TIME FOR ANNIE TO GET HER GUN? THE SHERIFF SAYS IT IS.
SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. --
The Spartanburg County Sheriff is known for speaking his mind, and at a news conference on Monday, he didn't hold back his anger and frustration after a woman was attacked in a park over the weekend.
Investigators said 46-year-old Walter Lance grabbed a woman who was walking her dog in Milliken Park on Sunday afternoon. They said Lance choked the woman, made her take off her clothing and tried to rape her.
Lance is in custody and Sheriff Chuck Wright opened his news conference by saying, "Our form of justice is not making it," and he said, "I'm really aggravated."
He said, "Carry a concealed weapon. That'll fix it."
In essence, the tea-party has always been here. More often than not referred to as the “silent majority” and being brought to the fore because the left assumed that in their silence they actually didn’t exist. They were wrong.
We do exist and we’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore.
We were silent primarily because we have lives, families JOBS and so forth and our attentions were involved with the responsibility that comes with freedom. Raising the family, WORKING at our jobs, PAYING our bills. But as this version of government started with its oppression of the silent majority, they struck a nerve and we got angry.
So angry in fact that we assembled, peacefully, with all the right permits and held rallies that disbursed quietly, policing ourselves as we left to make sure no one had to clean up a mess behind us. That’s the functional, working, self-actualized part of America and we’re still the majority.
The Obama administration and the state-run-media belittled and pooh-poohed the crowd volumes and barely acknowledged our existence, the way Captain Smith barely acknowledged the iceberg warnings that night.
But we are still the majority.
And we are still here. And we are not going to let the nation suffer because a minority of national socialists want power and are playing little mind-games to get it and keep it. This goes double for the RINO’s who think they are safe. We’ll vote them out as quick as a jack-rabbit on a date.
We know all the rhetoric the left throws at us is BS. Sexist, racist garbage that only floats in cesspools. We are the people who, in spite of anyone’s race, gender, creed, etc. happen to believe that the Constitution was well-written and is no less valid today than it was in 1787.
Both the left AND the right know exactly what the words in the Constitution mean. The left however has tried to make it something that it’s not. But Obama clearly learned SOMEthing as a “scholar” when he had said, “The Constitution tells the government what it CAN’T do” which is exactly what makes it so unique. By choosing that language, and that approach, it makes it very difficult for megalomaniacs to validate a specious argument as to why a particular law is so necessary. Like—universal healthcare.
Perhaps the most pitiful thing of all that this article points out by its very omission is the YEARS that academics have spent their efforts on driving to socialism/marxism without ever having taught anything of any value. In essence, they have sequestered themselves in academia, living a profligate lie, amassing large salaries without the self-examination of wondering where that money comes from. Or if they did, they’d be forced to admit they are part of the machine they say they despise.
So it comes full circle. The left lies. Then they cover those lies with more lies. It’s a way of life. Ironically, their issue in the 60′s was that the government was lying to them. Yet such masters they’ve become at the very thing they say they hated.
HERMAN CAIN SAID YOU NEED TO WORK ON THE RIGHT PROBLEM. HERE'S THE RIGHT PROBLEM. SOLUTION?
elby
I went down to the local Occupy protest yesterday. There was a good turnout, and it was a mixed group of different ages. Yes, it was mostly left of center, full of anger at corporate greed, and simple solutions like taxing the rich. There were plenty of lefty types trying to glom onto the protest. One lady got up and spoke against Marcellus Shale drilling. I fail to see what that has to do with Wall street, but I am sure it made sense to her.
Both the Occupy and Tea party share in the idea that something terrible has happened. One comes from left of center, the other from the right. The messages are basic, simple and hopeful, and full of the last turnings nostrums.
From the Tea Party we hear that if only we got rid of ObamaCare, cut government spending and got rid of government regulations then all would be well.
From the Occupiers we hear that if only we taxed the rich and gave the poor and middle classes free healthcare and college education then all would be well with the world.
They both are using old memes, but underneath it I think that both groups have the frightening suspicion that these old solutions just won’t work. The something terrible has already happened, and it happened over the last decades not just recently. The cake’s been mixed up and put in the oven, and we can no longer tinker with the recipe.
