Tonight’s selection, the next weekly installment of Songs About Cities – songs that don’t just mention a city, but are about the titled city, and in praise of it – extols the virtues of a city that has the softest grass, sunshine that touches the soul, and women – the prettiest you’ve ever seen – who treat you right and wear their dresses “country tight.” Surprisingly, it still only has a population of about 50,000 people. From July of 1967, here are The Everly Brothers singing the praises of the earthly paradise known as Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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James Bowman at New Criterion:
“Sarah Spitz of National Public Radio wrote on the list of how the imaginary sight of Rush Limbaugh having a heart attack led her to the further delicious fantasy of herself as she would ‘laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out.’
“Interestingly, she adds that ‘I never knew I had this much hate in me, but he deserves it.’ Deserves? The heart attack, presumably — though I wonder if she ever has a similar reflection on the question of desert in relation to the speculative circumstance of her own death? — but also to have herself standing by and laughing at him ‘like a maniac’ for having it. This sounds to me like the cry of an almost unbearable emotional repression, groaning and stumbling under the weight of journalistic respectability and desperate to find an outlet. It should therefore serve as a reminder that journalists spend their lives pretending to be something they are not….”
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“American progressivism has always been a sort of masquerade. The word itself is a masquerade, a euphemism designed to appeal to Americans’ belief in the future on behalf of one sort or another of lefty atavism. ‘Progressive,’ like ‘liberal’ before it, is designed to disguise their utopian longings to return to an imagined version of our cooperative, egalitarian tribal past. That’s why, although I’d like to agree with Jay Cost of RealClearPolitics that the JournoList is ‘yet another mile-marker on this country’s return to a partisan press,’ I’m afraid it’s unlikely to be true. As avowed partisans of what they actually believe, they would be perennial losers in a center-right country like the U.S. Only by continuing to pretend, at whatever emotional and psychological cost to themselves, to what Mr Cost quite rightly calls ‘the epistemologically ridiculous ‘God’s eye view'” do they stand any chance at all of success in their poisonous ambitions for the rest of us.”
The whole thing here.
Excerpt from an op-ed in Venezuelan newspaper Aporrea:
“And while capitalism will continue to exist in the bourgeoisie, Jews will propagate in its own entrails. Judaism…managed to alienate men and women and nature itself, transforming them into corruptive things, into objects dedicated to serve the selfish need, into traffic and usury, as comrade Marx remarked.
“…Judaism will reach its end with the advanced realities of communism, in which there won’t be a State, social classes, antagonist contradictions. There’ll instead be an enlightened humanity…and, most importantly, money and usury, which are at the base of Judaism, will disappear.”
Must see video. It’s rather long.
But if you want to see “Hitler and Stalin in context” then watch this.
Excerpt from Roger Kimball’s Thanks for the memories, Barack: Or, how to bankrupt a country in three easy steps:
“‘Europe’s prospects brighten as U.S. fades.’ Thus a headline in Reuters this morning.
“Thanks a lot, Mr. President. And thanks to you, too, Secretary Geithner. You inherited the richest, most productive country in history. And you have set it firmly on course for economic stagnation.
“It’s all part of your effort to ‘fundamentally transform the Untied States of America,’ isn’t it, Mr. President? That’s what you promised October 2008: to change America fundamentally. Who would have predicted you were really serious? (Well, some of us did, but you know what I mean.)
“You’ve made it clear that, deep down, you really don’t like the United States. In that, you are like many of your Ivy confrères, all those Harvard-Yale-Princeton types who find the spectacle of individual freedom playing itself out irredeemably vulgar. You all are beyond allegiance to anything so parochial as an individual nation. And when it comes to what (even now) is the world’s nation of nations, the United States, you are more than embarrassed: you are downright impatient.”
Well worth reading – I love Kimball’s description of Obama’s “metaphysical indifference.” The rest here.
EBD, isn’t Bowling Green where the Corvette used to be made (the car, not the ship)?
When I think of Kentucky, I think of ‘Vettes, Bluegrass, rolling hills and Colonel Sanders’.
