Wednesday, April 28, 2010
media still clueless about tea parties.
"An aggrieved elite," Dana Milbank sniffed. "Race is part of the picture," E.J. Dionne noted. "The Tea Partiers aren't standing up for the little guy; they're standing up TO the little guy," Peter Beinart complained. "The Tea Partiers favor the economically and racially privileged. ... What the Tea Partiers dislike about Barack Obama's economic policies is that they don't do enough for the rich."
What Tea Partiers dislike about Obama's policies is that they've tripled the national debt.
"Something unique happened in Obama's first year," Daniel Henninger wrote. "The veil was ripped from the true cost of government. This is a ghastly nightmare the Democrats have needed to keep locked in a crypt."
Obama began with a $787 billion stimulus package (which most economists have now dismissed as a failure), passed a fiscal 2010 budget of $3.5 trillion, passed a fiscal 2011 budget of $3.8 trillion, and passed his health care reform bill, for additional trillions whose scope we don't know. Henninger pegs this year's spending at $9 trillion.
The Tea Party is a popular, not a populist, movement, a grass-roots uprising against the cost and expansion of government power. It fears that the debt has become unsustainable. Do not expect Dionne or Beinart to recognize this."
MUST READ.
by the way, reason.com is one of the best websites ever created.
Toward that end, Obama's offers a gesture of bad faith:
"We've been scouring the budget, line by line, identifying more than $20 billion in savings this year alone," Obama said.
This year alone! This year, when the federal government will spend something like $3.6 trillion, $20 billion is not even big enough to be a rounding error. If that's all that line-by-line scouring yields, we are well and truly screwed.
http://reason.com/blog/2010/04/28/obama-we-need-a-fiscal-commiss
citigroup, obama, and creepy corporatism
"Citigroup Inc Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit has written President Barack Obama endorsing “strong regulatory reform” for U.S. banks. What’s more, Pandit wrote, “You can count on me and the entire Citi organization to support” Obama’s reform efforts.
Of course, the U.S. government OWNS 27% of Citi, so one shouldn’t be surprised at this. And even without the direct ownership, Citi has no more interest than other big coprorations heavily dependent on government regulation and increasingly at the mercy of discretionary, not to say arbitrary, government action, in antagonizing the Obama administration or Democrats in Congress—especially since the administration and the congressional Democrats have shown a willingness to go after those standing in their way."
media, self-censorship, and islamic radicalism
"But precisely because of these antecedents, the decision to censor the episode of "South Park" is especially troubling. An earlier episode in 2006 that satirized the way in which the Western media cower to blackmail by fanatics who do not tolerate images of the prophet had already been censored; later, the president of MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, regretted publicly caving in to political and commercial pressure. This time, the bear suit in the first of the two episodes implied a mockery not of Muhammad but of the Western media, which makes no apologies for trashing other spiritual icons, including Jesus, Moses and Buddha -- all of whom were ridiculed in that episode, by the way -- and has accepted the Muhammad taboo, avoiding all depiction of the prophet. One of the child characters in the show, incidentally, often mocks Jews even though one of the directors is Jewish.
Comedy Central would not have been right to censor the first episode, but it made things worse by showing the first uncensored and then censoring the second one in response to the threats. Any time fanatics carry the day against free expression, something essential is lost."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/04/28/south_park_and_self_censorship_105331.html
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
capitalism and the 9o
i have friends that go to the university of georgia and tell me about nickel nights at the bars. the city of athens, where uga is located, has 96 bars, the most per capita of any college town in america. look it up. with literally millions of students wanting to blackout and make silly decisions every night, these bars have to compete for their services. so they try offer the best product (alcohol) at the lowest cost. this is called competition, a natural byproduct of capitalism (something foreign to america in the year 2010). these bars get conventional and creative, scouting out their competitor's prices and goods. they'll offer special drink nights, like 5 cents for a beer (can you imagine that?), jack n cokes for $1, and other enticing offers that their livers just cannot resist. they'll upgrade their facilities, improve their services, basically do anything to attract consumers ($$$). this is what happens when 96 bars are trying to vie for their services... simple supply and demand 101.
now, the 9o. it's fun, pretty dirty, gets a little too crowded, and i randomly get kicked out for reasons i do not know. that's not the point. they charge $10 for a mixed drink, $5 for beer, and have occasional drink specials that are decent. i'm not arguing these prices are ridiculous (which they are); we're just habitually used to paying them without really thinking about how much were getting ripped off/could be saving.
the 90 has a complete monopoly over weekly night life at usc. everyone goes there for the sole reason that there is no other conveniently located bar to black out. since there is no competition, why would the 9o ever care to lower its prices or upgrade its services? It knows that its consumers are loyal and have no other option but to keep coming back. i'm not saying the 9o sucks, i'm arguing that it could be much, much better. imagine if the row had, say 4-5 other bars, located near the 90. i can assure you that this would naturally force the 9o into a competition for us. the quality of our service will go up and the price of our drinks will go down in a competitive market. i believe that's common sense. who knows, maybe one day we'll be getting 5 cents for a beer if we unleash capitalism/competition on the 90. just a thought.
