I'm not scared of people supposedly saying Obama is a muslim, especially cause liberals are the only people who i hearing telling me that ppl say obama is mulsim. If i were to hear someone saying that though, i like 99 percent of americans would think it laughable.
what does scare me is Barak Obama being annoinated a healer/redeemer of america, who people truelly believe cannot and never has tried to decieve or polarize in the name of poltical points. Especially because under his patina of niceness and charsmia, Obama has made some despicable remarks (which i'll show in my next post) and put out some very sly lies. While Joe Biden has just all out been lying shamelessly. Slyness is Obama's speciallity. along with hazyiness, convinsing people to support him because they like him but not because they esepcially like or even know how he wants to change america, and his amazing abilty to talk completly differently on an issue and presenting himself in a completly differently light dependning on whatever audeince is before him.
the icon like devotion obamaniacs have for their leader is offputting considering how much merely has to do with a fetisization of his skin color. Electing a black guy, like marching in a May Day Amnesty rally with a "this is not your land" sign, these things put liberals in the spot they always want to be in: the ultra progressive subversive cutting edge. THere beyond patriotsm, man. Waving a flag is not something a black lesbian lit major from Brown does. They don't believe in borders or nations, or right or wrong or even truth. cause it's all subjective, man. They're not Americans. they're citizens of the world! they're all one step away from working for the ACLU! Honestly, the prospect of having someone who could very well be the head of the ACLU right now: Obama, as president is lightyears more distrubing that that dumb gal with pretty good stances, Sara Palin. but to be honest if Sara Palin is dumb because of the answer she gave on the Bush doctrine, then by that standard most women in america are morons. put them in that Gibson interview, with that guy coming at you like a hawk. most women would run out of the room for a court order!
What scares me is having to watch how blantantly obvious it is that the DEmocratic party's meal ticket is econmic distress. They're playing this fincial meltdown perfectly: keeping there econmic plans extremely hazy like Mccains because they know americans won't go ga ga over gov. run health care and French style big govrement the way americans will go ga ga for Obama ....just being so Obamalicious.
Obama will ride this crisis into the presidency even though he would anyways cause Mccain and Palin have run a awful campiaign and haven't even challenged Obama to delve into his any of his plans, making the huge mistake of going after BIll Ayers instead of running commercials with scripts like this that i wrote and sent to the MCcain camp today, tell me what you think:
voiceover: "THE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL INHERENT A MASSSIVE DEBT AND A ENTITLMENT and SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM IN CRISIS THAT WE CAN"T AFFORD. MCCAIN WILL BALANCE THE BUDGET, CUT PROGRAMS THAT DON"T WORK, GET OUT US OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF DEBT.
UNLIKE OBAMA, MCCAIN DOESN"T JUST TALK THE TALK, MODIFYING HIMSELF FOR EVERY AUDIENCE AS OBAMA HAS BUILT HIS CELEBRITY DOING. OBAMA STARTED RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT 2 YEARS INTO HIS FIRST SENATE TERM BECAUSE ONE SPEECH HE MADE IN 2004.
BUT WHAT DOES OBAMA PROMISE TO DO? HE"LL SPEND MORE ACROSS THE BOARD. THINKING HE CAN FIX THINGS LIKE OUR BROKEN EDUCATION SYSTEM BY THROWING MORE CASH AT MEDIOCRE BEAURCRATS. AND DON"T FORGET THE PORK THAT WILL BE OUT OFCONTROL WHEN THE DEMOCRATS TAKE ALL THREE BRANCHES. THAT"S RIGHT HE"LL BEEF UP BEAUCRACY BUT WON"T GIVE YOU SCHOOL CHOOSE. HE"LL PUT US DEEPER IN DEBT WEAKENING THE DOLLAR EVEN MORE. THEN HE'LL THROW AWAY THE BEST HEALTH CARE IN THE WORLD TO ADD THE BIGGEST ENTITLMENT OF ALL, WHICH WE CAN NEVER REMOVE, ON TOP OF ALL THOSE OTHER ENTILMENTS WE CAN"T AFFORD: FRENCH STYLE GOV. RUN HEALTH, PUTTING US ON THE FAST TRACK TO HAVING NO FREE MARKET HEALTH CARE AT ALL, CREATING HIGHER TAXES AND DECREASING QUALITY OF CARE.
IS THIS WHAT WE NEED IN A TIME OF ECONOMIC CRISIS? A CHARMING UNTESTED LEFTIST PROFESSOR WHO STARTED HIS RUN FOR PRESIDENT WITH 2 YEARS OF SENATE AND D.C. EXSPERIENCE UNDER HIS BELT, PROMISING TO SINK US DEEPER IN DEBT AND GIVE US EUROPEAN STYLE BIG GOV.?
THE ANSWER IS NO. VOTE MCCAIN."
more effective than BIll ayers right? Have you even heard MCCAIN make these arguments?!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
America's future? look to Peter Hitchen's Britian
A chilling post on Peter Hitchens Mail on Sunday blog, by the name of "80m Britons, and no one you can trust. A future I’m glad to miss". This is really why i think we need to control the border:
Our Brussels masters predict that Britain will soon be the most crowded country in the whole of Europe. Presumably this is what they want, since it is their laws that have destroyed our borders and abolished British citizenship and British passports (that wretched puce thing in your pocket is an EU passport, not a British one, and the further east you go, the easier they are to get).
Our Brussels masters predict that Britain will soon be the most crowded country in the whole of Europe. Presumably this is what they want, since it is their laws that have destroyed our borders and abolished British citizenship and British passports (that wretched puce thing in your pocket is an EU passport, not a British one, and the further east you go, the easier they are to get).
