Nothing infuriates me as much as people who argue with statements of fact when facts belie their simple-minded beliefs, like “you can do anything you set your mind to”.
I refer to a conversation I had yesterday with a state employee who stubbornly asserted that anyone can be a successful salesperson, regardless of age, gender or appearance.
That’s just flat-out stupid.
Month: October 2008
Guilt By Association
I suspect that with his history of supporting organizations like Acorn and friendships with people like Ayers, Barack Obama wouldn’t be able to obtain a Top Secret clearance or get a job with the Secret Service.
Then, how can he be the leading candidate for the Presidency?
Anyone who knows the criteria for either of the above credentials care to comment?
A Mystery
I’ve had a hard time understanding how anyone in my acquaintance could either support or defend Barack Obama.
That’s because I believe, or believed, that my friends and closest relatives have above-average intelligence and political sensibilities and are liberty-loving people.
Obama asked the Justice Department to shut down the American Issues Project for running ads about his relationship with William Ayers.
This past August, the Obama campaign encouraged supporters to intimidate radio station WGN by flooding the show with calls when respected conservative commentator Stanley Kurtz was a guest on the Milt Rosenberg show.
Incredible, isn’t it, that liberal news organizations like the Washington Post and the New York Times have ignored these assaults on freedom of political speech, simply because of their adolescent infatuation with a fascist who wears clothes well and has a good speaking voice.
National (Bloody) Brotherhood Week
Between Sandra Bernhart’s cursing the “goyisha, shicksa” New Testament, Madonna’s screaming “I will kick (Sarah Palin’s) ass” and the cropping up of putrid green “Sarah Palin is a C*” t-shirts, it’s been all about the intolerance of the Obamacons this weekend and the MSM’s relative silence thereon, the LA Times being a notable exception.
Chat with Countrywide
I phoned Countrywide today to see if I could get in on any of the sweet-sounding (2.5% interest) deals that are being offered to their 2/28 customers.
Turns out, I can’t.
Healthy Eating
For a while now, I’ve been paying close attention to my diet, avoiding fatty and sugary foods, falling off the wagon only for savory carbs.
That, plus occasional exercise and meds, have caused my blood pressure and cholesterol levels to plummet, and that’s good.
I’m so tired of being good, though.
I want a thick steak, a lobster, a salad with about a cup of Roquefort dressing, and a piece of pecan pie with an equal amount of whipped cream.
After all my clean living, though, if I ate a meal like that, I believe my stomach would eject itself.
Delahunt Was Right (Again)
Thanks to our congressman Bill Delahunt and his colleague Stephen “Iron Worker” Lynch for voting against the second, pork-laden version of the so-called bailout bill, which was passed by the House after it grew from $700 billion to almost $1 trillion.
Post-Bailout Dismay
Can’t express it any better than this, from Quin Hillyer of The American Spectator:
“Matters got worse when, after principled House members of the right and left combined to slow down the legislative stampede, the Senate decided to collectively play mob boss. By attaching this incredibly important and deservedly controversial bailout bill to not one but two utterly unrelated bills — one on mental health, and one on tax policy — the Senate stole the House’s constitutional prerogative to originate all revenue bills, used extraneous items as both bribe and blackmail to force the House’s hand, and muddied waters that needed clarifying.
“Meanwhile, the presidential campaign is marred, on one side, by a radical and utterly unaccomplished leftist ideologue joined by a serial plagiarist and exaggerator, and on the other side by a man temperamentally unsuited to the presidency joined by a running mate of high character but embarrassingly low familiarity with national affairs of state.
“Yes, this is bad. Actually, awful.”