Friday, September 7, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Sorkin's latest shibboleth #teaparty as Taliban The American Spectator #tcot
http://m.spectator.org/169477/show/724c505f775956432bdb1dcb4c9a9509/? "They can call themselves the Tea Party. They can call
themselves conservatives. They can even call themselves
Republicans, though Republicans certainly shouldn't. But
we should call them what they are: the American Taliban."
That might sound like a drunken rant at your local College
Democrat club. But then the scene shifts to the newsroom
where Will's producers are backslapping and hear-hearing
each other, as though the French had finally sailed into
Yorktown. This is perhaps the most striking feature of The
Newsroom. Seeping out of every pore of its characters,
embedded in every word of its dialogue, is the demand
that we prostrate ourselves before its crayon-scrawled,
left-wing nonsense and hail its moral courage.
The Newsroom is the brain child of Aaron Sorkin, the once-
wunderkind writer behind The West Wing. He clearly
intends for conservatives like me to be either outraged or
intellectually swayed by his Speaking Truth to Power.
Instead it's hard not to feel bored…even sorry for Sorkin.
Will's entire rant feels yellowed and musty. The "American
Taliban"? Really? In addition to being tedious, that was also
the title of a book by Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas.
At this point, the savants of liberalism are even borrowing
banalities from each other.”
themselves conservatives. They can even call themselves
Republicans, though Republicans certainly shouldn't. But
we should call them what they are: the American Taliban."
That might sound like a drunken rant at your local College
Democrat club. But then the scene shifts to the newsroom
where Will's producers are backslapping and hear-hearing
each other, as though the French had finally sailed into
Yorktown. This is perhaps the most striking feature of The
Newsroom. Seeping out of every pore of its characters,
embedded in every word of its dialogue, is the demand
that we prostrate ourselves before its crayon-scrawled,
left-wing nonsense and hail its moral courage.
The Newsroom is the brain child of Aaron Sorkin, the once-
wunderkind writer behind The West Wing. He clearly
intends for conservatives like me to be either outraged or
intellectually swayed by his Speaking Truth to Power.
Instead it's hard not to feel bored…even sorry for Sorkin.
Will's entire rant feels yellowed and musty. The "American
Taliban"? Really? In addition to being tedious, that was also
the title of a book by Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas.
At this point, the savants of liberalism are even borrowing
banalities from each other.”
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Meet the "new Obama" as clueless as the #OTAWO one#tcot #teaparty
RRD: Julian Castro gave a speech last night at the Democratic Presidential Convention.
Background on Castro:
Controversial, inept mayor Julian Castro headlines first night of DNC | Washington Free Beacon
http://freebeacon.com/meet-the-next-obama/
Last night Mr.Castro attempted to bluster his way through his speech at the DNC,but that pesky thing called reality kept getting in his way.
We have had a Democratic President for the past four years. When Obama came into office he obnoxiously proclaimed that he was going to "make government service cool again" .
I remember that shortly after Obama came into office,one of his underlings summed up the attitude of many ignorant liberals,who have apparently never heard of "the projects" or of "the war on poverty" (fn1) ,when he said that they had to correct the effects of years of "anti-government propaganda” which had led to the widespread belief that government programs did not work.
How would they rebut this "propaganda"?
Why with the stimulus of course.
The stimulus whose results this braggart claimed they would document in detail to rebut Republican "lies". You do remember the trillion dollar (fn2) stimulus don't you?
It's the one that was supposed to prevent unemployment from rising to 8%. Unemployment is 8.3% as I write this,not only did the "stimulus" not stimulate the economy to the levels predicted,but the economy WITH the stimulus has been far worse than what Obama's team predicted that it would be without the stimulus. (fn3) I want Mr.Castro to say--with a straight face--that he would be hailing a 8.3% unemployment rate,purchased at a cost of nearly a trillion dollars,as a success,if a Republican was the one who had orchestrated this debacle. Mr.Castro is brazen enough to think that if only he pretends that the past four years never happened,if only he pretends that Obama himself,through his own actions ,had not already reminded us that centrally planned "investments" do not succeed in creating wealth,then the rest of us would ride along with him on his crazy train.
Castro defends Obama’s economic record in keynote - The Hill's Video http://thehill.com/conventions-2012/dem-convention-charlotte/247553-castro-defends-obamas-economic-record-in-keynote
....“We all understand that freedom isn't free,” he said.“What [Mitt] Romney and [Paul] Ryan don't
understand is that neither is opportunity. We have to
invest in it.”...
RRD: "Investing" is the Democrats latest term for government spending and/or subsidies. What Castro means is that without the government "investing" in Apple there would be no Personal Computers,without the Government "investing" in Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel corp, America would not have become the dominant player in the steel industry,but for the Government's "investments" in Standard Oil,America would not be a world player in the oil industry,without Government "investments" Edison would not have invented the light bulb(fn4), that without Government "investments" the Wright Brothers would never have invented the Airplane,& that without Government "investments" Henry Ford would never have invented the automobile (fn5). Wait?
Those were private firms that did those things,they were not the result of a government plan by designed by bureaucratic mandarins?
