Listen to this interview. The Democrat running for US Senate in South Carolina is so bad it’s painful to listen to (even for a Republican). You would think that I would be giddy that they have such a bad candidate, but it troubles me that someone like this could get elected at all.
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the audio of an interview with Mark Levin
I write this blog for me. There is some advertising, but it mostly pays for the domain registration ($12 per year). You can see, it doesn’t mean much to me and therefore I am not subject to the “hate speech police” (yet). Unfortunately, other bloggers are:
Pamela Geller runs a web site called Atlas Shrugs. Her primary focus is Islamic terrorism, to which she is adamantly opposed….
But (her views) are apparently are too much for Paypal, which is terminating her account on the ground that Atlas Shrugs “promote[s] hate, violence, [or] racial intolerance.” There is a certain irony here, in that Pamela is a fierce opponent of actual hate, violence and intolerance as manifested by jihadists and their supporters.
This is most likely being fueled by complaints…complaints from who is the question. Is it from the strident liberals who oppose free speech, always claiming conservative concerns to be hate? Or is it from a Islamic apologists and Islamic groups who would like to see Sharia in American?
Either way…it is not good and Paypal is wrong for acquiescing to such tactics.
The United States will soon be sending $400 million to the West Bank and Gaza. These areas are controlled by Fatah and Hamas which are deemed terrorist organizations by our government. Which leads to the conclusion that the United States is now a state sponsor of terror. Great! Thanks Barack Hussein Obama.
Oh, I know what the Palestinian apologist will say. It’s humanitarian aid. It would be more humane if we got rid of the vicious terrorist that are making those places such horrendous places to live. Instead, we are sending them a live line so they can stay in power. That’s what we call smart diplomacy. Isn’t our president a genius?
Really? Who would have guessed?
The radical activist group ACORN “works” for the Democratic Party and deliberately promotes election fraud, ACORN employees told FBI investigators, according to an FBI document dump Wednesday.
The government collects taxes to pay for the functions of government. Well…that is the way it was suppose to be. Progressives and liberals use taxes as a tool. When taxes are imposed on behavior, it becomes a form of government control over individual and it happens everyday. We pay taxes on booze and cigarettes. These are called “sin” taxes. These taxes were suppose give us a financial incentive to cut back on things that are bad for us.
Obviously….it ain’t working.
Now the government (the FTC) is proposing to use taxes to favor one industry over another (link). The FTC has proposed a tax on news aggregate services in order to help the dying newspaper industry. Let’s just forget for a second that we can see right through this thin veil of liberals protecting their own. Once we accept the that government can protect dying industries through tax policy, progressive will essentially halt progress.
People are moving away from newspapers because the news is more complete and quicker on the Internet. The key: people are choosing to move away from newspapers. Who knows better what you want…you or some arrogant bureaucrat in Washington D.C.?
We can’t assume that it will end with newspapers. Once you multiply this philosophy across multiple industries what you have essentially is a government policy that stymies innovation that leads to stagnate productivity gains. It would be a disaster for our economy.
The government can’t effectively pick winners and loser in the economy. That is best left to millions of people making decision on what is best for themselves. It’s called a free market and the market is rejecting the newspaper industry. It is progressives that want to stop progress.
Guaranteed students loans backed by the government sound like a good idea, but really it is just the next financial disaster created by government policy. The government has flooded the college education market with easy money. Like the real estate market, this easy money is inflating the price. To get into college, kids are taking bigger and bigger student loans.
When we will learn that policy can not avoid human nature or markets. Just like the housing market, when college recruiters run out of customers, they go find some. Instead of finding people who have no ability to own a home, government policy is giving an incentive to find people who have no ability to graduate from college.
From Bloomberg:
Homeless Dropouts From High School Lured by For-Profit Colleges
The boom in for-profit education, driven by a political consensus that all Americans need more than a high school diploma, has intensified efforts to recruit the homeless, Bloomberg Businessweek magazine reports in its May 3 issue. Such disadvantaged students are desirable because they qualify for federal grants and loans, which are largely responsible for the prosperity of for-profit colleges. Federal aid to students at for-profit colleges jumped to $26.5 billion in 2009 from $4.6 billion in 2000.
You know where this story will end. It is the greedy for-profit colleges that are creating the problem. There’s that dircty little word “profit”.
How is giving someone a loan guaranteed by the government for a house they can’t afford any different then giving someone a guaranteed student loan knowing that a large percentage of students will never finish college and never pay back to loan. The tax payer gets screwed again.
I am sick of politician being so generous and caring with my money.
Yes, a lot of women won in Republican primaries. That doesn’t surprise me. Republicans are not the sexist, racist pigs the media makes them out to be. What does surprise me is a primary winner on the other side of the ticket.
