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		<title>It&#8217;s Racist To Kill A Black Zombie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Resident Evil 5&#8243; is the latest in a series of video games, and an upcoming movie, about diseased undead zombies roaming the planet and eating people. This media franchise debuted in 1996, but now that this franchise has earned untold millions of dollars, the Moochers and Crybabies are starting to claim that the game is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Resident Evil 5&#8243; is the latest in a series of video games, and an upcoming movie, about diseased undead zombies roaming the planet and eating people. This media franchise debuted in 1996, but now that this franchise has earned untold millions of dollars, the Moochers and Crybabies are starting to claim that the game is racist, has problems with cultural sensitivity, and has &#8220;<a href="http://www.ifc.com/news/2010/08/after-resident-evil-5-controve.php">imagery used to perpetuate stereotypes and ignorance about black people</a>.&#8221; </p>
<p>Huh? </p>
<p>The object of the game is to kill the zombies before they eat your brains, zombies of any color and nationality. If you shoot a black zombie in a video game you&#8217;re now branded as a racist, but killing white zombies is OK? Is killing an Asian zombie only acceptable if the player doing so is not white? </p>
<p>WTF is happening with people? How are mothers giving birth to so many brain-dead panty-wearing wimps as children? I&#8217;m actually looking forward to a real Zombie Apocalypse as all the Crybabies will be the first ones to perish.
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<p><small><img src="http://www.commonfolkusingcommonsense.com/pics/technorati.gif" border=0 width=11 height=10> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Resident+Evil" rel="tag">Resident Evil</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/zombie" rel="tag">zombie</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Zombie+Apocalypse" rel="tag">Zombie Apocalypse</a></small></p><!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Spread The Word:</em><br /><a class="social_img" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'scrollbars=yes,menubar=no,border=0,height=600,width=750,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no'); return false;" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.commonfolkusingcommonsense.com/2010/08/31/its-racist-to-kill-a-black-zombie/&amp;title=It%26%238217%3Bs+Racist+To+Kill+A+Black+Zombie" title="Add: 'It&#8217;s Racist To Kill A Black Zombie' To: Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.commonfolkusingcommonsense.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add: 'It&#8217;s Racist To Kill A Black Zombie' To: Del.icio.us" alt="Add: 'It&#8217;s Racist To Kill A Black Zombie' To: Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'scrollbars=yes,menubar=no,border=0,height=600,width=750,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no'); 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		<title>You&#8217;re On Your Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shamalama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via USA Today: Budget cuts are forcing police around the country to stop responding to fraud, burglary and theft calls as officers focus limited resources on violent crime. &#8220;If you come home to find your house burglarized and you call, we&#8217;re not coming,&#8221; said Oakland Police spokeswoman Holly Joshi. Wow, the news coming from our [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Via <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-08-25-1Anresponsecops25_ST_N.htm">USA Today</a>:</p>
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Budget cuts are forcing police around the country to stop responding to fraud, burglary and theft calls as officers focus limited resources on violent crime. &#8220;If you come home to find your house burglarized and you call, we&#8217;re not coming,&#8221; said Oakland Police spokeswoman Holly Joshi. Wow, the news coming from our government just keeps getting better and better.
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<p>Just damn.</p>
<p>Sort of like EMS not coming to your house until BOTH your lungs and heart stop. Or the fire department not coming until both your kitchen AND living room are on fire. </p>
<p>The government will use this crisis to force us into higher taxes. What happened to the $800 billion Obama took from us in 2009, where did all that money go? </p>
<p>This should be a lesson to all that none of us can depend on the government for hardly anything, therefore quit looking to them for answers and become self-reliant ourselves.</p>
<p>Oh, and to those that might assume the cops in my town won&#8217;t respond if you attempt burglary and theft on my house, I have several firearms in various calibers always loaded and ready.  I&#8217;ll call 911 after I empty the magazine.</p>
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		<title>NASA: National Aeronautics and Muslim-friendly Administration</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via FOX News: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his &#8220;foremost&#8221; mission as the head of America&#8217;s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA&#8217;s orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Via <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/nasa-chief-frontier-better-relations-muslims/">FOX News</a>:</p>
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his &#8220;foremost&#8221; mission as the head of America&#8217;s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. </p>
<p>Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA&#8217;s orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel. </p>
<p>&#8220;When I became the NASA administrator &#8212; or before I became the NASA administrator &#8212; he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science &#8230; and math and engineering,&#8221; Bolden said in the interview.
