Well, here’s what’s happening now — right now, today. Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the U.N. Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world’s security.
You couldn’t make this thing up.
Netanyahu’s U.N. Address. Watch the whole thing. (Transcript here.) h/t EBD
Via Right Scoop – “The first thing I have to do to you today is scare the living daylights out of you”.
h/t pkuster
People have alleged that Rick Perry and others like him are anti-science. That’s horrible. Science is extremely important. It’s given us microwaves, dinosaurs and the “Mr. Wizard Show.” And medicines. Except for the homeopathic ones.
It’s critical that we all accept science’s conclusions. For instance, if we don’t agree on the age of the Earth, how will we know what to do when the Earth tries to buy liquor? And without knowledge of evolution, when a species goes extinct, how do we know who to notify as its next of kin?
But despite the obvious importance of science, one group of people does everything in pure defiance of scientific methods: politicians.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Barack Obama, June 2008 – “This was the moment that the rise of the oceans began to slow…”
Nasa, August 2011 – “This was the moment that the rise of the oceans hit a pothole…”
Let’s think outside the box! (h/t Paul)
Rick Santelli with Sean Hannity.
This is unprecedented. Instead, the White House is saying Obama won’t dignify S&P’s downgrade with a response, which just means they haven’t been able to come up with one. Christina Romer has, though. She said we’ve been intercoursed. Our economy’s intercoursed. Christina Romer, yeah. I got the sound bite. Grab audio sound bite number five. This Friday night, HBO’s Real Time, that idiot, Bill Maher, talking to former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors Christina Romer about the economy, and Bill Maher says, “How intercoursed are we? I mean, right before the show S&P downgraded our credit rating.”
ROMER: Pretty darn (bleep).
MAHER: Ooh.
AUDIENCE: (applause and laughter)
ROMER: I’ve been hanging around Tim Geithner too long.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
MAHER: Why? Does he swear like a sailor?
ROMER: Oh, like a seventh grade boy.
RUSH: So our former head of the Council of Economic Advisors is going on a comedy show on
HBO to talk about how our economy is now “intercoursed,” and she was one of the former economic team that helped introduce policies that led us to the point where now we’re intercoursed.
[…]
World War II, we had a AAA credit rating, and we lose it now, and for what? For what great purpose did we lose it? Except an ideological hatred of American capitalism and a love of class warfare, what did we lose our AAA rating for? A naked effort to get still more and more money to buy votes. A never-ending quest for power, that’s why we lost our AAA credit rating.
Rich Man, Poor Man. (Consider subscribing).
h/t Dave
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, following the remarkable tectonic shift of geopolitical power that occurred in World War II, Americans turned to Hoover’s FBI and the House Committee on Un-American Activities for guidance about how to protect and preserve our values against communist intervention. By 1969, however, following the social revolution of the 1960s, that House committee’s name had been changed to the House Committee on Internal Security, and by 1975 it had been dissolved altogether. No longer could it be assumed that Un-American Activities were bad. They were merely alternative ideologies that we could learn from.
Such relativistic thinking would have been inconceivable to our Founding Fathers. There was no alternative view possible of “unalienable rights,” nor should there be. One could not wage war against King George III by trying to see his point of view, nor would victory in World War II have been possible if America had waffled on the evil of the Third Reich.
But when in the 1950s and 1960s, America began to surrender its own absolute certainty in its self-worth and substituted a form of re-education that might just as well have come from Mao’s China, we were on the path to collapse that has led us to the somnambulistic, hedonistic 21st century. No longer was the enemy communism, but rather the nasty people like McCarthy and Hoover who preached against communism.
h/t Calvin
Santelli on the debt ceiling.
Via Drudge
And you collected it every year, first in shekels and now in dollars…
(Krauthammer segment begins at 3:25 mark)
Update: transcript here.
A naive exercise in what-ifism, this is;
In 1945, there were hundreds of thousands of Jewish survivors living in DP Camps (displaced persons) across Europe. They were fed and clothed by Jewish and international relief organizations. Had the world’s Jewish population played this situation as the Arabs and Palestinians have, everything would look very different today.
Well, everything but the UN resolutions. And everything else. Because they’re Jews.
Related: “Last time I visited Jerusalem I met an Arab who said he’s ready to die in a nuclear holocaust as long as the bomb destroys Israel.”
We’re not on the road to recovery. You can’t get there from here, as they say. Obama was in Toledo to “celebrate” the sale of the government’s remaining stake in Chrysler to Fiat. That’s “Fiat” as in the Italian car manufacturer rather than “an authoritative or arbitrary decree (from the Latin ‘let it be done’),” which would be almost too perfect a name for an Obamafied automobile. The Treasury crowed that Fiat had agreed to pay a whopping $560 million for the government’s Chrysler shares.
Wow! 560 million smackeroos! If you laid them out end to end, they’re equivalent to what the federal government borrows every three hours. That’s some windfall! In the time it takes to fly Obama to Toledo to boast about it, he’d already blown through the Italians’ check.
And more Steyn;
America has a looming rendezvous with destiny. You can’t tax your way out of it, you can’t inflate your way out of it, you can’t quantitively ease your way out of it. The only door that leads anywhere is the one marked “Massive Government Cuts”.
Or Not! “Another dive into the empty Keynesian pool”.
It’s a little odd to be having this conversation as the news media keep insisting that private employment is picking up. But as economists have pointed out to all who will listen, the only real change is that the rate of layoffs has slowed. Fewer than one of six small businesses added jobs last year, and not many more expect to do so this year. The private sector is creating no more new jobs than it was a year ago; the man in the aisle seat is trying to tell me why.
Be sure to read to the end. Not because you’re going to learn anything new, but to witness Professor Carter learning something new.
h/t Marine
Netanyahu addresses Congress.
Update – Here are links to the full speech.
“Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU.”
h/t John