Archive for April 15th, 2009

Disinformation: Stupid is as stupid does redux

April 15, 2009

Ah, the better than thou crowd. At least they are consistent; Stupid is as stupid does on steroids, or crack, or maybe both? Such is the logic!

This week’s “Leftmedia Buster” Award: “David Shuster, filling in for MSNBC loose-cannon Keith Olbermann on his April 13 broadcast, and his writers probably thought they were pretty clever when they pieced an item denigrating the tax protests by using the [dirty] term ‘teabagging.'” –Jeff Poor of NewsBusters (to read the text of Shuster’s puerile dirty jokes if you dare, click here — Warning: Graphic puns.)

Doesn’t get it: “Republicans have become embarrassing to watch. And it doesn’t feel right to make fun of crazy people.” –New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on the tea parties taking place across the country today

Poor (but accurate) choice of words: [I]t’s fair to give the new kids on the block a chance to get their learner’s permits first.” –CBS’s Katie Couric on the Obama administration

Capitalism? Oh my!: “I’m worried if you think if [Goldman-Sachs paying back its federal loan early is] a good thing. Are they doing this because of financial stability or might they be talking about that, simply to get out from under the thumb of the federal government and be allowed to go back to running the business the way they want to run it as opposed to the way the government wants them to run it?” –NBC’s Matt Lauer to Christina Romer on Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers

Twisted blame: “That weekend tragedy [of the murder of three Pittsburgh police officers] involves a man who allegedly shot and killed three police officers in cold blood. Why? Because he was convinced, after no doubt watching Fox News and listening to right-wing radio, that quote, ‘Our rights were being infringed upon.'” –CNN’s Rick Sanchez

Oddly enough!: “If anything, the recent shootings have inspired more Americans to buy guns, recession or no recession. In fact, all over the country they are stocking up on as many pistols, rifles, and shotguns as possible before the Obama Administration bans or taxes them. … Interestingly, however, violent crime rates have at the same time been falling in Los Angeles, New York and other big American cities. The experts are at loss as to explain why this should be happening.” –London Times Los Angeles correspondent Chris Ayres

SOURCE

And then we have:

We Blame Global Warming: “Thaw Seems Near for U.S., Cuba” –St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Breaking News From 1980: “Thousands Demonstrate Against Georgian President” –The New York Times

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: “Cows With Gas: India’s Global Warming Problem” –Time.com

News You Can Use: “Obama Not the New Messiah: Archbishop” –ABC News Web site (Australia)

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Fewer Disney Employees Whistle While They Work” –CNN.com

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

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More on taxes

April 15, 2009

From today’s Patriot Post. (See sidebar) Some commentary on taxation as it is today, and a few ideas having to do with the subject.

“I say let’s have Election Day on tax day. Let’s get what we’re paying for. Sign the check — for the full amount — and write in your preferred candidates on the back of the same check. Abracadabra … smaller government, here we come.” –columnist Jonah Goldberg

“Rampant redistribution of wealth by government is now the norm. So is this: It inflames government’s natural rapaciousness and subverts the rule of law.” –columnist George Will

“Inflation also means that all the talk about how higher taxes will be confined to ‘the rich’ is nonsense. Inflation is a hidden tax that takes away the value of money held by everyone at every income level.” –economist Thomas Sowell

“[W]e need to return to a taxation system similar to the one established by our Founding Fathers. They did not penalize productivity through taxes the way we do today. They had no Internal Revenue Service. They believed in minimal taxation.” –columnist Chuck Norris

“Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies — dubbed ‘tea parties’ — to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org. So who’s behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize.” –author Glenn Harlan Reynolds

“[I]s there any limit to this administration’s intentions to interfere and perhaps control large swaths of our economy? … That’s the real message of the homegrown Tea Party revolt against bailout nation and the higher taxes, deficits, and debt being used to finance it. Folks are trying to tell Washington on Tax Day, April 15, that enough is enough. They can’t take it anymore.” –economist Larry Kudlow

“The cry at these tea parties should be ‘not a penny more’ until governments get their houses in order, just as we must do. Most people have been forced to reduce spending during the recession, but not the federal government, and likely not the government in your home state.” –columnist Cal Thomas

“President Obama’s own budget numbers show that Social Security this year will take in $654 billion in payroll taxes and dole out $662 billion in benefits and expenses — a negative cash flow of $8 billion. Uh oh.” –columnist Stephen Moore

