Daily Right 9/8/10
*Church to burn copies of the Koran on 9/11. Even though the congregation is smaller than Quantum Conservative’s daily readership, this is somehow national news.
*Victor Davis Hanson calls Paul Krugman an idiot. Amity Shlaes, Vox, agree.
ALSO by Hanson: We Are Ruled by Professors.
*Behold, Porkulus III (or is it 4, or 5?)
RELATED: Stimulus Snake Oil, by Alan Reynolds.
*Inherited From Whom? By Thomas Sowell.
“No president of the United States can create either a budget deficit or a budget surplus. All spending bills originate in the House of Representatives and all taxes are voted into law by Congress.
Democrats controlled both houses of Congress before Barack Obama became president. The deficit he inherited was created by the congressional Democrats, including Sen. Barack Obama, who did absolutely nothing to oppose the runaway spending. He was one of the biggest of the big spenders.”
*If they can’t legislate, they will regulate.
*Americans Wake Up to Islamism, by Daniel Pipes.
*George Soros, Nazi Collaborator. Sadly, this is not a joke.
Why not do what Germany did in the 50’s?
Great Op Ed in the WSJ this morning on how a decimated Germany got its economy to grow at 8% for nearly 2 decades following WWII. Note – our current economic policy looks nothing like these policies.
A conversation with Chris Mathews
QC: What’s up man?
Chris Mathews: Did you just call me Tingles? ’Cause I will fucking own you. Fascist.
Daily Right 9/7/10
*TIME magazine editor baffled by common sense, Jews.
RELATED: The Worst of TIME, by Clifford May.
“By defending such terrorist groups as Hezbollah, while simultaneously denouncing those attempting to understand the motives and methods of ruthless jihadis and insidious Islamists, Klein, Zakaria, and Time are not just spreading disinformation — serving junk food for thought — they are pursuing intellectual disarmament in the middle of the War against the West.”
*We’re going to be hearing a lot more of this argument as the Left continues to crumble:
“Voters appear to be so fed up with the Democrats that they’re ready to toss them out in favor of the Republicans — for whom, according to those same polls, the nation has even greater contempt. This isn’t an “electoral wave,” it’s a temper tantrum.”
Gee, where have I heard that before?
*Have We Squandered Our Cultural Inheritance? By Timothy Dalrymple.
*Our Distracted Commander in Chief, by Charles Krauthammer.
*Ten Reasons Why We Miss Bush, by Victor Davis Hanson.
“Americans would prefer to be in a foxhole with George Bush, who would swagger and announce as decider-in-chief at H-hour, “OK, pard, we’re going over the top together on this one.” They wouldn’t want to be with Obama, who would stutter and give a long-drawn out exegesis why race and class had condemned us to such an unfair predicament, whose only solution is to go into a fetal position and condemn “them” who did this awful thing to us.”
*The Revolt of the Bourgeois, by Rich Lowry.
Week In Review
Some headlines you may have missed:
*Illegal Immigrant Against Punishing Illegal Immigrants
*Tragedy: Joe Francis Bored With Young, Nubile Breasts
*Report: Mom Doesn’t Know, Care, Where Dad Is
*Obama: At Last The Iraqis Have A Democracy As Corrupt And Inefficient As Ours
*Nation’s Nerds Enter Hibernation Until Next Comic-Con
*Hammerhead Upset His Attack Not Featured On Shark Week:
"I ate the shit out of that guy for nothing."
*Grandpa Looking Forward To Complaining About Winter
*Nation’s Students Rebel Against Obamacare Bong Tax
*Music Companies Admit: “Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, All We Got”
*New Democrat Party Slogan:
The Hope Trope
Just two years ago, Obama, Pelosi, Reid & Co. were running on a platform of “Hope and Change.” Never mind that the platform had as much substance as the styrofoam Greek columns on display during Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver; a majority of the American public very much wanted to believe in the magic of hope and change, and the Obamites were cynical enough to shamelessly exploit that yearning.
Now, there is nothing new about cynical politicians; indeed, one could make the case that the two words go together as naturally as wine and cheese. But one does expect that the ruling class is smart enough not to believe its own blather. So I naturally assumed that the Democrats in DC were doling out magical thinking to the masses, all the while knowing within their inner circles where they were going and how to get there.
