Jazz Shaw, over at HotAir, found an article from TheHill, talking about how Geithner has the power to affect withholding rates, so that even if we go over the cliff, the middle class won’t see a tax increase.
But that’s the key right there. They won’t SEE a tax increase. It will hit them out of the blue.
If they are going to manipulate this brazenly, and with so much risk, we should stop attempting to moderate them.
Let them play with fire.
Let it Burn.
Hey, Republicans. There is a way to connect young voters have with conservative values. The problem has been festering for a long time, but thanks to the rise of George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones into something that is, as Meggie-Mac would say, ‘pop-culturally relevant’ as a solution.
We, the conservative movement, are the Starks.
While many people sat and gorged themselves on the fruit of a 30-year summer, brought on by the free enterprise of our forefathers, we’ve been standing, waiting, and warning that if we were to venture away from those principles, the summer would end. With the election of Barack Obama in 2008, we stood and shouted the warning. We begged everyone who would listen to prepare for the coming winter.
And we were right. Winter was coming.
After the results of the election, it has arrived.
It is a time of low growth, if not an outright depression. It is a time when food prices go up endlessly, and gas prices refuse to come down from their all-time highs. It is a time when the people who prepared for this day, and are secure in their belongings and their homes are ridiculed. Those people who have been living off the fruits of a summer that has long since ended will soon be forced to wake up to their new reality. While they were willing to sacrifice their future years of prosperity for a false feeling of hope; that hope does not change the season.
It is winter in America.
Thankfully, though, we don’t live in Westeros. The winter we find ourselves in may be harsh and damaging, but it will only last generations if we let it. As Thomas Paine said,
These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
The people who were willing to face the ridicule, hatred, and the slander of their character to stand guard over this Republic are no sunshine patriots.
We are in it for the long haul, because Reagan was right. There is no place to which we can escape. This is the last stand of freedom on earth.
What Reagan didn’t have to say, I do. We are losing.
It is winter in America.
We, the people who believe in liberty, will still refuse to sit down and shut up. We will not cower and give in to every ridiculous whim of this President. We will reshape the GOP into the party it once was. The party of Lincoln, Coolidge, and Reagan.
Those three men symbolize the values we stand for, and will be the central theme of the next few months on Behind the Cycle.
Lincoln: Equality under Goverment
Conservatives have always been the strongest advocates of equality. We need to make that known.
Coolidge: Prosperity through Capitalism
Calvin Coolidge oversaw the largest expansion of wealth in the history of the world. We want the same policies in place today.
Reagan: Peace through Strength
Reagan ended the Cold War through peaceful, defensive strength. We need to maintain that strength to maintain the Pax Americana.
If we can make the connection with the policies of today and the history of those three men, we will win. It will be Morning in America again.
But for at least the next two years, Winter will reign.
This just in. CNN just jumped the shark.
They have decided that Red States and Blue States worship different versions of Jesus.
To ‘prove’ this, they have devised a quiz, to see ‘which Jesus you believe in’.
Let’s go through their questions, and discuss.
When people ask me why I don’t really trust Reuters’ outlook, I usually say “They’re a left-leaning source, who tends to skew the news”. But on Saturday, Sir Harold Evans, Editor at Large for Reuters, wrote a polemic against Mitt Romney as an Op-Ed for the Telegraph.
He hits every Lefty note. From the idea that Bush stole the 2000 election,
Al Gore won the national popular vote that year by 543,895 votes but because of the chad capers he was denied Florida’s 25 electoral college votes…Of course, Bush had a little help from a politicised Supreme Court which on its states’ right precedents was expected to uphold the recount ordered by Florida’s Supreme Court, and instead struck it down. When recently I asked Justice Scalia to help me understand the inconsistency, he had a brisk answer: “Get over it!”
To the concept that Romney didn’t know the Persian Gulf existed (when he was clearly talking about Iran’s route to the Mediterranean),
…a contender for the job of Commander-in-Chief forgot that the Persian Gulf meant Iran wasn’t landlocked as he thought.
He brought up Mourdock’s comments on abortion in the case of rape, but skewed them even more than normal. His Characterization?
In short, rape victims, get over it.
This is the editor of a newswire that shapes the mainstream media.
No wonder people are tuning them out.
