I think we are starting to take the first tentative steps towards maturity. Those of us who were never for one instant fooled by Barack Obama ought to pat themselves on the back. The election of 2008 thanks to the the media conspiracy was the biggest con game ever played upon this nation. It is nice to know that some people who were duped have awakened, sadly in certain parts of the country (such as the West and East Coast), they still party on.
by Ben Shapiro
If the 2008 presidential elections marked the apex of America’s political adolescence, the 2010 midterm election represented the first glimmers of political maturation.
The year 2008 was the culmination of two concomitant American desires: the desire for political consonance and the desire for responsibility-free living. Americans elected President Obama because we wanted to put an end to divisive and strident debate in the aftermath of the Bush years; we were tired, and we were taken in by President Obama’s happy talk about the Great Political Convergence and the Great Racial Healing. At the same time, Americans were hurting, and we wanted the government to take care of us; we didn’t even want the responsibility of holding government accountable, so we turned over the levers of power to Great Administrators.
It was stupidly hopeful, juvenile in the extreme. There’s a reason that the Democratic Party counted on college students to an inordinate degree in 2008 — they required the mush-filled skulls of enthusiastic non-taxpaying pseudo-intellectuals to lead the way.
And so we elected President Obama. It was a time for dreaming. Then we woke up.
[...]
During this election cycle, President Obama fondly and repeatedly utilized a cloying metaphor about D standing for both Drive and Democrat, while R stood for Reverse and Republican. He never established what we were supposedly driving toward or away from.
But Americans understood. We were driving toward Europe. We were driving away from our history.
And we saw, growing in the windshield, the looming spectre of the European socialist experiment. We saw Greece, where union contracts and government debt had bankrupted an entire nation and turned it into a raging band of disaffected leeches. We saw France, where high taxation, low work hours and early retirement had turned one of the oldest members of Western Civilization into a cauldron of whining. We saw Spain, where perennially high inflation eventually sank the country’s credit.
Then we looked in the rearview mirror. We saw the booming pre-Great Society economy. We saw the economy-jumpstarting Reagan tax cuts. We saw a time when Americans could start businesses without entangling themselves in burdensome regulatory schemes, when Americans could actually keep and save their own money and pass that money on to their children, when Americans gave charity to those in need rather than tax money to bureaucrats in plush offices.
[...]
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Ouch. That hurts.
Now that two classes have graduated, they’re finding that delivering pizza isn’t a good plan for paying back that $100,000 in student loans. Maybe that’s why they weren’t quite as hopenchangeful as they were a couple years ago.
In the coming years, it’s only going to get worse. That million more over the course of your career that they promised isn’t materializing, and the collection agency is. The student loan
shakedownprogram may be the the single biggest thing they’ve done to help the Tea Party movement and the GOP.Which leads to this diddy.
I tried and tried to tell people what Obama was with facts and except from people here what I got is that I was stupid and misinformed. It is nice to be right but dang only if more had listened.
BBEV wrote:
I have real trouble be ing civil to those jerks who voted for Obama without knowing anything about him or ignoring what was plainly obvious to anyone with half a brain.
@ BBEV:
Those people are nowhere to be found now. It’s like the gulf oil spill. The people who said the safety procedures were overkill all evaporated into the ether.
Except for the couple of hippies with Obama/Biden bumper stickers on their ’63 Checy pickups. Too stoned to see the irony.
N.J. Town Outlaws Sleeping In Public
Police Chief: Ordinance Designed To Deal With Homeless
Shit if sleeping in class had been illegal, I would have spent 4 years of college in the hoosegow
We had full facts to show them. We showed them his alliances and affiliations with full back up and we where called nuts. WTF
Obama will make you pay for your insolence. He’ll soak the country with legalized illegals.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111605358.html
waldensianspirit wrote:
Over my dead body
Jan Schakowsky offers liberal deficit plan … in 2015 …
Simple plan: continue spending like drunken sailors [apologies to drunken sailors; they at least quit when they're out of their own dough] and raise taxes
OT: Charles Rangel claims the right to retain council dates back to Magna Carta.