Yes,I know,odd that these things slipped his mind,though. ...“It's a choice between a nation that slashes funding for
our schools and guts Pell grants, or a nation that invests more in education,”..... RRD: Or "a choice between being a nation that goes bankrupt and suffers hyperinflation,or the United States."
And by "investments" he means paybacks to the Teachers Unions for their support of the Democratic Party. The same Teacher's Unions who ensure that mediocrity reigns in the classroom. But then Obama need not worry,since his children go to private school (fn6)
“It's a choice between a politician who rewards companies that ship American jobs overseas or a leader who brings jobs back home.” RRD: What hypothetical "leader" who "brings American Jobs home" is he referring to?
I assume that the politician that he is referring to who "rewards companies that ship jobs overseas" is of course Obama.
We know that GM closed a American plant..and opened a nice shiny new Chinese one,(fn7) and we know that Obama "invested" the money that we refused to spend on GM's defective cars ourselves,in GM,so that GM could keep it's UAW workers on the Government dole,so that they in turn,would "give back" ...to Obama (you see how the racket works?) ..“Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn't get it,” he said.
“A few months ago he visited a university in Ohio and
gave the students there a little entrepreneurial advice.
'Start a business,' he said. But how? 'Borrow money, if you have to, from your parents,' he told them. Gee,why didn't I think of that? Some people are lucky enough to borrow money from their parents, but that shouldn’t determine whether you can pursue your dreams. I don’t think Gov. Romney meant any harm. I think he’s a good guy. He just has no idea how good he’s had it.”... RRD: What ”should determine whether you succeed”,then? Whether you kiss up to some bureaucrat ,or whether you bribe a Democratic party politician,or whether you employ UAW workers?
What actually should determine whether your business succeeds or fails is the Free Market,which means free men and women making free choices about whether to patronize a business or not. That choice was taken from us by both the Bank & Auto bailouts,courtesy of Bush & Obama respectively (& both of which I have opposed)
"He just has no idea how good he’s had it.” Actually,you have no idea "how good you've had it" living in a first world superpower whose wealth was the product of the Free-Market which you benefit from,even as you use technology invented through it,to spew your ignorant kiddie-socialism.
As I recall Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagon van and Steve Wozinak sold his Scientific Calculator to start Apple. By contrast with Jobs,Stanford Rockefeller was impoverished ,and yet he helped to make America a super-power,(through that perpetually reviled field the oil industry);his reward was to be persecuted by the Anti-Trust laws,similiar stories exist for many of America's greatest entrepreneurs,(see above).
Castro's prattle is self-righteous ignorance at its worst.
Is Castro really attempting to tell us that the GOVERNMENT is responsible for funding most of the successful entrepreneurial ventures in American history? Has he not heard of private financing? From JP Morgan (the man) to VCs (Venture Capitalists) to "angels" (wealthy private investors) private capital has funded most of the successful businesses in history. Granted Romney is not self-made man like Soichiro Honda, a man who dropped out of school at age 15 to become a apprentice and who succeeded in the Japanese auto industry,defying the wise government "planners" of Japan's "managed capitalism", (fn8),who in their infinite wisdom had decided that two automobile companies were quite enough.
But what has this fool Castro,or his fool in chief done?
“The Romney-Ryan budget doesn’t just cut public
education, cut Medicare, cut transportation and cut job
training,” he said. “It doesn’t just pummel the middle
class — it dismantles it.”
RRD: I'm sorry, the middle class is the product of government subsidies?? On what is this claim based? How then did we have a middle-class before government subsidies? When Eastern-European Jews came to the United States they had little in the way of a government "safety net",(indeed some had to overcome the efforts of those wonderful public school teachers who wanted to channel their children into trade schools. ) Nonetheless they became fluent in english and in a very short while had achieved great success.
And that is what Obama-Castro seek to stamp out of our memories. It is the actual history of America,and the knoweledge of the actual achievements of Individual Americans AS Individuals,that they seek to blank out of their minds and our minds through their despicable appeals to envy. They are at war with the American Spirit.
fn1
Or if they did hear of the projects,they probably thought they were created by private companies.
fn2. How much the failed Obama Stimulus cost us is a subject of debate,but it ranges from nearly a trillion to 1.7 trillion,in any case it was not intended to prevent unemployment from rising to 20%,or 40% or 80% or whatever figure Obots wish to invent. Using this kind of "reasoning" of course,Bush can claim credit for saving 300 million people from death,since Al-qaeda did not kill 300 million people. ("Created or saved lives" perhaps?)
fn3
Oh,and if you wish to pull a Martin Bashir see:
March Unemployment Much Higher than Obama Predicted
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/04/09/obamas-crystal-ball-wrong-on-unemployment-once-again/ Biden Says 'Everyone Guessed Wrong' on Unemployment Numbers | Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/14/biden-says-guessed-wrong-unemployment-numbers/
Obama predicts that unemployment levels will continue to rise - New York Daily News http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-07-14/news/17928876_1_unemployment-rate-economic-growth-president-barack-obama
"The White House has been criticized for being overly rosy
about employment projections. Just 10 days before taking
office, Obama's top economic advisers released a report
predicting unemployment would remain at 8 percent or
below through this year if an economic stimulus plan won
congressional approval.
