As I prepared dinner this evening, I was listening to the Michael Savage show. The news-talk radio station that I regularly listen to finally put him on earlier in the evening and I can listen more often. He is perhaps one of the most interesting hosts on the air. This evening I tuned in and heard a discussion about Obama being described as a Robin Hood type figure who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.
This characterization drives me nuts.
This is a favorite story that I heard on the radio a few years ago…
The local school district had scheduled a meeting with parents before implementing their new sex education program. As expected, the auditorium had a lot of interested parents in attendance. The administration went through the curriculum and referenced all the relevant research supporting their lesson plans.
A father in the audience listened for a while and noticed a conspicuous absence of abstinence from their strategies. He screwed up his courage and asked why. His question was met with snickers from the audience and condescension from the educators. They were kind enough to prove him how wrong his views were. They were the experts after all. You can imagine this poor man slinking in his seat after what seemed like a scolding.
It started as a relatively modest groundswell as average citizen awoke to the path politicians were forcing us down. The groundswell was followed by a trickle as more folks got engaged and even the main stream media started to actually report rather than cheer on the Obama White House.
The groundswell and trickle has lead to a flow!
The first example is the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart. Jon is a liberal stalwart who generally leans severely left while occasionally getting it “right.” While the rest of the lame stream media ignored the Climategate scandal, Stewart made this broadcast. This must have been a shock to Stewarts audience. Ordinarily I would embed the video here, but it is no longer available on YouTube. This link will take you to the clip.
There is a local story about the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (“UPMC”) who own most of the hospitals in the surrounding area. They do not own all of the facilities, but they are getting there. Even though they are a non profit organization,
You can always tell a true "grassroots" protest by the large crowds holding hand lettered signs.
they are still a business and have to make some unpopular decisions. A few months ago UPMC announced that it was closing one of its hospitals that did not have enough patients to make it viable.
Whether you want to call it a “war on terror” as George W. Bush would or an “overseas contingency operation” as our current president prefers, we are at war. At least those who are waging battle against us are at war. I am not sure that politicians in Washington are at war or that the general public quite feels the war. This war almost came home to us again on Christmas Day with a Nigerian terrorist.
There has been a lot of discussion about what went wrong when an islamist terrorist was allowed on a plane flying into Detroit wearing a pantie bomb and was on a terrorist watch list and was given a visa by the State Department and bought his one-way ticket with cash, and was able to get his desired seat to maximize impact.
Some have suggested that the fact that the pantie bomber failed is a testament to the ineptitude of the terrorists. I believe that the pantie bomber was inept, but the network that got him to almost succeed seems pretty effective.
I had thought about the framework for this posting for a little while, but only recently found the hook that I wanted to use. I was checking in on Facebook and noticed a posting from a friend of a friend ”liking” a photograph [that actually makes sense if you use facebook] of President Obama and his family returning from their Hawaiian vacation. Many of the friends posted comments and since I surmise from the photograph that most of these folks are young I was not too surprised at the comments.
“Great picture. What a beautiful family. I’m so glad they got a chance to escape the maddness for a short vacation.”
It seems like the Republicans have failed to stop the Obamacare bill from making its way to the President’s desk to sign sometime early next year. In a rare occurrence, the Democrats have not been able to peel off one RINO from the Republican party enabling them to call this a bipartisan bill. Maybe that is because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has written the legislation in a secret chamber somewhere in Washington. His amendment was only released to the Senate after he completed the bribes to Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. The Wall Street Journal calls this a “Change That Nobody Believes In.”
As the United States’ Lame Stream Media continues to ignore the Climategate scandal, the Brits continue to be on top of things. I don’t usually post to simply link to someone’s article, but this expose from the UK’s Daily Express on Natural Climate Change Deniers lists 100 reasons why climate change IS natural. Take the time to read the list as many of their talking points are debunked.
Here are a few to entice you:
No. 8 The IPCC theory is driven by just 60 scientists and favourable reviewers not the 4,000 usually cited
I was watching the Today show this morning not out of choice, but out of love. My wife likes to watch it and I was with her this morning. I am not sure why she does not ask me to leave the room as I always feel the need to comment on their embedded bias. They are not overt about their bias; I am pretty sure that they probably do not even recognize it.