Here is a link to the Geert Wilders film that YouTube is afraid to post.
Fitna
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Headlines We Will Never See
NARAL Criticizes Sex-Selection Abortions as "Discrimination Against Girls"
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Headlines We Will Never See
Sorry, but I've been out of town for a few days and haven't posted. Here's the latest headline we will never see.
NEA Supports Parents' Right to Choose Kids' Schools
NEA Supports Parents' Right to Choose Kids' Schools
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Headlines We Will Never See
A new daily (I hope) feature of "What We Believe". Newspaper headlines and editorials you will never see. Since you won't see them in real newspapers, WWB is the only place to find them. The first one:
"Democrats Urge Terrorists To Go Home And End War"
"Democrats Urge Terrorists To Go Home And End War"
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Why?
It seems that Hillary Clinton supporters on DailyKos are boycotting the site due to disrespect shown by Obama supporters. I have never been able to figure out why Obama and Clinton supporters hate each other so much. You could measure their policy differences in microns. Oh well, read the flaming on DailyKos, sit back and enjoy the Schadenfreude.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/14/20827/4727/132/476843
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/14/20827/4727/132/476843
Friday, March 14, 2008
What We Can Expect
Using the observations made below about the states Obama has won, this is what we can expect to see from here on out. Clinton should win Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Florida (if they have a re-do), and Kentucky. Obama should take North Carolina, West Virginia, Oregon, Montana, and South Dakota.
David Mamet on Politics
If I'm really good in this life, perhaps in my next life I can be as eloquent and insightful as David Mamet. Until then ....
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811,374064,374064,1.html
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811,374064,374064,1.html
Thursday, March 13, 2008
I Can't Be The Only One Who's Noticed
Here is the list of primaries and caucuses that Barack Obama has won. Next to each state's name is the percentage of that state's population that is black. Can you see a pattern?
State
Alabama (26.4)
Alaska (3.7)
Colorado (4.1)
Connecticut (10.1)
Delaware (20.7)
Georgia (29.8)
Hawaii (2.3)
Idaho (0.6)
Illinois (15.1)
Iowa (2.3)
Kansas (5.9)
Louisiana (33.1)
Maine (0.8)
Maryland (29.3)
Minnesota (4.3)
Mississippi (36.9)
Missouri (11.5)
Nebraska (4.3)
North Dakota (0.8)
South Carolina (29.2)
Utah (1.0)
Vermont (0.6)
Virginia (19.9)
Washington (3.5)
Washington DC (57.0)
Wisconsin (6.0)
Wyoming (0.9)
Still don't see it? Here's another clue. Blacks comprise 12.8% of the US population. Do you now see the pattern? Only 3 Obama states (Illinois, Missouri, and Connecticut) have a black population within 5 percentage points either way of the national average. All of the other Obama states are at least 20% black or less than 6% black. And one of the three aforementioned Obama states - Illinois - is his home state. If he had moved back to Kansas or Hawaii after finishing Harvard Law School, there is no reason to believe he would have done any better in Illinois than he did in Ohio (11.9% black).
It's really too bad the primaries in Florida and Michigan were not contested. Then we would have much more data on which to draw conclusions. But, we do know that Clinton won New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas (14.5% 11.9%, 16.8% and 11.7% black respectively) which are much closer to the national average. New York and Arkansas are both within the 5-point range I have discussed, but they are Clinton's home states so I am discounting them just as I have discounted Illinois for Obama.
What does this all mean? Why does Obama do best in states with very large numbers of blacks or almost no blacks at all? What, even more important, does this tell us about white Democrats?
It seems that the less likely white Democrats are to live near blacks, the more likely they are to vote for them.
Raising Taxes on the Wealthy
Congressional Democrats propose to raise income taxes on the wealthy. The catch is that "wealthy" is defined as any individual who earns more than $31,000 per year and any couple who earns more than $62,000 per year. They will also reinstate the 10% tax bracket on the first $7500 of income (which was eliminated by George Bush in 2001). So, Democrats have achieved their dreams of equality. Since Democrats raise taxes only on the wealthy and since they're going to raise taxes on everyone, even those who earn less than $7500, it must mean that everyone is wealthy. Happy days are here again!
$3.45 Per Gallon and Rising
Want to know why gasoline is so expensive and why the oil companies are making such huge profits? Here's the reason:
GREEN MOVEMENT ALSO BEHIND GAS HIKE
By Peter Bronson - Cincinnati Enquirer
3/13/08
USA Today recently reported that 40 percent of economists say the biggest threat of a recession is from rising oil prices. I don't believe it. There is no way 40 percent of economists could agree on anything.
But I do believe 40 percent of $3.50 gas is caused by eco-stupidity.
I know, it's downright heretical to even question the trendy green people who want to cripple our economy to save the planet. But if we take a peek behind the curtain in Eco-Oz, we might be surprised to find out who is pulling the levers to raise gas prices.
Such as:
Rising world demand from China, India and other emerging economies drives up world oil prices. About two-thirds of our oil is imported, and 20 percent comes from the Persian Gulf (less than I thought).
But what if we had our own Iraq-sized supply that we haven't even touched yet?
