Proof that the farther left you travel, the more detached from reality you become.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Crazy Progressives on March 22nd, 2011
Share on FacebookAre these people on the left fringe? Probably, but they are active. They are energized. They see an opportunity, and the media won’t expose them. They are socialist, and like most of those on the left, they hide their agenda behind words that Americans find palatable.
They invoke Cloward and Piven to make a climate of “un-governability”. They want to inflame poor people with envy. Historically, I see a parallel to the French Revolution and we know how ended.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Crazy Progressives,video on March 22nd, 2011
Our President and his administration are touting the coalition built to fight the Gaddafi regime in Libya. What they have failed to execute is a coalition in this country. The Congress has the sole authority to declare war and they were not consulted. You would expect a Constitutional scholar to know this. Of course he knows this…he just doesn’t care.
The American people are holding back right now, but he hasn’t gone into this fight 100% and no one knows if he has the will to win. We don’t know and our enemies don’t know. If things go wrong in Libya, the American people will turn on him. I just don’t see this President having the tenacity that President Bush showed when faced with waning support. If this fight drags on and threatens Obama’s re-election, you can bet he will do what is right for Obama and bad of the United States. He will pull the military from the field in disgrace without ever giving them a chance to win.
But hey…if the Arab League is on board (kind of), that’s all that matters.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Obama Administration,The War on Islamic Radicals on March 22nd, 2011
Liberals argue that possessing guns is not an individual right. I think Thomas Jefferson would have a problem with that:
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
George Washington said:
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.
“The people” are not interchangeable with “states”
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Quotes on March 18th, 2011
If Washington is dirty, damn it, you will be too.
I have lived in the same house now for 14 years. The washing machine is getting old. There are deposits of soap and minerals that scratch diamonds. The wife and I have been thinking about investing in a new clothes washer before we have a problem and are forced into an emergency purchase.
And then I came across this article in the Wall Street Journal: How Washington Ruined Your Washing Machine
Now Congress is at it once again. On March 10, the Senate Energy Committee held hearings on a bill to make efficiency standards even more stringent. The bill claims to implement “national consensus appliance agreements,” but those in this consensus are the usual suspects: politicians pushing feel-good generalities, bureaucrats seeking expanded powers, environmentalists with little regard for American pocketbooks, and industries that stand to profit from a de facto ban on low-priced appliances. And there are green tax goodies for manufacturing high-efficiency models—the kind that already give so many tax credits to Whirlpool, for example, that the company will avoid paying taxes on its $619 million profit in 2010.
A joke brought to life. The World’s Biggest Lie: I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.
It’s the same old story. Regulations that are suppose to help the little guy only enrich the well connected.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Alternative Energy,corruption,Crazy Progressives on March 17th, 2011
There is something that scares me more than the radioactive cloud from Japan headed our way.
You would have to assume that airport scanners are now picking up all kinds of radioactive traces. It will be easier for terrorist to smuggle radioactive material into the country in order to build a dirty bomb. They don’t have to bring it in as a bomb. Just bring enough material in to assemble here.
I would be a whole lot more at ease if we didn’t have a security team that considers conservatives to be as bad as Islamic radicals.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in The War on Islamic Radicals on March 17th, 2011
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. — C.S. Lewis
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Quotes on March 16th, 2011
This video has gone viral (I hope this one doesn’t get pulled by the politically correct at YouTube).
Casey sticks up for himself and they typical crew joins in a chorus of condemnation. School officials and psychologist explain how violence is not the answer. Bull! Violence put an end to the Nazi and Japan’s brutal reign. Violence ended slavery. Violence protects the innocent.
We here the same tired lines.
“Violence only breeds more violence”. Nonsense. Who in that school will challenge Casey now?
“He should have gone to a teacher”. Nonsense. That only breed dependence on authority.
Dependence on authority is exactly what these liberals want.
Free men don’t wait for the police (or a teacher) to avoid being victim. Free men defend their freedom. Way to go Casey. If the school punishes you for defending yourself, just remember that the bigger punishment would have been to continue getting harassed.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Common Sense on March 16th, 2011
Conservatives have been hamming Obama for his lack of seriousness in the face of multiple crisis around the world. I have joined the chorus…but I am having second thoughts.
What is worse than Obama doing nothing? Obama doing something. Why are we asking him to lead? He either has no idea where he is going or he is taking us to a very unhappy place.