Sorry Charlie.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Basically it’s an outline of what is wrong with the left
@ Crusader Rabbit:
And people keep pulling the lever for him. Growing up country my tuckus
Crusader Rabbit wrote:
I thought that right went back to the Beer Belly Billy Carta?
America still has some growing up to do. Check out Andrew Sullivan’s new outrage, and his tongue bath from Mad King Yertle.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Well that’s the problem. Instead of growing up COUNTRY, these people grew up in Harlem
@ Crusader Rabbit:
Am I going to have to go grammar Nazi on you, too?
@ waldensianspirit:
It’s a safe bet his constituents aren’t familiar with Magna Carta either.
One of the late night shows could probably do one of those “man in the street” gags and get any number of people in his district to agree that it is one of the better brands of some consumer product.
@ Nevergiveup:
Ineducable to boot. Can they possibly believe money just sits still for them to tax without Le Chatelier’s Principle kicking in?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I misplaced my racism glasses. I’m just not seeing it. Or are you supposed to take acid first?
@ snork:
Hit me with your best shot.
@ waldensianspirit:
Hmm. The thermodynamics of the Laffer curve. If only I understood algebra.
Crusader Rabbit wrote:
What’s even funnier is that just last summer Rangel was whining about having to subject himself to “Anglo-Saxon” procedures. Now he decides to pull Magna Carta out of his hat!
snork wrote:
Well, you see, it’s grafitti, which is identified often with inner-city youths of color.
snork wrote:
That’s too bad. You don’t get to the Laffer curve until Calculus I.
Clash with U.S. over terms of settlement freeze stalls cabinet vote
Disagreements rose from American desire to remain vague over whether it will seek another freeze three months from now.
Hey who has the vaseline?
@ Crusader Rabbit:
Council = group of people running something. Counsel = attorney.
wolfie wrote:
you need an anatomy class, that wasn’t his hat he pulled it out of
snork wrote:
Thanks for the catch.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Cuz the white suburban kids are sniffing the paint?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Even my dog can’t hear that whistle.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Ohhhhhhhhh. Sure. Okay.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Schakowsky is a Marxist, in case anyone’s wondering.
Nothing she’s involved with should be described as “liberal.”
Well no shit.
Rahm: I never believed in bipartisanship
@ snork:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/11/rahm_i_never_believed_in_bipar.html
@ lobo91:
Leftists love to ruin the language. Calling themselves liberals was something they fell in to after they had defamed the term “progressive.” That term always struck me as ironic and I’ve often challenged people to tell me “Progress toward what?”.
They’ve done so much damage to the term “liberal” that no less of a leftist than Hillary made a big pronouncement in ’08 about how she wasn’t a “liberal” but rather a “progressive”.
I wonder how many generations will have to pass before the term “liberal” won’t be derogatory any more.
@ waldensianspirit:
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
snork wrote:
@ snork:
As someone who used to know graf artists, the best grafers were Whites. So Chuck and his buddy Sullivan claiming that Obama grafed on Mt. Rushmore in a cartoon is racist, just doesn’t fit reality.
wolfie wrote:
There, fixed that for ya!
@ Crusader Rabbit:
Schakowsky is way past “progressive,” too.
She’s an outright Marxist.
So is her felon husband–the guy who wrote the plan for Obamacare.
snork wrote:
Be glad, Laffer curves only make your head hurt, on the inside…
Rodan wrote:
Dude. Don’t talk about Chuck, Andy Sullivan, and fitting all in the same sentence.
lobo91 wrote:
From in prison, right?
snork wrote:
Yup.
For bank fraud, involving his work with a non-profit.
Look at all the wavers for ObamaCare.
111 special exemptions to unions and other businesses.
And add all the muzz that get to to opt. out because they’re special.
What a fcking joke. And they think they are going to hold us hostage to it.
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/11/14/waiver-mania-the-ever-expanding-obamacare-escapee-list/
@ lobo91:
But non-profit are run by angels.
