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Sunday, January 31, 2016
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Brief Reminder
Just in case you haven't already
seen this. Remember to take your blood pressure pill!!!!
This is so outrageous - pass it on!!
As a brief reminder for those
who forgot or for many that didn't know
Here is what happened, quietly, on January 1, 2016
Here is what happened, quietly, on January 1, 2016
Medicare tax went from 1.45% to 2.35%
Top Income tax bracket went from 35% to 39.6%
Top Income payroll tax went from 37.4% to 52.2%
Capital Gains tax went from 15% to 28%
Dividend tax went from 15% to 39.6%
Estate tax went from 0% to 55%
A 3.5% Real Estate transaction tax was added.
Remember these facts:
These taxes were all passed solely with Democrat votes.
Not a single Republican voted for these new taxes.
These taxes were all passed in the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
If you think that it is
important that everyone in the U.S. should know this as there are many millions
who don't, then pass it on.
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Return of the Persian Empire
Very interesting
article!
Why is Obama bending over backwards
to accommodate Iran? Obama’s strategic goal is for the “bully” USA to
abandon our allies in the Middle East and let Iran be the regional
hegemon.
However, Iran has even bigger plans
to include destroying Israel and Sunni countries including Saudi Arabia so that
Shite Islam rules and the Persian Empire is restored.
How America continues to miscalculate Iran
Iran will use conventional weapons and guerilla tactics to
overwhelm its Sunni Arab neighbors, no nukes needed
Despite having been at war with Iran via proxy for the past
three decades, America doesn’t understand Iran and continues to make false
assumptions about Iran. It is America’s collective ignorance of Iran that has
effectively handed Iran hegemony of the entire Middle East. If America
understood Iran’s ambitions, it would never had toppled Saddam, who stood as
the last line of defence between the US’s Sunni Arab allies and the start of the
new Persian Empire.
Today US politicians are torn between “bombing Iran”
(Republicans) and “negotiating with Iran” (Democrats). In short, the approach
of both political parties for dealing with the “Iranian threat” is sound but
not for the reasons they communicate.
Republicans want to take military action because they are unable
to see beyond Iran’s apocalyptic religious face. While Democrats believe
negotiating with Iran will bring the isolated Islamic Republic into the
“international world order”. In other words, Republicans are constrained to
1979 thinking, while Democrats are naively optimistic about Iran’s overarching
ambitions.
What Iran seeks is complete Persian domination of the Persian Gulf.
What Iran seeks is absolute hegemony in the Middle East. What Iran seeks is to
upturn 1,300 years of Sunni Arab dominance. What Iran seeks is superpower-dom.
It seeks a seat at the table with the US, China, Russia and Europe.
Ultimately, what Iran really seeks is total dominance of the world’s
oil supplies, and it has been waging a highly effective covert war to attain
that goal.
With Iran now increasingly in control of Iraq, something that
the Iranians would never have achieved without US intervention, Iran is now
within range of becoming the world’s largest oil producer. Today
Iraq produces four million barrels per day and Iran more
than six million per day. Saudi Arabia, the world’s leading
producer, pumps out nine million barrels per day. In case you
missed it, Iran-Iraq has surpassed the Saudis – and this is what gives the
kingdom nightmares.
“Under
a scenario like this, Iran calls the shots in world oil markets, deciding
levels of production that lower or raise world prices, which also aids Iran’s
ongoing campaign to decouple oil from the dollar. If oil markets again tighten,
it could fall within Iran’s reach to set the global price of oil,” notes Baer. “If
Iran were to force a cutback of, let’s say, five million barrels a day,
Americans could end up paying $10 a gallon for gasoline. If the cutback was
compounded with an assault on the dollar, it would start something very much
like a depression in the United States.”
Republicans, at least communicatively, overlook Iran’s imperial
and pragmatic ambitions. Wrongly, they see only a backwards, theocratic regime
that aims to drive Israel off the map. Democrats, however, are unable to see
the means to Iran’s imperialistic ends - namely dollars and guns funnelled to
Iranian proxy militias in Syria, Bahrain, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine and Yemen.
The Democratic Party’s approach to Iran, while reasonable and
praiseworthy, is “dangerous”, notes Jason Ginsburg, a staff writer for Brown Political Review. “As
a State Department-designated sponsor of terrorism, Iran
continually provokes violence in the Middle East ... Iran also shows little
consideration for international norms of human rights. Without a denouncement
of violence and a respect for the rights of all individuals, Iran cannot be a
responsible leader in the Middle East.”
