It’s early. So we should not put much faith in polls right now. But one cannot help notice that after Team Obama has worked so very hard to create a mythical GOP war on women in the media narrative, the latest NYT poll shows it isn’t working. In fact from April, he has lost five percentage points. Add to this his newly-found open support for gay marriage and we see even more fallout, in this very same poll.
With this new published information comes a response from the Obama campaign that will make any free thinking person, fall onto the floor with side splitting laughter.
It’s utterly amazing when Obama’s staff people are confronted with polls that do not support their delusion. It’s even more laughable when they pass off polls by entities that have been in the tank with them from day one, as flawed and/or biased. Suddenly CBS and the NYT are using biased samples to do make the man they have so openly glorified for the past four years, appear to be doing badly among the electorate? I think the campaign, and the President himself, have been doing a fine job of this all by themselves.
Back from deep in the heart of the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, I have to say that I had a good time in Boston but am glad to be home. I had intended on posting a notice of my trip and that I would not be able to blog much. But time got away from me, as it sometimes does in a busy world.
There were some good learning moments at the conference I attended just a stones throw away from Boston Harbor. There was good food, good drinks, and I have some pictures that will never see the light of day as long as some people never cross me. I also got to meet one of our regulars here from time to time, Greg. He is a good guy and I appreciated him taking time to pick me up at the airport on day one, and showing me the oldest ball park in the country now.
During the time I was away, the big story in Boston was Mitt Romney bullying some kid in boarding school a generation ago. That got quite a bit of national and local news coverage, probably due to Romney being an ex-Governor and the media there being firmly anchored to the left. But on Friday, Mitt got a bit of a reprieve. Breaking news on all local newscasts, with updates every 5-10 minutes, centered on Red Sox David “Big Papi” Ortiz’s small fender bender during rush hour traffic, on his way to the ball park for an evening game. Everyone was okay, just some minor damage, the world went on as scheduled.
And so here I am, back in Indy with the 500 activities ready to crank up. Which may even mean some more tourist dollars in the local economy, which will go well with the money raked in during the Super Bowl. We need it, as does almost every other locality in the nation. I bet Jerry Brown would love a fraction of the revenue for the sinking ship he now captains, my birth state California.
Anyway….many thanks to Greg and the mere handful of people of Boston who made my trip enjoyable. And to the drunken jerks who screamed and shouted all night Friday night just outside Battery Park Pub, which was right down from my window, I hope you all get rashes.
These are the headlines in several outlets today, after 52% of the French electorate decided that they need more borrowing, more spending, more bailouts, and more government. As personalities go, President Sarkozy was not a popular figure. But once again it shows why the rest of the world shakes their heads in disbelief when anyone brings up the subject of France.
France must love to live on the brink of recession, must love to live in a world where job creation is stagnant to the point of non-existent. It’s a wonder that anyone with any capital at all would want to live there, and we may very well see a lot of the wealthy French job creators go Galt, leaving the country to the mobs.
My prediction for the nation is a deep recession, far greater than the French people have ever seen in the post WWII era…. by this time next year. If not, watch the balances on the French government’s credit cards swell exponentially. If any nation is expecting France to be a part of any bailout to save the EU now, they are going to be a bit surprised. If anything, France will need to be bailed out in the next five years, if Greece, Spain, and Portugal haven’t drained the money dry before then.
Once again, it will be imperative to make sure that Barack Obama does not get second term. If he does, he may very well borrow more money from the Chinese to bail out the French Socialists, leaving us even further in debt.
So congratulations to the French people for voting for another leader who will increase the size of not only the debt, but the national sense of impending doom that will cloud their future. Congrats to all who think the world you live in owes you something, because you exist.
So to all of the Americans who love to travel, I have another warning. If your dream was to see the beauty and majesty of France, do it now while there still is a France to see.
You may have heard about the Obama campaign piece that chronicles how a fictional girl named Julia has a care-free life because of the policies set forth by Barack Obama, as President. Besides the generalized creepiness factor that it exudes, its very premise is based on faulty logic and is designed to brainwash the weak minded sheep, whose votes they will certainly need to have a chance at staying in power.
