbaRSu4/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0013.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460759969635074898" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iEQpHFg1I/AAAAAAAAAM8/x_pGlbaRSu4/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0013.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iEJxjatWI/AAAAAAAAAM0/NSY-_1VX44Y/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0014.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460759851642303842" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iEJxjatWI/AAAAAAAAAM0/NSY-_1VX44Y/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0014.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iD7hTzR3I/AAAAAAAAAMs/RqmhBtpGplk/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0015.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460759606763669362" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iD7hTzR3I/AAAAAAAAAMs/RqmhBtpGplk/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0015.JPG" /></a><br /></div><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iDyeiQdWI/AAAAAAAAAMk/Xhg-CLfL-vk/s1600/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0016.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460759451400172898" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/S8iDyeiQdWI/AAAAAAAAAMk/Xhg-CLfL-vk/s400/2010_0416TeaPartyPrescott0016.JPG" /></a><br /><div><div><div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-86150447295652818242010-03-26T13:09:00.001-07:002010-03-26T13:09:53.008-07:00Gasoline powered alarm clock wins Energy Star award<div>Your government at work. The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the Energy Star award to a gasoline powered alarm clock.</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://www.wxyz.com/business/story/Phony-products-win-Energy-Star-label/n8P_DRJGiUOIqFCrdhQH7w.cspx">Click here for story link.</a></div> <div> </div> <div>This product should be handy to make sure one gets up in time to make it to the free government take over of health care doctor's appointment.</div> <div> </div> <div><img src="http://www.slipperybrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/gas-powered-blender.jpg"></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-20568186065075331142010-02-15T09:41:00.001-07:002010-02-15T09:41:26.138-07:00Another excellent definition of "Statism"<div>God Bless Mark Levin for writing his best selling book: "Liberty and Tyranny."</div> <div> </div> <div>A friend downloaded Levin's book to his Kindle. He searched for "statist/statism" and found some 248 entries.</div> <div> </div> <div>It is such a communicative term that is woefully under-used and not well understood.</div> <div> </div> <div>Here is a link to our friends at Taxing Tennessee where another excellent definition of "statism" appears:</div> <div> </div> <div>Link: <a href="http://taxingtennessee.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-grassroots-rebellion-might-grow.html">http://taxingtennessee.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-grassroots-rebellion-might-grow.html</a></div> <div> </div> <div>STATISM: Government that colludes so easily and instinctively with powerful private interests. (That means unions, too!)</div> <div> </div> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-59189526772785184292010-01-26T16:57:00.001-07:002010-01-26T16:57:49.240-07:00Beware of Gonorrhea Lectim<p>The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease. The disease is contracted through dangerous and high-risk behavior, especially in areas high in polling places. The disease is called "Gonorrhea Lectim." <div> </div> <div>Many victims showed symptoms of it in 2008. Yet after having been screwed repeatedly during the past year or so, Naturalists and Epidemiologists are amazed at how destructive this disease has become since it is readily apparent to most of the general public but not reported in the liberal media. However, even though the effects are known, a large portion of the public continue to ignore the signs such as life terms, kickbacks, secret liaisons, broken promises, pain of withering income, public embarrassment at many levels, etc. </div> <div> </div> <div>Many of these people continually go back for more simply because it is easy and they don't think about it before acting at the polls. Experts say that this terrible disease is very easily cured... by simply voting out all incumbents in the next state and national elections! -- (Unknown Author)<br clear="all"> </div></p> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-74049853775392315152009-12-16T11:32:00.002-07:002009-12-16T11:40:37.820-07:00Couldn't have said it better myself<p align="left"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/SykpPA1Oz3I/AAAAAAAAAL8/0jhLeNbExVA/s1600-h/ThanksObama.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415905364787777394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 356px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 414px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/SykpPA1Oz3I/AAAAAAAAAL8/0jhLeNbExVA/s400/ThanksObama.jpg" border="0" /></a></p>Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-24700393525672256282009-11-08T08:52:00.001-07:002009-11-08T08:52:49.684-07:00With Friends Like Right-to-Life, Who Needs Enemies?<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I have my pro-life credentials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I've fought in the trenches, so shut-up.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Too many times while in the trenches, Right-to-Life national leaders have been there wiping out our side, handing victory to the pro-aborts.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Today, I lament and pray for and with Rep. John Shaddegg (AZ) who knew that if he could have received just a little bit of Right-to-Life's cooperation, Pelosi's health care bill would have gone down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Instead, Shaddegg got a Right-to-Life knife in the back.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The battle lost in the House over the government health care takeover rests in large part on the shoulders of the national Right-to-Life leaders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They are pinheads and they must resign now.