NC Renegades

Respect for the American Flag

Posted on October 23, 2013 by DRenegade

I attended a conference on Saturday where I was offended by two points. Most people reading this article will consider these points to be trivial. I do not.

1. A Tea Party leader wore a shirt that was the flag of the United States.

2. The organizers of the event wanted to pledge allegiance to the flag but had forgotten to bring one. The solution was to pledge allegiance to the shirt flag.

I understand that most people in our country do not respect our flag. Like Bonhoeffer’s concept of cheap grace, we offer a small token of esteem to our flag without acknowledging the sacrifices it truly represents.

But in my mind, I do not look at the flag as representing an indivisible nation. I see the principles embodied by our founding fathers to bring together our disparate states into a compact under a Constitution. I see the blood and treasure of our sons and daughters who sacrificed to give us Liberty. I see a symbol of our declaration to hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights. I see everything that I miss in America today.

David DeGerolamo

§176. Respect for flag

No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.

(a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
(b) The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.
(c) The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker’s desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.

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Super Bowl Champs Get $130,000 to Promote Obamacare

Posted on October 23, 2013 by DRenegade

http://www.atr.org/baltimore-ravens-promote-obamacare-a7841

The professional football team that won this year’s Super Bowl is getting $130,000 from American taxpayers to promote Obamacare, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch this week.

The deal was secured on September 9 between the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL) and Maryland health officials. The White House has tried recruiting professional sports leagues—especially the NFL and the National Basketball Association (NBA)—to help promote the president’s healthcare law but they have declined.

In fact, the NFL confirmed months ago that it would not participate in the Obamacare public relations campaign, offering the media this written statement: “We have responded to the letters we received from members of Congress to inform them we currently have no plans to engage in this area and have had no substantive contact with the administration about [the health-care law’s] implementation.” Washington D.C.’s mainstream newspaper called it a “blow to the administration.”

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Is Secession Legal?

Posted on October 23, 2013 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQkZp7iCX1w

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They missed the most obvious proof that secession is legal under our Constitution: Jefferson Davis was not tried for treason after the War of Northern Aggression. A trial would have found him not guilty as well as shown that Lincoln’s invasion was an illegal act of war under the Constitution.

David DeGerolamo

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Ben Swann: Virginia Gov. Race, Blocking The Libertarian Candidate?

Posted on October 23, 2013 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiyknaXAcA4#t=1s

From YouTube:

Ben Swann explains how Libertarian candidate for Governor in Virginia, Robert Sarvis, is being blocked from a final gubernatorial debate despite polling at 12%.

h/t K

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Tom Woods at Nullify Now

Posted on October 23, 2013 by DRenegade

Tom Woods – Part 1

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbgMtdOcRn8

Tom Woods – Part 2

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Ann Barnhardt: This is what happens when you stand too close to a forerunner of the Antichrist.

Posted on October 23, 2013 by DRenegade

Those sulfuric fumes will get you every time. Makes Michelle after a Taco Bell Bean Burrito 12-pack seem positively floral by comparison. They don’t call him “Stinky” for nothing.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2zJvS0S38Y

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Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with US over response to conflict in Syria

Posted on October 23, 2013 by DRenegade

‘Major change’: Prince Bandar Bin Sultan said the kingdom will make a “major shift” in relations with the United States.

Upset at President Barack Obama’s policies on Iran and Syria, members of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family are threatening a rift with the United States that could take the alliance between Washington and the kingdom to its lowest point in years.

Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief is vowing that the kingdom will make a ‘major shift’ in relations with the United States to protest perceived American inaction over Syria’s civil war as well as recent U.S. overtures to Iran, a source close to Saudi policy said on Tuesday.

Prince Bandar bin Sultan told European diplomats that the United States had failed to act effectively against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was growing closer to Tehran, and had failed to back Saudi support for Bahrain when it crushed an anti-government revolt in 2011, the source said.

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The State of Banks

Posted on October 23, 2013 by DRenegade

What will China do if they experience a banking crisis? The normal course of action would be to raise cash/assets to cover their losses. What will the United States do if China calls in their US Treasurys?

David DeGerolamo

Top China Banks Triple Debt Write-Offs as Defaults Loom

China’s biggest banks tripled the amount of bad loans written off in the first half, cleaning up their books ahead of what may be a fresh wave of defaults.

