Archive for May, 2009
Obama: The Boring Man-Child, Cheney: The Man
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Don’t you just want the President to shut his never-ending, pretentious, blathering yapper? Everyone says he’s a great speaker. Really? The man bores me absolutely to tears. He reminds me of my insufferable, cranky and addled Histology teacher from college. Holy crap, cell biology was more interesting than this mitochondrial exhausting man. Look it up. I’m not telling you.
And yet. He gets the cover of Time and on Newsweek, there’s the cover that says, “Obama: In His Own Words”. What other words are there? Good grief. He’s great. Just ask him.
In case you haven’t yet pined away for the good old days, Vice President Cheney’s smack down of boy wonder was glorious to behold.
Cheney’s alpha male act brought out some needed exuberance on the right. People forget that half the reason the Republicans approval numbers have been in the crapper is because they’ve been acting like feminized Democrats.
Contrasting the wussy Obama with the manly Cheney was a nice refreshing breath of fresh air and a reminder why Republicans win every once in a while. That Obama managed to look more manly than John McCain should tell you something. Moderates lose for a reason.
Yes. I’m all over the road here. Tired and giddy. Tired of hearing Obama. Giddy at hearing someone speak with clarity. And exulting that the Left is so turned inside out about this, too. All in all, a satisfying day.
California: A Hollywood Starlet Past Her Prime
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Over spend, take in too little income. You have two choices: Cut spending or increase income. Since California doesn’t want to increase income, the choice is to cut spending or go bankrupt.
Here’s a thought: How about cutting spending?
I know. I know. It’s so obvious, it might just work. Or, you could go bankrupt which will….cut spending. Cutting spending will mean cutting out fab life-style choices like environmental policies which make a person feel fab about oneself but don’t demonstrate any real benefit. As I’ve noted before, environmentalism is a luxury of the rich.
California, you’re not rich. The rich can afford special windows, organic food and the time to trudge to the local farmer’s market to “buy local”. The poor have to work from dawn ’til dusk, live in energy inefficient homes and buy cheap food.
You’re poor.
Sure you have caviar dreams and still love the finer things, but honey, you’re a has-been and starting to look pathetic. Cut back on the Moet and move out of the mansion. It’s time for a little working-class reality. It’s time to live within your means.
You want help? Yeah, well, you’ve been kinda bitchy in the past, you know? Looked down your nose at everyone else. Thought you were superior and kinda showed off your beauty. No one’s too inclined to be charitable, especially since you lived so large. And you could again, you just don’t want to pare back during the rough times.
Suit yourself. It ain’t easy being past your prime and down and out. You could at least have some dignity and pride and cut the fluff. Instead, you look intent on flaming out spectacularly–maybe by committing suicide via pills. So dramatic. Be careful, though. There’s a good chance no one will be able to save you in time. Might just want to make some tough choices.
Or not.
Massive Unemployment From Cap-N-Trade: Climate Change Adjustment Allowance
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009What is the response to the economic devastation wrought by Cap-n-Trade, that the Democrats know will come? Welfare, of course! Here’s what’s buried inside the bill:
Title IV, Subtitle B, Part 2, Section 426, of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, which states; An eligible worker (specifically, workers who lose their jobs as a result of this measure) may receive a climate change adjustment allowance under this subsection for a period of not longer than 156 weeks…80 percent of the monthly premium of any health insurance coverage…up to a maximum payment of $1,500 in relocation allowance…and job search expenses not exceed[ing] $1,500.
So, the Democrats know that this legislation kills jobs so the solution to the soul-killing nature of the legislation is enslaving former private industry workers and their fellow taxpayers who actually have jobs.
Insanity.
Radio For Conservatives–UPDATED
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009For a couple weeks, and about six shows so far, I’ve been doing a radio show on RFCradio.com called the Right Doctor. Tonight, Republican National Committee New Media Director, Todd Herman will join me as my guest for the full hour from 10 p.m. EST to 11 p.m. EST.
We talk about the direction he’s taking New Media. We talk about the importance of message and messenger. Todd answers Marathon Pundit’s question: How does the Republican party become hip again?
I’d really encourage you to start listening to the station. The line-up includes rock-n-roll and conservative shows–everything from home improvement to the military to world relations, etc. I share a time slot with Tabitha Hale, aka Pink Elephant Pundit. Her show Raisin’ Hale is excellent. And soon, Emily Zanotti of American Princess fame will have an Indy Friday slot. There are other familiar bloggers there, too. Duane Lester, All American Blogger, interviews bloggers and if you’re starting or have been in the business, his format is fascinating.
So please, join me, tonight and whenever you’re lounging around the computer. The sound quality is amazing. The content solid.
UPDATE: At TechRepublican Cyrus Krohn passes the torch to Todd Herman.
The Happiness Of Men
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009I’m amusing myself with headlines today. On the one hand, old, white Republican males are happy. On the other hand, young, white, blue-collar (read Republican?) males are being hammered by this recession/depression.