Instead, it is headed toward double digits.
The president said the creation of jobs that pay good
wages is the "single biggest challenge" in the recovery for
the U.S. and governments worldwide. He defended his
multi-pronged agenda of trying to revamp health care,
energy, science innovation and infrastructure as the key to
real economic growth." Martin Bashir’s Duplicitous, Child-like Claim Romney Going To Hell For Saying Obama Pegged Unemployment At 8% | Mediaite
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/martin-bashir’s-duplicitous-child-like-claim-romney-going-to-hell-for-saying-obama-pegged-unemployment-at-8/
Romer and Bernstein on stimulus - NYTimes.com
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/romer-and-bernstein-on-stimulus/ Martin Bashir Flat Out Lies While Saying Mitt Romney Is Going to Hell for...Lying | NewsBusters.org
http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/04/20/martin-bashir-flat-out-lies-segment-claiming-mitt-romney-going-hell-f fn4.
Edison Biography
http://www.thomasedison.com/biography.html
”At age seven - after spending 12
weeks in a noisy one-room
schoolhouse with 38 other students
of ll ages - Tom's overworked and
short tempered teacher finally lost
his patience with the child's
persistent questioning and
seemingly self centered behavior.
Noting that Tom's forehead was unusually broad and his
head was considerably larger than average, he made no
secret of his belief that the hyperactive youngster's brains
were "addled" or scrambled.
If modern psychology had existed back then, Tom would
have probably been deemed a victim of ADHD (attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder) and proscribed a hefty dose
of the "miracle drug" Ritalin. Instead, when his beloved
mother - whom he recalled "was the making of me...
[because] she was always so true and so sure of me...
And always made me feel I had someone to live for and
must not disappoint." - became aware of the situation, she
promptly withdrew him from school and began to "home-
teach" him. Not surprisingly, she was convinced her son's
slightly unusual demeanor and physical appearance were
merely outward signs of his remarkable intelligence.” fn5 Sarcasm,I know that Diamler Benz invented the automobile though our President does not. Who Invented The Automobile?
http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2009/02/25/who-invented-the-automobile.htm
fn6. Obama Sends His Kids to Private School But Opposes School Choice Vouchers | cnsnews.com
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-sends-his-kids-private-school-opposes-school-choice-vouchers "As chairman of the
Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) from 1995 to 2001, Barack Obama helped distribute $49.2 million to help improve Chicago’s public schools, a task for the CAC that two studies showed had little or no impact on improving public education.
Despite his work to improve Chicago’s public schools, the 2008 Democratic,presidential nominee sends his two daughters to the University of Chicago’s Laboratory School, a prestigious private school in Chicago – and he opposes school vouchers, which would allow parents to send their kids to the school of their choice.”... fn7
Despite Obama bailout of GM American plants close while foreign plants boom | Washington Free Beacon
http://freebeacon.com/from-janesville-to-jilin/ fn8. Which Obama no doubt sees as a model
Background on Castro:
Controversial, inept mayor Julian Castro headlines first night of DNC | Washington Free Beacon
http://freebeacon.com/meet-the-next-obama/
Last night Mr.Castro attempted to bluster his way through his speech at the DNC,but that pesky thing called reality kept getting in his way.
We have had a Democratic President for the past four years. When Obama came into office he obnoxiously proclaimed that he was going to "make government service cool again" .
I remember that shortly after Obama came into office,one of his underlings summed up the attitude of many ignorant liberals,who have apparently never heard of "the projects" or of "the war on poverty" (fn1) ,when he said that they had to correct the effects of years of "anti-government propaganda” which had led to the widespread belief that government programs did not work.
How would they rebut this "propaganda"?
Why with the stimulus of course.
The stimulus whose results this braggart claimed they would document in detail to rebut Republican "lies". You do remember the trillion dollar (fn2) stimulus don't you?
It's the one that was supposed to prevent unemployment from rising to 8%. Unemployment is 8.3% as I write this,not only did the "stimulus" not stimulate the economy to the levels predicted,but the economy WITH the stimulus has been far worse than what Obama's team predicted that it would be without the stimulus. (fn3) I want Mr.Castro to say--with a straight face--that he would be hailing a 8.3% unemployment rate,purchased at a cost of nearly a trillion dollars,as a success,if a Republican was the one who had orchestrated this debacle. Mr.Castro is brazen enough to think that if only he pretends that the past four years never happened,if only he pretends that Obama himself,through his own actions ,had not already reminded us that centrally planned "investments" do not succeed in creating wealth,then the rest of us would ride along with him on his crazy train.
Castro defends Obama’s economic record in keynote - The Hill's Video http://thehill.com/conventions-2012/dem-convention-charlotte/247553-castro-defends-obamas-economic-record-in-keynote
....“We all understand that freedom isn't free,” he said.“What [Mitt] Romney and [Paul] Ryan don't
understand is that neither is opportunity. We have to
invest in it.”...
