STV News: Scotland Tonight- Rona Dougall Interviewing Laurie Clark & Peter Hughes: ‘How Would Independence Affect the Prospects of Business’

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Erik Schneider

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Source:STV News– interviewing Laurie Clark and Peter Hughes about the prospects of Scottish independence.

Source:FRS FreeState

“STV News: Scotland Tonight- How Would Independence Affect The Prospects of Scottish Business?” Originally from STV News, but the video has since been deleted or blocked on YouTube.

Perhaps the future of the United Kingdom should be a federalist one where the states or republics in Britain: England, Scotland, Wales, and North Ireland would be able to handle their own domestic affairs. Have their own state or provincial governments and handle their own education, law enforcement, regulatory system, social welfare systems. The things that the states in America do or provinces in other developed democracies do.

But where the national government in London handles the things that only national governments should be doing. Like the currency, foreign affairs, national security, etc. Where the English, Scotts, Welch and Irish feel closer to the U.K. and feel British because they have a large say in what happens in their daily lives in the places that they live.

With a federalist system it wouldn’t be top-down with big government thinking it knows best for everyone. Instead the states and localities would be able to handle the issues that they see and are on top of live with everyday.

The national government handling the things that countries need to have done at the national level. Like interstate commerce, interstate crime, foreign policy, the national economy, taxation, but where the states and localities could have their own tax revenue to pay for the operations of their own governments.

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Politics and Prose: Al From- ‘The New Democrats and the Return to Power’

Posted on September 21, 2014 by kireschneider
Al From _The New Democrats and the Return to Power_

Source:Politics & Prose– Democratic strategist Al From, talking about his book about the New Democrats, at Politics & Prose in Washington.

Source:The New Democrat

“From founded the Democratic Leadership Council in 1984. In the twenty-five years he served as its CEO, he achieved his goal of bringing the Democratic Party back to power. In this political memoir he recounts the development of the centrist philosophy that continues to be instrumental to the Democrats’ success.”

From Politics & Prose

“Al From discussing his book “The New Democrats and the Return to Power” at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics on 9/8/2014.”

The New Democrat_ Politics & Prose_ Al From- 'The New Democrats and The Return to Power'

Source:CSPAN– Democratic strategist Al From talking about his book about the New Democrats.

From CSPAN

I’m a Liberal Democrat and a New Democrat and yes those are the same things. Except I might be more liberal than New Democrats today on some social issues, especially civil liberties. Especially since 9/11 where I believe we can’t have security without liberty. That they need each other and New Democrats today since 9/11 tend to side more on security than liberty. Hillary Clinton would be a perfect example of that. But the New Democrats are the Liberals and Progressives in the Democratic Party and I’m going to explain that.

The New Democratic philosophy is not Republican light or sounding more progressive or socialist. And moving past the New Deal and Great Society and creating a real welfare state in America. But is about building off the principles of the Founding Fathers in America. And that individual liberty is for everyone. And not just European-American men, but the entire country regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, family income. And using government to expand freedom and not government dependence.

The New Democratic philosophy is about individual liberty for everyone. It is not anti-government and having a government so small that it can’t help people in need. And let the market take care of the rest.

Or a pro-big-government philosophy and using government to take care of everyone. But empowering everyone in need to be able to take care of themselves. And this blog covers a lot of different issues about what exactly that means. But New Democrats aren’t Social Democrats on the far-left or moderate Conservatives on the center-right.

The New Democratic philosophy saved the Democratic Party and represents exactly how Bill Clinton won the White House in 1992. Because pre-1992 Democrats were seen as European Social Democrats who wanted to center most of the power in the country with a big government in Washington to take care of everyone.

They were called Liberal Democrats even though the Democrats in charge who had most of the power in the Democratic Party were Social Democrats on the far-left and mainstream FDR New Deal Progressives. But they weren’t Liberals at least on economic policy and national security.