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<p>WTF?</p>
<p>NASA, an American hallmark of science and logic, of both theoretical and applied science, now has a Primary Mission of getting all touchy-feely with Muslims in other countries?  Is NASA now a part of the State Department?</p>
<p>What about the women astronauts? Won’t the Muslims find this really upsetting?  Can you just imagine Engineer Muhummad Akbar having to take orders from Mission Commander Sally Smith?</p>
<p>And why is the boss of NASA doing interviews with Al Jazeera, the mouthpiece of radical Islam?</p>
<p>Bolden described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a part.  Must be a part?  You mean we cannot hope to engage in space travel without a Muslim sitting at the controls?</p>
<p>And please don&#8217;t forget, Mr. Bolden spends his days spending taxpayer money, money taken out of your wallet, and now he wants use your money to get all huggy-kissy with Muslims outside of this country.</p>
<p>More from <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/06/nasa-official-walks-claim-muslim-outreach-foremost-mission/">FOX News</a>:</p>
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The former head of NASA on Tuesday described as &#8220;deeply flawed&#8221; the idea that the space exploration agency&#8217;s priority should be outreach to Muslim countries, after current Administrator Charles Bolden made that assertion in an interview last month. </p>
<p>&#8220;NASA &#8230; represents the best of America. Its purpose is not to inspire Muslims or any other cultural entity,&#8221; Michael Griffin, who served as NASA administrator during the latter half of the Bush administration, told FoxNews.com.
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<p>&#8220;deeply flawed&#8221;?  Ya think?</p>
<p>&#8220;The Muslims said that if we give them all of our secret technology, then they will like us. YAY!! Thanks Mr. Obama.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>McDonald&#8217;s faces lawsuit over Happy Meals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shamalama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A watchdog group says giving away toys with Happy Meals contributes to childhood obesity and threatens to sue. Because getting a plastic Shrek toy forces you, and your parents, to stuff your face with 500 fat calories. Are Americans to dumb or wimpy to continue as a civilization? Spread The Word:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0623-happy-meals-20100623,0,4821950.story?track=rss">A watchdog group says</a> giving away toys with Happy Meals contributes to childhood obesity and threatens to sue. Because getting a plastic Shrek toy forces you, and your parents, to stuff your face with 500 fat calories. </p>
<p>Are Americans to dumb or wimpy to continue as a civilization?</p>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Hurt My Feelings, You Brute.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shamalama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the National Post (Canada): In yet another nod to the protection of fledgling self-esteem, an Ottawa children’s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more than five points will lose by default. Kevin Cappon said he first heard about the rule on May 20 — right [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/06/01/win-a-soccer-game-by-more-than-five-points-and-you-lose-ottawa-league-says/?preview=true&#038;preview_id=7652&#038;preview_nonce=e6fa056a34">National Post</a> (Canada):</p>
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In yet another nod to the protection of fledgling self-esteem, an Ottawa children’s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more than five points will lose by default.</p>
<p>Kevin Cappon said he first heard about the rule on May 20 — right after he had scored his team’s last allowable goal. His team then tossed the ball around for fear of losing the game.</p>
<p>He said if anything, the league’s new rule will coddle sore losers.
