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From SF Gate:

For the first time since 2008, inflation is hitting consumers in the stomach.

Grocery prices grew by more than 1 1/2 times the overall rate of inflation this year, outpaced only by costs of transportation and medical care, according to numbers released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics…

And, meanwhile, vast swaths of US agricultural land lie fallow – because our tax and regulatory system makes it unprofitable to farm. And, remember, farming isn’t just growing food – it also entails vast amounts of manufacturing to support the growing and transportation of the food. We’re killing our economy at the base – and now we’re starting to pay higher prices for the food (yes, I realize that part of this jump is the Fed printing money like mad – but as food prices have risen, there has been little or no discernible increase in the amount of land being farmed…in other words, even higher prices for the stuff isn’t encouraging expansion of the industry…so badly screwed up are our economic policies).

I know I keep harping on this – I know its got to be getting boring by now; I’m sure I’m starting to sound like a crank over it. But until we start making, mining and growing more of our own stuff, we’ll never get out of this. We can expect increasing scarcity and higher prices until we unleash our economy by removing the tax and regulatory penalties on wealth creation. We really have to tell the banksters, bureaucrats and, especially, the environmentalists to get stuffed. We’ve got more important things to worry about than “too big to fail” banks, government pensions and fricking guppies in a California river.

We can get serious, or we can continue to collapse. The choice is ours.

Here we go – from CNN:

…Parham, a 41-year old state employee, says her kids repeatedly ask for Happy Meals, mainly for the toys. “We have to say no to our kids so many times and McDonald’s makes that so much harder to do. I object to the fact that McDonald’s is getting into my kids’ heads without my permission and actually changing what my kids want to eat.”…

She’s being joined in the suit by the leftist group pressure group, Center for Science in the Public Interest – so, this is a very liberal thing to do. Want to know something? The lady has a point.

Let’s face this fact – McDonald’s relentlessly advertises their happy meals and other things in order to get kids to want them. The kids, in turn, pressure the parents in to buying the products. The parents, finally, give in because its easier than arguing. But here is what is being missed: in this oh, so liberal attempt to protect the kiddies from the nefarious effects of relentless propaganda, our liberals are entirely ignoring the fact that its not just happy meals being marketed.

In addition to the harmless-if-its-occasional happy meals, kids are being relentlessly sold on abandoning their religion, having sex at ever younger ages, obeying the dictates of an all-encompassing government (which will provide everything – education and housing and health care and abortions) and following slavishly the fashions put forward by corporate bosses. All of this is being done without parental permission, and with nary a peep about it from our liberals (or, indeed, by hardly anyone). What is at stake here, for our liberals, is just another idiotic attack on a particularly disliked corporation – what is missing here is the fact that if a McDonald’s happy meal was our primary problem, we’d have no problems, at all.

What would be the ultimate outcome of this liberal campaign if it won all down the line? I guess a ban on cheeseburgers – and liberals would probably feel pretty happy about that. But for people who are free of both the liberal as well as the corporate/government narrative, the reality is that we must shut off the anti-human propaganda before an entire generation of Americans are wrecked (though, of course, for a lot of liberals a wrecked generation is ideal – people who are moral ciphers are easily controlled by a Ruling Class). This is serious business – naturally, liberals concentrate on the trivial and don’t even consider the larger implications of their own words and actions.

We, as citizens, must address the real issue which liberals ignore. Do we want a society where parents, families and friends instruct the children, or a society where money- and power-grubbing elites create a mass of serfs ready for oppression? Without our leave, the youth of America is being taught to be lazy, indifferent, narcissistic and licentious. Do we have the courage to call a halt? Or will we, on our side, also miss the larger issue?

This is going to hurt, liberals – from Zogby:

Former Vice-Presidential candidate and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is the Person of the Year for 2010 according to a recent Zogby International survey. The poll, also names former President George W. Bush as the Person of the Decade (2000-2010)…

Obama pulled 16% against Palin for the year’s honors – and only 20% against Bush for the honors of the decade. This is a poll of 1,950 adults – so, just a poll of Americans.

So much for The One…lo, how the mighty have fallen!

