tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37310022012-01-10T08:08:19.771+11:30Dissecting Leftism -- Large font site<img src="http://i29.tinypic.com/2m2tmxe.jpg"> It's the shared hatred of the rest of us that unites Islamists and the Left.<br><br>American liberals don't love America. They despise it. All they love is their own fantasy of what America could become. They are false patriots.<br><br>The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant<br><br>
Posts below by <a href="http://jonjayray.tripod.com/main.html">John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.)</a>JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger25331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-11348237544884436112010-03-25T17:24:00.003+11:302010-03-25T17:31:28.609+11:30"The times they are a changin"The advent of Windows 7 has made this site rather pointless so I will no longer be posting here for the foreseeable future. The default font size in Windows 7 is very small. So everybody has to learn how to change it to suit themselves. An immediate way is to hold down the "Ctrl" key and move the wheel of your wheelmouse backwards and forwards.The posts that wouldJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-92195222555604365382010-03-24T22:19:00.000+11:302010-03-24T22:20:02.432+11:30Blog suspendedNow that the battle against socialized medicine in America is largely over, I have decided to suspend publication of my SOCIALIZED MEDICINE blog. I will of course still be posting on the issue when matters of particular interest arise but I will do so on this blog from now on -- as you will see below. My AUSTRALIAN POLITICS blog will also continue to cover the disasters of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-58620800486943825632010-03-23T19:13:00.001+11:302010-03-23T19:13:28.613+11:30Tehran's terrible future, and maybe America's tooIt was a sobering read. In 1950, Samuel Glasstone's "The Effects of Atomic Weapons" provided the first unclassified explanation of the physical destruction caused by nuclear weapons. The book's descriptions were detailed, clinically precise ... and terrifying. For decades, it remained the authoritative source on the topic. Only one problem: It JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-49253693394890365872010-03-22T22:41:00.001+11:302010-03-22T22:41:34.162+11:30Is President Obama At War With America?If a frontal assault on the foundational principals and values of American life can qualify as being “at war” - then yes, Barack Obama is in combat with our country. And while the belligerence of both his administration and his party’s congressional leadership have seemingly created a sense of alarm across the U.S., their apparent disregard for their own JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-342415825720849992010-03-21T20:42:00.001+11:302010-03-21T20:42:45.682+11:30America, The Gulliver of NationsPowerline posts a keen insight on how Great Britain's present, may become our future: Once the federal government becomes so deeply involved in allocating health care, it will come to be a dominant focus of political discourse. Over the years watching on C-Span the British Prime Minister's Question Time, I've observed that a large portion of this exercise is JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-12955266888534723972010-03-20T18:47:00.001+11:302010-03-20T18:47:20.291+11:30America's lawbreaking CongressBy Robert F. Turner (Robert F. Turner served as acting assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in the Reagan administration and is a professor at the University of Virginia)As a scholar who has studied and revered the Constitution for more than four decades, watching the be -havior of our Congress in recent years has been all too often a depressing JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-77665652756530372012010-03-19T23:21:00.001+11:302010-03-19T23:21:16.275+11:30Moody's Warns U.S. Sinking into Financial Abyss“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.” —Alexander Hamilton.Not even Alexander Hamilton would support today’s national debt. When the nation’s system of perpetual, permanent debt was enacted, it provided, according to American Public University’s History Central, “that the debt be funded by reissuing bonds to beJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-11694260926996105242010-03-18T23:31:00.001+11:302010-03-18T23:31:49.185+11:30Leftist argumentationI noted on Greenie Watch recently the low quality of Green/Left argumentation. Almost all of it is ad hominem abuse or appeals to authority. Any interest in the facts of a matter is conspicuously absent. I am sure that most conservative bloggers find the same in emails that they get from Leftists. Just for fun, however, I thought I might put up here the latest such JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-52941202093601888362010-03-17T21:09:00.001+11:302010-03-17T21:09:29.938+11:30Why Are We Still Bowing?Not long after President Barack Obama gave his conciliatory speeches to the Islamic world, he chose not to meddle in the sham election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In fact, he offered not a word of support for the men and women who took to the streets against that totalitarian regime. Then, as "manmade disasters" continued to erupt spontaneously around the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-42883459574843160392010-03-16T23:07:00.001+11:302010-03-16T23:07:55.373+11:30Marco Rubio and the Republicans Who Love HimMarco Rubio laughs at the idea, heard from some pundits recently, that he's the "Republican Obama." "I'm not sure people even want to be the Democrat Obama these days," he says. For Rubio, the unlikely front-runner in the Florida Republican Senate primary race, the label is a measure of the unhappiness many people feel with their political choices at JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-65459944284959920172010-03-15T21:11:00.001+11:302010-03-15T21:11:53.032+11:30ProgressWell, my cataract operation went "very, very well" according to the ophthalmic surgeon so rapid healing will hopefully ensue. The private clinic I went to could not imaginably be better, I think. Private medicine in Australia is very, very good -- as good as public medicine is bad. Yet my private health insurer is covering 100% of the charges from the clinic and from the anesthetist JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-4303684760888342882010-03-14T18:16:00.001+11:302010-03-14T18:16:53.259+11:30Possible hiatusI am going into a private clinic tomorrow to have cataract procedure on my right eye -- which I am NOT looking forward to. But it has to be done. So I have no idea how much I will be able to post over the next few days. But, like General MacArthur, I shall return.