1 I woke up pissed Obambi-fuck is still our Dear Leader. It's starting to pile up in my brain. I will strangle an Obambi-tron before this is done. Book me, Dano. Murder One.

2 Gee, why would a financial regulation bill make existing financial players stock prices skyrocket? Any guesses?

3 Stay strong friends.

4 these are trying times no doubt, feel numb all the time lately.

5 Dave,
I made the mistake of reading that article and had some of the exact same take-aways.  I nearly threw up in my mouth when I read the part that fluffed B to the O for actually getting "stuff" done considering the grid-lock in Congress.  Hello...he has fng majorities in both chambers???? 

Scotty puked on his shoes with that vote...his inability to see what that pos should have been flushed is troublesome.  However, every day we have without Ted in the Senate is a better day than the alternative. 

6 OT:  President Sibilant Esses is about to give "an important foreign policy speech" at the West Point Commencement ceremony.

7 I have never gotten a coherent answer from any of my liberal friends to the simple question: "why is income inequality a bad thing." They hem and haw about fairness and access and spout all sorts of blather.

8

I'm prepared to take the long look. The landscape has changed. Granted, largely because a completely Democrat controlled Congress and White House have shoved their agenda down the throats of America.

We collectively need to grow a set of balls and shove all this shit right up their ass.

9
Well, we won't have Scott Brown to kick around too much longer; he's gone after 2012.

Why? Because he's fucking stupid. Something happens to Republicans when they get into the Senate in D.C. This is who he's listening to these days:

"It’s the kind of vote that he has to take in order to maintain a position of independence,’’ said Dan Payne, a veteran Democratic political consultant. “His reelection will be measured not by how loyal he is to the Republican Party but by how independent he is from the Republican Party.’’

_{/from boston.com}

10 Garden Weasel™, anus. Anus, Garden Weasel™.

11
Scott Brown was not elected to be an 'independent.'
Scott Brown was elected because he was supposed to oppose Obama/Reid agenda. We sent Scott to Washington to be the antithesis to Obama/Reid, not an independent.

12 This is not a Rand Paul thread!

13 Scott Brown just reinforces my new rule of never ever voting for a lawyer again.

14 Mr. Obama has been trying to reverse the Reagan thrust in some important ways. Although the Reagan administration did not shrink the size of the federal government, it changed the ways that Washington collected and spent its money, by reducing taxes on the affluent, cutting some social programs and increasing military spending.

In NYT speak, "the affluent" must mean everyone.  And what "social programs" were cut? 

15
It seems a bunch of muslims are whining about bias and being mistreated by, well, everyone else here in the United States of America.

So Obama is meeting with them to figure ways to 'raise awareness' and 'educate' people about Islam.Meanwhile...none of the myriad moderate muslims we keep hearing about have condemned the terror attacks or even helped in rooting out the extremists in their stupid fucking religion.

16 Obama is giving the commmencement address on "Enemy Territory" today ( right now as a matter of fact ) at West Point

17 "Reducing taxes on the affluent?"
Bullshit! He reduced taxes on everyone!

18 Compromise with liberals is just Mutually Assured Destruction.

19
This is not a Rand Paul thread!

After losing PA-12 it's not worth the bother to vote this November.

20 Compromise with liberals is just Mutually Assured Destruction. Posted by: conscious and saying clappers are traitors at May 22, 2010 10:47 AM (YVZlY) No Compromise with liberals is surrender

21 Compromise with liberals is just Mutually Assured Destruction. Posted by: conscious and saying clappers are traitors at May 22, 2010 10:47 AM (YVZlY) Oh and I might add, there is no compromise with these liberals

22

Mr. Slate, your incessant "stick in the eye" stuff is really becoming tiresome.

Let's talk about you.

23 OT but a chance to vote on the Poll: No more anchor babies? http://micurl.com/BtsBFc

24 Mark simone had a caller this morning.  The caller, from CT, was very upset that they nominated Linda McMahon.  He basically called her a RINO and simone, who can be so obnoxious, asked for a definition of RINO.  The guy essentially said that McMahon has historically given to dems, like RAM.  He basically said she is not a republican.  simone defended her vociferously saying that she was in business and sometimes you have to donate.  something isn't right about her...guess in CT money buys everything...Oh and they nominated that idiot too.   What are they smokin in CT?

