Friday, April 18, 2008
Thank God a woman said it....
Althouse: The art that was obviously a hoax was a hoax.:
"So that's what passes as insight at Yale these days? If I was going to get livid and horrified about something it would be that a great university sucks so many young women into the into the intellectual graveyard of Women's Studies. Think what these women could be studying instead of this endlessly recycled drivel. If you care about women's bodies, study science and help us with the limitations of the body. But to imagine you are helping us by restating meager platitudes is just very sad."
The Times always lies hides its motives...
Don't Get Your Hopes Up:
The New York Times editorial page blog goes after Joe Lieberman today, citing a poll which purports to show that if the Senate election were held in Connecticut today, Joe Lieberman would lose to Ned Lamont 51% to 37%. This, the Times and other liberal bloggers allege, shows that Lieberman ran for re-election on false premises, claiming he was a "loyal Democrat," and that Connecticut voters have buyer's remorse.Let's take a look at the poll. First, it was commissioned by the Daily Kos (which the Times doesn't bother to mention, instead linking to a blog called "My Left Nutmeg,") and conducted by an obscure outfit called "Research 2000." That should tell you something, given Kos's history with Lieberman. But even the poll's own findings show it to be inaccurate. 48% of poll respondents said they voted for Lieberman in 2006 and 43% said they voted for Lamont. Lieberman actually won the 2006 election, however, 50% to 40%. So the poll's own purported sample is biased in favor of Lamont.
Statistical errors aside, the Times editorial board obviously has a dog in this fight, as they endorsed Lamont in the Democratic primary. But Lieberman ran -- very obviously -- as a pro-war candidate in 2006. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has actually paid attention these last few years, never mind the voters of Connecticut, that Lieberman winded up endorsing the presidential candidacy of John McCain -- who supports a continued presence in Iraq -- over either of the two Democrats, who claim the war is a failure and support withdrawal. The antiwar left can complain about Lieberman all they want, but they lost fair and square. To say that Lieberman somehow tricked the voters of Connecticut two years ago is just desperate.
Bingo.....
Who’s Bitter Now?
"Small-town people of modest means and limited education are not fixated on cultural issues. Rather, it is affluent, college-educated people living in cities and suburbs who are most exercised by guns and religion. In contemporary American politics, social issues are the opiate of the elites."
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Not that much of a secret any more...
Could Israel use submarines against Iran?
"Anticipating a showdown with Iran, Israel decides secretly to deploy a submarine off its arch-foe's coast."
But it sells papers....
Food Crisis and Starvation: The Maze of Maize:
"This week the “food crisis” rates scare headlines — but the problem is an old one and no surprise."
The Volokh Conspiracy - -
When Irony becomes farce
I'm a big fan of The Innocence Project, which assists individuals unjustly convicted of crimes. But I did a massive double-take when I saw that Janet Reno is on its board of directors. Janet Reno! She bears as much responsibilty as anyone for the child abuse witch hunt trials of the late 80s that claimed many innocent victims, including several prosecuted by her office, via the "Miami method" she pioneered. To my knowledge, Reno has never apologized for what we might euphemistically call the "excesses" of her prosecutorial tactics.
Yeah, but he is for the little guy....
Al Franken is a big, fat corporate tax deadbeat
And, if you recall, he also "forgot" to pay his workers comp bills......
And, if you recall, he also "forgot" to pay his workers comp bills......
A great story.....
A Line in the Yard: The Battle Over the Right to Dry Outside
It's really the little things that matter when the stakes are so high, isn't it? Read the whole story and then remember the days when everyone had a "clothesline" in their backyard, and it wasn't a big deal at all.
“If we can’t change simple stuff like this, we’ll never handle the big things we need to do for the planet,” said Aurora’s mayor, Phyllis Morris, who earlier this year petitioned Ontario’s government to declare clothesline bans an illegal “barrier to conservation” under provincial law. “People say, ‘Oh, Phyllis, you want to turn women back into the laundry lady,’ and I say wrong: This is about rights. It’s about the environment.”
It's really the little things that matter when the stakes are so high, isn't it? Read the whole story and then remember the days when everyone had a "clothesline" in their backyard, and it wasn't a big deal at all.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The rights order
Megan McArdle
"But even if I endorsed the principle that racist shop owners ought to be free to exercise their beliefs, one s right to discriminate against people on the basis of race or creed is literally the last right I am interested in defending. When we have rolled back eminent domain abuse, ended state nannying about our health choices, curbed prosecutorial abuses, obliterated corporate welfare, stamped out farm subsidies, ended the moronic drug war, established well-funded school voucher programs, pruned our overgrown tax code, torn down our trade barriers, shoved the government all the way out of our bedrooms, rationalized regulation, and gotten the Supreme Court out of the business of approving nativity scenes in remote town squares . . . well, then I might be prepared to sit down and ponder, philosophically speaking, whether one s fundamental human right to be a repulsive racist should be recognized by the legal system in this context.
Last time I looked, we still had a ways to go on those other things yet."
On the cusp of a New Order....
