Moonbattery » A Word of Warning From Our Future: "Others have been where we are going, and have told us what it’s like there. That’s what makes what we’re allowing to happen to the world’s Last Best Hope so unforgivable."
Ace of Spades HQ: "Recall the Dunning-Kruger effect. In short, a person’s incompetence inhibits their ability to recognize his or her incompetence. The people who think they are the smartest are the dumbest, essentially, because they are blind to their stupidity. The people who think they know better know the least. And isn't it interesting that they are almost always the first to hurl the insult "you're stupid"?RTWT. No surprise that if you read to the end, you'll find yourself staring once more at the Stone Age Trinity. I find it stunning that the self appointed liberal guardians of evolution in fact have no idea of its implications and have turned it into nothing more than a cargo cult. Dunning-Kruger indeed. Read More......
Anyway, I was reading about the police busting OWS people and closing Zuccotti Park today, and it occurred to me that there is a variation on the Dunning-Kruger effect that has to do with other forms of self-awareness. Several examples:Doesn't it follow that the people who think they're the most egalitarian become the most sexist, biased, and/or prejudiced? Because of the fact they admire that quality in themselves, egalitarianism, they are blind to the reality that they are not. These are the people who say "flyover states" and "rednecks." These are the people who come down on Limbaugh for a single use of "slut" while thinking someone else's use of much worse language is okay."
Ace of Spades HQ: "Someone is noticing that Cap'n Wunnerful is a giant phony d-bag. Or that his writers are not really working all that hard."
Op-Ed: Proof of life - WWW.THEDAILY.COM: "Right now, millions of adult Americans cannot legally fly on an airplane or rent a car. They’re not allowed to drive one, either. And if they really need to get somewhere fast, they can’t use Amtrak. When they (somehow) get there, they can’t stay at a hotel. If they don’t have a social security card, they cannot get one without considerable time and effort. In most cases they cannot rent an apartment, take the SAT or enroll in college. They can’t buy cigarettes or alcohol, even though they are of legal age. They might be able to get credit cards, but in many instances they will not be able to use them. And they almost certainly won’t be able to get a bank account or a business license or even cash a check.The selective outrage of O Duce's minions. Of course, if these people got an education, they might smarten up and realize they're chained inside a Potemkin village. Read More......
Virtually 100 percent of these outcasts from mainstream society fit into one or more of the following categories: very old, very young, very poor, minorities or the disabled.
And yet the Democratic Party wants to do next to do nothing to fix that.
I’m talking, of course, about people without proper identification."
What if the Left is just one Potemkin Village after another? | Washington Examiner: ""Yet, by maintaining the fiction of independence from one and other, they appear to much of the press to be a pack of scrappy underdogs sinking their teeth into the ankles of the big-money men."And O Duce is not just "proud of them generally", he's all-in proud. Of course, he'll lie to your face and tell you he's not. That's just what Marxists do. They consider it ethical. Read More......
The campaign inadvertently became public when video of a presentation by Pew vice president Sean Treglia to a group of journalists at the Annenberg Center let the cat out of the bag:
"The target was 535 Members of Congress and the idea was to create the impression that a mass movement was afoot, that everywhere they looked people were talking about campaign finance reform," Treglia explained on the video.
Not one of the journalists listening to Treglia challenged him on the fact he was, in effect, admitting a massive, systematic pack of lies."
Moonbattery » Separated at Birth?: "I’m sure Barack Hussein and his base could get behind this Hopey Change:“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”The main differences are that Nazis were more terrifying than nauseating, that national pride has been discarded, and that Obama’s power grab is moving slightly more slowly because of our tradition of liberty and the fact that so many of us are armed. Give him a four-year extension and the similarities will become more obvious.
Adolf Hitler, May Day, 1927
When all is said and done, oligarchical collectivism is oligarchical collectivism. Its various paths all lead to the same place."
Moonbattery » What if ObamaCare Really Were Like Auto Insurance: "The argument that ObamaCare is like car insurance proves yet again that there are two kinds of liberals: 1) idiots, and 2) condescending authoritarians who think everyone else is an idiot."
Instapundit » Blog Archive » RUTHERFORD B. HAYES TAKES OFF. Hey, now it’s hip to be Hayes! And why not? “The period of America…: "RUTHERFORD B. HAYES TAKES OFF. Hey, now it’s hip to be Hayes! And why not? “The period of American history that followed the Civil War was one of the greatest and most successful ever experienced by any nation.” Reader Michael Wallace writes: “Who knew that one of Obama’s greatest accomplishments would be reviving interest in Rutherford B Hayes?” Yes, that is one of Obama’s greatest accomplishments.
And people are still having fun:"
More Energy Lies From Obama | Power Line: "Many have already pointed out that Obama’s Rutherford Hayes anecdote is false; my guess is that every one of his purported historical parallels is apocryphal. It worth adding, however, that Obama’s suggestion that those who were skeptical of Columbus’s voyages believed the world was flat is another example of his historical illiteracy. In fact, it was well known by educated people in the 15th century that the world was round. Not only that, they knew that the circumference of the Earth was around 25,000 miles; this had been calculated by the ancient Greeks, using triangulation. So when Columbus tried to raise money for a voyage in which he proposed to reach the East by sailing West, he had trouble because everyone knew that going West was not only an unknown route, but was the long way around the globe. But we are long past expecting Barack Obama to possess even the most elementary knowledge of history."What a moron. But note that the chief moron couldn't get applause without all the other serf morons his "intellectual" godfathers have so successfully created. Read More......
Bracketology | Power Line: "Hey, he may not know a damn thing about the economy, or business, or foreign policy, or science, or history–but he can copy the experts’ basketball predictions!
