Thursday, May 07, 2009
It's Elemental, My Dear Watson
like taking a cup of stupid from Kos, a teaspoon of vicious from Rahm, a planetoid of self-regard from ∏eh W∅n, ...
I could go on all day.
"It’s as if this were the Gobi Desert or the Sahara Desert and you came along and you took a few pieces of sand off the desert… you are taking a little teeny spoonful of water out of the ocean while you are dumping a whole river into the ocean so the water levels go up and the debt levels go up and burden on our children goes up and the cost of the government and the debt of the government is and remains an unsustainable event for our nation and for future generations."
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Why Does Obama Hate Black Children?
mean
[In yet another flip-flop...] President Obama will seek to extend the controversial D.C. school voucher program until all 1,716 participants have graduated from high school, although no new students will be accepted
Maybe he wants to save them from growing up to be derivatives traders, hedge fund managers, or ...worse...
A new report from The Heritage Foundation… found that 44 percent of current United States senators and 36 percent of current members of the U.S. House of Representatives “had at one time sent their children to private schools."
“Among the general public,” the report says, “only 11 percent of American students attend private schools.” What’s more, the Heritage report found that one fifth of members of the 11th Congress attended private high schools themselves, which is nearly twice the rate of the public at large.
I'll have the burger
medium well...
...and hide the mustard.
Meanwhile, hold the bangers and spotted dick. [Formerly] Great Britain welcomes Binyam Mohamed [Jose Padilla’s mass-murder conspiracy pal] who turned right ‘round and sued GB, US and everyone else in sight, as per the alQ playbook.
But, of course, it would be wrong to allow Michael Savage into GB - even tho he doesn’t even want to sue them… Or didn’t ‘til now...
I guess we are pretty safe from another 9/11-style strike in the US. Even the iSlamopithecus barbarians can grasp that would only stir the hornet’s nest against them; and besides, why take the trouble when they can have lawyahs—our own lawyahs—bring US down?
*sigh* pass the gin.
[what? breakfast? aw hell—breakfast is now too late to start.]
Monday, May 04, 2009
ToDaZed Alinsky Lesson
Look! Over there!!
In a struggle for power, first seize the language. OR If you’re losing - change the name.
When you say ‘global warming,’ a certain group of Americans [code forstupid rednecksthe dumb masses] think that’s a code word for progressive liberals, gay marriage and other such issues.” ...fostering images of shaggy-haired liberals [eww! hippies], economic sacrifice [bark jerkey] and complex scientific disputes [eww! thinking]...
wait… so that hockey stick graph of Algore’s was really about gay marriage?
The answer, [ecoAmerica’s president and founder, Robert M. Perkowitz] said in his presentation at the briefing, is to reframe the issue using different language. “Energy efficiency” makes people think of shivering in the dark. Instead, it is more effective to speak of “saving money for a more prosperous future.” In fact, the group’s surveys and focus groups found, it is time to drop the term “the environment” and talk about “the air we breathe, the water our children drink.”
...talk about “our deteriorating atmosphere.” Drop discussions of carbon dioxide and bring up “moving away from the dirty fuels of the past.” Don’t confuse people with cap and trade; use terms like “cap and cash back” or “pollution reduction refund.”
...“Another key finding: remember to speak in TALKING POINTS aspirational language about shared American ideals, like freedom, prosperity, independence and self-sufficiency while avoiding jargon and details about policy, science, economics or technology,” said the e-mail account of the group’s study.
If ya can’t confuse ‘em with hockey sticks, dazzle ‘em with bullshiite.
EcoAmerica has been conducting research for the last several years to find new ways to frame environmental issues and so build public support for climate change legislation and other initiatives. A summary of the group’s latest findings and recommendations was accidentally sent by e-mail to a number of news organizations by someone who sat in this week on a briefing intended for government officials and environmental leaders.
Instead of Natural Rights, we’ll hear about Natural Heritage.
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.”
crap someone told ‘em Lincoln once mighta said
Way to Miss The Point
Answer: Finland
What is true luxury? ...In these hard times, we could learn a few things about luxury from the Finns.
...most Finns take a five-week summer vacation, and that many of them disappear for the entire time to tiny, bare-bones cottages in the woods… lack[ing] any creature comforts… nothing to do and no one to see. ...a form of luxury that had little to do with high-end products, the quest to acquire them, or the need to show them off.
erm, what’s stopping you from doing that in the USA? It’s an option available to all.