By the time Bill Clinton left the White House in early 2001, Democrats were now clearly beating Republicans on most of the economic issues. By the time George W. Bush left the White House in early 2001, Democrats were now even beating Republicans on fiscal responsibility and the Federal budget. That is the legacy of the New Democratic Coalition that it saved the Democratic Party. And made them a governing party again.

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Central Florida Live: ‘Sexy Party Girls Going Crazy at the Bar’

Posted on September 21, 2014 by kireschneider
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Source:Central Florida Live– Wild party girls in Central Florida.

Source:The Daily Times

“Exclusive Drunk Girls Shocking Behavior Only In Florida, We Go Behind The Scenes. Drunk girls getting crazy in bars, nightclubs, outside. Dancing on bars, kissing, falling down, getting crazy. You won’t see this anywhere else.”

From Central Florida Live 

I probably found this photo on Flickr, but I’m not sure. What you see are two I’m guessing very young women, who are perhaps very drunk and having a great time partying in someone’s pickup truck. Perhaps the owner of the truck is not aware of that or is shitfaced on the ground somewhere. You would have to ask that person that.

Wild Party Girls

Source:The Daily Times– wild party girls. Perhaps they’re shitfaced and believe they’re out for the WWE or TNA Knockouts.

About 10-15 years ago there was a show on the cable network E that was called Wild On, that was hosted by Brooke Burke. And they would literally go around the world looking for the wildest and craziest places to party. And would interview people there and they would especially cover what are called wild party girls. Very sexy young women who have a lot to drink and then go off and have a great time partying.

In 2003-04 there was a syndicated show called ClubTV, that would do similar things and have similar coverage. But it was exclusively based in America and they would go to the wildest bars and you would see the wildest women, women who probably aren’t even thirty-years old left having a lot to drink and going off that night.

This is what this video reminds me of and as a guy it is a great thing to see and I’m glad there are sexy women willing to be this crazy in public.

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Tampa Harley Group: ‘Harley Davidson Women’s Low Rise Boot Cut Jeans’

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Tampa Biker Chick

Source:Tampa Harley Group– After seeing this woman, any other questions why guys love women in skin-tight jeans?

Source:The New Democrat

“Harley-Davidson Women’s Low Rise Boot Cut Jeans – P/N 99181-12VW

There is nothing better than a great fitting pair of jeans. Unless they are a great fitting pair of Harley-Davidson® jeans, that is. Our low-rise bootcut jeans have the right amount of stretch for a sexy and slimming fit that won’t over-stretch. The button-flap back pockets add detail worthy of a second (maybe even a third) look.

99% cotton, 1% spandex

Low-rise fit is straight through hip and thigh

19-1/2″ bootcut leg opening

Classic 5-pocket styling with signature Harley-Davidson® back pocket embroidery

Embroidered Harley-Davidson® graphics on inside waistband

Small embossed leather patch on back waist

Available in 30″ (petite), 32″ (regular) and 34″ (tall) inseams.”

From Tampa Harley Group

Aw, so that is why biker women and biker men where the tight denim and leather jeans so much when they are riding, well this one reason: to protect their legs from the heat that the engines on their bikes give off. But also lets face, biker women tend to be sexy and they are sexy because they take care of themselves and keep themselves in shape.

For one, they have to so they are strong enough to live the lifestyle that they do, like with their long biking trips. But also let’s face it: sexy women look great in tight denim jeans. Skinny and low-rise jeans and when they are both skinny and low-rise without being too revealing.

And then you put them on bikes and at the biker rallies, with their biker boots and you have very sexy women in great outfits on their bikes. Which makes them very attractive and why guys love biker women so much. The beautiful sexy biker woman in this video is a perfect example of that.

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Sexy Dallas Party Girls

Posted on September 21, 2014 by kireschneider

Sexy Dallas Party GirlsSource:The Daily Times– three party girls at the club.