Imagine my surprise, then, to see an array of political pundits writing recently that the Democrats are panicking over the fact that the “hoped for economic recovery” is not materializing; that they are running out of “hope” that things can turn around in time to stave off a mid-term election disaster; that the “Summer of Recovery” that began with so much “hope” has ended with the economy in measurably worse condition.
As famed political handicapper Charlie Cook put it:
Labor Day is almost here and Democrats are still waiting for
the cavalry to arrive. An exhaustive scan of the horizon
reveals no rescuers and none of the things Democrats badly
need to save them from tough midterm election losses on
Nov. 2.
And so I’ve awakened to the fact that the Obamites did not merely run on hope; they have attempted to govern on it as well. The economy? Pass an obscenely bloated partisan pork barrel spending bill and “hope” that the economy will recover somehow. The Iran crisis? Do nothing and “hope” that the world’s most dangerous theocracy will somehow decide not to produce nuclear weapons. Health care? Ram through any piece of legislation that can pass by hook or crook, and “hope” that it will somehow work, and that the public can be talked into supporting it.
This is government by fairy dust.
It is one thing to promote “Hope and Change” as boob bait for votes. That is politics by cynicism, which is obnoxious, but we’re used to it. It is quite another to actually believe such stuff, and attempt to govern on it. That is the province of fools.
Citizen Hulk Comments on Voting
Most conservatives realize that the fundamental bedrock principle of a constitutional republic is an informed voting populace. As a corollary to that, it should be clear that this voting universe should be made up of those qualified to vote by residency, age and citizenship. While I, have not been allowed to vote since I have an appearance that sometimes would indicate a foreign origin and no photo identification I’ve been forced to seek out a state of residence that would not require photo identification to vote. Even though this is worthwhile to me personally,I believe that it opens up an entire world of voter fraud where those on the left seem to be advocating a position of the least amount of effort and security for one of the most important privileges we have, were I be lucky enough to be issued photo identification I would not mind presenting it if asked before I engaged in an important duty of citizenship that can only be allowed to some and only once per election cycle.
In my instance I am often a victim of profiling and sometimes I run the risk of being shot at simply by being different. Nevertheless, I understand the importance of identifying the right to vote with the person casting the vote. As the next election looms, I find myself uncomfortable with the continued resistance by the American progressives to this simple and self evident principle. In fact it is beyond irritating and makes Hulk mad and when Hulk mad… HULK SMASH!!!
Bikini Friday – Labor Day Edition
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.
More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic.
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.
In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a “workingmen’s holiday” on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country.
Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From them developed the movement to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
The vital force of labor added materially to the highest standard of living and the greatest production the world has ever known and has brought us closer to the realization of our traditional ideals of economic and political democracy. It is appropriate, therefore, that the nation pay tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation’s strength, freedom, and leadership — the American worker.
(from US DOL)
Happy Labor Day, everyone! Have a great weekend!
-TF
Daily Right 9/2/10
The President’s Speech
I’ve got to be honest, I didn’t watch. Almost every word the man says in public is a lie, so I feel more than safe reading the transcript the next day. Let’s just say that my distrust for the President on this issue comes from his disdain for the surge that actually won the war.
*Obama said this about war funding:
“Unfortunately, over the last decade, we have not done what is necessary to shore up the foundation of our own prosperity. We have spent over a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in turn, has shortchanged investments in our own people, and contributed to record deficits.”
Veronique de Rugy is unimpressed.
*Funny, I don’t feel safer, by David Harsanyi.
*Some Thoughts on the Speech, by Peter Wehner.
“President Obama has already inflicted enormous damage to our nation; last night he added to the wreckage.”
Restore America Rally (Retread)
*I know this is going to shock you, but Kathleen Parker was unimpressed.
*Glenn Beck’s Ecumenical Moment, by Jonah Goldberg.
“I confess, if Beck weren’t a libertarian, I would find his populism worrisome. But his message, flaws and excesses notwithstanding, is that our constitutional heritage defines us as a people, regardless of race, religion, or creed. Is that so insulting to Martin Luther King Jr.’s memory?”
*I think I see what Glenn Beck is doing, at ChicagoBoyz.
“Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society.
He is nuking out the foundations of the opposition’s moral preeminence, the very thing I proposed in this post.
Ronald Reagan said we would not defeat Communism, we would transcend it.
Beck is aiming to have America do the same thing to its decaying class of Overlords, transcend them.”
Misc.
*The Couric-Rich Model of the Five Stages of MSM Grief, by Ed Driscoll.
