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I'm With Barack

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I hope he doesn’t mind me being so informal.

I feel that partisan politics, which is a good and worthy form of discourse, not some sort of filthy taboo, should nevertheless stand at the shore and wait patiently for politicians and pundits to return from contentious overseas affairs.

There is an argument to be made that the subject is so important or time-sensitive that it trumps (how long will we have an asterisk after that word now?) everything else, but in reality, there are very few things so important AND time-sensitive.

Now is a time to stand united and face the next week.  America is going to need resolve in the face of potential retaliation attacks, and the temptation to declare victory and get the H out of … Continue reading →

The Marxism of President Obama: The Mask Falls (1)

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This is actually my second post on this topic, but this is the incident which made his chosen trajectory clear to me. President Obama’s speech of February seventh to the United States Chamber of Commerce was stunning not only for its fall-flat lack of any accomplishment, but more notably for the bald-faced affirmation of Marxist principles.

The speech is a watershed moment in this Presidency, and I feel will be studied from a bit more historical a perspective, given the passage of some time. I won’t spend overlong on details, as the speech can be seen on YouTube (here, here) and certainly is available from the White House. The speech is a half-hour of mostly repetitive formulations of three things: a flawed analysis of what … Continue reading →

The Marxism of President Obama

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One of the hallmarks of Marxism is a fundamental misunderstanding of the way that capital works. The President displays this ignorance proudly as he blames “speculators” for rising oil prices.   I quote:

“The problem is, is that oil is sold on these world markets, and speculators and people make various bets, and they say, ‘you know what, we think that maybe there’s a 20 percent chance that something might happen in the Middle East that might disrupt oil supply,’” he said.
“‘So we’re going to bet that oil is going to go up real high.’ And that spikes up prices significantly,” said the president, who recently launched his reelection campaign.

That’s his assessment of the root cause: evil borrowers and lenders are manipulating markets for … Continue reading →

Leading Leftie Blog Mocks Sarah Palin’s Handicapped Baby on His Birthday | The Gateway Pundit

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Leading Leftie Blog Mocks Sarah Palin’s Handicapped Baby on His Birthday | The Gateway Pundit.

Yeah, click the link, it’s pretty bad and won’t be posted here.  This is one of the reasons I support Sarah Palin for… whatever.  The vicious attacks on her family go unrepudiated, unchallenged, unreported by a media which has it in for her. It’s not as though she’s my first pick (right now there isn’t a single Republican potential candidate who intrigues me even slightly), but two things are clear: First, I’m going to have to pick one of whomever winds up in the final “pool” as it were, and second, I am not about to let a barely-literate and highly unethical cabal of lefty media employees determine who will be the … Continue reading →

Philippine Sea Plate Neither Warm Nor Fuzzy

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This is a shake map from the most recent quake felt around here, provided ( hope they don’t mind) by the awesome Tenki.jp. There’s a big X at the epicenter (this one was 50km deep, which is good), and the rest of the circles indicate how strongly the ground shook at particular points. This was a Mag 5.0, and the scale used (all the 4s and 3s in tinted circles) is the Japanese Shindo scale, a purely subjective assessment of how it felt at a particular point. By the way, I live just about where the southernmost teal “3” circle is.

The massive 9.0 “Tohoku” quake of 11 Mar was on an uncomplicated stretch of a subduction zone: the Pacific floor is shoving its way underneath Japan … Continue reading →