Sunday, March 14, 2010

Assortment

Another Black Conservative welcomes a distinguished new member to the Tea Party movement.

The Obama administration continues to demonstrate its worthlessness as an ally.

Commenter Srekwah at Tim Blair's site links to an astonishing series of photographs of modern-day Detroit. The city looks like something out of Blade Runner, after an earthquake, a tornado and a Martian invasion (once you get into the slide show, the advance button is in the lower right corner).

“Gee, we raised the taxes on the rich and now we don’t have so many rich people anymore. Whahoppen?” Sundries Shack explains the economic facts of life to the Maryland legislature.

Suzy Rice does not believe in mincing words (although it appears that she wouldn’t mind running a few Democrats over a giant cheese-grater; I’m with you, Suzy!)

For the first time in more than 20 years, Social Security is paying out more in benefits than it collected in payroll taxes. Gawrsh, Mickey, never saw that one comin’!

12 comments:

JeffS said...

1. Allies, schmallies; the Obama Administration is worthless as anything you care to imagine.

2. Those photos of Detroit display the results of the economic and racial policies of the Democrats who ran the place into ground over the past 30 years or so. They shouldered the business leaders to one side and took over. At one point, the city mayor didn't want any businesses in downtown Detroit who didn't have an African-American on their corporate board.
I can only wonder how long it will take other American cities to decay so badly; with our infrastructure crumbling, it'll take less 30 years.

3. Oregon pulled a similar stunt in their last elections, passing a referendum to tax higher income people at a higher rate. Progressives are indeed stupid.

4. And Social Security will be trying to collect on some of those IOUs from other agencies. Rotsa ruck, people.

Old Tanker said...

JeffS,

Detroit has been going downhill longer than the past 30 years....Since Coleman Young was elected....but hey, our Governor, Jennifer Grandmole", said Bush economic policies unfairly targeted Michigan...

RebeccaH said...

All of the links are parts of a whole. Radical liberalism (and I say that as a committed libertarian with some classical liberal opinions) has been the ruination of the greatest nation on earth. The stupid are in charge of the asylum... lunatics with intelligence could do a better job.

Those pictures of Detroit are heartbreaking, but unfortunately, that kind of decay is not limited to Detroit. You should take a tour of Cincinnati proper sometime, and it's one of the "viable" cities!

As for the racial outcomes in this country, just examine the "gangsta/baby mama culture" that infects our inner cities and tell me blacks aren't the biggest victims of radical liberalism.

RebeccaH said...

Oh, yeah, and while I'm ranting: I'm drawing Social Security after nearly forty years of contributing, and Mr. H will be drawing it in a few months. Our investments have been punched in the gut by this Obamaconomy, and who knows if we can depend on his Civil Service pension and military disability in the future? We thought when we got old, we wouldn't have to worry about the necessities.

Well, nobody excepts a Gramscian Marxist government coup.

RebeccaH said...

Damn. I mean "expects". Next time I need to cool down before I post.

TimT said...

I like these pictures of Detroit's 'feral houses'. Many other remarkable links to Detroit pics on that website as well, including a visit to a former zoo.

JeffS said...

That's true, OT, but 30 years ago is when the mask really came off.

Minicapt said...

As a former resident of Windsor, Ontario, I can only say: "Yep".

Cheers

Paco said...

Captain: I spent a semester at University of Detroit back in the fall of '73, and made a trip to Windsor one night with some friends. Two completely different worlds.

Old Tanker said...

....and did you enjoy the Windsor ballet while you were there?....

Paco said...

Um...it was a kind of ballet, sort of.

Old Tanker said...

only the best kind.....