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• ‘Not All That Different’: Two Hedge Fund Managers Make Separate Hitler References in Two Days

  September 20, 2011 at 10:20am

  In reply to Gonzo.

  So you can vote our current President out, yes you can! But does not tell me if you are buying the propaganda that we are being soaked in.

  1. Do you believe that government should control the economy?
  2. Do you believe that government can rebuild the economy?

  If you have bought into either of these points, especially if you have bought into both, then it does not matter if you “unelect” all of our current politicians. Because if America has bought these two principles (and to some of us it sure looks like America has bought the propaganda and swallowed it hook, line, and sinker), then you WILL vote for the very same type of people currently holding elected office.

  Would it matter if the German people had “unelected” Hitler to replace him with someone like Stalin? The details would have changed, but both results are both tyranny. So when some of us begrudgingly use the analogies to the past, we are not always saying that things are an exact repeat. But if we do not learn from the past, we will repeat the history anew.

• ‘Not All That Different’: Two Hedge Fund Managers Make Separate Hitler References in Two Days

  September 16, 2011 at 10:46am

  In reply to Gonzo.

  Hitler’s first objective was to control the economy. His selling point is that he would rebuild the economy.

  As much as I object to all the Hitler references because I think it detracts from the real solution, it isn’t wise to be ignorant either…. so with that caution (which I expect to be ignored):

  Obama’s philosophy seems to be control of the economy. Not conclusive, but considering the advisers he surrounds himself with, the appearance of several policies, it appears that way. Hindsight is 20:20 while reading mind reading is the stuff of fantasy and myth.

  Now Obama’s selling point is rebuilding the economy. While many argue that his policies are destroying the economy, his propaganda and what he sells in his speeches and so forth is that his policies will rebuild the economy, save jobs, etc, etc.

  The real lesson for this comparison is that the German people bought the Hitler propaganda just WE ARE buying the current propaganda.

• No Job? Obama Now Says You May Not Have to Pay Your Mortgage for a Full Year

  July 8, 2011 at 10:57am

  Any know how the other home deals from the Administration have worked? Try for one of those special refinancing deals? Your odds are slim to non-existent of qualifying for the reduced payment, you go several months while waiting without having to pay your mortgage, and when you finally get your inevitable rejection notice it turns out that you WILL owe all the payments missed while waiting for your case to be evaluated. How many actually save said money? Most spend the money while waiting believing for some strange reason that they will come out ahead in all this. So what happens, their homes end up in foreclosure for sure now when perhaps they could have been okay originally.

  Now take this new policy. What will happen? It sounds good. For those of us who do a little math, it sounds too good to be true. And it is too good to be true. Someone is getting hurt. Either the tax payer will pick up the bill. The banks will be stuck with the bill (and you thought banks were struggling going into 2008?!). It could be that they simply see like those home refinancing programs that they go from maybe losing their house to guaranteed losing their house as all past payments come due once they are employed again. Or, it could be option 4 with all of the above. The only winner is this program, the federal government. The feds get a look good deal, great press coverage, and none of the consequences of creating policy to destroy home ownership and tank the economy — again!

• Cain Tells Beck His Muslim Cabinet Comments Were ‘Misconstrued’

  May 24, 2011 at 6:25pm

  In reply to biohazard23.

  So you would rather have a President that miraculously nothing is ever his fault and only accepts responsibility for those things that go right (even if they weren’t his actions)? Hmm. Sound familiar? It should, we have already had plenty of those Presidents and where has it gotten us?

  I am willing to accept some character flaw. Here is the one thing that worries me about a Cain, West, Palin, or Bachmann (even if Trump would join this circus):

  1. Many of us believe that the foundation is being laid for a dictatorship in the USA.
  2. Many of us believe that dictatorships are terrible.
  3. Many of us believe that to escape the coming progressive dictatorship (democratic dictatorship?) that America needs to turn itself around a full 180 degrees and time may be already too short.

  So if the path has been created for a dictatorship, dictatorships are terrible, and America is short on time to save itself, what in the world is going to prevent West, Palin, Bachmann, and any other so called Tea Party candidate from falling into the well prepared grooves of dictatorship? The gears and rails have been put in place by our own slothfulness. So now that we suddenly decide we need to put the car in gear and turn ourselves around from sliding down this hill, what is going to get us out of the well-prepared path to dictatorship? For if we use the gears and rails created by this progressive machine, we would sacrifice our freedoms all in the name of saving our freedoms. Losing either

• Wait — Why Did This Kid Have His Leg Reattached Backwards?

