Posted on 11/03/2008 8:10:27 AM PST by TSchmereL
AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, the Mandarin of Talk Radio, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, Maha-Rushie! America's anchorman, truth detector, and doctor of democracy. A Real Man, a living legend, a way of life. Commander in Chief of U.S. Operation Chaos. Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe. Chief of the Patriotism Police. A Weapon of Mass Instruction. El Rushbo (a little Spanish lingo, there). He is the man who is running America (you know it and I know it). He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do--that's host. Get ready to what you were born to do--that's listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).
Go down there and act like you're waiting for someone.
Mornin’ Hat!
He hasn’t mentioned it yet.
Monday 11/3/08
Fmr. Sec. of State Lawrence Eagleburger: Obama is a Con Man
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xFkS7zYC_E
Sunday 11/2/08
Former Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger: “Obama Is A Charlatan .. If he’s elected, God help us.”
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt0FrgAA0cw
[ Definition of Charlatan: A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes. One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank. Definition of Mountebank: One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies; a quack doctor. ]
And where’s the UMWA that is constantly sending out flyers telling it’s members to vote Obama? Not to worry about McCain now. If Barry gets in you won’t have a reason to have a union.
my view and CC is caught in a change that cannot be reversed.
there’s more chance for success for any and all businesses with McCains lower tax rates is my point, understanding as of now Circuit City is in a position of slowing their losses
Good Morning
My wife is heading to Reno, NV tonight to see Sarah speak, she’s taking 3 people to the polls tomorrow. Praying that McCain pulls this out.
Count my prayers in there too!
Theresa Sparks (center, former male), president of the San Francisco Police Commission, CEO of a multimillion-dollar sex toy retailer, and a transgender woman.
Sgt. Stephan Thorne (right, former female), the first transgender SFPD police officer.
Those two canceled each other out nicely-the census guy didn't even have to change the population totals by gender.
Sarah Slammed Obama on Bankrupting the Coal Industry! (Campaign Rally - Sunday 11/2/08 Marietta Ohio)
VIDEO: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/includes/templates/library/flash_popup.php?pID=282185-1&clipStart=&clipStop
She’s telling them to listen to the tape!
SHOCK Audio Unearthed OBAMA TELLS SAN FRANCISCO HE WILL BANKRUPT THE COAL INDUSTRY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdi4onAQBWQ
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Obama: I’ll make energy prices “skyrocket”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122644/posts
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Obama/Joe Biden “No Coal Plants Here in America”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122724/posts
youtube.com ^ | November 2, 2008
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BIG BROTHER Obama wants Government “Price Signals” “Change Your Behavior”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bueCxeXZAUU
Let’s not forget about the NY Slimes sitting on a tape about Obama reciting the MUSLIM CALL TO PRAYER in “perfect Arabic”....went on to say that it was “one of the most beautiful sounds at sunset”.
Wise up??? How flippin' "wise" are you going to feel Wednesday morning, if Obama wins?
Better yet, how wise are you feeling right now?
(bma)
Øbama, Bankrupt the Coal Industry, skyrocket Electricity prices, this won’t be good for the economy, starting with todays stock market
So Heather Fong is the only ‘NORMAL’ person in the picture??
The picture does not tell the story.
The video at 11:24am this morning in Jacksonville shows three slow swipes of his face......as his speech slows and he congratulates John Mccain on his campaign. Three swipes, three different fingers.....the last being the middle finger.
DJIA 9,362.12 37.11 ^
Are there coal mines in Ohio?
True... the first half they did great...I left to do some CAMPAIGNING and I saw they lost!! :(
Let’s just use this as the Bankrupting Coal news gets out
DJIA 9,362
“..I think the defining aspect of academia is actually their insulation from the consequences of their decisions. There are lots of liberal leaning economists, but outside of academia I don’t think there are any. The reason is that in academia you can be wrong time after time and the consequences are non existent. And because of that lack of a disincentive to be wrong, there is only an incentive to be different from everyone else or otherwise controversial. In business however, if you aren’t right more than you are wrong you are fired and you need to go do something else. This has a way of improving your decision making process and correcting your thinking. And in the current environment, it also has the effect of pushing you to the right politically.”
What is money?
Do the Rich Owe Us? by Andrew Tallman,
http://townhall.com/columnists/AndrewTallman/2008/10/31/do_the_rich_owe_us&Comments=true
People who are otherwise quite smart become suddenly stupid when the subject is money. I don’t mean they manage their own money poorly, although that is often the case. I mean that they don’t actually understand what money is.
For instance, we are all now painfully aware that Barack Obama believes in some degree of socialism, given his predilection to favor “spreading the wealth around.” The idea is simple. Wealthy people have a lot, and poor people don’t. Money solves problems, so why not take some from the rich to give to the poor? Robin Hood was a hero, and that’s what he did, right? After all (and this is the vital part), those who are rich owe back to the society that’s given them so much.
Wait, what was that last part again?
People who make a lot of money owe a debt to society to use their money for good, and that’s why it’s okay to tax them more heavily in order to do the good things that need doing. This error is the source of the biggest errors people make in thinking about money and government.
