Pre-Holiday Round Up

Who Is Waging A War On Women?

The alleged Republican war on women is nothing more than a liberal ploy to take people’s minds off the terrible economy and the failure of Obama. However, the real war on women is being waged by Democrats. The Democrats are screaming for pay equality for women and they love to say Republicans oppose this equity.

Looks like a recent analysis tells a different story. The Obama White House pays women employees 13% less than male employees and a number of Congressional Democrats exceed that percentage in disparity of female to male staffer pay. These champions of the minority/woman/non Republican disadvantaged have huge gender pay gaps (this is not an all inclusive list, just a list of the largest gaps):

  • Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.)—47.6 percent
  • Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D., N.M.)—40 percent
  • Sen. Jon Tester (D., Mont.)—34.2 percent
  • Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md.)—31.5 percent
  • Sen. Tom Carper (D., Del.)—30.4 percent
  • Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.)–29.7 percent
  • Sen. Kent Conrad (D., N.D.)–29.2 percent
  • Sen. Bill Nelson (D., Fla.)—26.5 percent
  • Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore)—26.4 percent
  • Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa)—23.2 percent

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Have fun defending that Democrats. Those in Maryland take note that sleepy Ben Cardin is on the list.

Who is Slinging The BS?

Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary, says that the those in the media who buy into the BS about Obama’s spending that is coming from the Republicans are slothful and lazy. He is furthering the myth that is now established by the media that Obama has not spent a lot of money and has been as thrifty as they come. This is based on an analysis done by some liberal that basically tacked all of Obama’s 2009 spending on Bush.

Obama spent the TARP money set in reserve and then pushed for and got passed the trillion dollar Stimulus but all that spending is attributed to Bush under the guise that Obama was forced to follow Bush’s budget his first year in office. This might normally be true (and if so did not Clinton cause the 2001 recession) but there are two problems. Bush’s budget was held up by Democrats and not passed and Obama ignored it and pushed for his own spending.

This is what Democrats do. They create all kinds of problems and then they rewrite history. They are basically asking you who you will believe; them or your “lying” eyes?

Obama has spent us into oblivion and now he and his minions are trying to make people believe that he did no such thing.

What he is really saying is that all this spending is not good for the economy so Bush did it, not the messiah Obama.

Those with brains know better. Those who don’t know better are Obama’s base.

Democrat Rule Equals Destruction And Poverty

When Democrats run things they never work well. This is particularly true when they run cities. look at the major cities run by Democrats and they are in bad economic times, are over budget and have lots of public sector union employees doing nothing more than wasting taxpayer money. New York, Chicago, and Baltimore are prime examples.

Detroit is the most glaring example and the city now has 60% fewer people than it did in 1950. People left because there were no jobs and the taxes were eating them up. The crime only made things worse.

There are a few poor souls who are forced to remain there and many of them will remain there in the dark. The city has a lot of broken street lights that it cannot afford to repair and even if they worked it could not afford to illuminate them. The city is broke and is not paying its electric bill.

The plan is to only illuminate lights in the areas where people are congregated. there is a hope that those who live in the dark areas will move to the lighted ones. Seems appropriate since liberals are always in the dark anyway.

This is one hell of a way to run a city.

I am willing to bet that a conservative could turn this city around even at its advanced stage of decomposition.

It would take some seed money but it could be done. I would partner with some wealthy conservatives and have them invest in the city. I would fix the things that are in disrepair and I would encourage business to relocate there by providing tax breaks that would encourage growth.

I would fire all the public employees and interview for the positions needed and I would establish a strong police and fire department that could not negotiate against the people they serve. Hell, I might make it all private. No matter what, there would be contracts that prevented them from taking advantage of the taxpayers.

Then I would see to it that the businesses hired locals and I would offer incentives for people to move there and take jobs.

I know that the once great city of Detroit could be great again.

But only if it can be delivered form the evil known as liberalism.

I think the folks in Detroit are probably asking “who is John Galt?”

Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Big Dog

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Moonbeam Reports Greater Budget Deficit

In January, Governor Moonbeam Brown of California reported a budget deficit of 9.2 BILLION dollars. After the important month of April, the month that taxes owed must be paid, the deficit is much worse. The deficit for California is 16 BILLION dollars.

California is a huge state with lots of very wealthy people and yet it has budget problems. Part of that is because the wealthy liberal elites like to talk about tax increases or paying more but they find ways not to actually do that.

Another part of the problem is that California is a welfare state and it is a sanctuary state. California has a lot of people sucking at the teat of government and quite a few of them are illegal aliens.

Governor Moonbeam is worried that he will have to make cuts from social services and from the state employees if, wait for it, tax increases are not approved by voters.

