http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com There was an amusing story in the Wall Street Journal this morning. Not amusing in any mirthful sense, since the story pertained to a rather nasty piece of business, specifically that of the stabbing of a French soldier on a Parisian street last Saturday. Rather, it was an amusing demonstration of the contortions we diversity-benighted fools endure to avoid calling a spade a spade. | Read More »
Shocked, Shocked! By Michael Goodell http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com When President Barack Obama weighed in today on the rapidly unfolding IRS scandal, I was reminded of the classic film, “Casablanca.” “If in fact IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that’s outrageous,” declared the scandal-plagued Obama. “And there’s no place for it.” You may recall | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Weeks after approving a visit by former Pennsylvania Senator and Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Grosse Pointe Public School Superintendent Thomas Harwood caved into pressure from bigoted teachers union members employed by his district, and rescinded the invitation. After authorizing the visit, and speech on leadership, Harwood and Grosse Pointe South High School principal Matt Outlaw, were inundated with videos sent by teachers union members | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Even now, five months after the election, some people continue to ask how it could have happened. How could a nation opposed to nearly every initiative and policy launched during the president’s first term overwhelmingly reelect him? Scholars have searched the records, have amassed data, crunched numbers and scratched their heads, all to no avail. The disconnect was most pronounced foreign policy. It is | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Watching the president and his minions relentlessly fan the flames of Sequestration panic, my first reaction was, “Does Obama think we’re all complete idiots?” Then the answer hit me. Of course he does, we reelected him. This explains why every day he or his team made another prediction, each more dire than the last. Yesterday Democrat Representative Maxine Walters hit the jackpot when she | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com If, after a decade of relentless growth in spending, you believe that the federal government operates on a bare bones basis, and that even the slightest reduction in the rate of increase must necessarily cause draconian cuts in essential services, then you might be an Obama voter. For the rest of us, the dwindling few still capable of rational thought, such dire threats are | Read More »
Now that President Obama has defeated the dastardly Republicans’ evil War on Women, America has returned to a more normal place, where Democrat legislators in Colorado can lecture women on how to behave while being raped. Thank God–or to avoid offending those not given to bitter clinging, thank the form or being who constitutes the central focus of your particular faith tradition, if you have | Read More »
The Breathtaking Childishness of the Self-Proclaimed Cassandra by Michael Goodell http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com It still being too cold to Reoccupy Wall Street, tens of thousands of baristas and grad students descended upon the nation’s capital yesterday to protest the perpetually proposed Keystone XL pipeline. It was your typical anti global warming protest, “held in biting winds and near-freezing temperatures,” according to Jim Snyder of Bloomberg News. It | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Hoping this one escapes the scalpel of Redstate’s censors, I submit the following: Some of the few members of the media not currently sifting through past Rush Limbaugh transcripts in search of hints of misogyny have devoted themselves to commenting, either wryly or with a raised eyebrow of perplexity, on the news that neither former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin nor Senator John McCain (R-AZ) | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Those who have been following the saga of my rhetorical battle with brainless baristas might conclude that the conflict has escalated to outright war when they learn that I marched out of a Starbucks yesterday without completing my purchase. Some suggest a liberal soaking in addictive drugs, others post-hypnotic suggestion, but for whatever reason, to me no coffee tastes quite as good as Starbucks’ | Read More »
Go For Broker by Michael Goodell http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, the Godfather of the Right Wing of the Republican Party, informed CNN’s Soledad O’Brien this morning that, given the way the primaries are set up this year, it may well be that no candidate will have the 1,144 delegates required for nomination. The way things are going, a brokered convention may prove to | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com It is hard to imagine a more tawdry example of political venality than that on display by the Republican no-hopers in the South Carolina primary. It actually started in New Hampshire, when the little yappy dogs got tired of snapping at Romney’s heels and went for the jugular instead. Gang tackling him for his work with a private equity company? Really? One would expect | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com The New York Times claims its motto is “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” but when it comes to Conservative strengths or liberal failings, it’s more a case of “We’ll Get