Keep well-spoken conservatives off of your networks. MSNBC re-learned this little lesson yesterday when they invited John Ziegler:
UPDATE 6pm:
And not to just knock the government run media. Let's see how the libs behave on the other side of the equation:
Those darn conservatives - getting in the way of the proletarian dictatorship...
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Anonymous Bloggers
We dedicate this post to bloggers Ed Morrisey and SondraK, both owners of the 'fascionable' Commie Obama Rally Cap and ardent defenders of the anonymous blogger.
Morrisey started the poll above at HotAir, and discussed the recent outing of an anonymous blogger. He comments on his early anonimity:
SondraK chimes in at KnowledgeIsPower:
Our motivation: we don't want a Google search to show a future employer 3000 hits of partisan babble. It would be relatively easy to find our identity and liberals are encouraged to try since their instinct is to find any reason to avoid debating our positions. 640 posts in three years and not one retraction or correction, just a couple naive predictions and one very cool hat.
Morrisey started the poll above at HotAir, and discussed the recent outing of an anonymous blogger. He comments on his early anonimity:
When I first began blogging, I used a semi-pseudonym, a nickname I’d had for two decades before blogging, for much the same reason as Publius. I worked in the corporate world and not academia, but I didn’t want my firm’s customers or my staff to get uncomfortable working with me. My family already knew about the blogging, so that wasn’t a motivation for me, but otherwise I completely understand why Publius wanted to retain his anonymity. My success eventually outed me, and it did cause me some problems — most of which were self-inflicted — but I’m happy about how it worked out since, for obvious reasons. Had someone else outed me instead, I would have been furious, and for good reasons.
SondraK chimes in at KnowledgeIsPower:
Bloggers should worry less about the anonymity of bloggers (which isn’t a “bane” at all) and respond to the arguments instead — or ignore them.
Our motivation: we don't want a Google search to show a future employer 3000 hits of partisan babble. It would be relatively easy to find our identity and liberals are encouraged to try since their instinct is to find any reason to avoid debating our positions. 640 posts in three years and not one retraction or correction, just a couple naive predictions and one very cool hat.
Monday, June 08, 2009
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Friday, June 05, 2009
Found on the Web Today
Obama's first directive to his employees at GM - "Stop making cars, and start making t-shirts!". Even less profitable than washing machines, which the Soviets made in their military factories. $19.99. Oh, and remember, Obama is not a socialist! UT: Drudge
Steve Gilbert at Sweetness & Light gives us the unemployment graph. Imagine what this will look like in a year... Click here to read his write-up.
Say Uncle reports that some Tennessee restaurants do not like the new law that allows concealed carry licensees to carry heat in their restaurants, and that they've posted signs barring those with background checks and clean criminal histories. He is starting a list of the gun-free-zone restaurants - here.
Steve Gilbert at Sweetness & Light gives us the unemployment graph. Imagine what this will look like in a year... Click here to read his write-up.
Say Uncle reports that some Tennessee restaurants do not like the new law that allows concealed carry licensees to carry heat in their restaurants, and that they've posted signs barring those with background checks and clean criminal histories. He is starting a list of the gun-free-zone restaurants - here.
Karl's Weekend Reading
Two big events this week: GM's bankruptcy & nationalization, and Obama's speed in Cairo. Plus the Sotomayer nomination is gaining speed.
Obama Cairo Speech - Hanson at NRO, The Age of Middle East Atonement:
Obama Cairo Speech - Krauthammer at Townhall, The Settlements Canard:
GM Nationalization - Hewitt at Townhall, Stopping Government Motors:
Sotomayer - Sowell at NRO, Harlem, Then and Now:
Sotomayer - Hanson at NRO, Sotomayor's Mistake:
Have a great weekend!
Obama Cairo Speech - Hanson at NRO, The Age of Middle East Atonement:
His speech essentially amounted to: “We did that, you did this, tit-for-tat, now we’re even, and can’t we all just get along?” He should be congratulated for expressing a desire for peace and for gently reminding the Muslim world of the way to reform, even if he did so while inflating Western sins.
Obama Cairo Speech - Krauthammer at Townhall, The Settlements Canard:
In his much-heralded "Muslim world" address in Cairo Thursday, Obama declared that the Palestinian people's "situation" is "intolerable." Indeed it is, the result of 60 years of Palestinian leadership that gave its people corruption, tyranny, religious intolerance and forced militarization; leadership that for three generations -- Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1947, Yasser Arafat in 2000, Abbas in December 2008 -- rejected every offer of independence and dignity, choosing destitution and despair rather than accept any settlement not accompanied by the extinction of Israel.
