New Warning Signs Were Installed In DC The First Time Joe Biden Was Elected

There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy. The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults… Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice..

(HT: Yahoo.com)

I used to pity Vice President Joe Biden. I wondered how a man with decades in the Senate and a degree from THE Gawd-Almiddy Hahvad University could sometimes appear to be so insensitive. Now I understand. Fightin’ Scranton Joe must be a stealth Conservative.

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The Obama Economy: Built. To. Last.

“The 65% of our population who are imbeciles really love it, so it must be best!”

– Brett Stevens (in full-metal sarcasm mode) (HT:Amerika.org)

I’ll let Sir Charles Darwin explain why the entire premise of Barack Obama’s recent smug-fest campaign ad known as a State of The Union Address was an utter joke. Barack Obama thinks a welfare state with more tentacles than a sea monster from a Homeric Epic can give us an economy that is built to last. Darwin would explain reality as follows.

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

(HT:Thinkexist.com)

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Eat The Rich Like Prometheus' Liver!!!! (sarc/

Mitt Romney offered a partial snapshot of his vast personal fortune late Monday, disclosing income of $21.7 million in 2010 and $20.9 million last year — virtually all of it profits, dividends or interest from investments.

(HT: Washington Post)

It’s not just official – it’s officially official. Mitt Romney isn’t just bad. Mitt Romney is E-VIL! You see, according to Pravda on The Potomac, Mitt Romney doesn’t get income the same way normal Americans do. His is entirely derived from dividends and such while poor, humble schlubs such as little, old moi rely on those bi-weekly paychecks.

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What The GOP Voters Would Like To Do With Their Party Elite Some Days.

“The idea seems to be that if the House GOP refuses to raise the debt ceiling, a default crisis or gradual government shutdown will ensue and the public will turn en masse against Barack Obama….Then Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced budget amendment and reform entitlements, and the tea party hobbits could return to Middle-earth…This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into GOP nominees. The reality is the debt limit will be raised one way or another.”

Sen. John McCain (HT:CNN)

It doesn’t take a degree in rocket science to understand what happened Saturday in South Carolina. The GOP Establishment received a medicinal kiwi enema. Newt Gingrich served as a weapon of meme destruction. He just blew up the “Mitt Romney is Inevitable” meme that was fed to the voters of South Carolina like a direct order instead of a talking point. Of course, the GOP Establishment wouldn’t be the GOP Establishment if they weren’t too arrogant to understand what just took place.

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And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

– Rudyard Kipling The Jeffersonian.com

There are certain things you should never be willing to do just to get ahead. In the end, the short-term gains never justify the cost of having sold out your ethics and principles. Yes, this diary is about another reason not to support Mitt Romney in the GOP Primaries this year. No, it has nothing to do with his business career or his tenure at Bain Capital. I think it addresses an issue that ultimately matters a whole lot more.

As Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney kept a close relationship with Planned Parenthood. In the course of keeping this relationship, he signed away any possible Pro-Life convictions he would later attempt to lay claim to. Like Faust signing his soul over to Mephistopheles, Romney signed a document pledging strong support for almost all agenda points that Planned Parenthood wanted him to pursue as Governor of Massachusetts. Buzzfeed.com has a copy of the questionnaire Governor Romney prepared for Planned Parenthood.

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You know who was money at the last GOP debate; the Great Green Newt. You know why? ‘Cuz he just jumped all over Juan Williams like a cheap, polyester Disco outfit. If you haven’t watched the YouTube of this, feast your very eyes!

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Wall Street Vampire? Or Just Another False Caricature?

Mitt Romney has been depicted as a blood-sucking, Wall Street Vampire. If only that were the simple truth. Having an iniquitous personality would be better than the public persona he exudes right now. It would add a certain cache to his otherwise soporific blandwagon of a campaign.

Newt Gingrich represents the anti-Romney persecution with a 28 minute political ad entitled “When Mitt Romney Came to Town.” The ad could be a Michael Moore “documentary” about E-VIL, Greeeee-dy, Rethuglicans snorting fine, Columbian Cocaine off the succulent rear-end of a hooker through rolled up $100 bills. Cicero was more fair and balanced in his indictments during The Cataline Conspiracy.

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Did Bain Capital Ever Do This To Factory Workers?