Around to it Eventually.” Though not foolproof, (cf. Walter Duranty), the motto does a good job of conveying the editorial staff’s reluctance to print any news that doesn’t fit their particular bias. | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com In its initial reports of the North Korean Dictator’s demise, the Associated Press wrote, “Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died of heart failure. He was 69.” Mercurial and enigmatic? I suppose it tells part of the story, but it’s kind of like starting a notorious mass murderer’s obituary by calling him “the well-traveled Ted Bundy.” Now that the | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com One of my favorite memories of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, back before the players transformed Orchestra Hall into a UAW Union Hall, is of Neeme Jarvi conducting “O Fortuna,” at the end of “Carmina Burana.” Jarvi was a most entertaining conductor, who threw himself into the music with even more enthusiasm than many of the musicians. I will always remember Jarvi reaching up and | Read More »
http;//www.mlgoodell.webs.com Trash-Talking Santa by Michael Goodell http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com I’m a great student of advertising, especially that found on television. More than just about any other medium, advertising can provide an accurate picture of contemporary society. Now, this is not a foolproof device by any means. For example, just the other day I remarked to my wife that the economy must be improving. When she asked why | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com It’s just a little over a month until the first official contest in the 2012 Republican primary season, which in this i-Pad culture means things should have been wrapped up by now. It’s gone on too long. Why, all the other Reality TV shows, from “Iron Chef” to “Survivor” to “Dancing With the Hollywood Chefs,” are in reruns by now. | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com The President says to. You have to pity the poor kid currently Occupying the White House. He is desperately seeking reelection, not for his own glory, but out of a sense of duty. His Work is not yet done here. His people still need his transformative gifts. Yet it grows ever more difficult to get through to those wayward subjects. They look at his | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Despite his awkward handling of them, when the first reports began to surface implicating Herman Cain in a pair of sexual harassment complaints dating to his days as President of the National Restaurant Association, it seemed the campaign would easily weather the storm. But then things turned ugly. Now, it seems, almost daily another woman steps up to announce that once, fifteen years or | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Serious peace advocates are waking up this morning at open air day care centers throughout America. They crawl rumpled and scraggly-bearded from their tents to share a breakfast a breakfast of Lucky Charms and Ovaltine with opportunistic drug addicts. But something is different today. In the wake of the American President’s recent announcement of unilateral surrender in “the War in Iraq,” many of these | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com You used to wonder where they’d gotten to, all though proud hope-and-changers, the ones who bought into the hype, who allowed themselves to believe in the New Messiah, who got tingly legs and called him God, and waited for the seas to stop rising, and for the planet to magically heal itself. It all sounds so silly now, so childish. But then again, we | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com President Hosni Mubarack Obama (D-Chi) has decided to preempt the so-called Congressional Debt Supercommittee by announcing whatever they decide, their deficit reduction plan had better include $1.5 trillion dollars in new taxes. While declaring that his proposal “is not class warfare,” Obama also noted that “Middle-class families shouldn’t pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires.” Since the President knows middle class families don’t pay | Read More »
A Stuttering Economy by Michael Goodell http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com The otherwise astute Gerald F. Seib, in a Capital Journal post in yesterday’s “Wall Street Journal,” entitled, “Democrats Have Reason to Be Nervous About 2012,” wrote this curious line, “Economic trend lines have turned downward at precisely the wrong time for a president preparing to seek reelection.” One can’t help which president he is referring to. It can’t | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com A friend forwarded an email called Federal Budget 101 which explains our fiscal crisis with stunning clarity, in terms so simple even a public employee union member could understand it. The author, an engineer, provided the basic numbers: . Federal Revenues: $2,170,000,000,000 . Federal Budget: $3,820,000,000,000 . Budget Deficit: $1,650,000,000,000 . National Debt: $14,271,000,000,000 . Amount cut | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com The other day Bob Schieffer, who has what passes for gravitas in this age of cultural decline, who works for some television station or other, quoted a slur he stole from a Facebook follower, which pretty much sums up how pathetic our society has become. “Why are Republicans allowing freshman congressmen to control this debate?” Schieffer quoted the social media maven. “It’s like letting | Read More »
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