Democrats Blame Bush for Everything – PROVE IT
March 7, 2008
I’m calling out all Democrats and liberals. Prove it. Prove that President Bush did this, and it resulted in that. I’m talking a clear case of cause and effect. Jobs, housing, oil prices, gas prices, global warming… Pick your poison and give it a shot.
Reuters just posted a story, Democrats Slam Bush on Gloomy Jobs Report. Read more
Lampposts Padded to Protect Pedestrians
March 7, 2008
You’d think it’s from The Onion, but this is posted on Yahoo’s UK and Ireland news site.
Padding to protect pedestrians (Link)
ITN – Tuesday, March 4 05:08 pmPadded lampposts are being trialled in a London street to protect inattentive pedestrians.
A pilot scheme has been launched in Brick Lane after it was found to have the highest number of ‘walking and texting’ injuries in the country.
A study carried out by 118 118 found one in ten people has hurt themselves while focused on their mobile phone screen.
The charity Living Streets is so concerned that it has teamed up with the directory enquiries service to test a scheme to wrap up the nation’s lampposts.
A poll will be carried out on Brick Lane to gauge the response of locals.
If successful, the concept will be rolled out in Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool.
Glad they have the sidewalks covered, but what the heck are they going to do for them when they are crossing the road? Pad the cars and trucks? Oh heck, let’s just make a big ball pit for these fools!
Boehner Live Blogging Budget Debate – Good or Who Cares?
March 4, 2008
The House Republican leader – John Boehner from Ohio’s Eighth if you did not know – announced that tomorrow’s budget debate would be live-blogged during the session so people can be kept up-to-date.
Maybe they will try the application that I want to use for my first session, coveritlive.com? Maybe I’ll take the day off and live blog the live blogging? Doubt it.
Anyway, these budget sessions are notorious for being long and boring. Heck, most of what congress does in session or in committee – unless they are questioning a baseball star – is boring. Depending on what’s going on, this option may be a good recap or it can be a complete bust if they post every minute detail.
Budget Battle: Boehner Announces GOP Leader’s Website Will “Live-Blog” Budget Debate Tomorrow
Washington, Mar 4 -
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today announced that tomorrow’s House Budget Committee debate on the FY 2009 federal budget will be “live-blogged” on the Republican Leader’s website. The Committee will begin consideration of the budget at 10:30am tomorrow, and the Leader’s blog will provide regular updates on its progress, including votes on key amendments, throughout the day. The up-to-the-minute budget coverage – dubbed “Budget Buzz” – will be available beginning at 10:30am at http://republicanleader.house.gov/Blog.
It’s my hope that we can get more members of congress to understand their oath of office and the entitlement programs are stopped dead. Not just a slight reduction, but stopped dead. Bring power back to the states and local governments.
Hat tip to Malkin.
Obama’s Entitlements for Everyone
February 20, 2008
Special thanks to Jim Vicevich for actually watching the full speech by Obama last night. I can’t even watch three minutes. Double thanks for sitting through it all again earlier today and editing down the message so we can get an idea of all the promises.
This is certainly not something new. Both Democrats and Republicans – including Bush 43 – create laundry lists of programs. It’s all about the entitlement agenda and the populist agenda – what can Congress do for you today?
Head over to Radio Vice Online to watch the video. Obama is speaking in Texas and specifically mentions that he supports the free market, understand that the people of Texas are independent and a self-reliant group that does not want government doing what we know we can do for ourselves. Then of course, he goes into the list.
- Reward teachers by giving them more money.
- Raise the minimum wage every year to match inflation.
- Provide a $4,000 tuition credit to those in college.
- Ensure everyone has health insurance as good as his Senate program provides to him.
- Roll back the Bush tax cuts since the rich people didn’t need them.
- Give tax cuts to everyone who makes less than $75,000 per year.
- Seniors who make less than $50,000 should pay no income tax at all.
- Raise fuel efficiency standards to bring down gas prices.
I could barely keep up as I typed out the stuff, and it will not end any time soon. One thing that you’ll note is that his agenda – no matter how well it is delivered – is the exact same agenda that Democrat national candidates have been pushing for decades. There is nothing new here, every single item on the list above comes right from the standard playbook.
Thanks for the new ideas Barak.
When is Too Much, Too Much?
February 20, 2008
Walter Williams posted a great article that fits well with our blog’s theme, a primer for the conservative basics. He takes a close look at what something costs versus the benefits gained. A couple of examples are listed.
Let’s apply cost versus benefits to anti-terrorism expenditures. Wyoming has two major cities: Cheyenne, its capital, with 53,000 population; and Casper, with 50,000. Federal and state homeland security anti-terrorism expenditures in 2007 totaled $6,673,910. What is the risk of Wyoming being a terrorist target and, if so, what is the expected cost in terms of human lives and property?
Dr. Williams’ mention of anti-terrorism expenditures got me thinking. Billions of dollars have been made available for homeland security funding at the federal, state and local levels for many years. What determines the pattern of spending from year to year, place to place?
After Sept. 11, the city of New York received billions to meet the terrorism threat. Dollars were spent on just about everything you can imagine, and maybe rightfully so. Firetrucks, special vehicle command posts, computers, weapons, monitoring systems and other hardware were purchased and brought online.
In 2005 and 2006, after sustaining funding levels for the first few years, the federal government realized that enough was enough. New York City was put on notice that the previous funding levels would not continue. Bloomberg, Clinton and Schumer all went nuts. From the Washington Post, June 1, 2006:
“As far as I’m concerned, the Department of Homeland Security and the administration have declared war on New York,” Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told the Associated Press. “It’s a knife in the back to New York, and I’m going to do everything I can to make them very sorry they made this decision.”
The problem I have is that Senators Clinton and Schumer demanded the cash flow continue, and used the threat of terrorism to bash the Bush administration for cutting funding. “We will not be prepared”, they said.
Bull feathers – and here’s a good analogy for you. If your town needed two new fire trucks (hardware) to prepare for the worst, and I gave you two million dollars to go out and buy those two trucks, would you need two million dollars next year too? Nope, you wouldn’t – you already have the damn trucks!
Liberal politicians do this all the time, and it must stop. Who said that only Republicans use the threat of terrorism to grow the size of government?
