Story #1 tells of the loss of household income under Obama. #2 shows
housing in March dropped by over 7%. #3 and
#4 are videos. #3 is an anti-Obama
ad. #4 is a CNN anchor calling the
Democrats out for trying to blame everything on Bush. #5 has Victor David Hanson reflect on the
left. #6 is a reprint of a story printed
in 1932 before Hitler took power and looking at his philosophy. Was it leftist or rightwing? #7 tells us of how drones are moving out of
strictly a military role into more a part of civilization in America.
Today’s thoughts
When Donna
Brazile said Obama couldn’t bring the price of gas down, George Will asked “Well, if he can stop the seas from rising,
why can't he bring down gas prices?”
With the
current scandal in GSA and the Secret Service, people are forgetting NOAA. They have inflicted over 100 million dollars
in fines on fishermen. Only $60 million
is accounted for.
It appears
Obama plans to delay the gutting of the Medicare Advantage Program by one
year. Obama has decided that doing this
right before the election is not a good idea.
I think that’s what he meant when he told the Russians after this
election he would have more flexibility.
Once again
the Rasmussen Poll shows Obama with 44% favoring him vs Romney’s 48% in the
coming election. This number shows up in
a lot of polls and seems to be an indicator of what he can expect in the
fall.
1. Income Losses under Obama
Mitt Romney has been citing an interesting economic statistic lately about the economy under Barack Obama: “Well, let’s look at what happened. What you’re not going to hear is that during his term median income in America has dropped by $3,000.” Here he is on “Hannity” repeating the same number.
That’s a pretty striking figure. Is it true? The answer depends somewhat on what numbers you use — there are more and less charitable options available — but the answer is arguably yes.
The Labor Department’s official data on annual household income come from a giant survey called the American Community Survey. The most recent figures available from that survey go through only 2010, unfortunately.
Some economists have tried to estimate this number from a much smaller survey that is conducted each month as part of the jobs report. These numbers are noisy but can still be useful.
Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, sent us his own quarterly calculations based on this source:..
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/fact-check-income-losses-under-obama/?src=tp
Yesterday we learned 1 out of 2 new college graduates are either under employed or unemployed and now this. If the elections ends up being about the economy (it will be), Obama is toast.
2. More bad news for Obama
Sales of new homes fell in March by the largest amount in
more than a year, indicating that the U.S. housing market remains under strain despite some
modest signs of improvement.
The Commerce
Department says sales dropped 7.1
percent in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 328,000 units.
That followed a 7.3 percent increase in sales in February. This figure was revised
up from an initial estimate that February sales had fallen 1.6 percent.
The weakness in
March could reflect that a warmer-than-normal winter caused sales that normally
occur at the start of the spring sales season in March to occur in February.
The median home price was $234,500 in March, down 1
percent from the February sales price
Perhaps this follows the fact the Americans
have less money to buy houses with.
3. Video: Another Hard Hitting Anti-Obama Ad
Facts are a terrible thing if you happened to
be a liberal.
4. Video: CNN Anchor Turns on Obama: Tells the Truth
I think he hit the nail on the head. The Democrat strategy (blame Bush) won’t work
this election cycle. It was already used
four years ago. And it appears the lefties are all over the
internet complaining about Lemon. We
know that the left is more vindictive than the right and less open minded.
5. Some interesting thoughts by Victor David Hanson
…But, of
course, the Obama (who attacked each and every element of the war on terror as
a legislator and senator) Left never had any principled objection at all.
Instead, whatever Bush was for, they
were in Pavlovian fashion against. I can say that without a charge of
cynicism, because after January 2009, Obama
embraced or expanded every Bush-Cheney protocol that he inherited. In
response, the anti-war Left simply kept
silent, or indeed vanished, or went to work extending the anti-terrorism
agenda. Guantanamo Bay, in other words, was a national sin until the mid-morning of January 20, 2009….
… What is going on? Two things, really. One, the media believes that the noble ends justify the tawdry means. So if it is a choice between emphasizing the latest Obama embarrassment by digging into the scary Fast and Furious, the “millions of green jobs” Solyndra insider giveaways, the Secret Service decadence, the GSA buffoonery, and the work while getting food stamps con in Washington OR endangering Obamacare and by extension “the children,” or the war to eliminate autism, or the right to breath clean air–well, why would one ever wish to derail all that by weakening a landmark progressive and his enlightened agenda?
Or for you more cynical readers, why would you wish to enervate the present comfortable culture in Washington in which the press and politics are at last one? Or why undermine the first African-American president, who is a constant reminder of our progressive advancement? Or why weaken our only chance someday to have open borders or gay marriage?
