The Virginia Democratic Party Proposes Bill That Attacks Freedom of Speech

The Democratic Party in Virginia proposes a Virginia law that can be used to attack free speech.  House Bill 1627 says:

If any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person, shall use a computer or computer network to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature, or threaten any illegal or immoral act, he shall be is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. A violation of this section may be prosecuted in the jurisdiction in which the communication was made or received or in the City of Richmond if the person subjected to the act is one of the following officials or employees of the Commonwealth: the Governor, Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor, Lieutenant Governor-elect, Attorney General, or Attorney General-elect, a member or employee of the General Assembly, a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, or a judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Robots Won't Replace Human Labor Anytime Soon

I just got a rare piece of good news:  Australian IFM is going to buy Buckeye Partners (BPL)  for $41.50 a share, and the MLP rose 28% on the news.  My stake went up to about $10,000, and I'm thinking about what to do with the money.  For the most part, I'm getting old and want yield, so I'm putting a chunk into one of the preferred stock ETFs (PFF or PGX).  To maintain my exposure to the depressed MLP sector, I'm also putting some into Kinder Morgan (KMI) and possibly Kayne Anderson (KYN).  I'm thinking of putting the little left over into a robotics and artificial intelligence ETF, BOTZ.

Just yesterday a young academic suggested that artificial intelligence and robotics are going to replace much human labor so that the chief jobs for people will involve human interaction and interpersonal skills. He's probably right about the need for interpersonal skills, but the more generalized fear that machines will replace people is wrong. It goes back to the days of the Luddites and before.  In 1589 Queen Elizabeth refused to issue a patent to inventor William Lee because of demonstrations against his stocking frame. The reasoning of both crowd and queen was that technology would replace jobs. That was 200 years before the industrial revolution.

Nothing has been better for freedom than technology.  Before technology, the only way to become wealthy was to spare the victims of imperialistic wars and turn them into slaves. The Romans considered slaves to be the living dead because the alternative would have been death due to conquest.  The South lost the Civil War in part because slave-based societies are less productive, hence poorer, than technology-based societies.

Perhaps because technology ended slavery, one often reads superstitions about technology's ending people in general.  It is easy to see the more slave-like jobs that might disappear, but it is difficult to imagine the less slave-like jobs that will replace them.

There was less technology in 1780 than today.  At that time the population of the US was  three to four million.  If you had said to someone that one day there would be motorized tractors that  would enable one farmer to do the work of 50 today, you might have added the conclusion that 98% unemployment would ensue and that the workforce would decline.  It would have been difficult to imagine the advent of helicopter factories, the profession of accounting, state university professors, and so on. 

In early January I bought NCR, which has since had a nice run with the broad average  and is up 30%.  However, BOTZ, the robotics index,  hasn't had fantastic returns since its founding two years ago:

Source: Maks FS,Seeking Alpha

Apparently, fears about an explosion of robotics overtaking human labor are where the mouth but not the money is.

The reason to be concerned about job replacement is not the technology per se, but its subsidization by central banks and the financial system.  When interest rates are artificially depressed, the cost of capital becomes lower, and demand for labor-saving equipment increases.  Hence, in the long run low interest rates, the policy of the United States and especially the Democratic Party and its economists like Paul Krugman, have replaced labor with capital.  Low interest rates are the chief source of income inequality because they boost stock values, enhancing the income of commercial bankers, investment bankers, real estate investors, stockholders, bond holders,  and government employees, and at the same time they reduce wages because of money illusion or inflation and capital substitution.

The Democratic Party further exacerbates the tendency toward income inequality by favoring regulation that squashes human resource development. Minimum wages and mandatory workplace benefits make it more expensive to hire the least skilled, damning them to a lifetime of poverty and dependency.  That Democrats consider themselves altruistic in advocating such policies is in the altruistic traditions of Dr. Mengele and Dr. Benway.

Hence, BOTZ, NCR and similar investments are a play on a continued march toward socialism and crony capitalism, not a play on market-driven innovation. 

Left Wing Democrats' Hate Speech Toward Mitchell Langbert's Blog II

I was surprised at the characterization of my remarks about males' sexual exploration as being part of their maturation process as hate speech.  True, I dislike Democrats, but most Democrats dislike me, so I never thought of political speech as hate speech.  