*********************Karl Rove update Darby, his wife of 23 years, just divorced him in December. The marriage came JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-53649835974479893142010-03-13T20:55:00.002+11:302010-03-13T21:18:37.092+11:30Denying the Truth at all CostsPolitics and policy has become surreal. Webster's defines the term as "bizarre or dreamlike". No word better describes the current state of affairs. For yet another example of the "dreamlike" suspension of reality that is everyday Washington, D.C. consider the recent announcement from union-toady, Congressman George Miller. Miller is proposing to spend $100 billion JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-20466397889647561922010-03-12T23:05:00.001+11:302010-03-12T23:05:35.111+11:30REDIRECT for "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH"Response times on the site hosting "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH" have become so slow as to render the blog almost inaccessible.I have therefore moved the blog back to its original home on blogspot. Go HERE to access all the recent postings.I moved it off blogspot at a time when Google (the owner of blogspot) was having a severe bout of irrationality but JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-63247185493669451142010-03-11T20:05:00.000+11:302010-03-11T20:06:05.459+11:30An interesting email from Jay Watts (lots_a_watts@yahoo.com) about some strange documentsPlease read the following disclaimer: "This book is a product of it's time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and interpersonal relations have changed since this book wasJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-73653855785413564612010-03-10T22:28:00.002+11:302010-03-11T20:06:25.892+11:30Some stray thoughts on Vorwärts! Vorwärts! (The song of the Hitler Youth)While I have the work I did on the subject a couple of days ago still in mind: I see that British critics of the HJ (Hitler Jugend; Hitler Youth) during the war described it as "education for death". And there have been academic articles that identify Fascism/Nazism as a death cult too. And if you look at the last line JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-2298162803833247592010-03-09T19:25:00.001+11:302010-03-09T19:25:52.180+11:30The end of the road for Barack Obama?Barack Obama seems unable to face up to America's problems, writes Simon Heffer in New York It is a universal political truth that administrations do not begin to fragment when things are going well: it only happens when they go badly, and those who think they know better begin to attack those who manifestly do not. The descent of Barack Obama's regime, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-51932142444308172212010-03-08T21:05:00.000+11:302010-03-08T21:06:03.605+11:30Nazi MusicThis is a difficult subject to broach because musical tastes differ so much from person to person. While there is some music that has near-universal appeal (some of the arias from "Carmen", for instance), it also seems to be true that no two persons have exactly the same musical preferences. This is a matter of some personal significance to me as I seem to be unusually strongly moved JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-3778545795348538702010-03-07T21:03:00.001+11:302010-03-07T21:03:52.627+11:30Brainy workers earn much more over life courseMore validation for intelligence testsBrains translate into big bucks in the workplace, according to a University of Florida study, which finds that bright people have earned at least half a million dollars more by middle age than those who are less intellectually inclined. Smart people start out with modestly higher paychecks, but their income and JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-1811899250672093542010-03-06T18:24:00.000+11:302010-03-06T18:25:09.964+11:30Obama wants to give America its own chairman MaoAn arbitrary and authoritarian Left-wing extremist with no respect for the law has no place as a judgePaul has written here and here about Goodwin Liu, a left-wing law professor whom President Obama has nominated to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. To say that Liu is thinly qualified would give him too much credit, as he has scarcely ever JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-301396858087006032010-03-05T23:31:00.001+11:302010-03-05T23:35:33.879+11:30Lefties too clever by halfA mocking comment from German economist Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich below. As I pointed out on Feb. 26, the research Dr Hartwich ridicules is junk science anywayThis week’s news held an unpleasant surprise for the world’s conservatives and religious. Luckily for them, they were probably too dumb to understand it.A long-time study by the London School of Economics (LSE) justJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-91906683241231949012010-03-04T18:55:00.001+11:302010-03-04T18:55:49.593+11:30The power of hateThere's nothing more beautiful than a young child. Nothing. The brightness of spirit, the spontaneity, the natural intelligence – which Einstein called "the holy curiosity of inquiry" – are breathtaking. What, then, possesses a smart, handsome young 5- or 6-year-old boy to go on Palestinian television and sing, "When I wander into Jerusalem, I will become a suicide bomber"? Or JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-43631066835142240522010-03-03T20:47:00.000+11:302010-03-03T20:48:04.241+11:30Rev. Ian Paisley retires from politicsA most doughty defender of his people. Pic below as he is most likely to be remembered. Even in retirement, his counsel will still be sought. Story here**********************Pinochet's Legacy: Free, Non-Communist ChileGen. Augusto Pinochet was laid to rest after several years of illness, which prevented the Chilean Supreme Court from hearing criminal JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-1457294189964089182010-03-02T17:37:00.000+11:302010-03-02T17:38:03.613+11:30GOP Should Learn from Ron Paul’s CPAC Victory In the days following Texas Rep. Ron Paul’s decisive win over former governors Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) straw poll, left-leaning networks, predictably, treated the event as further proof that tea party activists are taking over the Republican Party. That was to be expected. Liberal smear JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-39642707803645265362010-03-01T20:31:00.001+11:302010-03-01T20:31:29.542+11:30A