Today's Recommended Reading

This is an interesting and rather creepy article regarding George Soros, the Secretary of State Project, and voter fraud.

From One of the People Who Brought You Airplane

David Zucker, one of the co-creators of the Airplane! movies, amongst other spoofs, has made a video skewering Senator Barabara Boxer (D. Cal.) for her infamous "Call me Senator, please" chiding of a Brigadier General during hearings. I only wish it were enough to put her down in the polls. Unfortunately, the Real Clear Politics average has Senator Boxer up 4.3 points in the various polls, though she appears to be trending downward in her fight against Republican hopeful Carly Fiorina.

Bias? What Bias?

This article from NewBusters shows NPR's Nina Totenberg (who once suggested God might give Jesse Helms or his grandchildren AIDS from a blood transfusion) and Newsweek's Evan Thomas discussing the upcoming November elections on "Inside Washington". If you ever doubted that media bias tends to the liberal view, their discussion should clear things up for you. Apparently the American people voting conservative is to be a source of fear or a joke of historic proportions.

Then there is this phone call from an Alaska news station that someone didn't properly hang up. In it the reporters appear to be discussing possibly creating negative stories against GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller. I would have thought his cheesy permanent 5 o'clock shadow would be negative enough.

There was a time when the media at least didn't openly mock conservatives. The derision is getting out of hand.

Today's Recommended Reading

I normally don't use the "Recommended Reading" posts to refer to someone who I think is an idiot, but I think it serves as an educational experience to read the moronic ravings of left-wing ideologue Paul Krugman of the New York Times. In this editorial he predicts that history books will speak of the disaster rained down on America by Republicans taking control of the House. As opposed to the disaster of President Obama. He's right to some extent. Since the liberals right the textbooks, it probably will be portrayed as a horrific event. Reality will speak otherwise.

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Part II

I wrote earlier about Joe Sestak (D. PA) helping promote a fake Tea Party candidate to draw votes away from his Republican opponent. Further, Sestak was asked to drop from the primary to allow Arlen Specter (RINO Monday 2-5 pm, Democrat the rest of the week depending on polling) to take the Democratic nomination in exchange for what he termed a job. Now comes word that former President Bill Clinton (Felon, Ark.) asked Senate candidate Kendrick Meeks (D. Fla.) to drop out of the race so that the supposedly independent Charlie Crist (see Arlen Specter), who I've written about before, could defeat the Republican candidate, Marco Rubio (Cubans know better than to vote Democrat/Castro). This because Democrats are worried that the charismatic Rubio would attract Hispanics to the Republican party. Winning at any cost because power is the only goal.

Dear Nanny Government, Can I Stay Up Past Midnight Tonight?

Baltimore, a city so crime-ridden that HBO has a dramatic series based there, is definitely looking out for its citizens' safety. You of course are thinking they just hired some great police chief known for turning around cities with bad crime problems, or maybe they elected Rudy Giuliani as mayor, or maybe they've beefed up the police force. Nope, they've handed out their first ticket for dangerous butter. The city banned trans fats in amounts over 0.5 grams in non-prepackaged foods in 2009. The particular offender had been using a margarine with 3 grams of trans fats when it first came to the attention of the city that they were utilizing this margarine to murder and rob its citizens. When the city followed up on this dangerously aggressive murderous activity, they found that the offender had raped dozens, if not hundreds of citizens with its replacement 2 gram trans fat margarine. Remember that "slippery slope" argument that everyone guffawed at that when government becomes involved in running health care they become involved in every part of the citizenry's lives? I give you the Baltimore nanny state.

By the way, the ban on trans fats came into effect September 2009. According to the Baltimore police, in the first three months of 2010 there were 41 murders, 29 forcible rapes, 690 robberies, and 1,130 aggravated assaults. This is by no means an exhaustive list of the crimes and there is a separate category of "violent crimes" that is undefined, so I didn't give the number. This is just in a city, mind you, not a state. Assuming the statistic cited in the article of 30,000 deaths per year nation-wide attributable to trans fats (which is something that doesn't appear on coroner's cause of death options) is correct I think the city has bigger problems than making sure you don't enjoy your meal. The priorities of government are upside down from reality.

Liberal Idiocy in a Nutshell

Vice President Joe Biden was quoted as stating the following at a fundraiser for Representative Tim Bishop (D. NY):

“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive,” he said. “In the middle of the Civil War you had a guy named Lincoln paying people $16,000 for every 40 miles of track they laid across the continental United States. … No private enterprise would have done that for another 35 years.”

Note the complete disconnect from reality and the utter disrespect for private enterprise. Liberals believe that all good things stem from government, not individuals. It boggles my mind that Mr. Biden (who is known for his verbal gaffes) actually thinks this way but it certainly explains their policy world view.