Really, that Russian Revolution thing worked so well, let's try it again! How many tens of millions killed, how many exiled, how many kulaks starved to death, how many families crushed, cultures destroyed?
Former Amalgamated Transit Union local 689 president Mike Golash, now
an “Occupy” movement organizer, was caught on tape Sunday revealing his
political goals: overthrowing capitalism in the United States and
instituting a communist government.
“Progressive labor is a revolutionary communist organization,” Golash said during an Occupy DC “People’s Assembly” on August 19.
“Its objective,” he added, “is to make revolution in the United States, overthrow the capitalist system and build communism.”
Don't take OS's word for it--here's the video:
HT InfoWars
The culture shapes the economy long before the economy shapes the culture. Where should we devote our energies?
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Now THIS Is Embarassing: Obama's 2008 Campaign Co-Chair Introduces Paul Ryan To A Campaign Crowd In Virginia; Governor Wilder Denounces Joe Biden
Ruh-roh.
From CNN, earlier today:
Artur Davis, the former four-term Democratic congressman from Alabama who co-chaired President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, introduced the running mate of Obama's Republican challenger in Virginia Friday.
"Are you ready to meet the next vice president of the United States?" Davis asked at a rally in Springfield, Virginia. It was Ryan's second event of the day. He held a rally outside Richmond on Friday morning.
In his introduction, Davis pointed to Ryan's age – he's 42 – as having energized the GOP. Davis is 44.
"Remember a week ago, some of our Democratic friends had the illusion that we were kind of an older party. That were the party of the last generation. One week later I'm the oldest man on this stage right now," Davis said. "What a difference a week makes."
Davis, who said in May he was switching parties from Democrat to Republican, said he had only disagreed with Ryan on one subject: the status of Led Zeppelin as the "#1 band of the modern era."
"I questioned you as you said it. As a Genesis man, I questioned it," Davis said.
He also praised Ryan's willingness to advance a House GOP budget that included sometimes-unpopular cuts to programs in the name of cutting the federal debt.
"President Romney is going to have a vice president who believes, in a town where no one takes responsibility for anything, Washington D.C., this man wrote a budget with tough, hard, necessary choices. He put his name on it," Davis said.
And there's former Virginia Governor Wilder letting loose about Joe Biden...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The nation's first elected black governor, Virginia's L. Douglas Wilder, lambasted Vice President Joe Biden on national television Wednesday for his remark to a largely black crowd about banks keeping people "in chains."
Wilder, a Democrat and a grandson of slaves, echoed indignant denunciations from Republicans, including presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, that Biden's comment at a Tuesday rally in Danville, Va., injected race into the presidential contest.
"Without question, they were appeals to race," Wilder told CNN. "And if you don't argue with that, then you understand that, then the next question is: Why? Why do you feel you need to do that? But the more important thing that I got out of this was Biden separated himself from what he accused the people of doing. As a matter of fact, what he said is, they are going to do something to y'all, not to me, not us. So he was still involved with that separate America. And I'm sick and tired of being considered something other than an American."
Ouch!!
Both gents, in case it needs to be said, are black. You know, that core group of Obama supporters that would never ever ever ever think about voting for aaaaaannnnyyyone else--ever.
It takes real courage for reach gentleman to speak up--they will have a lot of anger spewed in their direction over the next few weeks.
OS wishes them well, and as the descendant of a Confederate soldier from Mississippi, really truly wishes we could somehow get past the race-baiting, the constant pouring of salt into old wounds, the relentless appeal to our resentments at the expense of our hopes and our sense of logic.
Even George Wallace publicly repented of the practice, for crying out loud. The rest of us would do well to look to his example.
From CNN, earlier today:
Artur Davis, the former four-term Democratic congressman from Alabama who co-chaired President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, introduced the running mate of Obama's Republican challenger in Virginia Friday.
"Are you ready to meet the next vice president of the United States?" Davis asked at a rally in Springfield, Virginia. It was Ryan's second event of the day. He held a rally outside Richmond on Friday morning.
