Money Can't Buy You Love

Uh, that's "monEy". But I like the post.

Cjunk, how did you draw your conclusion from what Mark Steyn wrote?

Steyn's conclusion is pretty chilling:
"America has a choice: It can reacquaint itself with socioeconomic reality, or it can buckle its mandatory seatbelt for the same decline most of the rest of the West embraced a couple of generations back. In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . .Let’s not go there."

All I can say is wow, history repeats itself as farce...

Kate, if you go to the Rasmussen site, you will see that his approval has dropped to a +13 since the blog post was written.

... "won't sink" is satire. Can't sink a ship that hasn't made it down the slipway.

Steyn:
"In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee."

Kipling was there; and wrote:

Recessional

June 22, 1897
Rudyard Kipling

"Far-call'd our navies melt away—
On dune and headland sinks the fire—
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget!"

http://www.bartleby.com/101/867.html

I'm with Robert W, styns column never implies he is unsinkable and cjunk BO has indeed left the slipway an is right now about 280 nautical miles off of Nfld and minutes ago struck an iceberg called the American dream and the unsinkable is now taking on water to the collective (pardon the pun) disbelief of most of the passengers. The losses will include several hundred dem senators and congressmen.

The data on the chart is eight days old btw.

Satire boys, tongue in cheek, mocking tone ...

The ship didn’t need to hit an iceberg; it stalled halfway down the slipway. ~ Steyn

Yeah Cjunk....and Turdeau's boat never left the drydock,either,but it sure as hell sunk a lot of stuff!!!!

Thanks for the clarification, CJunk. I was just curious.

The next 20 months will be interesting ones. In that time - up until the U.S. MidTerm elections - we'll see what happens to the popularity of the Democrats. Clearly wayyyy too many Americans now have the entitlement mentality prevalent in Britain & France. But is it a majority? If so, then the U.S. (and dare I say Canada) is doomed. If it is not then there's hope.

Incidentally, the folks over at YR Network seem very inspired by a truly reformed Republican Party, based on common-sense values, not just slogans to win elections.

Cjunk:

Shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic or is it the Lusitania?

We recall that the Lusitania with the recent discovery of munitions in the wreck indicates it may have been a blockade runner, and thus a legitimate target.

Or maybe Steyn was referring to the SS Deutschland the Holder of the Blue Riband (Westbound) 1903 – 1907 also known as the 'cocktail shaker' among passengers.

In 1921, she was pressed into emigrant carrier service and renamed Hansa. But since the United States had recently passed laws restricting immigration, this service was less than successful and the Hansa was sold for scrap in 1925.

But I thought "Money can't buy you love" was a Beatles song and so may be part of the British invasion.

"I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright
I'll get you anything my friend if it makes you feel alright
'Cause I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love"

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"

As I have said here before, this son of a bitch is, in my opinion, the beginning of the end of our way of life. Start looking for alternatives, for your assets and your lively hood. The body can take blow after blow but when the head falls everything else follows. Alarmist? Well, not really, but I am covering my bases.

The base I am covering the most is inflation. Remember, the Government is spending, spending, spending, and printing money, ding ding, what comes next.

looks like partisanship to me. two graphs running opposite direction.

I certainly hope that my Canadian friends are not criticizing the Bamster on the day he speaks with Prime Minister Harper.

I don't think that we have sunk so low as to find incompetence and inexperience a disqualification for the highest American office.

Simply because his policies reflect the ideas of some Marxist spy is no reason to jump to some conclusion.

Today the Bamster's Attorney General told all of America that we were cowards because we were not vigorously engaging in conversations about race.

I told my Congressman and my two Senators that no one had accused me a coward when I was in VietNam, but now apparently I have sunk to this low estate because the Bamster's Attorney General feels that I am not encouraging black people to excoriate me while they chat about my misdeeds.

I also explained that many of us resent the idea of having to pay the mortgages of those who intentionally and willfully purchased houses that were far above their means.

It's only a month into the Bamster's presidency, and he is losing friends at a rapid rate. Only the MSM chooses to ignore the protests against him.

So far, "hope and change" is proving to be a flop. The question is how far the MSM will go with him before they begin to display cracks in the prevarications they call their armor.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090219/obama_menu_090219?s_name=&no_ads=

Pacific Coast tuna with a chilli and citrus vinaigrette
Maple and miso cured Nunavut Arctic char
Lightly pickled vegetables and an organic beet relish
Applewood smoked plains bison
Winter root vegetables and local mushrooms
Cauliflower and rosemary puree
Juniper and Niagara red wine jus
Saugeen yogurt pot de creme with a lemon and lavender syrup
Wild blueberry and partridgeberry compote
Acadian buckwheat honey and sumac tuile

no fried chicken collard greens an' catfish. gonna cook me up a mess of dem dar greens man.

the O boat is just hollywood prop

it was never meant to float

The big shoe has yet to drop.

Maybe the Gubmints should save some money for the soup lines.

