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Affirmative Action has to go!
Before I get into the subject at hand, I have to mention just ONE instance of this blog getting a backlink from another blog. I do not go out and actively find blogs and say, want to exchange links? Nor do I buy links. I have found that when I write up something or post a good link, if I link directly back to the source blog, I get at the least a ping back, but more and more often I get a nice backlink. As in this blog I just put up a picture of the finished product and a link back to the blog for the recipe. You can see the original post here, http://iowadawg.com/will-this-come-to-past-in-the-usa/. In that post is a picture of: Ready-to-mix portable hot-chocolate sticks, complete with mini-marshmallows. Just dip in hot milk and stir! And if you go to the link, you will see at the bottom a nice link back to my post! Kudos to blogs who do this!!
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With all the talk about “disparities” in innumerable contexts, there is one very important disparity that gets remarkably little attention — disparities in the ability to create wealth. People who are preoccupied, or even obsessed, with disparities in income are seldom interested much, or at all, in the disparities in the ability to create wealth, which are often the reasons for the disparities in income.
In a market economy, people pay us for benefiting them in some way — whether we are sweeping their floors, selling them diamonds or anything in between. Disparities in our ability to create benefits for which others will pay us are huge, and the skills required can develop early — or sometimes not at all.
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Gross inequalities in skills and achievements have been the rule, not the exception, on every inhabited continent and for centuries on end. Yet our laws and government policies act as if any significant statistical difference between racial or ethnic groups in employment or income can only be a result of their being treated differently by others.
Nor is this simply an opinion. Businesses have been sued by the government when the representation of different groups among their employees differs substantially from their proportions in the population at large. But, no matter how the human race is broken down into its components — whether by race, sex, geographic region or whatever — glaring disparities in achievements have been the rule, not the exception.
Anyone who watches professional basketball games knows that the star players are by no means a representative sample of the population at large.
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Yet these and numerous other disparities in achievement are resolutely ignored by those whose shrill voices denounce disparities in rewards, as if these disparities are somehow suspicious at best and sinister at worst.
Higher achieving groups — whether classes, races or whatever — are often blamed for the failure of other groups to achieve. Politicians and intellectuals, especially, tend to conceive of social questions in terms that allow them to take on the role of being on the side of the angels against the forces of evil.
Read the article here.
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Then we have this raving liberal nut, Chris Matthews, otherwise known as Christine for the way he bends over for Obama. Must of been not enough news to get him excited about, so he makes up (as usual) his own brand of liberal shit. This time coming down on Newt Gingrich for the way he said JUAN. hahahahah,,,listen to the idiot…
See, this is what the liberals love to do, take something and make something out of it and then lie like hell!
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Newt: Palestinians must give up ‘right of return’ before negotiating peac…
This is an excellent clip! Herman Cain should watch this and take note of how Newt answers these two questions so….well, awesomely.
Newt is asked two questions, the first being if he would ever support a Muslim for president in the future and the second on what he believes should be done with the ‘invented’ Palestinian people . Quite frankly, he nails them both.
Go HERE for the video.
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TURKEY and U.S. STATE DEPT seething over Rick Perry’s call to kick Turkey out of NATO for its increasingly IslamoFascist government
Can’t you just see it? Hillary Clinton prostrating herself in front of the Turkish Ambassador, trying to pretend that Rick Perry’s remarks about Turkey were something other than a statement of fact.
Read MORE.
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Pelosi Begins Backing Away From Occupy Wall Street Fanatics…..
by sundancecracker, The Conservative Treehouse
Last week Debbie Wasserman Schultz (DNC Chair) made a ridiculous charge about the tone and discourse of incivility being created by the Tea Party. No one challenged her with the fact that almost 6,000 Occupy Wall Street people have been arrested for Rape, assault, Murder, Arson, Sexual assault, Terrorism, Use of explosives, Child sexual assault, Child prostitution, Drug abuses, and dozen more horrific acts of violence. 6,000 arrests.
With that fact based understanding, it really did seem silly that Debbie W Schultz would label the Tea Party as “uncivil”. Schultz was actually laughed at for her rabid stupidity, and the progs put her back into her kennel for a while to stop her from providing more ammunition for people to rightfully ridicule Democrats.
Read the article here.