In his introduction, Davis pointed to Ryan's age – he's 42 – as having energized the GOP. Davis is 44.
"Remember a week ago, some of our Democratic friends had the illusion that we were kind of an older party. That were the party of the last generation. One week later I'm the oldest man on this stage right now," Davis said. "What a difference a week makes."
Davis, who said in May he was switching parties from Democrat to Republican, said he had only disagreed with Ryan on one subject: the status of Led Zeppelin as the "#1 band of the modern era."
"I questioned you as you said it. As a Genesis man, I questioned it," Davis said.
He also praised Ryan's willingness to advance a House GOP budget that included sometimes-unpopular cuts to programs in the name of cutting the federal debt.
"President Romney is going to have a vice president who believes, in a town where no one takes responsibility for anything, Washington D.C., this man wrote a budget with tough, hard, necessary choices. He put his name on it," Davis said.
And there's former Virginia Governor Wilder letting loose about Joe Biden...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The nation's first elected black governor, Virginia's L. Douglas Wilder, lambasted Vice President Joe Biden on national television Wednesday for his remark to a largely black crowd about banks keeping people "in chains."
Wilder, a Democrat and a grandson of slaves, echoed indignant denunciations from Republicans, including presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, that Biden's comment at a Tuesday rally in Danville, Va., injected race into the presidential contest.
"Without question, they were appeals to race," Wilder told CNN. "And if you don't argue with that, then you understand that, then the next question is: Why? Why do you feel you need to do that? But the more important thing that I got out of this was Biden separated himself from what he accused the people of doing. As a matter of fact, what he said is, they are going to do something to y'all, not to me, not us. So he was still involved with that separate America. And I'm sick and tired of being considered something other than an American."
Ouch!!
Both gents, in case it needs to be said, are black. You know, that core group of Obama supporters that would never ever ever ever think about voting for aaaaaannnnyyyone else--ever.
It takes real courage for reach gentleman to speak up--they will have a lot of anger spewed in their direction over the next few weeks.
OS wishes them well, and as the descendant of a Confederate soldier from Mississippi, really truly wishes we could somehow get past the race-baiting, the constant pouring of salt into old wounds, the relentless appeal to our resentments at the expense of our hopes and our sense of logic.
Even George Wallace publicly repented of the practice, for crying out loud. The rest of us would do well to look to his example.
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Corzine Walks, Zakaria Gets His CNN and Time Jobs Back
Dog bites man. Corzine walks away from a massive, in many cases crushing, destruction of the wealth of his depositors (not his investors, his depositors), and the Justice Department clears him.
The sun rises in the East. Plagiarist Fareed Zakaria gets his gigs back with Time and CNN after publishing other people's work under his own name.
The stealing of depositors funds from the bank down the street would have resulted in the local bank president going to the sheriff, begging to be arrested for his own protection. He would not have a house to return to, in any case, it having already been burned to the ground by his customers.
But Corzine is OneOfUs, sez Mr. Holder. Nothing to see here, move on. Let all those ruined farmers recover their lost wealth via civil litigation. They'll get a dime on the dollar eventually. After all, those guys aren't going to vote for us, anyway.
Let's just move on, nothing to see here.
Since Mr. Zakaria is a champion of All Things Progressive, well--boys will be boys. Even if they are 48 years of age. Old enough to know better, still too leftist to care. After all, he was presenting a passionate case for one of our pet projects, gun control. Completely understandable mistake by one of our GoodOldBoys. He's OneOfUs, after all. Let's not look too hard, lest we allll come under scrutiny.
Let's just move on, nothing to see here.
This blatant plagiarism, which is what it is--not a 'mistake'--, would have resulted in Mr. Zakaria's failure in classes and perhaps dismissal from any number of universities that insist their 20-year-olds actually do their own work, and write their own words. As the father of one of those kids who lives with this risk, OS objects.
Close your eyes and imagine if the offender were of a much more conservative shade of opinion, and had plagiarized someone else's words. One can smell the tar being heated even now, as the deliveries of feathers are being signed for in every mainstream media outlet in the nation.
