Sunday, March 10, 2013
Jimmy Kimmel Asks People About Obama Pardoning The Sequester -- Sending It to Portugal
How many of these people voted for Obama? Aside from the first one and the last one, that is.
The brain power of Obama supporters
"Even though the comments are funny as all get-out, they do show how political correctness and blind partisanship can lead to wacky thinking. SHARE this with your friends and low-info voters!"
Hat tip to Danny Shouse at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook
Companion articles; Obama Fails Counterterrorism Diplomacy
In the titled article, Mr. Rubin begins by referring to this Max Boot column: Bin Laden’s Son-in-Law and U.S. Detention Policy
"That is a nonsensical state of affairs that could be fixed by the Obama administration availing itself of the facilities and procedures that already exist at Gitmo. This is not just a question of logistics–detainees held at Gitmo can be interrogated without being read their Miranda rights and can be held even if there is not proof beyond reasonable doubt of their guilt that can be presented in open court. These are important advantages in the war on terror that the Obama administration should not throw away."
But they are.
Michael Rubin "Strong leaders might curtail aid, withdraw the ambassador for consultations, demarche the Turkish ambassador in Washington, or restrict the flow of military equipment. President Obama, alas, seeks instead to offer Turkey state of the art weaponry and even give it warships. Perhaps it is time for the State Department to recognize that diplomacy is more complicated than ameliorating adversaries, and for Congress to ask some hard questions of Obama and Kerry regarding how they perceive U.S. interests and why, under their leadership, U.S. counter terrorism diplomacy has become laughable."
According to the ACLU, Terrorists Are Criminals and Should be Tried in Civilian Court
"That is a nonsensical state of affairs that could be fixed by the Obama administration availing itself of the facilities and procedures that already exist at Gitmo. This is not just a question of logistics–detainees held at Gitmo can be interrogated without being read their Miranda rights and can be held even if there is not proof beyond reasonable doubt of their guilt that can be presented in open court. These are important advantages in the war on terror that the Obama administration should not throw away."
But they are.
According to the ACLU, Terrorists Are Criminals and Should be Tried in Civilian Court
Jim Rogers: We're Wiping Out The Savings Class Globally, To Terrible Consequence
Anybody out there remember "Mr. Bow Tie" from the Bob Brinker Moneytalk program? This is referring to him.
Basically, he says this is what you get with a do-nothing House and Senate led by a President who just votes "present".
Zerohedge via Peak Prosperity
"Jim Rogers decries the growing uncertainty and recklessness of global central planners as the world enters unchartered financial markets:"
..."To Rogers, the bigger danger that concerns him is the hollowing out of the 'saving class' resulting from this situation. Central planners' policies are punishing the prudent in favor of rescuing the irresponsible. This has happened before in world history, and the aftermath has always had grievous economic, social -- and often human -- costs:"
Basically, he says this is what you get with a do-nothing House and Senate led by a President who just votes "present".
"Jim Rogers decries the growing uncertainty and recklessness of global central planners as the world enters unchartered financial markets:"
....I own the dollar, not because I have any confidence in the dollar and not because it’s sound – it’s a terribly flawed currency – but I expect more currency turmoil, more financial turmoil. During periods like that, people, for whatever reason, flee to the U.S. dollar as a safe haven. It is not a safe haven, but it is perceived that way by some people. That’s why the dollar is going up. That’s why I own it. Will I own it in five years, ten years? I don't know.
..."To Rogers, the bigger danger that concerns him is the hollowing out of the 'saving class' resulting from this situation. Central planners' policies are punishing the prudent in favor of rescuing the irresponsible. This has happened before in world history, and the aftermath has always had grievous economic, social -- and often human -- costs:"
....In America, many people saved their money, put it aside, and didn’t buy four or five houses with no job and no money down. They did what most people would consider the right thing, and what historically has been the right thing. But now, unfortunately, those people are being wiped out, because they are getting 0% return, or virtually no return, on their savings and their investments. We’re wiping them out at the expense of people who went deeply into debt, people who did what most people would consider the wrong thing at the expense of people who did the right thing. This, long-term, has terrible consequences for any nation, any society, any economy.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
GovernmentGoneWild (among others) On Special Interests
GovernmentGoneWild.org says that government is the biggest special interest of all.