Here is how ABC news describes South Carolina Democrat, Alvin Greene:
the 32-year-old military veteran told ABC News that he has been unemployed and living in his rural hometown 60 miles south of Columbia since August, when he was involuntarily forced out of the Army after a 13 year career because “things just weren’t working… it was hard to say.
He is has been charged with a felony for “obscene behavior toward a female”
He can get in line behind some of the real prizes elected by Democrats:
There’s probably a lot more. Those are one’s I can quickly pop off the top of my head.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Who is better informed about the policy choices facing the country—liberals, conservatives or libertarians? According to a Zogby International survey … the answer is unequivocal: The left flunks Econ 101.
Is it too late to stop this progress (as in Progressive)
June 2010
Talk about negative feedback and the road to serfdom! CO2 and climate change have nothing on this downward spiral.
Have you ever watched a boat in the waves? If the bow is pointed in the direction of the waves, it doesn’t stay horizontal. Not only does it the whole boat bob up and down, it tilts forward and backward. Look closely enough and you will see that the waves rush by faster then the boat goes from tilting forward to tilting backward.
The boat’s movement is obviously caused by the waves. There are many waves under the boat, but the boat takes an overall position based on all the waves under the boat at any given moment. As the moment changes, so does the boat.
The angle of the boat is analogous to the temperature trend. The boat with the bow pointing toward the sky is like the temperature trend rising.
Consider (for argument sake) that temperature variations are nothing more than waves caused by natural cycles. The temperature trend for recent history is (at the moment) pointing up. Like our boat, the trend is caused by the waves in a small window of time. Unlike our boat, these waves don’t come and go in seconds. They take years or even decades. Where our boat pitches forward and backward quite frequently, our temperature trend takes years to reverse. This long time frame for cycles can lead people to the wrong conclusion.
Below I have chart of a very crude and simplistic climate model. It covers a period similar to the time frame used by climate alarmist. There are three waves in our model. All the waves are very consistent (something not found in nature). The waves have different wave lengths*, but the same amplitude or height. If the waves are added together they combine into a wave which is much more erratic or “wiggly” with a greater height than any individual wave. If someone empowered with Excel puts the data from this small window of time into a spreadsheet, creates a chart and plots a trend line, they will find that the trend is positive. In our boat on the water analogy, we are looking at a period where the bow is above the stern…but don’t get too excited. The bow isn’t going to go up forever. This is just the nature of waves or cycles.
The point to this demonstration is that even simple data can be misleading. A positive temperature trend can be a function of natural cycles happening simultaneously. It doesn’t mean your boat is going to flip over just because the bow of your boat is pointing up and rising. Similarly, temperature isn’t going to rise forever just because the current trend is toward a warmer world. If one cycle takes 23 years to complete and simultaneous cycle takes 11 years to complete, the period for the combination to repeat (or no trend) is 230 years! Add a third or fourth cycles into that scenario and they time extends out even further.
For further information about the natural cycles and how they can combine to create a trend, read about a theory by Anthony Watts at WattsUpWithThat.com.
*The wave lengths were chosen to roughly represent the period of three acknowledged natural cycles, the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO), the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) and the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI).
The “Broken Window Fallacy” of economics was Claude Frédéric Bastiat, a French political economist. His short story can explain why the stimulus has failed fix the economy. But unlike our president who needs to remind us all that time that he has been “very clear”, Bastiat explains the fallacy in a folksy way so us dummies can understand it. Bastiat explanation goes like this.
From David Warren:
governments which try to solve the insoluble, more or less invariably, make each problem worse
Do you know what important event occurred on June 6th? If you use Bing instead of Google as your default search engine you do. June 6th was the anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Thousands of Americans died that day in a day that helped secure liberty for much of world.
(Screen capture by Jessica’s Well)
Google celebrates all kinds of “special” days. However, none of them revolve around the men and women who have died preserving their freedom and the way of life that enabled them to make billions. If this pisses you off, then change your default search engine.
Read more about setting up your default search…
Why can’t we look at Barack Obama’s college transcripts? Is it because he got worse grades then George Bush or is because of his course selection? Maybe both.
Since he won’t release these records, we will just have to guess. I’ll go with “both”
My heart felt advice to Democrats. Lose the radical left. Give Nancy Pelosi the boot (the voters will take care of Harry Reid for you). It is much harder to beat moderate Democrats than radical progressives.
Gallup has the Republican ahead in a generic poll
Gallup’s generic polling shows the number of voters saying that they would vote for Republicans rising three points from last week, while the number saying they will vote for Democrats dropped four points. The 49%-43% lead for the Republicans is the largest that the pollster has ever recorded for the party.
That is good, but only if the trend continues.
We can’t depend on the
It is possible that the Democrats get all of these things solved by the November elections. (snort-snort). The Republicans are not in power and I don’t see the hapless bunch in Washington changing course. I just hope the Republicans are peaking in June.
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