February 29, 2008

GM's Prediction On The Texas Primary

I have a nice little article up over at Pajamas Media dot Com that I think you may enjoy reading, drop by and get my take on the upcoming Democrat Primary in South Texas.

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Steinbrenners Battle Red Sox Nation

I won't elaborate on the article linked below, as it speaks for itself in regards to the bitter Red Sox - Yankees rivalry; plus, the picture of the kid as the end of the article is so cute, as he gives it back to Steinbrenner.  His parents must be as proud of him as George Steinbrenner is of his son.

Baby Boss: Red Sox Nation “A Bunch Of Bull****”

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February 28, 2008

Socialized Medicine - Foot in the Door Philosophy

1961 - Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine

From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan speaks out against socialized medicine.

Ronald Reagan, before he ran for elected office, called the Democrats' proposal  for national health care a "Foot in the Door Philosophy."  Now, we're facing the same problem today.  The federal health care programs that Democrats claim to want are not the programs that they ultimately want to force.  Americans would surely reject the final product if they could look forward and see its costs, failures, and impact on personal freedoms.  You've been advised.

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The Price of Gas - This Should Really Help

Yeah, this is how concerned the Democrats are about keeping down the price of gas for "working families"--just tax the heck out of oil companies for them to pass that tax to the consumers in the form of higher gas prices. 

The House approved $18 billion in new taxes on the largest oil companies Wednesday as Democrats cited record oil prices and rising gasoline costs in a time of economic troubles.  Senate Democratic leaders said they would put the bill on a fast track and try to avoid a Republican filibuster.

I wish Democrats had studied more economics, but, on the other hand, many seem to have majored in Marxism.

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William F. Buckley, Jr., R.I.P.1925 - 2008

( No, that isn't a picture of Wm. Buckley.  It's his subject.)

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February 26, 2008

Education in Decline

What kids learn in public schools has changed over the past thirty years.  Some blame the students and everything else but a main cause - changing emphasis on what is taught and why.

  Here's a recent survey of 1,200 students:

• 43% knew the Civil War was fought between 1850 and 1900.

• 52% could identify the theme of 1984.

• 97% could identify Martin Luther King Jr. as author of the "I Have a Dream" speech

The last is good, but the first two are bad signs.  We need to learn new history, but we don't need to wipe out the old history that is helpful. 

Political correctness and an anti-Western attitude in academics have led educators to modify and leave out facts that many of us used to learn.  For example, and I've mentioned this before, my son's high school U.S. history book had less than one page for World War II, but it had full page pictures of Bill Clinton and Maya Angelou.  Back in the seventies, I found that the changes in a history book from one year to the next dropped patriot Nathan Hale and replaced him with poet Phillis Wheatley.  That was just a start to the complete revision to suit left-wing textbook committees.

If we keep this up, there won't be a generation left that was taught important issues in our nation's history.  Such information will be lost in the minds of people forever along with the lessons that serve to guide us as a people. 

I have little faith that this negative trend in public schools can be stopped.  But thankfully, active parents in their kids' schools and homeschools retain some hope for us.

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Frightening Global Warming Prospects

Al Gore warned that global warming would become more serious.

Europe's truffle shortage blamed on global warming

Farmers say production is down by 50-75% this winter season and they blame global warming, warning that if thermometers keep rising — as many scientists predict they could — France's black truffle will one day be just a memory.

Sad, huh?  Just add it to the list of things that global warming causes that should make us destroy our economies and reallocate trillions of dollars from worthwhile investments. 

As someone else noted, with such whipped-up massive public hysteria, maybe we can now understand how the Salem witch trials achieved consensus.

Below:  Science project of enlightened kids who learn from GM's Corner

Global Warming...Yeah, Right!

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February 25, 2008

Dancin' Fidel

"Dancing Fidel"

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that whirl, watch that scene, dig in the Dancing Fidel

Friday night and the lights are low
Looking out for the place to go
Where they play the right music, getting in the swing
You come in to look for a king
Anybody could be that guy
Night is young and the music's high
With a bit of rock music, everything is fine
You're in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance...

You are the Dancing Fidel, old and wrinkled, no longer seventeen
Dancing Fidel, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that whirl, watch that scene, dig in the Dancing Fidel

You're a teaser, you turn 'em on
Leave them burning and then you're gone
Looking out for another, anyone will do
You're in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance...

