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Sunday, January 22. 2012

Sunday morning links


America is drunk


Murray: The New American Divide - The ideal of an 'American way of life' is fading as the working class falls further away from institutions like marriage and religion and the upper class becomes more isolated. Charles Murray on what's cleaving America, and why.


Environmentalism and the Leisure Class:



It is not that the average person is not concerned about the environment. Everyone weighs the balance of economic gain against a respect for nature. It is only the truly affluent, however, who can be concerned about the environment to the exclusion of everything else...



Where Does ‘Women and Children First’ Originate? - It's British, stemming from the "Birkenhead Drill" of 1852.


The NPR style (h/y Vanderleun)


Chavez: The college racket - This bubble needs to burst:



At one time, a college degree was a virtual guarantor of secure, well-paying employment. Now, most college grads leave school with large debts — more than $27,000 on average. A college degree also no longer signifies that the recipient is either well-educated in the traditional sense or that he has acquired specific skills suited to the labor market.




How Much You Study In College Determines What You'll Get Paid For The Rest Of Your Life


Allergies: Shouldn’t we be cracking down on nuts?


The dawn of lower pay on Wall St. Related, Wall Street Woes: Poor Hardest Hit


Why Hate Firms, Love Cities?


In NY, Cracks in the Socialist Reality Bubble Begin


How Can Obama and the Democrats Deflect Blame? Let Me Count the Ways.


Census Bureau Plays the Race Card


What race is Obama? Black or Caucasion or Middle-Eastern? What race am I? If the one-drop rule applies, I am Native American. And since when is "Hispanic" a race? Are people from Spain "Hispanic"? Are European Cubans Hispanic? Are Central American Indians Hispanic? Or Indians? Are black Cubans Hispanic? So confusing. And I haven't even gotten to the Irish: definitely a race - and a race with a history of cruel discrimination in the US for which generous compensation is due (my kids are 1/4 Irish and would welcome a check).


Welfare tourism in the UK


Middle America loves conservatives who stand up to liberal bullies


What’s the Conservative Case for Upholding ObamaCare?


Jay Carney: Obama Doesn’t Really Spend a Lot of Time Campaigning


Strange How the Media Didn’t Care About Infidelity in 1992 and 2008\


Nietzsche on Eggshells - A new book on the philosopher’s American reception soft-pedals his dark influence.

Army to cut training for trigger-pullers

Canadian Pundit Destoys ‘Post American President’ Obama’s Reasoning for Passing On Keystone XL

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First of all, what happened to the boat? Did a flour truck explode in front of your house? What's all that white stuff? :>)

Ahem...

Environmentalism and the Leisure Class

Well duh. They can afford to pay $5/gal for gas, they can heat and air condition their palaces using megawatts of electricity - killing projects like Keystone XL has a minimum impact on their lives personally, professionally or economically. And their opinions count because they are in touch wit the human spirit.

Pah...

Of interest below that article though was this: Nattering nabobs of Newtism. A great explanation of how it all happened and Romney's problems in the greater scheme of things.

Personally, I think Romney's problems with conservatives has nothing to do with Romneycare, his moderate stances or his flip flopping. I think it is his being Mormon that did it to him in SC. There was a choice among the conservative Christians in SC and they chose the Catholic over the Mormon. The reason is that they don't realize that Newt is a converted Catholic.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Jay Carney

This is a communnications curiosity that I've noticed over the past five/six years among the liberal politicians and their media enablers. They honestly think that they can convince the citizens that black is white contrary to all evidence. This recent trip is a perfect example. Flies to Florida, makes an obvious campaign speech, back to New York for four or five campaign fund raisers, then back home to DC, but that is not a campaign trip just because they say is wasn't.

The great thing is that finally they are being held accountable for this obvious prevarication.
#1 Tom Francis on 2012-01-22 09:37 (Reply)
...Half way to getting a buzz on here in Mauritius on Sunday night of a three day weekend, I think much of the problem is the reduction in the return on effort. Taxes and regulations, along with unemployment and things such as food stamps, make working and being alert less valuable. Compound that with the reduced penaltis of being effed up and you have everybody stoned.

...People in this part of the world seem to think having the credential is more important than actually knowing how to do anything.

...on the Keystone pipeline deal, I Want a New Left discusses "Blue Collar Impact Statements" that should carry as much political weight as environmental statements. His last line: "For this and various other reasons, I say that environmentalists are Enemies of the People."
#2 Mike (Link) on 2012-01-22 11:01 (Reply)
Drunk is how humans deal with living in a socialist utopia, just ask the Russians or the Brits.

What we need is a bit of individualism and freedom to pursue happiness. Making sure you have the new cover sheet on your TPS report or trying to navigate the mandarins to get permission to sell you creation, will drive you to drink. The economy might have come out of the recession but the American people still suffer from depression.
#3 JKB on 2012-01-22 11:04 (Reply)
I'm as eager as the next guy to criticize the administration and the Pentagon for cuts to training and operations funding for the Army. (I've been on the losing side of that particular transaction. In 1979, on a major field exercise, we "ran out of gas".)

But this article about cutting training for trigger pullers isn't what one might think. All they are writing about is that Benning is reducing the number of expected training slots.

Wake me when the Army is hollow again. Then we can swap stories.

Oh, and can we reduce staffing at the Pentagon and major commands by say 25% before we start de-activating combat battalions.
#4 Steve C. on 2012-01-22 12:58 (Reply)
It's been a while and I don't remember where I saw it originally but a news story made the rounds some time last year about upper crust universities getting so many Asian Americans (when can we all just be Americans) that they were limiting how many could enroll, so the word was if you had any caucasian blood at all to apply as being white. And isn't our president half white?
#5 Dirk on 2012-01-22 13:55 (Reply)
We used to drink a lot more
#6 Assistant VIllage Idiot (Link) on 2012-01-22 14:54 (Reply)
I remember not very long ago when Elena Kagan was appointed to the Supremes, she smugly described herself as "a wise Latina" and the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice. How soon they forget. What about Supreme Court Justice Cardozo, a distinguished member of the Court back in the 1930s. Aren't we supposed to include him? Or doesn't being Spanish count?

When Sarah Palin entered the public consciousness and her presence brought about the ugliest backlash I've ever seen, some people accused her of being 'raacist'. How can she be accused of that since her husband Todd is part Yupik Eskimo, and therefore her five children are also. Or isn't that an acceptable ethnic group for the dotty liberals to inveigh against? Doesn't fit the "diversity profile" the moonbat liberals work so hard at.

Marianne
#7 Marianne Matthews on 2012-01-22 15:23 (Reply)

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