Archive for February, 2010

The Keynes/Hayek Rap Video

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Missed this when it came out. Glad Neo-Neocon did a write-up about it.

Best Sentence LXXXIV

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

The eighty-fourth award for the Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) is hereby presented to Robert J. Avrech at Seraphic Secret, for this gem:

There is no dialogue possible when one side is armed with information and facts, and the other side insists on a fossilized, delusional narrative.

Holy crap, can I ever relate with that.

Context?

Friends getting together, who almost never discuss politics because one couple is inclined one way and the other couple is leaning the other. But on this latest of occasions, the subject of global warming comes up! “You don’t believe in global warming?” inquires the pro-democrat-party, anti-human-achievement couple, incredulously.

Climategate? They hadn’t even heard of it.

But still they claimed the mantle of possessing a superior command of the relevant information. They had all the answers. They even used those four thoroughly worn-out words, the four that have been amalgamated into one. You know what I mean: Thescienceissettled.

Hat tip to Rick, who says the global warming believers need an intervention. I think with the hardcore cases like this, there’s something to that and they probably need a lot more than just intervention.

When you’re trying to present yourself as being thoughtful about something, it’s all fine and good when you’re doing some thinking and it’s still okay when you’re not doing any thinking, but trying to convince others that you are. The latter case is a liar, but at least he knows what he’s doing. My point is, if you’re sane, you should at least know, internally, whether you’ve been doing real thinking or not.

I’m not commenting upon the liars. They are not part of what is alarming me here. I’m not commenting on the “Just Because of the East Anglia Scandal, Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t Happening” people. They, at least, have thought things through enough to come up with their latest slogan.

I’m choosing a target with surgical precision. I’m talking about keeping it straight in your own head how much thinking you’ve been doing.

Lots of people in the global warming camp seem to have slipped this cog. They’re parroting talking points…which by itself isn’t raising a red flag quite yet…but then, down in the marrow of their bones, they don’t seem to comprehend this is what they’ve been doing. They really and truly do seem to think they’ve been thinking. Independently. Skeptically. Critically. As in — gathering information for themselves, and making up their own minds. When that’s the furthest thing from what they’ve really been doing. They seem to have lost track. Climategate happens, and their response is…well, nothing. They don’t even want to know what it is.

That’s a problem.

Are these people doing real things? Driving buses, performing surgery on pets, fixing someone’s brakes…stuff like that? Someone should be finding out.

Bikini Skiing

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Click pic for more. Some images may be considered NSFW. Also, headphones are advised for the obnoxious auto-play commercials in the image viewer…which can be muted…but still, you guys are dicks. Cool pictures though.

Hat tip to Linkiest.

Ron Paul Wins Straw Poll at CPAC

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Fox News:

Ron Paul has ended Mitt Romney’s three-year run as conservatives’ favorite for president, taking 31 percent of the vote in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s annual straw poll.

Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas known for his libertarian views, ran for president in 2008 but was never a serious contender for the GOP nomination.

Romney, former Massachusetts governor and also a 2008 GOP candidate, has won the last three presidential straw polls at the annual conference. This year, he came in second, with 22 percent.

Sarah Palin, who didn’t attend the conference, was a distant third in the straw poll, with 7 percent, followed by Tim Pawlenty, the Minnesota governor, and Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana.

Thus ends any credibility of CPAC. They just put a crazy man on top. Good job, guys.

“Intellectual Ordinariness”

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

George F. Will thinks Sarah Palin is being celebrated for the quality named in the headline of this post.

In this work, he is a sad story. His whole point is that seven persons in ten consider Palin unfit for the presidency…therefore, he does as well. It’s not quite so much that he’s figuring out which way the wind is blowing and then responding to it. It’s that he’s figuring out which way the wind is blowing, and based on that figuring out whether this is the time to say out loud what he’s thinking. Which is just as bad. Not deriving an opinion from popular will, but being a fair-weather friend to popular will. Most people agree with me — on this one point — so on this one point, that proves I’m right. Naturally, if there’s some other point on which the popular will happens to be less receptive to George Will’s way of looking at things, we’ll never know about it.

