Breakfast Scramble: Cain Can

Obama Can’t, Victor Davis Hanson on the problem with the Obami, from RCP:

[A] president who believes that modern cars get eight miles per gallon or need frequent tune-ups, and that proper tire inflation can substitute for drilling oil, has never run a business that hinged on having moderately priced gas to power a truck, tractor, or car fleet. In fact, most in the Obama administration came to Washington from either academia or prior state- and federal-government employment, where policy is theoretical, without grounding in real experience.

So much of this administration’s talk about energy sounds similar to a bull session in the faculty lounge, or what we would expect from lifelong bureaucrats and public functionaries who have never experienced long commutes or struggles in the harsher, profit-driven private workplace.

How stupid are the Obami? Consider one Donald Berwick, from Wall Street Journal,
via Dan Mitchell, International Liberty:

The right way is to help bring costs down by making care better and improving our health-care system. Improving quality while reducing costs is a strategy that’s had major success in other fields. Computers, cars, TVs and telephones today do more than they ever have, and the cost of these products has consistently dropped. The companies that make computers and microwaves didn’t get there by cutting what they offer: They achieved success by making their products better and more efficient. …Under President Obama’s framework, we will hold down Medicare cost growth, improve the quality of care for seniors, and save an additional $340 billion for taxpayers in the next decade.

Berwick is so ignorant of basic economics, that he believe that the cost reductions and product improvement achieved in response to a competitive free market will somehow be matched by the government outlawing competition and choice.

Cain Can, video:

Hat tip: Robert Stacy McCain, Other McCain.

Demographics and demagogues,  maybe Outside the Beltway is what a site run by college professors would be expected to be,  that one which favors political correctness over logic.  An Oklahoma legislator Sally Kern as reported by  Tulsa World:

Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, said minorities earn less than white people because they don’t work as hard and have less initiative.

“We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that’s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don’t want to study as hard in school? I’ve taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didn’t study hard because they said the government would take care of them.”

Kern said women earn less than men because “they tend to spend more time at home with their families.”

To which one Doug Mataconis responds in total, from Outside the Beltway:

Well, this isn’t really very helpful:

Because Kern had the audacity to advance a theory of the black socioeconomic disparity that does  not conform the one politically correct theory, that all problems in the black community are the fault of whites,  Mataconis simply dismisses Kern.    Affirmative action, as in equity of opportunity is over forty years old.   In for the form of equity of  outcome it over thirty years old.   We tried over thirty years of liberal theory, and it has not worked yet.   However Mataconis need not defend liberal orthodoxy.   Rather he curtly dismisses Kern for daring to  contest it.

Different demographic groups  have different aptitudes and attitudes.  It is inane to expect, and indeed to demand,  they have the some outcomes.

Bob Schieffer’s ugly journalism, Schieffer practices what can only be called an ugly shade of journalism, video (contains commercial):Hat tip:

Weasel Zippers.

I seem to recall that Forty-Three’s admission to both Yale and Harvard Business School was subject of fair amount of discussion.    Further recall, the media was complicit in French Kerry attempt hid the fact that he was measurably dumber then Bush.

As for Obama, he never demonstrated any evidence to suggest he would have been admitted to either Columbia or Harvard Law School on merit.

STFU Jimmy, I don’t hold that Jimmy Carter is the worst president of my lifetime.  That distinction goes to Lyndon B. Johnson, War in Vietnam and War on Poverty.  We lost both.  However I do hold that Carter is the worst person to be president.  While crude is over one hundred dollars a barrel, Carter thinks we should be giving food to the Norks, video:

Hat tip: Doug Powers, Michelle Malkin.

WTF L.  Donald,  Trump’s profanity laced tirade demonstrates an Obama like addiction to alternate reality, video:

Hat tip: Allah Pundit, Hot Air.

Now I admit to swearing.   It does work to relieve frustration, but sadly for L. Donald in the real world,  it does not solve problems.   Donny Boy, go back to y9ur beauty pagents and reality programs.   Leave the politics to the adults.

More Trump loonyisms, from Steve Nelson, Daily Caller:

During a Wednesday trip to New Hampshire, businessman Donald Trump told Fox News that Charles Krauthammer was a “sad fool” for dismissing his proposal to seize Iraq’s oil.

We don’t need to wage war to get oil.   He already have Utah.   All we need do is to drill for our own oil.   Trump seems to as obsessed with waging war for oil as Obama is no waging war on American oil companies.

Ohio governor John Kasich tells Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama where to put it, video:

Hat tip:  Los Angeles Times.

L. Donald played Dumbo like a cheap fiddle. How is that the Messiah, with the world class intellect and temperament got played like a cheap fiddle at a hoe down?  From Jim Kunhhenn:

WASHINGTON (AP) – Confronting doubters who harbor questions about his place of birth, President Barack Obama chose to defy one of his White House’s own rules: Don’t get dragged into the news skirmish of the day.

