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Poll: Ron Paul claims frontrunner status, soaring past Gingrich, Romney
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/15/poll-ron-paul-claims-frontrunner-status-soaring-past-gingrich-romney/
Original comment:
Namenomnomnom
"Soaring past" the competition means that fewer than one person in five supports you.
Elect this guy and forbid health care to anyone who cannot afford unregulated private health insurance. Pre-existing condition? Better be able to pay for your care in cash, because the government has no right to ensure that insurance is available to you, even at sky-high cost.
How many of your relatives and personal acquaintances will *die* if Ron Paul is elected and succeeds in putting his health care aganda in place?
Oh there won't be any Death Panels. You bank account will be called upon to decide whether you deserve to draw another breath. Nothing personal.
"No one has a right to health care."
--Ron Paul
Response:
11-17-2011 02:14 AM
TheSmallAxe
No one has a right to health care. No one has a right to a house. No one has a right to a car. No one has a right to food. No one has a right to clothing. No one has a right to a cell phone. No one has a right to a computer.
No one has a "right" to any good or service that is made or provided by someone else. Claiming a right to a good or service is saying that whomever makes or provides it MUST give it to you, regardless of whether you do something for them in return or not. Thus, a right to health care assumes that a doctor is your slave, and that all the various people who work to produce the medicine you need are likewise your slaves. A right to a house assumes that the builder is your slave, and that the people who produce the 2x4s, nails, pipes, electrical wires, etc. are all your slaves. A right to a car assumes that everyone who worked to make each of its parts, and everyone who assembled the parts into a an operable machine are all your slaves. You cannot enter a restaurant and demand a free meal, because the cook is not required to do your bidding; nor are the people who grew the vegetables; nor are the people who raised the animals; nor are the people who transported the food from the farms to the store room in the back. You cannot enter a department store and demand a shirt or a pair of pants without paying, because the retailer purchased said shirt and pants from the manufacturer, so they belong to him. The owner of the store did not steal the clothes from the textile mill; he exchanged something of value for them. Likewise, the owner of the mill did not steal the cotton from the farmer; he purchased it. Therefore, when you enter the store, and you wish to leave with the shirt or pants, you must first give something of value to the shopkeep. The same applies to cell phones, and computers, and anything else. If you want something that another human being had to work to produce, you must give him something in exchange.
A right is something that cannot be justly taken from you by another person or group of persons. You have the natural right to your life, your liberty, and your property. Concurrent with these is the right to defend them against anyone who would seek to violate them. You own your body, the vessel in which you live. This is the most essential axiom to understand. Any and all true rights flow from this source. You do not own your neighbor's body. He does not own yours. The ownership is absolutely exclusive. You may not harm or destroy that which does not belong to you. Assault and murder are violations of your right to your body, without which your life on Earth is not possible. Now, we all know that our flesh and bones are not self-sustaining. Without food and water, we will die. Without clothing, our bodies can suffer injury from exposure to the elements. Without shelter, we risk attack from predators, loss or damage to our belongings, and again, detrimental effects of cold, wind, and rain. Food, water, clothing, shelter - we must obtain these things if we are to survive for any length of time. None of them, however, just jumps into our laps. Humans must work to secure the things our bodies require. We grow and hunt food, we search for water, we fashion garments, and we find or build shelters. When a person mixes his labor with useful things he finds in the natural world, the result becomes his property. Your right to your property is one and the same as your right to your own labor. Since you must survive by working for what you need, you have the right to keep the fruits of your labor, i.e. the things that you acquire through work. The right to one's property is essential to the right to one's life. If this were not so, another person could take from you the things you need to maintain the proper functioning of your body, and thereby deprive you of your life. The right to liberty is also necessary to your survival. Liberty is the ability to do as you please with your time, your body, and your property, so long as you do not interfere with the same rights of others. Without this freedom to pursue your own interests, and spend your time as you see fit, your ability to do those things that sustain and protect your body could be erased. If another person can force you to do what they want you to do instead of doing the tasks that you deem necessary, that person is basically stealing from you the time that you would otherwise be using productively for your own betterment.
