WHEN YOU ARE IN A HOLE, STOP DIGGING
Friday, May 22, 2009
Another One of Them There Prophets
I love dailyreckoning.com. These people called the housing collapse years ahead of time.
INTRODUCING BILL BONNER
INTRODUCING BILL BONNER
Newsflash: Obama Featured on 48% of "Time" Covers in 2008!
Here's something no one knew. The media are fascinated by Barack Obama. Not so fascinated to investigate his links to ACORN, The Fannie and Freddie disasters, his possibly illegal fundraising, but fascinated nonetheless. Do you know what breed of dog he selected?
The first comment on this page is by a reader apparently unfooled by MSNBC's mock surprise.
Hip Boot Alert! This links to MSNBC!
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/17/1719779.aspx
The first comment on this page is by a reader apparently unfooled by MSNBC's mock surprise.
Hip Boot Alert! This links to MSNBC!
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/17/1719779.aspx
Dan Rather on the Double Standard
"You lost. Just get over it."
We would love to get over it. But four months after the election the media are still not interested in voter fraud, Obama's suspicious fund raising and his secretive past. Currently, they are not interested in the details of Obama's so called stimulus plan and the lack of transparency that was so boldly promised. The media do not care that Obama and Geitner stick their thumbs in every soup in the kitchen. Why concern ourselves with distractions?
Meanwhile, Biden continues to misfire his mouth in a style that will ultimately vindicate Dan Quayle. And yet, and yet, and yet, the media continue to salt the wounds of Bristol Palin. Anything, anything at all, that could make her mother look bad. Anything.
Even Dan Rather, the very poster child for media bias and plausible deniability, admits to a media double standard.
IF RATHER ADMITS TO A DOUBLE STANDARD,
_________IT HAS TO BE EXTREME___________
We would love to get over it. But four months after the election the media are still not interested in voter fraud, Obama's suspicious fund raising and his secretive past. Currently, they are not interested in the details of Obama's so called stimulus plan and the lack of transparency that was so boldly promised. The media do not care that Obama and Geitner stick their thumbs in every soup in the kitchen. Why concern ourselves with distractions?
Meanwhile, Biden continues to misfire his mouth in a style that will ultimately vindicate Dan Quayle. And yet, and yet, and yet, the media continue to salt the wounds of Bristol Palin. Anything, anything at all, that could make her mother look bad. Anything.
Even Dan Rather, the very poster child for media bias and plausible deniability, admits to a media double standard.
IF RATHER ADMITS TO A DOUBLE STANDARD,
_________IT HAS TO BE EXTREME___________
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Will ACORN be the Next Watergate?
ACORN could unravel a thread that reveals a broader pattern of voter impropriety in a manner similar to Watergate. Voter fraud and abuse pops of all over America and it does seem to invlove a recurring cast of characters.
Whatever you want to say about the Nixon Gang, they did not request public funding for The Plumbers.
BACHMANN VS. FRANK
Whatever you want to say about the Nixon Gang, they did not request public funding for The Plumbers.
BACHMANN VS. FRANK
O'Reilly vs. NYT
O'Reilly calls out NYT and their slippery ombudsman.
FROM A TINY ACORN GROWS A MIGHTY OAK OF A SCANDAL
FROM A TINY ACORN GROWS A MIGHTY OAK OF A SCANDAL
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The Crossroads in the Rearview Mirror.
An editorial I have wanted to write for several years is "America at the Crossroads." That might sound like a bit of MSM hokum but we truly were at a crossroads. Simply put, American could become more Asiatic and compete with Japan, China, India, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, et al. Or we could throw in the towel and become more European. We could celebrate our has been status, our economic underachievement, our sloth. We could celebrate our green sanctimony and our conspicuous compassion and do nothing almost as well as our European cousins. Let the Asians do all the work.
That editorial is a dream deferred. I was doing blogs but nothing remotely political. So America slept while I let my "Crossroads" simmer on the back burner. As I waited, America fled the crossroads. With the election of Obama, America gunned a trail down the Euro Highway leaving our glorious past in a cloud of dust.
Yesterday, Monday May 18, 2009, The Dow rose about 2%. Meanwhile, the Nifty (India's version of the Dow. Got to love that name.) rose 17%. Granted, India is coming off a recent election. But the nature of markets is such that a rally in Japan will be felt to a lesser degree in China and in Europe and in the US. The Dow rose largely in reaction to India's rally. And like a bunch of Euros who contented themselves with crumbs all those years as America feasted, we Americans now settled for crumbs.
