Weekend Open Thread

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Getting ready to head out for a Girls Day Out to celebrate my sister’s bday. I’ll be back later today.

8 Responses to "Weekend Open Thread"

Brontefan says:

March 28, 2009 at 11:04 am

Just finished viewing John Ziegler’s Media Malpractice/How Obama got elected & Palin was targeted and felt compelled to comment: One of the primary issues our country now faces is this total take-over by government of the banking industry. Few average Americans have a clue as to what the end result might be if this should happen. After viewing this film, even though I knew the mainstream media was unfairly vetting Sarah Palin, I had no idea of the extent of mendacity that was used or the blatant hypocrisy that was being practiced by news outlets across this country. The questioning of UC-Berkly graduate at the end of the film is so telling of what America’s liberal universities are teaching that it brought tears to my eyes. College is no longer teaching students to question; it is an indoctrination of liberal leftist ideology which is strongly laced in Marxism. The fact that Obama used his ethnicity as a lever to first frighten anyone who mentioned his name or race and second, to drive the point home with his connection to the African American community–does nothing more than shout: we can/you can’t in the usual way of victims in this country today. Taking a very close look at the educational system both in public schools using liberal lies in textbooks and in colleges/universities around the country–is it any wonder that he can sell his socialist ideology to young people who really don’t know any better? I would advise you to view this film, make sure your children see it, and pass it on to persons who need to open their eyes to the dangers of a one-sided news media that only tells the public what they want you to hear. Ziegler is a Libertarian but his view of what just happened in the 2008 election frightens him, as it does most of us–who know that the system of checks & balances written into the US Constitution are there for a very important reason: so that no one faction of the government is able to grab power and run away with it. Has anyone out there noticed the power grab currently in operation now? Money is a powerful commodity and Giethner’s extended powers of interfering in private business plus the move of the 2010 Census to the White House is nothing more than a grab of power to control more before the next elections. I pray for my country every single day; this all frightens me.
Robert Stacy McCain says:

March 28, 2009 at 11:36 am

Hmmm. I came here for a links roundup, and instead what I find is an open thread.

BTW, David Brooks is a crapweasel.
MAS1916 says:

March 28, 2009 at 1:49 pm

The Teachers Unions have produced an entire generation of students that not only have difficulty reading and writing, they are utterly ignorant of how a market economy works. Choosing instead to talk about feelings rather than facts, the school system has produced enough voters to send Obama to the White House for at least one term. Turning this around won’t be easy.

We as individuals need to openly confront these ideas – such as the trashing of Sarah Palin. Regardless of what one things of her political leanings, she was treated very unfairly.
John A says:

March 28, 2009 at 5:33 pm

Via consumerist.com we learn that the rule that luggage in airports must be attended or it will be removed, “attended” apparently does not include people in wheelchairs –
Elephant Disappears.html

“You don’t understand, SOME BODY needs to be in possession of the luggage,” he said and I didn’t get his implication, not yet, I was still too startled.

“I am in possession of this luggage, it is MINE,” my voice is rising.

He looks at me with exaggerated patience, “SOME BODY (long pause) needs to be attending the luggage.”
Tony says:

March 30, 2009 at 6:45 am

If you (Brontefan) think your banking system is being taken over by Government you should see ours in the UK. I had shares in a great bank (LLoyds TSB) that was prudence personified. The shares were almost $15 each at one point. Along comes another bank called HBOS, which is sinking to oblivion with masses of sub prime. After a cosy meeting between Lloyds and the (mainly Scottish)Government it is agreed that Lloyds could bid for Halifax Bank of Scotland even though it would have 30% of the UK mortgage market(waving competition objections).
Here is the rub – the institutions who owned a significant number of Lloyds also owned a lot of HBOS, and voted for the merger at each bank. In my view it was a stitch up, designed to save their HBOS bacon. The shares of the combined bank are now worth 70 cents, so they werent very clever. In the meantime, Eric Daniels, the CEO, persists that it was a great deal. The Government now owns 70% of Lloyds Banking Group so they werent so bright either.
Brontefan says:

March 30, 2009 at 3:19 pm

As an educator, emotions about education are connected to the facts. As for UK banking. . . [Tony]. . . I was teaching in London for a company in Derbyshire who paid me with Barclays’ checks [cheques]; however, no bank in London would cash them because I did not have a permanent residence there. I was a lodger. It was insane. I was literally living on my own money until it ran out; then I took my checks that no one would cash and left for Leeds –and relatives. It took my relatives another three weeks to finally get the money from my paychecks cashed, deposited into their account, and released for me to use. I already know your banking system there is archaic. The problems here are horrible, but definitely worse for those of us [conservative/believe in less government interference] who knew Obama was a Marxist –I did the research, even if our mainstream media wouldn’t! –and endured the worst presidential election in my life. Not being a McCain fan–the only real conservative running was Palin and we all know what the press/media did to her! I definitely empathize!
Tony says:

March 30, 2009 at 3:33 pm

The trouble with politics now is that we are in uncharted territory. For most of my 72 years it has been simple – my Dad told me we voted Labour because we were working class. When I was old enough I made my own mind up. It never really mattered in the long run because you knew that eventually the opposition would get its turn. I am conservative by nature, and want to see the back of Brown (and the idea that I am paying for a Minister’s husband’s porn movies plays right into my hands). Yet I cannot afford for Brown to do terrible things, in the same way that you cannot hope for Obama to fail, because if they do our children and grandchildren will suffer for years to come. It is a bit like the War without the bread and dripping, although it might come to that. Sorry about your cheques in London. Had it been Lloyds you would have been alright because the CEO Eric Daniels is a compatriot of yours.
Brontefan says:

March 30, 2009 at 6:43 pm

Ahha! . . . Tony. . .I, too, was raised in a 3rd generation Democratic family and celebrated my 12th birthday the day John F. Kennedy was elected. Like you, I changed my perspective partially because I was going to college as a non-traditional students [after I was discharged from the US Navy] and viewed my world differently, and partially because the Democratic party left me in the dust–shifting to the fringe areas which includes anti-American rhetoric. I didn’t ever feel as if I chose to change my political perspective; I felt as if I had to find a new venue. However, I am still a person who does all the research and bases decisions on common sense [something scarce today] and conservative principles.
I have relatives in England and chose to take a teaching position to locate myself in a good proximity to some valid research for my master’s thesis; therefore, the experience was not a total loss. I have truly enjoyed our exchange! Cheers!

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