"The credulity of the most ardent Obama supporters is unbecoming. Their hostility to those who refuse to share their credulity is even less attractive. Yet perhaps the ultimate irony is that their shrill advocacy actually damages their candidate.
As this long campaign continues to reveal Obama as a traditional politician, his candidacy suffers from the comparison between the mythical Obama who purportedly practices a new form of politics and the real Obama, a politician who pursues office with the same zeal and in much the same manner as his predecessors and contemporaries."
-- Dean Barnett, at the Weekly Standard
Sunday, April 27, 2008
The beauty of our planet
These photos are digital composites, and are attributed in some part to astronaut Sunita Williams, although that can't be confirmed.
SlideShare Link
Interested in investing in a corporation with a local presence?
Consider the possibilities here.
Excerpt:
"The low P/E and high yield recently caught the attention of legendary value investor John Neff, whose foray into Asbury is the first time he's ever owned an auto dealer. Neff says the U.S. consumer isn't as weak as the market thinks; he sees Asbury hitting the high end of its guidance at $2-2.25 this year."
The Crown Auto group is part of Asbury, in case you were not aware.
Excerpt:
"The low P/E and high yield recently caught the attention of legendary value investor John Neff, whose foray into Asbury is the first time he's ever owned an auto dealer. Neff says the U.S. consumer isn't as weak as the market thinks; he sees Asbury hitting the high end of its guidance at $2-2.25 this year."
The Crown Auto group is part of Asbury, in case you were not aware.
The Cone Project for 4/27/08
Cone's in Full Whine Mode today with his N&R column about how Obama Rama is being called to account for his poor judgement and his character flaws.
With an amateurish attempt at sarcastic contrivance to distract from the whiny construct he's adopted on this issue of late, Cone's obvious goal is to deflect opinion away from the increasing vulnerability of The Chosen One. As usual, he only fools the Usual Suspects and sycophants.
Here's a clue, Cone: Attitude, character, and judgement DO matter in the selection of the right person to be our President, whether you like it or not. Obama's gotten a pass on these matters from the media, other Dems/Lefties/"Progressives"/Nutroots/You for WAY too long.
Krauthammer effectively summarizes the real issue, and in the process emasculates one of the favorite whines of Cone and the Gang about criticism of Obama:
Hmmm...."the self-congratulatory fatuousness of that statement."
That describes virtually everything Cone writes.
Why does JR still give this guy a column?
With an amateurish attempt at sarcastic contrivance to distract from the whiny construct he's adopted on this issue of late, Cone's obvious goal is to deflect opinion away from the increasing vulnerability of The Chosen One. As usual, he only fools the Usual Suspects and sycophants.
Here's a clue, Cone: Attitude, character, and judgement DO matter in the selection of the right person to be our President, whether you like it or not. Obama's gotten a pass on these matters from the media, other Dems/Lefties/"Progressives"/Nutroots/You for WAY too long.
Krauthammer effectively summarizes the real issue, and in the process emasculates one of the favorite whines of Cone and the Gang about criticism of Obama:
"Obamaphiles are even more exercised about the debate question regarding the flag pin. Now, I have never worn one. Whether anyone does is a matter of total indifference to me. But apparently not to Obama. He's taken three affirmative steps in regard to flag pins. After 9/11, he began wearing one. At a later point, he stopped wearing it. Then last year he explained why: Because it 'became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security.'
Apart from the self-congratulatory fatuousness of that statement -- as if in this freest of all countries, political self-expression is somehow scarce or dangerous or a sign of patriotic courage -- to speak of pin-wearing as a sign of inauthentic patriotism is to make an issue of it yourself. For Obamaphiles to now protest the very asking of the question requires a fine mix of cynicism and self-righteousness.
But Obama needs to cast out such questions as illegitimate distractions because they are seriously damaging his candidacy. As people begin to learn about this just-arrived pretender, the magic dissipates. He spent six weeks in Pennsylvania. Outspent Hillary more than two to one. Ran close to 10,000 television ads -- spending more than anyone in any race in the history of the state -- and lost by 10 points.
And not because he insufficiently demagogued NAFTA or the other 'issues.' It was because of those 'distractions' -- i.e., the things that most reveal character and core beliefs."
Hmmm...."the self-congratulatory fatuousness of that statement."
That describes virtually everything Cone writes.
Why does JR still give this guy a column?
Saturday, April 26, 2008
"Obama and Clinton: two cynical losers"
The Times of London gets it. And I suspect many of the smarter Dems do also.
Key point:
"The longer the Democratic race goes on, the more obvious it appears that each is deeply, perhaps ineradicably flawed."
......and:
"What they want is a man - or a woman - of character and record to inspire and lead them. That may be why the Democrats are in trouble."
Exactly.
Key point:
"The longer the Democratic race goes on, the more obvious it appears that each is deeply, perhaps ineradicably flawed."
......and:
"What they want is a man - or a woman - of character and record to inspire and lead them. That may be why the Democrats are in trouble."
Exactly.
Obama's terrorist friends
More evidence about Obama's poor judgement regarding who he chooses to be associated with.
This person is also someone who raises funds for the Obama campaign.
Has anyone checked out the actual list of contributors to Obama? What other little surprises might we find upon closer inspection?
This person is also someone who raises funds for the Obama campaign.
Has anyone checked out the actual list of contributors to Obama? What other little surprises might we find upon closer inspection?
Cutting through the hysteria and the intellectual dishonesty over the sub prime fallout
....from the Usual Suspect/Economic Illiterates, as evidenced in many forms of the national media and blahgosphere, as well as the local scene, at places like Cone's on a semi-regular basis.
Max Borders at Red Clay Citizen reviews what he calls an intellectually honest, well-researched and thorough post mortem."
Noteworthy:
"The authors ask reasonable questions about the "optimum" level of foreclosure, and caution us not to forget the types of speculative investments that count among the foreclosures.In short, this is a rich complicated account written by talented economists. But it's a breath of fresh air compared to what you read in the papers."
Amen.
Max Borders at Red Clay Citizen reviews what he calls an intellectually honest, well-researched and thorough post mortem."
Noteworthy:
"The authors ask reasonable questions about the "optimum" level of foreclosure, and caution us not to forget the types of speculative investments that count among the foreclosures.In short, this is a rich complicated account written by talented economists. But it's a breath of fresh air compared to what you read in the papers."
Amen.
Friday, April 25, 2008
McCain's days as a Media Darling are now at an end
Stories like this are predictable, are they not?
That's particularly evident as the reality sinks in for our Lame Stream and Nutroot pals about the increasingly evident likelihood that Republicans will AGAIN win the White House, based on the continued revelations about the poor judgement and almost unconscious incompetence of the Democrat Heir Apparent.
Excerpt:
"John McCain may not be a whiz on economics (neither is Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton) but he's intelligent enough to understand that the following two decisions -- (1) whether to support legislation that will lower tax rates in 2001 and (2) whether to support legislation that will raise tax rates in 2008 -- are independent ones. In other words, raising tax rates is not the same thing as lowering them, and the economic environment in 2008 is not the same as the economic environment in 2001."
As always, the forces of Libthink want to have it both ways.
That's particularly evident as the reality sinks in for our Lame Stream and Nutroot pals about the increasingly evident likelihood that Republicans will AGAIN win the White House, based on the continued revelations about the poor judgement and almost unconscious incompetence of the Democrat Heir Apparent.
Excerpt:
"John McCain may not be a whiz on economics (neither is Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton) but he's intelligent enough to understand that the following two decisions -- (1) whether to support legislation that will lower tax rates in 2001 and (2) whether to support legislation that will raise tax rates in 2008 -- are independent ones. In other words, raising tax rates is not the same thing as lowering them, and the economic environment in 2008 is not the same as the economic environment in 2001."
