FEUDAL: one who espouses, promotes and/or blindly believes in the left, liberalism, socialism, communism, marxism, fascism or any form of government where an elite few control and do all the thinking and deciding for the rest of the people—the peons, serfs, or peasants. In other words, elitist totalitarianism masquerading under such titles.
Do Feudals ever read or listen to anything that doesn’t support their ancient ideology?
Just a few thoughts that bear on the current federal government’s efforts to destroy free enterprise, private property, and of course, personal freedom. I wonder who or which important private organization or company they will choose to demonize next? Incidently, all socialists, communists, marxists, fascists, and even the present liberal democrats, can be lumped together as a single, united ism—that is totalitarianism. I called them The Feudals in my book of the same name. Regardless of their intent, their idealism, their
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
—Thomas Sowell
The judgments of men are formed not from facts as they are, but as they wish them to be. They root through tons of good wheat to find three pieces of chaff if the chaff lends weight to their beliefs and argument. It is not that they want others to know the truth, but to have those others believe as they do. Beyond this they do not care. The conceit of man ordinarily forms his
—Anonymous
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The Santa Barbara Newspress runs "What the World is Saying"; seems they forgot to print this.Ever wonder why we have to depend on the foreign press to find out what's "really" going on in our own country. It's a good thing that Obama and the democrats don't own the Canadian press.. Here is what Howard Galganov predicts for Barack Hussein Obama - PLEASE READ:
Barack Hussein Obama:
I Told You So - Yes I Did
By Howard Galganov
Montreal, Quebec , Canada
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When Obama won the Presidency with the help of the LEFTIST Media, Hollywood, And
It won't take six months until the People figure this guy out and realize how horrible a mistake they've made. And when they come to that realization, the damage to the United States of America will be so great it will take a generation or more to repair - IF EVER.
The IDIOTS who not only voted for the Messiah, but also worked [hard] to promote his Lordship, are now left holding the bag.
Here are two things they will NEVER do: They will NEVER admit to making a Blunder out of all proportion by electing a snake-oil salesman with no Positive social history or management experience of any kind. They will NEVER take responsibility for the curse they've imposed upon the immediate and long-term future of their country.
In essence, the people responsible for putting this horror show in power are themselves responsible for every cataclysmic decision he makes and the Consequences thereof.
In just six months, the Messiah's polls are showing the following:
1. On Healthcare Reform - He's going under for the third time with polling well Under 50 percent, even within his own Party. Even though he might be able to Muscle a Healthcare Reform Bill by using Chicago BULLY tactics against his Fellow Democrats, it will just make things worse.
2. On Cap and Trade (Cap and Tax) - The Fat-Lady is already singing.
3. On the Stimulus Package (Tax and Spend) - His popularity is in FREE-FALL.
4. On the TARP package he took and ran with from President Bush - It's all but Good-Night Irene.
5. On the closing of GITMO and "HIS" war on what he no longer wants called the War On Terrorism - He's standing in quicksand with his head just about to go under.
6. On a Comparison between himself and
7. On a comparison between He Who Walks On Water and the 12 preceding Presidents between WW II and now - Obama ranks 10th.
8. On a Poll just Conducted, that asks who would you vote for today between Obama and Mitt Romney - It's a dead heat. Between Obama and Palin - Obama's ONLY ahead by 8 Points and she hasn't even begun to campaign. (That in spite of a media backed ridicule and hate campaign of unprecedented proportions they have mounted against her. This campaign never considers her considerable accomplishments, only distortions of her personal life and activities.)
It seems to me that Obama Wants to be everywhere where he shouldn't be.
He's personally invested in 'totally insulting' America 's ONLY REAL Middle Eastern ally (Israel) in favor of Palestinian Despots and Murderers. He's traveling the world apologizing for the USA while lecturing others on how to do it right, when in fact and truth he has no experience at doing anything other than getting elected.
He went to the Muslim world in Egypt to declare that America IS NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION while he heaped praises on Islam, where he compared the "plight" of the Palestinians to the Holocaust.
The Russians think he's a putz, The French think he's rude. The Germans want him to stop spending. The Indians want him to mix his nose out of their environmental business. The North Koreans think he's a joke, The Iranians won't acknowledge his calls. And the British can't even come up with a comprehensive opinion of him.
As for the Chinese, he's too frightened to even glance their way. [After All, China now owns a large portion of the United States .]
Maybe if America's first Emperor would stay home more, travel less, and work a little bit instead of being on television just about everyday or stop running to "papered" Town Hall Meetings, perhaps he would have a little bit of time to do the work of the nation.
In all fairness, it wasn't HARD to be RIGHT in my prediction concerning Obama's presidency, even in its first six months, so I'm going to make yet another prediction:
OBAMA WILL PROBABLY NOT FINISH HIS 4-YEAR TERM, at least not in a Conventional way. He is such a political HORROR SHOW, and so detrimental to the USA and his Own Democratic Party, that the Democrats themselves will either FORCE him to Resign or figure out a way to have him thrown out.
Who knows, maybe he really isn't a BORN US Citizen and that's a way the Democrats will be able to get rid of him. [If he is a natural born citizen, why has he actively and at great expense, to taxpayers of course, sealed all records of his birth from public view?]
Or - MORE LIKELY THAN NOT, the Democrats will make Obama THEIR OWN LAME DUCK PRESIDENT.
I don't believe the Democrats have nearly as much love for their country as they do for their own political fortunes. And with Obama, their fortunes are rapidly becoming toast.
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Subject: History Unfolding
This is enlightening. Lest you think it was written by some right-wing kook, David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball.. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C., Albany, New York, and Dakar, Senegal. He attended Harvard University, graduating there in 1969 with a B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at Harvard, gaining a
He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College and has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon,
Dr. David Kaiser
"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it."
