In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.
“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”
–Forbes.com online
The “bailout bill” failed in the House today by a good margin. I just thought you might like to see what the deal is. Buncha rocket scientists in the Democrat-led House, I see…
I was browsing my archives, and I realized that I can actually WRITE! Some of the pieces are actually very good. For instance, try this one from November of last year (2007). A Fifth Set Of Mysteries Enjoy!
No matter how good she is, the MSM is not going to admit that Sarah Palin has even a smidgen of competence. They are so mad at her, they will never allow her a kind word again. It wasn’t enough when she told them she wasn’t going to Washington to seek their good opinion. She clinched it when the press was kept out of her meetings with the foreign dignitaries earlier this week. As far as the MSM is concerned, Sarah Palin is toast. Burned toast.
It’s getting close to the chilly/silly season up here. The neighbors have gone Outside for the winter, the snow is halfway down the mountains before the yellow leaves are even off the trees, and we had about 2 degrees of frost last night. But, it’s been really beautiful. The sky is incredibly blue. The yellow of the birch and poplar leaves against that blue sky is such a contrast.
There are “Good Luck Sarah!” signs all over town, festooning buildings and put up on change-letter signs at building supply and hardware stores. The locals here are not going to be easily swayed by blandishments from the left. We were in the Mocha Moose yesterday, and the barista was telling us that the lefties come in and ask for “dirt about Track,” or some other crap. The newsies from the right, on the other hand, spend lots of money in there. Hmmmm….
It’s being whispered about (loudly enough for all to hear, to be sure) that if Barack Obama loses this election, it will be because of racism. The interesting part of this is that the “racists” the Obama camp (that includes all of the mainstream media) are Democrats. If Barack Obama loses this election, it won’t be because of his skin color. It will be because of his absolute lack of integrity, his lies, his pathetic performance in elected office, his proven past of collaboration with known anti-American radicals, his willingness to accept money from questionable sources, and his total unfitness for the office of President of the United States.
His handlers are complaining already, and are making excuses for a loss they see as inevitable. But I have learned that all of the voters I know of who plan to vote Republican say they would vote for a good candidate who happened to be Black. Race isn’t important. What matters is patriotism and ability, and it’s been a long time since skin color had anything to do with ability in this country. I’ll happily vote for Clarence Thomas, Walter Willilams, or Thomas Sowell, or any well-qualified person of color if they are pro-American. Unfortunately, we can’t say that about Barack Hussein Obama, no matter how the complicit press twists his “credentials.” He is a hardcore socialist who made the conscious decision to pal around with convicted anti-American terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. He and his family spent twenty years being taught racist “liberation theology” at the pulpit of whackos like Jay Wright and the deranged “Fr.” Pflegher.
Another thing the whisperers need to keep in mind: There aren’t enough Black voters in this country to elect Barack even if every single person over the age of 18 voted for him. The only way he will have a chance is if Whites turn out to vote for him.
I’m ready to vote for a Black candidate for President–but not THIS one. God help America if he gets in.
Look what’s all over the internet today…
Ace of Spades and
Does this mean that Obambi can’t do the job? That his campaign is starting to creak and groan? That the wheels are coming off of his little socialist wagon?
Like I always say (And you can quote me): THE DEMOCRATS CAN’T WIN WITHOUT CHEATING, AND THE REPUBLICANS DON’T HAVE TO CHEAT TO WIN.
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And, in the “What In The Ever-Lovin’ Blue-Eyed Hell Is THAT???” Department, I give you this. Be sure to read it all.
Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
Questions about foreign policy
-territorial integrity of Georgia
-allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
-NATO treaty
-Iranian nuclear threat
-what to do if Israel attacks Iran
-Al Qaeda motivations
-the Bush Doctrine
-attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]
(Gibson’s questions to Sarah Palin)
The so-called “interview” of Governor Sarah Palin by ABC’s attack Yorkie Charlie Gibson left me asking myself (and the tv, at the top of my lungs) just what Gibson was up to with his trick questions and his sanctimonious attitude. He was openly contemptuous of her and her answers, but she was unfailingly polite to him, smiled a lot, called him “Charlie,” (he must have HATED that) and generally charmed everybody who saw the show. Except Gibson. (I thought that it was interesting, though, that at the beginning of the interview, he leaned forward in his chair, and Governor Palin sat back. By the end of the farcical “interview,” however, it was Palin on the offensive, and Gibson who sat back.)
One of the things that interested me was how well she handled the questions he put to her. There wasn’t a softball among them. They were the kinds of questions an interviewer might use to trip up his quarry, which, apparently, was Gibson’s objective. Although he wasn’t respectful enough of a sitting governor, his questions appeared to be those that would be put to a head of state or a candidate for that office.
Through some ill-concealed heavy editing of the Governor’s responses, ABC made the final show appear that Palin was unprepared, hesitant, and flummoxed, which was the exact effect Gibson was trying for. As the program progressed, it was obvious by Gibson’s behavior that he was not pleased with the answers to his questions and was definitely trying to trip her up. The only problem with this is that other cameras were rolling, which caught the Governor’s complete answers–wise, thoughtful, and much more well-informed than Gibson wanted, I’m sure.
A couple of days later, a post appeared on the blog The Anchoress. It was a list of the questions Gibson asked Governor Palin. Below it was a list of the questions Gibson threw at Barack Obama in a previous interview. I think you’ll be interested to see that there was more than a little contrast in the two sets of questions.