RRD: "Investing" is the Democrats latest term for government spending and/or subsidies. What Castro means is that without the government "investing" in Apple there would be no Personal Computers,without the Government "investing" in Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel corp, America would not have become the dominant player in the steel industry,but for the Government's "investments" in Standard Oil,America would not be a world player in the oil industry,without Government "investments" Edison would not have invented the light bulb(fn4), that without Government "investments" the Wright Brothers would never have invented the Airplane,& that without Government "investments" Henry Ford would never have invented the automobile (fn5). Wait?
Those were private firms that did those things,they were not the result of a government plan by designed by bureaucratic mandarins?
Yes,I know,odd that these things slipped his mind,though. ...“It's a choice between a nation that slashes funding for
our schools and guts Pell grants, or a nation that invests more in education,”..... RRD: Or "a choice between being a nation that goes bankrupt and suffers hyperinflation,or the United States."
And by "investments" he means paybacks to the Teachers Unions for their support of the Democratic Party. The same Teacher's Unions who ensure that mediocrity reigns in the classroom. But then Obama need not worry,since his children go to private school (fn6)
“It's a choice between a politician who rewards companies that ship American jobs overseas or a leader who brings jobs back home.” RRD: What hypothetical "leader" who "brings American Jobs home" is he referring to?
I assume that the politician that he is referring to who "rewards companies that ship jobs overseas" is of course Obama.
We know that GM closed a American plant..and opened a nice shiny new Chinese one,(fn7) and we know that Obama "invested" the money that we refused to spend on GM's defective cars ourselves,in GM,so that GM could keep it's UAW workers on the Government dole,so that they in turn,would "give back" ...to Obama (you see how the racket works?) ..“Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn't get it,” he said.
“A few months ago he visited a university in Ohio and
gave the students there a little entrepreneurial advice.
'Start a business,' he said. But how? 'Borrow money, if you have to, from your parents,' he told them. Gee,why didn't I think of that? Some people are lucky enough to borrow money from their parents, but that shouldn’t determine whether you can pursue your dreams. I don’t think Gov. Romney meant any harm. I think he’s a good guy. He just has no idea how good he’s had it.”... RRD: What ”should determine whether you succeed”,then? Whether you kiss up to some bureaucrat ,or whether you bribe a Democratic party politician,or whether you employ UAW workers?
What actually should determine whether your business succeeds or fails is the Free Market,which means free men and women making free choices about whether to patronize a business or not. That choice was taken from us by both the Bank & Auto bailouts,courtesy of Bush & Obama respectively (& both of which I have opposed)
"He just has no idea how good he’s had it.” Actually,you have no idea "how good you've had it" living in a first world superpower whose wealth was the product of the Free-Market which you benefit from,even as you use technology invented through it,to spew your ignorant kiddie-socialism.
As I recall Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagon van and Steve Wozinak sold his Scientific Calculator to start Apple. By contrast with Jobs,Stanford Rockefeller was impoverished ,and yet he helped to make America a super-power,(through that perpetually reviled field the oil industry);his reward was to be persecuted by the Anti-Trust laws,similiar stories exist for many of America's greatest entrepreneurs,(see above).
Castro's prattle is self-righteous ignorance at its worst.
Is Castro really attempting to tell us that the GOVERNMENT is responsible for funding most of the successful entrepreneurial ventures in American history? Has he not heard of private financing? From JP Morgan (the man) to VCs (Venture Capitalists) to "angels" (wealthy private investors) private capital has funded most of the successful businesses in history. Granted Romney is not self-made man like Soichiro Honda, a man who dropped out of school at age 15 to become a apprentice and who succeeded in the Japanese auto industry,defying the wise government "planners" of Japan's "managed capitalism", (fn8),who in their infinite wisdom had decided that two automobile companies were quite enough.
But what has this fool Castro,or his fool in chief done?
“The Romney-Ryan budget doesn’t just cut public
education, cut Medicare, cut transportation and cut job
training,” he said. “It doesn’t just pummel the middle
class — it dismantles it.”
RRD: I'm sorry, the middle class is the product of government subsidies?? On what is this claim based? How then did we have a middle-class before government subsidies? When Eastern-European Jews came to the United States they had little in the way of a government "safety net",(indeed some had to overcome the efforts of those wonderful public school teachers who wanted to channel their children into trade schools. ) Nonetheless they became fluent in english and in a very short while had achieved great success.
And that is what Obama-Castro seek to stamp out of our memories. It is the actual history of America,and the knoweledge of the actual achievements of Individual Americans AS Individuals,that they seek to blank out of their minds and our minds through their despicable appeals to envy. They are at war with the American Spirit.
fn1
Or if they did hear of the projects,they probably thought they were created by private companies.
fn2. How much the failed Obama Stimulus cost us is a subject of debate,but it ranges from nearly a trillion to 1.7 trillion,in any case it was not intended to prevent unemployment from rising to 20%,or 40% or 80% or whatever figure Obots wish to invent. Using this kind of "reasoning" of course,Bush can claim credit for saving 300 million people from death,since Al-qaeda did not kill 300 million people. ("Created or saved lives" perhaps?)
fn3
Oh,and if you wish to pull a Martin Bashir see:
March Unemployment Much Higher than Obama Predicted
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/04/09/obamas-crystal-ball-wrong-on-unemployment-once-again/ Biden Says 'Everyone Guessed Wrong' on Unemployment Numbers | Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/14/biden-says-guessed-wrong-unemployment-numbers/
Obama predicts that unemployment levels will continue to rise - New York Daily News http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-07-14/news/17928876_1_unemployment-rate-economic-growth-president-barack-obama
"The White House has been criticized for being overly rosy
about employment projections. Just 10 days before taking
office, Obama's top economic advisers released a report
predicting unemployment would remain at 8 percent or
below through this year if an economic stimulus plan won
congressional approval.
