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Monthly Archives: June 2015

The Shared Responsibility TAX: ObamaCare a hit with the Supremes…

28 Sunday Jun 2015

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Three years ago today I really opened the old blog with this missive on the Obamacare fiasco. Three years later and we have yet another approving ruling from the Suprems of Minas Morgul. Remember how hard the GOP fought to repeal this insanity? Neither do I. More on the recent developments soon. Perrin

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On this scalding, 100 degree plus day, with wildfires burning ominously across the land, our friends at the U.S. Supreme Court have upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 20101 (a.k.a., It’s Just Another Tax Act).   Mind that they did not uphold it, Constitutionality speaking; they just upheld it.  It’s a hold-up, with real guns and all.  I reread the Constitution this morning and could not find any authority regarding patients or affordable care.  Maybe I missed something.

The case is National Federation of Something vs. Cerberus, Dark Lord of the Ministry of Health and Human Taxes.2  It’s a 193-page doozie and not worth reading.  If you must, skip to the final two pages wherein Justice Thomas throws up his dissenting hands and screams, “WTF?!”  Allow me to save you some time and tears.  The Court’s legal reasoning [SIC] goes like this – Congress…

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Coming Soon

26 Friday Jun 2015

Posted by perrinlovett in News and Notes

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Soon, perhaps Sunday, I will have more on the sure to be law Trade Act, Gay marriage, and, just in time for the third anniversary of my post on Obamacare in the Supreme Court, more on Obamacare in the Supreme Court.

Stay tuned for all the fun!

Choose Freedom

24 Wednesday Jun 2015

Posted by perrinlovett in News and Notes

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freedom, Harry Browne, Individual, Liberty, The People, Wal-Mart, Washington

Everywhere I turn these days the people seem to clamor for help, for security rather than for freedom.  Our mega institutions from Washington to Wal-Mart are ever happy to oblige.

Yesterday, over at LRC, I read a great column on the subject of individual liberty by Edward Curtin:

“The only way to deal with an unfree world,” Albert Camus wrote, “is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

William James said it was a choice.

Could the first act of freedom be to snap your fingers and say, “Yes, I am free, free at last.”

This piece reminded me of the late, great Harry Browne’s How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World (1973).

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H. Browne (RIP), Amazon.

Both are worth serious review by anyone who lives in the modern world but suspects he might actually desire a little personal liberty.

Happy Third Anniversary!

24 Wednesday Jun 2015

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Today the blog turns 3 years old!  It all started with this simple post:

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In a few days I’ll be celebrating the anniversary of my first real post.  See you then.

Traders and Traitors

20 Saturday Jun 2015

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns, News and Notes

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America, Congress, Democrats, H.R. 1314 (2015), law, Obama, Republicans, Rick Allen, Rush Limbaugh, The People, trade, welfare

I can’t let this story go. I wrote recently again and again about H.R. 1314 (2015). President Obama (Democrat) and his Congressional Allies (Republicans) are pushing like all Holy Hell to enact new, secret and unprecedented trade authority.  This may spell the end of employment and prosperity in America.  Ho Hum.

The Trade Act of 2015 does the following:

* The TPP was constructed in secret by corporations. Congress and the public had no input. This is fundamentally undemocratic and undermines transparency in government.

* It is a trade deal that increases corporate power and CEO bonuses.

* Thousands of jobs out-sourced to countries that do not respect human rights or worker’s rights.

* It allows transnational corporations to sue countries if they believe they have been harmed (sometimes speculatively) in a trade agreement written by corporations and behind closed doors.

* Expands the deregulation of banks, hedge funds and insurance companies. Remember the Wall Street crash of 2008 due to deregulation? Regulations keep corporations honest and prevent them from harming us.

* Harms environmental regulations in counties that are part of the TPP.

           – Remember NAFTA and CAFTA? Well, here comes SHAFTA.

Do you like secrecy, unregulated bank power, and Washington control of … everything? Like your job?  Hate it? Want to give it to some H1-B foreigner?  If so, you’ll love H.R. 1314.  It covers the globe where NAFTA and CAFTA left off.

