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Restoring Honor rally attendees and their litter

Current Events, Liberty, Politics, Religion 1 Response »

Aug 302010

The Restoring Honor rally, headlined by Glenn Beck, was held at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday. The most pessimistic, and ridiculed, attendance estimate comes from CBS, who said 87,000. Most other estimates are considerably higher.

In any case, a bunch of folks, dig?

Now there is much to be said about the rally’s content, and it will surprise no regular reader of this blog that I find a lot of agreement with this crowd. I have never been more concerned for my country, and I’m thoroughly confident Mr. Beck, Mrs. Palin, and their supporters have a lot more of the answers that will genuinely restore America’s greatness than do Mr. Obama and his supporters.

So there’s a post in that, for sure. However, I’m not going to write it. Tens of thousands of bloggers already have, and as I mentioned above, there is no shortage on WmWms of what I think about the current state of things.

Many have also posted about the level of trash left by the Restoring Honor attendees, and I am going to join that chorus, because it ties in with something I discussed previously. Have a look at the Mall, post-rally:

Wow, what a bunch of careless swine! Can you believe that enormous mess they left? But what else would you expect from that slack-jawed drooling bunch of hicks who pray to invisible men in the sky and hate black people, right?

I really enjoyed this little data point, because it reminded me of when I posted about how surprised “everyone” seemed at how well-behaved the Obama inauguration crowd was. Didn’t surprise me at all. By and large, the folks who would cause a scene with base or boorish behavior were happy. It’s no more complicated than that. As then, so now.

Now I’m certainly not saying to my liberal friends that, solely by virtue of their politics, they’re disruptive slobs. I am, however, asserting that a disruptive slob in such an environment is likely to be liberal.

Oh, and I’ll throw a link back to this post in for good measure, in case there’s any nonsense about “poisonous rhetoric” or similar.

How long until November 2? Here we come. Boo!

Where is the economic recovery?

Annoyances, Current Events, Liberty, Politics 3 Responses »

Aug 092010

How’s the “economic recovery” working out for you?

Never quite seems to get legs, does it? Gee, I wonder why? After all, many companies are sitting on all kinds of cash. Microsoft and Apple alone are sitting on $70 billion. Why aren’t they creating jobs with it?

Well, there’s Obamacare sitting out there. There’s lots of rumbling about tax increases. The regulation of carbon dioxide remains one of our god-king’s dearest wishes.

Why would any prudently-managed company risk hard-earned treasure in such an environment? Hey, the cash isn’t doing much, but at least we’ve still got it.

The scariest part of the whole thing is that I question whether anyone in the Obama administration really understands what’s happening. When government is your religion and big business is only useful to soak for the latest hopey-changey program, that’s what happens. Further, the administration seems clueless to the notion that a new government job needs corresponding growth (plus) in the private sector to pay for it. The new government job, by itself, is nearly useless as an indicator of economic integrity.

How much do I love it that tens of millions of voters will be going through their annual enrollment paperwork—health insurance changes front and center—right around the time they vote?

If the Republicans do take back the House, I can’t wait to see what the stock market does on Wednesday, November 3. I also can’t wait to hear what our esteemed president has to say about it.

The Great American Melting Pot

History, Liberty, Memories 9 Responses »

Jul 272010

I was five years old on July 4, 1976. The American Bicentennial was a very big deal. My whole world turned red, white, and blue. The stars and stripes were everywhere. The United States of America was 200 years old, and you couldn’t be conscious and miss that fact. That sounds like a long time—hell, [...]

Oh, NOW the individual mandate is a tax

Annoyances, Consumption, Current Events, Language, Liberty, Politics 4 Responses »

Jul 202010

“For us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase.” – Barack Obama, September 2009 It can’t be a tax increase, see. Barack Obama repeatedly promised that there would be no tax increases on the middle class during his presidency. So it may be [...]

White House says NASA administrator misspoke about Muslim outreach

Annoyances, Current Events, Language, Liberty, Politics 6 Responses »

Jul 122010

White House says NASA administrator misspoke about Muslim outreach

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden must have misspoken when he told Al Jazeera last month that one of his top priorities is to reach out to Muslim countries. “That was not his task and that’s not the task of NASA,” Gibbs said. (Bolden has made this claim [...]