Saturday, April 11. 2009
VDH, via NRO. It's called "politics."
What I fail to understand about it all is that our hispanic illegals do not seem to me to be dependency-driven, but more opportunity-driven, traditionalist, family-oriented, and religious.
 It's Holy Saturday - another day to mourn and to reflect on the cross - and to anticipate Easter. We all encounter our personal Good Fridays - the seeming death of God to us in our own foolish lives, and the feeling of abandonment by God. Through prayer, constant prayer, we can humble and diminish our precious selves and reestablish the link by making space for Him to return to us and to talk to us. Think I am crazy? Try it. Our self-love and self-pity leave little room for Him in our hearts.
But here are some unholy links:
Who are the Socialists in America? Whatever happened to love of freedom? When did a decadent yearning for dependency take over?
Health care reform and free markets. Q&O
Piracy. Why there are no armed men on freighters in that area is a mystery to me.
Western Civilization inconsistent with Brown's values. Which are what????
Global sea ice far above normal now. Explain that. Related: NASA now says it's not CO2 - it's aerosols. So much for "settled science."
The elephant in the room: Obama vs. USA. A quote from Phila Enquirer:
What is indisputable is that Koh calls himself a "transnationalist." He believes U.S. courts "must look beyond national interest to the mutual interests of all nations in a smoothly functioning international legal regime. ..." He thinks the courts have "a central role to play in domesticating international law into U.S. law" and should "use their interpretive powers to promote the development of a global legal system."
Koh's "transnationalism" stands in contrast to good, old-fashioned notions of national sovereignty, in which our Constitution is the highest law of the land. In the traditional view, controversial matters, whatever they may be, are subject to democratic debate here. They should be resolved by the American people and their representatives, not "internationalized." What Holland or Belgium or Kenya or any other nation or coalition of nations thinks has no bearing on our exercise of executive, legislative, or judicial power.
Koh disagrees. He would decide such matters based on the views of other countries or transnational organizations - or, rather, those entities' elites.
Shades of Oceania.
Obama's arrogance: neoneo. I think he thinks he's smarter than he is.
What is the carbon footprint of green pizza? It reminds me of how Elvis used to send his plane from Memphis to LA to pick up his favorite PB&J sandwiches.
The Left is "monitoring" the Tea Parties
Obama is reaching out to the moderate pirate community
Hey Dems - keep your hands off Teddy Roosevelt
I wondered this too: if universities receive federal funds, why doesn't the gov try to run them too?
O makes a case for unilateral disarmament. Bret Stephens:
It's also worth considering just what a new round of arms control is meant to accomplish. In his speech, Mr. Obama painted it as a matter of setting an example to the wider world.
But as the journalist Walter Lippmann observed in 1943, the disarmament movement of the interwar years only proved "tragically successful in disarming the nations that believed in disarmament." Mr. Obama himself noted that "some countries will break the rules" of nuclear nonproliferation, adding that "That's why we need a structure in place that ensures when any nation does, they will face consequences."
Sure. Like the UN? Related: The Department of No Defence
 Poor Joe Biden. He really seems to be a compulsive liar and self-aggrandizer. Maybe it's a good match. Related: Rush Limbaugh's meeting with Obama!
Different visions. David Limbaugh via Intell Cons:
The liberals see they now have a chance to actualize their vision for an America remade in their image and radically at odds with the vision of this nation's Founders. It doesn't matter that there couldn't be a worse time in our history for implementing their reckless policies. They know they may not get another chance in their lifetimes to work such mischief. Even though it will break the federal bank, us, our children and our grandchildren, it's all going to be OK because they will finally have achieved their statist vision for America.
Yep, they think they are smarter and wiser than the average rubes like us.