  May 21, 2011 at 6:31pm

  In reply to NoStoppingUs.

  I think you are forgetting your “whole lives system.” At age 25, a whole lives system would spend good money to fix a human being. You are worth your weight in taxable income. However, children and the aged are worth less. The younger you are, the less money. And the older you are, same situation of less money spent to treat conditions. Put to a graph, you rapidly gain value through your childhood until you reach a suitable age (25 or so) then it caps off and slowly drops over the rest of your life until by the time you are in old age (60 or so) when you are again not worth the time and money to treat. I love the irony though that the whole lives system is used by those who claim to care most about individuals but when you really look at it and tax revenue, it becomes apparent what your REAL value is under socialized medicine. And since politicians have the greatest value of all, there are of course exempt from the whole lives system….

• Pastor John Hagee’s Open Letter to Glenn Detailing Anti-Israel Disruptions

  May 17, 2011 at 7:27pm

  In reply to sing it out.

  @bobodu

  Um, I doubt propaganda is anything truly new. Think for a moment. History is written by the victor, yes? So if Egyptians actually suffered defeat to a foreign God over their own religion, do you think they would make this common recorded history? How would they control their people if everyone who could read knew that their gods were powerless when this other God finally decided to free His people? Such history would by default need to be suppressed perhaps even before the Jews left slavery. Just think if our modern politicians did something similar, how would they sell it to the people? We put Germans and Japanese into “concentration” camps. Once you understand that propaganda dictate, perhaps you can start looking for other clues that might match the story. There are those who have put together research showing that many of the plagues are actually recorded in a time frame that may be consistent with the Bible narrative.

• Is Belief in God Ingrained in Our ‘Human Nature’? A New Study Says So

  May 13, 2011 at 7:38pm

  In reply to MrButcher.

  If man is just an animal, then our fascination with a higher power has an extremely high probability of being born from a survival mechanism. Why do I say that?

  If two birds fly around at night, one is black and one is white, then we expect the black ones to survive better in their nocturnal lifestyle. Well, it seems that man has been surviving in a great many areas because we can think beyond mere survival. We survive in tundra, in desert, even in some jungles. In all these climates, man seems to consider that there is something beyond himself. This ability to consider that there is more has allowed us to even access atomic energy.

  So when I read of atheists attacking men for seeking something greater than ourselves, I wonder if perhaps they are at conflict with themselves. For are they not potentially trying to undo one of the tools that has allowed man to adapt and expand as a species.

  As for myself, I don’t see this as just a survival mechanism. Even before I heard of this study, I had pondered that so many cultures believe in some form of life beyond this. So many cultures believe in some form of higher power. I saw this as evidence to those who had eyes to see and ears to hear that there was indeed a God in Heaven.

  Either way, a belief in something greater may be a survival mechanism, or it may be a grand design from a higher being. As for me, I chose to believe in God. My choice and things have happened since that I see as validating that choice.

• Is Belief in God Ingrained in Our ‘Human Nature’? A New Study Says So

  May 13, 2011 at 7:23pm

  In reply to Thunderstorm 316.

  That is true. There is a scriptural story I am fond of that some men that denied God saw an angel and were rebuked. It was merely moments after the angel left before they were back to complaining. A complete contrast to the conversion of Paul.

• Is Belief in God Ingrained in Our ‘Human Nature’? A New Study Says So

  May 13, 2011 at 11:15am

  In reply to MrButcher.

  “The fool is the one who attempts to place his imaginery burdens on the shoulders of a free thinker.”

  This quote is great! Unfortunately for the person who wrote this, I happen to believe in God, a higher power, a higher purpose. So if I believe in God, that we existed before this life, and that we will exist after this life… then why would I think this statement is still very true?

• Indoctrination in Our Classrooms: Glenn Meets Parents Who Are Taking Stands

  April 29, 2011 at 11:16am

  In reply to Diane TX.

  Upper tiers only, eh?

  I suppose that when the upper tiers in a capitalist society decided that they preferred the horseless buggies that the lower classes would never improve. I suppose that when the upper classes discovered they could use televisions to get a version of theater in their homes that the lower classes would never improve. Microwaves. Ovens. Air conditioners. Radio. Satellite. Computers. So I suppose capitalism has never done anything to help the poor?

  If you are focused on your envy, you will never see what you have. For even as your situation improves, all you will ever see is that which you do not have. And there will always be something you do not have. Such is the appetite of greed. It is never satisfied. That is why politicians pitting the rich and poor against each in class warfare is so effective for politicians. It is so very easy for us to lose sight of what we have and instead forever see only that which we do not possess.