Mark Steyn is apparently filling in for Rush, and he sounds like an annoying and higher-pitched Professor Peabody. Here is a sample of his commentary from today:
Scientists say it is the first time sperm has been created in the laboratory. That can’t be true, surely there was a time when the professor got frisky with a lab assistant (chuckles)…
Women no longer need men to reproduce, so soon we will be ruled by giant lesbians. They may keep some metrosexuals around (more chuckles).
The only way to make Mark Steyn more irritating on the radio is if you imagine his voice is actually coming from a sneering Eric Cantor.
Comrade Stuck
Steyn hasn’t been attending enough Promise Keeper meetings, or maybe attended too many. Though he is keeping up the atavistic tradition in Rushbo World.
gwangung
Um, doesn’t Peabody have an IQ that’s actually above room temperature?
anonevent
Mark has this fantasy of some woman walking up and saying “I don’t want to marry you, but fuck me so I can have a baby.” This just makes that even more impossible.
Loneoak
This made me laugh, then made me sad that I know enough about wingnuts to understand it. It’s sort of reminiscent of the feeling I get whenever I think about Tom Cruise: I hate that fucknut so much, but I hate even more that I live in a world where I need to have an opinion about Tom Cruise.
Litlebritdifrnt
Hey I’m English and I can’t stand listening to the twat. Yesterday I about ripped my radio out of the car when he was saying some utterly stupid shit about the NHS in the UK and “people getting the wrong leg taken off happens all the time in the UK” Yeah Mark and there aren’t 200,000 deaths a year from medical malpractice in the US are there? Wanker.
SrirachaHotSauce
@Litlebritdifrnt:
What I want to know is, what happens to all those perfectly good unattached legs?
Bangers and mash? Food for livestock?
gnomedad
Winguttia seems to be dropping even the pretense of being anything other than a fratboy party.
Dave
And this is commentary how??
You know what’s really sad? Steyn is considered one of the “thinkers” on Teh Right. And this is the crap he talks about.
Michael
He’s less listenable than his vacationing man-crush, Lord Haw Haw. Whenever I hear Steyn, I get a mental image of my fist repeatedly smashing itself into his mouth and nose.
Bulworth
Gosh, this is just great radio, just incredible insightful analysis. And to think teh Left wants to fairness doctrine this valuable resource.
Mike G
I see his books displayed at Borders as if they are serious tomes on foreign policy and such. The power of the reich-wing media machine to repackage absolute garbage as supposed gold makes Wall Street ratings agencies look like pikers.
JK
Mark Steyn’s comments on Obama from Jan 2007 establish his bona fides as a worthy fill-in for Rush Limbaugh
Source: http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obamacommentary/220988,CST-EDT-steyn21.stng
bjacques
Like Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Killing Joke, I’m in love with the coming race!
Phoebe
I can’t believe this exists.
Svensker
Mark Steyn is an anti-Muslim bigot. Even if he made sense on other topics, he would still be poison. But since he makes no sense, ever, I don’t have to worry about it. He is a pig.
Dennis-SGMM
Between Steyn’s all-consuming Islamophobia and conjugal visits with Conrad Black down at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex I’m surprised that he has the time for anything else.
Keith
@Dave:
Don’t make fun of Steyn! I hear he’s a big dude and could probably whip all of our asses!
Bulworth
@Mike G:
He writes?
MikeJ
Why do you need to? I don’t give a shit about him either way, and I don’t feel like a bad person.
Nylund
Do all the Rush listeners realize that he’s one o’ dem socialist Canucks with the socialized medicines?
Heck, one of the reasons he was probably available was because he probably doesn’t even celebrate the 4th of July.
freelancer
In the realm of “High-Pitched and Annoying voices seemingly made for anything but radio”, Steyn ain’t got shit on Mark Levin.
timb
The Cantor thing is golden.
His ability to mix unsourced claims, mistakes, and downright falsehoods into the sort of accent I would hear on the BBC, makes me wonder if Mark Steyn, racist homophobe Ayn Randian uberman, is just another incarnation of Eric Idle or John Cleese. He’s so terrible, this must be a neo-Python show. Right?
truculentandunreliable
For such a jackoff, he seems to have very little understanding of how the production of sperm occurs.
JK
@freelancer:
Sean Hannity refers to Mark Levin as “The Great One”
Joey Maloney a/k/a The Bard Of Balloon Juice
I don’t know this guy. Is it pronounced “stine” or “stain”?
Michael
I’ve long figured him to be a secret BNP supporter – you’re not far off the mark.
Steyn is defined as the genetic offspring of long fermented Santorum…..
freelancer
@JK,
I guess if you’re a coked-out venom-spewing incubus weasel, it’s kind of absurd to be referred to as a “Man”.
Dave
@Keith:
Feh! He’s nothing but a failed theater reviewer. He’s as scary as a dust bunny.
JK
Mark Steyn sounds like Paul Benedict who played Harry Bentley on The Jeffersons.
Of all the anchors, commentators, and reporters I’ve heard on cable news, I can’t think of anyone with a more horrible, nauseating speaking voice than Greta “The Scientologist” Van Susteren.
Common Sense
Right wing radio is my guilty pleasure while driving. Living in Texas, I drive a lot, and there are an ungodly amount of RW stations to choose from (townhall runs KNTH, for instance). These guys are so staggeringly wrong it can be truly funny at times. Oddly my favorite is probably Savage, who I am convinced is a spoof. I think he’s Andy Kaufman.
Levin I cannot take. The voice is too much. I couldn’t take Malloy on Air America either. Steyn is just bad. He’s pompous and boring and fascinated with himself — he approaches Dennis Miller in tedium on the radio. Sadly, we lost Larry Elder, who must be popping over the MJ thing — he had a positively disturbing obsession with Hollywood.
I wonder how Sarah would do with a schtick subbing for Limbaugh..
MH
He seems to be confusing sperm with fetus…oh wait.
David Hunt
“Stine” is the way it’s pronounced. “Stain” is the what he is.
scav
@Dave: um, you haven’t looked at those I’ve got lurking about. I’ve thought of declaring the whole place a nature preserve and thinking of them as a carefully maintained breeding population otherwise in danger of extinction but my brain sputters at the thought of them as “endangered”. They’ve mutated back towards their dinosaur ancestors – the big ones, with teeth. Do not make light of the monsters under the bed.
flukebucket
@freelancer: I had forgotten just how disgusting Mark Levin is. With folks like Levin and Palin leading the charge the Republicans look fantastic disappearing over the cliff.