25 OT:  President Sibilant Esses is about to give "an important foreign policy speech" at the West Point Commencement ceremony.

Look out, Jews! There's a bus barreling toward you!

26 What are they smokin in CT? Posted by: curious at May 22, 2010 10:52 AM (p302b) What ever waffs down in the wind from Mass.

27

These are the examples offered under the lede "A Progressive Agenda to Remake Washington".

If Progressives honestly identified what they wanted to Remake Washington into, they'd be tarred and feathered, so they just continue to deceive and lie.

28 Look out, Jews! There's a bus barreling toward you! Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 22, 2010 10:53 AM (mHQ7T) Maybe, but I got news for ya it's barreling towards you non-jews also

29 Can we start beating the shit out of any liberals we know now? Please? 

30 Heard a kid from West Point on the news.  He said "how often do you get your boss as your graduation speaker and he seemed quite excited"

31

Liberals view wealth as a fixed entity; pieces of pie to be distributed.  Some people get a bigger piece, they see it as "inequality".

They don't seem to get the notion that wealth is created and lost every minute of every day.  Take the wealth of the top 10% and burn it in a big bonfire, and there'll be less "inequality", but that really doesn't do much to help those at the bottom.

They'd rather have us all be equally poor than tolerate the fact that some people- usually those that create wealth- will be wealthier than someone working at Wal-Mart.

They'll get indignant and act offended if you call them Socialists... right before they follow up with asking "...besides, what's so bad about Socialism?"

32 26 Permit me to quote Ann Coulter at length here...

Boehner is like the guy who just got raped in prison and doesn't know what happened to him. Hey -- what was that? Should I have thanked the guy?

As Pat Caddell says, Democrats are whores, but they expect to be paid; Republicans' names are scrawled on the bathroom wall: "For a good time, call the GOP!"

As depressing as it is to watch the Republican Party dive headlong off a cliff, at least we have Dick Blumenthal.

Connecticut's attorney general, pompous, freakishly ambitious, self-righteous, hold-a-press-conference-every-day Blumenthal, was a shoo-in to take Chris Dodd's Senate seat this fall.

After all, he was a Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart winner from his days as a four-star general in Vietnam. (And captain of the Harvard swim team to boot!)

But now we find out from a front-page article in The New York Times that, despite Blumenthal's repeated references to serving "in Vietnam" -- he was never in Vietnam. He got five draft deferments and then joined an elite unit of the Marine Reserves to avoid going to war, serving in their heroic "Toys for Tots" brigade.

He also wasn't on the Harvard swim team. (Oddly enough, though, the story Blumenthal likes to tell about owning a necklace of human ears? That one's actually true.)

Blumenthal may as well have shown up for a press conference in a dress. Suddenly, Connecticut is in play!

Naturally, therefore, Republicans are planning on running a World Wrestling Entertainment "impresario" against Blumenthal. Yes, in Connecticut ... a state that is among the wealthiest and most highly educated in the nation ... a state that isn't Minnesota. The average Nutmegger doesn't even know what a turnbuckle is, and that includes me.

Republicans could run Rob Simmons, a Connecticut legislator with a distinguished record of service in the House of Representatives, the CIA, and as a Yale political science professor -- who actually did serve in Vietnam, winning two Bronze Stars and retiring as a colonel.

But defeat is so close! Republicans can almost taste the bitterness of yet another crushing loss!

33 If there is a theme to all this, it has been to try to lift economic growth while also reducing income inequality. Growth in the decade that just ended was the slowest in the post-World War II era, while inequality has been rising for most of the last 35 years

What is happening now is a bringing down of those not politically connected
with a very small percentage at the top having everything.

34 The NYT is preaching to its shrinking choir. It's just Commie crap. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

35 President Sibilant Esses

Haha. Yet another reason I can't listen to that Marxist shithead speak.

36

Mr. Slate, your incessant "stick in the eye" stuff is really becoming tiresome.

Go on...

