150: Jay Carney, Sychophant

I remember when JC used to be on the McGlaughlin Group.  At that time he was a respected Time Mag writer, and seemed to have a relatively objective point of view (at least as objective as most lame-stream media types get).  Obviously, since he became BO's press secretary, he has drunk the Kool Aid and forever surrendered any claim to objective journalism forevermore.  His more or less constant repetition of talking points and Democratic invective spewed at Republicans is almost comical.  He'll make a good professor someday.  By "good professor" of course I mean essentially an idiot.

149: Ben Feathered His Own Nest

When Ben Bernanke took over as chairman of the Fed, he no doubt had to put his personal savings portfolio into a blind trust somewhere to avoid the appearance of conflict.  However, the "blind" part is really a spoof.  He knows, and everyone else knows, that most of his investments were in blue chip stocks or stock funds.  Since 2008, everything BB has done has been directly related to propping up the stock market.  It is very hard to believe that BB has not considered his personal well-being when deciding to pump the $3 trillion or so into the US financial markets that he has presided over.

148: A (Predictable) Failure Of Management

The state of affairs in the USA is pitiful.  Huge unemployment; ridiculously low interest rates for savers; an ever-growing percentage of GDP eaten up by government; two bit bullies in donkey-powered countries pushing our weak prez around; 535 welfare kings and queens in Congress lining their pockets, most of them with essentially lifetime tenure.  And sitting at the top of this mess is a guy who never had a management job in his life before becoming President.  Really.  BO never so much as managed a night shift at McDonald's, let alone a vast enterprise.  What the hell did people expect to happen?  Did they think that overnight BO was going to become an executive?  The absolute best that can be hoped for is this:  Pray for a quick end to BO's reign, and hope for as many government shutdowns as possible; Elect a Republican president for two terms.  The first term will be a disaster, trying after all to clean up the gigantic mess left behind.  A second Re[publican term could have a chance at reversing some of the insane policies put in place by BO.

147: Cruz Comments

As with almost all elected officials, I have no clue what the real political and philosophical position's of Ted Cruz are.  Unless it's the Prez, without sitting down with the guy one-on-one, I don't know how you'd ever be able to understand him.  But this much I do know:  The national press corps hates Ted Cruz, mocks Ted Cruz, and belittles Ted Cruz.  Therefore, I infer that at least some of his positions and ideas must have merit.  The national press corps (with some exceptions) is a pack of in-bred sycophants, a description which also unfortunately applies to most politicians.  The whole sick system is evidence of why government needs to shrink back to some level where it can be controlled.

146: Will BO Bomb Syria?

The answer to the title question and the Syrian issue overall is very simple:  Other than Syrians and Washington media, who cares?  Now take Washington media out of the equation and it gets even simpler.  This is an internal state issue that concerns a small country in a region of the world that most Americans could never find on a globe.  So why the hell has our national government been paralyzed and overwhelmed for a full two weeks on this issue?  Don't we still have millions of unemployed and underemployed citizens?  Don't we have an economy propped up only by relentless money printing by a runaway central bank beholden to government growth?  Don't we have a tax collection behemoth agency sticking its nose into places it has no business looking?  Don't we have a public education system that exists mostly for the benefit of teachers and administrators instead of children?  Don't we have a federal aristocracy (been known as the Senate and House of Reps) that desperately needs term limits?

145: Trying To Stay Positive

This business of staying positive in life is becoming a tricky affair.  Obviously as one ages, biology continues its relentless path toward decay and death.  Concurrently with the (hopefully) slow degradation of one's physical self, there is the tendency to see everything around us in parallel decline, for example the conduct of politics and business, which seem to be increasing connected.  In my adult lifetime and opinion, only Ronald Reagan and George Bush The Elder had any of the redeeming qualities of founding fathers.  These past five years of BO have been nothing less than disastrous, both economically and socially.  He has permanently defined the presidency as an office of social welfare administration, rather than an executive leading a nation.  Given the absence of anything resembling leadership in his background, this is understandable.  JFK is the only other non-executive I personally observed who occupied the White House, but at least he was raised by a strong executive, and he had military experience.

Our leaders today are influenced too much by their feminine side.  They are afraid to act.

144: Zimmerman, Martin And Stupid Media

The talking head (I think it is Chris Cuomo) on CNN said, "As George Zimmerman starts his life as a free man...".  When was GZ not free?  Did I miss something, or was GZ already convicted of a crime?  The profound ignorance and stupidity of media types waxing eloquent is astounding.  Apparently this CNN airhead equates being charged with a crime as being convicted of a crime.  Now the idiots participating in so-called protests and demonstrations can easily be understood for the naive simpletons they are.  But an anchor on a the national "news" broadcast is supposed to have a modicum of intelligence.  It's just another example of the top down ignorance cascading over our culture.