The Double Standard lives, be it a thief of ideas, such as Zakaria, or a negligent destroyer of the wealth of depositors, such as Jon Corzine.
Boys, after all, will be boys...Good Old Boys...One Of Us...
Welcome to the Nixon Administration Redux. Heaven help us all.
The sun rises in the East. Plagiarist Fareed Zakaria gets his gigs back with Time and CNN after publishing other people's work under his own name.
The stealing of depositors funds from the bank down the street would have resulted in the local bank president going to the sheriff, begging to be arrested for his own protection. He would not have a house to return to, in any case, it having already been burned to the ground by his customers.
But Corzine is OneOfUs, sez Mr. Holder. Nothing to see here, move on. Let all those ruined farmers recover their lost wealth via civil litigation. They'll get a dime on the dollar eventually. After all, those guys aren't going to vote for us, anyway.
Let's just move on, nothing to see here.
Since Mr. Zakaria is a champion of All Things Progressive, well--boys will be boys. Even if they are 48 years of age. Old enough to know better, still too leftist to care. After all, he was presenting a passionate case for one of our pet projects, gun control. Completely understandable mistake by one of our GoodOldBoys. He's OneOfUs, after all. Let's not look too hard, lest we allll come under scrutiny.
Let's just move on, nothing to see here.
This blatant plagiarism, which is what it is--not a 'mistake'--, would have resulted in Mr. Zakaria's failure in classes and perhaps dismissal from any number of universities that insist their 20-year-olds actually do their own work, and write their own words. As the father of one of those kids who lives with this risk, OS objects.
Close your eyes and imagine if the offender were of a much more conservative shade of opinion, and had plagiarized someone else's words. One can smell the tar being heated even now, as the deliveries of feathers are being signed for in every mainstream media outlet in the nation.
The Double Standard lives, be it a thief of ideas, such as Zakaria, or a negligent destroyer of the wealth of depositors, such as Jon Corzine.
Boys, after all, will be boys...Good Old Boys...One Of Us...
Welcome to the Nixon Administration Redux. Heaven help us all.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Census Bureau Provides The Obama/Bush Legacy: One In Six In Poverty In The US From 2007-2010
This is the Obama/Bush legacy.
The top-down/federal-gubbermint-gunna-fix-it-all/crony capitalist, utterly incompetent and corrupt approach to governance does. not. work. Oddly enough, the real descent into Perdition coincides with the Democrats taking control of both houses of Congress in 2007. Hmmm....
One in six in poverty. Do we need to wait a bit longer for more results? Until it's one in five, perhaps?
Oddly enough, OS found this tidbit from a link provided by the NEA, aka the Democrat party's most obsequious Kool-Aid consumers.
How do they fail to understand?
The top-down/federal-gubbermint-gunna-fix-it-all/crony capitalist, utterly incompetent and corrupt approach to governance does. not. work. Oddly enough, the real descent into Perdition coincides with the Democrats taking control of both houses of Congress in 2007. Hmmm....
One in six in poverty. Do we need to wait a bit longer for more results? Until it's one in five, perhaps?
Oddly enough, OS found this tidbit from a link provided by the NEA, aka the Democrat party's most obsequious Kool-Aid consumers.
How do they fail to understand?
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Lagnatta: Five Years Spent Awaiting Trial, Exonerated Before Trial. OS Has A Few Questions.
The whole sad tale is reported here in the Courier-Journal.
The murder of Tina Tatro in 2007 was one of those depressingly familiar stories of the horrible end of a humble life. The police assured everyone they had their man, case closed, another bad guy off the street, no need to loiter and look any further, just move on there thank you very much.
Problem is, they had the wrong guy. They arrested Carlos Lagnatta on the grand jury testimony of Ms. Tatro's boyfriend. But, hey--Carlos was black, with a drug and violent crime history, he was seen in the neighborhood, the boyfriend said he did it, so--let's move on.
