tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84761152024-03-12T22:02:39.236-04:00The Cassandra Page"And indeed, the burden of Cassandra's "gift" is evident in mythology. She predicted the outcome of many disastrous events. In one memorable example, Cassandra announced the dire consequences of the Trojans accepting the infamous Wooden Horse from their Greek opponents. But as Apollo made certain, no one believed Cassandra when she warned her companions about the future. And this, in the end, was to be Cassandra's tragic fate."
The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.comBlogger2042125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-48360856157407102292017-10-05T22:41:00.000-04:002017-10-05T22:44:08.817-04:00Some things are predictable. As the days go on in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, it is becoming a safe bet that two predictions will come true:
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(1) Stephen Paddock will officially be known as a lone gunman, despite all of the questions and inconsistencies that exist. There may even be an official report, although I do not think they will be stupid enough to call it the "Warren Report." Numerous conspiracy theories will pop up in response, most of which will be wrong. Part of me wants to say that we will never hear the end of this, but the next massacre will overshadow it - especially if that massacre involves more victims.
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(2) Hotels will become as hard to access as airports became in the wake of 9-11. Metals detectors will appear at every entrance. There will be restrictions on what we can take in and out. It is possible that the restrictions will apply only to high-rise hotels near populated areas, but I would not count on it. It is possible also that high-rise hotels will no longer be built with rooms that provide a view to crowded areas. I suppose it will depend on the litigation that emerges in the coming weeks and months.
The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-37660822876749054642014-09-28T16:41:00.002-04:002014-09-28T16:43:03.501-04:00Quote of the day - Will Durant It is easier to rule a state in its decline than in its youth; diminished vitality almost welcomes subjugation.
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Will Durant, <b><i>The Renaissance</i></b>, p. 699 (writing of late-Renaissance Florence)
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The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-43365275710801766802014-08-03T15:09:00.000-04:002014-08-03T15:09:27.698-04:00Quote of the day - Camille Paglia - AIDSEveryone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.
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Camille Paglia - <b><i>Sex, Art, and American Culture</i></b> p. 216
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The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-50489957341606455122014-07-10T23:17:00.000-04:002014-07-10T23:22:02.403-04:00Quote of the day - Camille PagliaHollywood Bible movies of the Fifties, like <i><b>The Ten Commandments </b></i>and <b><i>Ben-Hur</i></b>, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more truth about art and society than the French infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best" American higher education.
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Camille Paglia - <b><i>Sex, Art and American Culture</i></b>, p. 208The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-39423601047795225842014-01-03T14:11:00.003-05:002014-01-04T12:05:22.381-05:00Deadly winter conditions prove the "warmists" wrong once again.More evidence to disprove "global warming" from the Winter of 2014. <br />
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- Steve Czaban discusses <a href="http://czabe.blogspot.com/2014/01/oh-yeah-you-will-freeze-to-death-and-it.html?showComment=1388770299514#c3104562054320684365">frigid temperatures and their effects on football fans</a>. <br />
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- <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/01/03/Winter-storm-brings-snow--kills-at-least-9">AP reports on sub-zero temperatures and at least 9 deaths </a>so far. <br />
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- <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/03/weather-winter-northeast/4302001/">Cancelled flights and -60 wind chill temperatures (USA Today). </a><br />
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- <a href="http://www.myfoxny.com/story/24337826/snow-storm-tristate">storm conditions in New York (Fox 5).</a> <br />
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New York City-area authorities on Thursday urged residents to stay home, ordered highways be shut down and scaled back some mass-transit service as a dangerous snowstorm barreled into the region from the Midwest</blockquote>
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<b><i>Update - 1-4-14</i></b>
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The situation will get worse over the next few days.
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<blockquote><blockquote>The temperature predictions are startling: 25 below zero in Fargo, N.D., minus 31 in International Falls, Minn., and 15 below in Indianapolis and Chicago. At those temperatures, exposed skin can get frostbitten in minutes and hypothermia can quickly set in because wind chills could hit 50, 60 or even 70 below zero.