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Via Defcon Hill:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israel’s parliament Monday that the current sanctions against Iran were not going to stop its nuclear program.
Speaking to the Israeli Knesset’s Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, Netanyahu said stronger sanctions against Iran’s central bank and oil exports were needed to halt its nuclear ambitions.
“As long as there will not be effective sanctions on Iran’s central bank and oil industry, there won’t be any effect on its nuclear program,” Netanyahu said, according to Israeli media.
His comments come while tensions between Iran and the U.S. remain high, and the same week that U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey is visiting Israel. The U.S. and Israel also said Sunday they were delaying a joint military exercise.
Israel’s vice prime minister accused President Obama of being hesitant to impose harsh sanctions because of “election-year considerations,” during an interview with Israel Radio Sunday.
As Tehran continues to pursue its nuclear program, the U.S. is concerned that Israel will launch a strike against Iran. Tensions between Iran and the U.S. have continued to rise in past weeks in response to sanctions, and analysts say the chance for military conflict is at its highest point in two decades.
(Of course they won’t, Obama has no intention of stopping Iran)
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President Obama’s White House spokesman dismissed as “crazy” Newt Gingrich’s claim that Obama has “put” people on food stamps, citing the ailing economy as the cause for the expanded use of welfare programs.
“Well, you know as well as I do that that’s crazy,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said when pressed on the issue. “The fact of the matter is this, country is emerging from the worst rec since the great depression,” he said initially. “When this president took the oath of office in January 2009 this economy was in free fall . . . [resulting in] a dramatic increase in the number of people who needed assistance.”
(this is like a fact. number of Americans receiving food stamps has skyrocketed since Obama took office)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that Democrats lost control of the House in 2010 because of superPACs, and by extension the Supreme Court, which caught Democrats by surprise when they started spending money in the 2010 cycle.
“Once those major special interests knew that they could contribute endlessly, secretly, without anybody knowing where the money came from, then the floodgates opened,” Pelosi said during the Politico Playbook breakfast. “May of last year — Easter, say, Passover of last year — not many people thought we would lose the house. By the time the [DISCLOSE campaign finance legislation] failed in the Senate, it was all over because it was going to be endless, endless money coming up on 9.5 percent unemployment.”
Pelosi explained that superPACs came about through a “miserable decision by the Supreme Court to allow any and all funding — secret, large, special interest contributions into campaign.” She dismissed the Supreme Court decision as “ridiculous.”
(princess pelosi is actually the queen of denial. if this did anything it leveled the playing field with the unions, who still spent the most money in the midterms)
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All the more reason states, if not the federal government, should have VOTER ID!! Now the democrats want to get another clueless class as their voters.
(The Hill) — Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said late last week that the United States should lower the voting age by two years, to 16.
“Why shouldn’t 16-year-old vote?” Ellison tweeted last week, according to Minnesota’s Fridley Patch. “They can drive. Some have jobs. Let’s empower our youth.”
The Patch said Ellison’s message started a Twitter debate on the subject, in which some said teens that young are not informed enough to vote. But Ellison rejected that.
“Oh come on! 16-year-olds are pretty sharp,” Ellison wrote. “When is last time you talked to teens? They have their own views on things.”
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America’s taxpayers, already on the hook for watching over the Occupy movement’s three-month seizure of Washington’s downtown McPherson Square, are getting stuck with another bill to cover the police protection and port-a-potty rentals at today’s Capitol protest.
For today’s protest, where several hundred Occupiers toting signs lingered in the muddy grass of the Capitol Grounds, over two dozen U.S. Capitol Police were assigned to ring the lawn, most on foot, some on bikes, and others in 18 cars, buses, and trucks counted by Whispers.
Plus, the government rented 17 bright blue potties from Don’s Johns, which were parked across from the Capitol Grounds and in the shadow of the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial.
The Architect of the Capitol’s office wouldn’t comment on the costs or protection.
But Don’s Johns told Whispers that renting 17 potties costs about $2,100.
A miffed Capitol Police officer told us, “I can’t believe we’re paying for this. But they have no money. They were complaining about parking prices.”