37 Heard a kid from West Point on the news.  He said "how often do you get your boss as your graduation speaker and he seemed quite excited"

Bet this kid makes his roommate keep a captain's log on the bathroom door.

38 39 Heard a kid from West Point on the news.  He said "how often do you get your boss as your graduation speaker and he seemed quite excited"

Bet this kid makes his roommate keep a captain's log on the bathroom door.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 22, 2010 11:00 AM (mHQ7T)

And he's probably a member of the DADT team...

39 What is happening now is a bringing down of those not politically connected
with a very small percentage at the top having everything.

Greece is the word. Bring on the riots.

40 11...He won't see it but you're exactly right.  Brown will never get support from the democrat base because he is tainted, see Specter (Douche-PA).  And the further left he drifts, he loses the support of those who actually elected him.

IMO, any "tough" votes he has, he should lean right.  He doesn't have to be Rush Limbaugh, but it's undeniable who got him elected.  Leaning the other way on visible votes like this seals his fate as a one and done flash. 

41 "OT: President Sibilant Esses is about to give "an important foreign policy speech" at the West Point Commencement ceremony." Maybe he'll come out.

42

Mr. Slate, tell me about your dad.

43 There's another subtle swipe intended to depress the conservative wave that is building toward November, a shot at Scott Brown's vote on the financial regulation POS.

According to BB's Big Gov article that vote for the financial bill was enabled by David Vitter R-LA. He pushed through and amendment that made it more palatable.

That is one of the things that aggravates me. R's take a bill that has NOTHING in it worth a shit, and everything bad, put in a fig leaf amendment and the RINOs jump on.

This bill was never intended to be anything other than more reward for Dem cronies and a trap for Republicans. 

As for the "rich getting richer" meme on the Bush tax cuts, Bush never replied and fought back on that lie. It has been debunked over and over again on the conservative blogs with in-depth analysis, but to date, there has never been a concerted effort by Republicans to debunk it as the lie it is.

Is it no wonder that the Republicans always lose the media war?

44 42, Yep.

45 Maybe, but I got news for ya it's barreling towards you non-jews also

We're not facing another Holocaust, just the extinction of our way of life, that noble experiment called America. But yeah, that sucks.

46 Thank goodness - BHO is done talkin'.  Seemed to me that there were several rather tepid applause moments - many to do with Islam and how peaceful it is...

47
I'm like Captain Quint. I'm the guy who sits in the back during the meeting and shakes his head. Then I scratch the chalkboard and warn everyone they're walking straight into a disaster.

48 Leaning the other way on visible votes like this seals his fate as a one and done flash.

I gave him the benefit of the doubt before, but this was a lousy vote. He got rolled by the Democrats.

49 Thank goodness - BHO is done talkin'. Seemed to me that there were several rather tepid applause moments - many to do with Islam and how peaceful it is... Posted by: CJH at May 22, 2010 11:05 AM (HOTnn) I couldn't listen. He really said Islam was peaceful??????

50 Seemed to me that there were several rather tepid applause moments - many to do with Islam and how peaceful it is...

Told ya so. Jews will still vote for this assclown, too.

51 hey now, not my fault, i was drunk that night and the dog was a little slow iykwimaityd

52
Brown will never get support from the democrat base...

Not only that but in 2012 Scott Brown is getting to be shocked! when all his Democrat friends he made on Capitol Hill will nothing but nasty things to say about him and will paint him as 'right-wing as Rush Limbaugh.'

53 I couldn't listen. He really said Islam was peaceful??????

Once all the infidels are dead, they're really very peaceful.

54

Ah, the inequality line, usually phrased in terms of "disparity" or some "gap" or another.

Which I never understood. I have a gift (if you can call it that) of understanding the other guy's point of view and seeing the rationale behind his arguments. But when someone takes that tone and shakes his head and points out that the United States has one of the highest proportionate differences between the richest people and the poorest people, I respond with, "So? What difference does that make? What does that have to do with anything?"

That's when I get that look -- the You just don't get it look with the You're not one of us glare mixed in. And that's usually about the time I'm reminded that the discussion has nothing to do with economics; it's just Lenin's grand plan playing out at the interpeersonal level.