Americans in Finland shared similar sentiments. But they weren’t naive about the place, and there was a reason they weren’t buying the latest toys. “I’ll never become rich in Finland,” one explained, “the taxes are just too high.”
...Finnish cities are filled with universally well-maintained and high-quality schools, hospitals, buses, trains, and parks. While most Finns might never be able to own a well-appointed SUV or a big house, they value the less-tangible assets they do have, which add up to quality of life and peace of mind.
The “peace of mind” that comes from paying double the value to the gubbmint for “free” healthcare and schools? From taking a “nice bus” with a bunch of other people on someone else’s schedule to a public park filled with other people? yum.
The Finns I met described high rates of depression and alcoholism among their countrymen, and admitted that many Finns seem to suffer from low self-esteem.
Oh. That “peace of mind.” The one that comes from the futility of no chance at changing your circumstances and having to grub for any sense of accomplishment? The one that comes from your decisions made for you and having no chance to stand or fail on one’s own? Geeze—keep the Red Bull and pass the vodka.
Finland doesn’t pay lip service to providing a level playing field for all its citizens. It really does give the vast majority of its citizens a fair and equal chance in life, in a way that the US just doesn’t, no matter how much Americans like to think it does.
It doesn’t matter if the road is level if it’s the Road to Nowhere.
Old Joke: How do you say “nuclear containment vessel” in Russian?
Neo-Marxism
old fashioned BS
Wall Street is not going to play as dominant a role in the economy as regulations reduce “some of the massive leveraging and the massive risk-taking that had become so common,” President Barack Obama says.
Oh, well. If ∏eh King Ruler Dicktater W∅n says so, I guess that makes it so. [wait… just the POTUS?!? ...the hell?]
The changes in the role of Wall Street and the huge profits that came from that risk-taking could mean other adjustments as well, Obama said…
“That means that more talent, more resources will be going to other sectors of the economy,” he said. “I actually think that’s healthy. We don’t want every single college grad with mathematical aptitude to become a derivatives trader. We want some of them to go into engineering, and we want some of them to be going into computer design."
Srsly?!? What “other sectors” are there in an economy without capital? Lemonade stands need capitol. And all “college grads with mathematical aptitude” become derivatives traders? rly?!? I would think there would be a whole different set of personality characteristics that would make someone with madd math skilz wish to be an engineer vs a derivative trader. But apparently, all ya need is math skilz… who knew?
Obama said he expects that government efforts to fix the economy will cause long-term changes.
"What I think will change, what I think was an aberration, was a situation where corporate profits in the financial sector were such a heavy part of our overall profitability over the last decade,” ... “I think it’s important to understand that some of that wealth was illusory in the first place,"
Here’s yer Change: as ∏eh n∅∅b mucks about changing the best bankruptcy laws in the world, changing the order of repayment for secured and unsecured lenders and changing the reputation of holders of 401Ks, pension funds and man- in- the- street investors to favor unions and croneys, the practices of lending capital will be a’changing. Whyinhell would any sane person lend money to a corporation—even with real property as security—if the gubbmint can come along changing the rules in mid-stream and shut ya out in the cold?
The major changing goin’ on will be capital disappearing, loan moneys drying up and companies beggin’ for change. Companies who eally need an infusion of cash will be more likely to to find gubbmint their first and last resort—and gubbmint will be more than happy to take over certain ones, choosing the “winnahs,” and will leave others to fade away. We lose economic freedom and choice—and even wealth, as our opportunities for investment and for consumer choice fade.
What a grand change.
"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.”
Ayn Rand
Good basic explanation of the Chrysler “deal” at Boortz
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Celebutard of the Doh!
shinysparklygleem
In the current media environment it’s almost impossible to provide too much information about Mr. Obama, [White House press dork Robert Gibbs] says, adding, “Overexposure right now might be an outdated term."
...The human-interest stories are just one side of a White House media approach that keeps tight control over Mr. Obama’s message. Mr. Obama has been made available for interviews, but many have been limited in duration and with specifically targeted outlets such as an interview with CNN en Español prior to a trip to Mexico.
...the Obama press team’s strategy is working. In a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted April 23-26, 61% of Americans approve of the job Mr. Obama is doing as president.
Nice. Kinda like astroturfing the professionals. Cuz what the average American Idol Watcher is doing is approving of ∏eh G∅∅b’s image—not his actual policies. G’head: ask any random 12 people in the street what this administration’s economic policies actually are and how they compare with those of Reagan [a 25 year boom, worldwide] and FDR’s [a decade-long recession/depression, worldwide.] Ask ‘em what ∏eh W∅n’s economic ideology is. Ask ‘em what they’re doing to prepare to pay back all the debt they, personally, are in from ∏eh ∅ne’s Stimulus Package.
