LEE RODGERSFREELOADER FOOLISHNESS ...
STATE TAXES AND OUT-MIGRATION ...
NO MORE MCCAIN-STYLE SOFTBALL CAMPAIGNS
STATE TAXES AND OUT-MIGRATION ...
NO MORE MCCAIN-STYLE SOFTBALL CAMPAIGNS
“Nobody wants a handout. Nobody wants to get something for nothing.” -- Barack Obama, in yet another exhibition of lying and/or stupidity on parade. So said the man whose campaign for re-election is based largely on the premise that the government WILL give freeloaders "something for nothing."
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In a more rational time in a more rational nation, the very idea of turning control over the internet to the parasites at the UN would be considered so absurd, anyone who proposed such a thing would be a candidate for a mental institution.
The Obama administration is trying hard to do it. If he loses the election, look for him to try pushing it thru a lame-duck Congress. After all, those freedom-loving folk in Beijing and Moscow want it that way, and we know Obama wouldn't want to offend them.
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From which states are most people likely to emigrate (with an "E", meaning leaving)? Easy. New York and California, both high-tax states. Where are they going? Florida, Texas, Arizona and Nevada, low-tax states. What's left behind in the states they departed? More people freeloading on the government ... fewer people paying the taxes to support them. And how long can that continue?
Suck on THAT, Governors Brown and Cuomo ... and the idiots in both state legislatures, elected by idiots.
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After 9/11, California created an extra-cost license plate to raise money for scholarships for the children of Californians killed in the crash of the United Airlines flight in Pennsylvania. Here's what happened to the money raised: The scholarships were dropped seven years ago, and Governors Brown and Schwarzenegger both took a piece of the fund to cover the state's budget deficits.
As a former longtime Californian let me again convey my contempt for the majority of California voters: Those clowns can really pick 'em!
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“Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong. Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong ... It doesn’t help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.” -- VP Dan Quayle, 1992.
"Twenty years later, Quayle’s words seem less controversial than prophetic. The number of single parents in America has increased dramatically: The proportion of children born outside marriage has risen from roughly 30 percent in 1992 to 41 percent in 2009. For women under age 30, more than half of babies are born out of wedlock.
"... if individuals do just three things — finish high school, work full time and marry before they have children — their chances of being poor drop from 15 percent to 2 percent.
"... in the end, Dan Quayle was right. Unless the media, parents and other influential leaders celebrate marriage as the best environment for raising children, the new trend — bringing up baby alone — may be irreversible."
-- Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution, published in ... THE (liberal) WASHINGTON POST??!! --
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Columnist Burt Prelutsky has it right when he suggests that it's time for Mitt Romney, who's now locked up the nomination after the Texas primary, to play hardball ...
"We saw what happened to John McCain when he tried to remain above the fray and prohibit his supporters from even mentioning Obama’s ties to Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, William Ayers, Valerie Jarrett and Van Jones, and we don’t need a repeat of his patty cake campaign."
I recognize that playing kissy-face with McCain is vital for Romney's effort to unify the disparate elements of his party for the run to November, but it still gave me the creeps to see them together. It was another reminder that McCain's nobility in a North Vietnam POW camp, the highlight of an otherwise undistinguished military career (he crashed three planes in training; one will get you disqualified from Navy flight school, unless Daddy's an admiral) is no qualification to run for president.
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As the nagging worries continue about the madmen of Tehran and their building of a nuclear arsenal, it seems worthwhile to reflect on the strong likelihood that if Jimmy Carter had taken the appropriate action within 24-hours of the seizure of the U.S. embassy in 1979 -- i.e., eliminated the vermin from the face of the earth -- there would be no such worries now, 33 years later.
So ... we continue to pay for the silliness of a spineless wimp who, even after they've clearly stated their intention to resume their effort to exterminate Israel, still insists that his good friends in the Muslim Brotherhood will continue to observe Egypt's peace treaty with the Jewish nation when they take control.
