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May 22, 2013

What Mistakes Nixon Made

Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Bob Barney

As the Obama scandal grows, the incompetence of the EOE president-in training showing, what becomes obvious to the historian is the mistakes that Richard Nixon made when he found himself in a similar situation. Obama, whose administration has been racked the scandal and stupidity, as well as mafia style Chicago politics has shown itself to be an enemy of the people, the press, and the church. It has struck out as boldly as any Stalinistic regime against all perceived enemies, and yet has basically remained intact.

The question is why? What could the Nixon administration have learned from this current occupant of the White House? I have come up with a short list.

1) Nixon who started the EPA, ended the war that the nation hated, did wage and price controls like any good progressive democrat, ended the gold standard and began arms reduction with the Russians (something every liberal loves), was still hated by liberals universally! Why? The answer is simple. He ran has a conservative (which he was not) Republican. If he were a Democrat, he would probably have been rated as the second greatest president in the 20th century (behind FDR of course). He would have easily replaced Woodrow Wilson from that coveted second place position. After all, Wilson, a media and liberal darling did belong to the KKK and did think blacks were totally inferior to the genetically superior white race.

2) Nixon should have been a better liar, and should have surrounded himself with better liars. Of course, this may not have worked for him. He was a Republican. If he were a Democrat, he would probably have been rated as the second greatest president in the 20th century.

3.) Nixon probably should not have resigned. Like Bill Clinton, if he had probably fought his impeachment all the way till the end, destroying the nation in the process, he may have won in his trial in the Senate. Then again, he was a Republican….. If he were a Democrat, he would probably have been rated as the second greatest president in the 20th century

After considering the facts, I guess the only thing Nixon could have done to survive his tenure - was to run as a Democrat. If he were a Democrat, he would probably have been rated as the second greatest president in the 20th century.

Then again, Nixon could never have been black. A “condition” that renders one immune from any white attack, as long as you are a black DEMOCRAT. Not being black, even as a Democrat, may have ultimately ended up in Nixon’s destruction after all.

Lessons:
1) Be black, be a democrat, be liberal, be pro gay, be pro Muslim, be anti-American and BE STUPID --- and you may end up being president for life!

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May 21, 2013

The many reasons liberals are confused

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Walter Williams About | Email | Archive

The liberal world vision and reality are often at variance, for example, with equal pay for equal work. I’ve often watched “Lockup,” a show that features California supermax prisons, including Pelican Bay and Corcoran. Often, a recalcitrant prisoner must be extracted from his cell through brute force. I’ve never seen female guards remove a prisoner. If they are part of the process at all, it’s to videotape the extraction for legal purposes. It’s my bet that female guards receive the same salaries as male guards while not having to risk injury. Along the same lines, women on aircraft carriers earn as much as their male counterparts, but I have yet to see women hefting a hernia bar to attach a 500- or 1,000-pound bomb to a fighter jet wing. All of this suggests that liberals are for equal pay for unequal work. Or could it be sex discrimination whereby equally qualified women are denied the opportunity to extract beastly inmates from their cells and load heavy bombs on fighter planes?

Here’s another bit of liberal confusion. Liberals deny that raising labor cost through minimum wages reduces incentives to hire. But if you asked a liberal for advice on how to stop rich people from shirking their tax obligations, they’d say raise the penalty. Ask low-information Harvard University doctors what should be done to stem gun violence and they answer that government should institute “a new, substantial national tax on all firearms and ammunition.” Ask Illinois’ Cook County Board of Commissioners President Toni Preckwinkle how to reduce purchases of bullets and guns. She’d say levy a nickel tax on each bullet and a $25 tax on each gun. Liberals demonstrate they understand the law of demand – that raising the cost of something lessens the amount taken – but they deny that it applies to labor. That’s as ludicrous as suggesting that the law of gravity applies to everything in the universe except cute creatures, such as pandas and puppies.

Liberals love political correctness that conceals information. For example, how does one know whether the “chair” of a board of directors or the chair of a city council is a man or woman? This issue arose during my (1995-2001) chairmanship of George Mason University’s distinguished economics department. At a chairman’s meeting or gathering, I was referred to as department chair. I told the speaker that I am a chairman and that I have empirical evidence as proof. Needless to say, it didn’t go over well. Academics don’t like the terms chairwoman or chairperson, either, but puzzlingly, God forbid that people refer to their idol as Chair Mao instead of Chairman Mao.

