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$1.4 Trillion dollar deficit
Can’t make this stuff up! Well on second thought the government is probably printing money, that seems awfully close to “making it up”.
Of course it could still turn out to be a beautiful world.
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Stoopid CNN Survey
Well the subject matter is good for a survey, it’s the missing pre-selected answers that are the problem.
Inquiring minds want to know why there is no selection for “bad idea” or “stoopid idea” or “it’s a bribe”?
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Lessons from the Rush Limbaugh debacle
It’s time for conservatives to make the marketplace work for them…
And therein lies a lesson for conservatives: we should consider making the marketplace work for us. This means, for example, organizing boycotts of the goods and services of those whose actions (I’m less inclined to say “views”) offend us.
I’m not talking about trying to boycott the NFL. Let’s not be ridiculous. Conservatives (including me) are at least as addicted as the rest of the country to sports, and professional football is the narcotic of choice for the American sports fan. I’m talking about directing our efforts at more vulnerable enterprises.
In a sense, this is already happening. Many conservatives have deserted the mainstream media, and a number of MSM outlets are suffering in part as a result. But this represents natural gravitation, not punitive behavior.
We deserted the Daily Camera many years ago. I’m sure at least 3 and it could be 5 or more years ago. The spouse has been given permission to cancel the Denver Post whenever the mood strikes her. If it was up to me, it would be long gone.
We also try to do the majority of our shopping outside of Boulder, but we don’t take it to extremes. I think it’s safe to say over 90% of our grocery shopping occurs outside of Boulder. Not because we have issues with the grocery stores in Boulder, but we would prefer to spend our tax dollars in other communities that aren’t so anti-capitalist.
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Minnesota: 16 degrees BELOW normal this October
I particularly enjoy the conclusion, although I don’t believe you can extrapolate a particular regions weather to make statements regarding the whole globe.
It is quite remarkable that liberals continue to sell their global warming/government takeover program, when any damn fool can see that the globe isn’t warming.
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A lesson for the MSM/Legacy media
The blatant beast. Unfortunately, or fortunately, the MSM is too arrogant to accept it, much less learn from it.
Still, the media will pay a price for the “successful” campaign against Limbaugh. It will never take the form of huge masses of people swearing off the New York Times and CNN all at once. It happens a little bit at a time. The Blatant Beast dies from many small wounds that bleed slowly. This week, all across the country, a number of people watched the Limbaugh debacle and decided they just don’t trust the mainstream media any more, joining the people who reached that conclusion during the savaging of Sarah Palin, the unraveling of the global-warming hoax, and many other incidents, large and small.
Death by a thousand cuts.
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Healthcare astroturfing
Pushing the White House health care agenda. A lesson in ethics and morality.
The White House orchestrated support, played to the support, and crowed about the support, used the front groups to fund advertising, and then used all that to convince real voters there was a groundswell of “support” for its proposals.
Perhaps you should look in the mirror and stop creating noise about the genuine Tea Party movement.
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Nevadans on Harry Reid
They just don’t like him very much.
Imagine that.
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Healthcare bribery
Senate Democrats look to bribe our physicians to increase their support of health care reform.
Maneuvering to boost prospects for sweeping health care legislation, Senate Democrats hope first to win quick approval for a bill that grants doctors a $247 billion increase in Medicare fees over a decade but raises federal deficits in the process, officials said Wednesday.
By creating a two-bill approach, Democrats intend to claim the more comprehensive health care measure meets President Barack Obama’s conditions — that it will neither add to deficits nor exceed $900 billion in costs over 10 years.
Good grief! One really has to ask if the elite politicians think the general public can’t see through this charade. The answer is obvious.
Doesn’t the Baucus bill include significant cuts to Medicare?
No group has been arguably more strongly opposed to Washington’s health-care agenda than seniors, with good reason. The White House insists that the proposed hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicare payment cuts, including cuts to the Medicare Advantage system of private plans, will not mean cuts for seniors’ benefits. But they will mean benefit cuts. The additional payments that Medicare Advantage plans have enjoyed have been translated into additional benefits. Extra benefits include services like routine eye and hearing tests, additional nursing, and hospitalization and preventive care. You cut the payments, you will cut the benefits. CBO has confirmed this — repeatedly.
Thought so.
I’d be embarrassed to talk out of both sides of my mouth like these idiot politicians. They’ve been doing it for so many years it’s business as usual.
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21st century skills
Another education FAD. You gotta teach the 3 R’s first. I couldn’t agree more with the conclusion…
But we have ignored what matters most. We have neglected to teach them that one cannot think critically without quite a lot of knowledge to think about. Thinking critically involves comparing and contrasting and synthesizing what one has learned. And a great deal of knowledge is necessary before one can begin to reflect on its meaning and look for alternative explanations.