The European Commission says there will be almost 80million people crammed into our landscape by 2058. Just imagine all that concrete, the thousands of square miles (or square kilometres as they will be by then) chewed up by bulldozers.
Imagine the unending 24-hour whoosh and grind of traffic, the bulging trains, the seething, noisy, litter-strewn parks on hot summer Sundays, the crowded schools, the endless waits at enormous polyclinics to see a doctor you’ve never met before and will never see again, who probably doesn’t have English as a first language, and the multicultural schools where half the class will always be from somewhere else. I’m quite glad to think I’ll be dead by then.
I’ve always been unmoved by arguments that immigration ‘benefits’ the country economically. Maybe it does, if you eat at restaurants rather than working in them, and then hurry away to expensive areas where no immigrants live. But for most people it’s an unmixed curse.
For the migrants themselves it is often a journey into exploitation and squalor, miserable pay and ten-to-a-room living conditions. It holds down wages and puts unwanted pressure on services, transport and housing which are already under strain.
But there’s something else about it that is profoundly, heartbreakingly sad. When so many of our fellow creatures don’t speak our language, don’t understand our laws and customs, don’t know our history, can’t read our facial expressions or work out when we’re joking, we live at a lower level than we did before.
This was summed up for me by an article in a magazine for Poles working in Britain. Please don’t take this as some kind of rant against Poles. If this country is going to be repopulated by anyone, I’d like it to be Poles, whose hard work, resilience and general civilisation can teach a lot of our own young people a useful lesson.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
the war on boys and our educational crisis
If the teacher unions ruled the world (which they almost do) this is what they'd make school children everywhere do for their dear leader, the bold protectorate of their monopoly, Mr.Obama.
http://www.blip.tv/file/1312572
I luridly rembeber begiging made to do this degrading type of sing along nonsence a couple times a year at my elementray school up until some absurdly embarrsing age. I hated it.
I believe there's alot to this argument about the feminization of boys and the war on boys. I often felt growning up that i was a boy attending a girls nursery school.
This video is quite persuaive in that respect. Call me crazy but i could see it shown a couple decades from now in the trial of one the boys in this video who grew up to be a gay child molester.
The acts shown in the video would strike me as just fine if they were doing this sort of thing in a girls school. There's something very peverse and disturbing about seeing these epicene little boys in this video, in their baby blue Obama t-shirts swaying gayily. It's seems like they've already been thorougly sterilized and stigmatized for their male agressive, compeitive instinstics. This is a national epdmic in my view. They've gotten rid of dodgeball which most young boys devootely love and look forward to because it's too "mean spirited and agressive" a game. They've replaced it with sing alongs about Obama and flowers and love.
This is what you get when you only let people who go to teacher college teach: a bunch of women, who are pretty dumb punishing boys for not acting like little girls. That's just elementrary school. Then when they get to high they don't learn their constuition but learn about the evils of America and get indoctrinated into liberalism. Entire generations are being despoiled.
American education is in crisis, and it's not even being talked about in the presidential race.
http://www.blip.tv/file/1312572
I luridly rembeber begiging made to do this degrading type of sing along nonsence a couple times a year at my elementray school up until some absurdly embarrsing age. I hated it.
I believe there's alot to this argument about the feminization of boys and the war on boys. I often felt growning up that i was a boy attending a girls nursery school.
This video is quite persuaive in that respect. Call me crazy but i could see it shown a couple decades from now in the trial of one the boys in this video who grew up to be a gay child molester.
The acts shown in the video would strike me as just fine if they were doing this sort of thing in a girls school. There's something very peverse and disturbing about seeing these epicene little boys in this video, in their baby blue Obama t-shirts swaying gayily. It's seems like they've already been thorougly sterilized and stigmatized for their male agressive, compeitive instinstics. This is a national epdmic in my view. They've gotten rid of dodgeball which most young boys devootely love and look forward to because it's too "mean spirited and agressive" a game. They've replaced it with sing alongs about Obama and flowers and love.
This is what you get when you only let people who go to teacher college teach: a bunch of women, who are pretty dumb punishing boys for not acting like little girls. That's just elementrary school. Then when they get to high they don't learn their constuition but learn about the evils of America and get indoctrinated into liberalism. Entire generations are being despoiled.
American education is in crisis, and it's not even being talked about in the presidential race.
I think i rather agree with this assesment of Palin and the presidency. intellectual capicty does not equal a good president. common sence and good instintics and judgment do. Harry Truman vs. Jimmy Carter case and point. The idea that she'll nuke russia is absurd. so indeed i would say i'd rather have a president Palin than a presidnet Obama.
though i do wish polticians were more intellectual and candid. Infact in my perfect world, the best non fiction writers would be polticians.
here is a good segment of John Derbyshires September Diary on National Review Online
though i do wish polticians were more intellectual and candid. Infact in my perfect world, the best non fiction writers would be polticians.
here is a good segment of John Derbyshires September Diary on National Review Online
the ny times magazine interview you must read
below is by far, in my view, the best, most heated and fierce debroah solmon ny times magazine interview ever conducted.
The interview is with Charles Murray, who just wrote the great and real short "real education". He is a undoubtly a national treasure whom i find its nearly impossible to disagree with. i love how bold he is on Palin at the end. i really think this interview ended up with intellectual blows exchanged.
a must read.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/magazine/21wwln-Q4-t.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Although attending college has long been a staple of the American dream, you argue in your new book, “Real Education,” that too many kids are now heading to four-year colleges and wasting their time in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree. Yes. Let’s stop this business of the B.A., this meaningless credential. And let’s talk about having something kids can take to an employer that says what they know, not where they learned it.