I can think of one excellent side-effect of the argument over Mitt Romney‘s work at Bain Capital. It reminds me of the fun and foolish days when I could still set foot on a rugby pitch and expect to walk off in one piece. A broken, old prop’s reminiscence begins below.

It was a wet, cold, drizzly Saturday. However, the day was awesome. It was Rugby Day, I was young and better yet, I was stupid enough to suit up and hit the pitch. I was playing tight-head prop and over in the bad guys’ scrum was a loose forward who would make himself a total blight on my joy of competition.

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Over at National Review, Jay Nordlinger is fuming and indignant. By William F. Buckley standards, his article Conservatives vs. Capitalism nearly requires a set of html rant tags. And on Jay’s behalf, I don’t necessarily believe anger is automatically bad.

Nordlinger considers himself to be a Conservative. He believes strongly in free enterprise. He sees his favored candidate, Mitt Romney, being lambasted for aggressively participating in a harsh form of free enterprise. This lambasting is by other Republicans, who ostensibly all claim to represent Conservatism. It pees in his Cheerios; as he expounds below.

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The "Chicken Hawk" Argument Is Elitist Pig Behavior

I’ll bet you’ve never personally performed open heart surgery. You haven’t? Really? In that case, I don’t want your stinkin’ opinion on how the government should best distort the health insurance markets with artificial incentives. You probably also haven’t dropped acid in the last ten years. Given that painful deficiency on your CV, I don’t want to hear any of your sanctimonious blithering about The War on Drugs.

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The 2012 GOP Nominee (If Obama Gets Away With It)

He’s out there. Public Enemy #1. Emmanuel Goldstein to Barack Obama’s INGSOC. And what’s worse is that he’s running for President!

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Like taking his two-hour-old baby who died right after childbirth home and played with it for a couple of hours so his other children would know that the child was real.

- The always-classy Alan Colmes explains why he thinks Rick Santorum is weird.

We are usually taught to accept the apologies of others when they transgress. This facilitates a necessary peaceful coexistence amongst people who would never be able to abide one another. Society functions because others forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And yet, there are occasions when accepting an apology is worse for the overall commonweal and general peace than turning one down. We should deliberately and thoughtfully expel some transgressors from the circle of socially acceptable people.

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“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts” – Richard Feynman

Prior to this year’s Presidential Primaries, I had primarily ignored the continued existence of one Newt Gingrich. To the extent that my opinion matters in picking the next GOP Presidential candidate, my ignoring him worked to his benefit. When he announced his run, I learned some fulsome and scurvy truths. One aspect of his record that particularly made me want to give him a good going over with the wire brush was his chumminess with Environmental Activists who considered their chosen cause of greater value to the commonweal than the continued growth and welfare of the US Economy. This lead me to initially call for “The Great Green Newt” to go extinct.

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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interréd with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.

– William Shakespeare (HT: Bardweb.net)

We are admonished by the wise to speak no evil of the dead. Christopher Hitchens, however, described the beatification of Mother Theresa as “a great day for parasites” and went on to say “Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed.”

In so doing, he signed a waiver disavowing any right to have his one life and passing treated with any more sanctity than he personally believed existed in the universe at large. I come to set the record straight on Christopher Hitchens. I read this man receiving posthumous praise and feel the acidic backwash of my morning coffee in the nape of my throat.

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2012 Iowa Republican Caucus

(HT: Scott Rasmussen)

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When recently asked if he (Rep. Paul) might mount an independent candidacy, he said: “I’m not thinking about it because, look, I’m not doing badly right now. … So we concentrate only on one thing: Keep moving up in the polls, and see how things come out in a month or two.”

(HT: George Will)

There is a growing fear of Ron Paul as he advances in pre-Caucus polls before the first GOP Primary event in Iowa. Such “Paulanoia” may not be entirely unjustified. He deliberately stokes a fringe of deracinated individuals of dubious civic virtue and questionable allegiance to the GOP. He’s endorsed that cracker-jack Cornell University Professor of Architecture, Cynthia McKinney. (At least it wasn’t his fellow Klingon, oops I mean Texan, Sheila Jackson-Lee). Oh, and he’d like to appease Iran, audit the Fed, and probably keel-haul every member of the dreaded CFR. And the GOP Establishment just can’t have such lapses of proper decorum.

