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Beware the Pumpkin Police

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A post by Maynard

"The power to tax is the power to destroy"
—John Marshall
Chief Justice of the United States, 1801-1835

Tammy mentioned this article about how Iowa applies sales tax to pumpkins but not to food. This silly little news item illustrates a fundamental problem with any taxing authority.

Like it or not, we mostly agree that taxes are a necessary evil. Unless we want to abolish government, then a functioning administration requires money. And, human nature being what it is, that money must be seized from the people by an authority with coercive powers.

Okay, so we're stuck with taxes. Then there arise questions of social engineering, combined with pragmatism and moral considerations. We want to grab taxes from "excess" (whatever that is) funds. We don't want to take the bread out of people's mouths.

A small, but typical, example is this situation in Iowa. Food is exempted from sales tax in order to allow people to purchase life's basic necessities unhindered. Who could argue with that?

But then we're stuck with defining "food". And then we get into grey areas, such as whether a Halloween pumpkin is tax-free "food" or a taxable "ornament". And so, by following this series of reasonable, logical, moral steps, we get to this point of absurd insanity:

The Iowa Department of Revenue decided that pumpkins are used primarily for Halloween decorations, not food, and should be taxed. Previously, they had been considered an edible squash and exempted from the tax. Iowans planning to eat pumpkins can still get an exemption from the sales tax, if they fill out the "Iowa Sales Tax Exemption Certificate" form.

In other words, you are required to file legal paperwork with the government regarding how you intend to use your pumpkin.

Posted by Maynard · November 1, 2007 05:16 PM · Permalink · Comments (3)
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Democrats Descend into Soros Gestapo Sewer

The purely fascist tactic of ritual defamation, condemning dissent, and attempts to silence voices that do not pledge allegiance to the Left, has now consumed local and federal Democrat lawmakers.

In one of the most remarkable and shameless displays of Thought Police tactics, Democrats now carry the water for the Soros Gestapos which exist to squelch public discussion of which they do not approve or does not confirm to their nihilistic leftist agenda.

Make no mistake--this is one of many volleys launched in an effort to revive the necessary and ultimate leftist grab for power--a return of the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which would kill the freedom of market and listener driven talk radio.

San Francisco supervisors condemn Savage

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors today condemned nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Michael Savage, whose program originates in city by the bay, for "hate speech." It was the board's second attempt at a resolution to condemn Savage for his criticism of illegal aliens in the U.S..."This is a dry run against free speech in America by the Islamists and the illegal aliens who are now becoming one and the same," said Savage in August. "It's the same organizational structure. … I am the target of this dry run. They want to see how far they can get in silencing a voice of freedom in the United States of America. They want to see which, if any, governmental agencies will stop them."

"Guess what they learned so far?" he continued. "That not only will no governmental agency stop them in their attempts to kill free speech, they will aid them in their attempts to kill free speech. We have lost our freedoms already.

And this absurdity. Apparently the Democrats in the Senate have nothing better to do than jump into the Thought Police sewer:

Conservative Radio Host Rush Limbaugh in Sights of Antiwar Democrats on Capitol Hill

Democrats took to the Senate floor Monday to demand an apology from Limbaugh for supposedly saying that troops who oppose the Iraq war are "phony soldiers." Limbaugh has vehemently denied a wholesale attack on antiwar servicemen and women.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that Democratic leaders have drafted a letter to Mark Mays, president of Clear Channel, the parent company of Limbaugh's broadcast, calling on the network "to publicly repudiate these comments that call into question ('antiwar soldiers') service and sacrifice, and ask Mr. Limbaugh to apologize for his comments."

Limbaugh said Monday that efforts by Reid and others to condemn him are merely an effort to divert attention from Democratic failures to change the course of the Iraq war. He added that his critics know they are misrepresenting his comments but are charging forward anyway.

"This is not just the anatomy of a smear. There's much more going on with this than just smearing me. There is an attempt, I think, as they have done throughout my career, to discredit me," Limbaugh said on his radio show.

Make no mistake, I am no fan of Savage, and I consider Limbaugh, as many do, a water-carrier for President Bush, but this is obviously wrong on a multitude of levels. On one hand you have government attempting to intimidate public voices into silence because they do not like a political message. Hugo Chavez is engaging in this very activity in Venezuela with the shutting down of televisions stations he does not like to silence their independent message.

Principles and values are simply slogans when applied only when convenient, or to situations with which we agree.

Nihilistic leftists like George Soros and those who run his sewerline Media Matters know their message anti-American message of socialistic hopelessness will never survive in America if we have avenues where the issues can be freely discussed, out from under their dead hand.

This is nothing new, however. My first book, The New Thought Police, illustrated this tactic and warned of the American left's incresing reliance on fascist theory and application.

See the attacks on Savage, O'Reilly and Limbaugh for what they are--frantic fascist efforts to demonize those who cannot be intimidated into silence. It is an effort by a bunch of Malignant Narcissists to shut down open public discourse before the 2008 presidential election.