Saudi Arabia knows an Iranian invasion is coming,
which is why the kingdom so enthusiastically cheers Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s pleas to the US to bomb Iran, and why the Saudis’ bombing
of Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen is for them an effort to ward off the
inevitable. But even without an Iranian invasion, the mere expansion of Iranian
influence is an existential threat to Saudi Arabia.
“The House of Saud created a single country, but its roots may
be shallower than we think,” notes former US State Department advisor Vali
Nasr. “Shias cannot break away from Saudi Arabia but they might break it up.
The Saudi rulers and their clerical allies find such a prospect deeply
frightening and disconcerting: it would threaten the end of Wahhabism. Saudis
fear not so much Iran, but the pluralism that Iran has promised to force [on]
their country if ever the chance arises - a pluralism that would speak loudly
to the multitude of Saudi citizens whose ethnic and sectarian aspirations do
not line up with the Saudi-Wahhabi ideology of state.”
In the meantime, as Baer notes, the Saudis have two choices:
they can goad the US into a war against Iran, or more likely, “they can raise
the white flag and hope Iran will be satisfied with dominion over the Gulf
rather than occupation”. While at the same time, Saudi Arabia is “buying all
the arms it can, hoping against hope that they will serve as a deterrent
against Iran”.
With or without a nuclear deal, and with or without and end to
US-led sanctions, there is nothing to stop Iran becoming the superpower it
desires. The Sunni Arab order of the 20th century
has evaporated. Sunni Arab armies have lost every war they’ve fought since
1948. More significantly, it was Saddam’s army that acted as a bulwark against
Iran invading the Sunni Arab Gulf states. That bulwark now belongs to Iran. Effectively,
Iraq is now a barrier that prevents Sunni Arab Gulf states counter-attacking
Iran.
“Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country
has made in its history,” notes author and former CIA agent Robert Baer.
“Unless we change course, there’s every reason to believe the Iraq War will end
up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq.”
Since the US withdrawal from Iraq in 2010, the US has been
locked in a desperate effort to prevent Iran attaining a nuclear weapon. The US
has tried sanctions, threats, and incentives – none have contained Iran.
Moreover, a nuclear weapon is an Iranian wish, not an Iranian need. A myopic
focus on a would-be Iranian nuclear bomb further underscores how much America
misunderstands the nature of the Iranian threat.
Iran took over Iraq and Lebanon without firing a shot. It arms
Shiite militias in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq with conventional weapons.
For instance, Iran-backed Hezbollah defeated the Israeli military in 2000 and
2006 using conventional weapons and guerilla tactics. It will use the same
tactics to overwhelm its Sunni Arab neighbours – Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain,
the Gulf States and somewhere in the distant future Turkey. No nukes
needed.
Thus
why, in terms of US strategic interests, it can be argued both bombing and
negotiating with Iran are indeed the right choices, but not so if the US
doesn’t know why they’re making said choice. In other words, ignorance is no
longer bliss. America will have to work harder to understand what and who its
adversary.
Continue
reading @ http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/how-america-continues-miscalculate-iran-2133354899#sthash.QpJe8XGK.dpuf
What is being taught in many universities today
Here is what they are teaching
in college now . . .
What
Is Cultural Marxism?
You
may be familiar with Classic Marxism:
Proletariat vs Bourgeoisie
Rich vs Poor
Have’s vs Have Nots
Wealthy vs Working Class
However,
you may not be aware that Classic Marxism has been supplanted by Cultural
Marxism which grew out of Critical Theory studies at the Frankfurt School in
Germany.
Critical
Theory studies in college confront and challenge your beliefs in:
Western Cultural History
Religion
Family
Race
Gender
Sexual Orientation
Applying
Critical Theory will lead you to discover and embrace the tenants of Cultural
Marxism:
Oppressors vs Oppressed
Oppressors = European ancestry, whites (especially men), Christians,
heterosexuals, fixed gender persons
Oppressed are now called Minorities
Minorities must resist the ingrained cultural “phobias” of the oppressors by
enforcing Political Correctness
As
a Progressive, you must advance Cultural Marxism through Political Correctness
using these tools:
Multi-culturalism (all cultures are equally
good)
Diversity
Feminism
Social Justice
Moral Relativism (there is no sin – you decide
what is right or wrong)
Gender Equality (homosexual marriage,
transgenderism)
Secularism (We do not tolerate Christianity,
but Islam is a religion of peace)
Affirmative Action (Black Lives Matter)
Stop
clinging to your guns and bibles, and stop your fears (phobias) of others!