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other random example of capitalism/stupidity by govt: we complain about how expensive health insurance is. i agree it is (unnecessarily) too costly. there are over 1,000 health insurance companies in the united states. in california, guess how many choices you have when selecting a health insurance plan? the answer: 6. i kid you not. through anti-capitalist legislation, the federal govt. has set up insurance monopolies in each state where a few big wig corporations monopolize the entire industry. why have they done this? you tell me. on top of the irrational laws our govt. has enacted, i am also not allowed to purchase health insurance through another provider across state lines. that's right, i am forced to chose between 6 companies when there are literally a 1000 in the United States. if 600 companies were competing for our insurance plans rather than 6, prices would go down and quality would go up. supply and demand 101. can it make any more sense than that?
prager: why we here about "white" tea parties
"It confirms that the Left really does see the world through the prism of race, gender, and class, rather than through the moral prism of right and wrong."
http://article.nationalreview.com/432622/race-and-the-tea-parties/dennis-prager
http://article.nationalreview.com/432622/race-and-the-tea-parties/dennis-prager
misusing history
"Those who mine history for sins are not searching for truth but for opportunities to denigrate their own society."
'south park' and the informal fatwa
"For this apparent blasphemy, Mr. Amrikee warned that co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone "will probably end up" like Theo van Gogh. Van Gogh, readers will remember, was the Dutch filmmaker who was brutally murdered in 2004 on the streets of Amsterdam. He was killed for producing "Submission," a film that criticized the subordinate role of women in Islam, with me.
This raises the question: How much harm can an Islamist fringe group do in a free society? The answer is a lot."
medved: it's the party, not obama.
"Republicans would fare better if they criticized the unyielding extremism of the Democratic Party as a whole rather than focusing on the president as a singular example of fanaticism. Conservatives overstate their case and undermine their own momentum with shaky claims that the ideological perspective of the White House qualifies as "unprecedented," "Marxist," "shocking" or "radical." His critics could rightly identify the president and his henchmen as conventional, Big Government, borrow-and-spend liberals — a designation that most voters understand (and dislike). He has aroused determined GOP opposition not because he seeks to lead the nation in unexplored and perilous new directions, but because he seeks to restore the misguided welfare state priorities that characterized his party, and failed, for decades."
the stimulus mistake.
"Economic HISTORY tells us that government spending does not create private-sector jobs, though it does help boost public-sector employment, which does nothing to promote economic growth. A government cannot spend a country into prosperity or even out of a recession. Stimulus legislation merely redistributes wealth to the politically connected and the politically favored."
whose country is this?
"We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," said Gov. Jan Brewer. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created an unacceptable situation."
We have a crisis in Arizona because we have a FAILED state in Washington.
What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?
He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
He has denounced Arizona as "misguided." He has called on the Justice Department to ensure that Arizona's sheriffs and police do not violate anyone's civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of the people of Arizona who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers in their midst.
How's that for Andrew Jackson-style leadership?"
senator accuses president of picking judicial nominees who will 'promote his agenda'
""What I'm hearing from my constituents is a cry that Washington is losing all recognition that it is a government of limited, delegated powers, and that it is assuming roles that go far beyond anything the governed ever thought that they would be doing," Sessions said.
"You have the fundamental question: Is this what the framers [of the Constitution] had in mind when they created a limited government, and created a Commerce Clause?" he added."
noah's ark found in turkey.
"A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say they have found wooden remains on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey. They claim carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old — around the same time the ark was said to be afloat. Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team, said: "It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2949640/Noahs-Ark-found-in-Turkey.html
Monday, April 26, 2010
so true.
"What a difference an election can make!
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, we were told by leading liberal pundits and Democratic politicians from Jan. 20, 2001 to Jan. 19, 2009. According to these worthies, there were few more noble ways to express dissent than protest demonstrations, which were frequent during the Bush administration.
