Make yourself an honest man,
and then you may be sure that
there is one less scoundrel in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
How Black Votes For Obama Have Been Working Out:
This Is Obama's America
From Bloomberg:
For most Americans, the real estate crash is finally behind them and personal wealth is back where it was in the boom. For blacks in the U.S., 18 years of economic progress has vanished, with a rebound in housing slipping further out of reach and the unemployment rate almost twice that of whites. The homeownership rate for blacks fell from 50 percent during the housing bubble to 43 percent in the second quarter, the lowest since 1995. The median home price [in Roseland, a Chicago neighborhood where Obama once worked as a community organizer] meanwhile has dropped to $28,000 in the second quarter from $119,000 in 2005, according to Midwest Real Estate Data LLC. Lenders are in a tough position because “when they don’t lend to minorities they’re accused of discrimination and when they do lend and there are foreclosures they’re accused of predatory lending,” said Paul Willen, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston"Progressive" Hypocrisy Watch: The 77-Centers
From Mark Perry of Carpe Diem:
Heroine Antoinette Tuff
Upcoming Movie Trailer on the Fed: Money for Nothing
I concur with this description:
Digging beneath the surface of the 2008 crisis, Money For Nothing is the first film to ask why so many facets of our financial system seemed to self-destruct at the same time. For many economists and senior Fed officials, the answer is clear: the same Fed that put out 2008’s raging financial fire actually helped light the match years before.
Do the Right Thing: This Is Not Rocket Science, Christie
Familiar readers may recall my mentioning a negative experience when I was once active on a low-carb forum. I was not an Atkins fundamentalist and quickly found myself fending off wolf pack attacks on challenges to orthodoxy from choosing vegetables or carb targets for people with active lifestyles to how many glasses of water to drink. The final straw was a mother of an epileptic child whom was prescribed a ketogenic (high fat, moderate protein) variation of the low-carb diet (recall there are principally 3 macronutrients: fats, proteins and carbs) responded very emotionally, accusing me of trying to practice medicine without a license. I was actually shocked; there are obviously specialized diets for people with chronic medical conditions, like organ diseases. The vast majority of us in the forum were simply overweight otherwise healthy people trying to lose weight.
But if I had a beautiful 2-year-old daughter like Vivian Wilson needing a form of marijuana that does not induce a high, I would be angry at any Big Government suit standing between my child and prescribed products with the promise of a healthy outcome for my child. (One thing I wondered about in watching the video clip is why Vivian was wearing an eye patch; this is evidently a way of trying to control her epileptic seizures.) Christie as a former prosecutor has undue confidence in Big Government's failed war on drugs, manipulation of the economy, and violations of the fourth amendment and other constitutional protections.
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| Vivian Wilson Courtesy of (John O'Boyle/The Star-Ledger |
This Comes--Not From Your Family Doctor But From a Government Busybody
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| Courtesy of Personal Liberty Digest |
Gov. Jerry Brown Blinks in Pension Reform Showdown With Crony Unionist Obama Administration
As I mentioned in an earlier post, nominating the Labor Secretary Perez for JOTY, the Obama Administration is abusing their discretion (which seems to be standard operating procedure) by denying transit subsidies by arguing California's modest pension reforms applied to transit workers/retirees violated an union-protective clause in 60's legislation. Brown is supporting a temporary workaround in legislation to exempt transit workers/retirees from reforms. This is a manifest violation of equal protection and unconstitutional...
We Have Hope in the House to Stop the Madness of Syrian Intervention
Hanson, who implies a nuanced stance on Syrian intervention, does a good job of summarizing American use of military action and rationales:
Even apart from clandestine CIA operations, and even after the unhappy end of the Vietnam War, we have attacked lots of countries and non-state militias. The roll call of recent American military interventions is quite astounding: Cambodia, Iran, Libya, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Liberia, Iraq, Haiti, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Zaire, and Afghanistan.
Even the notion of past American isolationism is a myth: In the four years between 1912 and 1916 alone, the U.S. sent troops into Cuba, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. And those busy years of intervention were not novel: Since our nation’s infancy, the U.S. military has been constantly engaged. In another four-year period, between 1812 and 1816, America fought the British, the French, the Spanish, and the North Africans
Our supposed motives varied widely: revenge (bombing Libya or Afghanistan), enforcing U.N. resolutions (Korea), the prevention of genocide (Serbia), humanitarianism (Somalia), helping allies (Vietnam), regime change (Iraq and Libya), protecting U.S. commercial interests (Central America), and harming foreign efforts (Grenada).Politico reports that if the vote was taken today, the best-case scenario is Obama would win about 190 votes, about 28 shy of what he needs, about two-thirds of which are Dems. The House intends to vote only if the Senate doesn't kill Obama's request.
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Stevie Wonder, "I Wish"