Here is a video that chronicles a story about Julia that you may find a bit more realistic:
I don’t believe much of it, personally. If Obama is re-elected for another four years, I think we’ll all be part of the largest third world nation on the planet. This is the one similar to the depictions in the movie Mad Max, and it’ll happen long before Generation X reaches retirement age.
Ask anyone from the Occupy Movement what they want from the One Percenters and all of them will give some form of an answer that when analyzed closely, all boils down to wealth redistribution. Rich people have money because they wanted it, so they worked for it and earned it. But the Occupiers want what belongs to the rich man because they feel entitled to it, out of a delusional mindset that tells them it’s not fair that the man who worked for it has it, and they do not. Some may have wealth due to inheritance, but that still doesn’t negate the fact that someone before them, worked for it and earned it…..and left it to his/her designee by his/her own choice.
With this in mind, take a look at this video of one such Occupoop. Listen closely to how he attempts to make his case to someone who started with nothing, and now has much:
Did you listen closely to Harrison Schultz as he made his weak case for wanting some hard-working wealthy person to just up and GIVE him a job….. as opposed to FINDING one on his own, based on his diligence and qualifications? Finding something would mean he would have to do some work, it would denote the active as opposed to the passive. It means he would need to pound the pavement, going places to fill out applications, and selling himself as a person who wants to work. Someone giving him a job strongly implies that he does nothing to get it and is a tell-tale sign that he feels entitled to it. It means he feels it is owed to him and is a self-disclosing statement that he is a lazy person.
In spite of Harry and his ingenuous verbalized desire for a real job, it appears he already has one.
Schultz claims to be a co-organizer of Occupy Inc., according to his credentials he put up in his LinkedIn page. This movement has been raking in money from Soros Inc. and it appears the architects of this anarchist movement have been living quite well in the process. Some of them stayed in posh quarters while their programmed followers were camping out in the elements, stirring up trouble, and generally trashing everything they came in contact with in the process. At night when the chill set in, people like Schultz, Peter Dutro, and Brad Spitzer were in the lap of luxury, all warm and cozy.
But let’s get back to Harrison Schultz for a moment, let’s look at his LinkedIn resume:
Business Intelligence Analyst at Atrinsic
Freelance Strategic Analyst at Euro RSCG World Wide
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. John’s University
Consultant at MDRC
Temp at Clarity Temporary and Permant Staffing
Office Assistant at The Executive Source
Medical Records Clerk at Saint Mary’s Columbia Hospital
American Heart CPR Instructor at Saint Mary’s Columbia Hospital
Capoeira Instructor, Grupo Maculele at Sage Arts Unlimited
Student Intern at The Planning Council of Milwaukee WI
Assistant Head Lifeguard at Milwaukee County Aquatics
Lifeguard I at Milwaukee County Aquatics
In the video, Schultz claims he was a business intelligence analyst for a paper clip company. His resume shows he worked for Atrinsic, an online advertising and marketing company. Nothing in their website says a thing about paperclips. In the grander scheme of things, it really doesn’t matter much. But we all know if a man will lie about something so seemingly insignificant, there’s a good chance he’ll lie about anything… if he can benefit from it.
You can read the rest of his resume and decide of you believe his sad saga or not. But the point is, no one will be begging someone trying to obtain a PhD in the areas of Sociology of Deviant Behavior, the Sociology of Play, and Social Change….UNLESS….they are planning on making a career in the area of community agitation.
Nothing says I can become a One Percenter faster than someone who has written a dissertation on how to organize a mass protest that will attract social deviants like rapists, and anarchists who like to defecate on police cars in public. Nothing will guarantee a job for Mr. Schultz better than a doctorate from New School University in New York, a den of progressive academics who hate capitalism. It is highly doubtful the curriculum, there, is tailored for the kind of degree that will increase a person’s chances of becoming a successful person who will create jobs in the private sector. It’s better suited for someone who will set up a dummy company that can receive stimulus money from the government and filter much of it to a progressive candidate’s campaign, or an organization that will attract mindless zombies who are still trying to rebel against their parents’ ideals. It’s better suited for a culminating project at a radical university that very few people think about, when they think of hugely successful enterprises.
I have said it before and I will say it again, because I think it bears repeating.
