I say we of Earth are can-do people. We can build Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt and Central and South America, and the Sphinx, and Babylon and so on with just our physical strength, basic intellect, and will to do. We can make space shuttles, space stations, transcontinental railroads, international highway systems, world spanning communications networks, and so on similarly today.

Yet somewhere along the line we seem to have lost sight of that first part. We went from looking at that as a great of achievement of ours to thinking aliens with advanced technology were necessary. We stopped believing not only that we did, but that we could.

I thought this little bit was very good. Found it in a reply to an entry at dailyrotten.com about Wikipedia being scrubbed of negative entries on Obama.

From: pauli [mean, but considerate]
Date: 11-Mar-2009 13:11

WHO AM I ?

I was born in one country, raised in another. My father was born in another country. I was not his only child. He fathered several children with numerous women.

I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me. My mother died at an early age from cancer.

Later in life, questions arose over my real name.

My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a legitimate, reliable birth certificate.

I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it was widely accepted in my country, but

Since so many of the leftists here are absurdly retarded intellectually, or living in what appears to be permanent delusional denial, I thought it would be fun to dare them to produce one simple response that makes any sense. It concerns the fact that liberalism seeks to reduce the importance of the individual compared to that of the state whereas conservatism seeks to reduce the importance of the state compared to that of the individual.

Obama (kind of sort of) nixes (avaricious control freak) plan to tax (already multiple tax paying) motorists on mileage

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will not adopt a policy to tax motorists based on how many miles they drive instead of how much gasoline they buy, his chief spokesman said Friday. Press secretary Robert Gibbs commented after Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told The Associated Press that he wants to consider the idea, which has been proposed in some states but has angered many drivers.

It makes you wonder if ANY of his subordinates have their inane statements and ideas vetted ever. Do they ever ask their boss if something is okay to take a position on? No, obviously.

Obama (kind of sort of) nixes (avaricious control freak) plan to tax (already multiple tax paying) motorists on mileage

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will not adopt a policy to tax motorists based on how many miles they drive instead of how much gasoline they buy, his chief spokesman said Friday. Press secretary Robert Gibbs commented after Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told The Associated Press that he wants to consider the idea, which has been proposed in some states but has angered many drivers.

It makes you wonder if ANY of his subordinates have their inane statements and ideas vetted ever. Do they ever ask their boss if something is okay to take a position on? No, obviously.

“There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy.”

No less than the CBO is claiming the bill is going to be worse than doing nothing at all. Were we surprised?

Cheney, who was on top of this sort of thing for eight years said that

that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.

James Hansen’s Former Boss Takes Him To Task Over Climahysteria

I seriously suggest reading this article. Link city, and really good stuff.

Obama Confident Congress Will Pass New Stimulus Plan…

...like the winner of a hot dog eating contest following it up with a good dose of Ex-Lax.  $825 billion???

“But what I think unifies this group is recognition that we are experiencing an unprecedented, perhaps, economic crisis that has to be dealt with, and dealt with rapidly,” Obama said. He thanked the House and Senate for “moving forward very diligently” on passing what he called a “recovery and renewal plan,” adding, “I know that it is a heavy lift.”

A heavy lift for who? Oh yeah, us, the public, perhaps.

Urgency evidently is its own justification for anything. Funny how that rationale didn’t work for terrorism according to the liberals.

Some conservative Democrats are joining Republicans in complaining that the package is too big and some of the spending plans too wasteful.

NO! There’s no such thing or so some wags from the wacky world of liberalism keep saying, sometimes right here in the Say Anything commenter line-up. Consider me surprised.

Meanwhile from the Republican minority…

“There’s unanimity that our economy needs help, and there’s also a desire to move a package that would help rescue our economy,” said House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). “We expressed our concerns about some of the spending that’s being proposed in the House bill and the fact that it doesn’t spend out very quickly.” He said there were also “concerns . . . about the size of the package.”

The GOP proposes “fast-acting tax relief” in the form of bigger tax cuts, Boehner told reporters outside the White House.

Make of that pregnant pause about the size of the package what dirty thing you will. I am pretty sure the size of the package will soon become an SNL punchline and possibly the epitaph for the American economy.

Fast-acting tax relief? Maybe, but does it have to sound like Alka-Seltzer? Oh, they clarify.

“At the end of the day, the government can’t solve this problem,” he said. “The American people have to solve it. And the way they can solve it is if we allow them to keep more of the money that they earn.”

Okay, that first sentence is correct. Government can create problems very well. Solve them not so much.

Yes, the American people DO have to solve it. Very good. Question is, do they understand what it is they are solving or are they nailing jelly to a tree?

Allow us to keep more of the money we earn?! Caution, paradigm shifting without popping the clutch!

Memo to congress, you do NOT “allow” us anything. We the people allow you to have our money at all, and we allow you to say how much you need and we decide to cooperate with you. So far. Don’t push it. We didn’t let King George get away with it forever. Remember from whence the power flows before the public does, and preferably soon so you can get it across to the Messiah-In-Chief.

Thanks. We the gainfully employed appreciate it. While you’re at it, take a few bucks from petty cash for some hankys. The next few years are gonna have you sweating a lot if the MIC has anything to say about it.

Barack and Michelle do WHAT???

I STILL can’t figure out what word she meant to say.

Fiat, Chrysler Discussing a Partnership, Automotive News Says

Chrysler, which is 80.1 percent owned by Cerberus Capital Management LLP, is working to present a survival plan before a March 31 deadline after receiving $4 billion in U.S. government loans to keep the automaker operating. It’s unclear whether Turin -based Fiat would be paid or be given equity in Chrysler in exchange for sharing its technology, Automotive News said.

Cerberus, as in triple headed dog guarding the underworld. Turin, as in shroud of, as in burial shroud.

What ever happened to buy American? Oh yeah, we tossed that aside in favor of the first one night stand with the previous German suitor Daimler-Benz and that went so well.

Oh wait, no it didn’t.

Maybe the next one will be an English company? Then Swiss? French? Has no one noticed Chrysler is looking to do the automotive equivalent of Debbie Does Everyone?

Meanwhile, the rest of the auto world seems to be in no better shape but maintaining their America first edge by… begging for a bailout even as some others have a better idea.

Myself, I’m just thinking of what a company like Chrysler which can make the PT Cruiser could do if they had access to all that kickin’ Fiat artistic sensibility. Given the Fiat my mom drove in the 70s, I’m getting nothing but the heebie-jeebies and images of the mating of ambulances with bread trucks.

It must be nature striking back for global warming or something. Or maybe striking back for the anti-global warming work guaranteed to aid and abet the next glacial.

Whichever way, it appears a bird has taken out a CO2 belching behemoth of the air, a false bird insulting the real birds of the world, and saved us a slight bit of carbon footprint.

Just beating the radical environmentalist left to the punch with the idiotic phrasing.

Ricardo Montalban has died, and taken the secret of rich Corinthian leather with him. We should all hang our heads in silence for about two seconds before giving him that salute in true appreciation of the single best Star Trek movie of them all and for making it impossible short of CGI trickery that we will ever be subjected to another car commercial about the leather while the rest of the car is allowed to be not much more than a low mileage steel whale status symbol.

He may now rest with Herve on that fantasy island in the sky. The last plane has arrived and left.

Rest well Mr. Rourke.