Good, err, afternoon. I’ve been off work the last two days with my parents visiting. So my schedule has gone to the dogs. I’ve a few moments of quiet this afternoon, my father and I have successfully completed our (gas) plumbing project.
Obama’s primary means of killing the economy continues apace, that is to say uncertainty. There are those who continue to assure me Mr Obama is really really smart. If so, he knows this is happening and therefore its purposeful. Toward what end does he continue to try to damage or kill the US economy?
Obamacare fail. One wonders when all those putatively really smart people will notice that if some of their sure-fire predictions was so off base, how many of their more spectulative notions they based their support for Obamacare are also flawed?
Faux outrage from the left. I found the outrage at corporate tax dodging (queue GM/Chrysler images) amusing. Democrats ostensibly are for graduated taxes, while any corporate tax paid by the consumer irrespective of their earnings. I hadn’t realized the Democrats were so strongly for consumption taxes on non-luxury items.
It’s cute when Democrats slip in little racism jabs at the GOP … all while ignoring the fact that for 2 years they held the Presidency had a bi-Cameral majority.
If you drove on a public highway yesterday, then you almost killed someone else in a head-on collision
Or so goes the logic which was applied to Joe Zamudio. Zamudio was the armed citizen who happened to be buying cigarettes inside a store near where Gabby Giffords was conducting her constituent meet-up. Upon hearing (and recognizing) the gunshots, he ran towards the scene and helped secure the alleged shooter. While he considered drawing his weapon, his assessment of the situation upon his arrival was to keep it holstered. From an LA Times article, we read,
A bystander with a Ruger intent on ending the violence almost shot the wrong guy. But he made a split-second decision to keep the weapon in his pocket.
(emphasis added)
So, as Massad Ayoob, firearms trainer and podcaster, says,
…by that standard, if you’re listening to this podcast while driving, you just “almost” had a hundred head-on collisions with traffic in the opposite lane.
You can listen to an extended interview of Zamudio, by the Ayoob group, in which he explains not only what happened that day he was buying cigarettes, but afterwards with the media. The Zamudio interview begins around 10 minutes into the podcast.
Note that Zamudio categorically states that he did not draw his weapon. Yet another quote from the Times article states,
Zamudio, 24, had his finger on the trigger and seconds to decide.
He lifted his finger from the trigger and ran toward the struggling men.
No, he did not have his finger on the trigger.
Bottomline: if the media ever wants to interview you, then make sure you also record the entire interview.
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An interview of the Bell on Hell Interviewer
Audio interview of Martin Bashir, who recently interviewed Rob Bell regarding his universalist book Love Wins and, according to many Bell followers, was really mean to Bell.
The Obama economic "recovery" turned 2 years old in May. Upwards of a trillion dollars spent, for what? The number of people with jobs hasn’t changed, unemployment is far worse than they said it would be if we did nothing, median incomes are down, housing prices are down 10%, and I don’t need to tell you about gas prices. If George W. Bush were President, you just know he’d be personally blamed for this, but Obama gets a pass.
Canada, by the way, has been leading the US out of this mire by reducing debt and spending, even with a socialized medicine albatross around its neck.
When you make entitlements untouchable, you risk hurting those you purport to be concerned about because economic collapse hurts us all, including and especially the poor. The idea that it couldn’t happen here is severely myopic.
And finally, "smart" diplomacy". (Click for a larger version.)
That auto bailout again … costing 18 billion … you know my company could benefit from a free $250k per employee. I bet your’s could too. So, do you think they’ll get another bailout in 10-20 years just like last time?
If there is a dumber reason to take kids out of a parents home, I’ve never seen it.
Let’s see, after 8 years of Democratic obstructionism in the same venue (which was likely praised by this source) … now … now(!) it’s horrible. How about, it was bad then, it’s bad now. But you’d have to be admitting it was bad then, see.
$3 million per job, at that rate … well, you know. It looks like when a company gets big gov’t grants, they get to borrow government inefficiencies and waste.
A poor tipper to boot. He may be innocent until proven guilty, but he sure seems like the horses back end.
NASA’s Spirit has completed its mission
After operating for over 6 years, for what was supposed to be a 3 month mission, NASA has ceased attempting to communicate with the Mars Rover Spirit. Quite an accomplishment for the space agency.
The abortion debate will not go away. The fundamental issue at stake is not reproductive freedom but the desire to extend human rights to all — even the smallest and most vulnerable human beings among us. Those who continue to ignore or deny the humanity of the unborn are increasingly on the defensive because new technologies are opening the window into the womb. What we find there are not tissues to be discarded, but human lives worth protecting.
Words, and their meaning(s)
While the title of the article states, Immigrant drivers licenses will be on table for special session, the body clarifies,
The battle to stop illegal immigrants from receiving drivers licenses will continue this year.
Good morning. I was real busy yesterday, and didn’t troll for links much. Here’s what I’ve got.
Perhaps, “virtue ethics is for idiots” but is that a statement to put alongside “consequential ethics are for knuckleheads” … what is this meta-ethics for kindergarden?
A conversation the liberals avoid. More tight coupling of healthcare and politics means more politics in healthcare. Is that a good thing? That’s really what we need, Tammany hall healthcare, where you need to confirm your political alliance and graft vouchers before your mom gets her bypass. Connections get you stuff. Wonderful. Welcome to the new world as envisioned by Mr Obama and company.
The economics of piracy (not software but on-the-sea with guns and stuff piracy).
Stradeggy and the President, speaking tours (noted here as well). So what was Obama’s strategy in suggestion on opposite days that Israel receed to pre-67 borders and not receed?
I think probably a better hybrid car solution than batteries, at least for recovering braking energy as batteries lose a lot of energy to heat (which also damages the batteries).
This is what climate stupidity looks like when gussied up to look like science. Two points. Heat a pot of water to say, 50 degrees (c). Observe. Now heat it up 1-2 degrees more … big difference, eh? Secondly, too bad there is no actual statistical evidence that violent storms have increased over in their intensity or freqency over the last two centuries.
Here’s a hint why we might think that they have increased, besides confirmation bias in the mind of the true believers.
That being said, the contrast is remarkable, MI before and after.
When three men call you an ass, buy a saddle. However, on the Internet, I’ve noticed that if you ignore someone … it’s really like they’ve just gone away.
Marriage. We had a small wedding. Hopefully my daughters will do the same. Our anniversary was just last weekend, 18 years. Our first song was not “Damnation”, but perhaps not much better (I don’t know that song). Ours was Lyle Lovett’s “She’s no Lady, She’s my Wife.”
So, this brings up a question, how do you remember Ms Hill and that kerfuffle? True victim or politically motivated character assasination?
Coming to understand Obama. Unless he is saying something politically damaging to himself, there is no reason attribute his statements as being anything other than noise.
I think he’s wrong on that exacty point (kids for quite some time are going to be using a whole plethora of devices for their formative artworks), but the main point remains. Oddly enough, this weekend our “family movie night” movie was the 80s film Diva, which by the by I’d recommend. They had no idea what a reel to reel tape was.
Non-orientable pasta, seems to me there’s a whole bunch or horrible puns in that notion.
Ooooh, incorrect stupid memes from the last election return from the dead. Uhm, Ms Palin was not incorrect in her answer, there were at least 4 different doctrines that could be described as “the Bush Doctrine”. Being unable to answer when an interviewer pretends there is only one is not incorrect but spot on.