Facing up to the fact that the times are, indeed, changing:

Democrats controlling the Senate have abandoned a 1,924-page catchall spending measure that’s laced with homestate pet projects known as earmarks and that would have provided another $158 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Nevada Democrat Harry Reid gave up on the nearly $1.3 trillion bill after several Republicans who had been thinking of voting for the bill pulled back their support.

GOP leader Mitch McConnell threw his weight against the bill in recent days, saying it was in his words “unbelievable” that Democrats would try to muscle through in just a few days legislation that usually takes months to debate…

A bit of a triumph for fiscal sanity – as McConnell and other GOPers have suggested, what should happen is a “stand pat” continuing resolution to carry government operations through the next few weeks until the new Congress is seated and laws based upon the will of the American people can be considered.

UPDATE: Party like it’s 1773 – this is the anniversary of the Boston Tea party!

Greece erupts in terrible violence – they sure are slack when it comes to working, but seem to develope all sorts of energy when their welfare checks are at stake.

Dying California.

A look at Pakistan’s anti-blasphemy laws – a tool for oppression, yes, but also just a means for people to settle scores by accusing another of blasphemy. Never forget the “scam” aspect of all this Islamism nonsense.

Kids smoking less cigarettes, but getting stoned more often – liberalism at work!

DADT repeal gets closer to passage – ’cause there’s nothing more vital to the future of America than allowing gays to serve openly in the military. Thank goodness our Congresscritters are spending time on this rather than wasting effort on the fact that we’re bankrupt.

Things are getting worse in Haiti – What to do? Make it a Trust Territory and appoint a governor. Until there is at least some honesty in Haitian government, they won’t get anywhere and, thus far and throughout their history, they’ve never managed an honest government.

Santorum rejects Kennedy’s formulation of faith in the public square – possibly as a precursor to a try for the 2012 GOP nomination.

Obama may talk a good class warfare game, but when push comes to shove, it is the very richest among us who are doing the best under Obamunism – from Zero Hedge:

…while the media is distributing stories about the imminent poverty of Wall Street, quietly, and behind the scenes, the banking class could ostensibly pocket one of the biggest bonuses paydays in history. And while the plan may have been working effectively until now, a brand new report just released by the New York City Comptroller (who has absolutely no incentive to overestimate revenue numbers, and is in fact motivated to show as a bleak a financial picture a possible to also get on the taxpayer gravy train) throws some cold water in the face of this clever scheme. To wit, from page 16 of the report: “total compensation in the industry is expected to be up modestly once year-end bonuses are paid.” So, bonuses are going to be… up?…

Farms? Shut down to protect a bloody guppy in California. Factories? Safely shipped to China. Mines? You’ll find them in Chile. Home owners? Lost more than a trillion in equity in 2010. Fuel prices? Shooting through the roof. Food prices? Ditto. Bankers? Making out like bandits – as are those employed by government or who are able to get fat government grants.

This is the modern, liberal economy – a Ruling Class which looks after its own while the country and the people grow ever more impoverished. This is the hope and change you liberals voted for – this is what your man Obama is doing. This is what he’ll keep on doing. Did you really think your liberal leaders were against the rich? They are the rich, you dratted fools!.

And yet, here you are, eagerly slurping up their rhetoric about how we GOPers want to extend “tax cuts for the wealthy”. You’re still sitting there, thinking that you’re on the side of the little guy and we Republicans are for the Fat Cats. Exactly backwards, liberals…

People went through things more horrible than any of us can imagine to get us what we have today: remember them.

We simply must defeat this bill, cost what it might:

In urging lawmakers to vote for his tax deal, President Obama is using one of his go-to lines from the healthcare debate, according to a Democratic lawmaker.

Obama is telling members of Congress that failure to pass the tax-cut legislation could result in the end of his presidency, Rep. Peter DeFazio (Ore.) said…

This is an offer we can’t refuse – we must take Obama up on it. Vote against! End the Obama Presidency!

Nothing like firing up the pork and voting on 2,000 page bills to remind everyone why we despise the current Congressional leadership:

Americans’ assessment of Congress has hit a new low, with 13% saying they approve of the way Congress is handling its job. The 83% disapproval rating is also the worst Gallup has measured in more than 30 years of tracking congressional job performance.

The incoming Republicans should pay attention – and make some significant cut in spending a priority in January. If something serious isn’t cut, soon, the people will quickly lose faith in the GOP’s ability to deliver.