Monthly Archives: November 2008

Bailout $$ per capita

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What’s 3 years of law school debt when the federal government can just soak us with a 25K dollars, each, in the swipe of a pen?  What country can survive with this much debt, and for how long?

The money that’s been pledged is equivalent to $24,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. It’s nine times what the U.S. has spent so far on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Congressional Budget Office figures. It could pay off more than half the country’s mortgages.  Bloomberg.com: Exclusive.

On the topic of Baristas…

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I thought I’d relay a conversation of sorts I had with my Starbucks Barista today… seeing as the news is slow and my blog is in desperate need of an update.

So I’ve been working for a little over 2 hours at Starbucks at this point… and had gotten an incredible amount of work done (cheers!).  However, my coffee, at least what was left of it, was downright cold… and I really thought that a half-glass would really be the reasonable thing to ask for especially since I was heading out very shortly… and my stomach was not exactly ready for what would be the day’s third cup of coffee.  To make a long story short, I went up to the counter and very shortly, a short, cute brunette asked me if she could get me anything.  I explained the situation…  I wanted a re-fill but only needed a half-cup… decaf, thanks… and she responded very politely, but followed up with the question:

“You’re going to be an attorney, right?”

I answered with a grin, “well, ya, that’s right, but what does that have to do with the fact that I need a re-fill?”

“O, nothing… I just remember we had talked about it before…”

at which point I quickly racked my brain and was quite sure that such a conversation had never happened…

“it’s just I’m a poly-sci major and that’s an area I’m interested in”…

at which point… I figured out she was just flirting with me and we proceeded to have nice chat… BUT! the lesson to be learned from this story is that Starbucks Baristas SEE ALLL and REMEMBER ALL!!! if you have a book out on the table and a secured transactions outline displayed on your laptop screen… THEY WILL NOTICE!!!  nothing is safe, nothing is private at starbucks…

consider yourself warned.

How Obama Got Elected…

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this video is just maddening… you don’t even have to watch every answer… just scrub through to get an idea of the questions that were being asked and you’ll know exactly how uninformed and WRONG all these people were on the facts.

And listen to the last question: “where do you get most of your information”… that pretty much explains things…

Hanson is on a roll…

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Wow, Victor Davis Hanson is NAILING it on the race industry…

Victimization for generations has proven lucrative, precisely by allowing self-appointed leaders to advance their careers through doctrinaire “they did it” complaints. The script is now old indeed: Blame the pathologies of the underclass that hamper economic progress — inordinate drug usage, illegitimacy, crime, or dismal graduation rates — on the racism of those with “power.” “The Man” can find penitence only through perpetual apologies and the proper channeling of plentiful lucre.

and, near the end… discussing the new “morality” of electing the first black president…

Quit the smug moralizing that we have somehow proved to the world and ourselves that we are now finally worthy and deserving of adulation — as if wisdom and morality were always only an easy punch of the ballot away.

What a great article… I highly suggest the whole thing if you have time.

Win One For the Messiah! by Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online.

contrarian repertoire (a series)

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I’m thinking of starting a new series on my blog… which consist of short, poignant quotations that describe some truth, some fundamental point that I think all conservatives need in their contrarian repertoire–so to speak.

When Europeans talk about “multilateralism,” they typically don’t mean agreeing on a common policy to carry out together. They mean defaulting global security to the United Nations, where Russian and Chinese vetoes curtail effective action. At best, multilateralism à la Paris and Berlin is short for European approval for where and how Americans may intervene around the world.

Same Old Berlin Wall – WSJ.com.

the mother of all double-standards…

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Does it not strike anyone as strange that when Republicans try to give businesses more useable cash in the form of tax cuts, they are lambasted as being in the ‘pockets’ of big businesses but when DEMOCRATS blow HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars to bail out Wall Street, they are “protecting our financial system”?

How is it that unconscionable loans to the US auto industry that reward uncompetitive behavior and fundamentally unsustainable union demands… loans that line the pockets of interest groups that give generously to the Democratic party… are hailed as brilliant and necessary public policy by the same people who despise Republican tax cuts?

Does not anyone wonder how Democrats behaving exactly like republicans as a practical matter (except worse, they are rewarding incompetence instead of rewarding ingenuity), they are hailed even by their own party as saving the country, standing up for the little guy… but when Republicans try to make life easier on businesses, they are EVIL CORPORATE SHILLS…

You democrats are a piece of work… I’m serious.