The Other McCain

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‘This Whole Capitalistic System Is Basically in Place to Rip Your Ass Off’

Posted on | August 29, 2011 | 27 Comments

Ace of Spades discovered this “philosopher of economics”:

Lots of f-bombs and other NSFW language here, but the really necessary content warning involves the coffee-spewing moment at which she starts talking about her “ancient ancestors.”

Watching this lady explain her worldview, I found myself wondering if she’s been hanging out with Peggy Joseph.

Probably because I’m such a horrible racist.





And yeah: My ancient ancestors said you should hit the tip jar, because otherwise I’ll be getting ripped off by this whole capitalistic system.

UPDATE: Commenters inform me that Darleen Click’s ancient ancestors deserve credit for discovering this video.

UPDATE II: Wait a minute — Darleen gives credit to Full Metal Patriot at Left Coast Rebel, who gives credit to Kira Davis. You racist crackers need to get this cleared up. That’s all I’m sayin’ — y’know what I mean?

UPDATE III: My video reply:

UPDATE IV: Thanks to Serr8D for pointing out that this lady Alberta Parish has a blog, where she posts lunatic gibberish like this:

Based on recent discovery of the so-called origin of Hebrews; THERE IS NO HEBREW RACE! THERE IS NO JEWISH RACE EITHER! Hebrew or Jew is related to a religious institution and the ideology associated with it. The story of the biblical Hebrews from Genesis to Malachi is pure fiction because Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Solomon, etc. are fictional characters created by an ancient priesthood after the exile of Israelites to Babylon in 586 BCE. These Israelites were the inhabitants of Canaan (aka modern-day Israel and Palestine), and NOT the so-called biblical Hebrew or Jewish race. The biblical Hebrew and Jewish story is the literary fictionalized version behind the real history of Africans living in Canaan, because this land was also part of Africa before being renamed the Middle East. The so-called “biblical Jews” in the First Century were citizens of Judea. This land was also called Palestina (“Palestine”) by the Romans, and the people were called Palestinians. These people were dark in complexion. What you see living in the State of Israel today are Khazar Europeans, and they originally migrated from the northern Caucasus region, which include Georgia and southern Russia. The Khazars claim a biblical history that isn’t theirs, because the biblical history of a Jewish people as descendants of Abraham is pure myth.

Scratch an Afro-centrist and an anti-Semite bleeds.

Category: Ace of Spades, Economics, Video

Alas, Tomorrow Is Not Election Day

Posted on | August 29, 2011 | 6 Comments

Hot Air Headlines citing an article in The Hill about Obama’s prospects: “If the election were next Tuesday he’d lose. That’s how bad it is.”

No doubt that is true — anyone can look at the polls pitting Obama against a “Generic Republican” and conclude the same — but the hypothetical “if” posits two scenarios that don’t match the facts:

  1. Obama’s opponent won’t be a generic Republican; and
  2. The election isn’t next Tuesday.

Earlier today I had a phone conversation with Ladd Ehlinger in which we both lamented some of the internecine unpleasantness regarding the Republican primary candidates. When Ladd made reference to the fact of Rick Perry’s current front-runner status, I pointed out that Perry hasn’t even been in a debate yet. There will be three GOP debates in September (Sept. 7 at the Reagan Library, Sept. 12 in Tampa and Sept. 22 in Orlando) followed by a Sept. 24 Florida straw poll.

Perry may still be the front-runner when September is said and done, but there’s no need to race ahead — borrowing tomorrow’s trouble as it were — and fret about the “what-if” scenarios as if we could predict the future.

So all the ugly infighting, predicated on the notion that our August arguments will determine the future viability of Perry’s candidacy, is as much a waste of breath as talking economics with Democrats.

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Polls

Talking Economics to Democrats Is Probably a Waste of Breath, But …

Posted on | August 29, 2011 | 8 Comments

. . . Texas congressional candidate Roger Williams gave it a try:

(Via Barbara Espinosa’s American Freedom.)