As always, the forces of Libthink want to have it both ways.
The calming down of global warming hysteria
And, of course, the Lame Streamers and the True Believers have done their usual good job in covering up the bad news to the Cult of the Goracle.
Facts that are becoming clearly established:
1. The earth has cooled in the last 10 years.
2. Heat is the forcing agent for increase CO2 levels, NOT the other way around, as the official dogma needs to support their unholy Crusade.
On the other hand, expect the usual nonsense from The Team as pushback to these inconvenient truths.
After all, there IS a political/social/economic agenda to fulfill, regardless of the facts, isn't there?
Facts that are becoming clearly established:
1. The earth has cooled in the last 10 years.
2. Heat is the forcing agent for increase CO2 levels, NOT the other way around, as the official dogma needs to support their unholy Crusade.
On the other hand, expect the usual nonsense from The Team as pushback to these inconvenient truths.
After all, there IS a political/social/economic agenda to fulfill, regardless of the facts, isn't there?
The Cone Project for 4/25/08
The babbling buffoons and assorted jerks at Cone's continue their enabling nonsense about Obama's continuing problem with bad judgement regarding the people he chooses to see as kindred spirits.
Spag has the best response to these Usual Suspects:
One thing that is NOT talked about is how the constant whining and dribble in defense of the indefensible regarding Obama makes the issue stay alive in the public eye. And though that was not the reason behind the NC GOP ad (the thread's original focus), Obama's supporters are too naive, or too narrow minded to figure out that the "defense" works to their cause's great disfavor.
Keep up the good work, little buddies.....I LOVE it when a plan comes together.
Keep on posting on this type of thread, Cone.
Spag has the best response to these Usual Suspects:
"Once again the motto is 'it's okay when our side does it, but not when it is done to us.' In other words, petty partisanship still rules the day among Democrats and the net nuts on display here who are bending over backwards to justify Wright's comments as inoffensive and untainted by bigotry.
The spineless cowards are the ones who can dish it out all day long playing 'gotcha' over issues involving bigotry, but cry like little pansies when such tactics are used against them. It's just another form of moral superiority from progressives/liberals who simply cannot admit to any flaws within their ranks or the reality that the identity politics they have preached in order to gain power has now backfired within the Democratic party."
And:
One thing that is NOT talked about is how the constant whining and dribble in defense of the indefensible regarding Obama makes the issue stay alive in the public eye. And though that was not the reason behind the NC GOP ad (the thread's original focus), Obama's supporters are too naive, or too narrow minded to figure out that the "defense" works to their cause's great disfavor.
Keep up the good work, little buddies.....I LOVE it when a plan comes together.
Keep on posting on this type of thread, Cone.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
A proper perspective for Earth Day
Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, tells why the group's focus on political posturing, instead of scientific objectivity caused him to break ranks.
Excerpt:
But please try to make that understood among The Goracle's True Believers of "Scientific Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming" crowd.
That's the PRIME example of political (plus social and economic) agendas driving public policy, instead of actual science and legitimate statistical analysis.
Excerpt:
"The breaking point was a Greenpeace decision to support a world-wide ban on chlorine. Science shows that adding chlorine to drinking water was the biggest advance in the history of public health, virtually eradicating water-borne diseases such as cholera. And the majority of our pharmaceuticals are based on chlorine chemistry. Simply put, chlorine is essential for our health.
My former colleagues ignored science and supported the ban, forcing my departure. Despite science concluding no known health risks – and ample benefits – from chlorine in drinking water, Greenpeace and other environmental groups have opposed its use for more than 20 years."
....and:"We all have a responsibility to be environmental stewards. But that stewardship requires that science, not political agendas, drive our public policy."
Indeed.But please try to make that understood among The Goracle's True Believers of "Scientific Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming" crowd.
That's the PRIME example of political (plus social and economic) agendas driving public policy, instead of actual science and legitimate statistical analysis.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Understanding Barack Obama, pt 2
(from the Patriot Post US)
Noteworthy:
Exactly.
Hence, the extreme urgency in the pushback to control the damage.
Noteworthy:
"A prominent member of Wright's congregation says, 'He has impacted the life of Barack Obama so much so that he wants to portray that feeling he got from Rev. Wright onto the country because we all need something positive.'
Wright himself told The New York Times a year ago, 'If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me. I said it to Barack personally, and he said "yeah, that might have to happen."'
Translation: Any distance between Obama and Wright is contrived purely for political expedience. All the bitterness and hatred is seething right under the surface.
Now that Obama's wafer-thin layer of shellac is peeling away, some moderate Demos, and more than a few superdelegates -- who hitched their wagon to this most Leftwing of Lefties -- are concerned that Obama is leading their party into a black hole. As they learn more, however late, about Obama's black-nationalist and Marxist roots, they correctly see his election prospects growing dimmer."Exactly.
Hence, the extreme urgency in the pushback to control the damage.
The Cone Project 4-21-08
Cone just can't stand it.
He has yet ANOTHER whiny post (by someone else) up about how terrible St Barack (and, oh yeah, maybe Hillary too) got treated by Gibson and Stephanopoulos.
Quote:
"Clinton and Obama were trapped by questions that were unworthy of them, and trapped by not getting a chance to answer good questions that never came. ABC, Gibson, and Stephanopoulos actively trashed an important opportunity."
WAY too funny!
Isn't it funny how Dems/Lefties/"Progressives" never seem to mind that Republican candidates get this kind of treatment EVERY TIME?
Isn't it also funny how people like Cone and the Usual Suspects are protesting over the fact that the questions didn't focus on issues that were important to the Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" cherished agenda item talking points, and that they DARED ask ObamaRama questions about the subject matter that revealed him for the empty suit he actually is, one who is totally unfit to be POTUS?
Mark Steyn said it best, at Hugh Hewitt's:
"... I think it’s hilarious that the lefty commentators are now denouncing George Stephanopoulos as some kind of Karl Rove plant for asking this. And one accepts that Hillary Rodham Clinton has to go through the motions of saying oh, well, you know, certainly the Republicans are going to make a lot of play out of this. No, it isn’t. This is for the Democrats.
The fact is, it’s entirely legitimate. Senator Obama is a man of no accomplishments, a man of no accomplishments other than getting elected to the United States Senate, and before that, to the Illinois State Senate. He’s done nothing, he has a wafer-thin legislative record, he wrote an autobiography about nothing.
So when you have such a man running for president, all you can tell about him are who he has chosen to spend his life with. He’s chosen to spend his life with this kind of yuppy play terrorist who led the Weather Underground, and the neo-segregationist, racist, ranter like Jeremiah Wright. That’s really all we know about Barack Obama, and it’s entirely legitimate to ask him about it. "
He has yet ANOTHER whiny post (by someone else) up about how terrible St Barack (and, oh yeah, maybe Hillary too) got treated by Gibson and Stephanopoulos.
Quote:
"Clinton and Obama were trapped by questions that were unworthy of them, and trapped by not getting a chance to answer good questions that never came. ABC, Gibson, and Stephanopoulos actively trashed an important opportunity."
WAY too funny!
Isn't it funny how Dems/Lefties/"Progressives" never seem to mind that Republican candidates get this kind of treatment EVERY TIME?
Isn't it also funny how people like Cone and the Usual Suspects are protesting over the fact that the questions didn't focus on issues that were important to the Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" cherished agenda item talking points, and that they DARED ask ObamaRama questions about the subject matter that revealed him for the empty suit he actually is, one who is totally unfit to be POTUS?
