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In early January 2014, Bob Lonsberry, a Rochester talk radio personality on WHAM 1180 AM, said this in response to Obama's "income inequality speech":                             Two Americas 
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The Democrats are right, there are two Americas. 
The America that works, and the America that doesn’t. 
The America that contributes, and the America that doesn’t. 
It’s not the haves and the have nots, it’s the dos and the do nots. 
Some people do their duty as Americans, obey the law, support themselves, contribute to society, and others don’t. 
That’s the divide in America. 
It’s not about income inequality, it’s about civic irresponsibility. 
It’s about a political party that preaches hatred, greed and victimization in order to win elective office. 
It’s about a political party that loves power more than it loves its country.   That’s not invective, that’s truth, and it’s about time someone said it. 
The politics of envy was on proud display a couple weeks ago when President Obama pledged the rest of his term to fighting “income inequality.” 
He noted that some people make more than other people, that some people have higher incomes than others, and he says that’s not just. 
That is the rationale of thievery. The other guy has it, you want it, Obama will take it for you. Vote Democrat. 
That is the philosophy that produced Detroit. It is the electoral philosophy that is destroying America. 
It conceals a fundamental deviation from American values and common sense because it ends up not benefiting the people who support it, but a betrayal. 
The Democrats have not empowered their followers, they have enslaved them in a culture of dependence and entitlement, of victim-hood and anger instead of ability and hope. 
The president’s premise – that you reduce income inequality by debasing the successful – seeks to deny the successful the consequences of their choices and spare the unsuccessful the consequences of their choices. 
Because, by and large, income variations in society is a result of different choices leading to different consequences. 
Those who choose wisely and responsibility have a far greater likelihood of success, while those who choose foolishly and irresponsibly have a far greater likelihood of failure.   Success and failure usually manifest themselves in personal and family income. 
You choose to drop out of high school or to skip college - and you are apt to have a different outcome than someone who gets a diploma and pushes on with purposeful education. 
You have your children out of wedlock and life is apt to take one course; you have them within a marriage and life is apt to take another course. 
Most often in life our destination is determined by the course we take. 
My doctor, for example, makes far more than I do.  There is significant income inequality between us. 
Our lives have had an inequality of outcome, but, our lives also have had an in equality of effort. 
While my doctor went to college and then devoted his young adulthood to medical school and residency, I got a job in a restaurant. 
He made a choice, I made a choice, and our choices led us to different outcomes.
His outcome pays a lot better than mine. 
Does that mean he cheated and Barack Obama needs to take away his wealth? 
No, it means we are both free men in a free society where free choices lead to different outcomes. 
It is not inequality Barack Obama intends to take away, it is freedom.  The freedom to succeed, and the freedom to fail. 
There is no true option for success if there is no true option for failure. 
The pursuit of happiness means a whole lot less when you face the punitive hand of government if your pursuit brings you more happiness than the other guy. 
Even if the other guy sat on his arse and did nothing. Even if the other guy made a lifetime’s worth of asinine and shortsighted decisions. 
Barack Obama and the Democrats preach equality of outcome as a right, while completely ignoring inequality of effort. 
The simple Law of the Harvest – as ye sow, so shall ye reap – is sometimes applied as, “The harder you work, the more you get." 
Obama would turn that upside down. Those who achieve are to be punished as enemies of society and those who fail are to be rewarded as wards of society. 
Entitlement will replace effort as the key to upward mobility in American society if Barack Obama gets his way. 
He seeks a lowest common denominator society in which the government besieges the successful and productive to foster equality through mediocrity. 
He and his party speak of two Americas, and their grip on power is based on using the votes of one to sap the productivity of the other.   America is not divided by the differences in our outcomes, it is divided by the differences in our efforts. 
It is a false philosophy to say one man’s success comes about unavoidably as the result of another man’s victimization. 
What Obama offered was not a solution, but a separatism. 
He fomented division and strife, pitted one set of Americans against another for his own political benefit. 
That’s what socialists offer. Marxist class warfare wrapped up with a bow. 
Two Americas, coming closer each day to proving the truth to Lincoln’s maxim that a house divided against itself cannot stand. 

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ONE BIG OLD MULE

 One Big Old Mule Named Buddy  

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An out-of-town motorist accidentally drove 

his car into a ditch in a desolated area. 

