Mitt Romney – Supports abortion. (source) Supports Socialist National health care and private mandates, turning millions of unemployed Americans into indentured criminals in 2014. (source) Supports the homosexual agenda. (source)

Rick Perry – Encourages 11-year-old girls to have sex, even to the point of fighting his legislature. (source) Sympathizes with Muslim terrorist groups (source). Favors public works projects. (source)

Newt Gingrich – Supports private health mandates, turning millions of unemployed Americans into indentured criminals in 2014. Supports food and drug regulation. Supports global warming. Supports domestic non-defense regulation. Opposes gun rights. (source)

Rick Santorum – Supports private health mandates, turning millions of unemployed Americans into indentured criminals in 2014. (source) Occasional weakness on the abortion issue. (source) Opposes gun rights. Supports labor union interests. (source) (more on Rick Santorum)

In 1994 we had a free-market Republican Revolution of Deregulation.
In 2010, we had a limited-government Republican Tea Party Revolution of Small Government.

We had Soviet Socialism. We have Cuban Socialism. We have Chinese Socialism.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is American Socialism.

Welcome to the American Socialist Revolution of 2012.
Brought to you by the Republican Party.

While the Ames straw poll is more about showcasing dedication to the candidates, the candidate’s marketing skills, and the character of potential voters, it does bring to my mind a problem which might destroy the Tea Party and the Republican vote in 2012.

As everyone within the Tea Party Movement knows, there are the more conservative people (such as Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin) and the more libertarian people (such as Judge Napolitano and Ron Paul).

When you look at the other candidates in the race, they are basically clones of Barack Obama. Two key examples: Mitt Romney being the pro-choice inventor of Obamacare and inventor of “the mandate”, and Rick Perry forcing 11-year-old girls to get the religiously-controversial and painful HPV vaccine Gardasil via executive order (later blocked by the TX legislature).

It is schizophrenic that Republicans are even giving these people TV time let alone supporting their candidacy, given their opposition to Obama doing the exact same thing. It’s the same as my frequent statements here about the open-source software community – unconditional support of any related companies or nonprofits, despite having welcomed and implemented the exact same tie-ins with the Langley/Ft. Meade surveillance state and the Hollywood Mafia as the proprietary software they criticize.

Liberals constantly accuse conservatives of being racist or driven by racism when it comes to opposing the President’s views and actions. But if the Tea Party continues to split the vote between Bachmann and Paul, we may have two pro-choice, big-government, pro-welfare/warfare-state candidates in 2012, with very few differences. In other words, White Obama vs. Black Obama. Thus voting for Mitt Romney or Rick Perry will make you a racist, and with Media 1.0 on his side, the President will have a second term.

Here is my suggestion – rather than go by the candidate you support, go by the date of your state’s primaries. For example, I support Ron Paul, but PA being one of the later states to hold primaries, I might vote for Bachmann if she has already won states or did better than Ron Paul when both lost a previous state.

We cannot have four more years of a pro-choice, pro-welfare/warfare-state, big-government liberal, whether he be Democratic or Republican, black or white. No matter who we support, the Tea Party vote cannot be split in our fight against Obama, nor can we take more accusations of racism. I suggest we base our votes not on our support for Bachmann or Paul, but on their success so far. Only then can the Tea Party win in 2012.

And that’s what I’ll do, under tags like “rant” and “journal”.

Woke up late and rushed to go somewhere. Had fun and came back. I’ll of course be voting tomorrow (later today – it’s 1 AM) and hopefully there’ll be great turnout. I just hope the Tea Party movement keeps going, even after 2012 (when Obama will lose

I honestly do not expect anything unusual from the upcoming Republican Congressmen and -women with regard to them being conservative or libertarian. Given that the neocons tainted Obama’s radical socialism and opposition to war, you can bet they’ll taint the Republicans again just as they did on 9/12/01. But we’ll see. All we can do is wait.

Think I’ll watch some videos and then go to bed. I did wake up late but am still tired, probably cause I went to bed very late. I might listen to college radio too. I started listening again after years, seems to now be just as top-down and commoditized as Clear Channel rather than college kids filling time slots with whatever they want. Though it isn’t always the case, there’s some feeling still left. But I doubt it will continue, too much money and power involved.

As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald’s and some insurers — by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal coverage far below the new law’s standards.