small note to blogspot bloggersIt is a sad truth that all blogging platforms seem to have their limitations and problems. I have both Wordpress and blogspot blogs and on the whole I prefer blogspot, which is hosted by Google. Most Wordpress templates ("themes") disallow some html commands, which is quite mad. What they hope to gain by that is beyond me. One of my Wordpress templates won't JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-55289038577653611112010-02-28T21:23:00.000+11:302010-02-28T21:24:13.249+11:30Are the Donks prepared to lose this year in order to get Obamacare through?I generally agree with what appears on NRO, but I think that the anaysis below, while containing some truth, commits the sort of mistake that Leftists usually make: It looks at the group rather than the individual. I have no doubt that the political Left as a whole have an abiding hatred of American success and a yen to JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-18929421290549803172010-02-27T23:00:00.000+11:302010-02-27T23:01:08.570+11:30A nasty memory of bigoted Leftism among American academicsMy career as a social science researcher was not a difficult one. As a conservative, I had to write at a much higher standard than if I had been a common or garden variety Leftist but I could do that so 200+ of my articles got published in the academic journals.One episode from the '90s, however, I still remember with displeasure. In theJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-1354231705446324992010-02-26T22:35:00.000+11:302010-02-26T22:36:07.621+11:30"Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent"The study excerpted below is amusing. It is coming out in a sociology journal but concentrates on psychology to the exclusion of sociology! Amazing what can happen when you have an axe to grind!The article is mostly speculation and theorizing but it does have some actual findings about IQ on which to build its house of cards. But the writer JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-5029201644005395322010-02-25T18:34:00.001+11:302010-02-25T18:34:29.778+11:30PCUSA: Presbyterians who no longer accept the authority of the scripturesWhich separates them from all their traditions as Presbyterians. They have fallen under the influence of a Satanic Leftist gospel rather than the true gospel. Needless to say, they have lost a huge slice of their membership over the years (estimated at nearly half in the last forty years) as there are many other JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-40143208575050576352010-02-24T21:36:00.001+11:302010-02-24T21:36:40.719+11:30Pathetic argument for more government spending We know that Democrats are great haters but being anti-men is hardly wise -- particularly when the abuse is based on a lie. Reid just does not sound very brightAdvocates for men are calling for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to apologize for suggesting that men are more likely than women to commit domestic violence, especially when they're out JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-77140917077467035252010-02-23T12:57:00.002+11:302010-02-23T15:05:23.355+11:30The Australian Leftist government can say "jihad" and "terrorism". Why can't Obama?Could Obama say ANY of the things below? Americans eat your heart out!Prime Minister Rudd, above, is a committed Christian, and, unlike Mr. Obama, is not known to believe that the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset"THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, will today try to regain JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-13871716318129418182010-02-22T19:06:00.002+11:302010-02-22T23:05:46.455+11:30The Avandia beatupI would normally cover this on my FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC blog but as it seems to be part of a political war against the drug companies designed to shore up support for Obamacare, I am covering it here. It is a huge crock, as I will point out at the foot of the article below. Politicians faulting the super-cautious FDA on drug safety really is a laughA Senate report that JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-17295862351898890542010-02-21T21:42:00.001+11:302010-02-21T21:42:59.331+11:30Pick an Excuse, Any ExcuseRemember that great scene from the Oscar-robbed classic "The Blues Brothers"? Jake and Elwood (John Belushi and Dan Akroyd) are finally cornered by Jake's former fiancée (Carrie Fisher). Jake left her at the altar with 300 guests and the best Romanian caterers in the state waiting. "You betrayed me!" she exclaims. "No I didn't. Honest," Jake explains. "I ran out of gasJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-59592971934452962222010-02-20T18:37:00.001+11:302010-02-20T18:37:13.057+11:30MSM denial over IRS bomber's LeftismGee, looks like angry people! Must be the Tea Party movement!Before crashing his plane into an IRS office building, Joe Stack wrote and posted online a diatribe against insurance and drug companies, private health care, George W. Bush, and the Catholic Church. Subtract out the subtle hints at his planned terror act, and a similar rant could have appeared in JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-10341952127300621792010-02-19T22:30:00.003+11:302010-02-22T00:26:14.222+11:30Mixed race can be a good thing I gather that all references to mixed race are these days regarded as taboo. So when Obama referred to himself as a "mutt", you could almost hear the gasps. But blacks themselves take it very seriously. Among blacks, a lighter-skinned black tends to be more prestigious and more complacent about his skin color. So a brown black cruises, if that makes any JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-12445047617586161522010-02-18T20:30:00.001+11:302010-02-18T20:30:20.178+11:30 How did religion evolve?The article below is very limited. The authors rightly say that basic concepts of right and wrong have often previously been shown to be largely hardwired (inborn). They also rightly see that religion reinforces and refines moral and ethical ideas but does not cause them. So the authors only achieve a negative: They exclude morality and a need for co-operation asJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-81123919481793950972010-02-17T23:10:00.001+11:302010-02-17T23:10:11.164+11:30 Obama faces mid-term humiliation after Senate exodusPresident Barack Obama is facing humiliation in this year's mid-term elections after a wave of desertions by Democratic senators who have retreated from tough challenges for their seats from a resurgent Republican party.There was