"Activist and radio/tv host (yeah, I'm confused too) Al Sharpton invokes Hitler and joins a guest in suggesting that Republicans want to "wipe out" innocent people.
This kind of insanity takes place on Sharpton's programs on a regilar basis. Sharpton is not that bright but he knows better. He is crafty and streetwise.
Sharpton knows how to stoke the flames of victimhood better than most anyone. He plays off of people's ignorance. He gets paid/ the people get screwed...hence the pimp label.
I wonder if CNN will do hours on Sharpton/Obama the way they did on Trump/Romney. Nevermind. Stupid statements only cause controversy on one side of the political spectrum.
5.29.2012
"Zombie" Patient Zero identified
Patient Zero in the Zombie Apocalypse has been identified as Rudy Eugene. Eugene was found chewing the face of another man and then was fatally shot by cops on a Florida highway.
This really is a sad tragic story. Something is wrong.
This really is a sad tragic story. Something is wrong.
"The more science you know, the less worried you are about climate"
"The more science you know, the less worried you are about climate." The Register cites a study showing "that as one moves up the scale of science knowledge and numeracy, people become more sceptical [about global warming], not less."
Oops. This study creates a bit of a problem for the leftist assertion that only idiots are skeptical of anthropogenic global warming and our impending doom.
Oops. This study creates a bit of a problem for the leftist assertion that only idiots are skeptical of anthropogenic global warming and our impending doom.
Random Thought - Doing Good
A man who wishes to do good deeds can do so without forcing his neighbors to join him.
5.28.2012
Fallen Soldiers Not Heroes to MSNBC Panel
Soldiers who die in war are not heroes to panelists on MSNBC.
Here's my take.
These people have no idea what it takes to serve or go to war so they should hush.
Anyone who volunteers for service, goes willingly and dutifully to war, on orders from people we elected, the gets killed behaving honorably is a hero to me.
My heart goes to families that are remembering a loved one lost in battle. Update: Host Chris Hayes has since apologized for his remarks.
Here's my take.
These people have no idea what it takes to serve or go to war so they should hush.
Anyone who volunteers for service, goes willingly and dutifully to war, on orders from people we elected, the gets killed behaving honorably is a hero to me.
My heart goes to families that are remembering a loved one lost in battle. Update: Host Chris Hayes has since apologized for his remarks.
5.27.2012
Big government, weak economy
Daniel Mitchell writes about a UK study that shows "how more spending and more taxes are associated with weaker performance." No amount of evidence will convince people like the president that more government is not the answer to our nation's problems.
5.26.2012
when love is reAl - random thought
When love is real you don't have to compete for attention, beg for affection or constantly seek approval.
"Getting rid of" Planned Parenthood
Here is another Barack Obama distortion designed to manipulate people who don't think critically or those who don't pay attention.
“We don’t need another political fight about ending a woman’s right to choose, or getting rid of Planned Parenthood or taking away affordable birth control."
Who is trying to "get rid of" Planned Parenthood? No one. This lie line is based on a statement made by Mitt Romney as he described places he would cut federal spending. Ending federal funding for an organization that has the freedom and ability to raise its own money is just good sense.
Secondly, unless I missed it, no one is calling on Trojan to raiee the price of condoms. The last time I checked condoms were cheap and even "free" at the most local health departments. The same is true of birth control pills. Heck, they're even giving condoms away at high school graduations.
The under"lying" point of this entire bit of nonsense from the president is that the federal government must do something if that something is to be done at all. This is the primary fallacy pushed my most statists/leftists/Democrats. Rational people know better.
“We don’t need another political fight about ending a woman’s right to choose, or getting rid of Planned Parenthood or taking away affordable birth control."
Who is trying to "get rid of" Planned Parenthood? No one. This lie line is based on a statement made by Mitt Romney as he described places he would cut federal spending. Ending federal funding for an organization that has the freedom and ability to raise its own money is just good sense.
Secondly, unless I missed it, no one is calling on Trojan to raiee the price of condoms. The last time I checked condoms were cheap and even "free" at the most local health departments. The same is true of birth control pills. Heck, they're even giving condoms away at high school graduations.
The under"lying" point of this entire bit of nonsense from the president is that the federal government must do something if that something is to be done at all. This is the primary fallacy pushed my most statists/leftists/Democrats. Rational people know better.