“Today is tax day, and across America, taxpayers are holding tea parties to protest out-of-control government spending. Their concern is no tempest in a teapot. The tax burden on American families is growing increasingly heavy. According to the Tax Foundation, tax-freedom day came on April 13 this year. That day marks the point of the year when taxpayers have earned enough money to pay off their federal, state and local taxes. It takes Americans about 3 1/2 months of labor to cover their tax obligation. That time will increase as government continues to grow. President Obama’s current budget proposal admits to plans to raise taxes by almost $1 trillion over the next 10 years. Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) estimates that hundreds of thousands will turn out to protest this tax servitude. … Today’s tea parties are carrying on a noble American tradition of protesting unfair taxation. Mike Allen, co-author of ‘A Patriot’s History of the United States,’ explained to us: ‘America was born out of hatred of a strong centralized government. The Boston Tea Party (and a half dozen other concurrent tea parties from New York City to Charleston) protested government subsidies to create monopoly status for a corporation, the East India Company. From that point onward, tax protests have peppered American history.’ The first tea party to protest taxes occurred on Dec. 16, 1773, when patriots called the Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded ships in Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. Other colonials followed the lead of Sam Adams and his fellow Bostonians by tossing tea into the sea. Today’s tea-party movement is building steam because taxpayers are steamed. As ATR’s anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist explained … ‘These are real people with real lives taking the time and effort to do this in reaction not to a tax increase yesterday, but in reaction to too much spending that will lead to tax increases and inflation years from now.’ These modern Mohawks are angry because they fear the future is being poured down the drain. This kind of activism is our cup of tea.” —The Washington Times

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Science is beyond dispute?

April 15, 2009

Fake “scientists” are still at it. Seems they have always been around though actually. Don’t allow facts to get in their way though! They will have a hissy fit and go off on their politically correct agenda’s. This is in fact the norm for to so-called “soft sciences.” Sociology, Psychology, and the like. Not from fact based sciences, such as geology or climatology. At least that is not the norm. Remember global cooling..? I do, and no to the Chicken Little’s of that bygone time, the sky has not fallen. I would say the same to the alarmist’s of today…

Read on.

“President Obama has said that the science of global warming is ‘beyond dispute,’ and therefore settled. This is the justification for the imposition of a carbon cap-and-trade system that will cost $2 trillion. But Obama does not understand science. ‘Settled science’ is an oxymoron, and anyone who characterizes science as ‘settled’ or ‘indisputable’ is ignorant not only of science, but also history and philosophy. Aristotle, who lived and wrote in the fourth century B.C., was one of the greatest geniuses the world has ever known. He invented the discipline of logic, and founded the sciences of ecology and biology. Aristotle’s physics were accepted as correct for nearly two thousand years. … Aristotle taught that heavy objects fall faster than light ones. Over the centuries, a few unreasonable persons expressed skeptical concerns. But the consensus was that the physics of motion were described by Aristotle’s dicta. The science was settled. Around the year 1591, an irascible young instructor at the University of Pisa demonstrated that Aristotle was wrong. He climbed to the top of the tower of Pisa and dropped cannonballs of unequal weight that hit the ground simultaneously. Aristotelean professors on the faculty were embarrassed. The university administration responded by not renewing Galileo’s contract, thus ridding themselves of a troublemaker who challenged the accepted consensus. … President Obama, a lawyer and politician, would now have us believe that the process of history has stopped. For the first time, scientific knowledge is not provisional and subject to revision, but final and settled. Skepticism, which has been the spur to all innovation and human progress, is unacceptable and must be condemned. But in fact, it is our awareness of what we do not know that determines our scientific level. … Knowledge begins with skepticism and ends with conceit.” –University of Oklahoma geologist David Deming

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Kitchen sink politics; It’s not just about a tea bag

April 15, 2009

“Tea Party’s” will be held across the nation today, and the issue is not just about taxes either. My good friend and fellow blogger Texas Fred really hits the nail on it’s head, and no, he didn’t even touch on Second Amendment issues. Be sure to watch the video of Texas Governor Perry. It is very inspiring, to say the least. At least to all of us that still believe in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Supporting the things that at one time made this a great nation involves more than boiling some water, placing it in a sink, and tossing in a few bags of Earl Grey or Lemon Lift. One needs to stand up for our core beliefs in the strongest way that the person can. If you can make it to a march today then be there!

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