Camp Lejeune Marines To Libya Because Two Wars Aren't Enough........

JWR Notes: I still have a lot of "cui bono?" questions about this military adventure. Why are the French so heavily involved? What reconstructions deals were made, in order to create the coalition? Why was Germany so incensed that they withdrew their troops from NATO? Is Gaddafi's gold reserve an issue? How about the Libyan Dinar? (Were there plans to make it a gold-backed currency? That would have been an embarrassment to all the other nations that issue fiat.) Why is there a double standard with other Arab dictatorships? What is Al Qaeda's involvement? And the 64-Dollar Question: What sort of government will replace Gaddafi's dictatorship? Perhaps a dictatorial Islamic caliphate? IMHO, the Iraq war was bad enough, in lacking an exit strategy, but this seems even worse--with no certain end game or even a clear victor. Cui bono? Cui bono?
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Let's see, at first we said all we wanted was for Qaddafi's troops to leave the cities they were attacking, then when they did on Sunday, we wiped out their tanks. Why on God's green earth has anyone taken the word of the US after Vietnam? Pitiful. Fools all, as we shall desert you, never fear, just wait for the blood bath in Afghanistan when we leave.
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"We've seen Camp Lejuene Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan and now they are joining the fight against Libya.About 2,200 Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit will take part in support operations based aboard USS Kearsarge at sea. Those support operations have thus far included air strikes and one rescue operation. The overall mission is to help end the violence directed at the Libyan people.

NC legislator says the state needs its own currency

RALEIGH -- Cautioning that the federal dollars in your wallet could soon be little more than green paper backed by broken promises, state Rep. Glen Bradley wants North Carolina to issue its own legal tender backed by silver and gold.

The Republican from Youngsville has introduced a bill that would establish a legislative commission to study his plan for a state currency. He is also drafting a second bill that would require state government to accept gold and silver coins as payment for taxes and fees.

If the state treasurer starts accepting precious metals as payment, Bradley said that could prod the private sector to follow suit - potentially allowing residents to trade gold for groceries.

"I think we're in the process of inflating a dollar bubble that could be very devastating," said Bradley, a freshman legislator elected in November's GOP tide. "The idea is once the study commission finishes its work, then we could build on top of the hard-money currency with an actual State Tender Act that will basically [issue currency] in correspondence to precious metals stored in the state treasury."

Only common sense for the few who have any........

Feds raid State legal medical marijuana facilities in Montana

Cancer
I know for a fact that grass stops nausea when under Cobalt treatment (radiation) as I had absolutely no problems when I used it under treatment at the Makati Medical Center in the PI. The doctors could not understand why I had no problems, but this was '74/'75 before there was knowledge of this benefit. This was also before knowledge that Agent Orange could cause cancer which is how I got it at 30, when normally you have cancer of the vocal cords between 50 and 60 after being a multi-pack a day user of tobacco for many years. I only smoked sparingly.

USARV Headquarters, Long Binh, RVN ================================================================ "Big, big, big surprise: The Obama administration fails to live up to another of its 2008 campaign promises. In case you don't give a hoot for medical marijuana, a subject I suggest you learn more about, let me tell you why you should consider this another shovel full of dirt on the way to burying your liberty. Every time the feds assert their law (meaning: send unopposed armed men to enforce a law that was passed in Washington, DC, but nullified by or contravened by preexisting State law), they grow in power, and we individuals, locales, and States shrink in power. This time it's state legal marijuana, the next time it's likely to be state legal (locally manufactured) firearms and ammunition. Do you want them arresting your 23 year old daughter, who's never been sick in her life, because she refuses to spend 15 or 20 grand on a healthcare policy she doesn't need because of the Obamacare mandate?"

Moral Equivalence

As originally posted on LRC

By Anthony Gregory on March 22, 2011

Here’s a puzzle for you. Gaddafi kills thousands of Arabs—his own people—and the US responds by bombing his nation, hoping to change policy or even overthrow the regime, killing civilians in the process. This is called “humanitarianism.”

The US government kills many thousands of Arabs—in addition to some of its own people—and Osama bin Laden responds by attacking the US, hoping to change policy or even overthrow the regime, killing civilians in the process. This is called “terrorism.”

People will accuse me of “moral equivalence”—i.e., the sin of pointing out that when the U.S. government intentionally commits an act of violence that predictably kills innocent people, it is morally comparable to anyone else intentionally committing an act of violence that predictably kills innocent people. Go ahead and accuse me of that. But what sickens me is that people are bickering over what we might call the “Obama doctrine,” the “Bush doctrine,” and the “Clinton doctrine”—as opposed to the “bin Laden doctrine” and the “Gaddafi doctrine”—as though it matters much to the loved ones of those who were slaughtered by any of these political leaders.

