Why does everything have to be a reality TV show?

Grousing asside this looks really cool.


Congrats to Caleb, and he's got a good screen presence.

Should be a good watch.

In California, feelings trumph all...

Now that they've gone after the 2nd amendment again, you better be careful with the 1st.

After all if they can ban one public expresion of one part of the Bill of Rights, why not another?

Should people really have to deal with being exposed to speech that makes them feel uneased?

Also gotta love how Open Carry goes up as a form of protesting Cali gun laws, and Cali responds by banning it.


Change!

Spending?

From Insty, here's Sayanything blog:

Under President Bush? Debt growth was at over $1.6 billion per day.
Now, that $1.6 billion isn’t a good number, but it’s better than the
$4.8 billion per day under Obama.

Now ask yourself this: Does the government have a revenue problem,
meaning that we’re not taxed enough? Or does the government have a
spending problem?

Change!

Continuing a theme... or "Mean Old Reality"

Austin Bay on Strategypage on what happens when Smart Diplomacy hits reality.

Consider this list of major crises President Obama confronts -- and
this is a list, not a rank order, for events within the next 24 hours,
a North Korean nuke striking Seoul, for example, or a Greek default,
could radically order any precedence:

1) The economy, 2) the Middle East, 3) Gulf of Mexico oil spill, 4)
Korea on the brink, 5) Global War on Terror (GWOT), 6) illegal
immigration and border security, 7) divisive domestic agenda (health
care, taxes, cap and trade).

Let's see how long the administration takes to figure out what's going wrong with all of these events...

Obama confronts converging crises -- crises exacerbated by the
perception he is weak. Hope has turned to cope, and just barely so.
How Obama succeeds or fails in each of these immanent crises will
either make or break his administration.

Well... we're boned.

Tam's facts of life.

Three important things to remember.

How you feel on these items says a lot about you and how you view your fellow man.

Program Notes...

I finished Dr. Dalrymple's Life at the Bottom.

If you want a reall depressing synthesis of the failures of leftism, welfare statism, tolerance of crime, and police corrosion... well... it's worht the read.

Very depressing but it does assemble many ideas and concepts quite well. Much of the saddness comes from the book's age. Things have gotten worse. As mentioned here

Still, I recommend the book if you want to see what happens when the Left gets their dreams.

In happier news I took some photos of some homemade wings (Buffalo wings to you heathens) and some Italian sausage and sauce I made over the weekend.

Just have to resize the photos and do a writeup on the process.

The noblest of intentions....

Richard Fernandez talks of the dangerous addiction of the west.


On the "flotilla" and the sinking of the Chenonan...

Both cases demonstrate that nothing is more paramount either to the establishment nor to the politically correct sections of the media than the maintenance of a lie. For the lie is in the service of the greater good. High reasons of policy will be invoked to explain why the truth should not be so. But the extreme reliance on fantasy by parts of the Western establishment goes well beyond surrounding a kernel of the truth with a “bodyguard of lies.” Instead it is the lie itself which is guarded by even more falsehoods. Gradually and inexorably, an entire political class has staked its existence on continuation of falsehood. The greater good is the fiction. Deception has become a necessity in itself.

As a result, any moderately well informed individual knows that there is no Islamic extremism, nor even terrorism. There are only man made disasters. Everybody knows that we can borrow our way out of debt, that the welfare state is the sustainable wave of the future; that Egypt has no border with Gaza through which it can provide supplies if it wanted; that the UN has kept Hezbollah from importing hundreds of missiles into Lebanon; that the thought of a handful of Jews has kept hundreds of millions of oil-rich Muslims from attaining prosperity; and that Global Warming is the main danger facing the planet Earth. That these assertions are untrue hardly matters; that they are indisputable is what seems to count. For who shall dispute them?

Reality might. And therein lies the problem.

It's all connected. And when utopian dreams and sincerity of rhetoric count more than reality... this is what you get.

Mean old reality.

The butcher's bill is coming due.