[note]Moonbeam wants temporary increases in the sales tax and on incomes over $250,000. Those tax increases will not be temporary for very long. Once the increases do not solve the problem they will look to raise taxes even more.[/note]

Why would voters approve tax hikes when the government has shown time and again that it is not capable of managing a budget? Why would people vote to pay more into a corrupt system that has demonstrated it is not capable of cutting spending of managing programs? Why would anyone want to pay more in taxes to support a growing population of welfare recipients and illegal aliens (also known as new Democrat voters)?

Moonbeam Brown needs to cut, cut, and cut.

Why worry if you are not in California? If voters reject tax increases how long will it be before California becomes too big to fail and is bailed out with tax dollars from the rest of the country?

Maybe the voters should approve a tax increase on all wealthy liberal actors. They should have to pay 90% of their salaries in taxes to help the state out.

Want to bet the “please tax us more” liberal actors would be screaming bloody murder and looking for ways to hide their assets.

Want to bet they would be looking to move to a more tax friendly state?

Pay close attention America. California’s economic woes are a sentinel event that portends the future of the country. Moonbeam is doing there what Obama and the rest of our “leaders” are doing at the national level.

The result of liberals in charge is always higher deficits, more welfare and higher taxes.

Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Big Dog

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Show Me The Racism – Kender’s Musings

After a five day excursion into the complex tax codes of this country I am back on board and wish to share this piece from my friend Kender MacGowan at Kender’s Musings:

Show Me The Racism

Racism: noun; a belief that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior. Source

I have been thinking a lot about John Derbyshire’s Taki column that got him booted from National Review. I’ve also been having some conversations on the column and race in America, both in person and via the Internet. In this time when screaming “racism” at every turn as a means to stifle one’s opponent has become commonplace, my rule of thumb is to demand that the accusers “Show Me The Racism.”

While Derbyshire’s column was not pleasing in tone, there was nothing that was clearly of a racist nature and only a very little that could be spun and “interpreted” to be so. The one argument Derbyshire makes that seems to be causing the greatest uproar is his recognition that Blacks tend to score lower on IQ tests than people of other cultures in America. The uproar appears to be over the sensitivity that people have to the notion that to speak the truth about these scores might encourage bigots to conclude that these low IQ scores are a product of Black peoples’ mental inferiority.

But that is not what Derbyshire said. Ignoring or obfuscating the facts in order to prevent bigots from using the facts in an inappropriate manner neither serves the truth nor does Derbyshire’s refusal to do so in any way make him a racist. Nowhere did it advocate being racist. People are naturally sensitive to marking an entire group of people not as smart as another group of people, yet no whites that I have heard of are complaining about Derbyshire’s pointing out the fact that Asians, as a group, score higher than whites on those same IQ tests. The fact that Asians DO score higher than whites, on average, points out that the tests are not culturally biased, or if they are they must be culturally biased in favor of Asians.

Where Derbyshire went wrong is in not mentioning that the most likely reason for the IQ test score averages are cultural. The sad fact is that the black community does not put a high priority on education, as evidenced by any number of objective statistics not least of them the high drop out rate in the African-American community. Few deny that Asian-Americans score unusually high on similar aptitude tests and fewer still ascribe it to traits inherent to their race or skin color.

I defy anyone to show me the racism in Derbyshire’s column, or even a single lie or an instance of where he was dead wrong. The fact that the left threw Derbyshire under the bus is to be expected. The fact that the right did it so easily is a terrifying reality of life in America today, as it proves you are not allowed to point out uncomfortable truths. The right’s willingness to look no further than the tone and accept the charge of Derbyshire’s racism is proof positive that no matter the talk on the right about seeking the truth when it comes to being called names, and wrongly being called those names, those on the right are just as weak willed as always.

Here are perhaps the most outrageous facts from Derbyshire’s article summed up for the sake of expediency. “The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites.” While this could have been couched in more diplomatic terms, if standard IQ tests are a fair arbiter, than Derbyshire’s statement is nothing other than the reporting of an unpleasant truth. Many have also taken Derbyshire to task for writing: If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.” Given the relatively new phenomena of “Flash Mobs” and that these violent mobs have been, almost without exception, comprised almost exclusively of black youths, Derbyshire is only applying prudent advice to objective facts. The charge of “racism” could posssibly apply if Derbyshire had attempted to explain the cause of black Flash Mobs. But he didn’t. Does anyone out there deny the existence of Flash Mobs? Is the claim that these Flash Mobs are almost exclusively predominently black? So how, exactly, is being aware of and responding prudently to the facts an act of bigotry? And finally, “Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.” This one is simply common sense. Those areas run by black politicians tend to have a high black population and statistics show, as has been mentioned, that crime is higher in an area with a higher black population. Detroit has been run by black politicians for years, and by not one standard is it considered a decent place to live. Again, there is no racism here, simply common sense.