From Vanderleun's Deer in the headlights:
Of course, much of the current government's institutionalized death wish, and the culture of cowardice that both precedes and envelops it, is carefully camouflaged, hidden from the sight of the less-than-persuaded centrists, independents, and other Americans who might not be ready to follow the Democrats across the Styx and down into the hell of collectivism "done right, this time, trust us." The love of death-in-life in political philosophies must always be hidden. If it were not the American collectivist party would wither to its small and wizened core. After all one must, even while taking the country down the path to defeat and ruin, pretend that one has only the very best core American values at heart. It keeps the marks and the rubes from wising up, waking up, or blinking in the glare of the headlights.
Thursday, April 9. 2009
 Let's tax 'em at 80%. Just for the heck of it. They'll keep on working hard...won't they?
Is amnesty designed to be a distraction from the Big One - the budget?
One of the scariest things in America is prosecutorial power. Am Thinker discusses.
17 Socialists in the House? At the very least, it seems to me. Plus one in the White House.
From David Warren on Thomas Sowell (and MLK):
I love Sowell, because he can "do" desolation without wandering into despair. Reciprocally, he can do hope -- the real thing, not the rhetorical posture. A black man, from a fatherless home, raised by an aunt whom he thought was his mother, in rural then urban conditions that would excuse any man for failure, he saw through his circumstances. He dragged himself up, through a machine shop, through the Marines, eventually to great eminence in the academic world, at a time before he could trade on his race. And he continued rising, with the help of honest friends, and by ignoring vilifications.
 Medved on Obama the Leveler. It's either a different view of the world, or it's simply a political strategy.
Obama's immigration agenda on the way. Once again, it's either a different view of the world, or it's simply a political strategy. I suspect the latter.
AVI takes on the movie "Doubt" from the DVD cover, without knowing anything about it. A quote:
Doubt is the proper stance to take about anything religious. That way you can be conflicted and can’t ever judge anyone else’s actions, but you can still be a sensitive thoughtful good person and not have to commit to anything as solid as unbelief.
They are transparent to us. We are opaque to them.
More on how the Left is bewildered and upset by the Tea Parties. Remind me - how much money did ACORN get from the "stimulus"? Was it $5 billion? ACORN is a government-supported radical political organization. We hope the Tea Party movement has legs.
Lefty crybaby bloggers want to get paid by political orgs. Lefties always want other peoples' money. (In the interest of fair disclosure, we must admit that MF, like most of us centrist sites, does receive $10,000/month from a low-profile RNC-related media org in return for mindlessly echoing the Repub talking points which are emailed to us daily from deep within a hidden bunker somewhere in the Real America. A pittance, but every little bit helps to keep us in beans and rice.)
Money image on loan from Wall Street Fighter
Wednesday, April 8. 2009
 Getting dates: What's your FICO score?
College admissions officers emote. What a horrible job they have: all those snot-nosed kids putting their egos on the line.
Powerline gets rough on Harold Koh: Curtailing our representative democracy. Yes, this is a serious issue.
Related, from Dick Morris: The repeal of the Declaration of Independence. Not funny.
Utter economic ignorance in the NYT. Does the Left think money is manna from heaven? Somebody has to make it, you know.
A good reason for the gummint to encourage smoking. Plus, they get the tobacco taxes. Smoking is patriotic.
A good story about charter schools: We don't want your money
Taxes heading up for the middle class. Duh. No free lunch.
Guess what? If you spend $50 billion on construction, you do get a little bit of construction. Not a lot, but some.
We are now bailing out life insurance companies. Did you know that?
Paglia on Obama's painful missteps. I would not have made all of those gaffes, nor would have Paglia.
For the ignorant press, this counts as "evidence" nowadays. Unbelievably stupid.
Transgender laws headed for New England. Whoopee! We're almost all transgenders up here, ya know. We like those of the opposite sex, if that is what it means.
76% vote to live off the other 24%. Hey, who wouldn't? Unless you happen to have some dignity and pride...
Let's not offend...Britain? WHT? Do these people know anything?
"It's like Miley Cyrus Does Europe." I don't know who Miley Cyrus is, but Jules does.
