Glenn Beck Show – January 26, 2010 – Pt 5 of 8
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Obama In Latin America: Hugs Dictator Hugo Chavez!
Glenn Beck’s Documentary On The Collectivists: Marxists, Socialists, Progressives, Communists, Fascists, National Socialists–Progressive Radical Socialists of The Democratic and Republican Parties!
Says Michael Huemer over at Cato Unbound.
Excerpt:
Atlas Shrugged outsells Human Action by a wide margin. As of this writing, the Amazon sales ranks are 101 and 16,331, respectively.[2] (Admittedly a limited measure, but still interesting.) But Atlas also outsells Rand’s own non-fiction books, by similarly wide margins. The Virtue of Selfishness trails at 11,993, with Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology all the way down at 120,117.[3] If the greater market success of Rand as compared with von Mises were due to Rand’s broader philosophy, wouldn’t we see this reflected in sales of Rand’s non-fiction works, in which she explicitly develops that philosophy?
The data fit another hypothesis: that the novel is a far more accessible and popular vehicle for communicating ideas than the monograph. The lesson for defenders of freedom seems clear. We need more novelists, screenwriters, and other artists.
I agree.
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/100120_rule_of_law.htm
Excerpt:
“In contrast, insouciant Americans are content for their government to behave illegally. A majority supports torture despite its illegality, and a McClatchy-Ipsos poll found that 51 percent of Americans agree that “it is necessary to give up some civil liberties in order to make the country safe from terrorism.”
As our Founding Fathers warned, fools who give up liberty for security will have neither.“
We have met the enemy and it is us.
The terrorists have already won.
I missed a day, due to being in Oklahoma, getting my MIL’s house ready to list on the market for sale. In the real estate downturn that is not an easy task. We’ve been painting and ‘staging’ rooms and doing everything we can to ‘stack the deck’ in our favor. That being said, as I sit here in my motel room, having just read the 19th edition of USA Today, a paper that I normally don’t read, I’m prompted to put down my thoughts for today.
On the front page is an article entitled ‘Opinions about Obama’. It basically divides those polled (2,014 adults, by phone, on Jan 8th and 9th) into 5 groups. With group 1 being the most pro-Obama and group 5 being the most anti-Obama. I won’t go into details, as it would detract from the point. Which is, even the most pro-Obama group gave Obama only a 71% approval rating. 9 out of 10 of them believe the economy has stabilized and will fully recover within 2 years. They think Obama has been thoughtful and intelligent about the current issues, which they see as complicated.
The last group says Obama is a miserable failure. They give him an approval rating of only 21%. Only 6% see the economy restarting within 2 years. Most see Obama as ‘not sharing their values’.
All groups were nearly the same in men vs women, age, and economic position.
The thing is, they didn’t call me. What’s up with that? I’m 60 years old and a registered voter, and I have never been called for a poll of any kind. ? ?
So, now, here’s my poll results.
I am a conservative, Christian, white, worked all my life up to retirement, college educated, disabled veteran. I did not vote for Obama. I voted for McCain. Because there was no other choice. Not that I didn’t like McCain, I just was hoping for something better. Didn’t happen. I did NOT vote for Obama because he was young, or because he was black. I did NOT vote for him because he had no leadership experience. I would NOT have voted for McCain simply because he was a veteran. I felt he had more leadership experience than Obama; however had I another qualified choice, I would likely have voted for that person. If Dr. Alan Keyes had been on the ticket I would have voted for him. For those of you who are not familiar with him, he is black.
Now to the main point. Obama does not have the grit to stand up to the opposition, from wherever it comes. He has failed on too many counts to identify with the masses. He went to a celebration for MLK, but did not attend a traditional Christian event. He bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. Our leader must bow to no one. He has refused on more than one occasion to put his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance. And what is that new age flag symbol thing he has? Was there a problem with the stars and stripes?
Anyway, now there is a fight in Massachusetts over a Senate seat that they say may determine the fate of health care. Think about that for just a second. If one Democrat seat will have that effect, then no one in their right mind can say it’s a bi-partisan effort. Obama said, as well as Pelosi, that this administration, not to mention this particular health care debate, would be ‘transparent’. Huh? I don’t think so. How is not allowing even C-Span, not to mention Republicans, to be involved and/or present during the so called debates transparent? I say it is a LIE. And I’m not the only one saying that. Some big shot reporters are saying the same thing.
I don’t wish for the health care ISSUE to fail. I think we DO need something done. What I do NOT think is that the majority who have health care need to suffer for the minority who do not. I do NOT think that I should subsidize people who will NOT try to take care of themselves. Even Jesus said, the poor will always be with us (paraphrased). Helping the widows and orphans is one thing. Giving handouts to lazy, unmotivated people is quite another. AND, trying to shove this down my throat, behind closed doors, and pissing on my boot and telling me it’s raining, is something else again.
