John Hawkins over at Right Wing News has an excellent piece comparing his view of Barack Hussain Obama to that of liberal columnist Richard Cohen.  It’s amazing how differently two people can see the same person.

Here is a part of Hawkin’s view:

When I look at Barack Obama, I see a stunningly naive, cowardly, dishonest, vindictive, arrogant, hyper-partisan empty suit, who has gotten as far as he has mainly because he’s black, gives a good speech, and was extraordinarily lucky in his timing. This is a man who rose to the absolute pinnacle of power in American politics, at a very young age, with an almost non-existent record of accomplishment behind him.

 

Because he’s black and liberal, he gets kid glove treatment from the press, the media, and Hollywood. Because he has large majorities in the House and Senate, he has still never had to actually lead, even as President. Other people craft the legislation, he gives a speech, and then he waits for his sycophants in the press to talk about how wonderful he is and what terrible racists his political opponents happen to be.

I would tend to agree with him.  But not so Cohen, who has a very different view of the President:

Perfection may be President Obama’s biggest flaw.

 

If, as the saying goes, the perfect is the enemy of the good, then Barack Obama is his own worst enemy. That becomes clear in the upcoming HBO documentary “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama,” which is the product of many months of behind-the-scenes access to Obama during the presidential campaign. It reveals that Barack Obama is pretty close to the most perfect person you will never get to know.

Sycophancy aside, it makes for a startling contrast.  By all means, go read the entire piece.

October 26th, 2009 | Category: Politics, WTF | Leave a comment

Wouldn’t it be cool if this had actually happened?

October 6th, 2009 | Category: Heh, Politics | Leave a comment

This cartoon was made 50 years ago, but predicts our current political scene amazingly well.

September 19th, 2009 | Category: Politics | Leave a comment

So Obama gave a speech to school kids the other day and it was a pretty boring, non-political speech.  But many Republicans had been up in arms over it, including me.  Here’s why:

I wasn’t worried so much about the speech itself.  I was a bit leery, since a well-known tactic of the Left is to go after the children and indoctrinate them early on.  But we already see that everywhere, in schools, in their text books, on TV.  It’s a full-time job as a parent to fight that, but I’m up for it.  I assumed that Obama’s speech wouldn’t be overtly political or left-wing.  No, he’ll start easing that stuff into his speeches each year (we’ll be like the frog in the slowly boiling water).  The first speech was bound to be innocuous so that later on parents won’t see the lefty stuff coming.

What got me worked up was the lesson plan to go along with the speech released by Obama’s Education Department.  The kids were advised to read books about Dear Leader, sorry, I mean Obama, and then discuss how he "inspires" them and how they can "help the president".   Why is it all about Obama?  Shouldn’t it be about the kids?  I know that they changed the last part, about helping the president, but only after people complained.  That was clearly the worst of it, suggesting all sorts of Orwellian possibilities of turning kids into little Obama-drones.  Help him first on education, then on his healthcare debacle, and down the road by turning in your parents who aren’t on board with the Revolution…

I also question why the kids were asked to read books about him?  Why not read some material showing what is possible with an education, and what awaits those who don’t get one?  Some would suggest that Obama’s story is "inspiring" and worthy of praise.  I disagree.  This was a guy whose rich parents paid for an expensive, good education, and then he went and got himself in with the most extreme leftists around and made a name for himself as a guy who can read a teleprompter really well.  I’m sorry, but that qualifies him to replace Katie Couric, not to live in the White House.  The guy is the quintessential stuffed shirt, an empty suit, and you can see that clearly just about any time he tries to speak without the prompter.

But again, why was it all about him?  (Many on the left would probably write that as "all about Him"…)  Don’t you lefties prefer to think of the children?  Won’t somebody think of the children??  It was arrogance and presumption that made this administration think that children should be spending school time learning about this one guy that the lefties worship and adore.  You know, as opposed to actually working on the education he is telling them in his speech is so important.

September 13th, 2009 | Category: Politics | Leave a comment

Here’s a slightly different way of looking at the current financial mess this country, and several others, are in.  There is a theory, a fairly sound one, that suggests that when banks lend money they are essentially creating it out of mid-air.  They don’t actually have piles of cash, as they might have in the "old" days and instead securitize the loans (which means finding investors to buy groups of them).   Watch this video for more on this theory:

Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5

The effect of all of the loans issued by banks, including credit cards, is to increase the nation’s money supply tremendously.  With all of the new "money" created, there is a lot more money going around, to earn, have, spend, or keep.  This, of course, drives a large part of the economy.  But with banks not lending so much, and now consumers wising up and deciding to borrow less (something I wish the idiots in the government would emulate), there is simply less money being created and the economy is contracting because of it.

The Fed meanwhile is doing what they can to keep the creation of money going.  They’ve dropped interest rates to nearly nothing and they’re printing money like crazy.  I mean, unbelievable, never-before-done-in-American-history levels.

Here’s Glenn Beck discussing it:

For the time being, this is offsetting the lack of money creation via loans and credit, but eventually the amount the banks are lending will climb, and the amount that people are borrowing will climb.  It’s unfortunate, from an individual standpoint, as too many people have been living beyond their means for too long, but most of them are too stupid to realize this (heck, they voted the Dems into power, nobody with any brains would do that), so the consumer borrowing will rocket upwards again.

So, the creation of money via lending will climb again, but what about the creation of money that the Fed is doing by printing cash?  Anyone who has taken Economics 101 knows what happens when you flood a market with an item: the value of the item plummets.  And so will the value of the dollar.  In economics terms, that’s called inflation, and it’s a very bad thing. Especially when we’re talking about triple-digit, third-world-country-style inflation.  And it’s likely coming.

And that’s the real scary thing about the economy.

September 13th, 2009 | Category: Economics | Leave a comment

This one goes out to all of the Bush=Hitler douche bags out there…

September 1st, 2009 | Category: Heh | Leave a comment

I have no comments on this picture.  I don’t even know what it’s supposed mean, exactly.  Is Obama the Joker somehow? I don’t know.  But I do know I like the poster.  It’s creepy, just like Obama’s healthcare plan.

Did you hear that the Senate specifically voted against an amendment that would have required them to live under the public option that the rest of us would get?

Yep, remember that, kids.  The public plan Obama is pushing is not good enough for Congress, but it’s good enough for you.

Maybe that’s the point of the poster.  They must be joking, right?

August 6th, 2009 | Category: Heh, Politics, Pop culture, WTF | Leave a comment

Now I have no idea how true this is, if at all, but it is amusing and a little bit frightening…

July 30th, 2009 | Category: WTF | Leave a comment

I’m pretty sure this qualifies these Brits as the most awesome family ever.

Chantal Marshall and four of her daughters have had NINE boob jobs between them, making them the British family to have had the most breast surgery – bra none!

 

They call their home Silicone City – and for good reason. Chantal Marshall and four of her daughters have had NINE boob jobs between them.

That makes them the British family to have had the most breast surgery – bra, er, bar none.

 

While most mums and their daughters enjoy shopping trips together, Chantal, 50, and her daughters have spent nearly £40,000 on visits to cosmetic surgeons to have their breasts enlarged.

 

Ripley, 18, Tara, 22, Terri, 25, Emma, 28, and mum-of-nine Chantal, of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Notts, now boast chest sizes ranging from 34DD to 32GG.

 

On one occasion, Emma and Ripley even ended up having breast enhancement surgery on the same day and at the same clinic as their mum.

Mum and four daughters spend £40,000 on nine boob ops - mirror.co.uk

July 15th, 2009 | Category: Babes, Heh | Leave a comment