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No Time for Socialism

Posted by Longplay on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:56:40 PM
What we should hear from McCain:

Taking inspiration from Andy Griffith's 1958 movie,

in tonight's debate and for the rest of the campaign,

McCain should stress over, and over, and over:
 
It's "No Time for Socialism!".
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Palin Prayed Over: Ooooh, Scaaary

Posted by Longplay on Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:16:01 AM
With the aghast tone of this AP report, "Palin once blessed to be free from 'witchcraft'", the media once again displays its total disdain for Christianity.  It doesn't even seem to have an inkling that to most Christians, and even many non-Christian Americans, the content of this prayer is not all that odd, much less alarming. 
 
The odd thing is that Ms. Palin was not even the one doing the praying, but was prayed over by a guest pastor, Bishop Thomas Muthee, someone from a different culture, and a man "of color".  Usually the left falls all over itself for such a spiritual person.  Desmond Tutu could perhaps have given this prayer.
 
While Pastor Muthee's Word of Faith church is thought by some Christian scholars to be "outside the pale" of Christian orthodoxy, praying for protection from satan (evil) and praying for financial support for a mission in life, having fellow congregants lay their hands on you, is commonplace and seems rather innoucuous. 
 
In trying to paint Palin as scary because of this prayer, the left only points the other three fingers back at itself, for Barack Obama's spiritual mentors are far outside the pale of Christian orthodoxy, and his poloitical philoshophy mentors, mostly Marxists, are far and away outside of the the Founder's beliefs, American beliefs. 
 
Now for the kicker.  Bishop Muthee is from Kenya.  I wonder if he knows Barack Obama's brother?
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Kathleen Parker, Now I'm Really Worried

Posted by Longplay on Saturday, September 20, 2008 7:48:43 PM

Kathleen Parker, whose thoughts I usually enjoy, really does have me worried by her latest offering, "A Time to Worry", but not for the reasons she outlines.

The disappointing article shows the tendency of too many on conservative side to want everything perfectly pure even though it means losing; of making the perfect the enemy of the good; of calling people with bad ideas merely misguided.

Reading it really does make me worry,

She starts by stating:

"Confession: I love Barack Obama and I love Sarah Palin — both for different reasons. They both also scare me to death.  I love Obama for his style, grace, intellect, and his way with words. I want the healing power that an Obama presidency could deliver to this country."

She follows this by listing things about Obama that fly in the face of the traits she just claimed for him. 

Obama may have style but he has neither true grace nor intellect.  In Obama, "grace", when it even appears, takes the form condescending quiet talk and a hand rudely and manipulatively placed on someone's shoulder.

And his "intellect" is a figment of the imagination of a populace with little intellect itself.  If ones intellect understands the world incorrectly, how is that intellect?  Why do conservatives with real wisdom, and who constantly speak of the ills in our educational system of grade inflation and "self esteem" (read "ego inflation"), insist on declaring Obama "brilliant"?  He isn't. 
 
"Healing power"?  Where has that ever been in evidence in Obama's career or campaign?  Nowhere.

Where's the grace, intellect, or healing power in:

Voting against laws to stop the practice of letting born-alive infants die in a closet.
 
Never once truly working "across the aisle" in either Illinois or the U.S. Senate?

Playing the race card by falsely accusing others of playing it.

Accusing regular-joe, hard-working Americans of clinging to guns and religion out of frustration.
 
Where's the grace or healing power in self-servingly opposing his own country while overseas by asking the Iraq officials to delay working the U.S. on the transition of power in Iraq until after the election - after he is elected?

on and on ...
 
Ms. Parker finishes by stating, "Whatever happens, we may deserve what we get. On the other hand, maybe there’s still time to wise up: Obama boots Biden and taps Clinton; McCain dumps Palin and picks Romney. It’s a concept."

It may be a concept, but just as with Obama's "grace" and "intellect", it's not a good one.

