Some thoughts for the Week End
Until Shirley Sharrod opened her mouth she actually had my sympathy. I wrote yesterday about my initial feelings. But Ms. Sharrod then went on the interview circuit and denounced the usual suspects, Fox News and Anrew Breitbart for all her troubles.
Strange. We now have the internal memos from Fox News that they were actually leery about running the story. As I mentioned yesterday, Glenn Beck did not run with it because he did his due diligence and found that the story was not quite what he thought it was. Bill O’Reilley apologized for his initial report.
Funny that, the White House has yet to apologize for the way they handled the affair. After all, they were the ones who fired Ms. Sharrod. And they did it without bothering to get her side of the story. It was not Breitbart that fired her. It was not Fox News. It was the office of the President. And they were high fiving it for having done so.
It basically goes to the issue that this is the most incompetently run administration that I can remember. They make Jimmy Carter look good.
That is what we get for voting for someone who has nothing to recommend him for the job.
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Another quick thought is on the Journolist scandal. It seems that major players in the Main Stream Media were openly partisan for Obama to the extent that they refused to report about all the problems that Obama past represented.
Quick, who said that they had been to 57 States? Was it
A: Sarah Palin,
B: Joe Biden,
C: John McCain?
None of the above. It was Barack Obama.
According to the MSM Barack Obama sent to the Trinity Baptist Church in Chicago for 20 years and did not listen to anything that the Reverend Wright said. This in spite of the fact that he quoted Reverend Wright in both his autobiographies. This, in spite of the fact that Reverend Wright married Barack and Michelle. This, in spite of the fact that Reverend Wright baptised the Obama girls. That is really amazing.
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The climate police want us to get off oil because it is bad for us. Why don’t they want us to go nuclear? It clean and safe. More birds have been killed in wind turbines than on oil rigs.
By the way, the Vikings had a thriving farming community in Greenland for about 300 years, before the Little Ice Age.
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Churchill once said that the government cannot spend its way out of a recession. In economic history the one cure for a recession is tax cuts. In 1921 the United States had a recession with about 20% unemployment. By 1923 unemplyment was down to about 5% . What did the govenment do to accomplish this. They cut the income tax (and remember at that time only the rich paid income tax.)
Enough ranting for now. Have a great weekend.
Check The Facts
I have always had the opinion that when I hear a story that seems too good to be true I should check it out even more that usual.
Thus when I heard the latest about Sharrod making what seemed to be racist remarks I held my piece. At first glance I understood that the woman was a racist. When I began to think about it I began to realize that there seemed to be something wrong. I could not put my finger on it but I had a gut feeling that there was more to this than what was first reported.
Sure enough, we all know that the comments were taken out of context.
What is interesting is that the White House, NAACP and the MSM all rushed to denounce this woman based on the comments that were taken out of context.
Here I do not defend Breitbart. He has a history of embarrassing the MSM covering their sins of omissions.
But I know that the first thing one should do when they hear this story is to check out the facts. It is all too easy to destroy a person with the pen.
I should at this point give a shout out to Glenn Beck who refused to join madness. He did the decent thing and checked with Ms. Sharrod. Yes, the fanatically right wing commentator actually checked the facts. When he discovered the facts he refused to go along.
But he was one of the few.
And we know that it was the White House that demanded she be axed. It seems that Glenn Beck knew something that Obama and his underlings did not. That we have to check out the facts before we do something.
But this is all not that new. The MSM have routinely misquoted those who they disagree with.
And they ignore racist and inflammatory statements when it goes against their Leftist ideology.
Remember their statements that they could not find any inflammatory statements by Obama’s pastor for 20 years, Reverend Wright.
Yet they were quick to jump on Revend Hagee’s when there was unfounded accusations about his being an anti-Semite.
Media Matters is an organization has a record of taking comments by Conservatives out of context. Yet they are believe by the MSM.
In other words, the MSM has an agenda. When the evidence refutes their ideology then they will do their best to change the facts.
It is important to remember the great words of Grouch Marx on this matter, “What are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”
Thinking About Homelessness
I was thinking about the problem of the homeless. I began to think, how did it happen and how to solve it.
As I began to investigate the issue I made some startling discoveries. That the problem was not due to the free market system. That these are not people who are simply down on their luck and all we have to do is to build “affordable housing”.
No the problem has to do with the fact that the vast majority of the homeless either have deep mental or drug problems or both. Andrew Cuomo did a study here in NY back in the 90s and this was his conclusion. So before you rail please note that I am quoting a Liberal Democrat.
How did these people fall through the cracks? What happened was that there was a movement to lower the population of mental health ficilities.
And then came the “homeless advocates”. These people would not rest until all the “rights” of the homeless were guaranteed. Including the right to live, sleep, urinate, defecate, beg, etc., on the street. That society had no right to defend itself against such activities.
Now rather than treat these people and their problems in the way that it should be met, basically get them into ficilities that can help them, either to kick the drug or alchohol problem, or to medicate them and have someone actually checking on them to make sure that they are taking their meds, the “homeless advocates” are running around letting us know that the solution is to take money from people who have earned it and give it to the homeless.
And when we ask the simple question, when has your policy worked we are called all sorts of names and do not get an answer.
Well that’s my opinion.
About the Author: Shlomo Bar-Ayal is an Israeli-American, or an American-Israeli (I could never get that right) who is unabashedly pro-Israel, pro-US and a great guy.
He has an open mind to opinions that he agrees with.
As you can see from the picture he is also a rather handsome fellow. If he can ever get his picture on the blog!
Besides blogging on whatever he feels like blogging about on any given day he enjoys learning Talmud, davening, being the candyman in his synagogue, smoking his tobacco pipe, and partaking in an adult beverage every now and then