So he sacrifices his intellectual scruples in order to put his finger on the pulse of The American People. That is the one prize…and it eludes him. He thinks Palin’s popularity is some rebellion against intellectual cred. Perhaps he is taking the situation too personally.

Could Thomas Sowell be talking about George Will, I wonder?

I can only speak for myself. This Palin supporter doesn’t give a good goddamn if her I.Q. is 200…or 50. I’m tired of the nonsense, tired of the bullshit, kill some terrorists and drill for some oil. At this point, those are the common sense things to do, and if you’ve got some talking points that make them seem otherwise I say you’re doing enough talking that you’ve stopped thinking so I don’t care how well you think you’re doing it.

I want to see some domestically produced oil barrels, some whittled-down tax rates across the board, crap-n-trade nuked for good so it ain’t never coming back, and some terrorist corpses with looks of real fear frozen on their dead crispy faces. Period. And frankly, all this talk of who’s “qualified” or smart or stupid or enlightened or educated or folksy or charmy or a lightworker, is beginning to bore me. And by bored what I mean is I’m getting pretty goddamn irritated over it for a couple of years now. I daresay I’m speaking for more people in that statement, than George Will is with his.

Are You Raising a Douchebag?

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Details.com.

DouchebagLet us begin with the assumption that if you are a parent, you wish for your child every advantage and opportunity. From the ergonomic high chair to that all-important first sushi experience and beyond, life should be as golden for your little one as it is for, say, Pax Jolie-Pitt.

But inevitably the moment arrives when all your doting and care come back on you in the form of a precocious little barb that reminds you in no uncertain terms of…you. It might be that his friend Jake’s eighth-birthday party was “unbelievably lame” or that “it’s weird that Brandon’s family flies first-class and we don’t,” or maybe it’s simply that “these taquitos taste like turd.”

Yes, of course I see a problem here. I have for awhile

Thing I Know #321. We have an awful lot of parents walking around who seem intent on raising their kids so that problems of future generations can be avoided. That is a good thing and it is to their credit. But they seem to think the biggest problems of those future generations have to do with people not feeling good about themselves, being unready to claim special perks and privileges. I don’t know how they settled on that. I wish they’d put a little bit more thought into this.

What is missing is a sense of commitment…obligation…duty. A feeling of self-worth that is won, through a process of earning things. Without that, you can’t teach a child that he’s a meaningful individual unless you teach him he was born that way, and if you teach him he’s a meaningful individual because he was born that way then what you’re teaching him is that he is somehow pre-destined to come before other people and things in terms of priority. Regardless of what he does.

And that, my friends, is the very definition of an asshole.

Update: I notice, a few months later, this was still on my mind:

Thing I Know #339. I’m not the first cranky old fart to say this and I won’t be the last. Back in “the day,” grown-ups yelled at kids, punished kids, shushed kids up, made kids feel like subhuman vermin anytime they felt like it; the kids grew up to cure diseases, invent wonderful machines that revolutionized civilization, and kill Nazis. Now, kids are wonderful no matter what they do. “Oh, Susie! You didn’t burn down the school today! Oh Johnny, you didn’t crap on the teacher’s desk! So precious!” And the kids learn how to text each other, play games, and do nothing else. You can’t tell them a goddamn thing. But don’t you dare call them lazy, unimaginative or inattentive. It’s a disability.

Melissa Predicts…

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Holy crap, now if she’s serious that’s what I call “balls”.

Prediction: Barack Obama Will Choose Not To Run Again; Primary Race Will Be Hillary Clinton & Evan Bayh

I do have to ‘fess up, though, that — although I’m not seeing this as the most likely sequence of events — if things really do go this way I’m not going to be completely surprised. I can envision Robert Gibbs saying at a press conference, “the President views His achievements as so complete and so definitive that second term simply isn’t needed.” Things are just going swimmingly, and if you can’t understand that then you’re just stupid.

Then we’d have a big ol’ shouting match, from sea to shining sea, about whether or not there is in fact anything wrong with being a one-term President. The democrats would all line up to tell us in that bullying way they have, that Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore, et al were some of our country’s very finest. We just haven’t been sufficiently sophisticated to understand it before now.

And of course that horse’s ass Carter. He had the courage to get his ass kicked! So let’s get started. Show what a GoodPersonTM you are. Follow this superior example that’s been given us by Barack and Jimmah.

