Microlending is a perfect expression of Clintonism, since it brings together wealthy financial interests with rhetoric that sounds outrageously idealistic. Microlending permits all manner of networking, posturing, and profit taking among the lenders while doing nothing to change actual power relations—the ultimate win-win.
——“双赢”是这个虚伪时代里最大的谎言，是精英把民众踩在脚底下的唱词。
The terrible implication of the facts he has uncovered is that microlending achieves the opposite of development. Even Soviet-style Communism, with its frequently mocked Five Year Plans, worked better than this strategy does, as Bateman shows in a tragic look at microloan-saturated Bosnia.
They give one another grants and prizes and endowed chairs; they extol one another’s ideas and books; they appear together with their banker pals on panel discussions in Bali or maybe Davos; and they all come together to fix Haiti, and then to fix Haiti again, and then to fix Haiti yet again.
——这讽刺太辛辣：所有的精英团结起来，fix Haiti， and then to fix Haiti again, and then to fix Haiti yet again.
They knew which things were necessary to make up a liberal movement, and all of the ingredients were present: well-meaning billionaires; grant makers and grant recipients; Hollywood stars who talked about social media; female entrepreneurs from the Third World; and, of course, an audience of hundreds, who clapped and cheered enthusiastically every time one of their well- graduated leaders wandered across the stage. The performance of liberalism was so realistic one could almost believe it lived.
The FB account of this young 16 year old girl and her video has been censored under FB’s new “hate speech” guidelines:
She talks about her experiences over summer, when a group of muslims said that her and her friends were “sluts” for walking outside in t-shirts.
“Yes, we were wearing t-shirts. It’s summer!” She adds: “Another day, I was wearing this. My friend and I purchased it while shopping. If we feel like wearing it, we will wear it! And you muslims have no right to physically assault or rape us for it! God willing, never in my life. You have no right to attack us because we are wearing t-shirts. You also have no right to rape”.
Miss Wilhailm then turns toward what she sees on social media, describing how she has seen, “a 17 year old attacked, a 15 year old attacked, two 12 year olds attacked, so many,” and questions, “why should we, children, have to grow up in such fear?”
“I cannot understand why they do this. But more importantly, I cannot understand why Germany is doing nothing! Why is Germany standing by, watching, and then doing nothing? Please explain, why. Men of Germany, these people are killing your children, they are killing your women. We need your protection,” she goes on to say adding, “The politicians live alone in their villas, drink their cocktails, and do nothing. They do nothing! I do not know what world they live in, but please, people, please help us! Please, do something!”
Continuing, Miss Wilhailm tells of her own personal experiences with arab and muslims migrants saying, “One day, my friend and I were walking down the street, and a group of arabs were protesting and demonstrating. They shouted, ‘allah! allah! allah is the one God! Kill those infidels! allah allah!’ What should I do? Should I wear a burka? Why should I have to convert to islam?”
“It’s fine if you believe in allah, but why do you want to make everyone else believe in allah too? I just think it would be better if there were no religion. Stop trying to make everyone else believe in your God when they do not want to”.
According to the her experiences, the police are no help. She alleges, “they say it is a problem and they ignore it. It is unfair. They laugh at us. They say we are dumb,” and that, “they don’t care about our fears.”
好莱坞又一良心： Jon Voight Rips Media for ‘Distorting’ Trump’s ‘Second Amendment’ Comment http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/08/10/jon-voight-rips-media-distorting-trumps-2nd-amendment-comment/ “You can be in a lot of trouble if people want to distort your words,” the actor added. “That’s what he goes through. All the time, every time. He’s being attacked continuously. They’re taking apart everything he does. He made a wonderful speech yesterday. Everybody should sit down and listen to that speech, because it’s full of substance and it tells you what the problems are, and it tells you how to answer those problems.”
I would like to lay out the reasons I chose to break rank, and why time only strengthens my convictions.
Capitalism Creates Economic OpportunityEconomic growth that lifts people out of poverty is personal for me, because it’s the story of our family over generations. But let’s step back and review some basics first to see how it works.
Human beings like money. So they make things and sell them to get money. People compete against each other to make better and better things for lower and lower prices in order to get more and more money. This results in the world getting higher-quality products at lower prices over time.
People who couldn’t afford refrigerators now have them, because firms have competed against each other to get more market share by offering better models for cheaper. People who couldn’t afford shoes, like my parents as kids, now have them, for the same reason. This process is known as capitalism, and it’s a powerful force that lifts humanity out of poverty.
I’ve seen what it’s done in my own family, who’ve gone from Southern sharecroppers who couldn’t read and write two generations ago to myself and my sisters, who not only wear shoes but have much greater opportunities and greater quality of life in every way than those before us. This is largely due to economic opportunity capitalism creates.
I believe strongly in supporting and continuing this process. This means unleashing human beings to fulfill their potential to build up our economy. Yet my sense is the current Democratic Party largely doesn’t agree. They seem to be instinctively uncomfortable with the workings of capitalism because it operates largely without government direction, which they believe is necessary for the world to improve. Whether it’s Obamacare, massive regulation, or shuttering entire industries by government fiat, Democrats seem to prefer government management as opposed to market solutions to our problems.
As a service provider myself, however, I’ve seen how the government has distinct disadvantages compared to human ingenuity expressed through capitalism. For one, government is shielded from competition, which means people can’t give their business to others who provide better services at lower prices, because there are no others. Second, no matter how poor their performance, government will never go out of business because lawmakers guarantee their existence and revenue streams rather than securing the same by providing quality services at good prices.