ROGER WILLIAMS FOR U.S. CONGRESS
He Knows How to Talk to Democrats

Category: Congress, Election 2012, Republicans, Texas, Video

Discrimination Against the Ugly? Expect a Class-Action Lawsuit by Smitty and Me

Posted on | August 29, 2011 | 33 Comments

Conclusively demonstrating that aesthetically impaired Americans suffer economic disadvantages, an academic writes in the New York Times:

A more radical solution may be needed: why not offer legal protections to the ugly, as we do with racial, ethnic and religious minorities, women and handicapped individuals?
We actually already do offer such protections in a few places, including in some jurisdictions in California, and in the District of Columbia, where discriminatory treatment based on looks in hiring, promotions, housing and other areas is prohibited. Ugliness could be protected generally in the United States by small extensions of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Ugly people could be allowed to seek help from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other agencies in overcoming the effects of discrimination. We could even have affirmative-action programs for the ugly.

You laugh, but it’s really no laughing matter — although, 20 years ago, I myself used to laugh at the beauty-pageant finalists who, during the interview segment of the competition, would tell the emcee that their career ambition was to be a television news anchor.

Print journalists have an instinctive contempt for the overpaid show-biz of TV news and tt never occurred to me, during the first dozen years of my career as a journalist, that anyone gave a damn what a writer looked like. Then I arrived in Washington, where journalists are often also TV commentators, and was shocked to discover the advantages enjoyed by the camera-friendly. Read more

Category: Culture, Rule 5

How About That Commitment To Mediocrity

Posted on | August 29, 2011 | 25 Comments

by Smitty

Update: crossed out a word, added a couple to the first sentence of the second para to avoid a friendly fire incident.

Insty links spaceflightnow.com discussing the possible abandonment of the International Space Station. The Russkies are having lift problems, which puts them ahead of the U.S., which currently ain’t got no sack whatsoever.

This is why I’m not sure it’s good not to be purely libertarian on the topic of space. I don’t know what the libertarian argument in favor of a space program is. As a conservative, one can ask if, unlike ObamaCare, space flight can be argued as a federal task. Space actually has significant national security impacts, and falls neatly under the federal task to provide such.

And have a space program we should. Its one of those national inspiration things that are cool, without explicitely making other countries look bad. We all benefit from the technology trickle-down, like the integrated circuit for the Apollo program.

Instead of pushing the edge, we get ObamaCare. Managing individual health is not a federal Constitutional task, irrespective of the mental gymnastics of the lawyers and judges. Beside being wrongheaded, and wasteful, socialist programs like ObamaCare insidiously divert resources from inspirational programs like space flight, and pour them down a mediocre money hole of health care. Instead of motivational pictures of the stars-and-stripes on the moon, we get a pallet of generic cough syrup that does little but provide jobs to some paper-pushers. Certainly doesn’t improve anyone’s existence.

Set low goals; fail to meet them. Thanks for nothing, Progressives.

Category: Uncategorized

“Act Now,” Says Lagarde, As In “Keep The Kabuki Caterwauling, Kids”

Posted on | August 29, 2011 | 3 Comments

by Smitty via Drudge

“The standard old bits of farce are losing traction on the world stage,” she was not quoted as saying, “as more people have access to information. [NSFW] 73 percent of Americans are no longer able to suspend their disbelief for our merde.”
What she did say was:

She called for a “mandatory substantial recapitalization,” through private channels if possible, but otherwise through some form of public, Europe-wide funding, such as the European Financial Stability Facility.
Lagarde also warned advanced economies away from tightening their belts so fast that it imperils recovery.
“Put simply, macroeconomic policies must support growth,” the former French economy minister said. On Friday, she made the same point in a phone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama, in which the White House said they agreed on the need for policies to spur job creation.

Translated out of Prog-speak, this means:

“Public officials must re-invigorate their dance routines, and shake their money-fabricators, to keep the audience focused on policy as the ultimate source of solutions. If the lumpen proletariat goes old-school and relies on archaic sources such as the private economy, capitalism, and individual industry to recover from the idiocies of globalization, then the very core of Progressive Theater itself could be threatened.

  • Bureaucratic slugs could find themselves exposed to the harsh light of competition.
  • People may realize that musicians using AutoTune are self-identifying as useless hacks.
  • Independent thought could break out, triggering a loss of faith in Holy Progress.