The 2010 Census as a welfare project
Tony Blankley begins:
Of all President Barack Obama's transformative domestic policy proposals, none is more far-reaching and less transparent than health care.
President's science advisor: Let's cool the earth. Not up here, please. We had snow today, and we are burning oil like crazy in NYC to keep the furnaces blasting.
Impossible to solve. Just do your best...
They think they own protests. They do not. They have the power now, and I do not like what they do to my country.
Funny how fast compromise and consensus flew out the window.
 Image on right via Surber. Related, at Volokh:
Good to hear that American free speech tradition isn't "too deeply unsettling to world order." But wait -- check out the footnote following this paragraph:
See generally Louis Henkin, Gerald L. Neuman, Diane F. Orentlicher & David W. Leebron, Human Rights 564 (1999). Admittedly, in a globalizing world, our exceptional free speech tradition can cause problems abroad, as, for example, may occur when hate speech is disseminated over the Internet. In my view, however, our Supreme Court can moderate these conflicts by applying more consistently the transnationalist approach to judicial interpretation discussed infra Part III.C.
And what is this "transnationalist approach" that can help "moderate these conflicts" caused by American constitutional protection for "hate speech ... disseminated over the Internet"?
Read it. I say "Good grief."
A vote for sanity: Climate change bill sidetracked
Harvard student takes on Barney Frank
Black Caucus praises Castro. Nice role model. Everybody wants to emigrate to Cuba, don't they? The Gulf of Mexico is packed with Mexicans and Liberals trying to get to the peoples' paradise.
Obama's anti-nuke speech. Dino
Why "quality" medical care is dangerous
Are American housing policies rational? Prof B says no, and I agree. The American Dream isn't home ownership - it's freedom. I am a flat-taxer and opposed on principle to the mortgage interest deduction.
O's foreign apologies: What did you expect? Still, Rick says:
Yes, it discomfits me that Obama seemed eager to disrespect his own country in front of those who, at times, have been equally arrogant, equally dismissive, and certainly more derisive when George Bush was president. But in perilous times, it is best to keep your friends close. And despite a few gaffes (”Austrian” language? Are you fricking kidding me?), Obama’s trip was helpful to our interests and will hopefully pay big dividends in the future.
This is entertaining:
Tuesday, April 7. 2009
 Dept. of Hopey-Changey: A US-based Al Qaida magazine. Does it have a centerfold like the one on the right? If not, I will not subscribe no matter how good the articles may be.
Most Americans have too much wisdom to devote their entire lives to it, but we do have the right to get rich if we want to do that.
Note to depressed Muslims. Keep us out of it.
This may be news to most Americans, from Janet Napolitano: "This is one NAFTA, one area, one continent..."
Too bad. Looking a bit bleak for Coleman. Can't believe those folks voted for the other doofus.
No more buche de chevre? Sucks, dude. Try a government job.
The arrogance. Nobody even knows where the Missouri capitol is. "Hey, Ahmed. I have a great idea. Let's crash into the Missouri capitol to show the infidel the power of Allah." "Cool, dude. Will you do it? But what's Missouri? Show me."
Powerline on the Strib's terminal ailment. Related: Greedy capitalist newspapers want donations from Google. Why not just make them part of the executive branch?
Hey ladies: get your fellow some of this stuff. We need a happier world.
Tiger and Insty both are interested in token Greenie stuff (nothing real), but Tiger at least admits it.
Why docs are refusing Medicare.
Dems push for voting rights for illegals. We saw that coming.
Students: Beware of the one-party classroom
Monday, April 6. 2009
Obama sells himself to the world stage - to help sell himself to the American stage. America is the only audience that matters.
How is he doing?
Is he a pompous windbag? There can be no doubt that he digs himself. That's for certain. More than he merits? You decide.
