Ogre's Politics & Views

December 19, 2006

New Advertiser

Have you seen my new advertiser over there at the top of the left sidebar? If you haven't why not take a quick peek? I know you're always looking around for extra blogs to read and check out. You never know when you'll find one you really like and start reading it every day, do you?

This week it's DC Mr Anthrope. That thing you see in the thumbnail picture over there is a snake wrapped around an apple. I'll let you decide what meaning that has for you. In the meantime, head on over and see what he's got in store for you. Some interesting stuff and some excellent writing to boot!

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Freedom in your Lifetime

Can you even imagine that idea? Wherever you live in the entire world, how free do you really believe you are? Seriously. How much freedom do you really, honestly have? And are you working now to try and change that? Perhaps you've sent money to pro-freedom candidates. Perhaps you've wanted to support Libertarian candidates, but were afraid they wouldn't win. Maybe you're working now to make sure that in 2008 your favorite freedom people will win your local elections. And how's that working out for you?

In most places (NC not included), there's some hope for freedom. You know that if you keep working where you are, little by little you may be able to advance freedom. But how many really believe that you're going to succeed in the next 2, 5, or even 20 years? Take a look at your local elected officials and state legislature. How long is it going to take to change a majority of them to pro-freedom? Is that in your lifetime?

Instead, how would you like to have freedom right now. More freedom than you've ever had before. And how would you like to have hundreds, even thousands, of people living near you that all strongly support freedom, too? Can you imagine a few hundred people working together to increase freedom and reduce government? And right now, in your lifetime?

That's the goal of the Free State Project. Over 400 people have already moved and are already having a HUGE effect on politics. And that's just 400 people. Imagine what a few more hundred would do. And imagine how free you can be when thousands gather, all in the name of freedom. It is possible, and it is possible right now.

They are still gathering signatures on a petition, hoping to get 1,000 people committed right now to move for freedom. Here's what it says:

I will move to New Hampshire by 12/31/2008 where I will work to bring about a society in which government’s maximum role is protecting life, liberty, and property but only if 999 other liberty minded individuals will too.

Just imagine 999 others moving with you for freedom. With just 400 people scattered across the state, freedom is already advancing. Just imagine what will happen when that number is tripled, then multiplied by 10.

Consider it a moment, if you will. And if you're thinking that New Hampshire is not for you because you don't like it, three points to further consider:
1. 101 Reasons to Move to NH.
2. What sacrifices are truly worth having actual freedom in your lifetime.
3. That's where freedom really is advancing. If you want freedom, that's where you need to go.

If you would consider it, please see the Free State Project site for more information and do consider signing the First 1000 pledge -- we're trying to get 1,000 people to agree to move by the end of the year (no, you don't have to move in the next two weeks, just agree that you will make every possible attempt to move in 200.

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Political Idea

So, I've got an idea for a slight change to the political system in America.

Anyone -- an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or employee of any of the above; if they receive direct cash or direct benefits from the government, including cash, vouchers, grants, tax incentives, etc; automatically loses the right to vote. After all, anyone who receives anything directly from government has a vested interest in taking more, so they should not be able to vote.

Do you think anyone would be left in the country that would be eligible to vote?

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City of Charlotte Lies Again

For some reason, I'm just not surprised. Are you? It is a government agency, and it's ruled by Democrats, so I guess we should be surprised if they actually told the truth. This time, they're preparing their whines complaints Christmas List "legislative requests" for the General Assembly. Are you ready?

They want

extra taxes or fees to raise money for road projects, its highest priority

That's an outright lie. Complete and total, blatant lie. Here, let's try and experiment. What is your personal highest priority when it comes to spending money? Think about it a minute, then answer.

Now, is that what you spend the most money on? Then it's simply NOT your highest priority. For most of us, the single largest expense for us is our home. That's what most important to us, so we spend the most money on it. And if you're short on cash, do you skip the house payment or going out?

