September 2009 Archives

As I've said in the past of Al Gore, if they really want me to believe that the planet is in trouble, they should act like they believe it themselves. Evidently, no one involved in "The Age of Stupid" actually believed what they stated in the film: "Flying is the single worst thing an ordinary individual can do to cause climate change." And when questioned about it, they tried to silence the question instead of answering it.

Just one more example of the elites excepting themselves from the standards they want to impose on the rest of us.

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Excellent job mocking the overpaid celebrities mocking the overpaid insurance executives:

Here's the original:

Here's the response from celebrities when you point out they have the power to help the uninsured on their own (you know, with the millions of dollars they're overpaid).

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Yet another example of the short-sightedness of the government in creating regulatory guidelines to rule our lives. A woman, who was helping her neighbors by watching their kids for an hour each day while they waited for the school bus, was sent a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that she would be violating the law and faced a fine and jail time if she continued watching her neighbors' children:

Snyder's predicament has led to a debate in Michigan about whether a law that says no one may care for unrelated children in their home for more than four weeks each calendar year unless they are licensed day-care providers needs to be changed. It also has irked parents who say they depend on such friendly offers to help them balance work and family

It's a no-brainer to figure out what this woman was trying to do, yet the bureaucrats still harassed her because bureaucrats stick to the letter of the law even when the law is ridiculous and intrusive. You'd think the fact that she doesn't charge her neighbors a fee would demonstrate she isn't running an illegal day care. But of course common sense is anathema to the government.

Yet another perfect example of why you do not want a government bureaucrat getting a say in your health care.

Here's a video report of the story:

According to Jack Kelly of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Um...wasn't that what they thought about Bush? How much of a change did we get if world leaders are still viewing our president as naive and arrogant?

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Ralph Nader has written a novel! And it sounds pretty wacky as only a Nader utopian society could be:

Ralph Nader has written a novel. Well, he doesn't call it a novel--he calls it "a practical utopia." In it, he spins a fictional vision of what might happen if the country's super-rich got together with assorted influential people and worked to transform American culture and politics into something more to Ralph Nader's liking.

In Mr. Nader's tale, billionaire investor Warren Buffett is so dismayed by the ineffectual and chaotic government reaction to Hurricane Katrina that he hatches a plan to "redirect" American society. He summons a brace of moguls--Ted Turner, Barry Diller, Ross Perot and George Soros, among others--to a secret Maui location, along with such celebrities as Bill Cosby, Yoko Ono and Warren Beatty. As they confer together, they find that they all--surprise! --agree that Something Must Be Done.

Evidently, the Amazon reviewers (all 5 of them) loved it an gave it 5 stars.