Thirdly, since there’s no competition and no threat of going out of business, there is no incentive to improve efficiency or quality. It thus seems to me that while some level of government involvement is necessary, ultimately fewer things, not more things, should be under government control. I am uncomfortable with the degree to which the Democratic Party wants to place things under government management and outside of the healthy, efficiency-generating domain of capitalism.
All that said, I will add two caveats. First, neither of the two parties has a great track record here. Indeed, George W. Bush dramatically increased the size and scope of government during his presidency. But between the two, the Democratic Party is worse, and getting worse over time. Secondly, capitalism all by itself can go awry when its participants are not generally guided by a moral compass. That’s why it must be coupled with a moral system, like Christianity, to function most effectively.
I’m not a Democrat because I’d rather unleash the potential in people, not the largess of government, to create economic growth.
It’s Best for People to Help PeopleHaving worked for a Christian nonprofit organization, I’ve seen firsthand the positive effect on society when people driven by compassion, who have a personal relationship with those they are serving, work to make the world a better place.
On the other hand, I was deeply affected by a trip I took to the South recently, where I saw firsthand the abuse and fraud of those who live by unemployment checks, disability checks, and other government programs. Yes, these programs were designed to help the poor. But more often than not, rather than help, the recipients are robbed of the chance to develop their talents and character and use them to better the world by contributing to our economy through work. More often than not, far from being a temporary leg up on the way to self-sufficiency, these programs become a multi-generational way of life for many Americans.
So I’m skeptical of the Democratic Party’s claim they are the ones who stand for helping the poor, because creating government programs that give people money is not the same as truly helping them. Quite often, it actually hurts them. Neither are the party’s motivations noble; the purpose of these programs is to secure and maintain a loyal voting bloc by making them permanent aid recipients, rather than actually helping them. I can’t belong to a party that hurts the poor for the sake of political gain.
Victimization Doesn’t Create Racial Healing or UnityLike other areas, this is personal to me. We’ve been making great progress on race over the past 100 years, but for the first time, I feel that’s in jeopardy.
One major reason we risk going backwards is the strategy of the Democratic Party. It seems to me their game plan is as follows: 1) Divide Americans into groups and argue that each is a victim of discrimination or bigotry. Then 2) portray itself as the party that fights for each group against the bigots and oppressors. Those used as victims in this strategy are black people, Hispanics, gays, Muslims, women, immigrants, unskilled laborers, and others, and the message to each is always the same: “Vote for us, because the Republicans are bigots.”
Those identified as oppressors in this strategy are almost always whites, Christians, and men, and the message to them is, “You are responsible for the suffering of others. Admit it or you are a bigot.”
I find this approach problematic for two reasons: 1) The groups often portrayed as oppressed and in need of rescuing by the Democratic Party are often not actually suffering oppression, and 2) The alleged oppressors who are attacked and demonized for bigotry are often not guilty of oppression in the first place. This is not only dishonest, as it creates division for sake of acquiring and maintaining a political constituency, but also deeply negative and divisive.
This creates division for sake of acquiring and maintaining a political constituency. Further, defining someone as a victim when they are not cripples them. It does not serve them, uplift them, or unleash their potential. This is especially true in poor black communities, where 5,500 black folks kill each other every year, far surpassing the number of black people killed by police officers or whites. In fact, for every one black person killed by a white police officer, 71 are killed by another black person. I’m uncomfortable with Democratic rhetoric that gets angry about black deaths at the hands of police, but ignores the 15 to 20 black men who kill each other every single day, a far more common occurrence.
So the tough but true message black people need to hear is not “Racism is the cause of your problems.” Rather it’s “We must fix broken families, destroy the culture of underachievement, and demolish the thug culture that keeps black folks at the bottom of the barrel in almost every category.” However, the Democratic Party lacks the courage to confront these ills in the black community with honesty, so instead falls back on the easy message of blaming racism. It’s always easier to blame someone else than look in the mirror. I cannot in good conscience belong to a party that embraces this strategy.
What’s more, I am uncomfortable with how fast Democrats label someone as a bigot for disagreeing with them. Those who want to talk about the very real problem of crime in the black community are immediately branded as racist. I personally have been called “coon,” “house n***ger,” and “Uncle Tom.” Those who believe marriage is between one man and one woman are branded as bigots and hateful. Those who believe life begins at conception and oppose abortion are labeled as hating women, against women’s health, and against women’s rights.
We have to be able to disagree without calling the other person names. I don’t believe the Democratic Party gets that. While most Americans trace their ancestry to immigration and are not against reasonable levels of legal immigration, those who voice concerns with the negative aspects of illegal immigration, or even suggest there are negative aspects to illegal immigration, are quickly branded as anti-immigrant bigots. Worse, these judgments are often made without even knowing anything else about the person, and based solely on their position on one single issue. That’s unfair.
My point is not to take a position on these issues; that’s for another time. It’s just to say that we have to be able to disagree without calling the other person names. I don’t believe the Democratic Party gets that. I don’t like the name-calling and quick judgmental attitude towards those who hold different beliefs. It’s another reason I can’t be a Democrat.
I Like AmericaWhen I hear President Obama and many Democrats talk about America, I hear a deeply negative vision. I hear of a place full of racists who committed genocide against Native Americans, who enslaved blacks and denied them rights, who denied rights to women and gays rights, who hate immigrants, and where white police officers casually kill hundreds, maybe thousands, of innocent black people every day.
