LEE RODGERSIRAN PLOT REAL -- OR COVER FOR THE
Holder OF THE GUNS?
What is Obama going to do about the murder-plots by Iran? Maybe he's waiting for instructions from Pahk-ee-stahn ...
Oh, wait! He's imposing ... SANCTIONS! Ooooooo! You KNOW Ahmadenijad is just trembling in fear over THAT!
Or ... is the revelation of the "plot" a fiction designed to divert political heat from Obama's fellow-Marxist Attorney General, Eric Holder, and his gun-running debacle? (If anyone objects to the use of the word "Marxist", I judge by deeds, not words.)
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The Obama/Holder gun-running scheme was a blatant attempt to discredit U.S. firearms dealers and their customers in order to advance their proposition that "American gun sales TO AMERICANS were the source of weapons for Mexican criminals" -- and at the same time were pressuring dealers to make massive sales to the ATF's designated buyers who'd make SURE those guns wound up in the hands of Mexican criminals. Those guns would later be "discovered" in Mexico as "proof" of the administration's anti-gun thesis. In short, they were planting "evidence".
"Evil", "deceitful" and "corrupt" don't even BEGIN to describe this lying administration. And again the stupid Republicans in Congress, even as they subpoena Obamunists, have failed to make clear to the public the purpose behind this plot.
Republicans have never learned the fundamental lesson of communications, which is: Tell them what you're GOING to tell them ... then TELL them ... then tell that what you just TOLD them.
Any politician who assumes his audience is so attuned to nuance and subtle references that they'll understand his message is doomed to failure.
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More "stimulus" screw-ups ...
From Monroe, Louisiana comes word that $36 million of Obama "stimulus" money was spent on a terminal building at the regional airport there that is so wrongly designed, the building's jetways can't connect to airplanes.
In the real world of private enterprise, of course, such incompetence would be rewarded with firing at the least ... or possible prosecution for fraud. Think anyone connected with this government project will face either?
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Quotes from the "Occupy" movement ...
"The Jews control Wall Street" ... "Violence will be necessary to achieve our goals".
And idiots like Pelosi and Obama align themselves with these scum.
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Jesse Jackson, relegated to secondary status in the race-pimping sweepstakes, now calls for Obama to BYPASS Congress and create millions of make-work government jobs as a cure for unemployment.
Scratch many a "civil rights activist" and you'll find a festering tyrant.
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Footnote to the Congressional subpoena of Attorney General Eric Holder ...
Anyone who's surprised at the blatantly race-based operations in the Justice Department might well heed these observations by Thomas Sowell ...
"Among those who have been disappointed by President Barack Obama, none is likely to end up so painfully disappointed as those who saw his election as being, in itself and in its consequences, a movement toward a 'post-racial society.'
"Like so many other expectations that so many people projected onto this little-known man who suddenly burst onto the political scene, the expectation of movement toward a post-racial society had no speck of hard evidence behind it -- and all too many ignored indications of the very opposite, including his two decades of association with the egregious Reverend Jeremiah Wright."
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Say what??! Herman Cain says he'd appoint a Federal Reserve chairman like ... Alan Greenspan?!
There went a ton of Tea Party votes! It also raises doubts that Mr. Cain is ready, in showbiz parlance, to "play the main room." While Greenspan may look good compared to the present Chairman, the fool Bernanke, he still paved the way for our present economic difficulties with stupid policies.
On the plus side, economist Arthur Laffer, father of the bell-curve theory of taxation and its result, endorses Mr. Cain and says his 9-9-9 plan could be the foundation for an economic growth policy. There remains, however, the very difficult task of getting it passed by Congress.
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From the Consumer Energy Alliance --
One year ago President Obama's drilling moratorium officially came to a close, but twelve months later Gulf of Mexico oil production is still lagging. The Interior Department refuses to issue permits at a reasonable pace, the number of drilling rigs in the Gulf is down 37%, and since May 2010 at least 11 rigs have left the Gulf of Mexico for other countries. The result: 11,500 lost jobs and millions of barrels of oil that America must now import.
Obamanomics, gateway to guaranteed disaster.
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Warren forwards this from the Santa Cruz Sentinel ...
SCOTTS VALLEY - Lintelle Engineering is closing its doors after 22 years of business, unable to stay afloat after Solyndra, its largest customer, filed for bankruptcy without paying Lintelle $1.9 million for products already shipped.
