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Obama gives lesson in Marxism to kindergartner

Explained in a hilarious way by Mortman:

Barack Obama poses this fascinating moral question to a five-year-old:

“We’ve got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money,” Obama said. “If you had a whole pizza, and your friend had no pizza, would you give him a slice?”

The easy answer, of course, is: Not with all this childhood obesity and diabetes going around she shouldn’t.  Maybe an apple or a pear or a carrot, but pizza?  No way.

But let’s tackle this perplexing position from a different perspective.  Let’s consult one of the greatest Jewish scholars ever — Moses Maimonides (I know, there goes my pro-Sephardic bias again).

Wasn’t it Maimonides who instructed us that of the eight levels of charity, the greatest deed one could do is to support someone by endowing that person with a gift or loan, or entering into a partnership with him/her, or finding employment for him/her, in order to strengthen that person’s hand until he or she need no longer be dependent upon others for pizza?

Perhaps next time, instead of posing fattening cycle-of-dependence rhetorical questions, Obama could help set up that five-year-old with something real, like a limited partnership in her own pizza parlor. 

It’s official: Barry O wants your kids to die of obesity.  “Free” government pizza for all!

November 2, 2007 Posted by | Obama, socialism | 8 Comments

Democrats cause record high gas prices

Why would I possibly pick such a headline?  Well, after reading this from Gateway Pundit, I figured it was only fair:

“All you have to do is drive down the street in your car, see the price at the pump, and you know that Americans can no longer afford George W. Bush as President and his Rubber Stamp Republican Congress.”
Nancy Pelosi
April 26, 2006

The Pelosi-Reid Congress is shooting for a record high in gas prices to go with their record low in approval ratings.

Oil prices surged again on Wednesday to a new record, near $95 a barrel. The government also reported another unexpected drop in crude oil inventories.

Are you feeling the pinch yet from the Pelosi-Reid Congress?

Since Bush no longer has a “rubber stamp Republican Congress”, and since said Republican Congress was faulted for the high gas prices of a year ago, and since gas prices are higher now than they were last year, then one can only conclude (using Democrat “logic”, and I use that word loosely) that the current non-”rubber stamp” Democrat Congress is to blame for the current gas price spike.

Then again, since when has consistency and logic been friends of the left?

November 2, 2007 Posted by | economic ignorance, oil | 1 Comment

Iowa tries to tax pumpkins

The operative word being “tries”, since they faced a public backlash.  From Des Moines:

Here’s a Halloween riddle: What happened when Iowa Department of Revenue officials tried to tax pumpkins?

They got squashed.

Administrators announced Wednesday that they were backing off a policy of charging sales tax on pumpkins intended for use as jack-o’-lanterns.

The decision came after The Des Moines Register reported the state’s claim that the big orange gourds did not qualify for the food exemption because they generally are used for decoration.

The department said it announced the policy last year, but it acknowledged that many people didn’t notice until Wednesday, when the story whipsawed around the Internet and drew scads of derisive comments.

Even as it rescinded the policy, the department issued a news release defending its original reasoning. “Food and food ingredients are defined as substances that are sold for ingestion or chewing by humans and are consumed for their taste or nutritional value,” the release said.

The statement didn’t say why the department changed its policy, but the controversy apparently spooked Gov. Chet Culver.

He issued his own statement after administrators went public with their reversal.

“It has come to my attention that a policy change made in December of 2006 – before I took office – is resulting in this ridiculous pumpkin tax,” Culver said.

“I have directed the Department of Revenue to do the common-sense thing and suspend collection of this tax and offer refunds to consumers or retailers who have been affected.” 

Check that again: “Food and food ingredients are defined as substances that are sold for ingestion or chewing by humans and are consumed for their taste or nutritional value”.  This may come as a huge shock to the bureaucrats in Iowa, but people can and do actually eat pumpkins!  You know, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, etc.?  Any of this ringing a bell, cornholes?

November 2, 2007 Posted by | big government, taxes | 3 Comments

Quote of the day

From Neal Boortz:

Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented worker” is like calling your neighborhood heroin dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist.”

November 2, 2007 Posted by | illegal immigration, quote of the day | 3 Comments

Delaware college ends indoctrination program, thanks in part to bloggers

Some of you may have been following the saga of the University of Delaware’s ideological re-education program, euphemistically called .  I was stunned by this.  I mean, really…there are people in Delaware?  Who knew?

All kidding aside, this was no laughing matter.  Here’s what UDel had in mind:

A mandatory University of Delaware program requires residence hall students to acknowledge that “all whites are racist” and offers them “treatment” for any incorrect attitudes regarding class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality they might hold upon entering the school, according to a civil rights group.
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The organization cited excerpts from the university’s Office of Residence Life Diversity Education Training documents, including the statement:

“A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. ‘The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination….’”

