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Thanks a bunch, chumps

Posted on December 13, 2012 | Comments Off on Thanks a bunch, chumps

“As reported by the national exit poll conducted by Edison Research, Americans aged 18 to 29 voted 60% to 36% for Barack Obama.

“Prior to Obama’s re-election, I believed that it was morally wrong for my generation to pass a crushing national debt on to the next one….With the president’s electoral crushing of Mitt Romney, my overriding sense of morality and guilt have vanished….”

Indeed. Good luck on your future, chumps. You voted for bigger government and now you’re going to pay higher payroll taxes for it.

Meanwhile, you struggle: “…with respect to median incomes [they] have dropped to $26,364, setting us all the way back to 1999.”

Keep looking for work in Barry’s pathetic economy. Don’t give up, now. And work hard, too. I don’t want my Social Security checks to be late.

My generation got old. Yours is the generation that got sold.

Via PowerLine.

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Happy insignificant holiday, or is it?

Posted on December 9, 2012 | Comments Off on Happy insignificant holiday, or is it?

Hanukkah, of course, isn’t insignificant for observant Jews. As Yitzgood says at Simply Jews: “We say whole-Hallel every day of Chanukah (unlike the last six days of Pesach when we only say half-Hallel). There is a Torah reading.”

For unobservant Jews (certainly the majority), there’s only the historical and freedom aspects. Not really insignificant but not particularly stirring, either.

Still, there are the presents, the food, the games, the envy of the gentile children for their Jewish chums that their version of Christmas goes on so long (eight whole days!), and the candles are pretty.

So Happy Hanukkah, whatever your opinion or calling. Go Maccabees!

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Behind Barry’s push for higher taxes

Posted on December 9, 2012 | Comments Off on Behind Barry’s push for higher taxes

He gets a certain amount of political capital from pissing on “the rich” (although $250,000 a year, where the higher rates will begin, is hardly rich) which seems, sadly, to still sucker in a majority of the American people.

They ought to know better by now. Many of them will reap the growth-killing unemployment.

But higher taxes also have a hidden agenda. As economist Daniel Mitchell with the Cato Institute says, they increase the opportunities for graft in D.C. via lobbyists seeking tax write-offs as well as boosting campaign contributions, and on and on.

“Yes, higher tax rates are bad for growth and competitiveness. And, yes, they are unfair and discriminatory.

“But they also foment and encourage sleaze in D.C., and that’s something that honest leftists should hate as much as the rest of us.”

An honest leftist. Hmm. There’s a thought. Seems like a contradiction in terms to me.

Via Instapundit.

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Rice, the latest distraction

Posted on December 9, 2012 | Comments Off on Rice, the latest distraction

“Rice wasn’t making life-and-death decisions on Sept. 11, 2012, when the U.S. compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi came under attack; President Obama was. Rice, therefore, is unable to answer the all-important question about what order President Obama issued upon hearing that U.S. diplomats in Benghazi were under fire. She can’t look America in the eye and answer whether the U.S. military was ordered not to rescue Americans fighting for their lives.”

First the Petraeus distraction. Now the Rice one. When are we going to find out what Barry knew, when he knew it and what he did then? Ever?

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A little-known feature of Obamacare

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Posted on December 8, 2012 in Blogosphere, Obamalot

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The dead who guard Mount Everest

Posted on December 5, 2012 | Comments Off on The dead who guard Mount Everest

It’s always interesting the stuff journalists either deliberately cover up or simply choose not to report because it conflicts with the theme or some other aspect of the tale they’ve been assigned to write.

So that when one chooses to focus on those things that are rarely mentioned about a well-known place and also to photograph them, the shock can be profound. As it is here, with the dead mountain climbers whose colorfully-clothed corpses litter the summit and near-summit of Mount Everest.

Who knew? Very few.

Via Instapundit.

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Why isn’t this guy dead yet?

Posted on December 4, 2012 | Comments Off on Why isn’t this guy dead yet?

I mean really. Can’t win wars, can’t name a jihadi event on one of their own bases for what it is, can’t try a murdering scum without tying themselves in knots. Tell me again. Why do we have a military?

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