Another Black Conservative

is blogging and worth reading. Noticed Clifton on "next blog" this morning. He provides some insight in his bio:

"I am a black conservative from a black conservative family. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and finally settled in New Jersey. Throughout my life I knew I did not share many of the common beliefs of other American blacks. For starters, I never took to the term African-American. I have met too many real Africans who are now Americans, to ever with a straight face say we share something in common other than skin tones. Their history and culture is truly unique and is a completely different experience from my own. My culture is distinctly American, from the way I speak, think, dress and act and you know what else? I love it! So for me, I will always be an American who just happens to be black. I put myself and my beliefs out here in cyberspace, to show my fellow blacks that there is something more. That one need not accept the false promise of the next social program, the belief in government as savior or the next Democratic candidate will right all wrongs. That true Hope and Change comes from belief in yourself, in a nation that allows dynamic movement if you are bold enough, smart enough and brave enough to make it happen."

Love it!

Maybe you've got more friends

You must have a lot more friends than I do if you can afford to toss them aside because of their politics. My life has a lot of diversity and includes people I don't agree with on politics, religion, fashion, culture, sports teams, abortion, euthanasia, pets, etc. Politics has replaced religion as the big divide. I support your decision to campaign, to be a poll watcher/attendant, to write letters to the editor, to fund raise, to go on marches carrying signs I disagree with. But, if you're so narrowly focused in your relationships that no one is allowed near you who isn't a Democrat or a Socialist, what's the point? Are you afraid of a new idea? Do you think you'll change minds with tantrums? You've never watched Glenn Beck or Fox News, you wouldn't dream of reading the opinion columns of the Wall Street Journal, or trying to understand a market economy, but you certainly have opinions about them. Conservatives can't avoid an alternative viewpoint--it's everywhere. But you guys live in a bubble residing inside a cloud, and you seem to sense that it's a very fragile universe in there so no light, air or heat is allowed.

PJ Crowley Resigns from State After Manning Remark

Sleeping naked? That's torture? Or is the problem calling DoD stupid? I don't understand this flap.

PJ Crowley Resigns from State After Manning Remark

Fox News reporting on Japan has been outstanding

The Fox News coverage of the 8.9 earthquake and tsunami has been thorough, extensive, and respectful. The poorest segment was when someone from Reuters with an American accent was interviewed live. Either he'd just gotten out of bed, or he hadn't left Tokyo yet, or the script writers were busy elsewhere. More stammering and equivocating than Obama's teleprompter. Whatever his problem, that interview was a waste of air time. But other than that, all the reports have been superior.

Fact Checking Michele Bachmann's 'bombshell'

Get out your urban dictionaries, your slang dictionaries, and your porn words suitable for print dictionaries; the left is insisting that Michele's $105 billion isn't a 1) slush fund, 2) secret, 3) scam, or 4) insane. Of course, the fact checkers were from Washington Post, Polifact and Factcheck, all left wing shills in bed with the obamadmin. Republicans and Libertarians and even a math challenged librarian from Columbus can see the problem.

Fact Checker - Michele Bachmann's 'bombshell' on a 'hidden' $105 billion

Hot Air opines: "Few, however, were prepared for the extent of the deception embodied in the bill, which Democrats brokered behind closed doors and to the exclusion of members of the opposing party. That became apparent on Sunday, when Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-MN, dropped a bombshell on NBC’s Meet the Press, revealing that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains over $105 billion in health care appropriations."

Don't defund it; dump it.
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A whole blog about word and phrases twisting in the wind of the left.

The Myth of Green Energy Jobs: The European Experience

We have very clever capitalists in this country. They know where the money is and right now the green is in the green. The myth of green energy. Coupled with the same old government playas (using our tax money), we're off to the green races. Don't believe the climate scare stories or save dear Mother earth stuff--that's just window dressing. This is about who controls the next money scam. Every architectural/engineering publication that comes to our house is loaded with a tsunami of green advertising and government handouts against which the building trades are helpless--they can't get any other kind of work.

With $2.3 billion in Recovery Act tax credits allocated for green manufacturers, President Barack Obama and other Democratic politicians have high hopes for green technology. But their expectations clash with both economic theory and practical experience in Europe. Green programs in Spain destroyed 2.2 jobs for every green job created, while the capital needed for one green job in Italy could create almost five jobs in the general economy. Wind and solar power have raised household energy prices by 7.5 percent in Germany, and Denmark has the highest electricity prices in the European Union. Central planners in the United States trying to promote green industry will fare no better at creating jobs or stimulating the economy.

AEI - The Myth of Green Energy Jobs: The European Experience

Bill Moyers preaching to the choir--moreso than usual

With one left foot in his mouth and the other up his rear end, Bill Moyers explains to lefties at Huffington Post why the NPR is actually fair and balanced.