This possibility must, of course, be crushed like Gibson guitars.”

progressive twig on the warpath

Christine Lagarde of the IMF demonstrates a new move, the 'bureau-karate chop', for use when acting in roles that save the global economy.

Category: Economics

‘Self-Appointed Republican Elites’

Posted on | August 29, 2011 | 17 Comments

Nothing says “grassroots populism” quite like a column in Politico:

A wave of fear has come over Washington — and it’s not the earthquake or the hurricane. Self-appointed Republican elites, fretting Hill Republicans and left-wing carnival barkers all have one thing in common: Perryphobia.
It’s an acute condition, with different manifestations. But it has the same root cause – arrogance toward Texas Gov. Rick Perry. . . .

A list of “Perryphobia” sufferers ensues and then . . .

Finally, and this is my personal favorite, we have those self-appointed Republican elites. You know the type: they wear the Adam Smith tie; yammer at us on FOX News all day; read the Journal with devotional religious fervor; skip church to watch “Meet the Press,” and make their living off the generosity of people they secretly look down on with benevolent disdain.

OK, so let’s skip down to the Politico columnist’s bio blurb:

Curt Anderson is a Republican strategist and a partner at OnMessage Inc., a GOP media and polling firm.

Anderson’s polling/PR/strategy firm is based inside the Beltway, in Alexandria, Virginia, and lists among its clients the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Republican Governors Association. Anderson is former political director of the RNC, worked on the Bush-Cheney campaigns in 2000 and 2004, and also worked on Mitt Romney’s 2008 campaign.  

So if you’re looking for a grassroots anti-elitist who courageously stands up to the GOP Establishment, then obviously Curt Anderson’s your man.

Professional Republican consultants: Vox populi, vox dei.


Category: Election 2012, Republicans, Rick Perry

Are You Smelling What He’s Stepping In?

Posted on | August 29, 2011 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

The mighty Iowahawk:
The Politico link has some follow-up:

Kay Henderson has more on this, emphasis mine:

Another reporter pressed the issue, asking if Perry believes Medicare is “unconstitutional” as well.

“I never said it was unconstitutional,” Perry said. “I look at Medicare just like I look at Social Security. They’re programs that aren’t working and we ought to have a national conversation about it. You know, those that have said I’ve said they’re unconstitutional — I’m going to have them read the book. That’s not what I said.”

In his book, Perry called Social Security something akin to a “bad disease” that was created “at the expense of respect for the Constitution and limited government.”

The whole episode underscores how difficult “Fed Up!,” which strongly favors states’ rights and is getting picked over by reporters and opposition researchers alike, will be for Perry to explain on the trail.

Discussions of major changes to Social Security are alarming to seniors, and while there hasn’t yet been public polling data on how the “Ponzi scheme” point plays in Florida, there likely will be.

For Perry, saying a version of “that’s not what I said” is unlikely to do the trick.

I’ll grant our over-reaching federal government this much nuance: these leech-like socialist programs are legal, insofar as legislation was excreted, signed into law, and has passed SCOTUS muster when brought up for review.

Past that, it’s long since time that we call the bluff on the Ruling Class cretins. The unicorn math doesn’t work outside the Beltway. The more Perry tells the truth, the more he paves the way for truth to leak into the settling pond of our current political discourse. (Readers who have been to Kandahar know what I mean.)

This blog strongly approves of any candidates with the guts to call ‘nonsense’ on the steaming pile of unsustainable crap comprised of our federal entitlement programs.

The interesting question raised by the Politico article is whether the Boomers are sufficiently enslaved by entitlements. Are they indoctrinated into beliefs about ‘rights’ to Social Security and Medicare that have become velvet handcuffs over time, so that the Boomers can be manipulated into turning against a candidate like a Perry, or a Cain, or a Santorum, who has the courage to speak the truth? I wish that ideas of liberty and American Exceptionalism were sufficiently strong to make that a silly question, but they are not.

O’Rourke famously noted that 2010 was not an election; it was a restraining order. 2012, therefore, will be liberty on trial, prosecuted by a Progressive werewolf in bespoke and Gucchis. Will conservatives rally around a McCotter, or even Palin? Or will they be deceived and support Romney, whose hair is perfect?

Category: Rick Perry
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