There has been an interesting evolution of  the Democratic Party's authoritarianism.  Democrats increasingly engage in hate speech while they increasingly advocate speech restrictions on those toward whom they express hate.   

Having made a crack about the accusations against Judge Kavanaugh, I received two hundred hate emails.  A number of these involved violent threats, amounting to misdemeanor harassment.  Under New York State law,  second degree aggravated harassment occurs when someone attempts to communicate with another person with the intention of causing alarm or annoyance.   

Having objected to my sense and the object of my humor, which ran afoul of the Democratic Party mob, several hundred Democrats engaged in hate speech and misdemeanor aggravated harassment. Here is a sampling. 

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From: Yo Sup [WhiteCanary89@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2018 10:58 PM
To: Mitchell Langbert
Subject: Hello

You'e a scumbag. Kill yourself.

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From: Carole D [cornflakecarole@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2018 9:34 AM
To: Mitchell Langbert
Subject: 

Sir, I relish the thought of a gang of boys becoming men at your assholes expense. History will pull back your lizard skin and your pathetic attempt at being relevant will be exposed as nothing more than a losers fame grab. Brooklyn College though heeheehee. Damn shame about the car accident that did that to your face BUT otherwise you deserve what is surely coming your way. Your pointless and so you try to get attention with divisive chatter. Sad little nobody that never had an original thought in his bipolar and dandruff encrusted greasy head. You don't have to spread your message of terror for young girls honeybuns, they get it, everyday they get it. Sorry women find you so repulsive you had to rape to become a man. You sick little boy. Sorry momma neve

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 From: nothink78 [nothink78@gmail.com]

Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2018 12:15 AM

To: Mitchell Langbert

Subject: Thank you!

Thank you for advocating for sexual assault by high school boys against high school girls! When I think of my daughter being assaulted by some piece of shit
that thinks like you, I feel like a true American! I can’t wait to visit your campus
 and shove a glass coke bottle up your ass while kicking your fucking teeth in. Have a nice day you sad excuse of a human being.

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From: Emily Batista [emilydbatista47@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 1:35 AM
To: Mitchell Langbert
Subject: 

You disgusting asshole

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From: Gordon Brogan [180turn@gmail.com]

Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2018 8:25 PM

To: Mitchell Langbert

Subject: Hey

Dude...

My sincere condolences.

I’m very sorry about your sad tiny penis.

It is no wonder you bitterly resent women. Those you’ve likely Rohypnol-ed into bed likely laughed themselves to tears after gaining consciousness when you threatened them with it.

Also, you have all the wit, intelligence, and charisma of a fecal impaction.

You have nothing that women want.

On behalf of real men who aren’t fugly douchebag incel losers like you are: dual blazing middle fingers.

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From: David Miller [dhaymil2@gmail.com]

Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2018 12:11 PM

To: Mitchell Langbert

Subject: comments

You are a complete and total asshole.

You have no business instructing students in anything.

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From: mccnkvn@yahoo.com [mccnkvn@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2018 8:40 AM
To: Mitchell Langbert
Subject: Expert witness?

Decided to retire as an expert as well no doubt? Enjoy your retirement. 

Kevin M. McCain

Attorney at Law

kmccain@trimaclaw.com

2003 McCain Parkway, Ste. 419

Pelham, Alabama 35124

Phone: 205-332-1367

Fax: 205-533-6154

Toll Free 1-800-257-6031

trimaclaw.com

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From: Liz P [liz4pc@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2018 12:27 AM
To: Mitchell Langbert
Subject: Your a cave man

After reading an article on your rite of passage of young men. You are a #loser.  

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

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From: Maureen Saccio [maureensaccio@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2018 10:30 PM
To: Mitchell Langbert
Subject: 

You sick disgusting animal.  Who raised you? Certainly not a woman.  Shame on you.  But of course,  another white trash twumpie is amongst us.  Listen here asshole,  the women of this great nation are taking over.  And all you angry white trash men can go back to your mobile homes and shut the door behind you.  Go hide back under the rock you crawled out from under simpleton 

From: David Burns [dburns22152@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2018 3:42 AM
To: Mitchell Langbert
Subject: 

Your head is full of spiders and mayonnaise.  

I hope you get fired, you repulsive dipshit.