You
and your culture must progress and embrace this Marxist view of the world.
Become
a Progressive/Democrat if you want to graduate from this course!
We Need Democrat Control!
In 1865 a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of
the United States .
In 1881 a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield,
President of the United States -
who later died from the wound.
In 1963 a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F.
Kennedy, President of the United States .
In 1975 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford,
President of the United States .
In 1983 a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan,
President of the United States .
In 1984 James Hubert, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 22
people in a McDonalds restaurant.
In 1986 Patrick Sherrill, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed
15 people in an
Oklahoma post office.
In 1990 James Pough, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 10
people at a GMAC office.
In 1991 George Hennard, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 23
people in a
Luby's cafeteria in Killeen , TX .
In 1995 James Daniel Simpson, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and
killed 5 coworkers in a
Texas laboratory.
In 1999 Larry Asbrook, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 8
people at a church service.
In 2001 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White
House in a failed attempt to kill
George W. Bush, President of the US ...
In 2003 Douglas Williams, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed
7 people at a
Lockheed Martin plant.
In 2007 a registered Democrat named Seung - Hui Cho, shot and
killed 32 people
in Virginia Tech.
In 2010 a mentally ill registered Democrat named Jared Lee
Loughner, shot
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others.
In 2011 a registered Democrat named James Holmes,
went into a movie theater and shot and killed 12 people.
In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and
killed 7 people in Minneapolis .
In 2013 a registered Democrat named Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26
people in a school in Newtown , CT.
As recently as Sept 2013, an angry Democrat shot 12 at a Navy ship
yard.
Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats and guns.
Not one NRA member, Tea Party member,
or Republican conservative was involved in any of these shootings
and murders.
SOLUTION: It should be illegal for Democrats to own guns.
We don't need gun control, we need Democrat control.
Guns don't kill people, Democrats do!
It's no
wonder they want gun control---they are afraid they will HURT THEM SELVES
!!!!!!!!
Harvard Professor: 90 seconds you won't regret seeing!
Now here is something that
absolutely everyone should see!
This could be used in so many ways, in so
many places ... it is stunningly simple, and so totally profound ...!
Note that at the bottom of the clip it gives permission to use this clip
provided it is not altered. Harvard Professor: 90 seconds you won't regret
Some Strange History of WWII
This is an interesting recitation
of historical “facts” (?).
You might enjoy this from Col D.
G. Swinford, USMC, Ret and history buff.
You would really have to dig deep to
get this kind of ringside seat to history:
1. The first German serviceman killed in WW II was killed by the Japanese ( China , 1937), The first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians ( Finland 1940); The highest ranking American killed was Lt Gen Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps.
2. The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old: Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. His benefits were later restored by act of Congress.
3. At the time of Pearl Harbor , the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced 'sink us'); The shoulder patch of the US Army's 45th Infantry division was the swastika. Hitler's private train was named 'Amerika.' All three were soon changed for PR purposes.4. More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions, an airman's chance of being killed was 71%.
5. Generally speaking, there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance, Japanese Ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo plane.
6. It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th round with a tracer round to aid in aiming. This was a big mistake. Tracers had different ballistics so (at long range) if your tracers were hitting the target 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse yet tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which direction. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were out of ammo. This was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and their loss rate go down.
7. When allied armies reached the Rhine , the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act).
1. The first German serviceman killed in WW II was killed by the Japanese ( China , 1937), The first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians ( Finland 1940); The highest ranking American killed was Lt Gen Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps.
2. The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old: Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. His benefits were later restored by act of Congress.
3. At the time of Pearl Harbor , the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced 'sink us'); The shoulder patch of the US Army's 45th Infantry division was the swastika. Hitler's private train was named 'Amerika.' All three were soon changed for PR purposes.4. More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions, an airman's chance of being killed was 71%.
5. Generally speaking, there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance, Japanese Ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo plane.
6. It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th round with a tracer round to aid in aiming. This was a big mistake. Tracers had different ballistics so (at long range) if your tracers were hitting the target 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse yet tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which direction. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were out of ammo. This was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and their loss rate go down.
7. When allied armies reached the Rhine , the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act).
8. German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City , but they decided it wasn't worth the effort.
9. German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.
10. Among the first 'Germans' captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were captured by the US Army.
11. Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 United States and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands . 21 troops were killed in the assault on the island....... It could have been worse if there had actually been any Japanese on the island.
