President Obama to Pick a Fight with Academia?
Though I like the policy initiative, I don’t actually see this going very far and I question whether President Obama’s heart is really in this fight. So often we hear President Obama speak on issues for no other reason than for the political points, and I see this as yet another example of it. To believe otherwise would be to believe President Obama would stand up and fight against some of his own most ardent supporters. And to fight the society of academia within which he grew up. For a man who voted “present” all his life, I don’t see it happening. Its one thing to believe in a socialist construct (universal healthcare) and to fight tooth and nail for it when it matters and with those who support you, and quite another to pick a fight against some of those very same supporters. President Obama has never struck me as that kind of man.
Washington Post to now vet the President?
Excuse me for guffawing Washington Post, but the horses are already out of the barn. Vetting the President in the run up to his second term doesn’t eradicate or even lessen the harm President Obama has done to this country. And you, along with the majority of the other liberal media, are to blame for it. Please save us the self-aggrandizement regarding how you’re going to perform the very function now that you should have performed in 2007 and 2008.
Doomsday clock charade
Anyone who grew up in the 1970′s or 1980′s should be familiar with the Doomsday Clock. But for those who are younger, the Doomsday Clock was (and remains) a figurative representation of humanities closeness to annihilation. It was a means for Nuclear scientists to discuss their fears with the world and it became a political tool with which to goad the worlds Super Powers and allies to step back from the brink. With the demise of the Soviet Union in the early 1990’s the Doomsday clock’s significance had been largely marginalized, and society today has all but forgotten what it was to live under the threat of nuclear winter. It’s amazing what a few short years can do to the psyche of a culture, but in all honesty, the world is just as threatened by the likes of North Korea, Pakistan, and quite possibly Iran in the near term possessing nuclear weapons.
In any event, at some point in recent past the organization responsible for the Atomic Clock decided marginalization was for the dogs and they climbed aboard the “Climate Change” bandwagon. The Atomic Clock was always a bit of a political stunt, yet it wasn’t tied to a specific mindset or political ideology. That simply isn’t the case with “Climate Change”, and so whatever relevance remained for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is now completely gone with the political theater unleashed upon the world yesterday. Not one single study or model has to this day been able to accurately predict climate. In fact even the most ardent supporters of “Climate Change” hysteria begrudgingly admit they can’t explain why the dire consequences they’ve trumpeted for years have not been realized. And now the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, founded on the threat of Nuclear annihilation, is alerting us that humanity’s destruction is now closer because we simpletons will not accept the word of our betters.
Some people just don’t realize when their time in the sun has passed.
President Obama is responsible for OWS violence
President Obama has made it clear he stands with the OWS movement and believes in the “principles” they espouse. Despite, of course, that the collective movement has released a dizzying array of “demands” which any sane person would look at and ignore for the utter tripe those demands are. However, President Obama stands behind the movement. As do a number of prominent Democrats, unions, and liberal social organizations. President Obama has gone so far as to turn his Saturday morning speeches, and other public statements into platforms to offer additional support. So President Obama, don’t be true to form now by backing away from the violence your children are committing. Own it.
Of course the OWS movement has been committing various minor crimes all over the country since early on, but has witnessed more periodic serious crimes at various locations during the past few weeks. And the last few days in Oakland, California has been nothing short of atrocious. Those riots are what the Democrat party stands for. Those riots are what President Obama espouses. Those children are the spoiled, whiney liberals that want the productive part of the country to work hard so they can sit back and continue to collect the hand outs government has given to them all their lives. Own it Mr. President.
I never again want to hear a single word uttered from the left, or from the left’s main stream media lackeys about the Tea Party. Never was there a single act of violence at any of the Tea Party events, nor did any Tea Party group ever demand the government forcibly take anything from anyone else to give to them. Nor did any Tea Party group ever demand the government practice class warfare. I am so disgusted with the media, liberals, and President Obama in particular.
What is fair?
President Obama has a habit of throwing around the words “fair” and “Justice” but never defines what either means. And on Saturday he was at it again, latching onto a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report that indicated the incomes of the wealthiest Americans increased by 275% from 1979 to 2007, while the lowest income bracket only increased by 18% during the same period. President Obama, true to form, is taking the populist approach attempting to gain leverage over Republicans in the budget and debt discussions.
So much of this “debate” centers around “equality”. The left makes the point that the wealthy getting wealthier to the extent they are while everyone else is getting wealthier to a much lesser extent or not at all is unfair; that there needs to be a more even distribution of the “country’s wealth”. As if there were such a thing. The “country” does not have wealth, individuals do and in a capitalist system where individuals have freedom to pursue achievement, there will be – by definition – unequal wealth distribution. The “country” takes wealth from individuals in the form of taxes to carry out the specified functions directed by the Constitution. Read more…
Liberal ignorance
I have a friend that happens to be a liberal, and so it’s not terribly surprising that the OCCUPYWALLSTREET movement would come up. As so happens recently he’s tried gently chiding me about the aims and goals of the movement. Of course, being conservative, I’ve refuted his chiding by pointing out the ridiculousness of the movement. Not only have I pointed out the ridiculous nature of the varied demands of the movement, but also the crimes committed by protesters across the country, and the general ignorance of the movement’s political philosophy to begin with. I also compared the actions of the movement against those of the Tea Party rallies over the last year which never resulted in a single law being broken, or property damage. What a comparison it is too. Read more…