Kate -
Did someone forget to tell the rookie Canadian, rookie politician, rookie "common folk" guy Ignatieff that when you have a PRIVATE confidentail one-on-one meeting with the leader of another country the conversations during that meeting is supposed to remain PRIVATE??!!

You don't call a news conference and do a play be play - he said, I said expose.

Sheeeeeesh.

I don't get what the fuss is. Last month, his Strongly Approve rating was 40%, now it's 38%, and it says quite clearly on the chart that the margin of error is +/- 3%. So, that's just statistical noise.

And of course his Strongly Disapprove numbers were low on January 20 - he hadn't done anything to disapprove of at that point. Now with the endless parade of people in and out of contention for Cabinet posts, the fiscal stimulus package, and the almost inevitable bankruptcy of Chrysler (GM has a better chance), of course his Disapprove number will go up. I don't see a story here.

The SS Obama is actually a submarine that has screen doors for hatches....we're about 30 days into the "Term of Enlightenment" of the chosen one...when the followers don't see the magic unicorns, flavored rainbows, their mortgages paid off and their gas tanks filled by day 100, they'll be running from him and looking for a new messiah to follow.

Obambi - the first reality show president...

I anticipated a train wreck of an administration with Obama. What I didn't expect was the sheer magnitude of damage he would inflict, literally, within days of his oath of office.

This man is a narcissist of massive proportions. That he and his party have control of all three branches of government is cause for significant concern.

What is Obama, a teddy bear? They can do no wrong, either, and they're so cute and cuddly too and you love them forever and ever no matter what... and they have big, roundish ears, too... of course Obama, practically a real, live teddy bear of sorts, enjoys almost as much popularity as a teddy bear!

I think an actual teddy bear would make a better president than Obama. Why? They won't do all that crazy extreme far leftwing nonsense that Obama's doing fast and furious with the blessing of the Big Media, who's making it sound as if what he's doing is normal. Oh, and teddy bears never, ever lie to you and never, ever have a hidden, sinister agenda, nor do they spend so much of your money which you don't even have, and will never bankrupt you!

When will people ever come to understand that Obama is a man, not a teddy bear? And that he's a man on a mission to give America the shaft!

Yeah Cjunk....and Turdeau's boat never left the drydock,either,but it sure as hell sunk a lot of stuff!!!!

Posted by: Justthinkin
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And yet, and yet....there are STILL those who think, excuse me 'believe' that Pierre was the FIRST coming, and that the 'other guy' was just a roadie setting up the stage.

Worst.
President.
Ever!

Did anyone watch the Harper/Obama press conference?...It's on Youtube if you missed it.

Again, with no teleprompter DumbO has not that much more dialect than W did, really. Lot's of "and uh", "uh", and pauses. W often mangled words but DumbO seems to have a hard time even constructing sentences and struggles to find proper terms.
He was almost embarrassing to listen to as at some point he almost lost his train of thought and struggled significantly to finish his sentence and try to make it sound like he said something of significant value at all. He often repeated what PM Harper had just said and it almost looked like Stephen was calling all the shots and the Prez was just obliging to the demands! A "bizarro" event of sorts when you are used to Americans being da boss. Because of this, DumbO's first foreign visit will not sit well with their own foreign affairs apparatus: The O seems a bit of a push over. And he wants to meet with Iran, Russia and others? HA!

BTW: Tension is already building with China who like Japan holds trillions of US debt as they have declared this morning that Obama's stimulus package was "Poison for an economic recovery"

An example of Obama's somewhat limited communication skills without a prompter:
"I'll come back (To Canada) when it starts to warm up?"(Smug smile)
Now, how do you interpret that?
Does he think Canada as always cold and that someday in the future (When global warming arrives perhaps(?)) it might warm up up here? Because it is warmer now than it was last month...How warm did he mean? Is it that much colder up here right now than say, Vermont or even New York State?
In other words, a better, more accurate and easy off the cuff comment from the world's most powerful leader should of been:
"I would like to visit Canada again other than during winter months...ah,ah,ah!".

The Right Honorable Stephen Harper was way above the Prez in terms of detailing and phrase structuring and overall communication skills. He sounded much more like a true worldstage leader to be proud of.
But alas, viewing my regular rounds of MSM and their comments from way too many Canadians, it is alarmingly evident that we are, just like the Americans, in severe intellectual decline when you read stuff like:
"We need to get rid of Harper and get a real leader like Obama..."
But the upside of that particular moonbat statement was followed by: "...But we do not have anyone to choose right now as Iggy and Rae are not what we need. Where's the cloning machine so we can have our own Obama?".

Fools dreaming in dangerous times. A very rude awakening to come for sure as I am now more convinced than ever that Barrack Obama is way over his league as Potus. I don't know if he'll even want to do his 4 year term. He'll probably crack and find an excuse to resign.

Hang on folks, I can smell the coffee. Or is that the soup kitchen?