12. The last marine killed in WW2 was killed by a can of spam He was on the ground as a POW in Japan when rescue flights dropping food and supplies came over, the package came apart in the air and a stray can of spam hit him and killed him.
THEY CUT OFF MY BRITCHES!!!
This is a HOOT!!
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Watch
this if you have a few minutes and you will get a few really good laughs !!
In case you do not know him, Mark Lowery is a Baptist preacher from
Houston with a bizarre sense of humor.
He tells about having a motorcycle wreck (while not wearing a helmet)
and what happened to him afterwards.
CLICK BELOW
https://www.youtube.com/embed/46fk02enulQ?rel=0
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History of Gun Control !
> A LITTLE GUN HISTORY... PLEASE
DON'T THINK FOR A MOMENT, THAT THIS COULDN'T HAPPEN IN OUR COUNTRY ALSO !!!!!!
> In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control:
> From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> In 1911, Turkey established gun control:
> From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> Germany established gun control in 1938:
>
> From 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> China established gun control in 1935:
> From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> Guatemala established gun control in 1964:
> From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> Uganda established gun control in 1970:
> From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> Cambodia established gun control in 1956:
> From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> 56 million defenseless people were rounded up and exterminated in the 20th century because of gun control.
> -----------------------
> You won't see this data on the US evening news or hear politicians disseminating this information. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens. With guns, we are 'citizens'; without them, we are 'subjects'. During WW II, the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED!
> Gun owners in the USA are the largest armed forces in the World!
> If you value your freedom, please spread this anti-gun control message to all of your friends.
> The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense.
> The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either.
> SWITZERLAND......... issues a gun to EVERY HOUSEHOLD! SWITZERLAND'S GOVERNMENT ISSUES AND TRAINS EVERY ADULT IN THE USE OF A RIFLE. and..........
> SWITZERLAND has the LOWEST gun-related crime rate of any civilized country in the WORLD. IT'S A NO BRAINER! DON'T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.
> I'm a firm believer in the 2nd Amendment! If you are too, please forward this.
> If you're not a believer, please ...........reconsider the facts.
> This is history; not what's being shown on TV, sanctioned by our illustrious delusional leaders in Washington.
>
> Guns are a lot like parachutes; if you need one and don't have one, you will probably NEVER need one again!
> In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control:
> From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> In 1911, Turkey established gun control:
> From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> Germany established gun control in 1938:
>
> From 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> China established gun control in 1935:
> From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> Guatemala established gun control in 1964:
> From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> Uganda established gun control in 1970:
> From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> Cambodia established gun control in 1956:
> From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
> -----------------------
> 56 million defenseless people were rounded up and exterminated in the 20th century because of gun control.
> -----------------------
> You won't see this data on the US evening news or hear politicians disseminating this information. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens. With guns, we are 'citizens'; without them, we are 'subjects'. During WW II, the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED!
> Gun owners in the USA are the largest armed forces in the World!
> If you value your freedom, please spread this anti-gun control message to all of your friends.
> The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense.
> The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either.
> SWITZERLAND......... issues a gun to EVERY HOUSEHOLD! SWITZERLAND'S GOVERNMENT ISSUES AND TRAINS EVERY ADULT IN THE USE OF A RIFLE. and..........
> SWITZERLAND has the LOWEST gun-related crime rate of any civilized country in the WORLD. IT'S A NO BRAINER! DON'T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.
> I'm a firm believer in the 2nd Amendment! If you are too, please forward this.
> If you're not a believer, please ...........reconsider the facts.
> This is history; not what's being shown on TV, sanctioned by our illustrious delusional leaders in Washington.
>
> Guns are a lot like parachutes; if you need one and don't have one, you will probably NEVER need one again!
GRAB YOUR ANKLES.....this is scary.
I hope you get to see this before it's deleted.
Remember the Bus in the Night with Refugees on a Secret UPS Plane?
Here is the follow-up on that video.
Unbelievable What Obama is Doing!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=KIf3tElDLfA&feature=youtu.be
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Old Town Scottsdale in Scottsdale, AZ
Winfield Scott Bench
Get A Horse
Gallery Andrea
Gallery Andrea
Steam Display
Push the button to create steam
Mater Misericordia Catholic Church @ State Capital in Phoenix, AZ
Staffed by priests of the Fraternal Society of St. Peter (FSSP)
Latin Mass
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