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<p>And once these gentle snowflakes reach adulthood maybe we should also guarantee everyone lives in the same size house, and drives the same model car, and earns the same income.</p>
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		<title>Mayor Bloomberg Said What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 05:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shamalama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found at the Oneida Dispatch via SayUncle: Let me get this straight. A terrorist bought a car off of Craigslist, fireworks in Pennsylvania, and inflammable fertilizer, parked his dud-car-bomb in Times Square, got onto an international flight, and was only caught at the last minute as the plane was taxing to the runway. Mayor Bloomberg’s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Found at the <a href="http://www.oneidadispatch.com/articles/2010/05/10/opinion/doc4be89c7ab3762137317169.txt">Oneida Dispatch</a> via <a href="http://www.saysuncle.com/2010/05/12/quote-of-the-day-176/">SayUncle</a>:</p>
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Let me get this straight. A terrorist bought a car off of Craigslist, fireworks in Pennsylvania, and inflammable fertilizer, parked his dud-car-bomb in Times Square, got onto an international flight, and was only caught at the last minute as the plane was taxing to the runway. Mayor Bloomberg’s solution to this is to call for stricter gun-control laws?
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		<title>Third Grade Girl Gets Detention For Possessing Candy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 13:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shamalama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via KHOU-TV: A third-grader at Brazos Elementary was given a week’s detention for possessing a Jolly Rancher. School officials in Brazos County are defending the seemingly harsh sentence. The school’s principal and superintendent said they were simply complying with a state law that limits junk food in schools. Just damn. This action by the school [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Via <a href="http://www.khou.com/news/Candy-Gets-Third-Grader-A-Weeks-Detention-93033319.html">KHOU-TV</a>:</p>
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A third-grader at Brazos Elementary was given a week’s detention for possessing a Jolly Rancher.</p>
<p>School officials in Brazos County are defending the seemingly harsh sentence. The school’s principal and superintendent said they were simply complying with a state law that limits junk food in schools.
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<p>Just damn.</p>
<p>This action by the school has absolutely nothing to do with their rules, or the state&#8217;s rules, or the apparent banning of &#8220;minimal nutrition&#8221; foods at school, or some notion of healthy eating.</p>
<p>The real reason the school game the little girl detention is that if it doesn&#8217;t adhere to the state&#8217;s guidelines, it could put federal funding in jeopardy.  Yep, taxpayer money.</p>
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		<title>When You Ask For More Government &#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found at the UK Daily Mail: Her offence was to unwittingly sell a goldfish to a 14-year-old boy taking part in a trading standards &#8216;sting&#8217;. At most, pet shop owner Joan Higgins, 66, expected a slap on the wrist for breaking new animal welfare laws which ban the sale of pets to under-16s. Instead, the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Found at the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1262250/Great-grandmother-tagged-selling-goldfish.html">UK Daily Mail</a>:</p>
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Her offence was to unwittingly sell a goldfish to a 14-year-old boy taking part in a trading standards &#8216;sting&#8217;.</p>
<p>At most, pet shop owner Joan Higgins, 66, expected a slap on the wrist for breaking new animal welfare laws which ban the sale of pets to under-16s.</p>
<p>Instead, the great-grandmother was taken to court, fined £1,000 ($1,350 USD), placed under curfew &#8211; and ordered to wear an electronic tag for two months.</p>
<p>The punishment is normally handed out to violent thugs and repeat offenders. </p>
<p>The prosecution of Mrs Higgins and her son Mark is estimated to have cost taxpayers £20,000 ($27,000 USD) and has left her with a criminal record.</p>
<p>Mark, 47, was also fined and ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work in the community.</p>
<p>Last night, as an MP criticised the magistrates, Mrs Higgins &#8211; who has run the pet shop for 28 years &#8211; said the family&#8217;s eight-month ordeal had left them traumatised.</p>
<p>She added: &#8216;It&#8217;s ridiculous. I mean, what danger am I that I have to wear an electronic tag? These last few months have been a very stressful time.&#8217;</p>
<p>The seven-week curfew imposed by the court means she is unable to babysit her great-grandson at his home or go to bingo sessions with her sister, and will be unable to attend a Rod Stewart concert after tickets were bought for her by her nephew, actor Will Mellor.</p>
<p>Under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 it is illegal to sell pets &#8211; including goldfish &#8211; to children under the age of 16 unless they are accompanied by an adult. Pet shops must also provide advice on animal welfare to buyers.</p>
<p>David Davies, Tory MP for Monmouth, said: &#8216;You simply couldn&#8217;t make it up. It is absolutely ludicrous that old ladies should be hounded through the courts and electronically tagged for something like this.</p>
<p>&#8216;At a time when courts are being told not to lock up career burglars we have them issuing severe punishments like this on little old ladies.&#8217; Mr Davies, who has served as a special constable for three years, said: &#8216;Not only is it traumatic for her but it is a complete waste of time and taxpayers&#8217; money. It is ridiculous.</p>
<p>The goldfish was later adopted by an animal welfare officer and is in good health.