This time, he decided he had to. In an extraordinary step, the White House produced a copy of his detailed Hawaii birth certificate Wednesday after obtaining a special waiver from the state to make it public.

For his allies and even many of his political critics, it was about time.

We got fiddlers and we got the fiddled.  Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama is clearly the latter.   Dumbo got elected because he controlled the narrative.     Dumbo flummoxed himself when he simply blew off Mrs. Clinton who first raised the birth certificate question.

What can Dumbo do about gasoline prices? from Bradford Plumer, New Republic:

Oil is up around $110 per barrel; the price of gas at the pump is approaching $4 per gallon. It’s clear the White House is nervous about this: Barack Obama has started mentioning gas prices everywhere he goes. There are two big questions here: Are rising gas prices going to sink Obama’s presidency? And, either way, is there anything that can actually be done about them?

What the president can do to help lower the cost of global crude:

“My fellow Americans, it with a heavy heart that accept the resignation of Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar.”

Ok, I am old and listen to too much Lyndon B. Johnson Sue me.  Granted, Salazar is not the entire problem, but is no part of the solution.

Dumbo’s economics, or lack thereof.  I contend that Barack Obama is the most uneducated president in American history.  The only lesson Obama ever seems to have learned is create a villain for every problem.  Is Obama economic theory working for you?  Meanwhile back in Boston, from the Boston Herald:

So he’s in a panic at rising gasoline prices — because there’s nothing worse than angry voters furious at what it costs to fill up the tank, especially at the start of the summer driving season. In a letter sent to congressional leaders Tuesday Obama put part of the blame for the sharp spike in gas prices on “increased global demand” compounded by “unrest and supply disruptions in the Middle East.” Well, China’s demand didn’t spike overnight and any disruptions from the serial crises in the Middle East have far more impact in Europe than here.

If Dumbo survives politically, he may well be the most mocked president ever to get re-elected.   Don Hewitt  has no nice piece to officially open the season of the mocking, video:

Hat tip:  [not so] Nice Deb.

Truth, Justice and Sharia Law, Superman, b/k/a mild mannered reporter Clark Kent, to renounce US citizenship, reax from a clearly less than heart broken Fausta:

I didn’t realize he was a citizen. Mr. & Mrs. Kent must have gotten him legally adopted and naturalized, since he was an undocumented alien to begin with

Now if Superman would just take all the rest of the illegals with him.    Clearly Clark  Kent ts no Don Draper.

Following his outing of Barack Obama long form certificate of live birth,  L. Donald Trump has upped the ante and asked for the release of out nation’s first affirmative action president, from Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times:

WASHINGTON–White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett said President Obama will not release his academic records, commenting a day after Obama put out his “long form” birth certificate and Donald Trump decided to press his luck by demanding Obama’s college transcripts.

“We know this is nonsense,” Jarrett said in an interview on The Joe Madison Show on SiriusXM on Thursday morning.”He is almost 50 years old. And he is president of the United States and I don’t think anybody will debate his intelligence and so now we do need to get serious…let’s just get serious…get back to focusing on what’s important.

Obviously Ms Jarrett has never read any of Clarice Feldman.  Ms Feldman does not so much debate Barack Obama;’s purported intelligence, she destroys the nation that Obama is intelligent, see Clarice, here, here and here.

With the birth certificate issue, there was circumstantial evidence, albeit not proof, that Obama was born in the United State.   However when it comes to the notions, that Obama is an educated and intelligent man, we have little beyond democrat talking points and outright urban legend.

Westbury Long Island, NY–

David points out in this morning’s Scramble:

…three years after Mrs. Clinton raised the issues and after months of the media claiming that it was legally impossible, Barack Obama finally  releases his long form certificate of live birth, from William Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

So much for our media, which has been telling us — contrary to the actual law as I explained previously- that Obama could not obtain original documents of his own birth records.

[…]

The ease with which the White House obtained the documents demonstrates the rank idiocy of the mainstream media, which has been feeding us a steady stream of excuses as to why Obama could not obtain the document.

Just so. The willingness of the supposedly mainstream media to go to bat for the leftist President while the recent drooling over the mere chance of damaging a center-rightist President cannot be over-emphasized.  What that alone shows us is something readers of this blog have been aware of for many years, but perhaps nowhere more clearly demonstrated in that time than this spectacular case of press bias to the left.

And of course the President’s promise of being the most transparent administration in history kind of goes by the way, when one looks at the question of just why it is that Obama and his people waited two years and spent millions of dollars in legal fees, so that they didn’t have to come up with the real document. The leftist defense force (otherwise known as the “mainstream media”) is predictably silent.

This situation will likely help the President with his base…. which has been eroding at a remarkable pace for several months, now… but people who actually use their head for something other than holding Obama Tatoos will quickly understand that even assuming the question has been answered fully… and I have my doubts on that score… the picture it paints of the honesty of this administration is not at all a good one.