The waivers have been issued in the last several weeks as part of a broader strategic effort to stave off threats by some health insurers to abandon markets, drop out of the business altogether or refuse to sell certain policies.

Among those that administration officials hoped to mollify with waivers were some big insurers, some smaller employers and McDonald’s, which went so far as to warn that the regulations could force it to strip workers of existing coverage.

According to USA Today, there are 30 companies altogether who got Obamacare exemptions.

If employers can continue to force the same crappy insurance benefits on us, Obamacare has simply become a mandate to purchase insurance if the employer doesn’t offer it, and a crime if you refuse to pay a private company for a service you may not want.

I strongly suggest you join the plaintiffs list of Liberty Legal Foundation‘s Obamacare Class Action lawsuit.

See also: Act! for America’s Stop the Mosque petition to Michael Bloomberg and New York officials. 99,622 have signed so far.

• The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree . . . and think 25 to life would be appropriate.
• America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.
• Q: Have you heard about McDonald’s’ new Obama Value Meal?
  A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.
• Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?
  A: A fund raiser.
• Q: What’s the difference between Obama’s cabinet and a penitentiary?
  A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers, and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners.
• Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved?
  A: America!
• Q: What’s the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?
  A: Bo has papers.
• Q: What was the most positive result of the “Cash for Clunkers” program?
  A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road.

West Penn Allegheny Health System officials announced a major consolidation of the system’s two city-based acute-care hospitals.

Up to 1,500 jobs will be lost.

To be fair, not all of this is the government’s fault. Hospital admissions are well below capacity.

From the WPXI story: “Dr. Olivia said the necessary consolidation reflects a strategic transformation of West Penn Allegheny’s healthcare delivery system to better meet the needs of patients by addressing changes in the market and positioning the system for the full implementation of federal healthcare reform.”

Translation: Medicare and Medicaid already are short-sheeting the hospitals on billing.

Rather than go on a standard political rant about this issue like any other blogger would, I thought I’d apply this to each amendment in the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution.

(Note that the content in this article may not apply to blogs hosted on major “community” sites such as Google and Myspace. Since they are run by major corporations, with Myspace owned by the parent company of Fox News, they may be subject to the same/similar issues as Twitter and Facebook.)

1st Amendment: No Establishment of Religion (basis for “Separation of Church and State”), Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Peaceful Assembly, Right to Petition the Government:
Blogs have empowered the people more than ever, as they expose media bias and blackouts, political scandals, and more corruption you would never find out about on TV or radio. Information about diverse religions and philosophy available on the Internet is discouraging many parents from vaccinating their children by temporarily changing their religion or claiming an exemption. Some religious issues reported by Media 1.0, such as sexual abuse issues in the Catholic Church, have been subject to further debate on blogs – for example, the role of the vow of celibacy required by most priests. Material critical of Islam, such as the movie Fitna and depictions of Muhammad, freely spreads through blogs, causing Islamic theocracies to play whack-a-mole, banning entire Web sites and threaten to execute their owners. As a means of news, blogs containing audio and video, such as embedded material uploaded onto YouTube, have enabled individuals to “broadcast”, regardless of archaic laws. Broadcast licensing was originally designed to prevent interference according to issues not present in the age of GPS, satellites, digital transmissions, and “simulcasting” (the ability to put multiple channels in a single frequency, such as with Digital TV and HD Radio). However, they eventually became a means of media control. It took many media blackouts for obscure anti-establishment politician Ron Paul to gain media exposure in 2008, and in the 2004 Democratic primaries an antitrust-minded man named Howard Dean was mocked out of the race over a pep rally. Many grassroots campaigns, spread via blogs, have been highly successful. The Internet has made it easy to send e-mails and faxes to Congressmen and -women, as well as make laws and transcripts available for full viewing.
What gives blogs the advantage with all of this over Twitter or Facebook is the fact that if you own or lease the hardware running your site, you have much more freedom, since the less contracts there are, and the more privacy rights you have (Facebook is notorious for a mysterious “selling out” on the importance of privacy rights some time ago), the freer you are.