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		<title>We Beg For A Nanny State</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shamalama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via FOX News: When 4-year-old Eric Stavros Adler choked to death on a piece of hot dog, his anguished mother never dreamed that the popular kids&#8217; food could be so dangerous. Some food makers including Oscar Mayer have warning labels about choking, but not nearly enough, says Joan Stavros Adler, Eric&#8217;s mom. The American Academy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Via <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587098,00.html">FOX News</a>:</p>
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When 4-year-old Eric Stavros Adler choked to death on a piece of hot dog, his anguished mother never dreamed that the popular kids&#8217; food could be so dangerous.</p>
<p>Some food makers including Oscar Mayer have warning labels about choking, but not nearly enough, says Joan Stavros Adler, Eric&#8217;s mom.</p>
<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics agrees. The nation&#8217;s largest pediatricians group is calling for sweeping changes in the way food is designed and labeled to minimize children&#8217;s chances for choking.
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<p>So these parents are wanting a label on a pack of hot dogs that something to the effect of &#8220;if you eat too large of a bit of this hot dog you can choke&#8221;.  You have got to be kidding me.</p>
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Doctors say high-risk foods, including hot dogs, raw carrots, grapes and apples &#8212; should be cut into pea-sized pieces for small children to reduce chances of choking. Some say other risky foods, including hard candies, popcorn, peanuts and marshmallows, shouldn&#8217;t be given to young children at all.</p>
<p>Federal law requires choking warning labels on certain toys including small balls, balloons and games with small parts. Unless food makers voluntarily put more warning labels on high-risk foods, there should be a similar mandate for food, the pediatrics academy says.
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<p>So if the hot dogs come packaged in sizes larger than pea-sized pieces then these people are asking the federal government to require choking warning labels?  Maybe someone from the federal government should come to these people&#8217;s homes and partially chew the food as well?</p>
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Choking kills more than 100 U.S. children 14 years or younger each year and thousands more &#8212; 15,000 in 2001 &#8212; are treated in emergency rooms. Food, including candy and gum, is among the leading culprits, along with items like coins and balloons. Of the 141 choking deaths in kids in 2006, 61 were food-related.
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<p>There are just about as many kids that drown every year in the bathtub.  Maybe we ought to demand labels on bathtubs that say &#8220;be careful, you might drown&#8221;.</p>
<p>Far more kids die from congenital anomalies than from choking on food.  Maybe the federal government should step in and make biological parents illegal.</p>
<p>Six times the number mentioned above are the number of child deaths from an automobile.  Wow, we should make all private automobiles completely illegal &#8211; think of the lives saved.</p>
<p>Obama-Reid-Pelosi and their Socialist Mob aren&#8217;t destroying this country.  It&#8217;s being destroyed by the spine-less citizenry.</p>
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		<title>ObamaCare Down My Throat</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Politico: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) concedes that Republican senators won’t be able to stop Democratic health care reform legislation from passing the Senate before Christmas. “We will fight until the last vote,” McCain told &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; host Chris Wallace. “We owe that to our constituents, because we must do everything – we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/1209/McCain_GOP_cant_stop_health_care.html">The Politico</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) concedes that Republican senators won’t be able to stop Democratic health care reform legislation from passing the Senate before Christmas.</p>
<p>“We will fight until the last vote,” McCain told &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; host Chris Wallace. “We owe that to our constituents, because we must do everything – we must look back and say we did everything to prevent this terrible mistake from taking place.”</p>
<p>Democrats recently reached a deal with hold out members of their own caucus to cobble together the 60 votes necessary to pass the bill &#8211; and McCain, in response to a Wallace question, said there’s “probably not” anything the GOP can do to block the bill. “But what we can do is continue winning the battle of American public opinion.”
