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If taxing the rich is so important to President Obama . . .
2012-01-26 06:48:00 . . . why didn’t he submit legislation to the 111th Congress when the Democrats had a majority in the House and a super-duper majority int he Senate (filibuster-proof for six months)? And why aren’t our friends in the legacy media asking him about this oversight? Question came to mind as I was reading Rush’s ...
By: GayPatriot
Must only the rich pay their ?fair share? (of taxes)?
2012-01-23 20:02:00 Democrats often talk about hiking taxes on the rich so they pay their “fair share“. So what about the 47% who currently don’t pay any federal taxes? Is their fair share zero?
By: GayPatriot
The masks we put on others
2012-01-23 15:45:00 Been reading a book on the Big Easy, Tom Piazza’s Why New Orleans Matters. Reflecting on his surprise at learning that a musician read philosophy, the author philosophizes himself: It is an old American situation, of course—anyone interested in an extended essay on the subject should read Ralph Ellison’s “The Little Man at Chehaw Station,” ...
By: GayPatriot
Lessons from ?The Waiting Place? of LA Traffic
2012-01-20 21:36:00 Perhaps the main reason I posted my rant yesterday on my travails of LA traffic was because they had so drained me of the creative that had nourished me previously in the day. After dashing out my Iron Lady post, I just couldn’t focus. And that lack of focus caused me to wonder about the ...
By: GayPatriot
Why cover up party at White House?
2012-01-09 04:36:00 This on the normally pro-Obama AOL. They even link through to the FoxNews report. My brothers assumed that only Drudge would pick this up: Now why would a presidential candidate who promised transparency when he was running for the White House want to keep a social at said residence under wraps? Why the cover up? The ...
By: GayPatriot
We are all Clintonians now*
2012-01-06 06:48:00 In his speech Tuesday night (at 0:51 in this video), libertarian Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said, “Back in the old days in the early 70s, Nixon said we’re all Keynesians now, which meant that even the Republicans accepted liberal economics. . . . I’m waiting for the day when we can say we’re all ...
By: GayPatriot
Was Newt In It to Win It When He Entered Presidential Contest?
2012-01-04 02:00:00 Every now and again, I wonder if my former boss (I once interned for then-Congressman Newt Gingrich before he became Speaker of the House) entered the 2012 presidential contest not so much because he thought he could win but because he craved the limelight — and saw his candidacy as a chance to get some ...
By: GayPatriot
On wealth & happiness
2011-12-28 00:54:00 After visiting a college classmate recovering from surgery in her northern California home, I had a nice (long) breakfast with a high school classmate who lived in the neighboring town. As we caught up on our lives since those difficult days of adolescence, we shared stories about lessons learned and classmates encountered in the years ...
By: GayPatriot
Lesbians & gay (male) porn
2011-12-14 09:30:00 Back when I was in law school, I would, from time to time, run with a lesbian quite open about her sex life. Unlike most women (I had theretofore met) of her orientation, she liked to sleep around (with women) and watch gay (male) porn. At the time, I had thought this was one of ...
By: GayPatriot
Implications of Sovereign Debt Default
2011-12-08 19:11:00 With recent events, it seems like Basel III is not doing much to prevent another financial meltdown. To share a bit of background first, banks must hold capital depending on the risk-weights: the higher the risk-weights, the more capital banks are required to hold. For example, mortgage-backed securities had low risk-weights and consequently, there’s an ...
Distracting us from Obama?s dismal economic record
2011-12-07 11:16:00 Commenting to my post about a lesbian mother dispatching her son to tell a presidential candidate that she (his mother) “doesn’t need fixing,” Naamloos offers: With the economic situation as it is, I?m not sure why Michele Bachmann?s views on homosexuality are relevant. I don?t agree with them, but I do generally agree with her fiscal/economic ...
By: GayPatriot
Equality: an abstraction impossible to realize
2011-11-16 09:39:00 In a review of David Mamet’s The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture, Gerard Reed reminds us of the tension that exists between the conservative/libertarian ideal of liberty and the leftish abstraction of equality: The path the leftist boomers (such as Mamet in his youth) follow was identified by Hayek as ?The Road ...
By: GayPatriot
?Forever Lazy? Pajamas Perfect Attire for Obama Era?
2011-11-15 00:54:00 Earlier this afternoon, Dr. Helen Smith (AKA the Instawife) asked if “anyone out there” had . . . seen this ridiculous commercial for ?Forever Lazy? that advertises adult fleece pajamas made to keep you warm while you loaf in the house or even outside? I saw it this afternoon and really wondered about the future of ...
