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Comedy Gold
Quotes without comments…
Obama: “I don’t think you or anybody who’s been watching the campaign would say that in any way we have tried to divide the country.”
Wrong Century Biden: “Folks, Where’s it written we cannot lead the world in the 20th century in making automobiles?’
Nancy Pelosi: “Unemployment checks are the fastest way to create jobs.”
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien: “I dont think I show bias.”
What We Love
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Tea Party, 1962.
Few have explained the power of tax cuts as well the president who presided over the second biggest tax cut in American history…
Eating His Lunch
Treat yourself to this priceless video of Ryan eating Obama’s lunch for real. Ryan schools the empty suit on Obamacare:
Senator Alan Simpson had this to say about Ryan in the race:
“There will be an adult conversation, therefore the children will throw emotion, fear, guilt, and racism on him,” he added. “They will bomb him, bomb him, shell him coastline and bunker, and he will survive. He has facts. He uses math. He’s damn good. He’s excellent.”
Touchdown!
Not much of a big deal was made out of the event, but on Sunday night there was a human achievement of epic proportions. I am not referring to Olympians who could run fast, or jump high, I’m talking about the staggering achievement of gently landing a complex mobile science laboratory, with pinpoint accuracy, on the surface of another planet. The Mars Curiosity Rover exemplifies rational Man at his very best.
Curiosity left this planet 8 months ago and traveled 352 million miles at about 13,000 miles per hour to rendezvous with the red planet. A gentle landing required that many completely new inventions all would work flawlessly the first time they were tried. There would be no possibility of human intervention during landing. The millions of lines of code directing the landing events all had to be written correctly in advance.
I watched the successful landing and had the same feelings I had 8 years ago when a much smaller Rover landed on Mars. I thought again about the relatively trivial things that are considered big news and the relatively meaningless things that capture human emotions. I wrote an essay back then about my counter-cultural views on human achievement – real vs. imagined: Continue reading
“You didn’t build that” prompts some questions
Douglas Herz, in a column at American Thinker asks some questions about the “you didn’t build that” philosophy:
“If I owe others for my success, don’t they owe me? Doesn’t everyone owe everyone else? Wouldn’t all this just cancel out, leaving only individual drive, initiative, and entrepreneurship?
•Variation: if everyone owes everyone else, shouldn’t it be by the amount of taxes they pay? So, shouldn’t the 50% who pay no taxes owe the top 5% the most? And, since the 50% who pay no taxes vote mainly for Obama, doesn’t he actually owe the top 5% for his presidency, and so shouldn’t he represent their views? “
Happy Birthday, Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman, great defender of freedom, would have been 100 years old yesterday. His television series, “Free To Choose” was one of the best things ever shown on public television. Watching Friedman clips on YouTube is time well spent because he so simply and concisely explains principles of liberty.
This is one of my favorites:
Two Friedman quotes:
“If you put the Federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.”
“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”
Dancing Nurses and Dead Brits | A follow-up post…
Jeannie DeAngelis writes:
“Regardless of futile attempts at liberal do-goodery, the goal on the left is always the same: constantly demanding undeserved praise for well-intentioned but failed acts of benevolent socialism. That sort of predictable imagery-before-reality mentality was on display during the London 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies, where tribute was paid to the Brits’ failing socialized National Health Service, affectionately known as the NHS….”
Read it all at: Dancing Nurses and Dead Brits | Jeannie-ology.