Follow the Money

It seems that the "global recession" has not impacted negatively on everyone. Check out this Mercedes Benz owned by an Abu Dhabi oil billionaire.
That is NOT stainless steel, people, it is WHITE GOLD!
I'm sure you'll sleep better tonight, knowing that the money you're paying for gas these days is supporting a good cause... (cue Sarah Palin) "Drill, baby, drill!"

The Gullible and the Dangerous

David Brooks and Gail Collins had a jovial yuck-fest in the Times blog on Wednesday, Sept 1st. See it here. The Times calls its blog “Opinionator – Exclusive Online Commentary from The Times” (italics added by me.) I’m sure all the people who don’t read The Times won’t read their Opinionator either, but I digress.

There were guffaws and chuckles aplenty throughout their exchange, all at the expense of the Tea Party movement and Glen Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally.

Here are a couple of their less amusing statements:

Gail Collins: “I can’t buy into the idea that the Tea Party is angry because traditional values are being ignored and mocked by the American elite. As elites go, the one today is really pretty low key. I was around for the various rebellions of the sixties and seventies, and if you wanted to see traditional values being made sport of, that was your period.”

David Brooks: “People like those at last weekend’s rally want the Judeo-Christian ethic back, which sweetened and softened life on the frontier (physical or technological). And so they march. They are only vaguely aware of this value system. It is so entwined into their very nature, they can not step back and define it. But they feel it weakening. It might be possible for a responsible person to tap into this sense, but none has, so Glenn Beck has.”

All the while David and Gail coyly avoid (try saying that five times fast) any hint that they consider themselves to be part of “the American elite.”

Here’s a reality check for you two self-important clowns:

Any opposition to a constitution-based government that has respect for the rule-of-law is comprised of two factions, the gullible and the dangerous. The gullible group enables the dangerous group to do the dirty work. When the dangerous no longer need the gullible, they become a liability and therefore expendable.

So Gail and David - just pop off to the Hamptons to sit on someone else’s expensive ocean-view property, and drink someone else’s expensive wine. When the doorbell rings, maybe it will be just another elitist guest, or it just might be the government police come to re-locate and re-educate you.
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Don’t expect support for conservative views in the Bangor Daily News. Why?
Read this closing line of an editorial in the BDN on 9/28/08:

“Great Britain’s focus today is on its own prosperity within the context of the European Union. That more modest self-image is a better model for the U.S. than that of strutting superpower.”

After scanning the more than 1100 editorials in their archives, it became apparent to me that the Bangor Daily News has subscribed to the lefty mantra “The U.S. is baaaad, the rest of the world is good-enough.”
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This is troubling … check out this link:

Bad News – Some think U.S. Treasuries should be downgraded to “Junk.”
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