Contributed by: filbert Friday, February 19 2010 @ 05:31 AM CST
Today, a number of not-totally-random comments:
It is NOT a virtue to be generous with other people’s money.
Glenn Beck has somehow, against all odds, transformed himself into that college professor that everybody in the freshman class wants to take a class from, because he’s that rare combination of informative and entertaining. In my case, that college course was “Marriage And Society,” taught by the guy who eventually became the president of the university. Everybody took that course. I’m just saying . . .
The element of Tea-Partyness that I most closely align with is the Counterattack Of The Libertarians. Thank you very much. SECTION TWO: Things That Amuse Me:
Simians and other aminals*:
Giant Panda Genome Reveals New Insights Into the Bear’s Bamboo Diet [*1]
Cuban officials kick off mule census as they tackle shortage of pack animals [*2]
Atlanta police capture zebra after escape from circus and downtown chase that ends on highway [*3]
Dolphin Cognitive Abilities Raise Ethical Questions, Says Emory Neuroscientist[*4]
*Yes, I know it’s “animals,” it’s just that I always found the childhood mispronunciation really, really cute . . .
Travel:
American Airlines to charge $50 for coach standby [*5]
Qantas drops first-class seating on ‘all but a few routes’ [*6]
Winter Cruising In The Med: Chilly But No Crowds [*7]
British Airways Rolls Out Its Updated First Class [*8]
Add ‘pilot’ to list of jobs that aren’t so great now [*9]
Your Flight to Cancun is Canceled. You’re Welcome. [*10]
United flight lands in Utah after bomb threat [*11]
Sports:
No. 20 Tennessee beats Georgia 69-60[*12]
Royals notebook: Greinke skips workout after having two teeth pulled[*13]
SDSU women face big tests this weekend[*14]
Dept. Of Awful Timing: Unfortunate Luge Ad In Globe And Mail [*15] — Oh. Wow.
Jackrabbit men fall short at Oakland [*16]
Science Fiction and Writing:
SF Fanatic: Current Science Fiction On Television [*17] — Or: Why do all the current sci-fi shows on TV suck so bad?
Science, technology, and space:
Virus has breached 75,000 computers: study [*18]
Hello, it’s m…click…Cell phone troubles jump[*19]
New drug class offers hope against “superbugs” [*20]
Straight News–Stuff sufficiently serious to deserve a serious treatment:
Freed American missionaries fly out of Haiti [*21]
Plane Crashes Into Building Next to FBI Offices in Austin, Texas (Video) …Update: Pilot Identified as Joseph Andrew Stack …Update: A Marxist Nut [*22]
Miscellany (amusing things not fitting above, or below):
KC On List Of 20 Most Miserable Cities [*23] — Fortunately, I live in the suburbs . . .
Americans are ‘most attractive’ people in the world, poll finds [*24] — Yeah. We’re hot. I’m not sure what Wales is doing at #13, though.
Cleveland deemed most miserable city in USA [*25]
Intermittent explosive disorder [*26] — Posted because they were talking about it on Red Eye and no, it has nothing to do with excretory functions . . .
SECTION THREE: Politics: The neverending battle against blithering idiocy:
Renewing the American Experiment–Tea Parties and Others:
The Re-Establishment of America [*27]
What Congress May Look Like in Three Years [*28]
An inconvenient question about the Mount Vernon Statement [*29] — We need to find the “lowest common denominator” of the majority right coalition–that’s Constitutional, fiscally responsible government that maximizes the individual freedom and liberty of each and every American citizen. Period. That’s what the collectivists don’t want the discussion to be about–they want it to be about abortion, guns, race, gay rights–ANYTHING but what’s really important.
Mutual Loathing Society [*30] — We’ll mark George Will down as “Not A Palin Fan” then . . .
