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After getting some very fine takeout Chinese food in Tinley Park, Illinois, I began looking for desert in the depths of my infamous “smiley face” bag. I found several fortune cookies waiting to be opened. It always seems to me that each fortune cookie has a little town-crier in it. When the overlapping edges of cookie are peeled away, this little guy pops out and belches some profound wisdom, charming complement or impaling insult. Today my fortune said the following:

“A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.”

At first, this message is rather cutsie on words and almost entices a tickle to the point of humor. However, it is deeply fascinating. The imagery such a phrase gives brings to mind a double-edge sword. In a battle we will all use our sword to make progress in the fight. Yet, a mistake or slip can cause us great harm and even destroy us.

This is our government today, a double-edged sword. Our government claims to be a weapon in the fight for progress, but will cause us great harm and even destroy us if we make a mistake. But, who is deciding what a mistake is? Those who make the sword – or government would be the decision makers in this case. Rule makers are the rulers. Government will give us the sword and we in turn will kill our liberty and freedom with it.

This is what “…sacrificing for the greater good…” means. We surrender and the state survives.

Put another way, one side of the sword is “doing wrong” and the other is “doing well.” Either way, something is getting destroyed and even killed. Such is the nature of our modern government, who seeks everyday to find a way to tax and fine us to the point of our own destruction and eventual dependence. There is no better way to ignite a Patriot than to inflict destruction and dependence.

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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

-Benjamin Franklin

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“Barack Obama, who has chosen to live his adult life in university precincts, sees … Americans generally as victims who need his help, people who would be better off dependent on government than on their own. Most American voters don’t want to see themselves that way and resent this condescension.” –political analyst Michael Barone

If government regulations about healthcare and CO2 emissions make you anxious, you might turn to the tube to relax. Forget it. Democrats now want to control advertising on your TV. Under the guise of controlling “loud” TV commercials, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) are taking government control to a new low. The brilliantly titled, “Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation” or CALM laws will regulate the volume of commercials blaring from your TV.

How stupid is this? Don’t they know that Americans take their TV seriously! Americans also like their TV commercials and love the freedom of using their remotes to turn the volume up or down. Also, not all commercials are loud. There are plenty of times commercials are actually lower in volume than regular programming. Should this not be a function of the TV makers? Can’t they make TVs that normalize volume if we choose? I want to know how many retired folks use the commercials to track time, waking to take medicine and such when their show is over.

This is really an assault on capitalism. Democrats are looking for all ways to limit the ability of businesses to advertise their products – loud or not. The cost of mandating additional technology being placed into TVs will increase cost and kill jobs. I wonder if these statists will keep my volume from going to mute when I turn on CSPAN at night to fall asleep?

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Obama’s first State Of The Union address was delivered with pomp-ass arrogance. A year ago, liberals were falling out on the floor with the sound of his voice. The rest of his hopeful voters listened to his words with some element of faith.

Now, his voice incites anger in the bowels of Americans. People now feel a smack against their faces when they hear Obama’s eloquent delivery. If anyone was calm enough to actually listen to what he was saying, then the contempt for America would have incited rage.

Obama talked down to Americans while talking over them. America was already insulted before he spoke. Now they are really angry.

Thank you for throwing more fuel on the fire of revolution in America. Obama’s second State of the Union address will be less glorious year from now. The rebellion surrounding him will incinerate his facade.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. — Ronald Wilson Reagan, President Of The United States

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