The education program also notes that “reverse racism” is “a term created and used by white people to deny their white privilege.” And “a non-racist” is called “a non-term,” because, the program explains, “The term was created by whites to deny responsibility for systemic racism, to maintain an aura of innocence in the face of racial oppression, and to shift the responsibility for that oppression from whites to people of color (called ‘blaming the victim’).”

The “education” regarding racism is just one of the subjects that students are required to adopt as part of their University of Delaware experience, too, FIRE noted.
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“Students who express discomfort with this type of questioning often meet with disapproval from their RAs, who write reports on these one-on-one sessions and deliver these reports to their superiors. One student identified in a write-up as an RA’s ‘worst’ one-on-one session was a young woman who stated that she was tired of having ‘diversity shoved down her throat,’” FIRE said.

This particular student responded to the question, “When did you discover your sexual identity?” with the terse: “That is none of your damn business,” FIRE said.

Requirements for students include: “Students will recognize that systemic oppression exists in our society,” “Students will recognize the benefits of dismantling systems of oppression,” and “Students will be able to utilize their knowledge of sustainability to change their daily habits and consumer mentality,” FIRE said.

The foundation said students even are “pressured or even required” to make social statements that meet with the school’s approval. 

FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) and the blogosphere came in for the rescue, and the blogosphere played an important role in getting UDel to squash the program.  Victory, my friends!

If you want to be a mouthbreathing, tinfoil hat-wearing, bedwetting barking moonbat, fine by me.  But normal America is not going to sit by and let you ram that crap down our college kids’ throats!

November 2, 2007 Posted by | bigotry, political correctness, public education | 3 Comments

Leftwing voter fraud, MSM yawns

“Gore won Florida!  Kerry won Ohio!”  Both proven false.  But actual voter fraud in Washington state, committed by a leftwing group?  With the exception of the Seattlestan fishwrap, the rest of the MSM is quieter than Monica Lewinsky assuming her position.  From the American Thinker:

Jim of Gateway Pundit catches another great under-reported story:

Three former ACORN workers pled guilty to voter-registration fraud in Washington State today.

The Seattle Times reported:

Three of seven defendants in the biggest voter-registration fraud scheme in Washington history have pleaded guilty and one has been sentenced, prosecutors said Monday.

The defendants were all temporary employees of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, when they allegedly filled out and submitted more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties.

No votes were cast in the names of the phony voters. Prosecutors said the defendants committed fraud in order to keep their jobs without actually registering voters.

Readers  may recall that the state of Washington was in the news in 2004 for the closeness of the election for Governor (won by Christine Democrat Gregoire by all of 133 votes; her Republican opponent, Dino Rossi, has since announced  plans to run again next year). That race was subject to claims of voter fraud.

 
While the defendants who worked for ACORN did not plead guilty for acts that led to actual voting… where there is smoke there is usually fire. ACORN, by the way, receives funding from the federal government as well as a range of “charitable” foundations-such as the Ford Foundation.

No reporting of this admitted fraud in the New York Times, so far as I have been able to tell.

If someone finds a NYT link to this story, pass it on, and I’ll change the headline.

By the way, some of you may remember the 2004 Washington governor’s race.  The Republican, Dino Rossi, won the initial count, then won the recount.  He appeared to have won the manual recount, too…until, as luck would have it, a heretofore uncounted bag of ballots mysteriously showed up from out of nowhere in heavily liberal King County!  As a result, Gregoire’s larceny was successful, nabbing her the governor’s race by 133 votes. It looks like ACORN is trying to make darned sure it’s not nearly that close next time.

November 2, 2007 Posted by | media bias, vote fraud | Leave a Comment

Kennedrunk to oppose Mukasey

No surprise there.  However, his reason is ironic:

President Bush sought to save Michael Mukasey’s troubled nomination for attorney general Thursday, defending the retired judge’s refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding torture and warning of a leaderless Justice Department if Democrats do not confirm him.

“If the Senate Judiciary Committee were to block Judge Mukasey on these grounds, they would set a new standard for confirmation that could not be met by any responsible nominee for attorney general,” Bush said in a speech at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
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Despite that prospect, more Senate Democrats announced their opposition to Mukasey. Most cited his refusal to say whether waterboarding, an interrogation technique that uses the threat of drowning to elicit answers, amounts to torture and thus is illegal under constitutional, domestic and international law.

The Senate Judiciary Committee plans a test vote Tuesday on the nomination. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., became the fourth of 10 Democrats on the 19-member committee to say he will vote against advancing the nomination to the full Senate.

Kennedy said Mukasey’s unwillingness to give a definitive answer on the torture question increased the chances that the technique could be used against U.S. troops.

Kennedy opposes simulated drowning for terrorists, but I’m assuming he would have no problem actually drowning a terrorist.  Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.

November 2, 2007 Posted by | Kennedrunk | Leave a Comment

   

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