What Xenophobic ass-hats like Pat Buchanan don’t say is that millions of people – who would otherwise have nothing better to do than hate America and start wars with us – are now able to feed their families, educate and vaccinate their children, and possibly even retire before laying on their death-bed.
To describe world GDP in percentages is to assume that economic development is a zero-sum-game and for others to win the US must lose.
According to the International Monetary Fund, the United States began the century producing 32 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. We ended the decade producing 24 percent. No nation in modern history, save for the late Soviet Union, has seen so precipitous a decline in relative power in a single decade.
Over on Peach Pundit “landman” asks:
“The pressing question in this Primary,as sad as it is to say is HOW DID WE GET OURSELVES IN A POSITION TO HAVE SUCH A WEAK OVERALL FIELD?”
Laziness? Hubris? No one who would be worth a damn wants the job? To become a credible candidate you have to suck at the teat of lobbyists, rent seekers and big government nannys? The fact that with a war going on, and liberal entitlement programs about to bankrupt the government, people care more about who fathered the slut’s baby than who will be our next President?
Maybe its because our leaders make up bullshit issues like Global Warming, Gay Marriage or liquids on planes, rather than talking about real issues that can’t be reduced to a sound bite the average voter (or third grader) can understand.
Argh!!!!!
Lower the flags to half mast, the skanky hoe is dead.
One of the idiots on 96.1 or 99x was saying how sad it was since she just had a kid. Actually, it is probably the best thing to happen to the kid. Now there is a slight chance he’ll have a normal life.
(link)I suppose this kind of stupid overreaction is what we should expect from a city that keeps re-electing a murderous sot to the US Senate every 6 years.
I’m tempted to have 100,000 post cards of Ignignokt flipping the bird mailed to the mayor of Boston. But I’d probably be arrested for making terroristic threats.
You people are F–king stupid!
/rant
Here is a text book example of how the Main Stream Media really sucks at informing the American people. Read this article on Presidental Blunders.
Now tell me, what steps could Buchannan have taken to avert the Civil War? How could Madison have kept us out of the War of 1812? In fact, we won the War of 1812 and proved our ability to be an independent state. Was getting into that war a bad thing?
What were the consequences of the Embargo Act of 1803? What makes it so great a blunder to out rank Andrew “Justice Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!” Jackson’s genocide of the Cheerokee Indians in the Trail of Tears?
That CNN article doesn’t even bother to link to the conference, the report or anything with more information.
Speaking of things that need to be wiped from the face of the Earth.
Stevens, Young and little Murkowski need to go. Stevens has been in the Senate since 1968. Don Young since 1973. Lisa Murkowski was named Senator by her father when he left the position to be Governor of Alaska. The first two are poster children for Term Limits (either a constitutional amendment or a Vince Flynn novel, either is fine by me). The latter is nepotism run amok. They are a disgrace to this nation, the state of Alaska and the Republican Party.
I wonder how many American service men and women will die due to lack of equipment while these scum bags spend our tax dollars on their pork and lobbying schemes.
Man kills three daughters in Pakistan (link)
[The mother] recounted how she was awakened by a shriek as Ahmed put his hand to the mouth of his stepdaughter, Muqadas, and cut her throat with a machete. She said she looked on helplessly from the corner of the room as he then killed the three girls — Bano, 8, Sumaira, 7, and Humaira, 4 — pausing between the slayings to brandish the bloodstained knife at his wife, warning her not to intervene or raise alarm….
“I thought the younger girls would do what their eldest sister had done, so they should be eliminated,” he said, his hands cuffed, his face unshaven. “We are poor people and we have nothing else to protect but our honor.”
Islam must have one fucked up definition of “honor” if slaughtering a four year old girl is needed to protect it!
This is not a very good way to convince me that we shouldn’t wipe that culture and religion from the face of the earth by whatever means necessary.
Parents vs the Childless?
Detroit Times on restaurants and coffee houses discouraging children. (sorry its google cache)
One parent remarks, “I think that the mothers who allow their kids to run around and scream, that’s wrong, but kids scream and there is nothing you can do about it. What are we supposed to do, not enjoy ourselves at a cafe?”
YES! Your misbehaved brat is ruining the enjoyment of the other customers.
“You go to a coffee shop or a bakery for a rest, to relax, and that you would have to worry the whole time about your child doing something that children do”
Yes, you go to a coffee shop to rest and relax. As do most other people. Guess what? Screaming kids make it hard to relax.
Tradition has always been that buildings and monuments are named after great deceased people. I think this should be codified in a new Constitutional Amendment:
Section 1.No building, monument or public work shall be named in honor of a living individual currently or previously serving as a President, Vice President, Representative, Cabinet Official, Senator or other Elected Official.
Section 2. The People shall have the right to remedy violations of this article by terminating any living President, Vice President, Representative, Cabinet Official, Senator or other Elected Official to whom a building, monument or public work is named for.
Mr. President,
You want us to trust you that Harriet Miers will make a good Associate Justice of the Supreme Court? I’m sorry Mr. President, you’ve lost my trust.
- I trusted you to win the peace in Iraq, but you failed to supply enough troops to do the job.
- I trusted you to reduce the size of the deficit, but you’ve sat watch over the largest budget increase since LBJ.
- I trusted you when you wanted to reorganize the federal government to better respond to terrorists and disasters, but the Dept of Homeland Security failed miserably and actively hindered private efforts in responding to Katrina.
- I trusted you to be a good steward of our Constitution, but you’ve detained American Citizens without trial or habeas corpus, signed a campaign finance bill you said was unconstitutional, pushed for and signed laws that eviscerate the 4th Amendment, and prosecuted cases which have make a mockery of states rights.
- I trusted you to veto pork-ridden spending bills, but you haven’t.
- I trusted you to use our Law Enforcement wisely to protect the citizenry, but you’ve decided porn is more dangerous than terrorists.
- I trusted you to further the GOP revolution of 1994, but instead of abolishing the Dept of Education – you’ve expanded it.
- I trusted you to not expand the welfare state, but you not only signed, but actively pushed, the Prescription Drug benefit.
- I trusted you to execute the Doctrine of Preemption – something I support wholeheartedly, but you failed to make the grand strategic case, relying on WMDs and “Saddam is a bad man” as your arguments for war.
- Finally, I trusted you to put good, qualified people in charge of vital government agencies, and guess what? You failed us again.
Mr. President, I fear your legacy will be creating the conditions that elected President Hillary Clinton. As the leader of your party your actions define that party. You have successfully defined the party of Reagan and Goldwater as a party of fiscal irresponsibility, cronyism, bungled military operations and big government. If I had wanted that I’d have voted for another Kennedy.
You and the Republican controlled congress have alienated the fiscal conservatives in favor of appealing to the left-wing voters of this nation. Perhaps Karl Rove didn’t mention this to you, but the left hates you. You could institute the revolution of Karl Marx and the left will hate you. Stop trying to buy their love with my tax dollars and dance with the people who brought you to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
update: Turns out George Will agrees
