August 6 --
IGNORANCE AND KILLING ...
PROJECTING ONE'S OWN VIEWS ...
THE OBAMA CURSE & GASOLINE PRICES
There remain questions regarding the motive behind the
killings at the Wisconsin Sikh temple. We do know that there
have been other attacks on Sikhs motivated by the wildly
mistaken belief that Sikhs are Muslim.
Not so. Their religion in no way even
resembles Islam and is, in fact, diametrically opposed in
significant ways. But as ill-educated as many Americans
are, there are obviously among us people so ignorant that they
are willing to shed innocent blood. This is no way to suggest
that attacks on innocent Muslims would be tolerable.
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The
shocked reaction among many liberals, especially gay liberals,
at the outpouring of support for Chick-fil-A is a reminder of a
fact and facet of human nature.
They were surprised because, in their own
circle of friends, their views are common and widely shared.
Therefore, they may find it hard to believe that most people
don't hold the same views, despite the evidence that in one
statewide election after another, when put to the voters, gay
marriage has lost.
Liberal commentators contend the trend
is toward support of their position, but so far that is
simply wishful thinking.
For most Americans, gay marriage is
far, far down their priority list. Some are actively opposed.
Others are tired of hearing what people want to do with their
body parts and think it an offensive childish obsession to
loudly proclaim their preferences.
There are still others who, like me,
share the view of the British lady who long ago said, "I don't
care what people do, so long as they don't do it in the streets
and frighten the horses."
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Gas
prices are again above $4 a gallon in some areas. How many
American voters are so double-dumb they don't remember that
gasoline was less than half today's prices when the Big Zero was
foolishly elected? We'll find out in three months.
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From the (liberal) Washington Post ...
"David Plouffe, a
senior White House adviser who was President Obama’s 2008
campaign manager, accepted a $100,000 speaking fee in 2010 from
an affiliate of a company doing business with Iran’s government.
"A subsidiary of
MTN Group, a South Africa-based telecommunications company,
paid Plouffe for two speeches he made in Nigeria in December
2010."
A
skeptic might wonder just what Obama's campaign manager
could possibly say that was worth a hundred grand. Surely
this company that also does business with the government of
Syria couldn't have been trying to buy White House influence
-- could they?
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Jonah Goldberg to The Daily Caller ...
“The cult of youth
politics in this country, generally speaking from the left,
is that young people simply because they are eager and they
are passionate they must also be right. That is not a
civilized understanding of politics. Barbarians are
enthusiastic and excited.”
I just took a
very simple political
quiz created by Pew Research, the polling firm. Thirteen
questions, all easily answered by anyone with the most
superficial knowledge of issues and history. I was surprised
that only 8% of us answered all thirteen correctly. (Sample
questions: Which party, Republican or Democrat, generally
believes in smaller government? Which believes in higher
taxes?)
More surprising
-- and depressing -- was the summary of results from all
persons taking the test and learning that 35% were unable to
answer even HALF correctly.
Yet many of the people interested enough to even take the test
doubtless vote. In light of that assumption, it's no wonder
this country is in one HELL of a mess. And no wonder, to
repeat my mantra of longstanding, "We live ... in a land ...
run by morons." We live in a land where a large percentage of
the voting population is made up of morons.
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The quote about Americans
by the great man of
the 20th century, Winston
Churchill ...
"You can always count on Americans to do the right
thing -- after they've tried everything else."
Our
election choices repeatedly illustrate the point.
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Words from an optimist. Veteran Washington insider Douglas
MacKinnon in Investors Business Daily ...
"The social experiment that was Barack
Obama's election and presidency is over. Way over.
"As one who was born in the
heart of Boston and worked the political world of Washington
for 20 years, I know quite a few Democrats. Some are family,
and many are close friends. Most voted for Obama in 2008. None
at this point is inclined to vote for him in 2012.
"Why? Because they view him
as an abject failure across the board and have decided to put
the welfare of their families and themselves before the empty
rhetoric of the Obama campaign before it's too late.