When you leftist/progressivist/socialist/communist types claim a right to health care, you are actually claiming the "right" to violate the liberty of others. You are saying that all the people who work to produce medicines and provide analysis of your ailments MUST give you their time. You are saying that they MUST give you the fruits of their labor, while you give them nothing in return. There are scant few things you could ever say that could be more selfish and despicable than this. Now, you can try to argue that you aren't really advocating a situation in which doctors should not be compensated, since what you want is free health INSURANCE, but it's the same thing. People who are employed in the medical field must be paid for their efforts one way or the other, the same as everyone else. The money to pay them has to come from somewhere - it does not magically appear from thin air (unless you're talking about the central banking racket known as the Federal Reserve System, but that's another issue entirely). Well, we can just get the money from government, right? Hopefully if you have read this far, you should recognize how idiotically naive that is, but in case you still don't get it, let me spell it out for you. The government is the opposite of the economy. In the latter, wealth is CREATED through the productivity of all the individuals in the workforce. In the former (government), wealth is CONSUMED. Some of the wealth that is consumed is used for valid purposes such as defense against external enemies, law enforcement, justice systems, and various infrastructure projects that are used by all in common. However, much of what government consumes is used for things that fall well outside the scope of its proper authority. Either way, every dollar that government spends, it must first collect from taxpayers, who must first produce it in the course of their economic activity. Thus, the money to pay for health care does not originate from government, but from individuals working to make a living in the private economy. So, instead of saying that doctors must give you the fruits of their labor in exchange for nothing from you, you are saying that EVERYONE who pays taxes must give you some of what they earned without receiving anything in return. This THEFT is a violation of the natural human right to property. It should also be viewed as a violation of liberty, since it allows one person to dictate to the other what he must do with his time (given that money is merely a medium that allows people to easily exchange what is produced with their time/labor). You do not have the right to command that another human being has to take time and labor that belongs to him and him only, and spend it for your benefit. That is SLAVERY. It may work with genies in fairy tales, but in the real world, your wish is not my command. A need on your part does not constitute a requirement on my part to fulfill it.
Socialism is the enslavement of every man to his neighbor.
My statement:
Thank you TheSmallAxe! Your commentary is wordy at its worst, but does express my feelings exactly, at its best. Thank you for spelling out the obvious to those who appear oblivious.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Email I was sent with my thoughts
interesting piece, thought you might enjoy....
(Nothing really new just more cause for concern!!)
This came from a union guy in Chicago who didn't vote for Obama. Very, very interesting perspective that I never thought of in this light.
It will be interesting to see what they put in his "Presidential Library" or "Presidential Mosque" about his early years when he is out of office. In a country where we take notice of many, many facets of our public figures' lives, doesn't seem odd that there's so little we know about our current president, Barack Obama. For example, we know that Andrew Jackson's wife smoked a corn cob pipe and was accused of adultery; Abe Lincoln never went to school; Jack Kennedy wore a back brace; Harry Truman played the piano.
As Americans, we enjoy knowing details about our newsmakers, but none of us know one single humanizing fact about the history of our own president.
We are all aware of the lack of uncontestable birth records for Obama; that document managing has been spectacularly successful. There are however, several additional oddities in Obama's history that appear to be as well managed as the birthing issue.
It's interesting that no one who ever dated him has shown up. The charisma that caused women to be drawn to him so strongly during his campaign, certainly would in the normal course of events, lead some lady to come forward, if only to garner some attention for herself. We all know about JFK's magnetism, that McCain was no monk and quite a few Details about Palin's courtship and even her athletic prowess Joe Biden's aneurysms are no secret; look at Cheney and Clinton, we all know about their heart problems.. Certainly Wild Bill Clinton's exploits before and during his White House years, were well known.
That's why it's so odd that not one lady has stepped up and said, "He was soooo shy..." or "What a great dancer..."
It's virtually impossible to know anything about this fellow.
Who was the best man at his wedding? Start there. Then check groomsmen.
Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony. Has anyone talked to the professors? It is odd that no one is bragging that they knew him or taught him or lived with him.
When did he meet Michele, and how? Are there photos there? Every president gives to the public all their photos, etc. for their library, etc. What has he released? And who in hell voted for him to be the most popular man in 2010? Doesn't this make you wonder?
Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from President Obama's past saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc??
Not one person has ever come forward from his past. It certainly is very, very strange...
This should be a cause for great concern. To those who voted for him, you may have elected an unqualified, inexperienced shadow man. Have you seen a movie named "The Manchurian Candidate"
As insignificant as each of us might be, someone with whom we went to school will remember our name or face; someone will remember we were the clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something about us.
George Stephanopoulos of ABC News said the same thing during the 2008 campaign. He questions why no one has acknowledged the president was in their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches on campus. Stephanopoulos also was a classmate of Obama at Columbia -- the class of 1984. He says he never had a single class with him..
He is such a great orator; why doesn't anyone in Obama's college class remember him? Why won't he allow Columbia to release his records?
Nobody remembers Obama at Columbia University ...
Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there... but none remembered him.
Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia, ever."
Nobody recalls him. Root adds that he was also, like Obama, Class of '83 Political Science, and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him. At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, 'the macha' who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him."
Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia,provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia .
Some other interesting questions..
Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002?
Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by court order?
It is circulating that according to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 alias.
The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is never reported to have lived.
No wonder all his records are sealed...
Please continue sending this out to everyone. Somewhere, someone had to know him in school...before he "reorganized" Chicago & burst upon the scene at the 2004 Democratic Convention.
Response:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/columbia.asp
Not that I think he's a good President, I do grow tired of all the muck-raking, mostly from "good Christian folks".
I didn't vote for him but he won, I'm dealing with it.
If you don't like him, don't re-elect him.
If you can do a better job, quit bitching and do something about it.
(Nothing really new just more cause for concern!!)
This came from a union guy in Chicago who didn't vote for Obama. Very, very interesting perspective that I never thought of in this light.
It will be interesting to see what they put in his "Presidential Library" or "Presidential Mosque" about his early years when he is out of office. In a country where we take notice of many, many facets of our public figures' lives, doesn't seem odd that there's so little we know about our current president, Barack Obama. For example, we know that Andrew Jackson's wife smoked a corn cob pipe and was accused of adultery; Abe Lincoln never went to school; Jack Kennedy wore a back brace; Harry Truman played the piano.
As Americans, we enjoy knowing details about our newsmakers, but none of us know one single humanizing fact about the history of our own president.
We are all aware of the lack of uncontestable birth records for Obama; that document managing has been spectacularly successful. There are however, several additional oddities in Obama's history that appear to be as well managed as the birthing issue.
It's interesting that no one who ever dated him has shown up. The charisma that caused women to be drawn to him so strongly during his campaign, certainly would in the normal course of events, lead some lady to come forward, if only to garner some attention for herself. We all know about JFK's magnetism, that McCain was no monk and quite a few Details about Palin's courtship and even her athletic prowess Joe Biden's aneurysms are no secret; look at Cheney and Clinton, we all know about their heart problems.. Certainly Wild Bill Clinton's exploits before and during his White House years, were well known.
That's why it's so odd that not one lady has stepped up and said, "He was soooo shy..." or "What a great dancer..."
It's virtually impossible to know anything about this fellow.
Who was the best man at his wedding? Start there. Then check groomsmen.
Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony. Has anyone talked to the professors? It is odd that no one is bragging that they knew him or taught him or lived with him.
When did he meet Michele, and how? Are there photos there? Every president gives to the public all their photos, etc. for their library, etc. What has he released? And who in hell voted for him to be the most popular man in 2010? Doesn't this make you wonder?
Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from President Obama's past saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc??
Not one person has ever come forward from his past. It certainly is very, very strange...
This should be a cause for great concern. To those who voted for him, you may have elected an unqualified, inexperienced shadow man. Have you seen a movie named "The Manchurian Candidate"
As insignificant as each of us might be, someone with whom we went to school will remember our name or face; someone will remember we were the clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something about us.
George Stephanopoulos of ABC News said the same thing during the 2008 campaign. He questions why no one has acknowledged the president was in their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches on campus. Stephanopoulos also was a classmate of Obama at Columbia -- the class of 1984. He says he never had a single class with him..
