Today is May 9th. On this date in 1962, scientists in Lexington, Massachusetts successfully bounced a laser off the moon for the first time. The moon surrendered to scientists shortly thereafter in the famous “Lunar Peace Accords” negotiated by Jackie Gleason. As part of the agreement, the show The Honeymooners aired its final episode on this date in 1971. Also on this date, in 1950, L. Ron Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health , the foundational book in Scientology. As soon as it hit the shelves, Hubbard danced and jumped all over Oprah’s sofa, then blocked Trey Parker and Matt Stone on Twitter. And finally, today is “National Lost Sock Memorial Day”. Please observe a moment of silence. We are all socks today. Consider this an Open Thread . Get ready for the Postal Service bailout | Human Events “To illustrate just how much of a joke the Senate postal bailout is, the comedians at House Oversight uploaded YouTube video of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid explaining why seniors ‘love junk mail,’ because it’s ‘sometimes their only way of communicating, or feeling they’re part of the real world.’” Juddmentum for Obama challenger, federal inmate Keith Judd? Aw yeah! | Twitchy “This morning, conservatives on Twitter are continuing to have a blast with the #Juddmentum hashtag.” Video: What a history lesson can do for an Occupier | Hot Air “The irony here, of course, is that the history lesson of democracy gets delivered by a former refugee from the former Soviet Union, but the history lesson doesn’t just end with the USA.” Big Labor Attempts to Commandeer American Airlines | CFIF “Instead of allowing American’s bankruptcy restructuring process to run its natural course, and a stronger airline to emerge, American’s unions have acted in a manner that can only serve to muddle and complicate the situation.” Protesters Went Nuts On Bank Of America’s Shareholder Meeting And The Results Were Hilarious | Business Insider “Occupy movement protesters descended upon Bank of America’s Charlotte, North Carolina headquarters today to disrupt the annual shareholder’s meeting.” Today’s Word of the Day comes via Dictionary.com cicatrix (SIK-uh-triks): noun 1. New tissue that forms over a wound. 2. Botany . A scar left by a fallen leaf, seed, etc.
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Well now. One Rick Bookstaber has come out with a defense of class warfare. And endorsing Karl Marx. Who is Rick Bookstaber, you may ask? He is a member of the Obama Administration. Specifically, in his words: I am currently working in the Office of Financial Research . Until recently I was Senior Policy Adviser to the Financial Stability Oversight Council as well as Senior Policy Adviser at the SEC. Mr. Bookstaber has some interesting views on class warfare, which he has just discussed yesterday on his blog. Apparently following the Daily Caller ‘s Tucker Carlson at a Washington event, an event where Mr. Carlson denounced class warfare, the Obama appointee took offense at the notion there was something wrong with class warfare. So he took to his blog to disagree with Carlson, saying that: I am not picking sides in this, but I believe such a “war” can be justified, and indeed ultimately is inevitable. Stunningly, this Obama appointee then favorably cites the founding father of Communism, Karl Marx, saying that “… it is not surprising that Marx stated the central battle of class warfare at the time in terms of the working day.” Then comes this quote directly from Marx: The capitalist maintains his rights as a purchaser when he tries to make the working-day as long as possible, and to make, whenever possible, two working-days out of one. On the other hand…the laborer maintains his right as seller when he wishes to reduce the working-day to one of definite normal duration. There is here, therefore, an antinomy, right against right, both equally bearing the seal of the law of exchanges. Between equal rights force decides. Hence is it that in the history of capitalist production, the determination of what is a working-day, presents itself as the result of a struggle, a struggle between collective capital, i.e., the class of capitalists, and collective labour, i.e., the working-class. — Marx, Das Kapital Bookstaber resumes, saying (and we have done the bolding in the quote below): Marx begins with an acknowledgement of the perception of rights on the part of both the capitalist and the laborer, but then argues that the question of the length of the working day cannot be solved by an appeal to rights, but only through class struggle, wherein “force” decides between “equal rights”. (Force can mean physical force, but can also mean the force of the political process). The central point is that there is no way that this question of the working day or any number of other social questions, though posed as rights by the groups in conflict, can be resolved without being reformulated in terms of class struggle or class warfare. ” So what do we have here? After a weak hedge (against the inevitable firestorm to come?), a member of the Obama Administration — who divides his time between advising Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner and the SEC — admits on his personal blog that he agrees with Karl Marx on class warfare. That “class struggle” must be decided by “force” — and that yes indeed, again in his words “Force can mean physical force” and, oh yes, “the force of the political process.” And oh by the way, this means issues must be “reformulated in terms of class struggle or class warfare.” Where have we heard this belief in Marx before? Here . From former SEIU leader Andy Stern lauding the Marxist slogan “workers of the world unite.” Stern is an Obama ally who was noted at one point early in the administration for having visited the White House 22 times. And here from Ron Bloom, the Obama auto czar. Mr. Bloom, a former union official turned Obama “Manufacturing Czar.” Mr Bloom is seen here saying that the free market is nonsense and that he agrees with Mao that “political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun.” Is there a doubt in the world left as to what is going on within the inner councils of the Obama Adminstration?
