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Regional Party? You're Fired!!!

Republican wins:

Virginia.  New Jersey.  Now Massachusetts (Massachusetts!!!).

Remember all those Democrat pundits, pollsters, and political advisers who last year announced the Republicans are just a regional party that will never win another election outside the south?

I'm thinking the Democrats should tell them this today:

Haiti's Pact With the Devil Is Historical Fact

Last week political correctness tried to kill history. No one from the media tried to stop the murder. Instead, most media outlets became willing accomplices to the crime.

When Pat Robertson said the Haitian slave rebels made a pact with the devil to throw off their French enslavers 200 years ago, media liberals drooled, believing they had caught a religious person saying something awful.

Of course there’s one fact media liberals left out of their reports about Pat Robertson’s statement: That it was, you know, true.

Read the rest of this column at The Daily Caller.

Is President Obama A Paper Tiger?

 

At the close of today’s election in Massachusetts, we’ll know just what kind of cat Barack Obama really is.

 

The seat up for grabs belonged to the “liberal lion” Ted Kennedy.  After his inauguration last year, Barack Obama looked like a lion himself, many believing him powerful enough to move people with his words, to get whatever he wanted.

 

But like a cat with his back up, Obama may have just looked bigger than he really is.

 

Over the past year the power of Obama’s words on his teleprompter were put to the test, and repeatedly he failed.

 

On January 22, 2009, Obama issued an order closing Guantanamo Bay in one year (how’s that working out?).  The lion shrunk to a jaguar.

 

He promised to remove all troops from Iraq in 15 months. By that he meant 19 months. This of course is an obvious statement of “whenever.”  Maybe he’s the size of a leopard.

 

He took over General Motors in May.  It went Bankrupt in June.  Obama seemed no bigger than a panther.

 

In October Obama went to Copenhagen to convince the Olympic Committee to bring the games to Chicago.  They told our ferocious bobcat of a President “no.”

 

In December he spoke at the Copenhagen climate change conference and came home empty handed (wow!  Stay out of Copenhagen!).  Nice job, tabby.

 

Today comes Massachusetts’ election for Ted Kennedy’s former Senate seat.  The task of electing a Democrat there should have been easy, since a Republican hasn’t held office in that seat since World War II.

 

Obama campaigned in person for Democrat Martha Coakley.   There are currently no Senators and no Congresspersons who are Republican in Massachusetts. The northeast is the most Democrat place in the country.  If President Obama can’t deliver a Democrat there, he truly is a paper tiger. 

A Socially Conscious Aspiring Fundraiser!

This is my son Vincent, aged 12, who usually pulls in $40 or $50 a day with his lemonade stand.

This past Saturday, he put up a hot chocolate stand with his sign that said, "Hot Chocolate 4 Haiti."

He sold cups of hot chocolate for $1.00.   I expected he might slightly surpass his usual pull in dollars, since this was for Charity.

HE PULLED IN $800.00 IN ONE DAY!

I hope readers will excuse my temporary departure from posting about politics to allow me this moment of parental braggadocio and pride!

Dumbest Comment By A Liberal Today

Someone named Pat, who is typical of the intelligence level of the modern lib, sent me this absolutely HILARIOUS comment about Sarah Palin:

"Palin is a hippocrite. She's phoney and a liar. She thinks it's cool to hunt. Gee, I would think she has enough money to go to the supermarket and buy some meat. God didn't put her on earth to decide which animals live and die!"

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

So, Pat - did God put Supermarkets on earth to decide which animals live or die?

I spit my coffee all over my keyboard when I read Pat's comment.

Liberals are so dopey they're funny!

The Left and Disaster Politics

The images from Haiti couldn’t be any worse.  Collapsing buildings create unbearable injuries.  For an American, dead and live bodies trapped in rubble conjure up the worst memories from 9/11. 

Your soul instinctively gears to help and charity, particularly since poverty has made Haitians the economic least of our brothers.  There is nothing else to think about when people need so much help, so fast, than easing their suffering.

Unless you have the soul of left wing politics…then a natural disaster is an opportunity to score points and create election year talking points.

After the 2004 Tsunami, as the world leaped to help, U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs Jan Egeland took the time to call Western countries “stingy” in their donations.

Egeland immediate found favor with his comrades at the NY Times, who agreed with him that America is stingy.

Of course we didn’t hear from Jan Egeland when the U.S. government out paced every other country on earth by pledging $950 million in aid. Or when the American people, perennially and by far the most generous on earth, gave a whopping $1.8 billion dollars, exceeding the combined giving of the next 3 countries in the world.   And even though America is 1 of 192 countries in the U.N., we pay 22% of its cost.  Talk about a U.N. official biting the hand that feeds him.

