Thursday, May 31, 2012
The MEC way
Right after his Polish gaffe, the MEC tries to assert his pro-Judaism bona fides - by citing his radical-left, anti-Israel Chicago "Jewish" associates - as proof that he hangs with Hymie.
This is where we are
PRENDA is defeated in the House - by Life-Haters.
It is so late in the day, one can barely convince oneself of a sliver of daylight out there on the horizon.
It is so late in the day, one can barely convince oneself of a sliver of daylight out there on the horizon.
The muddied distinction in the top-of-the-ticket race
Thought-provoking piece by David Harsanyi at Human Events on the set of conditions a juncture like our current one - a radical socialist incumbent president facing yet another mushy-middle Reasonable Gentleman challenger - presents to each of the candidates. For the MEC, the challenge is to find a reason to go after Romney's record as Massachussetts governor. If Mitt talked a good game about limiting government and pursuing low-tax, wealth-creating policies and then governed otherwise, well, doesn't that make the case that he wound up doing things that likely MEC voters would endorse? Conversely, we know the dilemma that an examination of record poses for Romney: It exposes him as a man without a real conservative core.
Yes, it's nice that we have Congressional and state races - beginning next week with Wisconsin's hugely important recall election - that draw the much-needed sharp distinction between conservatism and freedom-hatred, but the presidential contest is so fraught with symbolism - to say nothing about actual impact on this nation's direction - that it's disheartening in the extreme to see that, once again, it is reduced to a back-and-forth of blunted messages and attacks based on distractions.
Yes, it's nice that we have Congressional and state races - beginning next week with Wisconsin's hugely important recall election - that draw the much-needed sharp distinction between conservatism and freedom-hatred, but the presidential contest is so fraught with symbolism - to say nothing about actual impact on this nation's direction - that it's disheartening in the extreme to see that, once again, it is reduced to a back-and-forth of blunted messages and attacks based on distractions.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Another one realizes he's not a FHer
Former Dem Alabama Congressman Artur Davis switches to the Pub side and explains why at his blog.
It's on purpose - today's edition
Pending home sales slide to four-month low in April.
The regime cackles with glee as the American people are brought to their knees.
The regime cackles with glee as the American people are brought to their knees.
Any doubt now?
The MEC awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Democratic Socialists of America honorary chairwoman Dolores Huerta. Says that he got his 08 slogan "Yes we can" from her.
He must go. This afternoon would be nice.
He must go. This afternoon would be nice.
This is what such entropy leads to
Apropos the previous post, Zimbabwe is training a UN-sponsored "peacekeeping mission" to send to Syria. Seriously.
And the current situation with Syria - which means the current situation with Iran - means that the MEC must basically ask pretty-please for Russia's cooperation, an iffy thing given Russia's decidedly different set of interests.
And the current situation with Syria - which means the current situation with Iran - means that the MEC must basically ask pretty-please for Russia's cooperation, an iffy thing given Russia's decidedly different set of interests.
The entropy unleashed by the decline of America
It's time to weigh in on Syria. The recent massacre - including stabbings and execution-style shootings - of 108 preople ought to confirm the nature of the Assad regime if nothing else about the last eighteen months - indeed, the last forty years- has.
The West's response - expelling Syrian diplomats - speaks volumes about its waning influence on the world stage. While it's true that the Syrian opposition is barely organized and contains some elements that would be no better than Assad, living with the current horror is no sort of policy for a collection of nations that until recently was considered the leader on the world stage.
The key to this situation, as with so much in the middle east and southern Asia, is to be found in Teheran. The mullahs prop up Syria's Baathists and both regimes use proxy groups, particularly Hezbollah, to extend their mischief into places like Lebanon and Israel.
And what is our Iran policy? More patty-cake, even as the theocracy's rhetoric remains as belligerent as ever, and as the centrifuges keep spinning.
Assad sees an economically crippled continent when it looks at Europe and it sees a United States presided over by a regime whose policy is planned decline and abnegation of its role as world leader. There is no reason for it to stop the atrocities.
FHers routinely accuse proponents of American exceptionalism of endorsing arrogant swagger and hegemony - if not outright imperialism - but we are seeing the beginning stages of what a world looks like that doesn't have the guidance of the most wise and righteous nation in human history, which we were unitl the last few years.
The West's response - expelling Syrian diplomats - speaks volumes about its waning influence on the world stage. While it's true that the Syrian opposition is barely organized and contains some elements that would be no better than Assad, living with the current horror is no sort of policy for a collection of nations that until recently was considered the leader on the world stage.
The key to this situation, as with so much in the middle east and southern Asia, is to be found in Teheran. The mullahs prop up Syria's Baathists and both regimes use proxy groups, particularly Hezbollah, to extend their mischief into places like Lebanon and Israel.