Remember, just for now, that we have a two-party political system. The Democrats and Republicans are diametrically opposed, remember? Rush Limbaugh says so.  Pay no heed to the support for H.R. 1314 and the corresponding Congressional votes.  The Two Parties are really different despite their similar support for the destruction of America.

A week or so back I recounted the story of my phone call to Rich Allen, he of Congress, supposedly representing me:

Last week, prior to the vote and temporary corporate profit defeat, I called my Congress Critter, one Rick Allen, for his input.  While I live in his District, he does not necessarily represent me.  Since the departure of Ron Paul I have had no semblance of representation in Washington.  So it goes.

Amerika being what it is these day I was unable to speak directly with my employee. Rather, I had a conversation with a polite young fellow named Eric.  He laughed and admitted, yes, much of the Bill is secret. (F’ing hilarious!) He did note that I could read all about the public parts – see Thomas quotes, above.  True to his position and the nature of his work he would not say definitively whether my boy Allen was in favor of sending more jobs oversees and more money to Wall Street.

As an aside, Allen did vote against the Bill.  Then he immediately voted to keep it alive for future consideration.  How very political of him.

Eric was well aware of the TPA chant at the baseball game.  Though he was not present he did state that several of his office mates were.  I warned him of what Marcus Aurelius said about this kind of thing.  The Roman leader and philosopher was solidly against jingoistic public displays of partisan passion.  My warning was likely lost – then and now.

       – Perrinlovett.com, Id.

On June 18, 2015 the Republican dominated House, in utterly insane fashion, voted 218 – 208 to move the Trade Act along and voted more of your jobs towards destruction.

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My Boy, Allen, voted along with the 218 of Death.  Thomas.

I called “my” “representative” Rick Allen to discuss his vote.  I called his office at (202) 225-2823 (call them for grins and giggles). Rick’s polite young colleague, Ethan, answered.  I thanked him and the whole office for the vote.  I noted that I do not like my current job and that a foreigner should take it over.  I thanked them all. I then asked how I could apply for welfare. Ethan said he would not answer my rhetorical question. I am happy he could disseminate my sarcasm.

This Bill will become “law.”  Brace yourselves for third-worldom and the happy trappings thereof.  Contact your Congressman.  Join the discussion!

Through The Roof: Overcoming An American Tragedy

20 Saturday Jun 2015

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns, News and Notes

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America, Charleston, church, CIA, crime, Drug "War", drugs, Dylan Roof, freedom, government, guns, Jesus, Joe Arpaio, murder, Obama, people, police, race, State

**NOTE** This piece was written under the influence of pain killers and prescription strength muscle relaxers.  I really really hope it makes sense to you, my beloved readers.  ***

You, by now, have surely heard of Dylan Roof. A drug-addled, psychotic, racist piece of walking, talking sh*t in a form resembling man, Mr. Roof has done America a tremendous service in spite of his initial nefarious designs.

Earlier this week I had intended to write something about a different story out of South Georgia.  It also involved violence against the innocent although it was dispensed by a gang or group of deranged savages – the police.  Let me briefly touch on that story and how it relates to Dylan’s rampage.

Last year David Hooks and his wife, Teresa, were the victims of a burglary which resulted in the theft of their family vehicle.  Naturally, perhaps unwisely, they reported the crime to police.  The police, ever slow to solve property crimes, solved this one fast.  They apprehended the suspect and interviewed him.  Being a weasel, he said the drugs in his possession were found in the Hook’s stolen vehicle.  The police, being either incompetent or gullible, believed the thief and pursued a warrant against the Hooks.

During the night of September 24, 2014 the cops, attired in SWAT costumes, executed a search warrant at the Hooks residents.  Teresa, fearing the burglar(s) had returned called for David’s help.  David emerged with a shotgun and was promptly shot dead by the heavily armed police.  Of course, no drugs or other illegal items were found during the specious search.

Thus did the innocent David Hooks, 59, become the another causality (collateral damage) in the idiotic “war on drugs” in 21st Century America.