Source:The Daily Times

Love the three women in this photo who all look like they’re going out to party. Perhaps they changed at work from their work clothes on a Friday and headed down to the club after work. Or maybe they went home quickly to change before going back out. Of course I love the woman in the middle the most with he black leather belt, big belt buckle, the skin-tight denim jeans, in black leather boots. She definitely looks like the typical, beautiful, sexy, party girl in the look that became very popular in America in the mid 2000s.

From Google

Very sexy women who knows how to get guys attention. They have great bodies and knows how to show it off with legs and a butt that look like they were designed for skinny jeans and boots. They would look great in both skinny denim and leather jeans.

This is what sexy women look like, at least to me. Not pale, rail-thin, valley looking girls. Or women with the so-called ghetto booties that look like they have a couple of basketball balls for an ass.

Sexy women are physically healthy and take care of them self at least to the point where they can afford to go out and get waisted and let it all hang out with out a lot of damage coming to them. Because they keep in good shape and work out and then reward themselves and guys as well by how they present themselves in the tight jeans and boots and showing off their bodies and moving around on those outfits.

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TV Days: President John F. Kennedy: ‘Imagine What Fox News Would Say’

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Rik Schneider


Source:The New Democrat 

Here’s one thing that I love about Jack Kennedy. He wasn’t anti-government and neither am I, but he did have a healthy skepticism about what government could do for people. Meaning he didn’t want government trying to do everything for everybody or trying to take care of everyone. But he believed that government including the Federal Government could play a healthy role in seeing that all Americans had the opportunity to live in freedom.

John F. Kennedy believed that all Americans including African-Americans and others should be able to get themselves the skills to do so. Which is why he was a real Liberal Democrat and not a Conservative or Social Democrat. He was the Bill Clinton of the 1950s and 60s, or Clinton was the JFK of the 1990s. But they both believed that government shouldn’t try to do everything or nothing for people. But help those who need it get themselves the tools that they need to live well in life.

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Clinton Foundation: Governor Bill Clinton’s 1992 Democratic Nomination Speech

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Clinton Foundation_ Governor Bill Clinton’s 1992 Democratic Nomination Speech _ FRS FreeStateSource:Clinton Foundation– Governor William J. Clinton (Democrat, Arkansas) accepting the 1992 Democratic Party presidential nomination, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Source:FRS FreeState

“On July 16, 1992, President Clinton delivered his acceptance speech to the 1992 Democratic Convention. With his “New Covenant” philosophy, President Clinton looked to bring everyone together: “There is no them. There is only us.”

From the Clinton Foundation

In 1992, when the Democratic Party nominated Bill Clinton for President, the Democratic Party completed the transition it started in the mid 1980s after losing the 1984 presidential election in another landslide similar to 1984 and the third landslide loss they had at the presidential level since 1972 and after the 1984 landslide loss.

The New Democratic Party that was emerging, was a coalition of Democrats who by the time Bill Clinton wins the Democratic nomination for President in 1992, were called New Democrats who aren’t Moderate Democrats, but Liberal Democrats, but not in the stereotypical ways that Liberals tend to get stereotyped as today.

The New Democrats, are Liberal Democrats who weren’t pro-government, but not anti-government either, but Democrats who wanted to use government to empower people to be able to take care of themselves. Not use government to try to managed Americans lives, but empower people so they can do that for themselves. Which is very different from the way the Democratic Party was prior to 1985 and how they were seen.

I believe the biggest legacy that Bill Clinton had as President of the United States and his political career in general, was how he changed the Democratic Party and moved the Democratic Party. Changing it from a party that was at least as seen and in some cases with the Far-Left in the Democratic Party, as an anti-business, anti-wealth, anti-success, anti-military, ant-religious, anti-American even party. To a party that became in favor of all of those things, but wanted them to be used in a responsible way.

New Democrats don’t want people to be able to force their values on the rest of the country that didn’t agree with them especially through law. They want all Americans to have a good opportunity to be successful in America instead of a select few being able to control most of the wealth in America. Who weren’t anti-military and didn’t believe America should or could police the world, but protect America. That was pro-law-enforcement but also respected civil liberties and personal freedom as well.

