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http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/vfw-seeks-apology-after-msnbc-hosts-reprehensible-and-disgusting-comments_645944.html

The VFW is demanding an apology. Unfortunately, I don't think they will get it. They are less and less relevant. And i say that as a Women's Auxiliary member of the Founder's Post!

edited to add: THEY GOT THEIR APOLOGY!!! WOOT!http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/msnbc-host-issues-apology-saying-hes-uncomfortable-calling-fallen-soldiers-heroes_645956.html

Peer-reviewed study, folks. In fact, “a small increase in the odds of folks seeing global warming as not too serious in the most science literate people in the survey.” Study author’ explanation (summarized by news guy): “What's going on? Basically people with technical smarts just use their abilities to better rationalize their already-held views. And why is that? Fitting in with your friends matters a lot more to people than getting climate science right, suggests Kahan, by email.” Same correlation observed for nuclear power. Popular account: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/05/study-personality-split-climate-views-not-science-literacy/1#.T8O6xMWuXSg Peer-reviewed (and non-global-warming-disagreeing) journal of original publication: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/

In a post in talk_politics about memorial day and why people join the military, the horrible and appalling kylinrouge said this...

"The problem is that women are too smart to join the military."

In honor of all the women kylinrouge thinks were stupid enough to serve I commemorate all the women who have given their lives in defense of their country. Here are just a few who have made the ultimate sacrifice in these recent wars.

( We also serve. )

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76620.html

Interesting article on Politico on how the presumptive nominee has an appreciation of SF, in which the writer must go back and dredge up his statements about 'Battlefield Earth' from 2008. Also, are further comments by those, who while in the field, are known to be on the left, and even apologists for the administration's destruction of manned spaceflight in the US. It's a rather funny article when you look at the lens in which they have to admit (or stridently deny the report) that Romney actually reads popular fiction. Between that and the comments on the site I was giggling as I noted just which side was able to express themselves, and who had the errors in spelling and grammar. (Probably recent college graduates.)  I think it is a great example of trying to make the facts fit the desired conclusion. I just have to laugh at my friends who are on the left who happily defend the President's love for comics but either disavow or attack the possibility that there might be commonality between themselves and someone from the other side.
YIS,
WRI

Facebook IPO demonstrates "trickle-down economics" at work. At least in my humble and under-educated opinon. Read on:

Facebook’s $104 billion initial public offering on Friday transformed thousands of young people into instant millionaires – as well as a few billionaires – and already the booming luxury market in Silicon Valley is experiencing an upswing.

Multi-million dollar mansions and $100,000 Porsches are flying off local shelves in the Palo Alto, Santa Clara and Menlo Park areas of California. And the charge of luxury living is being led by a group of young entrepreneurs and techies as well as investors and venture capitalists that have scored famously from Facebook’s Nasdaq debut.

Facebook (FB: 38.23, +0.23, +0.61%) began trading on the stock exchange Friday morning in a $104 billion IPO that marked the second-biggest in history behind Visa (V: 112.64, -2.37, -2.06%) and ahead of General Motors (GM: 21.18, -0.43, -1.99%). When CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell, he and few close colleagues became instant billionaires, while thousands of lower-level employees became millionaires.

The sudden wealth has already seeped into the local economy, causing sales of high-end cars like Porches and Bentleys to soar, and penthouses to sell hundreds of thousands of dollars above listing prices.

Local restaurants like Silicon Valley watering hole and local tech favorite Buck’s of Woodside – located just a few miles from Facebook’s headquarters and often considered the bellwether of the local economy there – have also reported a recent boom.


Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2012/05/18/facebook-overnight-millionaires-start-luxurious-spending-spree/#ixzz1vGmNka6o

This is what Obama and his friends don't get. The "1%" don't work at Chanel, Hermes, Botegga, or Bugatti. Average people do. Sure, there are people who get paid quite handsomely to act as personal stylists at any of these places (and others) but are still far, far away from touching the income and lifestyle of the people they service. Yet without the "1%," these jobs wouldn't exist.

