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The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or
confusing.

Sorry I couldn't correct the type o in the title

Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America:

1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.

2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.

3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.

4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.

5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in
other countries only dream about.

6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about -
yet they want America to be more like those other countries.

Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in
the 21st Century.

Makes you wonder who is doing the math.

These three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our
current government and cultural environment:

1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few
lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions
of a few lunatics. Funny how that works.

And here's another one worth considering...

2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run
out of money. How come we never hear about welfare or food stamps
running out of money? What's interesting is the first group "worked
for" their money, but the second didn't. Think about it.....

and Last but not least,

3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, no pay raises for our
military and cutting our army to a level lower than before WWII, but
we are not stopping the payments or benefits to illegal aliens.

Am I the only one missing something?

Just posted the following on another Forum site, but because it has two sites where you can see the edited versions, and the full correct versions - I'm also posting it here.

If you go to this site you can see Media Matters edited version of the Bundy interview (1st video) and just below it is the full version with what his actual intentions were:
http://www.tpnn.com/2014/04/25/media-matters-new-york-times-deceptively-edit-bundy-video-...

I suspect that some of you will NOT go there as you prefer to believe a lie. And, here's another one:
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/04/bundy-hoax-exposed-full-video-of-cliven-bund...

The headline of this one reads: Bundy Hoax Exposed: Full Video Of Cliven Bundy’s Non-Racist, Pro-Black, Pro-Mexican, Anti-Government Remarks

Hi, I go by allosaur. An online test I took revealed that I am a libertarian with strong conservative leanings. I thought it was the other way around but accepted the finding after giving it some thought. (Be gay if you want.
Just stay out of my face). (Be an atheist. Just leave other folks alone).
The Founding Fathers are my heroes and I think The Constitution (what Obama has called a "list of negatives") is a document inspired by God. Laugh at me if you want. Others have. But I stand my ground. Some would view me as a prehistoric kind of an American. Well, good.
Here are some more of my views: Our current Socialist Liar-In-Chief is the antithesis of much of what I hold dear. I also think Eric Holder is a dangerous and a proven harmful weasel with blood on his hands. Harry Greed is Communist slander-mongering slime that sounds like an old woman with a a short haircut and wears a man's suit.
Princess Pelosi is an idiot who could actually say something like "Let's pass this bill to see what's in it." I never in all of my born days since 1947 imagined an elected politician of such stature saying something as insanely stupid as that. And she actually got away with it--well, as far as getting a pass from the foot-kissing liberal media for being a Demonrat.
Yes, I wrote Demonrat. That's what that party has devolved into--a pack of Demonrats supported in part by a traitor named George Soros. The Koch brothers can not hold a candle to that monster.
Currently (subject to change), I view Dr. Ben Carson as having the best chance of defeated Killary "What difference does it make" Clinton and restoring a common sense approach to restoring the American. Never heard of him? Look him up. He is anything but politically correct.
Oh, can't get rid of that smiley face. Don't even know how I put it there. Moving on to other things to do--

I am 67. And there was wild support for Hitler until the 1944 when things started to go really wrong, yet the majority of German people still supported Hitler. But you are still off point. I was simply pointing out that the BIG LIE of using the gun control laws under Hitler in 1939 as an argument against gun control, for the exact opposite was true than what many on the Right present as fact. Looser, not stricter; and only the Jews (which was indeed terrible) lost their arms, not ALL the citizens as claimed. That is my one and only point.

Responding to the paranoid, fear-mongering madness of this video: http://www.youtube.com/embed/0sujnvIV4g4

I suppose it can happen here and many probably believe it already has, with the hysteria I see about the NWO. But it is interesting to note that the greatest killer on this planet is the mosquito. Averaging over 2 million deaths a year for the last 50 years, it is estimated than in its entire history over a billion people have died at the hands of this little creature. Taken in context, 290 million by governments is tame. We have more to fear from a tiny bug.

