Recovery day Open Thread
Bookworm on Mar 20 2013 at 11:43 am | Filed under: Open Threads
Sorry for the long silence, guys and gals, but I had some orthopedic outpatient surgery yesterday. Everything went wonderfully well, but I was completely out of commission yesterday and am still somewhat out of commission today. I anticipate writing original stuff later, but for now, I’ll leave you with this open thread, and I’ll post some stuff I was able to write for Mr. Conservative.
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I am following the Cyprus problem with deep interest. As things go there, so shall they go here in the USA – if we do not manage to change our ways.
The confiscation of depositor wealth on Cypriots was a test case, and thank God, due to the people taking to the streets in massive protest, it has failed. You have to remember that Obama policies are based on the idea that he wants us to follow the Europeans down their path.
As one wag put it: Substitute Illinois for Cyprus, California for Italy and US for the Euro Zone and the narrative is basically the same.
Call them socialists, call them State redistributionists, call them what you will – but whatever you call them, they control the policies in Europe and here in the USA. They are running massive debt-accumulating machines of government. Their policies drain wealth, instead of creating wealth, and so they grab existing wealth to funnel into the machine. And they are running out of sources of wealth, and *MUST* find new sources of wealth.
Bank deposits in Cyprus lead inevitably to your 401K accounts here in the USA. That is why the test trigger of Cyprus is so important. It leads to Italy and Spain and the rest of the PIIGS, and then to the USA, whose debt monstrosity will be earth-shattering once attempts to paper it over finally fail, in a few more years.
They will come for your money. Prepare to resist.
I forgot to add, in commentary on Cyprus today, I saw a new phrase: “solidarity tax”.
This phrase is meant to cover all attempts by the government to confiscate citizen wealth to pay for the schemes of government that have created the debt crises.
After all, as Obama has said repeatedly: “We are all in this TOGETHER.”
And, “We are only ASKING that you pay YOUR FAIR SHARE. It’s only fair.”
So… be on the lookout for “solidarity tax”, and “solidarity fee” as a patriotic appeal to force you to shut your damn mouth and be silent while they steal your wealth to keep their schemes going. As I said, they will come for your money. But they will also try to silence you by damning your inevitable protests with preventive propaganda first.
My husband and I made it out to our first concert since having kids last night: a favorite voice of ours, Andrew McMahon, formerly lead singer of Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin, now touring under his own name. It’s music that always puts the California vacation bug in my system. I was very glad he performed one of my favorites, Swim. Well worth a listen.
http://youtu.be/sA8PaIw5gcE
Oh holy God, we bless thy name, today, especially, for thy gift of arthroscopic surgery, and for the healing of our dear sister. Amen
Thank you, Michael Adams. I appreciate that.
Mike – Cyprus is a banking satelite of Russia. It seems, from what I’ve read, that 50% of the deposits are from the Russians who bank in Cyprus to avoid the Russian tax code (whatever that implies – didn’t know they had any codes). Russia bailed out the Cypriot banks a couple of years ago and “surprise surprise” the banks are still short. Under pressure from Germany, EU, IMF and without discussing the tax with Putin – the sh*t hit the fan. What makes this entire scenario more interesting is that Francine Legarde’s home was raided by French authorities this week.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21858531
The question on everyone’s lips is, “Who came up with this idea and why” and the first thought that came to mind – it’s a trial-run to gauge the reaction of depositors.
If the rant (NSFW) from this British cabbie driver is any indication ..Great Effin’ Rant of the Week So Far: “If they can take the money from Cyprus, they can do it anywhere – do you get that in your nut?”
Mike, be sure to read “All Roads leads to Cypress”
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/
Yes, Sadie, SultanKnish nails it! That was written so well. So many wonderfully expressed phrases/sentences/paragraphs. It’s Mark-Steyn caliber material. I urge everyone to read it.
The better link to use for that particular blog entry is:
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/03/all-roads-lead-to-cyprus.html
Speaking of Steyn … have you read this. It hit home for me. My Nana lived in Alexandria during WWI and remember her reminiscing about her youth one day. “I could sit on the beach and hear a dozen different languages…” Her mother died in Alexandria. In those days, it didn’t take much to kill you in a world without antibiotics. Almost a 100 years after the death of Nana’s mother … the absence of an antibiotic to Islam the death rate reaches out beyond the shores of Alexandria.
Ghost Cities :: SteynOnline
http://www.steynonline.com/5430/ghost-ci…
I see that in the House, the GOP budget came up for a vote, and the majority of Republicans voted against their own GOP-presented budget plan, presented by Paul Ryan. Why would you create – and offer to vote on – a budget that the majority of members of your own party are going to vote against? Unless someone offers me a convincing counter-argument, I view this as extremely ugly, and a severe blow against either Paul Ryan or John Boehner, or both of them.
(Almost all Democrats, tactically, voted ‘Present’, to force the GOP to pass it entirely on their own, which they did not.)
The fair share of the peasant class to be paid to the ruling class of Obamacans, not Americans, in Obamaca the nation ruled by Obama, shall not go below 50%.
Saw the movies “Outrage” and “Twelve Angry Men” in the past week. Then this morning, came across the Mike Adams article in Townhall.com “Hoosier Daddy” which details some real-life mistakes of the kind found in the two movies:
http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2013/03/18/hoosier-daddy-n1535505/page/full/
As a side light on this, a year ago, I was summoned for juror duty, and in the initial round of juror selection, I was selected. After some questioning by the judge and dismissing some of the selectees, he went into his routine of “after all the evidence is presented and the summations made, then I will finally explain to you the law that is the basis of this case. You must decide the case on what I explain to you and nothing else.” Having just watched the movie Outrage I stuck up my hand and asked the judge “What if I think the law is unjust?” He explained (lectured?) me that that didn’t matter, I could only determine guilt or innocence based on the law as written, and he asked me if I could do that. It seemed reasonable at the moment, so I said I thought I could.
Then I noticed that the prosecutor made a note on my Post-It on her jury sheet. During her opportunity to ask questions of the prospective jurors, she asked me a question related to my question, and seemed satisfied with my answer.
After the lawyers’ questions, the judge dismissed several jurors, and then the lawyers started dismissing jurors. I was dismissed by the prosecutor.
Since then, I’ve thought about the jury vs. an unjust law occasionally. One of the first things that occurred to me is that everyone from the person filing the charges to the Supreme Court can dismiss (not acquit) the defendant, everyone except the jury, because they think there is something wrong with the law. The only thing the jury is allowed to do is say that the defendant did not break the unjust law as written.
One thing I’ve decided from all this is that I will judge the defendant not guilty if I think the law or the justice system is guilty of being unjust in God’s view/law. I will not be breaking the oath the judge requires, because an unjust law is not a valid law, and can not be sworn to (so help me God).
Examples of an unjust justice system:
http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2013/03/25/jailed-for-nonpayment-of-child-support–but-its-not-his-child-n1548325/page/full/
Whether democracy is ruled by the lawyers or by the political class, it’s merely a good natured way to convince people that they get a say. When in fact, they get no such thing.