Big Sis must be experiencing another power orgasm:
@ lobo91:
Well, not ironically, “progressive” has always been a code-word for “Marxist”.
The only progress they actually believe in is the “inevitable march to Socialism.”
W. T. F. ?????
snork wrote:
I constantly have to remind my students, who get whinged at by non-profits who want services at under-market rates, that “non-profit” is nothing more than a tax designation which determines what the entity can or cannot do with its money. It doesn’t mean they don’t have money, and it doesn’t mean they can’t spend money; typically, non-profits pay market rates for most services, and the people at the top of the organizational pyramid usually do very, very well for themselves.
@ Macker:
And all the terrorists are laughing
Where is SADM… Ouch, Yngiwe Malmsteen taking Joe Satriani and Steve Vai to school….
@ waldensianspirit:
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@ buzzsawmonkey:
Schakowsky and her husband live quite well.
As do Bill Ayers and his wife.
And the Obamas’ next-door neighbor in Chicago is another well-known “community organizer.”
There seems to be a lot of “profit” in “non-profits”…
@ chickadee:
Star Trek???
@ lobo91:
Well, as far as Ayers is concerned, you’ve got to remember he is both heir to a fortune and has his professorial salary in addition.
But yes—non-profits are a big fat gravy train if you’re at the top.
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Company digging mine in Afghanistan unearths 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery
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buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Exactly. Most hospitals are non profits, but there are plenty of six figure salaries being paid out. But perish the thought that anyone want to audit their books. How dare you!
waldensianspirit wrote:
Sure they are. They have created all this chaos and stress. Even if they aren’t blowing stuff up they are making people miserable. This is islam fcking with the infidel any way it can.
And to add insult to injury, the muzz, in full burqas, waltz right on passed old ladies getting groped.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Big fat sanctimonious gravy trains.
snork wrote:
Maybe “sanctimonetary” is a useful new coinage…
snork wrote:
That’d be me.
IMO, America has not started to grow up, not at all.
When America realizes and repents from the evil that America did to the Serbs, maybe then.
@ NoThreat2U:
Wow! The Taliban is just drooling while inventorying their dynamite stash-in-waiting.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Chuckles finally gave Andrew Sullivian a blow-job? I’ve been expecting that. I guess that makes Chuckles a Trig Truther in addition to an anti-Semite.
In the comments from my link:
Quote: Now the americans wil defo not leave afganistan. 1st they wanted oil and now they are guna want this and i would be suprised if there isnt another so attack of terror which they are gona interigate and send more troops to afgan.
- Aki, Bham, 16/11/2010 14:58 Unquote.
ROFLMAO**************
snork wrote:
Of course, that’s their real purpose.
Well, that and the acquisition of power by those in charge.
It’s funny how nobody ever points out the fact that the people they’re supoosed to be “helping” never seem to see any improvement in their lives…
Iron Fist wrote:
Well, the Trig Truther needs a Truth Trigger.
@ lobo91:
You wouldn’t expect that money to go to the people, now would you? Because that would be wrong. You wouldn’t want to trouble the little people with too much money. That is the burden that self-less souls like Obama aggregate to themselves, bless their souls…
@ waldensianspirit:
Of course they are.
NoThreat2U wrote:
shhhhh . . . . . don’t mention this great discovery. Oh Noooooo. . . . . Here come the taliban with the dynamite.
@ Macker:
From earlier today, for everyone contemplating Thanksgiving travel:
Through TSA Airport Security
—with apologies to the Thanksgiving poem, “Over the River and Through the Woods” by Lydia Maria Child
Through TSA airport security
To grandmother’s house we go
We are never fazed
As we fill up the trays
Where our coats and shoes we stow
Through TSA airport security
We submit to full-body scans
So they can find out
Without any doubt
Whether we’re woman or man
Through TSA airport security
Should we balk as they peek
They will grope our junk
As if we’re prison punks
The sensation is…unique
Through TSA airport security
It’s considered bad form to say
That they’ve prevented naught
They’ve no terrorists caught—
Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day!
snork wrote:
The “education bubble” is due to pop.