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- <a href="http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2008/01/ice-bowl-ii-giants-packers-2008-vince.html">Ice Bowl II (2008), Ice Bowl I (1967) and 1961</a>. <br />
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- <a href="http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/search/label/Winter%20of%202008">Winter of 2008</a> <br />
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- <a href="http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/search/label/winter%20of%202007">Winter of 2007</a>
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- <a href="http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/search/label/Winter%20of%202009-2010">Winter of 2009 - 2010</a>
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The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-26156831639120624022013-12-06T20:14:00.000-05:002013-12-06T20:15:54.053-05:00Quote of the day - Mark Steyn - Obamacare - Hoover Dam; Golden Gate Bridge; Apollo 11.Obamacare is as close to a Hoover Dam as latter-day Big Government gets. Which is why its catastrophic launch is sobering even for those of us who've been saying for five years it would be a disaster. It's as if at the ribbon-cutting the Hoover Dam cracked open and washed away the dignitaries; as if the Golden Gate Bridge was opened to traffic with its central span missing; as if Apollo 11 had taken off for the moon but landed on Newfoundland. Obama didn't have to build a dam or a bridge or a spaceship, just a database and a website. This is his world, the guys he hangs with, the zeitgeist he surfs so dazzlingly, Apple and Google, apps and downloads. But his website's a sclerotic dump, and the database is a hacker's heaven, and all that's left is the remorseless snail mail of millions and millions of cancellation letters.
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<a href="http://www.steynonline.com/5889/those-who-cant-govern">Mark Steyn - 12-4-2013
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The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-36501415490043234372013-11-23T11:36:00.000-05:002013-11-23T11:36:17.506-05:00Quote of the day - Leonello"It is an ancient opinion, not only of the Christians but of the Gentiles, that the heavens, the sea, and the earth must some day perish; in like manner, of many magnificent cities nothing but ruins leveled with the ground can now be seen, and Rome the conqueror herself lies in the dust and is reduced to fragments; while only the understanding of things divine and human, which we call wisdom, is not extinguished by length of years, but retains its rights in perpetuity."
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Leonello - edict issued upon reorganizing the University of Ferrara (1442)
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as quoted in Durant, <b><i>The Renaissance</i></b>, p. 268-269 (quoting Ella Noyes, <b><i>Story of Ferrara</i></b>, 1904, p. 82).
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<br/>The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-44300581175324962252013-11-21T21:24:00.000-05:002013-11-21T21:24:04.391-05:00J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth; 50th anniversary book recommendation. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, I will recommend one book to balance all of the usual propaganda. The book is not about the assassination. It was written while Kennedy was still alive (late in his presidency). It is voluminous and comprehensive. It is humorous and well-documented.
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Rather than serving as "revisionist" history, it presents facts that would be common knowledge today if the myth-makers of the <a href="http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2005/01/msmdnc-singular-noun.html">MSM/DNC</a> did not control the media and education establishment.
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The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-86576261093253841952013-11-17T12:30:00.002-05:002013-11-17T12:32:11.675-05:00The consequences of tyranny; Perugia.In case you are wondering what happens when a society succumbs to one-party despotic rule, read the following passage on the city-state of Perugia (in Renaissance Italy). The author describes the result of one party (Baglioni) seizing total power after expelling their opponents (Oddi) around 1445 A.D. Keep in mind the lesson for our own future and the ultimate price of selling your liberty in exchange for a few government handouts. You will not merely be hurting "the rich," the "tea party," "big insurance," Sarah Palin, Republicans in Congress or some other devil scapegoat that the left happens to target. You will be creating chaos for yourselves and destroying your own livelihoods and peace of mind. Tyranny has consequences. <br />
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From the day the Oddi were expelled, our city went from bad to worse. All the young men followed the trade of arms. Their lives were disorderly, and every day divers excesses were divulged, and the city had lost all reason and justice. Every man administered right unto himself, by his own authority and with royal hand. The pope sent many legates, if so be the city could be brought to order. But all who came went back in dread of being hewn to pieces; for the Baglioni threated to throw some from the windows of the palace, so that no cardinal or other legate durst approach Perugia unlesss he were their friend. And the city was brought to such misery that the most lawless men were most prized; and those who had slain two or three men walked as they pleased through the palace, and went with sword or poignard to speak to the podesta and other magistrates. Every man of worth was trodden down by bravos whom the nobles favored, nor could a citizen call his property his own. The nobles robbed first one and then another of goods and land. All offices were sold or else suppressed; and taxes and extortions were so grievous that everyone cried out.</blockquote>
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Francesco Matarazzo, <b><i>Cronaca</i></b> (as quoted in Durant, <b><i>The Renaissance</i></b>, p. 242.)