The New Democratic wave in the Democratic Party really started in 1976 with the Democratic Party nominating Jimmy Carter for President. And how President Carter moved the country as President on economic and foreign policy by taking the position that the country didn’t have unlimited resources and couldn’t do everything for everybody. That there was a limit to what government could do for the people who people themselves needed more power and freedom to be able to take care of themselves and that America also needed to be strong at home as well as abroad.

One problem with Jimmy Carter is that he didn’t get reelected and as a result the Democratic Party in the early 1980s went back to the Social Democratic Party that was at least seen as against those things I’ve already mentioned. And seem to have a new tax increase or government program for all the country’s problems. And what Bill Clinton did in 1992 was move the party back to what Jimmy Carter started in 1976 and was able to move the party forward because he got reelected in 1996.

I give Bill Clinton a lot of credit as it relates to the Democratic Party especially because he essentially saved the Democratic Party and kept it as a national party that remained competitive at the presidential level. And thanks to George W. Bush and Barack Obama the Democratic Party wins back Congress in 2006 and have retained control of the Senate since 2007 even though they lost the House in 2010 and the Democratic Party has been able to do these things because they are no longer seen as a far-left, Social Democratic Party.

Instead the Democratic Party is seen as a center-left party, (even thought it also has a center-right) that in a lot of these areas are now beating the Republican Party. And all of this started with Jimmy Carter in 1976 and went full circle with Bill Clinton in the 1990s. And that trend has continued ever since with McGovernites, the Social Democrats in the Democratic Party now finally fighting back to try to take back the power they had in the Democratic Party in the late 1960s and 70s.

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C-SPAN: President Bill Clinton’s 1993 Inaugural Address

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Erik Schneider


Source:FRS FreeState

Before Bill Clinton became President of the United States, Liberal Democrats were seen as tax and spenders, soft on Crime, soft on defense, soft on welfare, anti-private enterprise, anti-success, anti-wealth, pro-centralize power, “that the Federal Government had all the answers to America’s problems”. We were seen as anti-American, Unpatriotic anti-religious and fiscally irresponsible, deficits don’t matter.

How times changed in just eight years because by 2000 Democrats and a lot of that credit should go to President Clinton, were ahead of Republicans on a lot of these issues. We were seen as the party of fiscal responsibility, we were now leading Republicans on tax cuts and foreign policy, crime and many other issues. President Clinton brought a real liberal agenda to the United States. Not the liberal agenda which is how liberalism has been stereotyped in America.

But a liberal agenda that was based on what liberalism is actually about. Different from progressivism or democratic socialism and its very hard to tell the difference. Between Progressivism and Democratic Socialism today, at least how they are both practiced. But President Clinton’s liberal agenda was based on yes individual liberty. He didn’t want to empower the Federal Government to take that away from Americans, but he also wanted to empower people who didn’t have the freedom to live their own lives and be self-sufficient, because they lacked the skills to do so.

President Clinton’s liberal agenda was based on, individual liberty and responsibility. That if you work hard and play by the rules and are productive, you should be rewarded for that and not have government on your back. This is what liberalism its different from progressivism that is more government oriented. Or democratic socialism that is almost completely government oriented. It’s about empowerment, individual Liberty and responsibility. That free adults should have the liberty to live their own lives. But then have to deal with the consequences of their decisions. Good and bad and its also about equality of opportunity.

Not equality of result, that for people who don’t have the skills to be successful and self- sufficient in life, that they are empowered to do so. Which makes society as a whole better off to have more well-trained workers, with the ability to take care of themselves. And more well-trained workers in the workforce, having good jobs and being productive. Paying their fair share of taxes, but not paying taxes that are so high, that it discourages people from being productive.

Bill Clinton put liberalism back on the map in the United States as a positive force for change and made it a mainstream political philosophy, because he was able to put aside the false negative stereotypes that had been suffocating liberalism the previous twenty-five years. And was able to show Americans, that it wasn’t about government doing everything or nothing. But that government should be limited to what it does well and what’s Constitutional.