In November, ANYONE who is an incumbent, will not get my vote. I think you should seriously consider the same thing. Think about it. Why would someone, in their right mind, spend millions of dollars to keep a job that pays a hundred thousand or so. I wouldn’t. Would you? I didn’t think so. Point made.
As I sit here this wonderfully brisk Monday morning, I am reflecting on a dream, a dream of liberty and freedom. I’m seeing a world where all of mankind is free from tyranny and oppression. I’m seeing a world where hate is considered a wasted effort, and has been replaced with joy and kindness. I see a world where all men are able to reach their fullest potential, where they are free to reach their highest goals.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
That speech, those glorious words, were spoken by Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963.
As we reflect on the words of one of the great spiritual and moral leaders our nation has ever known, many emotions overcome us. Dr King speaks about the basics of humanity, the desires of all men to be free, to exercise the natural rights they are given by their creator.
In Dr King’s world, the color of a man’s skin would have no bearing on how he fits into society. In Dr King’s world, it is the content of a man’s character that determines his station in life. It is the content of a man’s character says it all.
It is a glorious dream.
But it is still just a dream.
In the world we live in today, 47 years after Dr King gave what is one of the most important speeches in the history of this great nation, there are still men who are not free. Tyranny and oppression only grows with each passing day and certain factions have used the color of a man’s skin to control all. To intimidate those who would rather speak of character, of honor, and of righteousness.
Sadly, when the world lost Dr King to the assassin’s bullet, we lost one of our true leaders. A man who understood how civil society should work, how it must work, to survive and to flourish.
We have seen the very oppressors that Dr King sought to defeat co-opt his movement and claim his banner as their own. These oppressors have used deceit and trickery to not only keep those who were down in their place, but to add to their ranks.
We have seen a great evil take hold of this nation. We now have those who seek to divide us, to pit the races and the sexes against one another, in the name of Dr King, and others, in order to gain power and control.
These men of low character know that a nation divided is a nation conquered. As long as they can foment discontent, and work to prevent racial harmony, they will always remain in power.
Much better that we fight each other than to rise up as one against this great evil.
As I reflect on Dr King’s words, his dreams, I am moved to tears as I see a world that could have been. A world of great prosperity and happiness for all who aspire to it. A world where each and every man, woman, and child knows that they have no roadblocks to reaching their full potential.
I see a world where every man woman and child has the opportunity to shine.
This is a world where, instead of worrying about equal results, an impossible goal, we make sure there is equal opportunity. In this world we understand that we cannot guarantee outcome, equal results, but we can guarantee that every man, woman, and child starts in the same place, and has no artificial barriers placed in front of them.
In this world we understand that we cannot re-distribute talent, we cannot re-distribute efforts or results. And me most assuredly MUST not re-distribute wealth, as this is an idea that only shares equal misery, not equal success.
We have a government led by a political party that bases it’s entire being on dividing this nation, on making sure that we fight each other, rather than this government. We have a government that uses the color of their leader’s skin to intimidate, to harass, and yes, to keep divided those who would, under normal circumstances, eagerly join together, in the common cause of liberty and freedom. Men and women who would eagerly unite to defeat the oppressor.
Liberty and freedom are the innate desires of all mankind. We are given these rights of liberty and freedom by the Almighty God in the heavens. They belong to no man, no government, and no man, or no government has the authority to take those rights away.
As we reflect on the man, the leader, it is imperative that we take up Dr King’s cause, the cause that is righteous. It is imperative that we look past the race baiters and the race hustlers. We must look past those who seek to divide us and find ways for us all join together in pursuit of the common cause of true liberty and freedom for all.
I truly believe if we can unite and defeat this great evil that grips our nation, to permanently remove those who sow the seeds of artificial discontent for their own gains, America can grow and prosper, and the potential for all mankind will know no bounds. There will be no limits to a man’s successes, except those he places on himself.
We must unite and we must break the chains of oppression. But more importantly, we must then work to make sure that Dr King’s dream comes true. We must create a world where the only judge of a man is his character, where character is a man’s supreme calling card, where character is all that matters.
As we reflect on the life of Dr. King, let us pledge to unite and create this world.
In closing, I’d like to include the thoughts and prayers expressed by another great leader, a leader for our time, as she reflects on the life of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
Celebrating the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today, America honors the memory of one of our greatest – Martin Luther King, Jr. He used his gifts and talents in selfless, mighty ways to mobilize efforts against racial discrimination and is deserving of our honor.