Others may think of one-toothed, mutant-looking banjo players’ relatives anxious to say, “you got a pretty mouth”. And the Ned Beatty scene.
You might remember me telling you all last week about a friend of mine in Burnaby whose co-op building is facing a charge with the BC “Human Rights” Commission about smoking within it. Today I heard this discussed on CKNW (Vancouver’s local Corus station). Sure enough, those making the complaints were painted as victims and everyone else in the building were painted as selfish aggressors.
Hey, I don’t like it when some yahoo stands outside my window and smokes a cigarette or a joint but I’d NEVER think to lodge a complaint with the BCHRC!!!
“…money and usury, which are at the base of Judaism, will disappear.”
OK. Aside from the obvious attacks on a “specific group”, many science fiction stories have such a ficticious world where money doesn’t exist.
Heaven forfend that “somebodies” have been living in fictional worlds for too long.
I maintain that such a wonderful world would never be able to come to exist when there is a never-ending bickering between those who produce and those who mooch.
But such is the world of the utopians who wish for a money-free world. Their main demand is that they get control of the money first – after that everything will be OK.
PiperPaul, there IS a Bowling Green in Ohio, so that might be where the Corvettes used to be made. There are Bowling Greens in Virginia, and Indiana, and Florida, and Missouri, too, but the grass isn’t as soft as in the one in Kentucky, and the women don’t treat you right.
RT: More from Roger Kimball’s piece mentioned above:
“You seem surprised, Mr. President, that more and more people are not only irritated but alarmed. What I suspect you do not yet fully appreciate is that they are also energized as never before. The tea-parties are not racist backwaters, notwithstanding the poisonous rhetoric spewing from the Democratic opinion factories. They are disparate grass roots movements, as different from each other as Arizona is different from Massachusetts and Georgia is different from California. Yet they are united in the common purpose of wresting back from the government control over their lives. You are the shepherd who would lead us down the road marked ‘to serfdom.’ More and more people are waking up to the reality that serfdom is a disagreeable state. How many? We’ll make a first tally come November.”
Another excellent song du jour …
Robert wrote, in part: “…a friend of mine in Burnaby whose co-op building is facing a charge with the BC “Human Rights” Commission about smoking within it.
A comment at the site he referenced was:
“It is time to start building Condo’s for Smokers and Condo’s for Non-smokers. Don’t move into a Condo if it allows smoking and you are a non – smoker. Its only common sense.”
I wonder if that concept would be alien to people with common sense. Or would it be portrayed as an act against humanity.
The concept of banning smoking in closed environments is a mindset that might appeal to most people. There has been enough hand-wringing about second-hand smoke over the past 30 or so years.
It doesn’t matter that there’s no evidence of actual damage from second-hand smoke in casual environments to adults (as opposed to parents smoking in the presence of small children), it’s a done deal. It’s artificially-heightened perception winning over reality.
Smokers are already an isolated group of pariahs, ever shunted into the smaller corner where “better people” can sneer at and pity them. I don’t know of any smoker that wants to convert kids (or any one else) to start smoking.
One thing I think that’s true of the abolitionists is that they brook no contrary opinion.
Bowling Green, Ky now the home of Rand Paul was the home of the Everly Brothers and the Corvette. Their father was a guitarist of local renoun who piorneered the finger picking style that was copied and improved upon by Merle Travis(Sixteen Tons)and the legendary Chet Atkins.
US cancels periodic long form census and replaces with rolling American Community Survey for more current info.
Hmmmm. Maybe Canada should do something like this. Oh wait….
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2009/changesin2010.aspx
Nah, it’s Kentucky (for the Corvette). You almost got me there, EBD. Nice try. 🙂
My best sports car, if you want to call it that, was a CRX Si. Nowhere near a Corvette’s performance, but I’m not one to whine about the injustices in western society.
BTW do you always reply multiple times to your own topic?
And if we’re doing cities, how about “Cold, Cold Toronto” by Trooper?
