Tuesday Open Thread
Welcome to your Tuesday open thread. I’m in Canada so posting may be a little thin.
Where are the new Republicans I keep hearing about? The Texas GOP has a “new” platform that could have been written by the John Birch Society.
We Believe in:
1. Strict adherence to the Declaration of Independence and U.S. and Texas Constitutions.
2. Preserving American Freedom and Texas Sovereignty.
3. Limiting the expanse of Government Power.
4. The sanctity of human life, created in the image of God, which should be protected from fertilization to
natural death.
5. Personal Accountability and Responsibility.
6. Self-sufficient families, founded on the traditional marriage of a natural man and a natural woman.
7. Having an educated population, with parents having the freedom of choice for the education of their
children.
8. Americans having the right to be safe in their homes, on their streets, and in their communities, and the
unalienable right to defend themselves.
9. A free enterprise society unencumbered by government interference or subsidies.
10. Restoring American sovereignty and leadership, and we honor all of those that serve and protect our freedom with peace through strength.
So what does that mean in policy terms?
We recommend a national sales tax (which does not include a Value Added Tax) to replace all other Federal taxes once the I.R.S. is abolished and the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is repealed. However, until such time that the income tax is abolished, we support deductions for private and home schooling, home mortgages, and sales taxes.
We believe the Minimum Wage Law should be repealed.
We oppose the Census Bureau’s obtaining data beyond the number of people residing in a dwelling, and we oppose statistical sampling adjustments in the “mid-decade” census. We urge that U.S. citizens who, because of religion or conscience, are compelled to withhold their full response to any census question, be held guiltless. We support the actual counting of people and oppose any type of estimation or manipulation of data.
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We believe that parents are best suited to train their children in their early development and oppose mandatory pre-school and Kindergarten. We urge Congress to repeal government sponsored programs that deal with early childhood development.
We support an immediate and orderly transition to a system of private pensions based on the concept of individual retirement accounts, and gradually phasing out the Social Security tax. We insist that Social Security benefits be non-taxable. To protect the Social Security System, its funds should not be co-mingled or spent with general revenues or invested in private or public corporate stock.
The Texas GOP would like to pick the parts of the Constitution that they like and throw out the parts they don’t like. Isn’t it interesting that all these words like “freedom” and “safety” means screw you, I’ve got mine.
Yesterday Rudy Giuliani went a bridge too far with Mika Brzenzinski:
Brzezinski: Giuliani “vomit[ed] out complete, baseless lies” about Obama’s oil spill response
I guess we already know that Giuliani is a liar (remember when he said 9/11 didn’t happen under Bush?) but infotainment shows continue to put Giuliani on as some kind of expert on something (and it’s not keeping mistresses).
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ha HA! Glenn Beck loses 50% of his audience. Add this to the fact that he has almost no advertisers (absolutely none in the UK), let’s hope this clown gets sent back to the rodeo he came from.
Nobody tell 50% of Becks viewers that the TV remote in the sofa cushions.
“I’m in Canada so posting may be a little thin.” Protesting at the G-20 conference?
iStalking:
“Apple Inc. is now collecting the “precise,” “real-time geographic location” of its users’ iPhones, iPads and computers.”
Real time targeted advertising.
Anti-war Republican, John Dennis, takes on Nancy Pelosi
“Voters are waking up to the hypocrisy that resonates from their representatives. Pelosi’s stance on war serves as a prime example. On her own website she speaks of her humanitarian agenda, stating that she has ‘led the fight to end the suffering of people worldwide.’ Rummaging congress for votes appropriating billions of dollars to continue the controversial Afghan war is blatantly contradictory to leading the “fight to end the suffering of people worldwide.”
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For those looking forward to the demise of Beck, sorry charlie, not in the cards, his buffonery and paranoid delusionel reant fill the empty vessels that american brains have become, they know their lives are being ruined but they have been ordered not to blame the real culprit, corporate greed, so they wait for beck to event villians for them, it,s going to be like this for a while, studies show american,s are not about to enter another age of enlightenment any time soon.
Wow…I just heard they passed Atkins law to allow guns in public housing! I guess if we are going to allow drunks who beat up their wives to be legislators, why not?
John is still pissed at the cops.
I have a question for you AQC. What are you so freaked out about?
It’s public housing…..not courthouses, schools or any other public building that should cause alarm. Public housing more often than not are basically apartments. It still is considered a private residence in matters of law. It’s not like I can just walk into their houses because it’s ‘public housing’; neither can the police.
Would it be fair to assume that you disagree with anyone’s right to protect their life, family, or property?
I am gonna go ahead and agree with Phil.
It’s not courthouses, schools or any other public building… yet.
True, but these are private spaces, not public ones.
I am gonna go ahead and agree with Phil.
For those of us that followed you and possible-senate-candidate Schoolmarm on Twitter, yeah, I know you agree with Phil! 😀
I was somewhat chilled over her reason and justification that living under assistance means you give up rights. I absolutely did not expect that.
Yeah, sorry about the tweet pollution.
Nah, I enjoyed it. Kind of like Apple’s IStalking, but not really.
those rascally racist republicans are at it again…
Black Republican beats former Sen. Strom Thurmond’s son in S.C.
The Hill ^ | 6-22-10 | Shane D’Aprile
Republican Tim Scott earned a landslide victory against challenger Paul Thurmond in the Republican runoff in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District.
The Associated Press called the race for Scott with the candidate leading Thurmond 74 percent to 26 percent.
There was no question that Scott was the candidate of the party’s D.C. establishment in South Carolina’s 1st congressional district.
It’s a label that has essentially been the kiss of death for other GOP primary candidates this election cycle. But in the open seat primary to replace retiring Rep. Henry Brown (R) the party appeared thrilled to coalesce behind Scott, the man who could become the GOP’s only black member of Congress if he wins in November. The GOP has not had a black Congressman in its ranks since the retirement of former Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.). It also helps that Scott is plenty conservative. The candidate has made repealing President Barack Obama’s healthcare law his campaign’s biggest issue.
The question is if he is actually conservative, or is he this twisted republican ‘conservative’?
Wikipedia link for the district: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina%27s_1st_congressional_district
There’s a strong military (Navy) presence in the district. The seat was held in the ’90s by Mark Sanford.
Phil, it would not be safe to assume anything since you don’t know me or my values.