We had a 30 year credit bubble. The bust is happening, and it will only get worse. None of the solutions proffered by each side will work. They didn’t before and they won’t now. We are going to go bust, both individually, and as a nation. Our standard of living, built as it was on ever increasing debt, will fall. The question now remains, how do we respond? With anger and blame? With violence and revolution? Or do we pick up the pieces and try to fashion something that works, if imperfectly and holds together, if tenuously?
I don’t know the answer. I do see that people just want to argue past each other, the Tea Partiers (who I tend to agree with) in their corner, and the Occupiers in the other. The Tea Partiers have their pat explanation for the 2008 meltdown, that it was the CRA and the big bad gov’t that forced the poor little banks to make bad loans. They fail to recognize or protest against the rampant fraud and abuse that took place in Wall street. The Occupiers rant against corporate greed and fail to recognize that the government allowed and encouraged and promoted that greed.
Whose responsible, the government or the private sector? It is a false dichotomy. It’s like asking who started the fire: the guy who poured the gasoline or the guy who lit the match?
We will not come up with any solutions if we don’t understand that basic fact.
The change came when we shifted our respect from those who created value to those who steal it and dole it out to others. That, in essence, is the problem with the world today, and it is not confined to the nations that are collectively referred to as the “West.” That is the model of those who welcome the idea of world government.
Unconstrained predators eventually eat up all the prey, and then they starve to death. As I have said before, the current Ruling Class has achieved the status of bureaucratic sclerosis. The extent of their programming renders them incapable of understanding their own ignorance and incompetence. They cannot even imagine that either description could apply to them.
They see themselves as “the Best and Brightest” and no amount of evidence to the contrary will ever disabuse them of that notion. Evidence and results mean nothing. Faith in one’s inherent superiority trumps all.
TALKING ABOUT TAXES AND BS ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. HERMAN DOESN'T SEEM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. HE JUST MIXES IT ALL TOGETHER.
Herman Cain defended his plan, saying there has been a lot of “misinformation ” and “misperceptions ” about it.
He noted that with the payroll tax being eliminated, that would be something of a built-in cushion to deal with the sales tax.
He also said a family of four with a household income of $50,000 a year would pay $10,000 in income taxes and have enough left over to pay for goods, despite the sales tax increase.
“Today under the current system, they will pay over $10,000 in taxes assuming standard deductions and standard exemptions,” Cain claimed. “I’ve gone through the math — $10,000.
Now, with 9-9-9, they’re going to pay that 9% personal tax on their income, so that’s only $4,500. They still have $5,500 left over to apply to the sales tax piece, and if you go and look at how much of it they would probably spend on sales taxes for new goods, not used, used goods they don’t pay a sales tax. They are still going to have money left over...
But that is not exactly the case.
In fact, a family making $50,000 a year with two children would only pay about $776 in income taxes when standard deductions are factored in, based on 2010 Internal Revenue Service levels. (In fact, not factoring in deductions, a married couple filing jointly making $50,000 a year would pay $6,666 in income tax, not $10,000.
But what’s important for tax purposes is “taxable” income.)
Here’s the math:
- Gross Income: $50,000
- Subtract the 2010 standard deduction: $11,400 (2011 is $11,600)
- Subtract the personal exemption (essentially the number of people in the house): $14,600 ($3,650 x 4)
- That brings us to a taxable income of $24,000
- The tax on a married couple filing jointly at $24,000: $2,766
- Then, deduct an additional $2,000 ($1,000 child tax credit x 2)
That comes out to just $766. And that doesn’t include other potential exemptions, like educator credits, moving costs, student-loan interest, health-savings accounts, etc. I can't imagine anyone on a fixed income that could seriously be for 999.
Take your example of your state sales tax. Add Cains 9 % to it and you are paying 18.25% tax on anything you buy. That means you buy 100.00 dollars worth of groceries and your Grocery bill will be 118.25. On a fixed income, you will now be losing 9.00 on every 100.00 that you spend.