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From: Anne Lopes, Provost and Senior Vice President [provost@brooklyn.cuny.edu]

Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2018 7:59 AM

To: Mitchell Langbert

Subject: An Important Message From Provost Anne Lopes

View this email in your browser

Brooklyn College, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210, Tel: 718.951.5671 | Fax: 718.951.4872

From Anne Lopes, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

To the Brooklyn College Community,

It has come to our attention that a Brooklyn College faculty member blogged a gender-biased and homophobic post that advocates sexual assault last week. I view the post as offensive, obviously abhorrent, and contravening the fundamental values and practices of our community. However, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects even speech that many experience as offensive, such as the faculty member's post. I understand that in response to the speech students have organized a protest that will take place on the East Quad on Thursday during common hours.

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From: Brian Russell [brianrussell0@gmail.com]

Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2018 12:14 AM

To: Mitchell Langbert

Subject: Asshole

You are a misogynist asshole. Enjoy you’re firing, you sexist prick.

Brian Russell

646.275.7796

Sent from my iPhone

Left-Wing Extremist Wins Democratic Primary in NY 14th Cong. Dist.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Fourteenth Congressional District in Queens, which is in Astoria, near to where I grew up, and the Bronx, has elected a left-wing extremist in its Democratic primary. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated moderate Democrat Joseph Crowley. The Journal opines that this will influence the Democratic Party to move further to the extreme left, and it observes that is not a cause for celebration. If the Democrats regain control of Congress, there will be further impetus toward totalitarian solutions, authoritarianism, political correctness, and socialism.  

Thiel May Resign from Facebook

The Democrats' authoritarian obsession with political correctness isn't limited to their tax-subsidized, partisan clubhouses like universities, colleges, government agencies, and labor unions. Peter Thiel, a member of the Facebook board, is moving to LA, in part to get away from the Democratic Party atmosphere in Silicon Valley. The Wall Street Journal reports:

Mr. Thiel has also discussed with people close to him the possibility of resigning from the board of Facebook Inc., the people familiar with his thinking said. His relationship with the social-networking company—where he has been a director since 2005, the year after its founding—came under strain after a dispute with a fellow director over Mr. Thiel’s support for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign...

Democrats encourage disagreement until people disagree.

The Racism of John R. Commons--And What It Says about Columbus Day

Two guys on Facebook , Jeremy Horpedahl of the University of Central Arkansas and Phillip W. Magness of Berry College, sent me material that documents the racism of John R. Commons. Commons was the chief founder of institutional economics in the United States.

Commons can be fairly called the creator or conceptualizer of the current American industrial relations system and the innovator of much of the New Deal.

Hence, if we are to tear down statutes of Columbus, Jefferson, and Lee because they were racists, so should be consider tearing down the New Deal, which also was the product of racists, conceptualized by racists, and put into place by racists.  Commons, for instance, designed the first workmen's compensation law, in Wisconsin, and discussed social insurance reforms and unionization.

Just how racist was John R. Commons? 

In his "Racial Composition of the American People: The Negro" Commons writes of the western coast of Africa:

The torrid heat and the excessive humidity...produce a race indolent, improvident, and contented...Sexual purity is unknown...Formerly cannibalism prevailed, but it has now been largely stamped out by European governments...The people are unstable, indifferent to suffering, and  easily aroused to ferocity by the sight of blood or under great fear...They exhibit in Africa certain qualities  which are associated with their descendants in this country, namely, aversion to silence and solitude, love of rhythm, excitability, and lack of reserve.  All travelers speak of their impulsiveness, strong sexual passion, and lack of will power.

Donald Trump is fairly criticized for calling African countries "crappy," but what are we to make of an American New Deal, social insurance and welfare system designed by people who made similar remarks?

Commons adds:

slavery tended to transform the savage by eliminating those those who were self-willed, ambitious, and possessed of individual initiative...Other races of immigrants, by contact with our institutions, have been civilized--the Negro has been only domesticated...The very qualities of intelligence and manliness which are essential for citizenship in a democracy were systematically expunged from the Negro race through two hundred years of slavery.

Commons goes on to call "the war of emancipation" one of "dogmatism" and "partizanship" [sic] because equality and inalienable rights took the place of education and slow evolution of moral character. 

He adds: "Self-government means intelligence, self-control, and capacity for cooperation.  If these are lacking, the ballot only makes way for the 'boss,' the corruptionist, and the oligarchy under the cloak of democracy."