*The Ground Zero Mosque Imam is a slum lord.
“Nor was Rauf a very good landlord. Both The Record and the the New York Post report a litany of complaints at Rauf’s buildings dating back decades and continuing to this day: heaps of garbage, overgrown grass, lack of heat and hot water; rat, cockroach, and bedbug infestations; and general filth.”
*Hating Your Countrymen is the New Patriotism, by Mathew Sheffield.
“In short: liberals don’t hate America, they simply hate Americans, especially when they won’t go along with such obviously good things such as President Obama’s healthcare law, “economic stimulus” spending, nationalizing student loans, unilaterally disarming American nuclear weapons, or raising taxes in an anemic economy. Having fully embraced the notion that Judeo-Greco-Roman society has engaged in systematic “cultural imperialism,” the modern Left has embraced what might be termed “cultural inferiorism” as a means to atone.”
Congratulations Matt!
Our favorite Washington correspondent, and regular contributor here at Quantum Conservative, has his first link at Drudge:
The article is Meltdown of Climate ‘Consensus’, at the New York Post.
“Al Gore and many other warming alarmists have insisted that “the debate is over” — that the science was “settled.” That claim is now in shreds — though the grants are still flowing, and advocates still hope Congress will pass some version of the economically ruinous “cap and trade” anti-warming bill.
What does the best evidence now tell us? That man-made global warming is a mere hypothesis that has been inflated by both exaggeration and downright malfeasance, fueled by the awarding of fat grants and salaries to any scientist who’ll produce the “right” results.”
Read the whole thing.
RELATED: Take the quiz, Al Gore or the Unabomber.
I scored a 42%.
The Statue
From Bare Naked Islam, via No Pasaran!
The statue was created by an Iraqi artist named Kalat, who for years was forced by Saddam Hussein to make the many hundreds of bronze busts of Saddam that dotted Baghdad. Kalat was so grateful for the Americans liberation of his country; he melted 3 of the heads of the fallen Saddam and made the statue as a memorial to the American soldiers and their fallen warriors
Kalat worked on this memorial night and day for several months. To the left of the kneeling soldier is a small Iraqi girl giving the soldier comfort as he mourns the loss of his comrade in arms.
Daily Right 8/31/10
*How dare you wing-nuts save money and pay down your debt, you’re destroying Recovery Summer!
*You shall be re-educated comrade, count on it.
“Re-education” has been a favorite effort by tyrannies over the past century or so, mainly (but not exclusively) communist. The most notorious programs came in China, Cambodia, and Vietnam, the latter of which produced the mass exodus of “boat people” to the US and other countries. “Re-education” has come to mean either brainwashing or intimidation of political dissidents.”
*Newsweak: Obama isn’t actually President, by Brian O’Connor.
*Ground Zero Mosque Imam: “U.S. response to 9/11 could be considered Jihad.”
*Senator Bennet (D-CO) was for deficits before he was against them.
“It’s immoral to leave this (debt) to our children.”
*The New Moral Equivalence, by Dennis Prager.
“Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments. They once regarded America and the Soviet Union as morally similar. Today, they claim that the people they call Christian “extremists” (who are they?) and Islamist terrorists and their supporters pose equal threats to America and to the world.
That is how bright and decent people become moral relativists and thereby undermine the battles against the greatest evils — Communist totalitarianism in its time, and Islamic totalitarianism in ours.”
*You must fear ManBearPig.
*Islamolepsy: The New Pathology, by David Solway.
Daily Right 8/30/10
Glenn Beck and the Restore America Rally
*70 Percent of Americans Know They’ve Been Conned, by Hugh Hewitt.
“Two years into what had been sold as a new politics and a new approach, the 70 percent are fully aware that they have been conned, suckered, and taken to the cleaners by a hyper-ideological amalgam of leftist public intellectuals, snarling bloggers, career politicians with limited abilities who are often corrupt, and a president wholly inexperienced in the management of complex problems who is in way over his head and prisoner to slogans and schemes that make for great campus debates — but for disaster in the real world.
The people on the Mall were saying much more than “this far and no farther.” They were saying “rewind and restart.” They will hold that thought and that purpose as they peacefully, but with great passion and purpose, insist on real change come Nov. 2.”
Read the whole thing.
*Sharpton, Not Beck, Distorts MLK’s Legacy, by Gregory Kane.
The lefty response was as predictable as it is banal:
*Bill Press likens the 300k plus crowd to “al qaeda…at ground zero.”