At Iron Shrink.com, Psychologist Dr. Shawn Smith takes down evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa’s “finding” that “very liberal” people are 12 IQ points smarter than “very conservative” people. It’s too lengthy to properly excerpt from it, but here are several of the more glaring methodological flaws he found in Kanazawa’s study:
1. Dr. K took the results of something called the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), administered to a group of adolescents, and then later (as young adults) asked them to self-report their political views (very conservative, conservative, middle of the road, liberal, or very liberal.) But the PPVT, as it turns out, is only comparable to just one of 15 subtests that are a part of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, which is considered the “gold standard intelligence test for children up to the age of 16.” The PPVT focuses only on vocabulary, and in a very narrow sense – it doesn’t cover similarities, comprehension, word reasoning, and doesn’t consider categories of perceptual reasoning, working memory, process speed, and a number of sub-categories of these aspects of verbal intelligence. Yet “while engaging in nimble leaps of logic, Kanazawa even went so far as to provide IQ ranges on this single, paltry vocabulary test.”
2. “The timing of the…data collection (from young adults, the part that asked whether they’re liberal, conservative, etc) corresponds nicely with Kanazawa’s desired outcome. Recall that Wave III data was collected when subjects were between the ages of 18 and 28….According to the Pew Research Center (2003), young adults in the present population who choose a party affiliation (most do not choose an affiliation) are about evenly divided between Republican and Democrat. With increasing age, affiliation shifts toward the conservative side, most dramatically among men. There is only one reasonable explanation for this: people lose IQ points as they move toward conservatism and gain points if they become more liberal…” (emph. mine)
3. Kanizawa wrote that, for the purposes of the study, “I provisionally define liberalism (as opposed to conservatism) as the genuine concern for the welfare of genetically unrelated others and the willingness to contribute larger proportions of private resources for the welfare of such others.” Shawn Smith writes “His contrived definition is…demonstrably wrong. In an extensive research review, Brooks (2006) found that American conservative households donate 30% more of their personal income to charity than do liberal households. I am not suggesting that American liberals are stingy. Perhaps they express their compassion in other ways. Rather, I am pointing out that the existing data flatly contradict the very foundation upon which Kanazawa has built this house of cards.”
Smith:
“You may be wondering how Kanazawa deduced the liberals are more generous than conservatives. In his own words,
“This is a shining bit of irrationality. Anyone who voluntarily donates her hard-earned resources to others can truly be called altruistic. On the other hand, someone who supports a tax increase may or may not be the target of that increase. They may, in fact, be the beneficiaries. It hardly qualifies as altruism to support a tax increase on someone else, especially if that increase transfers resources into one’s own pocket. I am not pointing fingers; I am saying it has been known to happen.”
The whole thing here.
Hoosierman, is that the source of Steve Martin’s banjo playing?
Excerpt from Trevor Butterworth’s review of David Friedman’s Wrong: Why ‘Experts’ Keep Failing Us – And How To Know When Not to Trust Them, in the WSJ:
“Researchers have a vested interest in overstating their findings because certainty is more likely than equivocation to achieve all of the above. Thus the probability increases of producing findings that are false. As the medical mathematician John Ioannidis tells Mr. Freedman: ‘The facts suggest that for many, if not the majority of fields, the majority of published studies are likely to be wrong.’
“The problem is that the media tend to validate these findings before they have been properly interpreted, qualified, tested, and either refuted or replicated by other experts. And once a lousy study gets public validation— think of Andrew Wakefield’s claim about autism and vaccination—it can prove almost impossible to invalidate.”
“Psychologist Dr. Shawn Smith takes down evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa’s “finding” that “very liberal” people are 12 IQ points smarter than “very conservative” people.”
This is a joke, right?
First of all, if I re-define “smart” as agreeing with me on some never-to-be-proven-conclusion…what does that imply?
Drop the funding for the bird courses, up the funding for those interested in the real sciences.
I’m not sure, but the future of the planet won’t be decided by those who studied touchy-feely stuff. Unless they can worm their fuzzy brains into those who actually know what they’re doing.
EBD, thank you for the psychology article. I forwarded it to Dennis Prager because it deeply touches upon several themes he often talks about.
