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"[A] generation that is not taught to recognize the irreconcilable differences represented by the Declaration of Independence and the Communist Manifesto, between Madison and Marx, the Federalist Papers and Rules for Radicals is doomed to be ruled, not to rule. Individual liberty will not long survive in a republic of civic dunces." --Washington Examiner editorial page editor Mark Tapscott

Cutting 1.6% of the budget is "mean-spirited"?

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Searchlight) opposes defunding anything where the government already spends money. Well, for Democrat constituents anyway. In opposing the House Republicans' bill to cut $61 billion in federal spending, Reid spoke from the Senate floor this week saying, "The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1, eliminates National Public Broadcasting. It eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts. These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist."


The people wouldn't exist without federal funding? Whatever, Harry.

Can we change America's "entitlement" mentality?

"The key to what is bound to be hand-to-hand combat in the coming [budget cuts] debate will be whether Republicans can change our 'entitlement' mentality and cause people to focus instead on economic liberty and personal freedom. Can government do more for you than you can do for yourself? If Medicare and Social Security are going broke, why would anyone trust even bigger and costlier government to do better with more of our money? ... Changing the way we think about entitlements, economic liberty and personal responsibility will be a challenge for congressional Republicans. They've tried before and Democrats demagogued them into submission. They will try to re-run the same play this time." --columnist Cal Thomas

America's Problem -The current financial crisis explained in a single picture:

This financial crisis is forcing State and local agencies to make some tough decisions. If things continue for much longer, there's a real risk that we may have to lay off Jose.

No Wonder English is So Hard to Learn

We polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
A farm can produce produce.
The dump was so full it had to refuse refuse.
The soldier decided to desert in the desert.
The present is a good time to present the present.
At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
The dove dove into the bushes.
I did not object to the object.
The insurance for the invalid was invalid.
The bandage was wound around the wound.
There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
They were too close to the door to close it.
The buck does funny things when the does are present.
They sent a sewer down to stitch the tear in the sewer line.
To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
I shed a tear when I saw the tear in my clothes.
I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt

Rules for Writers

1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
6. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Don't use no double negatives.
12. Proffered carefully to see if you any words out.

Tax Cut Support from a Surprising Source

"A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.... As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues. Prosperity is the real way to balance our budget. By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance."  John F. Kennedy.  

 

Heckuva Job, Holder

"Failure is not an option," Attorney General Eric Holder once blustered
about his plan to treat terrorists as civilian criminals, but last
week's verdict in the Ahmed Ghailani trial--the defendant, a former
Guantanamo detainee, was acquitted on 284 of 285 counts in the 1998
embassy bombings--proves that failure is a possibility.

White House tweaked drilling report to support the end result

Say it ain't so!  The White House "tweaked" a report so the results would fit into its moratorium on offshore drilling. 

Keynesian vs. Kenyan

Here’s a You Tube video of a bunch of people who apparently confuse “Keynesian” (the economic thought that teaches massive government involvement and stimulus is needed to grow the economy) and “Kenyan” (a person who is from, well, Kenya).  This was filmed at the Restore Sanity rally on Oct. 30.  Hopefully, these people weren’t representative of the crowd in attendance . . . but something tells me otherwise.   

 

BTW, Keynesian is pronounced “KEEN-sian” or “KANE-sian”.  I guess that’s how people got confused.  I also noticed how white the crowd was.  Funny how there’s no mention of that from the media.  That was something constantly pointed out during the Restore America rally held weeks earlier. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-37qUrgFXQ

Ironic advertisement placement

The Houston Chronicle has two advertisements, one on top of the other.  The one on bottom is for the Chronicle's Fraud Scene Investigator.  It says "Sometimes what looks like a smart way to invest your money is really just a scam. Scam artists are experts at making bad deals sound great - so anyone is prey."  The ad on top?  A request to support Obama.  How ironic is that!!!

Obama refers to Americans as "enemies"

“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’ if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s gonna be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.”

Israelis, Palestinians agree not to embarrass Obama before midterm elections

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/10/19/102294/israelis-palestinians-agree-not.html

"Those who are always accusing people in the private sector of 'greed' almost never accuse government of greed, no matter what it does. Indeed, the question of whether the government is greedy almost never comes up, so most of us probably never think about it.”  Thomas Sowell

 

Weird Library Questions

Actual reference queries reported by American and Canadian library reference desk workers of various levels.
"Do you have books here?"
"Do you have a list of all the books written in the English language?"
"Do you have a list of all the books I've ever read?"
"I'm looking for Robert James Waller's book, 'Waltzing through Grand Rapids'." (Actual title wanted: "Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend.")
"Do you have that book by Rushdie: 'Satanic Nurses'?" (Actual title: "Satanic Verses")
"Where is the reference desk?" This was asked of a person sitting at a desk who had, hanging above her head, a sign saying "REFERENCE DESK"!
"I was here about three weeks ago looking at a cookbook that cost $39.95. Do you know which one it is?"
"Which outlets in the library are appropriate for my hairdryer?"
"Can you tell me why so many famous Civil War battles were fought on National Park sites?"
"Do you have any books with photographs of dinosaurs?"
"I need a color photograph of George Washington [Christopher Columbus, King Arthur, Moses, Socrates, etc.]"
"I need a photocopy of Booker T. Washington's birth certificate."
"I need to find out Ibid's first name for my bibliography."
"Why don't you have any books by Ibid? He's written a lot of important stuff."
"I'm looking for information on carpal tunnel syndrome. I think I'm having trouble with it in my neck."
"Is the basement upstairs?" (Asked at First Floor Reference Desk)
"I am looking for a list of laws that I can break that would send me back to jail for a couple of months."

Insight

"We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance." --President Calvin Coolidge (1873-1933)

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." --American writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)

Comparison of 2 Presidents