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Quote of the Day Kleptomania - a mental disorder characterized by stealing what does not belong to a person, even if there is no economic gain involved. Liberalism - a mental disorder characterized by the desire to confiscate, and then spend someone else's money, even when doing so, does not result in economic gain ... xraynova Problem of the Week
Two problems back, the question was to start from first principles, and prove the area formula for the circle. Now do the same, to obtain the
formula for the circumference of a circle. News Commentary July 6, 2008 Wealth Redistribution & the Economy : Every once in a while, liberals get worried about the fact that rich people have a disproportionate amount of money, relative to that held by poor people. What to do ?... they wonder. Their answer is, of course, to raise taxes on the wealthy and to give that money to the poor, in the form of governmental giveaway programs. Here's a cat, who apparently did not pay her "fair share" of taxes...
Look... rich people are rich, because on average, they are smarter than the rest of the population, or they decided to take financial risks in an enterprise, which for them, panned out OK. Few among the wealthy are rich because it fell into their laps. People who are not savvy with money tend to lose it rather quickly, because they are ill-equipped to keep it... An individual earning $200,000 /year, pays the IRS about $70,000 in taxes, on the average. An individual earning $20,000/year pays the IRS about $1200 in taxes, on the average. By any account (except in the liberal mind) this is already a fair assessment for each individual. What is the really sound way to spread around the wealth? It's education. A huge segment of the poor (and so-called lower middle class) are that way, because they are uneducated, or under-educated. But everybody in the nation has access to 12 years of Governmental-School education; and yet they graduate without knowing how to spell their names... much less knowing how to earn a living. For the poor who make it to college, there are Pell grants (a federal program), and most states have Tuition Assistance Programs. Then there are loan programs for college students- with dirt-cheap interest rates. If an individual is so-motivated, (s)he can go to college to learn something that will increase their standard of living. but it take work... not expectation of a government handout, to improve one's quality of life. Wealth redistribution occurs naturally, when the overall level of education in the nation rises. The real impediment to a flatter wealth distribution is the existence of powerful teachers' unions. If groups like the NEA did not exist, then teachers would be paid according to their performance- instead of according to some union scale. Students would graduate with an acceptable level of knowledge... and could compete for the more lucrative jobs ( many of which go unfilled, or get filled by companies hiring from abroad). Of course, democrats (who hate all lobby groups- except their own, like the NEA) will never do anything to bite the hand that feeds them at election time. So, don't hold your breath in expectation that a liberal congress or presidency will solve the education problem... and hence the wealth normalization problem. It's just easier to rant & ave about the huge salaries that CEO's make, and to spew hate against any form of corporation in the nation. Hey ! It's working for them. July 5, 2008 The Spread of islam : Centuries ago, the Crusades were fought to impede the violent infestation of islam into Europe. In recent times, muslims have found it much easier to infest the European nations from within... that is, using the open door policies of the EU nations to immigrate freely into Europe. Having successfully moved into these countries, the immigrants have insisted upon the dominance of their own cultures and religion (islam) over those of their hosts. With the intimidation typical of a field mouse shivering in fear before a hungry falcon, the host nations accede to the demands of islam. The hosts even pass laws to accommodate islam, at the expense of their own cultural patterns. Once inside a host nation, muslims use increasing violence to get their way- especially on religious matters. As a result... Riots and car burnings are routine when a cartoon offends them... Nordic females are routinely raped as 'punishment' for not wearing a head covering in their own nation..
The latest of a countless string of islamic dominance, intolerance, and injustice, is the punishment of school children in Britain for not worshipping the false islamic 'god', allah... by not praying to him as required by their school. Here are a few statements about this latest incident (according to WorldNetDaily)... "Two seventh grade boys were given detention and their classmates forced to miss their scheduled refreshment break when the pair refused to kneel and pray to allah during a religious studies class." "... the religion teacher... made the class wear muslim headgear and watch a short film. Afterward, she took prayer mats from her cupboard and said, 'we are now going to pray to allah..." One parent said, "My child has been forced to pray to allah in a school lesson... it's absolutely disgusting, there's no other way of putting it. My daughter and a lot of other mothers are furious about their children being made to kneel on the floor and pray to islam. If they didn't do it they were given detention..." The two boys who refused to take part in that false religious activity, should be shown that their refusal pleased the real God... ( I Peter 2:20 ; "... but if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God..." ) Here's the thing about islam that almost all so-called "Christians" fail to recognize... Islam is as phony as an eleven-dollar bill. Muslims claim to respect the Bible in addition to their koran... But the Bible precludes islam. The New Testament (Jude 1:3) tells Christians to contend for the faith that was given once and for all (translated from the original language as, "with finality.") If the "one faith" (Eph. 4:5) was given with finality, then any other "faith" given more than 600 years later (i.e., islam), cannot be from God.
July 4, 2008 Happy Independence Day !! : Today is a day of celebration for a nation of regular Americans... a day to celebrate the founding of the greatest, strongest, and most free nation that the earth has ever seen. Today is a day of mourning for US liberals... those whose hatred of the USA is well documented, and whose hatred of their own nation is continually eroding the freedoms built into the Constitution by our founding Fathers. Today regular Americans will display the flag proudly ... while liberals will stand idly by, and frown...