@ NoThreat2U:
OMG. That is wonderful.
On second thought, that’s awful.
The Islamo-crazies will destroy it.
Better it should remain hidden.
snork wrote:
Those student loans cannot be discharged through bankruptcy. The demonrats no doubt are planning some sort of government indenture program as a new form of peonage.
The only other alternative is for those immature hopeychangey bozos who voted for the Obozo-in-Chief to abandon their debts by leaving the US and starting over with nothing, in some other part of the world. If they do that, we can only hope that there is some way of removing them from the voter rolls in the districts where they are no longer resident.
@ wolfie:
It is proof that Afghanistan wasn’t always Mohammedan territory. The Muzz are foreign colonial invaders, and should be violently expelled to Saudi Arabia (the only place in the world the Muzz should be allowed).
@ chickadee:
I liked the comment…the Chinese find it an the Americans will use it as an excuse to stay there…just like we did for the oil? God some people are too stupid to live. lol
@ wolfie:
I wonder if anyone will try to stop them from destroying this find?
BuddyG wrote:
They’re going to have to do something about student loans.
There are millions of people out there (myself included) who are saddled with loan payments for degrees that turned out to be utterly useless, especially in today’s economy.
I just applied for a job at Target.
BuddyG wrote:
I blogged about that in some detail quite recently.
This should pull the rug out from under a lot of the commies that make their living in academia. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of people.
@ Iron Fist:
You’re right, this is proof positive. That is why they want to destroy everything they come across. Bastards. I really hope someone is protecting this site….and no, not American personnel.
lobo91 wrote:
If I were you, I’d say to hell with it all and move to Chile, without leaving a forwarding address.
I’ll probably see ya there in the next year or two, God willing.
@ wolfie:
Isn’t that awful that our second thought is hide it, cover it up.
Protect it from islam.
@ chickadee:
That is a terrible thought. How sad.
lobo91 wrote:
They don’t keep job apps on file for very long at most retail stores.
If you want a retail job you have to apply over and over at every store in your town, then after you’ve applied, visit in person again and again to each store to ask about getting the job.
Perfect example of the tolerant peaceful nature of islam.
They destroy everything in their path.
chickadee wrote:
That was my immediate thought too. I hope that the Chinese will be a lot more proactive about defending a landmark site than the US has been.
We let al Qaeda take a second shot at the Twin Towers, after the first failed attack. We should have deported Muslims en masse after the first attack, but we didn’t.
NoThreat2U wrote:
I was remembering what they did to those incredible centuries old Buddhist statues.
Took hammers to them and then blew them up.
We are dealing with truly barbaric monsters.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Furthermore, there are no vital organs under his hat.
@ chickadee:
…and then they plant their flag in it’s place. Then, the claim it as the 123,000 holiest site in islam through some made up koran verse. It’s almost comical. Almost.
Best news all day:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704312504575618660151287450.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories
Obama’s effort to destroy our weapons will most probably be thwarted! ht drudge
@ chickadee:
I can’t believe the world sat by and let that happen.
lobo91 wrote:
ROTFLMAO… tell me about it, after 25 years mine just got paid off last year. Full amount plus god knows how much interest. The degree, B.F.A min music, utterly useless, but hey it only cost me 45,000 dollars, such a bargain….
Nevergiveup wrote:
Shows what a terrible mood I’m in right now. I misread “ordinance” as “ordnance.”
But then, I used to live in Chicago, where that reading would not have been too far from the truth.
1389AD wrote:
Not all of us are commies, and the worst offenders will be the last to suffer.
(But I do understand your sentiment and to a large extent share it.)
@ 1389AD:
They won’t be a coddled special class forever. Everyday, they are held in more contempt by civilized people who are watching them murder rape and pillage.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Both the US and Russia will need those weapons as a deterrent against the Muslims. Or maybe as a preemptive attack. Whenever I’m in a REALLY bad mood I get a ferocious craving to see some of that good ol’ bottled sunshine.