JK
@Common Sense:
When he appeared on Crossfire, Jon Stewart accused Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson of “Hurting America”, but I think he should have directed that charge against cretins like Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh instead.
4tehlulz
This is bad?
Dennis-SGMM
@4tehlulz:
I, for one, welcome our giant lesbian overlords.
IndieTarheel
You guys know the old adage
They apparently don’t.
Jay B.
And that stem cell sperm fertilized an egg that grew up to be a lesbian-reared Wookie named Mark Steyn Junior. Now you know the whole story.
r€nato
@truculentandunreliable:
Indeed… at least as far as GOP politicians are concerned, it happens in public men’s rooms.
The Grand Panjandrum
Higher-pitched Professor Peabody = Munchkin Voice … I just imagine him singing Follow the Yellow Brick Road or better yet doing a cover of Ventura Highway. That is about as serious as I can take for a wretched fuck like Steyn.
JK
OT
Tucker Carlson: Do you believe global warming is primarily man-made?
Jeb Bush: I’m a skeptic. I’m not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized. I would be very wary of hollowing out our industrial base even further… It may be only partially man-made. It may not be warming by the way. The last six years we’ve actually had mean temperatures that are cooler.
[Bush laughs when he hears that Joe the Plumber briefed House Republicans on Gaza. He doesn’t seem to really believe it. Brother and son of recent Republican presidents, he doesn’t seem to fully understand what’s going on in the party his family has dominated for more than two decades. “Joe the Plumber? Really?” he says. “Well, that… Really?” In response, he mounts a defense of erudition and expertise.]
Bush: I think it’s okay to have a deeper understanding of things. I think it’s okay to talk in three-syllable words.
h/t http://www.esquire.com/features/jeb-bush-interview-0809#ixzz0Kn9pLEKk&D
Comrade Tudor
@anonevent:
That’s called the “Lebowski Fantasy”
Keith
@Dave:
Yeah, I know. I was alluding to a post by some other blogger – can’t recall – who attempted to refute someone’s takedown of Steyn with an “Oh, yeah, well I bet he could kick your ass, though!” I wish I could remember the details, because it was priceless.
Betsy
@Dennis-SGMM:
Win.
I appreciate “jokes” like this one of Steyn’s. It strips bare all their claims that they only want to outlaw abortion and otherwise regulate contraceptive access because of their precious morals, and reveals the real reason: They are just scared as fuck that they will lose all control over any aspect of reproduction and women’s sexuality. I mean, really, his first thought about this study is giant lesbians? How obvious.
John Cole
@Keith: It was Robert Stacy McCain, and he was talking about Mark Levin being able to beat up David Frum. I’m not wading through his site to find the link, though. He is certifiable.
Jay in Oregon
@Loneoak:
Along the same lines, Melissa over at Shakesville has an irregular series of blog posts to that effect, under the working title of “I’m Mad at You Just Because I Know Who You Are”.
Her most recent entry featured Carrot Top.
Anne Laurie
According to James Wolcott, “rhymes with ‘whine’, not with ‘stain’“…
geg6
John, this should be tagged “I Listen to This Shit So You Don’t Have To.” You really do have to do all the heavy lifting for us and I, for one, appreciate it.
OT:
Meanwhile, turns out Ensign paid his girlfriend a bit more of a “severence” than the $25,000 or so originally reported. Seems it was more in the order of $96,000. And, actually, Ensign didn’t pay it himself. His parents paid it. And, no, folks. That’s not even the end of this debacle. Remember how Cornyn’s aides told people that as a member of the C Street Gang, he advised Ensign to pay off the girlfriend and get rid of her? He is now saying he can’t and won’t talk about it because it’s confidential. Yes, confidential. Because he was acting as Ensign’s physician and spiritual advisor. John Cornyn is an OB/GYN.
You really can’t make this shit up.
geg6
Shit. I meant to say Coburn. It was Coburn.
The Saff
I second that. I don’t have the stomach to listen to any of these right wing whackjobs. It’s bad enough hearing Sarah Palin’s voice on the teevee every night or watching Rush’s latest rant on a segment of “Countdown.”
And may I just say how much I’m enjoying the comments in this thread. I wish I could be as clever in my insults to the folks on teh right. As such, I’m not but that won’t preclude me from enjoying what all of you have to say.
Wile E. Quixote
Mary Stain is an asshole. I mean firstly he’s not, according to the Wikipedia entry on him, an American citizen, he’s a canuck, so why the fuck does anyone care what he says? Secondly Mary Stain has never done anything real in his life. He’s never served in the military or worked in a position of great responsibility, he was a disk jockey and a musical theatre critic (and I hate to admit this but he’s actually a pretty good one). Mary Stain has never had anything that I would call a real job.
But Mary Stain wasn’t content in being just a musical theatre critic, just as Michael Medved wasn’t content with just being a film critic (and he was a pretty good one). No, Mary Stain aspired for more, and became a “cultural critic”, and there are few things that American conservatives love more than foreigners who come to America to lick the hairy taints of the Republican ignorati while trashing their own countries, something which Mary Stain has proven himself willing to do, time and time again.
Now, I find American conservatives annoying enough, but Goddamnit I’m really sick of the fact that not only do we have to put up with our own homegrown right-wing bigots, morons and scumbags but that we also apparently have to import them from other countries. Mary Stain and David Frum are canucks. David Brooks was born in Canada, Dr. Strangehammer was born in the US but then lived in Canada and the UK until he was in his 20s, which convenient allowed him to avoid service in Vietnam. Michelle Malkin is an anchor baby. Damnit. We need stronger immigration laws to keep these people out!
Wile E. Quixote
@JK
But behind closed doors he just calls him “Daddy”.
Jim
@Wile E. Quixote:
“Michael Medved wasn’t content with just being a film critic (and he was a pretty good one).”
Well, maybe of Dental film, but not motion pictures. He suffers from the right wing syndrome, as described by Roy Edroso, of viewing any art through the prism of political ideology. You know, like the Soviets did.
And Mark Levin has a voice made for the movies.
Particularly Silent Movies.
DonBoy
I don’t know much about science, but I do know this: It’s Mr. Peabody and his boy, Sherman. He ain’t no tooty-frooty Professor.
Kilkee
Meanwhile, over at Jezebel, they’re linking to a Nerve article in which the author discusses many less-than-common sexual fetishes. (Peanut butter? Really?) Among them, as Steyn is no doubt aware, is macrophilia, the state of becoming aroused by giant women. I think the lesbian angle is just a bonus.
grumpy realist
…and this is after the scientists have carefully in their article explained how no, women won’t be able to create sperm from their own stem cells, you need to start with a stem cell from an XY entity….
