March 24, 2006
That really is a huge step for the socialist Observer. They really do love Jim Black -- he supports using government in spite of any Constitutional issues, to advance a hugely socialist agenda. The Observer really loves the way he works daily to grow government larger and larger, and they love the way he supports removing freedom from people as often as he can.
And even now, after the State Board of Elections (D) has finally realized that he really did break the law, as noted here earlier this week; the Observer STILL won't admit that he did break the law! In their opinion piece calling for his resignation, they say he's lost his leadership ability and they don't care about his lawbreaking.
In other words, in their glowing report about him and how wonderful he is, The Observer says that they're calling for his resignation because they want someone else there who can fly under the radar and create more socialism without being noticed and a target. They still want their socialism, and they still want their lawbreaking, they just don't want Black to do it because too many people know he's a lawbreaker now.
Jeff Taylor also weighs in, noting that the Observer also believes that bribery isn't a crime in North Carolina. Then again, I guess it's not if the Democrats in the Legislature do it.
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Eating to Live, Rather than Living to Eat
Indeed.
Why do you eat? Do you eat because you can? Do you eat because it's "mealtime?" Or do you eat because you're hungry and need food to survive? I certainly do, at times, find myself eating just because I can. Why did I order that 22oz Porterhouse? Because I can.
More often, I don't, however. I know people who feel the need to eat at regular intervals -- not me. I almost never actually get hungry. I've gone as many as 3 days without eating, and still never got hungry (we were really lost in a BIG forest) -- even when we found our way out and to food, we weren't hungry, we just wanted to taste food.
Just think about it next time you're out for a bite. Do you really NEED to finish that super-sized portion? Are you eating just to eat, or are you eating to survive?
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Many reports are talking about scientist's discoveries that the Bird Flu actually lives so far down in the lungs that it's very, very difficult to spread. Regular coughing doesn't discharge the virus and spread it, as happens with the "normal" flu because it just lives too deep.
Other reports mention that the current virus doesn't have the right receptors to properly connect to and infect humans -- in other words, the virus, even when exposed to humans, often just can't connect and can't infect the people.
At the same time, North Carolina Governor Mike Easley is whining and complaining that the federal government GAVE him $5 MILLION to prepare for the bird flu. He's screaming that he's not responsible and that the federal government needs to save him because he's too stupid, or something like that.
So we're ALREADY spending money preparing for this flu -- while scientists are now saying that it's not likely to actually infect humans. Of course, the excuse now given is "What if it mutates?" Well, what if AIDS mutates so it can be spread from breathing on people? What if a meteor hits the world tomorrow? What if whales grow feet and start stomping through cities?
I know some other folks believe the U.S. IS going to get hit, but that we're going to be prepared. It's starting to look to me like this is just another excuse for massive increases in government spending and control. Is the sky falling, too, Governor Easley?
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What kind of utter control freaks are these people in government? When I read about stories like this, I really, seriously wonder if there is any hope for freedom at all left in America. It sure doesn't seem like it.
Can anyone give me ANY possible reason, any logical reason, why the government wouldn't want TWO hospitals? What possible bad outcomes can there be from that? I know the reason why they want only one -- so the government can have more power can control. But why do the people prop up such utterly socialist government?
Why can't we let anyone who wants to build a hospital? Why on earth does someone need government's permission? It just absolutely completely baffles my mind. How can two hospitals not be better than one? And if FOUR companies want to build hospitals, how in the world can that be a BAD thing? Isn't healing people GOOD? Wouldn't it be nice to have another hospital to turn to when one got full? Apparently not in government's eyes.
Seriously, what possible reason, other than total government control, can anyone give for not wanting MORE hospitals?
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The lottery law requires North Carolina "State mental health administrators" to create a program to help those who get addicted. And yes, the proceeds of the lottery will pay for the "gambler assistance."
The state wants to create training programs, ceritifications, treatment centers, and 12-step programs. They're freely admitting, and indeed seem to be overjoyed that this state program (a tax on the stupid and poor) will not only bring in more money to the general fund to be spent on whatever they like, it will have a side benefit of making even more people destitute and dependent on government.
I don't know how these people sleep at night, knowing they're intentionally enslaving more and more people every day.
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March 23, 2006
Then maybe she won't lose it so often.
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I do write most of my posts online and don't like copying from Word because of formatting problems. Yes, I know I could use something else like Notepad+, but I really just prefer writing in the form boxes online -- but now I have no way to check spelling there.
I've tried Google's spellchecker on the toolbar, but it doesn't seem to work too well for me.
