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Posted at 11:50am on Sep. 1, 2007 Bush: the problem with subprime is there's not enough big government in it

By wcvarones

Bush unveils mortgage proposals:

They would make it easier for borrowers now holding adjustable rate mortgages that are resetting to higher monthly payments to refinance those loans using the resources of the Federal Housing Administration. The FHA is a Depression-era agency created to help low and moderate-income Americans afford homes.

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Posted at 11:23am on May 19, 2007 Biased journalism done badly

By wcvarones

One of the oldest tricks in biased journalism is to paint those with opposing views as bigots.

Wall Street Journal bimbos June Kronholz and Sarah Lueck transparently employ that tactic on the immigration issue:

But they will need dozens of votes from Republicans, who are deeply split between a business-friendly wing eager to provide employers with access to more immigrant labor and social conservatives who believe American culture is being diluted by too many foreigners.

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Posted at 12:10am on Apr. 6, 2007 Your Party of the People at work

By wcvarones

California's petty tyrant legislators don't like the term limits imposed on them by a majority of voters in 1990. They already have gerrymandered districts making it impossible to lose re-election, so the only thing standing between them and an unaccountable, lifetime office is term limits. So they've deceptively put a watering-down of the limits on the next ballot.

Can't fool the people? Career politicians have a back-up plan: get the California Supreme Court to throw out the people's will.

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Posted at 10:39am on Jan. 21, 2007 Working for the man

By wcvarones

Every month, my cell phone bill is a stark reminder of the amount of taxes we pay to fund an out-of-control government.

My $59.99 phone plan comes with more than $15, or 26%, tacked on in taxes.

Factor in the federal and California state (9.3%!!!) income tax, and I have to earn $115 to pay a $59.99 phone bill.

Now what does my cell phone provider, Verizon, earn on this? Their profit margin is 14.7%, meaning they earn $8.82 on a $59.99 phone bill -- before corporate income taxes. After taxes, they keep $6.16.

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Posted at 11:48pm on Oct. 25, 2006 Barack Obama wants to kill babies born alive

By wcvarones

I was initially favorably disposed to Barack Obama, especially after his clean government work with Tom Coburn.

And I'm a libertarian and moderately pro-choice on abortion (at least in the very early term).

But Barack Obama's blocking a bill to prevent the murder of live-born babies is just too much:

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Posted at 12:13am on Oct. 21, 2006 Google supports pedophiles

By wcvarones

Google has made it clear that Madeleine Albright parodies must be hidden from the eyes of children. And costumed Disney employees dry-humping each other must be censored due to "copyright infringement."

And of course, human rights groups have to be censored for Google to make billions in China.

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Posted at 11:16am on Oct. 5, 2006 A journalist's paranoid racist Scalia fantasies

By wcvarones

Slate writer Dahlia Lithwick covered the Supreme Court's first day, and was shocked -- shocked! -- at this Scalia comment on whether a deported convicted felon is still on supervised release while in Mexico:

"Nobody thinks your client is really, you know, abstaining from tequila down in Mexico because he is on supervised release in the United States."

The horror! Suggesting that someone might drink tequila, a well-known and widely promoted Mexican liquor, while in Mexico!

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Posted at 10:33am on Sep. 15, 2006 Nature Conservancy, you are Put On Notice!

By wcvarones

I have been a big supporter of The Nature Conservancy for a long time. It was my favorite charity because it used donations to purchase and preserve property in voluntary, open-market transactions. Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman would approve. Contrast this to groups like the Sierra Club, which use their funds to lobby politicians and promote coercive public policy changes.

No more. I was deeply disappointed to read this:

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Posted at 10:14am on May 23, 2006 Dianne Feinstein: mass amnesty not massive enough

By wcvarones

Feinstein: not just amnesty for people who have broken the law for two or five years, amnesty for everyone who's been breaking the law for at least four months!

But check out this nugget, deep within the story, that explains why this amnesty is a fraud doomed to fail like the last amnesty:

"I'm not at all confident that our Senate bill is really workable," [Senator Sam] Brownback said even as he defended legalization. "This five year-two year distinction -- you're going to create (millions) of people trying to determine (whether they) were ... here two years or five years. And that's a lot of adjudications."

Many immigration analysts agree, pointing to arbitrary cutoff dates as a major failure in the last major immigration overhaul approved by Congress, in 1986.

Requirements to prove the duration of one's stay in the United States -- through pay stubs, rent receipts and the like -- "is almost an invitation to fraud," said Deborah Meyers, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.

"People who have been here under two years have every incentive to prove they've been here longer," Meyers said. "People who have been here four years have every incentive to prove they've been here five years. Politically it might make sense, but you need to consider the workability of these proposals."

Well, duh! If an illegal alien is sophisticated enough to get past Bush's "high-tech" border, patrolled by sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads, do you really think he won't be able to get a few of his buddies to vouch for him, saying he's been working here for years? Illegal aliens posessing fake documents?!? Sacre bleu!!!

How on earth do you think we're going to be able to prove who's been here 5 years and who hasn't? And how will Dianne Feinstein prove who's been here four months?

Any amnesty is an open invitation for millions more illegal aliens to come pouring across the still-unsecured border and claim they have been here for whatever arbitrary amount of time the jackasses in Washington require.

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Posted at 2:17am on Mar. 19, 2006 San Francisco War Protest

By wcvarones

I went to the protest.  Pics here:

http://wcvarones.blogspot.com/2006/03/san-francisco-war-protest.html

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Posted at 12:38pm on Mar. 11, 2006 Schwarzenegger's drunken-sailor spending plan thwarted by Republicans

By wcvarones

Due to gerrymandering, Republicans make up a tiny minority of the California legislature. Fortunately, some actions require more than a simple majority.



Governor Schwarzenegger's massive debt-and-spending plan won't make the ballot, because Republicans stuck together and rejected it.

Last November, California's retarded voters voted to continue the gerrymandering system. It does result in fewer Republicans in the legislature, but it also results in safe, conservative districts for the Republicans that remain. That means you tend to get real conservatives rather than moderate RINOs in those seats. And a minority of true conservatives who stick to their principles is enough to block some of Schwarzenegger's dumber ideas.

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