Do not let it happen. Let your senators and congressional members know you reject this untoward and dirty descent into intimidation and defamation of opinion journalists by government figures. This absurdity must stop.

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Hillary Announces Plans for 'Public Service' Indoctrination School

Hillary has announced she wants to create, with your tax dollars, a 'Public Service' Indoctrination School. Who can blame her? With the leftist takeover of the public school system, from kindergarten through the academy, we are now turning out functionally illiterate, fully indoctrinated little leftists. Half of college graduates may not understand the average newspaper editorial or be able to navigate a street map, but boy, they sure know that America is bad and Republicans are evil.

Hillary now wants that same success rate for 'public servants.' You know, everyone who wants to be in government as staff or even elected to office will have to be 'educated' by one of her government's fully-funded 'schools' of Correct Thought and Progressive Politics. Let's see if this public genuflect to Marxist theory is noticed by anyone else:

Clinton: Create Public Service Academy

Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told college Democrats on Saturday she would create a national academy to train public servants.

"I'm going to be asking a new generation to serve," she said. "I think just like our military academies, we need to give a totally all-paid education to young men and women who will serve their country in a public service position." [...]

An older woman carrying a sign that said "She doesn't care, all she wants is the power" yelled at Clinton while the New York senator was speaking in a ballroom on the University of South Carolina campus. Students attending the College Democrats of America convention shouted down the woman down and pushed her from the room.

It looks like those College Democrats have learned their lesson in "Silencing and Removing Incorrect Thinking Dissenters." Here's to Progressive Feminism in action! We certainly can't have older women speaking their mind, now can we? Especially when it just might expose Hillary Clinton for what she really is.

Posted by Tammy · July 29, 2007 12:18 PM · Permalink · Comments (8)
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Hot Air Posts My O'Reilly Segment

UPDATE: Apparently the Hot Air post is only aportion of the interview. Hutsutraw from the MySpace page has been kind enough to post the entire 5+ minute segment at YouTube, which I have embeddedhere. Thank you Darlene.

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Thanks to Ian at Hot Air for making the video available. I think the subject matter--the ability of Americans to have a legitimately honest media and the freedom to speak one's mind without being targeted for annihilation by the New Gestapo--is of special importance. All of us rely on being able to express opinions and ideas that may contradict the status quo, challenge authority or the ruling class. Inevitably, those actions will offend someone, either through sloppy remarks or ideas being labeled 'offensive' because they confront power at the source.

This renewed attack on talk radio specifically has never been about 'decency' or minorities being 'offended,' it's about one thing--the use of those arguments as slogans in an attempt to get Americans to 'buy in' to the idea that a Gestapo is needed to protect us from ourselves.

Europeans bought that argument in the 30s and 40s. Are we willing to go down that same road? I think not.

Thanks Ian for the coverage.

The Soros Gestapo

Funny how my show sounded like NPR for a bout 15 minutes yesterday :) On yesterday's Tammy Radio, I offered up what hypocrites like Sharpton, Jackson and Hillary Clinton want talk radio to be--irrelevant, tranquilizing, and vapid. Why? Because they know, especially at a time when conservatives and classical liberals have no real leadership, talk radio fills that void, discusses and exposes the enemies among us, and provides a forum for the average person to stay informed and active. A free discussion amongst the people is kryptonite to leftists. They cannot survive the distribution of ideas and the discussion of facts, and they know it.

Leftists have always liked Enemies Lists, and today's fascists are no different. For those of you wondering who else is on the Soros Gestapo Talk Radio Hit List, all you need to do is go to one of his many puppet entities Media Matters.

It's not just Imus

...But as Media Matters for America has extensively documented, bigotry and hate speech targeting, among other characteristics, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity continue to permeate the airwaves through personalities such as Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, Michael Smerconish, and John Gibson.

In addition to Media Matters, the Soros Industrial Complex includes the Center for American Progress, Moveon.org, Accuracy in Media, the Open Society Institute, and now, of course, the DNC. (Please see Discover the Networks extensive expose on Soros and his network of leftists foundations, think tanks and actions groups. It's an invaluable resource.). By denying Soros' direct involvement in MM, David Brock, who runs that brown-shirt cadre for the Soros gang, acknowledges how bad it looks for one man to be controlling and funding most of the leftist agenda.

Notice, however, Brock's amateurish obfuscation of this 'media matter'--the claim is that MM hasn't received money from George Soros himself. Perhaps that's the case, yet not quite the point. To receive Soros support does not require a check from the man himself. His various entities, foundations, think tanks and compatriots allow this new Wizard of Oz to fund an entity yet provide his Gestapos with some sort of deniability that there is one man behind the leftist curtain spending money furiously to undermine our democratic system.

The evidence is quite clear that Media Matters, the entity now leading the charge to silence talk radio, exists because of support from Soros compatriots and funded entities. This became undeniable years ago, to the point where MM itself stopped denying it receives indirect funding from Soros entities, yet continues the misleading claim that it doesn't receive money directly from Soros himself.

Ah yes, with moral arbiters like Soros and Brock and Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton and Jessie "Hymie Town" Jackson what would all us empty-headed rubes do?