speculation on Tuesday that the next to join an exodus ahead of the November elections could be Blanche Lincoln, whoJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-31461863220615410112010-02-16T19:08:00.001+11:302010-02-16T19:08:55.278+11:30PBS & NPR, America’s Pravda and IzvestiaBy Tibor R. MachanIt is a feature of American culture that’s most upsetting though hardly anyone makes much of it at all. Indeed, I know several avid defenders of the free society who make regularly and eager appearances on National Public Radio and I have to confess that I myself have appeared on one or two Public Broadcast Service programs when allowed toJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-21524730734577502282010-02-15T22:05:00.002+11:302010-02-16T00:08:29.968+11:30Acorn-ucopiaDidn't Acorn, the corrupt community organizer, get its federal funding yanked after its last scandal? Actually, no. Through municipal middlemen, it's poised to rake in another $4 billion. Where is the outrage?You'd think a group implicated in dozens of electoral fraud cases, theft of funds and, most recently, helping criminals interested in bringing child prostitutes to the U.S. wouldJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-82273228893310961262010-02-14T17:36:00.002+11:302010-02-14T17:41:04.042+11:30Loss of cultureThe Left has inflicted grievous damage on the transmission of our culture -- mainly via their control of education. The past for them is a bucket of ashes. Except that it isn't. It is an immense resource for all sorts of things. It is even a resource for fun and amusement. Recently on this blog I used the expression, "Calloo, callah, callay". and I faintly hoped that at leastJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-28332917699124497082010-02-13T21:14:00.001+11:302010-02-13T21:14:53.569+11:30Mathematical ability in femalesFor around 100 years, IQ testing has consistently found that females have better verbal ability and males have better mathematical ability. But that is of course politically incorrect so Leftist researchers have been scratching around for an explanation of differences in mathematical achievement that does not involve innate ability. The latest such is below and itJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-14308437589315067892010-02-12T17:46:00.001+11:302010-02-12T17:46:35.562+11:30 Lashing Out Beats AccountabilityConservatives understand that liberals often demonize their opponents rather than debate the merits of the issues because the tactic works. But you have to wonder whether another reason they lash out is that they are angry that reality doesn't cooperate with their ideologically driven solutions and it's easier to blame others than to face up to the unpleasant JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-41184713392505985802010-02-11T18:36:00.001+11:302010-02-11T18:36:32.303+11:30Seven Huge Flaws in the Way Liberals Think1) Liberals believe they can change human nature. Sure, human beings can be shaped and molded to a certain extent. Any parent who has spanked a child can tell you that. However, most people care more about what they're having for lunch today than an earthquake that kills ten thousand people on the other side of the world. We're just built that way and no JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-63592928536666988512010-02-10T23:00:00.000+11:302010-02-10T23:01:02.516+11:30Note to EYE ON BRITAIN readersI have been trying to find a Wordpress template (theme) for that blog which I like -- without much success. A couple of themes that I rather liked looked good in Firefox but were a mess using IE8 or Google Chrome! Amazing. The Wordpress people must use Firefox only. I have now reverted to what I think is the most legible theme and will stick with that for JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-80244662857417201732010-02-09T18:55:00.001+11:302010-02-09T18:55:34.952+11:30The New Discrimination In favour of unionistsThe election of a president of mixed race was supposed to mark an end to discrimination in America. Instead it has ushered in a new era of blatant discrimination. The very first piece of legislation enacted by the Obama administration was supposed to create or save 4 million jobs and prevent unemployment from going above 8% if enacted. Instead, the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-72518567490162778012010-02-08T22:26:00.001+11:302010-02-08T22:26:36.066+11:30Is China a paper tiger?An email from the optimistic Ray Kraft [rskraft1@gmail.com] below. Mao used to call America a paper tiger, meaning that it looked strong but was notEven the Chicom government has calculated and published its estimate that circa 2015 the number of workers in China will enter a period of permanent decline in both absolute and proportionate numbers, while the number of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-75592196089707468392010-02-07T23:50:00.001+11:302010-02-07T23:50:59.762+11:30Islamic radicalism blamed on "conservatism"The stupid definition of conservatism as "opposition to change" is still something of a reality-defying mantra among Leftists -- despite conservatives often being major agents of change -- from Benjamin Disraeli to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. And if George Bush's movement of American power into two countries of the Middle East is not a JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-36739818748016238222010-02-06T21:23:00.001+11:302010-02-06T21:23:32.986+11:30A BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBERToday is the Gipper's birthday. If only we still had him with us Feb. 6, is the 99th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States. Although it has been 21 years since President Reagan completed his second term and left the White House, he still remains a figure of great interest to many Americans, including a large number of young JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-23440474924187347892010-02-05T22:44:00.002+11:302010-02-06T10:24:22.856+11:30RACE AND IQI suppose I am dreaming but I have this crazy idea that as a much-published psychometrician, I should be permitted to convey what I know about IQ research. IQ research is part of psychometrics. I will of course be accused of being a "racist" for telling what I know but to hell with that: truth comes first for me. If telling the truth makes you a racist, that sounds like praise JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-46661549322886244892010-02-04T18:24:00.001+11:302010-02-04T18:24:46.951+11:30Democrat ostriches?A chilling spectacle just took place