Al Gore is currently promoting his new app for iPhone, iPad & iTouch. The app is an e-book version of his recent climate and energy book Our Choice.
The interesting thing is that Apple was recently named by Greenpeace as the least green tech company.
And the ultimate irony is, guess who’s on Apples Board of Directors? That’s right, Al Gore.
He just continues to make it too easy doesn’t he?
I have to start this post with the admission that I really haven’t kept up with the exploits of The Man of Steel for the past 40 or so years.
That said, even though I’ve never been sure of his political affiliation, I can now only conclude that he’s a liberal. I’ve had this realization thrust upon me as a result of him renouncing his U.S. citizenship.
It seems that Superman has become tired of his actions being seen through the prism of nationality rather than being a result of his own altruistic tendencies. The United States has become such a liability for him that his only recourse is to renounce his citizenship and declare himself a citizen of the world at large.
Over the years, people, with nothing much better to do, have drawn parallels between Superman and the United States, reflecting this country’s role as the one superpower on the planet with the ultimate goal of serving & protecting all people.
I think it’s fitting that at this point in our history, while our government expends a great deal of time and effort apologizing for our actions, Superman has done what our citizen of the world President only hints at.
Michelle Malkin is reporting details of an effort to punish GOP donors to Scott Walker’s Wisconsin gubernatorial campaign by targeting corporate donors.
On May 1, left-wing vigilantes will target companies across the country that have committed a mortal sin: sending donations to GOP Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Rest assured, such intolerable acts of political free speech will not go unpunished by tolerant Big Labor activists. They’re calling for both a national boycott of Walker’s corporate donors and a coordinated sticker vandalism campaign on GOP-tainted products.
The Wisconsin Grocers Association is bracing for the anti-Walker witch hunt. Anonymous operatives have circulated sabotage stickers on the Internet and around Wisconsin that single out Angel Soft tissue paper (“Wiping your (expletive) on Wisconsin workers”), Johnsonville Sausage (“These Brats Bust Unions”) and Coors (“Labor Rights Flow Away Like A Mountain Stream”). Earlier this week, a “Stick It To Walker” website boasted photos (now deleted) of vandalized Angel Soft tissue packages at a Super Foodtown grocery store in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Given the tactics involved, I think it may be my duty to search out and buy any of those products I might find, whether I need them or not.
In America, we revel in our diversity by labeling various ethnicities with hyphenated names. We have African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native-Americans, Muslim-Americans, etc.
We also seem to have the opinion that the main component of respecting someone with a different skin tone than us is to accentuate the differences and call it diversity.
I guess that’s all well and good if your goal is to maintain a level of separation between the various groups, but as I understand it, that goes against the very concept of America. We are no longer a ‘melting pot’ of the worlds cultures, peacefully co-existing under a common national identity.
No, that wouldn’t provide the ‘diversity’ that’s required to keep different groups from looking suspiciously at each other. It takes away our ability to apply identity politics within our system of governance, encouraging specific groups to align themselves with specific political ideologies.
I’ve never heard reference to an African-German or Muslim-Australian or Hispanic-Canadian. Have you?
Maybe those other countries don’t have such a vested interest in identity politics as we do. I think that’s something we could aspire to as well.
I’ve become something of a news junkie over the past decade or so and as a result there are certain truths I’ve come to expect from our media watchdogs. Mainly, that Republicans hate workers and Democrats are their savior.
Why just in the last few months the media has convinced me that Republicans hate unions, union workers, old people and all minorities, and that Democrats are the first line of defense for the average working man. Imagine my surprise when I read this today:
House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last night to strip police officers, teachers, and other municipal employees of most of their rights to bargain over health care, saying the change would save millions of dollars for financially strapped cities and towns.
The 111-to-42 vote followed tougher measures to broadly eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees in Ohio, Wisconsin, and other states. But unlike those efforts, the push in Massachusetts was led by Democrats who have traditionally stood with labor to oppose any reduction in workers’ rights.