Yeah. I can definitely see it.

Update: According to my archives…we already have some indications that this type of hairpin-turn thinking is nothing new for them. Nothing new at all:

“To Change the Thoughts, Actions and Feelings of Students”

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

That is the purpose of education. Charlotte Iserbyt asks, somewhere around 6:20, “you thought it was readin’, writin’ and ‘rithmetic??”

You can download the full e-book here. And you can also read her summaries on how and why she became a whistleblower, and some of the things she’s seen personally:

There are many talented and respected researchers and activists who have carefully documented the “weird” activities which have taken place “in the name of education.” Any opposition to change agent activities in local schools has invariably been met with cries of “Prove your case, document your statements,” etc. “Resisters”-usually parents-have been called every name in the book. Parents have been told for over thirty years, “You’re the only parent who has ever complained.” The media has been convinced to join in the attack upon common sense views, effectively discrediting the perspective of well-informed citizens. Documentation, when presented, has been ignored and called incomplete. The classic response by the education establishment has been, “You’re taking that out of context!”-even when presented with an entire book which uses their own words to detail exactly what the “resisters” are claiming to be true.

Socialism Viewed Positively by 36% of Americans

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Thirty-six points too high.

Socialism

Socialism had the lowest percentage positive rating and the highest negative rating of any term tested. Still, more than a third of Americans say they have a positive image of socialism.

Exactly how Americans define “socialism” or what exactly they think of when they hear the word is not known. The research simply measures Americans’ reactions when a survey interviewer reads the word to them — an exercise that helps shed light on connotations associated with this frequently used term.

There are significant differences in reactions to “socialism” across ideological and partisan groups:

* A majority of 53% of Democrats have a positive image of socialism, compared to 17% of Republicans.
* Sixty-one percent of liberals say their image of socialism is positive, compared to 39% of moderates and 20% of conservatives.

Capitalism

“Capitalism,” the word typically used to describe the United States’ prevailing economic system, generates positive ratings from a majority of Americans, with a third saying their reaction is negative.

As was the case with “socialism,” there are differences across population segments.

* Republicans are significantly more positive than Democrats in their reactions to “capitalism,” although majorities of both groups have favorable opinions.
* Opinions of the word by ideology are divided in an unusual, though modest, way. Conservatives have the highest positive image, followed by liberals. Moderates have somewhat lower positive ratings than either of these groups.

This nation, contrary to what’s being bullyingly implied in all walks of life, is actually about something and it isn’t just about the freedom to be an atheist. If that’s all the freedom you want, you can do that just about anywhere now.

It’s about having your own turf, and running it as you see fit so long as you abide by the laws and pay your bills. Being governed and not ruled.

This vision is not compatible with socialism, not even a little tiny bit.

Having 36% of us say socialism is okay, is no better than having 36% of us saying white supremacy is okay. It is every bit as alarming and every bit as much an offense to our founding principles. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: You want socialism? There’s over a hundred other spots on the earth you can go. Keep it outta here.

Lame List

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Because Lack of Diversity is Always Evil

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

More proxy offense taken on behalf of total strangers. Great stuff.

Hat tip once again to blogger friend Gerard.

Update: As one of the commenters over at his place points out, there are more black people at tea parties than there are at MSNBC. Pot, meet kettle?

If there is, as is often said, “still some racism out there”…how long would you have to stay quiet about it, if you made a point of waiting for the racism to come along that knows darn good and well internally that racism is what it is trying to be, and doesn’t have to have its own motivations explained to it by a pasty-faced blowhard hypocrite like Olbermann? If we’re supposed to do something to those people…educate them…convert them…banish them…the greater priority would be placed on the conscious and deliberate ones, right? Wouldn’t that just make sense?

What is this obsession with racists who need to be told they’re racists? “Look around at the other people marching with you”? Good heavens. I can see it now. “Hey! That feller on the teevee is right! Ah’m out here with a bunch o’white folks just like me! Ah’m a racist and Ah dunno it!”

Don’t give up — oh, sorry. That is your day job. How sad.

Slightly Related: Basil at IMAO puts Dramatic Chipmunk up against Dramatic Olbermann:

Call it a draw?