Went for a family visit and Palm Sunday Mass in MA at the family church yesterday. Still cold up there: rain, wind and snow today. Spring feels very far away, due to Climate Change.
 More Tea Parties. It's a Protest Movement! Power to the Silent Majority!
Not just for out-of-towners. Hop on and hop off tour busses in NYC. Cool.
It's a tie in upstate NY
Charles Blow needs a change of underpants
This is just wonderful. Indeed it is.
AVI rarely seems to have an ugly thought, but he had one.
Why does O bash the US in foreign countries?
McCain rebukes Hispanics for not supporting him.
Our problems:
We've narrowed down our troubles. Neither small pox nor poor crops are really all that troublesome any more. No, our problems are now pretty much each other. (Inasmuch as small pox and poor crops are still problems in some places, see what the men there are up to.)
If you think man-against-man problems went away in ancient times, recollect the 20th century. One hundred million deaths can be attributed to communism alone. Add in perhaps 21 million more thanks to Hitler. R.J. Rummel tried to count 20th century human deaths caused by governments, not including wars between nations. His count: over 260 million. That was before the Congo (3.9 million), Sudan (2 million), Rwanda (937,000) and recent "famines" in North Korea (2 million), all since 1990.
They say I am afraid of Michelle Obama's vegetable garden. WTH? I am usually afraid of the menacing weeds in Bird Dog's garden, however.
College orientation, for whites only. They've gone full circle! No doubt some pomo logician can explain it to me.
Can we afford to bet our economy on the supposition that Freeman Dyson is wrong?
CNN is running out of religions to respect. h/t Driscoll. In my view, respect for peoples' religion is a simple matter of manners - but all religions need criticism. Everybody and everything needs criticism.
Hate to say it, but I think this is true:
Max Borders argues that the President’s motive is, not ending the recession, but using it as an excuse for truly radical restructuring of American society and further deformation of the Constitution.
If the President’s goals become reality, most of the remaining checks and balances of the 1787 Constitution will effectively have been eviscerated, leaving a nation driven by Tocqueville’s tyranny of the majority, ravenously confiscating other people’s money.
We all know a Prez can't "end a recession" anyway.
No country in the Middle East will take in Palestinian refugees. Is there a reason? Obama wants to take them. I thought they had their own country now, with an elected government and tons of weapons etc.
Tom Sowell says we have a rookie President. Related: Most polarizing Prez in the modern era. Related, the brilliant Obama invents a new language: Austrian.
Protesting Obama at Notre Dame.
Taxation:
"That is the American way," Stroger replied. "And the way that it's generally done is, you find some group that's small enough where they can't beat you up, and you tax them and you tell everybody else, 'See? We didn't tax you.' "
Marriage is a contract, but is it just a contract?
Aussie boobs getting bigger. It's Climate Change.
The politics of vouchers. Choice not allowed:
Mr. Duncan's office spurned our repeated calls and emails asking what and when he and his aides knew about these results. We do know the Administration prohibited anyone involved with the evaluation from discussing it publicly. You'd think we were talking about nuclear secrets, not about a taxpayer-funded pilot program. A reasonable conclusion is that Mr. Duncan's department didn't want proof of voucher success to interfere with Senator Dick Durbin's campaign to kill vouchers at the behest of the teachers unions.
The decision to let 1,700 poor kids get tossed from private schools is a moral disgrace. It also exposes the ugly politics that lies beneath union and liberal efforts across the country to undermine mayoral control, charter schools, vouchers or any reform that threatens their monopoly over public education dollars and jobs.
Meanwhile, the DC pols all send their kids to private schools.
How the NYT does politics (h/t, Moonbattery). I know the NYT plays tricks, but this is beyond what I imagined. Are any reporters anywhere covering this story, or are they too much in awe of the NYT...or of Obama?
Or are they too chicken?
 Sunday's New York Times had an op-ed - a Sunday op-ed having particular prominence - by George Bisharat, “Israel on Trial.” Bisharat recites every charge raised by any source accusing Israel of violating international law in its treatment of Gaza.