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">As the political dynamics tightened around the health care vote, liberal pro-aborts had to concede to a vote on the pro-life amendment in order to shave off enough pro-life democrats for victory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A bitter political pill for their side, but they saw the bigger victory and could spin the pro-life amendment as "just acknowledgement of existing law contained in the long-standing Hyde Amendment." (Hyde Amendment = No federal funds for abortions)</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Well, Shaddegg had a plan to throw sand in the gears and likely ruin the political machinery grinding out a victory for the government takeover of health care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He was rounding up the votes to kill the pro-life amendment (by voting "present") and thereby killing the whole bill and quite possibly the entire effort. This would have caused such a train wreck, it is doubtful the liberals could have recovered, i.e., Waterloo.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">But, NO ... as this plan was quietly being put together, Right-to-Life issues a noontime letter on the day of the vote stating a "present" vote will be scored as a NO vote, elevating it as the "most important vote" since the 1997 vote on the Hyde Amendment.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">KABOOM!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Right-to-Life once again snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Good for Shaddegg being the lone "present" vote on the amendment.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">This screw-up is so historic and monumental that the Right-to-Life leadership must take the honorable actions and resign, immediately.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Shaddegg has a 100% rating from Right-to-Life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He is not a mystery or a double-dealer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>After all the work he has done on their behalf, a little help would have gone a long way.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Instead, it is clear ... Right-to-Life is more concerned about fundraising by "getting the win" on the pro-life amendment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>How long do you think that amendment will hold as the bill makes its way through Congress? </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Go away Right-to-Life leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Your actions are pitiful.</font></p> <p> </p> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-75510500480038243392009-09-07T10:01:00.001-07:002009-09-07T10:01:12.677-07:00Why Is Capitalism So Unpopular?<div>"The academics envision a grand world, where Great Men fight Great Wars, periodically inventing Great Things or developing Great Ideas. Instead, the market provides us with incremental processes, which expend enormous piles of resources, in a quest to make better Triscuits. It is hardly the stuff of high drama, to say nothing of Great History."</div> <div> </div> <div><strong><a href="http://mises.org/story/3529">Here is the link</a></strong> to the entire article by Art Carden, who is an assistant professor of economics and business at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and an adjunct fellow with the Oakland, California–based Independent Institute. He was a summer research fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in 2003 and a visiting research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research in June, 2008.</div> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-51376460436942491842009-09-02T09:07:00.001-07:002009-09-02T09:07:57.642-07:00Republican Voters Say GOP Reps in Congress Still Out of Touch<div><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/august_2009/republican_voters_say_gop_reps_in_congress_still_out_of_touch"><strong>Rasmussen poll</strong></a>: "Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republican voters say their party's representatives in Congress have lost touch with GOP voters nationwide over the past several years." (Sept. 1, 2009)</div> <div> </div> <div>Hat Tip: <a href="http://taxingtennessee.blogspot.com/">Taxing Tennessee</a></div> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-13102412133968349822009-08-29T11:32:00.000-07:002009-08-29T11:33:29.852-07:00REVOLUTION BREWING - August 28 Sacramento Tea PartyHere it comes big government and statists. The power will shift back from the corrupt institutions to the people. Give up your struggle to dominate and control "We the People."<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2zhPA6XkCYE&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2zhPA6XkCYE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-18721039852908076762009-08-28T18:05:00.001-07:002009-08-28T18:05:33.186-07:00"Stand Up" Tea Party Song<div><strong><a href="http://www.divshare.com/download/8316752-0f8" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO LISTEN</a></strong></div> <div><strong></strong> </div> <div>By Bruce Bellott, who has been chosen to sing this song at 9-12 Tea Party Rally in DC.</div> <div> </div> <div>Last line, "... help us throw all the bums out"</div> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-82399432912233915312009-08-21T05:22:00.000-07:002009-08-21T05:23:02.503-07:00Interesting ... a Car Lotto<div><font face="times new roman,times" size="3">Here's how the National Car-Lotto works: $1 tickets are sold nationwide every week. We take the average price of every model sold by GM, Ford, and Chrysler-say that is $25,000, with taxes, tag, dealer fees and extended warranties included. For every 25,000 tickets sold, one lucky winner gets the American-made car of his or her choice with all the additional fees covered and no tax liability until they sell or trade their win. </font></div> <br> <div><font face="times new roman,times" size="3">With an advertising blitz on radio, TV, newspapers and the web, our big three could raffle off thousands of cars every week-30,000 cars is a reasonable goal, each one paid in full upfront with the lotto money. </font></div> <br> <div><font face="times new roman,times" size="3">Everybody wins! Consumers get the car of their choice-a youngster in school might want a Ford Focus, someone else a Chrysler Sebring convertible, a family of five, a GM Hybrid Yukon. Regardless, each car comes fully loaded! The American public-not the White House-decides which manufacturers survive and thrive.