Nancy Pelosi on the Non-Union Boeing Plant: Government Should Shut It Down
November 1, 2011 by DiscerningCitizen · 1 Comment
Is any more proof needed that Pelosi and those that think like her are completely insane and shouldn’t be allowed around sharp objects? I honestly can’t believe that we have people like this shaping policy in this country. God help us. See video below.
CNN Poll: 62% of Americans Want All or Most Abortions Illegal
September 17, 2011 by DiscerningCitizen · 1 Comment
I’ve argued with lefties on numerous occasions about abortion and have told them that someday abortion will be looked on as an evil at least as great as slavery. Those that support abortion today are on the wrong side of history, and are becoming dinosaurs compared to the shifting public opinion on the abortion issue. From LifeSiteNews:
A new CNN national poll of Americans finds results that are almost identical to a Gallup survey earlier this year, and it shows 62% of Americans want all or most abortions made illegal.
CNN asked the question, “Do you think abortion should be legal under any circumstances, legal under only certain circumstances, or illegal in all circumstances?” The survey found 25 percent of Americans want all abortions legal while 21 percent want all abortions illegal, and it had a large group of 53 percent of Americans saying abortions should be legal only under certain circumstances.
However, with a large percentage of Americans opposing abortions except in cases such as taking of the life of the mother, or cases of rape or incest — both of which, combined, constitute less than two percent of all abortions in the nation, according to the Guttmacher Institute — most Americans truly want 100% of 98 percent of the 1.2 million abortions a year made illegal.
A follow-up question CNN asked showed that to be the case.
What is truly remarkable about this poll is that young people are the most firmly against abortion, despite often being very liberal (or maybe just uninformed?):
By age, Americans also oppose abortions — with 59 percent of people aged 18-34, 58 percent of those 35-54 and 64 percent of those over the age of 55 saying all or almost all abortions should become illegal. Younger Americans are most supportive of making all abortions illegal, with 24 percent of 18-34 year-olds saying so and 35 percent saying they want abortions legal only in a few circumstances.
I truly believe that it’s only a matter of time before abortion is largely outlawed in the United States and around the world. And as with slavery and segregation (and maybe global warming?), those in the Democratic Party will once again be the ones clinging to a dying issue and refusing to change with the times.
Judge Judy Takes it to Two Freeloaders Abusing the Social Welfare System
August 6, 2011 by DiscerningCitizen · Leave a Comment
A recent episode of Judge Judy illustrates abundantly one of the core problems afflicting America today: the freeloader entitlement mentality. In the video below, Judge Judy takes it to two deadbeats who are living off and abusing the social welfare system.
If the county is giving you money for rent, and you’re not using that money for rent but using it for yourself then you’re stealing that money.
I don’t want to pay your rent. The government says that I have to pay your rent. Even officer bird doesn’t want to pay your rent, but if we have to pay your rent, we don’t want the money we send to you for rent to go to anything else other than rent.
I’m sending this tape to Congress.
What’s particularly grating about this is the fact that the real person who got screwed here was the landlord. Make sure to watch the entire video to see what I mean.
Isn’t the liberal solution to poverty always to throw more money at it? Tell me, how is throwing more money at these two deadbeats going to help pull them out of poverty? Seems to me that freebies just reinforce the entitlement freeloader mentality. These two should be banned from the welfare system forever because of this.
Obama Talks Out of Both Sides of His Mouth on Raising the Debt Ceiling
July 26, 2011 by DiscerningCitizen · Leave a Comment
Obama has proven that no low is too low over this debt ceiling issue. For weeks he’s been fear mongering about how a failure to increase the debt ceiling by August 2 will result in a US default that will cost seniors their Social Security checks and cause the financial system to collapse. Well, today, it turns out that he’s been telling a different story to the big banks. From Fox Business:
While officials from the Obama Administration raised their rhetoric over the weekend about the possibility of a debt default if the debt ceiling isn’t raised, they privately have been telling top executives at major U.S. banks that such an event won’t happen, FOX Business has learned.
In a series of phone calls, administration officials have told bankers that the administration will not allow a default to happen even if the debt cap isn’t raised by the August 2 date Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the government will run out of money to pay all its bills, including obligations to bond holders. Geithner made the rounds on the Sunday talk shows saying a default is imminent if the debt ceiling isn’t raised, and President Obama issued a similar warning during a Friday press conference after budget negotiations with House Republicans broke down.
Apparently the Great Anointed One, the Messiah, isn’t above scaring seniors if he can get political leverage out of it. This man is not a statesman, he’s worse than a used car salesman. It’s this kind of dishonesty and political gamesmanship that makes people so cynical about politics.
Besides, there’s really not any imminent danger of a default anyway, as Vox Day points out:
Moreover, there is no chance of forced default. In August, there will be a projected $150 billion in tax revenue. Interest payments will only be $29 billion. That leaves more than $120 billion to spend on everything else. So, anyone who claims that default is unavoidable as of August third or anytime in August is blatantly lying.
Again, all this is about is politics, pure and simple. Obama is simply leveraging the serious issue of government overspending and the debt ceiling for political gain. As I’ve pointed out before, with the political left, it’s politics first, everything else second.