Mr. Cain says don’t spend or buy used. What a joke, Seniors have to spend and they should not have to buy used when they have contributed taxes all of their life.
Seniors also will have to pay 9% income tax also.
Now, you don't pay any until you reach a certain plateau, but under Cain you will pay 9% income tax on every dollar that you earn. So under Cain, you will lose another 9.00 on every 100.00 you get from SS that you are not having to pay now.
If my math adds up you will lose a lot of money out of your fixed income.
Guys, I like Herman Cain too but this ain't about like, it is about what his plan will do for the Seniors and it is anti-senior. You must not be mesmerized by Mr. Cain's likeable personality.
What will this do to Non Profit Charities, will they have to pay 999 on any contributions? Will the Churches also have to pay 999? Remember, Mr Cain said this was about everyone having some skin in the game.
Please Seniors everywhere and others, dig deep into this plan before you start praising it to high heaven. This plan helps the rich and those with the most.
I am not for raising taxes on any one but they pay more now already under the graduated system. Why let them get buy with a 24% reduction in their tax bill on the backs of Seniors who have had skin in the game all of their lives.
Students in a Texas public high school were made to stand up and recite the Mexican national anthem and Mexican pledge of allegiance as part of a Spanish class assignment, but the school district maintains there was nothing wrong with the lesson.
It happened last month in an intermediate Spanish class at Achieve Early College High School in McAllen, Texas — a city located about 10 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Wearing red, white and green, students had to memorize the Mexican anthem and pledge and stand up and recite them in individually in front of the class.
The desire of peoples for nations all their own, where their own language, faith and culture predominate and their own kind rule to the exclusion of all others, is everywhere winning out over multiculturalism and transnationalism.
Through history there have been attempts to unite the world.
The Roman Empire. Catholicism. Islam. The West that ruled much of mankind from Columbus to the mid-20th century. Communism, which conquered half of Europe and Asia but arose and fell in a single century.
With the death of communism and the decline of the West – in relative population and power – Islam has become the largest religion, China the world's emerging superpower and Asia the continent of the future.
You made a basic mistake of confusing Christian “kings and rulers” with what a Christian should do. The two are very very far apart.
I know this is probably hard for you to understand, so I will boil the concept down as simply as possible.
Christians give to the poor of their own free will, from what is theirs. This is charity, and Christianity at it’s purest form.
Government gives to whoever it feels like, by forcibly taking money from people because it has none of it’s own. This is completely anathema to Christian thought.
Christianity is governed by free will and free agency.
Government is governed by force. Try not paying your taxes.
Tea partiers would give freely of their own possessions, while limiting the ability of government to take what is yours by force and redistribute it to whoever government pleases.
The concept is purely, innately Christian. I hope you can understand the difference now.
THE TRUTH TELLERS JUST KEEP ON COMING, LIKE IT OR NOT.
This is called deficit reduction and it is like pulling teeth. Every effort will be made to ensure that spending isn’t cut, borrowing is not limited and deficits are not increased. It’s impossible, but when your goal is not to rile up the powers that be, then don’t step on any toes. Keep the fiction going, and going, and going while the real adjustments go on just under the surface.
This “fix” consist of many little nips and tucks from here and there so that the ordinality of the system is preserved. In other words the ideal solution is to maintain the fiction until by means various it can be made into fact. Until the people who are supposed to be rich really are rich. And the people who should borrow can really borrow.
The problem is that always pits fiction against fact; the system will only be solvent in the future after the fix. And the fix is really a form of retail robbery, but as long as nobody notices …
For the present it is bankrupt should it be made to clear. What we are watching is the fancy footwork of the fictionalists trying to keep one step ahead of the facts. It is marvelous to behold, like the Thriller dancers in the video their caperings are antic. But how long can the bankrupt system keep covering up its tracks, keep kiting its checks, keep borrowing from part to pay off the other part?
Gee, don’t we have an extradition treaty with France. No? What do you think, maybe we can trade Sorros for Polanski, the child molester and child rapist and favorite Hollywood movie director?
And why haven’t we extradited the dude before this? What is this, we pay these people at State to sit around on their butts and kiss up to our enemies when we have a perfectly good, extraditable white collar criminal running around making billions to pay for protestors to close down the Brooklyn Bridge?