Two, the Left has always operated on the theory of medieval penance. We surely must assume that Warren Buffett has never had problems with the ethics of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. or had a company he controls sued by the IRS for back taxes. Why? Because he has confessed his sins, and accepted the faith and paid his tithe to the Church. Ditto a Bill Gates or a rich celebrity like Sean Penn or Oprah. In the relativism of the left, if the one-percenters will simply confess that their class is greedy and needs to pay their fair share—even if they are entirely cynical in the manner of GE’s Jeffrey Immelt and penance is written off as the cost of doing business—then they become exempt from the wages of them/us warfare and the “you want to kill the children” rhetoric.
http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/it-was-the-power-stupid/
VDH forgot the way they passed Obamacare when he was talking about tawdry means. Between the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, the Florida exemption from eliminating Medicare Advantage, and the 300 plus exemptions from Obamacare you have an Administration deep into corruption and a press deep into denial.
6. Hitler a man of the left in 1932
In 1932, Hitler had not yet taken power in Germany.
But he was close.
What would happen to Germany if the Nazis were to rule?
That was a question that had a surprisingly easy answer. In the March issue of The
Atlantic, Nicolas Fairweather wrote "Hitler
and Hitlerism: A Man of Destiny." In it, he analyzed Hitler and his
philosophy, as derived from a reading of Mein Kampf, "to
foreshadow, from [Hitler's] own statements, some of the things he would like to
accomplish." Journalists, at times, can be horrible predictors of the
future. But in this case, Fairweather's assessment was a sound alarm. He
summarizes Hitler in 10 points:
1. His violent racial nationalism, which springs
from his conviction that the Aryan stocks in general, and the Germans in
particular, are a chosen people in whose victorious survival the divine
purposes are bound up.
2. His violent animosity to Marxian Socialism as
in essence opposed to his ideal of a nationally minded people and a racial
state. ...
3. His violent hatred of the Jews as the racial
enemies of all Aryans, the subtle corrupters of pure Aryan states. These
parasites, says Hitler, have made Marxian Socialism, which they invented, the
principal tool by which they insinuate themselves into healthy, pure blooded,
racial states in order to debase simultaneously the national ideals and the
national blood. Destroyers of Aryan civilizations, they remain impotent to
create a civilization of their own.
4. His concern for
social betterment ('true Socialism') as a necessary prerequisite to the acceptance
of his ideals by the masses.
5. His contempt for the intelligence of the ordinary
man and for a democracy based on faith in his development to higher levels.
6. His contempt for parliamentary institutions as the
organs of such a democracy, which substitutes for the decision of a
competent leader the majority vote of the incompetent. A parliament, moreover,
says Hitler, is the natural field of operations for the Jewish Socialist enemy.
7. His insistence on the power of personality and
on the entire concentration of authority in the hands of one leader (up to now,
himself).
8. His economic nationalism, with its distrust of
international capital and its preference for small, locally controlled business
organizations. Hitler fears the banks and all newfangled ideas for controlling
credit. He objects to stock companies and stresses the value of personal
ownership. In short, he believes in the ruthless subordination of economic
interests and economic leaders to racial and national considerations.
9. His insistence that Germany must acquire more land
in Europe as a vital requirement for national expansion and progress (after
the present corruption of the national blood and the national ideals has been
stopped).
10. His insistence that France is the archenemy.
France, he urges, must be broken before Germany can undertake to conquer land
from Russia (the only possible source).
Fairweather assesses Hitler as a man completely
obsessed with the idea of German purity and domination. Hitler ignores
"the unwholesome after-effects of a diet of lies" and "is
deliberately building upon the weakness of the mass mind." Fairweather
calls the aspiring dictator "a genuine demagogue -- honest, no doubt, in
believing that what he does is for the general good, but a demagogue just the
same."
This
is always a fun subject to talk to leftists about. They are adamant that Hitler was a
conservative as was the Nazi’s movement.
The problem is that it isn’t true.
Both Hitler and Stalin were leftist.
7. Is
there a Drone in your Neighborhood?
There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal
authorities have been forced to reveal following a landmark Freedom of
Information lawsuit.
The unmanned planes – some of which may have
been designed to kill terror suspects – are being launched from locations in 20 states.
Most of the active drones are deployed from
military installations, enforcement agencies and border patrol teams, according
to the Federal Aviation Authority.
Here
in Colorado the University of Colorado has their own drone.
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