You’re not the first social scientist to knock the liberal arts, but you may be the first to insist that only 20 percent of all college students have the brains and abilities to understand their assigned reading. Eighty percent are not able to deal with college-level material, traditionally understood. Someone can sit down with Paul Samuelson’s textbook and stare at the pages and know what most of the words mean. That does not mean that they walk away from it understanding economics as it is taught in the textbook.
What do you propose that 18-year-olds do instead of trying to learn the difference between macro- and microeconomics? Oh, the world of work out there!
I’m sure you’re aware that unemployment is very high right now. There are very few unemployed first-rate electricians. I can get a good doctor in a minute and a half. Getting a really good electrician — that’s hard. If you want jobs that are in high demand, go to any kind of skilled labor. And by labor, I mean things that pay $30 or $40 an hour.
Do you see your new book as an extension of the “The Bell Curve,” which caused an uproar in 1994 by suggesting that people are only as promising as their I.Q. scores? In many ways, it is a distillation of things I’ve been thinking since “The Bell Curve.”
Europeans have historically defined themselves through inherited traits and titles, but isn’t America a country where we are supposed to define ourselves through acts of will? I wonder if there is a single, solitary, real-live public-school teacher who agrees with the proposition that it’s all a matter of will. To me, the fact that ability varies — and varies in ways that are impossible to change — is a fact that we learn in first grade.
I believe that given the opportunity, most people could do most anything. You’re out of touch with reality in that regard. You have not hung around with kids who are well in the lower half of the ability distribution.
Have you? For nearly two decades, you’ve been at the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative think tank in Washington. Why would a self-declared libertarian, the party that glorifies individualism, spend his career on the dole? But I am not spending my career on the dole. People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. — there is no government money — because they think the work we do is valuable.
Aren’t think tanks basically welfare for intellectuals? Actually, the interesting thing there is the extent to which it’s the think tanks in the last 15 years that have been producing the stuff that has had the most effect on the debate, as opposed to colleges.
What do you make of the fact that John McCain was ranked 894 in a class of 899 when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy? I like to think that the reason he ranked so low is that he was out drinking beer, as opposed to just unable to learn stuff.
What do you think of Sarah Palin? I’m in love. Truly and deeply in love.
She attended five colleges in six years. So what?
Why is the McCain clan so eager to advertise its anti-intellectualism? The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government. Probably the smartest president we’ve had in terms of I.Q. in the last 50 years was Jimmy Carter, and I think he is the worst president of the last 50 years.
The interview is with Charles Murray, who just wrote the great and real short "real education". He is a undoubtly a national treasure whom i find its nearly impossible to disagree with. i love how bold he is on Palin at the end. i really think this interview ended up with intellectual blows exchanged.
a must read.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/magazine/21wwln-Q4-t.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Although attending college has long been a staple of the American dream, you argue in your new book, “Real Education,” that too many kids are now heading to four-year colleges and wasting their time in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree. Yes. Let’s stop this business of the B.A., this meaningless credential. And let’s talk about having something kids can take to an employer that says what they know, not where they learned it.
You’re not the first social scientist to knock the liberal arts, but you may be the first to insist that only 20 percent of all college students have the brains and abilities to understand their assigned reading. Eighty percent are not able to deal with college-level material, traditionally understood. Someone can sit down with Paul Samuelson’s textbook and stare at the pages and know what most of the words mean. That does not mean that they walk away from it understanding economics as it is taught in the textbook.
What do you propose that 18-year-olds do instead of trying to learn the difference between macro- and microeconomics? Oh, the world of work out there!
I’m sure you’re aware that unemployment is very high right now. There are very few unemployed first-rate electricians. I can get a good doctor in a minute and a half. Getting a really good electrician — that’s hard. If you want jobs that are in high demand, go to any kind of skilled labor. And by labor, I mean things that pay $30 or $40 an hour.
Do you see your new book as an extension of the “The Bell Curve,” which caused an uproar in 1994 by suggesting that people are only as promising as their I.Q. scores? In many ways, it is a distillation of things I’ve been thinking since “The Bell Curve.”
Europeans have historically defined themselves through inherited traits and titles, but isn’t America a country where we are supposed to define ourselves through acts of will? I wonder if there is a single, solitary, real-live public-school teacher who agrees with the proposition that it’s all a matter of will. To me, the fact that ability varies — and varies in ways that are impossible to change — is a fact that we learn in first grade.
I believe that given the opportunity, most people could do most anything. You’re out of touch with reality in that regard. You have not hung around with kids who are well in the lower half of the ability distribution.
Have you? For nearly two decades, you’ve been at the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative think tank in Washington. Why would a self-declared libertarian, the party that glorifies individualism, spend his career on the dole? But I am not spending my career on the dole. People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. — there is no government money — because they think the work we do is valuable.
Aren’t think tanks basically welfare for intellectuals? Actually, the interesting thing there is the extent to which it’s the think tanks in the last 15 years that have been producing the stuff that has had the most effect on the debate, as opposed to colleges.
What do you make of the fact that John McCain was ranked 894 in a class of 899 when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy? I like to think that the reason he ranked so low is that he was out drinking beer, as opposed to just unable to learn stuff.
What do you think of Sarah Palin? I’m in love. Truly and deeply in love.
She attended five colleges in six years. So what?
