TORRANCE TRIBUNE October 4, 2012 Page 5 Political Penguin One Man’s Opinion By Duane Plank ex-Governator of the Great Bankrupt State, By Gerry Chong and civil freedom. So, as veteran column readers may remember, cheesy action movie actor and alleged steroid The brilliant and soulful poet Maya Angelou The World Economic Forum ranked the most when I was first commissioned to write this user Arnold Schwarzenegger, resurface was raised in a segregated America and productive economies in the world and found missive, my initial foray into the world of recently, speaking to the folks at USC. Not therefore understood more than most the Switzerland ranked first and the U.S. only government and world events was a penning sure what Arnold was doing there--more info cost of freedom lost. In her autobiography seventh. Moreover, we have fallen lower each about the dirt bag Somalian Pirates. Who had later if necessary. Just felt the need to take a I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou year for the past four years. Clearly there is a been terrorizing the innocents on the high seas, gratuitous shot. describes “a free bird as one that leaps on direct correlation between freedom and prosperity. doing their best Captain Jack Sparrow imitation. If you are paying any attention to the election, the backs of winds, floats downstream, dips Why are we doings so poorly, you may Except these outlaws were a tad bit more you should be astute enough to have figured his wings and darts to claim the sky.” ask? In California, the legislature passes sober and menacing than the swish-swashing out that Mitt “The Glove” Romney is grasping By contrast, “the caged bird stalks his 1,000 new laws a year! Imagine, three new Johnny Depp character who has graced at straws as his handlers try to figure out a narrow cage, can seldom see through the laws every single day and every new law the silver screen in the Pirates of the Caribbean conceivable way to make the electoral math bars. His wings are clipped and his feet are infringes on personal freedom in some way. flicks. work so that he can achieve a miracle victory tied, so he opens his throat to sing. He sings Nationally, the Federal Register records each The first Penguin, which graced these pages over the hard-campaigning and fundraising a fearful trill of things unknown but longed new regulation created by government. By back in April of 2009, congratulated the heroic President Obama. for still...the caged bird sings of freedom.” August, bureaucrats had already written 42,000 U.S. Navy snipers who had bullet-riddled Romney has made a couple of gaffes recently, three Somalian pirates who had hijacked an but in this day and age of Twit this and that, Freedom. We started as a free country, but are we still? American cargo ship and were threatening the who can possibly campaign anywhere and go life of the boat’s captain, pointing a gun at unscathed? Romney recently noted, correctly, his back as they held him captive. I may add, that a certain percentage of Obama Freedom. We started as a free country, but pages of new regulations, each expanding the Well, the high seas lunacy and thuggery acolytes are beholden to Big Government to are we still? Five different organizations, reach and power of the Executive Branch at has abated. Seems the scallywag dirt bags take care of them. And he isn’t going to get each using different criteria, have shown the the expense of Congress and the individual. aren’t living so high on the hog. May have their votes. No way. degree to which we have meekly surrendered In three years, the Administration has to actually go out and find the dreaded “real Finally, doing my best to scare up some our freedom. expanded Obamacare from 2,700 pages by job.” Can’t even afford $1,000 a night hookers, Palin news, but the Princess has been out The Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom 13,000 pages of regulations. The expectation as they did back in the heyday of high seas of the limelight recently, so the only Palin of the World, 2012 ranked countries based on is that it will reach 25,000-30,000 pages by piracy. What the heck has this world come to? news that I have been able to locate involves the degree of regulation, respect for property 2015, when all regulations for this law must Pretty sure that the soon-to-be-re-elected her lovely daughter Bristol, who is making a rights and the size of government. In 2000, be completed. POTUS has claimed credit for the downturn return appearance on the hit boob tube show the U.S had ranked third. It fell to eighth and The international rankings show that many in saltwater mayhem. Dancing With the Stars. is now a lowly 18th. Eighteenth! other countries believe more strongly than we in Times are tough for water thugs. Said scallion According to numerous reports, and my The Heritage Foundation and the Wall their citizens’ ability to handle the responsibilities Hassan Abdi, as he lounged around a bunch of own eyes, 21-year-old Bristol has shed a Street Journal completed their 2012 ranking that are inherent in a free nation. In our growing empty whiskey bottles and haggard hookers: few pounds since her first appearance on on economic freedom and found the U.S. government dependency, we ignore the fact “There’s nothing to do here these days. The the popular franchise. Now I am not sure ranked only 10th. Hong Kong had a base that each new law, each new tax and each new hopes for a revitalized market are not high.” how Bristol Palin is considered a star by any score of 89.9 points, while the U.S. lagged regulation welds another bar onto the cage that And for affording overly priced escorts for a means, but in today’s society, a universe that at just 76.3--down 1.5 points from 2011. imprisons us, and we morph from the free bird night of…hijinks. glorifies a bunch of illiterate morons from the We aren’t close to the top and we’re sliding. “darting to claim the sky” into a caged bird So, about a month left until the general Jersey Shore and makes ‘em millions, what Freedom House ranked the U.S a shocking singing a shrill lament of freedom lost. Are we election, and it was nice to see the disgraced the heck do I know? • 48th out of 193 countries based on political on the right track or wrong track? • We are now a Registered eBay Drop Off Location. 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