Nope. I'm not one of them, all right.

55 O/T:  Kudlow saying that BP is partners with Iran and trading with Iran.  he is wondering why none of these hearings has touched on this.   He said we have to nail BP to the wall on this and kick BP out of this country if they are going to trade with Iran.  he said they began as a persian oil company.  why isn't this coming out?  Everyone was very upset when we found out GE was selling to Iran.  Not sure if they still are since they are BBF with BO.  But Kudlow says it doesn't matter if it isn't against the law, it's morally reprehensible.

Kudlow also saying someone has a bill about the dollar which he is going to be discussing

And NEWT up next to talk about his new book but Kudlow saying he is going to ask him about this BP debacle.

56 54...of course. 

It's one lesson the R's can't learn (with the exception of Gov. Christie--Pudding, NJ).   The demos are not your friend and never will be.  Frog/scorpion and all that.

W worked with Teddy on the NCLB and accomplished nothing except the entirely predictable.

Fortunately, Brooksie has informed us that moderates are going to be a force in the near future, so we've got that going for us.

57

Islam is peaceful  when they have their foot on your throat and you have either accepted the Prophet or accepted being a dhimmi.

Or you are a woman who strays, and can be justifiably killed by your male relatives.

Or you try and convert from Islam to Christianity or Judaism, or Buddhism.

Yeah, Islam is peaceful.

One probably unspoken benefit of this whole so-called War on Terror (of course that's over now), is that a lot more Westerners actually know something about Islam now, and are not deceived so much by the "Islam is the religion of peace"  BS.  I know Bush pushed this for one reason, hoping for democratic change within the Arabic/Muslim countries, but it is ultimately a falsehood that we cannot forever tolerate.

58 The NYT can put out all the BULLSHIT it wants.  Fewer and fewer are reading it.

59

 The demos are not your friend and never will be.

i call bullshit, i'm your friend, trust me.

60 part (b) is precisely the point, only these ninnies do not understand the ramifications of killing the goose.

They're fucking the goose to death and throwing the golden eggs cars passing by, then complaining about all the "golden mess" on the roads, paying illegals to clean it up and take it home.

And for those of us who want so much to put a stop to Obama's agenda, kinda frustrating. Scott Brown is not Ronald Reagan, but neither is he Ted Kennedy.

Scott Brown is more like a retarded Benedict Arnold.  And he votes like Ted Kennedy.

61 and i'm good looking

62 "Oil Trade With Iran Thrives, Discreetly"

63
Iran has oil. The world runs on oil. That's the long and short of it.

64

I couldn't listen. He really said Islam was peaceful??????

Basically - and there was also some blather about how diverse West Point is.  I'm sure that was directed at cadets from Arizona.....

 

 

 

65 James Clavell - Shogun, Gai-Jin, Tai-Pan, Noble House,  & King Rat

Whirlwind is on deck, some time on my next flight out.

66 Newt saying Waxman didn't hold his hearing because the big companies, the ones announcing how expensive it was all going to be, instead have switeched gears and are researching ways to drop all their employees from health insurance.   Well, most of them have done that with the 401K....oh sure you can still put money in your 401K but the company is no longer contributing at all.

67 #64  Oil is fungible.  Even if we don't directly buy Iranian oil, it still gets here through other means.

68 Concentrate on Shore scandal..

Glenn has laid out the whole list of scumbags.

Takedown a couple of them and the whole thing is exposed.

Only way to stop this.  Commies control media hollywood, wall street, laraza, acorn,

where is the gop voice....under a mountain of cash.

69 33

Liberals view wealth as a fixed entity; pieces of pie to be distributed.  Some people get a bigger piece, they see it as "inequality".

Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 22, 2010 10:56 AM (plsiE)

They also never get that no matter how much money the rich have, it's quality of life that's important.  I don't have a money bin to swim in like Scrooge McSoros, but I'm not exactly picking through his garbage looking for scraps of food.  The gap between rich and poor has been getting narrower for a hundred years.