Hat tip to John Uhrig, Plano, TX
"No one was doing the math at the meeting, but Westmoreland said he felt that that was not an accurate statement.
"It wasn't exactly accurate. Instead, it appears that it would take 392 years to pay off the $14.325 trillion national debt at $100 million a day. Paying $100 million a day equals $36.5 billion a year -- which, of course, is no where near what the federal government spends in a year."Of course, the future deficit numbers only apply if the government stays on the same course."
Liberal Decay "This transformation of liberalism from an earnest though deeply misguided crusade into a corrupt politics of influence peddling has been going on for at least a half century, but my writer has failed to notice."
More on the special interests GGW is addressing "Thus, the radical environmentalists have seized the EPA and related agencies, where they get to block economic activity and energy extraction for the greater glory of Gaia. The unions have taken over labor and the NLRB. The tax code is so riddled with special favors that fully half of the tax that would be collected under neutral principles is forgiven. The Treasury and the Fed are the pillars of the financial establishment."
...."There is no resemblance between this current government and any coherent idea of a welfare state. The only "welfare" involved is that of the myriad groups, not of the collective public."
Politicizing Justice "Attorney General Eric Holder’s agenda begins and ends with delivering favors to Obama’s constituencies."
U.S. Navy SEALs express extreme lack of confidence in this president
Posted by Ronbo at the Freedom Fighter's Journal
This comes too late to help in the 2012 election, but keep this in mind for the 2014 elections.
This comes too late to help in the 2012 election, but keep this in mind for the 2014 elections.
Breitbart Rule 1: Bring the fight to your enemy
"(from "Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World" by Andrew Breitbart: Chapter 7, "Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Revolutionaries" - pp 147-160)"
"The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing. Groupthink happens, and we have to take it head-on. We can't win the political war until we win the cultural war. The Frankfurt School knew that - that's why they won the cultural war and then, on it's back, the political war. We can do the same, but we have to be willing to enter the arena. By neglecting The View or, worse, by ignoring Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Maher, and David Letterman - we allow them to distort and demean us as they romanticize and elevate themselves. It's harder to attack people to their faces than behind their backs. and we have to confront them face-to-face. Young people suckle at the teat of pop culture - but by refusing to fight for their attention, we lose by default."
Video: Andrew Breitbart doing what he does best in exposing Occupy Wall Street for the
troublemakers they are.
"The key to the conversation was that I didn't start defending myself against his baseless charge of racism. I dismissed it out of hand as ridiculous because it was ridiculous. He was a punk for leveling that kind of charge without any basis whatsoever. I don't let my enemies characterize me without any evidence, and you shouldn't let them characterize you. Name-calling is their best strategy, and if you don't lend it credence, and instead force them to back up their charges with specifics, you win. Revel in the name calling - it means you've got them reduced to their lowest, basest tactic, and the one that carries the least weight if you refuse to abide by their definition of you."
....
"Most of us aren't experts on the latest budget package or stem-cell line regulation, but that doesn't mean we're powerless - it means we get to play Socrates, asking pointed questions rather than citing facts we may not be sure of."
“If you’re not for this candidate, more than shame on you; you’re on the other
side” In fact, take a listen to his words for yourself:
...."Don't let them pretend to know more than they do: This is really the converse of the last rule. Your opponents will pretend to be experts if you don't, but that's okay, because you can always puncture their balloon with one word: why. Asking them to provide evidence for their assertions is always fun, and it's even more fun asking them to provide the sources for that evidence. Attacking the fundamental basis of their arguments if fun, too - if they tell you health care is a right, ask why. Liberals don't have a why, other than their own utopianism and their dyspeptic view of the status quo and America. Reason is not their strong suit - emotion is." Read more.