Why is the McCain clan so eager to advertise its anti-intellectualism? The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government. Probably the smartest president we’ve had in terms of I.Q. in the last 50 years was Jimmy Carter, and I think he is the worst president of the last 50 years.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Obama Youth: guess what black fraternities do on there free time
this is good news for all those condenscding, naive people who think black people will stop complaining about racism and do better if Obama gets elected.
but for me this is just scary, scary and bizarely hilarious. obama fans beware this may make you slightly embarssed for a moment.enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEQz5dltmI
this does a lot in the way of legitimazing the argument of my next evanstonian columnm as you'll see when i post the thing.
the rise of obama youth. not a shock to me.
p.s.
how many millions of wasted hours can be atrributed to youtube?
but for me this is just scary, scary and bizarely hilarious. obama fans beware this may make you slightly embarssed for a moment.enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEQz5dltmI
this does a lot in the way of legitimazing the argument of my next evanstonian columnm as you'll see when i post the thing.
the rise of obama youth. not a shock to me.
p.s.
how many millions of wasted hours can be atrributed to youtube?
Thursday, October 2, 2008
why not GUilliani?
Mccain should have picked Rudy.
conservative ideas are getting horrible press these days, they need polticians who have the intellect to adovocate for them succefully. Palin doesn't. Rudy does.
Rudy would have strengthned Mccain's maverick argument, extended his indepdent voter reach, and he would have defintly streghtned Mccain's now abandon and discredited exsperience argument.
conservative ideas are getting horrible press these days, they need polticians who have the intellect to adovocate for them succefully. Palin doesn't. Rudy does.
Rudy would have strengthned Mccain's maverick argument, extended his indepdent voter reach, and he would have defintly streghtned Mccain's now abandon and discredited exsperience argument.
education, immgration?
why was immgration and education not brought up in the debate questions!?
a scandal.
a scandal.
The Vp debate
Biden killed. He pushed every one of the right buttons.
If people could really talk truthful now, conservtives like me would be saying to there liberal freiends "you think it's hard to listen to Palin? I believe in the posistions she so severly fails to defend and argue for. you don't know how much i cringe!"
she did not have a big gaffe, she did not turn in a embarrsing performance in general but she turned in a losing performance.
Palin's white flag comment i felt was out of line. You shouldn't be saying such things about people who think we should leave in 16 months or tommrow! the costs are huge, the patriotism card falls flat in this vein.
and she diverted so many questions!
good grief.
no palin, please.
the opinion polls will show if people are really buying Palin's folskyness.
If people could really talk truthful now, conservtives like me would be saying to there liberal freiends "you think it's hard to listen to Palin? I believe in the posistions she so severly fails to defend and argue for. you don't know how much i cringe!"
she did not have a big gaffe, she did not turn in a embarrsing performance in general but she turned in a losing performance.
Palin's white flag comment i felt was out of line. You shouldn't be saying such things about people who think we should leave in 16 months or tommrow! the costs are huge, the patriotism card falls flat in this vein.
and she diverted so many questions!
good grief.
no palin, please.
the opinion polls will show if people are really buying Palin's folskyness.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
In praise of staright forwardness and candor
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=palin+cbs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=2#q=palin%20cbs%20reads&emb=0
First of all as the above video demonstrates, Palin is embrassing often. To be honest she looks to me like a hockey mom stuck in a bad dream where she is running for vice president and has to answer all the press' questions when she really desperatly just wants to say "i don't know!" and go home and play with her baby, Trig.
But i also think Palin views things in a clear way that is often muddled by academics and people who fancy themselves as "intellectual". Some may laugh when she says that she wouldn't question Isreal if they attacked Iran's nuclear facilties because she as she says she sees Amnejihad as a "bad guy" and Israeli's as good guys. I don't. In fact it's quite refreshing to hear people calling it like it is in that way.
There is one area inwhich i think her being opposite of Obama is a good thing and that is that she doesn't bullshit cause she isn't agile enough to bullshit. Obama is spectacular at not answering questions and giving supremly hazy ones when he does answer, and it's because he's so articulate. Palin and Bush's minds unlike Clinton's, for instance, don't allow them to lie like Clinton did.
There are many issues where Palin's clear sightdness is infinetly preferable to Obama's harvard educated intellect. Palin just see's what has to be done, bottom line(and her instinics i think tend to be pretty good):
immgration? Build a fence. Deport those caught. Penatlize empoleyers who hire illegals. Stop giving wel fair to illegals.
Iranian nukes? Iran must never get nukes. The things the iranian theocrats have said and done make that unacceptable and we will do whatever nesscary to stop them from acquiring nukes.
Diplomacy with Iran? The europeans have tried it for 4 years and it's been proven futile. The Iranians have broken every treaty and agreement theyve gone into on such matters.
Making education better? Give Parents the power of choice with vouchers, make schools compete. Tv's and radio's have gotten better and cheaper only because they've had to compete, why exzempt something as important as education from such productive compeition?
Lowering Energy prices? Advance altertive energys but also drill for oil that we have untapped. we are going to buy oil, why not put money in the treasury in Washington D.C. rather than ones in Tehran and Riyadhi?
Obama on the otherhand will answer these questions differntly for whatever paticular audience he is speaking for. For Obama, when asked why he sat in the pews of a america hating reverend who happened to be his mentor he gives a 40 minuete speech on race and doesn't answer the question though he impressive all the Ivy league intellectuals. It was a elouqnt speech writing like a Harvard dissertation, but it's core points where fraudglent and deplorable and it compeltly avoided the question of why he stayed in Trinty UNited for 20 years.