Instead, it is headed toward double digits.
The president said the creation of jobs that pay good
wages is the "single biggest challenge" in the recovery for
the U.S. and governments worldwide. He defended his
multi-pronged agenda of trying to revamp health care,
energy, science innovation and infrastructure as the key to
real economic growth." Martin Bashir’s Duplicitous, Child-like Claim Romney Going To Hell For Saying Obama Pegged Unemployment At 8% | Mediaite
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/martin-bashir’s-duplicitous-child-like-claim-romney-going-to-hell-for-saying-obama-pegged-unemployment-at-8/
Romer and Bernstein on stimulus - NYTimes.com
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/romer-and-bernstein-on-stimulus/ Martin Bashir Flat Out Lies While Saying Mitt Romney Is Going to Hell for...Lying | NewsBusters.org
http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/04/20/martin-bashir-flat-out-lies-segment-claiming-mitt-romney-going-hell-f fn4.
Edison Biography
http://www.thomasedison.com/biography.html
”At age seven - after spending 12
weeks in a noisy one-room
schoolhouse with 38 other students
of ll ages - Tom's overworked and
short tempered teacher finally lost
his patience with the child's
persistent questioning and
seemingly self centered behavior.
Noting that Tom's forehead was unusually broad and his
head was considerably larger than average, he made no
secret of his belief that the hyperactive youngster's brains
were "addled" or scrambled.
If modern psychology had existed back then, Tom would
have probably been deemed a victim of ADHD (attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder) and proscribed a hefty dose
of the "miracle drug" Ritalin. Instead, when his beloved
mother - whom he recalled "was the making of me...
[because] she was always so true and so sure of me...
And always made me feel I had someone to live for and
must not disappoint." - became aware of the situation, she
promptly withdrew him from school and began to "home-
teach" him. Not surprisingly, she was convinced her son's
slightly unusual demeanor and physical appearance were
merely outward signs of his remarkable intelligence.” fn5 Sarcasm,I know that Diamler Benz invented the automobile though our President does not. Who Invented The Automobile?
http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2009/02/25/who-invented-the-automobile.htm
fn6. Obama Sends His Kids to Private School But Opposes School Choice Vouchers | cnsnews.com
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-sends-his-kids-private-school-opposes-school-choice-vouchers "As chairman of the
Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) from 1995 to 2001, Barack Obama helped distribute $49.2 million to help improve Chicago’s public schools, a task for the CAC that two studies showed had little or no impact on improving public education.
Despite his work to improve Chicago’s public schools, the 2008 Democratic,presidential nominee sends his two daughters to the University of Chicago’s Laboratory School, a prestigious private school in Chicago – and he opposes school vouchers, which would allow parents to send their kids to the school of their choice.”... fn7
Despite Obama bailout of GM American plants close while foreign plants boom | Washington Free Beacon
http://freebeacon.com/from-janesville-to-jilin/ fn8. Which Obama no doubt sees as a model
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Obama considers executive order to implement cybersecurity rules the won't pass #tcot #tlot
Democratic platform diverges with GOP on cybersecurity - The Hill's Hillicon Valley http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/247391-democratic-platform-diverges-with-gop-on-cybersecurity "After the Senate stalled on cybersecurity legislation last
month, the White House is considering drafting an
executive order that would put cybersecurity measures
in place to better protect critical infrastructure from
cyber attacks. However, the administration has kept
quiet about what those possible measures would look
like.
The GOP would likely bash such a cybersecurity
executive order. In their platform, Republicans
cautioned that the Obama administration's
cybersecurity approach would add another layer of
bureaucracy and costs to an already bloated federal
government and ultimately harm innovation.”
month, the White House is considering drafting an
executive order that would put cybersecurity measures
in place to better protect critical infrastructure from
cyber attacks. However, the administration has kept
quiet about what those possible measures would look
like.
The GOP would likely bash such a cybersecurity
executive order. In their platform, Republicans
cautioned that the Obama administration's
cybersecurity approach would add another layer of
bureaucracy and costs to an already bloated federal
government and ultimately harm innovation.”
Obama wants your Union Dues going to support the DNC. Not a Union Member? If Obama gets his way you will be,whether you want to or not. #tcot #teaparty
RRD: A few months ago,in yet another of his brazen lies Obama condemned Right-to-Work laws as being attacks on the right to bargain collectively.
Obama attacks right-to-work laws | Mobile Washington Examiner
http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/article/1260861 Of course Right-to-Work laws don't prevent people from joining Unions, they prevent people from being forced to join Unions against their will.
