DEBT CEILING 101

This is a ckear and simple explanation of something I've seen completely misunderstood in arguments on Facebook recently. Being a musician and a songwriter, I really appreciate these kinds of articles since I, like so many, don't have any background to understand financial matters and the inner workings of our government seems like a matrix made of quicksand.

Mike Patton wrote this article on Forbes:I write for a world filled with confusion and self-interest. If you agree that people search for simple, straight-forward and unbiased analysis follow along as we "Make Cents" of topics ranging from the economy (including a splash of political analysis), the world of investing, and financial planning (ex; estate & tax, insurance, risk management, and retirement strategies).

In this article, we will explain the debt ceiling; examine a few rules that govern it, discuss the current national debt, and reveal what could happen if Congress fails to raise it.

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CNBC Disaster Debate: Full Republican Debate Grades

Ben Shapiro nailed this debate 100% - I agree completely!!

(He came up with a VERY funny nickname for Kasich.)

Here are the grades:

• Trump - B
• Carson - C
• Rubio - A
• Cruz - A
• Bush - F
• Fiorina - B
• Paul - D
• Huckabee - C
• Christie - B
• Kasich - F
• CNBC - Z

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A place to help people with modest needs

Founded in 2002, Modest Needs is a non-profit organization with a unique, threefold mission. Modest Needs exists:

To responsibly provide short-term financial assistance to individuals and families in temporary crisis who, because they are working and live just above the poverty level, are ineligible for most types of conventional social assistance but who (like many of us) are living one or two lost paychecks away from the kind of financial catastrophe that eventually leads to homelessness;

To lessen the burden of state and federal agencies charged with the care of the truly indigent by doing everything in our power to stop these at-risk households from slipping into the cycle of poverty, despite the burden posed by an unanticipated, emergency expense; and

To promote compassion and generosity on the part of individual persons living in the United States and Canada, the areas that we serve, by standing as a living testament to the power of human kindness to change lives, no matter how much (or how little) a person has to share.

ModestNeeds.org

COMPROMISE

The word "compromise" only ever comes up when leftists think that Republicans are not going to go along with their agenda!

Enemies of the state do not have loyalty to this country as founded. Progressives have been trying to change the country since Woodrow Wilson was elected president, and radicals took over after the Left killed one of their own: JFK. Cultural Marxists , facilitated by members of The Frankfurt School, began the disintegration of our shared values (why people died trying to get to this country). The declassification, in the mid-1990's, of The Venona Project documents verified beyond the shadow of a doubt that Communists had infiltrated this country at every level, not only the government or Hollywood.

Any more compromise, and we're going to compromise ourselves right out of the freest, most prosperous nation the world has ever known.

Any questions?

Everybody Has To Pay This New Obamacare Tax

THE DAILY CALLER:

This year the tax will cost individuals more than $500 in extra premiums according to one actuarial estimate. Families who purchased insurance will see their premiums go up by more than $700.

The new tax also hits senior citizens who rely on Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage. It will land on the nation’s poor who depend upon Medicaid-managed care programs.

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OBAMA CALLS ISLAM "OUR RELIGION"

Fox News:

“We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends,” Obama said during remarks at the Multi-Faith National Prayer Breakfast. He singled out the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, calling the militants a “death cult,” as well as those responsible for last month’s terror attacks in Paris and deadly assault on a school in Pakistan.

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Obama Administration Declares War on Franchisors and Subcontractors

In a series of unilateral moves, the Obama administration has been introducing an entirely new regime of labor law without benefit of legislation, upending decades’ worth of precedent so as to herd as many workers into unions as possible.

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Donald Trump On Today’s Benghazi Hearing and State of the 2016 Race

HUGH HEWITT SHOW - OCTOBER 22, 2015:

TRANSCRIPT

AUDIO

Is it Presidential...

Is it Presidential to continually lie to the American people telling them what they want to hear, only to do the opposite?

Is it Presidential to cozy up to the media and began censoring the message via your staff threatening manners?

Is it Presidential to lie directly to the interviewer with intent to do something different and then lie months later again and say you didn’t actually say what you did say?

Is it Presidential to constantly make statements about what the American people desire when you understand fully they don’t desire your message?

Is it Presidential to have a meeting with multiple media peoples outside the preview of cameras to formulate a false message and then have that same said media go out an propagate your false message?

Is it Presidential to have people working in and around your cabinet and other appointed positions which have immediate family members and/or spouses working at all major media outlets communicating and coordinating their news stories and interviews to match your intended message so as to maximize the belief of the people in your false narrative?

Is it Presidential to lead from behind?

