It’s Wednesday, December 11th, 2013…but before we begin, a brief public service announcement brought to you by Speed Mach, this station and the Ad Council:
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, Shannon Wood Bush forwarded…
The six contradictions of socialism in the United States of America*
* We’ve added a few of our own, in no particular order!
– America is capitalist and greedy – yet half of the population is subsidized.
– Half of the population is subsidized – yet they think they are victims.
– They think they are victims – yet their representatives run the government.
– Their representatives run the government – yet the poor keep getting poorer.
– The poor keep getting poorer – yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
– They have things that people in other countries only dream about – yet they want America to be more like those other countries.
Got it?!?
For more on the subject of Liberal Illogic, we turn to The Washington Free Beacon via The New Media Journal, and this story highlighting the nature of the regime Team Tick-Tock’s touting as trustworthy:
Iran publicly refused to recognize “the Israeli regime” during a full meeting on Thursday of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The UNGA meeting was held to mark a procedural—and typically uneventful—vote in which nations meet to approve the credentials of various U.N. member states. The move appeared to stun not a single onlooker at the United Nations, but prompted a sharp response from Israel’s ambassador to the U.N.
While Iran, like every other nation, voted in favor of the measure, its representative sought to explain that its support should not be interpreted as recognition of Israel. “We would like to reiterate my government’s position that our support for this document should be in no way be considered as the recognition of the Israeli regime,” Iran’s representative said. “I wish my statement in this regard to be recorded and registered in the final recording of this meeting.”
Iran was the only member state to offer an on-the-record statement regarding the vote.
Likely because Chavez, Castro and General Francisco Franco are all still dead!
In a related item demonstrating anew The Obamao’s inability, either through utter naivete or purposeful policy, to differentiate between America’s fast friends and implacable foes (particularly after having dissed Maggie Thatcher’s funeral but find the time (and money) to jet over for Nelson Mandela’s),…
Obama shakes hands with Cuba’s Castro at Mandela memorial
“Please give my best to your brother!”
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday shook hands with Raul Castro, leader of long-time Cold War foe Cuba, at the memorial service in South Africa for Nelson Mandela. Obama offered the handshake before taking the stage to give his speech at the ceremony, in a new sign of his willingness to reach out to US enemies, a US official told AFP.
…The handshake was seen by millions around the world watching the memorial being broadcast live and comes as Obama tries to make good on his vow to reach out even to the most implacable of US foes. (Except, of course, Republicans!) In September, the US leader spoke by telephone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in the first such gesture since the 1979 revolution in the Islamic republic.
…As a presidential candidate Obama was pilloried as naive and dangerous by rivals from both parties for suggesting that as president he would be willing to talk to foes without preconditions.
But here’s the kicker:
Obama’s ability to track down and kill Osama bin Laden and a series of drone strikes has largely insulated him from allegations of weakness in foreign and security policy, but the president was careful to pointedly call out oppressive leaders in his speech Tuesday, with Castro just feet away.
Really? No…REALLY?!? Where’s this Yahoo News reporter been that he’s never heard Syria, Libya or Benghazi; or perhaps he has, and is simply unwilling to let such inconvenient facts get in the way of his predetermined storyline.
Speaking of predetermined storylines, back in the once-and-future USSR, as The Washington Times again via The New Media Journal reports, the Man-Who-Would-Be-Czar hits upon an old favorite of despots everywhere.
‘Ministry of Truth?’: Putin creates new Russian news agency led by firebrand broadcaster
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday dissolved a state-run news service that sought to provide balanced coverage of Russian politics, including interviews with opposition figures, and ordered the creation of an agency to be led by a firebrand broadcaster known for on-air attacks against the “decadent” West.
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Mr. Putin had created an “enormous state propaganda agency with a multimillion budget.”
The new state news agency will be known as Russia Today and will cover “Russian state politics and public life for foreign audiences,” according to Mr. Putin’s decree. The agency shares its name with a state-funded English-language TV channel widely seen as the Kremlin’s mouthpiece, but no merger is expected.
The Russia Today news agency is to be headed by Dmitry Kiselyov, a state television anchor man and media manager. Earlier this month, Mr. Kiselyov claimed pro-European demonstrations in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine were Polish-Swedish “revenge” for a battle their combined forces lost to Russia in 1709. He has also called for, on-air, gay people’s hearts to be burned rather than used in transplants.
Which of course got Barack thinking…
…about forming his own state-run media…
…before realizing…
…it’s already in place!
And in International News of Note, despite an ever-tightening defense budget which barely provides adequate security for America…
Obama calls for peace as Hagel orders US support in Central African Republic mission
Yes, you know, “peace”…
…through the business end of a drone!
Since we’re on the subject of our rapidly retreating Military, courtesy of the WSJ, former SecNav John Lehman details perhaps the biggest problem currently facing our Armed Forces…other than…
…Although current U.S. spending on defense adjusted for inflation has been higher than at the height of the Reagan administration, it has been producing less than half of the forces and capabilities of those years. Instead of a 600-ship Navy, we now have a 280-ship Navy, although the world’s seas have not shrunk and our global dependence has grown. Instead of Reagan’s 20-division Army, we have only 10-division equivalents. The Air Force has fewer than half the number of fighters and bombers it had 30 years ago.