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<br/>The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-15708630700904434922013-11-10T01:09:00.001-05:002013-11-10T01:11:29.150-05:00Quote of the day - Will Durant So men hand down to their successors their heritage - their lore and codes and skills; and transmission becomes half the technique of civilization. <br />
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<br w="" />The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-10319517430591838842013-11-06T22:45:00.000-05:002013-11-06T22:46:22.821-05:00Quote of the day - Leonardo da VinciIf you are alone, you are all your own; with a companion you are half yourself; so you squander yourself according to the indiscretion of your company.
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Leonardo da Vinci [as quoted by Will Durant, <i>The Renaissance</i>, p. 216]
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The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-56027405840814312882013-10-09T21:05:00.001-04:002013-10-13T00:51:37.998-04:00Quote of the day - Ann CoulterIf you are in the minority of Americans not already unalterably opposed to Obamacare, keep in mind that the only reason the government is shut down right now is that Democrats refuse to fund the government if they are required to live under Obamacare.
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Ann Coulter - <a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-10-09.html">October 9, 2013</a>
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<br/>The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-4943017067695484222013-09-11T11:03:00.000-04:002013-09-11T11:03:11.438-04:00September 11th anniversary; Shoud the U.S. now help Al Qaeda? The tragic irony of today's anniversary is this - at the same time that we commemorate the events of September 11, 2001, we are seriously debating whether we should commit U.S. air and naval forces to help the people that attacked us on September 11 so that those people can win a war and take over yet another country.
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If you voted for Obama in the last two elections (or either of them) you probably don't know that I am referring to the current controversy over whether we should bomb Syria. For those who still don't understand, here is a brief summary: Syria is fighting against Al Qaeda (even though that doesn't mean that Syria is good). (Al Qaeda is definitely bad, because they are the group that attacked us on September 11, 2001.) <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-110913.html">The Obama administration wants to bomb Syria because Syria allegedly used chemical weapons in Syria's war against Al Qaeda.</a>
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While the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_UNITED_STATES_SYRIA_FACT_CHECK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-09-11-03-03-47">newspapers and networks debate the issue of whether Assad used chemical weapons</a> or whether he will surrender those weapons or whether we will negotiate some other resolution, the western <a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/09/06/mark-steyn-blunt-words-about-muslim-backwardness/">dhimmitude marches on unceasingly</a>.
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Instead of discussing whether the U.S. is still at war against Al Qaeda, the networks will focus, instead, on (1) whether the "first responders" are properly funded and (2) the particular pieces of granite on which the names of the 9-11 victims are etched.
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Radical islam is patient. The islamists suffered many casualties as a result of attacking us on 9-11. But they now can bide their time while we forget. Remembering the victims or the first responders is not the same as fighting the war - especially if we find ourselves fighting on the wrong side. The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-72127486738776170052013-09-02T07:03:00.000-04:002013-09-02T07:03:00.596-04:00Quote of the day - Will Durant An age of political excitement is usually a stimulant to literature . . . [b]ut a state always verging on bankruptcy, and engaged in almost permanent revolution, does not favor art - and least of all architecture.
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Will Durant, <i>The Renaissance</i>, p. 163
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The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-57916907911087486182013-09-01T16:32:00.001-04:002013-09-01T16:33:39.448-04:00Quote of the day - Joe SobranSeriously, folks, this was a far more literate country when it spent
far less money on its schools. I'll say it again: in one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college.
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Joe Sobran - <a href="http://www.sobran.com/issuetexts/2001-04.htm">April 2001
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<br/>The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-89576743318302153012013-08-25T18:33:00.001-04:002013-08-25T18:35:50.011-04:00Quote of the day - G. K. Chesterton“The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school."