In the 16 years since the Oslo accords turned the West Bank and Gaza over to the Palestinians, their leaders -- Fatah and Hamas alike -- built no schools, no roads, no courthouses, no hospitals, no institutions that would relieve their people's suffering. Instead they poured everything into an infrastructure of war and terror, all the while depositing billions (from gullible Western donors) into their Swiss bank accounts.
Obama says he came to Cairo to tell the truth. But he uttered not a word of that.
In the 16 years since the Oslo accords turned the West Bank and Gaza over to the Palestinians, their leaders -- Fatah and Hamas alike -- built no schools, no roads, no courthouses, no hospitals, no institutions that would relieve their people's suffering. Instead they poured everything into an infrastructure of war and terror, all the while depositing billions (from gullible Western donors) into their Swiss bank accounts.
Obama says he came to Cairo to tell the truth. But he uttered not a word of that.
GM Nationalization - Hewitt at Townhall, Stopping Government Motors:
President Obama's decision to seize General Motors and convert it into Government Motors is as shocking as it is unpopular. Polling shows, like the president's stubborn insistence that Gitmo be closed and its terrorist prisoners brought stateside, the president's insistence that GM be nationalized is appalling to large majorities of Americans. The socialization of America's biggest brand is not the sort of decision that can be cloaked in head-faking rhetoric. What had been a private company on the verge of bankruptcy is now a government actor competing against private sector companies and using the federal treasury as an enormous unfair advantage in the marketplace. Even if the cost itself was not so staggering, the idea of the federal government declaring itself on the side of one of many competitors is as distasteful as it is unprecedented. It must be reversed.
Sotomayer - Sowell at NRO, Harlem, Then and Now:
There were standards for getting into the projects of those days and, if you didn’t live up to those standards, they put you out. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was quoted as saying, “When kids played on the grass, their parents would get a warning.” That seems almost quaint when you think of what has gone on in the housing projects of a later era.
Since there has been so much talk of putting some of Sonia Sotomayor’s inflammatory words “in context,” perhaps we should put her personal life in context, if the media insist on making her personal life a factor in her nomination to the Supreme Court. While she grew up in a public housing project, the words “housing project” in that era did not mean anything like the housing projects of today.
Since there has been so much talk of putting some of Sonia Sotomayor’s inflammatory words “in context,” perhaps we should put her personal life in context, if the media insist on making her personal life a factor in her nomination to the Supreme Court. While she grew up in a public housing project, the words “housing project” in that era did not mean anything like the housing projects of today.
Sotomayer - Hanson at NRO, Sotomayor's Mistake:
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has scolded Americans for being “cowards” and not talking more about race. Now, Holder is getting that “dialogue” with the recent controversy surrounding President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor.
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Aside from Sotomayor’s notion that federal jobs should be parceled out on the basis of race, what exactly does she mean in an America that is intermarrying, integrating, and assimilating as never before?
And why were the same people who now hold up Sotomayor’s background as a qualification for the Supreme Court so quick, when George W. Bush was president, to rally to deny Miguel Estrada a court-of-appeals judgeship?
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Aside from Sotomayor’s notion that federal jobs should be parceled out on the basis of race, what exactly does she mean in an America that is intermarrying, integrating, and assimilating as never before?
And why were the same people who now hold up Sotomayor’s background as a qualification for the Supreme Court so quick, when George W. Bush was president, to rally to deny Miguel Estrada a court-of-appeals judgeship?
Have a great weekend!
Dr. Tiller
Our opinion of Dr. Tiller is captured somewhere within these five links. Two from the wacky left, Daily Kos and Democrat Underground, and two from right wing nuts, Ann Coulter and Wizbang. The last from one of the Doctor's patients. Are we objective, or what?!
DailyKosTV:
Democrat Underground:
The murder of Dr. Tiller was an act of terror. Although its immediate victim was a man, it was aimed at women's hearts and minds, designed to shatter our oneness and assert control. And it is part of a larger campaign of terror—if we must throw that word around then let us use it where it truly applies. When the murderer squeezes the trigger, when Bill O’Reilly thunders on Fox News or Randall Terry pontificates, they are sending the same message to women, “Your bodies, your fertility, your sexuality must remain under our control, or you will die, along with anyone who helps you.”