And of course, as Paul Rahe points up today, they will begin to notice once again that:

Barack Obama has brought us to the edge of a precipice, and a majority of Americans now recognize that things cannot go on as they have in the past. The welfare state is bankrupt. The Social Security trust fund is paying out more than it is taking in. The Medicare entitlement is unsustainable, and Obamacare threatens to hurl us into the abyss.

…and they will continue to note how Obama’s devotion to “green” is killing our economy. And so on and so on.

You see, the Administration has been playing this like all the questions about Obama have been answered, and that his supposed mandate now is shown as legit. Well, there’s a number… a large number… of people who have questions. The Birth certificate business is only one of them.  As JERRY POURNELLE says:

We have an election coming up. We also have $5/gallon gasoline and $5/loaf bread coming up. I do not expect the real unemployment rate to fall, although there will be frantic attempts to make it look lower, largely through statistical manipulations based on the definition of unemployment: if you’re not looking for work, you aren’t unemployed even if you have no job and never again expect to find one. As more give up looking, the unemployment rate goes down. And since the unions do not intend to lower their wages and perks, and the states are out of money, there will be “furloughs” among public employees including teachers. You can manipulate those numbers so the “furloughed” are not unemployed. It promises to be an interesting summer, but it will end with $5/gallon gasoline and $5/loaf bread. Look for the price of a can of beans to get higher. Look for the price of Top Ramen to rise…

This will continue so long as the current economic and foreign policies continue.

And guess what? Obama can’t wait two years to answer that question.

Dumbo relents, three years after Mrs. Clinton raised the issues and after months of the media claiming that it was legally impossible, Barack Obama finally  releases his long form certificate of live birth, from William Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

So much for our media, which has been telling us — contrary to the actual law as I explained previously– that Obama could not obtain original documents of his own birth records.

[…]

The ease with which the White House obtained the documents demonstrates the rank idiocy of the mainstream media, which has been feeding us a steady stream of excuses as to why Obama could not obtain the document.

Madison = Waterloo? Was Madison he public employee union’s Waterloo?  Another vote to roll back union rights, from Boston Globe:

House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last night to strip police officers, teachers, and other municipal employees of most of their rights to bargain over health care, saying the change would save millions of dollars for financially strapped cities and towns.

The 111-to-42 vote followed tougher measures to broadly eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees in Ohio, Wisconsin, and other states. But unlike those efforts, the push in Massachusetts was led by Democrats who have traditionally stood with labor to oppose any reduction in workers’ rights.

Will Dumbo, B/k/a Barack Obama, send his rent-a-thugs to Massachusetts?

Economics of Black, Thomas Sowell on Walter Williams, one classic economist discusses another, from New York Post:

Minimum-wage laws are classic examples. The last year in which the black unemployment rate was lower than the white unemployment rate was 1930. That was also the last year in which there was no federal minimum-wage law.

The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 was in part a result of a series of incidents in which non-union black construction labor enabled various contractors from the South to underbid Northern contractors who used white, unionized construction labor.

L. Donald trumps Dumbo,  is L. Donald living rent-free inside of Dumbo’s head, from Rush Limbaugh, from Jeff Poor, Daily Caller :

With everything going on in the world, some are questioning why President Barack Obama picked today to release his long-form birth certificate in a surprise announcement. According to Rush Limbaugh, the timing is based on polling.

video:

Hat tip: Daily Caller.

Dumbo’s drivel, the world starting to catch on to the obvious, a point I have been making for over two years now, Barack Obamai is not exactly the sharpest golf ball in the bag.  See Clarice, here, here and here..

Kyle-Anne Shiver finds this Mickey Kaus quote, from Dailly Caller:

Cost doesn’t go into why Obama managed to get to the top of politics without being all that good at it. The answer is distressingly obvious: Obama’s the biggest affirmative action baby in history.  When other pols are trying, failing, learning, while climbing up the middle rungs of the ladder, he got a pass; e) He’s the second president in a row to get a pass-George W. Bush, after all, didn’t exactly have to fight his way through a 64-team bracket. He was a legacy exception. And, come to think of it, he wasn’t that good at politics either.

And retorts, from American Thinker:

Well, of course, he got a pass.  Actually Obama got far more than a pass.  He was allowed by an ideologically-driven, white-guilt-motivated media to hop, skip, and jump his way to the pinnacle of world power without ever producing one single shred of verifiable evidence that he could do anything whatsoever but run his full-of-utter-BS mouth — even that, constantly enabled by a teleprompter.  And Republicans winked and nodded and permitted the whole Orwellian spectacle due to their fear of being forever outcast as racists.

It seems that Obama is the most uneducated president in American history.  Oh Obama may be credentialed, but his not educated.    In start contrast, Abraham Lincoln was highly educated yet very uncredentialed.     An educated man can take lesson of the past and apply the to problems of the present.     The only lesson Obama ever appears to have learned is how come up with scapegoat for every problem.  So when is the last time the tarring and feathering a scapegoat every solved any problem?