So the Obama scam claims more victims.
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Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online has questions remaining Obama supporters might consider ...
"What have been the truly innovative, groundbreaking or even unconventional big public policy ideas to come out of this administration? Are there any? Because from where I sit, it simply looks like Obama takes existing, conventional, liberal ideas – some of them very, very old – off the liberal pantry shelf and hawks them like it’s new inventory. Where’s the evidence that Obama’s “mastery” over public policy has translated itself into creative approaches? Not in the stimulus from what I can tell. Maybe there’s something impressive to tout in ObamaCare, but Obama didn’t actually have much to do with the crafting of ObamaCare. Was his genius to be found in shoveling cash into Solyndra and other embarrassing white elephants? Was he the guiding intellect behind a green jobs program that has produced dozens of jobs in places where it was supposed to create thousands?
"And if he’s such a genius about public policy, why did it take him so long to discover that there’s no such thing as “shovel ready jobs”? You don’t have to be a Jedi Master of public policy to have known that.
Heck, if he’s spent so much time focusing on getting the policies right, why are things so bad? Why are they so much worse than he predicted? Why did it take him so long figuring out reality was sharply veering from his assumptions?"
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Silliest "journalism" line of the week: "BARACK OBAMA’S presidency has been notably free of scandal," from the Boston Globe, which is owned by the Bible of the Left, the New York Times.
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Scare-mongering for fun and profit? James Hansen, the NASA bureaucrat who's been a prime spokesman for the global-warming myth-makers, reportedly picked up three-quarters-of-a-million in 2010 for speeches and other ancillary income.
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I like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra. I record their performance on the BYU-TV channel every Sunday morning (8:30, Pacific Time). A recent program featured an encomium to Notre Dame University for its loyalty to the Naval Academy in sports, repayment for support by the service school decades ago. It also featured a rousing rendition of "When the Saints Go Marching In." There was no proselytizing.
My understanding of Mormonism is superficial; I confess I do not find it compelling as a religious faith, but I do admire the principles by which adherents are expected to live their daily lives.
Unless and until someone can convince me that this religion -- or any other -- is a threat to me or my personal freedom, my political views will not be affected. With that on the record, I confess serious reservations about Mr. Romney, none of them based on his Mormonism. And when I consider the rest of the field, there's not one about whom I don't have some concerns. I accept that perfection in human beings, including politicians, is the height of unrealism.
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Can't display an American flag at an Olive Garden? Okay ... I'm sure I can find overpriced spaghetti somewhere else ...
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Victor Davis Hanson in National Review Online analyzes Obama's habit of blaming others for his own mistakes ...
"The president and his economic advisers, most of them now departed, really did believe that too little government spending and not enough taxes accounted for the sluggishness. In almost religious fashion, they believed that near-zero interest rates, trillion-dollar-plus deficits, exploding government spending, greater regulation, and more entitlements would ensure recovery.
"This religion was based on a misreading of the 2008 meltdown that put blame solely on Wall Street, rather than including federal lending agencies that, with their guarantees and mandates, warped market reality by encouraging risky home loans.
"Obama has picked up a lot of technocratic data but little common sense, or even the sorts of basic facts that most people acquire in the workplace. Only a hothouse plant would think that inflating tires and getting “tune-ups” are a substitute for greater petroleum production. “Millions of green jobs” is the sort of pie-in-the-sky theorizing one hears in the faculty lounge among tenured apparatchiks, but which means little to a small businessman who must meet a payroll."
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If Joe Biden is in danger of being dumped as Obama's running mate in 2012, he either doesn't know it or is concealing any knowledge. He tells NBC he will absolutely be the VP candidate again.
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Charles Hurt in the Washington Times, addressing a basic liberal paranoia ...
"Liberals tolerate blacks and they endure conservatives. But they cannot abide a successful, independent-minded black who dares to step out of line and reject the enslavement of the Plantation Party. There is no class of people more openly loathed around here than black conservatives.
"It is because black conservatives — like all conservatives — reject the pact Democratic Party bosses have made with black voters. That pact is governed by two overriding commandments.
"First, you shall always be dependent upon the government. Second, never shall you be encouraged to take risks or venture far enough away from the government to be independent and successful. You will forever be enveloped — or entangled — in a government safety net.
