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It takes courage to be the guy with the flower in front of the tank in Tianamen Square.  Rick Santelli is sure to hear about this wonderful rant in some material way or another.  Today he was the american spirit incarnate.

Got to love the Rickster !   I got Rickettes.  You should get Rickettes too.

Larry Kudlow is pretty cool too. 

WhiteHouse press secretary said of Santelli:   "I do not know where he lives, I do not know where his house is" …which in the case of the thug currently in the Whitehouse is clearly a veiled threat."    Obama is not a class act human like George Bush.

Full arty here:  Centers Tap Into Personal Databases Intelligence centers run by states across the country have access to personal information about millions of Americans, including unlisted cellphone numbers, insurance claims, driver’s license photographs and credit reports, according to a document obtained by Washington Post. One center also has access to top-secret data systems at the cia, the document shows, though it’s not clear what information those systems contain. Dozens of the organizations known as fusion centers were created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to identify potential threats and improve the way information is shared. The centers use law enforcement analysts and sophisticated computer systems to compile, or fuse, disparate tips and clues and pass along the refined information to other agencies. They are expected to play important roles in national information-sharing networks that link local, state and federal authorities and enable them to automatically sift their storehouses of records for patterns and clues.

If you think this is just Mr Phelps for now that might be true.  But sooner or later some politician, most likely a democrat is going to pHelp themselves to your data.  The purpose will of course be purported to be anti-terrorism but when they find nothing they will stamp you a tax cheat and send you a bill and maybe to prison.  You know it will happen. They simply can’t pHelp themselves.  Ah America.  It was such a paradise of freedom before the politicians pHelped us to death.  There are so many places that are socialist. Can’t we have one country on Earth where we let high acheivers make good and keep the proceeds? Must we rob everyone by pHelping ourselves to the fruits of their labor?    pHelp yourself, do not rely on the govCheese.

A living wage….Keep walking towards the mirage but you never quite get there.   It just distorts the market and results in the price of the items bought by the people getting the minimum wage to go up till the natural equilibrium is met and they are in the exact same situation as before the minimum wage increase.  In the mean time the transient effect is to cause employers to be able to employ less people.  You want to make thinks better for the person on the bottom?  There are two methods.  1)  Get off the top, give YOUR money away.  In other words put yourself on the bottom.  Oh you poor libs you deceive yourself so well.  Yes that is what it takes unless you want to do method number two.    2) Embrace capitalism! 

 Of course when Dem’s or limp wristed republicans ( I am being redundant here and saying things over again ) raise the minimum wage what they are NOT elevating the person on the bottom.   What they are doing is elevating themselves.  More power to ya ! ( said sarcastically )  Its just a power grab.  Its all it ever seems to be in Washington.

 A while back I was thinking about buying a mountain bike.   The one I was  looking at cost 2000 dollars.  I thought to myself that is an awful lot of money for a bike.  Maybe I should give the money to charity instead.  But then the bike maker would be out of business.  The charity of choice would be thus titled “Poor out of work BikeMaker Fund”.  Mmmmm…..I decided to cut the useless greedy do-gooder charity middle man out and buy directly from the bike makers.