Watching Obama and the Catalonian Democrats with his hand-picked Cabinet is like over-seeing the re-arrangment of the Deck Chairs on the Titanic.

Styen's right on one thing; if the bought and paid for Media don't start Reporting the Truth only a Revolution will stop the Obabots.
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".....Obamateur Hour...." Sez it all!
Roll up, roll up, beer and popcorn for all!

Interesting to put this "stimulation package" into perspective. If you spent a million dollars a day starting on the day Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent as much to date as the massive debt being foisted upon the US.

If the US survives, generations from now, the Big O will be remembered and loathed.

Steyn nails it again. western economic and cultural decline has one source and one source alone; degenerate socialism. While freedom and free society and markets guarantee nothing but freedom, an equal starting point and no guarantee of success, decadent socialism appeals to greed, sloth and cowardice by promising you everything you want in return for allowing big government to grow even bigger on mostly borrowed money.

The economic leveling and cultural atonement has to come at some point...Europe has passed its tipping point and sank into the swamp of socialist cultural/economic devolution...America is teetering.

After the first month of the Obama Administration's exhibition of total incompetence it is rationally safe to label anyone who choses to spin their decisions as intelligent as being dangerously irrational.

The question is, do the rest of us need to go along for the entire ride, or is there a way to prepare for and survive the inevitable collapse.

Personally, just in case, I am putting a bit each week into the larder. Cash, negotiable metals and trade items. Canned and dehydrated foods, bottled water and fuel bottles. Ammo and associated items. Gasoline in an out building. Medications and otc drugs. Just a little bit each week. But it adds up. Paranoia; maybe. Playing it safe; perhaps... :-)

Of course I live in a very rural area, on my own 200 acres, with my own water supply, and a plentiful inventory of wild game on the hoof, wing and fins. Safe area, far, far, far from the cities.

So... I am now just sitting, watching, pondering and waiting.

If the ship sinks I hope I have done enough to float for a while.

Did I miss anything?

Can someone loan me some money for a lifejacket, or am I young enough to qualify for a space in a lifeboat?

I'm waiting to see a sign held by a homeless man:
"Need spare change, Obama took all of mine"

Terry Tory

Obviously we missed our chance to steal BO's mojo. Mojo seems to be the preferred currency for politics.

It was often difficult to approve of Bush and literally painful to endure his attempts at sentence structure. His worst failures were on the domestic (spending) front. Those failures are now being amplified by at least an order of magnitude by Obama, his Chicago mobsters and Congress, living up to the O'Rourke term, "Parliament of Whores".

Obama has thin skin and when the public turns on him, his vindictiveness will boil to the surface. Not only will this be the worst Presidency in living memory, it will be the ugliest.

Obama and his mob in Congress, are likely already very aware of the old saw....

The military may watch the breadlines but they won't be in them....

This situation may have a decisive resolution long before the midterms of 2010......

Obama has thin skin and when the public turns on him, his vindictiveness will boil to the surface. Not only will this be the worst Presidency in living memory, it will be the ugliest.

Posted by: John Chittick at February 20, 2009 1:06 PM
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Personally, I am getting the impression Obama will be the catalyst for the new revolution.
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In my view, harper outshined Obama and I think Obama is worried. That is why he made an unscheduled stop to shake hands with Canadians in a market, he knew he had to do something else to gain Canadians approval - he knows we have a strong, sane leader in Harper who is willing to talk but not give in on important Canadian issues. I also thought Harper did an excellent interview with Wolf.

Obama will propobably try to get the liberal leader in- given their common Harvard background friends, and views. I thought it was strange that "O" met with "I" privately. I will not be surprised if there is a sudden infusion of US money into the Liberal Party although it will not appear so.

We survived barely from our own personality cult with Trudeau.
The numbers still aren’t out on how it will end. In Separation (The West to preserve Provincial rights) or perhaps assimilation or absorption into the USA. Unless we have fundamental political change its inevitable.

I just pray the USA can survive this guy. Jimmy Carter almost did them in. They will need another Ronald Reagan I fear to bail them out from the political swamp now being created. The real vice has not even begun yet. Let alone the political changes coming there way.

Seems to me though Multiculturalism with PC with the blatant attacks on free speech, herald a more brutal future for us all. Islam in ascendancy, coupled with western ill religion with rank cowardice to face up to anything, will suck our culture to the marrow. Killing any cell of renewal for a long time to come.
JMO

Well, cal2's disgustingly racist post says all there needs to be said about the basis for all the SDA's alumni's "opposition" to Obama.

Don't worry folks - we know what you're all about.

As for cal2 - he prints up an entire menu simply in order to affix a racist comment at the end! What a loser!

That's right Real, all the comments here are racist. I wish I had your magical divining powers of interpretation.

Although I've got to admit, it'd be easier being a leftard than anything else because all one has to do is ascribe any meaning one wants to what the others say, no matter the actual wording ... black is white and rain is drought. What a wonderful way of ordering one's life when you actually know the secret meaning of each utterance.