In America I see a place where people of different races get along better than almost anywhere. Yet aside from the questionable veracity of some of these claims, that is not the America I see. As a black American who has actually spent years living overseas and travelled to many countries, one quickly realizes black folks are treated much better in America than almost anywhere. The tribalism that defines most of the world—the Japanese hating the Chinese, the Koreans hating the Japanese, and the Chinese hating the Japanese (and that’s just East Asia!)—tends to be subdued in our American melting pot. In America I see a place where people of different races get along better than almost anywhere.
I see a place where the grandchild of Southern sharecroppers can achieve success. I see a place of hope and opportunity for those willing to do what it takes to succeed. I see police officers putting their lives on the line in dangerous neighborhoods to serve and protect residents terrorized by crime.
Yes, it’s true that we’ve haven’t always been where we should be, including slavery and segregation. Yet through it all we have moved forward together and gotten better together. I am proud to be American and proud of our unique culture, system of government, and phenomenal land. I don’t believe I am oppressed by white Americans or anyone else. I believe that white Americans are my brothers, just like black folks and all other Americans are my brothers. We are united as a people by common language, culture, history, and values, far more than we are divided because of color.
But I don’t believe the Democratic Party shares this vision. According to them, I am supposed to define myself first and foremost as a victim of racism and discrimination. I am supposed to see whites as my oppressors. According to Democrats, I’m supposed to vote Democrat because Republicans are racist. I’m supposed to see America as a greedy, evil, racist place that can only be saved if they’re in charge.
Respectfully: that is not my America, and that is not my vision. I can’t belong to a party that thinks it is.
Photo wavebreakmedia / Shutterstock John Gibbs (@realJohnGibbs) has worked at Apple as an engineer on the iPhone, and has taught technology in Japan, being fluent in Japanese. John holds a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University and a master in public administration from Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Ann Coulter: GOP Blames Victim of Media Rape Even having predicted that the media’s attacks on Trump would be unprecedented, I’m still amazed. Every single news outlet is dedicated to hysterically denouncing Trump, every minute of every day, while cooing at Hillary. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/08/10/ann-coulter-gop-victim-media-rape/
We have Julian Assange of WikiLeaks who's come out and said, hey, the Russians were not our source. The Russians did not leak Hillary's emails to us. And then Julian Assange suggests that it was somebody at the Democrat National Committee who provided him with the emails that proved they had rigged the game against Bernie Sanders.
希拉里阵营昨天说恐怖分子老爸没有被邀请，竞选集会是open door的： Team Hillary: Orlando Terrorist’s Dad ‘Wasn’t Invited’ As Guest “This individual wasn’t invited as a guest...... 含笑的猫 发表于 8/10/2016 1:18:56 PM
我一个印度同事的孩子要考高中。小男孩非常优秀。我同事说他们只准备考那些录取学生时只看分数不看人种的高中，purely score-based, not race-based. 而且印度人虽然有很多让人不喜欢的地方，但至少不暴力，而且也是推崇勤劳工作的。所以印度人和我们在利益诉求上有很多共同点。 MeerkatNYC 发表于 8/11/2016 11:16:50 AM
More leaked e-mails from Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State prove that she was taking foreign policy advice from left-wing billionaire activist George Soros.
An e-mail provided by WikiLeaks showed Soros reaching out to Secretary Clinton over a foreign policy dispute in Albania.
“Dear Hillary,
“A serious situation has arisen in Albania which needs urgent attention at senior levels of the US government. You may know that an opposition demonstration in Tirana on Friday resulted in the deaths of three people and the destruction of property.
“There are serious concerns about further unrest connected to a counter- demonstration to be organized by the governing party on Wednesday and a follow-up event by the opposition two days later to memorialize the victims.
“The prospect of tens of thousands of people entering the streets in an already inflamed political environment bodes ill for the return of public order and the country’s fragile democratic process.”
Soros urges the then-Secretary of State to get the international community involved and pressure the Prime Minister to “forestall further demonstrations” and “tone down public pronouncements” as well appointing a senior European official to act as the mediator.
The left wing billionaire also gave Clinton a list of potential nominees to appoint as mediator: Carl Bildt, Martti Ahtisaari and Miroslav Lajcak.
The e-mail was sent from Soros’ aide to Richard Verma, then the Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs who forwarded it to several of Clinton’s top aides including Huma Abedin, Jacob Sullivan, and Philip Gordon. Sullivan forwarded it to Clinton.
Just three days after Clinton received the e-mail from Soros the EU ended up sending Soros’ suggested nominee Lajcak to mediate the civil unrest, the BBC reported.
当初08的出生地问题可是一大疑问哦！现在渐渐揭开面纱了。 HAWAII MAKES SHOCKING REVELATION ABOUT OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE
Ever since Barack Obama became president in 2008, there has been speculation that he was not born in the U.S.
After years of rumors, Obama finally released his birth certificate just before his reelection in 2012. Now, however, officials in Hawaii have revealed that this birth certificate is a fraud, saying that no birth certificate for Obama ever existed in the state.
我一个印度同事的孩子要考高中。小男孩非常优秀。我同事说他们只准备考那些录取学生时只看分数不看人种的高中，purely score-based, not race-based. 而且印度人虽然有很多让人不喜欢的地方，但至少不暴力，而且也是推崇勤劳工作的。所以印度人和我们在利益诉求上有很多共同点。 MeerkatNYC 发表于 8/11/2016 11:16:50 AM
还是东欧人脑子清楚！ POLAND WILL NOT AGREE TO 'IMPOSED IMMIGRATION - PRESIDENT'S ADVISOR
Poland will not agree with “imposed immigration,” according to president’s senior advisor Krzysztof Szczerski.
