The Leveller: A modern day regulator

Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam's IOUs

I suppose the timing of this doesn’t really matter.

“Those bonds are protected by the full faith and credit of the United States of America,” said Barbara Kennelly, a former Democratic congresswoman from Connecticut who is now president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.

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While Congress must shore up the program, action is unlikely this year, said Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., who just took over last week as chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees Social Security.
“The issues required to address the long-term solvency needs of Social Security can be done in a careful, thoughtful and orderly way and they don’t need to be done in the next few months,” Pomeroy said.

Really? But it seems like more of a current problem than health care so why not the same calm assiduous approach?

Redefining social security is not as glamorous as health care “for all” so it will not receive any thoughtful consideration.

There really is no way to frame a redo of social security in a way that is attractive to anyone since its all ready universal so they avoid it.

The bums. All of them. Some one needs to fire the first shot. Another revolution is the only redress. Voting is simply not enough anymore and people need to realize that. Yet, such an early prognostication of revolution in America will meet mostly detractors from all colors. This is a shame but even if Thomas Jefferson could be made “fresh” and “alive” today to where he would also advocate revolt as the only viable course of action he would also meet the same fate as anyone else. Which is also a shame because pundits, politicians and sycophants all claim to have him in part as their inspiration yet none know him so well at all.

It is absolute and utter ignorance for people today to say that anyone from the founding generation would NOT support a revolution today. Its non sense because they are talking about the very people that started the only revolution in our history and to think they wouldn’t have the nerve to do it again is to be believed only by a stupid person.

It is long over due. Off with Pelosi, Reid, and Obama’s diplomatic heads!

When its time, and the time is in fact very near, I’ll do my part, how about you?

Can I get a witness: The Hurt Locker

These types of war movies are morally repugnant and abhorrent. It received numerous awards for what?

Phillips, 30, from Fayetteville, North Carolina, called the movie’s portrayal of a bomb expert “grossly exaggerated and not appropriate.”

The Hurt Locker

“While it was sexed up quite a bit, I really enjoyed it,” said Tech Sgt. William Adomeit, 31

They have to sex it up. No one will watch it or win awards otherwise. All these movies do besides win awards is make young kids wanna be “macho” as it was portrayed in this fiction.

If the reality could somehow be made into a movie, the likelihood of most pernicious and unjust wars would decrease precipitously.

However, a real enduring problem is quoted here

But one thing the movie got down pat, the experts in Iraq say, is a bomb disposal expert’s love for the adrenaline rush of a job well done. Now, with improved security across Iraq, their missions are rare.

In all the history of the human condition you’ll find no equal to impart on the soul of a man such as that as the tides of war.

New Musket!

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May be unbelievable

Why Palin? Better than the many cannibals that haunt Congress. Take your pick venality or vanity?

John Ziegler, a Palin ally, said Schmidt “is trying to justify an incredibly, poorly run campaign on his part. His career has been greatly damaged in Republican circles. Why would anyone hire Steve Schmidt? He’s tried to torpedo the most popular Republican that there is after running a horrendous presidential campaign.”

Sure, I agree that Schmidt ran a poor campain and it is likely he torpedo’d his own career strikingly similar to Matlin in the aftermath of Bush’s ’92 campaign. But if this is true it really makes little sense for Schmidt to lie about these particular details. Remembering the Couric interview and other embarrassing moments for Palin last year the statements from Scmidt are entirely believable.

To me Palin speaks rather oddly, not sounding stupid like Bush in terms of pronunciation but more like rambling on. Her sentences fit together grammatically but its as if she puts it together just in time to make the whole sentence proper, barely appropriate, and, ahem, believable with the last string of words. Its an odd skill.

However, “[S]he still didn’t really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea, Heilemann told the program’s Anderson Cooper. She was still regularly saying that Saddam Hussein had been behind 9/11.”

It’s harder to believe that Schmidt would fabricate these items.

Schmidt continues by saying, “I believe, had she not been on the ticket, our margin of defeat would’ve been greater than it would’ve been otherwise.”

Dumb but true statement by Schmidt but again he is merely telling his own opinion no doubt with the interviewer. But really, any Republican can’t lose by much more than McCain no matter how awful the campaign. However, if McCain would have picked Leiberman as I assumed, the campaign would have appeared a little more deliberate and avoid the embarrassing flaps the camp endured not exhausting so much energy and resources in getting Palin fit for prime-time in terms of image.

Now conservatives must be confusing her general population curiousity with real voter muscle. Conservatives seem to be expecting that they will be able to cash in not only dollars but votes with Palin. I doubt this will happen as time goes by and near the next major national elections as it did in 2008.

But the conservative support is still baffling. Is Sarah Palin really the best thing for the conservatives or Republican party?

Her ascendacy is a bit surreal and reminds of a movie called Idiocracy where an Army experiment gone wrong left the most average Joe in the world frozen for 500 years only to awaken to a world of idiots. He was considered a genius by the masses. It was silly but reminds of Palin who is painfully average in every way. Yet Republicans are acting extremely thrilled. I suspect there is some sexuality involved due to various comments that have surfaced from time to time but there is little motivation for such widespread support among conservatives on that basis alone.

It may be unbelievable but it happened just that way…therefore I nominate the Sleepy Rebels song for Palin and conservatives who are joined together in a most peculiar way. Good luck in 2012!

Palin, a reckless choice

I believe Cheney made the remark. Its among his few criticisms I can agree with.

More than that, Sarah Palin takes Fox News commentator job

I guess this is what Palin meant by wanting in someway to cash in on her notoriety. Quit Governor of Alaska to collect speaking money, a book deal, and now this.

Also, McCain aide: Palin believed candidacy ‘God’s plan’

What leads people to believe this kind of thing? Why can’t the candidacy of Ron Paul be God’s plan? It’s just another asinine statement demonstrating the weakness of the people we have running in politics today.

We truly have the most feeble minded lemmings lurking in and around Congress.

Consider what is more reckless. What was reckless about Palin as McCains choice exactly? How would Cheney answer that question. Was it meant politically as a candidate or in office as VP? If the publication is accurate and “unprepared for high office” is what he thought then we have to assume the latter.

Why should we as a people have a government that according to Cheney’s own words can elect someone so unprepared but to nearly become the most powerful person on earth? In other words if any earthling was asked who is the most powerful person on earth, most likely the president of the U.S. would be listed number one. Removing the president of the U.S. from this survey and the earthlings choices would probably be hard to guess.

So it seems obvious that for now, the president of the U.S. is the most powerful person in the world. I contend this is not a favorable outcome, it is a least desirable situation. If “unqualified” persons can be elected certainly we should argue for a smaller more humble if not impotent government.

Having a monetary standard, and a truly limited government as the majority of the founding generation articulated then nothing like 8 years of Bush or the present government would be allowed to carry on the criminal activity that has become business as usual.