That appears to be the thinking of the original lead prosecutor, one Jason Butler. Defense demands for DNA evidence to actually link the suspect with the physical facts in the case were, shall we say, put on a slooooow boat to China. After all, Carlos was black, with a drug and violent crime history, he was seen in the neighborhood, the boyfriend said he did it, so--let's move on.
It took years to get the DNA tests done. Carlos lives in jail, no trial date, nothing being done to dispose of the case, but hey--Carlos was black, with a drug and violent crime history, he was seen in the neighborhood, the boyfriend said he did it, so--let's move on.
In January 2011, Lagantta's original defense attorneys, Sheila Seadler and Michael Ferraraccio, laid the blame for the delay on police and the original prosecutor, Jason Butler, who is no longer with the office.
"Not to throw him under the bus, but he has dragged his feet on this (DNA testing) for a long time," Ferraraccio told Eckerle during that early 2011 hearing.
And Seadler said in court records that investigators failed to initially obtain and analyze some evidence, prompting the defense to request the testing years later.
Butler, who is in private practice now, acknowledged it took a long time to get the DNA testing, but denied dragging his feet. He argued in April that getting DNA tests is a lengthy procedure exacerbated in past years in Kentucky, as labs were unable to keep up with soaring demand.
Evidence? Schmevidence! Besides, Carlos was black, with a drug and violent crime history, he was seen in the neighborhood, the boyfriend said he did it, so--let's move on.
Finally--the DNA tests are completed, after the departure of Jason Butler, it appears. And, Holy Exoneration Batman!!, the DNA collected from poor Ms. Tatro's body points to The Boyfriend!
Dear Heavens, Whood-a-thunk-it! A boyfriend killing his ladyfriend, blaming it on someone else and lying to the police and prosecutors! That's just unheard of!
Besides, Carlos was black, with a drug and violent crime history, he was seen in the neighborhood, the boyfriend said he did it, so--let's move on.
So, today, five years later. Carlos is a free man, or at least not languishing in jail. He had to plead guilty to some lesser charges just to finally be able to walk away. God knows the prosecutor's office didn't want to send him to the streets to find an attorney to help him sue them out of existence.
Could it be that Jason Butler knew his case was not that strong, but decided to simply put Carlos on ice, let him simply disappear into the system, maybe wait for some other snitch to rat him out on some other charge, and keep him locked away, one means or another After all, Carlos was black, with a drug and violent crime history...it's all for a good cause, right?
So, now: What happens to Jason Butler? Does anyone, anywhere in the system--his former boss, the judge, the defendant--anyone at least take this man to the bar association to let him explain why he should still be practicing law? Does the judge not sanction his office in some way? Do people who do this simply walk away and do it again and again?
Here is his new address and vita--pretty impressive, is it not? Except...he buried an innocent man on a murder charge for five years. He left that bit out, don't-cha-know.
Sorta' makes one want to put him on the old speed-dial in case a lawyer is needed in Lousiville, right? Especially if one is black...with a criminal record...
How many more Carlos Lagnattas are sitting in local jails?
OS is no bleeding liberal. Carlos is not a nice man--he does have a drug and violent crime history. But when the police and prosecutors so badly fumble a case such as this, it is easy to guess that there are many more out there. There are some really bad people walking the streets. Each one of these fiascos makes it that much tougher to protect the innocent and restrain the criminals.
OS does know that this nation is sitting on a ticking time bomb with a justice system that behaves in this manner. If it's Carlos this year, it will be someone else's turn, much closer to home, next year.
The murder of Tina Tatro in 2007 was one of those depressingly familiar stories of the horrible end of a humble life. The police assured everyone they had their man, case closed, another bad guy off the street, no need to loiter and look any further, just move on there thank you very much.
Problem is, they had the wrong guy. They arrested Carlos Lagnatta on the grand jury testimony of Ms. Tatro's boyfriend. But, hey--Carlos was black, with a drug and violent crime history, he was seen in the neighborhood, the boyfriend said he did it, so--let's move on.
That appears to be the thinking of the original lead prosecutor, one Jason Butler. Defense demands for DNA evidence to actually link the suspect with the physical facts in the case were, shall we say, put on a slooooow boat to China. After all, Carlos was black, with a drug and violent crime history, he was seen in the neighborhood, the boyfriend said he did it, so--let's move on.
