How Liberals Argue

I hope that my political science classes have made me more objective when comparing the language of liberals versus conservatives.  When reading blog comments on the on-line newspapers (e.g., Huffington Post, FOX, etc.) I have observed that conservatives try to discuss the issues rationally and generally provide back-up proof for their statements.  Liberals, on the other hand, try to deflect from an uncomfortable issue by stating how some conservative political figure did something just as bad. On the blogs, particularly, they also call people dirty names.  Here is my proof.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGwtG8nVpUU&feature=related

Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit

See this clip by the Christian comedian Brad Stine.  I'd never heard of him until I saw him on FOX the other day.  He had a lot of funny YouTube clips.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=201pgTaEseQ&feature=related

I'm rethinking my views on the 1% . . .

Tort reform just became a dirty word. The other day in another political science class we viewed the new documentary film "Hot Coffee" directed by Susan Saladoff, a malpractice attorney. It started with the lawsuit against McDonald's but also included the trials of a young woman, Jamie Leigh Jones, who went to Iraq to work for a sub-company of Haliburton and was gang-raped by company employees. The whole documentary was an eye-opener and very shocking.  It shows how corporations work to stack the appeals courts with friendly judges and, basically, are corrupting our Seventh Amendment guarantee of our right to a jury trial for for redress of harm caused by another party.Jamie Leigh Jones fought for years to get the right to a trial and even testified before a Congressional subcommittee.

Susan Saladoff explains the concept beautifully on the Colbert show. See the video clip below. The documentary film just became available on November 1.    

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/400684/october-25-2011/susan-saladoff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_%28film%29 

Nice Job If You Can Get It . . .

It’s so refreshing to see young people interested in politics. A teenager just won the election for mayor in a small town in Iowa. The 18-year-old kid, Jeremy Minnier, won with 24 write-in votes, and the incumbent received 8 votes. He ran his write-in campaign because he thought the opinions of Aredale's 73 residents were going unnoticed.

Minnier will take office January 3. He believes he can accomplish some big things, including talking to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources about septic issues. "We have some things with the DNR and their septic problems with everybody needing leech fields or needing pods put in their property for their septic. Another thing is rural water because we all have our own wells in Aredale. And . . . we can just improve the overall appearance of the city and make it a place people like to come to," he said.

Minnier is still in high school. He is in the high school band. He's president of his school's Future Farmers of America and he writes for the school newspaper. After school, he has a part-time job.

When he graduates from high school he plans to attend the community college close to home next year so he can continue his duties throughout his four-year term.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/12/teenager-wins-iowa-mayoral-race/?intcmp=obinsite

A Little Humor for a Change

The tribal wisdom of the Lakota Sioux, passed on from generation to generation, says "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."

In government, education, and corporate America, however, more advanced strategies are often employed. For example:

1. Buy a stronger whip.
2. Change riders.
3. Appoint a committee to study the horse.
4. Arrange to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lower the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassify the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harness several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Provide additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's performance.
10. Do a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.

11. Declare that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and      therefore contributes  substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.

12. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for all horses.And of course the most common and my personal favorite:

13. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position

Can we afford to keep up the UN anymore? This makes me burn!

This article makes me burn for so many reasons.  The UN is gobbling up prime real estate in Manhattan, renovating its property holdings, planning to build another tower, increasing its staff, and coming back to the wells of already hard-pressed member countries--including the U.S. of course--for more and more money.
To add insult to injury, the UN allows Iran's terrorist president to come here and insult all Americans with his disgusting tyrannical speeches.

One reason for the continuing U.N. push for a global building boom is that whatever austerity the rest of the world faces, the world organization expects its headquarters staff to keep growing -- at a steady 1.1 percent rate annually over the two decades ending in 2034, according to a U.N. study. That would add 3,000 people in New York City alone who will require nearly 1.9 million square feet of additional space -- hence the desire for yet another additional U.N. tower, according to George Russell, FOX world news on line. click here for article

ACORN a.k.a. NYCC meddling in Occupy Wall Street

Obama's community organizer group ACORN has a new name, NYCC, and, once again, they are doing dirty deeds. Probably not illegal but very underhanded--and they lie, lie, lie. You probably remember all the trouble ACORN got into with voter registration and voting. A bunch of them went to jail, and they got such a bad image that they had to change their name.  They are behind a lot of the trouble at Occupy Wall Street and (probably) all those other OWSs around the country. NYCC stands for New York Communities for Change. Comments, please?  click here for article & video and here