Such will be the trend. Asia and Eastern Europe will prosper. Western Europe will affect a sense of superiority and pseudosophistication for not working as hard as the Asians. Ze stupid ant cannot comprehend ze smart grassahopper. What will America do? Americans will mimic their stylish European cousins and will look foolish in the process.
We thought that maybe someday we would be has beens, if we let our guard down. But I for one did not know that we would embrace that status as a badge of honor. I did not think that we would select leaders who would hasten the process. I did not think we would commit economic suicide. But America is fast becoming a distant memory as we race deeper into the land of minute growth and double digit unemployment.
The question now seems to be, "Can we find our way back to the crossroads?"
That editorial is a dream deferred. I was doing blogs but nothing remotely political. So America slept while I let my "Crossroads" simmer on the back burner. As I waited, America fled the crossroads. With the election of Obama, America gunned a trail down the Euro Highway leaving our glorious past in a cloud of dust.
Yesterday, Monday May 18, 2009, The Dow rose about 2%. Meanwhile, the Nifty (India's version of the Dow. Got to love that name.) rose 17%. Granted, India is coming off a recent election. But the nature of markets is such that a rally in Japan will be felt to a lesser degree in China and in Europe and in the US. The Dow rose largely in reaction to India's rally. And like a bunch of Euros who contented themselves with crumbs all those years as America feasted, we Americans now settled for crumbs.
Such will be the trend. Asia and Eastern Europe will prosper. Western Europe will affect a sense of superiority and pseudosophistication for not working as hard as the Asians. Ze stupid ant cannot comprehend ze smart grassahopper. What will America do? Americans will mimic their stylish European cousins and will look foolish in the process.
We thought that maybe someday we would be has beens, if we let our guard down. But I for one did not know that we would embrace that status as a badge of honor. I did not think that we would select leaders who would hasten the process. I did not think we would commit economic suicide. But America is fast becoming a distant memory as we race deeper into the land of minute growth and double digit unemployment.
The question now seems to be, "Can we find our way back to the crossroads?"
Monday, May 18, 2009
Let the Gray Lady Have Her Say
This site passed on a link concerning "New York Times" killing a potentially toxic story concerning ACORN just weeks before the election. In the interest of fairness, we now link the NYT retort.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17pubed.html?ref=opinion
Ah but this is the age of the blog and NYT does not always get the last word. A couple of quick counter-comments.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-vadum/2009/05/18/nyt-finally-admits-it-spiked-obama-acorn-corruption-story
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/05/023580.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17pubed.html?ref=opinion
Ah but this is the age of the blog and NYT does not always get the last word. A couple of quick counter-comments.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-vadum/2009/05/18/nyt-finally-admits-it-spiked-obama-acorn-corruption-story
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/05/023580.php
ACORN workers of the World, Unite!
When the media want to cover workplace abuses they usually trot out Walmart or some other whipping boy. But who looks after the abused ACORN worker? They have one of the best cases for a union I have ever heard.
"ACORN short-changed employees, while the founder's brother embezzled nearly a half-million dollars. ACORN has founded unions but busts unions when its own employees try to organize. And every time the organization's machine creates voter fraud allegations, the group throws its poorly trained temporary workers under the bus."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Former-organizer-says-ACORN-will-commit-fraud-in-Census-work-45286867.html
"ACORN short-changed employees, while the founder's brother embezzled nearly a half-million dollars. ACORN has founded unions but busts unions when its own employees try to organize. And every time the organization's machine creates voter fraud allegations, the group throws its poorly trained temporary workers under the bus."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Former-organizer-says-ACORN-will-commit-fraud-in-Census-work-45286867.html
Sunday, May 17, 2009
JB'S Greatest Hits Department
Like fine wine, this clip gets better with each passing day. Enjoy at room temperature.
STAND UP, CHUCK!
STAND UP, CHUCK!
Biden's Greatest Hits
Thank you, Obama, for providing us with some comic relief.
BUT CAN HE SPELL POTATO?
BUT CAN HE SPELL POTATO?
Obama Tips His Hand
To Obama supporters: If terms like Marxist and Socialist and Communist are too harsh, what do you prefer?
WE WERE WARNED!
WE WERE WARNED!
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