It is difficult to consider a more ill advised policy than propping up managements of large, poorly managed firms. Yet, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke and George Bush have decided to provide a massive subsidy to inept Wall Street executives. Few politicians in history have concocted dumber policies, but, believe it or not, the Democrats have come up with an even dumber idea: bail out Detroit as well as Wall Street.
According to the Wall Street Journal :
"Democratic leaders in Congress said Tuesday they will push legislation next week to use the $700 billion Wall Street rescue fund to bail out Detroit auto makers, and President-elect Barack Obama ordered his transition team to look at ways to aid the car industry even before his inauguration."
A good book on the mismanagement of the auto industry is John Z. De Lorean's and J. Patrick Wright's "On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors".
De Lorean's descriptions of massive incompetence and waste at General Motors in the early 1970s, 35 years ago, makes the reader laugh out loud. After four or five decades of GM's utter incompetence, the Democrats are eager to raise your and my taxes to force us to subsidize GM. If they made cars we wanted they wouldn't need the subsidy.
Isn't GM the company whose selfishness Michael Moore contemned two decades ago for moving half its plants to Mexico, stiffing American workers and thumbing its nose at Flint, Michigan in the name of "private property" and the prerogatives of private corporations? And now the Democrats are shelling out tens of billions of dollars to these self-indulgent incompetents?
Excuse me for my snit, but this is getting out of hand.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Conservatives Should Disempower Left-wing Propaganda
Raquel Okyay is a noted New York State conservative. She ran for City Council in Queens and now is a major figure in the Republican Liberty Caucus in New Paltz, New York. Recently she wrote an excellent blog arguing that "Obama won by lies, fraud and manipulation." Okyay makes some excellent points about the mass media's bias. But she argued that the New York Times is "a major partisan news organization".
I correct Okyay on her blog as follows:
"No, no, no. The Times is the 'pissant media'. Don’t empower it. It is a pissant. Nothing more. Please don’t call it 'major'. It is as major as the biggest ant you can think of, a quarter inch or so."
Okyay wrote back to me:
"You're right, what was I thinking?? I changed it to pissant."
But I was wrong about one thing. The Times is not media. It is propaganda. Media implies communication of information. The Times does not communicate information; it propagandizes and lies. Conservatives have made the error of empowering pissant propaganda sources like the Times by calling them "mainstream", "media", "MSM" and "major". They are not mainstream, major nor media.
Conservatives need to raise their consciousness and begin to disempower propaganda sources. I think there needs to be consciousness raising among conservatives. Conservatives need a new vocabulary attendant upon a new consciousness. Conservatives need to evolve away from the categories that statist left wing murderers have constructed. "Progressivism" is not progressive; "liberals" are not liberal; socialism is anti-social; and the news media provides neither news nor serves as media. There is nothing "mainstream" about the New York Times nor network television. Nor is there anything major about them.
I correct Okyay on her blog as follows:
"No, no, no. The Times is the 'pissant media'. Don’t empower it. It is a pissant. Nothing more. Please don’t call it 'major'. It is as major as the biggest ant you can think of, a quarter inch or so."
Okyay wrote back to me:
"You're right, what was I thinking?? I changed it to pissant."
But I was wrong about one thing. The Times is not media. It is propaganda. Media implies communication of information. The Times does not communicate information; it propagandizes and lies. Conservatives have made the error of empowering pissant propaganda sources like the Times by calling them "mainstream", "media", "MSM" and "major". They are not mainstream, major nor media.
Conservatives need to raise their consciousness and begin to disempower propaganda sources. I think there needs to be consciousness raising among conservatives. Conservatives need a new vocabulary attendant upon a new consciousness. Conservatives need to evolve away from the categories that statist left wing murderers have constructed. "Progressivism" is not progressive; "liberals" are not liberal; socialism is anti-social; and the news media provides neither news nor serves as media. There is nothing "mainstream" about the New York Times nor network television. Nor is there anything major about them.
Peoples' Passion Calls For Obama to Stand Up or Step Down
I just received this e-mail from Peoples' Passions
>A Call for Barack to Stand Up or Step Down!
What happened to these lawsuits and where are they going next?
URGENT Call for Action by Citizens to work with Electors! (What can I do?)
URGENT Call for Action by Citizens to Petition Congress! (What can I do?)
URGENT Call for Action by Electors ONLY to Petition Congress!
Peoples Voice is involved in resolving definitively the Citizenship question that has dogged the Obama Campaign. Since Mr. Obama has refused or is unable to demonstrate any documentation proving his actual place of birth, I launched a lawsuit against the Washington Secretary of State for dereliction of duty. This call to action began spreading like a prairie fire with similar lawsuits popping up across the nation. More lawsuits demanding answers to these simple questions are being filed as each day goes by approaching the election and beyond. Now, why would I or anyone else put themselves through that! I can tell you I have no love lost for Hillary, but I would never think to challenge her in court. She is unquestionably a US citizen - Natural born.