Speaking at a news conference in Warsaw, Szczerski said: “The politicians of Civic Platform, seeing today to how dramatic situations leads the policy of the European Union which they supported, are ashamed of what they have said and of what they have done. I stake dollars against nuts that if the result of the elections in Poland had been different so we would have some Islamic districts in Poland”.
Poland’s justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro had said on a television show that the country would now have so-called Islamic districts if the result of the Polish elections had been different. .
“The politicians of Civic Platform, seeing today to how dramatic situations leads the policy of the European Union which they supported, are ashamed of what they have said and of what they have done. I stake dollars against nuts that if the result of the elections in Poland had been different so we would have some Islamic districts in Poland,” said Ziobro.
12-Year-Old Rape Victim Now Slams Rapist’s Lawyer, Hillary Clinton: ‘I Heard You on Tape Laughing’ The Arkansas woman who was raped at age 12 by Hillary Clinton’s 1975 legal client is now speaking out against the Democratic candidate after hearing an audiotape of Clinton laughing about the trial. “It’s put a lot of anger back in me … Every time I see [Clinton] on TV I just want to reach in there and grab her, but I can’t do that,” 54-year-old Kathy Shelton told The Daily Mail, as Clinton tries to portray herself as a supporter of women and girls during the 2016 campaign. “I don’t think [she’s] for women or girls. I think she’s lying, I think she said anything she can to get in the campaign and win … If she was [an advocate for women and children], she wouldn’t have done that to me at 12 years old,” said Shelton. I heard you on tape laughing …. I just want to know, you’ve got a daughter and a grandbaby. What happens if that daughter of yours, if that would have been her [who was assaulted at age 12]? You would have protected her. You don’t know me, so I’m a piece of crap to you … Who cares about me, as long as you can win your first case as an attorney? The case was given to Clinton after she graduated from Yale. She tried to get out of the case, but then helped her client by forcing the exclusion of damning evidence. That courtroom success allowed the rapist to serve just one year for raping and injuring Shelton, who was made infertile by the rape. The audiotape was recorded in the 1980s, when Arkansas reporter Roy Reed interviewed Clinton. “It was a fascinating case, it was a really interesting case,” Clinton said. “He took a lie detector test, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs,” she said, while laughing sardonically.
FRANCE TO CITIZENS: ‘LET REFUGEES INTO YOUR HOMES’
THE French government has urged citizens to welcome refugees into their homes because the country’s migrant centres ...... 含笑的猫 发表于 8/11/2016 3:32:05 PM
印度人真不错，以后可以团结下。
http://harpers.org/blog/2016/02/nor-a-lender-be/
我很喜欢的一个作家，左派重镇Harper's杂志的左派大主笔Thomas Frank写的，主要是
批判克林顿基金会以及希拉里鼓吹的所谓“微信贷”（microloan）的虚伪。在我看来
希拉里最大的问题，就是特别擅长用漂亮的口号包装有害的政策，是那种典型的美国大
公司里履历鲜艳，满口MBA教材上的漂亮词汇，但一无所长的人物。真正的问题不去解
决，也不知道该怎么解决，但搞“慈善”是一把好手，这种人在美国越来越吃香，美国
也就越来越完蛋。
文章有很多金句：
Microlending is a perfect expression of Clintonism, since it brings together
wealthy financial interests with rhetoric that sounds outrageously
idealistic. Microlending permits all manner of networking, posturing, and
profit taking among the lenders while doing nothing to change actual power
relations—the ultimate win-win.
——“双赢”是这个虚伪时代里最大的谎言，是精英把民众踩在脚底下的唱词。
The terrible implication of the facts he has uncovered is that microlending
achieves the opposite of development. Even Soviet-style Communism, with its
frequently mocked Five Year Plans, worked better than this strategy does, as
Bateman shows in a tragic look at microloan-saturated Bosnia.
——所谓“微信贷”是一个大谎言。国家发展靠的是实实在在的提高生产力，也就是创
普的土办法：开工厂，造东西。不干实事，整天弄些华而不实却能写进MBA案例里的什
么“创新”，表面上无比争议，实际炒作概念让大银行大公司获益，也就是“双赢”，
希拉里的几乎每一件政策都能以此概括。
They give one another grants and prizes and endowed chairs; they extol one
another’s ideas and books; they appear together with their banker pals on
panel discussions in Bali or maybe Davos; and they all come together to fix
Haiti, and then to fix Haiti again, and then to fix Haiti yet again.
——这讽刺太辛辣：所有的精英团结起来，fix Haiti， and then to fix Haiti
again, and then to fix Haiti yet again.
They knew which things were necessary to make up a liberal movement, and all
of the ingredients were present: well-meaning billionaires; grant makers
and grant recipients; Hollywood stars who talked about social media; female
entrepreneurs from the Third World; and, of course, an audience of hundreds,
who clapped and cheered enthusiastically every time one of their well-
graduated leaders wandered across the stage. The performance of liberalism
was so realistic one could almost believe it lived.
——克林顿夫妇特别擅长做这样的事，口号光鲜，精英聚会，好处丰厚，时尚得不得了
，但没有一点实际意义。美国人把心思花在这上面，会死得非常惨。
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群众的眼睛是雪亮的
NPR天天抹黑Trump
赞印度人在这大是大非的问题上的清醒
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=323_1453538781
The FB account of this young 16 year old girl and her video has been censored under FB’s new “hate speech” guidelines:
She talks about her experiences over summer, when a group of muslims said that her and her friends were “sluts” for walking outside in t-shirts.
