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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM AN ATHEIST TO ALL YOU BELIEVERS
"Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."
No, very simply it is called faith.
Comment Posted By SShiell On 26.12.2009 @ 09:09
UNITED STATES OUT OF THE UN -- NOW
I've got only two words for this article:
AMEN, BROTHER!
Comment Posted By SShiell On 20.12.2009 @ 21:30
THE ALL-AMERICAN BARACK OBAMA TRAVELING DISASTER SHOW
Hey Richard Bottoms & Michael Reynolds:
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever you are! What's wrong? You don't have the cojones to stand up for your Messiah?
The Beloved One?
The Big Zero?
Comment Posted By SShiell On 20.12.2009 @ 09:04
Obama has excelled in only one area in his professional life – and that is by being PRESENT. For most of his history he did not need to do much more than show up.
As the editor of the Harvard Law Review, a title that many point to as a great achievement unto itself, I would suggest that he enterred the record books for two reasons. The first for being the first Black to occupy that arguably prestigious position. And the second for being the first editor in the history of the Harvard Law Review to not publish a single opinion. His accomplishment here – he was PRESENT.
As a community organizer, he allowed himself to be led by the powers of the Chicago politburo. Even his tenure on various community groups, he was not the power of the organization nor the mover or shaker but merely one of the board members. Accomplishments? None listed. Once again he was PRESENT.
As a Constitutional Law Professor, another position highly touted by his supporters, he produced not one single opinion. In an arena where to publish is to breathe, he published not one single paper or even collaborated on another’s piece of paper. PRESENT once again.
As a Illinois legislator, he found himself in a Democratically dominated political structure, where even what little bi-partisan powers he may have were not challenged – they did not need to be challenged, he was part of the party in charge. And even in this arena, he distinguished himself by voting PRESENT over 130 times.
And then as a US Senator representing the great state of Illinois, can anyone show me a single piece of legislation bearing his name to account for the 150 days he served prior to his announcement of his running for the Presidency? Here I can argue that he wasn’t even PRESENT, he missed some 65% of the votes taken in his tenure because he was too busy running for President.
And to reiterate the salient aspects of his presidency to date:
* The “stimulus bill” . . . which was outsourced to Congress. PRESENT!
* Cap and Trade/Global Warming . . . Again, the president depended on his congressional lieutenants to carry the load. PRESENT!
* Health care reform is currently in meltdown. Everybody agrees there is a problem. No one - except the president himself - likes what the process has done to the legislation. PRESENT!And even his eloquence is highly dependent upon his Telepromtor being PRESENT!
And now there rises the question of his Leadership as President? That is a quality that I can safely say has been NOT OBSERVED for his entire history. And now people are surprised they have a President who is challenged by the need to be a leader? He is doing well doing what he has always done – He Is PRESENT!
(PS – It took the world two years to discover the same problem with Carter. And then the sh*t hit the fan. How much longer before the sh*tstorm hits Obama?)
Comment Posted By SShiell On 17.12.2009 @ 12:59
Rick, thank you for this post. You're a good man. I hope only the best for you and yours this season.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Comment Posted By SShiell On 15.12.2009 @ 12:44
ABOUT MY DECISION TO LEAVE THE RIGHT
"If Cash for Caulkers is as big a success as the auto injection . . "
What planet do you live on? "Cash for Clunkers" was a success? Only in your diseased and feebled mind!
Comment Posted By SShiell On 14.12.2009 @ 13:35
"If unemployment is below 9% by next fall we will kick you a@@es."
Care to make a wager on that one? Hide and watch - with virtually no change to the situation at all and statistically unemployment will hit 11% in January. It is a strange phenomenom in statistics that has to do with an overall adjustment based upon death rates.
Add to that, if any aspect of "Cap&Tax" passes, then we will be lucky to see less than 13% unemployment by November 2010. But even without that, the best economists out there, and even the worse ones, are predicting a jobless recovery.