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: N. Korea to Head UN Conference on Disarmament
June 30, 2011 by DiscerningCitizen · 1 Comment
Man, you just can’t make up crazy stuff like this. The Weekly Standard is reporting that North Korea has been selected to head up the UN Conference on Disarmament:
On Tuesday, the United Nations again made itself an international laughing stock – except perhaps to the American taxpayers who continue to foot 22 percent of the bill – by appointing North Korea chair of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament. That would be the same North Korea that, according to an article this week by Senator John Kerry, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has “twice tested nuclear weapons…is developing missiles to carry them…has built facilities capable of producing highly enriched uranium for more nuclear weapons” and has defied a U.N. arms embargo by exporting weapons and sensitive technologies to rogue regimes.
Was there ever a more ineffective and irrelevant bureaucratic quagmire than the UN? It’s simply a vast money pit that endlessly swallows billions of taxpayer dollars even as it seeks to undermine our interests at every turn. The sooner we cut off funding to the UN and boot them from our shores, the better. Maybe they’d be better off taking the penthouse of that giant rocketship looking thing in the center of Pyongyang.
Liberalism Run Amok: Texas Veterans Told Not to Say the Names “God” or “Jesus” in Services
June 29, 2011 by DiscerningCitizen · 1 Comment
Whenever you starting thinking that lefties couldn’t be more obnoxious and arrogant, count on them to find a way to outdo themselves. The director (or is it Supreme Ruler?) of the Houston National Cemetery has decreed that veterans cannot use the name “Jesus” and “God” in prayers without her prior approval. From KTRH.com:
They fought for their country, now they’re fighting against it.
A trio of Houston area veterans groups is suing Veterans Affairs and the director of the local National Cemetery claiming they’re trying to censor religious freedom during funerals and other ceremonies.
This all started just before Memorial Day when a pastor giving the annual prayer at the National Cemetery was told he could not use Jesus’ name. A federal judge blocked the VA’s attempt to censor him and the two sides were back in court Tuesday.
Attorney Jeff Mateer represents the Liberty Institute; he says the cemetery director won’t allow the use of “God” or “Jesus” unless the family submits the prayer in writing for her approval.”In addition, director Arleen Ocasio has stated the National Memorial Ladies cannot tell families ‘God Bless,’ they cannot communicate in writing or orally,” says Mateer. “And that violates the U.S. Constitution.”
If this doesn’t tick you off, I don’t know what will. Liberalism truly is an obnoxious, arrogant, and ignorant cancer in this nation. Check out the full article here.
Does the Liberal Left Really Believe In ‘Democracy’?
April 28, 2011 by DiscerningCitizen · 3 Comments
I’ve never been able to figure out the liberal left. They say they support democracy, yet they are the biggest proponents of new bureaucracies that dilute the power of the people over their government. Enter Obama’s IPAB, or the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a new bureaucracy created in the Obamacare bill to regulate Medicare payments. Read more
Putting the Shoe on the Other Foot: Liberal Students Asked to Redistribute Their Grades
April 23, 2011 by DiscerningCitizen · 2 Comments
Breitbart posted a great video where college students were asked to sign a petition supporting a fictitious “grade redistribution” program modeled after the wealth redistribution ideas leftists and Obama are always pushing. The responses are very interesting to say the least! Check out the video below. Read more
Mediocrity in the Name of Workplace Diversity: Ohio Police Department to Lower Recruitment Exam Standards
March 23, 2011 by DiscerningCitizen · 2 Comments
In the church of modern liberalism, workplace diversity is apparently a far more hallowed goal than effectiveness and excellence. If you need proof, look no further than the Dayton, Ohio police department, which recently struck an agreement with the Obama Justice Department to lower recruitment exam standards so more blacks will qualify. Read more
Don’t Want to Buy Health Insurance? Tough Beans.
July 4, 2009 by DiscerningCitizen · Leave a Comment
The push by the White House and Democrats in Congress for universal health care is getting more ridiculous by the day, and the end result will be that we’ll all end up with far less freedom. It is an absolutely indisputable fact that as government grows, freedom decreases. There can be no other way. Why? Because government is force. It is coercion. Government is the long arm of the law reinforcing certain behaviors and discouraging others under penalty of the law. If you increase the scope of government influence over the lives of citizens, they will have less freedom to make their own decisions. Government makes more decisions for them, or completely eliminates the freedom to make some decisions altogether. Case in point: don’t want to bother spending money on health insurance? Our benevolent caretakers in Congress might take away your choice in the matter altogether. According to a new bill introduced in the Senate, “Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday”. 1 Folks, this is the essence of socialism. Nanny politicians increasingly take away your ability to manage your own affairs and instead make you the subservient wards of the great socialist state. You apparently cannot take care of yourself, therefore socialist politicians who are far smarter and far more enlightened must do it for you. How can we possibly remain a free people when this is the kind of garbage flung upon us by our elected representatives? There is a reason F.A. Hayek called his classic treatise about the evils of socialism The Road to Serfdom. If we continue to tolerate the nonsense coming from the useless idiots running our federal government, we will find ourselves mere serfs in our own great land.
References
1. Senate bill fines people refusing health coverage. (July 2, 2009). Retrieved July 3, 2009 from, http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlMpJGn28kqCcgU-aGcYE_ZHW-ywD996I6VO0