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[Albany Media Bias] Your Random Saturday

falze@yahoo.com (Falze) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:30:00 -0500

Andrew Tallman pointing out the obvious to the oblivious:
Teaching introductory logic for ten years made me vividly aware of the low average quality of reasoning among college students. It also showed me how little improvement can realistically be accomplished by only one semester’s training in the art of thinking clearly. By all rights, then, I should have severely pessimistic expectations about public discourse in this country. Nevertheless, whether I suffer from my own strain of bad induction or just unquenchable naïveté, pandemic outbreaks of illogical memes still catch me by surprise.

That’s why I’ve been so shocked at the widespread assertion that a national mandate requiring individuals to carry health insurance is legitimate (and even Constitutional) because we already require everyone to purchase auto insurance.

[Albany Media Bias] Your Random Friday

falze@yahoo.com (Falze) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:32:00 -0500

Baloney sandwiches still available in the Obama aisle, courtesy of David Limbaugh:
Just to illustrate the speciousness of Obama's preposterously unprovable claim that saved jobs are measurable, you should know that two administration financial officials, Ed DeSeve and Jared Bernstein, were unable to say how many of the 640,329 jobs were saved and how many were created. It's also noteworthy that Obama promised in January that more than 90 percent of the stimulus jobs would be in the private sector, but more than half -- 325,000 -- were in education alone...

Of all the words Obama uttered, though, nothing came close in sheer audacity to his announcement that he had planned "a forum at the White House on jobs and economic growth .

[Albany Media Bias] How Stimulating

falze@yahoo.com (Falze) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0500

Hope this doesn't keep you from being able to give some thanks tomorrow:
House Republicans asked the Obama administration to stop touting the number of jobs “saved or created” by the $787 billion economic stimulus law, citing widespread reports that the data are inaccurate. They requested a response from the administration before the Dec. 3 White House “Jobs Summit.”

“The inaccuracy of the job creation and retention claims posted on the Administration’s website, www.recovery.gov, has not prevented administration officials from touting this misleading and inaccurate number as evidence that the president’s stimulus spending package is succeeding even as the unemployment rate continues to rise,” House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio and Rep.

[Albany Media Bias] Heh

falze@yahoo.com (Falze) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:54:00 -0500

[Albany Media Bias] The Real Inconvenient Truth

falze@yahoo.com (Falze) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:20:00 -0500

IBD:
For years, noted scientists and other global warming skeptics have been accused of being on the take, their research tainted and funded by grants from Big Oil and other fossil-fuel interests.

Now, it turns out, it's the warm-mongers who are fudging the numbers and concealing the inconvenient truth...

In one e-mail sent to Michael Mann, director of Penn State University's Earth System Science Center, Raymond Bradley, a climatologist at the University of Massachusetts, and Malcolm Hughes, a professor of dendrochronology at the University of Arizona's Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research, Jones speaks of the "trick" of filling in gaps of data in order to hide evidence of temperature decline:

"I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.

[Albany Media Bias] Government Motors Deal Keeps Getting Worse

falze@yahoo.com (Falze) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:51:00 -0500

Gee, another "we told you so" moment for the great and mighty Won from the right. We said all along that the GM bailout would be a disaster. After saying he didn't want to run GM, Obama personally canned the CEO of GM and put 'his' guy in charge. They screwed over investors, who typically get first crack at recompense in a bankruptcy proceeding, in favor of paying back Democratic cronies. They handed a massive chunk of the company to the unions who played a huge role in GMs failure to begin with. They sat down with a list of dealerships and started ordering dealerships to close (taking away their GM affiliation), no matter how successful they had been, in favor of keeping open dealerships, no matter how far away, clumped, or unsuccessful, owned by heavy Obama donors (that is, they gave a lot of money to Obama, not a lot of donuts to themselves).

[Albany Media Bias] Let Me Guess - The Public Is To Blame?

falze@yahoo.com (Falze) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:11:00 -0500

I have to conclude that the fact that about 80% of the citizens of the United States no longer believe Obey-Won can only mean one thing to the press - that they're stupid, need more prime time speeches on every network, need more of their businesses to be run by the Won and his donors, and have too many rights. MRC reports on their puzzlement:
Long after conservatives and the American people figured it out, CBS on Monday night came to the realization President Barack Obama has a “credibility” problem fueled by the “disconnect” between Obama's promise to reduce the deficit as he pushes for massive new spending.

[Albany Media Bias] Don't Hold Your Breath

falze@yahoo.com (Falze) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:59:00 -0500

Any conservatives, small government proponents, or 'right wing talkers' holding their breath waiting for apologies from the fever swamps of the left now that this news has come out?
A Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it look like a homicide, authorities said Tuesday.

Bill Sparkman, 51, was found Sept. 12 with a rope around his neck near a cemetery in a heavily wooded area of the Daniel Boone National Forest in southeastern Kentucky. Authorities said his wrists were loosely bound, his glasses were taped to his head and he was gagged.

[Albany Media Bias] Look What's STILL Considered Headline News

falze@yahoo.com (Falze) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:39:00 -0500

Unreal.

10-21 featured headline: Obama: Afghan troop decision possible before vote result

11-9 featured headline: Sources say Obama near decision on Afghanistan troops

11-13 featured headline: Obama: decision soon on troops for Afghanistan

Today?

11-24 featured headline: White House: Obama Afghanistan decision 'within days'

Meanwhile, Dick Cheney was lambasted by the left and by the press for saying the following back in mid-October as the leftwing press complimented the Won's "careful deliberations":"The White House must stop dithering while America's armed forces are in danger," the former vice president said. "It's time for President Obama to do what it takes to win a war he has repeatedly and rightly called a war of necessity."

[Albany Media Bias] Your Random Saturday

falze@yahoo.com (Falze) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:27:00 -0500

So. Ummm....

Yeah.

I got nothin'.

Sorry about that.

Hey, long weekend for many next week, extra long Random Saturday next week! Probably even a Random Friday to read after you get back from the Black Friday madness and need to unwind.