It's a numbers game. For the unemployment number to stay even - at the 10% mark, you have to create approximately 125,000 jobs per month. That is the number of people newly enterring the job market which traditionally is above the numbers of retirements and deaths of current job holders. Add on to that the numbers of people whose 401s have taken a beating or whose homes are underwater because of the housing bust and fewer people are hitting the retirement button - in fact many people who have already retired are trying to re-enter the job market.
But if you want to see the writing on the wall, take a look at the congressional blue dog retirement announcements - the list has hit 4 already, and 2 of them are in gerrymandered safe districts. So, we'll see come 2010 and 2012. But if I were you I would prepare myself for the worse - You could tell me the same but I don't have to, I'm living it right now.
Comment Posted By SShiell On 14.12.2009 @ 12:48
"to turn America into just another global Empire consumed with its own power and expansion"
What kind of crap is that?!? I would grant your comment some level of respect except for one thig - show me a single EMPIRE in the history of the world that would walk away from every one of it's conquests?
At the end of World War II, the US had the best Navy the world had ever seen. No less than 28 Battleships and over 40 Fleet carriers (not including the innumerable light, escort and jeep carriers). The combined Army and Navy Air Forces the US could put in the field was in excess of 45,00 aircraft with trained veteran crews. It could be debated about the power of the US land forces when compared to the USSR, but there was one huge difference between the two states. The day the war ended, the US began de-mobilizing it's over 8 million men under arms and sending the vast majority of that war equipment to the scrap yard.
After reconquering the entire Pacific and, with British assistance, North Africa and Western Europe, not one square foot of foreign soil, above that necessary to bury our dead, was kept by the US. And that is true, whether you want to believe it or not, to this very day.
You got a problem with Cheney - take it up with the man. Meanwhile you can take your Bullshit "EMPIRE" comments and shove them up your decrepit ass!
Comment Posted By SShiell On 9.12.2009 @ 14:24
WHAT'S SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT CLIMATEGATE? EVERYTHING
"I try to take a cautious position and think that warming is occurring and 6 billion plus people on this Earth probably have some influence on it. Why should that not be the case?"
Because the "fix" for such is to reduce your CO2 output to a per capita level equivilent to the normal person's output in the year 1785. Take a look around you. You live in a orld dominated by technology and the engine that drives that technology is energy. And the energy that we use today is predominately Carbon based - oil, coal, natural gas, etc. To reduce our carbon footprint to that extreme is the equivilent of turning our energy equation upside down. Imagine 95% of the energy being created today coming from wind, solar, tidal, or geothermal assets. 95% (or thereabouts anyway)
Sounds great doesn't it? Except it is a pipe dream. And the push is to get halfway there by te year 2030 and all the way there by 2050. 40 years to virtually eliminate carbon based energy sources from the planet.
Yes, the planet. Because if we do it and China and India do not - it's for nothing. China is already the world's CO2 champion and India will be #2 within the next 5 years. We are way past being the dominate manufacturing giant of years past, as the Chinese and Indians have overtaken us in those areas.
But that is just an aside. Imagine our economy, struggling to rear itself out of the current recession to regain some level of growth being forced to replace its entire energy component, infrastructure and all, in order to reach these mandated goals.
And the upshot of all this is that by the IPCC's own admission, if we take these drastic steps to virtually eliminate our carbon footprint, we will have suceeded in reducing the impending temperature increases by a fraction of a single degree over the next 100 years.
And all for a theory that is currently having trouble holding it's own water.
Comment Posted By SShiell On 8.12.2009 @ 23:07
WARMIST ADVOCATES REFUSE TO DIFFERNIATE BETWEEN 'DENIERS' AND 'SKEPTICS'
"That said, lumping “skeptics” in with “deniers” is a transparent smear and should be abandoned."
The case provided here is the very same for people who oppose the Obama Adminitration policies being called "Racists".
Comment Posted By SShiell On 6.12.2009 @ 13:15