“Yes, we were wearing t-shirts. It’s summer!” She adds: “Another day, I was wearing this. My friend and I purchased it while shopping. If we feel like wearing it, we will wear it! And you muslims have no right to physically assault or rape us for it! God willing, never in my life. You have no right to attack us because we are wearing t-shirts. You also have no right to rape”.
Miss Wilhailm then turns toward what she sees on social media, describing how she has seen, “a 17 year old attacked, a 15 year old attacked, two 12 year olds attacked, so many,” and questions, “why should we, children, have to grow up in such fear?”
“I cannot understand why they do this. But more importantly, I cannot understand why Germany is doing nothing! Why is Germany standing by, watching, and then doing nothing? Please explain, why. Men of Germany, these people are killing your children, they are killing your women. We need your protection,” she goes on to say adding, “The politicians live alone in their villas, drink their cocktails, and do nothing. They do nothing! I do not know what world they live in, but please, people, please help us! Please, do something!”
Continuing, Miss Wilhailm tells of her own personal experiences with arab and muslims migrants saying, “One day, my friend and I were walking down the street, and a group of arabs were protesting and demonstrating. They shouted, ‘allah! allah! allah is the one God! Kill those infidels! allah allah!’ What should I do? Should I wear a burka? Why should I have to convert to islam?”
“It’s fine if you believe in allah, but why do you want to make everyone else believe in allah too? I just think it would be better if there were no religion. Stop trying to make everyone else believe in your God when they do not want to”.
According to the her experiences, the police are no help. She alleges, “they say it is a problem and they ignore it. It is unfair. They laugh at us. They say we are dumb,” and that, “they don’t care about our fears.”
嘿 我听NPR的时候也碰到过。最近听到这样批判希拉里的电话越来越多了。
TRUMP经济政策讲话专门就选在DETROIT，经济政策里面明确会带给MICHIGAN很大好处。
关键时刻敢发声
☆ 发自 iPhone 华人一网 1.11.07
印度人还是很团结的，而且他们很清醒：）
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/08/09/man-puts-massive-trump-sign-after-1st-one-was-torched
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/08/10/man-beaten-crowbar-wearing-donald-trump-shirt-police-say
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/08/10/cnns-keilar-clinton-using-trump-controversy-to-distract-from-unseemly-clinton-foundation-emails/
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/10/reuters-dumps-cnn-secret-service-trump-warning-clam/
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/10/reuters-dumps-cnn-secret-service-trump-warning-clam/
CNN现在自己赤膊上阵，直接造谣？？
Jon Voight Rips Media for ‘Distorting’ Trump’s ‘Second Amendment’ Comment
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/08/10/jon-voight-rips-media-distorting-trumps-2nd-amendment-comment/
“You can be in a lot of trouble if people want to distort your words,” the actor added. “That’s what he goes through. All the time, every time. He’s being attacked continuously. They’re taking apart everything he does. He made a wonderful speech yesterday. Everybody should sit down and listen to that speech, because it’s full of substance and it tells you what the problems are, and it tells you how to answer those problems.”
Why I’m The Only Non-Democrat In My Family In America, I see a place where the grandchild of Southern sharecroppers can achieve success. That’s why I’m not a Democrat.
By John Gibbs
By John Gibbs August 9, 2016
Most black Americans are Democrats. My mom, dad, and siblings are all staunch Democrats. Yet this black person is not and has never been a registered Democrat, nor voted Democratic in any election ever.
I would like to lay out the reasons I chose to break rank, and why time only strengthens my convictions.
Capitalism Creates Economic OpportunityEconomic growth that lifts people out of poverty is personal for me, because it’s the story of our family over generations. But let’s step back and review some basics first to see how it works.
Human beings like money. So they make things and sell them to get money. People compete against each other to make better and better things for lower and lower prices in order to get more and more money. This results in the world getting higher-quality products at lower prices over time.
People who couldn’t afford refrigerators now have them, because firms have competed against each other to get more market share by offering better models for cheaper. People who couldn’t afford shoes, like my parents as kids, now have them, for the same reason. This process is known as capitalism, and it’s a powerful force that lifts humanity out of poverty.
I’ve seen what it’s done in my own family, who’ve gone from Southern sharecroppers who couldn’t read and write two generations ago to myself and my sisters, who not only wear shoes but have much greater opportunities and greater quality of life in every way than those before us. This is largely due to economic opportunity capitalism creates.
I believe strongly in supporting and continuing this process. This means unleashing human beings to fulfill their potential to build up our economy. Yet my sense is the current Democratic Party largely doesn’t agree. They seem to be instinctively uncomfortable with the workings of capitalism because it operates largely without government direction, which they believe is necessary for the world to improve. Whether it’s Obamacare, massive regulation, or shuttering entire industries by government fiat, Democrats seem to prefer government management as opposed to market solutions to our problems.
As a service provider myself, however, I’ve seen how the government has distinct disadvantages compared to human ingenuity expressed through capitalism. For one, government is shielded from competition, which means people can’t give their business to others who provide better services at lower prices, because there are no others. Second, no matter how poor their performance, government will never go out of business because lawmakers guarantee their existence and revenue streams rather than securing the same by providing quality services at good prices.
Thirdly, since there’s no competition and no threat of going out of business, there is no incentive to improve efficiency or quality. It thus seems to me that while some level of government involvement is necessary, ultimately fewer things, not more things, should be under government control. I am uncomfortable with the degree to which the Democratic Party wants to place things under government management and outside of the healthy, efficiency-generating domain of capitalism.