Please take a moment to tell your children about this great man. He fought for liberty and equality because he knew they were God-given and he knew that no government should be empowered to thwart our freedom. King summarized his mission when stating that no one should be judged based on skin color, but by the content of one’s character.
Seeming to have a foreboding notion of how quickly life passes, he did not waste time on pettiness. He believed that “the quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
May our children follow in the footsteps of giants like King, who sincerely respected equality.
- Sarah Palin
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – MLK
Amen.
My life straddles the days of Jim Crow segregationist laws and the years following the Civil Rights movement, so I can recall buses in which Blacks did, indeed, sit in the back, separate drinking fountains and separate just about everything else. I spent enough time in the South to see racism at work and I watched enough of the civil rights marches to see it crumble from its own lack of moral justification.
That, perhaps, is why Dr. Martin Luther King is honored now with a federal holiday. That is why those of us who heard him speak recall, if not the words, at least the great moral passion he brought to his audience; a passion for justice and equality that went beyond mere legalisms.
I heard Dr. King speak at Drew University in Chatham, New Jersey in those heady days and then I went backstage and met him. It was a brief encounter and to this day I find it astonishing that I shook hands with someone who has become an American icon; someone whose name and cause is forever embedded in the fabric of our history.
There is no doubt that Barack Obama would not be President today if Dr. King had not put his life on the line in the 1960s.
Dr. King was an inspired orator. I doubt that Dr. King had a speechwriter and I doubt he needed one. This was a man that one felt had been touched by God, called to a greater duty, greater service, and the ultimate sacrifice.
That may sound hokey to those who discount the role of serious, committed belief in a greater power, but it was unmistakable in terms of the way this minister and son of a minister from Montgomery, Alabama led a boycott of the city’s bus system in protest of its demeaning “back of the bus” rules, and then expanded the cause to the nation.
It was the boycott that got the whole civil rights movement going. It was followed by “sit-ins” at restaurants, marches, and all manner of demonstrations, culminating with the August 28, 1963, Washington, D.C. event in which Dr. King delivered his famed “I Have a Dream” speech. I suspect no one else could have so stirred a nation as he did and surely none of the other speeches given that day are remembered.
It was a call to what Abraham Lincoln deemed the “better angels of their nature”; our capacity to live up to America’s best values.
The civil rights movement also included some very ugly riots in the ghettos of some American cities and, nearly fifty years passed Dr. King’s speech, too many blacks continue to lag behind the rest of society.
The civil rights spokesmen that followed in Dr. King’s footsteps have largely been a disappointment, race hustlers, and others who rode the movement to positions of political power.
This is to be expected because there was only one Martin Luther King, Jr., martyred for his steady faith in the goodness that could be evoked in the hearts of both black and white citizens.
It is important to remember that Dr. King was not calling for special privileges and dispensations based on race. He was demanding equality before the law and an end to the codified racism of exclusionary laws.
America is a better place because Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lived.
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at Warning Signs. A business and science writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center.
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“The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise … economics is a form of brain damage.”
~Hazel Henderson
“I’m not trying to make it sound that all economists are intellectual mercenaries. It’s much more complex than that. It has something to do with the sociology of knowledge and with what happens to young minds when they are inducted into a certain kind of educational style. When they come out of the other end of this process they have a certain style of thinking which I refer to as ‘brain damage’ – not endearing me at all to my economist friends. Of course, there are very good, honest economists who don’t do this. I have found that all down through the history of economic thought there have been honest economists who began to explore this body of information and recoiled aghast, saying righteously, “Well, this is an intellectual scandal! This is not rigorous. This is a whole set of ‘deductions’ – a priori types of statements really – and the world doesn’t conform to this kind of economistic model.” And what I found is that every one of these economists who had honestly dished the dirt on this discipline throughout history had been summarily silenced in one way or another. They had not been given tenure, they had been run out of the club in one way or another and it still goes on today. You get critics from within the discipline like, for example, Kenneth Boulding who has always been critical of the entropic nature of modern production and the excessive exploitation rates and what he always calls “cowboy economics”. So, Boulding was run out of the club with, “Oh, well, he really is a philosopher, not an economist.” Or take John Kenneth Galbraith who was a very good critic of the current situation and wrote a lot of books about the ways in which the market didn’t really work, about monopoly power, stuff like that. They designated Galbraith, “Oh, he’s really a sociologist.” So, there’s this kind of game that goes on. Of course the only one they could never shut up was Karl Marx. He had a constituency.”
- from ON SURVIVING ECONOMICS AND OTHER MODERN FORMS OF BRAIN DAMAGE
To read more by Helen Henderson see here
Also see: Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Henderson) and from Chelsea Green (http://www.chelseagreen.com/authors/hazel_henderson) and from Henderson’s web site (http://www.hazelhenderson.com/):
