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Support abortion? Here’s how it’s done

This month, the so-called “enlightened progressives” celebrate their 1973 Supreme Court ruling to legally kill unwanted or inconvenient unborn babies for “quality of life” reasons.

Those who believe in the dignity of all human life will be protesting against this terrible Supreme Court ruling. By denying personhood status to unborn babies, the Supreme Court legalized the killing of innocent human beings for quality of life reasons.

Here are the abortionists’ horribly “cruel and unusual” procedures for killing unborn babies that the Supreme Court legalized:

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You and our national debt: A picture

The recent passage of a $1.1 trillion omnibus bill now sets the stage for the looming battle over raising the national debt (again).

The national debt is now over $17 trillion (which looks like $17,000,000,000,000), and growing. The passage of the recent omnibus signals yet another failure of our Congress to set and implement a responsible fiscal policy, and the executive to timely provide its reasonable operating expenses for the coming fiscal year.

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Income inequality: It’s not so simple

Walter Williams offered a simple analysis of income inequality in last Wednesday’s Citizen incorporating an analogy of “poker justice” to elucidate the variance in wealth accumulation.

He noted that in a non-cheating game, the poker prowess of Tom over Dick and Harry was easily explained by Tom’s industriousness compared to the indolent efforts of his fellow players. This simply explicates why Tom should never share his financial rewards with Dick or Harry.

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Outrageous regulations — 1 expensive cat house

The Citizen this week begins an occasional demonstration that, despite being “closer” to the average citizen, local government can be as nonsensical and overbearing as the federal government.

Email your personal run-in with local or state government to editor@TheCitizen.com. We’ll print it and post on our website for the world to witness that “local” doesn’t necessarily mean “smaller” or “smarter.” In fact, local regulation can mean “dumb and dumber.”

Herewith, an example:

PTC cat house gets expensive

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President Obama Delivers His View On The State Of The Union – Live Feed

Given the fact that the S&P 500 is up over 18% since the last State of the Union address, we suspect the state of the Union will be “strong.” However, a glimpse over the shoulder of Tom Perkins and his pals and one can’t help but wonder how “strong” the Union is when there are 2.845 million more people not in the labor force than a year ago. [and for those who like excuses – this is higher than the working-age population growth of 2.4 million people – so we did “lose” jobs]

Last year’s 6,990 words were strewn with “hope”, “change”, “jobs” and “wall street” – we suspect the term “inequality” pops up more than once this time along with the ubiquitous lambasting of the opposition for counterfactually buggering the whole “recovery” plan up. If only there was no ‘opposition’ – oh wait, we forgot to add “unilateral” and “executive order” as suggested words for tonight’s show.

 

A chart to bear in mind when considering the state of the union…

 

A reminder from last year’s SOTU…

  • *OBAMA CALLS FOR MINIMUM WAGE TO INCREASE TO $9/HOUR

And this year’s

  • *OBAMA USES EXECUTIVE ORDER ON FEDERAL CONTRACT WORKERS’ WAGE 
  • *OBAMA RAISES MINIMUM WAGE FOR FEDERAL CONTRACTORS TO $10.10

Adding that:

  • *OBAMA SAYS U.S. SHOULD REVERSE `TIDES’ OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
  • *OBAMA SAYS HE’S OFFERING `CONCRETE, PRACTICAL PROPOSALS’
  • *OBAMA SAYS HE’LL TAKE EXECUTIVE ACTION WHERE HE CAN

And there waqs much rejoicing in the Democrat lands…

  • *REID SAYS OBAMA NEEDS TO USE HIS EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY


 

The State of the Union tease…

 

The “enhanced” State of the Union – Live Feed

 

And the Republican’s “Enhanced” fact-checking service… And Response to the President…

And here is how the market responded to last year’s ‘socialist’ agenda…


    



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The Thinking & Drinking Man’s Guide To The State Of The Union

Over the past couple of hundred years, the State of the Union has been enjoyed by pamphlet, radio, TV, and webcast and each and every year, the citizenry has sat avidly awaiting their 'word' to come up on SOTU Bingo or for the bets they made on the average length to be confirmed. So while the drinking and gambling man has plenty to do; it is perhaps dismal to report that the thinking man will be under-utlized. Sadly, the State of the Union speech has been getting dumber and dumber.