All that said, I will add two caveats. First, neither of the two parties has a great track record here. Indeed, George W. Bush dramatically increased the size and scope of government during his presidency. But between the two, the Democratic Party is worse, and getting worse over time. Secondly, capitalism all by itself can go awry when its participants are not generally guided by a moral compass. That’s why it must be coupled with a moral system, like Christianity, to function most effectively.
I’m not a Democrat because I’d rather unleash the potential in people, not the largess of government, to create economic growth.
It’s Best for People to Help PeopleHaving worked for a Christian nonprofit organization, I’ve seen firsthand the positive effect on society when people driven by compassion, who have a personal relationship with those they are serving, work to make the world a better place.
On the other hand, I was deeply affected by a trip I took to the South recently, where I saw firsthand the abuse and fraud of those who live by unemployment checks, disability checks, and other government programs. Yes, these programs were designed to help the poor. But more often than not, rather than help, the recipients are robbed of the chance to develop their talents and character and use them to better the world by contributing to our economy through work. More often than not, far from being a temporary leg up on the way to self-sufficiency, these programs become a multi-generational way of life for many Americans.
So I’m skeptical of the Democratic Party’s claim they are the ones who stand for helping the poor, because creating government programs that give people money is not the same as truly helping them. Quite often, it actually hurts them. Neither are the party’s motivations noble; the purpose of these programs is to secure and maintain a loyal voting bloc by making them permanent aid recipients, rather than actually helping them. I can’t belong to a party that hurts the poor for the sake of political gain.
Victimization Doesn’t Create Racial Healing or UnityLike other areas, this is personal to me. We’ve been making great progress on race over the past 100 years, but for the first time, I feel that’s in jeopardy.
One major reason we risk going backwards is the strategy of the Democratic Party. It seems to me their game plan is as follows: 1) Divide Americans into groups and argue that each is a victim of discrimination or bigotry. Then 2) portray itself as the party that fights for each group against the bigots and oppressors. Those used as victims in this strategy are black people, Hispanics, gays, Muslims, women, immigrants, unskilled laborers, and others, and the message to each is always the same: “Vote for us, because the Republicans are bigots.”
Those identified as oppressors in this strategy are almost always whites, Christians, and men, and the message to them is, “You are responsible for the suffering of others. Admit it or you are a bigot.”
I find this approach problematic for two reasons: 1) The groups often portrayed as oppressed and in need of rescuing by the Democratic Party are often not actually suffering oppression, and 2) The alleged oppressors who are attacked and demonized for bigotry are often not guilty of oppression in the first place. This is not only dishonest, as it creates division for sake of acquiring and maintaining a political constituency, but also deeply negative and divisive.
This creates division for sake of acquiring and maintaining a political constituency.
Further, defining someone as a victim when they are not cripples them. It does not serve them, uplift them, or unleash their potential. This is especially true in poor black communities, where 5,500 black folks kill each other every year, far surpassing the number of black people killed by police officers or whites. In fact, for every one black person killed by a white police officer, 71 are killed by another black person. I’m uncomfortable with Democratic rhetoric that gets angry about black deaths at the hands of police, but ignores the 15 to 20 black men who kill each other every single day, a far more common occurrence.
So the tough but true message black people need to hear is not “Racism is the cause of your problems.” Rather it’s “We must fix broken families, destroy the culture of underachievement, and demolish the thug culture that keeps black folks at the bottom of the barrel in almost every category.” However, the Democratic Party lacks the courage to confront these ills in the black community with honesty, so instead falls back on the easy message of blaming racism. It’s always easier to blame someone else than look in the mirror. I cannot in good conscience belong to a party that embraces this strategy.
What’s more, I am uncomfortable with how fast Democrats label someone as a bigot for disagreeing with them. Those who want to talk about the very real problem of crime in the black community are immediately branded as racist. I personally have been called “coon,” “house n***ger,” and “Uncle Tom.” Those who believe marriage is between one man and one woman are branded as bigots and hateful. Those who believe life begins at conception and oppose abortion are labeled as hating women, against women’s health, and against women’s rights.
We have to be able to disagree without calling the other person names. I don’t believe the Democratic Party gets that.
While most Americans trace their ancestry to immigration and are not against reasonable levels of legal immigration, those who voice concerns with the negative aspects of illegal immigration, or even suggest there are negative aspects to illegal immigration, are quickly branded as anti-immigrant bigots. Worse, these judgments are often made without even knowing anything else about the person, and based solely on their position on one single issue. That’s unfair.
My point is not to take a position on these issues; that’s for another time. It’s just to say that we have to be able to disagree without calling the other person names. I don’t believe the Democratic Party gets that. I don’t like the name-calling and quick judgmental attitude towards those who hold different beliefs. It’s another reason I can’t be a Democrat.
I Like AmericaWhen I hear President Obama and many Democrats talk about America, I hear a deeply negative vision. I hear of a place full of racists who committed genocide against Native Americans, who enslaved blacks and denied them rights, who denied rights to women and gays rights, who hate immigrants, and where white police officers casually kill hundreds, maybe thousands, of innocent black people every day.
In America I see a place where people of different races get along better than almost anywhere.
Yet aside from the questionable veracity of some of these claims, that is not the America I see. As a black American who has actually spent years living overseas and travelled to many countries, one quickly realizes black folks are treated much better in America than almost anywhere. The tribalism that defines most of the world—the Japanese hating the Chinese, the Koreans hating the Japanese, and the Chinese hating the Japanese (and that’s just East Asia!)—tends to be subdued in our American melting pot. In America I see a place where people of different races get along better than almost anywhere.
I see a place where the grandchild of Southern sharecroppers can achieve success. I see a place of hope and opportunity for those willing to do what it takes to succeed. I see police officers putting their lives on the line in dangerous neighborhoods to serve and protect residents terrorized by crime.
