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To: i-node who wrote (704989)	3/20/2013 1:22:32 AM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1577188

Classic Obama Gaffes and admissions fireandreamitchell.com

To: i-node who wrote (704989)	3/20/2013 1:27:51 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577188

Houston-Area Tea Party Leader Had Ties to Fascist Party by Emily Ramshaw March 18, 2013 Enlarge As recently as 2003, the president of the Greater Fort Bend County Tea Party had a very different title: director of propaganda for the American Fascist Party. James Ives, a prominent Tea Party activist who has hosted statewide rallies and political debates and has been a regular contributor on conservative radio, was the AFP's fourth in command, commenting about the party’s principles on a fascist message board. An image of Ives in what appears to be a black uniform with yellow shoulder patches can be seen in a 2006 promotional video for the party. Ives tells a more nuanced story; the Richmond, Texas, resident says he stumbled across the fascist party — which supports extreme right-wing authoritarian regimes — online in the early 2000s as an “amateur political science student and frustrated novelist” and was merely curious. “From my point of view, it was all pro-Constitution, pro-America,” Ives said of the group, which appears to be defunct. “I never did anything,” he added. “There really weren’t enough people involved to be a gathering, let alone a rally. It was basically a scattering of people across the continent just complaining.” He said he believed he’d uncovered an underground cabal — and decided to stick around to do research for a “political novel of intrigue.” “I thought, ‘I can blow the lid off of this. … I can go inside and find out what’s going on,’” Ives said. Ives never wrote a novel. He did write a range of posts on the party’s Yahoo message board, communicating with his fellow “blackshirts” and the party’s chief organizer, a man who identified himself as the “Glorious Leader.” In one post, he channeled Benito Mussolini, the World War II-era Italian dictator and founder of that country’s National Fascist Party, saying building up the fascist movement in America was “our spirit, our calling.” “It will be our greatest challenge, and our sweetest victory, to finally surpass this dark menace, this numbing threat from the shadows, and replace it with the pure sunbeam that is our Fascist Faith, our Fascist Truth,” he wrote. In another post, he blasts a fellow commenter’s racist remarks, saying such members of the party make “the return of Fascist Faith to the pantheon of accepted beliefs that much more difficult.” “Tell me what I can do in Texas for you and I will try my utmost to comply,” Ives added, signing off, “your honor-bound comrade.” Though Ives calls his past involvement with the party “a funny story,” conservative lawmakers who have had dealings with the Tea Party activist found it alarming. texastribune.org

To: i-node who wrote (704989)	3/20/2013 1:30:41 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577188

>> There are no regs requiring Costco to pay its employees more. As Ten pointed out, this is PRECISELY how free markets are supposed to operate. While there is no evidence CostCo benefits in any way at all from paying its employees more, it does so because IT believes there is. If Walmart believed it would be better off paying $4/hour that ought to be its right to do so, and by interfering with business exercising its rights, it only causes further problems. Who said anything about interfering. All I was saying is that Costco's philosophy is benefiting the company. IN the case of minimum wage, there is no legislation I know of that does more harm to minorities than the minimum wage. It pushes them onto the public dole and it prevents them from gaining much needed work ethic and experience. It is just plain stupid. You know you have posted some crazy things in the past but you've surpassed yourself with the above comment.