Surely the NYT would defend its publishing of this screed as giving both sides of a story. A law professor who has known Bisharat, son of a Palestinian father, since law school remarks on Bisharat’s “Personal Intifada”:
Bisharat has devoted the past 25 years towards delegitimizing Israel. The links are too numerous to list, but almost everything Bisharat does and says is geared towards isolating and demonizing Israel. But Bisharat doesn't stop there, he also seeks to delegitimize Israel's supporters in the U.S.
One must wonder if the NYT publishing Bisharat’s op-ed means the NYT disbelieves its own reporting, and if the NYT is even sincere in its attachment to international law.
In January, the NYT examined the charges in long detail, “Weighing Crimes and Ethics in the Fog of Urban Warfare.”
Deciding requires an investigation into battlefield circumstances that cannot be carried out while the fighting rages, and such judgments are especially difficult in urban guerrilla warfare, when fighters like Hamas live among the civilian population and take shelter there. While Israel is the focus of most criticism, legal experts agree that Hamas, a radical Islamic group classified by the United States and Europe as terrorist, violates international law.
Shooting rockets out of Gaza aimed at Israeli cities and civilians is an obvious violation of the principle of discrimination and fits the classic definition of terrorism. Hamas fighters are also putting civilians at undue risk by storing weapons among them, including in mosques, schools and allegedly hospitals, too, making them potential military targets. While urban and guerrilla warfare is not illegal, by fighting in the midst of civilians, often in civilian clothing, Hamas may also bring risk to noncombatants.
But Hamas’s violations tend to be treated as a given and criticized as an afterthought, Israeli spokesmen and officials say. They say that Israel has never sought to hit civilians, medical workers or United Nations facilities or personnel. “The rules of engagement are very clear,” said Mark Regev, the government spokesman. “Not to target civilians, not to target U.N. people, not to target medical staff. All this is very clear in Israeli military doctrine.”
Continue reading "NYT Blows Itself Up In International Law Minefield"
 Prof B:
...the Obama administration is engaged in national industrial policy far more radical than ever before seen in the United States and, worse yet, with policymakers who seemingly know nothing about cars and, for the most part, don't even own American cars.
DC voucher kids performed better. Swedish schools are voucher, I think.
Speaking of Sweden, "The point is that students must feel seen, heard, and affirmed." Or they will set their schools on fire. Arsonist students need special affirmation, no doubt.
Why Levin's is the most important book of the year. But is he preaching to the choir?
God and government. Riehl. Quote:
...if you want to tear down anything and everything beyond man, then man is the only concept you have left in which to invest your rights. And once you do that, rest assured, one day some man is going to come along and take them away.
Dem crook du jour: Monica Conyers
What's more important - getting medical care or having insurance?
Axelrod cashes out before taxes go up
O to N. Korea "Come on, fellas. Please cut it out."
From Diana West's argument against Afghanistan:
The point is that sinking all possible men and materiel into Afghanistan to nation-build an Islamic culture into a pro-Western one (while simultaneously fighting Taliban and wading deep into treacherous Pakistani affairs and wars) is not the way to victory. In fact, it is the best way to bleed and further degrade US military capabilities. If I were a nefarious jihad chieftain, I can't imagine a better strategy than to tie up America's best young men in a grueling and open-ended war of hide and seek in the North West Frontier....
My fellow conservatives will say: But withdrawing from Afghanistan will give sanctuary to terrorists including Al Qaeda! My answer is that sanctuaries for terrorists including Al Qaeda exist all over the world, from Iran to London to . But it will embolden the terrorists! Frankly, I can't imagine anything more emboldening than the disgusting, shameful spectacle of Barack Obama bowing in deference to the oil-garch of Arabia--except maybe serving up Israel on a platter to its jihadist foes...and except maybe exhausting US capabilities indefinitely in Af-pak, as they now say.