*Stanley Crouch calls Beck and Palin bottom feeding bigots.
*Charles Blow calls Beck the “anti-King” in a column titled “I had a nightmare.”
*The theme de jour for the MSM was “overwhelming white crowd.”
*Even the President can’t help a little demagoging at Mr. Beck’s expense.
Misc.
*America, Behind the Mosque, by Victor Davis Hanson.
RELATED: It’s Not the Location, It’s the Sharia, by Deroy Murdock.
RELATED II: Why They Can’t Condemn Hamas, by Andrew C. McCarthy.
*This is why we need 60 Jim Demint’s (R, S.C.) in the Senate:
“This may be our last chance with voters, because if we’re given the majority . . . and don’t reform Washington, everybody is going to say, ‘What’s wrong with these guys? We need a third party.”
Indeed.
*Why Can’t Obama Tell the World About American Tolerance? By Toby Harnden.
*The Anti-Obama, by Kevin Hassett.
*Dorsal Fins Surround the White House, by Jonah Goldberg.
“You’ve got to wonder when White House political guru David Axelrod will look at the churning pools of poll data and, like Chief Brody in Jaws, say: “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
The Failure of the Obama Economy
The time has come to publicly admit what everyone has known for a long time: The Obama economic plan is an abject failure.
For months, we’ve heard a steady drone from the administration to the effect that we’re on the right path, we’re moving in the right direction, we’re in the “Summer of Recovery.”
Right. And aren’t the emperor’s new clothes stunning?
When “Hope and Change” arrived in Washington D.C. in January 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.6%. Within a few days, the Congress engaged in an unprecedented orgy of pork barrel spending cynically labeled an economic stimulus package. The choice, we were told, was between passing this bill and doing nothing. The “stimulus”, we were assured, would keep unemployment from rising above 8%.
The consequences for doing nothing? If we do nothing, we were warned, unemployment could hit 9%.
The “stimulus” plan passed (along strictly partisan lines) . . . and unemployment hit a high of 10%. The only reason it now stands at 9.5% is that so many have given up looking for work.
And so, because they passed this partisan porker, we’re worse off now than we were when the Obamites came to town. Unemployment is up sharply – even White House economists admit it will stay above 9% for another year or two - AND we have run up nearly a trillion dollars in debt which we have absolutely no way to pay for.
Is it just me, or is “doing nothing” starting to look pretty good about now?
I’ve not even started on the GDP, the balance of trade,or the housing market – all of which are considerably worse now than when “Hope and Change” inflicted themselves upon us.
Memo to Obama, Pelosi, Reid, & Company: You’ve been in charge for nineteen months. It is no longer possible to credibly claim that your “stimulus plan” has had any positive impact on this nation’s economic or political health.
Oh, and that Blame-It-All-On-Bush strategy? Sorry, the statute of limitations has expired. You’re on your own now.
Convenient
Two items.
One: Lefty supporter of Russ Carnahan (D-MO) arrested for fire-bombing said representatives campaign office.
Two: Lefty Ground Zero Mosque Cordoba House Park 51 volunteer arrested for attacking a Muslim cab driver
Two acts of overtly political violence, perpetrated by avowed leftists, both initially blamed on the right wing. But remember, it is conservatives that are islamaphobic, ignorant, and violent.
Are you angry yet? (Updated)
You should be:
With the fall hunting season fast approaching, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Lisa Jackson, who was responsible for banning bear hunting in New Jersey, is now considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) – a leading anti-hunting organization – to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, a law in which Congress expressly exempted ammunition. If the EPA approves the petition, the result will be a total ban on all ammunition containing lead-core components, including hunting and target-shooting rounds. The EPA must decide to accept or reject this petition by November 1, 2010, the day before the midterm elections.
Fuckers. If they think they’re in trouble now, let ‘em try this and see how they stand.
UPDATED: Not in this environment.
Responding to a grassroots outcry from gun owners, the Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has denied a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity and other radical groups that had sought to ban the use of lead in ammunition.
Agreeing with the position of the NRA and the firearms industry, the agency explained in a news release that it “does not have the legal authority to regulate this type of product under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).” Further crushing the hopes of anti-gun and anti-hunting activists, the release added: “nor is the agency seeking such authority.”
h/t Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey, who sums the issue up quite nicely:
“If the EPA actually thought this would make a great trial balloon, they found yet another use for lead.”
