Archive for the 'Lefties on Parade' Category
Bookworm on Oct 28 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Lefties on Parade, Presidential elections
Tweet Sometimes, timing is everything. Steven Pinker, who is a Harvard psychology professor just published a long opinion piece in the New York Times explaining why there is a Red State/Blue State divide. As a predicate to his discussion, he began by dividing the mindsets that characterize conservatives and their Progressive counterparts: Conservative thinkers like [...]
Bookworm on Oct 27 2012 | Filed under: Abortion, Lefties on Parade, Media matters
Tweet Matthew Continetti garnered some much deserved praise for his article about the way that sarcasm and insult took over the Democrat party, replacing anything of substance. It all started with the attacks against Bush: The criticism of Bush, of Bush Republicans, and of the war took on a specific character. The spokesmen of movement [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2012 | Filed under: Lefties on Parade, Sex, Silly Stuff
Tweet I hadn’t yet posted about the Lena Dunham ad, which just seemed too stupid to acknowledge, which is why I’m not linking to it here. After all, I’d prefer not to sully my blog with videos that liken voting for Obama to losing ones virginity. Frankly, maybe because I’m a mature, sentient human being, [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Libya
Tweet The more I have a chance to digest today’s news stories, the more I am struck by how unbelievably tragic the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi seem today, even more so than they did on September 11. On that day, smart people suspected that al Qaeda had struck again. To the extent four [...]
Bookworm on Oct 25 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Lefties on Parade, Mitt Romney
Tweet A picture is making the rounds amongst my liberal Facebook friends, complete with the caption that “This says it all to me.” I’m actually not sure what “all” the picture says. That Romney smiles at people performing a service for him while Obama gives them a fist bump? If the Obama picture had shown [...]
Bookworm on Oct 24 2012 | Filed under: Lefties on Parade
Tweet I know that, on the Left, the personal is political. I just didn’t know the political was practically orgasmic.
Danny Lemieux on Oct 23 2012 | Filed under: Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environmentalism, Uncategorized
Quite clearly, our own environmentally sensitive natives believed that all one needed to do was to build bricks, mortar and steel into modern-looking structures, pick an environmentally friendly “technology” with a cool sounding name and, voila! Magic benefits would come out of thin air – endless BTUs of cheap, pollution-free, guilt-free, Gaia-approved energy that defied the laws of physics, engineering and economics.
Bookworm on Oct 19 2012 | Filed under: Lefties on Parade, Leftist morality
Tweet Gay Patriot has a post up about the nasty insults he receives as a gay man. These don’t come from right wing homophobes, though. They come from Leftists. Read his post and you’ll see. I’ll only add that, aside from being green with envy that he met Glenn Reynolds, I’m not at all surprised. [...]
Bookworm on Oct 19 2012 | Filed under: Lefties on Parade
Tweet The other day, Joe Biden used a figure of speech: Ryan has written a book called The Young Guns with two other fellows, members of the house . . . no, these are the Republican leaders in the house. You had . . . . You had . . . Unfortunately, these bullets are [...]
Bookworm on Oct 12 2012 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet “Find a need and fill it.” That’s great advice in a capitalist society and it’s how many people have gotten rich while improving other’s lives. Al Gore has a different twist on that adage: Use false data to create an artificial need, and then fill that need using pork: The man who was within [...]
Bookworm on Oct 10 2012 | Filed under: Lefties on Parade
Tweet What I always notice when (under protest) I watch Jon Stewart is the fact that his humor is incredibly puerile. Because actual facts in their proper context are usually inconvenient for him, he latches onto context-free snippets, interlacing them with obscenities and jokes lacking both wit and subtlety. Jon Stewart would therefore have liked [...]
Bookworm on Oct 09 2012 | Filed under: Lefties on Parade, Military, Muslim violence, Open Threads, Presidential elections
Tweet I’ve got an amazing array of links, all of which indicate that, with three weeks before the election, America and the Middle East aren’t static. Instead, there are a lot of things that are suddenly coming to the boil in ways that make me pray very hard that Mitt Romney wins. A lot of [...]
Bookworm on Sep 24 2012 | Filed under: Communism, Education
Tweet So now we know what historical ignorance looks like: A Pennsylvania high school marching band is raising eyebrows with a halftime performance that commemorates the Russian revolution, complete with red flags, olive military-style uniforms, and giant hammers and sickles. “St. Petersburg: 1917” is the theme for the New Oxford High School Marching Band. Ironically, [...]
