Monthly Archives: March 2012

Are rich people as bad as “Dirty Dan?”

March 1, 2012 – 12:00 pm

Are rich people as bad as “Dirty Dan?”

The Little Rascals – “Fly My Kite” (1931) Part 1-2

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The gang loves Grandma, but her slimy son-in-law loves her money.When Dirty Dan tries to take away her retirement fortune, it’s the kids (and Pete the Pup) to the resue! Soon, the chase is on and Dan is caught faster than you can say “Granny get your gun”!

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I enjoyed seeing that “Dirty Dan” got what was coming to him at the end of the episode below. If you listen to President Obama, and other liberals like John Brummett and Max Brantley then would get the impression that the mean rich folks don’t need to be so selfish and hand over the money to run the government for the rest of us.

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War on poverty is a failure in USA

Liberals just don’t get it. They should listen to Milton Friedman (who is quoted in this video below concerning the best way to limit poverty). New Video Shows the War on Poverty Is a Failure Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell The Center for Freedom and Prosperity has released another “Economics 101″ video, and this one […]

The state of our economy under President Obama according to Cato Institute

It is truly said how far to the left our country has gone. Happy Fiscal New Year (with an Unhappy Obama Hangover) Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell Today, October 1, is the first day of the 2012 fiscal year. And if you’re wondering why America’s economy seems to have a hangover (this cartoon is a perfect illustration), it’s because […]

Is soaking the rich fair?

Is soaking the rich fair? Five Key Reasons to Reject Class-Warfare Tax Policy Uploaded by afq2007 on Jun 15, 2009 President Obama and other politicians are advocating higher taxes, with a particular emphasis on class-warfare taxes targeting the so-called rich. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains why fiscal policy based on hate […]

Do you think protectionism would help, in the long run, if we don’t implement pro-growth reforms?

Do you think protectionism would help, in the long run, if we don’t implement pro-growth reforms? Sometimes I wonder what are the motives of those who oppose free trade. Eight Questions for Protectionists Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell When asked to pick my most frustrating issue, I could list things from my policy field such as […]

Three points where Brummett misses the boat in discussion versus Charlie Collins

Five Key Reasons to Reject Class-Warfare Tax Policy Uploaded by afq2007 on Jun 15, 2009 President Obama and other politicians are advocating higher taxes, with a particular emphasis on class-warfare taxes targeting the so-called rich. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains why fiscal policy based on hate and envy is fundamentally misguided. […]

Obama wants to raise taxes on job creators

Uploaded by TheYoungTurks on Aug 6, 2010 Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) filling in for Chris Jansing on MSNBC talks to Dan Mitchell of the Cato institute to compare Reaganomics to Obamanomics. __________________________ What should we do when we are caught in a slow economy? What did Reagan do in 1981? He lowered […]

Cato’s Jeffrey Miron: “The liberal hatred of the rich is a minority view…”

Maybe the tide is turning. Americans do not hate the rich like liberals would have us believe. Take a look at this article: Soaking the Rich Is Not Fair by Jeffrey A. Miron This article appeared on The Huffington Post on September 2, 2011. What is the “fair” amount of taxation on high-income taxpayers? To liberals, the […]

The Little Rascals – “Fly My Kite” (1931) Part 2-2

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An open letter to President Obama (Part 22 of my response to State of Union Speech 1-24-12)

March 1, 2012 – 10:26 am

Rep Michael Burgess response

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This week Dr. Burgess provides an update from Washington and responds to President Obama’s State of the Union address.

President Obama’s state of the union speech Jan 24, 2012

Barack Obama (Photo by Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images)

President Obama c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

I know that you receive 20,000 letters a day and that you actually read 10 of them every day. I really do respect you for trying to get a pulse on what is going on out here.

Was Obama Even Paying Attention during His Time in the Senate?

Posted by Mark A. Calabria

Perhaps I’m a little sensitive from having spent 7 years working in the Senate (rather than just using the Senate as a stepping stone), but when Obama makes statements in his State of the Union like:

Some of what’s broken has to do with the way Congress does its business these days. A simple majority is no longer enough to get anything – even routine business – passed through the Senate. Neither party has been blameless in these tactics. Now both parties should put an end to it. For starters, I ask the Senate to pass a rule that all judicial and public service nominations receive a simple up or down vote within 90 days.

I have to wonder if he even has the slightest clue what he is talking about.  First, what’s with the “no longer”, the fact is that the Senate has operated under super-majority rules since before Obama was born.  The vast majority of bills and nominations pass by unanimous consent, meaning that 100 votes are needed.  As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, 95% of the nominations sent to the Senate in 2011 were confirmed.

