Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Odd Thoughts

Obama: King of manipulative words and prince of misdirection

Obama the Clueless
Barack the Shameless

Carolyn: If you believe that one you’ll believe anything Obama says.

I have seen the light at the end of the tunnel and it is the fires of Hell. Anon.

In a free market, earning money is a reward for innovation and good service, and your invitation (from the public) to do more of it.

In a rare moment of candor, Obama “Energy Czar” Carol Browner said to 1. US News & World Report last year: “We need to make sure that …[e]ventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able [sic] to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won’t operate at its peak, you’ll still be able to cool your house, but that’ll be a savings to the consumer.” (emphasis added)

Rosenberg and Birdzell summarize an indispensable key to western economic growth: “The West’s sustained economic growth began with the emergence of an economic sphere with a high degree of autonomy from political and religious control.” In other words, our prosperity flowered only when the state started resisting the urge to do “something.” It’s scary that the economy’s autonomy from political control is now shrinking fast.

Is pus green the color of enviormentalism? Is the whole green movement just a sign of an infection in the body of mankind? Is the infection building and growing in pressure so that green pus erupts from even the slightest scratch or wound on the body poitic?

Free markets overwhelmingly benefit, not businesses, but consumers. Alas, we as consumers, unlike we as producers, are so diverse and numerous that we as consumers are rationally ignorant of the too-often negative effects visited upon us as consumers by government policies – policies often supported by businesses

DAVID HARSANYI: “Immigration” isn’t the problem. For the most part, the controversy we face isn’t about immigration at all. It’s about the systematic failure of federal government to enforce the law or offer rational policy. There’s a difference. I add: more worried about salt, obesity etc.

We can call this malady Gorism — living not merely at odds with your zealotry, but living entirely against your zealotry — and it seems to reflect a few assumptions of the modern progressive elite that are not mutually exclusive: a) Penances and Indulgences. A life professed spectacularly at odds with one lived seems a psychological mechanism akin to medieval penance. The sinner finds exculpation through loud confession of, or material payment for, his sins. And the payment is not just for past hypocrisies, but works preemptively — in the expectation of present and future enjoyments to come once the pay-as-you-go formula is established: one new docudrama about a polar bear trapped on a melting ice shelf, one new mansion in and about Santa Barbara

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