Business as usual, the police in Dublin are standing behind their actions.  No criminal charges will flow from this travesty of “justice.”  The Hook family will receive a settlement in their civil suit but this will not bring David back from the dead nor actively deter the police from future murders.  Is your War on Drugs really worth this?  This scenario unfolds every day.

What caught my eye about this story was the support generated for the Hook family. The hooks are white.  During a courthouse rally over this injustice many black civil rights activists from Atlanta showed up in support and outrage.  A disciple of the late Josea Williams stated that now white people would be brought into the struggle against police injustice.  The police shoot to death innocent people of all races almost every day.  It is an epidemic which is largely ignored outside of the black community, blacks being, historically, the primary victims of this “war.”

I rejoiced in that perhaps people would wake up and unite.  Then Dylan Roof came along.

On the evening of June 17, 2015 Dylan Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. A prayer service was underway.  Dylan participated or at least sat quietly for an hour.  Dylan is white, the Church is predominantly black.

I have been the white face in a “black” church before.  I have never experienced the feeling of being the “white face” but rather a sensation of love and welcome as a brother of Christ.  I find black churches to be largely more Christian and less country club than many of their “white” counterparts.  Dylan no doubt experienced the same treatment.

Despite his kind, Christian treatment Dylan, without any provocation, shot and murdered nine church members – members who had just welcomed him with open arms.  Dylan is a white racist who hates blacks for no reason.

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Dylan Roof, intoxicated redneck f*ck, dishonors the Confederate Battle Flag, guns, America, and all humanity. UK Daily Mail.

Dylan’s plan was to start a race war between blacks and whites in America.  As sure as Jesus cast demons from out mens’ hearts, Dylan’s plan has backfired.  Matthew 4:10; Luke 11:14.

In his “manifesto” Dylan declared, “N****rs are stupid and violent…. Black people view everything through a racial lense [sic].”  To solve this problem Dylan acted in the most stupid and violent manner possible against the most helpless and decent people he could find.

You know what happened at the AME church.  You know about the manhunt and Dylan’s capture.  You have intense feelings about this crime as do I.  Initially I called for Dylan’s execution.  This came from my heart in spite of my distrust of the American legal system in general and the death penalty specifically.  Thus was the force of emotion.

I wrote on a friend’s Facebook posting the comment: “Hang. Him. High.” I then remembered what I had written about the death penalty in South Carolina only a short time before: “Gandalf answered [Frodo] masterfully: ‘Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.’”

My own inconsistency here illustrates several points.  The State, having surrendered its legitimacy, should never be in the position of deciding whether anyone lives or dies. Christians should not seek nor rejoice in the execution of any criminal.  Dylan, like so many modern mass murderers, was under the influence of psychotic drugs initially developed by the CIA in an effort to effect mass mind control (MK Ultra).

Many have been the vacuous debates about the motives and influences behind these murders.  President Obama roundaboutly blames guns in society.  Guns rights folks blame our debased criminal society.  Dylan’s use of and convictions for legal and illegal drugs are mentioned.  Suspicious people like me see a government angle to the story. In the end, Dylan Roof did this and bears responsibility.  Despite my rationalization and research I still (sadly) stand by my knee-jerk statement of “Hang him.”  God help me, Dylan and everybody else.

Roof appeared by television before a Magistrate Judge.  The case against him is astounding.

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Dylan Roof faces SC justice.  USA Today.

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Charleston’s Mayor speaks about Roof and the death penalty.  USA Today.

As I said, Dylan’s plan for a war have backfired.  America has instead been brought together as rarely before.  Charleston is not Baltimore or Ferguson.  The country is galvanized against violence.  In Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has dispatched his mostly white civilian posse to guard black churches.

In Charleston victims of the crime have expressed forgiveness for Dylan in displays of love which nearly defy belief.  I mentioned my Facebook comments herein. Several of my FB friends have linked the following story:

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“We are all Sandlappers.”  Facebook/Lauren’s County Sheriff’s Department.

A man tracked down Dylan via Facebook and posted the following on his page:

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Marcus Stanley is a much bigger man than I. IJReview.

