The State of the Modern Left: Throw Stuff at People With Whom You Disagree

John Galt speaks out

Apparently, big business owners got a chance to voice their concerns to the Obamunists............

It was supposed to be the White House’s latest make-nice session with corporate America — a visit by Chief of Staff William M. Daley to a meeting with hundreds of manufacturing executives in town to press lawmakers for looser regulations.

But the outreach soon turned into a rare public dressing down of the president’s policies with his highest-ranking aide.

One by one, exasperated executives stood to air their grievances on environmental regulations and stalled free-trade deals. And Daley, the former banker tasked with building ties with industry, found himself looking for the right balance between empathy and defending his boss.

At one point, the room erupted in applause when Massachusetts utility executive Doug Starrett, his voice shaking with emotion, accused the administration of blocking construction on one of his facilities to protect fish, saying government “throws sand into the gears of progress.”

Daley said he did not have many good answers, appearing to throw up his hands in frustration at what he called “bureaucratic stuff that’s hard to defend.”

“Sometimes you can’t defend the indefensible,” he said.

Clue phone to Daley. Not only are the Obamunists defending the indefensible, they're instituting it.

Now let me ask you. With all these draconian, job killing regulations, legislation and taxation who gets hurt more.

1) One of the executives who showed up at this meeting
2) A microbiologist
3) An unemployed utility worker
4) Lil Wayne

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Life in "Progress" State - Maryland edition

Hey the kids already learned a valuable lesson. Don't start a business in Maryland

Who's out of touch?

Let's see, I got my first ATM card about 30 years ago and I believe airline kiosks have been around for at least ten.

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There goes John Galt

At the risk of being outed as some sort of jingoistic savant, I still believe this is the greatest country in the world.

But it's not just the opinion of an over caffeinated accountant, it's based on the fact that millions of people want to come into this country and few leave to other venues.

Well, that used to be the case. Now it looks like more people want to escape this country.

So ask yourself this question. Are these people renouncing their citizenship rich people or poor ones?

Oh, and how much in tax revenues are lost as a result of these renouncements.

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Coal Powered Cars

Apparently, coal powered cars aren't so green afterall............

ELECTRIC cars could produce higher emissions over their lifetimes than petrol equivalents because of the energy consumed in making their batteries, a study has found.

An electric car owner would have to drive at least 129,000km before producing a net saving in CO2. Many electric cars will not travel that far in their lifetime because they typically have a range of less than 145km on a single charge and are unsuitable for long trips. Even those driven 160,000km would save only about a tonne of CO2 over their lifetimes.

The British study, which is the first analysis of the full lifetime emissions of electric cars covering manufacturing, driving and disposal, undermines the case for tackling climate change by the rapid introduction of electric cars.

The article doesn't even mention the environmental costs of battery disposal.

But hey, if it keeps Government Motors afloat it must be good. Right?

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Where's the work?

A few days ago I was listening to some discussion on the radio about the stimulus just as was driving by a location where one of these signs was planted.

As I drove through the area, I noticed the sign was down now. I looked around the road but didn't see what had been done.

Was the whole stimulus program simply to put up the signs and then take them down?

Investigating the Weinermobile

Maybe the NY Times can pull one of their Sarah Palin email investigators off the case long enough to investigate why Little Tony is cruising around in an unregistered automobile.........

Lying about sexting apparently isn't Rep. Anthony Weiner's only gray area.

When Weiner (D-Queens, Brooklyn) was photographed by the Daily News fleeing the Capitol in his Nissan Pathfinder, it was clear the July 2007 registration sticker in his window was expired, and there was no inspection sticker to be seen. Weiner, through a staffer, said the 1988 Nissan Pathfinder was registered in New York State.

Not so, said the state Department of Motor Vehicles.

The New York license plate bolted on Weiner's Pathfinder - US Congress 9 - had expired as of 2006, according to the DMV.

"That license plate should not be on a car," a DMV spokeswoman said. It wasn't even issued to the Pathfinder, but to another one of Weiner's cars, a Honda, according to vehicle records.

But I guess that would take away from reading an email where Sarah asks the first dude to pick up milk on his way home.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/06/13/2011-06-13_dmv_sez_his_suv_unregistered.html#ixzz1PFVHjqjA

Rep. Fred Clark (D-WI) Wants to "Smack Around" Female Constituent

Bump in the Road

Alaskans React to Palin Email Release

Another Palin shocker

Apparently, the AP finally dug up some dirt on Sarah Palin. She's ambitious...........

Much of the country was taken by surprise when Sarah Palin became the Republican vice presidential candidate in August 2008, but newly released emails make it clear that the little-known Alaska governor was angling for the slot months before Sen. John McCain asked her to join him on the GOP ticket. Earlier that summer, Palin and her staff began pushing to find a larger audience for the governor, wedging her into national conversations and nudging the McCain campaign to notice her.

Seriously, it would have been nice if the AP would have pooled their resources to actually find Obama's college transcripts, theses, etc. before he actually became president instead of badgering a former governor who to date has the important position of being a former governor.

Could you need more proof that the mainstream media is mentally unhinged (probably explains the liberalism)?

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Life in "Progress" City - NY edition

Shots rang out on a crowded Queens subway train Thursday, forcing riders to duck and run as two gangs brawled.

Riders panicked when three shots erupted from the last cars of a Manhattan-bound A train at the Howard Beach station about 6:30 p.m.

No injuries were reported.

The adversaries fled down the tracks of the 159th St. and Coleman Square elevated connecting point to the AirTrain to Kennedy Airport.