70

I don't claim to know much at all about Islam, but one thing I have learned is that one of its major tenets is the COMPLETE integration of church and state - thus you have "The Islamic Republic of ___________" throughout the Middle East.  That's what drives all the calls for sharia law in England and other European countries, and it's diametrically opposed to everything we know in the US.  Stalemate at best....

71 What are they smokin in CT?

CT is a Soviet state inhabited by pretentious elitist pricks. There is no hope there. None.

72 #71  The gap between rich and poor has been getting narrower for a hundred years.

Clarence Thomas (or was it Walter Williams?) once described the rich/poor "gap" from this perspective.  Imagine two guys, one who's annual income is 100k and one who's annual income is 10k.  What if their incomes were then doubled, to 200k and 20k respectively?  Has the rich/poor gap been widened?  Yes, but have both men's lives been improved?  YES.

Libs either don't intuitively get this or don't want to get it.

73 Obama is giving the commmencement address on "Enemy Territory" today ( right now as a matter of fact ) at West Point

Posted by: nevergiveup at May 22, 2010 10:46 AM (0GFWk)

I am just thankful we are still able to change the channels on our television sets.

74

Basically - and there was also some blather about how diverse West Point is.  I'm sure that was directed at cadets from Arizona.....

While visiting the Annapolis High School Navy Junior ROTC program yesterday, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead said his top long-term priority is increasing diversity in the officer corps

75 Posted by: Rat Patrol at May 22, 2010 11:37 AM (dQdrY)

Do they not remember some events or do they conveniently forget them?

76 I never listen to his speeches I find them tedious, boring and mean spirited towards the wrong people.

77 #76  Why is "diversity" now a goal in of itself?

I don't care what color the officer corps are, just as long as they are competent and dedicated to country.

78 76

Basically - and there was also some blather about how diverse West Point is.  I'm sure that was directed at cadets from Arizona.....

While visiting the Annapolis High School Navy Junior ROTC program yesterday, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead said his top long-term priority is increasing diversity in the officer corps

Oh goody! The US military will be performing as well as most Fortune 500 corporations.

79

Canada is the largest exporter of oil to the United States.  About 20% more than Saudi Arabia, the next one on the list.

 

Mr. Slate, did your dad work in the oilfields?  Did he ever come home, how to say it, angry?

80 79 #76  Why is "diversity" now a goal in of itself?

I don't care what color the officer corps are, just as long as they are competent and dedicated to country.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 22, 2010 11:41 AM (Acgmr)

What's wrong with a little diversity?

81 76...yep, the Armed Forces are now being led by men and women who have been force-fed "diversity" for 18+ years in the public school system. 

If one truly believes all races are equally capable of excellence, doesn't it follow that if you pursue recruiting excellent people diversity will necessarily follow?

82

"Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead said his top long-term priority is increasing diversity in the officer corps."

That sort of statement overlooks the fact that grads have to have a talent for higher math and engineering studies.

Oh, and minorities that do have such talent usually apply that talent in the private sector instead of the armed services.  That's reality.  Gary Roughead is in for some disappointment.

83 The Republican party though, is looking at RINOs with "The trend is your friend" attitude when it comes to tendering candidates for office. Seems that there are a different species pandering to conservatives, moving further left. If we wind up with another Bush-type, elitists have won, we lose, and take default third world status position. Game-over. No return to US Const. will make up for the socialist movement by all elitists. Socialism is indoctrinated into all elites, its all about control and power over the people, been that way since the French Revolution, its humanist nature.

84

"Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead said his top long-term priority is increasing diversity in the officer corps."

In the name of diversity, maybe he should be the first one to offer up his position to someone of a another ethnicity.  Come on asshole, set a fucking example...

85 57...I like LK and usually agree with his positions, but he wrote something I read this week that made me throw up in my mouth a little.  Regarding the crisis in Europe, he pushed an "answer" that does include government intervention.  His point was that extraordinary circumstance, blah, blah, blah.  He even prefaced his solution by stating his free-market cred. 

So, LK, if government intrusion is the answer in tough time, why wouldn't it work even better in not so tough times?  Are you saying free-market principles only work when things are good? 

I just don't get it, how this stuff escapes really smart people.