With a little over $3 billion of the whole going to the “shovel-ready” projects that actually make [temporary] jobs and the rest going to “shovel worthy” Cap&Trade, land grab, liberty destroying, ACORNish ideological projects, what does the random Man in the Street plan to do with his new-found indebted poverty? Ask him.
“But what about the hog fever??!??!?!?!?”
Goals
and “unintended” consequences?
I’m an economics moron [though I’m studyin’ hard] and *I* can see this coming. Why the hose job?
...every senator and representative who votes for this monster $3.6 trillion budget will be endorsing a spending spree that could very well turn America into the next Weimar Republic.
...a version of such economic hell will likely happen here, according to two prominent economists. Johns Hopkins University professor Steve Hanke notes that the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet “has more than doubled in size since August. Unless the Fed shrinks its balance sheet,” he warns, “... inflation will roar back with a vengeance.”
So what does one do for self-protection in the face of this oncoming storm?
Saturday, May 02, 2009
rly?!?
srsly...
OR *clicky*clicky*
Grifter in Chief
bunco, gyp, scam, rook, swindle, diddle, bamboozle, fleece, betray
Statement From Non-Tarp Lenders To Chrysler, April 30, 2009
As of last night’s deadline, we were part of a group of approximately 20 relatively small organizations; we represent many of the country’s teachers unions, major pension and retirement plans and school endowments who have invested through us in senior secured loans to Chrysler.
...although we have been systematically precluded from engaging in direct discussions or negotiations with the government; instead, we have been forced to communicate through an obviously conflicted intermediary: a group of banks that have received billions of TARP funds.
...
Our offer has been flatly rejected or ignored. The fact is, in this process and in its earnest effort to ensure the survival of Chrysler and the well being of the company’s employees, the government has risked overturning the rule of law and practices that have governed our world-leading bankruptcy code for decades.
We have a fiduciary responsibility to all those teachers, pensioners, retirees and others who have entrusted their money to us. We are legally bound to protect their interests. Much as we empathize with Chrysler’s other stakeholders, the capital is just not ours to contribute to their cause by accepting a deal that is outside the well established legal framework and cannot be rationalized as being commercially reasonable.
[RTWT]
IOW
money vs wealth
Money is easy to create. ...Wealth is a far more elusive, and important, part of the economy than money. Wealth is what people do with their money… and even more to the point, it’s what people could do with their money.
Oh… Idunno… Apologies
[busy, disrupted week]
Friday, May 01, 2009
ToDaZeD WOW of the WEEK
*doffs hat*
This letter is respectfully submitted to inform you that I must decline the invitation to participate in the May 4 roundtable meeting the President’s Task Force on Detention Policy is convening with current and former prosecutors involved in international terrorism cases. ...
[...some really pointed bits...]
Moreover, in light of public statements by both you and the President, it is dismayingly clear that, under your leadership, the Justice Department takes the position that a lawyer who in good faith offers legal advice to government policy makers—like the government lawyers who offered good faith advice on interrogation policy—may be subject to investigation and prosecution for the content of that advice, in addition to empty but professionally damaging accusations of ethical misconduct. Given that stance, any prudent lawyer would have to hesitate before offering advice to the government.
[...some more really really pointed bits...]
I am, in addition, powerless to stop the President, as he takes these reckless steps, from touting his Detention Policy Task Force as a demonstration of his national security seriousness. But I can decline to participate in the charade.
[...some quite pointed bits...]
Very truly yours,
/S/
Andrew C. McCarthy *
Go. Read. Enjoy.
We Don' Need No Steenkin' "Voice of The People"
back-door shafting
∏eh W∅n don’ need no steenkin’ Congress [vis: banks, automakers] ∏eh W∅n don’ need NO one—‘cept maybe the UN.
Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials (1997) [text]
I, for one, do not welcome our International Overlords.
On April 16, 2009, President Obama emerged from a meeting with Mexico’s President Calderón to announce his support for the “Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing and Trafficking in Firearms” treaty (CIFTA) ...he promised to push the treaty through the Senate quickly as a means of curtailing the border violence and arms trafficking in Mexico’s current drug wars
I recommend this excellent analysis. It’ll scare the 125gr. outta ya.
-NONE of the proposed gun controls are likely to pass by themselves through Congress. If the treaty is enacted they don’t have to — they become law when the treaty is ratified.
These statist blackguards mean it.
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