Posted on 01/22/2010 8:09:59 AM PST by Lazamataz
It looks like America, teetering as it was on the brink of a 'kinder, gentler' tyranny, has pulled back.
Between the shocking election of Scott Brown in ploddingly-liberal Massachusettes, the overturning of much of McCain-Feingold's ban on election advertisements prior to elections, and the Russian disclosure that the Global Warming hoaxers were making up data, America emerged from this rather close call with a new direction. It appears that direction -- much to the consernation and dismay of the President and much of Congress -- is back to freedom.
What made this possible? What forces drove back the blitzkreig of Government, Regulation, and Suppression?
In a word: Information.
Information turned the tide. Information about the HellCare dealings was crucial. We found out, through media sources other than the State Organs of Propaganda -- CBS, NBC, ABC, LA Times, New York Times, and so on -- that Hell Care Reform had in it an individual mandate to purchase insurance or be fined. An individual mandate, on citizens! Unfunded, like the many unfunded state mandates! That was truly breathtaking.
We found out, through media sources other than the State Organs of Propaganda, that Hell Care cut Medicaid. We found out that while Hell Care allowed you to keep your current insurance, the act of changing a job would force you to switch to their new plan. We found out that people who had good plans would get taxed for them. We found out that while taxes would be paid for years, no benefits would be paid out until years after that.
We found out that certain Senators got bribed, outright, with our money to vote for this plan -- such as the dodgy Sen. Ben Nelson.
The American people were paying attention, too. It was more than a little amazing to see them rise, in such numbers, in one of the most liberal states of the Union and lay fallow the plans of the Democrats to impose Hell Care on us.
Information flowed freely, too, on the Global Warming hoax, after hackers delivered to the internet-at-large copious reams of emails from some of the key players in the hoax. Their emails showed that they were purposely playing fast and loose with the scientific data -- and then when challenged, admitted that they discarded the original data from which their fraud was derived! This goes against every scientific method ever taught.
This fraud is what was to propel the cap-and-trade legislation, who's ultimate purpose was to make energy more costly, and to achieve a greater Central Planning role for the government in the allocation of energy.
It is thought that the hackers that got the emails and released them were from Russia, which made this author ponder: How ironic it is, that Russia saved us from Communism.
Information will flow more freely, now that McCain-Feingold has been overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States. It was always a little odd that the First Amendment was thought to apply to pornography and offensive speech, but NOT to the free expression of political views -- as McCain-Feingold was intended to suppress.
I have hope for America, so long as information flows freely. It turns out we do pay attention, and that we do act to rein in reckless and out of touch lawmakers. It turns out that we wish to preserve our freedom and the capitalist economy that made us so materially wealthy.
He saved his soul by becoming a Republican, after refusing my request.
Followed by your first intentional double post, no doubt.
Excellent evaluation of the situation.
I find myself bemusedly considering the possibility of not having to actually blast and garrote my way to freedom in the spring, as I was convinced I would have to do a mere week ago.
Well, it all depends.
Just how big are they? :)
Laz has been known to string together sentences containing words with three or more syllables....
Thanks for the ping to this, Quix!
Prayers for Laz!!!
Seriously though, I really enjoyed reading this. If this is the result of your first attempt at editorializing, then I heartily encourage you to keep at it! :)
Thank you!
Let's just put it like this: My words are so big, you might not be able to get your mouth around them.
;)
I greatly enjoy helping you laugh.
I tried to put in a good word for you Laz. Don’t know if it helped, though....
:^(
Well Done!
Nobody loves me.
Waaaaaaahhhhh!
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ThankYew!
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Whatchya think? If I reworked this, is it good enough for publication?
The fax machine brought down the USSR in the same manner.
Lowlifes can no longer hide under a rock and pass legislation at midnight without the information getting out.
What will be the demise of liberals is simply exposing them for what they are.
"What forces drove back the blitzkreig of Government, Regulation, and Suppression? ...In a word: Information."
Someone else though the same way,"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"
"I wish I had the confidence that such events and trends will be more than a few garden hoses against a forest fire.However, we must support all such that we can as vigorously as we can as long as we can."
My thoughts exactly.
Sorry bro’ meant to ping you to 76 as well
Seriously though, I really enjoyed reading this. If this is the result of your first attempt at editorializing, then I heartily encourage you to keep at it! :)
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INDEED!
However, just please make sure that I don’t have to keep buying his ever larger hats!
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