Make Mine Freedom (1948)
Amazing video. Seemed far-fetched in 1948. What about now? You watch and decide for yourself!
Daily Right 8/24/10
ObamaCare
*For Obamacare Supporters, Judgement Day Approaches, by Byron York.
*Medical Care Facts and Fables, by Thomas Sowell.
Cordoba House
*“It’s beyond Islamaphobia, it’s hate of Muslims.” Daisy Khan, co-creator of the Ground Zero Mosque.
*Richard Cohen’s latest drivel hits most of the elite’s themes regarding those opposed to the mosque. Racist? Check. Moral relativism? Check. Total mischaracterization of opposition? Check and check. Had he thrown in a Nazi comparison, he would have covered all the bases. Better luck next time Richard.
*Inventing Moderate Islam, by Andrew C. McCarthy.
“If we were in that objective frame of mind, we would easily see that a freedom culture requires separation of the spiritual from the secular. We would also see that sharia — with dictates that contradict liberty and equality while sanctioning cruel punishments and holy war — is not moderate. Consequently, no one who advocates sharia can be a moderate, no matter how well-meaning he may be, no matter how heartfelt may be his conviction that this is God’s will, and no matter how much higher on the food chain he may be than Osama bin Laden.”
Taxing Free Speech
*Philadelphia, home of Liberty Hall, is preparing to charge bloggers $300 for a business license. Silly rabbits, free speech is for kids.
*Abridging Too Far, at IBD.
“If city hall can tax speech, it can tax anything. What — and who — is next?”
Similarly, if they can force you to purchase a product, such as healthcare, then they can force you to do anything. It is always and forever about control.
Misc.
*D.C. Democrats: Clueless, Condescending, and Costly, by Deroy Murdock.
*Uncle Sam Wants to Cuddle, by Iain Murray and Anne Sutherland.
Bikini Friday
The latest release in the recent bigscreen 3-D craze will be Resident Evil: Afterlife, opening in theaters on Sept. 10, 2010. Check out the trailers here, and then feast your eyes on these hotties you’ll see on the screen in this baby!
Alice (Milla Jovovich):
Claire (Ali Larter):
Also starring…
K-Mart (Spencer Locke):
Jill (Sienna Guillory):
Lastly, but certainly not least, brand new to the US bigscreen, UK star…
Crystal (Kacey Barnfield):
You don’t want to miss this flick! Enjoy!
Daily Right 8/17/10
Ground Zero Mosque
*Two MSDNC anchors, two forms of insanity. 1. According to Keith Olbermann, those who oppose the Cordoba House are Nazi Indian killers and 2. Norah O’Donnell compares opponents to the 9/11 hijackers. Jeff G. at Protein Wisdom sums these positions up quite nicely:
“It’s come to this: if we don’t let the terrorists win, the terrorists will have won. And those who refuse to let the terrorists win are themselves therefore terrorists. Q.E.D.”
*The Tolerant Pose, by Andrew C. McCarthy.
“No one credibly questions the legal right of Muslim landowners to use their property in any lawful fashion. Legality is an irrelevant issue, even if the back-tracking Obama now wants to pretend it is the only one he was really talking about on Friday night. The question here is propriety.”
*Ten Theses on Obama’s Iftar Speech, by Scott Johnson.
*This guy is obviously an Islamophobe:
“What the citizens of the U.S. fail to understand is that the battle against the 9/11 terrorists is not their battle. It is a Muslim battle – one whose flames are still raging in more than 20 Muslim countries… I do not think that the majority of Muslims want to build a monument or a place of worship that tomorrow may become a source of pride for the terrorists and their Muslim followers, nor do they want a mosque that will become a shrine for the haters of Islam.”
Misc.
*Ray Bradbury, writer, poet, American Badass.
“I think our country is in need of a revolution,” Bradbury said. “There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people and for the people.”
*A Tea Party Manifesto, by Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe.
“The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.”
*The Obama-Piven Strategy, by Zombie.
“But under the surface he’s also an advocate for a third economic policy, one that isn’t spoken of in polite company: The Cloward-Piven Strategy.
Problem is, the Cloward-Piven Strategy is not simply some alternate theory about the best way to rescue the American economy. Quite the opposite, in fact. Its goal is to intentionally ruin the economy, so as to arouse popular outcry for a revolutionary and fundamental change in our economic system.
