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What If Everything The Left Has To Say Is Pure Crap? UPDATE: A Shiny New Word

Posted on | October 30, 2011 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

Pick the issue:

  • Anthropogenic Global WarmingClimate Change
  • Sovereignty
  • Borders
  • Raaaaacism
  • Entitlements

and now

  • Income Inequality

Whatever the Left seems to spew seems R – O – N – N – G – G wrong!
From the American Enterprise blog, building upon Census Bureau data, we find that:

According to three different Census Bureau measures, income inequality in America increased only gradually from the 1960s through the mid-1990s, but since then has remained relatively constant. Therefore, the factual record of income data in the United States certainly doesn’t support the claims that income inequality has “exploded” recently. A more accurate description of income inequality over the last several decades would be to say that it “flat-lined” starting in about 1994.

On the one hand, it it still crucial to kick the tires on what we think, lest we fall into ideological idiocy like the Left.

On the other hand, it is increasingly tiresome when those offering criticism do so in what appears to be consistently bad faith.

Update: I’d like to coin a neologism: hypodrachmaphobia (n) 
The fear that somebody else might be making more money than you, triggering a strong urge to covet, followed next by hate and then a compelling need to get a tax law passed that will help redistribute some of that bad, bad capital your way.

Update II: Linked at The Rio Norte Line, with a fine survey of Michelle Obama campaign hijinks.

Category: Progressivism

Great Advertising Gimmick; Also, Stupid

Posted on | October 30, 2011 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

One cannot fault their capitalism.

Proudly announcing a ‘Real Food Revolution – Paleolithic cuisine!’, there is no cheese, bread or sugar available, only fare accessible to our hunter-gatherer ancestors more than two million years ago.

How, short of a time machine, do we really know anything about what went on that long ago, pray tell?

It’s not to say that archeologists are stupid or anything, but we tend to assert that the ancients didn’t know much until we find some evidence that shows people were not morons before Isaac Newton. Flipping the discussion around, if there was evidence that they had produced a Taco Town Taco, would that make the ancients smarter, or dumber?

Looked at yet another way, if the Noble Savage Myth is valid, why aren’t these #OWS losers really going primitive? Put up or shut up, clowns.

via Drudge

Category: Uncategorized

Let’s Just Scuttle Everything And Become An Ant Colony Or Something

Posted on | October 30, 2011 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

#OWS: you can take your warmed-over Rosseauian ‘collective liberty’ nonsense, spread it on bread, and see how well it feeds you.
#OWS: your ideas are false, un-American, and I hope your ideas die a cold death this winter.
via Andrew Breitbart

Update: linked at BitsBlog.

Category: Progressivism, Uncategorized

Great Moments in Blogging

Posted on | October 30, 2011 | 2 Comments

Tramps like us:

“Driving back from Sioux City last night, it dawned on me. The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.”

Category: Blogging, Iowa

It’s Bad Enough That The World’s Youngest Blogger’s Intro To Navy Football Was A Flogging

Posted on | October 30, 2011 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

I mean, you’re trying to show the guy the old school,
and then some wiseacre pulls a stunt like this.

There are words for people like you, Steve Burri, and those words are not nice. Not nice at all. And the World’s Youngest blogger speaks for himself:

Category: Wisconsin

FMJRA 2.0: Technical Difficulties

Posted on | October 30, 2011 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Unfortunately, one of the casualties of our server move this week was the sooper-sekrit software which makes doing the FMJRA merely difficult instead of damn near impossible. Smitty is working on the issue, but for now the best I can do is list our top linkers:

  1. The Pro From Poca (12)
  2. The Camp Of The Saints (10)
  3. Herman Cain PAC (9)
  4. (tie) Daily Pundit and Conservative Commune (7)
  5. (tie) Lonely Conservative and Nice Deb (6)
  6. (tie) Da Tech Guy, Pirates Cove, and Wintery Knight (5)

Also, we scored four Instalanches this week, which did VERY nice things to the hit count.

Also also, thanks to Proof Positive and Dell Hill for mailing in their links this week.

Hopefully we’ll have this little problem resolved by next week; in the meantime, if you’re on Blogger or LJ  or something else that WordPress hates, please e-mail me your links by November 4 with “FMJRA” or “Shameless Blogwhoring” in the subject line. Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

 

Category: FMJRA Award

In Which I Talk About New Media

Posted on | October 30, 2011 | 8 Comments

Video of my five-minute spiel during the New Media panel discussion at the Maryland Conservative Action Network’s “Turning the Tides” conference Saturday:

Category: Blogging, Maryland, Video

Allen Barton With Some Good Tax Talk

Posted on | October 30, 2011 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

Barton and the lads are well worth your time, contrasting the plans of Cain, Paul and Perry. Which almost sounds like a folk trio, but, no: those are your GOP presidential hopefuls.
Click the image to view.

Category: PJTV
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