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Marcus Stanley (R), 10 feet tall and made of gold.

SSRI drugs may play a part in the majority of modern American mass murders. However, the forgiveness and togetherness brought about by Dylan Roof are unprecedented.

While writing this story I interviewed two black gentlemen on their thoughts. Tito, a cigar brother, said, “Where we are as a country is sad.”  “In God’s house to commit those crimes is sad.”

Tito’s visiting friend, Gerard Ousely, of Durham, N.C. said: “Our country has been polarized.  In a sad state of affairs, we’re letting the minority run the majority.” He went on: “Nine people got killed behind hatred.”  “People die because of poor police tactics, racism, hatred, it’s just ridiculous.” “We the majority need to get behind what’s right.”

The time has come to stand together against evil, whether from the State or from each other.  Join the majority, join what is right.

They’ll Get It All From You Sooner or Later

17 Wednesday Jun 2015

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns, News and Notes

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Have you ever been to the Yankee Capital on the Potomac?  I have.  The place stinks of corruption and swamp gas (mostly corruption).  The air is heavy with a dread sense of impending doom.  It is the opposite of Disney Land. It is the least happiest place on earth.

Washington is overrun with an odd assortment of con artists, criminals, psychopaths and their sycophants.  Worst of the worst are the elected trash under the Capital dome and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  These grafting lunatics continually foist scheme after scheme on the unenlightened American People.  They want everything: your money, your freedom, your property, your children, your obedience, and your very lives. These otherwise unemployable degenerates are the front men for what George Carlin used to call “The Big Club.” It’s an organization of wealthy pirates, money changers, politicians and other villains.

The Club gets what it wants – everything – all the time.  Watch and listen as George lays it all out (around 2:00 min. in he states my title):

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George on Youtube.  WARNING: Video contains strong TRUTH.

Lately, the Club has been pushing another criminal trade act.  I commented on the Act (H.R. 1314) last time I rambled.  Normally, I let these things go with one or two posts but this one is special, unusual.  The anomaly lies in the relentless bi-partisan way this Bill is being rammed through the legislative process.

The Act itself is the work of President Obama (a Democrat).  It has nominal Democratic support in Congress.  The fighting power behind this insane drive comes from the Republicans in Congress (Republicans are the opposite of Democrats, remember?).

The purpose of this satanic work of corporate lobbying and largess is to steal the last of your money and employment and deposit them into the greedy, dirty hands of foreigners and Wall Street banksters.

There are a number of uncomfortable truths associated with American politics.  One is that Republicans, supposedly the though, all-American, good old boys, are some of the most spineless wimps every embodied.  They roll over for anything and everything. Obamacare: they let it ride.  Crushing debt: they fight it until they don’t.  Babies being murdered by the millions: they are “outraged” if impotent.  These losers normally provide a little surface friction for the cameras and then let anything go.  It’s their role under our ONE PARTY SYSTEM.  Imagine professional wrestling with a all “heels” cast.

This time around the GOP is fighting like wild banshees, fighting like nothing I’ve ever seen in my lifetime.  Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and company are risking everything on this one.  They have taken Obama’s pass and are headed to the end zone come hell or high water.  Like Tom Brady they may have to take a short suspension for cheating but they will win this one – for the Club.

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 16:  (L-R) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) attend the bipartisan signing of the Medicare Access CHIP Reauthorization Act 2015, H.R. 2, press event at the Capitol on April 16, 2015 in Washington, D.C. H.R. 2, commonly known as "Doc Fix", is  a bipartisan bill to strengthen Medicare and fix its payment formula for doctors. CHIP refers to the Children's Health Insurance Program. (Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)

Meet the Real terrorists. Politico.com/Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images.

In a separate but related story Sen. Orin Hatch (R, Utah) has introduced a Bill to help more foreigners take jobs from you via the H1-B visa program.  He will get his way on this.  The Salt Lake Tribune opines he should seek to fix the program instead of expanding it.  Why not just end it and let Americans make a living in America? Oh yeah, that doesn’t benefit the Club.