If Men Were Allowed to Edit Womens’ Magazines

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Click pic to view.

Hat tip to Linkiest.

Audi R8 V-12

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Space Invaders with Real Humans

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Making Cookies Using Photoshop

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Adobe Photoshop Cook from Lait Noir on Vimeo.

Hat tip again to Miss C.

“Drink My Breastmilk?”

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Obviously it’s an attention-getting ploy…so let’s accommodate her.

Without further comment.

W and X

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Willa Ford, who starred in the Friday the Thirteenth remake. She’s appealing enough we decided to go ahead and rent it…

Xenia Seeberg, known as Xev Bellringer, half-lizard pleasure creature in the dark science fiction non-anthology Lexx.

Which one?

We-ell…tough choice. I would say Willa easily beats the later Xenia, with her her all cropped down. On another note, how come it is that actresses do that? They get a successful gig going, men start tuning in just to watch them — and then the hair gets chopped.

In fact, I would say with the longer locks, Xenia just b-a-r-e-l-y squeaks out ahead. Just barely. Photo finish.

Birdshot in the Balls

Friday, February 19th, 2010

True Crime Report:

When police in Navarre, Florida received a call for a noise complaint, they arrived to find a bleeding man running toward them along with his girlfriend. The man’s groin was dripping blood, and he was screaming that he’d been shot…

Amanda Kelly told a deputy that her dad, William Russell Kelly Jr., had shot her boyfriend Randall Carter at their home. The reason for dad’s ire, according to the younger Kelly: “He hates him, dude.”

William readily admitted to the shooting, but claims a different motive. He says he unloaded his .45 revolver, which he affectionately calls “The Judge,” because Carter was assaulting this daughter. “I shot him in the nuts with bird-shot because he was beating my daughter,” Kelly told police.

He’s been charged with aggravated battery. Carter, meanwhile, has already received his sentence for messing with an armed man’s daughter.

New Media Bias Report

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Newsbusters

HOW JOURNALISTS VOTE

■ More than four-fifths of surveyed journalists voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election between 1964 and 1976.

■ More than three-fourths of “elite journalists” (76%) said they voted for Michael Dukakis in 1988.

■ 89% of Washington-based reporters said they voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. Only seven percent voted for George Bush, with two percent choosing Ross Perot.

■ An informal survey of Washington-based journalists in the summer of 2004 found them backing John Kerry over George W. Bush by a 12-to-1 margin.

■ In 2008, 96% of staffers at the online Slate magazine said they were supporting Barack Obama for president.

Americans don’t trust them.

Since the news is waning in its value as a friendly liberal bastion, the liberals are retreating to the world of comedy:

Since it was shown on Sunday, an episode of the Fox animated comedy “Family Guy” has drawn the repeated condemnation of Sarah Palin, the former Republican governor of Alaska and 2008 vice-presidential nominee.

In the episode, the teenage character Chris dates a girl named Ellen, who has Down syndrome, and who tells him over dinner that her mother is “the former governor of Alaska.” Ms. Palin, whose son Trig also has Down syndrome, has said that the “Family Guy” show “really isn’t funny” and was the work of “cruel, cold-hearted people.” Ms. Palin’s daughter Bristol has written that the “Family Guy” writers were “mocking my brother and my family,” and called them “heartless jerks.”

One person who supports the “Family Guy” staff is Andrea Fay Friedman, the 39-year-old actor and public speaker who played Ellen in that episode. Like the character, Ms. Friedman also has Down syndrome.

In an e-mail message sent on Thursday to The New York Times, Ms. Friedman wrote:

I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line “I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska” was very funny. I think the word is “sarcasm.”

In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.

I don’t know what impresses me more: The borderline-rebellious reaction of the public on the news front, after generations of being told what to think; or the sycophants commenting under the story about Ms. Friedman’s quarrel with the Palin family. I know they’re New York Times readers, but still.

We’re told what to think about what’s going on, and after forty years or so we start to rebel. We’re told what’s funny…and mmmm, more, my compliments to the chef, om nom nom nom.