Canada update:
About 20 percent of Canadians work for one level of government or their agencies. This is the highest per capita public sector employment in history other than in wartime. According to Statistics Canada, in the last three months of 2008, the number of civil servants grew by 96,000. In 2008, the total compensation package of wages and benefits grew by 4.3%, just over double the rate of the private sector.
A report released in December, 2008 by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business found that federal employees made 42% more than their counterparts in the private sector when salaries, benefits and pensions were factored in. At the provincial level the difference was 25% while at the municipal level the difference was 36%.
Sunday, April 5. 2009
- Planted a ton of purple pansies from Home Depot today as a Palm Sunday celebration. It's cold as heck out, but those Pansies have antifreeze. Dosed them with Miracle-Gro, but they are probably too cold to absorb it.
- Mrs. BD ran down to NYC instead of church to take a long, cold, brisk walk with the Bird Dog-ette along the Hudson River. Chelsea Piers to Battery Park, and back: an fine urban hike. She works in finance. She still needs her Mom sometimes. Her job is secure: they cannot do without her - and she is cheap for what she does. She is worried, though. If her bonus is taxed at 90%, she and her roomates cannot afford their apartment. 80% of her compensation is bonus. The salary is just token. Speaking of token, she doesn't need subway tokens: she speed-hikes 40 minutes each morning in the dark to mid-town from Chelsea, and hikes back home in the dark. 15-hour workdays - and she loves it (most of it). Some people love daily math and complex structured finance challenges at a minute's notice with a 4-hour deadline to redo the details - and some don't. "It's fun. It forces me to think fast, Dad." 80-150 million dollar muni deals. It's not for everybody. A lot of travel too, but she loves that.
- A chat with the gentle young Moslem Bangladeshi mini-mart guy at 5 this morning, whose wife and mother-in-law have arrived after a four-year immigration wait. He takes a cab to work at 1 AM: he is saving all of his money instead of buying a car. "How's the family adjusting to America?" "Pretty good. It's cold for them. I had to buy them coats." "How's their English coming along?" "Good. They study every day. It's coming along fast. My wife just got a job." "Doing what?" "Customer service." "My friend, I love these stories. Tell them I welcome them to America." "I will. Thank you."
No doubt these people are "the poor." America's poor are the young, the new immigrants, the feckless, the self-destructive - plus some plain unfortunate folks who get struck by bad lightning. These new Americans from Bangladesh are as rich as Croesus in spirit, hope, and opportunity, and they ask for nothing from America but a chance to build a life and a friendly word once in a while.
What a wonderful country. No wonder every sturdy soul in the world wants to come here. Too bad we have so many crybabies, when we have people like my minimart guy. Meanwhile, the Obamanauts complain.
Saturday, April 4. 2009
 Photo on right from our webmeister Chris's back yard yesterday. He has hired this fellow to organize his garbage recycling. I did the same. In fact, I have two of them moonlighting for me. The Brits, who seem so obsessed with their "bins," need some of these helpful critters to sort through their trash for them. They do an excellent job of spreading it out for your perusal.
Capt. Capitalism's amusing post about Sam linked to his older post about how the success of Capitalism produced The Mystery
Will Wilkinson outs himself. Come on, Will. Grow up and start drinking Scotch instead.
Speaking of bloggers, have you ever read Cobb? (h/t, 3 Kinds of Black at Vanderleun)
Europe lectures O: Overspending is not the answer. Guess what? It's not meant to be the answer. It's meant to redistribute.
Biofuels are the death of the jungles rainforests
Post-partisan census? This is beyond hardball. This is live ammo.
Where's my bailout?
Democrat debt is morally superior to Republican debt
 Today's Episcopal Church: Lesbian abortion-activist priests. It's not a religion. It's a Lefty, quasi-anarchist propaganda machine. Where are the good old hearty red-nosed Scotch drinking, golf-playing, skirt-chasing, Locust Valley lockjawed Episcopalians I fondly remember?
