Month: June 2011

Of all the details surrounding the liberal mob attack on Glenn Beck and his family in New York’s Bryant Park last Monday night, one element stands out. “No, it won’t be like that, Dad,” his daughter said when Beck questioned the wisdom of attending a free, outdoor movie showing in a New York park.

People who have never been set upon by a mob of liberals have absolutely no idea what it’s like to be a publicly recognizable conservative. Even your friends will constantly be telling you: “Oh, it will be fine. Don’t worry. Nothing will happen. This place isn’t like that.”

Liberals are not like most Americans. They are the biggest pussies on Earth, city-bred weaklings who didn’t play a sport and have never been in a fight in their entire lives. Their mothers made excuses for them when they threw tantrums and spent way too much time praising them during toilet training.

I could draw a mug shot of every one of Beck’s tormentors, and I wasn’t there.

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via Glenn Beck Vs. The Mob – HUMAN EVENTS.

Toward the end of last summer, President Obama did away with his “transparency” czar. And after two years in the White House, Americans can understand why. It turns out that this administration never had a real commitment to disclosure. Mr. “Transparency Will Be Touchstone” has actually presided over one of the most secretive White Houses in history. This week, the President plans to pull that curtain over the debt talks–a strategy that his Press Secretary openly admitted was in his party’s best interest. “We will continue to have conversations and meetings without much elaboration about the details of what’s being discussed there, simply because we believe that enhances the prospects of reaching an agreement.” In the President’s mind, what “enhances” the debate is keeping voters in the dark. It certainly helped his cause with ObamaCare, the Dodd/Frank finance bill, and this spring’s budget resolutions. Unfortunately for Democrats, the country has wised up since then. Americans don’t trust legislation that’s cooked up behind closed doors. Nothing could add more toxicity to this debate than concealing it.

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via The Opacity of Hope.

via Woman Seated Near Beck at Movie Claims Innocence…But What Does Twitter Tell Us…(With UPDATES!) | Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze.

During President Obama’s press conference today, he scolded Republicans for demanding tax cuts for corporate jets.
From the Associated Press in 2009:

Just a few months after lawmakers scolded auto executives for flying to Washington in private jets, Congress approved a tax break in the stimulus package to help businesses buy their own planes.

The incentive — first used to help plane makers recover from the 2001 terror attacks — sharply reduces the up front tax bill for companies who buy assets like business planes.

FLASHBACK: AP: Stimulus includes tax break to promote private jet sales | Charlie Spiering | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner.

NationalJournal.com – Obama: It’s Kids Versus Corporate Jets on Debt-Ceiling Talks – Wednesday, June 29, 2011.

“He was a very different person back in 1979 and 80 than he’d been when he wrote Imagine. By 1979 he looked back on that guy and was embarrassed by that guy’s naivete.”

via Lennon was a closet Republican: Assistant | World | News | Toronto Sun.

Cisco’s chief “Inclusion and Diversity” officer, Ms. Marilyn Nagel, had trouble on the phone defining what “inclusion and diversity” actually means at Cisco, so she sent me several links from the Cisco website. As in our conversation, I found no specific definition on the website but plenty of platitudes, such as Cisco is committed to “valuing and encouraging different perspectives, styles, thoughts, and ideas.”

If that’s the case, then why not value my “perspectives, styles, thoughts and ideas?”

Because only certain perspectives, styles, thoughts and ideas are approved, you see. “Inclusion and diversity” to corporate elites actually means exclusion for those that don’t agree with the approved views. Whoops, there goes “diversity.”

Shouldn’t the real intent of Cisco’s value of “inclusion and diversity” be to ensure that people in that diverse workforce work together cordially and professionally even when they inevitably disagree on certain political, moral or religious questions? It would seem so. In a large multicultural workforce, people need to work together despite political or religious differences. That’s a noble and necessary goal. It’s totalitarian, however, to subject people to “diversity” training and corporate sponsorships that go beyond teaching respect for people to advocacy of what they do in bed.

via Sex at Work? – Frank Turek – Townhall Conservative.

Instead, how about a show called, “In a dirty flaming port city” (NYC in this instance) where there are lots of self-loathing liberals who, shrinking from organized religion, still manage a more rigorous worship schedule than Catholics, but instead of God, they first dance around the May Pole and chant Earth songs (conveniently without acknowledging the johnny-come-lately nature and insincerity of their environmentalism which was started and still most vigorously maintained by Conservatives) and secondly they worship and defend the mixture of the world’s riff-raff and criminals who congregate in cities on the coasts of every country. NYC could be the center of this series, but, as you know, Marseille, Barcelona, Algiers, Naples, etc. are also full of the quality of people for whom even rednecks are far too good. It would make a great show. Nothing is as entertaining as middle-class liberals bending over backwards in self-hate and artificial humility to accommodate diversity, as long as that diversity doesn’t live in their building or neighborhood. Nothing is as racist as a liberal.

In a Flyover State: Steal This Idea:The Redneck Channel – 2011-06-20 04:01:00 | Broadcasting & Cable.

The worst argument ever? – Glenn Beck.

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The results are the latest sign of dissatisfaction with the dollar as a reserve currency, amid concerns over the US government’s inability to rein in spending and the Federal Reserve’s huge expansion of its balance sheet.
“Right now there is great concern out there around the financial trajectory that the US is on,” said Larry Hatheway, chief economist at UBS.
The US currency has slid 5 per cent so far this year, and is trading close to its lowest ever level against a basket of the world’s major currencies.

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Markets.