Police said they arrested three persons for trespassing on the track, but said they found no evidence of shots being fired.

Witnesses said differently.

"I heard the gunshots and everyone started to yell 'Get down! Get down!" said Genesis Fernandez, 15, of East New York. "I was really frightened."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/06/10/2011-06-10_bullets_fly_on_qns_subway.html#ixzz1OvPhpY2y

Liberal cheating - a mental disorder

A really great take on the old "why buy the cow when the milk is free" cliche.............

As their relentless biological clocks tick towards fertility's Armageddon, these sexually "liberated" women suddenly become obsessed with their medical checkups, running to the OBGYN with neurotic frequency, to make sure their alley-cat lifestyle has not resulted in any of the dreaded, fertility-destroying sexually transmitted diseases. I've seen some of these women nearly go completely insane as they receive one of those now-common, "So sorry I may have infected you" love notes from a former "lover." It's enough to make wise women cry for them. Yes, we pity them and wonder over and over how our sisters, so smart in so many ways, could be so utterly middle-school-level stupid.

Evidently, the liberal woman is capable of the most severe form of psychological denial known to humankind. Certain that one of the men with whom she has copulated without strings will suddenly morph into a faithfully monogamous creature the minute she can convince one of them to say "I do" in front of a few witnesses, the liberal woman marches blindly down the aisle towards near-certain, adulterous doom. Yet, no amount of honest reason can dissuade liberal women from this self-destructive, moral myopia.

What other term but "morally schizoid" could possibly describe this blatantly contradictory tendency among liberal women?

Having spent their youth casually throwing their own sexual morality to the winds of fairytale "liberation," these liberal women still steadfastly cling to the faithfully monogamous ideal for that sometime-later moment when they actually do desire all the traditional things -- the husband, the kids, the white picket fence -- those pesky female-nature embedded longings, which coincidentally ensure the continuation of the human race.

It's really a great read..........

Life in "Progress" State - Illinois edition

But hey, who needs all those rich, taxpaying a-holes anyway............

The company that owns Chicago's two leading futures exchanges is weighing whether to move some operations from Illinois, citing the state's corporate tax rate increase.

"We're investigating what would be in the best interests of our shareholders," Terrence Duffy, executive chairman of CME Group Inc., said at the firm's annual meeting Wednesday, noting that such a move would not mean CME would abandon its presence in Chicago, home to its markets for more than a century.

The state in January raised the corporate income tax rate temporarily to 7 percent from 4.8. Corporations also pay a 2.5 percent tax on income, called the personal property replacement tax, which is collected by the state and flows to local governments. The two rates taken together come to 9.5 percent, the third-highest rate in the U.S., according to the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan Washington-based research group.

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The party for the little people

As I've said repeatedly on this blog and to anyone who will listen.

I'm not a conservative for me. I can afford $4.00 a gal for gas. (In fact I just traded in a sub compact for a big ass pick up truck).

I'm a conservative for those in the lower middle class.

With that said, ask yourself who is hurt more by this news............

American Electric Power on Thursday announced it plans to shut down several coal-fired power plants, convert or retrofit others, and cut as many as 600 jobs in the next few years to comply with regulations proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Based on the proposed regulations, AEP will have to retire nearly 6,000 megawatts of coalfueled power generation; upgrade or install new advanced emissions reduction equipment on another 10,100 megawatts; refuel 1,070 megawatts of coal generation as 932 megawatts of natural gas capacity; and build 1,220 megawatts of natural gas-fueled generation.

The cost of AEP’s compliance plan could range from $6 billion to $8 billion in capital investment through the end of the decade. The company said high demand for labor and materials due to a constrained compliance time frame could drive actual costs higher than these estimates.

Now, if you are an Obamunist, you say "Hey look at all the jobs we're creating from that plant investment".

But that investment is going to be paid for by the people who use electricity.

And who does that impact more

An accountant in "Redville"?
An unemployed auto worker?
Don Trump?
Ke$ha?

Once again, the Obamunists would understand this if any would have taken an econ 101 course at Harvard.

They might have learned something about broken window economics.

At wiki here is a key phrase that illustrates this useless regulation.............

Whence we arrive at this unexpected conclusion: "Society loses the value of things which are uselessly destroyed;" and we must assent to a maxim which will make the hair of protectionists stand on end—To break, to spoil, to waste, is not to encourage national labour; or, more briefly, "destruction is not profit."

But hey, they're out to protect the little guy right?

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More of the "unexpected"

Everyone in the media seems to be surprised all the time.

U.S. initial jobless claims unexpectedly rose last week, a sign that the labor market is struggling to gain traction.

Jobless claims increased by 1,000 to 427,000 in the week ended June 4, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News projected a drop in claims to 419,000, according to the median forecast. The number of people on unemployment benefit rolls and those receiving extended payments decreased.

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The Obama Magic Touch

An Ohio restaurant mentioned last week by President Barack Obama as an indirect beneficiary of the government's Chrysler bailout will go out of business Sunday after a more than 70-year history.

Co-owner Richard Lawrence of New Chet's Restaurant in Toledo says business has fallen victim to the economy and the workplace smoking ban approved by Ohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhio voters in 2006. He told The Blade newspaper of Toledo on Wednesday that auto industry cutbacks also hurt.

Lawrence says he used to deliver up to $300 in food per week to Chrysler Group LLC's Jeep plant in Toledo, but now that's down to about $100 worth.

Obama visited the plant on Friday and told workers that without them, who would eat at Chet's or patronize other local businesses?

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