It took years to get the DNA tests done. Carlos lives in jail, no trial date, nothing being done to dispose of the case, but hey--Carlos was black, with a drug and violent crime history, he was seen in the neighborhood, the boyfriend said he did it, so--let's move on.
In January 2011, Lagantta's original defense attorneys, Sheila Seadler and Michael Ferraraccio, laid the blame for the delay on police and the original prosecutor, Jason Butler, who is no longer with the office.
"Not to throw him under the bus, but he has dragged his feet on this (DNA testing) for a long time," Ferraraccio told Eckerle during that early 2011 hearing.
And Seadler said in court records that investigators failed to initially obtain and analyze some evidence, prompting the defense to request the testing years later.
Butler, who is in private practice now, acknowledged it took a long time to get the DNA testing, but denied dragging his feet. He argued in April that getting DNA tests is a lengthy procedure exacerbated in past years in Kentucky, as labs were unable to keep up with soaring demand.
Evidence? Schmevidence! Besides, Carlos was black, with a drug and violent crime history, he was seen in the neighborhood, the boyfriend said he did it, so--let's move on.
Finally--the DNA tests are completed, after the departure of Jason Butler, it appears. And, Holy Exoneration Batman!!, the DNA collected from poor Ms. Tatro's body points to The Boyfriend!
Dear Heavens, Whood-a-thunk-it! A boyfriend killing his ladyfriend, blaming it on someone else and lying to the police and prosecutors! That's just unheard of!
Besides, Carlos was black, with a drug and violent crime history, he was seen in the neighborhood, the boyfriend said he did it, so--let's move on.
So, today, five years later. Carlos is a free man, or at least not languishing in jail. He had to plead guilty to some lesser charges just to finally be able to walk away. God knows the prosecutor's office didn't want to send him to the streets to find an attorney to help him sue them out of existence.
Could it be that Jason Butler knew his case was not that strong, but decided to simply put Carlos on ice, let him simply disappear into the system, maybe wait for some other snitch to rat him out on some other charge, and keep him locked away, one means or another After all, Carlos was black, with a drug and violent crime history...it's all for a good cause, right?
So, now: What happens to Jason Butler? Does anyone, anywhere in the system--his former boss, the judge, the defendant--anyone at least take this man to the bar association to let him explain why he should still be practicing law? Does the judge not sanction his office in some way? Do people who do this simply walk away and do it again and again?
Here is his new address and vita--pretty impressive, is it not? Except...he buried an innocent man on a murder charge for five years. He left that bit out, don't-cha-know.
Sorta' makes one want to put him on the old speed-dial in case a lawyer is needed in Lousiville, right? Especially if one is black...with a criminal record...
How many more Carlos Lagnattas are sitting in local jails?
OS is no bleeding liberal. Carlos is not a nice man--he does have a drug and violent crime history. But when the police and prosecutors so badly fumble a case such as this, it is easy to guess that there are many more out there. There are some really bad people walking the streets. Each one of these fiascos makes it that much tougher to protect the innocent and restrain the criminals.
OS does know that this nation is sitting on a ticking time bomb with a justice system that behaves in this manner. If it's Carlos this year, it will be someone else's turn, much closer to home, next year.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Romney Picks Ryan: Three Cheers For The Geeks
Think about it, ya'll. If this country ever needed grown-ups in charge, it's now. These past four years have shown us what happens when we hand over management of the Republic to narcissistic children.
Is Romney exciting? No. Which may be a really good thing. He's actually kind of geeky.
Paul Ryan? No thrill up the leg, but he does know how to do math, and honestly folks, that's what we need.
Daniel Hannan, wrting about us from afar, says encouraging words about Ryan, and shares this video:
Since 1992, we've had Bubbah, George Dubyah, and Himself. That's twenty years of serious mismanagement. Time to hire grownups, and see if they can't right the ship.