We do. According to the U.S. Geological Survey and American Petroleum Institute, we have at least 112 billion barrels of undrilled oil - "enough to produce gasoline for 60 million cars and fuel oil for 25 million homes for 60 years."
By comparison, Iraq has 115 billion barrels and Venezuela 80 billion.
At least 16 billion barrels of our oil is in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Drilling would only touch 8 percent of 17 million acres - but environmentalists say it's off-limits.
Half of our untapped oil is offshore, mainly on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts - blocked by environmental fears about spills. But since 1980, offshore platforms have pumped 5 billion barrels of oil with a spill rate of 0.001 percent. "Natural seeps introduce as much as 150 to 175 times more oil into U.S. marine waters than offshore oil development," says API.
During Hurricane Katrina, more than 3,000 oil platforms were in the path of winds as high as 200 mph, with no big spills.
Each barrel of oil pumped at home replaces a barrel of high-cost imported oil. But we're not supposed to get our lands dirty by pumping our own.
We knew five years ago that our refineries can't keep up with demand even at full capacity. But a new refinery hasn't been built since 1976, and the number in service has been shrinking. New ones are blocked by environmentalists, EPA regulations and Not-in-my-Backyard protests.
Later this spring, we'll get another gas-price spike when refineries shut down to blend reformulated gas. Nearly 20 different recipes are mandated by states and cities. But ethanol blends actually add to pollution and are 33 percent less efficient than unblended gas.
"Green" ethanol mandates also cause higher food prices, adding to gas-price inflation.
New environmental regulations to reduce sulfur have raised diesel prices, causing price inflation for everything shipped by trucks, trains and barges.
State gas taxes, often justified for conservation, are 28 cents per gallon in Ohio and 21 cents in Kentucky.
And for all their hysteria about global warming, environmentalists have also blocked the best alternative to coal and oil: pollution free, zero-carbon nuclear power that has safely generated 80 percent of the electricity in France for 25 years.
William Tucker, author of "Terrestrial Energy: How a Nuclear-Solar Alliance Can Save the Planet," says a typical coal-fired plant burns a ton of coal for each minute of electricity, releasing three tons of carbon dioxide.
Nuclear power requires new fuel rods every two years. "There is no exhaust, no carbon emissions, no sulfur sludge to be carted away hourly and heaped into vast dumps," Tucker said at Hillsdale College in Michigan. "There is no air pollution, no water pollution and no ground pollution."
But nuclear power is taboo because of exaggerated fears spread by environmentalists.
A headline the other day reported that new "green" houses near Seattle - designed at great expense to be environmentally sensitive - were burned down anyway by the Earth Liberation Front.
America will never be "green" enough, either, until gas is $25 a gallon. We should ignore the eco-stupidity and start pumping it ourselves.
GREEN MOVEMENT ALSO BEHIND GAS HIKE
By Peter Bronson - Cincinnati Enquirer
3/13/08
USA Today recently reported that 40 percent of economists say the biggest threat of a recession is from rising oil prices. I don't believe it. There is no way 40 percent of economists could agree on anything.
But I do believe 40 percent of $3.50 gas is caused by eco-stupidity.
I know, it's downright heretical to even question the trendy green people who want to cripple our economy to save the planet. But if we take a peek behind the curtain in Eco-Oz, we might be surprised to find out who is pulling the levers to raise gas prices.
Such as:
Rising world demand from China, India and other emerging economies drives up world oil prices. About two-thirds of our oil is imported, and 20 percent comes from the Persian Gulf (less than I thought).
But what if we had our own Iraq-sized supply that we haven't even touched yet?
We do. According to the U.S. Geological Survey and American Petroleum Institute, we have at least 112 billion barrels of undrilled oil - "enough to produce gasoline for 60 million cars and fuel oil for 25 million homes for 60 years."
By comparison, Iraq has 115 billion barrels and Venezuela 80 billion.
At least 16 billion barrels of our oil is in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Drilling would only touch 8 percent of 17 million acres - but environmentalists say it's off-limits.
Half of our untapped oil is offshore, mainly on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts - blocked by environmental fears about spills. But since 1980, offshore platforms have pumped 5 billion barrels of oil with a spill rate of 0.001 percent. "Natural seeps introduce as much as 150 to 175 times more oil into U.S. marine waters than offshore oil development," says API.
During Hurricane Katrina, more than 3,000 oil platforms were in the path of winds as high as 200 mph, with no big spills.
Each barrel of oil pumped at home replaces a barrel of high-cost imported oil. But we're not supposed to get our lands dirty by pumping our own.
We knew five years ago that our refineries can't keep up with demand even at full capacity. But a new refinery hasn't been built since 1976, and the number in service has been shrinking. New ones are blocked by environmentalists, EPA regulations and Not-in-my-Backyard protests.
Later this spring, we'll get another gas-price spike when refineries shut down to blend reformulated gas. Nearly 20 different recipes are mandated by states and cities. But ethanol blends actually add to pollution and are 33 percent less efficient than unblended gas.
"Green" ethanol mandates also cause higher food prices, adding to gas-price inflation.
