Pelosi the Pinhead Totalitarian

Robert remembered it, and Jack found it....and you'd better read this quote....'cause this woman is in charge of writing legislation that affects your life.

In answering a question from a student about how Pelosi was going to get Americans to cut back on their carbon emissions, the leading Democratic lawmaker said it was important to educate children on how to conserve energy and for citizens to build more environmentally friendly homes.

"We have so much room for improvement," she said. "Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory ... of how we are taking responsibility."

Do you suppose she meant a private, personal, individual, spiritual, moral "inventory"....or given her record, do you suppose she means that the government must make an inventory of all of our lives to determine if we are "improving" and "taking responsibility" in ways of which the Imperial State approves?

Not much doubt, is there?

wtp

Here's the source...Nancy Pelosi's own website. Apparently bragging about this opinion.

California to Withhold a Bigger Chunk of Paychecks!

Yes...the geniuses who run the State have a brilliant idea:

Starting Sunday, cash-strapped California will dig deeper into the pocketbooks of wage earners -- holding back 10% more than it already does in state income taxes just as the biggest shopping season of the year kicks into gear.

Technically, it's not a tax increase, even though it may feel like one when your next paycheck arrives. As part of a bundle of budget patches adopted in the summer, the state is taking more money now in withholding, even though workers' annual tax bills won't change.

Think of it as a forced, interest-free loan: You'll be repaid any extra withholding in April. Those who would receive a refund anyway will receive a larger one, and those who owe taxes will owe less. 

However, there is a way to avoid it:

Savvy taxpayers can get around the state's maneuver by increasing the number of personal withholding allowances they claim on their employer tax forms, said Brenda Voet, a spokeswoman for the state's Franchise Tax Board.

"People can get out of this," she said, noting that most people would have to change their allowances through their employers. California's budget leaders are banking on the hope that most won't.

Probably, most won't do it, however...and it's going to impact businesses just when they need all the help they can get.

The increase is coming at a bad time for store owners, many of whom depend on the holiday shopping season to keep their businesses alive.

"I don't think there's any question it's going to impact consumers' spending," said Bill Dombrowski, president of the California Retailers Assn. "Any time you reduce people's disposable income, there's going to be a negative effect on the retail sector."

Who says Democrats and RINOs hate business, prosperity, capitalism, and the middle class?? Who says gubmint is full of pinheads? Who says bureaucrats don't understand the free market, and will cut off their children's fingers before they'll cut spending someone else's money?

Whoever says it is a wise observer of the state of the State of California and the morons who run it.

wtp

Guest Author - Robert L.

Background for this article is:

1) The book Architects of Ruin which documents the current economic disaster is the result of left-wing, anti-capitalism politics, rather than a conspiracy between big business and Republicans; (not that I am always favorably disposed towards Republicans); and

2) An professional colleague that I know who has been out of work for a while is taking a temporary job in retail sales.

The message is: this economy is failing us. And it is failing us precisely because left-wing politics have perverted the process in our country, substituting guilt mongering and race hustling. Their effect has been to DESTROY large amounts of wealth and promote economic devastation. Large numbers of people, including my colleague, are out of work as a direct result of the machinations of the collectivist, anti-freedom left.

In the last 15 years the S & P 500 has barely doubled. That works out to a rate of return of less than 5% per year. That's pretty bad. Recall two economic crashes have ravaged the economy since then, the dot-com fiasco of 2000 thru 2003 - the so-call Bush recession which he ended with tax cuts and growth incentives - and the current disaster, caused by ACORN, Barney Frank and other lefties who forced banks to make loans they never should have made, destroying trillions of dollars of wealth.

ACORN should be run out of our community and our politics not just because individual ACORN offices were caught facilitating tax evasion and trafficking in underage girls for immoral purposes (and then lied repeatedly about it), but rather for forcing banks and other financial institutions to lend money to poor people who lacked the resources to repay the loans. This phony "investment in the community" served to boost housing prices to unsustainable levels. And starting some 18 months ago, banks found too many of their "assets" (a loan is an asset to a bank) weren't worth a bucket of warm spit.

We need to condemn Pelosi, Reid, and, yes, Obama not because they are left-wing extremists (they are), but because they are WRONG FOR THIS COUNTRY. To me the debate has become right vs wrong. Not Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck vs Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews. The coercive collectivism of the Pelosi / Waxman / Boxer crowd is driving this country to economic ruin. The SJ Mercury News recently hounded the US Chamber of Commerce for refusing to buy into this Global Warming farce, and actively opposing Cap-n-Trade. What is wrong with them? Are they not aware of the record unemployment around here? Do they really think Cap-n-Trade will help?

by Robert L.

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The opinions expressed above are those of the author, 

and do not necessarily reflect the views of all members of 

The Peninsula 9.12 Project

So....you think you might like guns?

From our 2A Committee Chairman: Here are some websites for the NRA, that you can check out for info. Open Letter to Sportsmen http://www.calnra.com/caspecial/openletter.shtml  Firearms Attorney http://www.tmllp.com Life/Death Clock http://www.calnra.com/lifeclock/ Ammo Guide http://www.ammoguide.com Gun Law Info http://www.calgunlaws.com NRA News http://www.nranews.com/nranews.aspx These would be some useful sites to educate 9-12 Members. (If you would like to join the NRA, please contact Rob.) wtp

Guest Author - Rob Heagy, Jr.

The Deception of Perception

Chapter I -- It Is A Republic Not A Democracy

Our Founding Fathers gave us a Constitutional Republic and guaranteed that all states would have a Republican Form of Government. Please do not confuse a Constitutional Republic with the Republican Party; nor should you confuse a Democracy with the Democratic Party. Let us define a Republic, so there will be no confusion. We shall also define a Democracy.

America’s Founding Fathers modeled their new government on the Roman Republic, based on set laws and not by public whim. They knew that in order to have a stable government it must have fixed laws with the ability to modify them as the country grew; but the Constitution must remain solid and strong. The Constitution would put limits on the Government and grant rights to the people. The Constitution divided the government into 3 branches Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. We all recognize these from our civics class in high school. I am sorry some of you didn’t feel that staying awake or learning civics was important. Well you should have listened and studied harder, because today we have a Republic/Democracy and we are drifting further left into an Oligarchy.

We're ALL Mad Here!

Jon Coupal writes on Howard Jaravis Taxpayers Association website:

Voters knew exactly what they were doing when they approved term limits. They wanted to put an end to having an imperial state government dominated for decades by the same handful of legislative leaders who had been elected by a fraction of California voters. They wanted to change a system in which the status of its leaders more closely resembled a monarchy than a representative democracy.

...More unsettling is the disdain for the voters' judgment shown by our sitting California Chief Justice Ron George. Recently, George traveled to Massachusetts to tell the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that the initiative process is responsible for California's "dysfunctional state government." He warned of the "dangers of direct democracy" and said "California's lawmakers, and the state itself, have been placed in a fiscal straitjacket by a steep two-thirds vote imposed at the ballot box for raising taxes."

Read the rest HERE.

hat tip/Carole Robinson

R.I.P.

Out friend Bob L. is gloating a little at the fix the newspapers find themselves in.

Darwin wins again. The "un-fittest" are not surviving.

Let's just hope we can deter the Messiah from bailing them out...to "save journalism"....

wtp