Archive for July 9th, 2008
July 9th, 2008
Several of the framers of the U.S. Constitution lived to be pretty old, but none as old as Jonah Goldberg suggests.
The other day, I told you HERE about a ridiculous column in which Goldberg, a conservative writer, posited that Barack Obama’s plan to require community service of college kids receiving federal student loans is perhaps a violation of the constitutional amendment banning slavery.
Well, now Goldberg is waxing even ridiculouser (to coin a word). In THIS LITTLE NOTE of self-congratulations, he employs the misassumption that the anti-slavery amendment, which was adopted in 1865, was written by “the founders.”
On paper, young Jonah is better educated than I. In reality, not so much.
July 9th, 2008
Yeah, why not? After all, it says HERE that I live in the “Saudi Arabia of the Wind.”
Besides, I can dig the flowing white threads. And if I got a camel, I could beat that whole gas-price thing.
Wait a minute. Do camels eat a lot? A lot of what — sand?
July 9th, 2008
One of our presidential candidates (guess which one) seems to have just now DISCOVERED how the Social Security System was designed to work, and he says it’s “an absolute disgrace.”
I don’t think even George W. Bush is this obtuse.
POSTSCRIPT: Here’s MORE on this matter.
UPDATE: Still MORE. This story seems to be sprouting legs. And rightly so. This was no slip of the tongue. It was a display of astonishing ignorance. He said it was “straight talk” to tell the American public something that most of us sentient folks have known all along.
UPDATE II: And MORE and MORE.
UPDATE III: Josh Marshall has a good wrap-up here in which Mr. Straight Talk’s own words are used to block his potential escape routes:
July 9th, 2008
My super-duper Applesauce software tells me that a couple of important waymarks lie just ahead: The 3,000th comment on this little blog likely will appear within the next few days, and my 1,000th post should come along by the end of summer.
What can we do to celebrate?
How about all you readers chip in and buy the Applesauce CEO a new hybrid car? Isn’t that the least you can do for such an environmentally-conscious seeker of truth?
By the way, Big Oil disdainfully calls those cars “mutants,” not “hybrids.” ( Heh, heh. Little energy-crisis humor there.)
July 9th, 2008
Conservative bloggers all across the fruited plain (like THIS GUY, for example) are soiling themselves in delight at a new Rasmussen poll that shows less than enthusiastic public regard for the current Congress.
The situation is such, according to THIS OTHER blogger, that congressional Democrats have reason to worry about the November elections.
The reality, of course, is that these periodic polls showing low ratings for Congress have been widely misread ever since the Democrats took over in January 2007.
It seems not to occur to some folks that a lot of the disdain for Congress stems from the public’s disappointment at the failure of lawmakers to more firmly stand up to the Bush administration in general and to end the war in Iraq in particular. In other words, it isn’t mostly a condemnation of the Marxist surrendercrats who won their seats in fixed elections.
For all the negative stuff on talk radio and in the right-wing blogosphere about Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and their troops on Capitol Hill, polls STILL SHOW that Democrats are likely to make big gains in the congressional elections this November.
Besides, as we see HERE, public disapproval of Congress isn’t quite as wide or deep as the headlines would suggest.
July 9th, 2008
True patriots will not be deceived by THIS CHARADE, which the traitorous mainstream media are promoting in their tireless effort to sap us of our precious bodily fluids.
(Notice that the photo above shows the terrorist fist-bump, about which Fox News bravely has warned us.)