By: GayPatriot
Anyone going to ask Democrats to ?differentiate themselves? from threats on
2011-11-04 00:14:00 Remember when the unhappy Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank insisted “his GOP colleagues need[ed] to do more to ‘differentiate themselves’ from the hateful speech spewed in the healthcare debate’s final hours.” Blogging law professor William A. Jacobson links a report from ABC News about a threat on House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and his family. ”Will,” that blogger ...
By: GayPatriot
Sounds like the total number of MSM reporters scrutinizing Obama?s record i
2011-10-31 22:17:00 Jim Treacher picks up a detail in the Politico report on Herman Cain, “The story has four credited reporters, but the lead is Jonathan Martin.” (Via Instapundit.) Four credited reporters? Four credited reporters and they couldn’t provide specifics about the allegations? It takes the conservative media to do that.
By: GayPatriot
Some things are just, well, relative
2011-10-26 10:44:00 Monday night, while enjoying my late night snack, I popped in a DVD that has sat on my shelf since I had won it (as part of package of DVDs) in a silent auction five years ago, a biography of the architect of the Great Society, Lyndon Baines Johnson. I had to smile when the Democrat’s friend, ...
By: GayPatriot
Why do some liberals back Democrats even as they oppose the party?s economi
2011-10-24 20:39:00 Not quite sure why, but haven’t really been in much of a mood to blog about politics lately. If you think some of my recent posts seem forced, then perhaps it’s because they are. This is not to say I haven’t been thinking about politics; I have scribbled out a few ideas for posts — ...
By: GayPatriot
Isn?t that what the Democrats did in 2008?
2011-10-24 19:33:00 Lead article in New Republic’s daily e-mail: Yes, the GOP Just Might Nominate a Candidate Patently Unqualified to Be President. FROM THE COMMENTS: To a post I hacked out in a minute or so because a witty rejoinder popped into my head when I read the headline, darkeyedresolve offers a most thoughtful bit of commentary: I ...
By: GayPatriot
Once they hoped for change; now they?re angry at Wall Street
2011-10-21 09:18:00 Perhaps, someone else has noticed this, but given that I haven’t been following the news as closely as is my wont in recent days I missed that commentary. We all know how anger and frustration are often the flip side of euphoria and enthusiasm. We are excited about a person or a project, but when ...
By: GayPatriot
Is there a gay community, but not a conservative one?
2011-10-14 07:18:00 In a thoughtful post over at his blog Canadian Rattlesnake, Naamloos, a young gay man, contends he lacks “any loyalty to the gay community,” contrasting sexuality to race: Unlike race, sexuality is not hereditary. My father is not gay. Nor is my mother. Most black people have at least one black biological parent. I wasn’t born ...
By: GayPatriot
Life Is Still Pretty Good
2011-07-14 19:04:00 June was not a good month for my family. It started with my hospitalization, my father-in-law injured his back, my wife’s grandma passed away and finally we lost our baby due to miscarriage. All these seem to kick in all within the same week and I just can’t believe how things just happen at the ...
Random Thoughts on Single Parenting
2011-03-20 17:29:00 I hesitate to write that I am currently a single parent. Not sure if that is offensive or fair, as my kids do have a loving father. He just happens to be watching basketball in Las Vegas the past 5 days.
Comfort Zones Are Dangerous
2010-12-20 18:10:00 When it comes to my own websites, I am in a comfort zone since one year ago. My websites were making me a healthy income, although nothing fabulous and I did nothing to improve the results of my websites since I was in my own comfort zone. A year ago, one of my revenue generating sites ...
Random Thoughts on a Disastrous Performance
2010-10-18 17:28:00 Some losses hurt. This one didn't, at least it didn't hurt me. Here are my random thoughts on yesterday's coaching disaster at Soldier Field. It is time for Lovie Smith to start exercising some authority on the offensive side of the ball. Continuing to drop back seven steps with no perimeter blockers is equivalent to a death wish. The Bears are built for a low-risk, quick-hit passing game. Every time they call a play in that vein, it goes at least 5-7 yards. Why they don't call more plays like that? I don't know. I do know that it's stupid. Just plain old stupid.Frank Omiyale is terrible.The kids on the right side of the line are not.The Bears defense played...
Are Talents Made or Born?
2010-10-12 17:23:00 A couple of weeks ago, I was speaking to a colleague and I just asked casually ‘Where are you sending your kid for studying?’. His response was not what I expected, as he sort of got a bit worked up and replied ‘Nope, I’m not going to let my kid study’ and my first thoughts ...