HOW ABOUT ATTENDING THE CHURCH OF OBAMA THE MULATTO MESSIAH?
wretchard
Without speaking of the metaphysical and speaking only of the purely practical there is nothing quite like destroying the notion of a relationship between the individual and the Cosmos (or God if you wish) as a preparatory step to establishing an authoritarianism on earth.
It is a question of psychology. A completely cynical authoritarian can do no better to create an existential despair the better to substitute his earthly, ersatz heaven. While the natives worship the old gods, they may suffer, but they do not despair.
Marx called all other religions besides the one he would invent “the opiate of the people”. Now if you are going to sell a rival product, it only makes sense to destroy the competition first.
Take away man’s metaphysical system and many will wander about like ants, “under a sky swept of stars” — as Camus put it — looking for someone, something to give them meaning. And that’s where the demagogue comes in.
That could be Jim Jones, or Xenu or whoever you like. The name changes but the product is the same. The best place for a cult leader to go trawling is always among the lost and lonely. If he builds it, they will come. They’ll fight to get into prison. The last scam on earth to go out of business will be cults. It was the great genius of Lenin to take the elements of mystery, eschatology and martyrdom and cast it into the only world-religion ever invented in the Western world: Marxism-Leninism.
It was so successful that the idea at once gave rise to a whole plethora of heresies, including the Fascist and National Socialist heresies, with whom Marxism-Leninism fought a religious war in the 1940s, the most the destructive war of belief in world history.
Leader: “No that’s not true.”
Masses: “No that’s not true.”
Leader: “It’s a lie.”
Masses: “It’s a lie.”
Sometime I think that purely for reasons of public safety we should encourage people to believe in Moses, Jesus or the Buddha simply because if you are going to believe something anyway, better the Buddha or Jesus than some frigging bearded German intellectual or bald Russian conspirator or moonfaced Chinese mass murderer. Augustine said, “my heart will never rest until it rests in thee”, and if this is true I will head for the church before I will head for ACORN.
You can sum up the “manifesto” of the 99%ers in three main statements:
1. I am absolutely entitled to be happy, stress free, anxiety free, perfectly healthy, well-rested, and entertained every waking minute of my life, and if I can’t pay for these things myself (for whatever reasons, including laziness and incompetence on my part) it is the responsibility of everyone else to do so.
2. If anything happens that all of these conditions aren’t met, then it is the primary police, regulatory, and tax-policy responsibility of government – and the primary obligation of taxpayers – to see that they are restored immediately.
3. If these things aren’t restored immediately, then I will use whatever means – electoral or violent – to smash anyone or any business who is better off than I am.
My response to these as follows:
1. There is no right to happiness. Only its pursuit. You are not entitled to a materially excellent, stress free, exciting life. Nobody who has ever lived is entitled to this.
When you adopt the attitude that it is ultimately the responsibility not of yourself but of some agency outside of yourself to provide you with material satisfaction and happiness and freedom from anxiety, you void your humanity. The default condition of humans throughout millions of years of history is hungry, stressed, and in need of sleep.
Until the past few decades in the Western and Westernized world and with a free market, capitalistic system, this is how most people lived. The capitalist system you all seem to hate also had some of this stress and is far from perfect, but it is the only one that gave people an opportunity (not a guarantee, an OPPORTUNITY) to do something about it. It’s not my fault that your politically correct history teachers imbued with leftist agendas failed to teach you any of this, or that your demagoguing leftist politicians were dishonest about what were historical norms in terms of what to expect out of life.
2. The primary purpose of government is to guarantee civil rights (negative rights, not positive economic ones), be an impartial judge in civil matters, provide equal access to energy and commerce, and then get the hell out of the way and let people sink or soar based upon their native skills, work ethic, and the value of their particular work at whatever the existing level of technology might be. Period.
It is NOT to make sure that you have enough money for all the trinkets and outward signs of success and status. Not to free up money that you would have spent on medical care so you can have a new car by taking that medical money from your neighbor who earns more than you do. Not to put in regulations which guarantee your job security and income security at bulletproof levels. We’ve had governments that are like that in the last hundred years or so. Review them and their histories and their human rights legacy and then decide which is best, that way or this one.
