. . . harrassing pro-life walkers in Spain. Nasty people.
Jobs slow, no impact
Chi Trib-LA Times story about the latest job report has this which I heard almost verbatim last night on Fox, from its liberal-woman-in-the-middle on the panel:
The political impact of the report likely will be muted because most voters already have strongly held views of where the economy stands.
It’s the meme that’s going around, apparently. For the lemmings.
On the other hand, lower in the Trib-LAT story, we find:
If the jobs report had come in stronger, it could have given an additional boost to Obama followingthe Democratic convention . . .
That’s interesting. No impact from bad news, but good could have had impact. This be something worth pursuing. Or pooh-pooing maybe.
Cardinal Dolan and popular sins
Cardinal Dolan at Dem convention, praying, got f-bombed a lot.
He’s against being required to buy abortifacients and birth control pills. Wrong thing to be against.
If on the other hand, he’d come out vs. racism or sexism, he’d be a hero. Thing is, there are popular and unpopular sins — for condemnation purposes, that is. Some unpopular ones are fornication, bribery of public officials, vote-stealing, political corruption in general. By the way, wouldn’t that be a terrific bishops’ letter to all of us, condemning vote-stealing? I’d read that one.
Problem-solving gone wild
Featuring people with fixation on final solutions.
If I incorporated for business purposes, would I be forbidden to profit? Silly people who want to change the world. Maybe truly compassionate about others’ suffering, or angry about their own, or espousing radical Christianity, who knows?
I am not in favor of throwing baby out with the bath, which to greater or lesser degree many reformers and saviors of society do, one way or another, succumbing to spite even if starting from honest concern.
BEWARE, and I do mean especially you religious people.
Simple argument for Obama failure
Obama’s new argument is that we (i.e. he) need more time. But he squandered almost four years already, with expensive pump-priming and health-care legislation. Boat has left the pier, Obama missed it.
Richard Roeper’s “2016: Obama’s America”
Crtiquing “2016: Obama’s America” Richard Roeper makes no mention of or reference to Frank Marshall, young Barack’s communist mentor, chosen for him by his communist-sympathetic grandfather, a drinking buddy of Marshall, according to the movie.
Nor of Barack’s general red-diaper-baby upbringing, his mother being thoroughly devoted to leftist causes, including anti-American anti-colonialism.
Indeed, according to the film, his mother sent him away as a boy to Hawaii to be raised by her thoroughly leftist parents, to make him free of the influence of her then-husband, the Indonesian Soetoro, who was working for American oil companies and rejected the anti-Western mindset.
Roeper missed all this, focusing on production amateurisms and failing to dispute them if he disagreed. He really missed the film’s main points, to judge from his review.
Dick isn’t even tricky
“Madness: The War of 1812”
Trickle me, trickle me, down down down . . .
Steve Huntley in Sun-Times today on failure of “trickledown government.”
New one on me, but goes back at least to last January, when Indiana governor Mitch Daniels called Obama’s economic policies a “grand experiment in trickle-down government,” which three days later Joe Biden predictably praised effusively.
“Grand experiment” is pretty good too, I must say.