Mark Steyn said it best, at Hugh Hewitt's:
"... I think it’s hilarious that the lefty commentators are now denouncing George Stephanopoulos as some kind of Karl Rove plant for asking this. And one accepts that Hillary Rodham Clinton has to go through the motions of saying oh, well, you know, certainly the Republicans are going to make a lot of play out of this. No, it isn’t. This is for the Democrats.
The fact is, it’s entirely legitimate. Senator Obama is a man of no accomplishments, a man of no accomplishments other than getting elected to the United States Senate, and before that, to the Illinois State Senate. He’s done nothing, he has a wafer-thin legislative record, he wrote an autobiography about nothing.
So when you have such a man running for president, all you can tell about him are who he has chosen to spend his life with. He’s chosen to spend his life with this kind of yuppy play terrorist who led the Weather Underground, and the neo-segregationist, racist, ranter like Jeremiah Wright. That’s really all we know about Barack Obama, and it’s entirely legitimate to ask him about it. "
Sunday, April 20, 2008
The Cone Project 4-20-08
Cone has a post called Pillorying the fatuous, on which contains more of the expected hand wringing and whining over Gibson's and Stephanopoulos' on-target questioning of the ObamaRama personage in the recent Democrat presidential debate.
In addition to the always irrelevant contribution from the perpetually alternatively clued Ged, we have this jewel of a quote from poster "justcorbly" (AKA "billg"), who is totally oblivious to the thread title:
"If God has taken a position of American slavery and its racist legacy, woulod (sic) anyone expect it to be other than damning it?"
I think it would be cruel of me to pillory the fatuous for the above statement, don't you?
In addition to the always irrelevant contribution from the perpetually alternatively clued Ged, we have this jewel of a quote from poster "justcorbly" (AKA "billg"), who is totally oblivious to the thread title:
"If God has taken a position of American slavery and its racist legacy, woulod (sic) anyone expect it to be other than damning it?"
I think it would be cruel of me to pillory the fatuous for the above statement, don't you?
Understanding Barack Obama (pt 1)
[from The Patriot Post (Patriot Post US)]
No Obamanation"Asked about his qualifications to be president, Kerry said, 'Because he's African-American. Because he's a black man, who has come from a place of oppression and repression through the years in our own country. ... President Obama [would be] a symbol of empowerment [who has] the ability to help us bridge the divide of religious extremism, to maybe even give power to moderate Islam ... an important lesson for America to show Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, other places in the world where disenfranchised people don't get anything.'
Of course, from Kerry's "limo-liberal" perspective, I suppose that a black guy who lives in a $2-million Georgian mansion on Chicago's South Side (with a little help from Tony Rezko) appears to have been "oppressed and repressed through the years."
Kerry's cosmological assessment notwithstanding, the real Obama is not quite so benign.
Well, like so many Leftists, his roots are shallow and broken."
"Leftists are uniformly defined by their hypocrisy and dissociation from reality.
They speak of unity, but they foment division, appealing to the worst in human nature by separating Americans into dependent constituencies.
They support freedom of thought, unless those thoughts don't comport with theirs. They feign tolerance while practicing intolerance.
They resist open discussion and debate of their views, yet seek to silence dissenters.
They protest for natural order while advocating for homosexuality and abortion.
They assert their First Amendment rights, except, of course, when it comes to religion, whence they impose the doctrines of secular atheism on everyone else.
They decry SUVs, except those that they own.
They advocate mass transit but commute on private jets.
They believe trial lawyers save lives and doctors kill people.
They believe the solution to racism is to treat people differently on the basis of the color of their skin rather than the content of their character.
They deride moral clarity because they can't survive its scrutiny.
Ad infinitum..."
Saturday, April 19, 2008
The continued politicalization of science
....is nowhere more evident than in the ongoing "global warming" scam.
David Demming discussed this point several years ago, about a short paper he had written back in the 90s:
"The week the article appeared, I came into my office one morning to find a voicemail message from a reporter for National Public Radio. He wanted to interview me concerning my article in Science. Visions of glory danced in front of my eyes. I was going to be on national radio. Surely, it was only a matter of time before I would be a regular guest on the McNeil-Lehrer news hour on PBS. Excited, I called the reporter back.
But all of my fantasies were immediately dispelled. The reporter focused in on the last sentence in the Science paper. He asked me, did I really mean to say that? Did I really intend to imply that the warming in North America may have been due to natural variability?
Without hesitation, I said 'yes'. He replied, 'Well then, I guess we have no story. That’s not what people are interested in. People are only interested if the warming is due to human activities. Goodbye.' And he hung up on me.
It was my first realization that the media intentionally filter the information the public receives."
More:
"My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated.
Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models. Of course, they say, I have no degree in meteorology and I am therefore not qualified to speak. But I have studied the climate models and I know what they can do.
The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields and farms and forests. They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in.
The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing their own models."
-- Freeman Dyson
The examples of academic and intellectual dishonesty from the True Believers and their enablers/handlers continue unabated. This serves several political/social/economic agenda items closely associated with (yes, you guessed it) Dems/Lefties/"Progressives" of many different stripes.
"One of the reasons research is being stifled in the U.S. is the pressure from the left for conformity to their agenda. How many scientists have been threatened with the loss of their grants because their work questioned the left's Global Warming mantra? The decline in science is directly related to its politicalization."
-- James Barends
David Demming discussed this point several years ago, about a short paper he had written back in the 90s:
"The week the article appeared, I came into my office one morning to find a voicemail message from a reporter for National Public Radio. He wanted to interview me concerning my article in Science. Visions of glory danced in front of my eyes. I was going to be on national radio. Surely, it was only a matter of time before I would be a regular guest on the McNeil-Lehrer news hour on PBS. Excited, I called the reporter back.
But all of my fantasies were immediately dispelled. The reporter focused in on the last sentence in the Science paper. He asked me, did I really mean to say that? Did I really intend to imply that the warming in North America may have been due to natural variability?
Without hesitation, I said 'yes'. He replied, 'Well then, I guess we have no story. That’s not what people are interested in. People are only interested if the warming is due to human activities. Goodbye.' And he hung up on me.
It was my first realization that the media intentionally filter the information the public receives."
More:
"My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated.
Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models. Of course, they say, I have no degree in meteorology and I am therefore not qualified to speak. But I have studied the climate models and I know what they can do.
The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields and farms and forests. They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in.
The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing their own models."
-- Freeman Dyson
The examples of academic and intellectual dishonesty from the True Believers and their enablers/handlers continue unabated. This serves several political/social/economic agenda items closely associated with (yes, you guessed it) Dems/Lefties/"Progressives" of many different stripes.
Barack Obama's America
"In Barack Obama’s America, rich people who vote on cultural issues rather than economic self-interest are principled and self-sacrificing. People of more modest means who do so are credulous and bitter...
With Barack Obama’s ‘postracial’ appeal having proved illusory but Democrats likely to nominate him for president anyway, the party faces a difficult problem: how to persuade Americans to vote for the spiritual protégé of a man who espouses crackpot anti-American and antiwhite views."
—James Taranto
With Barack Obama’s ‘postracial’ appeal having proved illusory but Democrats likely to nominate him for president anyway, the party faces a difficult problem: how to persuade Americans to vote for the spiritual protégé of a man who espouses crackpot anti-American and antiwhite views."
—James Taranto
Holding Obama accountable for his tax rhetoric nonsense
Seeing through his empty words, it's clear Obama's proposals would result in a significant increase of the tax burden on our middle class.