Yes, it’s true that we’ve haven’t always been where we should be, including slavery and segregation. Yet through it all we have moved forward together and gotten better together. I am proud to be American and proud of our unique culture, system of government, and phenomenal land. I don’t believe I am oppressed by white Americans or anyone else. I believe that white Americans are my brothers, just like black folks and all other Americans are my brothers. We are united as a people by common language, culture, history, and values, far more than we are divided because of color.
But I don’t believe the Democratic Party shares this vision. According to them, I am supposed to define myself first and foremost as a victim of racism and discrimination. I am supposed to see whites as my oppressors. According to Democrats, I’m supposed to vote Democrat because Republicans are racist. I’m supposed to see America as a greedy, evil, racist place that can only be saved if they’re in charge.
Respectfully: that is not my America, and that is not my vision. I can’t belong to a party that thinks it is.
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John Gibbs (@realJohnGibbs) has worked at Apple as an engineer on the iPhone, and has taught technology in Japan, being fluent in Japanese. John holds a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University and a master in public administration from Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Even having predicted that the media’s attacks on Trump would be unprecedented, I’m still amazed. Every single news outlet is dedicated to hysterically denouncing Trump, every minute of every day, while cooing at Hillary.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/08/10/ann-coulter-gop-victim-media-rape/
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/08/10/julian_assange_suggests_murdered_dnc_staffer_could_be_wikileaks_source
不过还有一点，他们没有那么两极化的移民，想华人的技术移民和唐人街的亲属移民利益如此不同。所以印度人更容易团结，在美国将比华人走到更远。看好印度裔。
NBC 最新的网上poll 你选谁作总统？trump 50+%
话说NBC的观众算是比较中立的吗？还是比较左？
Thank you for sharing this article. It is a good read. His other articles are also good.
NBC民调: 川普 or 媒体你信谁 92% 信川普 8%媒体 川普指IS尊崇奥巴马，奥巴稀垃是IS创办人
http://forums.huaren.us/showtopic.aspx?topicid=2052036&forumpage=1
http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/1791846
ZT：泄露电邮显示，索罗斯敦促克林顿干涉阿尔巴尼亚内乱
More leaked e-mails from Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State prove
that she was taking foreign policy advice from left-wing billionaire
activist George Soros.
An e-mail provided by WikiLeaks showed Soros reaching out to Secretary
Clinton over a foreign policy dispute in Albania.
“Dear Hillary,
“A serious situation has arisen in Albania which needs urgent attention at
senior levels of the US government. You may know that an opposition
demonstration in Tirana on Friday resulted in the deaths of three people and
the destruction of property.
“There are serious concerns about further unrest connected to a counter-
demonstration to be organized by the governing party on Wednesday and a
follow-up event by the opposition two days later to memorialize the victims.
“The prospect of tens of thousands of people entering the streets in an
already inflamed political environment bodes ill for the return of public
order and the country’s fragile democratic process.”
Soros urges the then-Secretary of State to get the international community
involved and pressure the Prime Minister to “forestall further
demonstrations” and “tone down public pronouncements” as well appointing
a senior European official to act as the mediator.
The left wing billionaire also gave Clinton a list of potential nominees to
appoint as mediator: Carl Bildt, Martti Ahtisaari and Miroslav Lajcak.
The e-mail was sent from Soros’ aide to Richard Verma, then the Assistant
Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs who forwarded it to several of
Clinton’s top aides including Huma Abedin, Jacob Sullivan, and Philip
Gordon. Sullivan forwarded it to Clinton.
Just three days after Clinton received the e-mail from Soros the EU ended up
sending Soros’ suggested nominee Lajcak to mediate the civil unrest, the
BBC reported.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/leaked-e-mail-shows-george-soros-urged-clinton-intervene-albania-civil-unrest/
HAWAII MAKES SHOCKING REVELATION ABOUT OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE
Ever since Barack Obama became president in 2008, there has been speculation that he was not born in the U.S.
After years of rumors, Obama finally released his birth certificate just before his reelection in 2012. Now, however, officials in Hawaii have revealed that this birth certificate is a fraud, saying that no birth certificate for Obama ever existed in the state.