Hat tip to Rick Bulow for this most excellent counsel and for the links in this post. Below are links to all Andrew Breitbart's blogs:
Dialogue between TD and two who took issue with a recent post
The TW posted this article in Facebook on Wednesday, March 6th:
"This little incident, which in itself ranks up there on the sanity scale with Maxine Waters' warning of 170,000,000 Americans losing their jobs due to the sequester, is nevertheless a timely reminder of just how power-mad progressives really are, and how thoroughly their power-madness obliterates any notions of conscience or decency."
The following is a dialogue TD had with two people who made Facebook comments on this post:
J----; Or is it that culture in America is influencing politics? Creative minds tend to be liberal. Creative minds are required in the media. The media reflects the ideology of those that create it.
G-----; I like how every right-wing news source that I listen to mentions the MSM being liberal every 30 minutes or so. It's a brainwashing program that's working wonders on people. You literally cannot watch Fox News for 30 minutes without hearing how the liberal media is doing (or not doing) this or that. Why would Fox want to turn their viewers staunchly against other sources of media? Hmmm.. I'd say that they have a vested interest in doing so. Luckily for them, their viewers buy every word of it. I'm not saying that the media doesn't lean left, but what Fox news and other right-wing sources are doing is insuring that their viewers/listeners don't hear any side of the story other than what they provide them.
TD; And MSNBC...?
G-----; MSNBC = left-wing FOX. I don't understand why that's even at question. I always love to see Hannity do his media mash and then use MSNBC as an example of left-wing bias. MSNBC = Left, FOX = Right. I thought we all understood that.
"George W. Bush wins the 2000 Presidential Election by (in essence) 537 votes; Fo...x News goes to #1 in the cable news race a few months later. Bush narrowly beats John Kerry in 2004. Not surprisingly, Fox is still #1, and by a wider margin. Barack Obama soundly defeats John McCain in 2008; Fox is stil...See More"
G-----; That's great, B---, but I'm not sure what your point is. I don't watch MSNBC nearly as much as I watch Fox News. MSNBC is pretty boring to me because a lot of it is in line with things I already know. Fox is interesting to me because it challenges me to see different views and ideas. "Conservatives" who watch Fox news are watching it for comfort because Fox does all they can to reassure those people that they're right. The same goes for liberals who watch MSNBC. I happen to favor programming that's going to make me think, rather than programming that tells me what I should think.
J-----; The only 'news' I watch is in the morning to see what the traffic and weather is going to be. I never tune into those stations for political updates. And neither should anyone else.
TD; Perhaps our difference is that with Fox I associate Brit Hume, Charles Krauthammer and Chris Wallace; with MSNBC I think of Al Sharpton, Chris Matthews and Toure' and that is a big wall I feel the left has to climb for me.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Krauthammer; Why we give foreign aid (Cartoon update)
A well-thought-out counterpoint to my own snarky remark in the next post down, where I was chafing at the tanks Egypt is getting from us as well as the money. Krauthammer makes a good point about the money, but I still have to ask: who would Egypt use tanks against?
Do the math yourself.
Charles Krauthammer "Nonetheless, we should not cut off aid to Egypt. It’s not that we must blindly support unfriendly regimes. It is perfectly reasonable to cut off aid to governments that are intrinsically hostile and beyond our influence. Subsidizing enemies is merely stupid.
"But Egypt is not an enemy, certainly not yet. It may no longer be our strongest Arab ally, but it is still in play. The Brotherhood aims to establish an Islamist dictatorship. Yet it remains a considerable distance from having done so.
Precisely why we should remain engaged. And engagement means using our economic leverage. "
Do the math yourself.
