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Theft from c.r.a.p.-and-trade? You're kidding!

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Saturday, December 19, 2009 12:46:08 PM
The proof of the fraud and theft behind these Marxist confiscatory schemes keeps emerging (like this story from Europe), and yet our elected representatives in Congress cannot wait to jump on board.

They.  All.  Need.  To.  Go.

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Maureen Dowd can't count, either

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:23:13 PM
Republicans will be the ones who killed health care?  Who is she kidding?  60, Maureen, 60.  Remember that magic number????  The one you all had been dreaming about for so many years?
 
Maybe Democrats are the ones who need to be careful what they wish for.....
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And something else about life after death

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Sunday, December 13, 2009 8:42:24 PM
I would like to read D'Souza's new book.  I do wonder if he addresses a point I have often thought about.  Specifically, when one reads about NDEs (or "near-death experiences") where someone dies on the operating table, or at the scene of an accident, and is resuscitated, so many of them claim to see a light, a being, a feeling of incredible love, loved ones who have died earlier, etc.  Many claim that they are told "it is not your time," and that they must come back.
 
Skeptics claim that all of this is simply the hallucinatory effect of anoxia - that is, the deprivation of oxygen to the brain.  While that might explain the idea of a point of light closing in, I fail to see how that explains anything else.  If you administered a hallucinogenic drug to 100 people, they would not have the exact same hallucination.  So why is it, then, that so many people who have "died and come back" had virtually identical types of experiences?
 
I think that evidence of life after death is everywhere, and we ignore it.  But if you look for it, it is astonishing how often it appears.
 
Here is an example from my local paper.  This is a remarkable story of a local state trooper here in central Illinois (Tolono, about 5 miles south of Champaign).  The story is about an honor he received, but there is an anecdote he relates about a fatal accident at which he arrived, and what happened thereafter.  Read it yourself and decide.
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It isn't science, it's a religion

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Sunday, December 13, 2009 7:01:17 PM
None of this is a surprise.  You've got to wonder - and worry - when the people predicting cataclysm become more upset, rather than less, at the prospect of being proven wrong.  Usually a dead giveaway.
 
All of this climate-change and Copenhagen treaty garbage is nothing more than warmed over (sorry - bad pun) Marxist redistributionist drivel, from the "bourgeois" Western nations to the "proletariat" third-world.  Complete with a new world government body to enforce it.  Don't take my word for it.  Read the thing.
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What comes of not listening to the American public.

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Sunday, December 13, 2009 6:49:41 PM
Falling poll numbers.  But God, can Congress' go any lower?
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"Barbie"? Who's he kidding?

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Tuesday, December 08, 2009 11:24:43 AM
Columnist Eugene Robinson calls Tiger Woods' preferences a "Barbie thing."  Huh?  True, his wife Elin looks like Barbie.  But most of the rest of those skanks he sleazed around with like female impersonators.  Except for the little waitress in Orlando.  She actually looks like a bona fide female.
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"Being gay had never crossed her mind"?????

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:52:26 PM
Another truly bizarre revelation from Hollywood.
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More from the "what was this guy thinking?" file

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:49:18 PM
Tiger's confession, as it were.  And apparently, he chose a real winner.  When will these dum-dums realize that the bimbos they're fooling around with are only doing it to have something to sell to the tabloids? 
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"He was killed by a police officer in a working class neightborhood."

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Tuesday, December 01, 2009 2:33:41 PM
And "shots were fired."  Uh-huh.  The use of passive voice tells you plenty.  And "he was reaching for his gun"?  Suuuure he was.

I mean, given this guy's past, that is certainly plausible.  Anyone who flings things at people while he's in jail, goes for a cop's gun when under arrest, and threatens the judge when in court would probably be belligerent enough to go for his gun when told to 'halt' by a police office.

But my guess?  This guy was taken out.  The cops saw with abundant clarity that the justice system - including district attorneys and governors - would not protect them. And so he was spotted, and that was all. she. wrote.