That’s right, the Massachusetts legislature, a Democrat controlled body, voted to strip public union employees of collective bargaining rights!
Who would have thought that could possibly happen? Wasn’t it just a month or so ago that we were treated to several weeks of around the clock coverage of the evil Republicans attempting this very thing in Wisconsin? Didn’t we get to enjoy the sight of an outraged public storming the State House in Madison and refusing to leave? Didn’t we enjoy cursing those evil Republicans as they dominated the news cycle during the entire debate?
Yes, I believe we did!
And now the Democrats have done the same thing with no fanfare, no national outrage, and not much more than a passing mention on the network news.
What’s this world coming to?
The President today released his long form birth certificate.
After at least 3 years of dodging, avoiding and otherwise protecting this document, it finally sees the light of day.
I’ve never understood why he didn’t simply produce it when asked. There doesn’t seem to be anything embarrassing there. And yet, it’s been reported that he has a rather sizable investment in protecting his pre-politics life from any type of scrutiny.
If it’s no big deal now, why was it for such a long time?
I’ve heard lots of commentary lately having to do with selfishness.
In my experience, these claims couldn’t be further from the truth.
When governments buy their support through entitlements, and those entitlements begin to be viewed as rights: Rights that are paid for by someone else, that seems to me to be the very definition of selfishness.
No one who benefits from government largesse says ‘Thank You’. It is much more common for them to say ‘What more can I get?’.
In what world is that not selfish?
We can fix our deficit problems by taxing the rich!!
This has become the de facto position of the Democrat Party. Forget spending cuts! We don’t need ‘em! We’ll just tax the rich until the budget is balanced and we’ve paid off our debt.
There’s one huge problem with that: It won’t work, it can’t be done, it’s impossible. No matter how you massage it, the math won’t add up.
“(Even if we took) all the profits, all of the salaries, all of the assets, all of the expenses, all of the revenues and holdings of the rich and we liquidated them….(and we’d) scrape through for one year.”
Put another way, if we were to pull a “full Stalin” and take everything “the rich” in this country makes and owns, it would pay off the deficit for a single year. Then, when the next year rolls around, we’d have another trillion dollar plus deficit on the way, but with no tax revenue from the rich, no one who could invest in new businesses, and no entrepreneurs willing to bust their behind to make money the government would confiscate from them. Hello, new Depression. Hello, Doom.
We can discuss whether the rich should pay higher taxes, but what you can’t truthfully argue is that the government can get spending under control without dramatic spending cuts.
Sometimes I wonder if politicians ever tell us what they really mean.
The President has announced that the Justice Department will be investigating the possibility of price fixing or other unlawful activity having to do with inflating the price of gasoline. It seems to me that this is a smoke screen. Does he really expect us to believe that his administration is concerned about $4 or $5 gasoline prices?
During his campaign, didn’t he tell us that higher energy prices were going to be good for our country? Didn’t he even say that his administrations policies would bankrupt any company that wanted to use coal to produce electricity? Didn’t he promise, and subsequently succeed in diminishing the amount of oil recovered in the United States and its coastal waters?
Why, if I’m not mistaken, his Energy Secretary, Steven Chu has even gone on record saying “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe” (a desire he recently reiterated here).
Well congratulations Mr. Secretary! It looks like you’re off to a good start.
In a recent radio address, the President told us that his administration is increasing drilling in our coastal waters. But that’s not really true.
While he did lift the ban on deep water drilling (after a court ordered him to do so), only a few deep water permits have been issued. The American Petroleum Institute says that domestic offshore production will fall 13% this year from 2010 levels due to government interference and permitting delays.
If the problem is actually speculation, as has been reported just about everywhere, dontcha think restricting the amount of oil available to the market might have something to do with that?
Now I wonder if AG Holder will mention any of this in his investigation.