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Thursday, March 12, 2009

WONDERING WHY THE “NEWS MEDIA” ISN’T MUCH LIKED OR RESPECTED…...?

Have a look at CHRIS MATTHEWS doing his thing with ARI FLEISCHER.

Posted by Earl on 03/12 at 11:55 AM
Politics • Domestic • Media Bias • Comments •

Thursday, March 05, 2009

WHAT DOES A TRILLION DOLLARS LOOK LIKE?

I don’t think ANY of us really know what a trillion means…..despite the fact that the number is being thrown around with abandon, these days.  I remember when a $400,000,000,000.00 (four hundred billion dollars) was an UNCONSIONABLE deficit…..but that was a long time ago - back when a Republican was in the White House.  Now, the government can commit to spending well over one trillion dollars it doesn’t have (meaning it will borrow or print the money), and (almost) everyone is cheering. 

Anyhow, thanks to Jonah Goldberg at THE CORNER, I’ve been to a website where one can see in a very graphic fashion the full reality of $1,000,000,000,000.00 (one trillion dollars).  Get ready, because it’s a little bit shocking.  OK…..(I’m not making this up).....(don’t say I didn’t warn you)........HERE IT IS.

Posted by Earl on 03/05 at 12:32 PM
Miscellany • Funny (strange?) Stuff • Politics • Domestic • Government Outrage • Economics • Comments •

YOU DON’T HAVE TO WONDER WHERE YOU STAND WITH THE U.S. MARINE CORPS…...

THEY LET YOU KNOW
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And if a picture is worth a thousand words…..

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Posted by Earl on 03/05 at 10:19 AM
Miscellany • HEROES • Politics • Domestic • Iraq • Comments •

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

MORAL COURAGE SOMETIMES INVOLVES REFUSING EVEN TO ASSOCIATE WITH EVIL…..

...and isn’t it wonderful when it shows up?

This is the newest Courage Award….a mathematician (from Canada, yet) cancels his gig at a sister institution because RYERSON UNIVERSITY hosted a branch of ISRAEL APARTHEID WEEK (or IAW), one of more than 25 (in 2008) around Canada.  The week is intended to help people understand that the locus of evil in the Middle East is its only multiparty democracy….the country where Jews and Arabs serve side-by-side in a freely-elected legislature. 

During the week, 

Lectures, films, and actions will make the point that these latest massacres further confirm the true nature of Israeli Apartheid. IAW 2009 will continue to build and strengthen the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement at a global level.

Sounds to me as if Waterloo College might be a good school to attent—provided there is at least one professor of Dr. Vrscay’s quality and discernment…..

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Posted by Earl on 03/04 at 11:09 PM
Miscellany • COURAGE AWARDS • Politics • International • Comments •

Monday, March 02, 2009

SO, WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY KNOW ABOUT “CAP and TRADE”?  HERE’S ALL YOU *NEED* TO KNOW…..

.....and STRAIGHT from the horse’s mouth!
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So, what’s the matter with you?  Isn’t a “skyrocketing” cost for heating your home JUST what you need right now?  But, your nation is in danger!!  Don’t you think you should sacrifice?
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Bad news…..you may not get a choice, because of the election results last November.  Hope you aren’t feeling like a sucker!

Posted by Earl on 03/02 at 10:05 PM
Politics • Domestic • Economics • Comments •

Saturday, February 28, 2009

IN CASE YOU’RE WONDERING WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES IS LOSING READERSHIP AND MAY GO UNDER…..

Have a look at JOHN HINDERAKER’S ANALYSIS over at the blog called POWERLINE.
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In this blog post, he compares the Times’ reactions to GW Bush’s budget proposals back in 2004, and the analysis they applied at that time, to what is being said about the current spending plans in Washington D.C. 
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Here’s a short excerpt:
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NYT, September 2, 2003:

      The White House serenely brushed off a detailed caution from the Congressional Budget Office last week that the growth in the deficit is more likely to roar than retreat across the next decade, fed
      by the three Bush tax cuts and other debt-fattening indulgences. If that warning was not enough, how about the concern reported at the International Monetary Fund that the administration has no
      credible plan to restore budget balance? Yes, the I.M.F., which must lecture the profligates of the globe, is worried that a structural deficit will push up interest rates and restrain growth as America
      ceaselessly borrows to steer red ink from imbalanced budgets onto future taxpayers.

Now that his planned deficits are four times larger, does Obama’s budget contain “debt-fattening indulgences?” Has the Times denounced them? Does the Obama administration have a “credible plan to restore budget balance?” Given that Obama’s intended budgets—put aside how optimistic his numbers may be—far exceed the actual deficits during the Bush administration, is the Times still “worried that a structural deficit will push up interest rates and restrain growth as America ceaselessly borrows to steer red ink from imbalanced budgets onto future taxpayers?” If not, why not?

READ THE WHOLE THING

 

Posted by Earl on 02/28 at 10:19 PM
Politics • Domestic • Economics • Media Bias • Comments •

WHO DO YOU SUPPOSE IS *MOST* IN FAVOR OF GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION?

Who do you think?
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Democrats?  BZZZZZZZZZ!  Wrong answer.
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Women?      BZZZZZZZZZ!  Wrong answer.
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The Brady Center?  BZZZZZZZZ!  Wrong answer.
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The Right Answer?

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Posted by Earl on 02/28 at 09:47 PM
Politics • Domestic • Second Amendment • Comments •
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