LEE RODGERSPRESIDENTIAL PREVARICATIONS ...
SANTORUM: "NO HABLA ESPANOL" ...
JOHN KERRY BAINFULLY INVESTED
SANTORUM: "NO HABLA ESPANOL" ...
JOHN KERRY BAINFULLY INVESTED
It's hard to briefly summarize all Obama's lies in his latest laugh-fest for dumb college students, but today's recommended reading is Mark Steyn's column, available at his own website or the Orange County Register website, among other places. It illustrates again that the Dear Leader is either a pathological liar or outright ignorant in his sophomoric nonsense about backward Republicans. It's frightening that he believes, perhaps accurately, that the American public is so ill-educated that it swallows his fabrications.
We do, after all, live in one of the dumbest countries in the so-called "first world" -- as repeated competitive tests vs. students from other countries demonstrate.
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It is the tragedy of our time that while the nation is cursed with arguably the worst president in history, the out-of-power adversaries have produced a collection of such deeply flawed alternatives to contend for the position. Calvin Coolidge would stand like a giant among them.
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Rick Santorum and his supporters may be on a fantasyland journey when they assume that a drop-out by Gingrich would benefit them. Gallup Poll finds Newt's followers would split between Santorum and Romney just about evenly, with a slight edge to Romney.
By the way, English is already an official language in Puerto Rico, along with Spanish. Santorum's remarks on the subject were clearly intended to have an impact among English-only advocates on mainland USA; he never had a chance at getting the handful of delegates from that territory, anyway. A cynic might even call it ... cynical.
The trip made for a nice quick vacation, though.
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One might wonder if Newt Gingrich sees himself as a sort of biblical Samson of today's Republican party, with his recurrent pledge/threat to "go to Tampa," site of the Republican convention in August. Perhaps he does envision himself, in his determination to destroy Romney, pulling the temple down upon himself and the Republicans he regards as Philistines.
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A message to file away. A message to the supporters of whichever candidates fail to win the Republican nomination. It is essential to remember that a contestant who can't even win his own party's selection process -- primaries, caucuses, etc. -- has NO chance to win the general election against an entrenched, determined, well-financed incumbent. None, zip, zero. To believe otherwise is delusional.
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Who's a bigger investor than Mitt Romney in Bain Capital, the private equity firm? DEMOCRAT Senator and former presidential candidate ... John Kerry. This comes from the New York Times, no less.
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Wonder why we don't have job growth? Consider this. As of April 1, Japan will lower it's tax rate on corporate profits from 39.5% to 36.8%. At that moment, the U.S. becomes the country with the world's highest tax rate -- 39.2% -- on the businesses that create jobs. And yet we wonder why more jobs are being created in other countries.
We truly do live in a land run by lunatics. The entire Obama administration isn't capable of running a hamburger franchise.
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Jonah Goldberg offers this insight ...
"The notion that the president "runs" the economy is fairly ridiculous. The president doesn't have a Create Jobs' button on his desk he can press.
"But he does have a whole bunch of monkey wrenches he can throw into the economic machinery. Like a drunk blind guy with a blowtorch: there are infinite possibilities for making things worse, far fewer for making them better."
A reasonable view. And Obama has been hurling those monkey wrenches at an unprecedented rate. Unless you want to go back to FDR, who turned a recession into the worst depression in the nation's history -- then got credit from dunces for "fixing" it.
By contrast, Ronald Reagan fixed a depressed economy in record time by letting the immutable laws of economics work, instead of trying to contort them like his predecessor, the hapless Jimmuh.
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The soldier who's being charged in the massacre of Afghan civilians turns out to have had both a head injury and lost part of a foot in that stupid, futile war and had been told he was to be sent home (after three combat tours of duty) only to have the army reverse that decision at the last minute. It doesn't excuse his action, but may have precipitated it. It will certainly be emphasized by his defense attorney.
Now it is time to ask what kind of decision-making process in our over-politicized military led to a man missing part of his foot being told one day that his war was over, only to be told the reverse the following day? Has our military leadership gone as crazy as the (ugh--pains me to write it) Commander-in-Chief?
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Reader Peter asks a pertinent question ...
"After reading the headlines today about the US soldier who shot up Afghanistan civilians, I couldn’t help noticing an irony. There is all this clamor (among Afghans) to try this guy quickly and execute him, never mind his having suffered a traumatic injury. Yet this Major Hasan, who shot up Fort Hood while screaming "Allahu akbar," still hasn’t stood trial, and they are still debating whether he was insane, even with the clear evidence regarding his motive: slay as many infidels as possible.