Another wonderful benefit of our economic system: there are now a few thousand more millionares in this country today because they found a good opportunity in the free market. Nobody told them they couldn't, that it would be "unfair," and there were no laws on the books saying "you can't make/earn more than X amount or else you're too rich" to hold them back. At the rate we're going, such laws may actually exist and not only would they penalize people who are already wealthy, they would make it more difficult for people to be upwardly mobile.

I wonder how many of them will bail (like that other Facebook guy who's name I can't remember but has inspired Schumer's "Ex-Patriot Act") on the USA by renoucing their citizenship to avoid our tax system which penalizes success. If the "1%" bail, where do all the jobs they've created--either directly through their businesses or indirectly through their spending habits--go? They disappear without a clientele to serve, without a demand for their product or service. Why doesn't Obama understand this? Why doesn't OWS understand this?

And now, totally unrelated, but enjoy this awesome vintage image-spam courtesy of the Captain America  end-credits. I love WWII pro-USA, pro-Allies propaganda (did you know that's where the "Keep Calm" poster comes from? It was British WWII homeland propaganda) and all of these are authentic. If I could ressurect one and send it to Obama to put up in his office, it would be this one:


(loose lips sink ships...I've know this since I was 4. Why doesn't anyone in the O.Admin--unfortunately including the DoD--know it as well? The Navy SEALs want to know, and so do I.)


Anyway, video!

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii

Breitbart.com has an interesting take on this, which is that this is yet another example of Obama manipulating his public persona for different purposes at different times. And certainly, he is known to do that.

I have never been a birther. I've always felt it was just too much of a conspiracy theory for me to really buy into. I think this is weird, but beyond that...I dunno. The article is essentially documentation of the vetting and fact-checking BigGov did on this piece of information. So I put it to y'all, who are informed and intelligent people: what do you think about this?

Have you guys seen this on Tumblr? I got a giggle out of it.

http://obamainhistory.tumblr.com/

Basically this is the RNC's response to Obama's staff going through WhiteHouse.gov and adding Obama-related links and commentary to biographies of presidents all the way back to Coolidge (noo! Don't let Obama besmirch Silent Cal!).  Isn't it ironic that Obama's camp just sets him up for this stuff?

Also, found this on Twitter:

Barack Obama finally endorsed gay marriage.

The world press and political leaders, shaken by the political courage and uncompromising step, said that this is the dawn of the new historic era. Well, not everyone, but those who are worthy of attention.

My comments are as follows:

1. Obama had to gather all his glorious courage into a fist, all his qualities of a leader and to finally join Dick Cheney on this topic.
2. A spokesman for Vice President Biden announced that Obama was leading on this issue from day one. That's after Biden apologized for forcing Obama to announce his decision before Obama was ready.
3. This incredibly bold decision might cost him at least a dozen votes.
4. But this is unlikely, given that Obama has just explained that he would not insist that the party should do something about it.

Obama is now in a position where he is struggling to avoid things like the pre-election debates on the state of the economy.  And he frantically throws into the furnace any topic that he can hang on to. Free condoms for women! Burned. Romney does not like dogs! Oops. Julie's Life! Mega-ups. Well ... Well ... Oh! I support gay marriage!

I think there are enough distraction topics to last for a month at most. And then what?

This was an ABCNews article from 2008 about Obama's stance on gay marriage. Huh, how odd!! ...not.

It was reported on the radio here that George Clooney is hosting a $40,000 per plate fundraiser for Obama tonight (or sometime soon) and Robert Downey Jr will be one of the attendees.

Please say it ain't so! When I was a teenager, I thought RDJ was a loser heroin abuser (wasn't it heroin that finally got him sent to federal prison?) and I couldn't care less about him. However, after he got out of prison and basically stated that he'd had his eyes opened and moved from liberal to conservative, I thought, "time for a second look at RDJ?" and nothing has happened since then Ithat I'm aware of) to make me think he wasn't sincere in his "conversion."

*dramatic pause*

Until now.

What happened? Why is he supporting a President who supports policies that encourage an entitlement mentality and that discourage personal responsibility, something I thought RDJ valued after spending time in prison taking responsibility for his personal decisions?

Don't make me not see Iron Man III. :(