Ryan's Right

The media wasted no time essentially calling Paul Ryan a liar after his recent speech at the Republican National Convention.  Salon and Yahoo both ran "fact checks" -- Salon even had the gall to call theirs the "definitive fact-check" -- that highlighted points where they (and their masters the Democrat Party) disagreed with Ryan. 

I'm focusing on one example of the egregious malpractice of the Liberal media.  They, along with Democrat carnies such as Al Sharpton, claim that Ryan's comment on Obama and the Janesville, Wisconsin GM plant is either "a lie" or "factually incorrect." 

Here's Ryan's comment: "My home state voted for President Obama. When he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in Janesville, where we were about to lose a major factor.  A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that GM plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: "I believe that if our government is there to support you. this plant will be here for another hundred years." That's what he said in 2008.

Well, as it turned out, that plant didn't last another year." 

The various media and Democrat outlets claim that the GM plant shut down in December of 2008, before Obama took office, so he couldn't be blamed for its closing. Even without any defense at all, this point is light years away from showing where Ryan's comment was incorrect.

Here's the bigger problem.  From the Janesville Gazette, dated April 21, 2009:

The plant shut down three months after Obama took office.  He could have taken some action if that was what he wanted to do.  Ryan was correct, the people who disputed his point were wrong, they owe him an apology, and they should swear never again to use the words fact or lie.  

A couple of movies to see before November

Based on a comment in another forum...

THE WHITE SUPREMES

Elena Kagan

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Sonia Sotomayor

This ain't your daddy's August

Newsweek: WOW!!!

Niall Ferguson has written a piece that absolutely, in great and painful detail, eviscerates Obama's presidency, pointing out Obama's failures in every aspect of the office.  

And it's the cover story.  

Is this the same Newsweek that said "Obama is God"?? (Or at least Newsweek editor Evan Thomas said it back in 2009.)

And they ridiculed Sarah Palin?

Obama's Vice-President, Joe Biden, doing what he does best. His greatest hits:

Vice President Paul Ryan

Well, not yet. Keep your fingers crossed. Mitt Romney announced his selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate.  For anyone who has any doubts about this guy, take a look at this video that I wrote about in January of 2011.

Edit:  Turns out I wrote about Ryan again in July of last year.  This guy's as sharp as anyone you've ever met.

Other People Say Smart Stuff, Too - Part XXXV

Pat Buchanan, in a column excoriating the Obama White House for endorsing, “through its cynical silence,” the “moral atrocity” of the ad by an Obama Super PAC which implies that Mitt Romney was complicit in the death of an Obama supporter’s wife:

“Obama has steadily diminished both himself and the office he holds.”

Unemployment news

Today the government came out with its statistics on (un)employment in America. Here are the highlights from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:


Unemployment rate
July, 2011 - 9.1%
June, 2012 - 8.2%
July, 2012 - 8.3%


So that's improvement, right? Well, not so fast.


Labor force participation rate
July, 2011 - 64.0%
July, 2012 - 63.7%


This figure measures the percentage of Americans (civilian and noninstutitional) over age 16 who are either employed or seeking employment. Those "not in the labor force" are unemployed, but are not counted as unemployed in the government's official report. So how many more people are in that group in July 2012 compared to July 2011?


Over two million people, "unemployed but not counted as unemployed."


Added in one year.

Tribute to Muhammad Ali

Who's The Greatest?  Why, it must be this guy:

Obama notes

• It seems Barack Obama, the first black President, is descended from the first black African slave, John Punch -- on his white mother's side.
• Despite being selected as editor, then president, of the Harvard Law Review, Barack Obama never had an article published in that journal under his own name.
• The sister of conservative talk radio host Neil Boortz was a teacher at Barack Obama's school in Hawaii while he was there, and may have had Obama as a student.

Say it ain't so, O

Remember the 2008 case of the two Black Panthers in pseudomilitary garb and brandishing billy clubs outside a Philadelphia polling place? Remember how the Bush administration had started prosecution of the case and the Obama administration dismissed it after O took office?


Well, now it seems that a federal court has determined that Obama appointees did in fact influence the Justice Department's decision to drop those charges. In other words, Obama's Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez lied during his testimony, when he denied such political involvement.


Surprised?

Tales of Donkeys in Zugzwang

A Fable

     The moon station was more successful than anyone expected.  Atomic generators provided lights, energy and gravity.  Grown with seeds brought from the home planet, hydroponic plants flourished within the dome, furnishing the growing population with plenty of food.  

     Water, the only concern of the original settlers, turned out to be plentiful under the moon’s surface.  Franchisees of the companies that had sponsored the station braved the cold oxygenless atmosphere daily in their company-designed vehicles, trekking the long miles to the water mines with empty tankers and returning with full ones. 

     Once back in the dome, the water was turned over to the Moon Water Central Authority, which distributed it to the people.  Families were given a generous allotment, enough for all their household needs and more.  Businesses run by the companies received more, so they could produce and manufacture and serve their customers.

     All was well until Brick Ohama attained control of the Central Authority.  He began to stir up resentment against the companies for the profits they made. “They use our water,” said Ohama.  “Why should they profit from what they produce, manufacture and serve? They wouldn’t be successful if it weren’t for the water that the Central Authority provides.” His criticism went on for a long time, making the people hate the companies.

     Eventually the companies tired of being called evil and selfish, and one by one they abandoned the moon station.  The populace became hungry and thirsty, for there was no one left to go outside and get the water for them. They discovered that the Central Authority actually provided nothing for them. Nothing at all.

Obama on Colonel Sanders

Obama on Henry Ford

Obama on Ray Kroc

Obama on Thomas Edison

If Campaign Posters Told the Truth

Tell Grandma to make your birthday check out to Barack Obama

The Obama campaign posted a message on his website urging those who are having birthdays, anniversaries and weddings coming up to encourage others to donate to his re-election campaign rather than give gifts.


Really.

Obama admits violating the Constitution

Obama has once again done an end-around on Congress by using his office to enact a portion of the DREAM Act that was not passed by that legislative body. Obama is in effect creating laws, the power given solely to Congress in the Constitution. The level of his aggressive use of the Executive Branch's power is unprecedented, but his supporters compare it to Bush's use of "signing statements" to do much the same thing.  Obama ran against that practice when campaigning for President the first time. In 2008 he said, "We've got a government designed by the founders so there would be checks and balances...Part of the theory of Bush is that he can make laws as he's going along. I disagree with that." 

Obama justifies his opinion by citing the fact that he taught the Constitution. If his supposed legal expertise has any credibility at all, then he is precedently admitting that his actions since taking office violate the Constitution.