Buzzfeed’s Zeke Miller doesn’t exactly have a history of journalistic integrity, but this new post takes the cake.
This is going to be a picture based post, so there is a LOT after this More tag.
President Obama keeps saying things that don’t make sense.
Let’s go through this answer line by line.
Q: Have you ever read Ayn Rand?
Obama: Sure.
Number 1: I think he’s lying. I don’t think he’s read Ayn Rand. I think he probably read a summary of Rand’s works, knows the themes of Atlas Shrugged, etc… But I doubt he sat down and read that massive 900 page book. I’m a speed reader who sympathizes with her philosophy, and I barely made it through the first time.
Q: What do you think Paul Ryan’s obsession with her work would mean if he were vice president?
Obama: Well, you’d have to ask Paul Ryan what that means to him. Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up.
This, to me, is proof he never read Ayn Rand. He fundamentally doesn’t understand Rand’s positions. No 17 year old picks up Ayn Rand because they’re misunderstood. They pick up Atlas Shrugged because they don’t understand. I was 16 or 17 when I first read Atlas Shrugged, and it wasn’t because I was different (although, being a conservative/libertarian in Canada, I was). I read Atlas Shrugged because it lays out her case for objectivism in it’s best possible light. While it has it’s flaws, generally revolving around the absence of God in society, it is an interesting picture of how society breaks down.
Then, as we get older, we realize that a world in which we’re only thinking about ourselves and not thinking about anybody else, in which we’re considering the entire project of developing ourselves as more important than our relationships to other people and making sure that everybody else has opportunity – that that’s a pretty narrow vision. It’s not one that, I think, describes what’s best in America.
Again, he clearly never read Atlas Shrugged. The entire book is the builders of society developing relationships with each other to stand firm against government overreach. While he may be correct that making sure everyone has a shot isn’t a theme; I think Rand would argue that by virtue of a free market, everyone, by definition, has a chance. It might not be a great chance, but you have a chance. I mean, the President is a half-black Hawaiian who grew up in a third world country. That’s the definition of everyone having a chance.
Unfortunately, it does seem as if sometimes that vision of a “you’re on your own” society has consumed a big chunk of the Republican Party
What Republican party is that? The one that chose Romney, the Massachusetts moderate, as the nominee? Yeah…okay. Sure. Whatever.
(I do REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, want Mitt Romney to win, but I don’t have any illusions. If he wins, he will not be my favorite President, and I will probably want him primaried in 2016. But we’ll see. He’s better than Obama.)
The quote is found at Buzzfeed, by way of Rolling Stone, but I don’t want to link them, so I’ll link to the HotAir Article that linked there.
Apparently Gurkhas are immune to knives.
Taitex Phlamachha, 38, was with his wife when he was attacked after withdrawing money from a cash machine in Maidstone on 7 October.
He managed to overcome his attacker and hold on until police arrived. The black belt in karate and taekwondo only realised he had been stabbed when police used a metal detector on him…
Mr Phlamachha, who served with Maidstone’s 36 Engineers for 12 years, said his self-defence training undoubtedly saved his life. “The knife was coming towards my chest. I just blocked that knife with my right hand but unfortunately couldn’t manage to save my left arm,” he recalled. “I saw the knife was broken somewhere but didn’t realise it was inside my arm. Then I noticed he [the attacker] was holding the handle of the knife which I took control of and threw away.”
It’s stuff like this that proves why an elite force of volunteer soldiers is better than a mass of drafted people who don’t want to be there.
For those who don’t know much about the Gurkha regiments native to Nepal, here’s an excerpt from the Wikipedia page about Gurkhas.
Professor Sir Ralph Lilley Turner, MC, who served with the 3rd Queen Alexandra’s Own Gurkha Rifles in the First World War, wrote of Gurkhas:
As I write these last words, my thoughts return to you who were my comrades, the stubborn and indomitable peasants of Nepal. Once more I hear the laughter with which you greeted every hardship. Once more I see you in your bivouacs or about your fires, on forced march or in the trenches, now shivering with wet and cold, now scorched by a pitiless and burning sun. Uncomplaining you endure hunger and thirst and wounds; and at the last your unwavering lines disappear into the smoke and wrath of battle. Bravest of the brave most generous of the generous, never had country more faithful friends than you.