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You buy a really expensive car. The payments are really more than you can afford, but it's a really nice car. You go out to eat every Friday, just putting the bill on your credit card, making that monthly minimum payment. Eventually, you get a second mortgage on your house so you can pay off those credit card bills. Then you use the credit cards for some more entertainment, like buying nice season tickets to the local sports team.
Come the end of the month, you simply don't have enough money to pay all your bills. So, you just head on to work like you do every day and you demand that your employer give you a pile of cash to pay your bills. No, you're not going to actually DO anything extra -- in fact, you're going to need some more time off to go pay the bills in person -- but you just demand the money. You promise to work more "later" to make up for the cash.
How many of you wouldn't be immediately laughed at or fired (presuming you're not a union member)? Well, this is exactly what the City of Detroit is doing now. They've overspent their money, so they just demand more. No, they're not claiming to ask for more taxes, just another "loan" that will magically be paid back without tax money.
But hey, this is today's government in America. The people who currently run the government honestly believe they have an utterly, completely unlimited source of money to spend any time and anywhere they want. They cannot comprehend running out of money because they can always demand more.
Oh how I yearn for freedom.
(Hat tip to Charlotte John Locke Foundation Blog).
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Today the American Civil Liberties Union issued a press release which is featured on their website's "Newsroom" page that is titled, "ACLU Hails Rhode Island Department of Education Efforts to Stop the Use of Harmful "Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage" Curriculum in Public Schools". Only the ACLU and a liberal state like Rhode Island could find abstaining from sexual activity harmful. more...
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In case you missed it, this is the city that has banned smoking outdoors. Since there is literally zero health or safety reason for banning it outside, the city managed to argue that smoking should be banned "to protect children from bad influences – seeing adults smoking."
That logic is based on the theory that smoking is a bad habit and should not be done by anyone because you're too stupid to know that it's bad for you. The exact same logic can be applied to food. If you eat too much, that's bad for you, and you're too dumb to know that or to NOT eat too much. Therefore we should ban the appearance of fat people in public (based on an idea from Dr. Walter Williams.
Ok, so let's set the banning rules. If there's going to be a law, we're going to have to codify it, aren't we? Let's start the discussion now, so we can get the correct law in place. Should be ban based on BMI index? Should physical appearance be based on height/weight measures? Perhaps there should be a simple list of 5 or 10 "fat items" and then if any person meets the criteria of, say, 5 of the 10 items, they are considered "fat," a bad influence on children, and are not permitted in public. How about a list:
1. Exposed rolls of fat between the pants and shirt or top in excess of 2 inches.
2. Any amount of skin protruding beyond the edge of tightly wrapped clothing in excess of 2 inches.
3. Anyone considered officially "fat" by the official government agency of fat, the CDC.
4. Anyone that has a BMI index exceeding 25.0.
5. Anyone who measures more around than tall.
6. Anyone who cannot wrap a towel all the way around their waist, but can hold the towel in place with their fat.
7. Anyone who eats McDonalds French Fries and Big Macs.
8. Anyone who eats movie popcorn butter.
9. Anyone who eats more than the USRDA of 2,000 calories per day.
10. Anyone whose ankle bones cannot be visibly seen from a distance of ten feet because they're obscured by fat.
So, will that do it? That's what the "Center for Science and the Public Interest" would like to see. After all, they are "proud about finding something wrong with practically everything."
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How, you ask? Well, the Observer whines and complains that there were proposals to strengthen drunk driving laws in the legislature that didn't get passed. If only those laws were in place, no one would die.
Politicians must also get serious about treatment programs. Mecklenburg's successful drug treatment courts are a model for the nation. They should be expanded and better funded.
So, in other words, Mecklenburg has the absolute BEST courts in the country -- and they're having no effect. So they should be expanded. And given more money. This is straight out of the liberal handbook -- if a program doesn't work, give it more money. If it still doesn't work, give it more.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves" comes to mind here.
Bigger fines, more sobriety checkpoints and more public focus on cracking down on drunk drivers are also badly needed. All these require political will and resources
In other words, we've got too much freedom goin' on. Spend more money and restrict freedom more, and no one will die. Perhaps the Observer would only be happy if everyone were stopped every night at a "sobriety checkpoint." Goodness knows, there's nothing else for police to do in Charlotte -- after all there weren't 7 murders, 26 rapes, 238 robberies, over 1,000 burglaries and over 2,000 larcenies just in the month of January in Charlotte...oh wait -- yes there were.
