Wednesday Grab Bag

I fell into an old trap of posting political stuff on Facebook, which is never a good idea.  95% of my Facebook friends ignore it, as is their right, and the 5% who read it uniformly think I am a crazy person and tell me so in their comments to my posts.  But making a quick post to FB is just so darn easy.  I need to have some sort mechanism built into my keyboard that gives me an electronic shock whenever I try to go political on Facebook.

At least for today, I will do my ranting right here where it can be uniformly ignored.

And the Walls Came Tumbling Down:  Republican Bob Turner, a Roman Catholic, defeated Democrat Mark Weprin, an observant Jew, in the special election to fill the seat vacated by the Topless Tweeter (and occasionally bottomless also), Anthony Weiner, in New York's predominately Jewish 9th Congressional District.  A Democrat has held this seat without interuption for 88 years.  But while every cogent person in America understands that President Obama's job-killing, economy-wrecking policies are driving the country over a cliff, the so-called "progressives" are out there saying that the real problem is that the President is not liberal enough.  Keep it up guys, because you are guaranteeing Republican domination in the 2012 elections.

UPDATE:  Denial.  It isn't just a river in Egypt.

Ponzi Schemers:  I posted one of my political links on FB a couple of days ago to an article discussing the long history of use of the term "Ponzi scheme" in reference to Social Security.  The focus for this charge has been on Governor Rick Perry, who made the comparison in his book and in the presidential debates.  Much tut-tutting has resulted with claims of the Governor needlessly scaring seniors and general references to him as a mouth-breathing booger-picker who just doesn't understand.  But it turns out that the man with the biggest soapbox in all of liberal punditry, Paul Krugman of the The New York Times, has made the same comparison himself.  Oops.

Regulatory Hangover:  With Son of Stimulus, the new proposal from President Obama to throw another half trillion of taxpayers' Dollars down the old s***hole because, well, the first three-quarters of a trillion just wasn't enough, the President has shown himself again to be someone who never misses an opportunity to double-down on a stupid bet.  Instead, the President would give his own electoral chances a big boost if he would just clamp down on the avalanche of job-killing regulations that are being churned out by his executive bureaucracy faster than you can say "Federal Register."  The President's regulatory spree is a particularly sore point here in West Virginia, where the entire coal industry--our economic backbone--is being threatened with total shutdown by Lisa Jackson and the Environmental "Protection" Agency.  For some insight, check out this and this.