I think it's about time we gave a little praise to straight forwardness and transperency given that it is so rare among Polticians.
First of all as the above video demonstrates, Palin is embrassing often. To be honest she looks to me like a hockey mom stuck in a bad dream where she is running for vice president and has to answer all the press' questions when she really desperatly just wants to say "i don't know!" and go home and play with her baby, Trig.
But i also think Palin views things in a clear way that is often muddled by academics and people who fancy themselves as "intellectual". Some may laugh when she says that she wouldn't question Isreal if they attacked Iran's nuclear facilties because she as she says she sees Amnejihad as a "bad guy" and Israeli's as good guys. I don't. In fact it's quite refreshing to hear people calling it like it is in that way.
There is one area inwhich i think her being opposite of Obama is a good thing and that is that she doesn't bullshit cause she isn't agile enough to bullshit. Obama is spectacular at not answering questions and giving supremly hazy ones when he does answer, and it's because he's so articulate. Palin and Bush's minds unlike Clinton's, for instance, don't allow them to lie like Clinton did.
There are many issues where Palin's clear sightdness is infinetly preferable to Obama's harvard educated intellect. Palin just see's what has to be done, bottom line(and her instinics i think tend to be pretty good):
immgration? Build a fence. Deport those caught. Penatlize empoleyers who hire illegals. Stop giving wel fair to illegals.
Iranian nukes? Iran must never get nukes. The things the iranian theocrats have said and done make that unacceptable and we will do whatever nesscary to stop them from acquiring nukes.
Diplomacy with Iran? The europeans have tried it for 4 years and it's been proven futile. The Iranians have broken every treaty and agreement theyve gone into on such matters.
Making education better? Give Parents the power of choice with vouchers, make schools compete. Tv's and radio's have gotten better and cheaper only because they've had to compete, why exzempt something as important as education from such productive compeition?
Lowering Energy prices? Advance altertive energys but also drill for oil that we have untapped. we are going to buy oil, why not put money in the treasury in Washington D.C. rather than ones in Tehran and Riyadhi?
Obama on the otherhand will answer these questions differntly for whatever paticular audience he is speaking for. For Obama, when asked why he sat in the pews of a america hating reverend who happened to be his mentor he gives a 40 minuete speech on race and doesn't answer the question though he impressive all the Ivy league intellectuals. It was a elouqnt speech writing like a Harvard dissertation, but it's core points where fraudglent and deplorable and it compeltly avoided the question of why he stayed in Trinty UNited for 20 years.
I think it's about time we gave a little praise to straight forwardness and transperency given that it is so rare among Polticians.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
RIP Sara Palin, vice presidential candiate
How starnge it is to watch the Palin pick unravel so rapidly from a imaginative, sure handed move on Mccain's part to a failed ploy recognized as such by all of the left and now a noticable segment of conservtism's intellectual millieu. It's seems the tipping point was the moment Palin opoened her mouth without a cue card to guide her.
I senced during the convention, that the flaughting over Palin was a overblow, nervous, prouncement. Unsupringly to me, slowly and quitely but surely, many of the right's smartest intellectual commentators, have begun to confess that they too cringe everyother time Palin opens her mouth. But also for many conservtives who felt burned by Bush, the fact that Palin is now being taught about foriegn affairs by adivers the same exact way Bush was tutered by his daddys friends 8 years ago raises serious alarms.
The defection was heralded and led first by the dolce and gabana of conservtism David Frum and David Brooks, probably the two most respected conservtive writers today, who exspressed deep skeptism early on, but made truely stubstancial by Kathleen Parker and Kathyrn Jean Lopez of Nation Review who, with rembarcavle ballzyness proposed in columns this week that Palin be dropped. I am very sympathetic these two and find these defections honorable in the upmost, almost.....award worthy. Critizing your party in these partisan days should be recognized thoroughly.
National Review being the most esteemed and widely read conservative publication on the planet, the news of the National Review lady's calling for Palin to be dumped, has made major headway in the MSM and even more so in the blogsphere. It was my dad at dinner who told me actually. So it must be everywhere. It's seem embarrsingly obvious to mention but: This spells ruin for Mccain ( and his already lofty presidential hopes).
True to the times, Mccain took a risk and lost his shirt. He forgot, it seems, 1. that the media largley has exzempted him, from the abuse and vitrol they dish out to all other conservative polticos and 2. that she would have to talk off stage.
When Palin did the convention and gave a speech that was just right, it looked like a brillant pick. Only Frum and Brooks had the immediate forsight then to see, having themselves been burned by Bush, that Palin would have to face the press and that it would be downhill from then on. But also they like me, resented the Palin pick for her folsky banalties played into a damaging sterotype the GOP has unfairly acquired as a philostine, anti intellectual party.
But even if Palin where a talker, who could hold up her own against Katie Courac of all people, the pick had glaring flaws.
1. Palin nearly undermined Mccain's entire exsperience attack on Obama. Contrasting Palin to Biden and Obama was inescapable for lefties and righties and in that transcation, Obama came out by contrast looking tested and wise and considerably less risky.
2. The publicity over Palin's newly born downsydrome child raises obvious questions over her abilty her abilty to serve at the highest level while being a babies mother, evoking the disturbing image in some, of Palin having to step outside a national security meeting to breast feed!
3. Palin was such a obvious and bad bid for Hillary supporters. Somehow Mccain didn;t realize that Hillary supporters would venomsly hate Palin for a number of reasons. It would seem John didn't get the memo about how Hillary supporters would be infuraited if another women was picked instead of her.