VIDEO Exclusive: Marco Rubio at CPAC[*31]
Tea Party Leader on Third Parties: We Must Hang Together or We Will Surely Hang Apart [*32]
Rubio to tea partiers: The GOP should be your home [*33]
People doing potentially good things (including sightings of politicians doing something less than totally idiotic):
Yes, they ARE missing Dubya! Shopping web site reports spike in sales of Bush items[*34]
The “Constitutional Conservative” Manifesto [*35]
Conservatism, for Party Over Country [*36]
Sarah Palin then and now [*37]
with “respect” to certain definitions of “traditional values”[*38]
PPP poll: Romney now biggest threat to Obama head to head [*39]
The cure for blithering idiocy: freedom and individual liberty (yeah, I know–ooh, ick, philosophy!):
Greenspan the Libertarian [*40]
Coercion vs. Freedom [*41]
Education Is Too Important for a Government Monopoly: It’s time to let parents choose[*42]
Priceless is worthless: in health care, education, or bonds, the price is (metaphysically) right. [*43]
Arnold Kling on the Pseudo-Science of Macroeconometrics [*44]
We Are All Ignorant [*45] — Too harsh? How about “None of us is omniscient?”
The reality of President Obama as a blithering idiot (and he’s the President, so he gets credit, if that’s the word, for the entire Executive Branch):
Figures. Michelle Obama Stocked White House Library with Books on Socialism [*46]
Democrat Caddell rips White House for obeisance to organized labor [*47]
President Incompetent [*48]
The Real Reason for Obama’s Unpopularity: Every honeymoon ends [*49] — Yeah, maybe, but why are more people more angry than any time in my adult life (and that includes the years of Bush Derangement Syndrome)?
Obama, The Director [*50]
Homeland Security reports losing guns [*51]
One Year Ago I Saved The Economy [*52]
Meet Captain Obvious: Joe Biden [*53]
The Odd Couple: 5 unfortunate similarities between Bush and Obama [*54]
What could President Barack Obama’s deficit commission do to have a strong effect on policy-makers? [*55]
Nice. Obama Meets With Dalai Lama; Makes Him Leave Through Garbage Exit [*56]
The reality of Washington Democrats (and Independents, and Socialists) as blithering idiots:
Charles Krauthammer: Mussolini Could Beat Senator Blanche Lincoln Right Now [*57] — Well, the reincarnation of Mussolini won the Presidency in 2008, so what’s new?
The New Party of “No” [*58]
One Week After Passing, Congress Set to Break PAYGO [*59]
Dems Lash Out at GOP For Taking Spendulus Cash Despite Fact That Dem Districts Were Gifted Twice As Much Stimulus As GOP Districts [*60]
IT’S A TRAP! The Blair House Project–Obama’s Plot To Sucker-Punch the Republicans and all of America–AGAIN:
Republican holds out hope on health care overhaul[*61]
The reality of Washington Republicans as blithering idiots:
Orrin Hatch: How Not To Engage The Tea Party Movement [*62]
Other blithering idiots at large making life difficult for regular folks:
King Had a Dream, but Blacks Now Face a Nightmare [*63] — Urban blacks have been lied to for so long that many of them no longer even recognize truth any more . . .
Take a Pass on Trains: Committing to Rail Plans Would Cost Too Much [*64]
The Trillion Dollar Gap: Underfunded State Retirement Systems and the Road to Reform [*65]
Latest Lefty Meme: Sarah Palin is… an Elitist [*66]
FDA staff say agency may need new device powers [*67] — FDA Super Regulatory Powers–ACTIVATE!!!
Obama for the Supreme Court? [*68]
Opposition Research: because blithering idiocy can be dangerous, especially when organized into idiotic groups with idiotic ideologies:
Sharing political views can muddy workplace relations [*69] — Especially if you’re not a collectivist . . .
How the Left Reveals Itself [*70]
Where Did Our Real Wealth Go? [*71]
Sarah Palin: The Horror Movie [*72] — “History shows that the boogeymen presented by the left against conservatives are always flights of fancy.”
The most convoluted Tea Party=RAAACIST smear ever [*73]
Government Against Capitalists [*74]
Great Myths of the Great Depression [*75]
And Away They Go! Leftwing Media Attempting to Paint Communist Crank as “Tea Partier” [*76]
PolitiFact Declares Century-Long Economics Debate Over [*77]
Question: Has the Democrats’ Civil War already begun? [*78]
The Keith Olbermann Memorial “Special Comment” on blithering idiots in the Media:
Hollywood Elitist Maher: Americans Not Bright Enough to Understand the Issues (Video) [*79]
CORRECTED: Obama team raises pressure on health insurers [*80] — Correcting Obama’s BS number of uninsured with another BS number of uninsured . . . it is NOT a virtue to be generous with other people’s money . . .