Unfortunately these fads do real damage. Like kids who can’t multiply and divide.
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Top 10 health care questions
Certainly they could have found a better example for question #7 (starts at 3m 13s)? I guess if “you’re right” then the truth doesn’t matter? No doubt there ARE good examples, why was the Obama administration so lazy that they couldn’t dig one up?
h/t to Michelle Malkin.
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Divisiveness
Apparently a virtue that only Conservatives can have.
The only answer is that “divisive” is a criticism that applies only to conservatives. It is not possible for a liberal to be “divisive,” however crazed he or she may be. This is true even though the whole point of a political system is to decide issues about which people disagree. If people don’t disagree, it isn’t a political issue. So to argue for any political point of view is necessarily divisive. But divisiveness is a one-way street. When liberals express liberal views, that’s just being a patriotic American. When conservatives express conservative views, it’s “divisive.”
That is, sadly, how much of our country’s establishment thinks.
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From 4% to 16% of GDP
That’s health care spending change from 1960’s to today.
John Mackey’s political philosophy…
“I believe in capitalism, I believe in markets, I believe in individual empowerment and indivual choice. So that’s my philosophy of politics and…”
(very slight editing for clarity, watch the video).
Well, guess it’s time for Boulderites to consider boycotting whole foods again.
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Interracial marriage
Apparently a Justice of the Peace in Louisiana has an issue with interracial marriage. His justification?
“I don’t do interracial marriages because I don’t want to put children in a situation they didn’t bring on themselves,” Bardwell said. “In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer.”
I don’t think that’s his decision to make and he’s about to find that out.
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Hurricane season
Atlantic/Carribbean hurricane season consisted of 8 tropical storms and 2 hurricanes. Those evil capitalist insurance companies are making out like bandits this year. There oughta be a law don’t ya think?
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Losing their religion
2009 officially declared year the media lost their faith in man-made global warming fears
A steady stream of peer-reviewed studies, a continued lack of global warming, real world data and scientists continuing to dissent, have finally moved major establishment media outlets to report that the debate not only is “not over” but that skeptics may have been correct all along.
Could have fooled me, I must be reading the wrong papers. Not expecting any sudden enlightenment around here.
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The wisdom of 10th graders…
AP 10th graders can figure out that attacking Fox news is not a good strategy, why can’t the administration…
My AP Government class is just finishing up the unit on the media and politics. Yesterday we talked about allegations of bias in the media. All I do is pose the question and the kids take off. Remarkably, every single one of my students thought that the mainstream media has a liberal bias. When I started teaching this class eight years ago, the class would divide in the middle when I asked the question. I used to be able to have class debates on the question, but now there aren’t any students who want to argue against that proposition. And yes, they all also agreed that Fox had a conservative bias. So, after that we talked about the White House Communications director’s attack on Fox this weekend. I showed them some clips from CNN and asked their opinion of whether this was smart politics. And once again, they uniformly agreed that it didn’t make any sense for a White House official to attack a media critic. The previous day we’d talked about tools that a politician has to manipulate media coverage – things like strategic leaks and photo ops. No one had suggested that one technique to use was to attack the press. Most of my students are 10th graders. They understand that it doesn’t make any sense to attack your media critics. It doesn’t make sense when conservative politicians do it. It might thrill their base, but all it does is come of as whining to the rest of the people. Even John Nichols of The Nation gets it as he wrote yesterday to advise the White House people to stop whining about Fox. Nichols points out that we’ve had a partisan press ever since Washington’s administration. He also thinks it’s very short-sighted to keep the President out of Fox interviews. He should demonstrate that he can stand up to tough questions.
And as an added bonus…
Amazingly, it’s not only Fox that the Obama White House is irritated with – they’re also tired of the liberal criticisms from leftwing bloggers as they told NBC’s John Harwood that those bloggers need to take their pajamas off and realize what a tough job it is to govern this country.
WOW! I guess if you’re “The One” it never occurs to you the job might be hard!???
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Chicago: How’s global warming going?
Temps below normal in Chicago for October. Geez, Al Gore must be living in Chicago or something.
October’s already impressive temperature deficit keeps growing. The month is running 8 degrees below normal — and the unseasonably chilly air that took hold 17 days ago is showing no sign of departing through Sunday morning.
Guess that’s why they call it “climate change”?
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Lefties after Rush
No surprise and many good observations. I particularly like this one…
How is it that when Righties quote Lefties, they have video, audio, and notarized confirmation from the Pope, but when Lefties ‘quote’ Righties, they have Wiki entries contributed by ‘Cobra’?
Yea, how is it? Must not be a level playing field in the legacy media. Nah, couldn’t be.
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