And the rules aren’t to blame for “routine business” not getting done.  It’s been over 1000 days since Senate Democrats passed a budget, but then you have to assemble one to pass one.  In 2011 the Senate passed over 400 pieces of legislation, only about 20% below the average of the last 20 years.  As someone who’d like to see government come to a halt, let me assure you, this isn’t it.

Setting aside the offensive nature of a President suggesting changes in the Senate rules (ever hear of the separation of powers?) the fact is that his proposal wouldn’t have matter in the case of his recent “recess” nominations.  First, Cordray was given a vote, with a required 60 for moving to consideration.  He didn’t get 60.  There’s nothing in the Constitution that defines Senate “consent” as a simple majority.  Obama’s unconstitutional NRLB nominations weren’t even in the Senate for 90 days (his apparent standard).

Our founding fathers purposely created a system that made it hard, not easy, to legislate.  The very existence of both a House and Senate is evidence they rejected simple majority rules for legislating.  One of the many things I learned from working in the Senate, and having spent more time on the Senate floor than Obama, is that dealing in good faith can almost always get you to an broad agreement.  If Obama feels his legislative agenda has come to a halt, he has himself to blame, not the Senate rules.

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It appears that you are ignoring the Constitution according the article above.

Thank you so much for your time. I know how valuable it is. I also appreciate the fine family that you have and your committment as a father and a husband.

Sincerely,

Everette Hatcher III, 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002, ph 501-920-5733, lowcostsqueegees@yahoo.com

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USA’s biggest defense problem is our national debt

March 1, 2012 – 7:39 am

Liam Fox Issues a Warning to America

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Britain’s Liam Fox has a warning for America: Fix the debt problem now or suffer the consequences of less power on the world stage. The former U.K. secretary of state for defense visited Heritage to explain why the America’s debt is a national security issue.

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The Heritage Foundation points out how much the national debt has the potential of ultimately harming our ability to defend ourselves.

Britain’s Liam Fox has a warning for America: Fix the debt problem now or suffer the consequences of less power on the world stage. The former U.K. secretary of state for defense visited Heritage to explain why America’s debt is a national security issue.

>> Watch the full 45-minute speech, “Warning to a Superpower”

Fox faced cuts to the armed forces in the United Kingdom during his tenure. He said the amount of interest Britain pays on its debt is larger today than its budget for defense. Fox explained that both Britain and America should be concerned about the impact our national debt has on our security.

“The real issue is the indebtedness of Western nations,” he stressed, “Here in the United States, there is a certain irony in the fact that in order to maintain debt interest payment by the national government, America is having to cut its security budget so that some of that money on the debt interest ends up in Moscow and Beijing.” He underscored to the need for serious reforms to tackle what he described as our “absolutely unsustainable” level of national debt. Western economies, he warned “are up to their necks in debt and if they don’t do something about it, [they] will drown in that debt.”

By Everette Hatcher III | Posted in President Obama, spending out of control | Comments (0)

Is a 9 game SEC football schedule starting in 2013 the only solution?

March 1, 2012 – 7:06 am
BOOT CAMP: The Hogs will play LSU for The Boot here next fall.

I read this below in Scout Magazine and heard a long discussion of it on 103.7 the buzz radio yesterday in Little Rock. Below is an article from Scout.com and it states, “You play your six division mates once, one permanent cross divisional rival and two rotators. N I N E games. Yea, that leaves three out-of-conference games left, leaving precious little room for cupcakes.”

I have a hard time disagreeing with that. The idea that there is anyway to make a 8 game schedule work is crazy. There is no way a 8 game schedule can provide any feeling of unity between divisions.

It has been my view all along that playing Tennessee would be a great thing for Arkansas because there is so much history in that series. It has been a long and heated series but since Arkansas is looking for a rival then why should we look any farther than the Vols.

There are some rivals that are born because the two teams come out of nowhere and are excellent. That happened to Florida in the 1990’s. After being just a so-so team in football for so long, the Gators got really good in the 1990’s and developed Tennessee as a rival for over a 10 year span. It was fat Phil and loud mouth Steve going at each other each year that determined the Eastern conference championship for many years.

We will just have to wait and see what happens in the future.