Pied Piper, That style was originated by Earl Scruggs of Flatt&Scruggs when he played for Bill Monroe. It became the more popular style as oppossed to the claw hammer style as used by Grandpa Jones and String Bean.You can reference much of this in wikipedia and youtube. There is an annual Blue Grass Festival every September in Rosine KY, the birth place of Bill Monroe. What is so remarkable is the original styles that came from a few western Ky rural countys. Ike Everly, father of the Everly Brothers was a coal miner when Merle Travis began to imitate his style(muehlenberg county finger picking as in the John Prine song “Paradise” Prine’s parents were from Muehlenburg county and the Drakesboro mine were Ike Everly worked was just a few miles from Paradise KY which was stripped mined away.)Rosine and Bowling Green are probably less than an hour’s drive from Paradise.
Hoosierman, thanks.
Interesting that you called me Pied Piper, it’s actually PiperPaul.
Steve is a hero of mine and Scruggs is a hero of his. So therefore…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw
Liberal candidate who smeared Calgary Police as “racist” was fired from Trustee post on Calgary Board of Education… for assault against Danielle Smith in 1999
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2010/07/grit-wont-quit-over-racist-cops-remark.html
Ralph Klein FIRED her.
Mr. Tet-Cronkite, he dead**.
“From 1968 to 1971, Americans had few alternatives to Walter Cronkite and the New York Times. Today they have thousands. I believe the New Media will succeed in the signal task of burying Old Media’s “Tet-effect” talisman, once and for all.”
“Wikileaks and the Final Defeat of Tet
J. E. Dyer – 07.26.2010 – 4:22 PM
I agree with Max that the content of the leaked Afghan war documents is underwhelming. The thousands of pedestrian, narrow-scope field reports tell us nothing we didn’t already know about the overall conduct of the war or our coalition partners’ roles in it. The real story here is how accurate our view of the war in Afghanistan has been: even the failures and missteps have been chronicled with thematic, if not always specific, fidelity.
A swelling chorus of voices is pondering the roles of New and Old Media in the Wikileaks disclosure, with its effect being compared to that of Tet and the Pentagon Papers (see here, here, here, and here, for example). These analogies are overblown — wildly so, in my view — but there is nevertheless an important New/Old Media dynamic to watch in this case. The question in the coming days will be whether the Old Media — of which Time, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, et al. are members — can establish a counterfactual narrative and make it politically decisive. Will Congress, for example, consider itself bound to accept the narrative that this massive leak amounts to a set of game-changing revelations?
I predict not.”
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/j-e-dyer/333851
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“WikiLeaks founder speaks out about leaked Afghan war documents”
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/07/26/wikileaks.founder.lkl/?hpt=C2#fbid=niN2lgv8fpX
(**H/T Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness)
Mao Stlong*s Excrusive Lepolt flom Beijing.
Moi’s GULAGS: H/T PET’s Murticurtularism.
It’s China Town.
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“Inside China’s gated communities for the poor”
“Once a symbol of affluence, gates are now used as a form of ‘sealed management’ for low-income villages”
“Gated villages in China have for years been symbols of affluence; places where the rich can live in villa-style homes, surrounded by private schools and swimming pools, with fences to keep out those who don’t belong.
Now China is gating off low-income villages, where migrant labourers from the countryside (the people who built those expansive villas) live in near squalor. The newly erected fences and nighttime curfews are designed to hold in the residents, and the criminality that supposedly emanates from these communities. “Enhance the idea of safety and reduce illegal crimes,” reads a red banner hanging over the main road to one such village south of Beijing, home to some 7,000 migrants
That road into Shoubaozhuang is guarded 24 hours a day by two uniformed guards and partially barred by an accordion gate that closes tight at 11 p.m. each night. Until 6 a.m. the next day, the residents are sealed in. Only those with passes are allowed to come and go, their movements recorded by a video camera stationed over the entrance.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/inside-chinas-gated-communities-for-the-poor/article1644361/?cmpid=nl-news1
(*Moi is Canadian “Liberal Leader” Bob Rae’s Uncle Mo.)
http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/07/26/14836071.html
London Hydro: August’s bill will jump 17%, and that’s just the minimum due to an increase in the cost of electricity and distributing it, and of course the HST”
Reporter Randy Richmond [Yes, that Randy Richmond]: “The good news: Londoners may be soon able to stop fights about the air conditioner by letting London Hydro — not mom, dad or the kids — control the thermostat.”
