Occam's Razor: the principle that entities should not be multiplied more than necessary; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred
Monday, August 15, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Michael Gove schools Harriet Harperson on the London riots
Haperson keeps insinuating that the riots are the result of conservative policies and then denying that she's insinuating any such thing. She's indignant that anyone would suggest that the sentences coming out of her mouth are related to the topic at hand. Apparently, she wants us to believe that she has some sort of mental condition that causes her to veer wildly off topic at random. Gove doesn't let her away with it.
What Obama inherited (part 2)
Rick Perry and Barack Obama both inherited credit ratings from George W. Bush. Perry raised his inherited credit rating to AA+ from AA and Barack Obama lowered his inherited credit rating from AAA to AA+.
Yes, Democrats, I think from now on it is worth Republicans pointing out frequently that while Barack Obama may have inherited a bad economy from George W. Bush, he also inherited a AAA rated credit rating. And yes, George Bush, like Barack Obama, had two years with Democrats controlling Congress and still managed to not lose our AAA credit rating. Barack Obama failed to do the same with the GOP only controlling one house of Congress.
What Obama inherited (part 1)
AAA Rating:
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921, Democrat
Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923, Republican
Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929, Republican
Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933, Republican
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945, Democrat
Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953, Democrat
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961, Republican
John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963, Democrat
Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1969, Democrat
Richard M. Nixon, 1969-1974, Republican
Gerald R. Ford, 1974-1977, Republican
Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981, Democrat
Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989, Republican
George Bush, 1989-1993, Republican
Bill Clinton, 1993-2001, Democrat
George W. Bush, 2001-2009, Republican
AA+ Rating:
Barack H. Obama, 2009-, Socialist
Gutsy Rambobama!
Okay, so this is a little late, but it's still entertaining. Plus, starting any month now, we're going to have to hear the Dems and the MSM (but I repeat myself) prattle on endlessly about how Rambobama singlehandedly took down Osama.
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Israel and Obama
Thankfully, Israel has a simple way to cope with the Obama problem: ignore him. Although he will continue to be an annoyance throughout the remainder of his one-term presidency, he has virtually no power to trouble Israel. Having proven to be an abject failure at every aspect of the presidency (other than getting elected in the first place ... and he couldn't even have done that without a complicit media who ignored his many failings and exaggerated (or invented) his few strengths), Obama commands very little respect or power. Having lost the House of Representatives, Obama has no chance of implementing any significant policies against Israel, no matter how much he longs to do so. But the situation is even worse than that (for him) because not even the Democrat-controlled Senate sides with him on Israel. Just look at the repeated standing ovations Bibi received as he addressed a joint session of Congress and respectfully schooled Obama as one might school an ignorant child.
So Obama will no doubt bluster a fair bit about Israel throughout the waning days of his failed presidency, but that's all it will be: bluster. Besides, he will have very little time or thought for Israel in these last few months. He's going to be far more concerned with the only thing he really cares about: himself.