Ann Coulter, owner of our Commie Obama hat:
...the killing of about one abortionist per decade leads liberals to condemn the entire pro-life movement as "domestic terrorists." At least liberals have finally found some terrorists they'd like to send to Guantanamo.
Tiller bragged about performing 60,000 abortions, including abortions of viable babies, able to survive outside the mother's womb. He made millions of dollars performing late-term abortions so gruesome that only two other abortionists -- not a squeamish bunch -- in the entire country would perform them.
Tiller bragged about performing 60,000 abortions, including abortions of viable babies, able to survive outside the mother's womb. He made millions of dollars performing late-term abortions so gruesome that only two other abortionists -- not a squeamish bunch -- in the entire country would perform them.
And Wizbang (graphic images):
Wichita abortionist George Tiller offers a memorial service in his facility after he performs a partial-birth abortion. The mom and the dad in the pictures below paid Tiller a few thousand dollars to kill Tess, their baby girl.
Kelly, former Tiller patient:
And about the third or fourth day Dr. Tiller came in and injected into the amniotic sack a saline solution, which suffocated and burned my baby to death. And on the last day they put you in a room with other women — there's, like, maybe six to 10 beds in a big room. And every woman is lying there. And they kind of go down the line and whatever's ready, you know, they decide that you're dilated enough and they put you in wheelchair and wheel you out to another room.
And in this other room there's basically a toilet, and they told me to sit on the toilet, lean on the nurse, and push, push my baby into a toilet.
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I'm disgusted that women are told that they have a choice, yet no one tells us what that choice is or what that choice is going to do to us or to the baby, for that matter.
And in this other room there's basically a toilet, and they told me to sit on the toilet, lean on the nurse, and push, push my baby into a toilet.
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I'm disgusted that women are told that they have a choice, yet no one tells us what that choice is or what that choice is going to do to us or to the baby, for that matter.
Communism: Multiple countries, 92 years, 100 million and counting
Abortion: Within the US, 37 years, 49 million and counting
But really. Who's counting?
Cairo Speech, and Moral Equivalency
Obama gave a speech this week in Cairo. Charles Krauthammer opines:
U/T: HotAir
...the speech was so abstract, and vapid, and self-absorbed...
U/T: HotAir
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
The "S" Word
as reviewed by blogger, Eric, at Classical Values:
Legitimate questions from an objective thinker, or just more rancid words from another "stupid" "right wing nut"?
In theory, "socialism" is still a perfectly legitimate word, but I worry that it is becoming delegitimized. As it is, the responsible critics of Barack Obama's economic programs are very, very careful not to use the word "socialist," and if they do, it is only to distance themselves from those who call Barack Obama a socialist.
Even as it excoriated his policies, The Economist recently defended Barack Obama against the charge that he's a socialist, because
"No true leftist would be as allergic as he has been to nationalising tottering banks, nor as coldly calculating in letting Chrysler, and probably General Motors, end up in bankruptcy court."
Sorry, but this avoids an important issue. At what point can nationalization be said to have taken place? By what standard is government ownership of 72% of a company less than "true" socialism?
Even as it excoriated his policies, The Economist recently defended Barack Obama against the charge that he's a socialist, because
"No true leftist would be as allergic as he has been to nationalising tottering banks, nor as coldly calculating in letting Chrysler, and probably General Motors, end up in bankruptcy court."
Sorry, but this avoids an important issue. At what point can nationalization be said to have taken place? By what standard is government ownership of 72% of a company less than "true" socialism?
Legitimate questions from an objective thinker, or just more rancid words from another "stupid" "right wing nut"?
Monday, June 01, 2009
GM, Obligatory Post
Ahh, peace and quiet. Albeit for a short time. The loud mouths screaming "Obama is not a socialist" are sleeping in today. Why strain the ol vocal cords on the day Obama takes a 70% stake in a major American corporation?
Ion Mihai Pacepa, former Communist and Romanian Chief of Intelligence, and only author with two books in our library to your left, writes in today's WSJ, What I learned as a Car Czar:
From today's WSJ Editorial, The Obama Motor Co.:
A picture of the East German Trabi:
None of this would have happened if we had had National Health Care this past decade.
Our question: Who will buy a 2010 Corvette?
Ion Mihai Pacepa, former Communist and Romanian Chief of Intelligence, and only author with two books in our library to your left, writes in today's WSJ, What I learned as a Car Czar:
They say history repeats itself. If you are like me and have lived two lives, you have a good chance of seeing the re-enactment with your own eyes. The current takeover of General Motors by the U.S. government and United Auto Workers makes me think back to Romania's catastrophic mismanagement of the car factories it built jointly with the French companies Renault and Citroen. I was Romania's car czar.