We do indeed need to "wise up", as in "getting wisdom".
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Obama: Have Email, Will Travel

Posted by Longplay on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 6:48:53 AM
Here's Jonah Glodberg on Obama's ad that claims McCain shouldn't be President because he doesn't know how to send an email:
 
"... Besides, by this logic, Obama is even less qualified to be commander in chief because, unlike McCain, Obama has never fired a gun, flown a plane or led men during wartime."
 
I guess Obama's come-back could be that when he (small H) is President, there won't be any wars - but he'll be sending emails galore and typing like crazy on his internet blog (www.blahblahblah,com).
 
Hmmm.  I wonder if Sarah Palin ever sent an email to a moose asking him to turn himself in ...
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Walter Williams Agrees: Government Complicit in Financial Crisis

Posted by Longplay on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 6:30:39 AM
This from Walter Williams today :
 
"Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs. These financial problems are not market failures but government failure. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 is a federal law that intimidated lenders into offering credit throughout their entire market and discouraged them from restricting their credit services to low-risk markets, a practice sometimes called redlining. ..

The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy. In fact, what we see now is a market correction to foolhardy government policy. Congress' move to bailout lenders and borrowers who made poor decisions will simply create incentives for people to make unwise decisions in the future. English philosopher Herbert Spencer said, "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."

read the full artilce

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Government Complicity in Financial Crisis: More Harm than you Know

Posted by Longplay on Monday, September 15, 2008 8:13:21 AM
Hearing this morning about the fall of Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and others, and tracing the source of the problem to our government's giving in to sentiment and forcing banks to lend to unqualified borrowers (thus getting the banks addicted to an unwholesome financial practice) ...
 
I was reminded of one of the last lines from "Three Days of the Condor", which could easily be said to our "leaders" in D.C. about their actions both then and now:
 
"Oh, you... you poor dumb son of a b-----. You've done more harm than you know."
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Obama's Neighborly Taxes: Part II

Posted by Longplay on Monday, September 15, 2008 12:28:24 AM
Four days ago I posted on candidate Obama's comparing taxes to his "neighborly" act of tipping a waitress.
 
Today Jeff Jacoby more thoroughly covered the theme in his Boston Globe article, in which he points out that Obama is not quite so generous in his non-imaginary life in the area of personal charitable giving (all of us have fallen short, of course).  The article prompted a few more thoughts of my own.
 
Not only would Mr. Obama coerce others to tip his waitress, realize that he would also be forcing you to tip his waitress.  Not your own waitress but the one he decided was worthy.
 
Perhaps your waitress was unworthy.  Perhaps your waitress was good but felt pridefully that her performance was just part of the job and nothing special.  Perhaps you learned that your waitress was comfortably off and just did this job for the enjoyment of meeting people.  Perhaps you'd even rather compliment the chef instead of tipping the waitress, or maybe even the busboy, who never gets much attention at all.
 
Worse yet, it could be that Barack's waitress hadn't actually performed exceptionally but that he decided that you should give her some some of your money merely because she was pretty, or that he felt sorry and somehow vaguely responsible for her being in that job.
 
[For full disclosure I should mention that I once, and for a very short time, cooked at a Big Boy, and played tricks on cute waitresses]
 
The point is that in Barack's world it would be he and his unsavory friends who would be the ones to decide who was worthy to get, and who could "afford" to and thus be required to give.
 
Mr. Obama hasn't demonstrated any great judgement skills in picking mentors such as Bill Ayers, Reverend Wright, and Tony Rezko (and the  list goes on).  Should we expect any keener judgement from him concerning the selection of worthy waitresses?
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9/11: A Common Story?

Posted by Longplay on Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:04:50 AM
I just heard a radio snippet of a line I beieve to be from Mayor Bloomberg speaking at Ground Zero, in which it was said that the events of 9/11 "united us in a common memory, a common story."
 
A commom "story"?   The Tales of Peter Rabbit, or of Washington chopping down the cherry tree - things such as those unite us in a "common story". 
 
