Just like a schoolyard brawl put up by the top bully,- only with more dire consequences -North Korean has started to kick sand in the face of it's global neighbors .  And, as fate would have it we friends with those neighbors, which means if necessary we come to their aid.

North Korean is a client state of China and does nothing without their knowledge and arguably without their permission.  So what we have is a "battle by proxy" between the United States and China .

Not only are we at war with global radicalized Islamic terrorism, we are now in a proxy war on a second front in Asia. A proxy war with a tepid creditor, afraid that we (as a nation) will default on our financial obligations to them or at least afraid that we will treat them like we have treated the bond holders of the once venerable General Motors.  

There will be a point where trying to force payment from a weakened former capitalist country   may become more certain than awaiting payment from  same with a 80% GDP going just to cover the debt.

"It's not easy being green."  So went the lament of that great American actor Kermit the Frog.  He may have been right.  Just ask the Chinese workers who make those little squiggly, weird-looking fluorescent light bulbs that are the favorites of the Save the Planet crowd.

In case you didn't know, those eco-friendly (?) light bulbs used to be called mercury vapor bulbs.  I guess that term got to be a little scary since mercury is a deadly toxic substance.  So someone (probably from the government) came along and gave it the touch-feely name "fluorescent".  Who could be afraid of that?  It sounds so French and who's afraid of the French?

It seems we used to make mercury vapor lights in Kentucky.  But someone said, "Hey, this is not a good idea.  We need to export this poison out of our country and let somebody else die."

So now we've turned over the production of mercury vapor lights to China; where there is no OSHA and no occupational or safety standards.  It turns out that 90% of the Chinese workers, (that's 9 out of 10 for those of you in public school) have been poisoned by the mercury.  They've been poisoned so badly that they had to be hospitalized.  But who cares?  After all, they're just little yellow people who live on the other side of the world.  There are 3 billion of them, so if a few thousand die, what's the big deal?  They'll just make more anyway.  It's kind of like the DDT scare.  DDT killed a lot of mosquitoes and no people, but let's get rid of it.  Now there are 2 million fewer people in Africa and lots of mosquitoes.  Ah, the logic of liberalism.

Here is something else you didn't know:  You can't throw used mercury vapor bulbs in the trash.  That's right, you have to take them to an authorized dump station where they will be handled as hazardous material.  That means these used light bulbs will be stored with nuclear waste and other HAZMATS that will make your hair fall out and testicles shrivel up.  Better living through technology!

So in 2012, thanks to former President George Bush, you no longer can buy incandescent bulbs (those are the ones Thomas Edison invented and contain no poisonous materials.)  But in addition to those cute little mercury-filled light bulbs you will be forced to buy, you might want to invest in an environmental suit.  Because if you break a bulb in your house, you're going to need it.  

Oh, and put 911 on speed dial.  You're going to need that too.

Well, here is what the FairTax means to Paul Wizikowski the winner of the FairTax grassroots challenge: "what the FairTax would mean to you"

( Déjà vu daise your view )

The peek in the rear view mirror of life is usually "20/20" or at least much clearer after the fact than a priori!  

And, occasionally we can catch a side glance of a current event that will give a clear glimpse into the future - as does the European Union fine of Intel. Soon, all too soon if fact, someone in "Dear Readers" circle of thugs -  will be using a similar tactic in an extortion attempt on all American business owners.

This is an event that turns the clouding old crystal ball from a murky tea leaf laden snow globe into a high def vision of what the future will be: and it's all about greed!

Like some untethered Inspector Poirot miming a bumbling Clouseau, the clowns in Brussels have fined the US based computer chip maker Intel Corporation 1.06 Billion (yes, that's billion with a "B") euros. That's approximately 1.45 Billion in (what used to be real money ) US Dollars on the premise that European consumers have been harmed by paying too much for their computers.

Yet, since 2001 actually chip prices have fallen dramatically nearly a 100 fold   and the computing power has increased exponentially. Chips that used to sell for a thousand dollars now cost ten bucks and the net result is that the for all consumers is the price of computers has fallen and even Intel's rival - AMD has garnered more market share in the EU.

