Freaking straight-on. Really nails the "lackey" position taken by Obama. Don't think his subservient bowing antics haven't been noticed. Bowing sends a message that comes through loud and clear in Asian societies.
Josh Stanton at One Free Korea does some amazing detective work to demonstrate how the Norks are setting up a state within their state, and using it to give China access to the sea for their northeastern Manchuria. Why? It's Kimmie, so who knows. But they're doing a lot of work on this, so there has to be a reason. Story complete with imagery.
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I would have to guess a general tax increase will increase the costs of goods/services which originate in or travel through California; I understand the solution is likely both cutting spending and raising taxes but as a Made USA consumer there are products from CA (mostly but not exclusively agriculture) I would hate to see shift from affordable to luxery.
Is there an accepted format in case of a bankruptcy?
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A far more useful reform would be reining in the excesses of direct democracy. On contentious social issues, referenda and initiatives may be beneficial, but on more technical aspects of government, oversimplified ballot language tends to obscure more than it clarifies.
This is where the writer lost me.
The people who fight reasonable ballot measure and who promote spendthrift ballot measures are the same people who have a strangle hold on the legislature. These, of course, are the usual suspects. The public employee unions, the CTA, etc. It's like the guy is telling the people to stand aside and let the politicians keep on screwing us over the way they always have. I don't buy it. I've said it before, Nothing worthwhile ever gets done in this state unless the people are able to bypass the legislature.
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oversimplified ballot language tends to obscure more than it clarifies
Meaning the folks who write the explanations will have to get over their denial?
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The US Bankruptcy Code has a provision for dealing with an insolvent municipality (city, town, county, township, and such), but not with insolvent states. Giving appointed federal bankruptcy judges power over elected state governments would raise some serious federalism issues. Might want to think about that one for a while before legislating anything.
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I strongly agree with the title statement. Some government unions have E-X-T-O-R-T-E-D pensions of 90% of wages, after 25 years of service. Five ex-chiefs of California legal services are getting pensions of over $500,000 per year.
Reminder: court-officer form 0.08% of the population; you form 99.92%. Who would you bet on? Do the politics: Extortion + Bankruptcy = Pension Degradaton.
Frankly, it is already in the cards in the "Golden State." The Guv is just waiting to pounce on the parasites.
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Giving appointed federal bankruptcy judges power over elected state governments would raise some serious federalism issues.
Might be approached by putting the former state known as California into Territorial status while under bankruptcy receivership. Now, that may be questionable only to strict interpretation of the Constitution, but the Left Coasties believe in a 'Living Breathing' document open to such interpretations. Territories do not get to vote in Congress.
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Actually, the WaPo is the true Islamophobic here assuming we define Islamophobia as
"so fearful of being stabbed, blown up, bombed, etc., by devotees of Islam, that one is unable to print, publish or speak truthfully about the violence, intimidation and discrimination practiced by the followers of Islam"
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Being a Christian means rejection of other religions. Having proselyte obligations to recruit and exemparies like Paul of Tarsus, means that the falsity of other faiths, must be spoken to. Don't critics of the arab murder cult get equal benefit of law?
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Having proselyte obligations to recruit and exemparies like Paul of Tarsus, means that the falsity of other faiths, must be spoken to. Don't critics of the arab murder cult get equal benefit of law?
Oh dear, Albert Slinesing7956. You have missed the entire point of Mr. Ibrahim's blog post and the essay that inspired it, haven't you? Going backwards: on a private blog, as in a private house, acceptance and rejection are at the option of the property owner. The law does not enter into it as it would in a public space. There is no freedom of speech on private property, except at the whim of the owner.
Second, neither Mr. Ibrahim nor the essayist were engaging in proselytizing or even witnessing -- a much more acceptable behaviour -- but in laying out the facts of the situation while abjuring the false equivalence that has been the left-wing party line for entirely too long.
Finally, experience in Africa and the Muslim world demonstrates that Christians win converts by living the love they preach, not by direct proselytizing. Proselytizing only annoys people because it is a broad-brush approach... and so many of those who choose to proselytize are sadly ignorant of more than a few memorized verses and explanations.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
By Raymond Ibrahim
