What think ye, me hearties? Is it true, as some says, that on-line Porn is what really led to the demand for high-speed Internet? That Netflix, et al, came later?
Porn. Is there any positive economic development it can’t drive forward?
Via Instapundit.
Our little Barry Hussein claimed in his latest (and thankfully last) State of the Union speech that he has, wait for it, led an economic resurgence. Oh, my. Only he, his diehard supporters, and his federal statistics-gathering minions seem able to see it.
The National Association of Counties released figures the same day proving them all wrong.
“…six years after the economic expansion began, 93 percent of U.S. counties have failed to fully recover from the devastating contraction they suffered during the recession.
“Only 7 percent, or 214 out of 3,069 counties nationwide, recovered by 2015 to their pre-2008 numbers on total employment, economic expansion, home values and unemployment.”
More evidence, in case we needed it, of why ballooning Austin and Central Texas traffic has become a nightmare. Because droves of refugees from the Obama/Democrat economy elsewhere are moving here for jobs that pay better than flipping burgers at McDonald’s.
Via Salena Zito at RealClear Politics.
Posted in The Economy
Tagged National Association of Counties, Salena Zito, Wormtongue's latest fiction
Climate change ought to be a debate but is buried under so many tons of political, scientist and celebrity bullshit that the best it draws from most critics is a healthy snort.
Hey, “Hans Solo” is fighting to save the planet. Gosh I’m impressed. Aren’t you?
Me, I prefer the acerbic like Mark Steyn, a bold marauder if there ever was one. Only weak arguments, Steyn notes, require the muzzling of their opponents. Yep.
Especially when the “solution” to this weak argument is frightening in itself.
Fortunately, our Little Barry Hussein has as much influence on this as he does generally, i.e. none.
UPDATE: Lurch, our halfwit secretary of state and, not incidentally, the husband of a ketchup heiress, calls for the public shaming of climate change deniers: his master’s preferred alternative to proof or debate.
There’s nothing like photos of the Obama-Kerry power luncheon with the other elites of the Dictator’s Club (aka the United Nations) to demonstrate how the so-called climate crisis is really about us giving them our tax and utility money to go on being elites who will tell us how to live.
“There is a consensus among the political elites of the world that we must act immediately to expand trans-national government power, diminish economic liberty through taxes and regulation, shut down the fossil fuel industry, and redistribute wealth globally; all things the left wanted to do anyway. What a happy accident that these are precisely the things that must be done in order to save the Earth from Global Warming.”
I know they’re not going to get it by a vote from us little people. They may have most of the atheistic science world in their pockets, but there aren’t enough of the gullible among the rest of us to put it over.
So I presume they’ll try to take it by force—controlling our lives by taking away the coal we need for electricity and the oil for gasoline. While their lifestyles stay the same or even improve. Then we’ll see just how long they keep their power, among other things.
Via Gay Patriot & Instapundit.
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
William Butler Yeats channeling Wormtongue (our Barry Hussein), long before his earness’s birth.
Via Miriam’s Ideas.
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Not content with playing class warfare with his babble about the 99 percent vs the 1 percent, nor of constantly scolding white Americans for their alleged entrenched racism, our Barry Hussein went and criticized us before the UN. Again.
“Despite all the prosperity and peace his polices have led to [in his dreams], he said, some Americans still shamefully argue that ‘the only strength that matters for the United States is bellicose words and shows of military force.’ And they’re guided by an absolute opposition to China, Russia, Iran or Islam.”
His pals at the the Dictator’s Club (i.e. the UN) lately have declared war on, wait for it, violent video games. Which they claim are especially bad for women and girls. As usual, they have no criticism of honor killings, murders of Muslim women who “allow” themselves to be raped, and the way in which Muslim women and girls generally are treated like cattle. But, then, Barry doesn’t either.
Via New York Post
Posted in Obamalot, The Culture, The Economy
That’s the slogan on the tee shirts they should give free to everyone who attends (and applauds) a Bernie Sanders speech. You know, the Democrat front-runner.
“…much more humane,” continues commentor ThaiSmile, an anonymouse at Instapundit, “than putting them in stocks to be ridiculed, or branding with an appropriate letter so they won’t be confused with real functioning human beings.”
Re “a good old-fashioned fisking” at Power Line titled: “Bullshit From Bernie.”
Such as the notion that Muslims are supposed to do unto infidels, etc: “The idea that the Golden Rule sums up the universal wisdom of religious faith is very silly, but is commonly held by non-religious people.” People like Bernie-the-atheist.
Haven’t read a good fisking in years? Me neither. As Insty says: Read. It. All.
Via Instapundit.
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