The Mccain camp must have known how much liberals would hate, mock and belittle Palin. They didn't realize it would seem, that conservtives are not isolated from America's firecly liberal pop culture. They didn't realize special SNL skits about their VP, and even a trainwreck like Linsney Lohan bashing their VP would have a negative effect upon those they excepted to be Palin's fiercest cultural defenders..
It seemed for a little while that the media was doing Mccain a favor by igniting a full on culture war against Palin and her red state ilk. But that notion rested on a assumption aswell that Palin could at least hold her own and wouldn't embarass herself. As soon as it became apparent the Gibson interview was not just a fluke performance by Palin, the vicious attacks on her gained credence and the avalanche on her has ensued.
The whole breast feeding hockey mom who would just happen to be your Vice President schtick, was bizarre and unappealing on various levels and not just for liberals but to many conservatives aswell.
The only possible thing that can save Mccain's campaign and save Palin from going down as the most peculiarly stupid VP pick in history is a suprisingly formidable performance on THursday with Biden in the VP debate. Though i like most, see little chance of that.
The bottomline is rather simple. The Mccain camp shouldn't have picked a Vp as if they have been asleep for the last 5 years. They should have learned how tired Americans are of Bush's supposed idocy and his fanstintsic inarticulatness. To pick Sara Palin evokes much of that same embrssment and anger is to simply just remind millions of Americans of how much they are embarrsed to have BUsh a president and how much they don't want another supposed intellectual midget in office.
It is true that BUsh wasn't as dumb as people thought he was and that he genuinly does have a deslexia type problem with assemblying sentences but i, like most americans am very tired of having to talk once again of the people that run our goverment as if there our 2nd grade students, that theyre smart but they just don't show it.
Somewhere, sometime soon, i think a southerner will sum the Palin pick up best, "They done fucked up".
I senced during the convention, that the flaughting over Palin was a overblow, nervous, prouncement. Unsupringly to me, slowly and quitely but surely, many of the right's smartest intellectual commentators, have begun to confess that they too cringe everyother time Palin opens her mouth. But also for many conservtives who felt burned by Bush, the fact that Palin is now being taught about foriegn affairs by adivers the same exact way Bush was tutered by his daddys friends 8 years ago raises serious alarms.
The defection was heralded and led first by the dolce and gabana of conservtism David Frum and David Brooks, probably the two most respected conservtive writers today, who exspressed deep skeptism early on, but made truely stubstancial by Kathleen Parker and Kathyrn Jean Lopez of Nation Review who, with rembarcavle ballzyness proposed in columns this week that Palin be dropped. I am very sympathetic these two and find these defections honorable in the upmost, almost.....award worthy. Critizing your party in these partisan days should be recognized thoroughly.
National Review being the most esteemed and widely read conservative publication on the planet, the news of the National Review lady's calling for Palin to be dumped, has made major headway in the MSM and even more so in the blogsphere. It was my dad at dinner who told me actually. So it must be everywhere. It's seem embarrsingly obvious to mention but: This spells ruin for Mccain ( and his already lofty presidential hopes).
True to the times, Mccain took a risk and lost his shirt. He forgot, it seems, 1. that the media largley has exzempted him, from the abuse and vitrol they dish out to all other conservative polticos and 2. that she would have to talk off stage.
When Palin did the convention and gave a speech that was just right, it looked like a brillant pick. Only Frum and Brooks had the immediate forsight then to see, having themselves been burned by Bush, that Palin would have to face the press and that it would be downhill from then on. But also they like me, resented the Palin pick for her folsky banalties played into a damaging sterotype the GOP has unfairly acquired as a philostine, anti intellectual party.
But even if Palin where a talker, who could hold up her own against Katie Courac of all people, the pick had glaring flaws.
1. Palin nearly undermined Mccain's entire exsperience attack on Obama. Contrasting Palin to Biden and Obama was inescapable for lefties and righties and in that transcation, Obama came out by contrast looking tested and wise and considerably less risky.
2. The publicity over Palin's newly born downsydrome child raises obvious questions over her abilty her abilty to serve at the highest level while being a babies mother, evoking the disturbing image in some, of Palin having to step outside a national security meeting to breast feed!
3. Palin was such a obvious and bad bid for Hillary supporters. Somehow Mccain didn;t realize that Hillary supporters would venomsly hate Palin for a number of reasons. It would seem John didn't get the memo about how Hillary supporters would be infuraited if another women was picked instead of her.
The Mccain camp must have known how much liberals would hate, mock and belittle Palin. They didn't realize it would seem, that conservtives are not isolated from America's firecly liberal pop culture. They didn't realize special SNL skits about their VP, and even a trainwreck like Linsney Lohan bashing their VP would have a negative effect upon those they excepted to be Palin's fiercest cultural defenders..
It seemed for a little while that the media was doing Mccain a favor by igniting a full on culture war against Palin and her red state ilk. But that notion rested on a assumption aswell that Palin could at least hold her own and wouldn't embarass herself. As soon as it became apparent the Gibson interview was not just a fluke performance by Palin, the vicious attacks on her gained credence and the avalanche on her has ensued.
The whole breast feeding hockey mom who would just happen to be your Vice President schtick, was bizarre and unappealing on various levels and not just for liberals but to many conservatives aswell.
The only possible thing that can save Mccain's campaign and save Palin from going down as the most peculiarly stupid VP pick in history is a suprisingly formidable performance on THursday with Biden in the VP debate. Though i like most, see little chance of that.