before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Panel Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., asked, "What is the likelihood of another terrorist-attempted attack on the U.S. homeland in the next three to six months, high or low?"And one by one, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, CIA Director Leon Panetta and FBI Director Robert JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-2988059977155225742010-02-03T00:26:00.000+11:302010-02-05T00:26:56.011+11:30Obama's Philosophically Fascist State of the Union Address by Ben Shapiro There sure is something different about President Obama. Usually, the State of the Union address is a laundry list of proposals spiced with sycophantic applause and dipped in an admixture of boredom and bravado. It is rarely a statement of basic philosophy. Not for President Obama. President Obama's State of the Union JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-81421975985885196082010-02-02T20:16:00.001+11:302010-02-02T20:16:51.566+11:30PROBLEMSMy internet connection (cable) has been "down" since midday to my blogging today is much disrupted. Some blogs are up as usual while others have reduced or absent posts. It's the obnoxious Telstra/Bigpond again. Their's is the only cable that passes my door so I have to put up with their contempt for their customers. If their service gets any worse I may add a wireless connection via JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-27545552558734268022010-02-01T23:12:00.001+11:302010-02-01T23:12:57.326+11:30A constitutional lawyer (guess who?) who doesn't know the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of IndependenceThe media constantly overlook that this guy is a DUMMY In last night's State of the Union Address, President Obama said: "We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal...."JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-59462849891128500862010-01-31T23:47:00.001+11:302010-01-31T23:47:35.417+11:30“Turkeys voting for Christmas”That's what the intellectual elite think of working class conservative voters. They think that voting Left is OBVIOUSLY in the best interests of the workers and cannot understand that the base of support for the GOP is mainly among the less affluent. They think that working class people are cutting their own throats by voting conservative. It's an old claim but JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-5452021714523161302010-01-30T23:58:00.001+11:302010-01-30T23:58:34.764+11:30Newspaperwoman Regrets Voting for Obama By Jill Dorson I am a registered Independent. I voted for Barack Obama. And for that, I am sorry. I'm not sorry for you. I'm sorry for me. Because I voted for Obama for me, not for you. I voted for hope and change and all the intangibles that Obama was peddling in the wake of the financial crisis, Sarah Palin, Sept. 11 and all the other ills that shook JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-44661320497544296892010-01-29T19:05:00.001+11:302010-01-31T23:08:47.559+11:30What fun! HNN has just run a "special" denying that Fascism/Nazism was Leftist!It is Jonah Goldberg's book that has got them steamed -- and steamed is the word. Most of the "critique" is little more than abuse, liberally leavened with unsupported assertions. What has got them steamed is that a recognition of the philosophical affinities between historical Fascism and modern "liberalism" has JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-61695996860396477262010-01-28T23:03:00.001+11:302010-01-28T23:03:56.924+11:30SOTU: The night of magical thinkingPresident Barack Obama's first State of the Union address answered the big question pundits were asking resoundingly. In the face of setbacks and growing opposition, in the face of the cap-and-trade energy bill being considered effectively dead, in the face of the loss of a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, in the face of increasing opposition to the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-75831372880506590232010-01-27T23:30:00.000+11:302010-01-28T00:04:40.301+11:30Stupid British Leftist policies have been self-defeatingMore equality is the declared British Leftist aim but after 12 years of Labour Party rule, social mobility has DECREASED. The major road out of a poor background for capable kids was the Grammar school system: Government schools run on private school lines that took only academically brighter kids. They were a great success but the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-42225598415063152012010-01-26T23:45:00.001+11:302010-01-26T23:45:39.473+11:30Britain becomes a nation of conservatives for the first time in 20 yearsPeople's views are becoming more conservative and there has been a mass move away from tax-and-spend values, an influential annual study said yesterday. Even Labour supporters have weakened in their belief in equality and redistribution of wealth, said the British Social Attitudes report. It said that after a dozen years ofJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-9859394344842078972010-01-25T15:54:00.001+11:302010-01-25T15:54:28.168+11:30More politically-correct inability to see the obviousBoth sides of the debate below seem to be assuming that it is upbringing that is responsible for the difference in children's intellectual achievement -- when all the research shows that genetics is the major influence -- with upbringing of negligible importance. Smart people tend to get rich and pass on their smart genes to their childrenJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-21017338457254973942010-01-24T23:42:00.001+11:302010-01-24T23:42:34.577+11:30Even the British Left think Obama is wrong about the banksIt's just an obvious stunt on Obama's part to distract attention from the meltdown of Obamacare. He's unlikely to get new laws through the Sanate anyway so it is just more of his usual hot airAlistair Darling warns today that President Barack Obama’s proposals for shaking up the banks would not have prevented the crisis and risk JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-42404140886493952312010-01-23T19:47:00.001+11:302010-01-23T19:47:24.338+11:30The Lies of ObamaWhen politicians are caught out in lies, their supporters often resort to the old cliché: all politicians lie. But that is itself a lie: most don’t. Even among those who do, there are enormous differences in the importance and frequency of the lies. And it is surely now clear that this nation has a far from routine problem in the scale and regularity of President Obama’s JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-44948364148786310012010-01-22T21:59:00.001+11:302010-01-22T21:59:23.268+11:30Bloomberg