Via Truth to Power

Crossroads GPS launches collaborative FOIA site

"If you are a warrior who is legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that the bad man will not come today. No one can be “on” 24/7 for a lifetime. Everyone needs down time. But if you are authorized to carry a weapon, and you walk outside without it, just take a deep breath, and say this to yourself... 'Baa.' "
-- LTC David A. Grossman, "On Combat", 2004
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"Crossroads GPS, the cash-flush Republican advocacy group, is launching a new initiative and website Thursday, Wikicountability.org, which is designed to crowdsource FOIA files from organizations, individuals and journalists who have sought, and who have received, public information from the Obama administration. Thousands of pages of information from the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services have been uploaded to the site, and Crossroads is encouraging other groups and individuals to upload their own FOIA reports as well.

The site is also designed to spotlight what it suggests is the administration’s poor record of compliance with FOIA — with a special section devoted to unfulfilled FOIA requests.

The launch of Wikicountability.org will reveal:

- The Andy Griffith ad promoting Obamacare last year cost taxpayers $3.66 million – including $404,000 in production – according to records obtained from HHS in a FOIA request earlier this year.

- Labor Secretary Hilda Solis met with union bosses or attended their events on more than 40 separate occasions from February 2009-January 2010.

Via Weasel Zippers

The Raleigh N&O In Full Blown Liberal Mode On Holden

HERE.
Holden pardon frozen

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And my letter to the editor, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Bartholomew Figures Moore
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Holden

My great, great grandfather, The Father Of The NC Bar, words below.

"Holden's impeachment is demanded by a sense of public virtue and due regard to the honor of the state. He is an exceedingly corrupt man and ought to be placed before the people as a public example of a tyrant condemned and punished."

Bartholomew F. Moore: Tribute To/On Holden/State V Will

You owe your readers the full story, as my great, great grandfather's credentials are impeccable. He was sought by both sides when Holden was impeached, but declined. His portrait hangs in the Planetarium at Chapel Hill and in the Supreme Court . At the above link, you can read his biographical history, the Senate's tribute to him as well as his winning defense of Will, which recognized the right of the slave to defend himself against the assaults of his master in the preservation of his own life, a thing never asserted by slaves heretofore in the county."
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NC Corrupt Governor Alert

Rep. Ron Paul wins latest presidential straw poll

"Texas Rep. Ron Paul has won another presidential straw poll.

Mr. Paul won the California Republican Party convention poll over the weekend. The Texas congressman defeated former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee."

Via Conservative Heritage Times

Stossel: As Other Media Die, Newsmax Thrives

“When all media is dying, Newsmax is thriving,” Fox Business Channel’s John Stossel observed during an interview at a dinner in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.

Asked why he recently was seen on Capitol Hill with a bullhorn, Stossel told Newsmax.TV: “I was just embarrassing myself to make the point that government is too big and they should stop spending so much.

Rep. Burgess: Obamacare Designed to Fail, Force Socialized Medicine

President Barack Obama and other Democrats intentionally designed the healthcare reform law to fail so they could achieve their ultimate goal to impose a federal system of socialized medicine, Rep. Michael Burgess tells Newsmax.TV.

The Texas Republican, who is a medical doctor himself, issued that diagnosis of Obamacare during an exclusive Newsmax interview marking the law’s one-year anniversary. Opponents have waged a multi-front battle against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act since Obama signed it into law on March 23, 2010. More than half of the states are involved in federal lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the measure, and efforts continue in Congress to defund it.

”I do think the law, as written, is designed to fail,” Burgess said. “Perhaps the cynic in me would say that’s on purpose because ultimately, their goal was a single-payer, national-run healthcare system of so-called socialized medicine in this country. The other part of me says this is so bad that people will at some point rise up and revolt and reclaim their sovereignty over their healthcare and their lives.”

Congressman Presses Holder to Investigate ‘Terrorist Plans’ in Bank Plot

"The Blaze has obtained an exclusive letter sent from Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) to Attorney General Eric Holder regarding shocking video uncovered by The Blaze on Tuesday.

In the letter, Chaffetz references video, posted yesterday on this site, showing a one-time SEIU official, Stephen Lerner, outlining a plan to collapse the American economy — including crashing the stock market — so that unions can become more powerful. The sinister plan is set to take place in May and includes mass homeowner mortgage strikes."