Is it Presidential to refuse to allow the American people access to who you are and use the office to go after anybody wishing to know where you came from and what motivates you?

Is it Presidential to fundamentally transform the greatest country in the world into the most divided country on Earth?

Is it Presidential to say, “All this for a fucking flag,” and then laugh it off with the first lady?

Is it Presidential to say, “The most beautiful sound I’ve heard in my entire life, is the Muslim call to prayer?”

Is it Presidential to wear a ring stating, “There is no God but Allah,” while stating you are a Christian?

Is it Presidential to campaign against school of choice while sending your own daughters to private school?

Is it Presidential to state openly we need to get rid of guns while sending your own daughters to private school escorted by armed security?

Is it Presidential to go on vacations totaling triple the expenses of all other Presidents combined?

Is it Presidential to go on “family” vacations that which you go to one destination and the “family” goes to another location?

Is it Presidential to fly your pet dog separate than the family in a full size jet because it didn’t match your planned schedule properly?

Is it Presidential to live as the President and have nobody in America ever see you with a friend from your college days?

Is it Presidential to not be able to keep any friend longer than a few years?

Is it Presidential to have as your number one advisor a person that which was born in Iran?

Is it Presidential to welcome the Muslim Brotherhood into the White House and take them off the terror watch list when the world labels them a terrorist organization?

Is it Presidential to spend more money than that of all the Presidents before you combined?

Is it Presidential to give money to those who donated to your campaign and not to those voting you into office?

Is it Presidential to freeze the debt clock at 18.5 Trillion dollars so as the debt increases to over 20 Trillion dollars you won’t have the American people in the know and thus not bring attention to your criminal ways?

I hope I represent all of the American people when I say, “If the above is Presidential than we don’t need a President.”

I hope I represent all of the American people when I say, “Get the hell out of office already so Americans can began digging ourselves out of this pit of despair you’ve thrown us into.”

I’m just an ordinary citizen and I thank you in advance for your answers.

--Josh (10/21/15)

BREAKING NEWS: Animals Asia to rescue eight bile farm bears in Vietnam

Animals Asia has rescued more than 550 bears from the bear bile trade in China and Vietnam. In China, where bear bile use remains legal, more than 10,000 caged bears remain facing daily bile extractions.

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The Animals Asia Vietnam rescue team are back in Quang Ninh - this time to rescue another eight bears – closing seven bear bile farms in the process. The rescue will take two days. Follow their progress live via this timeline.

MilkFlower rescue - live timeline

WSJ: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DELIBERATELY MISLED THE NATION

WALL STREET JOURNAL:

Thanks to Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testimony on Thursday, we now understand why the former secretary of state never wanted anyone to see her emails and why the State Department sat on documents. Turns out those emails and papers show that the Obama administration deliberately misled the nation about the deadly events in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012.

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White man evil; noble savage good

"White man evil, noble savage good. The same guilt-mongering claptrap that’s been around since Rousseau..." --Dr. Jack Wheeler

THE NEW YORK SUN, 2/2/2005:

"I have lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia," Winston Churchill was once heard to remark. Now, of course, we have all heard of Cambodia. It was there, in the 1970s, that one of the most drastic programs of social engineering in all of history was carried out. The Khmer Rouge, a peasant movement led by utopian leftists educated in postwar Paris, took over the country and began shoveling her population around like wet concrete, with the aim of eliminating forever such bourgeois blights as private property, money, love, education, and religion.

The Khmer Rouge practiced a collective style of leadership, but from 1968 onwards a middle-aged cadre named Saloth Sar emerged as first among equals. In 1970 he changed his name to Pol Pot, for reasons he never explained. It is as Pol Pot that he is known to history; and it is under this name that he is commonly listed with the other ideologically driven gangster-despots — Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Kim, and Castro — who brought so much destruction and misery to the world in the 20th century.

Like most communist leaders, Pol Pot came from a well-off family...

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Obama and Hillary: Crimes and Scandals

There's more, but you get the idea:

President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated]:

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/06/president-barack-obamas-complete-list.html

Obama Administration Scandals (from the attorneys at Powerline):

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/category/obama-administration-scandals

21 most consequential Clinton scandals, ranked from most important:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/12/bill-clinton-hillary-clinton-scandals-ranked-from-/

Have We Forgotten The Noakhali 1946 Genocide of Hindus?

“Reports published in the press and statements of public workers depict a scene of bestiality and medieval barbarity that must fill every decent human being with shame, disgust and anger. “British correspondent of The Statesman remarked,

“Experience of the second world war has made my nerve quite strong. But even war is not such barbaric. It is middle age type insanity. And it was given a horrible shape”

Why haven't we heard about this?