In discussing how African Americans can be educated in order to be "prepared" for "citizenship" Commons claims that African Americans lack the ability to be trained to use steam cleaners or to paint ceilings.

He says that the majority of African American mechanics are "careless, slovenly, and ill trained." As well, he adds:

the improvidence of the Negro is notorious. His neglect of his horse, his mule, his machinery, his eagerness to spend his earnings on finery, his reckless purchase of watermelons...these and other incidents of improvidence expalin the constant dependence of the Negro upon his employer and his creditot.

When African Americans did become wealthy due to property ownership, Commons attributes this to "unearned increment" rather than intelligent investing.  He adds, "Negro bosses and foremen are more despotic than white bosses." As well, "the Negro trade unionist has not as yet shown the organizing capacity of other races,"  and "when the Negro demands the same wages as white men, his industrial inferiority leads the employer to take white men in his place."

In response to the list of ways that African Americans were supposedly inferior to whites, Commons proposes "an honest educational test" for voting "enforced on both whites and blacks."

In a closing fit of racism, Commons attributes higher death rates among African Americans to moral rather than environmental and social causes.

In New York City, Mayor de Blasio and his left-wing supporters  have proposed to tear down statues of Columbus and Theodore Roosevelt. Why shouldn't the New Deal, a legal system designed by a racist, should be treated the same way?

Oprah Winfrey's 2012 Campaign Donations

Oprah Winfrey is a Democrat par excellence.  She was number 184 on Forbes's list of the richest Americans in 2012.  Rich Democrats get to support candidates who help them financially, but they can also go around telling people that they put others first.   We can thank Oprah for making us all a little poorer, yet at the same time we can admire her conscience with sincere gratitude. She is a saint.

Obama Victory Fund                 35,800

Obama Victory Fund                 40,000

DNC Servcies Corp.                 30,800

Obama Barack                            5,000

Colorado Dem. Party                  3,181

Ohio Dem Party                        10,000

Dem. Exec. Comm. Florida       6,818

Dem. Party Va.                           4,090

Dem. Party WI                           5454

Iowas Democratic Party             4545

Nevada State Dem. Party           4545

New Hampshire Dem. Party      1363

Howard Stern: Democratic Party Is Communist

In 2008 Howard Stern was right (also see discussion on Bizpac Review): The Democratic Party is communist.  As Americans confront the failure of their political system, many are unable to assess that this is a gangster-ruled land.  Stern had the imagination, but only when the government directly affected his own dealings concerning the merger of Sirius Communications and XM Radio.  The Cato Institute subsequently pointed out that the FCC's authority over mergers should be ended; the communists in Washington lack the competence or honesty to regulate economic behavior.  The merger that the FCC later permitted had so many requirements that the new technology will likely be impeded for years.

Like the Germans under Hitler, Americans are not yet suffering from tyranny that they have put in power.  The Germans changed their minds about totalitarianism when they lost the war, and their own lives and futures were sharply reduced. It is when their own interests are directly threatened that Americans may decide that liberty is preferable to communism. Until then expect declines in the American economy and standard of living.  Stern states that he had voted for Hillary Clinton and Al Gore; it wasn't until his own interests were harmed that he questioned his pattern of voting for totalitarians.

Because of the might of the once-free American economy, the ill effects of American communism have taken the form of stagnation rather than decline.  Over time, though, stagnation will become decline.

The dollar may strengthen in the coming weeks, and there may be a decline in the stock market, but I don't think that the stock market will fall sharply in the near future.  The reason is that due to monetary expansion interest rates may take years to increase, and inflation awaits a shift in global support for the dollar. That also may take years.  Eventually, there will be dollar depreciation--inflation--and real wages will decline rather than stagnate. The massive stimulus that nourishes the current anemic American economy will ultimately turn into monetary inflation.  The increasing population will not be able to proportionately expand its output.

At that point I see either more extreme totalitarian steps or a call for more freedom.   There is little reason for optimism.  Ultimately, ownership of hard assets may protect Americans, but there is no reason to feel safe becaue the future America will likely be one where private property is not safe.  Franklin Roosevelt used government violence to take possession of privately held gold; there is no reason to think that private property, especially outside the private property of government cronies, is safe in the United States.