Vinay Sharma, chief executive of London Hydro: “We are going to have to hold the hands of our customers.”
Sharma also envisions a day when customers can sign a contract, perhaps for a financial incentive, to let the utility control the air conditioning in their homes.
“On a hot day you will surrender to us. We will not let people override the setting if they have a deal with us,” he said.
They’re so brazen about it these days. But I’m sure those ‘deals’ will remain purely voluntary in perpetuity.
“What the collapse of the media/academic myth has done is make us wonder just how much of the conventional wisdom is really fiction.”
Matt Hillier quote:
“Sharma also envisions a day when customers can sign a contract, perhaps for a financial incentive,”
Contracts? Enron contracts?
“80. wretchard
Someone linked to this site describing the other side of the Enron prosecution. I didn’t even know there was another side. But counternarrative is apparently that somebody was after some scalps. And Enron was a way to get them. If a few innocents got thrown in with the guilty, well you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs. The site says:
This is not a webumentary about Enron, the corporation.
This is a webumentary about the way that the U.S. Department of Justice prosecuted the Enron-related cases. Until now, you’ve not heard this side of the story. And you’ve not heard it because people have been too afraid to tell it.
When Enron went bankrupt, Congress, the White House, plaintiff’s attorneys, former employees, an incensed public, and the media all called for prosecutions, spurring the Department of Justice to send the omnipotent Enron Task Force to Houston; and they promised convictions. Every Enron employee with insight about why the company went bankrupt immediately secured an attorney. And the first thing their attorneys told them was to talk with no one about Enron but them – their attorneys. In order to survive the wave of prosecutions that swept Houston, the people of Enron – and their attorneys – were gagged.
Now that some of the statutes of limitations have expired, now that the Enron Task Force has been disbanded, now that the Enron Grand Jury is a distant memory, now that some are out of harm’s way – only now are some of the people of Enron – and their attorneys – ungagged. And some of them are brave enough to tell their stories.
The way that the Enron Task Force operated was a wake-up call to those of us who appear on this website. We had never heard of prosecutorial abuse before the Enron Task Force came to town; we now feel duty-bound to share our experiences.
The crazy thing is that it’s no longer unintelligent or naive to believe that set-ups occur. Think of Duke Lacrosse. Could ENRON be at least in part, the same? What the collapse of the media/academic myth has done is make us wonder just how much of the conventional wisdom is really fiction. In Australia I know two academics who were deeply embittered by what they discovered in the course of original research. They didn’t find what they expected. Rather they found that the standard story was a lie. Then they got blackballed and had difficulty publishing.
Old-time SF author Brian Aldiss wrote a story about a group of people who re-discovered their world was really a multi-generational starship. The fact had been forgotten until finally the last generation lost the secret, until somebody figured it out again. The problem with reaching such a radical conclusion in our own context is that it takes one very near to paranoia. The best way forward, I think, is still to assume the standard narrative is still true until you categorically learn otherwise. You keep the world, conceding that you might have to revise your estimate about the extent to the area of lies. In recent years we’ve watched this territory grow and grow and grow until sometimes you want to shut your eyes and shout ‘is there anything out there that isn’t a cheat?’ You want to save your world. The media has got it wrong. We want to believe; want to desperately. It’s a measure of how bad things are that this is becoming difficult.
When that happens you go out and walk the ground, touch the leaves and feel the wind. Messages from the Creator unmediated by man. Wouldn’t it be strange if all the things that the sophisticated world taught us not to believe in were the only things that were really true?”
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/07/25/dancing-in-the-dark/#comments
Assange Who?
“*The Wikileaks episode, considered in the context of the last 9 years, suggests that the media and the political elite are almost totally dishonest. Their economics is a lie; their global warming a lie; their military ’strategy’ another lie; and even their accounts of the lies are lies.”