3. It’s true that there was much malfeasance on Wall Street. The bad actors should go to jail. But everyone on Wall Street isn’t bad, and Wall Street is only a tiny fraction of the business community. It is insanity to paint all business people with a broad brush as you do and want to crush them with protests and support politicians who promote a ridiculous level of regulation. Smash business and your wealthier neighbors and you will destroy any opportunity for yourself.
Everyone can’t have a good paying public sector job with great benefits where you don’t have to work very hard and can retire at 58. And what jobs there are that are like that will not be increasing in number as time goes by, given the obvious failure of the big-government welfare/nanny/hyperregulatory state.
Success in the private sector requires that you learn to manage stress. That you purge envy from your life. Learn to multitask. Learn to work within a hierarchy even if you aren’t at the top. Learn that you are valuable to your boss if you need to be told how to do something only once and learn and retain it forever (something you would certainly demand if you were boss). Learn that you may have to move and make other sacrifices in order to be somewhere where your skills are in demand. Learn that you may not get all the material things you want quickly and at once. Learn to be happy with whatever pay rate your neighbors and community have decided your labor or product is worth on a free market .
The very fact that you’re in this protest and failing to thrive, and that other young people are doing well and happy with less education and even lower pay than you, is prima facie evidence that you have not learned at least one and possibly several of these necessary things. It’s not the fault of George Bush or businesspeople or devout Christians or Republicans – or Democrats, even. It’s your own deficits, or your own stubbornness.
Your anger and efforts would be better directed at the (largely government) education system. In this you have been ill-served. It is overpriced, staffed primarily with people who aren’t there to be excellent but to get thirty years of guaranteed pay and a pension, who are not at all averse to using the bully pulpit they possess to propagandize instead of teach and conveniently forget to mention aspects of philosophies or historical facts that blow holes in their narrative, and their marketing of their services with respect to ultimate financial expectations has been largely dishonest. If you didn’t fit in exactly to their expectations or were difficult to teach they would put you on Ritalin or some other drugs.
That said, nobody forced you to go deeply into debt for an “education” that is more often an indoctrination with no guarantees of a marketable skill.
Likewise, your parents did you no favors. They had you play soccer in leagues that didn’t keep score and gave trophies to all the teams regardless of how good or bad they were, shielding you from the concept of winning and losing, the notion that not everyone has the same skill set, and the idea that actions have consequences. They supported the notion of getting rid of class rank for valedictorian, got rid of physical education and home economics and recess. They filled you with the poisonous notion of outcome egalitarianism, the greatest lie of all.
The minute you were “unhappy” your parents brought you to the doctor and put you on happy pills. They bubble wrapped you so you would never be hurt or suffer consequences for bad actions or words. They insisted you go to college instead of getting a trade because they wanted to impress everyone with how awesome they were as parents as evidenced by sending all their kids to college.
Your media and information industry failed you, getting you to think that supporting Obama in 2008 was a blow against Wall Street by not reporting that Wall Street gave him five times more money than McCain. Protesting Wall Street but not Obama is illogical but understandable if you aren’t aware of his campaign finance connections. (If you know about them and are still protesting Wall Street but not Obama, you’re a hypocrite.)
However, your biggest failure is to yourself. Whatever people or circumstances led you to believe that you deserve to have perfect, stress free happiness and everything you wanted or the government would get it for you, they were wrong, and so are you.
Want to be successful and ultimately happy? You’ll need to learn that you will have to sacrifice much in the short term. You’ll be best friends with the concept of delayed gratification. You’ll have to learn to deal with high stress levels, lack of sleep, and lack of material status among peers, not for a few hours or a day or two but for weeks or months or years. You’ll learn to exist not being fully happy for extended times in your life – without happy pills. You’ll learn that there are things in life that make you happy like religion, community, volunteer work, and so many other things that have nothing to do with pay.
You’ll learn to deal with all of this with dignity and a sense of humor, not pouty aggrieved entitlement.