What they actually do is to prevent a free people from being forced to subsidize the Democratic party & that is why this power lusting psychopath wants them gone.
In Obamatopia we would all be forced to pay tribute to this man & his power mad gang under penalty of being unable to get what few jobs are remaining.
Obama does not care about workers. Obama cares about what Alinsky told his students was the most important thing on earth ;POWER! (Alinsky would literally scream this at his students;men who in turn taught Alinsky's methods to Obama)
Individuals have the right to unionize and to strike if they wish. But there is no "right" of Unions to force people to join Unions,against their will if they are to be able to get a particular job.
Perhaps one reason people are so reluctant to join Unions is because of oh..I..don't know...the association of the Teamsters with criminals,or the fact that part of their dues will go to the DNC,or the fact that they fear that they will be intimidated or threatened by Union bosses if they actually dare to vote for someone other than the Union's "picked" candidate. In short,Unions today are all too often headed by the Frank Kinnan (fn1) type of Union Boss (except without Kinnan's intellectual honesty). Nonetheless Obama continued his shtick today (in that pro-union utopia the Dems choose for the site of their convention:North Carolina) & with his trademark sneer of hope derided "Right-to-work" laws as "Right-to-Work-for-less" laws. (What a rapier-like wit this man has!)
So Obama is delivering a speech on the value of Unions,after his party selected North Carolina--one of the least unionized states--to be the site of this pro-union party's convention. Obama who robbed our tax dollars to bail out GM & Chrysler,two companies which went bankrupt precisely because their Unions got their employees unsustainable benefit packages (which we must now subsidize with our tax dollars,so that the Democratic party can rake in more campaign contributions from the Unions).
Why does Obama not talk about the other industries and fields destroyed by,or crippled by, unsustainable work rules and unsustainable benefits packages.
Why does he not talk about the Unions' sordid history of racial discrimination and their history of sex discrimination?
Why does he not talk about the destruction wreaked on the black community by the public schools which have been reduced to a jobs program where merit is punished and incompetence is rewarded? Guess why?
What type of party forces people to support it through compulsory donations?
Footnotes: fn1.
The Labor leader in Atlas Shrugged who led his men "to the stockyards" as serfs of the dictatorship in exchange for wealth and power.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Team Obama: We're better off with higher unemployment #tcot #teaparty
RRD: There are three words for this, one is,”spin” & the other two are a compound word whose mentionable part is ”bull”. One must ask why Team Obama thinks that Americans will permit them to redefine "recovery" downward to mean increased unemployment,higher poverty rates,& having more Americans on food stamps and welfare.
Evidently Americans are supposed to give up their hopes and their dreams so Obama can feel good. After all he wants to be President,isn't that all that matters.
Obama needn't do anything to merit reelection, his mere presence on tv is his gift to us.
”Asked on NBC’s “Today” show whether Americans were
better off, Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie
Cutter was definitive. “Absolutely,” said Cutter, listing statistics about rising
unemployment and declining wages in the six months
before Obama took office. “By any measure, the country
has moved forward over the last four years. It might not
be as fast as some people would have hoped, [but] the
president agrees with that, he knows we need to do
more.”
“The answer is we are better off,” Los Angeles Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa, chairman of the Democratic National
Convention, said on CBS’s “This Morning.” “We were
losing 800,000 jobs a month, we lost 3.5 million jobs, the
mortgage lending crisis was creating a foreclosure
problem that we hadn’t seen since probably the Great
Depression … We’ve had 29 consecutive months of growth
in private-sector jobs… So the answer is yes, we are better
off.” RRD: How can one have job growth if Unemployment is higher? Answer words mean whatever we wish them to mean.
“Absolutely,” said Democratic National Committee
spokesman Brad Woodhouse on CNN’s “Starting Point.”
“The truth is, though, is that the American people know,
we were literally a plane that was heading, the trajectory
was towards the ground when the president took over. He
got the stick and pulled us up out of that decline.”
RRD: If Obama pulled us out of the decline how is it that he has added trillions to the debt and we now have fewer jobs after his stimulus?
These answers differ from Gov. Martin O’Malley’s (D-
Md.) response to the same question Sunday on CBS’s
“Face the Nation.” Asked whether Americans were better
off, O’Malley replied, “No, but that’s not the question of
this election.”
RRD: Really? What is the question? Whether Obama wishes to be re-elected or not?
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Obama is not Mcgovern,he is more dangerous #aynrand #tcot #objectivism
How Obama is,& isn't different from previous Democrats.
Hercule Poirot once remarked that the difference between murder and attempted murder is not moral,it is that the attempted murderer is incompetent,whereas the murderer was successful.
In this analogy Bill Clinton would be the attempted murderer and Obama would be the murderer. Some time ago I had a argument with someone who was urging us to vote for Romney. He was arguomg that,essentially,Obama would destroy the United States. (fn1) I responded to this by noting that Republicans had been proclaiming that "this time it's different" at least since Bill Clinton vs Bush. They made the same argument against Clinton and against Kerry that they have made against Obama. I also noted that I knew some friends who had spelled Clinton with a K as "Klinton" to indicate that he was a Communist back during his reign.