If you do not want to read the following information that is factual, let me summarize: the Hitler confiscation of guns is a BIG LIE, A TOTAL MISREPRESENTATION OF THE TRUTH.
The truth about Germany and guns, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Germany:
"The treaty of Versailles of 1919 had stipulations to disarm the government. Fearing inability to hold the state together during the depression, the German government adopted a sweeping series of gun confiscation legislation against the citizens prior to completely disarming the German military. Article 169 of the Treaty of Versailles explicitly targeted the state: "Within two months from the coming into force of the present Treaty, German arms, munitions, and war material, including anti-aircraft material, existing in Germany in excess of the quantities allowed, must be surrendered to the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers to be destroyed or rendered useless."[1]

"In 1919, the German government passed the Regulations on Weapons Ownership, which declared that "all firearms, as well as all kinds of firearms ammunition, are to be surrendered immediately."[2] Under the regulations, anyone found in possession of a firearm or ammunition was subject to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 marks."

Under Hitler:
"The 1938 German Weapons Act, the precursor of the current weapons law, superseded the 1928 law. As under the 1928 law, citizens were required to have a permit to carry a firearm and a separate permit to acquire a firearm. Furthermore, the law restricted ownership of firearms to "...persons whose trustworthiness is not in question and who can show a need for a (gun) permit." But under the new law:

Gun restriction laws applied only to handguns, not to long guns or ammunition. The 1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, as was the possession of ammunition."[3]
The legal age at which guns could be purchased was lowered from 20 to 18.[4]
Permits were valid for three years, rather than one year.[4]
The groups of people who were exempt from the acquisition permit requirement expanded. Holders of annual hunting permits, government workers, and NSDAP members were no longer subject to gun ownership restrictions. Prior to the 1938 law, only officials of the central government, the states, and employees of the German Reichsbahn Railways were exempted.[3]
Jews were prohibited from possessing any dangerous weapons, including firearms. They were also forbidden from the manufacturing or dealing of firearms and ammunition.[3]"

Cut and paste from Salon:
Unfortunately for LaPierre et al., the notion that Hitler confiscated everyone’s guns is mostly bogus. And the ancillary claim that Jews could have stopped the Holocaust with more guns doesn’t make any sense at all if you think about it for more than a minute.

University of Chicago law professor Bernard Harcourt explored this myth in depth in a 2004 article published in the Fordham Law Review. As it turns out, the Weimar Republic, the German government that immediately preceded Hitler’s, actually had tougher gun laws than the Nazi regime. After its defeat in World War I, and agreeing to the harsh surrender terms laid out in the Treaty of Versailles, the German legislature in 1919 passed a law that effectively banned all private firearm possession, leading the government to confiscate guns already in circulation. In 1928, the Reichstag relaxed the regulation a bit, but put in place a strict registration regime that required citizens to acquire separate permits to own guns, sell them or carry them.

The 1938 law signed by Hitler that LaPierre mentions in his book basically does the opposite of what he says it did. “The 1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, as well as ammunition,” Harcourt wrote. Meanwhile, many more categories of people, including Nazi party members, were exempted from gun ownership regulations altogether, while the legal age of purchase was lowered from 20 to 18, and permit lengths were extended from one year to three years.

Recently one of my friends and I were discussing the disgusting level of apathy by the American public towards the tyrannical behavior of the US government, its agencies and its individual officials. The definition of the word “Apathy” via Wikipedia is defined as: “a lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern. It is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation, and/or passion.

An apathetic individual has an absence of interest in or concern about emotional, social, spiritual, philosophical and/or physical life and the world.” That pretty much sums up the attitude and state of mind of the vast majority of the American population in regards to the treasonous, criminal behavior being perpetrated on them by their own government.

Let’s briefly look at some recent examples of this Tyranny:

1.) The level of crony capitalism and financial crimes that have been committed in recent years including the blatant rigging and manipulation of every possible financial market. Even though this has been greatly exposed and accepted as truth, few individuals have been prosecuted or jailed as a result.

2.) The last 4 Presidents of the United States have shown complete and total disregard for the American Constitution and the American legislative process by abusing the Executive Signing Order powers usurped by their offices in order to subjugate the citizenry of this country.

2.) The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been turned into a financial assassination squad used to destroy individuals, organizations, and corporations who have become political enemies of the State.

