"Green Jobs" Debacle

Solyndra, Solar-Panel Company Visited by Obama in 2010, Suspends Operation - Bloomberg

Another $500 Million of money from the productive pissed away by the arrogant incompetency of BO.

Darth Cheney Wins!

Dick Cheney Defends his Legacy in New Book 'In My Time' - The Daily Beast:

I've always liked the guy. I love anyone that can make liberals that totally insanely angry. If anyone in politics makes you as angry as he made the left, it is time to get a life!!

The cool thing about reality is that it has a remarkable tendency to reward the wise and bring down the foolishly proud.

Looking forward to reading the book.

Way to go Dick Cheney!

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US Debt to GDP

John Steele Gordon: A Short Primer on the National Debt - WSJ.com:

I just went in debt by $50K. Is that an important statement? Well if I make $10K a year, yes, very -- I borrowed 5x my yearly income. If I make $500K, it is nearly meaningless -- I make 10x that figure, assuming that it is my only debt, I can pay if off with a couple months income.

So too, the only way to understand the US debt is as a % or multiple of GDP. This article does a good job of giving a history of the US debt in that context and makes the problem understandable -- the problem is SPENDING, and the only way to deal with the problem is to cut spending and increase GROWTH.

Oh, and the Reagan or Bush tax cut myths are just that ... myths ... cut spending, create jobs, grow the economy (repeat) ... that is mantra we all need to get on !!!

"That decline ended in 2001 following the collapse of the dot-com bubble and rising unemployment in the resulting recession. By 2003 the debt-to-GDP ratio had risen to 61.7%. Many blame the Bush tax cuts for adversely impacting federal revenues, causing the debt to spiral upwards. But that is just not true. Federal revenues declined by almost 12% in the early years of the decade, but when the tax cuts fully kicked in in 2003, the economy began to grow strongly again and federal revenues increased 44% in the next four years, while unemployment fell to 4.2% from 6.2%. Federal outlays in those four years increased by only 26.4%, and while the debt-to-GDP ratio increased to 64.8% by 2007, that was still well below what it had been in 1994."

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Fear This! BO

Articles: The Ticket Obama Fears Most:

Perry-Rubio is my dream team for 2012. PLEASE Make it so!!

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BO: Miserable Failure

Answering Jonathan Alter’s Challenge « Commentary Magazine:

Not that any of this is surprising at all to anyone that reads this Blog -- BO is worse than Carter. But we knew that already ...

The Technocratic Saint

Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005)

In the pantheon of computer technology in the modern world, Gates is the Devil and Jobs is god. One might contrast the attached commencement address to the book "The Purpose Driven Life" as to how an aspiring Christian might view life as opposed to Jobs view.

George Thorogood pretty much has the question down; "Who do you love?" ... Jobs translates it as "find what you love and do it". A gigantic amount of faith that the universe of random selection has randomly endowed each human with an "inner love" of something to do that will "make us happy, fulfilled, etc"

Christ says "Love God with all your heart and with all your soul" ... and since that is impossible for a sinful human, he died to give us the sacraments of Holy Baptism and Holy Communion to draw us to our eventual heavenly home.

I have a lot of respect for Jobs and I like his products. I hope he finds both health and Christ, but Christ is much more important. All of us live under a death sentence.

It is gratifying to see however that every Christian meets Seve's ultimate advice; "stay hungry, stay foolish". To the secularist, nothing is more foolish than Christian Faith, and every Christian is hungry for more of it.

Issues of Faith vs Science

RealClearPolitics - "Science" When It Suits Them:

Extremely well done article. I'm the sort of Christian that doesn't happen to find Creationism disconcerting -- I've decided that I'm magnanimous enough to allow an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God create the universe anyway he sees fit. That is just the kind of liberal minded guy that I am!!!

Everyone has a ton of faith -- it is just placed in different places. I've got more faith in God, liberals have a ton of faith in Government . In even the medium run, I'm very confident that their government faith isn't going to pan out. Even the less than observant and starting to see a couple signs of that!

As a voter, like me, you may find Perry's view on creationism disconcerting and a sign of an unsophisticated candidate. But the fact is that the progressives' faith-based devotion to government is far more consequential than Perry's faith-based position on evolution.

Despite the rare political dispute, in the real world, science -- real science -- is rarely controversial. It's politicized science that is prickly. And science is easy to politicize. Maybe if schools began teaching students that "life" begins at conception and that each zygote, embryo and fetus is a unique human being in some early stage of development just waiting to be born, liberals would see the point.

"Progressives" **DO** Want a Revolution

What's next for Wisconsin progressives? - Wisconsin - Salon.com:

In case any of you doubt what the REAL regressive ("progressive") agenda in this country, see "Arab Spring". Oh you say "Progressives are liberal" ... uh, no, progressives are STATISTS ... their highest good is state control. Sharia Law is WAY better in their minds that Capitalism!!! Just like the Muslims, it is individual freedom and the potential for differential outcomes that they really can't stand in any case.

"Even activists on the ground in Wisconsin don't yet know if that will happen. For the rest of us, their decision either to press on or pack it in will speak volumes about where progressive organizing stands in America, a nation where too many protesters believe it's enough to turn up for a few rallies and then go home, even though the foundations for real mass movements (like Egypt's democracy uprising) are laid years before lasting change occurs.

Americans need such a movement, built on economic populism and the dream of shared prosperity. The question is: Are Wisconsin's progressives the first spark in that movement? Or is theirs a flare that is already flickering out?