But the Observer knows that it's call for more government spending, more taxes, and less freedom, won't have any effect on drunk drivers:
Still, most drivers in a recent survey said the biggest discouragement against drunk driving is realizing they could kill others and themselves.
So the Observer freely admits that they are calling for more socialism and are simply using drunk drivers and emotion to scare people into supporting their socialist and communist ideas.
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March 22, 2006
I don't get it, but do click on over and see if you do!
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Helen started out her "question" with this gem:
I'd like to ask you, Mr. President, your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime. Every reason given, publicly at least, has turned out not to be true.
So her "question" is: Mr. Bush, you're a violent murdering liar. And this is supposed to be the "press" that "protects the truth?" Not even close. Any time you want an example of media bias, feel free to look at this moron. She then continues with this:
My question is, why did you really want to go to war? From the moment you stepped into the White House, from your Cabinet -- your Cabinet officers, intelligence people, and so forth -- what was your real reason? You have said it wasn't oil -- quest for oil, it hasn't been Israel, or anything else. What was it?
In other words, Ms. (and I use that term lightly) Thomas is claiming that Bush is a liar and a warmonger who only wants war to have war. She's saying that no matter what Bush has said in the past, over and over, is lies.
Then Bush tries to answer, but Helen interrupts at least twice, not letting him talk. Finally Bush just starts talking over her:
Excuse me, excuse me. No President wants war. Everything you may have heard is that, but it's just simply not true. My attitude about the defense of this country changed on September the 11th. We -- when we got attacked, I vowed then and there to use every asset at my disposal to protect the American people. Our foreign policy changed on that day, Helen. You know, we used to think we were secure because of oceans and previous diplomacy. But we realized on September the 11th, 2001, that killers could destroy innocent life. And I'm never going to forget it. And I'm never going to forget the vow I made to the American people that we will do everything in our power to protect our people.
Helen then interrupts AGAIN and again, claiming "They didn't do anything to you, or to our country." -- and Bush continues over her objections that she doesn't want to hear the truth:
They did. The Taliban provided safe haven for al Qaeda. That's where al Qaeda trained -- Afghanistan provided safe haven for al Qaeda. That's where they trained. That's where they plotted. That's where they planned the attacks that killed thousands of innocent Americans. I also saw a threat in Iraq. I was hoping to solve this problem diplomatically. That's why I went to the Security Council; that's why it was important to pass 1441, which was unanimously passed. And the world said, disarm, disclose, or face serious consequences -- and therefore, we worked with the world, we worked to make sure that Saddam Hussein heard the message of the world. And when he chose to deny inspectors, when he chose not to disclose, then I had the difficult decision to make to remove him. And we did, and the world is safer for it.
Nice spanking, President Bush.
Helen Thomas, just shut up, you're a certifiable lunatic.
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Wrong. Enemy #1 is the State Government. And that's wrong.
Fishermen have been forced to form an organization to "educate the various levels of government on the importance of the fishing industry." Why, you might ask? Because the state government is doing all they can to crush the industry -- because the state would like to run that industry, too -- it's called socialism, and it's the form of government that North Carolina Democrats prefer.
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The state legislature is going to give $8.9 million to anyone who wants it who meets a few criteria, including improving the health of some people of North Carolina:
The beneficiaries MUST be white people.
How is that possible? How can the state be concerned only with the health of a person based solely on the color of their skin? Where is the outrage?
Oh, and where did the money come from? From YOU, good reader. Your tax dollars are being used here -- some of this money came from the federal government and the "tobacco lawsuits."
The chairman of this commission that is giving away millions of dollars based on race is Lt. Governor Perdue, Democrat. The State secretary of Health and Human services (D) has made it her goal to "eliminate disparities in health statistics among the races." Apparently her other title is "God."
No one has apparently raised any objections to this recent government handout program. If you, too, have a "record of successful projects to improve public health," you can get piles of free cash from the North Carolina government -- but only if you're going to help white people and NOT black people. more...
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March 21, 2006
Update: Unfortunately, I guess you're not going to see this one...darn iframe's not working...
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It is likely the ruling will be appealed, but it is not known when it will be appealed, or if the appeals court will hear the case before the lottery tickets actually go one sale.
Unfortunately, no one even contests that the Constitution was violated -- it's just that no one cares.
The North Carolina Constitution clearly states that any law that raises money for the state is to be voted upon on three separate days. The lottery was not. The only way the judge can claim that the Constitution was not violated is to claim that the lottery isn't bringing any revenue into the state of North Carolina.
So much for any rule of law in NC.
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