Thursday, October 7. 2010
 True Grit; One Awesome Trailer
Socialist ‘Success’: Food Stamp Use Breaks Record
A horror story about a small businessman vs the Feds. h/t Cafe Hayek
AVI contemplates how Libs view government differently
How Obamacare is already affecting medical practice
Postcards of the hanging
Blue collar folks abandon Dems. The wealthy still like the Dems.
Via Gay Patriot:
...in this election, Republicans are running more blacks in white majority districts than the Democrats are. Shouldn’t that be taken into consideration when accusations of racism are being hurled about?
Driscoll: Individuality is Fine as Long as We All Do It Together
How do they do it without Fannie Mae? International Comparison of Home Ownership Rates
More UK insanity: School installs £9,000 facial recognition cameras to stop students turning up late... and teachers could be next target
At Am Thinker: The Left's Terror Folly
The lesson from these attempted attacks is clear. Islamic radicals are trying to kill us not because of the policies of George W Bush or Tony Blair, or because there aren't enough U.N. or EU resolutions condemning Israel, or any other grievances the left are trying to project upon our enemies. The reason America and Western Europe are being attacked is because radical Islamists hate the Western way of life. They hate that we are not enslaved to their extremist version of Islam, and they hate the freedom and prosperity that we enjoy in the West.
Weekly Standard: Democracy is Winning in Latin America
Via Insty: Psychology: The Latest Threat to Campus Free Speech?
The interesting speech by Pinker about taboo thoughts is here.
Wednesday, October 6. 2010
Not yet, anyway. He seems to imagine that somebody thinks Obamacare can work. Of course it cannot. It is not meant to work.
It's meant to fail, and is doing so already. The greedy insurance companies will be blamed, and the Feds will step in...as long as the Lefties are in control.
Gagdad Bob takes on the Cosmos
Mao's little helpers in the Western intelligentsia
Former Secretary of State George Shultz to President Obama: “You’re out of your mind.”
Are Dems uninformed?
Breaking news: Bristol Palin eats at McDonald's. Horrors. We think that their Angus Burger with cheddar, mushrooms, and bacon is darn good.
Quote via Jammie:
I agree with Professor Richard Lindzen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who said: “future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age”.
--- Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic
Gov. Christie goes to Iowa.
Your Stimulus Dollars at Work: Teacher Pay Raises
A case of pure projection: On the right, hateful words are fired like bullets. Who, where, what, when?
This fellow Cravaack in MN 8th looks good
Conyers admits Obama care is just the first step to complete government control. As we always say, first they break it, then offer to fix it.
Chicago Boyz: Just say it! Teachers Unions are morally illegitimate
Levin: The War on the Young - Obama tries to fool them again.
Department of Climate Disruption: Coldest winter in 1,000 years on its way
Great idea for "at risk" kids: Unreal. New Hip-Hop Curriculum Refers to Founding Fathers “Old Dead White Men”
Iran Admits It Could Pull Nuke Trigger on US, Israel.
Tiger:
Our Congress is deeply, embarrassingly incompetent. Willful incompetence in my view is simply the equivalent of corruption. Incompetence which springs from ignorance is merely stupidity at work. Whether the current Democratic leadership of Pelosi and Reid is one or the other doesn't really matter. Of course, I have an opinion. But the result is the same.
Tuesday, October 5. 2010
 Good: ‘Alternative Pathways to Desirable Careers’
Bill Gates: Soak the mini-rich. Brilliant!
Is Rahm ready for prime time?
Samuelson: The government is stifling job-creation
Walter Williams: Politicians Exploit Economic Ignorance. True indeed. It's their stock in trade.
Derbyshire: I love America. Why does it need transforming?
What happens when government gets involved with your medical care
I am deeply offended by what PC insanity the UK is up to now. This is psychotic policy-making.