BO Business Uncertainty Defined

How Democrats Hurt Job Creation - NYTimes.com:

There really need be no questions at all why Democrats kill jobs -- this is just one reason of many, but it is a VERY good one!!!

That is what is so jarring about this case — and not just for Boeing. Without any warning, the rules have changed. Uncertainty has replaced certainty. Other companies have to start wondering what other rules could soon change. It becomes a reason to hold back on hiring.

Come On Media!!!

Review & Outlook: The Biggest Trade Barrier - WSJ.com

BO chides congress for not moving fast enough on trade legislation and it has been sitting on his desk since he took office!!

THIS is not a news story??? Come on, this is beyond funny -- it is sad, disgusting, incompetent, ridiculous, etc.

Since the MSM is letting BO get away with this, it is apparent that they will get him get away with ANYTHING!!!

The BOnomics "Silver Lining"

Review & Outlook: Millionaires Go Missing - WSJ.com

As I've often pointed out, income inequality is the bane of a growing economy -- zero stubbornly stays at zero, and the fact that people have different gifts that are valued differently by other people produces that liberal horror "income inequality" as surely as the sun rises.

The inverse is also true-- another mark of things that liberals hate, since it tends to indicate "reality basis". 40% of our millionaires are missing!! Super news -- BOnomics works!!! We are all poorer, but the "rich" are more poorer than the less rich.

Congratulations BO!

Defending TX Economy

Review & Outlook: The Texas Jobs Panic - WSJ.com

It's pretty much the same old statistical sleight of hand that the MSM uses to fluff up their own guys numbers and make a Republican look bad. If a Republican was President now we would be in a DEPRESSION not still mincing words about a "Double Dip" -- and the jobs situation would be a CRISIS for which the President was "out of touch, incompetent, etc" for not having a plan LONG before going on vacation ... but I digress.

Next time you hear somebody talking about the "false economy" in TX, just come back and look at this. There is no questions the Dems and the MSM MUST attack Perry on the TX economy any way they possibly can -- they SURE don't want to compare BO to his record!!!

Ending Capitalism

The U.K. Riots And The Coming Global Class War - Forbes:

Excellent article. The Judaeo-Christian work ethic, generally accepted social values including personal responsibility, and the rule of law allowed Capitalism to create a cornucopia of wealth in the west. But, it has also enabled world wide completion, at the time when the western attitudes of hard work, thrift, innovation and risk taking have largely turned to entitlement, redistribution, protectionism and consumption. The formerly "virtuous cycle" of the old characteristics has given way to a new "death spiral" that has riots and state power taking the ever smaller shrinking wealth from those that formerly drove the virtuous cycle.

"The hardening of class divisions has been building for a generation, first in the West but increasingly in fast-developing countries such as China. The growing chasm between the classes has its roots in globalization, which has taken jobs from blue-collar and now even white-collar employees; technology, which has allowed the fleetest and richest companies and individuals to shift operations at rapid speed to any locale; and the secularization of society, which has undermined the traditional values about work and family that have underpinned grassroots capitalism from its very origins."

CNN, Strong Praise for Perry

Why Rick Perry is headed to the White House - CNN

Ran into this the other day on the left side of the CNN page right with the NEWS! Perry has to be doing something right if he can raise this kind of MSM hatred before he even runs.

His Saturday speech in South Carolina will make clear that he is entering the race for the White House and will spawn the ugliest and most expensive presidential race in U.S. history, and he will win. A C and D student, who hates to govern, loves to campaign, and barely has a sixth grader's understanding of economics, will lead our nation into oblivion.

Expensive is bad? Uh, BO broke all records in '08 and it was GOOD then. How the hell would we know what kind of student BO was? He was never spotted at Columbia, but nobody cares. The interest in his grades are of completely ZERO interest to the MSM. Not really so bad -- it is just the CONTRAST that gives on pause. "Barely a six graders understanding of economics"?? One shudders to think what one would rate BO's level of economic understanding. To paraphrase a famous BO bowling comment -- I'll wager their isn't a single participant in the Special Olympics that isn't 10x the "economist" of BO!!!

Oblivion??? It is going to take a great president to get us back there from where we are now!!!

It is really hard to imagine the level of hatred that brings a screed like this to the online front page of a major media outlet before the guy even DECLARES his candidacy. But I guess one needs no imagination at all -- there it is!

You recall anyone on the left taking the Mormons side on anything prior to now? Me neither.

A BO Biparticle

The most powerful man on Earth? - The Washington Post

Yet Obama plods along, raising gobs of cash for his reelection bid — he was scheduled to speak at two DNC fundraisers Monday night — and varying little the words he reads from the teleprompter. He seemed detached even from those words Monday as he pivoted his head from side to side, proclaiming that “our problems is not confidence in our credit” and turning his bipartisan fiscal commission into a “biparticle.”

Journalists are writers, to whiich the spoken word often sounds "tentative" or "ill formed". When one is thinking critically, as a journalist is always supposed to do, the little gaffs that are part of common speech grate on them. Especially for "the most powerful man in the world". Shouldn't such a person be "special" in areas that are near and dear to "our" (the journalists) hearts?
Typically, because they have some understanding of the world around them, they avoid nit picking public figures. It seems "ticky-tack". But once they take a dislike to a poltiician ... Nixon, Reagan, Quayle, and both HW and especially W Bush, "the gloves are off". It appears that even the lefty press like Milbank is getting a distinct whiff of BO.

I really think it is hard to beat "biparticle" as a name for a "bipartisan fiscal commission" ... it is really even better than W's "misunderestimated".