This is pretty funny.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Friday, February 14, 2014
Tom Perkins is the Small Mind of the Day
Venture capitalist rich guy Tom Perkins speaks for his
fellow billionaires. And what is he saying?
“The Tom Perkins system is: You don't get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes. But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes.”
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Remember Ted Cruz's bladderbusting faux-filibuster?
The Joseph McCarthy lookalike also read Ashton Kutcher's Teen Choice Awards speech, did a Darth Vader impression, and he read from Green Eggs and Ham. The latter was notable for how he completely missed the point of the picture book!
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Even-toed ungulates prove the Bible is mere fantasy!
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These anachronisms are telling evidence that the Bible was written long after the events it narrates and is not always reliable as verifiable history. These camel stories “do not encapsulate memories from the second millennium,” said Noam Mizrahi, an Israeli biblical scholar, “but should be viewed as back-projections from a much later period.”
Dr. Mizrahi likened the practice to a historical account of medieval events that veers off to a description of “how people in the Middle Ages used semitrailers in order to transport goods from one European kingdom to another.”
What now? Will Christianity be discarded to the scrap heap? After all, as David Haskell asks, "To whom shall we turn for moral guidance now that the cud-chewing, even-toed ungulates have been unmasked as dissemblers?"
Friday, January 31, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
What's it like living near Roger Ailes? Not. Fun.
Jacob Weisberg writes about his experience living in the same town as the head of Fox News:
Twenty years ago, my wife and I bought a weekend house in the town of Garrison, N.Y... We love the place for its scenic beauty, its peace and quiet, and its old-fashioned sense of community...
A few years ago, we found ourselves with a new neighbor. Roger Ailes, the chief executive of Fox News, seemed to be looking for something different when he moved to Garrison: not an escape, but a new arena for conflict. He bought the soothing local weekly, The Putnam County News & Recorder; named his wife, Elizabeth, publisher; and set about transforming it into The New York Post with field hockey scores. He fortified his hilltop property by buying up surrounding homes and installing an underground bunker with six months of survival rations. He began appearing at local meetings...with bodyguard and lawyer in tow, demanding to be heard in opposition to a zoning plan intended to limit future development. He drafted Republican candidates to run for town offices.
...Ailes dealt with Richard Shea, the well-liked and, as it turned out, impossible-to-intimidate supervisor of the small encompassing jurisdiction of Philipstown, by threatening, “I will destroy your life.” Shea is a born-and-bred local who runs a contracting business — precisely the kind of “little guy” Ailes claimed to be representing against environmental elitists. Others who crossed the Aileses...reported being threatened with lawsuits or Fox News trucks at their doorsteps, or in one case, being trailed by News Corporation security officers. Without the restraining influences of his parent company, Ailes has acted out in ways that terrified even his minions. Sherman says a young conservative who was imported to edit The News & Recorder became so frightened by Ailes’s surveillance of the staff and creepy personal comments that he quit and fled town. His replacement as editor, a destitute man’s Sean Hannity, continues to denounce critics as “anarchists” and “anti-Christian.”
Garrison is the key to understanding Ailes because it’s a microcosm of what he’s spent his career doing to the country. He could have moved there to live and let live. Instead...he recapitulated the culture war he was already busily inciting at a national level. Within a short time of his arrival, town meetings turned ugly. Issues of patriotism, religion and political correctness overtook the normal debates about road paving and property taxes. Single-handedly and almost instantaneously, he injected a peaceable civic space with an aggression and unpleasantness that weren’t there before.
Monday, January 27, 2014
Billionaire Tom Perkins is the Small Mind of the Day
Tom Perkins is a billionaire venture capitalist. And he had a doozy letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal:
I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi
Germany to its war on its "one percent," namely its Jews, to the
progressive war on the American one percent, namely the "rich."
From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich
embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco
Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent.
There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology
workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them.
We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these "techno
geeks" can pay. We have, for example, libelous and cruel attacks in the
Chronicle on our number-one celebrity, the author Danielle Steel, alleging that
she is a "snob" despite the millions she has spent on our city's
homeless and mentally ill over the past decades.
This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking.
Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendant
"progressive" radicalism unthinkable now?
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Hey Mike Huckabee, who is "Uncle Sugar"?
This is the former Arkansas governor's nuanced view on how Democrats think of women:
“If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.”Um ... "Uncle Sugar"????
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