Frankly Stacy, I don’t give a damn, from RS McCain, Other McCain:

To Hell With ‘Gender Equity’

That’s my reaction to a New York Times story about how universities are faking their way around Title IX, which mandates an artificial “equality” between men and women’s sports programs.

I say is Mother nature wanted women to be equal to men, she would have made them man.  As she did not, she must have a reason for the difference.

In nature, equality is not the norm.  Take any two demographic groups and pick a metric, there no reason to expect measured equality.  For example there more blonds in Sweden than Italy.  Does that mean that Swedes or somehow better, or worse, than Italians, or just different?  Men on average are taller than women.  Yet that does not make men superior to women, I know of no hew and cry to remedy the female height disparity.  Likewise women, on average, live longer than men.  Do you need a federally mandated program to eliminate the life gap?

For their part gender feminists, are highly selective about which disparities they demand to be remedied.  Men, on average, make more per hour than women, a statistic which frosts the cows udders to no end.  Yet no gender feminist seems a bit bothteer that circa thirteen times as many men died in on the job accidents as do women.  Hint, it much the same reason men get paid more, they more apt to take more dangerous jobs

Pattersonville, NY, along I-90–

Took a break to deal with a few issues and drop a note on the blog. Rain and fog here today, and some serious thunderstorms threatening. I’m cooking some lunch after which, I’ll be heading to the Buffalo area.

I have been asked by a few readers who my favorite is among the possibles for the GOP nomination. I answer simply; I have none. Of all the front runners currently with their heads above the hedgerow, I have serious questions about each and every blinking one of them. In each and every case, the person in question is not operating now and never has operated from conservative principles. There are some bright spots and good ideas in each one’s head, at leastas expressed to us in their press releases and so on so far. But as to their bedrock principles…. no.

The people in the list of GOP front runners currently, shows us just how easy the Democrats… Obama, included, are defeat-able.  If these people can be considered front runners, then the Democrats are seen by the voters as vacuous at best. The problem isn’t that they can’t win… some of them certainly can. The issue however is what they’ll do once in office, which is where the issue of them operating from conservative principles or not comes into play. It seems to me we on the right signed onto a couple such people recently… both named Bush…. and what we got was at be a centrist, in both cases. We as a party a people, a nation, cannot afford to elect  anything of the center to the left, and that, I think is the risk we run if we take any of the current front runners seriously.

Let’s take a few examples, just so you understand me, here.

Trump: You cannot be serious. Trump to my mind, if nothing else shows us how easy Obama’s politics are to defeat at the next election. Perhaps too easy. At first glance and at first hearing, Trump has some gravitas. Problem is the devil is in the details. Details like his support for a progressive tax. Not just no…. HELL no.

Romney: Both David and myself rejected Romney at the last election and speaking for myself, that rejection has not reversed with the passage of time. The biggest example of why the rejection is Romneycare. Anyone who can sign their names to that I want nowhere near the seats of power.

Huckabee: Let’s remember who we’re dealing with, here. The late Bob Novak advised us:

Who would respond to criticism from the Club for Growth by calling the conservative, free-market campaign organization the “Club for Greed”? That sounds like Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich or John Edwards, all Democrats preaching the class struggle. In fact, the rejoinder comes from Mike Huckabee, who has broken out of the pack of second-tier Republican presidential candidates to become a serious contender — definitely in Iowa and perhaps nationally.

Huckabee is campaigning as a conservative, but serious Republicans know that he is a high-tax, protectionist advocate of big government and a strong hand in the Oval Office directing the lives of Americans. Until now, they did not bother to expose the former governor of Arkansas as a false conservative because he seemed an underfunded, unknown nuisance candidate.

We’ve posted on this subject before. Nope.

Palin: I am inclined to take her more seriously than Trump, on several accounts, not least of which the assessment of McCain’s campaign. Remember, McCain was seen as being to far to the left and McCain knew this… which is why they brought her in, in an attempt to counterbalance that (correct) assessment.  There are some questions I have about positions she’s taken in the past, but suspect a lot of them can be answered. Not all, however, and there’s the rub. Still, the establishment Republicans and Democrats both view her as a threat.  They’re desperate to discredit her.  I suggest that is in primary because of her willingness to be overtly conservative. To some degree, this goes to the lack of conservationism in US politics today… the rank and file are starving for someone to take the mantle… and    alas, none has.

Ron Paul: … has already had his Ross Perot moment. Does anyone take him seriously after seeing the Cindy Sheehans of the world supporting him? Sorry.

The one who does step up… and who is demonstrably operating from conservative principles… and I do not think that person to be among these… will win not only the nomination, but the general election.

Dumbo in over his trunk, from By Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post:

Obama out of depth in troubled times

President Obama’s approval ratings are languishing in the mid-40s again. Conservatives argue that Obama lacks executive acumen. They say that he’s a prisoner of leftist ideology, immune to facts and experience. There’s a lot to all of that.

