One out of every Five households is now dependent on Food Stamps in order to eat.
“The USDA says that there were 23,052,388 households on food stamps in the average month of fiscal 2013, an increase of 722,675 from fiscal year 2012, when there were 22,329,713 households on food stamps in the average month.
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“In 2013, according to the Census Bureau, there were 115,013,000 households, which means the that the households on food stamps—23,052,388 households—equaled 20.0% of all households. “
The “superiority” of socialized healthcare has yet again been shown in that paragon of socialism Sweden, where the public socialized healthcare is so wondereful, Swedes are going out of their way to secure private health insurance.
Why?
Because getting a life saving operation within weeks thanks to private insurance is better than having to wait a year under socialized healthcare.
The media is obsessed with declaring that Republicans are waging a war on women, while ignoring the many, many, many very real actions of Democrats. This is not to say that all Republicans are angels, but that by and large the stereotype of Republicans wanting to keep women barefoot and pregnant is hogwash. When the media can’t find a real example of a Republican being truly anti-woman (i.e. the vast majority of the time), they simply distort the truth or just out right lie and invent their own false narrative.
A perfect example of this is the recent brouhaha over a speech that former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee gave. Let it be known that your humble author is not a supporter of Huckabee, and in actuality does not care for him. There is plenty to be said against him, but nonetheless, when the media distorts what he said and unfairly attacks him, one must stand up for the truth.
Huckabee accused the Democrats of denigrating women and their political interest as being of a base sexual nature, and further of considering them incompetent to the point where they need “Uncle Sugar” (AKA the government) to subsidize a hyperactive sex life. This is a despicable view, and Huckabee condemns it. His exact words were:
“I think it’s time for Republicans to no longer accept listening to Democrats talk about a ‘War on Women.’ Because the fact is, the Republicans don’t have a war on women. They have a war for women – for them to be empowered, to be something other than victims of their gender.
“Women I know are outraged that Democrats think that women are nothing more than helpless and hopeless creatures whose only goal in life is to have a government provide for their birth control medication. Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything anyone else can do.
“Our party stands for the recognition of the equality of women and the capacity of women. That’s not a war on them, it’s a war for them. And if the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control, because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of government, then so be it. Let’s take that discussion all across America, because women are far more than Democrats have made them to be. And women across America have to stand up and say, ‘Enough of that nonsense.'”
Yet the rabid Leftist media claimed that those were his thoughts, and that he was being “anti-woman” for pointing out that that is how the Democrats think, and that such sentiments are wrong! The constant denouncement can even sweep up otherwise sober minded individuals.
Is his claim a fair one? The “Life of Julia” is an explicit example of the Democrats believing that a woman needs the government to act as a “sugar daddy.” Does the Obamacare add seen below support Huckabees accusation?
Clearly, Huckabee was dead-on accurate about his accusation. But the truth never stopped the lying lap dog media from distorting the truth and declaring that denouncing misogyny is itself misogyny, or that war is peace, or hate is love.
Yet another victim of the Global Warming that the “super-cereal” climate scientists have warned about has been found: A fox frozen in a Scandinavian lake.
This poor victim of Global Warming follows the discover of an Elk similarly frozen, as well as an entire school of fish frozen in mid-swim!
If only we had listened to Al Gore and Michael Mann…
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News of the Week for January 26th, 2014
Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has declared that the paragon of ecological stewardship is none other than Communist China, because “China is also able to implement policies because its political system avoids some of the legislative hurdles seen in countries including the U.S.” Communist China, of course, is rather typical when it comes to communist regimes’ environmental records…
Pictured: What Makes Environmentalists Proud
Some examples of their environmental success:
Each Friday for the next few months, an episode of Milton Friedman’s ten-part Free to Choose will be posted.
The third episode: Anatomy of a Crisis
“Once the government approves something, it’s no longer immoral!”
— Rev. Lovejoy, “The Simpsons”
The law has a normative value. The only question is whether the law is to be used to impose a moral order, or simply reflect the reality of the extant moral order? To paraphrase Mark Twain, in America we had the freedom to do what we wanted, but the wisdom to choose correctly. It is a rare thing, and one which is quickly dissipating into history. Freedom without any limits is not freedom, but a prelude to chaos.
We all need limits. It used to be that those limits were taught to us as children. For when that failed, society would serve as a check on bad behavior. Government was only rarely necessary. Now-a-days, people increasingly have no internal limits, and society is increasingly validating it. Regardless of whether the government acts as a limiter or not, liberty will be lost.
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
—The Coda
The only taboo now-a-days seems to be to hold taboos. The “if it’s good it should be legal; if it is bad is should not” dichotomy is an old one. To a large extent our society has been able to avoid that because social pressures and self-restraint of individuals, resulting in the government having a relatively limited reach — society regulated itself.
The Left is using “do as thou wilt” as an excuse to destroy social values and replace it with their own. The ides of restraint, even self-restraint, are thrown away and the only restriction is to abolish the idea that there ought to be restrictions of any sort. The hypocrisy of this is manifest: You can think and do whatever you want, just as long as it is consistent with doing and thinking whatever it is they want. Such ideology is unlibertarian and anti-liberty, becoming then a statist, and anti-freedom tool.
Is the problem with society due to men being men, and boys aspiring to that? According to feminist activists, that answer is YES, and that “masculinity” is nothing more than the most cartoonish parody of caveman masculinity.
Feminist activist Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s documentary “The Mask You Live In” makes this point:
“From the earliest age, they are told to ‘Be a man!’ ‘Don’t cry!’ ‘Stop with the emotion!’ and ‘Man up!’ This ‘guy code’ suppresses their humanity, excites their drive for dominance and renders many of them dangerous. The trailer features adolescent men describing their isolation, despair and thoughts of suicide, artfully interspersed with terrifying images of school shooters and mass murderers.”
In other words, maleness is considered a pathology and a deviation from the gyno-normative reality where girls are normal and boys are just imperfect girls with dangly bits.
News of the Week for January 19th, 2014
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