I’m starting to think we should institute a policy: if you can’t even bother to get your facts about technology right, you don’t get to have access to any. Dump Mark Steyn somewhere on a desert island and tell him he’s banned from any of the attributes of modern civilization.
freelancer
‘Well I ain’t never seen no plant grow out of no toilet!’
“Hey, that’s pretty good. You sure you ain’t the smartest guy in the world?”
jake 4 that 1
Fxd.
Colonel Robert Neville
Dear left liberal nice guys:
Er, no. Gee, virtually every one of your alleged counter-arguments of the VERY successful, quoted, popular, talented, funny, witty, smart and ENTIRELY CORRECT Mark Steyn are golly gee, a standard left liberal logical fallacy ad hominem and cognitive dissonance. What a surprise!
Gee, you forgot to FOCUS on a SINGLE point where Mark is actally golly, wrong, and counter with gosh, EVIDENCE. Nevermind. Of denial, of denial…
Bravo and five sars comrades! Ever onwards to The Glorious Peoples Revolution of The Obamessiah!
Colonel Robert Neville blogspot com. You are all here and in great surgical detail:
ANY P.J O’ROURKE [Left] Liberal Fascism J.Goldberg.
The Death Of the Grown Up D.West
zombietimecom drsanity blogspotcom thepeoplescubecom dissectleft blogspotcom therealcubacom bestobamafacts com
The Real Che Guevara & the Idiots who idolise him H.Fontova Babalublogcom trenblindad com hfontovacom
colonelrobertneville blogspotcom roadsassy com The Capitalist Manifesto A.Bernstein
Liberty &vTyranny M.Levin America Alone & Lights Out M.Steyn marksteyn com
Obamaland J.Delingpole. The Case Against Obama D.Fredosso The Audacity of Deceit B.O’Leary.
Comrade Stuck
@Colonel Robert Neville:
Smoking the good stuff tonight are we Mon’ Colonel.
Jim
Colonel (if that is your real name):
If you had read through the comments you would have noted that Steyn’s point that men would become irrelevant to the reproductive process – which led to the inadvertently TMI comment regarding giant lesbians – was, as Albert Einstein would say: utter bullshit.
One can not – based upon the initial scientific report, assuming it is correct – generate sperm cells from stem cells that lack a Y chromosome. So, no “snu snu” for M. Steyn, I’m afraid.
I assume that this would qualify as focussing on a “single point” in which Steyn is wrong (finding just one is indeed a challenge, and the game is hardly worth the candle).
But thanks for playing.
John Cole
@Colonel Robert Neville: Wow.
I will say this. He is much better in print.
Josh Huaco
BOB took the brown acid.
RedKitten (formerly Krista - the Canadian one)
Evidently there isn’t much of a market for wingnuttery up here. I’m okay with that.
peter
Right, that’s why he is an ackwledged humorist and you…well, frankly I have never heard of you before. Do you have an accent? Not that it’s a problem, still.
lymie
Christ, Steyn lives in my home town. His wife is a lovely woman, but she and their 3 kids look and act like frightened deer all the time. I wonder if the home life needs an intervention. sigh.
Wakefield Tolbert
Let’s see here–anti Muslim Bigot since he complains, as many of us do, about Islamic violence.
Stupid, since he points out that in an age of spiraling demographics, and since many feminists as well as government operatives HAVE been known to think children can do without their fathers and men are not needed…
Oh yes, and wingnuttery for pointing out, as did my own doctor, that you don’t get a whole hell of a lot for so called “preventative care” in the sunsetting land of Imams and tarts called Britain and if you’re over 65 and get cancer, the most efficien thing to do is just ask where you’d like to be buried.
And that while American care is expensive, it’s better to be in hock than buried.
Good stuff–except that there’s nothing new here among the Lefties pining for milkwater socialism.
Wakefield Tolbert
Wile E. Quixote
Not to defend wikipedia. It is hardly the Great Fount of Knowledge.
But polish up your reading skills even there.
Steyn is now an American citizen.
John Cole
@Wakefield Tolbert: All of which makes lesbian jokes so funny!
He could have made 100 funny quips about the story in question. Hell, self-deprecating would have been great “Scientists have created sperm in the laboratory for the first time, and let me tell you, the two happiest people in the world are me and my wife.”
But he didn’t. Because he can’t. because he is a conservative, and gay-bashing and playing to the cheap seats is all they know.
Wank on.
Wakefield Tolbert
No, Mr. Cole.
I realize that in the age of those who actually think Rachel Maddow is a knockout (this, from the party of Bella Abzug..never mind…) and Keith Olbermann pissing in his pants all the time and thinking local dog-catcher type commentary from low level people in some states is hilarious (and worse–important to national politics) there is obviously going to be offense taken at lesbian jokes.
But the real joke, as always, is on the “success story”, so alleged, of this kind of research that will do something just about nothing for a society where government intervention deigns fathers all but irrelevent. Since gayness and polyamory are the rage in some circles, I thought it was spot on.
Having to explain it since PCism gets in the way of much humor these days—not funny.
Wakefield Tolbert
Having irony that is overwhelming in the demographic death thoes of almost intentional Western Society Extinction advocacy is just too much.
The fact that the underwelmned can’t pereive this.
Classic.
And just some darling fun.
Shits and giggles, brother Brits.
Comrade Stuck
@Wakefield Tolbert:
The only thing in the demographic death throes is the American Wingnut Party, AKA Grand Old Perverts.
Shits an Giggles.
Wakefield Tolbert
Ohhh ha har:
That’s what YOU thinketh, Comrade.
The stimulus glop is doing what was predicted by most sound economists: failing, and those numbers from the Bambi administration will fail too at some point now that’s he’s spending on pure glop more than the needs of the nation and economic liquidity.
But for the long haul the situation is even worse.
And I can wait this out.
http://wakepedia.blogspot.com/2006/03/liberals-doomed-to-extinction-darwin.html
Comrade Stuck
Shouldn’t that be wankapedia. Somehow it seems so.
Sean O'Brian
From Wikipedia:
“Steyn, a Canadian citizen, now resides mainly in New Hampshire in the United States. He is married with three children.”
So he’s not an American citizen.
Andrew
I don’t speak Palinese, sorry.