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James Robbins (Washington Times editorial) addresses another piece of shameful liberal behavior ...
"An MSNBC host issued an apology for saying he is 'uncomfortable' calling America’s fallen troops heroes on Memorial Day weekend. His gaffe was to say what most leftists firmly believe.
"Chris Hayes, who appears on MSNBC and is editor-at-large for the left-wing magazine the Nation, created instant controversy Sunday when he said, 'I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words ‘heroes.’ … I feel comfortable - uncomfortable - about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.'
"It’s important that Mr. Hayes apologized for his tactless quip, but it accurately reflected the extreme liberal beliefs about those who serve in uniform. To the left, troops killed in war are not heroes but victims. They are then turned into brainwashed robots, shorn of individuality and creativity and forced to live in an uncaring hierarchy where their only duty is unhesitatingly to follow orders. They are sent to fight illegitimate wars foisted on America to protect the interests of the rich and powerful. When they are killed, it’s usually by someone legitimately defending his homeland against imperialist invaders."
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Rhetorical question ...
Does MSNBC search the mental health facilities to find the raving lunatics they put before their cameras?
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The Facebook stock debacle is a good reminder to investors that not every IPO (initial public offering) is bound to profit the first wave of suck... -- er ... INVESTORS.
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Rasmussen Reports headline: "46% See Obama-Romney Race as Choice of Lesser of Two Evils"
Subjectively speaking, I'm surprised the percentage isn't higher. For me, almost every election at every level is such a choice. Rarely have I voted FOR a candidate; I almost always vote AGAINST someone.
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The indispensable Victor Davis Hanson (National Review Online) attempts an understanding of our schizophrenic president. A few points to consider ....
"As the campaign heats up, one problem is that we continue to meet lots of different Barack Obamas — to such a degree that we don’t know which, if any, is really president.
"One Barack Obama crisscrosses the country warning us that a sinister elite has robbed from the common good and must atone for destroying the economy. Another Barry Obama hits the golf links in unapologetically aristocratic fashion and prefers Martha’s Vineyard for his vacation. So I am confused about the evil 1 percent. Obama 1 feels they have shorted the country and must now pay their fair share, while Obama 2 feels they are vital allies in helping the poor by attending his $40,000-a-plate campaign dinners.
"Barry Obama respects those who make billions from Berkshire Hathaway, Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook, but Barack Obama does not respect those who make billions from oil, farming, and construction.
"Lots of Obamas keep talking about civility and bringing us together; but lots more Obamas talk about punishing our enemies, emphasizing racial differences, and formally organizing supporters by racial groupings.
"The fringe Birthers made outlandish claims for years that Obama was not born in the United States and therefore was not eligible to be president. But suddenly, after nearly four years of his presidency, we discover that for over a decade and a half Obama’s own publicity bio listed him as Kenyan-born. Why and how did this happen — given that authors customarily write their own autobiographies and have annual opportunities to edit them?
"One Obama was the constitutional-law professor at the prestigious University of Chicago; another was a part-time lecturer who never published and was rarely seen or heard at the law school."
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The man in the White House with a permanent case of hoof-in-mouth disease does it again ... referring to the German Nazi-operated
Jewish extermination camps they built in Poland as "POLISH death camps." This fool is beyond embarrassing.
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I wonder if people who use the expression, "I could care less," ever stop to think that it means the exact opposite of what they intend to convey. If they intend to indicate a lack of concern about the subject at hand, they really mean, "I COULDN'T care less."
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More language-mangling ...
Using the word "missile" when "missiVe" is appropriate, since it means a written message. Happens often.
... also ...
Some dictionaries acknowledge the sounding of the "T" in "often" as second-choice acceptable, but most don't.
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Jimmy Fallon--
"Britney Spears is planning to launch a new fragrance called Fantasy Twist. That sounds like something John Travolta gets at the end of a massage."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."