Key point:
"Either the young Illinois Senator is ignorant of this revenue data, or he doesn't really care because he's a true income redistributionist who prefers high tax rates as a matter of ideological dogma regardless of the revenue consequences. Neither one is a recommendation for President."
Exactly.
This will be but one of the recurring themes that will prove the unravelling of Obama.
But don't look for the majority of Lame Stream Media or the Nutroots to talk about these things. Like several of the kindred spirits in our local blahgosphere, they have no academic or intellectual integrity.
Key point:
"Either the young Illinois Senator is ignorant of this revenue data, or he doesn't really care because he's a true income redistributionist who prefers high tax rates as a matter of ideological dogma regardless of the revenue consequences. Neither one is a recommendation for President."
Exactly.
This will be but one of the recurring themes that will prove the unravelling of Obama.
But don't look for the majority of Lame Stream Media or the Nutroots to talk about these things. Like several of the kindred spirits in our local blahgosphere, they have no academic or intellectual integrity.
Dems set to destroy quality health care program
Why?
Because the program, Health Savings Accounts, seriously undermines some major points of their"universal health care" cherished agenda item.
Noteworthy:
"This is health insurance many Americans can afford, and it doesn't force those who have better use for their scarce dollars to buy gold-plated insurance with special-interest mandates (cover the chiropractors!) that Democrats want to force on everyone. HSAs also give consumers more reason to care about prices, bringing much-needed market discipline.
Since HSAs were created in December 2003, 3.2 million HSA accounts have been opened, covering 4.5 million Americans. Nearly a third of new HSA users previously had no insurance and bought coverage on their own. Thirty-three percent are small businesses that had not previously offered coverage to their employees. Isn't this what good progressives claim to want?
Apparently not if it means a free market in health insurance. Having lost the policy argument when HSAs were created, Democrats are now trying to kill them with regulatory subterfuge."
"Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, decry the high and rising costs of health care, including insurance "overhead." Mr. Stark and his friends want to impose the same bureaucratic overhead even on spending that consumers do with their own money."
God forbid we have efficient and well conceived free market based solutions in our health care programs, right?
Because the program, Health Savings Accounts, seriously undermines some major points of their"universal health care" cherished agenda item.
Noteworthy:
"This is health insurance many Americans can afford, and it doesn't force those who have better use for their scarce dollars to buy gold-plated insurance with special-interest mandates (cover the chiropractors!) that Democrats want to force on everyone. HSAs also give consumers more reason to care about prices, bringing much-needed market discipline.
Since HSAs were created in December 2003, 3.2 million HSA accounts have been opened, covering 4.5 million Americans. Nearly a third of new HSA users previously had no insurance and bought coverage on their own. Thirty-three percent are small businesses that had not previously offered coverage to their employees. Isn't this what good progressives claim to want?
Apparently not if it means a free market in health insurance. Having lost the policy argument when HSAs were created, Democrats are now trying to kill them with regulatory subterfuge."
"Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, decry the high and rising costs of health care, including insurance "overhead." Mr. Stark and his friends want to impose the same bureaucratic overhead even on spending that consumers do with their own money."
God forbid we have efficient and well conceived free market based solutions in our health care programs, right?
Friday, April 18, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Obama picks up yet another key endorsement
He's become the presidential candidate of choice for the discerning terrorist, both foreign and domestic.
How many MORE terrorist connections will we find with the would-be "messiah"?
How much additional information will we find out about this man indicating how WRONG he would be as our president?
Not that any of this makes any difference whatsoever with his gaggle of hero worshipers......
How many MORE terrorist connections will we find with the would-be "messiah"?
How much additional information will we find out about this man indicating how WRONG he would be as our president?
Not that any of this makes any difference whatsoever with his gaggle of hero worshipers......
"Somebody forgot to tell the IP data that we're in a recession!"
Well, what should we have expected? A full depth analysis and effusive optimism from Cone?
(from Greg Mankiw)
The Cone Project 4-16-08: Answering the smarm from Cone's blog
Max Borders at Red Clay Citizen takes Cone to task for his typical arrogance.
Noteworthy:
"There's nothing ideological at all about criticizing the PTI's, the counties, and the State's corporate whack-a-mole failure in practical terms. What's more, it is pretty petty and snarky to refer to us as a 'propaganda mill.' Yes, we have opinions. That's why the piece was on the editorial page."
Cone, calling someone else's blog a "propaganda mill"!
WAY too funny.......but predictable, given the overblown ego and the attitude of presumption for which Cone is notoriously known.
Noteworthy:
"There's nothing ideological at all about criticizing the PTI's, the counties, and the State's corporate whack-a-mole failure in practical terms. What's more, it is pretty petty and snarky to refer to us as a 'propaganda mill.' Yes, we have opinions. That's why the piece was on the editorial page."
Cone, calling someone else's blog a "propaganda mill"!
WAY too funny.......but predictable, given the overblown ego and the attitude of presumption for which Cone is notoriously known.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Meanwhile, the political fallout for Obama continues
The political woes will keep on coming for Obama. Here's how and why.
Noteworthy:
"The Obama campaign contends that coverage of the San Francisco remarks is overheated and distorted. One aide said that any logical analysis' would make it obvious that the brouhaha will not 'change the pledged delegate count' — the key to the Democratic presidential nomination.
In fact, this is a potential turning point for Obama’s campaign — an episode that could be even more damaging than the attention to remarks by his minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, since this time the controversial words came out of his own mouth. "
Here are some of the most important reasons why this episode is a disaster for Obama:
"5. Some hard-working Americans find it insulting when rich elites explain away things dear to their hearts as desperation. It would be like a white politician telling blacks they cling to charismatic churches to compensate for their plight. And it vindicates centrist Democrats who have been arguing for a decade that their party has allowed itself to look culturally out of touch with the American mainstream.
6. It provides a handy excuse for people who were looking for a reason not to vote for Obama but don’t want to think of themselves as bigoted. It hurts Obama especially with the former Reagan Democrats, the culturally conservative, blue-collar workers who could be a promising voter group for him. It also antagonizes people who were concerned about his minister but might have given him the benefit of the doubt after his eloquent speech on race.
8. It helps Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) frame a potential race against Obama, even though both of them have found support among independents. Now Republicans have a simple, easily repeated line of attack to use against Obama as an out-of-touch snob, as they had with Sen. John F. Kerry after he blundered by commenting about military funding, 'I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.'
11. The story did not have its roots in right-wing or conservative circles. It was published — and aggressively promoted — by The Huffington Post, a liberally oriented organization that was Obama’s outlet of choice when he wanted to release a personal statement distancing himself from some comments by the Rev. Wright.
12. It undermines Democratic congressional candidates who had thought that Obama would make a stronger top for the ticket than Clinton. Already, Republican House candidates are challenging their Democratic opponents to renounce or embrace Obama’s remarks. Ken Spain, press secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said: 'There is a myth being perpetuated by Democrats and even some in the media that an Obama candidacy would somehow be better for their chances down ballot. But we don’t believe that is the case.'"
Noteworthy:
"The Obama campaign contends that coverage of the San Francisco remarks is overheated and distorted. One aide said that any logical analysis' would make it obvious that the brouhaha will not 'change the pledged delegate count' — the key to the Democratic presidential nomination.
In fact, this is a potential turning point for Obama’s campaign — an episode that could be even more damaging than the attention to remarks by his minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, since this time the controversial words came out of his own mouth. "
Here are some of the most important reasons why this episode is a disaster for Obama:
"5. Some hard-working Americans find it insulting when rich elites explain away things dear to their hearts as desperation. It would be like a white politician telling blacks they cling to charismatic churches to compensate for their plight. And it vindicates centrist Democrats who have been arguing for a decade that their party has allowed itself to look culturally out of touch with the American mainstream.