@ wolfie:
Yep Michael Mann is well funded
@ doriangrey:
I’ll be paying on mine until I’m 75…
wolfie wrote:
I probably painted with too broad a brush. But then I’m in a really crappy mood today. I usually make some effort to fight off the depression but my usual strategems are not working.
We had a very slow day at work. Makes me worry about being laid off from my part-time minimum wage job.
lobo91 wrote:
Oh believe me when I say, I feel your pain….
chickadee wrote:
I had to go back and see if you were talking about the Taliban, or academics…
waldensianspirit wrote:
Nice life, eh?
lobo91 wrote:
Everybody wondered why I never went back for another degree after I got my BA in 1976. I said that I hated being around schools and academia, that the whole environment was thoroughly dirty. That saved me from being in debt for schooling.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Yes it was shocking. Where was the outrage from the mfm? World treasures destroyed by monstrous barbarians.
lobo91 wrote:
@ chickadee:
I’m trying to think back to that. All I remember was a collective Oh Well from everyone. I think they misunderestimated the taliban and their plans. I am really curious to see what happen with this find though.
@ lobo91:
LOL,
Allen West wants to cut nation-building “defense spending”:
Well folks, I may be back later. I made the mistake of having milk today and my tummy is killing me. I feel like i’m gonna burst. lol lol Gonna chug some maalox and hope for the best.
Ciao
1389AD wrote:
I do that myself all the time.
Reminds me of a lunch chat I had with a conservative friend a few weeks ago. We were blasting academia and the government and all of a sudden it occurred to us that I was an academician and she was a federal employee! We just cracked up.
But the thing is, our criticisms were still sincere….and completely valid.
@ lobo91:
waldensianspirit wrote:
Yeah, fck hearts and minds of savages.
wolfie wrote:
Our pastor is also a college administrator, and he’s anything but a proggy. But people like him are few and far between.
@ waldensianspirit:
That whitewash wasn’t cheap, you know…
@ NoThreat2U:
Oh my, hope you feel better.
wolfie wrote:
I’m the same way.
While I think the government needs to seriously cut back on spending, I’m actively trying to get a federal job myself.
Unfortunately, that’s where my skills and education best fit.
@ waldensianspirit:
Spheres. Big ones.
lobo91 wrote:
Trouble is, bureaucracies seem to look for people whose political views and personalities (using the word “personality” VERY loosely) match the bureaucratic mindset.
chickadee wrote:
They need to worry about ‘the little people’.
doriangrey wrote:
lobo91 wrote:
I was lucky. I was one of the last 2000 people drafted in 1972. I spent 21 months in the Army (90 day early out for VN service) and recieved 45 months of GI bill. I got my Bachelor oFarts debt free.
huckfunn wrote:
I soooo hate you…..
@ huckfunn:
I fell into the post-Vietnam, pre-9/11 period, so my education benefits were a joke.
@ huckfunn:
I worked my way through. Once upon a time that was possible. Not these days. Tuition (and other expenses) have far outrun inflation. It’s just not possible to do that these days, thanks to all of the “help” kids are getting these days.
I don’t know how long it’s going to take to get all that toothpaste back in that tube, but I suspect that within 10 years, someone will be able to get a BS degree online for $10,000 or less. The brick-and-mortar places are going to be in a world of hurt, even the land grant colleges.
New thread is upstairs.
BTW, there’s a tornado watch in much of SC, including where I am. RV parks and tornado watches don’t mix.
@ doriangrey:
@ lobo91:
Sometimes I start thinking that I’m pretty smart and that’s when I get myself in trouble. I have been lucky and in the right places at the right times ore than my fair share. I choose lucky over smart any day… and I thank the good Lord, but not near as much as I should.
snork wrote:
The brick and mortar places deserve to be in a world of hurt. The incompetance of the profs, the left wing agenda, the tenure, the fat salaries. Just like the government (in fact one and the same in many instances), they are corrupt from top to bottom. The admins are interested only in feathering their nests. $10k for a BS degree? That almost makes sense. Compare the relative worth of a Nobel Peace Prize.
1389AD wrote:
We are aware when there are new threads.
chickadee wrote:
Grab’em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.