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Bushwhacked, Part III
Stay home, Jeb. Narconomics 101. Mimi outclasses Elizabeth Alexander. Three cheers for GWB. Plus more.
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Of course, this is concomitant upon Coalition and Afghan forces
providing security for farmers against Taliban retaliation
(though in the long run, such retaliation is counterproductive
for them). We must also ensure that the money paid out to the
farmers stays with the farmers, and is not siphoned off by
government graft, Taliban tax collectors, or local warlords on
the make. But, overall, this approach has the potential to cut
the legs out from under the Taliban's money machine.
-- Stuart Koehl
Falls Church, Virginia
THEY'LL MAKE TIME
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s No Time for Mischief:
Neither the current president nor his predecessor knows anything about markets. The very fact that Bush’s bankster buds came out screaming for bailouts to serve their own personal pecuniary interests spoke volumes. The solutions which both (socialist) presidents advocated are prescriptions to create an interminable quagmire in the manner of FDR in order to justify perma-government fascism.
A truly free market would liquidate the losses and rebuild. Instead, in the classic government line, "I’m from the government and am here to help you," the beasts of the meltdown want to do everything to avoid the consequences of horrible prior decisions. When your banking system is insolvent you don’t throw more money at it -- it must be liquidated and rebuilt. The same applies to the auto industry -- totally demolished by greed, government, and good intentions.
Trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see is hemlock for any economy -- free enterprise, statist, or something in between. Again it is all predicated upon the juvenile avoidance of pain and responsibility showing that our leading lights all graduated magna cum laude from the institute for advance soviet economic studies.
Alas the derivatives problem is the cancer which will kill the stroke victim. At 770 trillion USD and growing and in its late stages of development it is impossible to cure. The current economic order is totally kaput and will have to be rebuilt. Putting the patient on life support is a recipe for perpetual economic crisis.
I’ll go one step farther than Limbaugh -- Obama is making Clinton
look Churchillian…and I do pray for his utter failure.
-- David Bonn
COMPASSIONATE PLEA
Re: W. James Antle, III's Change Has Come:
When faced with a difficult pregnancy and the possibility of a
life for the fetus/baby of profound sickness and pain a loving
mother is confronted with an impossible choice. This is the very
complicated situation that many women find themselves in. Their
desire to choose stems not from self-interest but from a profound
love for their unborn child. The easy, and over-simplified,
pro-life argument is that theses women are making a choice base
on selfishness. That is almost never the case. Who are we to sit
in judgment of these women? Be thankful if you have never been
confronted with such an impossible choice, and have compassion
for those who have to choose.
-- Brian Broker
SOURCE CRITICISM
Re: S.E. Cupp's The More Things Change:
Many thanks to Miss Cupp for sharing the correspondence.
I was struck by this one:
"You don't get the overwhelming intelligence of Mr. Obama and how outclassed in everyway McCain and the Alaska Governor were." Stuart Sovatsky, Ph.D.
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Michael L. Hauschild| 1.26.09 @ 6:55AM
I marvel at the eloquence of Broker and Erbe. “Walking a mile in someone else’s moccasins,” implied by the former and stated by the latter is the most profound form of communication available. Hogue had the best line though, “The truth seems to be intolerable to those who do not practice even a pretense of honesty.”
frost| 1.26.09 @ 7:48AM
Yup. Mr. Bonn nailed it, then Mr. Broker. Michael's response (above) acknowledged a fine quote; the morning has, at least, started in a positive fashion. Now, think I'll move on to the fondling and media masturbation from the so-called "conventional" (AKA cheerleading) press accounts, along with the Pabulum Puke glad-handing accorded our Marxist-leaning president and his socialist congress...
No, on second thought, perhaps I'll bypass those sheep and retain my optimistic feelings while walking the dog and cooking some breakfast....
Life is Good.
Thomas| 1.26.09 @ 12:01PM
Mr. Bonn is correct in his assessment of the current financial malaise and the means necessary to correct it. But, there may be historical forces at work here that will make any other course than the one we are presently on impossible.
Though many argue, correctly, that the current economic downturn is not analogous to the Great Depression, there are striking similarities.
First, we are in a worldwide recession that is forcing much of the free world toward socialism. The trend toward increased socialism has been underway for nearly half a century, but this situation is providing the impetus toward near totalitarian socialism in the western democracies.
Add to that the fact that China has been building up a military capability many times greater than is necessary to protect its national interests and foreign defense responsibilities [of which it has virtually none], a resurgence of military chest beating by Russia and the close alliance of both with Iran, a destabilizing nation in the Middle East who is making moves to give it a strategic advantage in that region, and you get a picture of the world in the 1930's.
Hopefully, steps can be taken to forestall a repeat of history from the 1940's. But, the prior and current administrations and their Congressional allies are not doing it.
Appleby| 1.26.09 @ 1:02PM
On the day when the world, including Kanukistan, as playing 14 year old girl to King O's Jonas Brothers imitation, I took time off from work to do a bunch of things I needed to do and keep away from any of the relentless shrieking, fainting, throwing up and seizures going on all around me including at my office. I walked into a pub I had been wanting to try, at lunch time. I was the only person in the place, and the teevee was filled with shrieking and fainting and falling about. When the waitress came up I asked, "Can we turn that off?" She refused, and I told her that I could not eat in a situation that made me nauseous and walked away.
About 3/4 of my church believe that this sock puppet is the antichrist and he proves it every time he opens his mouth. Now they aer publishing his Little Book of Quotes to go along with it.
I hope when the shrieking, fainting and seizures are over, the people who discover what they have done will repent and turn away. Anybody who does, see you at Galt's Gulch.
ruth| 1.26.09 @ 7:40PM
Mr. Broker, do you have compassion for the millions and millions of perfectly healthy babies who have been aborted since Roe v Wade became law? They didn't get to choose, someone else chose for them.
Alan Brooks| 1.26.09 @ 10:43PM
Jeb or Neil Bush
Joe Heathen| 1.27.09 @ 12:10AM
Palin - Blagojevich 2012! Because you know they're already mavericks!
David Govett| 1.27.09 @ 12:18AM
Move the White House to the precise demographic center of the U.S. Since that point moves continually, better make it the Mobile White House.
jhhg| 11.19.09 @ 10:22PM
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