"Ron Schiller is a fundraiser, not a news director. NPR keeps a high, thick firewall between its successful development office and its superb news division. The "separation of church and state" -- the classic division of editorial and finance -- has been one of the glories of public radio as it has won a large and respectful audience as the place on the radio spectrum that is free of commercials and commercial values. If you would see how this integrity is upheld, go to the NPR website and pull up any of its reporting since 2009 on the Tea Party movement. Read the transcripts or listen to its coverage -- you will find it impartial and professional, a full representation of various points of view, pro and con, Further, examine how over the past few days NPR has covered the O'Keefe/Schiller contretemps and made no attempt to cover up or ignore its own failings and responsibilities."

The refreshing thing about conservative talkers, show hosts, and politicians is they know they have a bias--they'll even point it out, in case you miss it. Not so the lefties--they deny they are Communists or Socialists (although recent demonstrations show they are coming out of the Commie Closet)--they just assume no one of any value or intelligence ever has a different thought flutter past.

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: What fools we are to think we can tame the wrath of nature | Mail Online

"We're just ants with cars." That about sums it up. And we continue to believe we're in charge--not only in charge, but that mankind is the problem in nature. Now that's really self-centered.

"But if all our collective scientific and technological brilliance served one purpose yesterday, it was to show us what a tsunami really looks like. Here was the first all-conquering intercontinental aquatic bulldozer ever seen live and in daylight. And it has served as a brutal lesson that, in the scheme of things, homo sapiens is not so sapiens after all. We are just ants with cars."

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: What fools we are to think we can tame the wrath of nature | Mail Online

Where is Obama? Where is America?

That's what the Libyan rebels have been shouting into the TV cameras. Sorry fellas, that's what they said in Eastern Europe and the Baltics as Roosevelt gave them away to Stalin. Read your history. Have you ever visited the saddest museum in history? It's in Tallin, Estonia. I'll never forget it. They were so sure the Americans would come.

I'm a neocon--former Democrat turned conservative. Totally disallusioned with the lies and idiocy of the Democratic party. Yet, I don't believe we should shed anymore blod over 7th century civilizations who hate Christians and Jews. Knowing Democrats as I do, I can't imagine why they think Sharia law would treat them well! It's a hopeless morass, and I hope we soon get out of Afghanistan and Iraq (Obama lied about that, too). But freedom fighters everywhere look to the United States. Why, I wonder, when we've disappointed so many?

The EESC president’s statement on the natural disaster in Japan and the Pacific region

"Mother Nature has again given us a sign. . ." Well, it wasn't Mother Nature, and I'm not sure it was even God, but it sure wasn't global warming. These people are just dopes.

The EESC president’s statement on the natural disaster in Japan and the Pacific region | European Economic and Social Committee

Way beyond pot and kettle

This is a Communist tool accusing patriotic, elected Americans of being tools of the capitalists. Hello! The unions tried but failed to destroy capitalism, so they've gone after our government--at all levels, including the teachers who control our children.
Trumka

“After the events of last night, I should say this is an absolute corruption of democracy,” said Trumka, who was the keynote speaker at liberal summit in Washington, D.C. “Last night, Scott Walker and his Republican tools in Wisconsin showed just how far they’re willing to go to pay back their corporate sponsors.”

The day-long Summit on Jobs & America’s Future featured several panels with high-profile names, such as former White House adviser [and avowed Communist] Van Jones.

Reed Krakoff set to hit fashion big-time after Michelle Obama carries $1,000 tote (and despite the price it's already sold out)

If a story looks really ridiculous, I run it through Snopes. I know. I know. Conservatives don't like this fact checking website because they say it's just a mom and pop outfit, but hey, I was a librarian for 25 years, and when I was checking facts, most of the time it was just me, by myself. Anyway, when I saw the story about Michelle Obama and the $1,000 handbag with a photo, I thought it was fake or photoshopped. First of all, it's an ugly, ugly bag,and second,it's teal and her shoes are blue. And this woman is giving "sacrifice" a bad name when she tells us to eat our carrots and she goes out for ribs. Could she really follow up that story with something this tacky? Don't know. I've always said her husband wasn't one of us, but I had hopes for her (by not one of us, I don't mean I'm a birther, because if his mother is an American, that's good enough for me).

Reed Krakoff set to hit fashion big-time after Michelle Obama carries $1,000 tote (and despite the price it's already sold out) | Mail Online

But not too much

"You cannot get 600 IU of vitamin D daily from diet unless you eat salmon 3 times a day and drink 2 gallons of milk a day," said Michael Melamed, MD, MHS, Albert Eistein College of Medicine, quoted in JAMA, 2011;305 in an article about the importance of Vitamin D. But don't go crazy--too much can cause problems and put you at risk for cancer, cardiovascular problems, falls and fractures.

The Public Servants Center

There's a new $189 million juvenile justice center in Cuyahoga County. It has a $23,000 custom-designed conference table and private gym for the judges. Some people have the decency to say they are embarrassed; other say they aren't sorry. I hope disturbed and delinquent children are impressed enough to ask how they can get in on this scam of the public.