Look at it objectively: They want to show that the girl has Downs’, so she says “My Mom’s the former Governor of Alaska.” Yuk, yuk. Funny? I suppose some might think so, but what’s with the bullying attitude that everyone else has to do the obligatory guffawing? Does it work the same way if I make fun of Barbra Streisand’s big schnoz?

See, this is how I think it ties in with media bias. Hardcore left-wing liberals, going back quite aways, seem to insist each and every single time on the last word insofar as who’s decent, who’s a jerk, what’s funny and what’s not. So of course if I made fun of an ugly dress worn by one of Barack Obama’s daughters, no, I would not have the right or privilege to order people to laugh at my joke.

Make fun of a prominent Republican and her family, and our liberals, who pride themselves so much on their ability to “think for themselves,” consider us all to be obligated to laugh. You aren’t allowed to say “I don’t think it’s funny but I won’t begrudge someone else a chuckle or two.” Read those comments, that isn’t good enough for them. You have to find it funny or you are not a decent person.

The Media Bias Report shows what happens to this viewpoint when we leave that safe zone of comedy. We get tired of this. We get tired of these pre-canned instructions about who we’re supposed to support, or what we’re supposed to want to have done to our health care system.

But our liberals don’t see it. They give each other orders, and that is how they live their lives. Kind of like ants, really.

Machine Drills Helmet From Aluminum Block

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Hat tip to Viral Footage.

Not In It For The Attention, Mind You… XL

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Got a text message from Cassy Fiano. Turns out she was the driving force behind our HotAir launch from last week. Looks like she sent the text the minute she submitted our link, and we didn’t hear the phone go off. Didn’t notice the text message until a day or two later. Thanks Cassy!

Slightly different subject: There is a rumor going around that Dr. Thomas Sowell is the author of a quote that actually came from us,

Intellectualism has become the readiness, willingness and ability to call dangerous things safe and safe things dangerous.

Yeah that sounds like it would come from him. But no, what happened was John Hawkins managed to score an interview with Dr. Sowell about the new book coming out, and chose to open it this way:

All right, and right off the bat let me ask you about a quote that showed up at number 11 on the best The 40 Best Political Quotes Of 2009,

Intellectualism has become the readiness, willingness and ability to call dangerous things safe and safe things dangerous.

Now this is a common perception among a lot of people. Do you think there is any truth to it?

Oh, my God, yes.

Awesomesauce. Thanks for leading with that, John. And to Gerard for linking it, made me all giddy to find out about this. Even if my name sorta slipped into the memory hole. That’s alright.

Of course, if you watch Sowell interviews a lot of them tend to go this way minute to minute, so I’m not joining much of an exclusive crowd. “Dr. Sowell, do you agree with this, do you agree with that, do you agree with this other thing over here?” Kind of like throwing palm fronds down in the dirt before The Savior in Jerusalem. But we’re flattered nevertheless. This is one of the great thinkers of our time, perhaps the greatest. Even if he has little way of knowing who we are.

“More Facts and Figures to Make You Mad”

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Nealz Nuze:

So here are a few tidbits to gnaw on, thanks to the Wall Street Journal:

When the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, the debt held by the public was 36.2% of GDP. It rose to 40.2% the next year. This year it will be about 63.6%, next year 68.6%, then 77% of GDP in 2020. And the Obama administration’s budget estimates 218% in 2050.

The deficit in 2007 was $160 billion. In the next year the Pelosi-Reid Congress took it up to $458 billion, and when President Obama came into office in 2009 it hit $1.4 trillion. The current 2010 projected deficit is $1.6 trillion, which will lead to a tripling of our national debt from 2008 to 2020.

The Washington Post’s Robert Samuelson calculated that to fund all the future deficit expenditures would require taxes to increase “by roughly 50 percent from the average 1970-2009 tax burden.”

Another Low Blow

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Boortz doesn’t think very good things would happen to you if you were a cartoonist and you chose to lampoon a liberal politician this way. I agree.

I’d sum up the mood of the intelligentsia this way: “(Name of lefty politician here)’s family is absolutely positively off-limits, now get a load of my Tripp Palin impression.”

Cannonball in Mercury

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Hat tip to Fatale Abstraction.