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“Which brings us back to Assange, who seems to lack any sort of insight into the war or where it’s being fought; he just has his own ideology, which involves exposing secrets he thinks are immoral to keep. (There are secrets Assange will not leak onto the Internet—the identities of his sources, for example.) Just clicking at random in the Wikileaks War Diary reveals the names of Afghan sources you hope will not be targeted as a result of this leak: Simon Hermes, head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan; Mohammed Moubin, who met with the Paktika Provincial Reconstruction team in 2006; Gul Said, who was assisting the PRT near the American Base at Bagram. On and on it goes, name after name of “collaborators” with the U.S. military, name after name of people whose lives are now in direct danger.
Assange’s justification for putting hundreds of lives at stake—“All of this material is more than seven months old, so it has no operational significance… there is no danger”—is as false as it is naïve. Many of the operations he details through these leaks are still ongoing, and many of the people involved in them are still there, hoping these leaks don’t make them into targets for assassination. Indeed, Adam Serwer, a staff writer for The American Prospect, tweeted this morning, “Former Military Intelligence Officer sez of wikileaks, ‘Its an AQ/Taliban execution team’s treasure trove.’”
In WikiLeaks’s world, though, that’s not their problem. They’re exposing secrets, consequences be damned. But there will be serious, and deadly, consequences from WikiLeaks’s War Diary archive. And odds are they won’t get nearly as much media attention as the initial leak.”
“The Assange Leaks
What’s new about the WikiLeaks data?”
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/the_assange_leaks.php
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“*74. wretchard
Afghanistan was politically oversold because it was not Iraq. It was useful in order to establish the narrative of a “good war” in contrast to the ‘bad wars’ of GWB. The price for doing this was to pervert its true value while while the centers of enemy gravity were simply defined out of policy existence. Eventually they would have to take back their shoddy goods. To weasel out from under their extravagant promises.
What we are watching is a changing of the narrative. The “good war” is about to become “a failure of bad intentions made worse by the blunders of George W. Bush”. Well it was never the former nor the latter; worst of all it was never what it was said to be: one battlefield in a global war whose existence is too inconvenient to be recognized.
The Wikileaks episode, considered in the context of the last 9 years, suggests that the media and the political elite are almost totally dishonest. Their economics is a lie; their global warming a lie; their military ’strategy’ another lie; and even their accounts of the lies are lies. Personally I think Assange, far from being a revolutionary outsider, is just another operative in the backroom. But that’s not news. The really significant thing is that things don’t work the same way any more. That apart from being total liars they are now total bankrupts. The global financial crisis, the discrediting of “global warming” and the crisis in the media are really reminders that the old magic is losing its power.
Your credit is good, but we need cash.
Maybe someone had the idea that mega-exposes like the Washington Post’s Secret America and the Wikileaks dump of classified would bring back the golden years of 1973. When everybody wanted to be Woodward or Bernstein. Maybe Assange thinks that Hollywood will soon get a top matinee idol to play him in the new version of ‘All the President’s Men’. Maybe. But I wouldn’t take out a big loan to attend J-school just yet. The sparkle isn’t there any more; and the movie that is really going to bill is ‘Sunset Boulevard’. There is a curious flatness in the public response to these earth-shaking revelations. It’s the dog that didn’t bark in the night.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/07/25/dancing-in-the-dark/#comments
EBD – yes, Kimball’s outline of Obama’s destructive policies in the US is excellent. See also Victor Davis Hanson and his outline of Obama’s constant use of race as a tactic of control.
http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/from-rev-wright-to-the-sherrod-affair/#comments
“The voters are tired of a nonstop 2008 campaign mode in which the president keeps demonizing everyone from surgeons to wealthy people, while asking these various groups to pay more taxes to fund various redistributive plans — in pursuit of an agenda (stimulus, more taxes, amnesty, cap and trade) that polls about 45%”.
But are Americans realizing that Obama has a pathological need to control other people – and that now includes, since he is The President, all Americans? When Obama was just a community organizer, his pathology was confined to the local scene. Now that he’s President, his need to control has expanded to all Americans. This means that he must reduce and destroy the power of the individual in all aspects: gaining economic wealth, speaking and acting in freedom.