Coyote on the Corporate State:
A European-style corporate state is typically ruled by a troika of large favored corporations, industrial and public employee unions, and long-time political insiders. Most definitely excluded from power are consumers, entrepreneurs, small businesses, younger workers without seniority, and taxpayers.
The Tea Party is a diabolical cabal
Venezuela shows how it's done. First you break it, then run in to "save" it.
Green jobs scam
Buying gold by the ton. That is called "money on the sidelines."
Powerline: Get your hand out of my shower. How and why is this a Federal responsibility?
Crazy California: Proposition 23 and the damage it would do to California:
Setting aside the state's climate change law would damage the state's green economy and imperil California's commitment to fighting greenhouse gas emissions.
Good grief.
 If Repubs win the House and/or the Senate, what will they decide to do?
Many Repubs really cannot answer the question. Paul Ryan has his answers, but I'm not sure they are election winners. The only winners, I think, are to undo Obamacare, to stop the January tax increases, and to halt any further Federal intrusion into our lives.
Related at Reason - The Tipping Point:
Suddenly the country had a Resistance movement, standing athwart the flow of Obama history, shouting, "STOP!"
That brings us to this historical moment. If it was not clear during Obama's 2008 campaign (and he made deliberate efforts to obscure it) certainly in late 2010 it is clear where he wants to take the county--toward a European-style socialism, a command economy, driven by an all-powerful central government, determined to redistribute wealth and remake America as a multicultural, secular humanist state.
The election next month is not about returning the Republican Party to power in Washington. It is about stepping back from this tipping point, this precipice that Obama and the Pelosi-Reid Congress have led us to. There is a pervasive sense that this is momentous.
Important? Yes. Momentous? I am not sure. A reaction? Certainly. Much of this is just vague sentiment without specific content, but much of politics is about emotion. Devil is in the details, etc.
I think this post reflects much of the current sentiment: return to the default setting. But which status ante? Here are some default thoughts I can relate to.
Related, Beinart sends a warning: How the GOP Could Blow It:
...Which brings us to the Tea Party, many of whose activists seem genuinely dedicated to slashing government spending (except on the military, of course) and making the party of Reagan and Bush, once again, the party of Goldwater and Gingrich. Maybe this is one reason the GOP establishment is so scared? Over the last half-century, the Republican Party has been, at times, a genuinely anti-government party and, at times, a politically successful party. But it’s never been both at the same time. Once this fall’s elections are over, I suspect the Tea Partiers will begin learning that, the hard way.
Sounds like sour grapes already, yet he has a point. But does Beinart forget Reagan?
Monday, October 4. 2010
Kondratieff has received his $250 bribe check from Medicare, purportedly a penance for the Part D donut. However, since Dr. K's vote is not for sale, he is gleefully endorsing it over to a Tea Party candidate of his choice.
 Sometimes we're lucky to have friends with whom we can have civil conversations, even when we disagree. Fewer times, we're even more fortunate to have a friend whose learning and temperance wakens new thinking in ourself. Such a friend earns the right to be listened to carefully, always.
The Rabbi at my synagogue is such a friend. He is deeply liberal in all the best senses of that term, courageous in stating his views, and in altering them as new information is found. Several years ago, at his High Holiday sermon, the most heard of the year, he called for more openness in our listening to criticisms of Israel, not to pull it down but to get closer to our ideals.
In the meantime, others have gathered force to pull Israel down. So, this year, the Rabbi's sermon confronted those who cross the line from legitimate criticism to delegitimization. "When it comes to Israel’s many faults, there is a bold line between criticism and delegitimization, and that line is being crossed by those whose real agenda is the elimination of the Jewish State."
It is a beautiful and informative discussion. As usual, the Rabbi speaks clearly and covers the pros and cons, resulting in a reasoned conclusion. "To teach our children, to educate our neighbors, and to raise our hands against the slaughtering knife of delegitimization of the Zionist Project."
Read it all for yourself.
