Empire Strikes Back: The Great Recession is even effecting the Galactic Empire. The dark side must be hard up for cash. Darth Vader robbed a bank yesterday. He didn’t really use the Force, though it turned out that the Force wasn’t that big of a deal by the final installment of the Star Wars saga.
The Progressive Ideal: Fast on the heels of the death of the climate change bill, progressives everywhere are asking themselves, “What happened?” Mitch Perry at Creative Loafing quotes the following from a Washington Post article by Perry Bacon Jr.:
Joshua Freed, who directs the clean energy program for the centrist think tank Third Way, said the contrast shows the challenge Democratic leaders face when trying to marshal support for climate measures within Congress.
“China doesn’t have these problems,” Freed said. “It should be a wake-up call that the same day Republican opposition kills a carbon price in the Senate, China announces it will put a price on carbon in 2011.”
What kind of wake-up call is Freed talking about here? Should the U.S. dissolve its government and become a one-party totalitarian state? That’s the progressive ideal, except with the pesky human rights baggage. The Democratic party: a kinder, gentler totalitarian state.
D.C. Fires 241 Teachers for Incompetence: I haven’t actually read this article. I just like the headline, though it would be much better if it were legislators, as in, D.C. Fires 241 Legislators for Incompetence. That number sounds about right, though maybe 100 or so shy of the reality.
Massachusetts Over Taxed? The haughty, French-looking former-junior-now-senior senator from Massachusetts, who by the way served in Vietnam, is in the news again. Senator John Kerry has been docking his yacht in Rhode Island to avoid Mass. taxes. You have to love these transparent losers. Kerry has no problem soaking the public, unless, of course, he’s the one being soaked. These incompetent legislators turn their super soakers on the American public then cry like babies if someone turns a dollar-store water pistol on them.
The Racism Olive Branch: Shirley Sherrod is on the march. The same woman who didn’t correct an an audience full of racists is now in the name-calling business. On CNN Sherrod told Anderson Cooper that Andrew Breitbart wants to take us back to the days of slavery. Let the healing begin! Anderson Cooper didn’t challenge the smear, because he’s a pretty-face journalist masquerading as a poor man’s Phil Donahue. Cooper is skeptical of anything to the right of Michael Moore, but anything to the left he accepts without question. What an idiot.
Off to Priest Lake: That’s all I’ve got. I have three books to read over the next week. I have Sir Arthur Conan Dole’s Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Vol. I and II. Another book I’m really looking forward to reading is Daniel Okrent’s Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. I intend to drink heavily during the reading of Last Call. It seems only fitting. You may recall that, in an earlier post, Club Soda called for Prohibition reparations to be paid with a keg in every fridge.
Toga, Toga, Toga!
Progressive lawmakers across the nation are trying to reform one of the biggest problems facing the United States. Yes, the electoral college. Twice in American history the person with the most votes has lost. Critics complain that our election system is too complicated. I complain that if you believe it’s too complicated you probably shouldn’t be allowed to vote. The electoral college exists for some clear historical reasons. It keeps states like California, New York, and Texas from bossing everyone around. Given all the problems in California and New York do we really want that mob deciding national elections?
The original electoral college wasn’t designed for a direct election. The only directly elected politicians were supposed to be the House of Representatives. Now we have a slightly different system today. However, I love the idea of Massachusetts giving their electoral votes to the popular vote winner. That would create all kinds of awesome possible election scenarios. Imagine if Obama loses the popular vote and has enough electoral votes, but Massachusetts gives their votes to the popular vote winner. There would be rioting in the streets.
Ed Schultz, who hosts his own show on MSNBC radio, just confirms everything I believe about militant progressives. They have no problem with voter fraud.
Schultz is just another reason why MSNBC is unwatchable. Fox has its problems, but MSNBC is officially Kookyland.
Tomorrow the state of Massachusetts is set to replace the late Senator Kennedy. The current political climate is so toxic for Democrats there’s a chance that Republican Scott Brown could win. Obviously, the Democrat Martha Coakley has run a terrible campaign, but it shouldn’t matter in a state as liberal as Massachusetts.
Here are a couple of questions from a recent poll that I found shocking.
Q15 Do you think that Congressional Democrats are too liberal, too conservative, or about right?
Too Liberal……………………………………………… 53%
Too Conservative…………………………………….. 14%
About Right …………………………………………….. 33%
Q16 Do you think that Congressional Republicans are too liberal, too conservative, or about right?
Too Liberal……………………………………………… 12%
Too Conservative…………………………………….. 53%
About Right …………………………………………….. 35%
53% of people in Massachusetts think the Congress is too liberal? This is a pretty grim scenario shaping up in November. Call me pessimistic but I just can’t imagine Coakley losing tomorrow. My guess is that there’s an enthusiasm bias in the polls. Democrats aren’t excited and are embarrassed for supporting a horrible candidate simply because there’s a (D) next to the name.
Maybe I’m wrong, but when the leader of the Democrats in the House says, “Let’s remove all doubt, we will have health care — one way or another,” they’ve gone past the point of no return. The Democrats ignored real reform and are hellbent on taking over 1/6 of the economy.
Thanks to this article in The New York Times more paranoia can be added to those who receive a speeding ticket. According to a new paper by Michael D. Makowsky, a doctoral student in economics, and Thomas Stratmann, an economics professor, both at George Mason University, if you are driving through a cash-strapped state there’s a greater likelihood of receiving a ticket. This is especially true in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts where many municipalities have a cap on property taxes. In these areas the chances of getting a ticket are even higher. It’s almost like taxation without representation, but not quite.
They examined every warning and citation written by police officers in all of Massachusetts, excluding Boston, during a two-month period in 2001 — over 60,000 in all. Their conclusion wasn’t shocking to an economist: money matters, even in traffic violations. They found a statistical link between a town’s finances and the likelihood that its police officers would issue a speeding ticket. The details are a little sticky, but they show that tickets were issued more often in places that were short on cash, and that out-of-towners received tickets more often than drivers with local addresses.
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