Cyrus
@Wakefield Tolbert:
There’s no reason to capitalize “bigot” in this sentence.@Wakefield Tolbert:
“Fount” should be “Font.” (Actually, the Language Log shows that your usage is nearly mainstream, but coming from someone with your apparent intelligence I assume that you just got lucky rather than did it intentionally. Learn to walk before trying to run and you’ll be better off.)
Plagiarizing Ann Coulter? Now that’s low.
“Low level” should probably be hyphenated. I think what you tried to do is use a compound adjective, “low-level,” to mean “people of low level.” However, what you’re doing is using two adjectives, both modifying “people,” so you wound up saying “people who are low and level.” Meaning, I guess, people on the ground or below it, walking or standing levelly? Or something like that? Basically, you’re talking nonsense.
“Deigns” should be “deems.”
As Andrew pointed out, this doesn’t make any sense. As far as I can tell, though, there’s another problem: there’s no reason to capitalize the first letters of “society” or “extinction” here, and maybe not even “western.”
And I’m just focusing on the mistakes that look like they’re the result of actual stupidity or malignance towards the English language. Carelessness (such as “will do something just about nothing for a society…”) happens to the best of us, but it takes a true sociopath to misuse “deigns.”
Litlebritdifrnt
@Wakefield Tolbert:
Speaking for myself, as a proud British “tart”, I would like to know how long you have spent in England, utilizing the National Health Service for you to be able to comment with such obvious knowledge on the subject? I ask this because based upon your vast knowledge my mere memory of my 75 year old father having surgery for cancer is obviously faulty, and the mere memory of my 75 year old mother having stents put in her arteries just last year to correct a heart problem is likewise just a vivid dream I had, must have been the wine. Please do continue to dazzle us all with your brilliant commentary as to your life in England, and your suffering at the hands of the evil NHS, unless, as I suspect, you are full of shit and have probably never been any further afield than your basement.
Tim in SF
@Wakefield Tolbert: The stimulus glop is doing what was predicted by most sound economists: failing,
The stimulus program is a two year program, not a six month program, with the majority of expenditures calendared for 2010. We’re in month six.
Only ten percent of the money has been dispersed to date, and of that, the majority is going to states to cover their medicare shortfalls. Hardly stimulating.
And then there’s quite a bit of the money which should have gone out by now but which is being held up by governors with White House ambitions, or by bureaucrats for whom holding the money brings patronage from lobbyists.
The horse is barely out of the gate and you want to pronounce it dead already. You’re a victim of talk radio or a liar or both.
Doc
My goodness, quite a bit of emotion here against Mr Steyn. O well. Most likely it is with most of y’all here as it is with so many others: hardened into positions which rational discussion is unlikely to change.
I find this to be true in microcosm in my own family. I have 3 older brothers. We were all raised to be atheists and ultra-liberals. They still are; I’m the black sheep, being a nasty old rightwing Christian strict-constructionist gun-owning wingnut. Rounds of discussion have done little to alter our respective positions.
Howsomever, there’s another feature of our culture that’s represented in my own family: from my 3 older brothers, my folks only got 2 grandchildren, both grown women now, both ultra-libs, and no sign of them settling down and having kids.
From the nasty rightwing Christian (me), however, my folks got 4 grandkids. Since they were homeschooled and raised in church, they’re even more conservative than I am. My oldest, now almost 21, soon to graduate with top grades from a well-regarded secular college with his faith and conservative values intact, says he’s going to have 6. So guess who’s likely to win the grandchild wars? Guess whose ‘memes’ are likely to be perpetuated into the succeeding generations?
Just think of it as ‘evolution in action. Survival of the fittest. Last man standing.’
So go ahead, keep talking up homosexual ‘marriage’, supporting abortion on demand, and claiming the earth’s overpopulated. Works for me: reduces the opposition.
Wakefield Tolbert
Cyrus:
Ah, the pageantry of the pedantics. Almost as bad as the Pageantry of the Pederasts, at sites like this one.
I’ll just pour over a few tidbits here, since I’m apparently one of those icky types who has a job to get back to and can’t cruise the net looking for trouble that often.
Actually, the log I found for general use, and how this “fount” phrase is often mangled by people like you, who also might jabber about “music soothes the savage beast” (when “breast” is what is needed here), “font” generally refers to “type”, as in typeset style.
So “font” not really appropriate at all. Whatsoever. Unless leaving out the “u” saves precious time or some such.
Get your blue pen out on that one, hombre. Then, later on, you can, say, help the New York Times make sure their oddball interpretations of the world are in the King’s English. An entire cottage industry has sprung up in this regard. Maybe you can join them.
You can then mumble about the five Iranian terror lords now cut loose by the Bambi administration in the deadpan language of the Queen’s chilly dominion and pretend that London Imams holding up signs showing gory decapitations don’t REALLY mean what they say.
Then have a cup of Earl Grey to make the day complete, as so much of Ninny Socialism does.
Now to the other unpleasantries.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_it_fount_of_knowledge_or_font_of_knowledge
Verb 1. deign – do something that one considers to be below one’s dignity
condescend, descend
——————————————————————————–
deign
verb condescend, consent, stoop, see fit, think fit, lower yourself, deem it worthy
Of course, it should have been written along the lines of “deigns to say fathers are irrelevant” or along those lines…
Not quite so maladapted to Her Majesty’s English after all then.
Since you seem to have ample time on your hands for tick-picking, a little word to the wise ass here:
These small-time opportunities to show off Vaudeville shtick by correcting someone else’s teeny-tiny, spiderleg sized mistakes are the lifeblood of midgets.
That about wraps up what they have on the ball. Unpaid editors who scan the Net for slip ups and missteps in the presence of Webster and Strunk & Wagnall’s.
(Example: Keith Olbermann’s own slapstick shtick and Vaudeville stomp-n’-clomp pouting MSNBC show, “Countdown”, specializes in this kind of majesty in minutia. Some staff writers are under the impression this actually makes him funny. Though I must give the hat tip to a harridan named Rachel Maddow for more creativity.)
And speaking of those nasty human beings–Bella and the pants pisser included–I did not borrow from Coulter.
Abzug is (or was) in fact an utterly repulsive human being, but a beacon of light to her party.
Having said all that, I capitalized the things I did for emphasis. And if the WSEA Movement is turning into a real syndrome, as demographers like Philip Longman have pointed out, then the usage is just fine and dandy.
A syndrome, or condition, is a thing. An idea, at that. So capitalization is just fine for emphasis.
And deigns is fine too, though I should have rewritten the sentence.
__________________________
Tim, the history of the stimulus glop, even IF we find that money is somehow not flowing slush and mush and gush and illegal aliens and more ACORN sprouts and projects of every kind, is rather sordid.