5.25.2012
Winans had arrest warrant and suspended license
Carjack victim Pastor Winans had suspended license and warrant for his arrest. Winans has had 11 traffic violations since 2009 and for license suspensions. Problem?
Obama and the value of experience
This line from Barack Obama has to be the most laughable yet. In referring to Mitt Romney's career as an entrepreneur of a company that generated hundreds of millions of dollars and employment for tens of thousands of people, the condescender-in-chief offered this gem:
“There may be value for that kind of experience, but it’s not in the White House.”One would think Mr. Obama was speaking of himself, considering the fact that he had no practical, relevant experience prior to his being elected. Any rational, intelligent person could tell you that a career as a community organizer and a short stint as an editor of a publication for which he never wrote hardly qualified Obama to be president. The problem is that most of the people who voted Obama did so primarily based on emotion. Once again Mr. Obama's ego has blinded him.
5.24.2012
Romney Reality
Make no mistake about it, should Mitt Romney win the White House, he will not be all that conservatives want in a president. Still, if the dam is about to break, trying to plug the biggest leak is not a bad idea.
Destroying what you love?
I find it odd how people sometimes try to destroy those they claim to have loved at one time. I see it in so many relationships, particularly nasty divorces. Was there ever "real" love in those situations?
I love my family. If we had a disagreement, I would still never wish them harm. If they really needed me, something in me would cause me to respond, something beyond genetics. That thing is love.
I like to think that when you really love someone, you never want to see that person hurt. Even if you are hurt by them and lash out in anger, their well-being still matters to you. When people show a complete lack of compassion or decency, you wonder if they ever really loved or whether the relationship was merely convenient way for them to get what they wanted.
I love my family. If we had a disagreement, I would still never wish them harm. If they really needed me, something in me would cause me to respond, something beyond genetics. That thing is love.
I like to think that when you really love someone, you never want to see that person hurt. Even if you are hurt by them and lash out in anger, their well-being still matters to you. When people show a complete lack of compassion or decency, you wonder if they ever really loved or whether the relationship was merely convenient way for them to get what they wanted.
Alan Simpson's Letter to Retirement Group is Rough, but Spot On
Sen. Alan Simpson wrote a brutally honest letter to the California Alliance for Retired Americans. Politico has the entire letter. Here's one of my favorite lines:
"What a wretched group of seniors you must be to use the faces of the very people that we are trying to save, while the “greedy geezers” like you use them as a tool and a front for your nefarious bunch of crap."Leftists like those who run this group have used lies to frighten irrational old people into helping kill any kind of reform to Social Security. All they have done is help bankrupt the nation and rob future generations.
Others like AARP have also done their part. They have proven that they don't really give a rip about the future. They're mostly just political hacks for the Democrats. When it's time for me to join a retirement organization, I will remember all they did to stop me from having a retirement with the maximum amount of my own money.
In Defense of John Edwards? - Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn surprises and offers a defense of former Dem. VP Candidate John Edwards in "A Ravening Justice." Steyn says Edwards is facing 30 years in prison breaking a "'law' that neither he nor anyone else knew existed. Which it didn't, until he (Edwards) came along."
Is Federal Spending Down Under Obama?
If you've heard that federal spending is down under Pres. Obama, read Ann Coulter's Figures Don't Lie: Democrats Do.
Warning: put down the coffee or tea first.
UPDATE: Since Coulter's piece hit the virtual street, the leftists have gone on the attack. Joan Walsh over at Salon did the honors this time with "Ann Coulter’s phony budget math."
Anyway, I have not intention of or need to defend Ann Coulter. She can do quite well on her own. What I do want to do is to go back to the original argument. To use Walsh's "recap:" "Nutting crunched Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Budget Office numbers to find that under Obama, spending has risen at an annualized rate of 1.4 percent, less than any president since Dwight Eisenhower. It jumped 8.1 percent in the last three years of the George W. Bush presidency, and in fiscal year 2009, for which Bush approved the budget, it jumped 17.9 percent. But Bush isn’t the most profligate Republican: Ronald Reagan increased spending an average of 8.7 percent in his first term."
So, the "rate of increase" from George W. Bush to Barack Obama was a mere 1.8%. That is a foolish argument since even Democrats railed that George W. Bush was spending too much money. Also, to base future spending on spending that included an emergency fund to stabilize the banking industry is insanity. There was never an intention to keep spending anywhere near what was spent in 2009. God help us if we did.
