Right As Usual

It was the defining moment of my adult life. It was a sharp break between The Way I Thought It Was, and The Actual Reality. Up to that point, I'd always been a Liberal, Democrat-Voting, Accept that the Left is ON THE "RIGHT" SIDE OF HISTORY kind of girl. It really was a beautiful morning. I was quietly working in my classroom when my husband came in, tears in his eyes. Then, he told me what had happened. This blogger gets it - and expresses it so much better than I. Check out the difference between the Google.com page, and Bing.com - Google has NONE of the doodles it uses for less important days. Bing's page is low-key, and lovely. Share

This is wrong, in so many ways, that I can only BEGIN to list them (Boldface are direct quotes from the article): He’ll be able to play the political outsider card harder and heavier than Trump. Are you Freaking Kidding Me? A political outsider, by definition, is one whose only connection with politicians is to lobby to make his job easier. Or, vote. Zuckerberg is a HEAVY contributor PACs affiliated with Democrats. He is pretty even-handed in contributing to politicians, but he has vocally endorsed mostly Democrats. His main business, Facebook, has been manipulated by Leftists to skew the socialization to the Left. Zuckerberg doesn’t need a dime of anyone else’s money. According to the author, he can ignore the donor class. From what I've seen of rich guys running for President, they NEVER use their own money when other people can be tapped for cash. Whether or not he hustles the big-money donors doesn't matter - his interests are identical to theirs. Zuckerbe...

...the more they stay the same, as the saying goes. The real problem with many Democrats/Progressives/Liberals/Leftists (I'm giving the full range of thought on the Left), is that so many are quite badly educated. Am I calling them Dumb? No. I am, however, saying that their education is more properly described as learning in a VERY narrow range - i.e., what unbiased people would call 'propaganda'. They seldom explore thought outside of that small subset of 'what everyone knows'. They get their information about their opponents from those sources who have the most motivation to mis-characterize the philosophy, aims, and words. In short, how do they know what Conservatives believe? Someone with an ax to grind told them what THEY believed that Conservatives believe. That makes it hard to have a civil discussion with them. They KNOW, you see, that ANY argument you put up to them is TOTALLY wrong, racist, and designed to hide your deep-seated hatred of mank...

One thing Leftists are quite inept at is understanding how they are perceived by others. This happens, because, all too often, they don't know people outside of their echo chamber, and don't receive the corrective pushback from their opponents. Over time, their statements and positions become ever more extreme. It's primarily the Left that has 'de-friended' those whose views they oppose. They are forced to invent stories that explain 'what conservatives are like' or 'how the other side thinks'. I'm not one that goes into internal motivation for people's actions. I pay more attention to what they actually DID. And, what some of the Left is DOING is appallingly anti-democratic. Go to this link, if you want to have a cogent explanation of why non-Leftists are NOT jumping on the bandwagon to demolish Trump. The author is a well-regarded Classics professor at a prestigious university, Jonah Goldberg. BTW, that title - Understanding the ...

Barring a major catastrophe, Trump will be officially inaugurated today at noon. And, the Democrats are pouting and dramatically vowing to boycott.  Not that most of them will be missed. And, the RINOs are gnashing their teeth and wailing.  (Read the comments on this one, they are priceless). A fantasy about what Trump will say, and how Liberals/Progressives/Leftists will interpret it. And, finally, what is wrong about soon-to-be-former President Obama's statement that his was a scandal-free Presidency. Reality-based community, my a$$. Share

First time I heard anyone besides me make this argument. First of all, fools, the courts in California are not the enemy. Courts do not legislate, no matter what Sondra Sotomayer thinks. Courts decide, based on the rule of law, whether legislation passed by the voters or enacted by elected legislators is constitutional and valid. That’s what the court in California did: affirming the constitutionality of a measure Democrats in California passed in large numbers while electing Dr. Utopia president. Yes, fools, DEMOCRATS, not Republicans, are to blame for Prop-8. No matter how many times Tom Hanks and the Hollywood crowd tries to tell you differently, Dr. Utopia won California by a healthy margin in 2008. Prop-8 passed on the same day by a healthy margin. 85% of Dr. Utopia’s black supporters also voted for Prop-8, more than any other group who supported the measure. 95% of those black voters in California are Democrats. Democrats, Democrats, Democrats. That's the way to put t...

Ah, the smell of a backroom deal is in the air! I just have the feeling that the trickiest and most unscrupulous candidate will win. I just don't know which of them qualifies.

We don't have a primary system in this country, because each state sets its own rules for their primaries - and, yes, that's primaries, with an S again. That's because each party sets its own rules in each state. Now, I'm no mathematician, but I think that's at least 100 different primaries, with respective rules. Which can be superceded by the National Committes (again, plural), which happened in several states, most notably Michigan, Florida, and South Carolina (for Republicans - SC lost half their delegates). Washington has an even more undemocratic process, mostly due to its muddled rules: After a 20-year tug-of-war between the political parties and the state over the best way to pick presidential nominees, Washington sticks with an oddball hybrid - caucuses for party activists on Feb. 9, followed by a primary for the broader electorate on Feb. 19. A voter can use either format or both. In most counties, vote-by-mail primary ballots begin arriving in just a we...

This story, from United Press, looks at the current Republican presidential pack as a negative. I suppose that if there were a clear-cut winner, they would criticize the unity as "stultifying". I rather like the division of support - it allows Republicans to debate and decide the future of their party. I hope the Democrats do the same.