Asides
Some PETA dipstick chastised Obama for killing a fly. This time I’m with Obama. I wonder if the idiot opposes the killing of mosquitos, fleas and ticks by humans.
A circulating e-mail message suggests that you can help save someone’s job by refusing to use the automated checkout lanes at large stores. You could also demand that your milk be delivered to your door each morning and that large blocks of ice be delivered twice a week.
Can’t find a judge with two heads? How about a dwarf? A dwarf would bring a different perspective to the Court. There are a few mental dwarves on the Court but no physically small person.
If diversity and having faced struggles are now the leading criteria for selecting Supreme Court justices, I think we should have a person with two heads on the Court. There’s the bonus, as everyone knows, that two heads are better than one.
Obama plans to spend $4 billion creating “green” jobs and training the workers. These jobs will be dedicated to renovating public housing. They will replace windows, insulation, appliances and even light bulbs. How many “green” workers does it take to change a light bulb?
It’s now official government policy to be on guard for people with Ron Paul, Bob Barr or Chuck Baldwin bumper stickers. The Obama administration also wants to keep an eye on returning war veterans. It’s afraid these people might actively resist its policies. Never mind all those illegal immigrants and foreign threats, it’s the political opposition and our own soldiers that we’re focused on.
Some of the liberal commentators believe that our country is more secure now that Obama has made nice with the G20 members. The idea being that since they like us more they are less likely to attack us. But I don’t think we considered any of the G20 members to be a threat before Obama moved into the White House.
Our new president is like a child. He can not comprehend that things are not necessarily the way he wants them to be.
From Thomas Sowell: “ The same politicians who have been talking about a need for ‘affordable housing’ for years are now suddenly alarmed that home prices are falling. How can housing become more affordable unless prices fall?”
The Democrats are in charge of the White House and both houses of Congress yet they are obsessing over what Rush Limbaugh is saying. A democracy only needs a majority. A tyranny needs to control everyone.
President Obama said today that he will fight to change health care, energy and education in dramatic ways that will upset the status quo. Like I said before he was elected, he is a radical socialist.
You can’t turn on the TV these days without seeing President Obama warning that our economy will collapse if we don’t let him spend a trillion dollars. It didn’t take long for the candidate who decried the “politics of fear” to switch from ”I want to be your President” to “I won.”
President Obama on the loss of about 600,000 jobs in January: “The situation could not be more serious.” Mr President, wouldn’t the situation be more serious if we had lost twice that many jobs last month?
Just for the record, the low temperatures at my home in Florida for the last three mornings were 25, 17 and 22 degrees F.
A CBS Radio newscaster suggested today that if we could get Obama to nominate about 100,000 more people for jobs in his administration we might collect enough unpaid taxes to pay for the stimulus package.
“Up to 100,000 Nonprofits Could Close in Bad Economy.” But this is being offset by formerly for-profit companies no longer making a profit.
The low temperature at my house in Florida this morning was 20 degrees F. We’ve had several mornings near that since Christmas. This has been the coldest January in recent memory.
A 22-year-old woman is selling her virginity to the highest bidder in Nevada where prostitution is legal. Some outraged moralists are frustrated because they can’t stop her. I suggest that they contact Patrick Fitzgerald. He’ll find a way to put her in jail.
The greenies are in a tizzy over the amount of carbon generated by a Google search. I would guess that it’s a lot less than that generated by driving to a library to perform the search.
More from Winston Churchill via Burt Prelutsky: “For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
Some people want more tax on fuel to discourage driving and the emission of carbon. But they want to spend it on improving the highway system which would encourage driving. The real reason? More money flowing through the government.
Some have said that Bernard Madoff ran the largest Ponzi scheme ever. Not even close. That record still belongs to our government’s Social Security program.
From George Will: “Friday the president gave the two automakers access to money Congress explicitly did not authorize. More money than had been debated, thereby calling to mind Winston Churchill on naval appropriations: ‘The Admiralty had demanded six ships: the economists offered four: and we finally compromised on eight.’” Priceless.
I hear that Vice President-elect Joe Biden will oversee a task force that will make recommendations on how to build the ranks of the middle class. As far as I can see, he plans to do that by moving people down from the ranks of the wealthy.
My yard is filled with Robins for the first time in several months. Does that mean Spring has arrived?