He is such a great orator; why doesn't anyone in Obama's college class remember him? Why won't he allow Columbia to release his records?
Nobody remembers Obama at Columbia University ...
Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there... but none remembered him.
Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia, ever."
Nobody recalls him. Root adds that he was also, like Obama, Class of '83 Political Science, and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him. At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, 'the macha' who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him."
Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia,provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia .
Some other interesting questions..
Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002?
Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by court order?
It is circulating that according to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 alias.
The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is never reported to have lived.
No wonder all his records are sealed...
Please continue sending this out to everyone. Somewhere, someone had to know him in school...before he "reorganized" Chicago & burst upon the scene at the 2004 Democratic Convention.
Response:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/columbia.asp
Not that I think he's a good President, I do grow tired of all the muck-raking, mostly from "good Christian folks".
I didn't vote for him but he won, I'm dealing with it.
If you don't like him, don't re-elect him.
If you can do a better job, quit bitching and do something about it.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Like planning outlandish homemade stunts, motion-picture tracking is often followed by unanticipated results.
One such anomaly occurred over the weekend, with the third installment of Paramount's low-budget freak show "Jackass" opening to $50 million, according to studio estimates -- about twice what was expected.
Daniel Frankel
TheWrap
Just further proof we live in a country of idiots!
One such anomaly occurred over the weekend, with the third installment of Paramount's low-budget freak show "Jackass" opening to $50 million, according to studio estimates -- about twice what was expected.
Daniel Frankel
TheWrap
Just further proof we live in a country of idiots!
Saturday, August 21, 2010
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38790670/ns/technology_and_science-security/?gt1=43001
Technology marches on, mankind on the other hand does not. This is just the beginning of many future technical disasters.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
"The Center for Science in the Public Interest has given
The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit served McDonald's with notice of intent on Tuesday, giving the company 30 days to drop the toys before it finds itself defending against a class-action complaint. CSPI contends that including toys with "unhealthy junk food" is illegal under consumer
Seriously?!
Just sue McDonald's because it would be too much work to sue the millions of ignorant parents that feed their children nothing but fast-food. McDonald's isn't at fault, WE ARE! Wake up people!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Just in case you've forgotten
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Bill of Rights
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
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.
Bill of Rights
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
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.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
The American Way of Health
New TV commercial...
The scene, a typical American living room, curtains drawn, lights off, TV on. The kids, one by one, are pulled to the television with a power that reminds me of the movie Poltergeist, "They're here..." I understand this part, my grandson is like this, my nieces and nephews are like this, heck, I'm like this. TVs on and I'm a video zombie, "must watch TV, need more TV..."
Cut to the kitchen door, dad pops through to issue these saving words, "Hey kids, I've got Dunkin' Donuts!"
Well that fixes everything! Fill their little tummies up with sugar and overly processed wheat. And America wonders why we're fat.
Here's why we wonder why we're fat, we're too frickin full of crap food to have an intelligent thought. Bodies are moving but brains are not being feed, they're being numbed and dumbed. And don't forget the big cups of coffee for mom and dad. Breakfast should always include the sugar and caffeine food groups.
I guess the redeeming factor is these kids will probably all grow up to be bankers or automobile manufacturing management. I know I feel better.
Pass the doughnuts please!
The scene, a typical American living room, curtains drawn, lights off, TV on. The kids, one by one, are pulled to the television with a power that reminds me of the movie Poltergeist, "They're here..." I understand this part, my grandson is like this, my nieces and nephews are like this, heck, I'm like this. TVs on and I'm a video zombie, "must watch TV, need more TV..."
Cut to the kitchen door, dad pops through to issue these saving words, "Hey kids, I've got Dunkin' Donuts!"
Well that fixes everything! Fill their little tummies up with sugar and overly processed wheat. And America wonders why we're fat.
Here's why we wonder why we're fat, we're too frickin full of crap food to have an intelligent thought. Bodies are moving but brains are not being feed, they're being numbed and dumbed. And don't forget the big cups of coffee for mom and dad. Breakfast should always include the sugar and caffeine food groups.
I guess the redeeming factor is these kids will probably all grow up to be bankers or automobile manufacturing management. I know I feel better.
Pass the doughnuts please!
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