To this he replied that I was ”committing a horrendous injustice" against Bill Clinton, since Clinton "backed down" and "listened". To this, I in turn responded :"No I really do not think that I have committed a 'horrendous injustice" against Bill Clinton by saying that he is morally no different from Obama,Clinton proposed Hillarycare,and he wanted to install backdoors into our computers and into our phones via the Clipper chip. Cowardice is not a virtue,the fact that Clinton was not as driven,and as ruthless, and as competent as Obama made him less dangerous than Obama,but there was no moral distinction between the two".
And it was that very last sentence that gave me pause,not because I was in doubt as to whether there was a moral distinction between the two,but because I had inadvertently named the main,real,distinction between Obama and Clinton,and between Obama and Kerry and between Obama and Dukakis,hell for that matter between Obama and Mcgovern.
Why do we call the Health Care bill Obamacare,instead of calling it Mcgoverncare,or Dukakiscare,or Clintoncare,or Kerrycare?
"Why that's obvious,Obama passed it"
Exactly,for decades Democrats have lusted after a bill that would destroy private insurance and who passed it?
Why did Obama not back down?
For that matter,why did Obama get elected?
Yes Bush and Mccain contributed to his victory,but Obama not only won, he won by large margins,at least part of this was due to the ruthlessness of David Axelrod (who should not be underestimated in 2012,see David Mendell's: Obama from Promise to Power), but part of the reason was simply due to the fact that Obama is a charismatic demagogue. (Charismatic to me? No. To his followers,yes,even now when many have become disillusioned,one need only show up at a moderately liberal campus to see that some people, particularly women, still swoon over the man)
And once Obama was elected,he was evidently prepared to sacrifice the House to ram through Obamacare,(hell if the claims about Fast & Furious are true,then he was willing to cause Americans to die to enact gun control).
This is not ”Jimmy Carter's second term”, Jimmy Carter,Clinton,Kerry etc were buffoons by contrast,(to paraphrase Rush Limbaugh)
Nor is Obama Peter Keating. Long ago,back in 2008 ,Robert Tracinski remarked that Obama was a chamelon ”like Peter Keating”,that statement,though wrong,was at least somewhat understandable in 2008.
This is not 2008.
There is no justification for that belief now,none,(and so far as I know, Mr.Tracinski himself jettisoned that belief around 2009) Can you picture Peter Keating ramming through Obamacare? Comparing Obama to Keating,or Obama to Clinton ,is as absurd as comparing the Republican Guard of Iraq to the Revolutionary Guard of Iran because "just as people told us that the Republican Guard was fearsome,and it wasn't,so they are now crying wolf about the Revolutionary Guard".
Ask the Israeli soldiers who fought both the PLO and Hezbollah in Lebanon whether Hezbollah--which was trained by the Revolutionary Guard--was "no different" than the PLO .
Morally they weren't.
Hezbollah,however,at the height of the conflict,nearly inflicted a one-to-one casualty ratio against the IDF. They were that well disciplined,and that tenacious.
They are not buffoons,and in the political realm,neither is Obama.
People sometime forget that the last time the boy cried wolf, there was an actual wolf. And speaking of the Islamic Republic of Iran,those who see no difference between Romney and Obama on foreign policy should note that it is Obama, and not Romney,who has leaked operational information which could cripple the one program--the cyberwarfare program--that has slowed down Iran's nuclear program. If that program is defeated, Israel will be forced to stage a strike alone,and absent American support, (indeed against ”American” opposition),it will be unlikely to succeed.
Who is Leaking About Cyberattacks? « Commentary Magazine
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/06/04/who-is-leaking-about-cyberattacks/ Also see
Obama, Gospel and Verse - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/opinion/26brooks.html
Should that occur we may face a nuclear first strike on the United States, or on Israel.
But Romney won't stop Iran?
Perhaps not,but I doubt that he will be trying to sabotage Israel's efforts,Obama by contrast,IS DOING THAT RIGHT NOW.
There is absolutely no reason why we must vote for Romney in 2016,certainly not if he betrays us,but it will take time to build up a alternative to the current choice of evils that we are offered.
But back to Obama.
Far from being Keating,if I had to name a Atlas Shrugged character that he is most like,it would be--at a minimum-- Walter Breckenridge,& at worst,one of the Starnes heirs, or Ellsworth Toohey,or Floyd Ferris. ( And yes I am quite serious) Footnotes:
fn1. I doubt that Obama will destroy the U.S., indeed the only possible way that I think that he could reasonably do so would be if he declared martial law after a terrorist attack ,or a nuclear first strike,and attempted to impose an Alien and Sedition like bill,that could be the trigger for massive civil unrest ( a "civil war" of a kind,though of "The Troubles" variety rather than the American Civil War) But I regard this as a improbable scenario.
Hercule Poirot once remarked that the difference between murder and attempted murder is not moral,it is that the attempted murderer is incompetent,whereas the murderer was successful.