http://readconservatives.news/2016/08/11/hawaii-makes-shocking-revelation-obamas-birth-certificate/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
南无大愿地藏王菩萨
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http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/international/20160811/926483/%E7%BE%8E%E5%9C%8B%E5%A4%A2%E5%B9%BB%E6%BB%85%EF%BC%9F%E3%80%80%E8%8F%AF%E8%A3%94%E7%A7%91%E5%AD%B8%E5%AE%B6%E8%A2%AB%E7%95%B6%E9%96%93%E8%AB%9C%E8%A6%81%E6%AD%90%E5%B7%B4%E9%A6%AC%E9%81%93%E6%AD%89
Muslims Demand Texas Pig Farmer Move So They Can Build A Mosque, He Does THIS Instead
http://toprightnews.com/when-muslims-wanted-to-build-a-mosque-on-his-land-this-pig-farmer-took-action/
THE French government has urged citizens to welcome refugees into their homes because the country’s migrant centres are so crowded
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/699096/migrant-crisis-Calais-France-refugees-Emmanuelle-Cosse
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welcome back
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到Rio 一下飞机就开始 trash US. 昨天在FB上看一堆人骂她。而且在第二轮就被法国选手淘汰了，哈哈！太解气了！！
金贵威武！
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/international/20160812/927212/%E5%B7%9D%E6%99%AE%E8%AA%8D%E7%9C%9F%E6%8C%87%E6%AD%90%E5%B7%B4%E9%A6%AC%E5%89%B5%E8%BE%A6IS%E3%80%80%E9%82%84%E6%98%AF%E6%9C%80%E6%9C%89%E5%83%B9%E5%80%BC%E7%90%83%E5%93%A1
11日川普参加一共和党电台节目谈话，主持人想帮忙缓颊，川普坚称他是真的指欧巴马是IS创办人，就是字面上的意思。主持人休西威特（Hugh Hewitt）打圆场表示他懂川普的意思，应该是要说欧巴马政策失败让IS崛起，引发战争，但川普回道“不，我就是指他是IS的创办人，就是这个意思。”
主持人接着说但欧巴马憎恨IS，他努力消灭他们，川普竟回道“我不在乎，他就是（IS）创办人”，主持人又再次想帮忙圆场，表示使用“创办人”这个词，让川普成为抨击目标，应该是川普用错词？川普说“不，没有用错，大家都喜欢这个说法，我想他们都喜欢，他是（IS）最有价值的球员，我要颁给他最有价值球员奖。我也要把这个奖颁给希拉蕊。”
Rudy Giuliani Agrees With Donald Trump That Obama Founded ISIS
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rudy-giuliani-obama-isis_us_57ac70b0e4b0db3be07d476f
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ISIS Leader Admits We Are Being Funded By The Obama Administration
"We are training Isis."Sometimes Obama tells the truth...accidentally.
https://twitter.com/MissLizzyNJ/status/763809852317630464
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/flashback-video-barack-obama-training-isil/
来源：https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2016/08/09/bombshell-hillary-clinton-has-dementia-according-to-leaked-medical-records/
皇家骑警表示，8月10日早上，他们收到来自美国联邦调查局发来的一个线索——有个蒙面的加拿大伊斯兰极端主义分子做了个录像，表示要对加拿大进行恐怖袭击，恐怖袭击将在72小时内的交通高峰期。
警方很快确定蒙面人是24岁的Aaron Driver，住在安省伦敦市附近的Strathroy后，并于8月10日下午4点半包围了Aaron Driver的住所。皇家骑警助理警长Jennifer Strachan表示，警方包围Aaron Driver住所时并不知道他叫了计程车，带着炸药包正出门。Aaron Driver与警方进行了枪战。助理署长Strachan说，Aaron Driver引爆他带了一个爆炸装置。皇家骑警发布的照片显示，计程车后座被炸碎了。
http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/gb/2016/08/12/a1280828.html
我很喜欢老朱，喜欢他在NRC上的演讲！
http://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2015/12/21/4807972.html
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http://www.billoreilly.com/video/video-of-the-day?vid=-292951486368817032
POLAND WILL NOT AGREE TO 'IMPOSED IMMIGRATION - PRESIDENT'S ADVISOR
Poland will not agree with “imposed immigration,” according to president’s senior advisor Krzysztof Szczerski.
Speaking at a news conference in Warsaw, Szczerski said: “The politicians of Civic Platform, seeing today to how dramatic situations leads the policy of the European Union which they supported, are ashamed of what they have said and of what they have done. I stake dollars against nuts that if the result of the elections in Poland had been different so we would have some Islamic districts in Poland”.
Poland’s justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro had said on a television show that the country would now have so-called Islamic districts if the result of the Polish elections had been different. .
“The politicians of Civic Platform, seeing today to how dramatic situations leads the policy of the European Union which they supported, are ashamed of what they have said and of what they have done. I stake dollars against nuts that if the result of the elections in Poland had been different so we would have some Islamic districts in Poland,” said Ziobro.
http://www.euronews.com/2016/08/08/poland-will-not-agree-to-imposed-immigration-president-s-advisor
The Arkansas woman who was raped at age 12 by Hillary Clinton’s 1975 legal client is now speaking out against the Democratic candidate after hearing an audiotape of Clinton laughing about the trial.
“It’s put a lot of anger back in me … Every time I see [Clinton] on TV I just want to reach in there and grab her, but I can’t do that,” 54-year-old Kathy Shelton told The Daily Mail, as Clinton tries to portray herself as a supporter of women and girls during the 2016 campaign.
“I don’t think [she’s] for women or girls. I think she’s lying, I think she said anything she can to get in the campaign and win … If she was [an advocate for women and children], she wouldn’t have done that to me at 12 years old,” said Shelton.
I heard you on tape laughing …. I just want to know, you’ve got a daughter and a grandbaby. What happens if that daughter of yours, if that would have been her [who was assaulted at age 12]?
You would have protected her. You don’t know me, so I’m a piece of crap to you … Who cares about me, as long as you can win your first case as an attorney?
The case was given to Clinton after she graduated from Yale. She tried to get out of the case, but then helped her client by forcing the exclusion of damning evidence. That courtroom success allowed the rapist to serve just one year for raping and injuring Shelton, who was made infertile by the rape.
The audiotape was recorded in the 1980s, when Arkansas reporter Roy Reed interviewed Clinton.
“It was a fascinating case, it was a really interesting case,” Clinton said. “He took a lie detector test, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs,” she said, while laughing sardonically.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5080521135001/dr-ben-carson-clintons-health-records-should-be-public-/?#sp=show-clips
支持，很正常合理的要求，为美国人民着想候选总统的身体健康才是最重要的，毕竟是一个国家的最高领导人，没有一个健康的身体又怎么能处理每天的那么多的国家大事。。。。。
哎！ 这得给这个医生和这个 medical group 多大的麻烦啊。。。。。