Re Shirley Sherrod: I was willing to concede—as Breitbart did—that she might not have displayed racism in her speech to the NAACP when she was talking about the white farmer.
However, on reflection, here’s her (altogether ungrammatical) race baiting in another part of the speech: “Now, we endured eight years of the Bush’s [sic] and we didn’t do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President.” Racist? I think so.
And, from the same speech, here’s the wealthy—I suspect, via affirmative action, not merit—Sherrod’s Marxist take, via this adversarial statement: “Y’all, it’s about poor versus those who have . . . It’s really about those who have versus those who don’t, you know.”
(And where does she think public money to help the poor comes from?)
Breitbart’s certainly stirred up the mud at the bottom of the pond here. Check out Charlie Sherrod, Shirley’s husband. He sounds like he’s been worshipping at the Rev. Wright’s church too: “We must stop the white man and his Uncle Toms from stealing the election.” And that’s just for a start.
The name of Shirley and Charlie’s daughter, born at the height of the Cold War? Russia. Yikes.
Article in the Globe and Mail regarding Ignatieff’s cross country tour. Jane Taber, reporting on the warm reception he’s getting from the “national media”, and cites a NP article. Apparently, he’s touring the country doing “regular things” like “drinking beer from a can” and “petting a horse while wearing a cowboy hat”.
Taber of course making snide remarks about PMSH in hiding. When was the last time PMSH and his family had quality private time? He deserves a vacation. The comments at G&M are disgusting.
Of course no mention of the Strangler from Shawinigan making fun of his attack on a protestor.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=256506&id=136501233039714#!/photo.php?pid=256505&id=136501233039714&fbid=138618756161295
Might need FB account to see the picture.
Justin Trudeau laughing while the Cretin grabs him by the neck.
Meanwhile, in the Gulf of Mexico, faced with The Greatest Environmental Disaster of All Time and Caused by “Big Oil” (TM) pant, pant! . . . Seems the clean up crews can’t actually find much oil.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-crude-mother-nature-breaks-slick/story?id=11254252
Oh dear, oh dear, how to make hay out of an “environmental disaster” that simply may not be very, well, disastrous? Ah, the travails of the left. I’m sure they’ll find something.
Mark Levin’s take on the “WikiLeaks dump.
I think he may be right. This is the first salvo in Obama’s campaign to end there inconvenient war in Afghanistan from America joining the Umma.
He wants the USA forces decimated.
Like he said about the Lockerby incident. A sell out to of course Muslims. A man who killed 270 gets a pass from Obama. No wonder people where weired out about it. Obama has been behind this since the beginning. What else is the liar doing behind all our backs?
07/26 The Mark Levin Show
http://www.marklevinshow.com/sectional.asp?id=32930#
JMO
bluetech, exactly my reaction when I saw Taber’s headline about Prime Minister Stephen Harper “hiding.” Doesn’t he deserve a holiday after the intensity of the past few months?
Does Jane Taber ever take a holiday? Is she in hiding when she does?
Does Iggy ever NOT take a holiday? He’s hiding most of the time and just ’cause he’s in the limelight (hahaha) now, doesn’t mean that Prime Minister Harper is hiding.
Jane’s a jerk.
Caught the image that’s being flaunted around about the Iggy drinking beer from a can. Whoever cropped the picture didn’t quite get it right, notice the little finger just poised so, as if he;s afraid to grab the can. Gotta love the Liberals they can’t eat hot dogs or drink beer out of a can, and Taber is all “tingly legged” over it.
Dr. Elsasser’s Classic 1942, Radiation Heat Transfer in the Atmosphere is here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34962513/Elsasser1942
Page 23 shows that CO2 is an equal upflux and downflux agent in the troposhere, (0-30,000 feet) and thus is IGNORED in day to day heat up and cool down calcs.
Dr. Elsasser’s General Radiation Chart accounts only for WATER…(above 30,000 ft CO2 is an UPFLUX agent only…but so insignificant as to not influence daily heat up and cool downs to any extent.