Hammers Obama, Congress Over Bank PlanMayor Says President's Idea To Limit Size And Investments Will Lead To Big Problems For NYC, Including LayoffsPresident Barack Obama's demand Thursday that Congress clamp down on the size of banks and their investments got major blowback from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who said it could cause layoffs and hurt the city.It's a clash JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-22514775580944619722010-01-21T19:35:00.001+11:302010-01-21T19:35:26.706+11:30A revolution beginsBy Boston Herald Editorial StaffIt was - for the second time in Massachusetts history - the shot heard round the world, or at the very least from coast to coast and surely in the halls of Congress. Scott Brown won this one fair and square with his down-to-earth charm, his hard work and his forthright position on issues - and with the help of that much-disparaged by the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-37705827198404692532010-01-20T22:38:00.001+11:302010-01-20T22:38:38.927+11:30A kick in the teeth for Obama, Reid and PelosiThe Massachusetts Senate result has shown that lies and fancy talk might get you into office but in the USA you still have democracy to deal with -- and arrogance will get you nowhere there. Scott Brown is every American conservative's hero today.*********************‘Barack Obama made a lot of promises but they meant nothing’Voters in Massachusetts JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-69134617644059309372010-01-19T19:44:00.000+11:302010-01-19T19:45:08.736+11:30Don't trust the knowallsThe examples below are from business but in politics it is always the Left who think they have all the answers -- with results as bad as knowalls in business. Even "experts" are often wrong and Leftists tend to be profoundly ignorant of most of the things they discuss -- such as economicsIN DECEMBER 2008, two seemingly unrelated events occurred. The first was the releaseJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-23748447865250349472010-01-18T22:28:00.001+11:302010-01-18T22:28:35.739+11:3012 Signs That 2010 Is Going To Be A Really, Really Bad Year For The Democrats And The Obama AdministrationGuest post below from "Michael The Patriot" of The Truth The 2010 election is still almost 10 months away, but already every indication is that if the election was held today, the Democrats would suffer a crushing defeat. So will things get better for the Democrats by the time election day JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-45236937309787162812010-01-17T23:35:00.001+11:302010-01-17T23:35:34.049+11:30An odd old sayingThere is an old tripartite saying that sticks in my mind -- mainly because I don't understand the second part, I think. It was said to be fatherly advice given by a British aristocrat to his son:1. Never drink port after champagne.2. Never hunt south of the Thames 3. Never give your lady one in the morning. You never know what might come up during the day.I would be JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-74824548532363169572010-01-16T23:18:00.001+11:302010-01-16T23:18:47.841+11:30Predestination -- and a small reflection on the Calvinist culture into which I was born"It was meant to be". "It was all planned out before we were born". Such statements are the essence of Calvinism. And I think that they are still common in at least some Christian circles. In the English-speaking world, the home of such doctrines is the Presbyterian Church -- in its various incarnations.JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-73434325074770430072010-01-15T23:12:00.000+11:302010-01-15T23:13:01.789+11:30Baby temperament found to predict adult brain structure and personalityNot those pesky genes again!In a study that could help clarify the complex relationships between the brain, environment and behavior, researchers have found that four-month-old infants' temperament predicts some aspects of their brain structure 18 years later. Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Charlestown, Mass.JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-87765308531973175842010-01-14T19:51:00.001+11:302010-01-14T19:51:33.966+11:30IQ-related genes continue to be discoveredThere is universal agreement that there are many genes involved in the production of high IQ. There is not a single "IQ gene". High IQ seems to be the product of many genes working "just right" in the same individual -- which is why it is rare. And the process of finding out which genes are involved is advancing steadily. Below is the latest report JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-67029761048301520692010-01-13T23:53:00.001+11:302010-01-13T23:53:42.854+11:30The Divine Right of IntellectualsToo many intellectuals believe they have a duty to make decisions for the rest of usIn his 1988 book Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, Paul Johnson wrote that one of the lessons of the 20th century was “beware intellectuals. Not merely should they be kept well away from the levers of power, they should also be objects of suspicion when JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-63582962214821858452010-01-12T19:59:00.001+11:302010-01-12T19:59:59.903+11:30Putin marks 10 years of extraordinary achievementThe article below certainly presents another side to what we normally hear. It was written by an Australian Christian conservative. What is missing is a comparison with other post-Soviet economies -- such as the Baltic States. But while the Baltic States have done better in many ways, the economic crisis hit them hard -- which was much less soJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-26262776340806819902010-01-11T23:57:00.000+11:302010-01-11T23:58:01.218+11:30The catastrophe of good-sounding ideasBy THOMAS SOWELLIdeas are such intangible things that it is hard to believe that they have had a huge impact on the lives of people who are not intellectuals and who, in many cases, have paid little attention to those ideas. Yet both secular and religious ideas have moved the emotions of many – and have moved leaders who moved armies.When we look back on the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-62002866693995084702010-01-10T20:22:00.002+11:302010-01-10T21:56:05.169+11:30Historic German economic failures seen as successesSo the attempts to imitate them were failures tooIn the case of the Third Reich, the widely held perception even now is that whatever else may be said about his regime, Hitler managed to bring about a dramatic revival of the German economy. After 1933 Hitler and his