The Club, like the WWE, knows it has a PR problem.  After decades of being screwed over, even the dumbest, slowest American sap begins to suspect something is amiss. Enter a “face” character, a hero for the common man – cut from uncommon cloth.  Last night on CSPAN I watched Donald Trump lay out his bombastic, non-specific plan to save the Nation.  The Donald is running for President.

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No donors required!  Forbes/Getty.

Trump is the “outsider” in a field of some 6,000 or so Republicans seeking the most dishonest job under the sun.  I heard him say things that made him stand out.  I liked a lot of it.  Most of it sounded like a sales pitch.  That’s the beauty and wonder of Donald Trump – he is the best salesman in the world.  He said many of the right things.  He cursed and called our current crop of idiot “leaders” out as just that – stupid people unqualified for their positions.  I liked that part.  He also told the cheering crowd (watch for yourself) he would make America great again.  I really liked that.  He stated some plain and uncomfortable truths; he said what few others dare.  I loved it.  Can he deliver?

Many slick salesmen don’t deliver the goods they promise.  Trump usually does.  When he boasts about a new skyscraper with the best of everything under its roof, a magnificent structure will surely follow.  Can he deliver in the political field? Real estate development is a noble endeavor.  Trump excells at it.  He builds real things that benefit real people.  That’s what development is all about.  Politics is about lies, deception, illusions and anything but useful creation.

I don’t think The Donald will fit in.  I don’t think he can be the change needed.  I think Ron Paul was the last hope for that – back in 2008.  Now, it would seem a little to late to retool and rebuild.  The hope now is in mitigating the damages and preparing for a new future.  Part of me hopes I’m wrong and that we are not past the point of no return. Part of me hopes to get to the future (hopefully one without the Club) as fast as possible – a little pain for a while then a fresh start. Time will tell.

Beyond Trump’s pomp and sales pitch I heard several nuggets which plainly proclaimed Trump to be a $9 Billion business as usual candidate.  Trump is opposed to the afore-mentioned Trade Act.  He also says he will “repeal and REPLACE” Obamacare.  I’ll bet he has plans to replace the Trade legislation too.  That will not cut it.  Abstinence is the only deal with the devil which ever pays off.  One cannot tune the forces of darkness to one’s whims and expect peace.

Similarly, Trump says he will “save” Social Security.  This echoes the age-old Republican mantra of shoring up, replacing, privatizing, or re-working that failed communist program.  Abolishing it is never an option.  No mind that we did just fine as a country for 159 years without such welfare confiscation.  Re-imagined evil is still evil.

Remember all of this should you shuffle into a voting booth next fall.  Your vote, be it for the billionaire, the old hag, ANOTHER BUSH, the shirtless cool dude, etc., will be in vain. The spirit of Carlin and I will waiting on you down the street at the cigar club or the gun range.

Secrets of the Trade (and other Bullsh*t)

14 Sunday Jun 2015

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns

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Recently I wrote of the coming wave of destructive evil from Washington (the latest, as that tide ever brings the same).  Courtesy of Barry Obama and John (the tan smoker) Boehner “your” federal government is moving towards new, secret, and purely ruinous foreign trade powers.

Frequently I deride the horrors of politicians and politics in general – see these links for details.  The New York Times and NPR report that, as of Friday, the malicious train of ObamaTrade has been temporarily derailed.  I say temporarily because things like this are usually a done deal once they start.

“Eighty-six Republicans voted for the program, more than double the 40 Democrats who supported it. But the trade adjustment assistance bill failed when 303 voted against it.

Republican leaders then passed, in a 219-to-211 vote, a stand-alone bill that would grant the president the trade negotiating authority he sought. But that measure cannot go to the president for his signature because the Senate version of the legislative package combined both trade adjustment and trade promotion.”  New York Times.

I was pleased the popular press reported on this issue – they lacked the zeal these reserve for important stories (say, about Caitlyn Jenner) – but they did, at least, report.  I was a little dismayed they left off important reference information for the inquisitive public. The Bill in question is H.R. 1314(EAS), the Trade Act of 2015.