Argue with the historians rather than argue with people online, if that’s your teacup here:
http://www.fumento.com/fumento/obama.html
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/stimulus–a-history-of-folly-14953
I think that would be far more productive.
Litlebritdifrnt
My bad. You’re not a tart.
You’d be what the soccer lads might call a tavern mutt.
If you haven’t figured out that rationing of care and the “push out” issue of driving private insurance out of business is a bad thing, then you’re in Wonderland. The Congressional Budget Office also warns (at least American citizens) that this is not exactly the best timing, with the deficit a vapor trail of zeros, a “crowd out” of 23 million people losing their private insurance, and a trillion and a half bill to boot made up of IOUs.
Hmm. 250 million citizens, expanded to cover 300 million now that Bambi thinks free meds will go to illegal aliens and all sniffles to be wiped in the already burdened ER rooms nationwide. But no real expansion of the 800,000 doctors and one million nurses???? Not promising.
Expensive or not, I’m not trading by free will the ability to get, say, an MRI in the SAME HOUR as the initial checkup without government paperwork the size of the Manhattan phonebook.
dig?
I’m trying to avoid turning this into a link festival, but from some sources you might turn and go from there. Follow the bouncing threadlines.
There are no free lunches, poochy. Pouring champagne out of someone else’s bottle (but tying it down on a beer budget) is bad accounting for both personal and national goals.
This article covers just ONE dimension of some rather ugly problems. Others not covered include the “crowd out issue”, the LYING that at least American politicians do in order to sneak something under the rug only to find out later they’re advocating so-called “single payer” type socialized medicine after all, and then last but not least, the fact that as John Goodman wrote, much of the fluff about nations with socialized meds holding costs down is due to some funny accounting. Not to mention the problem of lost time under NHS systems and loss productivity (and time is money) due to wait times on services/visits that put the thumb-twaddle hours in American doctor offices to shame.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-490233/Record-numbers-abroad-health-treatment-70-000-escaping-NHS.html
So, I don’t plan to dazzle or bedazzle.
More likely, I’d just slap you upside your silly head, pull you by the ears and find some productive work to get out of you.
By why worry about those pesky economic concerns. Just tax the living hell out of the ever-expanding paunches of the “rich”, another floating ideological target.
Government can just do it all, we’ll learn to love Big Brother as he smiles down from his numerous ACORN posters, and keep in mind that where reason fails, force prevails.
Bring out the big guns and tell those dadgum, high-falutin’ greed meisters at the insurance companies that when we have the people by the balls, their hearts and minds will surely follow!
Worked in Britain. Hell, I can’t argue against THAT.
PS, Muttmuffin.
My adopted brother’s relatives hail from Britannia, and are less than sanquine about their health encounters there.
Their stern advice: Don’t get sick. Period.
Wakefield The Non-Grammarian
Cyrus:
Ah, the pageantry of the pedantics. Almost as bad as the Pageantry of the Pederasts, at sites like this one.
I’ll just pour over a few tidbits here, since I’m apparently one of those icky types who has a job to get back to and can’t cruise the net looking for trouble that often.
Actually, the log I found for general use, and how this “fount” phrase is often mangled by people like you, who also might jabber about “music soothes the savage beast” (when “breast” is what is needed here), “font” generally refers to “type”, as in typeset style.
So “font” not really appropriate at all. Whatsoever. Unless leaving out the “u” saves precious time or some such.
Get your blue pen out on that one, hombre. Then, later on, you can, say, help the New York Times make sure their oddball interpretations of the world are in the King’s English. An entire cottage industry has sprung up in this regard. Maybe you can join them.
You can then mumble about the five Iranian terror lords now cut loose by the Bambi administration in the deadpan language of the Queen’s chilly dominion and pretend that London Imams holding up signs showing gory decapitations don’t REALLY mean what they say.
Then have a cup of Earl Grey to make the day complete, as so much of Ninny Socialism does.
Now to the other unpleasantries.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_it_fount_of_knowledge_or_font_of_knowledge
Verb 1. deign – do something that one considers to be below one’s dignity
condescend, descend
——————————————————————————–
deign
verb condescend, consent, stoop, see fit, think fit, lower yourself, deem it worthy
Of course, it should have been written along the lines of “deigns to say fathers are irrelevant” or along those lines…
Not quite so maladapted to Her Majesty’s English after all then.
Since you seem to have ample time on your hands for tick-picking, a little word to the wise ass here:
These small-time opportunities to show off Vaudeville shtick by correcting someone else’s teeny-tiny, spiderleg sized mistakes are the lifeblood of midgets.
That about wraps up what they have on the ball. Unpaid editors who scan the Net for slip ups and missteps in the presence of Webster and Strunk & Wagnall’s.
(Example: Keith Olbermann’s own slapstick shtick and Vaudeville stomp-n’-clomp pouting MSNBC show, “Countdown”, specializes in this kind of majesty in minutia. Some staff writers are under the impression this actually makes him funny. Though I must give the hat tip to a harridan named Rachel Maddow for more creativity.)
And speaking of those nasty human beings–Bella and the pants pisser included–I did not borrow from Coulter.
Abzug is (or was) in fact an utterly repulsive human being, but a beacon of light to her party.
Having said all that, I capitalized the things I did for emphasis. And if the WSEA Movement is turning into a real syndrome, as demographers like Philip Longman have pointed out, then the usage is just fine and dandy.
A syndrome, or condition, is a thing. An idea, at that. So capitalization is just fine for emphasis.
And deigns is fine too, though I should have rewritten the sentence.
__________________________
Tim, the history of the stimulus glop, even IF we find that money is somehow not flowing slush and mush and gush and illegal aliens and more ACORN sprouts and projects of every kind, is rather sordid.
Argue with the historians rather than argue with people online, if that’s your teacup here:
http://www.fumento.com/fumento/obama.html
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/stimulus–a-history-of-folly-14953
I think that would be far more productive.
Litlebritdifrnt
My bad. You’re not a tart.
You’d be what the soccer lads might call a tavern mutt.
If you haven’t figured out that rationing of care and the “push out” issue of driving private insurance out of business is a bad thing, then you’re in Wonderland. The Congressional Budget Office also warns (at least American citizens) that this is not exactly the best timing, with the deficit a vapor trail of zeros, a “crowd out” of 23 million people losing their private insurance, and a trillion and a half bill to boot made up of IOUs.
