I'd like some. Burning American consulates and killing American ambassadors just frosts me.
Trouble is, I don't see anyone worth retaliating against.
We have fifty to a hundred thugs who did the actual assault. We have maybe the same number of Arab mayors, police chiefs, and infantry officers who failed to disperse the mobs, either thru malice or incompetence. We have the entire population of the country who didn't participate, but who like the idea of kicking Americans. We have brand new national governments who probably didn't know this was going down and would have stopped it if they had known it was coming.
Somehow it doesn't feel right to go to war against a third world country over the vicious acts of a very few mutants.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Dead Cat Bounce, Rasmussen
That terrible bounce in Obama's poll standing, the one that had the Internet wailing and gnashing its teeth? Well, it's gone. Looking at the Rasmussen presidential tracking poll we see the bounce is flat. Obama popped up a few percent, and then dropped right back down. It's 46-45 Obama's favor this morning. Which is dead even, a tie, in the real world. The Rasmussen poll has a good track record.
Words of the Weasel Part 30
Protest. A mob in Benghasi burns the US consulate and kills four Americans including the US ambassador. NHPR called this outrage a PROTEST.
We used to call this sort of thing an act of war.
We used to call this sort of thing an act of war.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Once Upon a Time in the West
Spaghetti Western Supreme. With Parmesan cheese. It came out after Clint Eastwood's "Fistful of Dollars" and clearly borrowed from that flick. It has some top flight actors, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, and Jason Robards. It has pretty much every cliche there ever was. It moves incredibly slowly. In the final showdown gunfight between Fonda and Bronson, it takes a good five minutes of flashbacks and closeups before they draw the six guns. It takes Fonda another five minutes of writhing to die after Bronson plugs him. Plot is confusing. New bad guys keep turning up, dressed just like the bad guys that just got gunned down, are they returned from the dead or what? We keep encountering scenes of massive violence AFTER it has been done and no clue as to who did it.
Claudia Cardinale is knock out cute, even fully dressed is high Victorian style. The guys are all super scruffy and unshaven, it's hard to visualize any chick wanting to come within fifty feet of any of them.
This flick has it's fans on the 'Net who call it the best Western ever made. I don't agree. High Noon it ain't.
Claudia Cardinale is knock out cute, even fully dressed is high Victorian style. The guys are all super scruffy and unshaven, it's hard to visualize any chick wanting to come within fifty feet of any of them.
This flick has it's fans on the 'Net who call it the best Western ever made. I don't agree. High Noon it ain't.
Primary Day, Poll Standing
It's primary day in New Hampshire. This is the real state primary where we pick candidates for every office except the presidency. Polls open at 8 in Franconia. The alarm clock sounded at 7. I had time to make a thermos of coffee, put the sign poles in the car, put on Smart wool socks and a sweater, and drive to the polls. Fall is coming, it got down close to freezing last night. It was still well below 60 at 8 AM and the warm clothing felt good.
At 8 AM we had me, the Cumbee's and one lone democrat who I don't know, standing outside town hall. We had a decent flow of voters in the morning. Not bad for a primary, even in a presidential year. I took a mid day break and plan to go back and cover the evening rush.
In actual fact, we ought to hold the primary earlier. Primary winners have too little time to campaign and mend fences with the losers before the election hits.
At 8 AM we had me, the Cumbee's and one lone democrat who I don't know, standing outside town hall. We had a decent flow of voters in the morning. Not bad for a primary, even in a presidential year. I took a mid day break and plan to go back and cover the evening rush.
In actual fact, we ought to hold the primary earlier. Primary winners have too little time to campaign and mend fences with the losers before the election hits.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Get the Economy growing again
A short list of things that could be done immediately.
1. Start building the Keystone XL pipeline. Running pipe from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico is a big project that will employ a lot of people, use a lot supplies, and keep a lot of heavy machinery gainfully employed. Once operational, it will lower fuel prices, and attract new industry. And it's all privately funded.
2. Repeal Obamacare. Employers have no idea how expensive new employees health care will be, so they don't hire.
3. Abolish the SEC. It was created after Great Depression 1.0 to prevent a recurrence of same. It has obviously failed, we have Great Depression 2.0, so what ever the SEC has been doing all these years didn't work. But they do make it harder to do business. So get rid of 'em.
4. Approve drilling permits, in the Gulf, in ANWR, off the Atlantic coast, off the Pacific coast, everywhere.
5. Abolish CAFE. There is plenty of market pressure on Detroit to raise fuel economy. We don't need laws. Plus the latest 55 mpg requirements are fantasy, no car can do that well. Either the Feds will give selected (UAW and democrat) companies a waiver, or everyone will drive used cars, like in Cuba.
6. Pass a tax law that runs for at least five years. Taxes are a major cost of businesses. Unless business knows what the tax rate is going to be into the future, they don't know if the business will make money. If they don't know that it will make money, they don't start that business.
Romney might do some of these things. Obama won't.
1. Start building the Keystone XL pipeline. Running pipe from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico is a big project that will employ a lot of people, use a lot supplies, and keep a lot of heavy machinery gainfully employed. Once operational, it will lower fuel prices, and attract new industry. And it's all privately funded.
2. Repeal Obamacare. Employers have no idea how expensive new employees health care will be, so they don't hire.
3. Abolish the SEC. It was created after Great Depression 1.0 to prevent a recurrence of same. It has obviously failed, we have Great Depression 2.0, so what ever the SEC has been doing all these years didn't work. But they do make it harder to do business. So get rid of 'em.
4. Approve drilling permits, in the Gulf, in ANWR, off the Atlantic coast, off the Pacific coast, everywhere.
5. Abolish CAFE. There is plenty of market pressure on Detroit to raise fuel economy. We don't need laws. Plus the latest 55 mpg requirements are fantasy, no car can do that well. Either the Feds will give selected (UAW and democrat) companies a waiver, or everyone will drive used cars, like in Cuba.
6. Pass a tax law that runs for at least five years. Taxes are a major cost of businesses. Unless business knows what the tax rate is going to be into the future, they don't know if the business will make money. If they don't know that it will make money, they don't start that business.
Romney might do some of these things. Obama won't.
The Feds have to approve State Voter ID laws
Dunno how this happened. Running elections used to be a State concern. But the Feds OK'd the New Hampshire voter ID law and rejected Pennsylvania's. We New Hampsters must have some in with the Feds that PA lacks.
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