"So we have a guy in a war zone who cracks, and he must be executed immediately. But this Muslim psychiatrist who was stateside in a nice safe office all day murders 13, wounds 29 of our own guys, and they try to argue the poor lad suffered post-traumatic stress syndrome, from listening to real soldiers who had actual battle experience. Two and a half years later, they still haven’t tried the murderous bastard."
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Since repeated apologies from our Apologizer-in-Chief apparently aren't sufficient for that two-faced crook in Afghanistan, Karzai, when does Barack Obsequious grow some cojones and demand that HE apologize for all the Americans murdered by our so-called "Afghan allies"?
It's disgusting that an American president would put up with this humiliating bullcrap. He'll argue with the leader of a worldwide church, but suck up to a Muslim dictator. Amazing ...
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Obama's White House now says colleges have to provide birth control in their student health plans. Well, since they're already getting screwed on tuition ...
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If the Tennessee Titans succeed in signing Peyton Manning, it'll likely be because they had the foresight to offer him something beyond his playing career. A lifetime contract with some team management responsibilities. It's astonishing that the Colts' ownership didn't make some sort of similar offer to keep their icon in place. Denver did it with John Elway, their longtime hero QB.
NFL players, like other pro athletes whose careers end while still young, must -- or should -- wonder, "What am I going to do when my playing days are over?"
Even if -- unlike many athletes -- plenty of money has been stashed away, the question recurs.
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Perhaps it's inherent in the nature of a high-speed game, but basketball seems especially susceptible to having games decided by bad calls on the part of officials, the "block or charge" calls being the most frequent examples.
I'd watch a lot more basketball if something were done to speed up the last two minutes of games. Far too many time-outs are allowed so coaches can strategize. Let the players play!
Anyway, yesterday's small-school knockouts of some Big Boys were enjoyable. Of course, top-level college basketball simply serves as a minor-league for the NBA, even more than football is the prep-school for the NFL.
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STEPHEN MOORE of the Wall Street Journal with a lesson for California ...
"Williston, North Dakota, sits atop the Bakken Shale, which will later this year be producing more oil than any other site in the country, surpassing even Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, the longtime leader in domestic output. This once-sleepy town is what the Gold Rush might have looked like had it happened in the time of McDonald's, Wal-Mart and Home Depot. Every night, hundreds of workers sleep in the hulls of their trucks or in temporary housing encampments like soldiers in a war zone. New homes are popping up at breakneck speed. McDonald's is offering workers $18 an hour plus a "signing bonus." In Williston, certainly, America remains the land of opportunity.
"All this is thanks to the technological leap forward represented by hydraulic fracking, a process that allows drillers to blast through underground shale rock and pump out oil and natural gas.
Now contrast this bonanza with what's going on in another energy-rich state: California. The Golden State's oil production has fallen by a third in the past 20 years.
"California's problem is politicians—at the behest of their green-energy allies—deciding to wall off the state from developing evil fossil fuels.
"The Census finds that North Dakota led the nation in job and income growth in 2011. It has the nation's lowest unemployment rate, at 3.3% (California's is 11.1%).
"Gov. Jerry Brown is sponsoring a ballot initiative this year to raise taxes yet again.He'd be better off leading a fact-finding delegation to North Dakota to learn how to pay bills, create tens of thousands of jobs, and balance a budget. Mr. Obama might want to come on that trip too."
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From the Friday news dump ...
Oprah Winfrey, who hired her pal Rosie O'Donnell to do a talk show on her cable network, OWN ... has dropped the show. Usual reason. Awful ratings.
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Since I've been asked ...
Do I believe Sheriff Joe or the Presidential Prevaricator?
Surely you jest ...
(I know the punchline: "I'm not jesting and don't call me Shirley ...")
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The GPS (global positioning system) in your car is not to be 100% trusted. Ask the three Japanese tourists visiting Australia who followed the device's directions, drove their rented car into the ocean at low tide and found themselves stuck in mud. Then the tide rolled it ...
They're alive and well, but perhaps they'll learn to read a map.
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Scoutmaster Sky asked his troop, "What good deed have you done before you came to the scout meeting tonight?"
One of the scouts stood up and said, "Well, Mom had only one dose of castor oil left, so I let my baby brother have it."
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From a reader ...
This had most of the state of Michigan laughing for two days and embarrassed a news anchor who will, in the future, likely think before she speaks.
What happens when you predict snow but don't get any? We had a female news anchor who, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn't, turned to the weatherman and asked:
"So Bob, where's that 8 inches you promised me last night?"
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."