New environmental regulations to reduce sulfur have raised diesel prices, causing price inflation for everything shipped by trucks, trains and barges.
State gas taxes, often justified for conservation, are 28 cents per gallon in Ohio and 21 cents in Kentucky.
And for all their hysteria about global warming, environmentalists have also blocked the best alternative to coal and oil: pollution free, zero-carbon nuclear power that has safely generated 80 percent of the electricity in France for 25 years.
William Tucker, author of "Terrestrial Energy: How a Nuclear-Solar Alliance Can Save the Planet," says a typical coal-fired plant burns a ton of coal for each minute of electricity, releasing three tons of carbon dioxide.
Nuclear power requires new fuel rods every two years. "There is no exhaust, no carbon emissions, no sulfur sludge to be carted away hourly and heaped into vast dumps," Tucker said at Hillsdale College in Michigan. "There is no air pollution, no water pollution and no ground pollution."
But nuclear power is taboo because of exaggerated fears spread by environmentalists.
A headline the other day reported that new "green" houses near Seattle - designed at great expense to be environmentally sensitive - were burned down anyway by the Earth Liberation Front.
America will never be "green" enough, either, until gas is $25 a gallon. We should ignore the eco-stupidity and start pumping it ourselves.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Empty Thoughts From Barack Obama
IAMO had its Fun Facts about Fred Thompson. I now have Empty Thoughts From Barack Obama. I love my readers so much, I don't want them to have to sit through an hour-long Obama speech, so I'm summarizing his speeches for you. Today's empty thought is:
This country has problems. We should solve them.
This country has problems. We should solve them.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Was Alan Keyes Busy?
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark) is running unopposed because the Republicans couldn't field a candidate. Was Alan "Will Campaign for Food" Keyes not available? Hey, Illinois tried it. What does Arkansas have to lose?
The Check Is Not In The Mail
Last weekend we got a letter from the IRS saying that our tax rebates (not our normal tax refund but the extra rebates Congress recently authorized) would be mailed out beginning in May. The letter did not say how much the check would be or when we would get it. In other words, the IRS spent $40 million to tell taxpayers that the check is not in the mail, we don't know how much the check will be, and we don't know when you'll get it.
And who says the government can't keep secrets?
And who says the government can't keep secrets?
The Audacity Of Michelle Obama
While speaking to a group of Ohio voters, Michelle Obama shows just how arrogant, self-centered, and completely out-of-touch today's Democrat leaders are.
"We spend between the two kids, on extracurriculars outside the classroom, we're spending about $10,000 a year on piano and dance and sports supplements. And summer programs...Do you know what summer camp costs? ... The salaries don't keep up with the cost of paying off the debt, so you're in your 40s, still paying off your debt at a time when you have to save for your kids."
On what planet do these people live? Michelle Obama was "earning" $121,910 per year doing something called "Community Outreach" for the University of Chicago Hospital. That jumped up to $316,962 after Barack was elected US Senator. Coincidence? Is the Pope Catholic? Barack is paid $169,300 for being a Presidential candidate, errr..., for being a US Senator. That gives them a minimum salary of $486,262 BEFORE you add any book royalties. Suffice it to say, I'm sure their income is just a tad north of 7 figures.
Despite all of this, she hadn't been proud of this country until millions of people said they loved Barack. More proof that it's all about them. And, then she complains about paying off student loans while still in her 40s (like she's the only one) and spending in excess of $10,000 on extra-curricular activities for her kids.
There's audacity in there, but it's not the kind that Barack talks about in his book.
"We spend between the two kids, on extracurriculars outside the classroom, we're spending about $10,000 a year on piano and dance and sports supplements. And summer programs...Do you know what summer camp costs? ... The salaries don't keep up with the cost of paying off the debt, so you're in your 40s, still paying off your debt at a time when you have to save for your kids."
On what planet do these people live? Michelle Obama was "earning" $121,910 per year doing something called "Community Outreach" for the University of Chicago Hospital. That jumped up to $316,962 after Barack was elected US Senator. Coincidence? Is the Pope Catholic? Barack is paid $169,300 for being a Presidential candidate, errr..., for being a US Senator. That gives them a minimum salary of $486,262 BEFORE you add any book royalties. Suffice it to say, I'm sure their income is just a tad north of 7 figures.
Despite all of this, she hadn't been proud of this country until millions of people said they loved Barack. More proof that it's all about them. And, then she complains about paying off student loans while still in her 40s (like she's the only one) and spending in excess of $10,000 on extra-curricular activities for her kids.
There's audacity in there, but it's not the kind that Barack talks about in his book.
But Race Was Not A Factor
Exit polls from today's Mississippi primary show that 90% of blacks voted for Obama and 72% of whites voted for Clinton. The Democrat voters also said that race was not a factor in their decision. Yeah, right. So it's just a coincidence that 90% of blacks voted for Obama and 72% of whites voted for Clinton. Are the Democrats so delusional as to actually believe their own propaganda about skin color? Apparently so. As long as their intentions are "good", they can be excused of anything. If 72% of white Republicans voted for a white candidate ... oh, what's the use? The media will never tell the truth about Democrat policies on race.
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