You are the Dancing Fidel, old and wrinkled, no longer seventeen
Dancing Fidel, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that whirl, watch that scene, dig in the Dancing Fidel

 

With All Due Apologies to ABBA!

 

And a Tip O' The GM Derby to Dr. Sanity via Fausta's Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

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Carnival of the Insanities

I forgot to post this yesterday in my rush to complete other projects, but Dr. Sanity has a terrific Carnival of the Insanities up.  Go and read them all.  Especially number 13. 

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More Evidence That Liberals Lack Sense of Humor

Gov. Huckabee was on Saturday Night Live in a skit making fun of his not knowing when to get out.  As part of the skit, which is pretty funny and its video shown below, he doesn't leave the scene when expected.  Who wouldn't find that funny?  Well, some liberals don't. 

Here's what an Associate Press journalist wrote the next morning.

NEW YORK - Even though Mike Huckabee is still battling for the Republican presidential nomination despite long odds, he said Saturday he won't "overstay his welcome."

Then he did precisely that, lingering on the "Weekend Update" set of "Saturday Night Live" despite repeated cues to leave the stage.

Are they that stupid or clueless, or is it that the writer is trying to be funny but isn't?  It's no wonder that liberals think conservatives are strange.  They can't even tell when we're putting them on.  It must be sad going through life having to be miserable and take everything so seriously.  But, maybe I might feel that way if I depended upon government to support me, too. 

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February 24, 2008

Are Liberals and Democrats (but I repeat myself) Painting Themselves Into A Corner With Obama?

Maybe I shouldn't equate Liberalism with Democrats, there are after all a few stalwart Democrats that are conservative and who cringe when they hear Obama and Hillary Speak.  However, they can't speak out or go against the party line because they too want to be re-elected. 

Back to the subject at hand:  Are liberals and democrats painting themselves into a corner with Obama?  Victor Davis Hanson in a terrific article wonders "What Brought Us Here?" meaning the rise of Obama.  In part Hanson notes: 

"But sometime by December, the Obama candidacy had transmogrified, as his wife and Oprah, in style and substance, vouched for his African-American fides—and suddenly 90% of the black vote was unexpectedly won in many primaries. If his worry in the cauldron of Chicago politics was that he was too “white”, suddenly those fears were assuaged in the current election.

Second, at about the same time the hope and change message began to morph as well into a prophetic, near messianic sermon along the self-righteous lines of something like, “You, America, have a final chance to show that you are still good, after all, by voting for a brilliant African-American charismatic leader. If you don’t, then you are captive to race, and we were right all along about your America.”

The Racial Paradox

Racial solidarity or perhaps racial atonement is the subtext of Michelle Obama’s controversial speech, and the lame meae culpae that followed. So now we are in this Orwellian paradox of seeing Obama’s base turn out in record numbers on the basis apparently of race, but on the other hand the implied warning that if anyone else were likewise to consider that fact, then he would be racialist."

I don't suppose that I can oppose an Obama candidacy because he is the most Liberal Senator in the United States Senate?  I don't suppose that I can oppose an Obama candidacy because he has already promised something along the lines of 815 trillion dollars in additional spending?  I don't suppose that I can oppose an Obama candidacy because he claims that middle class people are "victims" and not responsible for the choices that they make?  I don't suppose that I can oppose an Obama candidacy because he wants to nationalize health care (but at the same time castigates the Veterans Administration - the epitome of government health care) which everyone thinks will be free, but for which they will ALL pay on April 15th every year?  I don't suppose that I can oppose an Obama candidacy because he wants to pull out of a war BEFORE we have won it and will thus encourage additional depredations by the islamofascists?

If I do any of the above, why, I must be a racist! In fact, if any of you vote AGAINST Obama or FOR anyone else you too are a racist.   

Bull shit! 

I may not vote for McCain, but you can damn sure bet that I'd vote against Obama if he ends up the Democrat nominee and if that makes me a racist, well then; So. Be. It.

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Tony Snow on Cancer

My fellow cancer sufferor Tony Snow has some great words for anyone suffering from cancer, for anyone who loves someone suffering from cancer.

