Voter ID Stupidity

Cynthia Tucker, the editorial editor(?!) page editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution has embarrassed herself and her paper with an astonishingly moronic column yesterday. My Email to her:



"Dear Ms. Tucker:



Had you bothered to do even some cursory research, like typing "state ID Indiana" into Google, you would have realized that an ID card is available to all residents regardless of whether or not they drive. Is it possible for your poor Ms. Criswell to do that? Or maybe its the big $10.00 it would cost her. Well she could have gotten it for free if she could show she couldn't afford it, what with the cell phone and cable TV bills I'm sure she has.



Additionally, please show me where in The Bill of Rights a right to vote is mentioned. Your childish and ignorant rant has further reduced what little respect I had for main stream "journalists" such as yourself. What's really amazing is that you're the editorial page editor. Do you have Little League players on the Braves beat too? Wait, you'd probably be all for that. Bad example. At any rate, keep it up. I can always use the laughs."

Albright: Bush 'One of the Worst Presidencies' in History

Clinton fossil and ex SoS Albright spouts off with the usual moonbat criticisms of GW. She of course, gives the obligatory promotion of the Global Warming hoax and Oscar Winner and lunatic Al Gore. What is most striking and unintentionally honest is this:

"There are people who come to my office and say, ‘we have to stop
globalization,’” Albright said. “You can’t stop globalization, but I
think we
have to figure out how to mitigate the worst aspects of it and the
problems that
have been created and I think one of the worst is that there
is a growing gap
between the rich and the poor.”

Albright’s
message
centered on the need for equality – not just domestically, but also on a
global scale.

“If we were all rich, that
would be very nice,” Albright said.There
are people who come to my office and say, ‘we have to stop globalization,’” Albright said. “You
can’t stop globalization, but I think we have to figure out how to mitigate the
worst aspects of it and the problems that have been created and I think one of
the worst is that there is a growing gap between the rich and the poor.”

Albright’s
message centered on the need for equality – not just domestically, but also on a
global scale.

“If we were all rich, that would be very nice,” Albright said. “If we were
all poor, it would be too bad, but we would be the same. What the
problem is now is the poor know what the rich have as a result of information
technology and the spread, generally, of knowledge. And, it creates a whole new
host of problems in terms of disquiet and anger.”

And there it is. The Left would rather have equality in poverty than inequality in prosperity. They will do this while exempting themselves from the rules they will require everyone else to follow. Albright also blames the success of some as the source of "disquiet and anger" among others. Very telling. Success and achievement isn't inspirational, it's disquieting. Successful people don't get there by producing goods and services that benefit their fellow man. No, they anger people.

What causes disquiet and anger is statists and fascists like Albright, Clinton, Chavez, Edwards et al. They're the ones fostering resentment, dependency and blame of the private sector for the problems they cause.

NBC'S Green Fraud

Jonah Goldberg exposes corporate interest in the Global Warming hoax. General Electric, NBC's parent went a bit too far this week and betrayed itself with its in your face promotion of policies that will go directly to its bottom line. GE is one of, if not the largest manufacturer of many technologies that people either don't want (fluorescent lights) or are not cost effective (wind turbines, solar panels). But if they can get the government to force or coerce individuals and businesses to buy this crap through mandates, subsidies and the tax code then voila! An artificial market has been created. It's no different than the current Ethanol Scam whereby Washington subsidizes a fuel that uses more energy than it produces, drives up food prices and is far less cost efficient than petroleum. Too add insult to injury, we also impose high tariffs on imported ethanol, thereby driving the cost even higher.

In the end, individual Americans end up paying for this nonsense through higher prices and lower job and wage growth with no benefit other than assuaging irrational guilt and encouraging the fanaticism of The Church of Environmentalism and Marxism. Strange bedfellows indeed.

Woman Turns Down 150 Marriage Proposals

Fox reports this story from Serbia. Assuming it's true, then A: She's the only woman in town. Or B: She's the only woman in town that doesn't look like George Washington. Or C: She can suck a golf ball through a garden hose.

New Che Guevara Poster

The victims of Che make up the iconic image of this psychopath and coward. Send one to your favorite college student for their dorm room.

Oregon hates kids and are stupid too!

At least that's what the New York Times thinks in another of its typically condescending editorials. Apparently, Oregon voters were dupes of "shameless" tobacco companies who committed the sin of trying to protect their own interests in selling what is for now, a legal product. The Times is even more shameless as self appointed arbiter of who should have a right to speak to the electorate. The real problem they have is that Oregonians may have actually listened to them: "The referendum said a lot about the power of money in any election, and not much about what the public thinks about the issue if given accurate and balanced information." In other words, voters are dopes when they fall under the spell of tobacco money but enlightened when influenced by unaccountable dollars from George Soros and Chinese crooks.

The Times also complains that opponents didn't "win by the urgent health care needs the initiative was meant to address, or the benefits higher cigarette taxes would bring by deterring smoking." Well they should have since that statement doesn't make any damn sense. If you deter people from smoking then how are you going to pay the bill for "urgent health care needs"

New Jersey Stem Cell Dems "stung and puzzled"

The New York Times reports with the usual sympathy for leftist tax and spenders that another attempt at government intrusion has failed. Opponents from the Right to Life crowd used the argument that “Research has not produced one cure. Not one. Question 2 is about taking your tax dollars for something that Wall Street and the drug companies will not invest in. Think about it.” I think about it every time government tries to involve itself in things it has no right to be and no competence. The RTL'ers had another agenda of course but that's not the larger point. If all this research amounted to nothing, supporters of this bilge wouldn't have to pay one dime of consequences for turning NJ taxpayers into venture capitalists. How many of them have their own money at risk in companies already in the Stem Cell Business?