And what is our Iran policy? More patty-cake, even as the theocracy's rhetoric remains as belligerent as ever, and as the centrifuges keep spinning.
Assad sees an economically crippled continent when it looks at Europe and it sees a United States presided over by a regime whose policy is planned decline and abnegation of its role as world leader. There is no reason for it to stop the atrocities.
FHers routinely accuse proponents of American exceptionalism of endorsing arrogant swagger and hegemony - if not outright imperialism - but we are seeing the beginning stages of what a world looks like that doesn't have the guidance of the most wise and righteous nation in human history, which we were unitl the last few years.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
That's one sick banking system
Spain's, that is. Five big banks downgraded and the biggest bailout in that country's banking history.
The media in the last couple of days has been full of stories with a common theme: worldwide economic conditions are not getting any better. Downturns from China to India to Europe.
Then, of course, there's the People's Republic of Obamica, where insane policy is the rule.
Any pockets of activity bucking this trend have a common trait as well: People are allowed to keep their own money, and governments place the highest priority on being solvent.
The media in the last couple of days has been full of stories with a common theme: worldwide economic conditions are not getting any better. Downturns from China to India to Europe.
Then, of course, there's the People's Republic of Obamica, where insane policy is the rule.
Any pockets of activity bucking this trend have a common trait as well: People are allowed to keep their own money, and governments place the highest priority on being solvent.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Whoops! I guess we're missing a few government officials, aren't we?
As Kim Jong-un was coming to power in North Korea, 30 regime officials disappeared in "accidents."
Inconsistency on steroids
This one has to do with the classic FHer habit of giving scumbags a pass.
I remember the whole Brett Kimberlin saga from reading about it everyday in the Indianapolis Star back in the 70s. Before he was caught and convicted, he was known as the Speedway Bomber. Now, after 17 years in the hoosegow, he's making a profession out of harrassing conservative bloggers. He and his current associates get support from the likes of the Tides Foundation and Barbra Streisand.
I'm joining Bookworm's cyber-event Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day just to help provide greater accuracy to the numbers of freedom-cherishing keyboard bangers who won't be intimidated into silence by anybody.
I remember the whole Brett Kimberlin saga from reading about it everyday in the Indianapolis Star back in the 70s. Before he was caught and convicted, he was known as the Speedway Bomber. Now, after 17 years in the hoosegow, he's making a profession out of harrassing conservative bloggers. He and his current associates get support from the likes of the Tides Foundation and Barbra Streisand.
I'm joining Bookworm's cyber-event Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day just to help provide greater accuracy to the numbers of freedom-cherishing keyboard bangers who won't be intimidated into silence by anybody.
Here's another one of those junctures at which the FHer worldview's inconsistencies of necessity manifest themselves
Milwaukee mayor and FHer Wisconsin governor candidate Tom Barrett gets into that hooey about Pubs having some kind of "war on women" going on, and is followed by a rapper whose lyrics are full of references to "bitches."
Culture precedes politics - today's edition
Since January 2011, there have been those who let their understanding of what was actually taking place in post-Mubarak Egypt get clouded with the unfounded hope that it was a heralding-in of Jeffersonian democracy. Well, the pro-sharia Muslim Brotherhood candidate is in first place in that country's presidential election.
The cozy relationship among behemoths
Good Jonah Goldberg column about the chasm between what the entertainment industry thinks big corporations are driven by - and what it wants you and especially your kids to think it's driven by - and what they are really driven by. For one thing, that industry should look at itself. It's comprised of big corporations, and they're staffed almost entirely by wacko FHers. But the influence on the kiddies explains a lot about the changing nature of corporations in general. They are indoctrinated this way, but the sharpest among them also see upperclassmen meeting with recruiters when they get to college, and then hear about those people getting very nice jobs. This creates a bit of cognitive dissonance, but it's easily enough resolved by going after such jobs with a bit of the attitude of a crusader in one's heart. "I'm going to bring social justice to the corporate world!" Pretty soon, as generational shift reaches critical mass, the character of a corporation changes. Diversity councils. Green practices. Exhortations to join "give-back-to-the-community" volunteer groups. (I've been told by the economic development guru in my own city that young hotshots place community service high on their list - along with bike trails and good restaurants - of qualities they insist on in a city they consider.) This, of course, leads to the corporate-governmental alliance of which Goldberg speaks, and obsequious executives posing for photo ops with hard-left politicians who don't give a damn about profit or market forces.
And pretty soon these sprawling leviathans are not so distinguishable from the supposedly constitutionally limited entity that makes our laws, hands down edicts by administrative fiat, and can forcibly take our money.
And pretty soon these sprawling leviathans are not so distinguishable from the supposedly constitutionally limited entity that makes our laws, hands down edicts by administrative fiat, and can forcibly take our money.
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