Luckily, a local farmer came over to help 

with his big strong mule named Buddy. 

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He hitched Buddy up to the car and yelled, 

"Pull, Nellie, pull!" Buddy didn't move. 

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Then the farmer hollered louder,

"Pull, Buster, pull!" Buddy didn't respond. 

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Once more the farmer commanded, 

"Pull, Coco, pull!" Buddy stood still. 

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Then the farmer nonchalantly said, "Pull, Buddy, pull!" 

And the old mule easily dragged the car out of the ditch. 

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The motorist was most appreciative, but very curious. 

So he asked the farmer why he called his mule 

by the wrong name three times? 

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"Well you see", said the farmer, 

"Buddy is blind and if he thought he was 

the only one pulling, he wouldn't even try!"  

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Some Great Things To Try

 Some Of These Are Really Worth Trying 

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Have you tried any of these things yet? 

If so, please tell us if it helped you? 

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Irish Moose Hunt

 Irish Moose Hunt

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Two Irish hunters named Mick and Pat, hired a pilot to fly them into the Canadian wilderness, where they managed to bag two big Bull Moose.

   

As they were loading the plane to return, the pilot said the plane could take only the hunters, their gear and one Moose.    

   

The hunters objected, saying, "Last year we shot two, and the pilot let us take them both...and he had exactly the same airplane as yours."    

   

Reluctantly the pilot, not wanting to be outdone by another bush pilot, gave in and everything was loaded.

   

However, even under full power, the little plane couldn't handle the load, and went down, crashing in the wooded  wilderness.

   

Somehow, surrounded by the moose, clothing and sleeping bags, Mick and Pat survived the crash.    

   

After climbing out of the wreckage, Mick asked Pat, "Any idea where we are?"    

   

Pat replied, "I think we're pretty close to where we crashed last  year."  

 

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(~Texting Dangers~)

 Texting Dangers  

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A man received the following text from his neighbor:

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I am so sorry Bob.  I've been riddled with guilt and I have to confess.  I have been tapping your Wife, day and night when you're not around.  In fact, more than you are.  I'm not getting any at home, but that's no excuse.  I can no longer live with the guilt and I hope you will accept my sincerest apology with my promise that it won't happen again.

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The man, anguished and betrayed, went into his bedroom, grabbed his gun, and without a word, shot his wife and killed her.

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A few moments later, a second text came in:

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Darn autocorrect.  I meant "WiFi," not "Wife." 

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"WE ARE SCREWED"

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(o~ Go Dutch ~o)

Go Dutch ~ But Why Wait Until 2015? 

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The Netherlands, where six per cent of the population is now Muslim, is scrapping multiculturalism.           The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants to create a parallel society within the Netherlands.           A new integration bill, which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on June 16, reads: 

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"The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society  model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people".           In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society play a central role.

With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural  society.           The letter continues: "A more obligatory integration is justified because the government also demands that from its own citizens."           It is necessary because otherwise the society gradually grows apart and eventually no one feels at home anymore in the Netherlands.

 

The new  integration policy will place more demands on immigrants. For example, immigrants will be required to learn the Dutch language, and the  government will take a tougher approach to immigrants who ignore Dutch values or disobey Dutch law.           The government will also stop offering special subsidies for Muslim immigrants because, according to Donner; 
"It is not the government's job to integrate  immigrants." (How bloody  true).           The government will introduce new legislation that outlaws forced marriages and will also impose tougher measures against Muslim immigrants who lower their chances of employment by the way they dress.           More specifically, the government imposed a ban on face-covering, Islamic burqas as of January 1, 2014.           Holland has done that whole liberal thing, and realized - maybe too late - that creating a nation of tribes, will kill the nation itself.
The future of Australia, the UK, USA and Canada may well be read here. 

READERS NOTE: Muslim immigrants leave their countries of birth because of civil and political unrest, "CREATED BY THE VERY NATURE OF THEIR CULTURE."

Countries like Holland, Canada, USA the UK and Australia have an established way of life that actually works, so why embrace the unworkable?

 

If Muslims do not wish to accept another culture, the answer is simple: "STAY WHERE YOU ARE!" 

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This gives a whole new meaning to the term, 'Dutch Courage'...  Unfortunately Australian, UK, USA and Canadian politicians don't have the guts to do the same. There's a whole lot of truth here! 

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