Their attitudes have changed since Jan. 20, 2009. Today, some criticism of the president is "borderline sedition," said Time columnist Joe Klein. It could lead to another Oklahoma City bombing, warned former President Bill Clinton.
Mr. Klein was upset because radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh had used the word "regime" to describe the Obama administration. But how many liberals called it seditious when critics referred to the Bush administration as the "Bush regime," which, according to Google, happened at least 6,500 times.
What really terrifies Democrats is not just the number or size of tea party rallies, but that they are occurring at all. For more than a century, the protest demonstration has been almost exclusively a left-wing thing. Conservatives just don't demonstrate. The tea party indicates a level of street activism on the right unprecedented in our history.
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Dec. 16 indicated the tea party was more popular than either Democrats or Republicans. Respondents approved of the tea party, 41 percent to 23 percent. More disapproved of both the Republican Party (28-43) and the Democratic Party (35-45) than approved of them.
So the tea party must be smeared, lest it gain even more adherents."
**must watch** :FCC Diversity "Czar" Mark Lloyd
this is America right? when the hell did "czars" start showing up in this country? oh yaa, when obama decided he could appoint 30+ of his friends to high-ranking government positions WITHOUT senate approval. Again, perspective is important. I wasn't a huge Bush fan, but remember when the "mainstream" media and tons of political pundits branded him the "imperial" president for his abuse of executive power? Can you imagine the outrage if ole W tried to pull some sh*t like this? People would scream dictator at the top of their lungs. The media has given obama the biggest pass I've ever seen, and this is why we have people like Chavez-loving Mark Lloyd as the head of the FCC. It actually blows my mind that someone like this can wield significant power in the United States in 2010. Trust me, Lloyd is just the tip of the iceberg with these "czars":
playing the race card.
When you oppose obamacare and the incredible expansion of government, you're branded a tea-bagging right-wing racist by the "mainstream" media. But when you personally appeal to people based PURELY off of their race, that's called being Barack Obama trying to win elections for his party in 2010, and is completely fine with the "mainstream" media . The hypocrisy and double standard is numbing. Just think about if George W. Bush made a statement like this and appealed to the "White, Christian" voters that carried him to victory in 2000 and 2004. Just watch the video:
Friday, April 23, 2010
the global 'warming' tax
the problem with socialism.
"The problem with socialism is socialism, because there are no socialists. Socialism is a system based upon an assumption about human nature that simply isn’t true. I can design a perfect canine community in which dogs never chase squirrels or groom their nether regions in an indelicate manner. But the moment I take that idea from the drawing board to the real world, I will discover that I cannot get dogs to behave against their nature — at least not without inflicting a terrible amount of punishment. Likewise, it’s easy to design a society that rewards each according to his need instead of his ability. The hard part is getting the crooked timber of humanity to yield to your vision."
public sector unions bankrupting America
unbelievable:
"California's public-employee retirement system stands in the most perilous condition, facing a half-trillion in unfunded liabilities. That's not surprising when you consider a California highway patrol officer can retire at age 50 and collect up to 90 percent of his salary for the rest of his life. According to the agency's website, a typical officer's pay will reach $109,147 after just five years on duty - an amount that can rise significantly with overtime benefits. That means a fit and healthy 50-year-old "retiree" who began work at age 20 would receive $98,232 a year from taxpayers for the rest of his life, and nothing prevents him from taking another government job to collect two paychecks. This form of double-dipping is rampant."
government blows.
"The latest poll from Pew is a shocker: almost 80 percent of Americans don’t trust the Federal government to do the right thing. The Federal government received its lowest ratings in decades, with Congress in particular standing at record lows in the public esteem. Record or near record numbers also express the view that they want a smaller government with fewer programs. The RCP maintains a rolling average of polls on a range of questions; according to these ‘polls of polls’, 71.2 percent of those asked disapprove of Congress and only 36.6 percent think the country is headed in the right direction."
obama the campaigner vs. obama the emperor
"Mr. Obama and his party believe that the election of November 2008 entitled them to make permanent, "transformational" changes to our society. In just 16 months they've added more than $2 trillion to the national debt, essentially nationalized the health-care system, the student-loan industry, and have their sights set on draconian cap-and-trade regulations on carbon emissions and amnesty for illegal aliens.
Had President Obama campaigned on this agenda, he wouldn't have garnered 30% of the popular vote."