In this analogy Bill Clinton would be the attempted murderer and Obama would be the murderer. Some time ago I had a argument with someone who was urging us to vote for Romney. He was arguomg that,essentially,Obama would destroy the United States. (fn1) I responded to this by noting that Republicans had been proclaiming that "this time it's different" at least since Bill Clinton vs Bush. They made the same argument against Clinton and against Kerry that they have made against Obama. I also noted that I knew some friends who had spelled Clinton with a K as "Klinton" to indicate that he was a Communist back during his reign.
To this he replied that I was ”committing a horrendous injustice" against Bill Clinton, since Clinton "backed down" and "listened". To this, I in turn responded :"No I really do not think that I have committed a 'horrendous injustice" against Bill Clinton by saying that he is morally no different from Obama,Clinton proposed Hillarycare,and he wanted to install backdoors into our computers and into our phones via the Clipper chip. Cowardice is not a virtue,the fact that Clinton was not as driven,and as ruthless, and as competent as Obama made him less dangerous than Obama,but there was no moral distinction between the two".
And it was that very last sentence that gave me pause,not because I was in doubt as to whether there was a moral distinction between the two,but because I had inadvertently named the main,real,distinction between Obama and Clinton,and between Obama and Kerry and between Obama and Dukakis,hell for that matter between Obama and Mcgovern.
Why do we call the Health Care bill Obamacare,instead of calling it Mcgoverncare,or Dukakiscare,or Clintoncare,or Kerrycare?
"Why that's obvious,Obama passed it"
Exactly,for decades Democrats have lusted after a bill that would destroy private insurance and who passed it?
Why did Obama not back down?
For that matter,why did Obama get elected?
Yes Bush and Mccain contributed to his victory,but Obama not only won, he won by large margins,at least part of this was due to the ruthlessness of David Axelrod (who should not be underestimated in 2012,see David Mendell's: Obama from Promise to Power), but part of the reason was simply due to the fact that Obama is a charismatic demagogue. (Charismatic to me? No. To his followers,yes,even now when many have become disillusioned,one need only show up at a moderately liberal campus to see that some people, particularly women, still swoon over the man)
And once Obama was elected,he was evidently prepared to sacrifice the House to ram through Obamacare,(hell if the claims about Fast & Furious are true,then he was willing to cause Americans to die to enact gun control).
This is not ”Jimmy Carter's second term”, Jimmy Carter,Clinton,Kerry etc were buffoons by contrast,(to paraphrase Rush Limbaugh)
Nor is Obama Peter Keating. Long ago,back in 2008 ,Robert Tracinski remarked that Obama was a chamelon ”like Peter Keating”,that statement,though wrong,was at least somewhat understandable in 2008.
This is not 2008.
There is no justification for that belief now,none,(and so far as I know, Mr.Tracinski himself jettisoned that belief around 2009) Can you picture Peter Keating ramming through Obamacare? Comparing Obama to Keating,or Obama to Clinton ,is as absurd as comparing the Republican Guard of Iraq to the Revolutionary Guard of Iran because "just as people told us that the Republican Guard was fearsome,and it wasn't,so they are now crying wolf about the Revolutionary Guard".
Ask the Israeli soldiers who fought both the PLO and Hezbollah in Lebanon whether Hezbollah--which was trained by the Revolutionary Guard--was "no different" than the PLO .
Morally they weren't.
Hezbollah,however,at the height of the conflict,nearly inflicted a one-to-one casualty ratio against the IDF. They were that well disciplined,and that tenacious.
They are not buffoons,and in the political realm,neither is Obama.
People sometime forget that the last time the boy cried wolf, there was an actual wolf. And speaking of the Islamic Republic of Iran,those who see no difference between Romney and Obama on foreign policy should note that it is Obama, and not Romney,who has leaked operational information which could cripple the one program--the cyberwarfare program--that has slowed down Iran's nuclear program. If that program is defeated, Israel will be forced to stage a strike alone,and absent American support, (indeed against ”American” opposition),it will be unlikely to succeed.
Who is Leaking About Cyberattacks? « Commentary Magazine
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/06/04/who-is-leaking-about-cyberattacks/ Also see
Obama, Gospel and Verse - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/opinion/26brooks.html
Should that occur we may face a nuclear first strike on the United States, or on Israel.
But Romney won't stop Iran?
Perhaps not,but I doubt that he will be trying to sabotage Israel's efforts,Obama by contrast,IS DOING THAT RIGHT NOW.
There is absolutely no reason why we must vote for Romney in 2016,certainly not if he betrays us,but it will take time to build up a alternative to the current choice of evils that we are offered.
But back to Obama.
Far from being Keating,if I had to name a Atlas Shrugged character that he is most like,it would be--at a minimum-- Walter Breckenridge,& at worst,one of the Starnes heirs, or Ellsworth Toohey,or Floyd Ferris. ( And yes I am quite serious) Footnotes:
fn1. I doubt that Obama will destroy the U.S., indeed the only possible way that I think that he could reasonably do so would be if he declared martial law after a terrorist attack ,or a nuclear first strike,and attempted to impose an Alien and Sedition like bill,that could be the trigger for massive civil unrest ( a "civil war" of a kind,though of "The Troubles" variety rather than the American Civil War) But I regard this as a improbable scenario.
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