Michael Ramirez adds more ridicule of our pathetic “chief executive:”"
A Tank Full of Economic Misunderstanding: "Asked by your “pump patrol” reporter about rising gasoline prices, a motorist at a gasoline station noted that “My tank is actually way more than half full now. I’m topping it off because I’m sure the price will be even higher this weekend.” When your reporter then asked her “What do you think explains these rising prices?” she replied “Speculators.” Your reporter followed up with “Do you think they should be stopped?” The motorist responded immediately: “Of course! They’re criminal.”Read More......
Speculating that the price of gasoline will rise, this motorist took action today – buying gasoline that she otherwise wouldn’t have bought today – that puts upward pressure on the price of gasoline today."
Brace for China's impending crash | The Japan Times Online: ""This time will be different" is the traditional formula used to reassure nervous investors in the last years before a great economic bubble collapses. It was a constant refrain in the run-up to the Western financial crash of 2008-09, and now it is being heard daily about the Chinese property boom.You can find the book on this here. It also explains 2008 of course. Read More......
People in the West want to believe that China's economy will go on growing fast because the fragile recovery in Western economies depends on it. Twenty years of 10 percent-plus annual growth have made China the engine of the world economy, even though most Chinese remain poor. But the engine is fuelled by cheap credit, and most of that cheap money, as usual, has gone into real estate."
Guest Post: Humanity Is Rising | ZeroHedge: "“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” -- Charles Bukowski"Yes, that means quote of the millenium. And the reason is that the "smart ones" -- meaning those with the expensive educations -- are actually the ones stupid enough to believe they are the smart ones. God in other words. And it's been that way throughout human history.
Collateral Damage from 'Reproductive Rights' - Reason Magazine: "Those advocates have been distracted from a different and far less figurative war on women—which, as it happens, is helped rather than hindered by one of the "reproductive rights" they champion. Legal abortion may empower women, but it has also become a powerful method for the mass elimination of females.Mao is smiling on these brainwashed dimwits. Eric put it best with his comment that they are "pathetic memebots running the program of a dead tyrant".
Modern technology allows prospective parents to learn the sex of a fetus, and many of them use that knowledge to exercise a preference for sons. Absent such intervention, about 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. But as Mara Hvistendahl reports in her 2011 book "Unnatural Selection," the number for boys per 100 girls has risen to 112 in India and 121 in China.
It was once assumed that the general preference for male offspring would subside as countries became richer and women became more educated. But in country after country, that has proved false."
Watch Bernanke’s ‘Little’ Inflation Capsize U.S.: Amity Shlaes - Bloomberg: "All appeared calm in 1972, too, before inflation jumped to 11 percent by 1974, and stayed high for the rest of the decade, diminishing the quality of life for whole cohorts. They paid the higher interest rates needed to reduce the inflation, and got a house with one less bedroom. Or no pool.RTWT. Read More......
The thing about inflation is that it accelerates. The acceleration hit storybook levels in the most sudden case of all, that of Germany in 1922. Many financial analysts thought the Weimar authorities weren’t producing enough money.
“Tight Money in German Market: Causes of the Abnormally Rapid Currency Deflation at Year-End,” read a New York Times headline. The Germans didn’t know it, but they had already turned their money into wallpaper; the next year would see hyperinflation, when inflation races ahead at more than 50 percent a month. It moved so fast that prices changed in a single hour. Yet even as it did so, the country’s financial authorities failed to see inflation. They thought they were witnessing increased demand for money."
Ace of Spades HQ: "Okay sure Obama may have spoken at a rally for Prof. Derrick Bell while a law student at Harvard but that was a long time ago and doesn't mean that he subscribed to his racial views or anything, right?Whoops.
Well here's what Prof. Barack Obama was teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. This is his Spring Term 1994 Syllabus for his "Current Issues in Racism and the Law" seminar. And guess whose works appear in the required reading."
Exodus: California Tax Revenue Plunges by 22%: "When it comes to bankrupt California politics, the Great Seal provides some good laughs. It was designed by U.S. Army Major Robert S. Garnett, who became the first general to die in the Civil War. The grizzly bear appears on the Seal to represent strength, but the last grizzly was shot 90 years ago. The miner using his sluice box dredge represents golden opportunity, but such mining became a crime as of August of 2009. Sadly, the five ships that once represented the state’s economic power now represent the relocation companies taking that power away."But CA won't be allowed to go bankrupt of course. O Duce's bailout in 3... 2...
Soldiers asked to disarm during Leon Panetta speech - Telegraph: "Less than a week after a US staff sergeant allegedly massacred 16 civilians in Kandahar, American soldiers were banned from bringing guns into a talk by Mr Panetta at a base in Helmand province.... they're not going to want armed Marines near them. After all, O Duce's just "proud of them generally". Read More......
Around 200 troops who had gathered in a tent at Camp Leatherneck were told "something had come to light" and asked abruptly to file outside and lay down their automatic rifles and 9mm pistols."
Kyle Bass Explains Texas Taking Physical Delivery of Gold | Video | TheBlaze.com: "In the conference room of Hayman Capital Partners’ offices in Dallas hangs a painting of a zero dollar bill, featuring Lenin’s face and the legend “United Socialist States of America”, notes The Economist. Bass isn’t afraid to flaunt his political views (his car sticker reads “God bless our troops, especially our snipers”), but the painting highlights his investment philosophy too. By propping up the banks, he argues, Big Government has merely succeeded in prolonging the crisis. “If we really had a capitalist model, we’d have bankruptcy.”"Yup. Read More......
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