Oct 07 2008
Patterico documents how the L.A. Times Cuts Out McCain’s Remarks About Economy, Then Quotes Barack Obama Saying McCain is Scared to Talk About the Economy
Go read it.
If the mainstream media is your main source of information, you’re probably poorly informed.
Oct 07 2008
Prayer, Suffering, and the Nature of God | Addison Road
You really, really should go read the link above. It’s about the life we all live. It’s by my friend, Mike Lee.
UPDATE: lots of interesting conversation here since first post. And given tonight’s presidential debate, I think we’re in for lots of suffering….
Oct 07 2008
What a fool I’ve been – scrambling, scraping, working overtime, working extra jobs, doing without, and tightening the proverbial belt. In my foolishness I’ve made some pretty difficult financial decisions that will help ensure I can honor all debts I have accrued, pay back every cent of money I have borrowed, and try to keep the promises I have made.
What I should have been doing was selling my home and buying a much bigger, more expensive one – with a mortgage I knew I would not be able to afford! Because that way I could just sit back and let the federal government “bail” me out. And now the latest “rescue” – McCain wants to spend 300 billion dollars (of TAXPAYER money) to have the government buy up so-called “bad” mortgages, lower the value of the homes, and then issue correspondingly new lower, more “manageable” mortgages that reflect the lower home value. Brilliant, simply brilliant. (Gee, that won’t have any market-effect on home values, will it…….) Meanwhile, like some kind of faux-Steinbeck character, I plod along hoping to see the light at the end of the tunnel before I die and maybe getting a chance to “tend them rabbits”.
I think if I had any brains at all I’d just stop making my mortgage payments right now. But instead, I have created a short self-quiz in honor of the debate.
After listening to the Presidential debate tonight I must admit I feel like a complete:
a. idiot
b. sucker
c. schmuck
d. all of the above
…I think I’ll choose d.
P.S. For those of you entranced with the rhetoric of “change you can believe in” – you should be careful what you wish for. Because you may wake up some day after the election and realize you should have asked a few questions about what kind of change you were getting.
Oct 07 2008
We’re letting people who hate us and who have been trained to kill us loose in our nation’s capitol. (much more at the link)
Immediately after it was released this summer, Barack Obama applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5/4 decision in Boumediene v. Bush, which for the first time extended rights under the U.S. Constitution to foreigners captured and held abroad based on their activities abroad. To reach that result, the Supreme Court had to declare unconstitutional a statute passed by Congress with bipartisan support and signed into law by the president which gave these individuals substantive and procedural rights comparable or superior to those we give to our own sons and daughters in uniform. It also had to ignore and/or mischaracterize decades of prior federal precedents holding that such foreigners had no right to claim the U.S. Constitution’s protections through a writ of habeas corpus, essentially extending the protections of the U.S. Constitution to the entire world.
Now as the inevitable consequence of that ruling, seventeen hard-core Islamic jihadists who’d come from their homes in China to train at terrorist camps in Afghanistan, captured there by our armed forces, and held since at Guantanamo Bay, are on the brink of being released this week, not for return to China, but into the general population of our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.:
Did you get that? We’re letting trained Chinese Islamic extremist trainee killers loose in Washington DC. This is the outcome that is praised by the Left, including Obama and acolytes. They wanted this.
So.
I propose that the government place these, uh, gentlemen in half-way houses in the same neighborhood as the Left leaning Supreme Court judges who made this idiotic decision. Or the neighborhood where the Democrat Senators live who invented Borking, or the Democrat Senators who filibustered the appointment of constructionist judges. Or, my personal favorite, the neighborhood where the ACLU lawyers live, who pushed for this ruling.
Actually, I suppose we can’t blame the Leftists on the Court for voting like “useful idiots“. But Justice Kennedy really ought to know better. So let’s just let the Chinese Islamic terrorist trainees loose in his neighborhood. Maybe that would be a nice place for the halfway house.
Oct 07 2008
Imagine if you took vitamins in moderation, ate a healthy diet, exercised regularly, and got enough rest. Now, imagine you have gotten ill, due to exposure to something that has challenged your immune system, or some unexpected toxic exposure.
Imagine someone who told you that your good habits are what made you sick, that you’ve overdone all that health stuff, and you need to develop a few new vices and ease off the healthy lifestyle. Imagine that person never mentioned the possibility of bacteria or virus as the cause of your illness, and when it was pointed out as the likely reason, simply denied that germs or toxic exposure have anything to do with being sick.
What would you think of the judgment of someone who gave you the following advice?
1) You should stop eating a healthy diet. Eat more fat, salt, sugar and alcohol. And preservatives. You need preservatives.
2) You sleep too much. Watch TV a couple extra hours each night, and still get up at the same time in the morning. That’ll help.
3) Forget the supplements. Vitamins and minerals are overrated, and may be hurting you. You should smoke or something.
4) When you get well, for pity’s sake knock off the aerobic exercise and weight-lifting. You’ll do yourself a mischief.
Is this making sense to you? Or would you suspect that maybe your friend owned stock in a tobacco company, or had a Twinkie franchise? Or maybe just hated you?
