The Dow Jones lost 778 points – a record – and I personally lost about $8000 in paper/play money today after the House failed to approve the compromise banking bailout plan. Thanks for nothing, guys. Loren Steffy says that things may get really ugly now: This long ago stopped being about mortgages, and it’s no…
Month: September 2008
Red-staters in NYC? Get Outta Here!
This video is extremely educational when it comes to the mindset and core values of the American left. At 5 minutes long, it says everything you need to know. It never ceases to amaze me how utterly intolerant the defenders of multiculturalistic tolerance really are. It’s so sad. Really, I mean that. You’d think years…
Presidential Debate Review
Here are my comments about the first McCain/Obama debate: Obama: “although we’ve heard a lot about Wall Street, those of you on Main Street I think have been struggling for a while, and you recognize that this could have an impact on all sectors of the economy. And you’re wondering, how’s it going to affect…
Liberals Then and Now
Here’s what Jimmy Carter had to say almost 30 years ago about the energy crisis of his time: From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation. The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its…
Ron Paul and Principles
Say what you will about some of Ron Paul’s "less mainstream" ideas – the man has his principles and votes accordingly, even when it hurts. Galveston was hammered by Hurricane Ike and Congressman Paul, whose district includes the hard-hit area, voted against a $23B aid packalge that would have brought a big chunk of that…
Conservatives Oppose Bailout
A Right Wing News poll shows that what I’d call hard-core conservatives oppose the bailout of Wall Street investment firms by an overwhelming margin. Current results: Loath as I am to lend support to people and corporations whose failure is undeniable, doing so seems to be the smart thing rather than sticking to principle while…
Our Boat is Sinking – Should We Bail?
A lot of people agree with me in thinking the Paulson-Bernanke bailout plan needs to be thought out a lot more before it’s given the go-ahead. Seems obvious and it looks like it’s going to happen. Newt Gingrich says that conservatives in Congress are confused by the fact that it’s a Republican administration’s proposal: If…
Obama’s Race Problem – Real or Imagined?
Using Princeton political scientist Tali Mendelberg as a source, John Judis wrote: …her ideas and those of other academics help to shed light on what has happened so far in the primaries and what might unfold once Obama wraps up the nomination. Their findings suggest that racism remains deeply embedded within the psyche of the…
Bailing Out the Greedy
If the Powers That Be follow through with their plan to spend $700B dollars to buy up some of the bad debt that is dragging financial companies down, the net effect will be to bail the greedy and the stupid out of the consequences of their greed and stupidity. This sort of dramatic rescue may…
Leftist Relativism Inconsistent, Childish
At TalkLeft, TChris provides a textbook case of all that’s wrong with the far left’s moral relativism in this post about Saudi Arabia’s new death penalty crime – showing Turkish soap operas during Ramadan. [Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Judicial Council, Sheikh Saleh al-] Lohaidan advised the station owners that “those who promote corruption in belief and…