When Lib Reporters Attack… Far Left Crank Charles Jaco Shoves Blogger After Confrontation about “Teabagging” (Video) [*81]
Does Virtually All White NBC Bother Keith Olbermann Enough to Resign? [*82]
Dramatic Olbermann vs. Dramatic Chipmunk [*83]
This Might be Scandalous If Anyone Watched CNN [*84]
CNN Sinking – Another Fifth Place Finish In Prime Time Demo [*85] — The big problem for CNN is, of course, there are only four general news networks . . . they finished behind even CNBC–a business news network . . .
Media shocked by totally predictable “unexpected” rise in jobless claims [*86]
Correction: Biden-Stimulus story [*87]
SECTION FOUR: Case Studies in Blithering Idiocy
“Global warming” aka “Climate change” — or should that be “Climate Reform?”:
Gore on the Arctic (again) [*88]
Bill Gates, Environmental Kook [*89]
Blame it on Asia, yeah that’s the ticket [*90]
U.N. Climate Chief Resigns [*91]
Why Is Winter Snow Extent Interesting? [*92]
The Science Behind Global Warming Not So “Irrefutable” [*93]
Health care “reform” aka health insurance “reform” — or should that be health care “change?” Perhaps “Global healthing?:
Changing the Healthcare Paradigm: A Physician And Patient Centered Approach [*94]
Reconciliation and Obamacare A “Bad Mix” [*95]
Marginal Cost, Health Care, and the “Public Option” [*96]
The Economy (Can the blithering idiots bring down the most productive economy the world has ever seen? Yes, They Can! Will they?):
One Year of Failed Policies- One Year of the the $862 Billion Stimulus Bill [*97]
Democrats: Republicans are stimulus hypocrites, or something [*98]
Final Thoughts [*99] — on Taxation. It is NOT a virtue to be generous with other people’s money.
The Case for the Stimulus: Oodles and Oodles of Jobs Saved, Created [*100] — Government spending does not create jobs. It merely shifts them from the private sector to the public sector, where they become immune to market discipline–until the whole thing comes tumbling down, that is.
Defending the stimulus — the administration wastes its breath [*101]
Federal Reserve expects high U.S. jobless rate for two years[*102]
Planning to Fail [*103]
Even in Tough Economy, It’s Still Possible to Retire a Millionaire [*104]
Slower wage growth expected [*105]
Top earners averaged $345 million in 2007, IRS says [*106] — So, if we take ALL of their income in taxes, that comes out to $138 billion dollars. Obama’s proposed budget will spend that amount of money in not quite two weeks. Where do you think Obama will go to get money for the other 50 weeks of the year?
The trillion-dollar government pension bubble [*107] — We Are So Screwed. And we did it to ourselves.
Jobless claims rise unexpectedly [*108]
Jobless Claims Rise Unexpectedly [*109] — So, I guess it was unexpected, huh?
The Uncertainty Factor[*110]
Scary economic forecast prediction of the day [*111]
International Monetary Fund to sell another 191 tons of gold [*112]
Fed raises discount rate[*113]
The Sweet Smell of Inflation, or, Never Trust Anybody Who Says “Nascent” [*114]
Foreign affairs and National Security (Will blithering idiots get us all killed, or make us all speak Spanish–or Chinese–or Arabic–or all three?):
Quarterback wannabe sent in to punt [*115]
No More Mr. Nice Guy [*116] — “IRAN: Khamenei delivers fiery message, without hint of compromise, to Obama administration”
Willful blindness: The return [*117]
IAEA fears Iran may be working to make nuclear bomb[*118] — So, Captain Obvious is now the chair of the IAEA?
U.N. agency fears Iran may be working on nuclear warhead [*119]
The Morning Whip is a (mostly) daily review of what’s out there that caught my attention, sometimes but not always posted before 11 am Central time in the U. S. of A., unless I just don’t feel like it that day, am out doing something more important or more fun, or I’ve been abducted, detained, arrested, or otherwise flummoxed by the agents of blithering idiotry.
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