Hmm. 250 million citizens, expanded to cover 300 million now that Bambi thinks free meds will go to illegal aliens and all sniffles to be wiped in the already burdened ER rooms nationwide. But no real expansion of the 800,000 doctors and one million nurses???? Not promising.
Expensive or not, I’m not trading by free will the ability to get, say, an MRI in the SAME HOUR as the initial checkup without government paperwork the size of the Manhattan phonebook.
dig?
I’m trying to avoid turning this into a link festival, but from some sources you might turn and go from there. Follow the bouncing threadlines.
There are no free lunches, poochy. Pouring champagne out of someone else’s bottle (but tying it down on a beer budget) is bad accounting for both personal and national goals.
This article covers just ONE dimension of some rather ugly problems. Others not covered include the “crowd out issue”, the LYING that at least American politicians do in order to sneak something under the rug only to find out later they’re advocating so-called “single payer” type socialized medicine after all, and then last but not least, the fact that as John Goodman wrote, much of the fluff about nations with socialized meds holding costs down is due to some funny accounting. Not to mention the problem of lost time under NHS systems and loss productivity (and time is money) due to wait times on services/visits that put the thumb-twaddle hours in American doctor offices to shame.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-490233/Record-numbers-abroad-health-treatment-70-000-escaping-NHS.html
So, I don’t plan to dazzle or bedazzle.
More likely, I’d just slap you upside your silly head, pull you by the ears and find some productive work to get out of you.
By why worry about those pesky economic concerns. Just tax the living hell out of the ever-expanding paunches of the “rich”, another floating ideological target.
Government can just do it all, we’ll learn to love Big Brother as he smiles down from his numerous ACORN posters, and keep in mind that where reason fails, force prevails.
Bring out the big guns and tell those dadgum, high-falutin’ greed meisters at the insurance companies that when we have the people by the balls, their hearts and minds will surely follow!
Worked in Britain. Hell, I can’t argue against THAT.
Wakefield The Non-Grammarian
Cyrus:
Ah, the pageantry of the pedantics. Almost as bad as the Pageantry of the Pederasts, at sites like this one.
I’ll just pour over a few tidbits here, since I’m apparently one of those icky types who has a job to get back to and can’t cruise the net looking for trouble that often.
Actually, the log I found for general use, and how this “fount” phrase is often mangled by people like you, who also might jabber about “music soothes the savage beast” (when “breast” is what is needed here), “font” generally refers to “type”, as in typeset style.
So “font” not really appropriate at all. Whatsoever. Unless leaving out the “u” saves precious time or some such.
Get your blue pen out on that one, hombre. Then, later on, you can, say, help the New York Times make sure their oddball interpretations of the world are in the King’s English. An entire cottage industry has sprung up in this regard. Maybe you can join them.
You can then mumble about the five Iranian terror lords now cut loose by the Bambi administration in the deadpan language of the Queen’s chilly dominion and pretend that London Imams holding up signs showing gory decapitations don’t REALLY mean what they say.
Then have a cup of Earl Grey to make the day complete, as so much of Ninny Socialism does.
Now to the other unpleasantries.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_it_fount_of_knowledge_or_font_of_knowledge
Verb 1. deign – do something that one considers to be below one’s dignity
condescend, descend
——————————————————————————–
deign
verb condescend, consent, stoop, see fit, think fit, lower yourself, deem it worthy
Of course, it should have been written along the lines of “deigns to say fathers are irrelevant” or along those lines…
Not quite so maladapted to Her Majesty’s English after all then.
Since you seem to have ample time on your hands for tick-picking, a little word to the wise ass here:
These small-time opportunities to show off Vaudeville shtick by correcting someone else’s teeny-tiny, spiderleg sized mistakes are the lifeblood of midgets.
That about wraps up what they have on the ball. Unpaid editors who scan the Net for slip ups and missteps in the presence of Webster and Strunk & Wagnall’s.
(Example: Keith Olbermann’s own slapstick shtick and Vaudeville stomp-n’-clomp pouting MSNBC show, “Countdown”, specializes in this kind of majesty in minutia. Some staff writers are under the impression this actually makes him funny. Though I must give the hat tip to a harridan named Rachel Maddow for more creativity.)
And speaking of those nasty human beings–Bella and the pants pisser included–I did not borrow from Coulter.
Abzug is (or was) in fact an utterly repulsive human being, but a beacon of light to her party.
Having said all that, I capitalized the things I did for emphasis. And if the WSEA Movement is turning into a real syndrome, as demographers like Philip Longman have pointed out, then the usage is just fine and dandy.
A syndrome, or condition, is a thing. An idea, at that. So capitalization is just fine for emphasis.
And deigns is fine too, though I should have rewritten the sentence.
Wakefield The Non-Grammarian
__________________________
Tim, the history of the stimulus glop, even IF we find that money is somehow not flowing slush and mush and gush and illegal aliens and more ACORN sprouts and projects of every kind, is rather sordid.
Argue with the historians rather than argue with people online, if that’s your teacup here:
http://www.fumento.com/fumento/obama.html
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/stimulus–a-history-of-folly-14953
I think that would be far more productive.
Litlebritdifrnt
My bad. You’re not a tart.
You’d be what the soccer lads might call a tavern mutt.
If you haven’t figured out that rationing of care and the “push out” issue of driving private insurance out of business is a bad thing, then you’re in Wonderland. The Congressional Budget Office also warns (at least American citizens) that this is not exactly the best timing, with the deficit a vapor trail of zeros, a “crowd out” of 23 million people losing their private insurance, and a trillion and a half bill to boot made up of IOUs.
Hmm. 250 million citizens, expanded to cover 300 million now that Bambi thinks free meds will go to illegal aliens and all sniffles to be wiped in the already burdened ER rooms nationwide. But no real expansion of the 800,000 doctors and one million nurses???? Not promising.
Expensive or not, I’m not trading by free will the ability to get, say, an MRI in the SAME HOUR as the initial checkup without government paperwork the size of the Manhattan phonebook.
dig?
I’m trying to avoid turning this into a link festival, but from some sources you might turn and go from there. Follow the bouncing threadlines.
There are no free lunches, poochy. Pouring champagne out of someone else’s bottle (but tying it down on a beer budget) is bad accounting for both personal and national goals.
This article covers just ONE dimension of some rather ugly problems. Others not covered include the “crowd out issue”, the LYING that at least American politicians do in order to sneak something under the rug only to find out later they’re advocating so-called “single payer” type socialized medicine after all, and then last but not least, the fact that as John Goodman wrote, much of the fluff about nations with socialized meds holding costs down is due to some funny accounting. Not to mention the problem of lost time under NHS systems and loss productivity (and time is money) due to wait times on services/visits that put the thumb-twaddle hours in American doctor offices to shame.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-490233/Record-numbers-abroad-health-treatment-70-000-escaping-NHS.html
So, I don’t plan to dazzle or bedazzle.