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<p>No, there&#8217;s nothing McCain or the majority of Americans who don&#8217;t want this bill can do. Obama, Reid, Pelosi and the other Socialists want the government to control your health care and the rest be damned if we don&#8217;t like it. They wrote it behind closed doors, even though Obama promised complete transparency, and did what they wanted to do. They used taxpayer money to buy the Senator&#8217;s votes they needed.</p>
<p>Bend over, grab your ankles, and take it like a cracked-out whore.  After they&#8217;re through with you, you won&#8217;t even need any Vaseline.</p>
<p>The only saving grace is that 2010 is not far off and We The People &#8230; assuming there are any of us left &#8230; will not forget what just happened.</p>
<p>Maybe now is the time for a grassroots movement to kick every incumbent out of office and insure their replacements don&#8217;t serve more than two terms.  The Democrats are nothing more than European-styled Socialists, and the Republicans cut their nuts and spine out when they take their oath of office.  Both are equally dangerous to the spirit of the Constitution.</p>
<p>Thomas Jefferson, a man with more strength and courage in his left testicle than the entire Republican Party, once advised, &#8220;The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.&#8221;  Maybe Mr. Jefferson was thinking of a day like today when the federal government prepares to take over 30% of the nation&#8217;s economy and 50% of its citizen&#8217;s lives.</p>
<p>Health is a product, not a right.  Which one of us allowed the definition to be changed so radically?  The Constitution does not grant authority to the federal government to force citizens to purchase a product, health insurance for example, to stay a legal citizen.  I call on those who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution to squash these freedom stealing thugs and remove them from power.  If the elected officials either cannot, or will not, then it&#8217;s up to the citizens to do just that &#8230; just like we did to King George.  Don&#8217;t be fooled, ObamaCare has absolutely nothing to do with improving the lives of the taxpayers, it has always been about control of the citizens.  Stalin and Hitler did it, for awhile.  Castro has been doing it for many years.  I make the decision whether impotent leaders like McCain or revolutionary leaders like Pelosi attempt to control me.</p>
<p>Let me explain something important here:</p>
<ul>
<li>The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed 47% opposition compared to 32% approval of ObamaCare.</li>
<li>The latest Associated Press poll showed 44% opposition compared to 36% approval of ObamaCare.</li>
<li>The latest Rasmussen poll showed 56% opposition compared to 40% approval of ObamaCare.</li>
<li>The latest Gallup poll showed 48% opposition compared to 46% approval of ObamaCare.</li>
<li>The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll showed 51% opposition compared to 44% approval of ObamaCare.</li>
<li>The latest Pew Research poll showed 48% opposition compared to 35% approval of ObamaCare.</li>
<li>The latest FOX News poll showed 57% opposition compared to 34% approval of ObamaCare.</li>
<li>The latest CNN/Opinion Research poll showed 61% opposition compared to 36% approval of ObamaCare.</li>
<li>The latest Quinnipiac poll showed 52% opposition compared to 38% approval of ObamaCare.</li>
</ul>
<p>Yeah, the &#8220;folks back home&#8221; do not want ObamaCare, and yet the Democrats are shoving this down our throats because &#8220;they know better&#8221; than we do how to run our own lives.  Control, pure and simple.</p>
<p>Once this is passed, folks are going to get angry.  Controlling access to personal firearms will come soon after as our elected leaders start getting scared &#8230; just like the take-over of Russia by Stalin.  Trust me on this, this is only Step One for the imperial federal government; if they can get away with this, then just wait to see what they have in store for us next.</p>
<p>What they are doing is in violation of the Constitution, both the written document and the spirit and ideals of the document.  This is war, a war with a steroid-filled government on one side and the free (for now) citizens on the other side.  </p>
<p>During the American Revolution, the active forces in the field against the King&#8217;s tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists. They were in turn actively supported by perhaps 10% of the population. In addition to these revolutionaries were perhaps another 20% who favored their cause but did little or nothing to support it. Another one-third of the population sided with the King and the final third took no side, blew with the wind and took what came.</p>
<p>Which side will you be on?</p>
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