The best way to redistribute wealth from the ultra-wealthy is to work hard to develop a good or a service that they will want to purchase from you. If it is truly excellent, their friends will see what their buddies bought and they’ll want it too. Once you do this, you separate the rich man from some of his money and it becomes yours. If you are smart, you can use that money to develop something else or find new markets for it, so you can expand the business and make even more money.
The Occupy crowd is not able to comprehend this. If they could, they’d be working on that next best thing that would blow the world away, like Steve Jobs did. And they would then come to realize just what it was that set Jon Lovitz off last week.
One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama’s 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called ‘New York girlfriend.’ Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail.
But Obama has now told biographer David Maraniss that the ‘New York girlfriend’ was actually a composite character, based off of multiple girlfriends he had both in New York City and in Chicago.
So….
Just out of curiosity, I think most people who have an ounce of critical thinking skills have to ask the most pressing question. What other things were actually composites in that book?
The Obama camp can’t stop clucking about how he saved GM and the car industry. But if the GM bailout is such a success story, why can’t it pay back its debt to taxpayers?
Maybe it’s because the government doesn’t want paid back, so it keeps its interest in the corporation. Maybe this the plan for all businesses it can get its hands into, to influence and control.
Draw your own conclusions from the data, but the interesting thing you will note is:
1. Indiana just became a “Right To Work” state and moved up one notch from last year.
2. Wisconsin saw the public employee unions lose a battle to keep its members from skating on paying for part of their own retirements and healthcare. Despite the pro-union rhetoric, like everyone else, they must contribute. As a result, the state moved up four notches from last year.
Some reports call it “an apparent suicide”. It sounds a little suspicious when we hear reports that the police checked the girlfriend’s (who found him) hands for gunpowder residue. But on the other hand, he did drive his car off a cliff awhile back, saying he fell asleep. If it was by his own hand, I have to wonder why such a drastic act to a smart young man who still had many years ahead of him and much more to give.
Americans are still being castigated by other nations as being (what they deem to be) a nation built on slavery. And progressives in the U.S. are some of the most vocal about the history of slavery in America. They have a vast amount black people thoroughly convinced, they are the only ones who have the interests of black people at heart.
It’s true, there were slave owners in the U.S. at one time, many years ago. It wasn’t right and because it wasn’t, the 13th Amendment was passed and ratified. The reason it was done was because Lincoln and the Republicans of that day were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation would eventually be seen by Democrats, as only a war-time order.
Despite all of the racial rhetoric that is spewed by race baiting liberals, there are no Americans alive today who were slave owners. So reparations are a moot point.
In all of their complaints, very seldom will they tell the entire story. Here is a video you absolutely must see, it you want to fully understand things as reality:
None of this negates anything that has to do with America’s historical involvement with slavery. But when Louis Farrakhan and his minions are demonizing America, you can plainly see his strategy. When you put all of this information into proper perspective, you can see why he and the progressives want America to absorb the brunt of the criticism and the Islamic world to get a pass from it.
President Obama may still have the support of the youth population, but will they turn out to vote for him? A new poll indicates that is uncertain.
A Gallup poll conducted earlier this week surveyed voter registration and likelihood to vote, broken down by age groups. Among the 18-29 set, 60 percent indicated that they are registered to vote. Obama enjoys a wide lead over Romney in this age group: 64 percent support Obama while only 29 percent support Romney. However, when asked if they definitely will vote in the general election, only 56 percent replied yes.
This poll is why Obama is touring college campuses. Of course it’s all under the pretenses of selling his student loans proposal, so he can charge it to the taxpayer.
Young people turned out in record numbers to vote for him in 2008, which was a key factor in his election. But many of those same college students who pounded the pavement for him then are now looking for work in their chosen filed of study, and it’s not there. Many of them are not motivated to get out and campaign for someone who has failed policies that have been a large part of why they had to move back home, after graduation. And those who are now ready to graduate are finding from their older friends and siblings that the job market stinks.
For an incumbent President to be trying to resell a demographic that he carried so strongly last election it only demonstrates how hard it is going to be to win re-election, fairly and squarely. For an incumbent President (who energized the young people in 2008) to be practically begging them get excited again, it’s going to be a long year.
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