Imagine the Outrage if Bush Was President

We have the Obama administration advocating the police having the power to track you by putting GPS devises on your car; by warrentless cellphone tracking; and for killing US citizens by Executive Branch fiat.

There's nothing but silence from the MSM. There would be a drumbeat of outrage if Bush, not Obama, was the President.

Thanks to CNET, SlashDot, Slate and other organizations for publishing this information. I'm not saying that the MSM doesn't cover this, only that there isn't a "public outcry" against Executive Branch infringement of basic individual liberties. Compared to the Patriot Act, which extended existing law (except for money transfers) this greatly expands the police power of the state.

Court allows warrantless cell location tracking

Police Can Put A GPS Device On Your Car Without Your Consent

Intelligence chief acknowledges U.S. may target Americans involved in terrorism

So Jews vote Democratic because Republicans are Racist and Anti-Semetic?

Two professors, one from Stanford and the other from Columbia University released a study in which they "explored people's responses to the economic collapse and tried to determine how anti-Semitic sentiments might relate to the ongoing financial crisis."

They found that roughly one quarter of the US population thought that Jews were to blame for the current crisis (moderately, a lot, or a great deal) with 15% thinking that Jews were a "little" bit to blame with 60% thinking that no blame whatsoever ought to be ascribed to Jews.

Now, who but Hitlerite nuts would think that "the joos" were to blame? Well 32% of the Democrats did and 18% of Republicans.

In their article in the Boston Review the authors write:

Interestingly, Democrats were especially prone to blaming Jews: while 32 percent of Democrats accorded at least moderate blame, only 18.4 percent of Republicans did so (a statistically significant difference). This difference is somewhat surprising given the presumed higher degree of racial tolerance among liberals and the fact that Jews are a central part of the Democratic Party’s electoral coalition. Are Democrats simply more likely to “blame everything” thus casting doubt on whether the anti-Jewish attitudes are real? Not at all. We also asked how much “individuals who took out loans and mortgages they could not afford” were to blame on the same five-point scale. In this case, Democrats were less likely than Republicans to assign moderate or greater blame.

State of the Nation: Anti-Semitism and the economic crisis by Neil Malhotra and Yotam Margalit

May I suggest to the authors that they look into the rise of anti-semitism amoung the American Left over the past 30 years?

Unfortunately the internals of the poll were not revealed. I would love to see a break down (between Republican and Democrat, income level, etc...) of people who selected that the joos had "a lot" or "a great deal" to do with the current economic situation.

Another Ignorant, Snarky Piece Published by the NYTs

Well, who would have thought, another ignorant and snarky article published by the New York Times. I would have commented on the site but it looks as if the Times doesn’t like competing viewpoints in their comment section. They close their comment section so quickly that I feel they only want comments from those for whom the NYTs is the FIRST read of the day.

Sarah’s Amazing Race
By GAIL COLLINS
Published: September 1, 2010

IGNORANT:

Almost no one expected her to lose — certainly not the Alaska Democratic Party, which had dumped its nomination on Scott McAdams, the affable mayor of Sitka, a town with 9,000 people and no road access.

Only a fool from the lower 48 would say something as silly as this. Sitka is not an insignificant town in Alaska, whether it has 9,000 people of not. As far as having no road access out of the town, well neither does Juneau, the capital of Alaska.

SNARKY & IGNORANT

Whether Palin’s backing made any difference to the 28 percent of eligible voters who flocked to the polls is unknowable.

Ms. Collins needs to review the voting percentages nationwide. Twenty-eight percent of eligible voters in an off-year primary is excellent. I’m sure that Ms. Collins knows that but wants to illicit sneers and snorts from her readers.

SNARKY:

In her spare time, the former governor of Alaska is making speeches at $75,000 a pop. To which she must be flown first class, as per her standard contract, or in a private plane that “MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger.”

Does anybody doubt that the Palins had a simple life in the years before Sarah Palin was selected by McCain? Is there anything wrong with being able to command $75,000 for a speech? Regarding the Lear 60 or larger: The question should be “how much more expensive is the Lear 60 option than flying first class?” Gail, how about if you get a research assistant to look into this. Is there any reason that she shouldn’t have this option? She doesn’t pretend to be little-miss-housekeeper or struggling; only that she is still a down-home gal. It’s been two years since she entered the national limelight. Twenty-years from now, as a multi-millionaire, I don’t think she could still properly call herself a “down-home gal" but if Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, both multi-millionaires now, can maintain a "down-home gal" sensibility decades later why sneer at Sarah Palin?

EXTRA-SNARKY AND IGNORANT

A new Vanity Fair profile by Michael Joseph Gross suggests that Palin does still cut costs by being an extremely bad tipper. The piece also resurrects the charge that she does not actually hunt, and claims that Todd had to scour the neighborhood to find some moose to put in that chili when a TV crew came to call.

This is really stupid. His outdoor cred cannot be better. Only a snarky ignoramus could think that a small-town Alaskan oil worker and champion snow-mobile racer is BSing about moose hunting. As for having to scour the neighborhood for moose I didn’t read the article but how about this scenario: that the reporter comes; talks the Palins; the conversation turns to moose chili; it not being moose season the Palin’s don’t have any moose; and wanting to make some moose chili for out-of-town guests they “scour the neighborhood to find some moose.” The sheer fact that they have to scour the neighborhood implies that when the Palins were interviewed moose season was long gone and everyone was out of moose meat. DUH.

I must say, another brilliant piece published in the Times. It's a shame that many, otherwise intelligent and educated people, will fall for this trash.

Passing HealthCare will save the Democratic Majority

So after all those promises by Obama, his staff and the pundits, that if Congress "just passed healthcare" everything would be alright in the November elections. We were all told that the reason that Clinton "lost" the House in 1994 was the fact that HillaryCare wasn't passed. That being so, it was necessary for Democratic congressmen to pass ObamaCare in order to remain a majority party. Well, the elections are coming up really quickly and we find that the Democrats who voted against ObamaCare are touting that in their ads and those that did vote for ObamaCare are very quiet.

I would like to know: how many Representatives and Senators who voted for ObamaCare are now trumpeting that fact to their constituents?

Hahahahahaha

Ryan Frazier (CO-7) is tied!

Magellan Strategies has conducted a poll on CO-7 and shows that Republican Ryan Frazier is statistically tied with Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter. (He’s leading in the poll 40-39).

Among independents Frazier is leading 37-27 with 20% undecided. I wonder how many white Democratic Coloradans who call for “diversity” are going to vote for Ryan Frazier? In the end the call of diversity always falls to the clarion call of “government knows best.”


Colorado 7 Magellan Poll

Trinidadian Immigrant Selected by Republicans to be the Lt. Governor

Jennifer Carroll, a Trinidadian immigrant was selected by Rick Scott, the Republican nominee for Governor of Florida, to be his running mate. She was a US Naval Officer for 20 years and was first elected as a Republican to the Florida State House in 2002.

Jennifer Carroll is in the red at the right.

Those Tricky Racist Republicans

Those Republithugs sure are tricky. First they nominate a child of Sikh immigrants to be Governor of South Carolina, then they nominate Black representatives to seats that they might actually win such as Tim Scott (SC-3) and Allen West (FL-22) now a West Indian immigrant has been selected by to be the Lt. Governor in Florida.