Category Archives: Tea Party

Trinity: Obama, Jesus, NPR (in no particular order)

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NPR, which loves Barack Obama only slightly, only slightly less than itself, offers a droll comparison of his price for love with that of Jesus:

AUDIENCE MEMBER: I love you, Barack!

THE PRESIDENT: I love you back. (Applause.) But first — but if you love me — if you love me, you got to help me pass this bill. (Applause.) If you love me, you got to help me pass this bill.

via Obama: ‘If You Love Me, You Got To Help Me Pass This Bill’ : It’s All Politics : NPR.

Is contrasted with very little comment (I suppose the parallel should be obvious to those who know Him) to this passage:

When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter,”Simon son of John, do … Continue reading →

Supercommittee and Jobs Act: Twins

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[Events are overtaking this post faster than I can edit!  So it’s a bit of a jumble.]

President Obama’s “American Jobs Act of 2011”  is such a steaming pile of FAIL that it is hard to know where to begin.

Last week the two co-chairs said that many future panel meetings will be closed to the public, though, press and public interest groups have called for transparency and disclosure of every meeting.

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If the joint committee or Congress fail to act by December 23, the bill calls for automatic across-the-board cuts, split 50-50 between defense and non-defense spending, including Medicare.  Social Security and Medicaid would be excluded from the automatic cuts.

The plan also calls for a Congressional vote on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution by the end … Continue reading →

Solyndra: Perpetual Motion Machine Wrapped in a Ponzi Scheme

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Now I know why the goofy name for this company.  Their one-trick pony is a cylindrical solar panel.   Solyndrical, plus a suitable Kumbayah web 2.0 ending, I get it.

The problem with these panels is the same problem with water injection to boost the expansion of an internal combustion engine.  Sounds dumb right?  Water kills fire.  Oh, but wait, if the heat of the fire is used to power the unbelievably explosive power of steam expansion, then you actually get MORE power from each ignition, right?  Amazing!  Oh, but… water kills fire.

Even if you can get the system to work consistently, the steam expansion would remove so much energy from the cylinder that a tremendous amount of fuel would be required just to keep the engine … Continue reading →

Thought Experiment: Grant-Milking Business Plan

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One of the ways that the Federal government could be defrauded is by applications for grants or loan guarantees in support of companies or projects which are designed to fail, but which extract large quantities of money from the government in the process.

What would such a business plan look like?  Features of such a business plan would probably include a mechanism for allowing those who would receive the greatest benefit to avoid personal (or corporate) liability in the event of a failure.  Other features might be a lack of meaningful oversight or accountability.  This sort of thing would be easier to pull off in an environment where there are indicators of regulatory agency capture.

It would be helpful to have a few examples to discuss.  At first … Continue reading →

Saudis Warn of Split With US

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[pullquote]the real message here is that we are already no longer on good working terms[/pullquote]It is remarkable that al-Faisal wrote this in the New York Times.  Why on earth should is be so public?  If the United States had a working relationship with Saudi Arabia, this would never have seen the light of day.  President Obama has estranged more allies in four (good Lord, THREE)  years than the previous thirty years of American government.  Mark my words: the real message here is that we are already no longer on good working terms, and it has little to do with Israel, and everything to do with the way the President treats allies who are insufficiently worshipful of His Serene Excellency Colonel Obama.

WASHINGTON — The United States must back a … Continue reading →

Hey House: Ditch Obama's Jobs Speech

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[UPDATE: Mother Jones writer says no need to watch… see below]
House Republicans are deserting the Obama jobs speech scheduled for Thursday evening.  They simply won’t attend.   Speaker John Boehner, who stuffed the President on his blatant attempt to summon Congress to sit before him, has now decided that the flimsy $300 billion half-hearted jobs speech is not worth rebutting.  An increasing number of NBC affiliates won’t even show the speech itself, opting instead to stick with their regularly scheduled Saints-Packers pre-game show.  It’s a sham, and they know it.  Obama knows it, and he thinks that we are too dumb.  He wants to use the Congress as a political prop, and some in Congress aren’t having any of it.

[Update] Even this writer for Mother … Continue reading →

Hoffa Shoots Eight, Kills Three!

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Now where is the cowardly and dishonest New York Times?  They rushed to pin the Loughner shootings on Sarah Palin, and hid behind a fusillade of excuses.  I will never forget their snivelling attempt to explain their wrongdoing, entitled Time, The Enemy.  As if those SOBs are the only people to work on a deadline.  The problem is that there is no deadline for smearing conservatives–that’s an internal goal, not a requirement of publication.

The real problem is that they focus on interpreting, rather than reporting.  Everything must go into the narrative, or it is rejected.  They felt that they could not report on the Loughner shooting without somehow pinning it on conservatives, because a prominent victim was a popular Democrat.

Notice that no matter how many … Continue reading →

The Undiscerning and Dangerous Appreciation of Ron Paul

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Here’s a scorching article describing why Ron Paul is a coward and a liar.  He refuses to clean out his camp, and he purports to hold  a set of views which are so miserably inconsistent that it cannot be an innocent mistake.  One cannot love liberty enough to act for it without hating tyranny enough to act against it.  Ron Paul does not actually love liberty–he merely hates an unusual grouping of people.

One can not spend thirty years connected to holocaust-deniers, anti-semites, and explicit anarchists without red flags going up.  For what it is worth, I do not believe Ron Paul is a holocast denier or an anti-semite.  I think he is worse.  I think he is a coward.  Ron Paul knows full well that his closest … Continue reading →

Sympathy for the Devil

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[Published on: Aug 27, 2011 @ 21:32]

Blaming Obama is a popular pastime around here. Around my keyboard, that is. Yes, he’s a Marxist, no he’s never accomplished anything, and maybe his anti-Americanism is manifest, but perhaps it’s merely latent. His economics are disastrous and unyielding, his foreign policy is disastrous and always yielding, and he either does not understand how to protect America or does not care to do so. His obsequious bowing and kowtowing will be remembered long after his “historic” status is forgotten.  Someday a black President who doesn’t hate blacks will be elected by Americans who don’t hate America. He is nothing.

[pullquote]America deserves Obama.[/pullquote]The real problem is America itself, and we fool ourselves by thinking that electing a majority here, taking the executive chair … Continue reading →