6. It provides a handy excuse for people who were looking for a reason not to vote for Obama but don’t want to think of themselves as bigoted. It hurts Obama especially with the former Reagan Democrats, the culturally conservative, blue-collar workers who could be a promising voter group for him. It also antagonizes people who were concerned about his minister but might have given him the benefit of the doubt after his eloquent speech on race.
8. It helps Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) frame a potential race against Obama, even though both of them have found support among independents. Now Republicans have a simple, easily repeated line of attack to use against Obama as an out-of-touch snob, as they had with Sen. John F. Kerry after he blundered by commenting about military funding, 'I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.'
11. The story did not have its roots in right-wing or conservative circles. It was published — and aggressively promoted — by The Huffington Post, a liberally oriented organization that was Obama’s outlet of choice when he wanted to release a personal statement distancing himself from some comments by the Rev. Wright.
12. It undermines Democratic congressional candidates who had thought that Obama would make a stronger top for the ticket than Clinton. Already, Republican House candidates are challenging their Democratic opponents to renounce or embrace Obama’s remarks. Ken Spain, press secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said: 'There is a myth being perpetuated by Democrats and even some in the media that an Obama candidacy would somehow be better for their chances down ballot. But we don’t believe that is the case.'"
Obama attempts to make amends for his recent political faux pas.
"Obama's Rural Outreach Coordinator Miss Jane Hathaway (top left) called the 10-minute meeting a "rousing success."
'Contrary to some press reports, Sen. Obama has the common touch,' according to Hathaway. 'He may not have understood the folksy references to possums and cement ponds, but the Clampett family was very receptive to the senator's economic assistance.'"
(hat tip:Exurban League, via Hugh Hewitt)
So you don't think Iran is any threat to anybody?
How then would you explain this story?
Excerpt:
"At a meeting on February 25 between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Iranians, UN inspectors confronted them with evidence of design studies for mounting nuclear warheads on long-range missiles. The Iranians denied any such aspirations."
Of course they did.......
Open your eyes, and pay attention.
(hat tip: Ticker)
Excerpt:
"At a meeting on February 25 between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Iranians, UN inspectors confronted them with evidence of design studies for mounting nuclear warheads on long-range missiles. The Iranians denied any such aspirations."
Of course they did.......
Open your eyes, and pay attention.
(hat tip: Ticker)
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Obama's latest attack of foot-in-mouth; the Clintonista feminists and the Coneheads/Usual Suspects respond
Obama's elitist putdown of working class America probably will not be his last case of the dreaded foot in mouth disease.
It also points to a fact that the honchos and big whigs in the Dem party are starting to realize: He's quite possibly unelectable in the general election. His spin isn't going to help.
Excerpt:
"In Obama's cleaned-up version, religion ("faith") becomes something small town people "can count on," along with community and family, rather than something they "cling to" on account of being "bitter," along with guns and hatred of immigrants and others "who aren't like them." That's a nice try, I guess, but it's hard to believe it will fool anyone."
The Clintonista feminists are all over "The Precious":
"In the end, what Obama's blather today has done is expose the elite myth that working class America is deficient in some way. The elite of the right proclaims the deficiency is natural inferiority. The elite of the left proclaims the deficiency to be intellectual inferiority."
....and:
"What bothers me is the tiresome suggestion that antipathy, or an aversion to those who are different, is a trait owned by working class or poor folks. If hard economic times create antipathy, then poor people must be bigots. There is nothing new about this claim. There is a longstanding 'upper class' practice of attributing all of the negative traits of Homo sapiens to 'lower class' folks. Whites have done the same to Blacks. Men have certainly done the same to women.
Barack Obama made these remarks about "lower class" folks while he was among his "upper class" donors in San Francisco. Coming from a man who boasts of being the unity candidate, it is stunning to hear such a starkly "us vs. them" analysis. Alas, fear and distrust of those who are different from us is a human trait that is found among all economic classes.
Regardless of what Barack Obama meant to say, drawing lines of class division is no way to win an election. And this is just the latest instance of a display of arrogance by Barack Obama."
We won't even start to list the things gun owners have to say about this.
Meanwhile, over at Cone's, the Coneheads/Usual Suspects are righteously indignant that someone actually has the audacity to question the wisdom and the poor politics of their messiah.
Perpetually clueless Ged:
"McCain and Hillary can protest all they want, but they are the ones who are out of touch, not Barack."
"justcorbly":
"People have always turned to religion and other ideologies for solace when their world is falling apart for reasons they don't understand correctly. That says more about people willing to exploit sincere religious faith than it does the faithful."
...and:
"We can't help them get on with their lives if we reward those nasty attitudes by expressing solidarity with their 'blue collar' ways."
And our pal Roch, who gets things way wrong more the majority of times , gives the snarky but simpleton line about Obama's web page providing all the answers we need about him:
To his credit, Ribar attempts to use common sense, to no avail.
It also points to a fact that the honchos and big whigs in the Dem party are starting to realize: He's quite possibly unelectable in the general election. His spin isn't going to help.
Excerpt:
"In Obama's cleaned-up version, religion ("faith") becomes something small town people "can count on," along with community and family, rather than something they "cling to" on account of being "bitter," along with guns and hatred of immigrants and others "who aren't like them." That's a nice try, I guess, but it's hard to believe it will fool anyone."
The Clintonista feminists are all over "The Precious":
"In the end, what Obama's blather today has done is expose the elite myth that working class America is deficient in some way. The elite of the right proclaims the deficiency is natural inferiority. The elite of the left proclaims the deficiency to be intellectual inferiority."
....and:
"What bothers me is the tiresome suggestion that antipathy, or an aversion to those who are different, is a trait owned by working class or poor folks. If hard economic times create antipathy, then poor people must be bigots. There is nothing new about this claim. There is a longstanding 'upper class' practice of attributing all of the negative traits of Homo sapiens to 'lower class' folks. Whites have done the same to Blacks. Men have certainly done the same to women.
Barack Obama made these remarks about "lower class" folks while he was among his "upper class" donors in San Francisco. Coming from a man who boasts of being the unity candidate, it is stunning to hear such a starkly "us vs. them" analysis. Alas, fear and distrust of those who are different from us is a human trait that is found among all economic classes.
Regardless of what Barack Obama meant to say, drawing lines of class division is no way to win an election. And this is just the latest instance of a display of arrogance by Barack Obama."
We won't even start to list the things gun owners have to say about this.
Meanwhile, over at Cone's, the Coneheads/Usual Suspects are righteously indignant that someone actually has the audacity to question the wisdom and the poor politics of their messiah.
Perpetually clueless Ged:
"McCain and Hillary can protest all they want, but they are the ones who are out of touch, not Barack."
"justcorbly":
"People have always turned to religion and other ideologies for solace when their world is falling apart for reasons they don't understand correctly. That says more about people willing to exploit sincere religious faith than it does the faithful."
...and:
"We can't help them get on with their lives if we reward those nasty attitudes by expressing solidarity with their 'blue collar' ways."
And our pal Roch, who gets things way wrong more the majority of times , gives the snarky but simpleton line about Obama's web page providing all the answers we need about him:
"Obama has this nifty new thing called a web site. It's a good antidote to ignorance. On it, one will find very specific proposals on a variety of issues from the economy, to open government, to homeland security, to energy and on and on. Do you want to continue to press the silly notion that Obama doesn't offer specifics or would you rather educate yourself?"
To his credit, Ribar attempts to use common sense, to no avail.
In praise of more CO2
.....and further nailing the casket lid shut on the preposterous "scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming" nonsense.