Compare that to the rhetoric of the left today regarding Haiti, now that America’s administration is also on the left.  On Huffington Post, Columbia University professor Steven Cohen has already opined that America’s response in Haiti must be great because, “The role of the United States in the world and in this hemisphere is being redefined.”     Redefined?  We’ve always been in 1^st place in giving.  What shall President Obama redefine us to, second place?  Third Place?

As usual, the base of the Democrat party can be found on Daily Kos, and as usual, they hold the most base and morally low opinions humans can fall to.  A post about helping the Haitian people deteriorated into comments blaming the earthquake on “global warming” and bashing conservatives, including President George W. Bush.

The left suffers from a strange affliction of blaming George Bush for the weather.  That was highlighted when Hurricane Katrina killed hundreds of people, giving it a rank of number 27 on the list of the most deadly hurricanes in this hemisphere that George Bush didn’t cause, and not even the deadliest America suffered.   But the left widely blamed him for it.

Of course when the weather killed 600 mostly poor, African Americans in 1995 via a heat wave, the right didn’t blame Bill Clinton for the deaths or his lack of prevention or response, because we on the right are smart enough to know the President doesn’t control the weather.   And we were probably too busing helping at the time, since a study shows that conservatives are more charitable than liberals.

The only thing good people can do right now is donate to the Haitians and work for them to save them as best we can.   And when the left starts complaining about the manner and extent to which we helped, we’ll just have to continue to help them too, in spite of it.

Telling It Like It Is

America will help Haitian earthquake victims because we are a Christian nation, even if Barack Obama says we're not.
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The Ethics of Paying For News Interviews

 

No one will tell you to wash your face, so you can look better than they do.  Sicilian Proverb

 

What a scam news organizations have been running all these years!  

 

Imagine any other industry in the world declaring it “unethical” for them to have to pay for the raw material they use to make and sell their product. 

 

Wouldn’t the electric companies love it were the world to believe it is unethical for coal companies to charge them for coal?   The electric companies would make a fortune off the free coal, but the coal industry would be turned into slaves, supplying all that coal for free.   Of course, the coal company would just stop producing coal if no one paid for it.

 

Wouldn’t the construction industry love it were the world to believe it is unethical for sheet rock companies to charge them for sheet rock?   The construction companies would make a fortune off the free sheet rock, but the sheet rock industry would be turned into slaves, supplying sheet rock for free. Of course, sheet rock companies would just stop producing sheet rock if no one paid for it.

 

The whole thing sounds very anti-capitalist - telling one group they may not profit from selling their own product, while the people making that rule do profit from it.

 

Yet news organizations have successfully pulled off this scam for decades.  They refuse to pay money for an interview with someone in the news, while they make gobs of money themselves off that person’s interview.

 

But the landscape may be changing.  According to an Associated Press report, network television has been skirting around the “no pay for interviews” rule by purchasing items from the interviewee, such as photos of events the interviewee witnessed.

 

They should ditch the rule altogether, and people giving interviews to newspapers and television should insist on a price.

 

Take a look at the phony “problem” the news industry claims could occur if they pay for interviews, according to the Associated Press story: 

 

“Policies against paying for interviews are in place to avoid distorting the news. The concern is that news subjects will change their stories to make them more valuable or please those who paid them.”

 

But doesn’t that same concern exist when the news organization tries to “sell the story” to the public to get ratings and get paid by advertisers?   NBC putting explosives under a truck and falsely reporting that the truck blew up from a collision rings a bell. Jayson Blair made a career out of fabricating stories in the New York Times.  And who could forget Dan Rather’s forged document scandal that appeared to end his career at CBS News? 

 

All humans being equal, there’s no more or less concern for members of the public telling the truth than there is for journalists lying.  Fact checking is the guarantor of truth, and who is getting paid money for their time and effort has nothing to do with it.

 

As we know from “balloon boy’s” father, attention whores like him will falsify stories whether they are getting paid or not.  Money is not the corrupting factor – ego is - and journalists have to fact check regardless of the interviewee, whether they are interviewing Bill Clinton about Monica or Mother Teresa about lepers.

 

The Associated Press article details the “new trend” of paying for peripherals like videos or expensive plane tickets and hotels for the interviewee, and quotes Paul Friedman, a veteran of CBS news who laments, "If we all drew a line again, maybe we could stop this, but that's probably hopelessly naive. It's out of the bottle."

 

Out of the bottle, and let’s pray the cork is lost.

 

This issue is akin to intellectual property, as when a musician has a song.

 

Until a witness to an event tells his story, there is no story.  A singer shouldn’t give his melody away to iTunes to make money alone, and neither should a person with an eyewitness account give away his story to the media for free.

 

It’s a capitalist country.    Sell what you can, and never let the other guy get yours for free. 

Will Smith Inspired

Old and Busted: "Brownie you're doing a heck of a job!"

New Hotness: "The system worked!"

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