 

State Of The Union Speech is getting dumbererer…

Since James Madison's 1815 Address, the 'linguistic standard' of the State of the Union speech has plunged. As The Guardian noted last year, the lowest on record was George H.W. Bush's 1992 address – only just beating Obama's 2011 address for 'dumbest' speech ever. Whether this is representative of the American people as a whole or the lowest common denominator is unclear… Dumb and dumber indeed…

 

Using the Flesch-Kincaid readability test the Guardian has tracked the reading level of every state of the union

 

and the Top 20 (or Bottom 20 we guess) Lowest average readability test scores for the Presidents…

 

Via SOTU

And while the President will discuss Inequality in depth, it would seem the "poor" have not been commented on much since the 80s…

 

And "Jobs" and "Hope" remain low…

 

So – on that note, it's time to drink…

Via @GenOpportunity

 

and the thinking and drinking man's game…

The general rules of this game are no different from any other drinking game. A drink is either a shot or a good gulp from a beer (or cider). Different events call for different numbers of drinks and all you do is watch the speech and play along. If all goes well, you'll be unconscious by the time they show the other party's response.

via DrinkingGame.us

 

and if you want to play along with the kids… SOTU Bingo!

 

Enjoy… full live webcast to follow…

 


    



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The Thinking & Drinking Man's Guide To The State Of The Union

Over the past couple of hundred years, the State of the Union has been enjoyed by pamphlet, radio, TV, and webcast and each and every year, the citizenry has sat avidly awaiting their 'word' to come up on SOTU Bingo or for the bets they made on the average length to be confirmed. So while the drinking and gambling man has plenty to do; it is perhaps dismal to report that the thinking man will be under-utlized. Sadly, the State of the Union speech has been getting dumber and dumber.

 

State Of The Union Speech is getting dumbererer…

Since James Madison's 1815 Address, the 'linguistic standard' of the State of the Union speech has plunged. As The Guardian noted last year, the lowest on record was George H.W. Bush's 1992 address – only just beating Obama's 2011 address for 'dumbest' speech ever. Whether this is representative of the American people as a whole or the lowest common denominator is unclear… Dumb and dumber indeed…

 

Using the Flesch-Kincaid readability test the Guardian has tracked the reading level of every state of the union

 

and the Top 20 (or Bottom 20 we guess) Lowest average readability test scores for the Presidents…

 

Via SOTU

And while the President will discuss Inequality in depth, it would seem the "poor" have not been commented on much since the 80s…

 

And "Jobs" and "Hope" remain low…

 

So – on that note, it's time to drink…

Via @GenOpportunity

 

and the thinking and drinking man's game…

The general rules of this game are no different from any other drinking game. A drink is either a shot or a good gulp from a beer (or cider). Different events call for different numbers of drinks and all you do is watch the speech and play along. If all goes well, you'll be unconscious by the time they show the other party's response.

via DrinkingGame.us

 

and if you want to play along with the kids… SOTU Bingo!

 

Enjoy… full live webcast to follow…

 


    



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Blogging Fayette Snowjam 2014

As of 9 p.m. Tuesday night, Jan. 28, here’s a running update of what we’ve seen, heard and know about the snowstorm that has shut down metro Atlanta.

Many thousands — maybe tens of thousands — of people are still stuck on the icy roads all over the metro area. Many have abandoned vehicles and are trying to walk home or to a shelter. Many were not prepared for the trek.

Two of them are trying to get to each other somewhere on Upper Roswell Road. Jessica has been in an immobilized car for more than six hours within a few miles of her apartment.

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From ‘Ripples’ To ‘RonPaulCoin’; There Are Now 83 Cryptocurrencies In The World

While Bitcoin (and Litecoin) garner the most attention in the cryptocurrency world, there are now 83 (and counting) virtual currencies to store your wealth in. Bitcoin’s market cap (at over $10 billion) is by far the highest but we wonder whether the miasma of mimiccers – from Unobtainium to the ironically-named StableCoin and from ‘Philospher Stones’ to HoboNickels – serves to reduce the confidence in Bitcoin as a new method payments, or bolsters it as the clear market winner.

 

Top 20 Virtual Currencies…

 

The full list, sorted by market cap, is here.


    



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From 'Ripples' To 'RonPaulCoin'; There Are Now 83 Cryptocurrencies In The World

While Bitcoin (and Litecoin) garner the most attention in the cryptocurrency world, there are now 83 (and counting) virtual currencies to store your wealth in. Bitcoin’s market cap (at over $10 billion) is by far the highest but we wonder whether the miasma of mimiccers – from Unobtainium to the ironically-named StableCoin and from ‘Philospher Stones’ to HoboNickels – serves to reduce the confidence in Bitcoin as a new method payments, or bolsters it as the clear market winner.

 

Top 20 Virtual Currencies…

 

The full list, sorted by market cap, is here.


    



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