- BitsBlog - https://bitsblog.com -

Nightly Ramble:McGehee is Back;Sky High Protest; More

Now to the snarkiest, most densely packed read available anywhere in the blogoshphere, BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble:

  • Art Smith at Conservative Reader [1] notes our buddy McGehee’s back from his Hiatus. [2] Face it, Kev… you’re hooked.
  • Another one who is decidedly showing signs of a similar addiction is See Dubya [3].
  • Sister Toldjah has a picture of a protest [4] you really want to see.
  • McQ points to, not gun control… but (ready?) Knife control. [5] Idiots.
  • Speaking of Bruce, he also has a gem of a post [6] talking about how Big Government has failed us yet again. Implicit in his point is that Obama does not represent change away from that.
  • Meanwhile, is there a 2nd amendment fight brewing between Joe Biden and The Annointed One? [7]
  • When are we going to see SNL skits on Obama suggesting incest [8] as we did with Palin over the weekend?  We’ve seen complaints regarding the number of houses and cars McCain owns. When are we going to see complaints about Obama and his jet [9]? Or is that just too factual to deal with?
  • Want to know who the richest members of both houses of Congress are? The Hill has your answer. [10]
  • A little back and forth at OTB [11]:

    I cannot help but wonder: if these institutions are too big to allow to fail, then should we have approved the financial merger mania of the past two decades? Is the industry over-consolidated, thus leading to the “too big to fail” fallacy?

    That the question is even asked should put the squash to the argument that this has anything at all to do with a free market. If the market was free, such questions wouldn’t even be asked.

  • Boortz does this well: [12]

    1.  Almost all of the financial problems we see today are based on bad mortgage lending.  That would be lending money to people to buy homes who didn’t qualify for a loan.

    2.  The Democrats, under Clinton, strengthened a government-created monster called the “Community Reinvestment Act.”  This law was then used by “activists” and “community organizers” (like Obama?) to coerce lending institutions to make these bad loans … millions of them.

    3.  Now we see what happens when political “wisdom” supplants good loan underwriting.  When private financial institutions are virtually forced to make loans to people with a bad credit and job history .. this is what you get.  Enjoy it.

    This is exactly the argument I’ve been making, for the last week or so.  Look; if I ran my car into your house, wouldn’t you want me to pay for the damages? These failures are government induced, people… and all of it comes back on the Clinton misadministration, and on the Democrat congress since then. The current bailout wouldn’t be needed but for the misguided and ultimately disastrous off-the-cliff leadership of the Clinton administration. One point I’ve been trying to make here is reinfo rced, here. Ideas have consequences, people. In ostensibly and arguably trying to help more people get to home ownership, the facts say Clinton and the leftists backing him, and driving him, broke the economy  I say Government should not only pay for the damage, but also admit it’s guilt. Paying for the damages when you’ve got taxpyers to milk is the easy part. That’s about to be done, since there’s nothing else for it.  So when might we see the admission of guilt? . That we ever will seems doubtful… there are far too many left-wing ideologs shielding their eyes for the truth for that to happen. But there is where the blame really lies.

  • Kevin Hasset at the American Enterprise Institute confirms my read on all of this in today’s Bloomberg wire. [13]
  • Right Wing News [14] asks what we should do with the remains of the 9/11 hijackers. I figure they should be placed, piecemeal,  in urinals all over the country. Past that let the American people decide how best to treat these animals. I think they’ll know what to do.
  • Speaking of RWN, David wrote [15] to this [16] over the weekend. this guy calling himself “Dianne Shroer”  John links Stacy McCain [17], who says:
  • Just because I’m at a very early stage of transition — being a married father of six and all that — doesn’t mean that I don’t have rights as a transgendered lesbian. So I’m applying to be an op-ed columnist for the New York Times and if they don’t hire me? Hey, see you in court, you sexist homophobes! (I’ll also sue the Pulitzer Prize committee for their years of discrimination against me.)

    I knew I liked him. And you know, for all the jokes out there about how Ann Coulter is a guy in drag…. (I dunno, I always liked her looks myself.) ….no, I’m not gonna go there. You may be eating dinner about now, and the picture is enough of an offense, already. But look at the picture, here. Is there any doubt?   I do have to ask, though, why are we using law and the courts to reinforce the mental illness so obviously involved here?

  • And speaking of such things, I see that mincing train-wreck George Micheal is at it again. [18] Why in the name of sanity is this guy continually given “Get out of jail free” cards [19]? (Sigh) I suppose it’s the same kind of BS non-judgementalism that surrounds Shroer.  I guess the comparison f the two situations will provide an object lesson of how far our society has wilingly regressed.
  • Someone in feedback yesterday asked me what I use for sourcing. Well, I use a number of sites a few dozen, most of which are run through my account at Bloglines. [20] I also watch who’s linking to us. I find I’m exposed to new folks that way. BTW, Bloglines is highly recommended, particularly if you’re hitting feeds from a number of physical locations,  as I do. It grabs my RSS feeds and keeps stuff I’ve not read yet in my face, keeping track of what I have and have not read. A great help to staying on top of things, particularly as regards what goes on in the blogging world. It’s free, too. And no, I’m not getting anything for the mention.
  • Uh-oh… Obama just touched the third rail [21].  Of course I suppose he had to given the lies he’s been telling [22] on the subject. I’m telling you, kids… Obama is in serious trouble and knows it. His vision of ‘change people can believe in” has been altered to include anything voters will believe, instead. Look at the changes listed at the first link, and you’ll see what I mean. Forget anything about being guided by principle. He’ll say whatever it takes.  Do you begin to understand the treachery involved here?