"Because of my time in
Washington and past positions there, I also know and am
friends with quite a few journalists. I speak with many on a
regular basis, and it's safe to say that the majority of them
lean left politically.
"That said, in
off-the-record conversations with my left-leaning journalistic
friends, not one believes Obama is going to win re-election.
Not one. While most believe Mitt Romney to be a weak
candidate, they are still convinced that he will comfortably
defeat Obama on Nov. 6."
An unsubstantiated rumor has it that Senator Harry Reid steals
candy from small children, especially minority, handicapped and
orphaned children. Has he yet denied it? Can he prove he
doesn't? Also ... have rumors of his cannibalism been explored?
(Offered in the same spirit as his
accusations against Mitt Romney.)
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Stupidest suggestion of last week (Non-Government category):
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's idea of including American
football in the Olympics. Playing against whom? Those burly
Burmese? Shifty sumos from Japan? Fleet-footed Filipinos?
Tenacious Thais?
Roger ... shut up.
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The eternal idiocy of the global-warming fanatics ...
Even as they've renewed their babble
about "global warming" because of the Midwest drought and heat
wave, they studiously ignore the fact that parts of Europe are
soaked in floods.
These tunnel-vision dopes have never
understood a fundamental fact: While WEATHER is short-term and
local -- and in the big picture, one season IS short-term and
one nation IS local -- climate is global and VERY long-term.
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Professor
Walter E. Williams discusses the mania for racial
"proportionality" ...
"Jews are not even 1 percent of the world's
population and only 3 percent of the U.S. population, but
they are 20 percent of the world's Nobel Prize winners and
39 percent of U.S. Nobel laureates. That's a gross
statistical disparity, but are the Nobel committees
discriminating against the rest of us? Jews won 27 percent
of Nobel Prizes won by Germans.
"Nearly 80 percent of the
players in the National Basketball Association in 2011 were
black, and 17 percent were white, but if that disparity is
disconcerting, Asians were only 1 percent. Compounding the
racial disparity, the highest-paid NBA players are black.
That gross disparity works the other way in the National
Hockey League, in which less than 3 percent of the players
are black. Blacks are 66 percent of NFL and AFL professional
football players, but among the 34 percent of other players,
there's not a single Japanese
player.
"There
are some other disparities that might bother the diversity
people. Asians routinely get the highest scores on the math
portion of the SAT, whereas blacks get the lowest. Men are
about 50 percent of the population, and so are women, but
there's the gross injustice that men are struck by lightning
six times as often as women."
The entire article is at
Townhall.com. For those unacquainted with his work ... Prof.
Williams is black.
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The Olympic Games remind me of a minor
annoyance.
In these days of
struggling real estate markets, I fully support the nation's
real estate brokers and agents. I do wish, however, they would
stop lying in their advertising about one nice luxury.
Either out of
ignorance or intent to mislead, they toss around the term
"Olympic-size swimming pool" and apply it to anything larger
than a puddle.
There are specific requirements meet the qualifications for an
Olympic-size pool, and you won't find them met in many
backyards.
The exact dimensions are 50 meters
(about 164 feet) long, 25 meters wide, at least two meters
deep.
Thank you. Now ... tell us more about those granite
counter-tops, stainless steel appliances and the home theater.
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Reader
Curtis forwards this timeless wisdom ...
"Socialism is the cow of many; well-milked and
badly fed." -- Spanish proverb
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Jim Eason
forwards a dictionary of medical terms as interpreted by
rednecks (not to be disparaging; they're folk who work outside
in the sun) and explains why they suffer less stress. For
example ...
Artery The study of
paintings
Bacteria Back
door to a cafeteria
Barium What doctors
do with dead patients
Cauterize Made eye contact
with her
Coma A
punctuation mark
Dilate
To live a long time
Fibula A small lie
Impotent
Distingushed, well known
Node
I knew it
Rectum
Nearly killed him
Seizure
Roman emperor
Terminal
illness Sick at the airport
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The Sky-guy recalls a Henny Youngman
classic ...
I told
the doctor "I broke my leg in two places."
He told me, "quit going to those
places..."
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