Andrew Breitbart at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville (referring to the outrageously biased mainstream media coverage of the Tea Party movement):
“That my friends is not media bias. That is contempt for the American people”
Then, he looked into the cameras and addressed the mainstream media:
“Your days of doing this are over. It’s not your business model that sucks, it’s you that sucks.“
watch the video (3 minutes)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcbhf0iJcL8&feature=player_embedded
yes he did.
Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said THIS about Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat…“Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?” “For the Republicans to say vote for us and bring back the guys who got us into this mess in the first place, I don’t think it’s a winner.”
I mean, it is Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, but this is unseemly!
Does this strike anybody else as weird?
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (which is run jointly by all of the current Democrats in the US Senate) thinks that all they have to do to persuade folks to vote against Scott Brown is to link him to the Tea Party movement.
Maybe it’s just me. But national polling has shown that the Tea Party movement has higher favorability ratings that either the Republican or the Democratic Party.
While the choir might respond well to this attack, I think the majority of independent voters greet news of Brown’s affilation with the Tea Party movement as a positive, not a negative.
Apparently, it’s not just the Coakley campaign in MA that’s out of touch. From inside the beltway it appears to be axiomatic that Tea Party = Evil.
I don’t think most voters agree. We’re going to find out tomorrow.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEoW-P81-0
According to the weatherman, sometime between 9am and noon tomorrow, the temperature will reach 32 degrees and by 3pm will climb all the way up to 38. It will be the first time since the evening of January 2nd that the temperature here in middle Tennessee has gotten above freezing. According to the National Weather Service the last time that we had nine consecutive days of below-freezing temperatures was in 1899. That was 111 years ago.
It was warmer at McMurdo Station, Antarctica yesterday than it was in Nashville, TN.
As someone else has observed, when it’s hot it’s global warming; when it’s cold it’s just weather.
I think the percentage of folks in Middle Tennessee who believe in global warming has fallen with the thermometer.
photo captioning by Pansy
A few weeks ago, my trusty Lenovo laptap snapped first the left and then the right hinge which connects the LCD screen to the keyboard/cpu unit. I’ve had it for several years (and been quite satisfied with it), but my immediate response was to go online and start shopping for a replacement.
And then I thought again.
Today, the $35 replacement hinges that I ordered arrived. This evening I spent about 20 minutes opening the case, removing the old hinges, and installing new ones. I’m quite happy with the laptop once again.
The larger implications of this for the economy are actually much more significant that one might suspect. The US economy has been built on consumer spending, both big ticket items (houses & cars) and on intermediate “white goods” (appliances & electronic gadgets). When times are difficult or uncertain (or both) many consumers have the option of postponing purchases of new or replacement items and stretching the life of the things they already have.
This appears to a significant part of what has happened in the US over the past 12 months.
See charts below:
Vanderleun of American Digest coined a phrase last week in describing the daily work of Matt Drudge – “poet-laureate of the headline stack.” Althouse has referred to the encoded meanings in Drudge’s juxtapositions, especially his use of iconic images to accompany single headlines.
But I think the headline stack IS a new literary form – almost poetic. Certainly expressive and evocative by its selection of order and juxtaposition. A bit like a haiku. This is what has been up for most of today. The sum is greater than the parts. Seeing the links stacked together gives much more meaning sometimes than even reading the individual linked articles:
Winter Could Be Worst in 25 Years for USA...
CHILL MAP...
Britain braced for heaviest snowfall in 50-years...
GAS SUPPLIES RUNNING OUT IN UK...
Elderly burn books for warmth?
Vermont sets 'all-time record for one snowstorm'...
Iowa temps 'a solid 30 degrees below normal'...
Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years...
3 die in fire at Detroit home; power was cut...
Midwest Sees Near-Record Lows, Snow By The Foot...
Miami shivers from coldest weather in decade...
Would anything be added to this by analysis or commentary on Global Warming? Is any further commentary necessary?
The 1929 crash exposed the naivety and ignorance of bankers, businessmen, Wall Street experts and academic economists high and low; it showed they did not understand the system they had been so confidently manipulating. They had tried to substitute their own well-meaning policies for what Adam Smith called ‘ the invisible hand’ of the market and they had wrought disaster. Far from demonstrating, as Keynes and his school later argued – at the time Keynes failed to predict either the crash or the extent and duration of the Depression – the dangers of a self-regulating economy, the degringolade indicated the opposite: the risks of ill-informed meddling.
– Paul Johnson, Modern Times, p. 240
I teach the chapter entitled Degringolade to my students tomorrow. In context, the chapter title is a trilingual pun. The students’ first assignment was to research the meaning of the title.
The free market would never produce this – an entire city, built for one million people, to which no one has yet moved. All because some central planners thought the existing city should be replaced.
And of course, no one has ever lost money investing in real estate in China!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h7V3Twb-Qk
h/t to John Derbyshire at NRO.