Random Thoughts From Riding Amtrak for 60 Hours
2010-07-20 23:41:00 Me actually writing this post. How weird is that? (Not very).What the White Album would be if it were just a 15 song single albumDear PrudenceGlass OnionWhile My Guitar Gently WeepsHappiness is a Warm GunMartha My DearI'm So TiredBlackbirdRocky RacoonJuliaYer BluesMother Nature's SonSexy SadieLong, Long, LongHoney PieCry Baby CryIf Kid A and Amnesiac were one 12 song albumEverything in its Right PlaceThe National AnthemOptimisticIn LimboIdiotequeMorning BellPackt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin CanPyramid SongI Might Be WrongDollars and CentsThe better album? Kid AmnesiacMusicians I'll never not go see if they were coming to town. 1. Bob Dylan2. Paul McCartney3. Jon Brion4. Ringo Starr5. Beck6. White Stripes/Pretty much anything with Jack White on stage7. Dizzee RascalI have seen Bob Dylan 14 times...
Switching to Shorter Posts
2010-06-14 16:48:00 It has been some time since I blogged, probably because I did not have something that I feel would warrant an entire blog post. I used to choose to blog only longer articles and when I did not have enough to write, I simply choose not to write totally. Seeing the lack of posts, I ...
Learning Something From Daily Work
2010-03-23 15:47:00 Today, I was just having a simple discussion with my friend and we were talking about our careers and where would it lead to. Sometimes, it is inevitable to think that we are not learning much from our job when we work on almost the same job scope on a daily basis. However, I believe ...
Given national mood last fall, amazing that Obama?s margin wasn?t greater
2009-12-20 23:14:00 Every time I review the 2008 presidential campaign, I remain amazed at how well John McCain did, given the political headwinds against which he and his party were sailing last fall. To be sure, with the selection of Sarah Palin and the successful convention, he had built up a good head of steam heading out ...
By: GayPatriot
Would Obamacare Numbers Be Worse if MSM Were Even-handed?
2009-12-20 20:41:00 Despite President Obama’s repeated efforts to move public opinion in favor of the Democratic plan to overhaul our health care system, he was only able to generate a slight bump in the polls in early September, but to see those numbers slide even further–and a pretty steady pace–in the following months. As a result, Democrats appear ...
By: GayPatriot
Random thoughts while on vacation
2009-11-20 18:12:00 Hope everyone is doing well - I've been on vacation and am officially back on Monday, so my apologies for the lack of posts. I've been trying to tweet when I can.I'm putting together a post on the upcoming Apple Tablet or whatever it's called. What's driving me insane is how the so-called "analysts" are convinced that the Tablet is meant to fill the "void" between the iPhone/touch and the entry level MacBook. Newsflash, ladies and gentlemen of the analytical mind - that's not what the Tablet is intended for.The Tablet is going to change the way we do things. Period.Oh, and one thought on coverage - I was visiting family in South Carolina in a small town where there...
Random Thoughts From the Chicago Sports Scene
2009-10-11 22:28:00 Once in a awhile I like to look at some of the happenings in the sports world rather than just concentrating a blog post on just one sport. So here are some thoughts and questions that I have been observing and wondering about for a while.Did you know that the over/under total of wins for the Bears in Las Vegas when the season began was 8 1/2? You have to think that the large numbers of Chicagoans who travel to Vegas must have put some serious money down on the over. The Bears look pretty solid and with Jay Cutler at the controls it would take a real collapse to not win at least 9 games.The total bet in Vegas...
Single Moms On Facebook And MySpace Warned About Pre-Schooler Pix Online
2009-09-29 17:59:00 ?Single mothers who put photos of their pre-school kids on their social networking homepages are creating a happy hunting ground for pedophiles.? The warning comes from Crystal Jacquez, managing editor of Guys and Lies.com, the online back grounding site designed exclusively for women. ?Single mothers almost always do it.? says, Jacquez. ?It?s not only incredibly dangerous but ...
By: Darn Divorce
Not Proud to be Gay
2009-09-19 01:08:00 Given the attempts by many on the left to discredit opponents of Obamacare by tarring them as racists, it does seem so many people are so fixated on race that they assume anyone objecting to the policies of a black politicians must needs be racist. And yet, as America moves away from the ugly legacy ...
By: GayPatriot
Sex, Scandal and ACORN
2009-09-17 22:54:00 Would the House have joined the Senate today in voting to deny ACORN federal funding if James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles had conducted a different, less prurient kind of “sting” operation, posing not as pimp and prostitute, but instead as a deadbeat Dad and his new wife, trying to get help buying a home, despite ...
