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

Michael Moore Wants Everyone to Boycott Georgia

Michael Moore wants everyone to honor an economic boycott of Georgia because of the recent execution of the convicted cop killer.Doesn't Michael Moore think about the life of that young man and his wife and children? 

Moore wants people to stay out of  Georgia and not even buy his own book in Georgia; in fact he is going to try  to pull all books out of Georgia. 

But, he says, "If Grand Central Publishing doesn’t pull the 427-page book, Moore said he will “donate every dime of every royalty my book makes in Georgia to help defeat the racists and killers who run that state.”

Brian Robinson, a spokesman for Gov. Nathan Deal, found the filmmaker’s rant amusing. “We think it’s cute that he thinks anyone in Georgia would buy his book, but if any Georgian does, I’m happy to double the royalties and buy a pack of gum for a charity of Michael Moore’s choice,” Robinson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

 http://www.ajc.com/news/director-michael-moore-urges-1187487.html 

ObamaCare Explained in a Few Words

Obama Care Explained  Let me get this straight . . . ... We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has  already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the h--- could possibly go wrong?'

Has America Turned into a Command Planning Economy Already?

We should rename Mr. Obama “Mr. Sue” because he is keeping businesses so busy fighting his lawsuits that they can’t or won’t invest in creating jobs.  Why should they start new businesses when they will be assaulted with lawsuits and new strangling regulations?  Now Mr. Sue is suing Boeing for building a plant in South Carolina and creating new jobs.  The House will vote Thursday on a bill to block the lawsuit. 

Bob Beckel on FOX Five at 5 today said that Boeing is violating the law by setting up a free enterprise business in a right-to-work state  but that since Boeing is creating many more jobs Boeing should be allowed to slide just this one time.  “But no more!” he said.  He also said that American companies should not be allowed to take businesses to other countries in order to get better labor prices.

What happened to liberty and private property rights in America?

The National Labor Relations Board is doing the dirty work for Mr. Sue. The demands of unions that kept striking and threatening strikes unless they received cost-of-living pay increases due to rising inflation were one big factor that ruined Germany’s struggle to make an economic comeback after World War I.  The money printing presses were running 24/7 just to keep up with union demands, make reparations to the Allies, and rebuild infrastructure.Sound familiar? We're plagued by rising inflation and unreasonable union demands here, too.  Click Here.

Too Many Regulations are Dragging the Economy Down

Obama  has turned rule-making into an assault on American businesses and the jobs they create. Right now, 4,257 new regulations are in the works, 219 of which will cost over $100 million annually — 15 percent more than last year. For example, he is regulating the dust created on farms and is requiring farmers to weigh the fertilizer carried out of the barn. The farmers are begging him not to keep on making regulations and rules. See many more examples on the Chicago Sun Times site.  Click Here.

See This Kid's First YouTube Video!

This kid is a real Patriot. Warning: his voice is changing and there may be screeching.