This gem of K Street legalese would, among other things, amend the Tax Code of 1986 in order to help large organizations make more money at your expense.  It would also grant the President new and unprecedented unilateral trade powers.  Pay no heed to that Congressional consent nonsense in the Constitution.

Get a load of this:

(b) Principal Trade Negotiating Objectives-
(1) TRADE IN GOODS- The principal negotiating objectives of the United States regarding trade in goods are–
(A) to expand competitive market opportunities for exports of goods from the United States and to obtain fairer and more open conditions of trade, including through the utilization of global value chains, by reducing or eliminating tariff and nontariff barriers and policies and practices of foreign governments directly related to trade that decrease market opportunities for United States exports or otherwise distort United States trade; and
(B) to obtain reciprocal tariff and nontariff barrier elimination agreements, including with respect to those tariff categories covered in section 111(b) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3521(b)).
(2) TRADE IN SERVICES- (A) The principal negotiating objective of the United States regarding trade in services is to expand competitive market opportunities for United States services and to obtain fairer and more open conditions of trade, including through utilization of global value chains, by reducing or eliminating barriers to international trade in services, such as regulatory and other barriers that deny national treatment and market access or unreasonably restrict the establishment or operations of service suppliers.
(B) Recognizing that expansion of trade in services generates benefits for all sectors of the economy and facilitates trade, the objective described in subparagraph (A) should be pursued through all means, including through a plurilateral agreement with those countries willing and able to undertake high standard services commitments for both existing and new services.

            – H.R. 1314, Sec. 102. TRADE NEGOTIATING OBJECTIVES.

More:

(4) AGGREGATE REDUCTION; EXEMPTION FROM STAGING-
(A) AGGREGATE REDUCTION- Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the aggregate reduction in the rate of duty on any article which is in effect on any day pursuant to a trade agreement entered into under paragraph (1) shall not exceed the aggregate reduction which would have been in effect on such day if–
(i) a reduction of 3 percent ad valorem or a reduction of 1/10 of the total reduction, whichever is greater, had taken effect on the effective date of the first reduction proclaimed under paragraph (1) to carry out such agreement with respect to such article; and
(ii) a reduction equal to the amount applicable under clause (i) had taken effect at 1-year intervals after the effective date of such first reduction.
(B) EXEMPTION FROM STAGING- No staging is required under subparagraph (A) with respect to a duty reduction that is proclaimed under paragraph (1) for an article of a kind that is not produced in the United States. The United States International Trade Commission shall advise the President of the identity of articles that may be exempted from staging under this subparagraph.
(5) ROUNDING- If the President determines that such action will simplify the computation of reductions under paragraph (4), the President may round an annual reduction by an amount equal to the lesser of–
(A) the difference between the reduction without regard to this paragraph and the next lower whole number; or
(B) 1/2 of 1 percent ad valorem.

            – H.R. 1314, Sec. 103, TRADE AGREEMENTS AUTHORITY.

Make any sense to you?  Of course not. And, this is the part that is open for public inspection.  A shadow bill, the real law, is still locked up and under armed guard in the Capital basement vault.  What kind of government operates like this?  Sadly, “ours’ does.

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(Breitbart.)

Members of the respective houses of Congress can (allegedly) enter the vault to read the shadow text.  Rand Paul did so.  “’I think I am not supposed to reveal the details of it, but I can tell you it was about 800 pages long,’ Paul said.” Breitbart.  “Paul said he thinks the secretive process makes it look like the government has “something to hide” and that he thinks if Obama opened up the process it’d make it easier for several Senators—and the American people—to truly understand what it is they’re voting on.” Id.

They do have something to hide.  They always do.  The details are in the vault, so to speak.  The fact that a U.S. Senator has to keep mum about the text demonstrates this without question.

Another telling facet is the desperation among Republicans and the White House to pass this filth.  “The fate of the trade legislation now depends on Obama’s ability, along with business-friendly interests, to persuade dozens of Democrats to switch their votes before a planned do-over vote early next week.”  Washington Post.