2nd Amendment: Right to Bear Arms:
In a world of liberal and neo”conservative” media, true conservatives and libertarians have grown due to blogs. Efforts such as the “Ron Paul Revolution” presidential campaign of 2008, the successor group Campaign for Liberty, and Tea Party protests owe the Internet their success. In opposition to these efforts, bog-standard left-wing charges of “violent racists” and “angry white men” fly at innocent Republicans who now have a new opportunity to speak their mind. And unlike Twitter and Facebook, which respond to any one complaint by banning the user or material immediately, so-called “hate speech” and “harassment” accusations by the left-wing establishment can be resolved more easily and fairly with a hosting provider, even if similar bans are in their contracts.

3rd Amendment: No Quartering of Soldiers:
Many blogs, such as the anarcho-capitalist LewRockwell.com and Justin Raimondo’s Antiwar.com, frequently criticize wars, foreign policy measures, anti-terrorism laws, and the actions of the US military (in fact, LRC is banned from offices of US intelligence agencies). No longer are complaints about the military or government limited to our minds or homes – while none of us, whether criminal or peaceful, are anonymous to authorities in any way, blog pseudonyms enable us to publish all kinds of crazy ideological arguments without our families and friends even knowing. Again, Facebook and Twitter will shut anything “hate speech” down immediately.

4th Amendment: Search & Seizure, Warrants, Right to Privacy:
The establishment has grown very successful in defeating the protections of this amendment. Laws such as the Patriot Act have eroded this right, and social networks and search engines have become goldmines for both private industry and government agencies. Facebook and Twitter are no exception – those sites store backups of your actions even if you delete your account. Web hosts have their own privacy policies and law enforcement measures which may be much less invasive. Other laws, such as the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, have granted these same broad powers to copyright holders, though in some cases they are used for purpose of censorship or forming trust-like “holding” organizations rather than copyright infringement.
And while Media 1.0 will censor or twist anything that reflects badly upon its own industry (or any other industry for that matter), and Facebook has “mysteriously” reversed its stance on privacy rights recently, blogs such as Slashdot have risen to fill in the blanks.

5th Amendment: No Double Jeopardy, No Self-Incrimination, Right to Life, Liberty, and Property, Eminent Domain:
6th Amendment: Right to a Speedy Trial, Nature of Trials:
7th Amendment: Right to Trial By Jury:
Acts which threaten the establishment have led to intelligence agencies and copyright holders to engage in dealmaking which is slowly trending towards entire leasing of your machine. Blogs have been reporting these efforts by Microsoft, Apple, the MAFIAA, and others, as well as reporting hacker attacks on remotely-stored personal data, which is sometimes marketed as “cloud computing”. After eminent domain laws were extremely loosened to allow seizure of property by Wal-Mart, bloggers not only reported the story, but debated the consequences. Trial by jury is being threatened through the expansion of forced arbitration, mandated by a federal law irreversible by states, including to Web sites about cartoon characters, rapists, neglectful murdering nursing homes, and consumer electronics purchases, but people are getting together and fighting the law, and some arbitration companies have left consumer dispute markets. The banking industry’s role in the current recession, reported by bloggers with an anti-establishment bias, has helped with this issue as well.

8th Amendment: No Cruel or Unusual Punishment:
Information regarding foreign wars have been reported by bloggers, with Media 1.0 dishonesty even being videotaped. Torture and other events at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo would be easy to hide if blogs didn’t exist, and there would be less questioning the claims made by the President about national security and foreign dictators. The use of pseudonyms have encouraged people to discuss and debate the Israeli lobby without fear of being publicly labeled an anti-Semite, even if they secretly are one.

9th Amendment: Rights Not Limited to Constitution:
As rights such as copyright protection have been broadly expanded in length and scope, bloggers have been making use of Creative Commons licenses to waive such rights for the benefit of themselves and others. This even includes musicians who rely on a cult following and touring, such as Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead, who have left major labels and still kept their fans. Some have gone even further and released material entirely into the public domain, as controversial creationist figure Kent Hovind once did. I myself have released much of this blog’s content into the public domain.

10th Amendment: States’ Rights, Other Rights Belong to States & People:
Due to dissatisfaction with the establishment, fueled by blogs and the Tea Party movement, many libertarians have started a “Tenther” movement, proposing that the US become a confederacy where states have nullification rights over an ever-expanding federal government. Many want to repeal other Constitutional amendments associated with infringing on states’ rights, including parts of the 14th (birthright citizenship, bill of rights applies to states), the 16th (direct federal income tax), and the 17th (senate popularly elected like the house is, something I want to see repealed). Twitter and Facebook, once again, will shut down anything after somebody points the race card.