So lay off the president. Let him golf. It is better than him pushing his agenda or going on another apology tour.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Obama Administration on March 16th, 2011
From PowerLineBlog
Notice where the chart starts to go up…the New Deal…or the Raw Deal depending on your age. My generation knows there will be nothing left for us. Most of us will pay our whole lives and work until the day we die so that those who came before us can retire with many productive years left.
Ronald Reagan gets the bad rap for being a big spender, but the chart is fairly flat during his two terms. Real decreases in spending came when the Cold War ended. Barack Obama has runined the fiscal restraint of the last 20 years. We spend more now as a percentage of GDP then we did during WWI.
And for what?
A sluggish economy, 10% unemployment and all the golfing Barack Obama wants.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Economics on March 16th, 2011
Where do we stand
- Service men stationed in two hostile areas (Iraq and Afghanistan)
- Ally with major catastrophe (Japan)
- Neighbor falling to violence (Mexico)
- Major oil supplier in active revolt (Libya)
- MAJOR oil supplier on the verge of revolt (Saudi Arabia)
- Enemy with a possible revolt (Iran)
- Biggest domestic challenge of our age (debt and unfunded liabilities)
In response, our President has buckled down to fill out his NCAA College Basketball bracket, last night, he gave a speech at a fund raising event for 2012 (God help us), and over the weekend he went golfing.
Do you think he sucks his thumb when he sleeps?
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Obama Administration on March 15th, 2011
The blog “Often Wrong, Never in Doubt” asks:
Two centuries ago, government was cheap and everything else was expensive. Today, most everything not closely associated with the state is cheap and getting cheaper by the day. Those goods and services that the state either provides, heavily regulates or subsidizes are expensive and getting more so all the time. Why?
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Quotes on March 15th, 2011
Republicans were soundly defeated in 2006. The voters spoke loudly and said they expect Republicans to be fiscally conservative. Republicans replied,
” We were wrong and lost our way. We will do better.”
Democrats were soundly defeated in 2010 (that didn’t take long). The voters spoke and said they expect Democrats to be fiscally conservative. They replied,
“Let’s use Twitter”.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Election on March 14th, 2011
Truth:
Conservatives lobby against raising the minimum wage in order to preserve jobs
Liberal Spin:
Conservatives lobbied for prostitution and forced abortions
Are we suppose to believe conservatives have a hidden agenda of prostitution and abortion.
You have to read it to get the full picture of the insanity.
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Crazy Progressives on March 13th, 2011
I heard Lou Dobbs say that the earthquake could help some people economically. I don’t entirely disagree with this assessment, but it is fundamentally wrong to think that widespread damage can lead to a good economic outcome.
You can come to this conclusion when you restrict your concept of economics to commerce. Rebuilding after the earthquake will certainly lead to more commerce, but it won’t lead to increased wealth. The world economy has limited resources. There are limited man hours and limited natural resources.
The rebuilding of Japan will divert resources. Instead of building products that improve our lives, they will be expending energy and materials just to make life normal again. Cement, wood, steel or aluminum that might have been used to create time saving gadgets will now be used to build roads and building that were productive just last week. At the same time, Japan’s ability to refine and work these materials has been reduced. Demand is up. Supply is down. This will have a ripple effect throughout the world economies. Either the price will rise or profit margins will be reduced.
When an economy runs efficiently, man power can be diverted from the necessities of life to work on dreams. How many great scientific breakthroughs are achieved in countries where people are concerned about their next meal? A young scientist that might have been on his way to curing cancer may be diverted by family matters of rebuilding. Only an efficient economy can divert man power to such en devours.
What happened in Japan was the devastation of wealth. The wave that crashed on their shores swept not only lives out to see, but great wealth as well. But all is not lost. Great accomplishments have always come from great challenges. Japan is faced with such a challenge. The enormity of that challenge may bring forth new ideas for building and ideas for protecting us from the next disaster. This has been the history of man. Food shortages, extreme cold, dust storms, war and many other seemingly horrible circumstances have driven us to try things that seem unimportant in times of calm. We learn and we move forward. The long history of mankind has shown that our lives have consistently improved in the long term.
That is why people say “God moves in mysterious ways”
Posted by: The Elephant Owner in Economics on March 13th, 2011