In the meantime, OS is giving his shekels to conservatives at the state house level, and to conservatives running to unseat leftist incumbents. The state house people are our last line of defense, and it would be good to see a few more like Jesse Jackson Jr depart the scene from Washington.
Is Romney exciting? No. Which may be a really good thing. He's actually kind of geeky.
Paul Ryan? No thrill up the leg, but he does know how to do math, and honestly folks, that's what we need.
Daniel Hannan, wrting about us from afar, says encouraging words about Ryan, and shares this video:
Since 1992, we've had Bubbah, George Dubyah, and Himself. That's twenty years of serious mismanagement. Time to hire grownups, and see if they can't right the ship.
In the meantime, OS is giving his shekels to conservatives at the state house level, and to conservatives running to unseat leftist incumbents. The state house people are our last line of defense, and it would be good to see a few more like Jesse Jackson Jr depart the scene from Washington.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Sometimes, Only Laughter Will Do: The Amish Farmer
HT Doug Ross
An Amish farmer walking, notices a man drinking from his pond, with his hand.
The Amish man shouts: "Trink das wasser nicht. Die kuhen haben dahin gesheissen." Which means: "Don't drink the water, the cows have pooped in it."
The man shouts back: "I'm from Chicago and just down here campaigning for Obama, I can't understand you. Please speak in English."
The Amish man says: "Use two hands, you'll get more."
An Amish farmer walking, notices a man drinking from his pond, with his hand.
The Amish man shouts: "Trink das wasser nicht. Die kuhen haben dahin gesheissen." Which means: "Don't drink the water, the cows have pooped in it."
The man shouts back: "I'm from Chicago and just down here campaigning for Obama, I can't understand you. Please speak in English."
The Amish man says: "Use two hands, you'll get more."
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Calculated Risk: Note: 7.58% (SA) and 4.27% equals 11.85%
Bill McBride, the brilliant blogger at Calculated Risk, is one of OS's heroes. He is so dispassionate, so laconic, and he knows how to do simple math so as to (as Ricky Ricardo would say..) 'splain things to us Looocey.
Today, Bill 'splains a small bit of the reality of the real economy. The economy we, who do not work on The Street or in D.C. or have Ivy League MBA's or permanent sinecures at universities or state gubbermint bureaucracies, live in. The real economy.
The delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties increased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 7.58 percent of all loans outstanding as of the end of the second quarter of 2012, an increase of 18 basis points from the first quarter, but a decrease of 86 basis points from one year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) National Delinquency Survey.
The delinquency rate includes loans that are at least one payment past due but does not include loans in the process of foreclosure. The percentage of loans on which foreclosure actions were started during the second quarter was 0.96 percent, unchanged from last quarter and from one year ago. The percentage of loans in the foreclosure process at the end of the second quarter was 4.27 percent, down 12 basis points from the first quarter and 16 basis points lower than one year ago. The serious delinquency rate, the percentage of loans that are 90 days or more past due or in the process of foreclosure, was 7.31 percent, a decrease of 13 basis points from last quarter and a decrease of 54 basis points from one year ago.
OK, fair enough, makes the eyes glaze over a bit. Then McBride does his simple math:
Today, Bill 'splains a small bit of the reality of the real economy. The economy we, who do not work on The Street or in D.C. or have Ivy League MBA's or permanent sinecures at universities or state gubbermint bureaucracies, live in. The real economy.
The delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties increased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 7.58 percent of all loans outstanding as of the end of the second quarter of 2012, an increase of 18 basis points from the first quarter, but a decrease of 86 basis points from one year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) National Delinquency Survey.
The delinquency rate includes loans that are at least one payment past due but does not include loans in the process of foreclosure. The percentage of loans on which foreclosure actions were started during the second quarter was 0.96 percent, unchanged from last quarter and from one year ago. The percentage of loans in the foreclosure process at the end of the second quarter was 4.27 percent, down 12 basis points from the first quarter and 16 basis points lower than one year ago. The serious delinquency rate, the percentage of loans that are 90 days or more past due or in the process of foreclosure, was 7.31 percent, a decrease of 13 basis points from last quarter and a decrease of 54 basis points from one year ago.