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Navy SEAL: US ignoring soldiers killed in combat, focused on urinating Marines
Gingrich on Obama: “I Don’t Want to Bloody His Nose, I Want to Knock Him Out”
Jarrett Remarks May Violate Church-State Rules
Gingrich: Obama Has “Failed” Blacks
Woman sues family of teenager killed by train
This is the stupidity of people and our liberal courts.
A teen is killed by a train. Part of his body flies through the air and hits a woman. She sues his family.
Read it all and you decide, is she good to go in suing him? Or not?
Go HERE.
Did you notice the gun? Better watch it again.
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The dawn of a new year is usually a time of hope and ambition, of dreams for the future and thoughts of a better life. But it is a long time since many of us looked forward to the new year with such anxiety, even dread.
Here in Britain, many economists believe that by the end of 2012 we could well have slipped into a second devastating recession. The Coalition remains delicately poised; it would take only one or two resignations to provoke a wider schism and a general election.
But the real dangers lie overseas. In the Middle East, the excitement of the Arab Spring has long since curdled into sectarian tension and fears of Islamic fundamentalism. And with so many of the world’s oil supplies concentrated in the Persian Gulf, British families will be keeping an anxious eye on events in the Arab world.
Meanwhile, as the eurozone slides towards disaster, the prospects for Europe have rarely been bleaker. Already the European elite have installed compliant technocratic governments in Greece and Italy, and with the markets now putting pressure on France, few observers can be optimistic that the Continent can avoid a total meltdown.
As commentators often remark, the world picture has not been grimmer since the dark days of the mid-Seventies, when the OPEC oil shock, the rise of stagflation and the surge of nationalist terrorism cast a heavy shadow over the Western world.
After a bit more history, he then goes on to discuss the US:
Democracy itself seemed to be under siege. In France, President Paul Doumer was murdered by an assassin. In Portugal, the authoritarian, ultra-Catholic dictator Antonio Salazar launched a reign of terror that would last into the Seventies. And in Italy, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini strengthened his grip, consolidating Italian power in the looted colonies of Albania and Libya.
Eighty years on, we have no room for complacency. Although the far Right remains no more than a thuggish and eccentric minority, the elected prime ministers of Greece and Italy have already been booted out to make way for EU-approved technocrats for whom nobody has ever voted.
In the new Europe, the will of the people seems to play second fiddle to the demands of Paris and Berlin. And if the eurozone crisis intensifies, then it is no idle fantasy to imagine that Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and their Brussels allies will demand an even greater centralisation of powers, provoking nationalist outrage on the streets of Europe’s capitals.
Sadly, there seems little point in looking across the Atlantic for inspiration. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover, beleaguered by rising unemployment and tumbling ratings, flailed and floundered towards election defeat.
The difference is that in 1932, one of the greatest statesmen of the century, the Democratic politician Franklin D. Roosevelt, was waiting in the wings.
Today, American voters looking for alternatives are confronted only with a bizarre gaggle of has-beens, inadequates and weirdos, otherwise known as the Republican presidential field. And to anybody who cares about the future of the Western world, the prospect of President Ron Paul or President Newt Gingrich is frankly spine-chilling.
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With rising unemployment eating away at the bonds of democratic civility, the National Socialist Party was within touching distance of government.
And in the last days of 1932, after the technocrats and generals had failed to restore order, President Paul von Hindenburg began to contemplate the unthinkable — the prospect of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
We all know what happened next. Indeed, by the end of 1932 the world was about to slide towards a new dark age, an age of barbarism and bloodshed on a scale that history had never known.
Eighty years on, it would be easy to sit back and reassure ourselves that the worst could never happen again. But that, of course, was what people told each other in 1932, too.
The lesson of history is that tough times often reward the desperate and dangerous, from angry demagogues to anarchists and nationalists, from seething mobs to expansionist empires.
Our world is poised on the edge of perhaps the most important 12 months for more than half a century. If our leaders provide the right leadership, then we may, perhaps, muddle through towards slow growth and gradual recovery.
But if the European elite continue to inflict needless hardship on their people; if the markets continue to erode faith in the euro; and if Western politicians waste their time in petty bickering, then we could easily slip further towards discontent and disaster.
The experience of 1932 provides a desperately valuable lesson. As a result of the decisions taken in those 12 short months, millions of people later lost their lives.
Today, on the brink of a new year that could well prove the most frightening in living memory, we can only pray that our history takes a very different path.