Banning Marriages Between People Who Don’t Love Each Other

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010


New Law Would Ban Marriages Between People Who Don’t Love Each Other

Geography Bees

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Hat tip to Miss Cellania.

Updating Our Sidebar

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

If my math is right, we have 503 sidebar resources now, and that does not include the sister sites that are listed under the Webloggin and Blogs For Palin containers.

It probably does include a few dead sites that, once upon a time, titillated me sometime in the last four years or so. Not much we can do about that.

That includes 442 bronze blogs, which is the emblem we use to represent, for lack of a better phrase, “some guy with a blog.” Some guy whose politics are kinda-sorta in line with ours. If you’re one of the 20 turquoise blogs that means you’re a left-wing maggot-infested hippie of some kind…but we made up our mind we kind of like you anyway, because unlike most liberal hippies you’ve been found to have an occasional original thought in your dreadlocked head.

A blog cannot be silver unless it is the culmination of some collaborative effort. To be one of our 32 silver blogs, it is not enough to just write some stuff, you have to host something. You have to have some kind of panel of contributors, and you have to have some criteria, written or not, about the writers that qualify to participate in your panel.

And the seven blogs we recognize as gold, are household names. You walk up to someone who doesn’t know jack about blogs, and say “hey I read something in a blog” and that person might say “Oh, you mean like (insert name of blog here)?” If you pass that test, you might be gold.

Which leaves just two platinums. Platinum means I’m addicted and have been addicted for years. Platinum means Boortz and FARK, just those two.

Now here’s the thing.

Somewhere around the beginning of the year, I lost the sidebar. I have been keeping it in version control, but I hadn’t done a “commit” on my version control archive since several weeks before Christmas. Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out who I lost, and get their links all restored to the blog roll.

Also, we have an unofficial, unwritten policy that if someone links to us, we link to them — unless they’re being dicks, which is something that hasn’t happened for a lot of years. And lately we keep on finding some poor soul who’s been faithfully linking to us, for years maybe, without us linking back. We catch it and catch it and catch it some more…think after you take a load in the ass with a shotgun, and for years afterward you’re digging pellets from back there and after awhile you just resign yourself to the fact that your ass has pellets in it and you’ll never get them all. That’s where we’ve been. Except we appreciate it more than digging lead pellets out of our ass. But the digging continues. It’s getting tiresome. We appreciate the attention, but we don’t appreciate catching ourselves denying the same to others.

So we also have a policy not to give shout-outs. We don’t want to fall off that brink of running a blog just to put up passive-aggressive “Am I The Only One Who” posts. So we don’t SNUL.

Our policies are in conflict with each other.

The shout-out must proceed.

So give me a shout if you’re linking to us, and we’re not linking back. We are sufficiently frustrated now we’re ready to admit we need the guidance. Or, if you’re not linking yet and you would like to link.

And you can comment too. If you think one of our links is a left-wing pinhead and I failed to realize it at the time I categorized whoever it is…or if you find one that’s dead. One that regularly puts up pictures of female body parts, and we don’t have our courteous little NSFW tag by their link. We’d like to know about that before anything else. It’s kinda important…

So go to town. Yes, we’re soliciting input. Say hi, say “here’s my blog,” whack us in the back of the head…criticize our friends…whatever. Let’s hear it.

Best Sentence LXXXIII

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

The eighty-third award for the Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) goes to the aptly named That’s Right.

As is occasionally the case, it’s a little bit more than one sentence. Oh well. Deal.

Sometimes I Feel Sorry for Barack Obama
:
Any sensible, rational person learns three things from looking at and studying the political philosophy best characterized as “collectivism” and that is that, 1) it didn’t work, 2) it will never work, and 3) most importantly, it cannot work. Barack Obama is simply an absorber and a regurgitator; he is not a learner. His comments in his early life, on the campaign and during his first year in office are literally plagiarized from any collegiate socialist textbook. There’s no learning involved. There’s no contemplation involved. There is only a desperate need to believe in something that he hadn’t found anywhere else.

Hat tip to Camp of the Saints.

Intellectuals and Society

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

“Many of the great disasters of our time have been committed by experts.”

At somewhere around 12:00, there’s a discussion of the events following the market crash of ’29. Make it at least that far.

Avatar Inspired Look

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010