If the readers are wondering as to why such a major tragedy has not come to light, they should thank Nehru and subsequent Congress governments. Ignoring world renowned and respected historians like R.C.Majumdar, all educational institutions like NCERT & ICHR have been given to Marxists and Muslims like Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, Gopal Krishan and R.S.Sharma. Their common qualification is their hatred for Hindu dharm and everything that it stands for.

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NBC Confirms Obama Lied About Bin Laden Raid

The one thing that President Obama could hail as a success during his tenure as President has now been exposed as an outright lie.

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BTW: Florida voter errors cost Al Gore the 2000 presidential election

For all my foreign readers and readers who don't know or don't remember, our 2000 presidential election is the reason why politics in the United States turned as horribly bitter and divided as it continues to be today!

There is a two-part TV documentary which premiered in Britain and America on February 20, 2012 that reveals how friends and colleagues around Bill Clinton around, speaking publicly for the first time, tell of their disbelief and sense of betrayal about Monica Lewinsky affair. This made Al Gore's victory all the more important for the Democrats to be vindicated and redeemed.

Today, disappointed and angry Democrats will continue to go to their graves believing that George W. Bush "stole" the election from Al Gore and NOTHING will dissuade them from this virulent grudge.

Because our country got rich and fat and FORGOT OUR ROOTS, and also because we have become a nation of celebrity and charisma junkies, we will ALL lose our freedom and the window to turn things around has almost closed as Mark Levin has so well and passionately documented.

Please keep this story handy if you, like I did today, run into someone who still hangs onto that myth:

USA TODAY:

George W. Bush would have won a hand recount of all disputed ballots in Florida's presidential election if the most widely accepted standard for judging votes had been applied, the first comprehensive examination of the ballots shows. However, the review of 171,908 ballots also reveals that voting mistakes by thousands of Democratic voters — errors that legally disqualified their ballots — probably cost former vice president Al Gore 15,000 to 25,000 votes. That's enough to have decisively won Florida and the White House. Gore's best chance to win was lost before the ballots were counted, the study shows. Voters' confusion with ballot instruction and design and voting machines appears to have changed the course of U.S. history.

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TWO QUESTIONS

Question one: was Hitler wrong to disarm the Jews? Why or why not?

(Or if you’re a Godwin’s law adherent: was the South wrong to forcibly disarm blacks?)

And question two, should they deign to answer the first one: why did Hitler disarm the Jews?

Ben Carson’s Progressive Critics Are Terrified Of Answering This Question

The reason pro-gun control progressives really, really, really do not want to answer those questions is because the answers are obvious. Hitler disarmed the Jews because it made the whole process of murdering them easier on the Nazis. The Nazis didn’t want to get shot, so they disarmed anyone and everyone who might shoot at them. Like most evil tyrants, Hitler preferred to commit genocide without running the risk of being slowed down by those he intended to oppress and murder. His reason for gun confiscation was no different than the rationale used to disarm blacks in the American South.

Sean Davis is the co-founder of The Federalist.

THE MOST RIVETING CAR CHASE YOU WILL PROBABLY EVER SEE (MOVIES OR OTHERWISE)

The Sugar Land Police Department’s recent capture of a serial bank robber has helped to clear cases in at least six...

Posted by Sugar Land Police Department on Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Obama collecting personal data for a secret race database

NEW YORK POST:

Such databases have never before existed. Obama is presiding over the largest consolidation of personal data in US history. He is creating a diversity police state where government race cops and civil-rights lawyers will micromanage demographic outcomes in virtually every aspect of society.

The first black president, quite brilliantly, has built a quasi-reparations infrastructure perpetually fed by racial data that will outlast his administration.

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HEALTH FREEDOM VS. OBAMACARE FASCISM

...there are three basic propositions of Health Freedom legislation:

1. Health Care is so incredibly expensive in America because of government intervention into the medical marketplace.

2. Health care costs can only be radically reduced by an equally radical reduction of government regulations and subsidies.

3. Just as health care costs will be radically reduced, both the availability and the quality of health care will be radically increased by such a reduction of government intervention.

Given this, here are:

Ten Specific Legislative Means By Which Health Freedom Can Be Achieved:

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THE REAL STORY OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON

[Early Monday evening, 9/28, Ted Cruz gave one the greatest and most courageous speeches in the history of the US Senate. Below is the full video, followed by the full text. Watch and read it carefully, and you may well agree that Ted Cruz now stands head and shoulders above any of his rivals for the presidency. –Dr. Jack Wheeler]

"Now, how is it you might wonder that a preemptive surrender is put in place?"