I had to pick up the car from my wife to run a number of errands. To do this, I had to take the bus to a certain location.
On the way there, an eccentric older lady boarded the bus, her arms full of a half dozen Teddy Bears, which she sat into the seats next to me, and also a stuffed small carryon luggage piece. Once everything was in place, she sat down.
And then, I noticed this:
O…K! That explains that, and it just goes to show you meet all kinds of people in Life. Time for the Overnight Open Thread!
Posts Tagged ‘Liberals’
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The OOT
by Deplorable Macker ( 132 Comments › )Filed under Democratic Party, OOT, Transportation at November 17th, 2011 - 11:00 pm
A Lesson In Unintended Consequences: The Story Of Liberal Economics.
by Flyovercountry ( 57 Comments › )Filed under Democratic Party, Economy, Environmentalism, Progressives, Socialism at April 25th, 2011 - 4:30 pm
One of my many peeves about the liberal mind set is the innate ability to avoid any discussion about the responsibility for enactment of their destructive policies. I have never fully understood how it happens, but it always does. One reason may be their ability to shed tears at any provocation and immediately be able to claim that they are the only one who truly care about the terrible problems that they create. One example would be liberals successfully banning of DDT, the subsequent deaths of 50 Million People world wide due to increases in a Malaria epidemic, followed by an endless supply of liberals bleating on endlessly about how we, as human beings must do more to stop the horrific spread of the Malaria epidemic that they themselves caused.
Example number two, takes us to Barak Obama’s home state of Illinois. The blue staters in Illinois, in typical liberal fashion ran up a deficit that has ended up crippling the state. Don’t fret over it though, they had a plan. Tax the living snot out of the private sector, and just confiscate the short fall from others. Read the link to see how that is working out for them.
Amazon leaves Illinois, and Illinois tries to make the rest of America pay for their stupidity.
The unintended consequence of course is that businesses leave. Why should they stay? The more Illinois acts irresponsibly, and tries to make others pay for their idiocy, the more those being forced to pay, (against their will in most cases,) will make the decision to leave. If Durbin’s new scheme to steal from the private sector actually does become law, what will keep the Amazon’s of the world here in America. Amazon is very capable from opening an online business in the Cayman Islands, or even in China if they so choose. At one time, on line gambling was the hot thing to crack down on. When we as a nation tried that, we succeeded only in increasing the volume of online gambling. How much longer will we allow the liberals of this country to run amok and keep creating the very problems that they are constantly whining about? Good luck Illinois, I don’t feel compelled in the slightest to help you out of the situation created by your stupidity. Think long and hard before electing another liberal to any job with more responsibility than dog catcher.
Another lesson in unintended consequences comes to us from Washington. This one makes me laugh, because I don’t live in Washington. If I did, and actually bought one of these smug mobiles, I would be fighting mad indeed.
How much more of this Socialist nonsense will you good folks in the State of Washington force upon yourselves?
So, to reiterate, for those of you who did not read the story, here it is. Washington’s liberals succeeded in making cars which run on gasoline economically inferior to those which are hybrids. They had to impose literally the highest energy taxation rates and punitive measures to achieve this. They also had to throw in some hefty subsidizing activity for a health dose of crony capitalism on the other side, but after a couple of Billion in expense that Washington’s citizens could not afford, Washington did succeed in its destructive quest to engineer society. The result of course was a collapse in the revenue collected by the commerce having an adequate oil supply produces. So, in order to make up this shortfall, rather than allow the free markets to do what they have always done so well, Washington is going to punish her citizens for doing what the state forced them into.
Olberman Pulls a Chuckie…
by coldwarrior ( 83 Comments › )Filed under LGF, Media, Open thread, Politics at June 19th, 2010 - 1:30 pm
Keith Olberman, the washed up sports caster turned party-hack over at MSNBC that no one watches is pulling a Chuckie and ditching his allies and friends and trying to remake himself to get ratings, I guess he’s taking a page out of the washed up guitarist turned failed blogger page…
Its an open thread as well:
From the Politico:
Keith Olbermann announced Wednesday night that he will cease blogging on the liberal Daily Kos over a comment directed at the MSNBC host’s coverage.
Olbermann and some of his MSNBC colleagues surprised their left-leaning fans on Tuesday with eviscerating critiques of President Barack Obama’s Oval Office address on the oil spill spewing off the Gulf Coast.
One commenter on the Daily Kos, where Olbermann has maintained a diary over the years, speculated that the pattern of hosts generally sympathetic to the president bashing the administration was too consistent to be a coincidence.
“Can’t verify, of course,” the commenter began, “but a friend in the news biz tells me he got a damaging e-mail from one of his pals at NBC. Something to the effect that their anger was pre-planned because ‘beating up on the president has been good for ratings.’ I haven’t checked, but I’m hearing that Olbermann slammed the speech on Twitter before it even started.”
“For years, from the Katrina days onward, whenever I stuck my neck out, I usually visited here as the clichéd guy in the desert stopping by the oasis,” he wrote. “I never got universal support, and never expected it, nor wanted it (who wants an automatic ‘Yes’ machine?). But I used to read a lot about how people here would ‘always have my back,’ and trust me this was of palpable value as I fought opponents external and internal who try to knock me and Rachel off the air, all the time, in ways you can imagine and others you can’t.”
Olbermann went on to say that he understood if some of his viewers were frustrated to see him criticizing the president but that he would not stand for being accused of doing so just to boost ratings.
“To accuse me, after five years of risking what I have to present the truth as I see it, of staging something for effect, is deeply offensive to me and is an indication of what has happened here,” the liberal host wrote. “You want cheerleaders? Hire the Buffalo Jills. You want diaries with conspiracy theories, go nuts. If you want this site the way it was even a year ago, let me know and I’ll be back.”
It is interesting to watch, the Left is eating their own while they are the height of Progressive Power, the control the House, Senate, and the Executive.
Today Is Christopher Columbus Day!
by WrathofG-d ( 344 Comments › )Filed under Patriotism, Religion at October 12th, 2009 - 12:30 pm
Selected sections from Answers.com
Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, landing in the “new world” of the Americas and gaining lasting fame. Using ships and money provided by Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille, Columbus sailed west in search of a sea passage to India. He had two goals: open trade routes for Spain and bring the word of Jesus…to the non-Christians he expected to meet. He sailed with three ships (the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria) and on his first trip made landfall somewhere in the Bahamas.
He returned to Europe to spread the word, and was named “Admiral of the Ocean Seas” by Ferdinand and Isabella. He made three more voyages in the following years, always believing that he had reached Asia, and his success opened the door for Spain to conquer the Americas. Five centuries after his daring voyage, Columbus is still famous but is also the subject of heated discussions about whether he was a good-guy hero who discovered new worlds or a not-so-nice guy who helped grab the Americas from their native inhabitants. Still, he has long been known as the man who “discovered” America, and the second Monday in October is celebrated as Columbus Day in the United States.
Of course, some liberal teachers across our great nation are celebrating in their usual way -romanticizing savages, and disparaging European Christians.
– Kids study dark side of Christopher Columbus
– Christopher Columbus A Bad Guy In Some Classrooms
In some States the entire holiday is just being removed from the calendar, renamed, or protested.