Thursday, April 22, 2010
High times for American marijuana smokers as police allow thousands of '4/20' pot protesters to light up across the country
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1267696/National-weed-day-2010-US-4-20-pot-protesters-light-April-20th.html
Monday, April 12, 2010
visualizing obama's budget cut of $100
5th grade edition of how huge our budget is. this should offer a little (no pun intended) perspective.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Lieberman slams Obama administration over omission of "islamic terror" in security documents
"Sen. Joe Lieberman slammed the Obama administration Sunday for stripping terms like "Islamic extremism" from a key national security document, calling the move dishonest, wrong-headed and disrespectful to the majority of Muslims who are not terrorists.
"This is not honest and, frankly, I think it's hurtful in our relations with the Muslim world," Lieberman said. "We're not in a war against Islam. It's a group of Islamist extremists who have taken the Muslim religion and made it into a political ideology, and I think if we're not clear about that, we disrespect the overwhelming majority of Muslims who are not extremists."
ON THE MONEY.
NO $$$$
"The election-year jobs agenda promised by President Barack Obama and Democrats has stalled seven months before voters determine control of Congress.
Democrats have no money to pay for the program. That's because both Republicans and the Democratic chairman of the Senate Budget Committee objected to taking money left over from the fund that bailed out banks, automakers and insurers and using it for the jobs bill.
Such a move, they insisted, would add tens of billions of dollars to the $12.8 trillion national debt."
senators question future of US-Soviet nuclear pact
for a really good article on the unprecedented nuclear deal signed last week, scroll down to the article: "nuclear posturing, obama style."
gallup poll: obama hits new low
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
Polling Data
| Poll | Date | Sample | Approve | Disapprove | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 3/25 - 4/10 | -- | 46.1 | 47.3 | -1.2 |
| Gallup | 4/8 - 4/10 | 1547 A | 45 | 48 | -3 |
| Rasmussen Reports | 4/8 - 4/10 | 1500 LV | 47 | 53 | -6 |
| FOX News | 4/6 - 4/7 | 900 RV | 43 | 48 | -5 |
| CBS News | 3/29 - 4/1 | 858 A | 44 | 41 | +3 |
| USA Today/Gallup | 3/26 - 3/28 | 1033 A | 47 | 50 | -3 |
| Marist | 3/25 - 3/29 | 860 RV | 46 | 43 | +3 |
| CNN/Opinion Research | 3/25 - 3/28 | 935 RV | 51 | 48 | +3 |
***Food Stamp Usage Hits Record 39 Million, 14th Consecutive Monthly Increase***
So how's that stimulus bill working out? Trust me, I'm way over the parties but, just for the record, out of the 535 votes on the "stimulus bill", 532 of them were Democrats. Oh, and the new monstrosity of a healthcare bill? Not one republican vote. Obama's agenda has polarized Washington DC..and America. It's up to us to use a little common sense and realize that this astronomical spending and massive expansion of government/welfare is bankrupting this country. Hence, destroying it. We need a REVOLUTION.
Inquiring minds are looking at a SNAP Participation Table that shows a record 39,430,724 receive SNAP benefits, a 22.4% increase from a year ago.
Biggest State Increases
Arizona - 32.9%
Colorado - 32.9%
Florida - 38.6%
Idaho - 45.7%
Nevada - 46.9%
Rhode Island - 42.4%
South Dakota - 32.6%
Utah - 37.3%
Wisconsin - 38.9%
Wyoming - 40.0%
Saturday, April 10, 2010
gendercide: china's massacre of unborn girls means there will soon be 30 mill more men than women
"Thanks to a state policy which has limited many families to one child since 1979, combined with an ancient and ruthless prejudice in favour of sons, the world's new superpower is beginning the century of its supremacy with an alarming surplus of males.
By the year 2020, there will be 30 million more men than women of marriageable age in this giant empire, so large and so different (its current population is 1,336,410,000) that it often feels more like a separate planet than just another country. Nothing like this has ever happened to any civilisation before."
tax season
"By 2012, America could be holding the first federal election in which a majority of the population will be able to vote themselves more government lollipops paid for by the ever shrinking minority of the population still dumb enough to be net contributors to the federal treasury. In less than a quarter-millennium, the American Revolution will have evolved from “No taxation without representation” to representation without taxation. We have bigger government, bigger bureaucracy, bigger spending, bigger deficits, and bigger debt, and yet an ever smaller proportion of citizens paying for it.
U.S. tax policy not merely disincentivizes economic energy but actively wages war on it."
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