The President is literally pleading with his own party to help him screw the American People.  He’s already won over many of the “loyal opposition.”  At a Washington Nationals ballgame last week “a bizarre scene unfolded as the crowd crammed inside Nationals Park lurched into a chant about the legislation. ‘TPA! TPA! TPA!’ chanted Republican congressional aides seated near the first base dugout when Obama stepped onto the field at the top of the fourth inning.”  Fox News. “TPA” refers to Trade Prostitution Act.

Another telling feature is the desires of large U.S. corporate interests to pass the Bill. The more power their political puppets have, the more money they can make.  You and your retirement plans be damned.  “’Manufacturers will not back down in this fight for expanded trade, for the future of our industry and our country,’ the National Association of Manufacturers said in a statement.”  Business Leaders React With Dismay to Defeat of Trade Bill, New York Times.  Naturally, they have yachts to buy.

Some out here in the real country get it.  “Do you remember back in the 1990s when the United States entered into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)? And the subsequent Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)? These trade agreements have not worked out well for American workers. American jobs went to Mexico. American workers were laid off and communities devastated. American companies, just to increase their profits, built their production plants in Mexico and paid their workers pennies on the dollar for their labor.”  Remember NAFTA and CAFTA? Well, here comes SHAFTA, Economy in Crisis.

Unfortunately, we have not learned our lesson — even after two decades of failed trade agreements. Right now Congress is considering entering into another trade agreement with South Pacific countries named the Trans Pacific Partnership, otherwise known as TPP. However, this trade agreement is even more onerous than previous failed trade agreements.

* The TPP was constructed in secret by corporations. Congress and the public had no input. This is fundamentally undemocratic and undermines transparency in government.

* It is a trade deal that increases corporate power and CEO bonuses.

* Thousands of jobs out-sourced to countries that do not respect human rights or worker’s rights.

* It allows transnational corporations to sue countries if they believe they have been harmed (sometimes speculatively) in a trade agreement written by corporations and behind closed doors.

* Expands the deregulation of banks, hedge funds and insurance companies. Remember the Wall Street crash of 2008 due to deregulation? Regulations keep corporations honest and prevent them from harming us.

* Harms environmental regulations in counties that are part of the TPP.

The corporations are now done writing their secret trade agreement, and Congress now has to vote up or down on the law. The Obama administration is seeking “fast track” authority from Congress in order to complete the negotiations. This means there will be no committee hearings, expert testimony or amendments. The Obama administration is taking this anti-democratic approach because they know if this treaty was debated, it would never become law.

              – SHAFTA, Id.

Read that again.  Let it sink in.

Last week, prior to the vote and temporary corporate profit defeat, I called my Congress Critter, one Rick Allen, for his input.  While I live in his District, he does not necessarily represent me.  Since the departure of Ron Paul I have had no semblance of representation in Washington.  So it goes.

Amerika being what it is these day I was unable to speak directly with my employee. Rather, I had a conversation with a polite young fellow named Eric.  He laughed and admitted, yes, much of the Bill is secret. (F’ing hilarious!) He did note that I could read all about the public parts – see Thomas quotes, above.  True to his position and the nature of his work he would not say definitively whether my boy Allen was in favor of sending more jobs oversees and more money to Wall Street.

As an aside, Allen did vote against the Bill.  Then he immediately voted to keep it alive for future consideration.  How very political of him.

Eric was well aware of the TPA chant at the baseball game.  Though he was not present he did state that several of his office mates were.  I warned him of what Marcus Aurelius said about this kind of thing.  The Roman leader and philosopher was solidly against jingoistic public displays of partisan passion.  My warning was likely lost – then and now.

If you care you may contact some staffer of your “representative,” whoever that may be.  Just click this little link to locate your dedicated servant: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/.

You may be able to visually pick him/her out of the following picture.  This photograph is of a general Congressional pow-wow over the Bill last week:

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(They do all look the same.  Google.)

 

 

 

 

Cigar Update!