By: GayPatriot
Presumptuous of President to Push Health Care Without a Plan?
2009-09-17 20:30:00 Is it just me, or maybe this notion is just my expression of an idea that has been cropping up in the various blogs I read and news/opinion sites I frequent? Does it strike other people as presumptuous that with all his pontificating on health care,* the President still hasn’t come forward with a particular plan ...
By: GayPatriot
Has Obama ever persuaded people to support his policies?
2009-09-09 22:15:00 As the President prepares to make another pitch for his health care overhaul as the American people turn against his statist approach, Jim Geraghty wonders if Obama has ever persuaded Americans to change their minds and support his liberal policies: There’s a rather glaring problem with public expressions that “this is the moment for Obama to ...
By: GayPatriot
Had Rightosphere Not Raised such a RuckusWould Obama?s Speech to Schoolkids
2009-09-08 02:18:00 Michelle says it’s “not the speech, it?s the subtext.“ And I wonder if I would have seen the uproar in the rightosphere as nothing more than a tempest in a teapot were it not for the preparatory materials the Department of Education provided exhorting teachers to have students, ?Write letters to themselves about what they can do ...
By: GayPatriot
Is this what they call Oil for Blood?
2009-08-30 07:58:00 LOCKERBIE BOMBER ?set free for oil.? UPDATE from Bruce (GayPatriot): So it is now clear that UK PM Gordon Brown lied. The British government decided it was ?in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom? to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial letters reveal. Gordon Brown?s government made the decision ...
By: GayPatriot
?I can?t blog on everything.?
2009-08-30 07:18:00 If I had a moment and were not on vacation, I’d find the post I wrote recently where I noted that one of the most frequent criticisms I receive is that I don’t address issues others bloggers are addressing. Look, there are so many things I want to blog about. In my various notebooks, I have ...
By: GayPatriot
Did Obama supporters assume that their guy?s election meant opposition woul
2009-08-29 08:42:00 One of the things I love about driving cross country, particularly when I traverse the beautiful empty spaces of the American West, is the opportunity let me mind wander. I listen to books on CD, then sometimes pause the narrative to let my mind wander. This time, I brought along a digital recorder so ...
By: GayPatriot
Much Easier to be a Blogger in Opposition
2009-08-25 23:14:00 One of the things I’ve discovered contrasting the past seven months to my first four years blogging is that it’s much easier to blog in opposition to the party in power than in support of the incumbent Administration (especially when you’re a small government-type defending a President named Bush). Simply put, political leaders don’t live up ...
By: GayPatriot
Is Obama?s Wee-Wee Moment a Defining One?
2009-08-22 21:40:00 While others have made much of the President’s use of the term, “wee-weed” up in the clip below, what struck me more than anything was how Mr. Obama has personalized the issue, as if it’s all about him winning. (H/t Michelle). Basically, this shows that he is not particularly good on defense. No wonder he references Sarah ...
By: GayPatriot
Does the term, ?Heterosexist,? Sound a Tad too PC?
2009-08-21 01:30:00 Just received an e-mail promoting something called the 2009 Anti-Heterosexism Conference to be held this November in West Palm Beach, Florida. My first thought was that this was some kind of spoof, but then I looked at their agenda and saw that it was not. While some of the language describing the conference sounds like PC ...
By: GayPatriot
How Obama Lost the Chance to Unite the Nation
2009-08-06 01:08:00 As I may flesh this notion out in a further post, I’m including it in the “Random Thoughts” category. After reading the news and blogs last night and this morning in my Kettleman City hotel (due a late start last night from San Francisco (allowing me to spend more time with my Mom & nephew) and ...
By: GayPatriot
Why Obama Won?t Release his Birth Certificate
2009-08-04 04:40:00 He wants to keep the issue alive as a distraction from his agenda. The better to smear Republicans.
By: GayPatriot
Can Obama lead without active assistance of MSM?(to which he had become acc
2009-07-30 20:52:00 Barack Obama has done so well since he first came to national attention (with his speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention) in large measure because of the fawning treatment he has received from the news media. They have soft-pedaled stories of his past association with a rogue’s gallery of unsavory characters. They all but ...
By: GayPatriot
Do Some of the Left Just ?Need? to Feel Outraged?
2009-07-25 00:30:00 We’ve all had those days when, to quote a Styx song: The days you hardly make it through You swear that there’s a curse on you And nothing seems to fit And things won’t go your way You know you’ve had enough As per the song, most of us might rightfully cry out, “Why me?” But, if you’re a Ma’am ...
By: GayPatriot
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