So, what is the city spending money on? Arenas, stadiums, parks, baseball stadiums, light rail, buses, welfare, and free health care. They seriously have absolutely ZERO interest in roads. They honestly DISLIKE roads! Part of their grand plan is to allow the roads to deteriorate so that you will not use them -- instead you will submit to their soviet-style planning and live in high rises on their grand light rail.

Liars, the lot of them.

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December 18, 2006

People of NC: Hold Your Wallet

Well, that is, if you actually work. If you do not work, rejoice! If you are a slug who lives off the backs of others (you take government cash payouts), celebrate your horribleness. Enjoy being lazy and know that you will be rewarded soon! You see, the government of North Carolina is preparing to give away even MORE cash to lazy, worthless, non-working people!

Yes, in this year when all predictions and estimates show that the state will have nowhere near enough money the next year due to vast overspending by Democrats, they are really going to give away even MORE money! And where will they get it? The same place Democrats ALWAYS get money to give away and spend: by stealing it from those who actually work and produce (unlike them).

So get ready, North Carolina. There will be an income tax increase, many property tax increases, and sales tax increases. But I guess you get what you vote for, don't you? Keep on voting Democrat if you don't like keeping the money you earn.

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December 16, 2006

Doctors need government watching

So says the Charlotte Observer. Their latest hit piece demands, wait for it, more money to be spent by government. It's pretty much their standard editorial. I think they have a Word template that looks something like this:

*** Start Template
_____________________ (insert scary thing here) is getting worse! More and more participants in this activity might possible get hurt. In fact, if you even so much as talk to these people, you might get hurt or even killed. Currently, the government is (not/lightly/somewhat) regulating this industry. But (hundreds/thousands/billions) of people could be saved from potential injury and death if there were more regulation. The ___________ (make up new, cool sounding name) commission, formed by Democrats, has suggested that there should be more oversight and regulation for safety.

(Note: leave out all references to freedom of choice and all references to any costs associated with enormous government monitoring of things which free people should be allowed to do).
*** End Template

And it doesn't even have to make sense to make it into print. This complaint is that doctors aren't regulated and therefore people shouldn't trust them. I guess the Observer missed the latest survey on who they trust with ethics and honesty the most -- for Doctors, 69% of people thought they were very highly trusted. Journalists? Only 26% thought they were highly ethical.

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December 15, 2006

Monday Jokes on Friday

Every have one of those weeks where you're behind a day? All week long, I thought it was one day later than it actually was. That makes today extra-bad because my body thinks it's Saturday and yet I'm at work. So here's some humor to hopefully lighten your way into the weekend.

Tech support: What kind of computer do you have?
Blonde: A white one...

Tech support: Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of the screen.
Blonde: Your left or my left?

Tech support: Good day. How may I help you?
Blonde: Hi, good afternoon, this is Martha, I can't print. Every time I try, it says 'Can't find printer'. I've even lifted the printer and placed it in front of the monitor, but the computer still says he can't find it..

Blonde: I have problems printing in red...
Tech support: Do you have a color printer?
Blonde: Aaaah....................thank you.

Tech support: What's on your monitor now, ma'am?
Blonde: A teddy bear my boyfriend bought for me at the 7-11.

Tech support: How may I help you?
Blonde: I'm writing my first e-mail.
Tech support: OK, and what seems to be the problem?
Blonde: Well, I have the letter 'a' in the address, but how do I get the circle around it?

Tech support: Your password is the small letter "a" as in apple, a capital letter V as n Victor, the number 7.
Blonde: Is that 7 in capital letters?

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Bill of Rights Day

Happy Bill of Rights Day! Thanks to a reminder from Always on Watch, I remembered! Today is a day set aside by the government to remember the Bill of Rights. For more details, check out AOW's link above -- there's also a link there to area celebrations, so check that out.