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~ G.K. Chesterton
The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-924525691087750742013-07-22T07:47:00.000-04:002013-07-22T07:47:00.392-04:00Quote of the day - Will Durant; Lorenzo De Medici; FlorenceThe merchants preferred economic prosperity to political freedom; the proleteriat was kept busy with extensive public works, and forgave dictatorship so long as Lorenzo [De Medici] supplied it with bread and games. Tournaments allured the rich, horse races thrilled the bourgeoisie, and pageants amused the populace.<br />
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Will Durant, <strong><em>The Renaissance,</em></strong> p. 117 (writing of Florence <em>circa</em> 1480-1490).The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-8838752271217311372013-07-21T08:37:00.000-04:002013-07-21T08:37:00.928-04:00Quote of the day - Daniel Greenfield Al Sharpton, MSNBC’s in-house bigot and hate-crime king, had his usual words of wisdom to offer after the Zimmerman verdict.<br />
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“What this jury has done is establish a precedent that when you are young and fit a certain profile, you can be committing no crime… We had to march to even get a trial and even at trial, when he’s exposed over and over again as a liar, he is acquitted.”<br />
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Sharpton should be quite familiar with this state of affairs from the Crown Heights Pogrom, which he led, back in 1991. Mobs incited by Al Sharpton attacked anyone who looked like an Orthodox Jew.<br />
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Anthony Graziosi, a 67-year-old Italian man with a white beard, whose only crime was looking like an Orthodox Jew was murdered. So was Yankel Rosenbaum, who actually was an Orthodox Jew.<br />
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While liberal White Privilege shouters insist that only black people get killed for how they look, these two men were killed by black people for looking like Jews.<br />
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Lemrick Nelson, Rosenbaum’s killer, got away with it, despite stabbing Rosenbaum after shouting “Kill the Jew”. He was acquitted by a majority black jury, some of whose members then went out to party with the killer’s lawyer.<br />
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<a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/56669">Daniel Greenfield - July 20, 2013</a><br />
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The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-76050521785959295002013-07-20T16:25:00.001-04:002013-07-20T16:27:27.512-04:00Quote of the day - Jim Treacher"Trayvon could've been me, 35 years ago [quoting Barack Obama]." This is big. Can we track down the Hispanic guy he beat up for being gay? <br />
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Jim Treacher - <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/19/obama-goes-full-race-baiter/">7-19-2013</a>The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-48726702107771703152013-06-10T22:38:00.000-04:002013-06-10T22:38:03.778-04:00Quote of the day - Will Durant - The RenaissanceBut it took more than a revival of antiquity to make the Renaissance. And first of all it took money - smelly, bourgeois money: the profits of skillful managers and underpaid labor; of hazardous voyages to the East, and laborious crossings of the Alps, to buy goods cheap and sell them dear; of careful calculations, investments, and loans, of interest and dividends accumulated until enough surplus could be spared from the pleasures of the flesh, from the purchase of senates, signories, and mistresses, to pay a Michelangelo or a Titian to transmute wealth into beauty, and perfume a fortune with the breath of art. Money is the root of all civilization. <br />
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Will Durant, <strong><em>The Renaissance</em></strong>, (1953) pp. 67, 68The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-15083075884131455262013-06-09T16:11:00.000-04:002013-06-09T16:11:36.756-04:00Quote of the day - Mark SteynIt may be that the strange synchronicity between the president and the permanent bureaucracy is mere happenstance and not, as it might sound to the casual ear, the sinister merging of party and state. Either way, they need to be pried apart. When the state has the capability to know everything except the difference between right and wrong, it won’t end well.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/350537/all-seeing-state-mark-steyn/page/0/1">Mark Steyn - June 7, 2013</a><br />
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The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-13773330544237738732012-12-13T12:33:00.000-05:002012-12-13T12:33:09.555-05:00Harry Belafonte advises Obama to imprison political opponents; RevengeHarry Belafonte (as a guest on MSNBC) has advised President Obama to<a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/12/belafonte-advice-to-obama-imprison-opposition-like-a-third-world-dictator-video/"> imprison his political opponents "like a third world dictator." </a> <br />