finance minister Hjalmar Schacht stabilized the economy and managed to solve the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-89010507816403762772010-01-09T23:34:00.001+11:302010-01-09T23:34:56.265+11:30Liberal agenda could be on hold as Dems face election carnageThe retirements of longtime Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., will likely chill the liberal agenda of the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate as they seek to avoid widespread losses in 2010.Political experts believe the prospect of significant Republican gains in November will leave Democrats divided JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-38226464925626781362010-01-08T22:39:00.000+11:302010-01-08T22:40:02.028+11:30THE CONSEQUENCES OF OBAMA: TERRORISM IS BACKRev. Jeremiah Wright said that the "chickens came home to roost" on 9-11. He was wrong. But they have now, indeed, come home to roost as we witness the results of the unilateral disarmament President Obama has practiced in the war on terror. Beset once more by terrorism on our soil and in our airspace, we find ourselves suddenly overmatched by those JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-56101873582268188202010-01-07T21:49:00.001+11:302010-01-07T21:49:37.734+11:30Girls 'are the equal of boys at maths' claims recent studyThe journal article underlying this report was not yet online at the time of writing but there is an extended summary here. The research seems to be based on school tests rather than IQ tests. That is rather stupid. Girls mature faster so are mentally older than boys of the same chronological age. Girls also work harder at school. ItJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-14543534904201526702010-01-06T23:51:00.001+11:302010-01-06T23:51:20.928+11:30Mickey Mouse air securityEl Al could show America how. Meanwhile: The next TSA idea below:AS hands are wrung in the aftermath of the near-tragedy on a Northwest Airlines flight approaching Detroit, a conversation from London's Heathrow airport in 1986 comes to mind. It consisted of an El Al security agent quizzing Ann-Marie Doreen Murphy, a 32-year-old recent arrival in London from JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-10641246824456939652010-01-05T23:32:00.002+11:302010-01-05T23:39:30.117+11:30Intellectuals and Societyby Thomas SowellThere has probably never been an era in history when intellectuals have played a larger role in society. When intellectuals who generate ideas are surrounded by a wide range of others who disseminate those ideas-- whether as journalists, teachers, staffers to legislators or clerks to judges-- the influence of intellectuals on the way a society evolves can JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-34341668477533850692010-01-04T22:50:00.000+11:302010-01-04T22:51:04.827+11:30Pantybomber exposes naked bureaucracyBy Mark SteynOn Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear. Pretty funny, huh?But the Pantybomber wasn't the big joke. The real laugh was the United States government. The global hyperpower spent the next week making itself a laughingstock to the entire planet. First, the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-53905120716793696982010-01-03T23:34:00.001+11:302010-01-03T23:34:22.491+11:30Barack Obama is vulnerable on terror – and he knows itObama has downplayed the threat of terrorism -- even refusing to use the word. But when it keeps happening, he is revealed as a foolIn his weekly radio address yesterday, President Barack Obama patted himself on the back for having "refocused the fight - bringing to a responsible end the war in Iraq, which had nothing to do with the 9/11 JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-5478024175600718742010-01-02T21:59:00.001+11:302010-01-02T21:59:13.911+11:30Clueless Clueless. It’s the word that best describes the Obama administration’s first year in office. They’ve proven themselves clueless about creating jobs; clueless about handling growing nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea; and now, most devastatingly, clueless about protecting Americans from terrorist attacks on our own soil. And with nearly one year under the belts, they can’t keep JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-1623440649596513072010-01-01T23:55:00.001+11:302010-01-01T23:55:33.344+11:30 HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL WHO COME BY HERE!My New Year's eve was very quiet -- which is how I like it. Anne came over and cooked us some excellent roast pork for dinner; We listened to Scottish music; We opened a bottle of Veuve Clicquot NV to toast the new year. And at 66 I still seem to have a fair bit of life left in me so expect to be blogging on for some years yet. I am gradually going JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-48382279700751629382009-12-31T19:13:00.000+11:302009-12-31T19:14:08.357+11:30The wake-up call from Flight 253by Jeff JacobyAFTER THE SEPT. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, it was widely asserted at the time, nothing would be the same. What Pearl Harbor had been for our parents and grandparents, 9/11 would be for us: a shattering national wake-up call revealing both the gaping holes in America's homeland security and the reality that we were at war with an implacable enemy JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-57265144053202640382009-12-30T20:01:00.000+11:302009-12-30T20:02:03.764+11:30One formidable ladyHIGH standards, a short temper and a taste for whisky - Margaret Thatcher's personality is laid bare in secret files released in Britain Wednesday which cover the first few months of her premiership.The files, covering the first few months of her premiership, reveal she refused a guard of 20 "karate ladies'' when she visited Japan soon after becoming prime minister in 1979 and JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-80053590490986841162009-12-29T18:59:00.002+11:302009-12-29T19:00:24.208+11:30Obama handles Northwest Airlines terror incident differently than Ft. HoodYet Ft. Hood was where people died. Is it only terrorism if it doesn't succeed?The Obama White House has been aggressive in its press outreach regarding the Northwest Airlines terrorist incident. Some of the earliest stories on accused terrorist Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab's attempt to set off an explosive device on board JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-16658050517374351022009-12-28T20:11:00.001+11:302009-12-28T20:11:54.633+11:30PROGRESSIVE PROFESSOR TRASHES OBAMAIt takes a Leftist to do real rage. He even calls it rageThe far left is