Here's how it should have gone down:
"What? You're asking me why after I paid my maid three times the minimum wage, checked her paperwork, paid taxes on her - and she turns out to have defrauded me - I'm the bad guy? Next question."
Defrauded - and betrayed. Unfaithful servant indeed.
What did Meg do wrong? She should not have hired a Hispanic.
The Left is unhinged by the Tea Party partly because they’ve never seen you before. And this isn’t limited to Leftists who are presently, you know, alive.
He makes a good point about the "de-closeting" of Conservatives. Until the last decade, they have mostly been living in the shadows. Now they are out and they are proud.
Royal Navy Field Gun Competition
Dylan meets Obama. Sort-of.
Megan: Where your tax dollars go
Vid: Al Gore Confronted in Tampa about Global Warming Again!!
Stuxnet update
Bill Maher Calls Republicans 'A Deadly Enemy'. Lost his sense of reality.
Prager: If You Are Not a Leftist, Why Are You Voting Democrat?
The great divide in America. In our experience, one cannot even discuss across that divide nowadays.
Those marchers aren't into America. Angry haters? Or just paid to show up? But I am sure the Commies showed up under their own steam. Who are these people?
Sunday, October 3. 2010
Obama's Top Ten Broken Promises.
However, we continue to believe that he and his folks are very pleased with what they have done thus far.
Saturday, October 2. 2010
What's new about a black market in sperm? Human sperm has been cheerfully donated or sold for a few hundred thousand years, hasn't it? Best way to deliver it is in person, but lawsuits are the problem. I expect at least a nice dinner- and maybe a show - in exchange for my sperm donation. My stuff is in high demand because I am tall, dark, handsome, and smart, I like to have fun, and my sperm injector works fairly well most of the time except when I am nervous.
P. J. O'Rourke: The Virtue of Sharing
Noonan: The Twister of 2010. Riehl says it's not a twister - it's climate change. I think it's "too late."
Caring: Global Work Party Day on 10/10/2010: come up with your own event. Pretend that you "make a difference." It's easy and fun, it makes you feel good, and you might get a date out of it.
Somebody is buying something: Another Record Week for Intermodal Rail Traffic
Krauthammer: Why Is He Sending Them? President Obama lacks the will to fight in Afghanistan. For the Left, America's only enemies are American Conservatives.
Via Insty, The Khmer Rouge: They Did It Because They Were Communists
Maybe the TARP wasn't such a bad idea: AIG plans asset sale to repay bailout
Hennessey says the Prez gets it re the housing mess
Reason: School Money Math Never Adds Up Quite Right
Business 101 — outsourcing. The government forces it on us, if we want to stay in business.
Norwegian Publisher Cancels Biography of Muhammed. We term that "chickenshit." Plenty of interesting bios of Jesus have been written, and nobody minds. Jesus was the original rebel against PC.
A prediction that the O will make a left turn. He does want to be "transformational." He is a true believer. He will never adjust to reality.
Insty via Reb: THE HORROR: “Is there anything more frightening than seas of grandmothers waving American flags and singing ‘patriotic’ songs? I don’t think so.” Patriotic grannies really scare me.
Greta Destroys Lib Hack Gloria Allred: “Gloria, This Is Almost Delusional”
From Wkly Std: The Obamacare Follies - Don’t let Obamacare reach its third birthday:
Obamacare is less popular than it was on the day it was born, and it wasn’t popular then, either. Practically the only Democrats who mention the law in campaign ads are those who brag about voting against it. Large numbers of Americans, including a majority of independents, would like to see the law repealed. No wonder the pro-repeal GOP maintains an edge in the congressional generic ballot. As much as the public continues to distrust Republicans, it understands that the first step in undoing this harmful law is giving John Boehner the speaker’s gavel.
Friday, October 1. 2010
In just three months, on January 1, 2011, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves.
On January 1, 2011, here’s what happens... (read it to the end, so you see all three waves)...
Continue reading "Your looming tax disaster"
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