Memory Holes

Following up on the meanness of Reality with Global Warming please go here.

Basically the UN keeps saying there will be 50 million climate change refugees in the next five years... about six years ago. And now they're scrambling between erasing the old reports and pushing the new doomsday preditions to 2020.

Results

Beyond rhetoric and claims what really counts are results.
reality can only be staved off for so long. Which is why our budget is such a mess of doom.

Here's a couple examples from Wisconsin, Global Warming (aslo this), and even mixed martial arts.

Of course the President is also subject to this:

But as people begin leaving wait-and-see mode and entering evaluate-and-judge, are they going to keep thinking "Well, he's black, so I should studiously scour any and all negative thoughts from my mind, even though he's brought my family and my business little but misery for three years" or are they going to think, "Gee, maybe I shouldn't have voted for him last time just because he was black. Maybe this time I should ask about his actual accomplishments and qualifications, apart from his general resemblance to a mash-up of a Heroic Young Crusader played by Will Smith and a Gentle Older Sage played by Morgan Freeman."

Which is related to this earlier post:

In all objective aspects, about anything that can be quantified and measured, Obama's presidency is a failure. A miserable failure. And a failure producing more and more misery -- persistent, grinding unemployment, skyrocketing gas prices, and soon the bite of inflation -- for more people than any other miserable failure since Jimmy Carter, and quite likely before him, too.

So what will the public make, in the end, of this charming young man who gave them such good feelings and confidence in 2008? Will they stick to that narrative, created largely by an in-the-tank media and a campaign which wisely refused to discuss qualifications and accomplishments in favor of feel-good Hollywood Happing Ending Machine uplift?

Though with Obama there's even more blatant evidence.

Michael Graham:

"I love getting lectured on how, as Americans, it’s our job to “take responsibility for ourselves and each other” by a guy whose half-brother lives in a shed in Kenya, and whose aunt is on the dole here in Boston."

Though for liberals making sure the dole is nice and fat is how they "take responsibility". Appropriate phrase that. The liberals are exceptionally generous... with other people's money... when taken at gunpoint.

But hey, it's not like it can keep going on forever.

It’s easy to remember these long-term forecasts by using a lot of 80s: in 2080, government spending is projected to be a little less than 80 percent of GDP, and accumulated debt is projected to be over 800 percent of GDP.

The one thing that I can state with some confidence about these specific forecasts is that they are wrong. In the real world, something — either more prudent management of our federal fiscal affairs, or else a painful and destabilizing crash — will intervene.

Uh... yay? Well, reality is a mean old bastard.

Comment of the... Week.

Tam said...

I once remarked to an acquaintance that My People don't do "surprise parties". She was puzzled.

In response to an... interesting bit of NYC street theater. Theater that could only really work in a big condition-white, no-issue zone.

Oooooooffff

Well, we're boned.

More smoke and mirrors in the budget. Only in government can you spend more and have it declared a cut, and a historic one at that.

The only upside is that I think this is merely a continuing resolution for a week or so, but will fund military pay for the rest of the year. So, there's that.

Delicious

Oh yes... Glen Reynolds has the right idea.

SO OBAMA’S PEOPLE ARE TALKING TAX INCREASES AGAIN. Here’s my proposal: A 50% surtax on anything earned within five years after leaving the federal government, above whatever the federal salary was. Leave a $150K job at the White House, take a $1M job with Goldman, Sachs, pay a $425K surtax. Some House Republican should add this to a bill and watch the Dems react.

You'd think the party of "the little people" would love this idea of sticking it to greedy fatcats.

Whiplash

Yesterday's narrative: There's no such thing as WI election fraud and Prosser should just "leave the stage".

Via Ace. Also Ace notes on how with the Left so animated and so energized the best they could get was a... tie "In Wisconsin". And now they might not even have that...

Because now with an entire city being added to the tally Prosser wins by 7k votes, and thus we have today's narrative: Koch and Walker stole the election.

To which TWM notes: "Which flies in the face of Democrats saying fraud wasn't possible just yesterday. "

Comments to a good Althouse post.

Crazy mess.

It cannot be denied.

Richard Fernandez on the inevitability of reality.

The despotisms of the Middle East had total control over their media and yet now face widespread unrest. The driver of discontent was in nearly all cases, rising consumer prices. Goods are the one thing that cannot be conjured into existence by the dream-merchants and the ideologues. Huge rent-seeking industries and bureaucracies may have come up against the one enemy they cannot defeat: the drying up of their own means of sustenance. They are starving themselves from their depredations; they have eaten out the landscape. And now the small mammals, nearly forgotten and trodden underfoot, are pouring out of their burrows and may eventually end the reign of the dinosaurs.

Mean old reality. It's also interesting that the way the US gov measures inflation was changed to exclude food and fuel prices. Handy that.