There has been a lot of talk in the media about the negative symbolism from an Iraqi journalist throwing his shoes at President Bush. They haven’t said much about the positive symbolism from several other Iraqi journalists jumping up and taking the shoe thrower down to the floor and restraining him.
People in the Northeastern US are suffering from a record ice storm. I’ll bet they wouldn’t mind some global warming. I think it’s time for Al Gore to put up or shut up.
Buzzards are circling my house about ten feet off the ground. I wonder if they know something I don’t.
In his weekly radio address Barack Obama said that he wants to install energy-saving light bulbs in federal buildings to cut costs and create jobs. Hmm. I would’ve thought federal buildings already have someone on staff who can change light bulbs.
I’m still looking for that global warming Al Gore promised us. It’s 24 degrees here in Florida this morning. That’s a record for this date.
The New York Times spews hate for the South because it mostly preferred McCain over Obama. They somehow divine that it is clearly due to Obama’s race. I filched their divining rod and found that New York City is also racist. In the February primary they voted 56% to 44% for Clinton over Obama. Yep, it’s gotta be racism.
Dr Walter E. Williams: “Maybe the election of a black president will help white people over their guilt feelings so they can stop acting like fools in their relationships with black people.”
I heard this morning that Paulson is really pushing the bailout money out to banks now, including to some that don’t need it or want it. I wonder how much Joseph A. Bank got.
Some dork at AP thinks VP Dick Cheney uses buckshot to shoot quail. Guide for AP writers: Buck hunters use buckshot. Bird hunters use birdshot. Further clarification: Quail are birds, not deer.
What does it say about a political party that relies so strongly on young, less-informed voters?
A couple of times now I’ve heard Obama say essentially this: “If McCain learns that I once shared my toys with a kindergarten friend he’ll probably try to use that to prove that I’m a socialist.” McCain should come back with this: “No Barack, socialism is more like when you force another kid to share his toys with your friend and you keep all your toys to yourself.”
If Obama believes that “we need fundamental change in this country” doesn’t that mean that he thinks this country has fundamental flaws? I’ve never thought of this country as fundamentally flawed. Have you?
Have you noticed that by the time a presidential election rolls around there is very little difference in what the major party candidates are saying? Apparently they move toward one another because they’re risk averse. They can’t resist adopting their opponent’s positions that seem to be playing well.
This is what Bob Beckel, a Democratic Strategist, called Sarah Palin in a post on The Fox Forum: a “…lightweight, egomaniacal, narcissistic, emotionless hack from Alaska who doesn’t know the meaning of honor or honesty…” Sounds like she’s getting under his skin.
The liberal media love to keep the focus on Sarah Palin’s supposed lack of preparedness for the position of Vice President. It diverts attention from the fact that their favored candidate, Barack Obama, is less prepared. And he’s running for the office of President.
There is one benefit from an Obama victory and the Democrats maintaining control of Congress. No more Countdown with Keith Olbermann. He won’t have any material.
The biggest problem with the government giving Wall Street financial companies a $700B bailout is that the government doesn’t have $700B. In effect, one insolvent entity is trying to rescue other insolvent entities.
Barack Obama has pledged to cut taxes, balance the budget and add new government programs. If he’s neither a messiah nor a magician he apparently believes, as fiscal conservatives do, that tax cuts can cause government revenue to increase.
Barack Obama has a new ad out that focuses on the fact that John McCain has never used a computer and can’t send an e-mail. Jonah Goldberg points out in his column that Obama has never fired a gun. I don’t think a president is going to be called on to do either, but I’m comfortable with a president who is more familiar with weapons than computers.
I hear that some of the attendees of the MTV Awards got political last night. That’s okay. Every time a Hollywood type denigrates the McCain-Palin ticket another thousand people in fly-over country decide to vote for them.
I read that a citizen of China killed an Olympics visitor with a knife. In China citizens aren’t allowed to have guns. So, in a gun-free zone a knife becomes about as deadly as a gun. The Chinese government understands the difference though; they have guns.
Looks like this is becoming a recommended reading list. The American has another good article, The Buck Starts Here, on the history and role of money.
A man has a sign in front of his business that says: A tax-payer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders. He could substitute poor-person for tax-payer. In the long-term Obama’s policies will hurt the poor more than they will help the poor.