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Kim Jong Il's Legacy (HT: Ace of Spades)

It’s a very bad think to speak evil of the dead. Yet in the case of Detestable North Korean Tyrant, Kim Jong IL, there is a factual limit to the non-derogatory things I can say. Just this weekend, he did the people of his long-suffering and benighted nation a serious favor. That’s it. I’m out of pleasantries for the funeral oration. Now it’s on to the fulsome and scurvy truth.

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Would You Trust This Man As President?

Last night Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin was kind enough to thank the diarists at Redstate.com for supporting his unfortunately failed efforts to rise to greater power in the GOP Senate Caucus. He wrote an excellent diary that laid out the choices us as a nation face in 2012. He describes this as Obama’s Economy vs. the Path to Prosperity.

The Obama Economy could also be metaphorically described as the living embodiment of modern “progressivism”. That is, Obama’s Economy and its attendant problems such as debt, regulatory overkill, and the profound disincentivization of volitional risk taking, is what you can expect when you impose anybody’s top-down, command-and-control solution on our current economic problems. The Path To Prosperity is a different road that involves an Aristotelian Mean between regulation and freedom. This will allow our most capable and productive minds to solve specific parts of our economic problems without the fear of a predatory regulatory state casting it’s baleful Eye of Sauron upon anything they do that deviates from accepted norms. The GOP Primaries offer us a similar choice of direction.

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“We did everything, the chancellor and I, to allow the British to take part in the agreement. But there are now clearly two Europes,” Sarkozy said in an interview with the French daily Le Monde. “One wants more solidarity between its members and more regulation. The other is attached only to the logic of the single market,” he said.

(HT: Canada.com)

At the recent EU emergency summit, David Cameron, Britain’s Prime Minister, stood alone. Out of the 26 members of The European Union, he was the lone, recalcitrant hold-out. He was the kid nobody thought was cool. He also did his job by vetoing the proposed EU agreement. Cameron, as US President Andrew Jackson once said of any man of integrity, was a majority of one.

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GOP Proud - Paragons of Diversity and Tolerance

In the recent run up to the Iowa Caucus Texas Governor and GOP Candidate Rick Perry has put a socially conservative edge into his rhetoric that has caused a certain disquietude and alarm in some quarters of the gay, lesbian and transgendered community. GOP Proud is a GL&T group that purports to support the interests of these individuals who generally practice political Conservatism. Thus, it should not entirely shock a politically savvy readership that GOP Proud will not be strongly endorsing Governor Rick Perry for the GOP nomination next year.

Governor Perry, in a recent campaign add entitled “Strong”, stated the following.

“You don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.”

Thus, GOP Proud’s fundamental dislike of what he is saying does not provide gravamen for contempt in and of itself. What GOP Proud has done to express their dislike of Governor Perry is shameful and beneath the standards of basic decency.

Tony Fabrizio works for Governor Perry’s campaign. He has a significant disagreement with the Governor’s recent stances on issues as Rick Perry woos the traditionalist, conservative voters in the heartland, rural precincts of Iowa. Perhaps Mr. Fabrizio’s problems started when he strongly objected to having his boss Governor Perry air the ad at all. Huffington Post describes Fabrizio’s distaste for “Strong” below.

Perry’s top pollster, Tony Fabrizio, called it “nuts,” according to an email sent from Fabrizio to the ad’s main creator, longtime GOP operative Nelson Warfield. In a separate email to The Huffington Post, Warfield confirmed that the ad was made over Fabrizio’s objections. “Tony was against it from the get-go,” Warfield wrote. “It was the source of some extended conversation in the campaign. To be very clear: That spot was mine from writing the poll question to test[ing] it to drafting the script to overseeing production.”

According to GOP Proud, Tony Fabrizio is offended by “Strong” because he is a practicing homosexual. They initiated a nasty, back-channel smear campaign against Fabrizio. One GOP Proud Member Tweeted the following.

“I’ve just about had it with faggots who line their pockets with checks from anti-gay homophobes while throwing the rest of us under the bus.”

(MiamiNewTimes)

They then sought rhetorical cover by denying their intentions to damage Fabrizio.. GOP Proud distances themselves from Fabrizzio below.