And even in the most cruelest of fates the EU will not return money to the 'harmed' consumer, instead they will put the ill gotten gain directly into the coffers of the EU. Furthermore Neelie Kroes EU Competition Commissioner is now quoted as saying that Intel is not "sponsor of the European Taxpayer"



It sure seems we have a global recession on truth and it should be obvious that the EU attack on Intel has never been about the harmed consumer. Instead it has been about getting access to the revenues of the company. To which the leaders at the EU are all too eager to convince everyone of the great lie - "that we can all live at the expense of someone else"

America trusts in the abiding power of prayer and asks for the wisdom to discern God's will in times of joy and of trial. As we observe this National Day of Prayer, we recognize our dependence on the Almighty, we thank Him for the many blessings He has bestowed upon us, and we put our country's future in His hands.

From our Nation's humble beginnings, prayer has guided our leaders and played a vital role in the life and history of the United States. Americans of many different faiths share the profound conviction that God listens to the voice of His children and pours His grace upon those who seek Him in prayer. By surrendering our lives to our loving Father, we learn to serve His eternal purposes, and we are strengthened, refreshed, and ready for all that may come.

On this National Day of Prayer, we ask God's continued blessings on our country. This year's theme, "Prayer! America's Strength and Shield," is taken from Psalm 28:7, "The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped." On this day, we pray for the safety of our brave men and women in uniform, for their families, and for the comfort and recovery of those who have been wounded.

The Congress, by Public Law 100-307, as amended, has called on our Nation to reaffirm the role of prayer in our society by recognizing each year a "National Day of Prayer."

Not an administration to let any crisis go unexploited "Dear Reader" and rabid antigun militants in his "thugocracy" are now using the cover of a Swine Flu, border wars, and drug trafficking to  urging the passing of the CIFTA treaty -  Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials.  Source

CIFTA, which has been rightfully languishing in the senate for a dozen years is now being fast tracked for passage  under the benign guise of curtailing border violence and controlling illicit manufacture of weapons.

Instead, CIFTA in a treasonous act all of it's own, that will give to Foreign Troops the Identity of American Gun Owners through US Gun registry, and allow for their prosecution.  Yes, prosecution of law abiding, gun owning American Citizens by world governments for "crimes" that may be committed under this treaty.



Like the scene in the movie Charlie Wilson's war, where the character Gust, explains to the congressman "how using the titillating details of personal scandal" on one hand can help obfuscate an entire military operation performed behind the other hand, I had been wondering what was being kept from us, by all the undue media attention over the Swine Flu.

No matter what else may be in the magician's hat, we now know gun control is among the many rabbits. And, not just gun control by revocation of our Second Amendment rights or onerous restrictions on ammunition. Instead it is a complete abrogation of our second amendment rights by foreign treaty!  And, treaties entered into by our government with foreign entities  do in fact supersede any rights guaranteed by our Constitution or Bill of Rights.

 

"The sky is falling, the sky is falling."  Cried Chicken Little.

How quickly we adults forget the lessons of childhood.  The new crisis (that we should not let go to waste) is being foisted upon us with dire predictions of a global catastrophe.  Spurred on by an administration trying to direct our attention away from its ever-increasing lust for power, and assisted by a more than willing media, Americans are being duped again.  "The pandemic is coming, the pandemic is coming."  Cry the headlines.

Let's get some facts (I know libs don't like those pesky facts.  They always manage to get in the way): 

As of this writing, there are 6,777,220,110 people alive on Planet Earth; there have been 717 reported (not confirmed) cases of swine flu, mexican flu (for the politically incorrect) or, as our sympathetic to our illegal immigrant population administration calls it--the H1N1 virus.  Now I did go to public school, so thank God I have a calculator.  That is exactly .00000010579% of the world's population.  Out of that 717, only 10 unlucky folks have died.  That's 10 deaths out of over 6 billion people!  That's not a pandemic; it's not even an epidemic, a trend or a surge. 

It's estimated that between 250,000 to 500,000 lives are lost each year to the regular old common flu.  That's somewhere between 25,000 and 50,000 times the number of dead from the swine flu and nobody seems to care a whit about it.

No fanfares, no blistering news reports on CNN of a worldwide regular old flu pandemic.  Nope, just hundreds of thousands of poor souls ignored because there is no crisis that we can let go to waste.