Goodies From Ol' Remus

 Ol' Remus

Current politics amounts to the Republican-Democrat Party versus—we'll use a catch-all phrase here—the tea party. The tea party isn't an upstart, it isn't even a party, it's part of a counterinsurgency. Gains must come at somebody's expense. That somebody is the Republican wing of The Party, and why not, they're giving away the high ground with both hands. They may be content to be the progressive's cleanup crew and tax collector but the people have higher aspirations. Liberty, mainly.

Liberty is winning. DC is losing. DC knows it and DC fears it. With their street barricades and check points and retread military equipment, the place looks like Berlin in the Reich's last days of 1945. They're violating and assaulting and even murdering people for petty or imagined offenses, or for no reason at all. Then there's the steady drip-drip of purges and unexplained deaths and puzzling resignations, the conflicting laws and regulations enforced by dozens of overlapping agencies. Some write their own warrants as they swing through the doors and windows. The place ought to be tested for rabies. 

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  "Katyn" full length movie on YouTube - Polish with English subtitles, 240p, 1h 56m 56s. Description: The Katyn massacre was a mass murder of 22,000 of Polish prisoners of war, primarily military officers, intellectuals, policemen, and other public servants by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. Dated March 5, 1940, this official document was then approved (signed) by the entire Soviet Politburo including Joseph Stalin and Beria.

The governance of the United States can be divided into four distinct epochs, delineated as follows:

March 4, 1789: the first day of constitutional government,
April 13, 1861: the first day of un-constitutional government,
December 8, 1941: the first day of non-constitutional government, and
January 20, 2009: the first day of anti-constitutional government.
James Rawles at survivalblog.com

 The board of the New York state teachers union this weekend unanimously withdrew its support for the Common Core standards as they have been implemented — a major blow for Common Core advocates who have been touting support from teachers as proof that the standards will succeed in classrooms nationwide... The board also unanimously voted no confidence in New York Education Commissioner John King Jr. and urged the state’s Board of Regents to remove him from office.
Stephanie Simon at politico.com

DC - Three times people banged on the door of the Northeast Washington firehouse seeking help for a man who had collapsed. Each time, the rescuers inside turned them away. In a nearby parking lot, Marie Mills cradled her 77-year-old father in her arms... the firefighters said that they couldn’t respond unless someone called 911. It took 15 to 20 minutes for help to show up ... then only because a D.C. police officer flagged down an ambulance that happened to pass by. [He died]
Jahi Chikwendiu at washingtonpost.com

Obama's MyRA - The aim is simple – dupe unwitting Americans to plow their retirement savings into the US government’s shrinking coffers. I have personally written since 2009 that the US government would one day push US citizens into the ‘safety and security’ of US Treasuries. Jim Rogers nailed this right on the head when he and Ron Paul told our audience that the government would try to take your retirement funds. I don’t know how much more clear I can be: this is happening. This is exactly what bankrupt governments do, says Simon Black in this article, IRA confiscation: it’s happening, at Sovereign Man.

In the land of the free and the home of the brave, we stand with our eyes averted, burning with humiliation, while our spouses or children are groped above and below the waist by blue-gloved government prison guards—only we are in an airport in a free country, and not in a prison!

Or are we? A virtual open-air prison, where government security agents can pat down ordinary citizens at will is the accepted "new normal." Did that happen often in East Germany, I wonder? In the Soviet Union? Does it happen today in Cuba? Officially sanctioned crotch groping in the name of "security?"
Matt Bracken at westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com 

  Illegal aliens - Those who want to argue that kids  that were brought here illegally should get a pass are equally bereft of logic. That the child is innocent of wrong-doing is immaterial to the reality, which is that his or her parents  broke the law, and the correct place for the child is with the parents. There are those who argue that tight border controls are somehow inhumane or wrong, and that labor should be free to flow as it desires. That would be fine if  there was no public support system, but there is  and it's not going to go away, says Karl Denninger in this article, Immigration Reform: Tell Me More Lies Mr. Ryan, at Market Ticker.

Atlanta - Common sense should tell you that when the road is slick you, oh, I dunno, start braking gently and early, allow plenty of time to start forward movement from a dead standstill, take turns slowly, ease off the gas to avoid fishtailing, all that Drivers Ed 101 stuff... As someone who lives in a region that only has four seasons—early winter, mid winter, late winter, and next winter—it’s kind of amusing and frustrating to see the footage of these highways turned into bumper car arenas. I just wanna shout at the screen “Slow the frak down and you’ll be fine!”
Commander Zero at commanderzero.com/blog

 Governments have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on global warming, and what do we have to show for it? Nothing but a frozen country and some tampered data. You would think that with all the money they spent, they could have at least given us a warm winter. After 17 years of no warming, that works out to 0.0 degrees per billion dollars.
Steven Goddard at stevengoddard.wordpress.com 

To the extent that the GOP's major figures spout lip service to pro-freedom ideals but legitimize a tyrannical ruling party by failing to oppose them with all available forces, they are collaborating with the enemies of freedom. They have betrayed their oaths of office and have no more claim to a seat in the chambers of power than you or I. In that view, the Republicans are worse than the Democrats, who are at least open about their disdain for freedom, the Constitution, and the good of the nation.
Francis Porretto at bastionofliberty.blogspot.com

Boehner - If its civil war the speaker wants, its civil war he'll get. Establishment Republicans may have the dough, but the grassroots outnumbers them roughly three to one. The commitment and passion are with the grassroots. At war's end, it's the speaker and his ilk who'll be trundling off on yet another retreat—and, this time, for good.
J. Smith at americanthinker.com 

A modest proposal - To make up for the excess demand, what if kidneys were made part of eminent domain? What if, when we died, our bodies became property of the state, allowing the government to take ownership of our organs for public use? Because people have two kidneys but need only one to live, we all have a spare. Kidneys would not be taken simply at the whim of the medical profession but for the sole purpose of saving lives... Most importantly, we need to address the kidney shortage. It’s time to stop being nice and start saving lives.
Judith Thomson, via Kathy Shaidle at takimag.com