14 Sunday Jun 2015

Posted by perrinlovett in News and Notes

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One week ago I loosed upon the unsuspecting public Viva Vivalo!, chronicling the life and great success of Patrick Vivalo. As usual, I make a few mistakes.  Patrick kindly corrected me in that his awesome sticks are crafted in Honduras (not the D.R.) and that, while he has a special lineup for 23 elite shops, better shops everywhere carry his wares.  If you read the article you will find these changes seamlessly blended in.

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(When I finally flee to the hills, I’m looting these for the duration. thecigarauthority.com.)

Also, [drumroll please…] I am working on an interview of sorts with Jose Blanco and unnaturally beautiful Emma Viktorsson of Senorial Cigars.  This shall be developed in my usual slow pate.

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(Picture blatantly pirated by Perrin.)

Denny Slams His Victim

07 Sunday Jun 2015

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Last week I brought you the disturbing news about one of our beloved political “leaders” – Rodentia Americanus Denny Hastert.  Yes, I have already convicted the filth by way of opinion but, then again, I know these people – I have no doubts here.  They possess an evil aura or force one can actually feel like a slap in the face.  Long days I spent in the dreadful confines of the Dark City on the Potomac with them.  I would rather not recount those experiences and I never want to go back there again. It is my mission to do what I can to disrupt their Satanic plans for you and yours.

I caught a little hell from the GOP peanut gallery.  Yes, the Democrats do the same things.  I never said they do not.  As the RepubliCONS are held to some mythical standard of purity I find it much more interesting when they (always) fall from grace. The truth is they have no grace, no souls, no redeeming qualities.  Keep your partisan political-centric idiocy to yourself.

More has emerged on the sordid life and times (crimes) of Denny “The Molester” Hastert – out of the closet, one might say. One victim of the former House Speaker has been identified as Steve Rieboldt (deceased).

I knew Denny had picked on one of the younger, lesser members of his available pool of victims.  This is the way of the wolf; always going for the weak.  The young man (and I know there were more) was the wrestling team manager (the towel boy) back in the 70’s in Illinois.  He probably loved the sport and wanted to be around it while lacking the necessary physicality to compete.  He probably, more than any other squad member, had to spend time with his demented teacher.

Rieboldt’s sister, Jolene, spent years trying to bring this horrible abuse to light.  Her brother died in 1995 thanks in part to the lifestyle imparted by the Speaker.  That rat, then a corpulent member of Congress, had the audacity to appear at the funeral.  Jolene confronted him boldly:

“I was just there just trying to bite my tongue thinking that blood was coming out because I was just… So after he had gone through the line I followed him out into the parking lot of the funeral home,” Jolene said. “I said, ‘I want to know why you did what you did to my brother.’ And he just stood there and stared at me. He didn’t say, ‘What are you talking about?’ you know, [or], ‘What? I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ He just stood there and stared at me.

“Then I just continued to say, ‘I want you to know your secret didn’t die in there with my brother. And I want you to remember that I’m out here and that I know.’ And again, he just stood there and he did not say a word.”

Hastert got in his car and drove away. Jolene said Hastert’s non-response “said everything.”

 – Jolene Rieboldt, ABC News.

God bless this strong and devoted sister.

Republicans are supposed to be the American tough guys.  They stand for national defense, guns, and self-reliance.  Bullshit, all of it.  Note that this perverted freak didn’t have the nerve to confront or even murmur a response to a woman.  Such it often is; those who prey on children are themselves the weakest, lowest bullies known to man. If confronted by an angry father or brother they will literally self destruct.

Hastert now stands accused by his own government of crimes against that government and the all-powerful banking lobby.  Laws like this serve only the powerful elite; they are a plague on the rest of us.  A real police entity, given to protecting people (not money), would go after this useless shit for what he did to children.  But, so we have it in modern Amerika.  Banks and money are protected at all costs.  The weak and innocent are left to fend for themselves or rely on our vigilant women for protection.

Think about this case the next time some damned elected “servant” grovels on TV about his plans to help you.  You’d be better off appealing directly to the assistance of the Devil himself.  Sic Semper Tyrannis!

 

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