1. new old stock ww2 footage
2. $4 dollar gas buys?
3. dog sense
4. repost of jumpingforjoy's "tony robbins deconstruction"...brilliant
5. Macau, China booming 8% a year w/ our jobs and T bills.
6. day of glass
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"If farm kids and bureaucrats swapped jobs, you could enjoy an efficient government while starving to death."

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"I still remember when I was a freshman in h.s. and the Debate Issue for the year

was, "The President of the U.S. should be elected by the direct vote of the

people." I think it was used a few other years too during D plus 55 yrs since

then. As you know Debates have both positive and negative debaters. Our

coach was Ms. Raawe, a social studies teacher. I was usually the first negative

contestant. It was a good beginning to learning much about issues. One can

certainly see from this email from a cousin of mine that highly populated cities

would EASILY TAKE CHARGE OF ALL ELECTIONS. I think that I was

about 14 yrs old when I was on the debate team. 62 yrs later, I can see that the

skills she gave us are so RELEVANT TO THE 21ST CENTURY TOO!!

READ THOROUGHLY AND ABSORB!!"

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"Scary Obituary
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of

Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000

years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a

permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the

time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the

public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise

the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy

will finally
collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of

history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations

always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
The Obituary follows:

Born 1776, Died 2012

It doesn't hurt to read this several times.

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul,

Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential

election:

Number of States won by:
Obama: 19
McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Obama: 580,000
McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Obama: 127 million
McCain: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Obama: 13.2
McCain: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was

mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.

Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income

tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the
"complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy,

with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the

"governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders

called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer

than five years.

If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.

If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at

stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom..

This is truly scary!
Of course we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic .
Someone should point this out to Obama.
Of course we know he and too many others pay little attention to The

Constitution.
There couldn't be more at stake than on Nov 2012."

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"One of the highly developed talents of President Barack Obama is the ability to

say things that are demonstrably false, and make them sound not only plausible

but inspiring.

That talent was displayed just this week when he was asked whether he thought

the Supreme Court would uphold ObamaCare as constitutional or strike it down

as unconstitutional.

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He replied: "I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be

an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a

strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."

But how unprecedented would it actually be if the Supreme Court declared a

law unconstitutional if it was passed by "a strong majority of a democratically

elected Congress"?

The Supreme Court has been doing precisely that for 209 years!

Nor is it likely that Barack Obama has never heard of it. He has a degree from

the Harvard law school and taught constitutional law at the University of

Chicago law school. In what must be one of the most famous Supreme Court

cases in history — Marbury v. Madison in 1803 — Chief Justice John Marshall

established the principle that the Supreme Court can declare acts of Congress

null and void if these acts violate the Constitution.

They have been doing so for more than two centuries. It is the foundation of

American constitutional law. There is no way that Barack Obama has never

heard of it or really believes it to be "unprecedented" after two centuries of

countless precedents.

In short, he is simply lying.

Now there are different kinds of liars. If we must have lying Presidents of the

United States, I prefer that they be like Richard Nixon. You could just look at

him and tell that he was lying.

But Obama is much smoother. On this and on many other issues, you would

have to know what the facts are to know that he is lying. He is obviously

counting on the fact that, in this era of dumbed-down education, many people

have no clue as to what the facts are.

He is also counting on something else — namely, that the pro-Obama media will

not expose his lies.

One of the many ways of lying smoothly is to simply redefine words. Barack

Obama is a master at that as well.

In the comment on the case pending before the Supreme Court, President

Obama said that he wanted to remind "conservative commentators" that they

have complained about "judicial activism" — which he redefines as the idea that

"an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and

passed law."

First of all, every law that the Supreme Court has overturned for the past 209

years since Marbury v. Madison was "a duly constituted and passed law."

Second, the "judicial activism" that conservatives have complained about was

judges making rulings based on how they felt personally about the issue at hand,

rather than about what the Constitution of the United States said.

In recent years, great efforts have been made to redefine "judicial activism" in

terms of judges declaring laws unconstitutional, instead of "deferring" to

Congress or other government institutions.

But what is the Constitution's Bill of Rights supposed to protect the ordinary

citizen from? Government institutions! If judges are to defer to the very

institutions that the Bill of Rights tries to protect the citizen from, what is the point

of having a Bill of Rights?

As for Supreme Court justices being unelected, that has been true since the

Constitution was created. That was done deliberately, so that they could render

their judgments without fear of political repercussions. If unelected Supreme

Court justices are to automatically defer to elected officials, that again raises the

question of why they are there at all.

Why are the taxpayers paying their salaries and housing them in an expensive

marble building — just so that they can go along to get along?

It would be hard to become nostalgic about Richard Nixon, who was forced to

resign in disgrace. But at least you could tell when he was lying. Obama's lies are

just as big but not as visible, and the media that exposed Nixon is covering for

Obama."