Posted: 2/14/2012 11:46 AM

SEC move to 9 conference games or else 

The 800-lb gorilla in the conference since the one-off 2012 SEC football schedule was released is the looming 2013 schedule. Many wonder how might the conference deal with two more teams without upsetting the delicate balance of 20 years of divisional rivalry precedent mixed with preserving some of the sport’s most traditional match ups. With existing and new members yet to sit down and carve out a brave, new 14-team world, many questions lingering about the future of the SEC came to a head last week with Georgia AD Greg McGarrity’s comments about the possible ending of the South’s Oldest Rivalry on an annual basis. Nothing like a little blasphemy to get the blogs churning.

Most of us fans in the region are still wondering why the conference leaders ever wanted to expand in the first place, with all the success we’ve enjoyed of late. You can’t convince us it was preventative in nature. Nothing short of welding two BCS conferences together could have competed with the SEC for the forseeable future. If you’re like me, you think money was the ultimate goal, because apparently, the preservation of the conference’s tradition and heritage may have been the first casualties of expansion.

With this topic likely to dominate the SEC spring meetings, it would behoove fans and administrations alike to speak with one voice regarding the topic, or the SEC applecart could be upset for generations. Nothing against Missouri or Texas A&M, but you guys made the choice to jump. Mind us long standing members for a moment while we figure this out and don’t think it rude if we close the door while we talk.


There is no other solution to this mess than to play a nine-game conference schedule.

You play your six division mates once, one permanent cross divisional rival and two rotators. N I N E games. Yea, that leaves three out-of-conference games left, leaving precious little room for cupcakes. The sport may even contract by a regular season game eventually if we get a playoff, leaving even less room, especially for schools who have long-standing OOC rivals, like Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky, and the new kids–if they wish to make amends and pick up series with Texas and Kansas again.

Who cares? This is what the powers that be wanted–the SEC playing more SEC. Now live with it. Most fans don’t like the cupcake games anyway, and a future playoff scenario might mandate additional OOC BCS games, so the SEC will definitely be in compliance. It only makes running the table and going undefeated that much harder, but what does that matter when the SEC conference champ is a virtual lock for the BCS title game anyway? Don’t fret, SEC. Remember, this is what you wanted. Think of all the TV dollars: $$$$$$$$

What are the alternatives to going to a nine-game schedule? Sticking with eight would mean six divisional games and two rotators, because one rotator would mean waiting eleven years to play the other teams and you just can’t legitimately call yourself a conference if that’s the way it’s going to be,

With eight games you can’t split into three divisions, because that’s not allowed and I’m pretty sure the math doesn’t work out with whole numbers. Besides, it would produce one hell of a complicated conference title scenario.

You can’t have any more teams jumping divisions because there is balance and new found rivalry to maintain. The time for that was long ago. Yes, Auburn, I’m talking to YOU. I’m not sure I’d want to forgo Alabama even to pick back up Tennessee and Florida and to preserve Georgia. Choices like that are impossible.

You couldn’t have rotating divisions, with two teams switching sides every few years. Or could you? Could the loss of Auburn-Georgia, Alabama-Tennessee and LSU-Florida on an annual basis be mitigated by having them at least play four-six times a decade? Working out that round-robin would be crazy, and even crazier might be some team with east and west division champs banners flying in their stadium.

No, there’s only one solution to the mess we find ourselves currently in, and that’s to go to a nine-game conference schedule. I can’t even believe any rational person would suggest sticking at eight and losing out on all these traditional rivalries. You broke it, SEC. Now you fix it.

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Arkansas ladybacks win first game ever in Knoxville

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Who gets in NCAA Tournament from SEC, Calipari and Martin say 5, I say 4

Photo by Adam Brimer, copyright © 2012 Tennessee forward Jordan McRae (52), forward Jarnell Stokes (5) and guard Cameron Tatum (23) go up for a rebound during the first half against Arkansas at Thompson-Boling Arena Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Tennessee won 77-58 over Arkansas. (ADAM BRIMER/NEWS SENTINEL) ______________________ I just don’t see 5 SEC schools […]

Who will get 4th place in SEC basketball race?

SEC Basketball race for 4th places heats up Does anyone want 4th place? It seems that everytime a team gets a few wins under their belt and it appears they are going to sew up 4th place then they lose. Look at Tennessee. The Vols played against a Bama team that had their two leading […]

2012 complete football schedule for SEC schools (Part 3)

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2012 complete football schedule for SEC schools (Part 1)

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Loss to Vols is bitter in contrast to sweet victory in football

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When are the Razorbacks going to get road victory, maybe in Knoxville?

Arkansas must get a couple of road wins if we hope to make it to the NCAA Tournament this year. By reading the comments on Arkansas Sports 360 it appears the fans are anxious for one.  Looking at the schedule and there remains games at Tennessee, Auburn and Mississippi State. The Miss St game would […]

 

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