not happy with President Barack Obama, their Messiah. "Now I'm Really Getting Pissed Off" is an article by David Michael Green, a progressive professor at Hofstra University in New York, that provides a devastatingly negative critique of Obama and his economy-wrecking policies, including JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-67140682890541800432009-12-27T15:53:00.001+11:302009-12-27T15:53:59.190+11:302009: The Year of Lost opportunity in Iranby Charles Krauthammer On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama's latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring that Iran "will continue resisting" until the U.S. has gotten rid of its 8,000 nuclear warheads.So ends 2009, the year of "engagement," of the extended hand, of the gratuitous JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-80394026714557540412009-12-26T09:50:00.001+11:302009-12-26T09:50:34.079+11:30Lessons from John GaltRecent headlines seem lifted directly out of an Ayn Rand novel. President Obama decries the “fat cat bankers on Wall Street”. Harry Reid attacks insurance companies for making too much profit. House Democrat leaders call Tea Partiers “Racist, Nazi, Gun Nuts”. How about this nauseating statement made by Army General George Casey after the Muslim terrorist attack on Ft. Hood?JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-65370755102961212382009-12-25T16:43:00.001+11:302009-12-25T21:51:46.751+11:30More progressJust back from an excellent lunch with ham, large prawn kebabs, calamari etc. cooked on the BBQ by our host Russell, husband of my stepdaughter Susan. Russell is a genial soul but I don't know him all that well as yet so I did at one stage ask him a question that I thought would get at least an untroublesome answer. I asked him: "Do you like steam trains?". He replied "I LOVE JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-35400420436461747622009-12-25T01:02:00.001+11:302009-12-25T01:02:48.638+11:30MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL WHO COME BY HERE!I have a full offering on all my blogs today (mostly put together yesterday) but I will probably not be putting up as much as usual for the next day or two. As Australia is in a much earlier time-zone than the USA, many readers will in any case be reading this on their Christmas Eve. As I write this, I have just been to a big family JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-85616539699351767462009-12-24T00:10:00.001+11:302009-12-24T00:10:53.659+11:30Are Republicans More Principled Than Democrats?Ordinarily I’d say that commitment to principle, or its absence, is bi-partisan, that Republicans are neither more virtuous nor more concerned with the public interest than Democrats (or, obviously, vice versa), but a glaringly obvious yet under-remarked aspect of Harry Reid’s recent “Cash for Cloture” auction for health care votes calls that JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-47938219137283098422009-12-23T00:08:00.001+11:302009-12-23T00:08:41.877+11:30Nearly 60 percent Say President Obama’s Decisions ‘Bad for America’A majority of Americans believe an increased government role in health care would lead to more government corruption, while a plurality of Americans think that scientific data supporting man-made global warming is “mostly falsified.” That is what a new poll by Survey USA reveals. The poll also shows that 58 percent of Americans JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-78137560917217762392009-12-22T00:07:00.000+11:302009-12-22T00:08:02.515+11:30One year after Gaza invasion, Israel proved rightOn my understanding, there WERE a few rockets fired into Israel after the IDF withdrew from Gaza but the bombardment did stop shortly thereafter -- JR It's something that has largely gone unnoticed but, with Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech winning praise for his defense of war in the name of peace, it is a good time to point out, that JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-7370217574990000172009-12-21T00:08:00.001+11:302009-12-21T00:08:20.091+11:30Freedom doesn’t have to ask the government for permissionThe federal government was created by people who were sick and tired of a king’s government that controlled every facet of life. They wrote a Constitution that explicitly limited the power of the new government. Under this new government, individuals were free to pursue happiness as they chose. In 200 years, this new nation of free JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-27918761305430187292009-12-20T00:06:00.001+11:302009-12-20T00:06:42.405+11:30Obama: Hysterical exaggeration in a calm voicePresident Barack Obama grimly warned America this week that if his health care plans fail, the nation will go "bankrupt." Sure, adding another trillion-dollar entitlement program to our $12 trillion of debt may seem like a counterintuitive way to stave off economic ruin, but who are we to argue? The president's got smarts. And as is the case with JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-42822162562763777742009-12-19T00:10:00.001+11:302009-12-19T00:10:25.102+11:30The crooked British Left againVandals deface town war memorialA Royal British Legion boss says vandals have “dishonoured those who have given their lives for our country” by defacing Burton's war memorial. Roy Whenman, vice-chairman of the town’s Legion branch, received calls from members saying an extremist message had been written on the statue. Having been informed at 9.20am, borough councilJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-35987928959791049512009-12-18T00:13:00.000+11:302009-12-18T00:14:09.646+11:30Once again Obama says one thing and does the opposite"I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat-cat bankers on Wall Street," President Obama told "60 Minutes" onSunday, the eve of White House meeting with top Wall Street bankers. This line, and the credulous media coverage that followed, fed the image of Obama as the people's crusader against the wealthy special interests. But ifJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731002.post-81613774248530813192009-12-17T00:09:00.001+11:302009-12-17T00:09:33.772+11:30Is Protestantism of New Testament or of German origin?Time for some sociology! I taught sociology for 12 years at a major Australian university so maybe I can claim to have some idea what it is all about. Sociology is actually a lot like climatology. You have to try to find a common thread in a whole lot of crazy data and the thread you think you have found may in the end not be there at all.JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com0