Noteworthy:
"'We have had a Greenhouse Theory with no evidence to support it-except a moderate warming turned into a scare by computer models whose results have never been verified with real-world events,' said co-author Singer. 'On the other hand, we have compelling evidence of a real-world climate cycle averaging 1470 years (plus or minus 500) running through the last million years of history. The climate cycle has above all been moderate, and the trees, bears, birds, and humans have quietly adapted.'"
(hat tip: Ticker)
Noteworthy:
"'We have had a Greenhouse Theory with no evidence to support it-except a moderate warming turned into a scare by computer models whose results have never been verified with real-world events,' said co-author Singer. 'On the other hand, we have compelling evidence of a real-world climate cycle averaging 1470 years (plus or minus 500) running through the last million years of history. The climate cycle has above all been moderate, and the trees, bears, birds, and humans have quietly adapted.'"
(hat tip: Ticker)
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
"Back in the US...Back in the US...Back in the USSR!"
In algores's America, Stalinist Russia's tactics are the preferred way to support their "global warming" propaganda.
Noteworthy:
Noteworthy:
"In Al Gore's America, any "global warming denier" is guilty until proven innocent. He or she must have been bought off by Big Oil. Skeptics, no matter how well-qualified, must prove the negative about really silly alarmist hogwash. And whenever some prediction is falsified, the warm mongers have an explanation: it's just a temporary glitch in the data. Oh, yes, we were wrong about 1998, but just wait till 2050! The excuses are endless."
"How have Al Gore and the fraudsters pulled it off? It's really simple. They just flipped the burden of proof and put it on the "deniers" --- the skeptics, who don't believe the computer models. With the Left in control of the media, you can do it."
"In normal, healthy science, the skeptics ask questions. It is the proponents who carry the burden of proof. "
There is NOTHING normal about the "science" used in the great "global warming" scam being perpetrated on the world's people.
"How have Al Gore and the fraudsters pulled it off? It's really simple. They just flipped the burden of proof and put it on the "deniers" --- the skeptics, who don't believe the computer models. With the Left in control of the media, you can do it."
"In normal, healthy science, the skeptics ask questions. It is the proponents who carry the burden of proof. "
There is NOTHING normal about the "science" used in the great "global warming" scam being perpetrated on the world's people.
Monday, April 07, 2008
Cone gets his feelings hurt by a Glenn Reynolds put down
It's all over Cone's compulsive-obsessive habit of nattering nabobbing on one of his favorite subjects: Doom and Gloom Economics.
Here's the "offending" passage:
"If They Could Do Math, They Wouldn't Have Been Journalism Majors"
... of which you can replace the words "Journalism Majors" with "arrogant egotistic local blogger/pseudo expert-on-everything", to be more accurate.
Personally, I liked this part of the comment better, Glenn:
".....but I guess I have tuned out a lot of the media econo-doomsaying because they've been predicting massive economic collapse for pretty much my entire sensate life and so far it hasn't come. Plus, at the moment they're playing their usual pre-election gloom-and-doom game in the hopes of helping the Democrats.
Here's the "offending" passage:
"If They Could Do Math, They Wouldn't Have Been Journalism Majors"
... of which you can replace the words "Journalism Majors" with "arrogant egotistic local blogger/pseudo expert-on-everything", to be more accurate.
Personally, I liked this part of the comment better, Glenn:
".....but I guess I have tuned out a lot of the media econo-doomsaying because they've been predicting massive economic collapse for pretty much my entire sensate life and so far it hasn't come. Plus, at the moment they're playing their usual pre-election gloom-and-doom game in the hopes of helping the Democrats.
Which doesn't mean that the economy is necessarily doing better than they say, since their bias is exceeded only by their laziness and ignorance. As I noted some years ago about their Iraq reporting, the fact that they're transparently playing up bogus bad news doesn't mean that there isn't genuine bad news that they're not reporting, because reporting that would require knowledge and effort."
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Yet another Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" lie dies
There was no "cold-blooded murder" committed at Haditha by our Marines.
Key point:
"There was a crime, but it was the media and Rep. Murtha who committed it against heroic Marines whose careers have been destroyed and some of whose families were bought to the edge of bankruptcy defending their sons."
No big deal, right?
Not for those who will SAY or DO ANYTHING to further a political agenda item, no matter the truth and no matter the damage or cost it inflicts on our nation, our people, and to those who defend us.
Key point:
"There was a crime, but it was the media and Rep. Murtha who committed it against heroic Marines whose careers have been destroyed and some of whose families were bought to the edge of bankruptcy defending their sons."
No big deal, right?
Not for those who will SAY or DO ANYTHING to further a political agenda item, no matter the truth and no matter the damage or cost it inflicts on our nation, our people, and to those who defend us.
"The Midnight Ride of Paulette Revere"
Doug Ross quotes Hillary:
" ' Senator Obama has been very timid and very unenthusiastic with doing anything with the economy,' Clinton, D-N.Y., said at a tarmac press conference in Burbank, California on Thursday,
'I feel like Paulette Revere -- the recession is coming, the recession is coming!' "
Don Surber has more:
" ' Senator Obama has been very timid and very unenthusiastic with doing anything with the economy,' Clinton, D-N.Y., said at a tarmac press conference in Burbank, California on Thursday,
'I feel like Paulette Revere -- the recession is coming, the recession is coming!' "
Don Surber has more:
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the many cries of Paulette Revere,
On the third day of April, in two-oh-oh-eight;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.She said to her Bill, “Oh, it is up to me
“Barack’s too timid on the economy
“I shall warn the people of what’ll transpire.
“Please watch my back if there’s sniper fire.
“One if Barack, two if McCain.
“And I on the opposite shore will remain.
“Ready to ride and warn thee again!
“As I did in oh-one, oh-two, and three.
“For the country folk to fear the economy.”
Remembering Charlton Heston
Scott and John at Power Line tell a few stories.
Heston was someone to be admired for his intellectual and moral fortitude and integrity, which was clearly reflected in the way he lived and conducted himself.
He was, indeed, a man's man, and was the type of role model we desperately need to be seen and understood by our culture's young men.
He will be missed.
Heston was someone to be admired for his intellectual and moral fortitude and integrity, which was clearly reflected in the way he lived and conducted himself.
He was, indeed, a man's man, and was the type of role model we desperately need to be seen and understood by our culture's young men.
He will be missed.
Here's an interesting line of reasoning about why McCain will win
It's all in how voters see the candidates as father/mother substitutes.
"Whose Your Daddy? The Psychology of Most People's Voting".
Noteworthy:
"Erich Fromm can tell us a lot about what is behind how most people vote. He makes the point that most people are terrified of being an on-their-own, take-care-of-themselves, free, adult human being. So, we attach ourselves to surrogate family units and surrogate parents to escape from our freedom.
That translates to belonging to and becoming psychologically dependant organizations as diverse as the company for which we work and our boss, to the church we attend and its clergy, and the political party to which we belong and the parent figure who gets our vote. Identifying with the group becomes our new collective identity, and we surrender our individual identity and freedom."
"Don't expect the American people to vote on issues. They almost never do. My guess is that more people will vote on how the candidate looks than what the candidate thinks. They vote for whoever meets their personal psychological needs."
"McCain is a hero parent who will protect us from danger, and most people like him. Most Republican voters will overlook his policy positions, just like they overlooked strong and protective Rudy Giuliani's liberalness. Unless McCain screws up and shows signs of being a bad Dad, McCain will probably win. "
"Whose Your Daddy? The Psychology of Most People's Voting".