How liberals identify black people must be confusing to whites. Having been around for 77 years, I have been through a number of names. Among the more polite ones are colored, Negro, Afro-American, black and, more recently, African-American. Among those names, African-American is probably the most unintelligent. Let’s look at it. To identify their races, suppose I told you that I had a European-American friend, a South America-American friend and a North America-American friend. You’d probably say, “Williams, that’s stupid. Europe, South America and North America are continents and home to different races, ethnicities and nationalities.” You might suggest that my friend is a German-American instead of European-American. My friend from Brazil is a Brazilian-American rather than a South America-American, and my friend from Canada is a Canadian-American instead of a North America-American. So wouldn’t the same apply to people whose heritage lies on the African continent? For example, instead of claiming that President Barack Obama is the first African-American president, he’s the first partially Kenyan-American president. Obama is lucky; he knows his national heritage. The closest thing to a national identity for most black Americans is some country along Africa’s Gold Coast. Adding to the confusion, what would you call a white American of Afrikaner or Egyptian descent? Is he an African-American?

Liberals suffer confusion and cognitive dissonance because the rest of us don’t help explain things to them.

May 19, 2013

MY VIEW: Why has the press begun to doubt Obama

Many pundits say it's because of the AP scandal. I feel there is another reason!

By Bob Barney

Conservatives everywhere are surprised with the sudden actions of the main stream media in response to the Obama Administration. Many feel this is due to the fact that the AP found out they themselves were a target of the Administration wiretapping and spying. I do not believe that this has anything to do with the change in tone.

Why would reporters from the mainstream media, liberals who have protected Obama through almost every scandal anyone could think of have suddenly started to find every single scandal that could find to bring this president down? What has changed? I think you'll be surprised what I think on this. This crew at CBS, NBC, CNN, NBC along with print journalist have all spent their entire goodwill protecting the Obama administration up until now. This idea that the liberal evil media has had a “come to Jesus moment” and all of a sudden is realizing the truth and wanting people to truly be informed is nonsense! Yes, I beg to disagree with those conservative pundits that are hoping the media has finally woke up!

Something is about to change.

This corrupt media has been hiding the truth of the world’s economy from the public. They have been complicit in not reporting the real facts that we have been in the greatest world wide depression since the 1930’s. They have hid the real conditions that many are facing. They also know that Obama policies have magnified what is going to happen. I believe that we are close to civil war in this nation and a coming trade and economic WORLD WAR between the economic powers that will eventually end up in a gigantic World War! What we have seen in Cyprus and Greece is just a shadow of what is coming. The stories that The Plain Truth has been reporting (but that very few media outlets have been reporting), comes from the warnings of the Bible. It predicts a worldwide crash, economic depression, and a world war- then the revelation of the antichrist. How close are we to that? I don’t know about the end of the world, but I do see that beginnings of the birth pains.

All of this trouble in America with a coming Civil War has all been caused by this administration. I think the press knows that a worldwide crash, an economic depression and a world war are coming. I think the press wants to make sure they are seen on the good side of this ensuing war...the very hard times that they themselves have helped create and cover up. What they are doing now is merely trying to uncover what they have covered up to protect their asses.

This has happened before. After the death of JFK, no president except Obama has ever manipulated the press as good as LBJ. He passed civil rights, Medicare and a bunch of new deal type socialistic programs. The press loved him. Then came Vietnam. The press wasn’t really originally against the war, but they saw the protests and the riots and realized America was going to be dragged into a civil war. There was going to be blood in the streets, and the media realized that the masses would turn on them (the media) if they were seen as the “establishment.” They slit LBJ down the back. They sided with the hippies and the anti-war movement, and fooled the public. That is what they are trying to do right now. Don’t you be fooled!

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France's Socialist Hollande Pushes for Single Eurozone Govt

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PARIS — French President Francois Hollande called on Thursday for an economic government in the eurozone that would have its own budget, the right to issue debt, a harmonized tax system, and a full-time president.

Speaking at a news conference marking his first year in office, a day after economic data showed France had slipped back into recession, the Socialist leader said he sought to create a full political European Union (EU) within two years.

His proposals seemed likely to encounter stiff resistance from Germany, Europe's leading power, which opposes mutualizing debt among European states and is reluctant to give the eurozone its own secretariat or create new divisions in the EU, of which 10 countries are not in the 17-nation single currency.

It also comes as Britain's government faces growing domestic pressure to hold a referendum on leaving the bloc.