86 #83  If one truly believes all races are equally capable of excellence, doesn't it follow that if you pursue recruiting excellent people diversity will necessarily follow?

Correct!  Damn the libs and their bigotry of low expectations. 

87 So, LK, if government intrusion is the answer in tough time, why wouldn't it work even better in not so tough times?  Are you saying free-market principles only work when things are good? 

I just don't get it, how this stuff escapes really smart people.

Posted by: The Hammer at May 22, 2010 11:47 AM (YBTwf)

Kudlow is deeply invested in his V shaped recovery he has been pushing for the last couple of months and he sees it slippping away so he is pulling out the stops to keep it going. He has already said the economy is going to suck next year but be great this year so he is hoping the government dump a bunch of sugar into the economy to get it through December.

88 88...Mrs. Hammer has hiring authority in her career and we discuss this all the time.  She loves having people from different backgrounds IF AND ONLY IF they are exceptional candidates. 

Diversity for diversity's sake is a pox on our culture. 

89 Correct!  Damn the libs and their bigotry of low expectations. 

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 22, 2010 11:47 AM (Acgmr)

At least we havn't started giving medals for NOT killing the enemy yet. Oh wait, never mind.

90

Ah, the inequality line, usually phrased in terms of "disparity" or some "gap" or another.

Which I never understood. I have a gift (if you can call it that) of understanding the other guy's point of view and seeing the rationale behind his arguments.

From their point of view, wealth is a fixed commodity.  Therefore, one can only become wealthy by denying wealth to others.  If only "the rich" didn't have such a big piece of the pie, there'd be more to go around.

It's a completely ignorant viewpoint, but it's how they think.  They see the rich as only having gotten there through an unfair advantage and by somehow "stealing" from the less well off who would have more if not for "exploitation" by the wealthy.

There's a reason that lefties have always had a soft spot in their hearts for Marxist / Socialist / Communist "revolutionaries" around the world.

91 89...pretty self-serving, eh?  Reminds me of the corporate executives who are all free-marketey, until they can use government intrusion to insulate their own positions/companies from competition.  If they truly believed in free-market, they would relish everyone having the same opportunities. 

To me, free-market principles are like eating healthy and government intrusion is junk food.  Sure, you can get away with junk food now and then.  In fact, some junk food gives a great temporary feeling and can be "worth it".  But, in no way is a junk food diet EVER superior to a healthy diet.  Especially when one is already deathly ill.

We've lived on a sugar-high so long that we're addicts.

92

From their point of view, wealth is a fixed commodity.  Therefore, one can only become wealthy by denying wealth to others.  If only "the rich" didn't have such a big piece of the pie, there'd be more to go around.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 22, 2010 12:04 PM (plsiE)

It's not just wealth.  The main problem - the genesis - of the left's problems with all of their theories is that they are STATICISTS.  They view the world as static and unchanging.  This is why they so naturally move to centralized control, because it is simple and efficient to centralize control for a static system.  When all needs to do is assign the number of paper clips going to desk #25432 for the month, there's no reason nor need to have that decentralized.

Growth and dynamics kill all implementations of leftists theories ... which is why leftist control structures fight against dynamics and growth and move to stagnate everything they touch.  Of course, in the real world, stagnation is death.

93

89...pretty self-serving, eh?  Reminds me of the corporate executives who are all free-marketey, until they can use government intrusion to insulate their own positions/companies from competition.  If they truly believed in free-market, they would relish everyone having the same opportunities. 

There is more crony capitalism going on now than ever has before I would guess. GE the company Kudlow works for and the company that has 3 Obama boosting TV networks took $148 Billion in TARP funds and got a special exclusion that none of their execs would be subject to salary or bonus controls. This year GE made $10 Billion but paid $0 income tax because they had a loss in the US and were able to defer their offshore earnings.

Even when the crony corps. pay taxes they do so willingly and happily because the government has already either blocked anyone competing with them or loaded them with government cheese. So while they may pay alot of taxes they double their profits anyway. That's the danger of letting 47% of the people off the hook on income taxes, the government depends on high earners and corporations to fund them so those individuals get the cheese.