"Evangelical Christians" Decide to Support McCain : A conference of "Evangelical Christians" met and realized the danger presented to the USA by an Obama presidency. The group has decided to support McCain for President- not because they are enamored by the idea of a McCain presidency, but because voting for McCain will preclude Obama from getting into the White House. The group considers that an Obama presidency will pass legislation that will enact his pro-homosexual and pro- abortion stand. With the passage of such legislation, the group of pastors and ministers felt that... 1. Obama will force by law, ministers to marry homosexuals. Ministers who refuse, can be found guilty of violating the Obamination, and be imprisoned. 2. Obama will deeply entrench abortion as the law of the land. With Obama making a concerted move to the political center in recent days, the electorate can be easily deceived by what Obama really wants for the USA. It should be remembered that Obama can lie in your face with impunity, because islam allows a procedure, taqiyya, where lying by a muslim (closet or otherwise) is acceptable if it promotes the cause of islam over Christianity or anything else. July 3, 2008 Obama - Ignorant, or Deceptive ? :
Last month this column reported on an Obama speech in which he declared that there were "many paths" to get to God. But the MSM is now reporting another view from from the mouth of Obama. He met with some evangelists last month, and was asked by Franklin Graham (Billy Graham's son) if he believed that Jesus was the only way to salvation. Now Obama's response was... "Jesus is the only way for me, but I'm not in a position to judge other people." So, which way is it Barry? Is Obama being deceptive, or is he just ignorant about the Bible? If you give him the benefit of the doubt, that he is not a deceiver, then he's just plain ignorant of the Word of God, after having spent 20 years under the tutelage of his mentor J. Wright, at the Trinity United "Church" of Christ. Why would Barry be so ignorant about the Scriptures? It is very likely because he is a practicing muslim... a closet muslim... but muslim all the same. Barry denies this, but one has only his own word for support. On the other hand, people who knew him as a young man, tell a much different story. According to the Indonesian "Banjarmmasin Post" a classmate of Obama named Rony Amir said Obama was "previously quite religious in islam." Then there's the report from the NY Times' Nicholas Kristoff who wrote that Obama used a first-class [Arabic] accent to utter the opening lines of the muslim call to 'prayer." Look, Obama knows that he has no chance of being President of the USA if he declares his allegiance to islam... so he has to lie about it and pretend to be Christian. The problem for him, is that he knows nothing about Christianity. Will all this ultimately matter to his sycophants ? Sadly, not in the least... but that's a story for another day. July 2, 2008 McCain, Obama, & the Supreme Court : McCain continues to warn the nation that Obama will appoint liberal extremists to the SC. They'll fit in perfectly with their comrades like Ginsburg, and Breyer.
Some of the most atrocious decisions in recent times have been due to the liberals on the SC, buttressed by Arthur Kennedy- the fence sitter. We have that subgroup to blame for the approval of Eminent Domain to extend the confiscation of your private property... in the name of obtaining greater tax revenue from someone else's ownership. Obama's minions quickly replied that McCain had voted for those liberal judges during senate confirmation. This Obama response is a classic demonstration of Obama's ignorance of the purpose and process of senate confirmation of justices. Of course, McCain voted for those justices. The confirmation process is supposed to be independent of the political philosophy of the candidate for SC. Qualifications are based on parameters like moral fiber & character. One is not even required to be a lawyer as a prerequisite. Obama is mixed up (even though he sits on the senate confirmation panel) because in recent years, the senate liberals have transformed the process to include the political leanings of the SC candidate. Obama claims to not like a couple of most recent SC decisions (resulting from a couple of 5-4 decisions with the liberal extremists in the majority)... but he guarantees more of the same, should he be elected President of the USA. July 1, 2008 Theory of "Flip-Flopping :
Politicians cannot help but use this term- it's built into their genes. But what does it mean, and when is it being used honestly? The art of flip-flopping is the changing of one's political position, for the express purpose of increasing one's vote count in an election. If the change in political position is done because of an evolution in current events, or because a candidate has learned from a past mistaken or erroneous position, then a flip-flop has NOT occurred. When you hear the term being used, consider whether the politician is just using the antecedent without the predicate, or if the full concept is being employed. Here are a couple of examples... When Obama early-on, promised to take public funds for his campaign, and then later decided to forego public funding and thrive on the abundant public donations... that was NOT a flip-flop. The decision to change was based fundamentally, on the un-anticipated vastness of Obama's popularity among democrat voters. When early-on, McCain railed against the Bush tax cuts... and now approves of them, that is also NOT a flip-flop. Instead, McCain has learned (from advisors he recruited) that the Bush tax cuts produced the booming economy that lasted until the rather sudden speculative rises in gas prices. When Obama tells the USA that he will dump NAFTA... and then sends an emissary to Canada to tell them that he doesn't mean it- that he will keep NAFTA... that's flip-flopping- and beyond that, outright deception.
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