So, if the life arc of a white male is pondered, it looks like this: There’s the angry, young man phase. There’s the in-and-out of employment misery phase. And then there’s the happy, old guy phase. Right up until the die-before-woman phase.
Meanwhile, a woman’s misery happiness remains relatively constant.
Would you say that fits?
Latest AIP Column: How Nice Is Too Nice?
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009If America is going to be Europe Lite and turn into a socialist country, soft, cushy, lacking innovation and miserably haughty, I think America needs to decide how “nice” is going to look. The idea is create a society free of hardship rather than a free society. So what will that mean?
Over at the American Issues Project, “niceness” is the topic:
Americans need to decide at what point the helping hand becomes the smothering death grip. What can start as a soft landing can end as a soft pillow affixed to the charity recipient’s gasping face.
Or put it another way. You know how when you’ve had a family illness or a new baby and some “helpful” relative visits. At first she (inevitably she’s a she) is cleaning and doing laundry. Then she’s rearranging all the shelves. Then, she is admonishing you about your toilet paper roll directional habits. Finally, you catch her rifling through your underwear drawer and hiding your bottle of prized scotch in her closet. You know it’s time for her to go, but you kinda feel obligated to keep her around because she did help a lot. Worse, when you finally tell her to go, that you no longer need the help, but that you’re grateful, she insists on staying. You’re stuck.
Kinda like the banks that took TARP money are stuck. Kinda like generations of welfare recipients are stuck.
Please go read the whole thing. Also, some other great writers, including Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft and Cassy Fiano have columns today. Check it out!
Andrew Breitbart: “I Jerk”, Maureen Dowd: Excuses, Excuses
Monday, May 18th, 2009Andrew Breitbart fessed up in a way only someone in New Media fesses up: fully, completely, and on the editorial page of a rather progressive Old Media paper, the Washington Times. I won’t reiterate his shame here. You can read it for yourself.
Anyone who writes for a living makes mistakes. Some fall into the category of physical errors, as my high school basketball coach delineated them. That is, typos, misspellings, usage errors, wrong details written in haste or not caught by an editor. For bloggers, that would be errors not caught by oneself, since the blogger picks the story, writes the story, fact-checks the story, edits the story and publishes the story. A blogger’s reputation depends on being right on all counts most of the time. Still, physical errors are forgivable.
The other category of mistakes my coach found unforgivable. These were mental errors and for mental errors we were punished. Severely. Those types of errors were the ones, that repeated often enough, would cost a game. Mental errors included things like passing the ball to where the player was, instead of where she was going to be. Mental errors included not blocking out, failing to collapse on help defense, failing to turn the ball handler toward the center of the court, poor execution on a press or any offense. Basically, mental errors meant violating the foundational principles, the basics, or failing to do them.
A mental error in writing would be plagiarizing. That is, if I remember correctly, using more than three words together that belong to someone else and failing to give attribution. Using a whole paragraph? Well, that’s plagiarizing on crack. That’s akin to putting the ball in the opposite team’s basket. It’s just so stupid that even 20 quarter-courts might not impress upon the dummy the error of his ways. That is, perhaps the player shouldn’t be playing. At. All.
Now, some errors like that grieve the one who made the mistake so completely, that he writes a mea culpa publicly like Andrew Breitbart did (not that Andrew plagiarized–his error was more physical and he still corrected it big time). In my own case, I recently got some significant details about the falling Twin Towers wrong in a post. An angry reader corrected me and I put the correction, bolded, at the top of the post for all to see. It’s one of the things I like about blogging–corrections aren’t buried on page 18. They are front and center.
Maureen Dowd should be grieved and embarrassed by her plagiarizing Josh Marshall which was exposed over the weekend. This was no small sentence she lifted. She stole a whole paragraph. Worse, rather than owning it, she has made excuses for her misdeed. How very typically Old Media. How very typically elite. How very typically liberal.
The Old Media is dying because it is unresponsive and monolithic. It is dying because consumers have the impression that they’re biased and unaccountable. Maureen Dowd’s plagiarism and limp excuse for her mistake encapsulate why the Old Media is withering into irrelevance.
When people suspect one shades the truth, and, once caught in a mistake, the response is to obfuscate, the trust dissolves. That’s where Maureen Dowd, and by extension, the New York Times finds itself. Oh, and the NYT, deleted comments they didn’t like. How very Old Media, too.
I don’t think it’s an accident that Andrew Breitbart’s New Media star is rising. He’s establishing himself as a trusted news source with personal integrity. I don’t think it’s an accident that the Old Media’s star is falling. They can’t be trusted, even when caught red-handed, to do the right thing.
Cross-posted at Right Wing News
Global Cooling Period A Time Of “Less Rapid Warming”
Saturday, May 16th, 2009So those super-sophisticated buoys all over the ocean are spitting back data, but scientists who are emotionally attached to their flimsy global warming theory are in denial of the facts:
So why are some scientists now beginning to question the buoys’ findings? Because in five years the little blighters have failed to detect any global warming. They are not reinforcing the scientific orthodoxy of the day, namely that man is causing the planet to warm dangerously. They are not proving the predetermined conclusions of their human masters. Therefore they, and not their masters’ hypotheses, must be wrong.
