Thursday, September 18, 2008
The Maverick And The Obamessiah Response To The Current Sub-Prime Mess
Obama: We’re in this mess because the fundamentals are bad, and the fundamentals are bad because the Republicans have been ignoring ordinary working people and their needs. Most of what I think we should do is not particularly germane, and what is germane I don’t want to explain in too much detail because I’m worried I might get it wrong. I’m sticking to my platform.
McCain: We’re in this mess because a bunch of Wall Street hot shots got us into it, but they won’t dare to pull that stuff when I’m in the White House, because I survived five years in a POW camp. Do I look like the kind of guy who hangs around with a bunch of Wall Street sissies who buy their shirts at Thomas Pink? Not on your tintype girlie-girl.
Obama doesn’t want to go off script because when he does he looks and sounds like an idiot.
McCain is going to get tough with the predators, with one assumes more oversight and regulation. Not to mention his sterling POW credentials.
Reluctantly I have chosen to vote for McCain this election cycle, but damn does he ever make me want to change my mind when he says crap like that.
Some People Ask Me Why I Am No Longer In The Halls Of Higher Academia
Well....
Metro State College is investigating a professor who asked students to write an essay critical of Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin. One student said the instructor singled out Republican students in the class and allowed others to ridicule them.
There’s one example for you.
In The Liberalverse
Wealth redistribution equates to patriotism. Just ask Joe Biden:
“We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people,” Biden said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Noting that wealthier Americans would indeed pay more, Biden said: “It’s time to be patriotic ... time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.”
By taxing the people who already pay the plurality of all taxes even more.
Yes, let’s tax those people even more so that we can ALL feel better about our country! It doesn’t matter that because of that we will never be in that tax bracket ourselves, at least we will know that those evil rich people are “paying their fair share”, and that’s reason enough to celebrate.
Quick question - Why isn’t cutting spending patriotic?
Shocking: Senate Will Probably Adjourn, Leave Mess Cleanup To Treasury, Fed
Okay not shocking, business as usual:
The Democratic-controlled Congress, acknowledging that it isn’t equipped to lead the way to a solution for the financial crisis and can’t agree on a path to follow, is likely to just get out of the way.
Lawmakers say they are unlikely to take action before, or to delay, their planned adjournments — Sept. 26 for the House of Representatives, a week later for the Senate. While they haven’t ruled out returning after the Nov. 4 elections, they would rather wait until next year unless Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, who are leading efforts to contain the crisis, call for help.
One reason, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday, is that “no one knows what to do” at the moment.
Reid et elia solution so far is to lay the whole mess at the feet of the Bush Administration now he plans to adjourn the Senate and let the people he believes to be the responsible party solve the crisis, without irony!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Back In The Day We Called This An A**whipping
Senator John McCain just unloads on Obama:
For the next six days this is McCain’s stump speech. Period.
Winning Hearts And Minds
The one thing that I want to insist on is that, as I travel around the country, the American people are a decent people. Now they get confused sometimes. You know, they listen to the wrong talk radio shows or watch the wrong TV networks, um, but they’re, they’re basically decent, they’re basically sound.
Yeah I feel better for having been absolved of my sins by listening to the so-called “wrong talk radio shows” and “watching the wrong TV networks” by the Messiah. The funny thing is I don’t listen to talk radio and I don’t watch Fox News Channel, yet I still feel healed and complete by the mere words of The One.
This man is really in love with himself.
Not to be out done, Senator Biden (Who?) gets in on the act:
All this stuff about how different Barack Obama is, they’re not just used to somebody really smart. They’re just not used to somebody who’s really well educated. They just don’t know quite how to handle it. Cause if he’s as smart as Barack is he must not be from my neighborhood.
Vote for Barack Obama or you’re an idiot.
I keep asking myself just how in the name of the Dark Father, Karl Rove, does Obama get away with saying crap like that, then I remember the MSM is completely in the tank for him and I answer my own question.
Big Bang Baby
It’s a crash, crash, crash.
Being that Stone Temple Pilots are back together and touring, I thought it would be cool to post one of my favorites songs by them.
Hopefully they’ll be coming to Los Angeles so I can see them. I haven’t seen them perform since the 90’s. Am I dating myself too much?
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The Federal Bailout of AIG
Hmm...
I’m not liking the sound of this.
Acting to avert a possible financial crisis worldwide, the U.S. Federal Reserve Board reversed course Tuesday and agreed to an $85 billion bailout that would give the U.S. government an ownership stake in the troubled insurance giant American International Group.
The decision, announced by the Fed only two weeks after the Treasury Department took over the quasi-government mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is the most radical intervention in private business in the central bank’s history.
With time running out after AIG failed to get a bank loan to avoid bankruptcy, Treasury Secterary Henry Paulson Jr. and the Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke convened a meeting with House and Senate leaders on Capitol Hill at about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday to explain the rescue plan.
They emerged just after 7:30 p.m. with Paulson and Bernanke looking grim but top lawmakers generally expressing support for the plan. But the bailout is likely to prove controversial, because it effectively puts taxpayer money at risk while protecting bad investments made by AIG and other institutions does business with.