Oh, and if Obama was not responsible for any of the bank bailouts, why does he (directly or through surrogates) continually lie and say that he "saved" the banking industry?
The foolishness of the whole discussion is the underlying suggestion by leftists and Democrats that everything is fine with spending $3 trillion a year (even while bringing in only $2 trillion). The leftists and Democrats also seem to be oblivious to the dangers of $16 trillion in national debt, a figure that grows about a million dollars every two minutes.
Even when leftists and Democrats acknowledge the massive debt, they pretend that by merely "taxing the rich" we can make it all go away. Anyone. Anyone who suggests such a thing is either ignorant of simple facts or a far bigger liar than Ann Coulter could ever hope to be.
Warning: put down the coffee or tea first.
UPDATE: Since Coulter's piece hit the virtual street, the leftists have gone on the attack. Joan Walsh over at Salon did the honors this time with "Ann Coulter’s phony budget math."
Anyway, I have not intention of or need to defend Ann Coulter. She can do quite well on her own. What I do want to do is to go back to the original argument. To use Walsh's "recap:" "Nutting crunched Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Budget Office numbers to find that under Obama, spending has risen at an annualized rate of 1.4 percent, less than any president since Dwight Eisenhower. It jumped 8.1 percent in the last three years of the George W. Bush presidency, and in fiscal year 2009, for which Bush approved the budget, it jumped 17.9 percent. But Bush isn’t the most profligate Republican: Ronald Reagan increased spending an average of 8.7 percent in his first term."
So, the "rate of increase" from George W. Bush to Barack Obama was a mere 1.8%. That is a foolish argument since even Democrats railed that George W. Bush was spending too much money. Also, to base future spending on spending that included an emergency fund to stabilize the banking industry is insanity. There was never an intention to keep spending anywhere near what was spent in 2009. God help us if we did.
Oh, and if Obama was not responsible for any of the bank bailouts, why does he (directly or through surrogates) continually lie and say that he "saved" the banking industry?
The foolishness of the whole discussion is the underlying suggestion by leftists and Democrats that everything is fine with spending $3 trillion a year (even while bringing in only $2 trillion). The leftists and Democrats also seem to be oblivious to the dangers of $16 trillion in national debt, a figure that grows about a million dollars every two minutes.
Even when leftists and Democrats acknowledge the massive debt, they pretend that by merely "taxing the rich" we can make it all go away. Anyone. Anyone who suggests such a thing is either ignorant of simple facts or a far bigger liar than Ann Coulter could ever hope to be.
Straw Man, the Leftist's Best Friend
When having a debate with a leftist or Democrat, be careful with any flame. No leftist and few Democrats can have a debate without bringing along a cadre of straw men.
5.23.2012
HP ”destroying” 27,000 jobs
Tech giant HP plans to cut 27,000 jobs by 2014. Obama and Democrats will say that anyone involved in building HP is responsible for destroying thousands of jobs, and HP's founders better never say they created any jobs.
See how Obama's reelection campaign is based on envy, illogic and ignorance?
See how Obama's reelection campaign is based on envy, illogic and ignorance?
Random Thought - running away
Even if you run away from it all, YOU will be there when you get to your destination.
Should black people tolerate this? Walter Williams
Just one point here. Each year "roughly 7,000 blacks are murdered."
That's more people killed in one year than US military personnel killed after 11 years of war in Iraq (4,409) AND Afghanistan (1,851)! That's from combat and noncombat incidents.
Stop.
Think about that.
For all of the protests around the wars. For all of the protests around the death of Trayvon Martin. More people, from one minority population (13%), are murdered in the one year than in 11 years of war.
And before anyone says it's all "the man's" fault or it's poverty and discrimination, I offer Dr. Thomas Sowell's line: "Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty, discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse."
Awareness and admission are the first steps to fighting the disease.
Awareness and admission are the first steps to fighting the disease.
American Community Survey - More Leftist Confusion
Leftists oppose laws requiring voter IDs but they support the government requiring citizens to provide 20 pages of private information to the government through the American Community Survey.
I know. I know. I should not expect logic or consistency when dealing with leftists. Their basic philosophy requires a significant level of intellectual dissonance.
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