Obama, however, in an enigma, a man without a past who wears a mask, No one has ever seen even a copy of his birth certificate (the one with the hospital, city, doctor - you know like the one we all have) His past is peppered with intrigue from the foreign money college loans, hidden college records, papers and associates and especially his lengthy involvement with the terrorist Ayres. He hasn't even made a full discloser of his medical records. His recent visits and connections with relatives who are communist organizers responsible for the bloody anti Christian takeover in Kenya are especially troubling. The constitution requires the President to be natural born to avoid possible personal entanglements in foreign lands. Who is Obama?
For a Man without a Past
He sure wants a say in our Future
Posted by Steve Marquis on Nov 6th 2008
Press Releases: Latest to Earliest
Posted by Steve Marquis on November 3, 2008
1. Press Releases 11/03/08 CT heard at Supreme Court and CA Superior Court challenging Barack.
2. Press Releases 10/31/08 VP Candidate to file law suit; electors to file law suit, citizens file suit.
3. Press Releases 10/29/08 Citizen Files Lawsuit Against Texas State Secretary of State
4. Press Releases 10/22/08 Lawsuits being filed in Eight States Demanding Obama's Birth Certificate
5. Press Releases 08/10/08 Averting a Crisis in Confidence
Library being Created to Host Presidential Certificates of Birth and Candidate Declarations of Qualifications รข€“ Stay tuned
>A Call for Barack to Stand Up or Step Down!
What happened to these lawsuits and where are they going next?
URGENT Call for Action by Citizens to work with Electors! (What can I do?)
URGENT Call for Action by Citizens to Petition Congress! (What can I do?)
URGENT Call for Action by Electors ONLY to Petition Congress!
Peoples Voice is involved in resolving definitively the Citizenship question that has dogged the Obama Campaign. Since Mr. Obama has refused or is unable to demonstrate any documentation proving his actual place of birth, I launched a lawsuit against the Washington Secretary of State for dereliction of duty. This call to action began spreading like a prairie fire with similar lawsuits popping up across the nation. More lawsuits demanding answers to these simple questions are being filed as each day goes by approaching the election and beyond. Now, why would I or anyone else put themselves through that! I can tell you I have no love lost for Hillary, but I would never think to challenge her in court. She is unquestionably a US citizen - Natural born.
Obama, however, in an enigma, a man without a past who wears a mask, No one has ever seen even a copy of his birth certificate (the one with the hospital, city, doctor - you know like the one we all have) His past is peppered with intrigue from the foreign money college loans, hidden college records, papers and associates and especially his lengthy involvement with the terrorist Ayres. He hasn't even made a full discloser of his medical records. His recent visits and connections with relatives who are communist organizers responsible for the bloody anti Christian takeover in Kenya are especially troubling. The constitution requires the President to be natural born to avoid possible personal entanglements in foreign lands. Who is Obama?
For a Man without a Past
He sure wants a say in our Future
Posted by Steve Marquis on Nov 6th 2008
Press Releases: Latest to Earliest
Posted by Steve Marquis on November 3, 2008
1. Press Releases 11/03/08 CT heard at Supreme Court and CA Superior Court challenging Barack.
2. Press Releases 10/31/08 VP Candidate to file law suit; electors to file law suit, citizens file suit.
3. Press Releases 10/29/08 Citizen Files Lawsuit Against Texas State Secretary of State
4. Press Releases 10/22/08 Lawsuits being filed in Eight States Demanding Obama's Birth Certificate
5. Press Releases 08/10/08 Averting a Crisis in Confidence
Library being Created to Host Presidential Certificates of Birth and Candidate Declarations of Qualifications รข€“ Stay tuned
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Obama Agrees to Bail Out New York Times
Legenday blogger Doug Ross carries this breaking story.
>Breaking: Obama Agrees to a bailout of The New York Times
>Only hours after Mediapost reported that The New York Times had a negative net worth, President-Elect Barack Obama announced a $5 billion bailout rescue package for the media concern. In a hastily arranged press conference at the newly constructed Office of the President-Elect, Obama noted the importance of the Times' ability to influence public opinion.
Read the whole thing here.
Given that the government has gotten into the business of bailing out bankers who can't run banks and auto companies that can't sell cars, it is only logical that it is now bailing out pissants who can't write a fair newspaper. Keep up the good work, Doug!
>Breaking: Obama Agrees to a bailout of The New York Times
>Only hours after Mediapost reported that The New York Times had a negative net worth, President-Elect Barack Obama announced a $5 billion bailout rescue package for the media concern. In a hastily arranged press conference at the newly constructed Office of the President-Elect, Obama noted the importance of the Times' ability to influence public opinion.
Read the whole thing here.
Given that the government has gotten into the business of bailing out bankers who can't run banks and auto companies that can't sell cars, it is only logical that it is now bailing out pissants who can't write a fair newspaper. Keep up the good work, Doug!
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