3.) Eric Holder, the head of the Department of Justice and chief law enforcement officer of the Federal Government is a criminal who is blatantly guilty of Perjury and Contempt of Congress, and many other crimes too numerous to list here, crimes that would otherwise land your average citizen in a federal prison for many years.

4.) The NSA/ FBI / CIA and God knows who else have engaged in massive unconstitutional / illegal surveillance and data collection operations against millions of Americans under the guise of “National Security”.

5.) The level of extreme brutality by the police in America, and the formation of a totally militarized police state across the United States. Here we see Chief Ken Geddes posing with the Preston, Idaho PD’s shiny new MRAP.

6.) The deliberate destruction by government of any means for individuals to be self-sustaining or self-sufficient, including the excessive over regulation and interference of independently owned farms or ranches. Laws as ridiculous as criminalizing the collection of rain water on your own property.

7.) Our government using the label of potential “Domestic Terrorists” in reference towards groups of American Veterans, Christians, Libertarians, Constitutionalists, Gun Owners, and “Sovereign Citizens”.

The items mentioned above are just a few recent examples that barely scratch the surface of Government Tyranny in America, and obviously don’t include any of the false flag psychological operations, and outright lies conducted and perpetrated against American citizens, or their allies. We cannot forget to mention the illegal wars and foreign entanglements conducted by the American Industrial Complex, or the irresponsible and destructive fiscal policy being carried out against the US Dollar by the not so federal “Federal Reserve”. Even after mentioning all of these items, we still don’t have a totality of tyranny! Hopefully, you get the point. We are not talking about a few isolated examples tyranny.

So, why do most Americans turn such a blind eye towards all of this tyrannical criminal behavior which is perpetrated on them by many of the very people they think they elect into office? (I say they “think” they elect people into office because many of us know the popular vote is not exactly how the so called “democratic process” works as we have been taught since childhood, but that is another story!) Is it that they simply don’t care? Are they “too busy” or too self-absorbed? Are they so dejected that they feel they no longer have a stake in the game anymore? Have they simply given up hope because they feel they are too insignificant to impact a change? I am sure there are a lot of truths to some of these points. However, I also feel that a large portion of the population has been dumbed down over the last 30 years or so, completely by design. If someone is ignorant of an issue it certainly does not make them immune from whatever ill effects or results that issue creates.

I think the main reason we see such a level of apathy in our society is because people don’t care about issues they don’t feel they have a stake in, regardless of whether they understand those issues or not. For example, someone who is not a gun owner or has no desire to ever own a gun may not care about the importance of why we have a Second Amendment. Someone who is not a farmer or rancher may not care about the federal government stealing land that does not belong to them. In my opinion, Apathy is created by the “I don’t care if it doesn’t affect me, or things I care about” attitude. This is very dangerous and a very slippery slope. Not only is this attitude common; it’s probably the norm for the vast majority of Americans. How else would you explain how we have fallen so far, so fast?

Most people don’t understand how our liberties and rights are connected together. They don’t understand that there are definite paths which may take you to losing one right that you don’t care about, to losing one that you definitely DO care about. When people don’t care about their own civil liberties and rights because they don’t think it affects them, it is probably one of the most self-destructive mental attitudes that they can adopt. The “proof”… as they say, is in the pudding, and for many of us here who do understand where we have arrived, there is no denying that we are living in a state of tyranny.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the outright denial by some people that tyranny exists, even when they are confronted with it at point blank range. For example: I have seen people deny that there is such a thing as a “First Amendment Zone”. They say…”That can’t be…it’s impossible.” Yet we have seen these “zones” on numerous occasions across America over the last few years at political /campaign events, public protests and demonstrations, and recently in the Nevada Bundy Ranch standoff. Fortunately, these ‘zones” received such wide media coverage in Nevada; they were quickly dismantled once main stream media arrived and started covering the Bundy Ranch event. For many people this was proof positive that the Right to Free Speech is now limited to a “zone” instead of a nation. For many other people this was the first time they had heard of such a thing, and they still don’t know what to believe, even though they saw it with their own eyes.