In truth, it’s simple. The wealthy don’t owe us. Literally, we owe them. That’s what money means.
If I have $50,000 in a bank somewhere, that means that society owes me goods and services in the amount of $50,000. If I spend $20,000 of it on a car, society doesn’t owe me as much anymore because they’ve compensated me in the form of that car. Everyone collectively still owes me $30,000, which I can collect on in a variety of ways.
Money is an IOU from society that we give people when they give us things we desire or do things for us we want. So when a person makes a lot of money, it means that he has done beneficial things for a lot of people. If he accumulates these IOUs in a storage facility somewhere, he is amassing wealth not because he owes society, but precisely because society owes him the value of all those accumulated and uncollected debts.
To put the point a little more bluntly, people who have debt are the ones who truly owe back to society. That’s what debt means. You’ve enjoyed goods or services that you haven’t yet earned. And when you’ve created enough value in the eyes of other people, they’ll trade their stored-up credit to you and you can be debt-free, neither owing society nor being owed by society.
The thing about money is that it measures value. When I pay you $100 for an item, I am admitting that it is worth about twice as much to me in my life as something else I only pay $50 for. When people pay $12 to see a movie, they’re saying that a movie is worth about four gallons of gas. And when someone sells a million people movie tickets, he makes a lot of money because he did a million favors.
In what sense, precisely, should someone who delivers the finished experience of watching a movie to a million people then be obligated to those people to give them back any portion of the money they freely paid him? In reality, because he has worked while they have leisured, they now owe him. That’s why he can go back to them and let them cut his hair, change his oil, and weed his garden in exchange for some of those dollars.
Here’s a quick test to see whether you are grasping this idea. Who contributes more value to society: a person who makes $100,000 or a person who makes $20,000? If this question is at all difficult for you, it’s because you’re secretly at war with yourself. You despise people who make a lot of money, yet you daily affirm the social value of making a lot of money when you pay more money for the things you want more.
Also, just to admit the obvious, one may also do beneficial things without receiving money. Friends, parents, and volunteers do this all the time. But when someone gives you money, you know one thing: you have benefited them.
“But what if the man who earns $100k does so through pornography and the $20k guy teaches kindergarten?” Alright. “But what if the $100k guy is a doctor and the $20k guy sells cigarettes?” Don’t cherry-pick your examples. Of course people make bad decisions about value, but other people make good decisions about value. That’s the idea of letting people make and spend their own money. The alternative is socialism.
But here’s one final error that may be plaguing some of you. When people make a lot of money, doesn’t that mean that other people become poor?
No.
Never.
Not even a little bit.
As long as the transaction is voluntary (i.e. not taxes or theft), then both people become better off every time money changes hands. That’s because the thing being purchased means more to the person buying it than the money he spends, and the money being paid means more to the person receiving it than the thing he sells. The magic of a free market is that every single transaction (every single transaction) makes the world a better place because it benefits both parties involved (I had to overcome a Master’s Degree in grasping this elementary concept). This means that the free market is never a zero sum game where one person gains and the other person loses. It is always a positive for both, achieving a more efficient distribution of desirable items through a totally voluntary process. The economic pie is not fixed, but can grow or shrink based on production, consumption, waste and exchange.
When you buy a haircut, your life gets better because you prefer shorter hair to the $15 you paid. Similarly, the barber’s life gets better because he used his time and talent to help you, and now he can go out to lunch. Who is worse off because you got a haircut? Nobody. Who is worse off because a barber starts hair salons and earns $450,000? No one. That’s just 30,000 little events where both parties improve their lives. That’s the nature of a free market.
So when you imagine that the guy who made it possible for thousands of people to have haircuts suddenly owes those people for having the audacity to have already given them a benefit, you’ve inverted the very meaning of money. And when you then tax him more because he’s been so effective at helping people, you’re teaching him that helping people is a bad thing and disincentivizing good behavior. But regardless of whether he is deaf to your foolish instruction, you have still stolen from him what was rightfully his entirely on the premise that being very good at helping people somehow puts you even more in their debt, a patently absurd concept.
For the sake of clarity, allow me to repeat myself: The rich do not owe us. In reality, we owe them. That’s what money means.
The way we say, “Thank you,” in the modern world is we give you money. The more we give you, the more thankful we are for the thing we’ve received. There is no voodoo threshold at which a pile of thank yous suddenly becomes a pile of “you owe us”es. And there is, therefore, no justification for telling people who accumulate the biggest pile of thank yous every year that they are obligated to give back to all the people that have already thusly thanked them.
In as short a way as I know to explain it, this is basic economic reason why Barack Obama should not be president. He simply does not understand what money is.
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BONUS: The Three R’s of McCain’s Health Tax Credit by Amy Menefee
http://townhall.com/columnists/AmyMenefee/2008/10/31/the_three_rs_of_mccains_health_tax_credit
[Snip] Obama’s ad push isn’t over yet. His 30-minute infomercial attracted more than 26 million viewers, and we’re sure to see a last-minute flurry of ads in the coming days.
Americans should listen to what he has to say with the skepticism deserved by someone whose ads are misleading a nation — when even his top economic adviser knew better.
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