27th Amendment: Limiting Congressional Pay:
(part of original Bill of Rights, but not ratified until 1992)
Bloggers have been able to monitor Congress like never before, including not only laws and transcripts in their entirety, but also exposing financial and sexual scandals, ties to various lobbies, and other forms of corruption Media 1.0 would never report, and would be extremely difficult to spread via Twitter.

The news article I previously featured on this blog is also there.

Two weeks after President Barack Obama signed the big health care overhaul into law, Americans are struggling to understand how — and when — the sweeping measure will affect them.

Questions reflecting confusion have flooded insurance companies, doctors’ offices, human resources departments and business groups.

“They’re saying, ‘Where do we get the free Obama care, and how do I sign up for that?’ ” said Carrie McLean, a licensed agent for eHealthInsurance.com. The California-based company sells coverage from 185 health insurance carriers in 50 states.

“We tell them it’s not free, that there are going to be things in place that help people who are low-income, but that ultimately most of that is not going to be taking place until 2014,” McLean said.

Adults with pre-existing conditions are frustrated to learn that insurers won’t have to cover them until 2014 (though those under 18 will be protected in late September); then they become both hopeful and confused upon learning that a federal high-risk pool for them will be established in the next few months. “Health insurance is so confusing. You add this on top of it and it makes it even more confusing,” McLean said.

George Washington Win: http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=3296440576
Intellectual Property Fail: http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=3296448512

(Post updated 4/20/10 – I must have forgotten to make the links actual links)

The Archive’s last major exposure happened when videos were discovered from the BBC, CNN, and some local Fox-affiliate channels where the collapse of the Salomon Building (aka WTC7) was reported some 10-20 minutes in advance. Until official responses came forward, these videos were repeatedly removed by Google (YouTube) et al and removed from the Internet Archive. According to the blog link above, so-called "birthers" apparently refer to this as "scrubbing the Internet"

(CNN Video, BBC Video, Fox 5 DC Video, Response given by BBC)

Official explanations from AP, The Standard, and Washington could be given regarding this, but something else comes to mind. In 1986, an income tax protestor pointed out inconsistencies in copies of the Constitution’s Sixteenth Amendment (direct federal income tax, ratified 1913) delivered to the states. A federal appeals court (never went any higher) ruled against him, because (1) then-Secretary of State Philander Knox marked it as valid, and (2) "73 years after certification of the amendment’s adoption and after countless judicial applications, would promote only disorder."

The reason this is an issue is because the House and Senate passed resolutions two months ago declaring Obama born in Hawaii. And you can bet there’d be disorder if the courts validate this!

So regardless of the law, Obama will be the 44th President, and there’s no stopping anyone.

Apparently it’s someone named Ernie Sanders on WHKW, a Christian station out of Cleveland.

I recorded some of it, and you can 20090910-WHKW-Ernie_Sanders-Obama_Is_Satan.

This is the kind of stuff that makes us Republicans look bad. Not only is the preacher being judgmental to his own audience, but he really believes that Jesus actually spoke about the President in Luke 10:18.

Once again, 20090910-WHKW-Ernie_Sanders-Obama_Is_Satan. If you know how to read a book, you will find it funny.

If you are too apathetic or intimidated to look at the page, read the petition’s main goals, copied here:

• Choice: I support the right to choose my own doctor and to choose a health insurance plan that best fits my family’s needs and budget.
• Access: I want to get the treatment I need, when I need it, without delay or denial and I want my health care to be patient-centered rather than government-centered.
• Fairness: I want the same tax breaks employees get if I have to pay for my own health insurance; and I want government assistance redirected to those that truly need help.
• Responsibility: I want more control to cover my own health care decisions and I want a system that encourages everyone to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse. I want insurance I can take with me if I have to change jobs.

Go to FreeOurHealthCareNow.com and sign the petition. Even if you only agree with portions of it, compromising and joining over 1,237,203 people is much more effective, and even if the petition doesn’t work, you will still be able to tell your children and grandchildren that you broke a world record.

For an example, note the tags chosen for this post.