Re the London protesters last week (via Thompson's Friday Ephemera):
I think that they have looked back at 5,000 years of human history - at pestilence and famine and disease and degradation, at genocide and civil war, at fear and loathing, at bigotry and ignorance, chauvinism and dictatorship - and concluded that our biggest problem is... shopping.
Speaking of shopping, here's the #1 Non-fiction bestseller this week.
How come no bus tours past Fannie and Freddie exec houses?
Obama's political attack machine must be fully staffed. Hopey changey.
China surpasses US in auto production. Capitalism is working well in China.
Hey, Alan Colmes. Who the heck hasn't felt regularly dissed and humiliated? It's a normal part of daily life for everybody.
Why Obama and the NYT do not want the banks to repay their TARP money. Hey - that's my money. Just mail me the check, guys, and say the heck with it.
NYT loves unions - just not their own. They are different.
One more intelligent call to end aid to Africa. Handouts are death to a society, especially a developing one. The only good they do is to feed the egos of the givers.
Two good bits at Flopping: Obama and Krauthammer (unfortunately, not together).
Eric Holder's idea of "constitutional." Says the distinguished Eleanor Homes Norton:
"I don't think members are in the least bit affected in their votes on the question of its constitutionality," she said just last week. "People vote their politics in the House and in the Senate."
We hired these people?
This gives me the creeps: An intarnets czar? First they came for the smokers bloggers...Speaking of smoking, what's with Small Tobacco
Klavan takes on hate. We must always remember that "hate" doesn't mean what it used to. It's been redefined. Now it means expecting decent, civilized, respectful and responsible behavior from other humans.
What do these idiots want? And don't they have jobs? I think they want a free lunch.
MSM ignored O's bow. The House of Saud paid his tuitions, if I am not mistaken.
It's about time. An honest pint in Oregon.
Obama is the Master of Misdirection: Fred Barnes. Yes, we have noticed that too. There's always a distraction from what is really being done. It's effective politics, but it's basically an effort to fool the people who don't follow things carefully.
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Sam is still a child. Lots of Sams out there these days.
I'm glad to see PC finally extending into the fungal kingdom. It's only fair. Don't want to be guilty of speciesism.
Krauthammer: Obama's ultimate agenda
Whither print? Jules
Yet another depraved nominee. Where do they find these people? They are all Moonbats or tax cheats - or both.
Steyn on Obama's faux pas
How the Obamanauts lied about their petitions
Wood pulp and fuel. Your tax dollars at work.
Liberal Fascism at the NYT. Sort-of related: NYT's Bill Keller is losing it.
I wish I had a thick cortex. I do have a thick skull...
Ouch. O loses his place on teleprompter in France. Related: The Guardian's transcript of O's confusion yesterday is darn funny. Cruel, but funny.
Coming soon to your house: O's $163,000 tax bomb
Seems hardly fair that illegals would get a better deal than Americans.
Watts on the winter:
...remember - weather is not climate. and computer models should always supersede observation.
The guy wasn't joking:
The Dignitas clinic in Zurich claims to have assisted in the deaths of more than 100 Britons. The Zurich University Clinic found that more than a fifth of people who had died at Dignitas did not have a terminal condition.
Mr Minelli said that anyone who has “mental capacity” should be allowed to have an assisted suicide, claiming that it would save money for the NHS.
The NHS would be in fine shape if it weren't for all those sick and old people they have to bother with.
Friday, April 3. 2009
Friday art, from friend Theo who appreciates the finer things in life:
It's almost cruel to show the Prez so utterly flummoxed by a question in England (h/t, Am Thinker).
At Financial Times. Drag the slider at the bottom of the graph.
A music-loving buddy is a WXPN fan. OK, I know they are an NPR affiliate. You can enter their See Dylan in London contest without donating something, but that doesn't seem right.
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