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History Unfolding
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why? [This resulted in the largest financial loss to the largest number of people (mostly the American middle class) that the world has ever seen. In one deliberate action, the left destroyed most of the hard earned wealth of most Americans. In the process, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, and
We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
NOTE: Our wonderful President has announced often and loudly, “Americans are NOT exceptional.” and/or “America is not an exceptional nation.” Now that he has made those statements, he is doing everything in his power to make it so.
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then allow mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten... And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.
And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska . All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it.
Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.
This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again. And that is only the beginning.
As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right now.
And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course.
How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe , and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and ..... . .. change. And the people surely got what they voted for.
If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history books.
So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.
Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe . It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.
I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.
I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.
David Kaiser
Jamestown , Rhode Island
United States
"Socialism is great until you run out of everyone else's money."
-Margaret Thatcher
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Can you even believe this??
Well, boys and girls, today we are letting the fox guard the henhouse.
Tomorrow, the wolves will be herding the sheep!
Obama Appoints two devout Muslims to homeland security posts. Doesn't this make you feel safer already?
Obama and
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/obama-appointment-arif-ali-khan-asst-secretary-dhs.html
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is proud to announce that the DHS Secretary
NOTE: Has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a devout Catholic, Jew or Protestant...? Just wondering. Doesn't this make you feel safer already??
Devout Muslims being appointed to critical Homeland Security positions? That should make our homeland much safer, huh!! Was it not men of the "Devout Muslim Faith" that flew planes into U.S. buildings not too long ago in the name of Islam. What the heck is this president thinking?
This announcement was made on Aug 20. Why are we just now hearing about it???
Ho’s comment: Don’t be naive. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Most of his actions are achieving exactly what his backers intended. You don’t think using the government to precipitate the mortgage crisis that cost average Americans most of their hard earned investment in their homes was an accident, do you? C’mon! You can’t be that blind. How about that billion dollar (taxpayer’s money) payoff to
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If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn`t eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy.
A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.
If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
If a black man or Hispanic are conservative, they see themselves as independently successful.
Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a conservative needs a job he looks for one in the private sector where he will compete and risk being fired or laid off.
If a liberal needs a job he looks for one in government where ability doesn’t matter, and he can’t be fired or laid off. (And all he really needs to do is vote for Democrats.)
If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don't like, be shut down (the “fairness doctrine”)
(Fox News - Glen, Bill, Sean, & Greta RULE!!!) .
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. (Unless it's a foreign religion, of course!)
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
When a conservative considers tax policy he realizes higher taxes cost jobs and result in lower tax revenues and acts accordingly.
When a liberal considers tax policy he knows what conservatives know, but he raises taxes in spite of this because it punishes those rascally wealthy people. His definition of “wealthy” is any one with a job or business in the private sector.
If a conservative slips and falls in a store, he gets up, laughs and is embarrassed.
If a liberal slips and falls, he grabs his neck, moans like he's in labor and then sues.
If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he's "offended".
Conservative on “global warming.” “I seriously doubt it is much of a problem.”
Liberal on Global Warming. “Who cares if it isn’t so. Look at all the new taxes we can add because of it and all the liberal organizations that can use it to raise money."
Conservative businessman on taxes and investment: “I can’t invest much in expanding my business because new taxes will take most of the part of my profits I usually set aside for growth capital. For the same reason I can’t hire new people so there will be no new jobs.”
Liberal on business taxes and investment: “You wealthy business people and your obscene profits will just have to do without like the rest of us. Those taxes are absolutely necessary so the people you would have hired can get jobs in the government.”
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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
—John Adams
I always wondered why liberals so disregard our Constitution. Now I know. Thanks John
—HJ, 2007
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
—Norman Mailer
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.
—Eric Hoffer
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
—Douglas Casey
A government policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul.
—George Bernard Shaw
Without violence nothing is ever accomplished in history.
—Karl Marx
[Karl] Marx never did a day of work in his life, and never took the trouble to find out how a worker really feels when on the job. He naturally assumed that workers were a lesser breed of intellectuals.
—Eric Hoffer
There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom.
—Cormac McCarthy
People unfit for freedom—who cannot do much with it—are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.
—Eric Hoffer
The golden rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize that it is your move!
—Dr. Frank Crane
Every former protester I know passionately defends the actions of the 1960s and early '70s as exercising our First-Amendment right to criticize government policies. None seems to have read the First Amendment to the end where it speaks about peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government. More importantly, even in their advanced years, many seem incapable to confront the reality of having served the interest of America's enemies.
—Balint Vazsonyi
Thought for the day: In today’s topsy-turvy world, it is not okay to call a person a slut or whoremonger, but it is okay to be one!
—HJ, 1999
The desire to transcend the human condition is an invitation to tyranny.
—Gertrude Himmelfarb
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
—Philip K. Dick
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
—Oriana Fallaci
When only cops have guns, it's called a “police state.”
—Robert Heinlein
The United States will be a socialist dictatorship by 2030. At this time those leftist activists will happily extol the joys of socialism as they are being carted off to the salt mines.
—HJ, 2008
A trained flea can be taught to do most the things a congressman does.
—Mark Twain
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
—Eric Hoffer
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility
—George Orwell
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
—Eric Hoffer
Choose, and take the consequences. Choose to command, and learn the pain of the barbed treachery of envy. Choose to obey, and learn how soon obedience begets contempt. Choose the philosopher’s life, and learn the famished waste of thought that, like a barren woman, lusts unpregnant. Choose . . . or become the victim of others’ choosing.
—Talbot Mundy in Tros of Samothrace
There only two possible results when the lion shall lie down with the lamb. The lamb will be eaten, or the lion will starve.
—HJ, 2004
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