Planet Bullshit!
This has happened before and is unacceptable. Obama continues to pander to this group for votes..how do you like it now?
H/T to Weasel Zippers for the pic and story.
Ten Reasons
Ten Reasons to Reject Socialism
1. Socialism and communism are the same ideology
Communism is but an extreme form of socialism. From the ideological standpoint, there is no substantial difference between the two. In fact, the communist Soviet Union called itself the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991) and communist China, Cuba and Vietnam define themselves as socialist nations.
2. Socialism violates personal freedom
Socialism seeks to eliminate “injustice” by transferring rights and responsibilities from individuals and families to the State. In the process, socialism actually creates injustice. It destroys true liberty: the freedom to decide all matters that lie within our own competence and to follow the course shown by our reason, within the laws of morality, including the dictates of justice and charity.
3. Socialism violates human nature
Socialism is anti-natural. It destroys personal initiative–a fruit of our intellect and free will–and replaces it with State control. It tends to totalitarianism, with its government and police repression, wherever it is implemented.
4. Socialism violates private property
Socialism calls for “redistributing the wealth” by taking from the “rich” to give to the poor. It imposes taxes that punish those who have been able to take greater advantage of their productive talents, capacity to work or thrift. It uses taxation to promote economic and social egalitarianism, a goal that will be fully achieved, according to The Communist Manifesto, with the “abolition of private property.”
5. Socialism opposes traditional marriage
Socialism sees no moral reason for people to restrict sex to marriage, that is, to an indissoluble union between a man and a w
oman. Furthermore, socialism undermines private property, which Friedrich Engels, founder of modern socialism and communism along with Karl Marx, saw as the foundation of traditional marriage.
6. Socialism opposes parental rights in education
Socialism has the State, and not parents, control the education of children. Almost from birth, children are to be handed over to public institutions, where they will be taught what the State wants, regardless of parental views. Evolution must be taught. School prayer must be forbidden.
7. Socialism promotes radical equality
A supposed absolute equality among men is the fundamental assumption of socialism. Therefore, it sees any inequality as unjust in itself. Private employers are quickly portrayed as “exploiters” whose profits really belong to their employees. As a consequence, they rule out the system of wage earning.
8. Socialism promotes atheism
Belief in God, who unlike us is infinite, omnipotent and omniscient, clashes head-on with the principle of absolute equality. Socialism therefore rejects the spiritual, claiming that only matter exists. God, the soul, and the next life are illusions according to socialism.
9. Socialism promotes relativism
For socialism there are no absolute truths or revealed morals that establish standards of conduct that apply to everyone, everywhere, and always. Everything evolves, including right and wrong, good and evil. There is no place for the Ten Commandments, neither in the private mind nor in the public square.
10. Socialism mocks religion
According to Karl Marx, religion is “the opium of the people.” Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, agreed: “Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.”
Source:
The American Society for Defense of Tradition, Family and Property
http://www.tfp.org/tfp-home/statements/10-reasons-to-reject-socialism.html
MSN Poll Destroys Holders Plea For Convict Voter Rights
I have had MSN as my home page for years, I’m just used to it coming up when I start up the old Gateway. That being said you get all kinds of left leaning, liberal headings and articles. So I assume that a majority of people who follow MSN are probably lefties or moderate at best. So I was amused when I saw this poll they were doing about Eric Holder wanting to give convicts back their voting rights. Enjoy.
Yep, It’s Like That
Worse Than Scum
These are members of the Oversight Committee who walked out of chambers before the family members of the Benghazi victims were going to speak. Much like Obama and Hillary who turned their backs on Benghazi, the lap dogs did the same thing to the surviving families. I can’t think of anything more despicable than what these people did.
What a slap in the face to the families, but also America. I am disgusted by their actions and they should all be removed from office immediately.
What is happening to this country?
Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness
Found this over at The Daley Gator, it is a 30 minute video and since I decided to do nothing today, I watched it in it’s entirety, you should to. His remarks at the end are outstanding.
*VIDEO* Cam Edwards Gives Keynote Speech At Independence Institute’s 11th Annual ATF Party
FYI
Open Up The Flood Gates
Now that the senate has passed a POS bill for amnesty, you might as well send the border patrol home and save a few pesos. The border will be uncontrollable with the flood of illegals hoping to reap the benefits of amnesty. The sad thing, it is the middle of summer and these illegals are going to be crossing at the most hazardous time of the year, many I am sure will die from the heat with the promise of amnesty just across the desert.
Congratulations you pompous asshats, not only have you put the country in jeopardy for decades, you probably initiated a death march for hundreds if not thousands of illegals. I assume they didn’t think about that in their rush to lock up 20 million votes.
Common Sense…Your Doing It Right
Even though liberals ignore it.
CBO States Immigration Reform Good For America
Once again this is easy. The Congressional Budget Office is supposed to be non-partisan, just like the IRS.
Any questions?
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its analysis of the economic impact of the Gang of Eight’s immigration-reform proposal. Proponents are likely to emphasize the report’s findings that the bill would reduce the federal deficit by $197 billion over the next decade (although Republicans will likely be asked to explain why this estimate is any more reliable than the CBO’s predictions regarding Obamacare).
“Other aspects of the bill would probably increase the number of unauthorized residents — in particular, people overstaying their visas issued under the new programs for temporary workers,” CBO writes. And as a result, “the net annual flow of unauthorized residents would decrease by about 25 percent relative to what would occur under current law.” That’s not an insignificant reduction, but it hardly inspires confidence that Gang’s proposal will be more successful than the failed 1986 reform bill at preventing future illegal immigration. Regarding our current levels of illegal immigration, Senator Marco Rubio has often said one of the goal’s of this bill is “to ensure this never happens again in the future.”
Congress has already passed laws (following the 9/11 terror attacks) meant to tackle the visa-overstay problem, but the federal government has yet to install a biometric entry-exit system to make sure individuals leave the country when they are supposed to. Rubio has repeatedly identified this as a flaw in the current immigration system, and has said he would not support a reform bill unless “enforcement mechanisms are in place.”
On Tuesday, Rubio joined Democrats and six other Republicans to defeat an amendment to the bill that would have required the implementation of an entry-exit system to track visa overstays before illegal immigrants are granted legal status. Despite expressing his “support” for the “goal” of the amendment, offered by Senator David Vitter (R., La.), Rubio said in a statement that he opposed the amendment because it “delays the process of submitting illegal immigrants to background checks and the imposition of fines for having violated our immigration laws.” He promised to ”continue working with my Republican colleagues to improve the entry-exit system measures in the legislation.”