Maggie's Farm

I am posting this in advance because I am leaving tonight for a ski trip to good old Killington. Mass Pike to 91 north. We are in the mood for some gnarly, bone-jarring bump runs, and the natural snow in VT has been great this year, due to the global cooling crisis. Cold is good: I will be expecting some snow-chilled pepper vodka and some nickel poker when I arrive, and I hope to freeze my buns off. Yahoo. A great escape from reality. Give me your best shot, Mountain, and try to break me. I am ready for you.

Speaking of cooling, the Arctic ice is back.

Obama is a Leftist. Duh. More at American Power. Never, never tell me that there is anything Christian about giving other peoples' money away. Nevertheless, Mrs. Obama tries to tell me that my soul is broken. Do not take my inventory, Mrs. O... My soul is my problem, not yours.

Ardolino takes a look at the Iraq legislature. Sounds like normal politics to me, which I guess is a good thing.

Still waiting for my Brit cousins to pull up their trousers and tell their nanny state to go f- itself. Violent video games. And bottled water.

Pagan religions thrive in the USA.

Avenue K and the travel lobby. Dem Project.

I am glad that I am a minority. As a white Christian heterosexual male, they will never fire me from my newsroom... will they?

"I cannot process this kind of thinking." Neither can I.

McCain: No new taxes. Good. I do not pay much, but I hate government greed.

We are stupid. Jules. I am precisely as stupid as I chose to be.

The Newt: Repubs need to be Conservative.

The black voting bloc, and how the Clintons might have blown it. I detest the very notion of voting blocs, but I guess they are the reality.

The Islamic revival in Egypt.  Sad. A little bit of Jesus would do them good.

Bush is popular in Africa. Rightly so. But what Africa needs, if they want economic growth, is free markets.

Educational innovation! New! Improved! From Insty:

EMBRACE YOUR INNER MORON! "Requiring children to actually demonstrate knowledge of math, English and science in order to graduate may be the single greatest educational innovation of our time, forcing schools that had demonstrably not been teaching at all to at least teach for the test."

More re Dr. Rossiter's book on Liberalism (sounds like our Dr. Bliss):

Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.".

Government fails at providing power in SA. Of course. A government couldn't run a candy shop without a subsidy.

Soros tentacles. The guy is a creeped-out crackpot.

Marxism is anti-statist, says S&M. OK, but when and where has that happened in the past 100 years? Please. Socialism is all about centralized power.

Did you read our link to You are what you spend? Worth reading, with two good charts. He makes the case that what matters is what people consume, not what they make. Of course, America has the richest "poor" people in the world because income does not include government and charity help.

Re Hillary (is she running in Texas, by any chance?)

"I've gone hunting," she said. "I know you may not believe it, but it's true. My father taught us to shoot."

Clinton told reporters later she had once shot a duck in Arkansas, along with "a lot of tin cans, targets and some skeet."

Tin cans? 

Not just totty. Theo has tons of good stuff up.