Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Sunday, October 25, 2009 2:17:49 PM
Libertarian Tony sent me a suggestion for (I'm assuming) this feature. I like it so much I'm putting it first. Not the exact words, though -- they're on my home computer and I'm at work.
The top executives at Bank of America (or one of the firms that got bailout funds) are being required by the (unconstitutional) "pay czar" to accept pay cuts of 90%. Tony points out that since the Chinese, Japanese, and other foreign investors are in effect "bailing out" Congresses and Prez BO's profligate spending, shouldn't the leaders of Congress and Baby Barry have to take a 90-% pay cut, also.
Sounds good to me!
In the wake of the administration's declaring war on Fox News, some scribblers have compared BO to Richard Nixon. Good Lord! Will the slanders of Richard Nixon never cease?
As a long-time member of the Pro-Life movement, I am appalled at the poor judgement of pro-lifers who carry large, graphic photos of aborted babies at their protests, or print them in their pro-life literature. When you wave a banner or sign at a demonstration, you want to make people look, not look away. Don't carry pictures of aborted babies, carry pictures of live, adorable babies. Virtually every time a baby is aborted, the world loses one of these, and the entire world is poorer for the loss.
I hate it when people on my side do stupid things.
In my reading about the anti-slavery movement in America in the mid-19th century, I've run many times across the term
Barnburners. This term was applied to the Democrats in New York State who opposed the extension of slavery into the territories, and who, by bolting the Democratic fold to help form the Free Soil Party, helped Zachary Taylor defeat Lewis Cass for the Presidency in 1848. The name was meant to be an insult, referring to the fabled Dutchman who burned his barn to rid it of rats.
Sounds rather like the Democrats' health care proposals, does it not?