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If you are not sure exactly who it is that Belafonte wants to see imprisoned, I have a pretty good guess. It is the same people that President <a href="http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/search/label/Revenge">Obama wants to get "revenge"</a> against. The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-54507389429539201582012-11-29T23:02:00.000-05:002012-11-29T23:15:32.389-05:00401(k) accounts to be seized?; Obama's revenge. On <a href="http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2008/11/americas-future-under-obama-retirement.html">November 1, 2008, I predicted</a> that Obama would seize private retirement accounts, including 401(k)'s. I provided <a href="http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-to-tamper-with-401ks-iras.html">more detail on November 15, 2008</a>. <br />
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A story in <a href="http://business.time.com/2012/11/28/fiscal-cliff-why-congress-might-have-to-mess-with-the-401k/">Time Magazine now appears to lay the groundwork</a> for just such action. If Time Magazine is pushing a policy, you can bet that such a policy is already a high priority on the agenda of the Democrats in Washington. <br />
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This is more of what Obama had in mind when he spoke of getting <a href="http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2012/11/revenge-vs-love-of-country.html">revenge</a>. If you have a retirement account, you are part of the answer to the question - "Revenge against who?"<br />
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The only way to address this oncoming robbery to is publicize the issue now as often as possible. If opposition grows now, enough politicians might get scared away from supporting such a measure. <br />
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Also, publicity will cause people to stop contributing to their IRA's and 401(k)'s. [It may even cause some people to withdraw their funds now, regardless of the penalties.] This decline in contributions will place downward pressure on the stock markets. Declining stock and equity values in general will present a less inviting target for the government. <br />
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This is an example of why it is good to elect Republicans, even if they will not reverse the disastrous course the U.S. is on. If a Republican congress or president can merely <em><strong>slow down</strong></em> the onrushing socialist consolidation of power, some of us might reach retirement age before they seize our retirement accounts. <br />
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<br />The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-69402141410419316092012-11-07T12:25:00.000-05:002012-11-08T14:20:08.117-05:00Revenge vs. Love of CountryYesterday's election saw the victory of "revenge" over "love of country." <br />
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Every so often, a politician accidentally speaks the truth (or something close to it). Last week, Obama said something very revealing about his own motivations and those of his supporters. <br />
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We will shortly find out what form that revenge will take. <br />
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We will not know the answer to the question, "Revenge for what?" Even last night's victors and their supporters don't know the answer to that question. <br />
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We already have a pretty good idea about the answer to the second question, "Revenge against who?" Here is a hint, if you do not draw a payecheck, benefit check or other income from the government, you are it.
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The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476115.post-52764592630757637522012-11-04T01:15:00.000-04:002012-11-04T01:15:53.367-04:00Benghazi and ChappaquiddickAt first it might seem like a stretch to compare Benghazi with Chappaquiddick, but the similarities exist. Modern pundits are anxious to compare every scandal to Watergate. But not every scandal is like Watergate. Some scandals lend themselves to other comparisons. <br />
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In both cases, politicians allowed people to die over the course of hours. Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama abandoned their victims for their own political benefit. The victims lingered and struggled for life for many hours while Kennedy and Obama slept. Kennedy and Obama could have sent help, but did not do so. <br />
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Mary Jo Kopechne struggled for air in a car underwater while Kennedy slept in a nearby hotel. The Americans in Benghazi fought Al Qaeda for 7 hours, expecting special forces to rescue them - all the while Obama's people watched events unfold as Obama slept. <br />
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Obama and his people lied about what happened to prevent the American people from discovering larger problems with his foreign policy.<br />
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Kennedy never did provide more than a cursory explanation of what happened. Many questions never have been answered. He was excused from explaining by compliant local police and a subservient media.<br />
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Chappaquiddick followed Kennedy for the rest of his life. It affected his presidential campaign eleven years later. It defined his legacy for the rest if his life and beyond.<br />
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Benghazi may do the same for Obama. The Cassandra Pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040731375328249227noreply@blogger.com1