But what we’ve learned over the past couple of years is that Obama, in no small part due, one can surmise, to years of fawning by rapt liberal academics and pols anxious to praise every utterance, is thin on knowledge and nearly entirely bereft of strategic thinking.

Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama, may be the most poorly  educated president in history.   The man has a bevy of credentials, but no evidence of  ever having received an education.

Dumbo the un-Christian, from Jordan Fabian, Hill:

The White House slammed influential evangelical leader the Rev. Franklin Graham on Monday for questioning President Obama’s birthplace.

Graham, a son of the Rev. Billy Graham who has served as a spiritual adviser to several presidents with his father, said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that Obama “has some issues to deal with” when it comes to his birth certificate.

“It’s unfortunate that a religious leader would use Easter Sunday to make preposterous” statements, White House press secretary Jay Carney responded Monday.

Sure Mr.  Carney, pretends Easter is some big deal to the Obama White House, from Fox News:

President Obama failed to release a statement or a proclamation recognizing the national observance of Easter Sunday, Christianity’s most sacred holiday.

By comparison, the White House has released statements recognizing the observance of major Muslim holidays and released statements in 2010 on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha.

The White House also failed to release a statement marking Good Friday. However, they did release an eight-paragraph statement heralding Earth Day. Likewise, the president’s weekend address mentioned neither Good Friday or Easter

So what every view the Obama White House has of Easter, it is even more trivial that the pagan holiday, Earth Day.

Dumbo’s war on energy, and you wonder why the price of gasoline continue to soar, from Fox News:

Shell Oil Company has announced it must scrap efforts to drill for oil this summer in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Alaska. The decision comes following a ruling by the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board to withhold critical air permits. The move has angered some in Congress and triggered a flurry of legislation aimed at stripping the EPA of its oil drilling oversight.

[…]

The closest village to where Shell proposed to drill is Kaktovik, Alaska. It is one of the most remote places in the United States. According to the latest census, the population is 245 and nearly all of the residents are Alaska natives. The village, which is 1 square mile, sits right along the shores of the Beaufort Sea, 70 miles away from the proposed off-shore drill site.

Good-bye Katie, from Laura Donovan, Daily Caller:

CBS News anchor Katie Couric is expected to confirm later this week that she’s ending her five-year run with “CBS Evening News”, reports the New York Times.

I actually like Katie. She is sweet.  Alas reading the news is not her nitch in life.  However, will remind Katie that I am still available.

York PA– A nice springtime day, with a bit of rain. York, is a nice little place just outside Harrisburg, and a place I come often. I left Rochester around Midnight last night and arrived here around 7am  That’s the one thing I’ve come to hate about this job… the hours and the separation from my wife and kids. But, ya gotta do what you gotta do.

Oh, well, a look around.

• Nice to see Gabrielle Giffords doing better, though I wonder if in truth she’ll ever really recover. I can’t help but think that the gun grabbers are going to use her willingly or not as a rally cry.  That seems to me an annoyance at least .  Then again , never let it be said that the gun grabbers didn’t use every opportunity available to them.
• We have all seen these stickers on the cars of those who are obviously of a leftist bent. I notice that they are invariably placed on vehicles which normally come with a shoe horn so that you can fit your fat backside into it.   You know… the kind of cars that cigarettes are getting banned for, since a cigarette butt hitting one will knock it out of commission. I’ve also noticed that such stickers are seldom alone.  Usually such stickers a company stickers from the Obama campaign or some lefty group or pol. usually it looks like the back into the car is being held together with such stickers, and given the construction of such vehicles there probably is some structural reason for them being there.  The damn things would fall apart without them. They tend to look like this one, here:

But why is it such people never seem to see this kind of story?

A group of Breslov Hassidim’s regular twilight visit to Palestinian controlled Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus came to a tragically violent end Sunday: According to one of the Breslovers, Palestinian police officers fired at the convoy as they were on their way in to the Tomb.

The fire continued as they drove out, killing Ben-Yosef Livnat, a 24 year-old father of four from Jerusalem and the nephew of Minister Limor Livnat, and injuring five others.

The kind of hatred being described here is not something that stickers are going to overcome.  I will admit to you there are times when I’d like to see such vehicles held together with such stickers driven through the hail of gunfire that Livnat endured, just to see what level of protection the sticker would provide from people who demonstrably aren’t interested at all in co-existence. The funny part of this one is even the ACLU is beginning to set up and take notice.