The bottomline is rather simple. The Mccain camp shouldn't have picked a Vp as if they have been asleep for the last 5 years. They should have learned how tired Americans are of Bush's supposed idocy and his fanstintsic inarticulatness. To pick Sara Palin evokes much of that same embrssment and anger is to simply just remind millions of Americans of how much they are embarrsed to have BUsh a president and how much they don't want another supposed intellectual midget in office.
It is true that BUsh wasn't as dumb as people thought he was and that he genuinly does have a deslexia type problem with assemblying sentences but i, like most americans am very tired of having to talk once again of the people that run our goverment as if there our 2nd grade students, that theyre smart but they just don't show it.
Somewhere, sometime soon, i think a southerner will sum the Palin pick up best, "They done fucked up".
Sunday, September 28, 2008
The Abortion Card
90 percent of downsydrom babies are aborted.
I think it's amazing Palin hasn't talked about this.
IN General I wish everyone including Republicans would talk more about what this supposedly evil thing called revoking roe vs, wade is? It's remberarkable how many people and women have no idea what it entails.
Revoking Roe vs. Wade is a attempt not to end roe vs wade but to simply bring it to the state level and allow states to decide on it. If roe v. wade were revoked, nothing would change in the places angy liberals live most. In blue states like NY, california, illinois, as well as most states abortion would remain as legal as the sky is blue. I have felt confident for a long time that if people new what revrsing Roe meant it wouldn't be nearly as much the divisive issue it is today.
I remeber it was quite a suprise to learn that roe v. wade being revoked didnt mean my sisters and ex girlfriends would be round up and sent up to evanglical concertraion camps in wyoming.
The stunning un outargeousness of revoking roe. vs wade is rembercable and it underscores what has long been the sinister primary scare tactic of the supposedly immiculate Democartic party, which for 40 years has tried to terrify women from voting republican by claiming republicans will nomiate supreme court justices who will revoke roe v. wade. This is nothing more than a scare tactic.
Reagan and the BUsh's had the white house for 20 years and there wasnt a single school prayer uttered in those 2 decades, and there wasnt a single women prevented from having a abortion.
The supreme court for nearly 20 years has had numerous chances to revoke roe v wade, they havent done it.
I think it's amazing Palin hasn't talked about this.
IN General I wish everyone including Republicans would talk more about what this supposedly evil thing called revoking roe vs, wade is? It's remberarkable how many people and women have no idea what it entails.
Revoking Roe vs. Wade is a attempt not to end roe vs wade but to simply bring it to the state level and allow states to decide on it. If roe v. wade were revoked, nothing would change in the places angy liberals live most. In blue states like NY, california, illinois, as well as most states abortion would remain as legal as the sky is blue. I have felt confident for a long time that if people new what revrsing Roe meant it wouldn't be nearly as much the divisive issue it is today.
I remeber it was quite a suprise to learn that roe v. wade being revoked didnt mean my sisters and ex girlfriends would be round up and sent up to evanglical concertraion camps in wyoming.
The stunning un outargeousness of revoking roe. vs wade is rembercable and it underscores what has long been the sinister primary scare tactic of the supposedly immiculate Democartic party, which for 40 years has tried to terrify women from voting republican by claiming republicans will nomiate supreme court justices who will revoke roe v. wade. This is nothing more than a scare tactic.
Reagan and the BUsh's had the white house for 20 years and there wasnt a single school prayer uttered in those 2 decades, and there wasnt a single women prevented from having a abortion.
The supreme court for nearly 20 years has had numerous chances to revoke roe v wade, they havent done it.
Andrew Klavan
just read a revelatory, clarfying piece in CITY JOURNAL by the novelist Andrew Klavan, on what underlies liberalism. It starts off with a devastingly truthful opening, probably one my favriote introductory paragraph of all time:
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_diarist.html
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_diarist.html
"The thing I like best about being a conservative is that I don’t have to lie. I don’t have to pretend that men and women are the same. I don’t have to declare that failed or oppressive cultures are as good as mine. I don’t have to say that everyone’s special or that the rich cause poverty or that all religions are a path to God. I don’t have to claim that a bad writer like Alice Walker is a good one or that a good writer like Toni Morrison is a great one. I don’t have to pretend that Islam means peace.
Of course, like everything, this candor has its price. A politics that depends on honesty will be, by nature, often impolite. Good manners and hypocrisy are intimately intertwined, and so conservatives, with their gimlet-eyed view of the world, are always susceptible to charges of incivility. It’s not really nice, you know, to describe things as they are.
This is leftism’s great strength: it’s all white lies. That’s its only advantage, as far as I can tell. None of its programs actually works, after all. From statism and income redistribution to liberalized criminal laws and multiculturalism, from its assault on religion to its redefinition of family, leftist policies have made the common life worse wherever they’re installed. But because it depends on—indeed is defined by—describing the human condition inaccurately, leftism is nothing if not polite. With its tortuous attempts to rename unpleasant facts out of existence—he’s not crippled, dear, he’s handicapped; it’s not a slum, it’s an inner city; it’s not surrender, it’s redeployment—leftism has outlived its own failure by hiding itself within the most labyrinthine construct of social delicacy since Victoria was queen."
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Palin Premonition
I have a feeling Palin's debate with Biden, who himself is not of the most displined mind, has a good chance of producing a gaffe or just a embarrsing Palin performance that will break Mccain's campaign.
