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Wednesday, October 1. 2008Weds linksPhoto: What farmer wouldn't enjoy that kind of assistance with the haying? What's all this talk about a terrible economy? Is it the Dems and the MSM trying to create a sense of malaise and fear? Surely the banks are in a mess, a number of hedge funds have crashed and burned, and a continued credit crunch could and probably would lead to a recession - but we aren't in one yet. And our employment numbers are the envy of the world. Yes, people have lost assets, but they weren't real - they were a housing bubble. And the stock market? It goes up and down. It's supposed to do that. That's what markets do. If you don't like it, don't be part of it. Buy munis. Your college assignment: Write an essay trashing From Palin's interview with Hugh Hewitt:
Bank failures, not a poor economy, caused the Great Depression. NYT. Canadians call US Marxist. What? When banks fail - for whatever reasons - there is no credit. And with no credit, there can be no business. An Argument for Localism. Brussels Journal. I like this notion. The UK has a Poverty Industry too. Now it's called "relative poverty," kinda like the way "Global Warming" got changed to "Climate Change." Speaking of which, Make Sure Climate Change is in your grant application
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Gee whiz, I'm glad you brought this up, News Junkie. Indeed, we are NOT in a recession. Yet. The definition of recession is two quarters of negative financial growth. We haven't had even one yet. This third quarter of 2008 ended yesterday, the last day of September. We won't know for a couple of weeks whether we had negative financial growth in the third quarter. And if we did, which I sincerely doubt, that would be only one quarter. So the frantic Democrats who have been rushing around saying this is the end of the world as we know it, won't be able to honestly [!] say we're in a recession until after the election. If we are, which I doubt we will be.
That won't stop them from saying it, of course. But we, the grown-ups un this country, will know different. Marianne By the way, did you notice in the news that the global warmingists, getting more frantic by the minute as more and more sensible people cease to believe their fairy tales, are proposing that our diets be severely limited, by restricting meat to small portions four days a week. Why? Because cows fart, that's why. And that produces methane and raises CO2 in the atmosphere.
To interject a tired note of reason into this mishmash of wishful thinking, who's going to monitor what I eat? Or you eat? Some newly formed, extremely expensive government agency? And so the Leftist con game goes on. Marianne I,m an Englishman that is one of those suffering from relative affluence...Ha!...I see the relative poor everyday here....there is nothing poor about them aside from spiritualy culturaly etc etc.
I knew something was amiss when "Dumbya" / "St. George" claimed that a hasty response to global warming concerns could have serious economic impacts and that as POTUS the only responsible position was one of caution while acquiring more facts, but while half the blogosphere suddenly claimed that global warming was a hoax, and the other half suddenly claimed that Bush wanted to pave over the world, I was like, one of the only guys around who actually accepted the complexity and context of his position, but when trying to explain this to one side or the other was slammed as a minion of evil from the opposite side.
Clopfelter, my friend ... Your digestion will improve and your stress level will reduce sharply if you will just accept the fact that, as Jules Crittenden says, "The world gets warmer, the world gets colder, and nobody quite knows why." Certainly not Al Gore. The globe has not warmed since 1998 ... in fact, it's gotten slightly cooler. Gore just wants to sell more carbon credits from the company he founded -- from which he buys his own carbon credits. See how that works?
A new Little Ice Age is looming ahead. The Farmer's Almanac predicts it. And you know how often they are right. Marianne Marianne,
To say nothing of the American Attitude Ice Age that is coming after this monstrous debacle of partisanship and greed finally coming home to roost on our doorsteps. I hope it freezes PC so completely it never shows its lying head again. ` Sorry MM, but if I had to choose between the opinions of highly partisan media columnists and a semi-partisan president whose resources and responsibilities are several thousand times greater, I’d choose the latter.
I think Meta understood my comment. I have no emotional investment in climate change either way. My “ stress” or “indigestion” comes from puzzling over the consistent bizarreness of extremist (non-Centrist) thought these days. |
Someone please tell me what the Democrats/Leftists/Liberals think this election is all about? If the truth be known about every candidate for office we'd not have any candidates by this standard!
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