• The fact is that oil companies have the smallest dollar return,  per dollar invested of any industry in existence.  It seems to me and to most people who are actually looking at these facts, absurd that the government should be complaining to the oil companies about oil prices.The  The fact is that the government has been clamping down so hard on the company’s ability to drill domestically.  The fault for that lies directly with the oh,so environmentally sound Obama administration.  the president likes to claim that there is no magic bullet for lowering will prices.  He’s wrong, of course.  There is.  Drill, baby, drill.  It’s called supply and demand.  The rather simple concept, but apparently above the smarts of the supposedly smartest man in the world.  Else, we must assume as I pointed out on Friday, that there is intentional malice going on here on the part of this administration twenties the United States and its people.
• Welfare handouts aren’t fair – and the public knows it.
  

  “A new survey shows that despite years of propaganda from the Left, Britons retain a deep-seated sense of fairness and individual responsibility, says Janet Daley.  If you could work, but won’t, a large majority think you should have your benefits either reduced or stopped completely.”

  Funny how the Democrats in power here in the states haven’t figured that one out.Or maybe they’re just trying to settle a Swiss a financial burden from which we can never recover.  There again, malice.  It’s a conclusion it’s becoming harder and harder to avoid .

• You will recall I’ve been railing about the EPA and Obama’s backing of them. I’ve pointed out that the science they base their unilateral rule-making on, is questionable, at the least and is backed by some rather questionable groups. Seems the problem isn’t limited to these shores, gang. We have been and are now subject to a scam of global proportions.
• Look, Don… Krugman was never really an economist, not really… though admittedly he convincingly passed for one during the Reagan years. Since then, something has short-circuited in his brain box.
• WaPo stil hasn’t read my Pajamas media article, apparently. The reality is that Bush got it right… and Obama’s actions prove that.

MD call an MD, the entire state of Maryland appears to be be in dire need of a medical doctor.  Chris Polis, a twenty-two years old male, entered a occupied female restroom in a Baltimore area McDonalds Apparently exposed himself to fourteen year old minor female Got her royally offended, and then proceeded be kicked by his victim and her friend.  Mr. Polis is now claiming the status of victim.

Mr. Polis is a male and would be well advised to stay out of female restroom A somewhat confused Robert Stacy M Cain has a video of Mr. Polis, here.

Mr. McCain’s commentators have retained their common sense,  which this subject,  Stacy has lost.

I had kind of thought that the Aussies were somehow smarter then this, from Austrailian:

A TRANSGENDER woman brutally attacked at a McDonald’s restaurant says she was the victim of a hate crime.

The assault was captured on video that later went viral.

Its victim, 22-year-old Chrissy Lee Polis, told The Baltimore Sun: “I’m just afraid to go outside now because of stuff like this”.

If Mr. Chris Polis is a women, then I Elvis Presley.

High gas prices, then and now, video:

Hat tip:  Nice Deb.

High gas prices, Obama’s  dream, from Victor Davis Hanson,  Pajamas Media:

Gas Dreams Come True

If one were to collate Obama’s campaign rhetoric (bad coal companies would be “bankrupt” under his envisioned cap and trade plans, energy prices would “sky-rocket”) with that of Secretary Chu’s (“somehow” American gas prices should climb to European levels; we should be worried about our abundant fossil fuel resources that can “cook” us), then the present climb to near $5 a gallon gas is what the president and his energy secretary once thought would be salutary — a sort of Europe U.S.A. After all, we Americans in our ridiculous pick-ups and SUVs (remember the president’s advice to the questioner concerned about fuel prices to trade in his gas-guzzler, or perhaps his earlier advice to inflate our tires in lieu of off-shore drilling) sort of got what we deserved.

And think, if you think you are being screwed at the pump now, just wait until after Obama get re-elected and does not have deal with those nasty elections.

Lessons for life, Don’t step on Superman’s cape and don’t piss in the girls’ room, unless you are really a girl.

Great quotes in non-history:

I will find the real killer or killers, if have to look on every golf course in America.

O.J. Simpson.

I will find the real cause of high energy prices, even if I have to play golf every Sunday.

Barack “Dumbo”  Obama.

Looking for the bogeyman, Jackiie Calmes, New York Times, via Steve Gilbert Sweetness & Light:

President Obama sought again to show his concern for high gasoline prices, announcing on Thursday at a public event in Reno that the Justice Department is forming a team to investigate possible fraud in oil markets.

Mr. Obama last month directed his attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., to probe any reports of price-gouging.

Mind you, Obama has no evidence of fraud, but hie will investigate it anyhow.
from, John, Power Line:

An interesting question: given Obama’s ignorance of the economy, is he really dumb enough to believe that “speculators” are to blame for high gas prices? Presumably his advisers would clue him in, if he didn’t know any better. But then, why is he complaining about rising gas prices, when both he and his Secretary of Energy have made it clear that they wanted energy costs to increase to European levels?

Just how dumb is Dumbo?.

Is fair, fair? Arthur C. Brooks, Washington Post:

It’s hardly a shock that seven in 10 Americans believe in the American dream. If you descended from immigrants, ask yourself: Why did my ancestors come here? I suspect it wasn’t to find a fairer system of forced income redistribution. It was to find a place where they could get a fair shake, where they could start their own business, and where hard work and good ideas would be rewarded.