Mark Steyn:
Canada may no longer believe in old-fashioned human rights like free speech and the presumption of innocence, but it's discovering exciting new "human rights" every day. Hard on the heels of the human right to a labiaplasty comes the human right of restaurant employees not to wash their hands. Or as the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ruled, after awarding a McDonald's employee $55,000:
There was no evidence of:
- the relationship between food contamination and hand-washing;
Thank goodness for that. No need to pack sandwiches if you're visiting Vancouver for the weekend.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Not much more to say....
“But, wait. Let me check. (Peering down into pants and then panties) Yup, there’s a vagina in my pants
I guess we forgot about them....
The Volokh Conspiracy:
Wretchard sees that race is starting to be defined more as a level of victimhood.....
So I guess that Asians aren't "of color" any more — they're colorless like me. At least it's better than their being "lily white," in the words of the late California Chief Justice Rose Bird.
Wretchard sees that race is starting to be defined more as a level of victimhood.....
I think eventually race will be decided on the basis of politics. Condoleeza Rice will become "white"; Barack Obama will remain "black". Ward Churchill will become a native American. And Bill Richardson will oscillate between being white and Latino, depending on the length of his beard.
A bit o' backlash?
Tim Blair
Dave S. confesses to bitter religionism:Well, I do go a-churchin’ every Sunday with a bunch of bitter folks who complain about how the government is evil and screws them over, and we yell an’ whoop it up when the preacher rails against them Italians and Jews, an’ then we …
Oops, wait a minute, that’s not me, that’s Barack Obama.
Similar thoughts from RightWingBob.
UPDATE. McCain senior advisor Mark Salter:
“It’s hard to keep a straight face when you’re accused of being out of touch by a guy who thinks the whole country is worried about the high price of arugula or that you hunt ducks with a six shooter.”Obama’s latest remarks continue a blundering pattern.
UPDATE II. Grim numbers for Obama. Don’t get all bitter, now.
He seems upset....
Loose Lips and Democratic Ships
The Democratic presidential candidates are doing a splendid job of helping John McCain get to the White House.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Uh oh - you mean those idiots vote?
Hot Air:
It looks like the voters of small-town Pennsylvania have reacted to Barack Obama’s remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser in a predictable manner. American Research Group had Obama rising to a tie against Hillary Clinton in the next primary after trailing by double digits for weeks preceding his ascent. Now he has dug himself an even deeper hole than the one he earlier escaped...
Poor Jimma....
Atlas Shrugs:
Carter and Hamas. I can see them sitting in some danky, skanky room in Gaza watching jihad porn movies together. Carter is "quite at ease" with these blood thirsty butchers.
Well said...
Obama Wasn't Just Insulting Pennsylvannians:
Update (via Instapundit) :
"Obama doesn't understand a great deal of America. He has no experience with it other than as a politician looking for votes, and even that experience outside of Chicago has been accumulated only since he began his run for the U.S. Senate in 2003. His life has made him keenly aware of urban dysfunction and of African-American issues even as it has exposed him to the Third World in a way that very few American officials have been."But who cares, as long as there is "change" (whatever that means).
Update (via Instapundit) :
THE MOTHER OF ALL GAFFES: "Barack Obama broke the first rule of Democratic presidential politics: never let on that you believe rural American voters are hicks straight out of Deliverance. . . . he could not have picked a worse time to reveal his contempt for average Americans."
If everyone would just listen to me, everything would be fine.....
Funny how that works...
"But you collectively--i.e., the American people--are a huge political problem.
Yes, polls show people support universal health care in the abstract. They may even say they re willing to pay more taxes for it. But once the debate turns real, they get skittish. Most people, after all, have health insurance already. The possibility of changing that insurance scares them, even if it s likely a change for the better. And so enthusiasm for reform inevitably gets soft, given the opponents of universal health care the political support they need to carry the day."
The end of Microsoft?
Users Fight to Save Windows XP
Fans of the six-year-old operating system set to be pulled off store shelves in June have papered the Internet with blog posts, cartoons and petitions recently. They trumpet its superiority to Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest PC operating system, whose consumer launch last January was greeted with lukewarm reviews.
The "Progressive" mentality.....
Althouse: "Well, he's not running for sociologist in chief, he's running for president.":
"I think he's about to say that real Democrats can't stand those people Obama was talking about. Shrum talks over him and prevents him from going deeper into that hole"
Like anyone would admit it.....
Roger Simon - The Arab Spring Is Happening Now:
"The famed and failed Arab Spring of 2005 was, I think, only delayed—and is due to arrive right about now. There are several recent indications that what many thought was happening in the spring of 2005 is occurring in 2008, but in a slightly different form. In fact, with sharia being rejected in Iraq and embraced in, say, London, it seems the “Arab spring” may work out just fine; it’s the Western fall that we have to worry about.
Three years ago, even the harshest critics of America’s democratic mission in Iraq were acknowledging the possibility that the War had set a kind of political reformation in motion. The Toronto Star’s Richard Gwyn, for example, declared, “It is time to set down in type the most difficult sentence in the English language. That sentence is short and simple. It is this: Bush was right.”"
Not much different from the bitterness of Rev. Wright, is it?
Obama told the crowd: "You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Roger Kimball has his own interpretation....
Roger Kimball has his own interpretation....
That'll teach ya !!
A Bumper Crop of Bureaucracy
This is how the Nazis got their way - just let the bureaucrats run the show.
This is how the Nazis got their way - just let the bureaucrats run the show.