"In return, these black voters are expected every Election Day to put aside their doubts, stifle their frustrations and forget their ongoing despairs and — like zombies — walk into the polling booth and once again pull the lever for the Democrats."
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Today's nut-job report ...
A Texas woman is suing Continental Airlines and three other air carriers because, she alleges, her flight encountered extreme turbulence that caused her to fear for her life. As a result, she says, she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and is now afraid to fly, which has detrimentally impacted her career.
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Ed Perkins of the Smarter Travel website speculates that the airline with the best "fit" as a merger partner for American Airlines as the latter faces likely bankruptcy is ... Alaska Airlines. But Alaska's reaction thus far is, "thanks, but no thanks."
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Observations by Mark Steyn on Greece's financial crisis and its effect on the European Union, plus the larger threat from the planet's savages ...
"As the Germans have begun to figure out, just because the Greeks live in the same general neighborhood is no reason to open a joint checking account.
"Whatever the individual merits of ever-more-leisurely education, 30-hour work weeks, six weeks' vacation, retirement at 50, the cumulative impact is that not enough people do not enough work for not enough of their lives.
-- More --
"We live on a planet in which the wealthiest societies in history, from Norway to New Zealand, are incapable of defending their own borders while basket cases like North Korea and Pakistan have gone nuclear, and Sudan and Somalia are anxious to follow. "
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Seen yet again, a reference to Americans living in another country as "ex-patriots". Wrong.
The word is EXPATRIATE, which simply rerers to a person who has taken up residence in a foreign nation.
It has nothing to do with either patriotism or a lack of it.
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And speaking of mangled language ... how did we get from "could have" to "could've" and then to the nonsensical "could OF"?
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Then there's "different FROM" versus "different THAN". The former is correct, the latter isn't.
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Warren Buffett announces that he made almost $63 million in adjusted income last year.
Hey, dude! You're so eager for "rich" people to pay more in taxes, what's keeping you from sending a check to the Treasury Department if you feel guilty? And BTW, what about that billion or so in back-taxes your company still owes?
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Wes Pruden of the Washington Times memorializes -- and summarizes -- Steve Jobs ...
"He was the ultimate capitalist, driven to get all the profits that his imagination, vision and business smarts entitled him to, but his legacy to the corporate world is limited. Without the vision, the value even of hard work is limited. He was contemptuous of the toys of the mind so precious to the graduate of the business school. He regarded consultants and focus groups as well-meaning wastes of time and money. Or worse. “We figure out what we want,” he told Rolling Stone in 2003. “And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That’s what we get paid to do. So you can’t go out and ask people what’s the next big thing.” He was fond of recalling Henry Ford’s story of inventing the automobile: “If I’d have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me ‘a faster horse.’ “
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Jim Eason, with the kind of humor missing from the airwaves today ...
Throughout history, there have been "near-misses." These are examples of inventors who tried, and tried, then gave up ... only to see someone else succeed where they had come SO close, but failed. Here are some examples, feel free to add others to the list:
* A man trying to invent a soft drink...developed 5-Up, then 6-Up, then quit.
* The inventor of WD-38, WD-39...who quit.
There were also authors who tried to sell a book, and failed...after coming SO close.
* The Socks of the Fisherman
* Murray of Arabia
* Look Back at your House, Angel
* Donald Quixote of La Mancha
There were also songs, and plays, and movies, and stuff:
* Well, Maybe, Nanette
* Three Cents in the Fountain
* " Friends, Italians, Countrymen..."
* Ten Bucks a Dance
* Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Sleepy, Dopey, Bashful, and Neal
* Liza, with an "S"
* The Maltese Bird
* Start the Beguine
* I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus
* Guess Who's Staying For Breakfast
* East Side Story
* West of Eden
And whatever happened to Preparation G...?
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Slip of the keyboard in yesterday's column. Israel his Saddam Hussein's nuclear project in 1981, not 1961. (corrected in later edition)
Thanks, Shawn.
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I got lost the other day. Made a wrong turn at Dabo Swinney.
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The Sloop John B. passes along a bit of humor making the rounds in Britain ...
"I was devastated to find out my wife was having an affair but, by turning to religion, I was soon able to come to terms with the whole thing.
I converted to Islam, and we're stoning her in the morning."
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Jay Leno --
"Arnold Schwarzenegger dedicated a museum in Austria devoted to him. Kids get in free if they turn out to be his."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."