In order to make their point, a number of the anti-Derbyshire people I’ve spoken with have engaged in intellectual dishonesty. They acknowledge the accuracy of the things the author claims, but take exception to the fact that in raw numbers it is whites who commit more crimes or drop out of school more, etc. Of course they do, there are far more of them in general. When a community of perhaps 12 percent of the population commits eighty percent of the murders the raw numbers may be lower, but clearly there’s a cultural pattern.

Of course, no discussion on racism in America would be complete without asking why the left is so ready to yell racism and shut down the dialogue. The short answer is the left has a vested interest in identity politics, of playing groups against each other and keeping Blacks on the modern plantation of welfare, food stamps and government housing. It equals control and virtually guarantees votes for the side promising to punish the rich and give to the poor.

You will notice we hear the left scream “KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER” when it comes to immigration, but the same hue and cry is singularly absent from the welfare system, where it is exceedingly hard for someone to get welfare if dad is present. Let the father leave, however, and the deadbeat dad laws kick in with program after program to help the single mother and her offspring while the state does everything in its power, up to and including taking away the father’s ability to make a living, to punish the man for leaving and not supporting those children. The schism in chasing the father away so the kids may have a roof and food is fodder for another whole series of columns, and I digress.

The racism one sees in America is not from the right in some column on a website whose very description reads:

We at Taki’s Magazine take our politics like we take life—lightly. We believe political labels such as conservative and liberal are as outdated as flared trousers and Nazis. Ideology is a false god, a secular religion that seeks vainly to create a paradise on Earth. Our only ideology is to be against the junk culture foisted upon us and mirages of a new world order. Think of us what you will, but read us. Our writers are never boring.

It is seen from the left, who push identity politics, dividing groups by various demographics, promising to punish those who have in order to reward those who don’t, and shutting down the dialogue for fear of the exposure which would surely have those most harmed by their policies running from them in droves. The left’s position on race is one of “you’re not as capable, so somebody owes you,” and THAT is racism defined.

So far nobody has been able to show me definitive proof of racism in Derbyshire’s column outside of Derbyshire’s own admittance to being a racist, albeit a mild and tolerant racist. So even though the words came from a self-proclaimed mild and tolerant racist, there was nothing wrong in his column: no lies, half-truths, fabrications or indeed anything outside of facts. In case it escapes you–and no matter what the left claims–facts are simply facts and cannot be racist.

Derbyshire’s column, instead of getting him fired and blackballed, should have opened up a dialogue on the underlying causes of those higher crime rates and lower test scores. Until we can leave the knee-jerk rhetoric behind and stop yelling “RACIST” at anyone who speaks to these issues, we will never be able to have an honest discussion on the subject and that is the saddest truth to come from this whole debacle.

I know Kender welcomes your comments either here or at his place.

BD

Black On White Crime; Where Are The Race Hustlers Now?

A group of black men and women in Baltimore attacked a white man. They beat the hell out of him, sexually assaulted him, stole his property and removed his clothes. They left him lying on the sidewalk naked and dazed. Here is the video:

The video was removed by You Tube as promoting hate speech. Breitbart has the video from CBS (WJZ) in Baltimore.

There are surveillance cameras all over Baltimore and the police monitor them. There is a police station not far from where the incident took place.

Where were the police and why did they not respond while this was taking place? Why is this incident not getting the play that the Trayvon Martin shooting did?

I think we know the answer to that.

Where are Jesse and Al and the rest of the race hustlers? Did Barack Obama go on TV and say that if he had a son it would look like this defenseless white guy who was savagely attacked by a group of thugs?

Where are ABCCBSNBCPMSNBCCNNHNN and all the other lame stream media outlets?

I think we know the answer to that as well.

The police say they are investigating. Perhaps they will get justice for this guy.

I am pretty sure that if this guy had a gun and shot his attackers the race hustlers would be out in full force.

Spike Lee and Roseanne Barr** would be tweeting his address all over the world and the New Black Pansies would put a bounty out on him.

But since he was the victim, nothing to see here, move along.

My recommendation, avoid Baltimore City. It is a haven for lawless liberals and the lawless politicians who lead them. The place is full of predators. This poor victim looks like he is from there and was originally part of the group.

Too bad for him. For those of us who don’t live in the City it is a good idea to just stay out of the City.

Spend your money in places where they actually have some sort of civility and where people respect each other.

The sad thing is these folks will be allowed to vote and they will vote for Obama.

Maybe that’s it. Maybe they were just taking Obama’s stash from this guy’s wallet…

Then again, maybe this was an event where new Nike shoes were being sold…

**This was changed. I mistakenly had Rosie O’Donnell as the other tweeter. My apologies to Ms. O’Donnell.

Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Big Dog

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A Guide To The Federal Debt Limit

This is a guide to the federal debt limit made easy. So easy, in fact, that even a liberal should be able to understand it.

That was pretty simple, was it not? We are heading toward a cliff and the politicians are pushing the cart. In fact, they are joined by the unions and the entitlement crowd who are pushing us ever faster into a chasm.

Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Big Dog

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