As I get ready to simmer down for the evening for a hectic day tomorrow, it appears Obama has it in the bag. They've just called Ohio for Obama which means it's over. Congratulations to Obama on his historic victory. It will be interesting to see how things progress from here.
There's been a lot of sob stories about people losing their homes due to the recent mortgage crisis. But everytime anyone looks at one, they discover that the fault isn't with "predatory lenders" or "the economy", the fault lies with stupid stupid consumers. Check out this one: http://rachellucas.com/index.php/2008/08/13/the-only-thing-i-feel-sorry-for-these-people-about-is-that-they-were-born-stupid/
For the first time since I became old enough to vote, I'm seriously considering sitting out a Presidential election. Obama, on the one hand, brings nothing to the Presidency other than a radical agenda that seems to have little understanding of how the real world works. There's no circumstance that I would vote for him. But to me, McCain's actually worse. Unlike Obama, McCain actually took away our rights. His "Campaign Finance Reform" stripped a lot of my ...
Somehow, I just don't see Abraham Lincoln and Nancy Pelosi being ideological "buds". Eric Alterman once again proves the point that most liberals simply see things as a "good" vs. "evil". Good people are liberals. Bad people are conservatives. It might make modern day liberals such as Eric Alterman feel good thinking he's in the company of say Thomas Jefferson, but I suspect Jefferson would take issue with today's modern liberal agenda ...
Democrats, in general, are extremely ignorant about economics. It's difficult to even find a Democrat with any serious experience in running a business or having actually produced anything at all. Elected Democrats tend to be lawyers. At best, lawyers help honest business men and individuals settle a dispute. At worst, lawyers are parasites on society. It is usually without irony that Democrats decry how much doctors make and how health care costs need to be controlled while ignoring that it ...
In the United States, liberals represent the American left. And liberals tend to be Democrats. It has been my observation that generally speaking, liberals despise democracy. They either make use of obscure procedural tricks or the courts to get their way. Rarely do you get to have such a great example of quintessential characteristics of a modern American liberal. This week, David Obey, a Democrat from Wisconsin is single handedly holding up a supplemental military funding bill t...
The far left in the United States are outraged that Bush vetoed the bill that would have provided "free" health insurance to minors. When these discussions get going, I am always amazed that the obvious solution isn't taken: Start charities that provide health insurance to the "needy". It wouldn't be that hard to do. Those who really feel strongly about paying for health insurance for other people could donate to these charities. Then, those who wanted said health insurance would sen...
In a discussion I had today, an argument was posed: Why do conservatives hate insuring kids? Of course, it's a strawman argument. Conservatives object to paying for other people's personal decisions. Having a child, is a choice. Liberals are overwhelmingly in favor of "Abortion rights" and therefore see having children as a "choice". On the other hand, they apparently against choice when it comes to whether other people should have to pay for the choice a woman m...
For a fascinating series of examples of how really REALLY far-left debaters think and behave, especially when confronted with alternative points of view, check out the comments in this article: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/10079#comment It is extremely interesting to read how they think but also how intolerant many of them are to opposing points of view.
Why don't garbage men or teachers or factory workers make as much as CEOs? We need teachers right? Our society would get pretty dirty in a hurry without garbage men and the things we rely on every day wouldn't exist without factory workers. How can we justify living in a world in which some CEO makes 1000X as much as these people? A garbage man doesn't make as much as a CEO because the number of people who can be a garbage man are far more than the number of people who can be a CEO. ...
The smirking chimp is a site dedicated to not just insults of President Bush but also of promoting radical left-wing nonsense like the article "When the rich make too much money". It never ceases to amaze me to see someone write, without irony on a computer, built by companies started by people who are now "rich" full of components made by companies whose founders are "rich" running computer software made by companies whose founders are "rich" complaining how unfair it is that there a...
I like Gov Granholm. She's the kind of politican that few states are lucky to have -- honest, friendly, reasonable. I also think she's intelligent. But it is, IMO, her intelligence that had led her economic policies to disaster. Simply put, when she doesn't know something, she relies on her intelligence to function as a form of intuition. And for whatever reason, she just has some sort of block when it comes to business. In her 2007 state of the state speech, she advocates raising taxes to...
My friend Cordellia thinks she might be in favor of Obama in 2008 depending on how things go. I agree with her that it's hard to be certain without knowing who the choices are. But having looked at his positions and statements, I'm pretty sure I couldn't vote for him even though I agree with him on a lot of his votes. Let's see how we match up: Abortion: Support Affirmative Action: Strongly oppose Rights for gays: Support Teaching family values in public schools: No op...
While left of center regularly call me "intolerant" because I don't agree with their views (even as I provide a free blog for them to speak out), the left continues its consistent display of intolerenance by physically assaulting those who don't agree with them. This week's example is here in Michigan at MSU. To disagree with the left used to be just a matter of being ignorant and unenlightened . Nowadays, you're not only ignorant and unenlightened but too repulsive to allow to have your ...
I can't say I'm happy that Republicans have lost the house of representatives. I went out and voted today. My votes tended to be for Republicans overall. I don't consider myself to be a Republican but given the choices, I'm going to vote for the people who come closest to representing my views as long as they have worked within a certain threshold of what my expectations are. Since I'm in Michigan, in Wayne County, that basically means that the incumbants are Democrats anyway. Nation...