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Obama Official Endorses Marx on Class Warfare
Most characteristic of this preaching [of the Great Leap Forward] was its utopianism, the promise of a bright future just in the offing, “three years of suffering leading to a thousand years of happiness.” — Franz Schurmann writing in Ideology and Organization in Communist China Forward! Comrades, you can’t make it up. Can you say “campaign blunder”? Or is it a blunder? Is it deliberate? The socialist mind at work in campaign mode? The Obama campaign has picked a portion of one of the most infamous socialist slogans of 20 th century history to use as its own new campaign slogan. “Forward” is the new Obama slogan, Team Obama borrowing boldly from none other than the late Communist Party of China leader Chairman Mao. Mao’s slogan? “The Great Leap Forward.” Rather than describing this myself, let’s take a tour of various descriptions of this wonderful, Communist slogan. Here’s Wikipedia :
Remember the olden days – before the coolest man in the world became President – when the networks reported weekly and monthly casualty counts in the War on Terror? April was the bloodiest month in the history of the Afghan war. At least 33 members of the U.S. military were killed and many more were
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Media Ignores Bloodiest Month in Afghan War
Citizen activists who are working to safeguard the integrity of America’s election system should know they will be outspent and viciously maligned by left-wing pressure groups in 2012. But they should also know that they are on the right side of the history and that they are winning. This was the central message John Fund, a TAS senior editor , and J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department attorney, conveyed to audience members at the “True the Vote” Summit held this past weekend in Houston, Texas. True the Vote was founded after the 2008 elections in response to ACORN-led efforts that resulted in voter registration fraud. Since then, the group has developed an “exportable model” used to train poll workers across the country so they can identify and root out corrupt practices at the ballot box. Fund, who is also the author of Stealing Elections , cited new polls numbers from Rasmussen that showed that minorities favored voter identification laws by a slightly higher percentage than whites. That’s because minorities, be they black, Hispanic or Asian, tend live in areas where voter fraud is more prevalent, Fund explained. Liberals who invoke false allegations of racism in an effort to block ID laws are actually doing minorities a great disserve, Fund argued. “I believe the biggest victims of voter fraud today are minorities,” he said. “They obviously support it [voter ID], they think voter fraud is a more serious problem than anyone…Their leadership has failed them by yelling racism in a crowded little theater, and by dividing us rather than uniting us. Their entire edifice is built on fraud and misrepresentation.” A large part of the problem at the local level stems from “patronage armies, hacks and consultants, who do politics for a living,” Fund observed. “They need to win, because they need to eat. It’s not about an honest living.” Adams, the former DOJ attorney, has described in his column for Pajamas Media how an “industry of voter fraud deniers” is out to sabotage American elections with financial backing from George Soros and various liberal foundations. Adams is also the author of InJustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department. The “denier” network includes: the ACORN-affiliated Project Vote, Advancement Project, Asian American Legal Defense Fund (AALDF), Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Brennan Center for Justice, Common Cause, DEMOS, League of Women Voters, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO). Voter integrity activists should not be discouraged by the scope and magnitude of the opposition, Adams said. Even so, they should have an understanding of the tactics that will be used, he added. “Everything you do has to be above board,” Adams said. “They [the vote fraud deniers] are liars. Give no quarter. The war between the righteous and the deceivers is as old as time. Don’t let them set the narrative…race will be used as a weapon.”
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John Fund, J. Christian Adams on Voter Fraud
