scream-of-consciousness;
"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
Marc Miller sent a very enthusiastic memo about this book, and I will be reading it ASAP. (Make sure you select book edition, if that's what you want).
Thank God
This is all a dream I'll soon awake from
Whew,
had me going for awhile, but this gave it away. I'm dreaming that
Obama's military came up with a medal for not doing something, or “courageous restraint."
*snort* Oh no! That means that I could have had my way with
that hot checkout clerk at Giant just now, and it wouldn't matter to
anyone. Right there on the conveyor belt! Crap, I'm
going back there - unless I wake-up earlier of course. Oh please-please
please. Just 5 minutes more. But, I can't wait to see who
really is the president today.In this dream it's some Chicago pimp -- details fuzzy- but JFC it's horrible. Nationalized the auto, banking, and health care industries, plus some other shit. Oh man, I didn't remember her having a big nose ... .
After
grappling with the legality
of the legislation-- making sure that it did not hurt the public's
access to any other government records -- Gov. Linda Lingle (R-Hawaii)
has signed into law a bill that protects state employees from having to
answer harassing requests about President Barack Obama's citizenship.
The new law, Act 100, allows state agencies a
limited exemption from Freedom of Information requirements when
duplicative requests for information are made by the same person.
Although the law covers all agencies, the measure targets people who
repeatedly request a copy of Obama's Hawai birth certificate.
That's still an unwelcome precedent, but according to state employees the requests were just out of control.
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The logic here is just
staggeringly contemptuous, like everything else Obama. Just last week,
more than two years after questions about Obama's birth hospital
surfaced, Hawaii's governor established Kapi'olani
Hospital in Honolulu as the holy place. No documentation, just a declaration. Obama Himself spilled over thin blue lips that he was born at Queens hospital. Stab me in the freaking liver, why don't you?
Dan
Henniger's WSJ article "The We're-Not-Europe Party" set me to
thinking. I bet that very few of us understand why Greece's
financial collapse is important to us, or what caused
it? I've cobbled together a rudimentary package that will answer these
questions in less than 20 minutes time.
(Note: As I grow older I am convinced that anything more than rudimentary
becomes someone's self-serving excuse, so KISS is good). Let's begin,
as did I, with the video of Henniger's article
If you want to understand the reason, as good a source as any is the
annual World Bank "Doing Business" survey for 2010. The spark for this
financial crisis has been decades of overspending and cooking of the
public books, but the survey reveals the underlying causes of the Greek
disease.
In terms of overall ease of doing business, Greece comes
in 109 out of 183 countries around the world. It is dead last among the
27 members of the European Union as well as the advanced economies in
the OECD. You have to go up 30 slots to find the next worst EU
performer, Italy. The U.S. ranks fourth and Singapore is first.
Note:The way we're headed, California's "We're # 1" will become a national cry.
While we root for Europe’s success,
because a strong European economy benefits America, it’s worth nothing
that the EU was created to be an economic competitor to the United
States. Therefore, while it may be appropriate for the EU to pay for
these bailouts, the same logic doesn't apply to America. President Obama
should extricate the U.S. from the gathering storm of European bailouts
which will only delay the fiscal reforms that are necessary for
long-term recovery.
Even at this late hour, the Obama
administration has considerable power to stop the U.S. from going down
this ruinous road. Under current IMF rules, the United States needs only
one other IMF member to oppose the bailout to defeat it. Therefore, we
are calling on President Obama to publicly oppose the $145 billion Greek
bailout, and refuse to participate in any larger European bailout which
may be forthcoming. [continue]
America is rapidly turning its safety net into a comfortable cocoon.
President Barack Obama's 2011 budget contains a welfare surge that will
raise social spending by 42 percent above 2009 levels, according to an
analysis by the Heritage Foundation. State and local welfare spending
will total $953 million.
The goal is to close the quality of life gap, so that nobody in America is too prosperous or too poor.
In the process, the federal government risks making the dependent class even larger by destroying the basic incentive to work.
Already, landscapers say they can't compete with unemployment checks to
fill jobs that pay $10 to $12 an hour. Jobless benefits now stretch to
nearly two years, allowing some laid-off workers the luxury to refuse
job offers. Similar generosity in Europe has institutionalized the
jobless rate at twice the U.S. level.
Why is this news? Several
years ago the WSJ did a piece on Britain's welfare system, aka "the
dole." A sociologist wanted to find out why initiatives to raise
graduation rates were failing miserably. He surveyed students
about what they aspired to if anything was possible; those whose
father was on the dole overwhelmingly answered,"Be on the dole like me
dad."