Bookworm on Sep 13 2012 | Filed under: Democrats, Israel, Jews
Tweet God said of the Jews that they are a stiff-necked (or stubborn) people. They certainly are when it comes to their allegiance to the Democrat party. Despite three and a half years of manifest Obama hostility to Israel, the vast majority of American Jews still support him. I can actually understand this attitude when [...]
Bookworm on Sep 11 2012 | Filed under: Lefties on Parade
Tweet There are two thinkers on the Left whom I credit with helping me become more conservative: Paul Krugman and Andrew Sullivan. Both of them wrote (and still write) incredible horse pucky in publications I routinely read as a yuppie liberal. I eventually realized that, if these two were lauded as the shining intellectual lights [...]
Bookworm on Sep 08 2012 | Filed under: Democrats
Tweet Here are some gems from Mark Steyn’s post about Sandra Fluke’s vision of a binary America, one that has abortioned women frolicking freely through fields of flowers, and another that has them barefoot, pregnant, wrapped in a burqa, and hiding in the kitchen. You’ve got to read the whole thing, though. Sandra Fluke is [...]
Bookworm on Sep 05 2012 | Filed under: Democrats, Holocaust
Tweet The one thing that’s been nice about Obama’s presidency is the fact that the Democrats ramped down their Nazi rhetoric. It used to be that you couldn’t open a Leftist web page without hearing that Bush and Cheney were Nazis, and that every Republican policy initiative promised to create a new Holocaust. Sadly, the [...]
Bookworm on Sep 05 2012 | Filed under: Abortion, Democrats, Mitt Romney, Republicans
Tweet The day after Mitt Romney gave his speech, Jon Stewart went to town. It was a typical Jon Stewart exercise, replete with out-of-context snippets, juvenile sarcasm, and endlessly bleeped obscenities. One part of it, though, the very first part, stayed with me. If you watch just the first couple of minutes of the video [...]
Bookworm on Sep 04 2012 | Filed under: Democrats, Just Because Music
Tweet The band Train has a charming new song out, called “50 Ways to Say Good-bye.” Aside from the usual catchy music, the lyrics are simply wonderful, as you can see from this video: Since I always have politics on my mind, when I saw the lead singer nonsensically fielding questions about his girlfriend’s departure, [...]
Bookworm on Aug 31 2012 | Filed under: Abortion, Democrats
Tweet You all have probably noticed what I’ve noticed: while the Democrat party gets support from young voters, it doesn’t have many young politicians. (And maybe the young voters would like to think about that one for a while.) Obama, at 51, is one of the youngest of the Democrat leaders. This may help explain [...]
Bookworm on Aug 29 2012 | Filed under: Lefties on Parade, Race
Tweet The Left is excited: two people were allegedly ejected from the RNC because they threw peanuts at a black CNN camera operator and said “this is how we feed the animals.” Put aside the fact that this happened with two people out of thousands in attendance, and put aside the fact that they were [...]
Bookworm on Aug 28 2012 | Filed under: Democrats, Hollywood
Tweet James Taranto writes from Tampa about the Leftist protest and its sponsor (emphasis mine): “Really hard to notice the RNC protesters if you’re not running around trying to find them,” Slate’s Dave Weigeltweeted early yesterday afternoon. “V far from convention, other events.” The convention’s start was delayed a day, and so was the late-afternoon [...]
Bookworm on Aug 28 2012 | Filed under: Democrats
Tweet Todd Akin’s ill-informed remarks opened the floodgates for the usual smears about the fact that all conservatives are ignorant, racist, sexist, theocratic, misogynistic tyrants. The one that got the greatest play amongst my liberal Facebook friends was Timothy Egan’s New York Times‘ column claiming that Akin isn’t the only Republican crackpot in Congress. He [...]
Bookworm on Aug 26 2012 | Filed under: Democrats
Tweet The Democrats are kvelling about Todd Akin. Indeed, at the New York Times, one enterprising writer has put together a list of a handful of Republicans who hold views that are outside of the mainstream (or who articulate arguably valid views in invalid ways). A cartoonist has also put together a crude cartoon that [...]
Bookworm on Aug 15 2012 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet Food prices in America are going up and up. We’re not starving, thank goodness, but we are seeing more and more of our money go to groceries. Many see a direct connection with ethanol (i.e., using food to power cars) and rising food prices. Thus, despite the challenging drought, the administration is pursuing ethanol-based [...]