Whatever reason people have for being apathetic towards tyranny regardless of if they recognize it or not, the outcome or response by those who are awake and aware seems to be Apathy towards those who are Apathetic. What I mean by that is people who do recognize the tyranny in their government, and recognize those who don’t care, or… those who support the tyranny directly or indirectly, will not respond kindly when the system inevitably falls apart. Why should we care about them, when not only did they not care about us, they did not care about themselves! Apathy towards apathy.

Personally, I will not give a shit about my Obama bumper sticker having neighbor who I know has eagerly supported every tyrannical action of this current regime, or anyone else who falls into that category. If there is an event in this country which leads people of this type to find themselves in a situation where they have no food, no water, and no means to defend themselves or their families, they may find themselves in a position to where they need to contemplate the definition of apathy for themselves.

This may sound harsh to some people, and even though at times I have almost wished it would happen out of pure frustration, it does not make people like “Mr. Obamabumpersticker” less deserving of being responsible for their actions or inactions. I don’t think many of the people who have allowed the tyranny to reach the levels it has will ever look in the mirror and question if perhaps their lackadaisical attitude had something to do with their current bad situation or their possible demise. It’s not in their natures to do something like that, as they have been indoctrinated to shift the blame to someone or something else. If we have an event takes place in this country where basic necessities are no longer available and people need to fend for themselves for a period of time, fortunately, there are now millions of people (like many of you reading this) who are better prepared. What will your attitude be to the “Mr.Obamabumpersticker” in your neighborhood? I can’t speak for anyone else, but I know that I am not going to worry too much about him. He made his bed, and I want him lay in it weather he understands why he is in it, or not. I guess that’s another example of apathy towards apathy. It’s a vicious cycle. Sometimes when you remove / reduce, or take away the pain and consequences of making bad decisions from people, they tend to have a nasty habit of not learning their lesson, and making the same mistake over and over again. Unfortunately, many people are destined only to learn the hard way.

History shows us that when a society shows high levels of apathy towards tyrannical behavior by its own government, the results can be very deadly. As much as I like to try and be optimistic, I don’t see the trend of tyranny reversing itself anytime soon. While I am not much of a believer in the political process anymore, it will be interesting to see if the 2014 midterm elections reflect any change in the level of apathy of the American people. 2014 could be one of the last chances we have to make a peaceful improvement.

Best Wishes & Stay Safe!
Mark

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I read both parts. Neither are worth anyone's time. They're just more made-up BS. The author tries to make it sound like he discovered something new, but all he did was recount bits and pieces of the endless stories already out there, and he got some key facts wrong.
-- Hillary didn't inform Obama of the attack; SECDEF Panetta and CJCS GEN Dempsey did.
-- Amb Stevens body was taken to the hospital at around 11:30pm, not 3am.
-- F-15's would have done no good after the attack started and the attackers had already set the compound on fire. It was military commanders who determined that there were no appropriate military forces that could not rescue Amb Stevens and the others, not Hillary or Obama.
-- The author says that very few people watched the video until after the attack occurred, ignoring the fact that there were protests about the video in 19 Muslim cities going on earlier that day.

Just another attempt to gain notoriety or money. Nothing to see here. Carry on.

I'm not going to engage in any more back-and-forth arguments about Benghazi. I've done so numerous times already. Not doing it again. Believe what you want. This is just my 2 cents.

Dr. Savage wonders why individuals who are obviously deranged or just plan unproductive are allowed to vote, just like he does.

He explains how far the notion of democracy has fallen since the days of the ancient Greeks:

"Democracy was not invented for times like this," Savage proclaimed, adding:

You have more people on Medicaid and Medicare than live in England.

You have more non-working Americans than ever in history.


Tell me why somebody on welfare should vote.

Of course he'll vote himself a raise -- a fat slob who does nothing.

The ancient Greeks didn't invent democracy for times like these.

It was invented for a homogeneous society in limited numbers.

Then they knew they could have cohesion and come to rational decisions.

You're telling me this government is rational?

The reason we have Obama is because of the leeches, the bums and the illegal aliens.

Anybody who got where they are by working hard knew who Obama really was just by looking at him.

You know I'm right, but you know that you can't say it.