More likely, I’d just slap you upside your silly head, pull you by the ears and find some productive work to get out of you.
By why worry about those pesky economic concerns. Just tax the living hell out of the ever-expanding paunches of the “rich”, another floating ideological target.
Government can just do it all, we’ll learn to love Big Brother as he smiles down from his numerous ACORN posters, and keep in mind that where reason fails, force prevails.
Bring out the big guns and tell those dadgum, high-falutin’ greed meisters at the insurance companies that when we have the people by the balls, their hearts and minds will surely follow!
Worked in Britain. Hell, I can’t argue against THAT.
Wakefield The Non-Grammarian
Oh yeah…
Funny enough, they think no one is watching. Amazing.
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=7014
Granted, the NHS for its part came partly out of th experiences Britain had in WWII.
But in America, one wonders if the “health coverage” debate might actually move forward if our own politicians would stop lying about their “healthcare” goals.
Or, for that matter, if they’d just quit lying about the alleged “40 million” uninsured, which is comprised of a rough estimate of 20 million illegal aliens and 10 million who’d probably qualify for most programs for the poor and indigent, with the remainder those who’re wealthy enough to choose NOT to partake at all, and pay as they go.
Wakefield The Non-Grammarian
Doc, this is the point that the lights are turned off, the room empties out, and it is taken as read that demographics mean nothing to the Left.
More fool them.
Everything begins, and will end, in the numbers of who believes what.
Wakefield The Non-Grammarian
The horse is barely out of the gate and you want to pronounce it dead already. You’re a victim of talk radio or a liar or both.
Send the poor beast to the glue factory. Or out to pasture.
His breeding days should be over.
That’s the most merciful thing to do. Withhold all stimulus money. Period. This forces the issue of balancing budgets by having mechanisms that actually encourages a business-friendly environment rather than yapping at their heels all the time, and dispending with the ACORN glop and sops to various government oversight agencies.
But, if the Bambi administration wants to plow forth into the abyss, and still get around the problem of state governors using the stimulus to “shore up” their own budgets–which is undertandable from both sides–then he can make an ideological prescription that requires more actual bridge work, road work and the like, and then follow the lead of the understandable position these states are in (the hole), particularly liberal havens like California, and shore up our own NATIONAL level budget.
Ya know–actually DO the things he yammered about on the campaign trail. Now that the GAO and other outlets in the media are mentioning that what few jobs are being generated are those of social services employees at the DMV and some unknown number (though probably over 300,000) illegal aliens, we see the ideological intentions of this administration. Nice. Good to have the smiley face people at ACORN other pests calling the shots.
_________________________________
As far as the term Muslim Bigot, that works well too.
Since the accusation has taken on a life of its own, so too can the ID of the terminology for emphasis.
timb
@Wile E. Quixote: First of all, the shot at Malkin is over the top. Michelle, as loathesome as her political opinions are, is as American as anyone else.
On the other hand, the rest of the world gives their insane right wing creationists, corporate apologists, and Laffer curve advocates a choice. #1) Go to America where people might listen to you if you’re a simplistic tool or #2) if you are of average intelligence, go to some third world country and help the local Idi Amin character siphon off natural resources (diamonds, gold, oil, timber) for some corporate shadow company.
That’s how we get the retards and DeBeers keeps the good ones. We get the evil and stupid; other places get the evil and smart
Wile E. Quixote
@timb
No it isn’t an over the top shot. What the fuck is your problem? I’m sick and tired of wankers and weaklings like you who just bend over and grab your ankles every time a Republican is revealed as a hypocrite. Here’s the point I was trying to make: If we had the kind of immigration laws that Michelle Malkin wants, specifically laws that changed the fourteenth amendment so that children born in the US to non-citizen parents were no longer considered naturalized citizens and those laws had been in place when she was born she would not be a US citizen, she’d be working as a bar girl in Manila saying “Me so horny, Joe. Me love you long time. Three hole, 10 dollah!”
Michelle Malkin is a hypocritical piece of shit and deserves to be bludgeoned with her anchor baby status every single time she shows up on TV and starts bitching about Mexicans and Muslims.
timb
@Doc: Is that a spoof?
No really my favorite part of his identity rant was
proving once again that for conservative, theocon, religious nuts the only way to indoctrinate the children was to keep them in a bubble.
Of course, the kid is gonna graduate with “high honors” from a secular college; he learned long before other children to avoid active thought and just repeat rote facts back to “the teacher.” Professors love that, probably the only thing they have in common with religious nutters who are afraid to let their kid watch TV for fear it might cause him to consider a world a little more broad than his own experience.
You should be commended, Doc, for raising a self-absorbed kid who can repeat back what he’s told. He’ll be VERY successful in the corporate world as long as he always remembers: “Never ask why.”
Wakefield The Non-Grammarian
Sean O’Brian
You’re right.
He’s described himself as a “New Hampshirian”–so with that terminology I’d assumed he was what we call a “naturalized” citizen. Usually that kind of labeling implies citizenry.
timb
Wile, save your ire for someone else. Calling Michelle a hypocrite is dead on, because she’s wrong and doesn’t possess a lot of insight. Accepting her hypothesis, makes you wrong too. She opposes immigration laws and you espouse them with your thesis.
Tim doesn’t like discrimination based upon ethnicity or national origin. You want to bash Malkin, I’m right behind you, but you don’t have to accept her thesis (immigration laws should be tightened) to do so.
Nice profanity, though.
Wakefield The Non-Grammarian
timb, now that was funny.
The only thing is, at least as far as the debacle of “gladiator in training” debacle also known as “public school”, they aren’t exactly showing us results about “socialization” and “broader” perspectives on things any better than anyone else.
Public schools are a union-run dive that serve mainly as the reproductive system of liberalism, with the accompanying child abuse levels that put Catholic priests to shame.
There are few habits and abilities that should be emulated from them. The stats on homeschoolins outperforming other forms are well known.
No question, however, that making droll little stooges of the state who dutifully obey statist commands being the goal, I’m sure it irritates some people to no end that the NEA has not been able to fully crush homeschooling altogether, as they did in Germany, or have everyone follow the prescriptions of Margaret Sanger and Horace Mann in manipulating public opinion to the common hive.
http://wakepedia.blogspot.com/search/label/Clueless%20Coalition%20of%20the%20Cockamamie
It was the Coalition of the Cockamamie with some advice from the liberals who eat at Elaine’s that greased the skids for the Bambi administration.