</font><br clear="all"> </div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/the_national_carlotto.html">Click here for full article</a> by <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/michael_s_levinson/"><strong><font color="#0033cc">Michael S. Levinson</font></strong></a></div> <div> </div> Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-199967773020075052009-08-05T10:42:00.001-07:002009-08-05T10:44:20.152-07:00Tea Party Brooks Bros. Brigade (Photo)<div>The uber-leftists are labeling the average American Tea Party citizens who show up at August Congressional "Town Hell" meetings as the <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/05/tea-party-bashers-gone-wild/">Brooks Bros. Brigade</a>.</div><br /><div><br />Here is photographic proof that these citizens who are opposed to government takeover of health care do not regularly shop at Brooks Bros.</div><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366536811305583266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 304px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/SnnEy_ftQqI/AAAAAAAAALw/r3q2dlks_4c/s400/BrooksBros.jpg" border="0" /></div>Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-88805166223190664232009-08-04T17:39:00.002-07:002009-08-04T17:40:16.764-07:00Common sense health care solutions from Pawlenty<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535243,00.html">Full transcript from Fox News, July 28, 2008.</a><br /><br />Greta Van Susteren interviewing Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN)<br /><blockquote style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><p><strong>VAN SUSTEREN:</strong> All right, so you tell Congress, you know, Dump this one. What's your suggestion? What would you like to see happen, Governor?</p><p><strong>PAWLENTY:</strong> Greta, there's a number of common sense things that we could do on a bipartisan basis to move this country forward on much-needed health care reform. They include these things. First of all, let's get rid of junk lawsuits and make sure we have medical malpractice reform. That will save some money.</p><p>Number two, let's ban or prohibit people from ruling out people from being insured because of preexisting conditions. Let's make sure we have insurance that's portable, that you can take it from job to job or circumstance to circumstance. Let's incentivize e-prescribing and e- medical records to create efficiency. Let's create pay-for-performance, rather than pay for volumes of procedure. If you pay for volumes of procedure, you're going to get more procedures.</p><p>Let's fix our tax code so that if you buy insurance individually, you're not at a disadvantage compared to people who buy it through their employment circumstance. Let's allow people to buy insurance across state lines or form risk pools across state lines, and much more.</p><p>But everybody should at least be able to agree on those things, and they would save a lot of money. That would be real reform.</p></blockquote><p><strong>Liberty Spuds says, "When leftists say the right does not offer any plans or solutions ... well, you've now been informed."</strong></p>Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-75600385528486996192009-08-04T10:40:00.001-07:002009-08-04T10:43:52.272-07:00Why the left is going bonkers this AugustThis short article reveals why the leftists are rapidly losing the government takeover of health care debate.<br /><br /><a href="http://blog.getliberty.org/default.asp?Display=1434">Click here</a><br /><br />The strategic work-around against the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Alinsky</span>-type community organizer tactic is not to have a "leader" to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">vilify</span>, then isolate. (See Sarah <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Palin</span> and Rush Limbaugh for example.)<br /><br />In an earlier post, back in March, I <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">expounded</span> upon this natural <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">occurring</span> tactic.<br /><br /><a href="http://prop207az.blogspot.com/2009/03/good-news-republican-are-leaderless.html">Click here</a>Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-25223801920582665712009-08-04T07:06:00.001-07:002009-08-04T07:08:01.229-07:00Another Congressman get the "Silent No More" treatment from votersIn this video, U.S. Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) holds a townhall meeting in Setauket, NY. Tea Party protesters sternly address their congressman and his support for massive gov't expansion. As you watch this short video, U.S. Senator Dirk Durbin's shameful Alinsky-type quote that these protesters are "hired by big insurance" is debunked.<br /><br />I am getting reports that during this August recess some congresscritters are not holding ANY open meetings during the break. More on that later ...<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UOLs7Cybnqw&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UOLs7Cybnqw&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-33912978844403324922009-07-31T12:20:00.006-07:002009-07-31T12:33:39.516-07:00Actually, the GDP is plunging. (Statist media alert!)<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/SnNGxzdt_sI/AAAAAAAAALQ/i5FD0zEZsaA/s1600-h/GDP-Graph1.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364709402570784450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 241px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/SnNGxzdt_sI/AAAAAAAAALQ/i5FD0zEZsaA/s400/GDP-Graph1.png" border="0" /></a><br /><div>This graph tell the story of Gross Domestic Product in constant dollars in its Year-over-Year change.<br /><br />Those in the statist media and government are trying to tell you the recession is over. Bull-oney!<br /><br />This chart comes from <a href="http://market-ticker.org/">Market Ticker</a>. Suggest you follow his site.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div>Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70616391743006091.post-49182952100331692612009-07-31T08:52:00.003-07:002009-07-31T08:54:20.261-07:00Photo: Care For Clunkers<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/SnMTbKV-yhI/AAAAAAAAAK4/m3WJmmriEho/s1600-h/CareForClunkers.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364652938482338322" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 279px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FcejoRJZes/SnMTbKV-yhI/AAAAAAAAAK4/m3WJmmriEho/s400/CareForClunkers.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>Liberty Spudshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636201623519833535noreply@blogger.com0