"My initiative has four points that I am putting to our partners. The first is to create an economic government with the eurozone countries which would meet every month with a real president appointed for a long period and who would be devoted to this task," Hollande said.

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May 18, 2013

Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth in 2 weeks - On Penetecost Weekend!

Forward: The Pentecost date here assumes that the Calendar followed was a Solar and not lunar claendar - which we have proven before. Click on page "When does the day begin" for more...

(Los Angeles Times) It’s 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby.

Asteroid 1998 QE2 will make its closest pass to Earth on May 31 at 1:59 p.m. PDT.

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May 17, 2013

The Minoans were Caucasian: DNA debunks longstanding theory that Europe's first advanced culture was from Africa

Forward: The Minoans were mostly part of Isreal. Two modern authors who have examined the Minoan culture are Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe. Their books The Warriors and the Bankers and The Knights Templar Revealed, furnish us with a new understanding of Cretan or Minoan civilization that so closely resembles that of the ancient Irish. Regrettably, like so many researchers throughout the ages, Butler and Dafoe do not consider anything but the East to West transit of the elements of civilization. That the reverse situation could have occurred is, alas, a question that does not enter their minds even though their own discoveries, when seen from the correct perspective, strongly support the theory. Some of their key discoveries regarding the Cretans and the world's powerful secret societies, considerably strengthen our own controversial theories regarding the importance of the Irish Druids (the Arya) in world history. (source)

A Minoan fresco of children boxing: New DNA analysis has debunked the theory that the Minoans were refugees from North Africa

DNA analysis has debunked the longstanding theory that the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established Europe's first advanced Bronze Age culture, were from Africa. The Minoan civilisation arose on the Mediterranean island of Crete in approximately the 27th century BC and flourished for 12 centuries until the 15th century BC.

But the culture was lost until British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans unearthed its remains on Crete in 1900, where he found vestiges of a civilisation he believed was formed by refugees from northern Egypt. Modern archaeologists have cast doubt on that version of events, and now DNA tests of Minoan remains suggests they were descended from ancient farmers who settled the islands thousands of years earlier. These people, it is believed, are from the same stock that came from the East to populate the rest of Europe.

Evans set to work on Crete in 1900 with a team of archaeologists soon after the island was liberated from the yoke of the Ottoman empire, almost immediately unearthing a great palace. He named the civilisation he discovered after the legendary Greek king Minos and, based on likenesses between Minoan artifacts and those from Egypt and Libya, proposed that its founders migrated into the area from North Africa.

Since then, other archaeologists have suggested that the Minoans may have come from other regions, possibly Turkey, the Balkans, or the Middle East. But now a joint U.S. and Greek team has made a mitochondrial DNA analysis of Minoan skeletal remains to determine the likely ancestors of the ancient people.

Mitochondria, the energy powerhouses of cells, contain their own DNA, or genetic code, and because mitochondrial DNA is passed down from mothers to their children via the human egg, it contains information about maternal ancestry.

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Chilling 911 call made by NASCAR legend Dick Trickle before he ended his own life is released as his brother reveals he was plagued by a chronic mystery ailment that may have contributed to his depression

Former race car driver's brother Chuck says the NASCAR legend was distressed by a chronic pain in his chest
Dick Trickle called police to a North Carolina cemetery where he said his body would be found
Tricke's career spanned 24 years and included 2,200 races
Remembered for his fun and outrageous personality
Once drilled a hole in his helmet to allow him to smoke a cigarette and installed lighters in his vehicle

The chilling 911 call legendary NASCAR Dick Trickle made to a hapless 911 operator before he ended his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound was released today.

In the recording, Trickle matter-of-factly tells the female operator that he is at 'the Forest Lawn Cemetery at 150.' - where he was later found dead.

When the woman asks him for his name, he repeats the address, not once identifying himself as the racer who entertained generations with his extrovert driving skills.

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Dick Trickle (left) suffered from a mystery ailment that left him with chronic pain and depression according to his brother Chuck (right)

Larger than life: Trickle, who made his debut driving the No.84 Miller High Life Buick for Stavola Brothers Racing in 1989, is seen holding one of his famed cigarettes in a hand

Trickle says that he is 'on the back side of it. By a '93 pickup. There's gonna be a dead body..it's suicide.'

The confused operator asks Trickle if he was there to witness one, but instead he chillingly responds with 'I'm the one'.

Stunned, the woman pleads with Trickle, saying 'listen to me' but Trickle simply repeats '150 Forest LAwn in the back by a Ford pickup.'