I think the leftist press (that’s everybody except FOX) is mad at her. There are several reasons for this, and most of them have been loudly trumpeted and widely circulated. But I think they are mad because she said, “I’ve got news for you guys. I’m not going to Washington to seek your good opinion! I am going to serve the people of the United States!” Now, if I was an arrogant hack who thought my words were golden and my opinions were perfect, I’d be a little irked by this statement. And I know a lot of them were, including Charlie Gibson, who probably said, “We’ll see about THAT!” and set about making up his list of questions.
It’s an ugly thing to see an ugly soul stripped bare. Even worse is lots of ugly souls, and the left has shown us more than we care to see since Sarah Palin was selected as John McCain’s running mate. This choice has turned the media elites on their heads, and pulled the camouflage off the true motives of the mainstream media, whose political leanings are well known to be strongly to the left. Thank God there are only about six weeks left until the election. Seeing this kind of evil exposed on a daily basis is bad enough, and listening to the untempered attacks on Governor Palin and her family day in and day out makes us all sad. Unfortunately, should the McCain ticket be elected, there will be a continual drumbeat of negative narrative, just as there has been against President George W. Bush since before he was elected. Now, instead of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) we have PDS.
I guess some people are just not happy unless they are miserable, and trying to make everybody else feel just as bad. The mainstream media in the US has been on a search-and-destroy mission against pro-American politicians, news people, and celebrities for years.
For years, ever since I got my diploma from Long Ridge Writers Group in Non-Fiction Writing, I’ve written and illustrated the left’s vendetta against the right. I suppose that if what you believe in is a lie, you need to protect it with violence against being exposed, and you need to force it on unwilling victims in order to make your numbers grow. This is indeed the battle plan for the left. They have succumbed to the blandishments of Socialism and Cultural Marxism (multiculturalism), but can only defend their beliefs with heavy-handed abuse of the Conservative side of opinion. America is at a crossroads. Pray.
Once upon a time, we didn’t know anything. Then, one day, we knew we didn’t know anything. Pretty soon, we found out that we didn’t know what it was that we didn’t know about anything.
Not long after that, we realized that there were some things we knew about that we didn’t really know. So we thought about it for a while, and discovered that we just couldn’t know everything about not only stuff we didn’t know about things we knew about, but also all the stuff we knew we didn’t know about anything we knew about.
Nowadays, we are smarter. We know we don’t know, but we just don’t know what to think about all that stuff we know we don’t know about what we know, let alone all the stuff we don’t know we don’t know. But we are learning. Pretty soon, we will know what it is we don’t know about the things we know about, and we will FINALLY learn just what it is that we don’t know about what it is we know. When we can know what we don’t know about what we know, we will know what we need to know. I can hardly wait!
I don’t know why I should be so shocked and surprised at the behavior of the leftists in the press and in politics at the selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as Senator John McCain’s running mate. After all, the presstitutes have never had a decent word to say about anybody to the right of Pol Pot, since before the days of Woodward and Bernstein.
I guess I am just the product of a generation with a few more manners, a little more gentility, and a kinder way of expressing displeasure. The new breed of “journalist” (I use the term loosely and under advisement) seems to have en masse skipped the lessons in J-School where they would have learned that it is rude, crude, impolite, and unkind to unload on an individual in public, especially when they know less than nothing about that individual, and heinous beyond words to attack her children, especially any infants. But it appears that all these journalist/stooges went across town to the Progressive School of Character Assassination and Calumny on those days, because, even thought they can’t tell “its” from “it’s” or “they’re” from “there,” or “their,” they certainly paid attention on the day they learned how to smear a person’s reputation in public.
From the moment her selection was announced, they pounced. They attacked her “lack of experience” (this is a great joke, incidentally), her past, and especially her children. I’m not surprised that they did this, knowing what I now know, but the vehemence and malice that was expressed as they savaged her kids was shocking beyond words. These guys have never touched bottom even once with this slime. No matter how low they went yesterday, they sink even lower today, and will find further depths of vileness tomorrow. It seems that nothing is too depraved for these hyenas of the press.
It wasn’t enough to come to Wasilla and fan out in a coordinated attack on the political innocence of the people who know Governor Palin and her family personally in the hopes of digging up negative news from rubes and provincial hicks. When the dirt they mined in the first wave turned out to be harmless, they sent in cadres of lawyers to probe more deeply and comb through legal documents and records. They invited local Democrats and Obama supporters to join in the fun, and tried numerous things to undermine her credibility and defuse her national popularty.
The character assassins are more than just jealous. They are so envious they have lost any semblance of control and decency on their behavior. From the condescending, sanctimonious “interview” by Charlie Gibson to the demeaning SNL skit, to the hacking of her private email account, they have stopped at nothing to undermine, detract, and destroy.
Put yourself in Sarah Palin’s red leather high heels for a day, and imagine how it must feel to be attacked from every side by people who hope you will die at worst, or, at least, get out of the race.
Allowing oneself to be conscripted into such a band of slithering, slime-trailing slugs doesn’t say much for one’s self-respect or self-image. What kind of person allows himself to be used in such a low, underhanded way? We are certainly finding out.
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I realize that there are some of you who read the Sourdough who would like to read about something besides Sarah Palin’s selection as John McCain’s running mate. But the problem is that there isn’t a lot of news out there lately that doesn’t deal with it in some way. Please bear with me, and I promise I will try to make even “Palin, Palin, Palin” as interesting as I can.
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