Harry Reid Hypocrisy
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Archive for January, 2011
Quote of the Day
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011“Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, ‘Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.’ Surely what’s good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.”
— Liberal columnist Maureen Dowd
Meanwhile, in the Commonwealth
Monday, January 24th, 2011Our democrat controlled Legislature voted to keep their action from public view.
The Massachusetts House and Senate voted to kill a Republican sponsored bill to put Committee roll call votes on the Legislature’s website. The democrats want to keep the current rules, which require citizens to drive to Boston during business hours in order to obtain information on how their elected officials voted.
Just what do the democrats in the state legislature want to keep hidden from the citizens of the Commonwealth?
There was also a strict party line vote in the House that killed a Republican sponsored bill that would have prohibited the House from approving any tax hikes without a two-thirds majority on a roll call vote.
OK, so one thing they are trying to hide is that they are going to jack up your taxes, and they want to be able to give political cover to some of the reps by not forcing them to vote for the tax hike.
Monday Book Pick: Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist
Monday, January 24th, 2011Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist by Patrick Albert Moore
Speaking of Evniromentalists and watermelons, this week’s pick is by a founder of Greenpeace. This book is by someone who actually cares about the planet, who quit the organization he helped found after it was taken over by socialists using the environmental movement to push their political agenda. Here is the money quote from a recent article by Moore:
The collapse of world communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall during the 1980s added to the trend toward extremism. The Cold War was over and the peace movement was largely disbanded. The peace movement had been mainly Western-based and anti-American in its leanings. Many of its members moved into the environmental movement, bringing with them their neo-Marxist, far-left agendas. To a considerable extent the environmental movement was hijacked by political and social activists who learned to use green language to cloak agendas that had more to do with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization than with science or ecology. I remember visiting our Toronto office in 1985 and being surprised at how many of the new recruits were sporting army fatigues and red berets in support of the Sandinistas.
Oh ya, a watermelon is a politie term to describe those folks in the red berets, a thin skin of green, but red to the core.
HT to AoSH, who also has this bonus video by Michael Crichton
Sunday SciFi: Firefly and Serenity
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011Joss Whedon’s SciFi/Western series and feature film. IMNSHO, one of the best SciFi series since Babylon 5.
A really top notch cast and great writing produced a series that the fans loved and the network execs just couldn’t grok.
The result a single season, with four episodes never being aired, followed by rather brisk DVD sales and a feature film.
If you haven’t seen Firefly, do yourself a favor, block out a weekend and watch the entire season.
Quote of the Day
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011“Sarah Palin is the left’s Emmanuel Goldstein.”
John Cox points out the illusion
Friday, January 21st, 2011
Yup, The spending and the taxes are real.
The Recovery? Not so much…
Friday B-Movie Pick: Ip Man
Friday, January 21st, 2011This movie is about Yip Man, a Wing Chun Master from the pre-communist days in China. He was later one of Bruce Lee’s main instructors in Hong Kong. This movie focuses on his younger days, starting the 1930s and through the Japanese occupation of China. Great fight scenes.
Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Obamacare
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011American for Tax Reform has a list of the multiple tax hikes hidden in Obamacare.
These include:
- Individual Mandate Excise Tax
- Employer Mandate Tax
- Surtax on Investment Income
- Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans
- Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax
- Medicine Cabinet Tax
- HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike
- Flexible Spending Account Cap – aka “Special Needs Kids Tax
- Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers
- Raise “Haircut” for Medical Itemized Deduction from 7.5% to 10% of AGI
- Tax on Indoor Tanning Services
- Elimination of tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Hike
- Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals
- Tax on Innovator Drug Companies
- Tax on Health Insurers
- $500,000 Annual Executive Compensation Limit for Health Insurance Executives
- Employer Reporting of Insurance on W-2
- Corporate 1099-MISC Information Reporting
- “Black liquor” tax hike
- Codification of the “economic substance doctrine”
Yup, if you think Health Care is expensive now, wait until the Government makes it “free.”
Three Exculpatory Facts the MSM Continues to Overlook in the Arizona Shootings
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011John Sexton gets to the heart of the matter:
One – Sarah Palin’s map was nothing out of the ordinary
Two – Jared Loughner’s fixation on Rep. Giffords pre-dated the Tea Party and Sarah Palin
Three – Jared Loughner’s verifiable ideological commitments are on the left
Three basic facts the MSM refuses to publish.