I'm not a Palin hater. I hated the SNL parody of her great convention speech and i would prefer many more Palin's opposed to anymore Tina Fey's. I would love Palin as a wife. One of Palin's greatest assests, besides a great smile, is her personialtys abilty to point out that there's 2 kinds of femnists. There's the urban, pretencious, man hating, perpetually complaining kind ala Tina Fey and then theyre's the stoic, hard working, indepdent, frontierswomen kind as is Palin incarnate.
I like alot of her policies and i think she is a genuine reformer. I generally have extra respect for women in poltics, mostly cause they have to wear such gaudy colored pant suits all the time. I must confess though that her voice(she could be like a gentile Fran Drescher) does drive me up the wall and in general her various folksy banalties reminds of every school teacher i've ever hated. The MSM has been brutal on her and played to Mccain's hand by inciting a culture war against unpretenious, hard working, pious salt of the earth americans who make this country great in their own subtle way.Butwhile she is probably smarter than liberals think, i don't think Palin is very sharp of the cuff or otherwise. It would be a bit scary to have a president Palin but i am absolutely certain that in this day and age of medical innovation she will never ascendend to the oval office. John McCain is looking vigorous and hardly a few years away from passing on.
It must be a left wing conspiracy that this year they finally allowed the candiates to ask eachother question during the debates. It's a good change but i feel confident Biden will use it like Charles Gibson to tease a gaffe out of Palin. I'm sure BIden and his aides are plotting away as i write this, above D.C., crafting questions about what the president of Yemen's name is for sweet Sara.
I'm not a Palin hater. I hated the SNL parody of her great convention speech and i would prefer many more Palin's opposed to anymore Tina Fey's. I would love Palin as a wife. One of Palin's greatest assests, besides a great smile, is her personialtys abilty to point out that there's 2 kinds of femnists. There's the urban, pretencious, man hating, perpetually complaining kind ala Tina Fey and then theyre's the stoic, hard working, indepdent, frontierswomen kind as is Palin incarnate.
I like alot of her policies and i think she is a genuine reformer. I generally have extra respect for women in poltics, mostly cause they have to wear such gaudy colored pant suits all the time. I must confess though that her voice(she could be like a gentile Fran Drescher) does drive me up the wall and in general her various folksy banalties reminds of every school teacher i've ever hated. The MSM has been brutal on her and played to Mccain's hand by inciting a culture war against unpretenious, hard working, pious salt of the earth americans who make this country great in their own subtle way.Butwhile she is probably smarter than liberals think, i don't think Palin is very sharp of the cuff or otherwise. It would be a bit scary to have a president Palin but i am absolutely certain that in this day and age of medical innovation she will never ascendend to the oval office. John McCain is looking vigorous and hardly a few years away from passing on.
It must be a left wing conspiracy that this year they finally allowed the candiates to ask eachother question during the debates. It's a good change but i feel confident Biden will use it like Charles Gibson to tease a gaffe out of Palin. I'm sure BIden and his aides are plotting away as i write this, above D.C., crafting questions about what the president of Yemen's name is for sweet Sara.
on the debates
Mccain certainly did not look like a man a few years away from death. He looked vital. But the debate was even which helps Obama.
Mccain could have done better on taxes and iran. He missed alot of oppurtinties, esepcially on not attacking Obama's tax policy or exsplaining his tax policy. He should have mentioned in regard to Iran diplomacy that such diplomacy with Iran has been proven futile for the last 3 years as the European's have tried and failed to do what Obama wants to do more of. Mccain should have put out the facts also that Iran has broken all there agreements and treatys before. Is Amnejihad just waiting to shake a American presidents hand in order to give up his nuclear pursuit?
Ironically Obama gave a much more compelling case for why Iran must not get nukes. Mccain should have exsplained how easily Iran could give nuclear material to Hezbollah who can make dirty bombs which by lobbing into Israel can make 80 oercent of that nation unliveable. He should have mentioned that Iran blew up a jewish community center in Argentina and that if they were to get nukes we would be setting a precendent on nukes which would allow anyone to acquire nukes.
I think Obama did the best he could, Mccain will win the next debates because he can improve on his first debate performance which was itself pretty good.
It was defintly the best poltical debate i've seen in 8 years.
Aside from policy, we have nominated two very likeable people.
Mccain could have done better on taxes and iran. He missed alot of oppurtinties, esepcially on not attacking Obama's tax policy or exsplaining his tax policy. He should have mentioned in regard to Iran diplomacy that such diplomacy with Iran has been proven futile for the last 3 years as the European's have tried and failed to do what Obama wants to do more of. Mccain should have put out the facts also that Iran has broken all there agreements and treatys before. Is Amnejihad just waiting to shake a American presidents hand in order to give up his nuclear pursuit?
Ironically Obama gave a much more compelling case for why Iran must not get nukes. Mccain should have exsplained how easily Iran could give nuclear material to Hezbollah who can make dirty bombs which by lobbing into Israel can make 80 oercent of that nation unliveable. He should have mentioned that Iran blew up a jewish community center in Argentina and that if they were to get nukes we would be setting a precendent on nukes which would allow anyone to acquire nukes.
I think Obama did the best he could, Mccain will win the next debates because he can improve on his first debate performance which was itself pretty good.
It was defintly the best poltical debate i've seen in 8 years.
Aside from policy, we have nominated two very likeable people.
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Matthew Yglesias wikipedia entry inspired me to start blogging.
i once had a blog but it was really just a dumping ground of essays.
i plan to make this one a authentic blog full of frivlous myraid thoughts.
i once had a blog but it was really just a dumping ground of essays.
i plan to make this one a authentic blog full of frivlous myraid thoughts.
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