LEE RODGERSLYING FOR A LIVING ...
WILL TONIGHT'S DEBATE THIN THE FIELD? ...
OBAMA PLANS TO EXPAND THE ELECTRIC-CAR RIPOFF
WILL TONIGHT'S DEBATE THIN THE FIELD? ...
OBAMA PLANS TO EXPAND THE ELECTRIC-CAR RIPOFF
A significant part of a presidential press secretary's job is to lie. Convincingly. Poor Jay Carney qualifies for Part One, not so well for Part Two. It's hard to imagine his inner turmoil when, as a job requirement, he has to face television cameras and tell a bald-faced whopper like the latest claim that the Republicans FORCED Obama to reject the critical Keystone pipeline, a project that would be built with private funds and bring badly needed oil across the border from Canada.
Poor, poor Jay. Was that smoke we saw coming from your trousers?
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Now the Democrats are arguing that, if they DID allow more development of oil resources to begin, the product wouldn't be on the market for years. That's partially true -- doesn't apply in all cases -- but even if that were the case it misses the vital point. The mere threat of opening more production is and always has been enough to get the exporters from whom we now buy petroleum to lower prices in order to persuade us that it isn't necessary for us to use our own resources. But the White House Moron has made it unnecessary for them to even consider the possibility that we'll do anything about our dependency upon them.
(Actually, he's only stupid if you give him the benefit of the doubt and believe he DOESN'T intend to undermine the United States as a world power. Your call. I've already decided.)
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Want to start an office pool on this one? The question would be, "Just how many millions of barrels of oil Obama will release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve just before the election?"
Winner gets a quart of 10W-30.
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Last Republican debate. Tonight. Mesa, Arizona.
Our choices have narrowed to:
Romney, godfather of socialized medicine in America.
Santorum, who got clobbered in his home state in trying to hold his Senate seat.
Gingrich, whose desperate flailing led him to propose that a bankrupt nation build a village on the moon and make it a state.
Ron Paul, who thinks a murderous Iran is entitled to nuclear weapons.
I'll take any of the four over Obama, the racist ("Blacks for Obama"??!) and anti-American Marxist, but I won't be celebrating on election night.
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Jonah Goldberg (LA Times) distills the dilemma Republicans face ...
"Santorum is the religious conservative, but he's a Catholic from Pennsylvania, not a Baptist from Mississippi or Texas. Romney is a devoted family man and business leader running as the authentic outsider, but he's a Mormon from Massachusetts who seems fake enough to be made from Naugahyde. Paul is the long-overdue libertarian in the GOP field, but he's an aging holdover from an ideological backwater of libertarianism that dabbled in bigotry and paranoia.
"And then there's Gingrich. The former speaker of the House and leader of the Republican Revolution should be the elder statesman, the insider's insider. But he's managed to turn himself into the outsider who wants to fundamentally and profoundly change the world. He's a Southerner who converted to Catholicism with, as Mark Steyn writes, 'twice as many ex-wives as the first 44 presidents combined.'"
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One of Obama's giveaway scams doesn't sit well with voters -- subsidizing the electric car boondoggle.
In his budget, Obama has proposed $10,000 subsidies to encourage the purchase of electric cars. But voters by a two-to-one margin oppose taxpayer-funding for this piece of idiocy.
Just 29% of Likely U.S. Voters favor $10,000 government subsidies to encourage the purchase of electric cars, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Fifty-eight percent (58%) are opposed to such subsidies.
Let us accept as a blanket policy: Any product that can't be sold on its own merits doesn't deserve a niche in the marketplace. Especially when the obvious purpose for a subsidy is to funnel money to Obama supporters in the "alternative energy" ripoff/business.
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Wes Pruden's take on the Republican race ...
"Mitt Romney continues his run for cover, Rick Santorum throws mangled Scripture, and Newt Gingrich, fortified by new transfusions of fools’ millions, tells the frontrunner it’s time for him to think about quitting. This could have been Harold Stassen’s opportunity to indulge an urge to surge—but, alas, he’s still dead."
-- Washington Times --
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A cynic familiar with their machinations might conclude that the International Olympic Committee is a confederation of whores beyond the wildest dreams of Heidi Fleiss or even Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Latest example: The International Olympic Committee charter prohibits “any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, sex or otherwise.”
Nevertheless, Saudi Arabia and Brunei say women still will not be allowed to participate with their national teams.
And what will the IOC do about it? Nothing. Nada, Zip. Zilch.
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The analytical Burt Prelutsky thinks it time to re-order some priorities ...
"Although I find Ron Paul’s cavalier dismissal of the threat posed by a nuclear Iran to be irrational, I share a few of his concerns about our role in the world. For instance, I think it is high time that we let Europe protect itself against Russia. No reason on earth why we should be borrowing money in order to do for them what they can do for themselves.
"I would also suggest that we cut way back on the number of mutual defense pacts we have. I think we should at least be able to count on the support of a nation when it comes to U.N. votes before we enter into mutual defense pacts that are obviously 'mutual' in name only. For instance, in what bizarre universe do you think we could actually count on the likes of Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Argentina, Kuwait, Bahrain or Turkey, to come to our aid? The answer, I’m afraid, is when hell freezes over or the cow jumps over the moon."
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Jimmy Fallon --
"Microsoft founder Bill Gates attended a fundraiser for President Obama. He wasn't invited, but in typical Microsoft fashion he crashed it."
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Karma strikes again ...
The dude in the $120,000 Porsche figured he had a privileged way around the San Francisco traffic jam, so he gunned it and snapped over into an empty lane. Then discovered why it was empty when his car quickly sank into newly-poured cement.
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I continue to get e-mail inquiries from longtime former listeners to my San Francisco-based ABC programs regarding the state of the two stations there, KGO and KSFO, taken over by two of the worst broadcasting companies in the nation. First Citadel (now defunct), then Cumulus.
The latest ratings, just out, show KGO tied with two obscure FM stations for positions #14-15-16 with a 2.9% share of listeners.
KSFO is in even worse shape, tied with two other stations for positions 23-24-25 with a 1.7% share of the listening audience.
In San Jose, where KSFO was a major player even with poor signal strength, the story is worse still: a 1.5% share-of-audience. Or, to (slightly) over-simplify ... I have more people locked in my bathroom than listen to either station. Thus passeth two great radio stations that, between them, dominated the Northern California market for more than fifty years.
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Dan Sorkin forwards a rational "bucket list" for 2012 ...
HERE IS ALL I WANT:
Obama: Gone!
Borders: Closed!
Congress: Obey it's own laws
Language: English only
Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights!
Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before Welfare!
NO freebies to: Non-Citizens!
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Mr. Hill chronicles the origin of a tragic case of marital discord ...
Every night, Harry goes out drinking and every night, his wife, Sara yells at him.
One day, one of Sara's next door neighbors suggests that she try a different approach. "Welcome him home with a kiss and some loving words," she says. "He might change his ways."
That night, Harry stumbles back home as usual. But instead of berating him, Sara helps him into an easy chair, puts his feet up on the ottoman, removes his shoes, and gently massages his neck.
"It's late," she whispers. "I think we should go upstairs to bed now, don't you?"
"Might as well," says Harry. "I'll catch hell if I go home."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."