Millionaires Thank Krugman, Yellen, Obama, and the Democratic Party

As the Dow Jones industrial average nears its all-time high, those who are rich need to take a moment to praise the Democratic party and its supporters.  It is advantageous to have clever advocates, and who can be a better advocate for millionaires than those who claim that they dislike them?

The elite Democrats of academia, those who advocate taxes out of one side of their mouths and monetary expansion out of the other, are  the millionaire's best friend.  The Republicans aren't because they claim to favor the wealthy and those who work, and the public and many of the wealthy have yet to understand that the wealthy are not so because they work; they are wealthy because they own.

When Janet Yellen and the Fed reduce interest rates, the value of assets is increased, and the rich become richer.  What else can matter to the wealthy? Do gay rights, global warming, great  causes, gross income inequality, or a stagnant real wage matter?

All are distractions to the one issue that matters, the one issue about which the news will ever remain silent: the expansion of the money supply, the reduction of interest rates, the inflation of asset values, the suppression of  real wages, and the increment to the  portfolio.

On behalf of the world's millionaires, I thank Paul Krugman; I praise Janet Yellen; I sing hallelujah to Barack Obama.

Democratic Party Railroads America to National Socialism (Nazism)

Progressivism aims to institute totalitarian socialism step by step.  Its method involves severing two forms of decision making: marginal and strategic. Marginal decision making is incremental. Strategic decision making is long term and concerns the whole.

Individualism had succeeded in the United States when elitist Americans first proposed social democratic institutions in the 1880s and 1890s.  True, there was urban corruption and workers were not as well treated as they could have been.  But 19th century America progressed at a faster pace than it did in the twentieth century and workers were better off here than in Europe where social democracy had been installed, as in Germany and France. Real wages had increased two percent per year and innovation due to the capitalist imagination led, by the 1920s, to most Americans' being able to afford a car.

To overcome popular resistance to social democracy, which led to Nazism in the nation where it was invented, Germany, Walter Weyl, co-founder of The New Republic, advocated its gradual adoption.  Unlike most other Progressives, Weyl did not hide his belief in socialism.  Note that Weyl's parents had left Germany for the United States around the time that Bismarck invented the mixed economy and America was still laissez faire.  Assuming the nonsensical claim that the US had succeeded because of its frontier (ignoring that Russia still has a frontier today and so did Europe), social democrats like Weyl argued for institution of the European system in a country that outperformed Europe. In his book The New Democracy Weyl argues that those who favored socialism needed to gradually proceed on numerous fronts.

Weyl did not favor the social democracy of Germany but that of France.  About two decades after Weyl's death in 1919 France capitulated to Hitler's occupation and  cooperated in sending 76,000 Jews to concentration camps.  Weyl was a Jew whose parents had left Germany and its social democracy for the United States.Yet, he lacked the imagination to grasp why someone might prefer the American system to Germany's or France's. Astonishingly, today's social democrats, calling themselves progressives as did Weyl's colleague, Herbert Croly, echo Weyl's argument in favor of the Franco-German social democratic philosophy that led directly to the holocaust.

Weyl's method has been applied by the Democratic Party since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt.  If anyone should argue that one half or more of decision making should be made by the state, then he would be seen to  favor totalitarianism.  But on any one issue an argument (usually silly but made to sound convincing) can be made to support expansion of government. That is the marginal decision.  The public can be fooled by foolish reasoning on a single issue. 

But if you ask anyone whether they would like one half or more of their economic lives to be dominated by the government, as it currently is in the United States, they would say no.  That is the strategic decision.

Progressives like Weyl realized that in order to institute totalitarian rule they would need to win step-by-step on marginal arguments until the sum of the marginal arguments amounted to totalitarian rule.  Their claim that this process involved "pragmatism" was nonsensical. As government policies failed in New York City, as Social Security turned out to be an inter-generational wealth transfer, as the National Labor Relations Act failed, social democrats rejected not one.  The Democratic Party was never pragmatic; it was since Roosevelt a party of violent extremists using Weyl's deceptive, marginalist strategy.

 With 50% or more of the upper middle class's income going to taxes, with Wall Street's strangling control of the economy, with massive bailouts to corrupt industries, with a failed Social Security and health care system, America is no longer free. It is a government-dominated, totalitarian nation where one's slightest move is subject to violent state control.  One can no longer save to open a business. One can no longer open a school or start a business free of socialist violence.