Thanks and a Tip O' The GM Derby to Macsmind via the marvelous and incomparable Larwyn!

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February 21, 2008

A Consensus of Scientists Say...

The Union of Concerned Scientists stated in a May 2004 article (Published in Common Dreams dot Org - a news site for "progressives") that the anti-missile system couldn't possibly work.  Among other things, they noted:

"If the president is told that the system could reliably defend against a North Korean ballistic missile attack, he might be willing to accept more risks when making policy and military decisions," the report said.

"All indications are that it would not work," added Lisbeth Gronlund, a physicist who is a co-author of the report and co-director of the group's global security program.

"And the administration's statements that it will be highly effective are irresponsible nonsense," she added in a telephone interview.

So, faced with the real threat of a collapsing orbit for a spy satellite with a fuel load of dangerous chemicals, the Navy ventured to shoot it down with a system that "won't work."  Click more for the evidence that it didn't work.

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February 20, 2008

Will Texas Sink The Clinton Campaign?

Who would have thought, way back in February of '07 that the Presidential Nomination Campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton would be in such dire straits.  Now there is a term for you; dire straits.  Dire is from the Latin dïrus, meaning fearsome, terrible; and of course straits are narrow waters between two larger bodies, often fraught with danger.

And that is exactly where Hillary's disastrous campaign has brought her.  As of today, Obama has won 10 straight victories and Hillary must be pulling her hair out.  Her managers are sending out the word for anyone with an idea to call in.  Terry McCaullif himself is taking calls. She fired her Hispanic campaign manager and brought on an African American.  And this was only a couple of weeks prior to the Texas Primary where fully 1/3 of all voters are Hispanic. 

Historically, Democrats have been big supporters of the Clintons.  Here in the Rio Grande Valley they have made multiple trips over the last 16 years collecting political cash, and this from one of the poorest parts of the country.  Yet, come they have and have raked in millions.  Almost makes you wonder where all that money came from doesn't it? 

Compounding the problem for Hillary is Bill's insistence on making this a race issue.  He did it in South Carolina and elsewhere as well.  But Texas is home to an awful lot of blacks, and they will likely go for Obama in the record numbers that Obama has been posting.  Too, Obama has been making huge inroads into the Hispanic youth who may turn out in large numbers for him if they turn out at all. 

Texas has Early "No Excuse" Voting which began yesterday and already the large counties of Harris, Bexar and Dallas and Travis are reporting larger than normal turnout.  Could this be a Texas Tsunami.

And the race card in Texas cannot and should not be discounted.  The Latino groups are angry at the short shrift given to their needs by the NAACP.  They have already supplanted African-Americans as the largest minority and though many are family oriented and conservative, the Democratic Party has been their home for a long, long time, that is until the candidacy of George W. Bush.  In 2000 and 2004 Bush carried a much larger percentage of Latino votes than was expected.

In this primary, there are 228 Democratic Delegates at stake and by careful planning and campaigning (Obama is already preparing Spanish language adds on health care - Hillary's signature issue) Obama could take the giant's share, maybe as many as 60-70%, and that would put paid to the Clinton Campaign for sure.

In 2004, almost 60% of Latinos of voting age were registered as opposed to almost 71% of blacks and 70% of Whites.  When you compare the numbers of voters this represents, 5.23 million Latino voters, 1.6 million blacks and 13.2 million whites, this can be a substantial number of votes for Hillary, assuming she carries the majority of white and Latino voters.  But Obama is doing everything he can to break the ties to the Clinton machine.  And he has a good shot at it.

Travis County is the home of Austin and the University of Texas; and Austin is inarguably the most liberal city in Texas.  In fact, it's nickname is Moscow on the Colorado.  This could play well for Obama if he can turn out the vote.  Too, there are numerous counties in East Texas with large black populations that could well be in the Obama corner too. 

Hillary has her work cut out for her.  First, she has to overcome the "looser" image that Obama's 10 victories have tossed in her direction.  Second, she has to hold on to the Latino vote and increase her percentage among whites and blacks.  And lastly, and most important perhaps, she has to start appearing honest, hopeful, and in charge of what is now seen as a floundering campaign.  Can she do it?  We'll see on March 4th.

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A Country Music Classic? Nah, not even close!

Sent to me by my good friend Mustang.  So blame him!

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