John Hood, President of the John Locke Foundation, has a good column today in the Carolina Journal on how polticians tell us that government spending is good for the economy. Be prepare to spend some time reading it if you go to all the links in the article.

This is right up sarc's alley.   

"A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself." A.W. Tozer (Pharisee=modern day liberal)

The dollar is still a popular currency around the world, and I seriously doubt if the media will even give this a nod in their obvious ambition to get SnObama into office...

Michael Bloomberg running the NY Times.  Can it get any worse?

"The fight could escalate in unknown ways if billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ends up acquiring the Times. As NEWSWEEK has learned, top associates of the onetime information executive are encouraging him to do just that."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/132852

Some observations about the Pope's visit to New York.  It seems the MSM had to always bring up the sex scandal involving priests.  It seemed they worked it into every story, even positive ones.  But they walk a very fine line.  The majority of the sex abuses cases involved priests and young boys.  But you rarely heard the term "young boys".  Instead just "child sex abuse" or "children" because if they used the term "young boys" in each and every story, people might get the idea that the acts were of a homosexual nature and put gays in a bad light.  In fact one network, I believe it was CNN, showed an in depth story of a now grown woman who was allegedly raped as a child by a priest and the outrage her parents felt in finding out many years later.  Of course they had to emphasize a priest abusing a young girl.

As far as Bill Maher making negative comments such as calling the Pope a Nazi, and others making similar comments, they are basically a bunch of cowards.  As Christians we are taught to turn the other cheek when struck.  We are taught to love and not respond, so basically we make easy targets.  Let's see Maher and the other elite cowards in media make nasty comments about Islam, Judaism or even Scientology.

Finally, I am still amused in thinking back when Pope John Paul died and Pope Benedict hadn't been selected yet.  Many in the MSM were speculating and even hoping, that the next pope might actually be in favor of abortion and other liberal ideology.  What dopes the MSM is filled with.  They can be so entertaining and frightening at the same time.

Anyone else see this?

Food Rationing in America

I'm not very knowledgeable about commodities, etc. but I'm wondering if the ethanol craze has something to do with it?

Obama's new ad campaign is launched!

Has anyone checked out Apple's new Safari browser?

It's noticeably faster than Firefox and IE7.

I find IE7 useless for NB. And Firefox seems to now spend interminable anounts of time loading ad stat sites.

Safari is instant. Recommended tech heads!

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

This is the voice of Leon. 

A website dedicated to combating main stream media bias, and not one article about the fact that the Pentagon has been feeding us propaganda?

Really? 

This is an amazing story. 

Has anyone considered what this could mean?  Are you all taking a vow of silence or something?

Many of the commentators also have ties to military contractors who are vested in U.S. war efforts, but those business links are seldom disclosed to viewers, and sometimes not even to the networks on which they appear, the newspaper said

This is some seriously scary stuff we have going on here.  AND a blatant blatant example of dangerous media. 

So where's the NB outrage? 

PS BD I'm looking right at you buddy.

LINK

There have got to be some Flyers fans out there.

I can't be the only one in the land of Newsbusters.

Even if you don't like the Flyers, can anyone actually root for DC teams?

No way. 

Well, maybe lobbyists.  Dollar hot dog night is a sales assassin.

Election blues...

Anyone else feel like our election process has gotten out of hand?

Over dinner, the wife and I came up with an election wish list. Here's a few of our wishes.

1. Primaries schedule... Each candidate has only 6 weeks to raise money.

2. Primaries schedule... Each candidate get's 6 weeks to campaign.

3. Starting one week after primary, each candidate has only 8 weeks to raise money.

4. Then candidates have 8 weeks in which to campaign.

5. Campaigning must end on a Friday, with election to be held the following Tuesday.

6. No exceptions.

It may not improve the quality of candidates, but it would improve the general attitude of the country. I know it would in my house!  

"Abstain from McCain"

Here is what Neal had to say:

HILLARY'S MEDIAMORONS

Whew! That was a close one. I almost went a whole week without being
featured on the George Soros funded Hillary Clinton created anti-talk radio site
MediaMorons! I pledged on Monday I would manage to draw their attention before
the week was out ... and sure enough, Thursday

they gave me the recognition I so richly deserve. Here's the MediaMorons
synopsis of my evil deeds for the past week:

Summary: Neal Boortz asserted that "the single most dangerous entity, group
of people in this country right now are the teachers unions," adding that
"[t]hey do more damage to this country than all the drug pushers together. ...
If I had a button right now, two buttons -- push this button and it gets rid of
all the drug dealers; push this button, it gets rid of the teachers unions --
I'm getting rid of the teachers unions."

Gotta love it. Liberals, you see, react with absolute horror whenever
someone attacks their precious government indoctrination centers they call
"public schools." It is in these hideous institutions that our children are
taught that government is there for them at every turn of their lives from womb
to tomb. Government is always there to pick them up when they fall, heal their
wounds, and give them safe passage through life. It is in these government
"schools" that our children learn that self-reliance is for suckers and
dependency on government is the path to true happiness. The people of this
country are slowly coming to realize that our children are being ruined by these
grotesque institutions, but so long as the teacher's unions remain so
politically powerful getting any valid and useful school choice legislation
passed is iffy at best.

So .. MediaMorons ... thanks for helping me to highlight the problem.

Now ... for this week we'll try to get super-lefty Ellen at that "we watch Fox
News so you don't have to" website to wee wee all over herself over another one
of my Fox News appearances. First, I guess, I'll have to be invited onto a Fox
News show of some kind.

--Good Stuff. :-)

Theme for Election '08: Who cares?

If you are interested in the consequences of our farm policy, including ethanol, check out my forum topic on fears of an '80's style farm crisis.  Two TV stations in my small TV market made passing references to a possible collapse tonight even though their stories had different subjects.  It made me wonder how much fear there is out here in corn country. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

They score again!

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