Great new magazine for some of our "friends" in the blahgosphere

Inside This Issue: Location of her underground lair. Evil Sarah's Deadly Arsenal: Ray Gun, Mind-Numb Robot Army, Mind Controlling Dog Whistle, Insanity Inducing Target Map, Hypnotizing Sex Appeal. 10 Things You Should Know About Sarah: Dumb yet brilliantly evil. Thinks the planet is only 47 years old. Shoots kittens and puppies for sport. Violates the Prime Directive just for fun. Our Friends Are Stealing From Us: the New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN are selling our ideas as hard news. Brain Exercises: How to trick your mind into believing facts are fiction and vice versa. New Study: All conservative speech is vitriol and leads to violence. Progressive speech will align your chakras. Next Issue: The Tea Party's plan to summon Cthulhu and control the world.

Hat tip: The People's Cube, via American Digest.

Vanderleun adds:

"The theme of the week/month/year that the autofellationists of both left and right are sharing deeply today seems to be ye olde 'Palin not qualified' canard. From Powerline to Daily Kos they seem united in their Stop Palin circle jerk.

Well, it's early innings for 2012 as yet, and the people, not the pundits and pudpullers of the right and left, will have something to say about it after all."

Indeed.

Why Obama's policies are counter-productive

Robert Samuelson, at The Locker Room:

"Confidence is crucial to stimulating consumer spending and business investment, and Obama constantly subverts confidence. In the past year, he’s undone some of the good of his first months. He loves to pick fights with Wall Street bankers, oil companies, multinational firms, health insurers, and others. He thinks that he can separate policies that claim to promote recovery from those that appeal to his liberal base, even when the partisan policies raise business costs, stymie job creation, or augment uncertainty—and, thereby, undermine recovery. His health-care “reform” makes hiring more expensive to employers by mandating insurance coverage; the moratorium on deepwater drilling kills jobs. No matter.

Obama’s proposal to increase taxes on personal incomes exceeding $250,000 ($200,000 for singles) is the latest example of his delusional approach. It satisfies the liberal itch to 'get the rich.' Well, the rich and most other taxpayers will ultimately have to pay higher taxes to help close budget deficits. But not now. Raising taxes in a weak economy doesn’t make sense. Just consider: these affluent households represent almost a quarter of all consumer spending, says Zandi. Richard Curtin, director of the University of Michigan’s Survey of Consumers, says his data suggest that uncertainty about the extension of the Bush tax cuts has already caused affluent buyers to cut their spending.

Some small businesses would also be affected, because many (sole proprietorships, partnerships, and subchapter S corporations) file their taxes on personal returns. Higher taxes would discourage hiring and expansion. No one knows by how much, but the Tax Policy Center estimates that higher business taxes would affect 725,000 returns with about $400 billion of business income. Some of these are partnerships of doctors, lawyers, and accountants. Others are contractors, restaurant owners, florists, and plumbers."
(Emphasis added)

But merrily Obama and cronies will roll along, indiscriminately killing jobs and dousing the sparks of economic recovery.

We can't say that we weren't warned about this throughout 2008.

James Taranto: "Why the liberal elite finds Americans revolting"

He thinks it's Oikophobia.

Noteworthy:

"The Ground Zero mosque is an affront to the sensibilities of ordinary Americans. 'The center's association with 9/11 is intentional and its location is no geographic coincidence,' as the Associated Press has reported. That Americans would find this offensive is a matter of simple common sense. The liberal elites cannot comprehend common sense, and, incredibly, they think that's a virtue. After all, common sense is so common.

The British philosopher Roger Scruton has coined a term to describe this attitude: oikophobia. Xenophobia is fear of the alien; oikophobia is fear of the familiar: 'the disposition, in any conflict, to side with "them" against "us", and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours.' What a perfect description of the pro-mosque left."

Singing the "Happy Birthday" song is "offensive"?

I am getting to the point where I've come to expect stories like this one to become more frequent as the absurdity of political correctness continues to grow.

Excerpt:

"The school district acknowledged the situation could have been handled a bit more delicately.

'Mrs. Davidson has freely admitted that she didn’t communicate that very well,' Cranston said. "

Ya think?

This is a natural consequence of allowing products of Government Schools to teach in Government Schools.

Perspective on the Ground Zero neighborhood mosque

Cliff May:

"The controversy over plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan has taken an odd twist.

On one side are those making arguments in opposition to the project, along with those who merely have questions they would like answered so they can decide for themselves whether this project will honor the victims of 9/11, or mock them.

On the other side are those who support the project wholeheartedly and who respond to both arguments and questions by saying: Shut up."

Case in point.

Public pressure can stop this from being built at the particular location. Public pressure will force transparency on the source of money that funds the building of this mosque.

Economic Fish Stories

Michael J. Boskin:

"President Obama says 'every economist who's looked at it says that the Recovery Act has done its job'—i.e., the stimulus bill has turned the economy around. That's nonsense.

Opinions differ widely and many leading economists believe that its impact has been small. Why? The expectation of future spending and future tax hikes to pay for the stimulus and Mr. Obama's vast expansion of government are offsetting the direct short-run expansionary effect. That is standard in all macroeconomic theories.

So, as I and others warned in 2008, the permanent government expansion and higher tax rate agenda is a classic example of what not to do during bad economic times. Worse yet, all the subsidies, bailouts, regulations and mandates are forcing noncommercial decisions on the economy, which now awaits literally thousands of new diktats as a result of things like ObamaCare and the financial reform bill. The uncertainty is impeding investment and hiring."

More economic fish stories are found here and here

As well we know, that particular blog, and many of its commentators (some of whom actually profess "expertise" in the subject) are routinely at the top of the clueless list on the general subject of the economy, just like their big brother hero.

It's official: It's not really your money

......according to the Dems/Lefties/"Progressives", it's the government's income.

Jim DeMint:

“Sen. Dorgan just said a vote for tax cuts is a vote to ‘reduce this country’s income.' To Democrats, it’s the government’s money. Not yours.”


Erick Ericson:

"Really Senator Dorgan? Voting to give Americans back their own money was a vote to “reduce this country’s income with the biggest benefits going to the wealthiest Americans?”

Certainly cutting taxes reduces the governments’ income in a static calculation, but we also know that revenue into the treasury went up after those tax cuts.

The Democrats really do think it is their money."

Notice how Dipsquat Dorgan lies about the unemployment benefit extension?

As noted elsewhere, Republicans were more than willing to vote for the extension-- as long as funding from the failed stimulus paid for it, or funding from another program covered the cost.

Watch for the Obamanation's Lame Duck legislation