Archive for December 21, 2009
John Harwood Tells Americans to Drop Dead
That would be John Harwood.
The next time you see him on CNBC or MSNBC, or see his byline in the “liberal” New York Times, remember how extraordinarily arrogant and out of touch he is:
“Liberals who want universal health care ought to be thanking Harry Reid for getting this done rather than talking about what’s inadequate in the bill. I’m not saying the bill is a good bill. But if you’re a liberal and you want universal coverage in this country, and think that you can do better, that Harry Reid can do better than he’s done, or that the White House can do better, they ought to lay off the hallucinogenic drugs because we’ve had a vivid demonstration of the limits of political possibilities on this issue.”
Short version: Compromise means you get 5% of what you voted for. Be thankful for the crumb. There are “limits of political possibilities on this issue.” Shut up. Sit down. Go away. You’re stoned. You’re irrelevant.
Fox News Wants You to Think Claire McCaskill is the Joker in the Dark Night
From the homepage of TheFoxNation @ 8:57 p.m. ET today:
(Fox’s point isn’t to get the news out that protesters are showing up “around St. Louis” with posters depicting Clair McCaskill as the Joker in the film, The Dark Night. Fox’s point is to make sure that you see that picture and think McCaskill is the Joker in the Dark Night.)
Does Fox News Hate Christmas?
This from the Fox “News” home page today:
“Celebrate the holidays with Fox News Channel?” What? Does Fox secretly hate Christmas too?
Let the Spin Begin re the Democrats’ Health Care “Reform” Bill
Watching The Ed Show. Two people who I thought would be lions in the fight for single payer — Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — are explaining why we should be happy about mandates and handing millions of guaranteed customers to the insurance companies.
Happy Winter Solstice!
Here’s an interesting article from the National Geographic about the winter solstice.
Ben Bernanke and Zhu Zhu Pets
UPDATED BELOW
This is a tale about this year’s “it” toy, “Zhu Zhu Pets” and the caste system in the United States:
Lawrinowicz worked for Target for eight years before he was fired. He and other employees worked overnight at their Target unloading items. Before leaving for the day at 5 a.m. the next morning, he and six other employees lined up to buy a few of the plush hamsters each. He bought two. (Well, below the store limit of four per customer).
A few days later, Lawrinowicz was called into the human resources office and told employees were not allowed to purchase “popular items” until the store opens at 8 a.m. That would seem an appropriate response and he returned to work. However, two weeks later, all of the workers and their team leader were called in and fired pursuant to the company’s policy about buying “two-day ad items.” None of the employees ever saw a posting on the policy, though the store insisted it was posted.
This is the way the lower caste is treated in this country. They get fired and screw them if they might have a point that they “never saw a posting on the policy.” Contrast that to the way the highest caste is treated, which is illustrated by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. He looks the other way while the U.S. economy crashes. Millions of people lose millions of dollars and millions of jobs. Does he get fired? No. As a matter of fact, he gets rehired when the term of his job expires.
UPDATE: More here on Bernanke’s history of blowing monumentally important stuff off. Guess he kinda got tired of doing his job. (Makes me feel all the sadder for the Target workers who are so innocent in comparison. The disparity in the way the classes/castes are treated in the United States is despicable.)