Politicians have denied the core American belief in opportunity at their peril. In 1972, Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern delivered a campaign speech to blue-collar workers at a rubber factory near Akron, Ohio. He announced his plan to raise estate taxes to dramatically reduce inheritances and to redistribute the money to people like those assembled. He felt sure his message would resonate with his working-class audience.

Instead, he was booed.

I admit that fair is fine concept.  I’ll be darned if anybody can actually define.  Further, those nation state which tried to implement economic systems based on fairness, only produced near universal poverty.

Dateline PRD, People’s Republic of Dearbornistan, from Gautham Nagesh, Hill:

Controversial Florida Pastor Terry Jones said he will follow through on his plan to protest outside an Islamic center in Michigan next week despite a judge’s order to stay away from the mosque for three years, according to a report from the Detroit Free Press.

Jones had planned to protest against jihad and sharia outside the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn on Friday, the largest mosque in a metro-Detroit region that is home to one of the largest populations of Arab-Americans.

However, Judge Mark Somers ordered Jones and Pastor Wayne Sapp to jail after a jury determined they would likely breach the peace. Somers set a $1 cash bond for Jones and Sapp and ordered them not go to the mosque or adjacent property for three years.

Legal analysis, courtesy Eugene Volokh, Volokh Conspiracy.

Fighting like a girl, Stacy has the viral video, link. A guy goes in the little girls room.   He apparently refused a polite request to leave.  The rest follows as naturally as stink follows shit.    Well done girls.

More, Rosslyn Smith, American  Thinker:

The victim is transgendered and chose to use the ladies room.  That facility was already in use by a girl who evidently had not learned in school that gender is merely a social construct.

I beg to differ with Ms Smith.  The dude was not a victim but a perp.  Any dude that choose to go into an occupied women’s restroom is lucky to be alive.

Very interesting, in Dearbornistan, burning a book is considered provocative.   In Baltiimore, men are free to walk into occupied women ‘s restrooms.

Taking Mr. Krugman to school Paul Krugman, New York Times:

Earlier this week, The Times reported on Congressional backlash against the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a key part of efforts to rein in health care costs. This backlash was predictable; it is also profoundly irresponsible, as I’ll explain in a minute.

But something else struck me as I looked at Republican arguments against the board, which hinge on the notion that what we really need to do, as the House budget proposal put it, is to “make government health care programs more responsive to consumer choice.”

Here’s my question: How did it become normal, or for that matter even acceptable, to refer to medical patients as “consumers”?

Mr. Krugman, in the world of the sane, of which you have bet scant notion, it always acceptable to speak to the truth.  Health care providers produce a service and consumers, who all called patients, consume it.    Patients may in freer world be informed consumers or in Krugman’s uninformed consumers, but in any case they are consumers.

I suppose in Krugman’s world, unelected government bureaucrats be trusted to make better decisions that  patients and their physicians.   It that the way you see it your world?

Dumbo steps in it, for a self-proclaimed professor of constitutional law. Barack Obama is one bone dumb ignorant hick, from Michael Whitney, Fire Dog Lake:

President Barack Obama made stunning accusations about accused Wikileaks whistleblower PFC Bradley Manning, directly asserting that Manning “broke the law.” Apparently the President of the United States of America and a self-described Constitutional scholar does not care that Manning has yet to be tried or convicted for any crime.

I happen to share Obama’s opinion, but I am not the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, and my opinion can not taint an entire jury pool.

Albany,NY— I’m at the Pilot Truck stop tonight,  and another week is in the books. Tomorrow, I take my empty to a warehouse near Rochester to  be loaded over the week end, and take my truck back to “The Barn”, and then go home to my wife and kids. I’ll be happy to see them after being gone so long.  It’s been a pretty good week, actually, with fair weather for the most part, and I’ve remade several acquaintances, with some of the regulars at the places I’ve been going. I’m starting to fit into this role. It’s nice to be recognized and greeted when you get to the journey’s end.

The truck is doing well, and I’m learning it’s particular language. To a non-driver and even to experienced  four-wheel drivers, it sounds strange to say. But experienced drivers of 18 wheel rigs, and those who are really into their cars will know well of what I speak. Each vehicle I’ve ever driven has it’s own language, it’s own method of feedback for the driver for each given situation.  The day I was assigned this truck was not unlike a first date, in that I had to work to get to know the truck… and quite literally, given computer engine controls, it had to learn about me and my habits as well. That process continues apace.

I get lots of time, in this to to watch world events, thought not nearly the time I’d like to comment on them.

I’m watching, with jaundiced eye, the weather developing in the south and midwest. While I”m sure we’ll see dire news reports from the area, I’m sure that life there will continue… as it always has after past storms.  And of course, given the left, the storms will be blamed on “Global Warming”. Of course, little mention will be made of the leftists and their pollution. Just as I’m sure Lindsay Lohan will end up in the slam, again. There are some forces of nature, that just are, they simply exist and we must learn to deal with them.