Noteworthy:
"Erich Fromm can tell us a lot about what is behind how most people vote. He makes the point that most people are terrified of being an on-their-own, take-care-of-themselves, free, adult human being. So, we attach ourselves to surrogate family units and surrogate parents to escape from our freedom.
That translates to belonging to and becoming psychologically dependant organizations as diverse as the company for which we work and our boss, to the church we attend and its clergy, and the political party to which we belong and the parent figure who gets our vote. Identifying with the group becomes our new collective identity, and we surrender our individual identity and freedom."
"Don't expect the American people to vote on issues. They almost never do. My guess is that more people will vote on how the candidate looks than what the candidate thinks. They vote for whoever meets their personal psychological needs."
"McCain is a hero parent who will protect us from danger, and most people like him. Most Republican voters will overlook his policy positions, just like they overlooked strong and protective Rudy Giuliani's liberalness. Unless McCain screws up and shows signs of being a bad Dad, McCain will probably win. "
Tribal warfare among the Dems: Jacksonians vs "Intellectuals"/Bureaucrats
Michael Barone thinks it portends favorably for McCain.
Key point:
"Polling suggests that the Democratic nominee may not be able to count on the losing candidate’s tribes in November. Academics and young people and blacks may not turn out in extraordinary numbers for Clinton, as they have for Obama, and the upscale may prefer McCain to a tax increase.
Similarly, Jacksonians, the elderly, the downscale, and Latinos may prefer the very Jacksonian McCain to Obama. All of which should worry the superdelegates who must determine who wins the Democrats’ tribal war."
This is all leading up to one inescapable conclusion: The Dems will never see the truck that hit them on election day.
Key point:
"Polling suggests that the Democratic nominee may not be able to count on the losing candidate’s tribes in November. Academics and young people and blacks may not turn out in extraordinary numbers for Clinton, as they have for Obama, and the upscale may prefer McCain to a tax increase.
Similarly, Jacksonians, the elderly, the downscale, and Latinos may prefer the very Jacksonian McCain to Obama. All of which should worry the superdelegates who must determine who wins the Democrats’ tribal war."
This is all leading up to one inescapable conclusion: The Dems will never see the truck that hit them on election day.
A crisis in racial leadership
This as an excellent opinion article about what Barack Obama does NOT represent, despite what the Lame Streamers and the Dems/Lefties/"Progressives"/Nutroots want you to believe.
Read Juan William's reflections some 40 years after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr, and the huge void created by the political/social/economic failings of the so-called leadership in the community.
Noteworthy:
"When King spoke about the racist past, he gloried in black people beating the odds to win equal rights by arming 'ourselves with dignity and self-respect.' He expressed regret that some black leaders reveled in grievance, malice and self-indulgent anger in place of a focus on strong families, education and love of God. Even in the days before Congress passed civil rights laws, King spoke to black Americans about the pride that comes from 'assuming primary responsibility' for achieving 'first class citizenship.'"
Regarding Obama:
Read Juan William's reflections some 40 years after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr, and the huge void created by the political/social/economic failings of the so-called leadership in the community.
Noteworthy:
"When King spoke about the racist past, he gloried in black people beating the odds to win equal rights by arming 'ourselves with dignity and self-respect.' He expressed regret that some black leaders reveled in grievance, malice and self-indulgent anger in place of a focus on strong families, education and love of God. Even in the days before Congress passed civil rights laws, King spoke to black Americans about the pride that comes from 'assuming primary responsibility' for achieving 'first class citizenship.'"
Regarding Obama:
"He has stopped all mention of government's inability to create strong black families, while the black community accepts a 70% out-of-wedlock birth rate. Half of black and Hispanic children drop out of high school, but he no longer touches on the need for parents to convey a love of learning to their children. There is no mention in his speeches of the history of expensive but ineffective government programs that encourage dependency. He fails to point out the failures of too many poverty programs, given the 25% poverty rate in black America.
And he chooses not to confront the poisonous 'thug life' culture in rap music that glorifies drug use and crime.
Instead the senator, in a full political pander, is busy excusing Rev. Wright's racial attacks as the right of the Rev.-Wright generation of black Americans to define the nation's future by their past. He stretches compassion to the breaking point by equating his white grandmother's private concerns about black men on the street with Rev. Wright's public stirring of racial division."
Why be the catalyst for real change when you can pander to the crowd and enable more of the same things which are toxic to your people??
The same questions need to be asked of the supposed local "leaders" in our own black community."Pink Slip Nation", indeed!
Power Line's John Hinderaker comments on the Doom and Gloom economic propaganda, as evidenced by the nonsense spewed by the Strib, his hometown paper, one of the lamest of the Lame stream Media outlets.
Excerpt:
"I'm sorry to see unemployment climb to 5.1%, but by historic standards, that's not exactly a 'grim picture.' For example, nothing like the unemployment rates that, along with runaway inflation, propelled Ronald Reagan to the presidency in 1980. But I wondered about a more recent comparison. Do you remember 1996, when Bill Clinton swept to an easy re-election victory over Bob Dole, on the basis of what pretty much everyone in the press considered a near-perfect economy? No 'pink slip nation' in 1996!
Actually, though, the unemployment rate in November 1996, when Clinton rode a soaring economy to victory, was 5.4%. That's right--three tenths of a percent higher than the 'grim picture' of a 'pink slip nation' painted by this month's unemployment report."
There will be no "grim picture", unless the Dems/Lefties/"Progressives" fool enough of the electorate, the illegals, and the cemetery residents into voting Barack Obama into office this November.
Excerpt:
"I'm sorry to see unemployment climb to 5.1%, but by historic standards, that's not exactly a 'grim picture.' For example, nothing like the unemployment rates that, along with runaway inflation, propelled Ronald Reagan to the presidency in 1980. But I wondered about a more recent comparison. Do you remember 1996, when Bill Clinton swept to an easy re-election victory over Bob Dole, on the basis of what pretty much everyone in the press considered a near-perfect economy? No 'pink slip nation' in 1996!
Actually, though, the unemployment rate in November 1996, when Clinton rode a soaring economy to victory, was 5.4%. That's right--three tenths of a percent higher than the 'grim picture' of a 'pink slip nation' painted by this month's unemployment report."
There will be no "grim picture", unless the Dems/Lefties/"Progressives" fool enough of the electorate, the illegals, and the cemetery residents into voting Barack Obama into office this November.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Obama's the one to "Unify America"?
Oh please, spare us all the sanctimony.
The history of the Democrat Party, and of Obama himself show us that exactly the opposite is true.
Noteworthy:
"Throughout the 1980s and 1990s students across the country were subject to ever more creative sources of division and doublethink. 'Postmodernist' intellectuals crafted a new and improved Marxist mantra called 'race, class, and gender' and encouraged the academy and the media to see history and society through these new lenses.
When a student read Shakespeare for example, he or she was encouraged by the professor to dismiss the beauty of the language and the tender intimacy of the love affair and focus instead on race divisions, class divisions, and gender divisions within the story."
"In all seriousness however we need to be aware that doublethink is at bottom a form of intellectual laziness, irresponsibility, or a form of 'having your cake and eating it too' with a disdain for objective limits and consistency."
Exactly the case.
Doublethink equals Libthink.
The history of the Democrat Party, and of Obama himself show us that exactly the opposite is true.
Noteworthy:
"Throughout the 1980s and 1990s students across the country were subject to ever more creative sources of division and doublethink. 'Postmodernist' intellectuals crafted a new and improved Marxist mantra called 'race, class, and gender' and encouraged the academy and the media to see history and society through these new lenses.
When a student read Shakespeare for example, he or she was encouraged by the professor to dismiss the beauty of the language and the tender intimacy of the love affair and focus instead on race divisions, class divisions, and gender divisions within the story."