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Reason Magazine: ‘How Medicaid & ObamaCare Hurts The Poor’

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Ederik Schneider


Source:FreeState Now

It’s not that we have a Federal health insurance program for the poor that’s the problem. But how it’s setup and run that is the problem because Medicaid was never setup to be run affordably and efficiently. The idea of Medicaid is that “we are going to have free health insurance for the people who are on Medicaid. With the states, doctors, hospitals and clinics having to figure out how to pay for most of it with the Feds not chipping in much”.

And what the states, doctors, hospitals and clinics are saying is that “we can’t afford that we need to be compensated for the healthcare that we deliver. Otherwise we are not going to be able to deliver it because we have our own bills to pay”. Medicaid along with Medicare were setup in 1965, the difference being that Medicare was setup with a direct revenue source and increase in the payroll tax. Medicaid has never had that, it’s had to come out of general revenue from the Feds and states and what the Feds have basically said is that. “We do have the money for it” and have past the costs down to the states, hospitals, clinics and doctors.

So the way to fix Medicaid is to make self-financed with it’s own revenue source. And we could do that by having Medicaid be paid for by its customers like all other health insurance plans. Including Medicare so workers would pay for a portion of their Medicaid insurance, along with their employers. With these low-income workers being eligible for a tax credit at the end of the year. And people who are unemployed would get an additional payment to pay for their Medicaid.

As well as giving Medicaid patients an option to choose another health insurance plan with their Medicaid dollars, but they wouldn’t be forced to and we would see fewer people taking Medicaid for another plan. And then I would do what’s called in Washington, block-grant Medicaid to the states for them to run under a couple of conditions. That anyone eligible for Medicaid would have the option of taking Medicaid and getting that health insurance. And that their Medicaid dollars could only be used to pay for Medicaid.

The concept of Medicaid is sound so that even low-income workers can have access to health insurance and health care in America. But the way it was setup and run has created a hole for the states, hospitals, clinics and doctors to fill. And what they are saying is that “we can no longer afford to fill that hole” and as a result Medicaid patients are now getting stuck without having health insurance. Something by law they are eligible to have.

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The Street: Joseph Deaux: ‘A Brokered GOP Convention is Very Unlikely’

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Rik Schneider


Source:The FreeState

If you read my blog on a regular basis, you know that a month or go or so I suggested that Rick Santorum end his presidential campaign and endorse Newt Gingrich. So the right-wing could unite behind one presidential candidate. And unite against what they see as a Damn Yankee Northeastern Republican. Who they believe doesn’t share their values, because he’s not a big Government republican looking to impose his values on the rest of the country.

Senator Santorum doesn’t seem to be interested in social issues at all except when he talks to Religious Conservatives. Well all of these Far-Right big government groups are now backing Rick Santorum. Because they see him as someone who can win and will say whatever it takes to get their support, unlike Mitt Romney. Keep in mind these blogs about the Republican Party and the right-wing are coming from a Liberal Democrat who’s also a political junky. And a big reason why I blog about these things.

But also keep in mind, without Newt’s lousy debate performance back in February, chances are he probably wins Florida or comes damn close. And the GOP establishment might be looking for a new frontrunner at this moment. And Newt might be the frontrunner that the rest of the GOP Is, pardon the expression, shitting bricks terrified about right now. But that didn’t happen, the bad debate in Florida, followed by the Romney attack machine taking him down. After that, ended whatever chances of Newt Gingrich winning the GOP nomination.

If Rick Santorum wins Kansas, Alabama and Mississippi, all of them Tuesday, Newt if he still gives a damn about the Republican Party would be smart to drop his presidential campaign. Endorse Rick Santorum and allow for Rick to build off of that momentum. And prepare for the Texas Primary. If Rick were to win Louisiana and Texas as well, we might have a new Republican presidential race. But with Rick and Newt competing for the same voters and everyone else voting for Mitt, Mitt Romney sails to the Republican Nomination.

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