94 "If there is a theme to all this, it has been to try to lift economic growth while also reducing income inequality."

Every time I hear this, it infuriates me. You cannot have both at the same time!  And the reason that we have "poor" people over the last 3 years is because the government pays them to be poor!

95  Of course, in the real world, stagnation is death.

~progressoverpeace

I disagree.  Stagnation is party time for me.

96 Canada is the largest exporter of oil to the United States.  About 20% more than Saudi Arabia, the next one on the list.

No, Mexico is next. Saudi is fifth or something. And Canada exports not 20% more but about twice what Mexico does.

97

There is no downside to "income inequality", at least, none that anyone can point to with any accuracy. So fucking what if incomes aren't equal? Why is that a relevant argument? Incomes have always been and will always be unequal. That's life.

I don't understand this focus on income disparity, to the exclusion of wealth creation. Progressives want to paint capitalism as anti-social for not insuring that everyone makes the same amount of money? How insane is that?

98

I don't understand this focus on income disparity, to the exclusion of wealth creation. Progressives want to paint capitalism as anti-social for not insuring that everyone makes the same amount of money? How insane is that?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at May 22, 2010 12:21 PM (i3AsK)

It's called socialism.

99

Ironic how Michelle was making $500,000 a year doing nothing at that hospital job, which didn't exist before they gave it to her and no longer exists now that she is First Lady, when other people who were doing nothing had a much lower income.

Seems to me there is some inequality in that.

100 100...because wealthy need government less.  And there is only one way to get a society where all income in equal.  And that way insures the power of the political class has infinite shelf life. 

101

The Hammer, #83: If one truly believes all races are equally capable of excellence, doesn't it follow that if you pursue recruiting excellent people diversity will necessarily follow?

Yes, of course. But then they would get to pick themselves by being excellent -- kind of like how the best products, services and ideas make themselves successful in a free marketplace.

But we don't want them to pick themselves. We don't want to surrender our influence to natural forces, even if the natural way finding excellence is better than our way. We want to do the choosing. We want to be able to steer things according to our ideals, needs and wants.

That's why diversity tops our agenda.

(end, chanelling the progressive mindset)

102

Last? Wow.

It must be a nice day everywhere.

Hellooooooooo!

103 57 BP negotiated for the Lockerbie bomber to be released in exchange for oil contracts with the Libyan government. As predicted, it led to Gordon Brown losing his job, though he had fucked up on several other counts. But Obama's going to do jack shit about this. Holder brokered the deal to set Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi free. In case you haven't noticed, this administration has is fine with Iran getting nukes and bringing back the twelfth imam.

104

... looooo!

... looooo!

105 Iran has oil. The world runs on oil. That's the long and short of it.

We have oil. Sarah Palin knows a fuckton about it, and she has bigger balls than anyone else in the GOP excepting Chris Christie. We need a President in the White House who will take no shit from the UN, will free us from our dependence on foreign oil, and will teach these camel jockeys some manners, starting with how you're supposed to treat a woman.

106 Speaking of the religion of peace, women who look good in a swimsuit and the end of the world, Newsweek had a better take on Miss Michigan than this blog or HotAir...
Outside Looking In

Is Rima Fakih a Westernized Muslim just because she wore a bathing suit? Not necessarily.

Read it.

107 2 Gee, why would a financial regulation bill make existing financial players stock prices skyrocket?

Any guesses? Posted by: dr kill at May 22, 2010 10:26 AM

According to the financial news, it "wasn't as bad as EXPECTED".

108 I don't understand this focus on income disparity, to the exclusion of wealth creation. Progressives want to paint capitalism as anti-social for not insuring that everyone makes the same amount of money? How insane is that?

Of course, don't forget that the piles of money that a leftist makes is all pure and 100 percent earned, and in their minds they deserve every penny.

Ever hear a lawyer or Hollywood leftist complain that they make too much money and they don't pay THEIR people enough?

109

The NYT: consistantly putting on parade its confusion between the words "progressive" and "progress."

I've noticed a recent cuddly-uppiness to Reagan here and there. Yeah, lowering taxes is progressive, Einsteins.

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