February 9, 2010
February 8, 2010
Monday's Links
London Daily Mail: Greed, socilized medicine and the fake pandemic mix to harm the world's health.
London Telegraph: Global Warming--one of the most lucritive scams ever dreamed up.
Lodon Mail: The Joys of Socialized Medicine--British hospital places blank DNR forms in patients medical files; nurses, seeing only the page header, let patient die.
Seattle Times: Misguided church seeks "mystery worshippers" on craigslist. Pays $50 for non-christian to observe service and complete survey. Here's the problem: The church service is for believers, it's then the job of those believers to go out into the world and share the gospel.
Posted by Danny Carlton at 6:59 AM
February 4, 2010
February 3, 2010
February 1, 2010
Monday's Links
WorldNetDaily: California's "Nazi" Mall bans speech it doesn't approve of. One customer already handcuffed, roughed-up by mall security and thrown in jail for being caught discussing forbidden topic.
Columbus Dispatch: [warning annoying video played when ad is moused-over] Rifqa Bary's parent withdraw agreement to allow her to remain in foster care. She turns 18 in August, and they have until then to kill her and "restore" their "honor".
WESH-TV, Orlando: 4 Orlando churches vandalized in 2 months. Still can't decide if it's a hate crime.
London Guardian: Funny how it was "Star Wars" when Reagan was in office "Missile Defense" when Clinton was in office, ignored when Bush was in office and now that Obama's in office it's "Missile Defense" again. Still no acknowledgement that it was Reagan who built the darn thing while being ridiculed by idiots who now enjoy its protection.
WorldNetDaily: Planned Genocide pushes law stripping First Amendmet rights from Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
Posted by Danny Carlton at 7:32 AM
January 27, 2010
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Friday's Links
WND: After years of crippling along only on the massive financial support of filthy rich Liberals (and what money they could scam from charities) Air America to finally close down.
TMZ: Bristol Palin dmeanding child support from deadbeat Levi.
London Times: UN's top climate change body has issued an unprecedented apology over its flawed prediction.
WLKY, Louisville: Jewish teen arrested for "suspicious" behavior (praying) as airplane is diverted to another airport. Did the Jewish teen or his family get outraged and sue? No. His comment was simply, "I wasn't scared, I just shook my head and thought, 'Well we are in a world where people are very concerned,'"
Posted by Danny Carlton at 9:10 AM
McFein Caingold (redux)
In light of the Supreme Courts overturning most of the McCain Feingold Campaign Finance law, I'm reposting my earlier article making fun of the law...
McFine - Caingold (from 5//6/2008)
Boasting of his participation in the 1876 Hamburg Massacre, in which seven Black men were murdered by a mob of white southerners, Benjamin Tillman pursued dominance in South Carolina's political arena. Serving as governor in 1890 he bemoaned the fact that Blacks still resided in South Carolina. "...we have scratched our heads to find out how we could eliminate the last one of them. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it." So naturally when he ran for the US Senate he felt most comfortable in the Democrat Party and became the "noble" pioneer of campaign finance reform, setting a "moral" standard future "reformers" could emulate. Tillman's Magnus Opus was the Tillman Act, which barred political contributions from corporations. Apparently corporation didn't measure up to Tillman's lofty moral standards.
In 1974 Democrats were once again outraged at such egregious campaign finance abuses as W. Clement Stone's donation of $2 million to Richard Nixon, which helped defeat Democrat challenger, George McGovern. It was Stone's money, and perfectly legal, but since it helped defeat a Democrat, the Democrat controlled Congress saw it as an obvious example of "corruption" and "financial abuse". Being Democrats, though, they weren't all that bright and made the mistake of believing their own hype. Assuming their contributor base was actually "the people" rather that "the rich" they amended the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to cap individual donations at $5,000. By the time they realize that Republicans actually had more grassroots contributions, it was too late. They'd promoted donation caps to the point that they couldn't take it back. But like all good Democrats, they knew that rules were for suckers who couldn't find the loopholes.
First the Supreme Court ruled that the caps couldn't be applied to what the candidate himself could donate, so the rich politicians breathed a sigh of relief, and the average Joes aspiring for political office were cut off at the knees. The world was once again safe from all those average Joes.
Democrats quickly found other loopholes. Funding political parties and other organizations was left fairly open, especially if the money was used specifically for "voter registration". So an organization that worked to register voters only in heavily Democrat parts of the city was declared "non-partisan" and could receive unlimited funding. Also, every time ordinary people found a way of reaching other voters, political insiders led by Democrats would slam the doors on their efforts. The 90s found people pooling their money to run commercials addressing issues they were concerned about. In 2002 McCain-Feingold stopped that "horrible abuse". Can you imagine the gall of some people thinking they can just simply tell other people what they think. I mean where do they think this is, America?
In 2004 we saw billionaire George Soros flood the campaign season with $15 million, while the Democrat party smiled on approvingly. (By the way, W. Clement Stone's $2 million in 1972 would have been $9 million in 2004 dollars, but somehow "corrupt" while Soros's $15 million wasn't.) The FEC eventually, grudgingly fined Soros funded MoveOn.org a paltry $150,000 while fining the [gasp] Average Joe funded Swift Vets for Truth almost twice as much for allegedly doing the exact same thing. What exactly it was they did was never really explained all that clearly, mainly because it's doubtful the FEC itself actually understands McCain-Feingold. It's doubtful McCain or Feingold even understand McCain-Feingold. But any government agency worth its salt has to do something to appear to justify its budget. So MoveOn.org was fined $150,000 for an alleged $5 million campaign violation. I bet their wrists are still stinging.
This Presidential election promises yet another exciting "race for the loophole" competition between any of a crowd of well financed organizations wearing their "I'm pretending to be non-partisan" buttons. Soros still hasn't squandered his $8.5 billion estimated net worth, so there's plenty to pay off token FEC fines as he attempts again to buy a presidency.
Ultimately every attempt at campaign finance reform ever enacted in the US turned out to be an embarrassing Maginot Line that caused more problems than it solved. In fact, since our ineffective efforts at campaign finance reform predate the actual Maginot Line, it should have been made fun of by calling it a "US Campaign Finance Reform."
Posted by Danny Carlton at 9:07 AM