An example of the Democratic Party's totalitarianism is President Obama's proposal for a high speed rail system.  On the margin, through the usual style of sophistic argument, this proposal can be made to sound convincing.  But if high speed rail is a good investment, private investors ought to be willing to make strategic investments in it. Who in the Democratic Party is willing to put their own money into this boondoggle?

If investors are willing to risk their own money in a high speed rail project, then it is convincing. If they are not, then it is unconvincing.  Are Warren Buffett and George Soros, two of the Obama administration's chief beneficiaries, willing to stake their own billions on high speed rail?  Or is the government going to violently extract tax money from foolish Americans who fail to grasp that an economic investment entails risks and costs.  Unless there are investors who are willing to risk their own money there likely aren't customers willing to buy.

Then, it is through Weyl's gradualist philosophy that Americans' every move is increasingly dictated through government violence.  If the National Socialist Democratic Party calls the Tea Party violent,  they should be reminded that the state only exists through violence, and when 50 percent of one's income is stolen through violence, the thinking public has an obligation to resist.

New York and the Legacy Media

In a recent e-mail, Jim Crum uses an excellent moniker for the Democratic Party media: the legacy media.  The phrase is embedded in Jim's important discussion about demographic trends that may undermine the legacy media's influence.  Jim links to a LifeSiteNews.com article which notes that the Republican states are growing in population relative to the Democratic states:

"...states that went for Obama saw population declines that will result in fewer electoral votes and states that did not support Obama in 2008 saw their population increase and, as a result, the number of electoral votes they will allocate to a presidential candidate next time.

"The census found the United States population bumped up from approximately 281 million in 2000 to 308,745,538 as of April 1. Regionally, the northeast grew 3.2 percent while the Midwest grew 3.9 percent, the South grew 14.3 percent and the West grew 13.8 percent — making it so states that typically go Republican experienced more growth than predominantly Democratic areas.

"On the Republican side, Texas picked up four seats, Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina, and Utah will gain one seat each while Louisiana loses one thanks to population declines following Hurricane Katrina and Missouri loses one as well. On the Democratic side, New York and Ohio lose two electoral votes each while the Obama-supporting states of Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania lose one and the pro-Obama states Nevada, and Washington gain one and Florida gains two.

"Ultimately, states voting against Obama in 2012 gained six electoral votes while states supporting him in 2008 lost six — a total shift of 12 electoral votes."

Jim contends that one-sided, pro-Obama media coverage will counteract the population trend in the presidential election.  While this may be, I'm not convinced that the Republicans in '12 will do better than they did with John McCain in '08.  McCain would not have been much better than Obama.  As we stand now, the nation is putting band aids on the dike which, Jim notes quoting Edmund Burke, is being eaten away by rats.  Many Republicans are as much rats as Democrats and, besides, the Republican band aids are too small.

For instance, New Yorkers for Growth forwarded to me John Faso's Op Ed in the New York Post, a Republican newspaper. I met Faso at a fundraiser last spring.  Faso makes some good points but fails to address the underlying cause.  Faso observes that New York is going to lose two congressional seats (I hope my Congressman, Maurice Hinchey, is one of them) because of the census.  As well, he notes that more than one million New Yorkers have exited during the past ten years.  He says that Governor Cuomo (once more that horrible sound) ought to declare a fiscal emergency. He notes that the Tax Foundation ranked New York 50th in hospitality to business.  

I wonder what that does to my students' job prospects...the same students who support regulation 10 to 1.  And there's the rub. New York's problems are so psychologically entrenched that the economic wizardry that Faso proposes will not help.  My students, like the majority of New Yorkers, are brainwashed to believe in socialism.  The population believes that economic goods like health care and housing are rights.  Therefore, anyone who works must be taxed to subsidize anyone who doesn't. New Yorkers will favor that to the maximum extent possible until they learn that there is no such thing as a "positive right."  A right can only exist in nature.  You do not have a right to housing in nature. You have to build housing.  If you dig your spot in a cave, I don't have the right to force you to dig my spot in my cave.  But New Yorkers believe that I do. Therefore, there is no hope for New York until it collapses or until the education system is revamped.