9/11 is more than a "story"; it's history, and as such should unite us in a more important way, with a common resolve.
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Palin is a Real Woman, Doniger is Not a Real Professor

Posted by Longplay on Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:21:39 AM
Kathryn Jean Lopez, at National Review Online's The Corner blog posted this this morning.
"Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman."   
 
The rabid reaction to Sarah Palin just got worse: This time, Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions, University of Chicago’s Divinity School, writes that Sarah Palin is not really a woman"
That Ms. Doniger is a "professor" of "the history of religion" is not only pathetic but ironic.
 
Apparently the professor professes in public that she doesn't appreciate it when anyone professes anything about religion other than in private.
 
If that happened I guess she'd eventually be out of a job.
 
In support of that making that happen, I'll volunteer to keep my mouth shut for awhile (in private).  

Sort of like Ted Kennedy, about whose religious beliefs it's been said, "they were so private, even he didn't know about them".
 
"More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise." - Orlando Gibbons
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Obama on Being "Neighborly" with Your Money

Posted by Longplay on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:36:21 PM
Culled from the excellent Patriot Post:
 
'On taxes: “If I am sitting pretty, and you’ve got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can’t—what’s the big deal for me to say, ‘I’m going to pay a little bit more.’ That is neighborliness.” —Barack Obama **Because taxes are JUST LIKE tipping the poor.'

Yes, it is neighborly to say you're going to pay a little bit more.

But it is definitely not neighborly to say that the rest of the folks in the restaurant will be forced to chip in, too!
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Lipstick on Pigs in the Animal Farm

Posted by Longplay on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:54:10 AM
The morning drive-time radio team was engaging callers this morning in a discussion of whether Obama’s recent “lipstick on a pig” comment was an intentional attack on Sarah Palin or merely a description of the GOP’s policies.

The audience was split on the answer but leaned slightly to the sense that Obama knew what he was doing, which is my take.

While Obama’s campaign has shown much stupidity of late, they can’t be accused of not being clever and devious. Obama and his staff knew perfectly well that in using this well-known phrase they were getting a two-fer. They could seem to be attacking McCain’s policies yet at the same time get a dig in on the bottom of the ticket, all the while knowing that the commomness of the expression lent them plausible deniability of the latter.
The evidence of Obama’s intent can be seen in his delivery of the line. First, he verbally stumbled and hesitated before making the quip.  Second, rather than maintaining eye contact with his audience during the utterance, he looked down. Thirdly, and most telling, was his full stop after the line, the rhetorical trick of someone whose script says “pause for laughter” – the laughter they knew would come.

The ironic thing is that, even if Obama was only speaking to his opponents’ policies, it’s yet another example of the Democrat trick, perfected by Bill Clinton, of the pot calling the kettle black.

Essentially, Obama’s rhetoric amounts to putting the lipstick of caring and compassion on the tired old failed, and dangerous, pig of socialism.

“All animals are equal , but some animals are more equal than others.” – a proclamation from the pigs on the Animal Farm
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The Epitome of Symbolism Over Substance

Posted by Longplay on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:42:44 PM
The Obama-Biden ticket is the epitome of what Rush Limbaugh years ago dubbed "symbolism over substance".
 
And the symbolism, at both the top and bottom of the ticket, is pretty shoddy.
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Samuelson Hits the Healthcare Nail on the Head

Posted by Longplay on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:40:50 PM
Robert Samuelson hits the 46-million-without-insurance nail on the head.
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Mayo Clinic's Health Policy Center

Posted by Longplay on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:37:59 PM
Several weeks ago the Mayo Clinic mailed me information about their new Health Policy Center. 

I'm most likely on their list because they essentially saved my life a few years ago.  Mayo is a wonderful institution, a real-life House series, and I'll always be eternally grateful to them. 

The brochure's contents, however, concerned me in that it gave the impression that they have bought wholeheartedly into the 46-million-uninsured story, and were intent on pushing government policies that would ultimately destroy the very essence of their excellence. 

Fortunately, the actual site seems to put forth reasonable proposals.
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