Unfortunately, I think Bill of Rights day has become more of an day to honor something that has passed, rather than celebrating what we have. Indeed, I'm not saying that this country isn't the freest in the world, just that we lose more and more freedoms every day and very, very few people seem to care.

Another thing that isn't taught any more in government schools -- the government doesn't GRANT rights. They're not capable of it. Instead, the Bill of Rights was intended as a specific list of rights that the government was to never, ever, trample upon. However, today, I think every single one of the original bill of rights has been violated by our government, including all three branches in cooperation.

If you do truly love the Bill of Rights, there is but one possible solution today that will allow YOU to live in a place of freedom. There is a very small, but growing, group of people who honestly love freedom. They want to claim a small area of the country and make it as the founders intended. They don't want socialism or communism as today's governments want. They want open, unrestrained freedom. They want government to do as it should in a free society: as little as possible. Who are they?

They are The Free State Project. And they need you, if you want real freedom, to join them. And if you're really, really serious about freedom, join them in the First 1000 pledge -- trying to find simply 1,000 people who will agree to move and work for freedom in our lifetime -- but only if 999 others will join them.

Celebrate the Bill of Rights -- by restoring those rights to the people where they belong.

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Why Freedom is Lost Today

Overheard this morning:

I was late today because of all the fog. It's because we don't have lights. We should have lights on all our highways. Why don't they build lights when they build all these roads.

And this is in an area where we might get 3-5 days in an entire year with enough fog to actually affect visibility -- and 100 days with enough rain to make streetlights reflect on the blacktop and make visibility worse.

But yet there are way too many people who honestly believe "They" -- the government, via massive, heavy taxes, should do everything for everyone. That just stinks.

Oh, how I yearn for freedom and responsibility.

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Who does Government Love?

It's Friday, so I thought I'd have some funnies. Then I read the cartoon and the text that follows (that I received in email from VW Bug and was disappointed at the true content. Ah well, the truth is painful sometimes:

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5 million of our older Americans have not signed up yet for their
Medicare, Part D, drug plan------they are old and confused.
We are NOT going to grant them an extension.

However, 12 million illegal aliens are in our country and we are
going to allow them to stay, protest, procreate, receive support
monies, attend schools, avoid paying income taxes, have our
teachers take 300 hours of ESL(English as a Second Language)
training at our expense, etc.

WE MUST REALLY DISLIKE OUR OLD PEOPLE......

OR WE MUST REALLY LOVE TACOS!!!

Don't forget to pay your taxes......

12 million illegal aliens are depending on you!

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NC Seeks Billions to Give Away

The NC Legislature is already working on a $1 billion tax raise for 2007. Since the legislature is ruled by corrupt leftist Democrats, they will likely pass a tax increase of more than $1 billion next year. But they've just now discovered that they really need an additional $24 billion to cover "future health care expenses for retired state employees."

What another load of crap. WHY are there hundreds of thousands of state employees? Why do they get ANYTHING when they retire, much less full health benefits? Sorry, state employees, your jobs should NOT be better than the private sector. In a free country, the state would not EVER compete with the private sector. It's just wrong.

But no, North Carolina is run by Democrats. They have absolutely no problem taking more and more and more from anyone who works and give it to someone who does not. Oh, how I yearn for freedom.

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December 14, 2006

Snowman Mugging

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Stop the ACLU

Crossposted from Stop The ACLU

Via the ACLU we find out the U.S. government is finally being proactive against the ACLU in protecting classified information from being leaked for our enemies to know.

The American Civil Liberties Union today announced that it has asked a federal judge to quash a grand jury subpoena demanding that it turn over to the FBI "any and all copies" of a December 2005 government document in its possession.

The ACLU called the subpoena, served on November 20 by the U.S. Attorney's office in New York, a transparent attempt to intimidate government critics and suppress informed criticism and reporting.

"The government's attempt to suppress information using the grand jury process is truly chilling and is unprecedented in law and in the ACLU's history," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. "This subpoena serves no legitimate investigative purpose and tramples on fundamental First Amendment rights. We recognize this maneuver for what it is: a patent attempt to intimidate and impede the work of human rights advocates like the ACLU who seek to expose government wrongdoing."

