Have a Good Weekend

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Darth Chipmunk

Last Friday I said something about taking it easy for the Memorial Day weekend. That didn’t happen. So this weekend we’ll just let things flow where they go and see what happens.

Have fun and be safe! See you Monday!

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Deliberate Misrepresentation

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Darth Chipmunk

From Twitter:

Greg Sargent @ThePlumLineGS tweets:

@DrewMTips It’s customary to conceal your excitement about bad news for the country and continued economic misery for fellow Americans

There they go again. Deliberate misrepresentation and smears. “Shame on me, a cold -hearted Republican gleeful in light of the suffering.” Ugh.

Here’s the thing. I’m not excited at the bad news or the misfortune of Americans. But I am very excited at the utter failure of liberal progressive governance. Allow me to explain.

I am horrified at our economy. And I’m angry. The Tea Party vociferously warned our legislators, our President and our nation. They were marginalized and shouted down. Now, every observable failure of progressive policy suggests their protests were perhaps worth hearing. There’s no reason for conservatives to conceal our excitement at this fact.

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Saying One Thing, Doing Another

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Darth Chipmunk

It’s how the left rolls. First, there’s the double-standard: if a conservative states a fact, it’s labeled “True but false.” If a liberal lies, it’s “fake but accurate.” The right is simply held to a different standard.

But the left continues to say one thing and do another. Republicans are fomenting “War on Women.” But yesterday, after Republicans voted overwhelmingly in favor, Democrats shot down a Bill that would criminalize sex-selective abortions, a practice that almost universally targets and kills girls. If the GOP is engaging in War on Women, why did they vote to protect girls? And if the liberals are so concerned about women, why do they support a procedure that overwhelmingly kills baby girls?

Today the Obama Administration, so fond of the word “fairness,” is halting Florida efforts to purge non-citizens from the voter rolls. They also resist Voter ID. One vote per US Citizen seems “fair” to me. Why are Democrats so repulsed by the idea? Chris Cate, spokesman for Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner, said:

“We are firmly committed to doing the right thing and preventing ineligible voters from being able to cast a ballot.”

What’s so unreasonable? Nothing.

The problem is obvious: Democrats don’t want Voter ID because it would end the possibility for a person to submit multiple ballots and they support non-citizens voting as their candidates and propositions benefit from the voting bloc.

What’s “fair” about that?

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Chart-Fu

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Darth Chipmunk

H/T: @politicalmath

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Friday Morning News and Links

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Darth Chipmunk
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The War of WordCraft

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Darth Chipmunk

Ace has a posting on Axlerod’s Goofing earlier today. But he takes a nice slap at The Narrative and the creative use of vocabulary by our biased friends in the media:

I’ve asked @buzzfeedben and @buzzfeedandrew to craft a consistent style guide on when it’s “heckling” or “protesting” (good words) and when it’s “disrupting” or “shouting down.” Don’t be hard on them, though, because @buzzfeedandrew actually noted the point.

I think we’re going to see a lot of this, from both sides. Hold the media’s feet to the fire on its terminology — “disrupt” suggests a crime (or a near-crime; sounds like disorderly person, sounds like assailing someone’s right to speak) whereas “heckling” is something everyone can enjoy at a hapless buffoon’s expense.

And “protesting” is of course positive.

As the campaign season goes on, we’ll see the left’s disruptions consistently described as “protests” and the right’s counter-disruptions described as they were in the Town Hall protests — thuggish, possibly racist attacks on America itself.

Don’t let them do it. Insist they craft a style guidance on the terminology and stick to it, consistently, and I don’t mean “consistently positive when the left is disruptive, and consistently negative when the right acts up.”

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There’s a Reason California is Boned

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Darth Chipmunk

From Breitbart, “59% of Californians Happy to Raise Taxes“:

Despite the fact that the projected budget deficit has risen from $9.2 billion to $16 billion, and despite the fact that Brown wants an $0.0025 increase (1/4 of a cent) in the sales tax and a significant elevation of the state income tax for those earning more than $250,000, half of Californians approve of his job performance.

Unbelievably, even when voters heard that “Sacramento could waste any new money it received from higher taxes rather than spend it on such services as schools and public safety – only 50% said they would vote for it. And 42% would oppose it.”

That’s stunning. Even when told that the government will blow any new tax money, Californians are still happy to raise taxes.

The smart money already left California. And then there’s this:

Of course, that has something to do with the fact that a vast swath of Californians essentially pay no income tax. California is a preview for the nation – and it’s lagging just behind Greece. If Americans embrace the California mentality, America’s fiscal situation is even more disturbing than previously thought.

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