Charles Krauthammer "Nonetheless, we should not cut off aid to Egypt. It’s not that we must blindly support unfriendly regimes. It is perfectly reasonable to cut off aid to governments that are intrinsically hostile and beyond our influence. Subsidizing enemies is merely stupid.
"But Egypt is not an enemy, certainly not yet. It may no longer be our strongest Arab ally, but it is still in play. The Brotherhood aims to establish an Islamist dictatorship. Yet it remains a considerable distance from having done so.
Precisely why we should remain engaged. And engagement means using our economic leverage. "
Reading list of late posts
NT Times; Amid Cuts, Does a President Dare Tee Off?
" “Canceling White House tours is childish and dishonest,” Mr. Gingrich said on Twitter, citing a recent golf vacation the president took to the Floridian Yacht and Golf Club resort with a handful of friends and his Secret Service entourage. “The golf weekend in Florida cost enough to keep the White House open for months.” "
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JustOneMinute quotes Ari Fleischer (of Bush fame), who pointed out that the Pentagon’s leaders have warned that the budget cuts will have a serious impact on the readiness of the nation’s military. “What does it say about a sequester if a military golf course can stay open during it?” he said."
Sarah Palin was right: Obama care or any type of socialized rationing plan results in death panels In this chilling video, physician Manny Alverez discusses the subtle way "death panels" will occur, "by changing standards of practice, putting them with age and general health of the patient with the end result in eating Soylent Green as a probable outcome."
" “Canceling White House tours is childish and dishonest,” Mr. Gingrich said on Twitter, citing a recent golf vacation the president took to the Floridian Yacht and Golf Club resort with a handful of friends and his Secret Service entourage. “The golf weekend in Florida cost enough to keep the White House open for months.” "
....
JustOneMinute quotes Ari Fleischer (of Bush fame), who pointed out that the Pentagon’s leaders have warned that the budget cuts will have a serious impact on the readiness of the nation’s military. “What does it say about a sequester if a military golf course can stay open during it?” he said."
The Tour Nazi (WND)
Make room for new mavericks; Time for Old Soldier McCain to Fade Away "Paul continued by saying he respects both McCain’s military service and his legislative record, but stressed that McCain’s experience does not mean he is always right: “I treat Senator McCain with respect. I don’t think I always get the same in return.”
"Americans on both sides of the aisle honor McCain for his service. However, McCain must realize that it is time to pass the torch of leadership to a new generation of Conservative leaders demonstrably capable of filling his seemingly vacated role as maverick while leading Republicans to electoral victory."
Above two photos from Facebook, but I cannot find the source.
But this next one is from Weasel Zippers:
Allow me to be simplistic for a moment, will you? May I please ask:
Hat tip to Barbara Haney
The Big Pharaoh raises an interesting question:
The Big Pharaoh @TheBigPharaoh
State department decided not to award Samira Ibrahim after revealing anti-Jews tweets. Well, what did she say different than Morsi?
And Morsi still got his mega-bucks with tanks and jets to follow
Will anyone police this White House?
Jennifer Rubin "The White House’s behavior throughout the sequester process has been baffling to some. Until Friday’s news conference mainstream media never showed much skepticism about the reams of scare stories being passed around. And if not for Bob Woodward, not a single news outlet would have reported the origin of the sequester. (Think about the level of negligence involved on that point alone.) Whether on account of bias or ineptitude, media haven’t been very good at extracting the truth until quite recently.
..."What flows from all of this? On the media side, any conscientious news outlet would do some soul searching and internal review. Why has it missed or ignored huge stories? How can it break free from group-think reporting? Why has it been so gullible? To what degree has White House intimidation affected its reporting? Do media need to offer retractions and apologies to their readers and viewers?."
..."What flows from all of this? On the media side, any conscientious news outlet would do some soul searching and internal review. Why has it missed or ignored huge stories? How can it break free from group-think reporting? Why has it been so gullible? To what degree has White House intimidation affected its reporting? Do media need to offer retractions and apologies to their readers and viewers?."
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