I propose that President Obama is simultaneously trying to rescue the economy using the Keynesian/Democratic model while at the same time also trying to destroy the economy through the Cloward-Piven Strategy. His two mutually contradictory plans cancel each other out, rendering all his efforts self-negating, and this explains why the American economy has stalled.”
*Judge to Voters: Drop Dead, by Robert F. Nagel.
*Dismantling America, by Thomas Sowell.
“The Constitution was not only a challenge to the despotic governments of its time, but has been a continuing challenge — to this day — to all those who think that ordinary people should be ruled by their betters, whether an elite of blood, or of books, or of whatever else gives people a puffed-up sense of importance.
\While the kings of old have faded into the mists of history, the principle of the divine rights of kings to impose whatever they wish on the masses lives on today in the rampaging presumptions of those who consider themselves anointed to impose their notions on others.”
Quantum Con’s Rubik’s Cube May One Day Be Solved
For those of you who know Quantum Con, he has had one of these puzzles for well over a year with little sign of a solution being found at anytime in the near future. Perhaps this crack team of researchers will provide us with the algorithm that will one day see Quantum Con’s Cube solved.
Bikini Friday – Back to School Edition!
It’s ‘back to school’ time again, so in the spirit of the season…
Guest Hosting “Getting It Right”
This weekend I’ll be guest hosting “Getting it Right, with Rick Wagner.” The show is on at 12:00PM this Saturday, and we’ve got some great guests lined up. Tune in to 1100AM KNZZ on your radio dial, or listen live on the intertubes here.
Daily Right 8/11/10
Political Ruling Class
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
*Stimulus Pushers, at the WSJ.
“So in the name of still another “stimulus,” Democrats are rewarding their own political funders, putting the most fiscally responsible states into even greater distress, and postponing the day of reckoning for spendthrift states.”
*Enough, by Peter Kirsanow.
“The contempt for ordinary Americans displayed by the ruling class is reaching critical mass. There may never have been a time in American history when the governing, academic, cultural, and media elites have been more manifestly disdainful of the country’s values, traditions, principles, and people.”
RELATED: We Socialists vs. We the People, by Tony Blankley. (H/T Protein Wisdom)
“Rather, if the upcoming election results fail for any reason (including GOP campaign incompetence) to empower the public’s overwhelming desire to stop and reverse the “fundamental transformation” of the United States – I suspect the country will be rocked to its core within the following months and few years.
A foul and dangerous brew is heating up that is composed of: (1) The economic collapse that started in 2008; (2) the radical, “fundamentally transforming” left-wing agenda of the government; and, (3) the thwarting of the public will – with glee – by the entrenched, non-elected powers (in the courts, media, colleges and government bureaucracies) as they get into the face and under the skin of the cultural and political majority.
It is insufferable (and will not long be suffered) to be lectured to and imposed upon by a ruling class that loathes our nation’s history, values and accomplishments; by those who are not, in fact, our genuine betters. They are neither better educated nor more profoundly morally versed.”
Read both pieces, they’re important, and riffing a familiar theme.
Qu’ils mangent de la brioche
*Why Can’t You Selfish Ingrates Feel the First Couples Pain? By Kyle-Anne Shiver.
“Michelle’s entire Marie Antoinette episode in Spain ought to send us icky working-hard-at-it Americans the loud-and-clear message that the first lady is still not thoroughly proud of her country. We gave her husband the presidency. We’ve surely bought enough of Barack’s books now to have paid off those burdensome college loans. We’ve ogled and ooh-ed and ah-ed over everything from her biceps to his hoops-shooting prowess. We’ve plastered their pictures on everything solid in the entire country. But we’re still not there yet. And every single selfish-ingrate, taxpaying American citizen had better start revving up that first-couple empathy and pour it on so that maybe — if we’re really, really lucky — we can finally earn Michelle Obama’s pride in America.”
*The Jock in Chief, Getting His Fill of Sports? By Dana Milbank.
“According to unofficial presidential statistician Mark Knoller of CBS News, Obama has left the White House to play basketball 16 times so far, in addition to the countless times he has played on his home court. He’s shot 44 rounds of golf, gone fishing and played tennis. Total sporting-related events hosted at the White House: 45. That’s about six times the number of news conferences he has held.”
Misc.
*The Bill of Rights, 2010 Style, by Pat Sajak. Yes, that Pat Sajak. No, he isn’t dead. No Vanna is not with him. Just read the damn thing already will you?
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