Even many brainwashed ideologues among New Yorkers find that the positive rights theory in which they have been indoctrinated does not work.  Some of those who work leave the ones who don't.  But I suspect they take their socialist ideologies with them and then aim to destroy the states to which they move.  Thus, New York has become a state made up of people who don't work: welfare cheats; Wall Street stock jobbers; lawyers and college professors.  Those who leave aim to destroy the futures of states around the country. New York is a venomous disease.

As far as the legacy media, the value of not consuming it cannot be overstated.  The reason is framing.  A frame is how you conceptualize a situation.  If you listen to the Wall Street-owned legacy media  you are induced to frame issues as they wish.  They do not wish you to frame issues in realistic terms of monetary policy and special interest brokerage. The issues in the United States revolve around these two concerns.  If you believe the news media there is no such thing as a special interest lobby and no such thing as the Federal Reserve Bank. Putting Americans to sleep intellectually is necessary  to manipulate them.

Framing determines how you think and therefore the decisions you make.  The legacy media frames issues in a certain way.  It claims that there is a national consensus, when in fact few Americans have the first idea of what the issues are.  Consuming the legacy media is a sure way to lose track of the real issues.  Why waste your time?

Democrats the Lawyers' Party

My friend Contrairimairi sent me this missive:

>This is why we should NEVER allow lawyers to be legislators. They should be confined to the Judicial branch of government. Many thanks to dear friend and fellow Patriot, Kat:

>>The Lawyers' Party
 

This is very interesting! I never thought about it this way.
Perhaps this is why so many physicians are conservatives or Republicans.
The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party.

       *         Barack Obama is a lawyer.
       *         Michelle Obama is a lawyer.        (Should be these two WERE lawyers! They still aren't telling what happened!)
       *         Hillary Clinton is a lawyer.
       *         Bill Clinton is a lawyer.
       *         John Edwards is a lawyer.
       *         Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer.
       *         Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).
       *         Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, Except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.

Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:

       *         Harry Reid is a lawyer
       *         Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.

 

The Republican Party is different.

       *         President Bush is a businessman.
       *         Vice President Cheney is a businessman.
 

 The leaders of the Republican Revolution:

       *        Newt Gingrich was a history professor.
       *        Tom Delay was an exterminator.
       *         Dick Armey was an economist.
       *         House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic Manufacturer.
       *         The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a Heart surgeon.
 

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer?

       Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976.
 

The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work,who are often the targets of lawyers.
 

The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers.

Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich.
 

The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America .  And, so wehave seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party, grow.

Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail?

Pharmaceutical Companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers.

Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people.

Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives.

America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the Law  in  America  is too big. When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of  Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too Great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

We cannot expect the Lawyers Party to provide real change, real Reform or real hope in America Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected Judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our Defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our Economy.

The United States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of the world's lawyers!

Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in Ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you and also to limit punitive damages In huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party.

When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!

       Please -- DO PASS THIS ON!

Nazi Austria Was What the Democrats Want for America

I just received this essay from Sharad Karkhanis.  The author is an Austrian immigrant who lived through the Anschluss and the rise of Nazism as a student.  The world she describes is just what the Democrats want.

After America , There is No Place to Go"

The author of this article lives in South Dakota and is very active in attempting to maintain our freedom. I encourage everybody to read this article and pass it along. I see so many parallels in this country–are we going to sit by and watch it happen? Spread the word; also contact your congressional reps; vote them out if they don’t do what they should. If you don’t want to be bothered, then you’re part of the problem! Google Kitty Werthmann and you will see articles and videos.

America truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don't Let Freedom Slip Away

By: Kitty Werthmann

What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books.

I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote.. I've never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.

In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.

Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - about 30 daily.

The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other.. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna, Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.

We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group -- Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria .. We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.

We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.

After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.

Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn't support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.

Hitler Targets Education - Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children

Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler's picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn't pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles," and had physical education.

Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.

My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn't do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun - no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn't exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.

Equal Rights Hits Home

In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn't work, you didn't get a ration card, and if you didn't have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn't have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.

Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.

Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare

When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children.. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.

Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls

Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna. After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.

As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.

We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn't meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.

We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.

"Mercy Killing" Redefined

In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps . The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.

As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.

The Final Steps - Gun Laws

Next came gun registration.. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.

No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.

Totalitarianism didn't come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria . Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.

After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria . Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn't destroy, they burned. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn't, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account.

"It's true..those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.

America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don't Let Freedom Slip Away

"After America , There is No Place to Go"