Or you’ll fail utterly and cosmically deserve to fail, regardless of what happens to Wall Street.
RUN FAST, THE TRUTH IS ABOUT TO BITE YOU ON YOUR BACKSIDE.
We have now reached the point where the great majority of the people living below the official poverty level have such things as air-conditioning, microwave ovens, either videocassette recorders or DVD players, and own either a car or a truck.
Why are such people called "poor"? Because they meet the arbitrary criteria established by Washington bureaucrats. Depending on what criteria are used, you can have as much official poverty as you want, regardless of whether it bears any relationship to reality.
Those who believe in an expansive, nanny state government need a large number of people in "poverty" to justify their programs. They also need a large number of people dependent on government to provide the votes needed to keep the big nanny state going.
Politicians, welfare state bureaucrats and others have incentives to create or perpetuate hoaxes, whether about poverty in general or hunger in particular. The high cost to taxpayers is exceeded by the even higher cost of lost opportunities for fulfillment in their lives by those who succumb to the lure of a stagnant life of dependency.
The political left has turned obesity among low-income individuals into an argument that low-income people cannot afford nutritious food, and so have to resort to burgers and fries, pizzas and the like, which are more fattening and less healthful. But this attempt to salvage something from the "hunger in America" hoax collapses like a house of cards when you stop and think about it.
Burgers, pizzas and the like cost more than food that you can buy at a store and cook yourself. If you can afford junk food, you can certainly afford healthier food. An article in the New York Times of September 25th by Mark Bittman showed that you can cook a meal for four at half the cost of a meal from a burger restaurant. So far, so good. But then Mr. Bittman says that the problem is "to get people to see cooking as a joy." For this, he says, "we need action both cultural and political." In other words, the nanny state to the rescue!
Since when are adult human beings supposed to do only those things that are a joy? I don't find any particular joy in putting on my shoes. But I do it rather than go barefoot. I don't always find it a joy to drive a car, especially in bad weather, but I have to get from here to there.
GEORGE SOROS AND OBAMA SAY LET'S DESTROY IT AND THEN REBUILD IT. AND NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON.
Thousands of people are expected to converge on Austin City Hall today in an anti-Wall Street rally that organizers say could last days or weeks.
By Wednesday evening, more than 4,200 people had indicated on the group's Facebook page that they would attend the Occupy Austin event. How many will actually show up remains unknown, but organizers — and police — have been preparing for a major turnout.
Volunteers have spent days organizing food, first aid, legal services, music, child care, Internet support and other logistics for the event. They've recruited other volunteers and held meetings. They've blasted the news all over social media.
"People are really coming together and trying to get organized," said Kiki Avilez , a 25-year-old Austin woman who plans to attend the event. "Everyone's sick of the corporate greed, and they just want to be heard."
Today's protest starts at 10 a.m. outside City Hall, 301 W. Second St. Similar rallies will be held today in other Texas cities, including Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
Occupy Austin is an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street, an ongoing protest in New York that denounces the role that large companies played in the country's financial crisis, the influence of corporate money in politics and the growing wealth gap. Since thousands of people began demonstrating on Wall Street on Sept. 17 , satellite groups have sprung up in other major cities, including Boston, San Francisco and Chicago.
Setting one tribe against another, one faction against another, divide and conquer, is among the oldest tactics of politics and war.
The Obama campaign headquarters calls its divide-and-conquer strategy "Operation Vote." Reporter Peter Wallsten describes it:
"Operation Vote will function as a large, centralized department in the Chicago campaign office for reaching ethnic, religious and other voter groups. It will coordinate recruitment of an ethnic volunteer base and push out targeted messages online and through the media to different groups, such as blacks, Hispanics, Jews, women, seniors, young people, gays and Asian Americans."
This is tribal politics, pure and simple. Hire blacks, Hispanics, Jews and gays to appeal to and advance the interests of blacks, Hispanics, Jews and gays. And what happens then to the national interest?
Conspicuously absent from this racial-ethnic-religious targeting is America's majority, white Christians, who are still 60 percent of the nation. Why no outreach to them? Have they been written off?