I’m willing to bet I can pinpoint where most of these benighted benefactors went to school.
Ray
I thought Steyn did a great job.I have not heard anyone disputing what he said just throwing a lot of lefty insults.
Wakefield The Non-Grammarian
Wile and timb.
It is asinine to claim that the 14th Amendment was intended to be some kind of penumbra of automatic citizenship just because some pups get squeezed out when mama makes it across the border and then gets to sign up for Medicaid and can than have her little brood follow her to the clinic like ducklings to water.
This is clearly an abuse of the intent that originally was arranged to make sure that the children of slaves were citizens. It was one of the “Reconstruction Amendments”, to shore up the issue of WHO is a citizen by birth to parents already here–it is NOT a prescription that allows anyone with burning feet to cross the border and have children on the taxpayer’s dime–even if some people say that.
Note the children of ambassadors and diplomats and foreign travelers born on US soil are not automatically US citzens.
Al Swearengen
@Doc
Wow, that’s the first time I’ve seen the plot from the movie “Idiocracy”*** used as a political “I win!” button!
***For those too lazy to follow the link, the plot in a nutshell: “…natural selection has become indifferent toward intelligence, so that in a society in which intelligence is systematically debased, stupid people easily out-breed the intelligent, creating, over the course of five centuries, an irredeemably dysfunctional society.”
Jane
Awww…. It was funny! Don’t you guys get it?
kate
I get it. The level of vitriol is directly proportional to how unsuccessful you all are at disputing anything the man says.
I thought libs were literary eggheads who understood, even appreciated hyperbole and irony.
You’ve said nothing persuasive, nothing of substance, merely ad-hominem. You’re like most of Steyn’s critics.
micah
I am so glad I stumbled across this site! My friends have been saying for years that conservatives are stupid and mean but liberals are nice, intelligent people who really care! The postings here, in their thoughtfulness and generosity to the other side, certainly give me food for thought on that subject.
ignatov
“The postings here, in their thoughtfulness and generosity to the other side, certainly give me food for thought on that subject.”
Blow it out your ass, you sanctimonious twit.
Stacy
Yeah, see here’s the thing. If you are going to make the argument that soon liberals will be bred out of society because of the assumption that conservative parents are having more kids, you may not want to start it off with the stellar example of how you were raised in a very liberal family and turned out to be a wingnut, clearly showing that political affiliation isn’t hereditary, nor guaranteed to be passed down through custom.
Being that you clearly have failed to see this large gap in your own experience and the logic you have applied to it, and that intelligence (or lack thereof) is hereditary, I’d have to say I’m not too worried about the conservative christian army you think you are building there.
Todd
Can’t you Mark Steyn haters come up with anything of substance to bolster your low opinion of him? Ad hominem attacks can be entertaining and colorful, but why don’t you try thinking outside the box a little and attack him for his actual ideas.
You might say that he’s a bigot because he criticizes Muslims for stoning homosexuals and oppressing women. Or how about calling him a knuckle dragger because he thinks that sucking out an innocent baby’s brains is a mean thing to do. Or you might inquire as to what kind of fool would want people to make their own medical decisions when the government could clearly do a better job. But to say he’s a jerk because he’s a jackass is circular logic, if you follow me.
Mark is a commentator, author and humorist and one of his central themes is human liberty. If you’re a little foggy on some of his cultural and literary references, google them. I’d suggest you study the Declaration, and the Constitution to find out where he’s coming from. He’s actually sticking up for your rights and trying to goad you with humor in the hope of inspiring you to join him in the battle against the totalitarian regime that has taken our country into its iron fist.
TdotTim
Amazingly well said Todd. And even for a Canuck I find it endlessly humourous how completely pathetic most “arguments” from the left are these days. But it does give you a good laugh to come to one of these sites from Steyn’s ‘reader of the day’ links and see people who’s idea of culture is watching Family Guy, commenting negatively on Mark Steyn’s IQ. That is truly, to borrow from a well known credit card ad campaign, priceless.
Wakefield Tolbert
THE STIMULUS, and the RESPONSE…!
Tim Defendeth the vapor trail of zeros thusly:
The stimulus program is a two year program, not a six month program, with the majority of expenditures calendared for 2010. We’re in month six.
Only ten percent of the money has been dispersed to date, and of that, the majority is going to states to cover their medicare shortfalls. Hardly stimulating.
Yes–hardly stimulating, Timmy. More than you can know, I’m quite sure.
Ya know, Tim, the other thing that needs to be pointed out here is that THE OTHER thing we need to start doing in this country is to pay attention to human behavior, not just all that “it be due to da fact of da mattah when da fact of da mattah be due” jabber we get from everyone from the local DMV all the way to the highest eschelons of governance.
I suggest you pay attention to the fact (see this site’s very name has the word “balloon” in it) that the politicians in the Obama fest floated what’s called a “trial balloon” on this topic lately.
Do you know which one that might be?
Why, yes, it’s called Stimulus 2.0.
It may or may not come about. Likely not.
But the very fact that human behavior lets US know that THEY don’t think the current stimulus plan is working out, is a key indicator they have some furrowed brows of late.
Whatever the long term plans of the administration, this WAS NOT good news that key economic indicators are turning sour as we speak.
Else, this is just an excuse from the administration to chuck on some more glop and handouts. Perhaps both.
Like Rahm Emanuel, now working in concert with another Little Timmy barely out of his hormone transition years (Geitner), we just can’t let a good crisis go to waste.
This is a punchlist, and we all know it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310466514522309.html
As I showed on the other links to some real historians and researchers, more likely than not, economies have reasons for going into recessions all their own when consumer confidence is low and bubbles of various kinds pop, as they always do with over exhuberance. Government just delays the inevitable downturn at best by manipulating money flow and such, but does not address real systemic problems. If there is an overabundance of shops and homes, government can do little about this but manipulate interest rates, etc. More likely, as Fumento showed as in during the heady wonkbrained FDR days, the situation is actually prolonged by such intervention. The natural course for economies will work these things out on their own when people have saved enough money or satisfied with their own situation to head back to the store to buy things more expensive than beer and shrimp packets.
Wakefield Tolbert
Blow it out your ass, you sanctimonious twit.
A classic for the ages, for all times and pages!
Faulkner and Wordsworth, eat your aching hearts out…