In fact, “there has been a very slight cooling,” according to a U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) interview with Josh Willis at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a scientist who keeps close watch on the Argo findings.
Willis insisted the temperature drop was “not anything really significant.” And I trust he’s right. But can anyone imagine NASA or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the UN’s climate experts — shrugging off even a “very slight” warming.
A slight drop in the oceans’ temperature over a period of five or six years probably is insignificant, just as a warming over such a short period would be. Yet if there had been a rise of any kind, even of the same slightness, rest assured this would be broadcast far and wide as yet another log on the global warming fire.
Just look how tenaciously some scientists are prepared to cling to the climate change dogma. “It may be that we are in a period of less rapid warming,” Willis told NPR.
Yeah, you know, like when you put your car into reverse you are causing it to enter a period of less rapid forward motion. Or when I gain a few pounds I am in a period of less rapid weight loss.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
I’m sorry, but my forebrain is finding their lamebrain and clearly irrational attachment to a theory that’s being contradicted by solid data very humorous. Let’s not get confused by the facts, scientific people, it might interfere with big, fat research grants from a now-friendly and true-believing, less skeptical, and scientifically-unattached administration.
Oh, it’d be truly gut-busting if I didn’t pay taxes that will go to supporting stupid scientific advances that solve problems that don’t exist.
Cool New GOP Website: There Are Some Things Your Money Shouldn’t Buy
Saturday, May 16th, 2009Great ad on the GOP website:
John Hawkins Tea Party Leader Steps Down After Provoking Jealous Lovers Rage
Friday, May 15th, 2009I’m not saying that John Hawkins is the leader of the Tea Party movement because I write for his blog and I’m trying to score brownie points. I’m not saying that John Hawkins is the leader of the Tea Party movement because he says so and because he says so it makes it so. I’m saying that John Hawkins is the leader of the Tea Party movement because of this:
“In my book, there is no “leader” or “spokesman” for the Tea Party movement. It’s a pack, not a herd.”
Not parsing here, but he said, “leader”…”for the Tea Party movement” and that’s good enough for me.
So, why don’t the Democrats feed the legacy media’s darling, Keith Olbermann the real story..the story that hasn’t been told? Well, of course, it’s because Janeane Garofalo is involved. See, what really happened, is that Tea Party leader John Hawkins dumped Janeane Garofalo because behind her pseudo-intellectual discussions of frontal lobes and reptilian brain parts like amygdalas, she’s actually not that bright. Tea Party leader John Hawkins was disappointed. He had heard that liberal feminists were smarter and hipper. They didn’t wear lipstick or comb their hair, or even shave their armpits much, so he figured they MUST have brains. Imagine his surprise to find out that his rabid spaz of a dog Patten, hell the feral cats living beneath his house, had more executive brain function than the dour Ms. Garofalo.
Rebounding from that coupling, Tea Party leader John Hawkins heard that Maureen Dowd wore lipstick and was still single. Since she was a legacy media leader, having won a Pulitzer for her incisive writing and fierce investigative reporting, he figured they’d be a power couple. Alas, this union was doomed. Janeane Garofalo might not be that smart but her work as a CIA operative made her cagey and more than a little immune to the moral vagaries of torture. Ms. Dowd met an unfortunate end. She was found Manolo-up with some form of microcomputer sewn into the skin of her mid-back but that’s a story for another Bourne novel.
Why Keith Olbermann refuses to report Tea Party leader John Hawkin’s sordid social past is itself a murky tale. Evidently, the news would be a boost to the true media leader, Chris Matthew’s TV show Hardball because Chris Matthews and Maureen Dowd were tied together (not literally, well, not for long anyway) by a common leg shivering malady. It’s incurable.
Never mind that Tea Party leader John Hawkins gets marginalized while guys like Dick Armey, Newt Gingrich, Erik Telford, Michael P. Leahy and Eric Odom get all the credit. Lameness.
When. Will. The. Bias. End? I ask you. Really, Keith. Get it right! Your petty professional jealousy. Your not-so-secret lust for torture-loving, lipstick-averse CIA operatives. It all reeks of a complete lack of professionalism. You have a reputation to uphold. Get your stories right.
John Hawkins, leader of the Tea Party movement, a man swirling in controversy, can’t buy press because of the horrendous bias. Still, he found it better to step down than subject Patten, the cats, and, the Tea Party movement, who follows his brave lead, any more shame. Anyone else, and this is a story. Tea Party leader John Hawkins, is too big, it seems for bad press. He, like Democratic populist mansion-living, super-rich, loving husband and lawyer John Edwards and law and order focused, corruption-fighting, straight arrow Eliot Spitzer, decided to spare the Tea Party movement, his party and his dull-witted ex-girlfriend any more shame.
You heard it here first.
