Abortion Profiteers

This is just sad.

As if it weren’t bad enough that China’s one-child policy results in so many abortions, or that AGW is a fraud, China is now using the fraud of AGW to justify killing more unborn babies.

Not only that, but China will now be profiting from the abortion of unborn babies.

What’s next? Carbon-offset credits for taking your grandmother to the junkyard?

Happy Birthday, America

Ridiculous.

Especially in a crisis like the Gulf is experiencing now, the regulation should be that you just have to take out more oil than you put in. If you don’t get it all in the first pass, make another pass; if the ship you can deploy quickly releases more back into the ocean than a ship you can’t deploy for months, then deploy the first ship quickly and deploy the other ship later.

Instead, nobody does anything because it’s virtually impossible to meet such a ridiculous standard.

Miscalculation

The Democrats are like Wile E. Coyote in the old Road Runner cartoon where Wile, after accidentally shrinking himself, finally catches the Road Runner and then asks what he’s supposed to do with such a (relatively) large bird.

The Democrats engineered anti-war sentiment to turn the country against the Republican party, starting in 2003; while George W. Bush still won the 2004 presidential election, the Democrat party was the winner both in 2006 and in 2008.

Now that they’ve won, though, they have no idea what they’re supposed to do with the two wars they inherited—and, for some reason, the anti-war sentiment has all but dried up.

Do you think that maybe it was all a political calculation?

Fine. They’re your wars now, Democrats.

Bailout

An article today on state teachers in Ohio retiring and then getting re-hired so that they can collect both a salary and retirement pay had this sub-headline in one of the local papers: “State Teacher Retirement System Seeks Taxpayer Bailout After Investment Losses”.

Gee, it’d sure be nice if my retirement plan—either my 401(k) or my employer-provided retirement plan—could get a taxpayer-funded bailout. After all the taxpayer-funded bailouts, who’s going to bailout the taxpayers?

 Are we seriously supposed to just count on the taxpayer-funded Social Security system for our retirement? Social Security is already paying out more than it’s taking in.

We are in deep doo-doo.

Irony

Does anyone else see the irony in the juxtaposition of this post on Obama’s pledge to mobilize the military to combat the oil’s assault on our shores with the post earlier this week on the forfeiture of a swath of Arizona to Mexican smugglers? Talk about an assault on our shores….

Rush to Judgment

This government will not content itself with administering and governing the masses politically, as all governments do today. It will also administer the masses economically, concentrating in the hands of the State the production and division of wealth, the cultivation of land. . . . All this will demand . . . the reign of scientific intelligence, the most aristocratic, despotic, arrogant, and elitist of all regimes. There will be a new class, a new hierarchy . . . the world will be divided into a minority ruling in the name of knowledge, and an ignorant majority. And then, woe unto the mass of ignorant ones!

From Rush Limbaugh, describing the Obama administration? No, from “the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, Marx’s archrival in the First International, describ[ing] the political life of the future that Marx had in mind” [quoted on pages 108–109 of David Horowitz’s The Politics of Bad Faith.]