Great stuff from the UK on how 2012 could end up being a terrifying year politically.
(stuff you won’t hear from our MSM)
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Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle has the nickname “the legend.” It’s a title given to him by his fellow soldiers. And once you hear his story, you’ll understand why.
Kyle is the “deadliest in U.S. history,” the New York Post says. So how many kills have earned him that designation? Just 160. He details many of them – and many other stories – in his new book, “American Sniper,” which hits bookstores today.
For example, he recalled taking out seven insurgents in Fallujah around Thanksgiving 2004:
It’s November 2004. Thanksgiving time. The second battle of Fallujah has launched, and Kyle is swaddled in silence atop an upturned baby crib, studying the enemy through a Nightforce 4.5-22 power scope attached to a .300 Win Mag rifle.
He’s feeling badass.
“We just got word that the president of Iraq said that anyone left in the city is bad – meaning, clear to shoot,” he recalled for The Post. “From that point on, every fighting-age male was a target.”
That was just fine with Kyle, who spent five weeks in the hideout, protecting Marines on the ground and bagging seven confirmed kills – adding to his official total of 160, making him the deadliest sniper in US history.
“After the first kill, the others come easy. I don’t have to psych myself up, or do anything mentally – I look through the scope, get the target in the cross hairs and kill my enemy before he kills one of my people,” Kyle writes in his new autobiography [...] .
But that’s just the beginning. There’s also the story of his longest shot – a bullet he fired from over a mile away:
The son of a Sunday-school teacher and a church deacon, Kyle credits a higher authority for his longest kill.
From 2,100 yards away from a village just outside of Sadr City in 2008, he spied a man aiming a rocket launcher at an Army convoy and squeezed off one shot from his .338 Lapua Magnum rifle.
Dead. From more than a mile away.
“God blew that bullet and hit him,” he said.
Kyle, an obvious man of faith, also exudes the gritty, salty attitude of a war-hardened soldier. The north-central Texas native grew up “dipping tobacco, riding horses and hunting deer, turkey and quail,” the Post writes, and in his book he doesn’t hold back.
“You see us? We’re the people kicking your ass. Fear us, because we will kill you, motherf-ker,” he writes.
And he’s right. In fact, he has two Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars with valor to prove it. That explains why in Ramadi, insurgents put an $80,000 bounty on his head and dubbed him “Al-Shaitan Ramadi” – “The Devil of Ramadi.”
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Now this just stinks to high heaven and we can only blame our islamic president and his regime!
Remember, Soros is the liberal asshole who bankrolls any company or person that will aid him in his destruction of the USA. One of the liberals best buddy and Obama loves this man!
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DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN THE REVOLUTION COMES?
Start by reading this.
And try not to laugh especially when you find out they tell each other to avoid those who have guns…..and also to avoid zombies.
The guide, Anonymous: Survival Guide for Citizens in a Revolution, is “for citizens who feel they are about to be caught up in a violet uprising or revolution to overthrow the oppressive government of their country.” The guide details how to sense the first signs of revolution, how to prepare oneself, how to handle situations such as rape or robbery, and how to be as safe as possible when confrontations are unavoidable, among other things.
The top advice the group has for citizens? “Don’t panic:”
Don’t panic, stay cool headed.
Take a break and rest if your body needs to relax, lack of sleep is a major weakening factor.
Avoid consuming mind altering substances like alcohol and drugs. They will cloud your judgement and ability to think and act rationally. You are also arming the re- gime with propaganda that the crowd is made up of a bunch of intoxicated rioters. Don’t allow your movement to be portrayed in an unfavorable light.
Anonymous calls the 15-page guide a “snapshot” that will be constantly reworked and updated as necessary:
The guide is far from being complete and is no panacea, so DO NOT SWITCH OFF YOUR BRAIN.
The guide was released just before the group announced its hack of emails and credit card information and threatened week-long assault against the U.S. security think tank Stratfor.
The guide does advise in bold print that people “not try to fight men who have guns or any weapons” but talks about how to stage protests against “violent opponents.”
In some final marks, the guide states: “And whatever happens: Stay together and watch out for zombies.”
Go HERE.
(am thinking that those who are prepared for the coming revolution and have the arms will roll over these idiots)