Living in the Long Tail
Borepatch has another excellent post, this time examining how the Long Tail effect of the Internet distribution of information impacts the political class.
This is a hat trick for BP this week. Highly recommended reading.
The Progressive Promise
Borepatch hits another one out of the park, this time analyzing the progressive value proposition and the arrogance of the left.
The arrogance of the Obama administration has been breathtaking to behold. And it has had terrible consequences for the Democrats. I find the plan to try to ram through healthcare, again, shocking. Do it again, but harder?
Borepatch has an interesting analysis of the recent announcement by the Obama administration that Americans can be targeted for assassination if the administration believes that they are about to commit terrorist acts.
I think he is right on the money…by punishing the right for outrageous statements and rewarding the left, the press shifts the efficient frontier of stupid comments to the left. Finally, a cogent explanation for Robert Gibbs!
And I have to agree with this:
Like I said, I don’t believe that the Fed.Gov is fixin’ to put my name on a bullet. I do think that the Obama administration is filled with an astonishing number of hacks that are itching to flex the muscles of the Organs of the State. And that they’re too stupid (yes, that’s the right word) to know just what a whirlwind that they’re sowing.
Lets not forget that the folks around Obama have a history of this kind of thing. Can anyone say Bill Ayers?
And another thing
Another thought about the US budget. People have referred to the “surplus” that US enjoyed under the Clinton administration. The US never had a surplus under Clinton. We may have had (and this is arguable) a positive cash flow under the Clinton administration. But our balance sheet was always in the red.
What I learned in business school
This morning’s headline on Drudge Report: “Obama finds $20 Billion in cuts!”
Sounds good…lets run the math:
FY 2010 budget: $3.55 trilllion
FY 2010 deficit: $1.17 trillion.
Savings as a percentage of the budget = 20/3550 = .56%
Savings as a percentage of the deficit = 20/1170 = 1.7%
Um…keep looking, Barry!
Dogs and cats, living together…
From our WTF? department…
I got a letter from a friend of mine this weekend. She is a Irish Catholic from Massachusetts, and when we were in college, we would often spar Democrat versus Republican. She graduated from our school, and for the past 10 years has been a cloistered nun. The high points of the letter:
- She has realized that the Kennedy’s are morally bankrupt.
- She’s glad that Scott Brown has won, after all it is the peoples seat.
- She wanted to tell me that she was wrong all those years ago.
- This is proof that miracles happen.
When you have lost Irish-Catholic Massachusetts cloistered nuns…bad juju.
Panic room prevents assasination…Idiot survives
Panic room saved artist Kurt Westergaard from Islamist assassin
He did not have time to collect the child from the living room before locking himself into a “panic room”, a specially fortified bathroom. He said the assailant had shouted “swear words, really crude words” and shrieked about “blood” and “revenge”, as he smashed the axe in vain against the bathroom door.
“I feared for my grandchild,” he told Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that had commissioned the cartoon. “But she did great. I knew that he wouldn’t do anything to her.” He went on: “It was close, really close. But we did it.”
Really, Kurt? No time to collect your 5 year old granddaugher before locking yourself in the bathroom? And you knew that the axe wielding maniac wasn’t going to hurt her? Good for you.
I hate to say this, but I think that the kind of person who would lock themselves safely away while leaving their young granddaughter defenseless is the worst kind of scum.
MAIG’s secret plans
Sebastian at Snowflakes in Hell has obtained a copy of New York mayor Micheal Bloomberg’s recommendations to the Obama administration on how to restrict gun ownership. It’s worth a read.
Kudos to Sebastinan. He is doing some great work out there.
Some related headlines
See if you can spot the link.
Democrats plan nearly $2 trillion debt limit hike
Senate set to advance $1.1T spending bill
For feds, more get 6-figure salaries
IRS hires “hundreds” for new wealth unit
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