"In all seriousness however we need to be aware that doublethink is at bottom a form of intellectual laziness, irresponsibility, or a form of 'having your cake and eating it too' with a disdain for objective limits and consistency."
Exactly the case.
Doublethink equals Libthink.
The Cone Project for 4/5/08
Cone is back at it with his regular doom and gloom arrogance about the economy:
No, idiot child.....YOU need to stop your academic and intellectual humbuggery on this subject.
Fat f'ing chance of that happening........
"Remember: reality is a political construct. If the darn media would just ignore the implosion of credit markets and surging job losses and rising oil prices...
Just look at the N&R today. Reporting that Skybus went broke because of high fuel prices and a soft economy was propaganda! Same with all the noise about Bear Stearns.
Pay no attention. All is well. ALL IS WELL!"
No, idiot child.....YOU need to stop your academic and intellectual humbuggery on this subject.
Fat f'ing chance of that happening........
Friday, April 04, 2008
No, there's no effort by smarmy bloggers and journalists to talk the nation into a recession, is there?
"Over 78 percent more negative news stories discussed a recession when the economy under a Republican was soaring than occurred under a Democrat when the economy was shrinking. …
The media’s focus on the negative side of everything surely helps explain people’s pessimism. In a recent interview Fox’s Neil Cavuto claimed this bias ‘is all part of the media’s plan to get a Democrat in the White House.'"
-- John R. Lott, Jr.
Author, University of Maryland Senior Research Scientist
Regarding "torture"......
Cue the usual nonsense/hysteria/phony hand wringing/sanctimonious "holier than thou" protestations......
Oh, wait!
No need for that!
We can find that sort of thing here.
Is Obama still a smoker?
Jake Tapper thinks he might well be.
Beldar has questions, too.
Noteworthy
"But it's disturbing to have my suspicions renewed that Sen. Obama's not only a chronic smoker, but a chronic liar about whether he's been successful in quitting."
Before you Obamarama fans start howling in protest about this point, bear in mind: The truth about this goes to questions about character and judgement.
Those are two important aspects of a candidate that the public needs to know about.
Full disclosure: I am an ex smoker, and I don't really care whether Obama still smokes or not.
I DO care whether he's hiding the truth.
Beldar has questions, too.
Noteworthy
"But it's disturbing to have my suspicions renewed that Sen. Obama's not only a chronic smoker, but a chronic liar about whether he's been successful in quitting."
Before you Obamarama fans start howling in protest about this point, bear in mind: The truth about this goes to questions about character and judgement.
Those are two important aspects of a candidate that the public needs to know about.
Full disclosure: I am an ex smoker, and I don't really care whether Obama still smokes or not.
I DO care whether he's hiding the truth.
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Obama: "Liberal? Who, me?"
Obama can run, but he can't hide from this certain truth.
Excerpt (referring to McCain):
"His challenge is to make his case well enough to convince Americans not only that Mr. Obama is a liberal, but that having a liberal in the White House would do real damage to our country."
There's no fear of that NOT happening, folks.
Excerpt (referring to McCain):
"His challenge is to make his case well enough to convince Americans not only that Mr. Obama is a liberal, but that having a liberal in the White House would do real damage to our country."
There's no fear of that NOT happening, folks.
"A Psychotic Depression With Economic Hallucinosis"
That's Dr. Sanity's diagnosis for the Lame Stream Media, and applies as well to certain blahggers, especial local ones of undeserved arrogance certain, ahem, distinction.
Excerpt:
"The MSM has become those evil voices inside our head, that come and go depending on the political whims of the moment. As the IBD op-ed points out, because the Iraq war is mostly headed in a positive direction (they haven't been able to spin Sadr's ignominious defeat quite into the victory they would like) they sense that by focusing on the subprime mortgage issue and the buyout of Bear Stearns, they can manipulate every American's worse fears.
No one is saying that these issues are good; or that we are going through some tough times as a whole, but the media is distorting their significance and hyping the 'fixes' to such an extent that you would believe that--if it weren't for the Democrats looking out for the 'little guy' we would all be headed to the poor house at best and hopeless suicidal depression at worse."
"I would wager that the instant the Democrats take over the White House (glory hallelujah to that wonderful day, the voices would sing), the voices of doom will cease to trouble us and we will be cured of our "malaise".
Not because anything will have changed, but because the voices will have achieved their purpose.
During the last 7 years we have seen unemployment fall. GDP continue to rise, sometimes at the fastest growth years. Yet the New York Times and other MSM hallucinations always surveys the economic landscape and declare, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling."
The Democrats and the Left depended on high oil prices and devastating natural disasters to prove beyond all shadow of a doubt that Bush's economic policies are creating poverty and economic decline. They immediately seize on any bad economic news to declare impending doom."
Check out the IBD editorial, particularly the graph about food stamps.
Excerpt:
"The MSM has become those evil voices inside our head, that come and go depending on the political whims of the moment. As the IBD op-ed points out, because the Iraq war is mostly headed in a positive direction (they haven't been able to spin Sadr's ignominious defeat quite into the victory they would like) they sense that by focusing on the subprime mortgage issue and the buyout of Bear Stearns, they can manipulate every American's worse fears.
No one is saying that these issues are good; or that we are going through some tough times as a whole, but the media is distorting their significance and hyping the 'fixes' to such an extent that you would believe that--if it weren't for the Democrats looking out for the 'little guy' we would all be headed to the poor house at best and hopeless suicidal depression at worse."
"I would wager that the instant the Democrats take over the White House (glory hallelujah to that wonderful day, the voices would sing), the voices of doom will cease to trouble us and we will be cured of our "malaise".
Not because anything will have changed, but because the voices will have achieved their purpose.
During the last 7 years we have seen unemployment fall. GDP continue to rise, sometimes at the fastest growth years. Yet the New York Times and other MSM hallucinations always surveys the economic landscape and declare, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling."
The Democrats and the Left depended on high oil prices and devastating natural disasters to prove beyond all shadow of a doubt that Bush's economic policies are creating poverty and economic decline. They immediately seize on any bad economic news to declare impending doom."
Check out the IBD editorial, particularly the graph about food stamps.
So let's see now: Which political party does he belong to?
Gee whiz, let me guess........
Excerpt, from the comments:
Yeah.....that must be it.
Excerpt, from the comments:
"Perhaps we are supposed to ASSUME that all Democrats are scum, and these are just too stupid to avoid getting caught? The converse being that when a generally righteous Republican falls, it is so novel and noteworthy that his party affiliation must be presented to avoid confusion under the above assumption?
/sarc"
LOL!Yeah.....that must be it.
Michelle Malkin slams the Greensboro PD
"Drop the charges against Pop".
Noteworthy:
"Is common sense dead? Are they really going to prosecute Pop? For crying out loud."
Hey Michelle!
Come to Greensboro and find out the REAL story about the GPD., and the poisonous culture that the "Business as Usual" crowd enables and abets in this town.
Noteworthy:
"Is common sense dead? Are they really going to prosecute Pop? For crying out loud."
Hey Michelle!
Come to Greensboro and find out the REAL story about the GPD., and the poisonous culture that the "Business as Usual" crowd enables and abets in this town.
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"Liberal bigots are less blameworthy than conservative bigots. Bigotry is relative. Some bigots merely hate, while others really, really hate. I see. Wright isn't being racially divisive even if Obama says he is. Obama is wrong. Roch, Ed, Dave, et al are right. The cause, man. The cause. Never give an inch. It IS us vs. them. Our side is pure as the snow. We can do it to you, you just can't do it to us.
Wait- there are no liberal bigots."