Posts Tagged ‘reality’

The Boom is lowered

Posted: February 18, 2009 by datechguy in catholic
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At the Corner George Weigel fires the big guns in the Pelosi Pope meeting:

As her performance on Meet the Press prior to last year’s Democratic national convention made painfully clear, Pelosi is deeply confused about what her church teaches on the morality of abortion, and why. She may have come to her bizarre views on her own; it’s far more likely that she has been un-catechized, so to speak, by Catholic intellectuals and clerics who find Catholic teaching on life issues an embarrassment among their high-minded friends and colleagues of the progressive persuasion. Whatever the source of her confusion, Pelosi has now been informed, and by a world-class intellectual who happens to be the universal pastor of the Catholic Church, that she is, in fact, confused, and that both her spiritual life and her public service are in jeopardy because of that.

It is not for nothing that the subject of Abortion was totally absent from the speakers office’s statement.

Barbarian bottom line

Posted: February 15, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Mark Steyn gets to the heart of the matter concerning the head of a TV network out to combat the negative public image of Muslims who has beheaded his wife in Buffalo:

Look at the late Aasiya Hassan, beautifully coiffed, glossy-lipped. On countless occasions since 9/11, I’ve found myself at lunch or dinner in New York, London, Washington, Paris or some other western city, sitting next to a modern Muslim woman like Mrs Hassan telling me how horrified she is at how hijabs and burqas, honor killings and genital mutilation, forced cousin marriages and the disproportionate number of Muslim wives in European battered women’s shelters, how all these have come to define Muslim womanhood in the 21st century. Yet Aasiya Hassan ended up no differently

That bottom line is whole point. Apparently the national media sees no story here however.

Update: The Reclusive Leftist asks where the blogisphere is on this story. Well the right side of it is present and reporting for duty.

Update 2: Glenn Reynolds nails it:

HEADLESS BODY in Legless Story. If a Mormon had done this, it would be all over the news. Or a Baptist.

Obama the Nixonian

Posted: February 15, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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You know it took decades for Nixon to get his reputation as a liar. This president is managing it pretty quick.

You might recall candidate Obama promised to use public funding. That was a lie.

The congress had voted to allow 48 hours before the vote took place, democrats refused, a lie:

Instapundit reminds us of the promise to not write legislation behind closed doors. A lie.

Hotair reminds us that President Obama promised that there would be a 5 day comment period before signing a bill. He is planning to sign it tomorrow. If he does it will again be a lie.

And don’t forget the rendition discussion, a matter important to the left.

Don’t forget the Caterpillar plant double speak either.

Nick Guariglia asks why anyone is the slightest bit surprised:

What could anyone have possibly expected from a young, overtly leftist Chicago upstart who had accomplished precisely nothing of significance throughout his short career — and yet still promised the world, and more, to his loyal adherents?

Consider his campaign pledges: It wasn’t too long ago that Obama promised to “tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over.” Ah, the corporate lobbyist, every candidate’s favorite whipping boy. “They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president,” Barack once swore to his sea of idolizing worshipers.

That was then; this is now. President Obama has allowed seventeen exceptions to the no-lobbyist rule. And remember that “sunlight before signing” pledge, giving citizens enough time to read a bill — and offer their opinions on it — before it is signed into law? Well, that’s gone to the wayside, too.

I forgot the lobbyist promise, his conclusion:

During last year’s campaign, critics of Barack Obama contended he was too inexperienced, too leftist, and in a sense, too good to be true. He was, we observed, just another politician — in fact, one uniquely entrenched with Chicago corruption and archaic tax-and-spend philosophies. In other words, a less noble Jimmy Carter.

My take: I think you could see who this guy was a mile away and people just didn’t want to see it. So as always we get the government we deserve.

UPDATE: Sweetness and Light lists 7 broken promises.

…speaking of a real winner

Posted: February 14, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…how about congresswoman Grace Napolitano. Hotair tells how to get rich very fast as a congressman or woman:

Here’s how it’s done:

1. Withdraw money from a pension or tax-protected savings account to justify charging yourself an interest rate that would make most credit-card companies blush.
2. Pay only the interest as long as possible on the loan.
3. Hold fundraisers specifically to retire the debt you owe to yourself, and make sure donors understand exactly where that money goes.
4. Give yourself all the donations from those fundraisers.

Once you have that system established, it allows contributors to stuff money into your pockets as long as the loan remains outstanding. At 18% interest, that could go on for decades, and in Napolitano’s case, she already has one decade on the books. Napolitano has managed to keep more than half of the debt alive as principal while earning almost 150% just on interest payments — and at this rate, she could do this for another twenty years.

This shows once and for all that its not the rules, its the people. Elect honest people and the rules don’t matter they will remain honest, elect dishonest people and they will find a way around rules.

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