I notice on the sign at this particular truck stop, that Number 2 Diesel is running for $4.45/gal.  Obviously, this price is leveling small businesses… which independent truckers are, by the way… and smaller transportation firms. But these crazy prices are causing prices to skyrocket in every corner of our society. There’s nothing and nobody that isn’t being affected by them.  Now, of course I will point out as I have several times in the past that this is directly related to the wishes and George Soros and the actions of Barrack Husein Obama.  But in the doing I will point out to you that these are each part of a larger problem… a mindset we as Americans must crush if we are to survive as a people… liberals.

Ponder the liberal mindlessness that created and gave ultimate power to the EPA, which is laso a huge part of the problem as regards fuel prices. Yes, I said ultimate power.  Rep Mike Pompeo has written an article on the topic you must see. A taste:

Even before I entered Congress, I’ve known of EPA’s rogue behavior from my days spent running a small business and from conversations with Kansas families whose livelihoods have been put in jeopardy by reckless government behavior. For too many at EPA, it is no longer about human health and safety, but about achieving environmental perfection as they imagine it.

The harm here is not solely to those families and businesses. Rather, disregard for jobs, economic growth and wealth creation will inevitably result in poorer environmental outcomes and the destruction of human health and well-being. It takes resources to improve health, and data show clearly that nations that are wealthier are inevitably better stewards of their natural resources.

In my first 100 days, I’ve seen EPA’s lack of concern for jobs and families firsthand. Just 8 days ago, the Energy and Commerce Committee, of which I am a member, examined the EPA’s Maximum Achievable Cost Technology (MACT) rules for boilers, cement facilities, and power plants. According to EPA’s own estimates, the MACT rules will impose more than $14 billion in annual costs on our manufacturing and electric utility sectors. No material improvement to human health will result.

EPA has also exploited global warming hysteria, engaging in an unprecedented power grab from Congress by unilaterally regulating greenhouse gases. By willfully misinterpreting the 2007 Supreme Court Case Massachusetts v. EPA, and clearly ignoring congressional intent, the EPA will add a costly and burdensome new regulation to 1.2 million businesses that will do nothing to improve actual air quality.

Now, add to this, that the EPA, whose rullings are based on at least questionable silence and whose edicts cannot be gainsaid by any other agency including Congress itself, is now admitting to us that Jobs don’t matter.

This stunning revelation was made by EPA Administrator Mathy Stanislaus in response to a question by Colorado GOP Rep. Cory Gardner.  It came during Stanislaus’ testimony before the House Environment and Energy Committee on Thursday and exposes the Obama administration’s public posture on jobs and the environment as a fraud.

Gardner was asking about an EPA regulation that would govern industries that recycle coal and ash and other fossil fuel byproducts.  Recycling is a good thing. Recycled coal ash makes concrete stronger, wallboard more durable and the shingles on your roof longer-lasting.

“We have not directly taken a look at jobs in this proposal,” Stanislaus said. That’s odd, since his testimony seems to contradict Executive Order 13563, issued by President Obama in January, which requires that all new rules issued by federal agencies take job creation into account. As we have learned, you have to watch what the administration does, not what it says.

Indeed so. How can we take Obama at his word as regards jobs when he contunes to support the agency most directly responsible for destroying jobs?

Look, guys I’ve pointed this up before and will doubtless do so again, but I’m struck by the idea that our destruction at the hands of the left is by intent.

And yes, I’m serious. I want you to seriously consider this:  If you wanted to cripple the greatest nation on earth, (Who you’ve said publicly, you want to see take a smaller world role) how would you accomplish it, outside what the left has done? I think that when viewed through the standpoint of a strong America internationally speaking , and a strong private sector economy within America, and individual freedoms, Obama, and the left have gone precisely the wrong direction with a batting average that approach is as close to 1000 as no matter. Given that, it does not seem unreasonable to me to question whether this is a case of incompetence or malice. I conclude the latter.  Reasons are many, but can be summed up this way:

One does not screw up  totally every single time without a certain level of both competence, and intent.   It seems more likely to me that what’s happening is that Obama and company have a completely different goal  than the stated  strong America.

Look, let’s take the gulf oil spill as an example since given “earth day” the press has been making a bit of noise about it over the last few days. Think back now, or re-read the reports of the happening and think:

If a leftist wanted to create an anti oil-drilling sentiment in this country how would one go about it?  How does this differ from what Obama has done? That the two are so very close, suggests that our destruction is being accomplished as a matter of intent. And that is merely one aspect of the whole picture which is monotonously uniform.

Now obviously, we need to throttle the EPA. But we also need to throttle the left, including Obama.

I say it that way because Obama, for all that he represents is still a representation… the latest one… of a mindset… leftism… that has been at the foundation of our national problems for generations, now. I wonder if we can save our country in time, given the damage done.