Even Castro Says Moore’s Over The Top

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Even Castro Says Moore’s Over the Top

In 2007, Michael Moore unveiled a so-called documentary film Sicko, which praised Cuba’s womb-to-tomb healthcare system. But, according to U.S. diplomatic cables posted by WikiLeaks, the Communist dictatorship of Fidel and Raul Castro knew the film depiction was “mythical”—so much so, in fact, that they banned the film in Cuba. The Castro brothers, a U.S. diplomat wrote in ’08, “know the film is a myth and do not want to risk a popular backlash by showing to Cubans facilities which are not available to the vast majority of them.” The cable pointed out that the high-class treatment center filmed by Moore for his film is reserved for top government officials and foreign tourists—and ordinary Cubans are banned from it.

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New Congress sets its eyes on oversight

Washington (CNN) — The new Republican-majority House will vote on repealing or changing last year’s health care overhaul before the State of the Union address, Rep. Fred Upton, incoming chairman of the energy and commerce committee, said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Upton, a Michigan Republican, said that his party had 242 votes in favor of repeal, and that “there will be a significant number of Democrats who will join us.”

if the House does manage to repeal the health care bill, such a move would likely meet strong obstacles in the Democrat-controlled Senate and White House.

Reid Will Open January Senate Session With a Power Grab Attempt

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If American citizens needed more proof that Harry Reid, the scumbag Senator of the once-proud state of Nevada, but which now should hang its collective head for voting Reid back into the United States Senate, his latest nasty venture for unbridled power should provide that validation.

Not satisfied that he got the Lame Duck Congress to pass more “gawd-awful” legislation such as Don’t Ask -Don’t Tell authorization to turn our mighty military forces into “wusses-in-boots” and the START Treaty that makes the world’s strongest country’s arsenal look more like a third world tin-hat dictatorship where the bow and arrow will be its most formidable weapon, he wants even more.

Almost Everything Is A Crime In America Now

Doesn’t it seem like almost everything is becoming a crime in America now?  Americans are being arrested and charged with crimes for doing things like leaving dog poop on the ground, opening up Christmas presents early, not recycling properly, farting in class and having brown lawns.  But is it healthy for our society for the police to be involved in such silly things?  Every single day the United States inches closer to becoming a totalitarian society.  While there are some that would welcome this shift, the truth is that throughout history the societies that have experienced the greatest economic prosperity have all had at least a certain level of freedom.  Business thrives when people feel free to live and work.  When a government tightens the grip too much many people just start shutting down.  Just look at places like North Korea.  Even though the rest of the world is sending them huge amounts of food starvation is still quite common in that totalitarian regime.  That is why it is so disturbing that it seems like almost everything has become a crime in America now.  As we continue to criminalize relatively normal behavior our slide toward becoming a totalitarian state will only accelerate.

We are throwing anyone and everyone in prison these days.  It is getting absolutely ridiculous.  Today, the United States leads the world in the number of prisoners and in the percentage of the population in prison.  The United States has 5% of the world’s population, but approximately 25% of the world’s incarcerated population.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, as of the end of 2009 a total of 7,225,800 people were either on probation, in prison or on parole in America.