A bad investment is a bad investment, and anyone who has ever invested money and lost it knows that. Don’t get me wrong, I feel really bad for the people that invested in AIG, as well as the people that rely on them for their services, but it was the shady actions of the company execs that brought this situation to a crappy end. Taxpayers shouldn’t be the ones left holding the bag, and their wallets, while corporations make it out with a slap on the hand.
This is just a case of bad behavior reinforcing bad behavior… over and over and over again.
Dissent Being Quashed
David Freddoso has made a career off dishonest, extreme hate mongering, even calling legislation to protect people from hate crimes the “Thought Police.”
Captain Ed Notes:
David Freddoso had the temerity to commit actual journalism in investigating Barack Obama’s record in public life. That resulted in his book, The Case Against Barack Obama, which has apparently angered The One to the point where he believes Freddoso shouldn’t get a chance to speak in public.
Well you see when the MSM engages in so-called “journalism” about the parentage of Gov. Palin’s youngest child it’s just fine and dandy, when a reporter - and a conservative reporter at that - does some serious research, you know stuff that the MSM is supposed to do .... that’s a horse of a different color and quite possibly racist.
Glad I could clear that up for you guys.
Oh, the possibilities!
You folks better get your fun in early, because I can guarantee you that the DNC (or Kos or DU or some other “free speech for me, none for thee” types) will shut them down for “racism” before too much longer…
Some (ahem) Interesting Phrases, recorded in Barack’s own voice.
Please don’t do anything like editing these snippets into other phrases and pranking Democratic campaign offices…
Because, y’know, that would be wrong… 
Speaking of health insurance
Business is okay, but we’re thinking of incorporating and getting a group rate health insurance plan for everyone. (EIGHT employees now, can you believe it?)
Anyone have any good stories about health plans?
Oh, by the way, if anyone is looking for a good charity, try this one.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Possible Logan Act Violation?
By The One? Say it ain’t so!
WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.
According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.
“He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,” Zebari said in an interview.
Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its “state of weakness and political confusion.”
If true, Obama is done.
Possible violation of a federal statute? Not that he would be prosecuted of course. Because that would just be silly talk.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Being A Man: Sunday Edition Video
Just in time.
Jack Burton proves that when faced with impossibly situations in impossible times, a real man just says “what the hell?” and deals with it.
(Note: this clip is from a movie that should be in every DVD collection, Big Trouble in Little China)
Wishful Thinking
DRJ over at Patterico’s Pontifications indulges a small fantasy:
I spent months wondering if Obama and Clinton would run together on a unity ticket. If they had, I think they would have been hard to beat, no matter who was at the top of the ticket. Since there have been some surprises in this election, let’s consider one more:
What if Obama asks Biden to step aside so he can bring Hillary onto the ticket?
IF that happens - big if - the Obama Campaign is dead. McCain can just stop campaigning.
Being A Man: Sunday Edition
Right-O!
It seems the Brits have noticed that the pussification of men has landed on their shores. Luckily, an writer that is fed-up with the wussiness surrounding him decided to do something about it. Enjoy.
Back in the Nineties, emboldened by the successes of feminism, women sought to slay the dragon of patriarchy by turning men into ridiculous cissies who would cry with them through chick-flicks and then cook up a decent lasagne.
Suddenly, women wanted to drive home their newfound equality by moulding men to be more like them.
This velvet revolution was reflected in a series of broader cultural changes. After decades of uncompromising movie heroes like Marlon Brando and Clint Eastwood, we were asked to fall for stuttering, floppy-haired fops like Hugh Grant; touchy-feely and hopelessly embarrassed around women.
No doubt at the time, millions of misguided single women thought that having a man who could feel their pain and emote for Britain was a Good Thing.
Now, over a decade later, women are waking up to the fact that these men are drippy, sexless bores. The feminisation of men hasn’t produced the well-rounded uber-males women were hoping for.
Instead, women are now lumped with flabby invertebrates, little more than doormats, whom they secretly despise but are too proud to admit it.
Here’s the situation as I see it: women thought it would be a good idea to create the perfect classification of men. The fashion industry (and gay men, most of whom work in the fashion industry) thought it was a great idea, so they promoted the hell out of it. All of a sudden, guys like me (and guys such as the ones that read Drumwaster.com) fell out of favor with the ladies. We weren’t “sensitive” enough. Guys like us did things like saying “no.” We did things that you would find on this list that I posted a few days ago.
In other words, guys that acted like guys were pushed out of the loop, and the little feminist guys that you read about in the article above (read the whole thing when you get a chance) all of a sudden turned into the flavor of the decade.
But what do you know? Now that women (and the media/fashion industry) got their spineless half-men, they learned that their little creations weren’t all they were cracked up to be. Maybe it was thousands of years of DNA and muscle-memory, but women are slowly coming to the realization that they want men who act like men and do the things that men do.
In closing, I urge all the guys who are reading this blog, and those who have been following my posts about guy stuff to re-read this list and be the exact opposite of the type of guy in the article above.