The three-and-a-half page document, issued in December 2005, is marked "Secret" and apparently is classified. The ACLU received the document, unsolicited, on October 23, 2006.

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National Demcrats: SPEND MONEY!

Well it seems the Democrats are running around, touting their agenda for the next year. Not surprising to anyone who knows what Democrats stand for, one of their top items is to spend BILLIONS and BILLIONS "for the children." They want to give away tens of billions in free college money. After all, according to Democrats, everyone has a government-given RIGHT to a college degree.

You there, peon, keep working now because although they and their pals in the press seem to forget, in order for government to give away billions, they first have to take away from someone who actually worked for it. Yup, that's you and I. Get ready for the massive tax increases in 2007. The state of NC is likely to add a billion or so, the city of Charlotte is looking at a few hundred million, and the federal government is going to need at least $100 billion more.

Well, those of you who voted Democrat, this is what you get. Back to work, slave. The government needs more.

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Bureaucrats want MORE Criminals

Yes, folks, the members of the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force want to make more criminals. That seems to be their purpose. This task force is actually encouraging the NC Legislature to throw you in jail for 5 years if your child is in your car out a car seat -- even for a second.

Currently it is legal for a person in a motor vehicle to see to a child's needs and take them out of the car seat -- for example, in the back of a van if something falls underneath a child, you can pick the child up and then put them back. Under the new proposed laws, you will go to jail for at least 5 years if you do that.

What should the laws be? There should be zero laws forcing people to use child seats, period. They're stupid, anti-freedom laws. In fact, in all likelihood, these proposed laws won't be passed because it has the potential to reduce revenue to the state -- because that's the primary purpose of the child-seat laws to begin with.

What's really sad is that the primary discussion about this law will be the financial impact on the state -- rather than what government should care about: freedom.

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December 13, 2006

Men & Women

ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy

OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime

SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.

GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A
successful woman is one who can find such a man.

HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a
little. To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to
understand her at all.

LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot
more willing to die.

PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man
marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

(From Raven).

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Banana Phone

BANA-1000.jpgOh yes. When I get a new cell phone, I think I must absolutely have one of these. Strangely enough, I found it while searching for security items. Unfortunately, The Boss won't let me use the 120VAC power line to ensure no one steals my stuff again...

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Fair Taxes

Why our Political Leaders Should Embrace the FairTax Plan

by John DeJong of NotMeUSA.com


The Fair Tax Plan (HR.25/S.25) has been out for well over a year now and yet there are still many people who have never even heard of it. One would think that a plan as bold and beneficial as this would be sounded from one coast to the next. Yet that is not the case. As a point of fact there are many liberal political leaders who continually ridicule the Fair Tax Plan whenever it is mentioned. They’re acting under the misguided belief that this wonderful plan favors the “rich”. That is the farthest from the truth as one can come.

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McCain Shows His Ignorance

Well, Senator McCain has decided to show how clueless he is when it comes to technology. He's authored a bill that will require sex offenders to register their email addresses, somehow actually believing that this will have some affect on something -- other than, of course, costing the government piles of cash. Apparently McCain doesn't realize that email addresses can be obtained and used at will, changing them as often as one wants.

Government, stay the hell out of things that you don't understand. And yes, that's pretty much everything. Morons, the lot of them.

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Whiny Criminals

myparents.jpgWell it seems the news is that more illegal alien criminal invaders are whining that their parents are being taken away. The one holding this sign is 26 years old. She's complaining about the Swift and Co Processing plants that hired criminals who had broken immigration laws and committed fraud. So they whine that these criminals shouldn't be arrested because it's Christmas. Well, I have a sign for these people:

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Michelle Malkin correctly notes that nothing will be done to these criminals -- the employees or the employer.

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