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That explains both of these posts from this week. The topic however is not China but Rev Wright
Wright’s radioactive because he’s vocalized what most liberals really think, but are too afraid to say out loud.
“If you start from the idea they are all Marxists, it makes perfect sense”
Update: hotair notices
…and something struck me how quintessentially liberal it was. Take a look at the scene that Rob Reiner and Aaron Sorkin (the writer) must have thought was deep and profound.
The president beats his breast because the janitors on the 3rd shift at Libyan the intelligence are about to die because he has ordered a retaliatory strike at the Libyan intelligence building for an attack on Israel.
But consider, instead of striking during the first shift when the actual planners of the attack can be killed he chooses to hit the 3rd shift because it has the least amount of people in the building. He is more concerned about his feelings than stopping people who were killing American and Jews.
Of course since he allows the planners and the pilots who struck to survive they will be able to plan the next attack. When that next attack comes, and it will since he let them live, and more Americans and Israeli’s die he, like the liberal he is, will beat his breast again and kill more janitors.
This is the essential problem with modern liberalism, it’s not about actually helping people. It’s about making people feel good about themselves. It’s about them being able to say to themselves and others “I’m a good person“. That is the primary goal, and if someone actually gets helped along the way it is a bonus extra, and if not, well we had good intentions. That’s obamacare all over.
It’s isn’t a bad movie (it’s essentially a love story wrapped in a leftist fantasy, every conservative is painted as evil or a bigot, but I’m a sucker for a story when the boy gets the girl) and the flower shop bit is really funny, but Douglas’ character was right. When he decided to kill janitors instead of murderers and their enablers it was the least presidential thing he had done.
That’s modern liberalism. Period!
Update: This post by Don Surber is exactly what I’m talking about.
This is what happens when you take a much longer nap that you expect (and dream that you have already woken up).
Let’s start with Baldilocks who finds that one can’t escape liberalism even at a TED conference:
…notice the language the guy is using here. He’s speaking to one political party, one political tradition, about another political tradition or two. The entering argument is that everyone at TED, each of those well-off fancy schmancy hoi polloi types, is assumed to be of one political persuasion.
Well of course they do, you don’t think that there are any of the central Massachusetts rednecks there.
Damian Thompson has two beauties at his place. The first focusing on priests unclear about the job description:
The Church must turn back to prayer and place God, and not itself, at the centre of this prayer. At the same time it should re-emphasise that suffering and pain are not best papered over with folksy communal singing and hand-shaking any more than they are by narcotics or recreational sex.
Indeed. And there’s the further danger, of course, that exposure to Celebration Hymnal folksy communal singing might drive sensitive souls to narcotics to erase those shocking memories of elderly groovers…
Shades of the Curt Jester there, his second concerns SMP (stand media procedure) of trying to smear the Pope and the informed nature of the commentary.
And then there is this gem:
The Pope is pretty unassailable. He is not elected…
Ruth, it long ago became clear to me that you do not know nearly enough about the Catholic Church to comment on it authoritatively. But surely even you have heard of something called a conclave.
Ah, nothing like those layers of fact checkers that the media employs.
At David Pinto’s Baseball musings we see a really interesting article on the all time doubles record that has stood for nearly a century (The great Tris Speaker with 793):
Whoever is going to break the record needs to be close through age 34. Albert Pujols currently has 387 doubles through age 29, so he has to hit 200 more doubles over the next five seasons to really have a shot at the record. With his current average of 45 doubles a year, he should be able to break the record. If he averages 35 a year over the next five seasons, however, I doubt he’ll get there, because he’ll only decline more after that.
There is an experience curve to home runs that someone compensates for the decline phase of power hitters. Since home runs are purely about the swing, better pitch recognition and perfection of the swing with experience can keep totals high as other skills decline. Doubles, however, are also about speed, and experience can’t help there much. Maybe a batter will recognize a mistake by an outfielder and stretch a single into a double, but the pure speed doubles go out the door.
Speaker is one of the great players who has been forgotten these days. He doesn’t deserve to be.
Finally at American Freedom Barbara Espinsoa continues her series of “Jukebox John McCain” in her words “Changing his tune on every issue”. Today’s topic Military issues:
1. McCain recently claimed that he was the “greatest critic” of Rumsfeld’s failed Iraq policy. In December 2003, McCain praised the same strategy as “a mission accomplished.” In March 2004, he said, “I’m confident we’re on the right course.” In December 2005, he said, “Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.”
2. McCain has changed his mind about a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq on multiple occasions, concluding, on multiple occasions, that a Korea-like presence is both a good and a bad idea.
Barbara’s site was trying to re-direct me, might be an embedded ad or script gone wrong. I dropped her an e-mail about it, if it starts to happen to you just click on the “Stop” (red x) button once the site comes up. She is all over the race in Arizona.
Update: E-mailed Barbara there was an issue with a gadget, it’s now fixed.
Well that will do for now, we’ll have more on Monday.
…had an article (via Glenn) that is a scathing critique of the City and how it is run, two things jumped out at me, neither of which were a surprise:
#1 The Rush was Right moment.
If you actually Listen to Limbaugh show, you will note that for years he’s said that liberals are all about intentions and not about actual results. It doesn’t matter what you actually DO as long as you believe the right thing and mean well. From the article:
In 2007, the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) held a seminar for the nonprofits vying for a piece of $78 million in funding. Grant seekers were told that in the next funding cycle, they would be required — for the first time — to provide quantifiable proof their programs were accomplishing something.
The room exploded with outrage. This wasn’t fair. “What if we can bring in a family we’ve helped?” one nonprofit asked. Another offered: “We can tell you stories about the good work we do!” Not every organization is capable of demonstrating results, a nonprofit CEO complained. He suggested the city’s funding process should actually penalize nonprofits able to measure results, so as to put everyone on an even footing. Heads nodded: This was a popular idea. emphasis mine
How dare you prove that you are actually accomplishing something, or providing measurable peer reviewed results! What do you think, we have the entire Climate change industry to help manage data?
#2 Yomi Agunbiade.
The story of Yomi Agunbiade is the story of a man whose incredible fiscal and organizational incompetence was not enough to remove him, but the following was:
Rec and Park spokeswoman Rose Dennis claimed that Agunbiade had been sexually and religiously harassing her for years, and produced letters he’d sent to her home as evidence. She confirmed to SF Weekly that Agunbiade’s letters urged her to stop wearing revealing clothes so that she could get right with Jesus.
Don’t get me wrong, this guy belonged out. If the fiscal stuff wasn’t enough he has no business pressuring a subordinate on religion, but the irony is delicious. What type of harassment can actually get someone fired in SF? Not sleeping with an employee (like the Mayor) but urging them to dress modestly. That’s crossing the sexual line! If only he had promoted fisting to youngsters, he could have gotten a federal job and Media Matters could have backed him up.
Considering the reputation and demographics of the City, what were the odds that the poster child for bad bureaucracy in a San Francisco Paper would be a zealous Christian? Then again you have to sell the papers IN San Francisco.
The really sad thing about this is the taxpayers really mean well. They want to do good but they are betrayed by their own principles.
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