Apologists for the shrinkage argue that today’s ships and aircraft are far more capable than those of the ’80s and ’90s. That is as true as “you can keep your health insurance.”
…The Pentagon, like Marley’s ghost, must drag this ever-growing burden of chains without relief. As a result something close to paralysis is approaching. The suffocating bloat of overstaffing in an overly centralized web of bureaucracies drives runaway cost growth in weapons systems great and small. Whereas the immensely complex Polaris missile and submarine system took four years from a draft requirement until its first operational patrol in February 1960, today the average time for all weapons procured under Defense Department acquisition regulations is 22 years.
The latest Government Accountability Office report, released in October, estimates that there is $411 billion of unfunded cost growth in current Pentagon programs, almost as much as the entire 10 years of sequester cuts if they continue. The result has been unilateral disarmament.
Which, along with women in combat slots and the rescission of Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell, is just what the doctor…
…ordered!
Then there’s today’s entry in the Matt Hooper Memorial “I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you on the ass!” segment, courtesy of James Taranto and the Land-O-Lakes Cover Girl:
Don’t Worry, We’ll All Be Dead in 90 Years
Is there a Social Security crisis? No, and there won’t be for a very long time, according to the leftist magazine Mother Jones:
Last week, the president and vice-president of the centrist think-tank Third Way accused Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) of ignoring what they call Social Security’s “undebatable solvency crisis.” In an interview with Mother Jones, Warren fired back, countering the charge, and elaborating on how Social Security could be expanded.
“If we made no changes at all to Social Security,” Warren said, “it would continue to make payments at the current level for about 20 years,” meaning there is no immediate crisis facing the program, which assists some 58 million Americans. “Modest adjustments,” she added, “will make certain… we could increase benefits for those who need it most.”
Twenty years from now it’ll be 2033–way into the future! Which raises an interesting question: How soon is soon enough to take a foreseen problem seriously? According to another Mother Jones article, the answer is 83 years:
Here’s a list of some of the most dreaded abrupt changes (where abrupt means occurring within a period of a few decades or even years), and the probability that they’ll happen–even if nothing like the Hollywood version–before the year 2100.
Maybe they can blame global warming when Social Security becomes insolvent because 20 years seemed impossibly far in the future.
On the Lighter Side…
And in the Entertainment Section, a glimpse into the tortured mind of the modern, mindless Liberal:
Katy Perry Banned Republican Parents From Seeing Her Perform At Obama Inauguration
If you were bestowed the honor to perform at a presidential inauguration, wouldn’t you want your parents in attendance regardless of their political beliefs? Pop diva Katy Perry doesn’t think so, for she told Marie Claire in an interview published Monday that because her parents are Republicans that didn’t vote for Barack Obama, they couldn’t watch her perform at his inauguration in January:
SANTA BARBARA is the place Perry gets to be Katheryn Hudson, “which is really important because Katheryn Hudson is the one who wanted to be a musician. I get to be centered again, to really breathe.” Her evangelical parents, Keith Hudson and Mary Perry Hudson, and siblings, Angela Hudson and David Hudson, have all moved away and remain an integral part of her life. (Angela, a yoga instructor, accompanies her on tour and lives next door in L.A.) As Perry tells it, her parents met when Mary, “a pot-smoking debutante” and freelance journalist, was covering a tent revival in Las Vegas, which Keith, an acid-dropping hippie turned preacher, was attending. “People don’t understand that I have a great relationship with my parents—like, how that can exist,” she says. “There isn’t any judgment. They don’t necessarily agree with everything I do, but I don’t necessarily agree with everything they do. They’re at peace with—they pray for me is what they do. They’re fascinated with the idea that they created someone who has this much attention on her. My parents are Republicans, and I’m not. They didn’t vote for Obama, but when I was asked to sing at the inauguration, they were like, ‘We can come.’ And I was like, ‘No, you can’t. I love you so much, but that—on principle.’ They understood, but I was like, ‘How dare you?’ in a way.”
How dare they want an opportunity to see their daughter perform at a presidential inauguration? How dare they? If they were willing to put aside their political beliefs to see their daughter perform for the president, couldn’t she? Apparently not.
Pretty sickening, isn’t it?
Sickening? No. More like disgusting; but certainly not surprising! By the way, we’re proud to note we couldn’t tell you a single song this hypocritical honey’s ever sung.
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with another titillating tale torn from the pages of the Crime Blotter:
Florida Democratic congressman loses $18 million in scheme
Florida Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson lost $18 million in a scheme by a Virginia man that involved over a 100 victims, the congressman’s office confirmed Monday. The man who ran the scheme, William Dean Chapman, was sentenced Friday in federal court to 12 years in prison. Prosecutors say Chapman used the money to fund a lavish lifestyle including a Lamborghini, a Ferrari and a $3 million home.
In most of the court papers, Grayson’s identity is protected — prosecutors say only that an elected official with the initials A.G. was the primary victim — but documents twice mention Grayson by name.
Nothing in the court papers suggests Grayson was anything but a victim of the scheme. Grayson, a former trial attorney, said he has had a long record for picking winning stocks, which formed the basis for his personal fortune.
Yeah…
Trust us, if you know anything about Grayson, this couldn’t have happened to a more deserving mark…or a bigger schmuck. Or perhaps more accurately, a bigger putz!
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