AlterNet--all you have to do is read the story line--no content necessary

What planet do these people live on? What could Noam Chomsky possibly know about democracy? And those climate change/global warming folks? What a religion they've got! The old, tired feminist line that went out with the 70s. Governor Walker's lies--could they ever match the union bosses? Come on folks. Is this a retro, let the old times roll website like that TV station? See? You don't even need to read the stories, and I do mean stories as in fables, myths and fairy tales.

Maybe it's the government health care?

Isn't this odd. Those who are the most dependent on government health care seem to have the poorest results--and we're talking access and quality here, not the end result of poverty or poor education.

Health Care Quality and Access Are Suboptimal, Especially for Minority and Low-Income Groups

"National Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report released by AHRQ. The reports, which are mandated by Congress, show trends by measuring health care quality for the nation using a group of credible core measures. The data are based on more than 200 health care measures categorized in several areas of quality: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, patient-centeredness, care coordination, efficiency, health system infrastructure, and access. Few disparities in quality of care are getting smaller, and almost no disparities in access to care are getting smaller, according to the report. Overall, blacks, American Indians and Alaska Natives received worse care than whites for about 40 percent of core measures."

In 2003, a key finding was "Inequality in quality persists;" in 2008 it was "Disparities persist in health care quality."

2010 National Healthcare Disparities and Quality Reports

Even with all the nannying and nagging about healthy lifestyles (imagine the billions spent on this), there's been almost no change: "Healthy lifestyles: The NHQR and NHDR track five measures related to obesity, diet, and exercise; four measures related to nicotine and other substance addictions; and four measures related to transportation safety for children. Across these measures, most showed no improvement. Median rate of improvement was 0.9% per year. Most disparities did not change, but the Hispanic-non-Hispanic White and poor-high income gaps in counseling about smoking cessation narrowed." Sooo, you can close the gap on counseling, but it doesn't do any good? Is that what the research says? Cha-ching.

Will the run and hide liberals head for home now?

The Republicans of Wisconsin stripped the bill of funding language so that they didn't need a quorum and it passed. The Democrat fraidy cats disgraced their office and districts, so we'll see if the fourteen senators will return to Wisconsin from their hideouts and litter boxes. Oh yes, and Michael Moore wants the kids to stay home from school. Well, why not. The teachers are probably too tired to teach after weeks of hooting and yelling. Give the kiddoes some vacation, too.

Wisconsin Assembly Passes Walker's Anti-Union Bill | TPMDC

Mychal Massie debates absent liberals--Sharpton, Fauntroy and Morial

". . . before throwing more stones at the tea party for reported incivility — tea party critics should take a look at organized labor’s rallies in places such as Madison, Wisconsin and Columbus, Ohio and how protesters there are behaving in ways oftentimes worse than alleged about tea partiers."



Addressing Mr. Morial: “Why is it when you speak of bamboozled, at the end of the Civil Rights era — which I and others argue was 1964 — when over 80 percent of black homes were two parent households, 40 percent were business owners. Today we have uncontrolled abortion, uncontrolled crime, uncontrolled drop outs, no marketable education skills, no marketable employment skills, no marketable linguistic skills, no marketable social skills. Who’s been bamboozled? Who’s been conned?”

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I predict

School bond issues, and probably library too (there were librarians carrying signs), are going to be dropping like flies based on the crass, rude, unpatriotic, and self-obsessed behavior of teachers, the general public, who are paid much less, are watching every night on TV.

Also, I'd be really surprised if NPR and public TV are going to be able to make their fund raising quotas after showing the world what a bunch of racist snobs their executives are and how they look down on anyone not like them. They don't need the government money, but they probably do need a few people to send in money to support Car Talk and Suze Orman.

Will Betsy Liley be the next to go?

New video released Thursday afternoon indicates National Public Radio intended to accept a $5 million donation from fictitious Muslim Brotherhood front group Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) Trust – and that the publicly funded radio network might have helped MEAC make the donation anonymously to protect it from a federal government audit. . .
Liley said she and NPR have taken millions of dollars in donations anonymously before.

“We also got an $8 million gift,” Liley said. “I don’t know if you remember this; about two years ago a number of institutions, higher ed institutions, all with women as presidents, got donations that ranged from $5 million to $12 million. They were never identified who the gifts were from, but they totaled about $80 million dollars.”

Hmmm. That should make interesting research for a women's studies paper.

Read more at Daily Caller with video

In another video as she attempts to explain coverage of climate change to a donor who doesn't want the other side of the story, she gets off on the birthers and says NPR doesn't cover their point of view after stating 51% of Americans believe he wasn't born in the United States. So, does NPR cover the news, or decide what is news? For money. Not many people like Gaddafi, but NPR covers him, don't they?