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I've been saying it all along - THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT COSTS!

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Tuesday, December 01, 2009 2:24:43 PM
If you haven't read Michael Cannon from the Cato Institute, you really must.  He is one of the clearest voices on the entire health care issue.  He has a post up here. 

The thing is, people keep acting stunned when the cost projections come in, and they're staggering, and yet Obama & Co. keep moving full speed ahead.  It's just like the revelation about the junk science behind the "climate debt" treaty they want to tout in Copenhagen.  Will that stop them?  Of course not.  Or like the question Obama was asked on the campaign trail - if raising taxes doesn't actually increase income for the government, why do it?

All of these excuses are just that - excuses.  Excuses for getting more and more control over you - your health, your money, your property, your life - everything.  Obama is an authoritarian, and what he really wants is for people to simply obey him.  Everything in between is just a nuisance.

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The Brits see it, too

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Sunday, November 29, 2009 3:46:00 PM
As I am currently reading The Saxon Tales by Bernard Cornwell (truly excellent, by the way), I noted with interest this article that Greg Hengler linked to in Townhall's blog.

Of particular note to me were the complaints that the elderly of Britain made about the behavior of the young people.  And I thought to myself, "I know what will make the spoiled brats of western nations grow up: war, oppression and bloodshed."

In the fourth book of The Saxon Series, called Sword Song, the main character, Uhtred, reflects back on his life, saying
Warriors defend the home, they defend children, they defend women, they defend the harvest, and they kill the enemies who come to steal those things. Without warriors, the land would be a waste place, desolate and full of laments.

So many of Great Britain's youth, like so much of America's, are spoiled, selfish, spiritually destitute and morally flabby.  They take for granted what previous generations fought and died for, and now they believe in nothing.  And nothing is what they will get.  Their creed is the creed of complete relativity, and yet it will fail them when they are attacked and forced at the point of a sword to decide that some ways are better than others.

Great Britain took centuries to become civilized, and it conveyed civilization to countless others.  But it will not take centuries to become a wasteland of slaves and tribes and violence.  For that is man's nature and man's history, and any man who does not know that is on the path to it once again.

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Animated unemployment

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Friday, November 27, 2009 10:01:12 AM
Which is to say that the depiction is animated.  Not that those who are unemployed, are.

Check it out here.

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NEWSFLASH! Capitalism eradicates poverty!

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Thursday, November 26, 2009 4:00:13 PM
Fascinating data presented in an article in National Review by Kevin Hassett.  I found it on the American Enterprise Institute's blog (thus the link).

Can somebody take this information over to the Obamunists in the President's inner sanctum who have NO experience in the private sector, and thus DO NOT understand WHY and HOW capitalism eliminates poverty???

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Obama's LOWEST stats compared to other presidents

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Thursday, November 26, 2009 3:53:32 PM
From the "tell-us-something-we-couldn't-have-guessed" file.

Here's a chart that shows how FEW of Obama's cabinet members have private sector experience.  About 7%.



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Proof that gov't bureaucrats don't give a damn about your health

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Thursday, November 26, 2009 9:56:00 AM
They are trying to impose a CAP on Flexible Spending accounts?  Why?  Because Flexible Spending contributions are made pre-tax and those greedy b.a.s.t.a.r.d.s. cannot take enough of OUR money!

It's not just people with chronic illnesses or family members with disabilities that will be affected.  All of us with Flexible Spending accounts use them to pay for deductibles, co-pays, and other expenses that aren't paid.

and this is in addition to what they are already projected our taxes will be to pay for this garbage.  Do you see what a TRAP this is?  The rationale will be, "Oh, don't worry your little heads about this; you won't need a Flexible Spending account, because the government is going to provide your medical care."  And away go the Flexible Spending plans, which will make health care even MORE expensive for most of us, and force even MORE people onto the "government plan."  And then when demand for government-provided medical services exceeds the supply, they'll start cutting them.  Rationing.  Use whatever word you want.

And what will your options be?  Nothing.

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