OK, fair enough, makes the eyes glaze over a bit. Then McBride does his simple math:
7.58% (SA) and 4.27% equals 11.85%
That is to say, 11.85% of all mortgages are in serious trouble. That's just short of 12%.
So, OS decided to do a bit of his own simple math, remembering the days when stock quotes were reported in 'eighths'--the old traders could do math in their heads, and keep it all straight under that system.
100 divided by 12 comes up to 8.3. As in, one in eight mortgages in the United States is in trouble.
Here, in the real economy, this is trouble.
Official unemployment is 8.3%. Real unemployment is close to 20%, in the aggregate. That comes out to one in five. For young black men, it may be double that. An entire generation is in danger of being lost to the streets and the justice system, because in order to have a job, a person must have basic literacy in place, basic social skills in place, some sort of marketable skill to offer the world. We have college graduates fixing coffees at Starbucks, lots of them. Fifteen-year-olds can make coffee, as sophomores in high school. Where do they go for those first jobs if those slots are filled by twenty-five-year-olds with B.A.'s?
Here, in the real economy, this is trouble.
Tossing Obama and his posse will be a good and necessary start to getting back on our feet. OS knows, even if we do that, and almost everything goes right as we go forward, we are probably 5-10 years away from really being back in the saddle.
So, someone please explain to OS why Harry Reid is obsessed with Mitt's tax returns?
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Once More, Into The Breach--The US Backing The Syrian Rebels
When we remember the high moral indignation, righteous indignation, screaming crowds of demonstrators indignation, DixieChicksStandingUpForTheRight indignation, about US intervention in the Middle East, let us contemplate this modest news report from the Jerusalem Post.
We are in this Syria mess up to our ears, and have been all along. We are helping co-ordinate it, fund it, run it. The blood is flowing. A secret war has been waged in our name, with our money. This makes Iran-Contra of the 1980's look like child's play. This is the stuff of the John LeCarre novels.
And we really have no clear idea who 'The Opposition' is, except that they certainly won't be European Social Democrat types. They will be some form of Islamist cause. They will turn their new shiny weapons against us and Israel.
There are families sending their children off to school in Tennessee today, little knowing that their eighth-grade boys and girls are slated for extinction in about 8-10 years, courtesy of the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Hussein Obama.
OS heads off to the polls this morning, to vote in the local primary election. It is heartening to see a raft of conservative candidates on the ballot, for positions ranging from school board to US Senate. OS plans to vote from the bottom up--namely voting for the individuals most likely to work to negate and undo the damage done by Obama and his Leftist allies. OS views it as insurance: Even if Himself somehow manages to recapture the White House, he faces a world in which most of the states, from school board to Senate are in the hands of people who will not offer a morsel of cooperation.
Who knows, we may yet save a few of those fourteen-year-old boys and girls yet.
We are in this Syria mess up to our ears, and have been all along. We are helping co-ordinate it, fund it, run it. The blood is flowing. A secret war has been waged in our name, with our money. This makes Iran-Contra of the 1980's look like child's play. This is the stuff of the John LeCarre novels.
And we really have no clear idea who 'The Opposition' is, except that they certainly won't be European Social Democrat types. They will be some form of Islamist cause. They will turn their new shiny weapons against us and Israel.
There are families sending their children off to school in Tennessee today, little knowing that their eighth-grade boys and girls are slated for extinction in about 8-10 years, courtesy of the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Hussein Obama.
OS heads off to the polls this morning, to vote in the local primary election. It is heartening to see a raft of conservative candidates on the ballot, for positions ranging from school board to US Senate. OS plans to vote from the bottom up--namely voting for the individuals most likely to work to negate and undo the damage done by Obama and his Leftist allies. OS views it as insurance: Even if Himself somehow manages to recapture the White House, he faces a world in which most of the states, from school board to Senate are in the hands of people who will not offer a morsel of cooperation.
Who knows, we may yet save a few of those fourteen-year-old boys and girls yet.
Friday, July 20, 2012
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