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A Small Business Owner Explains the Hard Facts of Obamacare to Employees

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Public DomainThere's been a lot of discussion about the challenges faced by businesses large and small in managing health care costs, especially as those costs escalate and as employers' options are increasingly limited by the strictures imposed by Obamacare. An even clearer picture of the dilemma small firms face is offered by a peek inside their internal deliberations, including the trade-offs that companies have to offer their employees in order to keep them reasonably content, as well as control costs and comply with the law. The following memo was sent to employees of Capterra, a Virginia-based firm that serves as a marketplace for business software, by Michael Ortner, the company's president. Capterra has just 23 employees, so it's subject to fewer restrictions than larger employers (especially those with more than 50 employees) but has fewer resources and less bargaining power than larger companies, too.

Ortner is no stranger to political debate, having written on health care issues for public consumption, and this memo includes some (informed) policy discussion. But the memo also outlines the hard choices the company has to make as it decides what (and whether) to offer employees in the way of health coverage. With permission, I've included the whole memo including political discussion, with one name excised, so you get everything in context.

Hey everyone, Read his report here:

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Opinion Abolish the IRS

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Theo Caldwell...Investor and Broadcaster See All Articles

Recent news that the Internal Revenue Service has been enforcing its already inscrutable doctrine with caprice and venom — directed at conservative groups, Republican donors, and supporters of Israel, among others — confirms the worst suspicions of many Americans, of all political affiliations.

There is a lot of talk in Washington, and across the country, of a desire to reach bipartisan accord and accomplish great things. Here is an opportunity for just that.

Over the course of several election cycles, what was once a fringe notion advanced by long-shot candidates (Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul, please call your offices — or call each other, or call me, as you wish) has crept closer to the mainstream. To wit, it is time to abolish the IRS.

The very title “Internal Revenue Service” contains multiple falsehoods. First off, the IRS is not solely concerned with revenues that are “internal.” Anomalous among the nations of the world, America’s tax authority assumes for itself power over citizens, their families, and “U.S. persons” living abroad, requiring them to file and pay taxes at U.S. rates, even if they have not set foot on American soil in decades — or ever. “Taxation without representation,” indeed.

Wherever in the world your eyes find these words, the IRS very likely believes it has business with you. If you are married or related to an American, or in business with one, or if you have held U.S. residency or even a visa at some time, the IRS can compel your financial institution to provide information on your assets and activities, threatening overwhelming sanctions for non-compliance.

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May 16, 2013

Lincoln Co. officials: Retired racecar driver Dick Trickle dies Thursday

Retired racecar driver Richard "Dick" Trickle, 71, died Thursday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Lincoln County officials. The shooting occurred at 12:02 p.m. at Forest Lawn Cemetery on Highway 150 East in Boger City. The Lincoln County Communications Center received a call, apparently from Trickle, that "there would be a dead body and it would be his." Communications Center workers tried to place a return call to the number but did not get an answer. The first emergency units arriving at the scene found the body lying near Trickle's pickup truck. Trickle's granddaughter, Nicole Ann Bowman, is buried in the cemetery. She died in 2001 at age 16 in a car wreck. Trickle was a Lincoln County resident and had lived here since the early 1990s. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Dick Trickle on his passing today. Dick was a legend in the short-track racing community, particularly in his home state of Wisconsin, and he was a true fan favorite. Personalities like Dick Trickle helped shape our sport. He will be missed," said Brian France, NASCAR Chairman & CEO, in a statement.

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The Plain Truth: Government always endangers freedom

Andrew Napolitano About | Email | Archive

This past week, we learned that the IRS has targeted for additional scrutiny the tax exemption applications of groups with whose messages it disagrees. We also learned that the Department of Justice obtained the personal telephone records of hundreds of reporters and editors employed by the Associated Press without a search warrant issued by a judge. And during this past week we learned that the White House, the Department of State and the CIA all engaged in a conspiracy of disinformation so that the official version of events of what caused the murders of four Americans at our facilities in Benghazi, Libya, would not impair Obama’s re-election campaign in 2012.

The common threads in all of this government secrecy and lying are a general rejection of government’s moral obligation to tell the truth, a disturbing yet brazen willingness to evade and avoid the restrictions the Constitution has deliberately built around government, and a glib admission that the government can do as it pleases so long as it can politically get away with it.

The Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause requires that the government treat all similarly situated entities in a similar manner. The Constitution’s First Amendment prohibits the government from using the speech and expressive activities of persons in America as a basis for the disparate treatment of them.