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., the world’s most profitable lender, and its four largest rivals expunged in the first six months 22.1 billion yuan ($3.65 billion) of debt that couldn’t be collected, up from 7.65 billion yuan a year earlier, filings showed. That didn’t pare first-half profits, which climbed to a record $76 billion, as provisions were set aside in earlier periods when the loans began souring.

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Abbas set to slam door on talks with Israel, resuscitates “revolving door” for terrorists

Posted on October 23, 2013 by DRenegade

Israel troops run to earth a Palestinian terrorist

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has decided to derail talks with Israel directly after the release of the second batch of jailed Palestinians next week. US Secretary of State John Kerry will try to head off the crisis in the talks he brokered earlier this year, by cajoling Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu when they meet in Rome Wednesday, Oct. 23, to make Abbas an offer he can’t refuse, of sovereign Israel land.

DEBKAfile’s sources reveal that Kerry is thinking of a large chunk of Dead Sea coastal area and water, equal to about a third of the territory owned by Israel in this region.

On May 28, in an exclusive report, DEBKAfile first disclosed Kerry’s plan to save this Israeli concession for the final peace accord. He is now thinking of hauling it forward as bait to dissuade Abbas from walking out of the peace process.

But the Palestinian leader’s game plan entails more than this walkout, a step he has taken many times before. He is also unraveling the longstanding security cooperation with Israel for containing Palestinian terrorism.

This was the unspoken background to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s first – typically taciturn -remarks Tuesday, Oct. 22 about the latest bout of Palestinian terrorist attacks.

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CAT Slaughtered With Epic Q3 Revenue, Earnings Miss And Guidance Cut: Sees “Good Deal Of Uncertainty Worldwide”

Posted on October 23, 2013 by DRenegade

With every passing quarter, Caterpillar, perhaps the last truly industrial company in the epically misnamed Dow Jones (non)-Industrial Average, provides an ever clearer answer to the question we posed this past July, namely “Is CAT Nothing But The Dow’s Most Overpriced Dog?” The most recent affirmative response came moments ago when the company announced Q3 earnings which were for lack of a better word, disastrous: EPS came at $1.45 on expectations of $1.67, revenues missed by a whopping $1 billion, when the sales print $13.4 billion missed expectations of $14.47 billion – perhaps the biggest top-line miss in the company’s history since the Lehman bankruptcy. But it was the guidance that is slaying the stock right now: “The company has revised its 2013 outlook and now expects sales and revenues to be about $55 billion, with profit per share of about $5.50. The previous outlook for 2013 sales and revenues was a range of $56 to $58 billion with profit per share of about $6.50 at the middle of that range.” But don’t worry: despite our continuous warnings about the sad state of this company the trend, it is only “transitory”, and any minute now thing may get better. Unless they don’t.

From the report:

“This year has proven to be difficult, with expected sales and revenues nearly $11 billion lower than last year. That is a 17 percent decline from 2012, with about 75 percent of the drop from Resource Industries, which is principally mining. We expect Resource Industries to be down close to 40 percent for the full year and Power Systems’ and Construction Industries’ sales to each be down about 5 percent,” said Caterpillar Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Doug Oberhelman.

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Leo Gerard – One of the Puppetmasters Destroying Our Country

Posted on October 23, 2013 by DRenegade

BY LEO GERARD, UNITED STEELWORKERS PRESIDENT

To Republicans, governing is a fistfight, a war. It’s about destruction: defunding the Affordable Care Act, dismantling Social Security, demolishing Medicare, disassembling the National Labor Relations Board. It’s gunning down America.

Republicans characterize the ordeal they just subjected the country to as a war. House Speaker John Boehner said, “We fought the good fight. We just didn’t win.”

Sen. John McCain said, “Republicans have to understand we have lost this battle, as I predicted weeks ago, that we would not be able to win because we were demanding something that was not achievable.”

Just like any war, this one cost blood and bounty. Republicans wounded their party with their failed gambit to defund the Affordable Care Act by shutting government and threatening default. But what’s worse is they bloodied the economy. At a time when millions are struggling to find work, the Republican hostage taking depressed growth and killed jobs. It’s one thing for the GOP to blast itself in the foot, it’s unconscionable for Republicans to shoot America.

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