When the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decided in the mid-1960s that he wanted to have a car industry, he chose me to start the project rolling. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I knew nothing about manufacturing cars, but neither did anyone else among Ceausescu's top men.
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In 1945, the British voters, tired of four years of war, kicked out Winston Churchill and elected a leftist parliament led by Labour's Clement Attlee. Attlee nationalized the automobile, trucking and coal industries, as well as communication facilities, civil aviation, electricity and steel. Britain was already saddled by crushing war debts. Now it was sapped of economic vigor. The old empire quickly passed into history. It would take decades until Margaret Thatcher's privatization reforms restored Britain's place among the world's top-tier economies.
The United States is far more powerful than Great Britain was then, and no American Attlee should be capable of destroying its solid economic and political base. I hope that the U.S. administration, Congress and the American voters will take a closer look at history and prevent our automotive industry from following down the Dacia [picture below], Oltcit or Jaguar path.
When the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decided in the mid-1960s that he wanted to have a car industry, he chose me to start the project rolling. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I knew nothing about manufacturing cars, but neither did anyone else among Ceausescu's top men.
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In 1945, the British voters, tired of four years of war, kicked out Winston Churchill and elected a leftist parliament led by Labour's Clement Attlee. Attlee nationalized the automobile, trucking and coal industries, as well as communication facilities, civil aviation, electricity and steel. Britain was already saddled by crushing war debts. Now it was sapped of economic vigor. The old empire quickly passed into history. It would take decades until Margaret Thatcher's privatization reforms restored Britain's place among the world's top-tier economies.
The United States is far more powerful than Great Britain was then, and no American Attlee should be capable of destroying its solid economic and political base. I hope that the U.S. administration, Congress and the American voters will take a closer look at history and prevent our automotive industry from following down the Dacia [picture below], Oltcit or Jaguar path.
From today's WSJ Editorial, The Obama Motor Co.:
GM, we are told, will now be able to make a profit and some day even return money to taxpayers. If you close your eyes and imagine that GM's private managers would be able to make decisions based solely on business judgment, you can even start to believe.
But then you snap out of it.
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[From the print edition, but missing from the online version. Why?] Now that the government owns GM, it's only a matter of time before Congress starts to micromanage its business judgements. Every decision to close a plant will be second-guessed, much like a military base-closing. And what about buying parts from foreign suppliers? Will those also be banned when Mr. Gettelfinger [UAW head] demands it, even if the costs are lower? GM's managers and directors will have one eye on enhancing shareholder value, but the other on maintaining their political viability in Washington.
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The larger corruption will be when government tries to vindicate its ownership by favoring GM over Ford and the other auto makers that aren't wards of the state. The TARP legislation contained one blatant example in the form of a $7,500 tax credit for consumers who buy GM's new electric car, the Chevy Volt. Expect more such favoritism, including huge new subsidies for green cars if consumers prove resistant to their charms.
Mr. Obama likes to say he's a pragmatist who only prefers a government solution when it will work. But in resurrecting an industrial auto policy that even the French long ago abandoned, the President has made himself GM's de facto CEO. Our guess is that he'll come to regret it as much as taxpayers will.
But then you snap out of it.
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[From the print edition, but missing from the online version. Why?] Now that the government owns GM, it's only a matter of time before Congress starts to micromanage its business judgements. Every decision to close a plant will be second-guessed, much like a military base-closing. And what about buying parts from foreign suppliers? Will those also be banned when Mr. Gettelfinger [UAW head] demands it, even if the costs are lower? GM's managers and directors will have one eye on enhancing shareholder value, but the other on maintaining their political viability in Washington.
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The larger corruption will be when government tries to vindicate its ownership by favoring GM over Ford and the other auto makers that aren't wards of the state. The TARP legislation contained one blatant example in the form of a $7,500 tax credit for consumers who buy GM's new electric car, the Chevy Volt. Expect more such favoritism, including huge new subsidies for green cars if consumers prove resistant to their charms.
Mr. Obama likes to say he's a pragmatist who only prefers a government solution when it will work. But in resurrecting an industrial auto policy that even the French long ago abandoned, the President has made himself GM's de facto CEO. Our guess is that he'll come to regret it as much as taxpayers will.
A picture of the East German Trabi:
None of this would have happened if we had had National Health Care this past decade.
Our question: Who will buy a 2010 Corvette?