A Leisurely Stroll Through The Mind Of Thomas Sowell:
Different people have very different reactions to Pres. Barack Obama. Those who listen to his rhetoric are often inspired, while those who follow what he actually does are often appalled.
New York and Chicago have both recently had their coldest June in generations. If they had had their hottest month, it would have been trumpeted from the media 24/7 by “global warming” zealots. But the average surface temperature of the Earth has not changed in more than a decade, according to the Cato Institute.
Many years ago, there was a comic-book character who could say the magic word “shazam” and turn into Captain Marvel, a character with powers like Superman’s. Today, you can say the magic word “diversity” and turn reverse discrimination into social justice.
I would rather see politicians hanged than see their children smeared.
Someone pointed out that blaming economic crises on “greed” is like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Certainly planes wouldn’t crash if it weren’t for gravity. But when thousands of planes fly millions of miles every day without crashing, explaining why a particular plane crashed because of gravity gets you nowhere. Neither does talking about “greed,” which is constant like gravity.
Political ideologies are fairy tales for adults.What did we learn from the “beer summit” on the White House lawn, except that Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t drink alcoholic beverages? Considering the many gaffes that the vice president has made while cold sober, the thought of an intoxicated Joe Biden boggles the mind.
Seeing children repeating the cant they have been taught is not only depressing in itself, it provides a depressing preview of the future, when those children become voting adults, with a habit of reaching conclusions after hearing only one side of an issue.
Since no one seems overly concerned about putting a racist on the Supreme Court — provided it is a politically correct racist — the moral of the story seems to be that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, that doesn’t matter if it coos like a dove at Senate confirmation hearings.
I hate seeing a referee keep giving warnings to a boxer for low blows. Taking a point away is the only kind of warning that is likely to make the low blows stop. The rules of boxing don’t say you are entitled to one free low blow, much less repeated low blows.
Perhaps the scariest aspect of our times is how many people think in talking points, rather than in terms of real-world consequences.
Over the years, unions in the private sector have been declining, while unions in the public sector have been thriving. The United Automobile Workers are getting a big return on their investment in the election of Barack Obama because the government takeover of General Motors makes the UAW more like a public-sector union, whose demands can be met at the taxpayers’ expense.
Recently I was foolish enough to try to reason with an environmentalist. But it became obvious that he had his mind made up and didn’t want to hear any evidence to the contrary. The pope is more likely to have read Karl Marx than an environmentalist is to have read even a single book that criticized environmentalism.
With Velcro and other modern adhesives available, can’t someone design a boxing glove that doesn’t require fights to be stopped in the middle of a round so that loose tape can be repaired? Often the break in the action changes the whole tempo of the fight and can affect the outcome.
How long will it be before the public gets tired of the little know-it-all sermonettes by Barack Obama — especially since nothing that he is doing is actually working?
The 150-year prison sentence for Bernie Madoff has implications that go far beyond this particular swindler. There was a time when a simple life sentence would have kept him behind bars. But today the practice of over-stating the sentences that will actually be served — in order to soothe the public — has gotten so widespread that a ridiculous sentence like 150 years has to be given, in order to try to make sure he won’t be back on the streets again.
8 comments:
I'm continually amazed that when The One speaks, he usually says NOTHING. He can prattle on for 2 or 3 minutes, eloquent words spilling bout of his pie hole, and he says nothing.
It's all buzz words, political me, me, me, statements and liberal platitudes. He might as well click and squeak like a porpoise.
I'm not saying I disagree with what he says, I'm stating that when analyzed, he has said nothing.
Unless, of course, he is telling his detractors to sit down and shut up. A power denied him by his 1st Amendment, and my 2nd.
So you agree with the nothing that he says?
I don't disagree with nothing he says
And I don't disagree with nothing he doesn't say neither
I was making a distinction between disagreeing with liberal views in general, and in the fact that often he speaks random words that sound like an idea, but it's all gibberish.
I'm very confused.
OK, one more try,
when the Messiah is asked a question, he prattles on, and on, and on. Most of the time, his prattling doesn't answer the question, doesn't mean anything when dissected, and usually serves to say, "LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!"
He's like a very tall 3 y/o girl, sans first fairy wand, tutu and toe shoes.
No matter the topic, The One always brings it back to himself, and his prior achievements. (which only he remembers BTW) All done by way of avoiding providing a firm answer, on anything, ever.
Where Sowell speaks volumes, BOHICA just has sounds emanating from his mouth.
"We will see if this one actually passes the smell test. A CNN spokesperson confirmed with TVNewswer that, "CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein asked his show producers to avoid booking talk radio hosts. 'Complex issues require world class reporting,' Klein is quoted as saying, adding that talk radio hosts too often add to the noise, and that what they say is 'all too predictable.'" Apparently some hosts like Lou Dobbs and Bill Bennett and Roland Martin will not be affected by this.
I tell you what the problem is here. The problem isn't that talk radio hosts are "adding to the noise" it is that they are producing the "wrong" kind of noise for CNN. It isn't that talk radio hosts are "all too predictable" it is that some of us dare to ask the questions and push the topics that the lamestream media often chooses to ignore. I'm not talking about subjects like Barack Obama's birth certificate, but I am talking about simple truths ... like the fact that Barack Obama could never offer a tax cut to 95% of Americans when 50% of Americans don't pay any income taxes.
It's little truths like that that the lamestream media can't stand."
Neal Boortz...
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