The BoBo Files

Welcome to the August 2, 2009 edition of the bobo carnival of politics.

Conservative

Norbert Sluzewski presents Is Meritocracy Dead in America? posted at Naked Liberty.

Well – given the fact that the current SCOTUS nominee has been touted as a great example of affirmative action at work – and that both Barack and Michelle have stated they benefited from affirmative action – I believe that meriticracy in this country is indeed dead.  Not only that, but with one provision of that healthcare bill being that medical schools will obtain funding if they reach increased quotas of minorities enrolled versus enrolling those on merit who actually deserve to be in med school, its just further proof that socialism is being sown in this country.  When social constructs take precedence over merit – society loses.

Scott Spiegel presents Just Make Sure It’s Not a Blue Moon Belgian White posted at Scott Spiegel.

Yeah – and if this summit was all about making nicey nice – then why were there no apologies from Barack or Gates?  Nothing more than a photo op if you ask me.  Absolutely nothing got accomplished as far as race relations go in this country.  It just showed this country that two racist black men can get away with using the race card – if they just give the white man a beer.

Scott Spiegel presents Can We Decommission the Health Care Bill with Sodium Silicate? posted at Scott Spiegel.

This fits in nicely with Selkirk’s and Wenchypoo’s pieces below. Personally, I think we need to decommission our entire government at this point.  One bad idea after another – and we’re the one’s paying for it.

Paul presents Fix Entitlement Programs, Then Fix Health Care posted at Paul’s Political Punditcy.

Couldn’t agree with you more on this one, Paul.  The figures you site are frightening.  If those “Big 3″ (as you put it) aren’t fixed – that will be the only thing we’re all working towards funding.  That’s sheer lunacy.

Anthony Delgado presents Reproductive Technology: Surrogate Motherhood posted at eInquisitive | Giving you something productive to think about!.

Well, Anthony – not entirely related to politics – but – I’ll let this one in this week – it’s a good topic and some of my readers might be interested in it.

Selkirk presents Top 6 Unintended Consequences of ObamaCare posted at Political Castaway Blog: Broadcasting Conservatism to Rescue America.

Selkirk – this ties in nicely with the piece that I did last week regarding my position that health insurance is not a right.  Some of what you have indicated as the unintended consequences fit in with my solutions.  Great post – and – right on target.

Steve Parry presents Sotomayor And Racial Profiling posted at The Axis of Stevil, saying, “In my humble typical white opinion.”

I already added my say on this in your comment section.  Now we have the NRA out there as well telling the Senators that if they support her they will actively campaign against them.  This is a bad pick for SCOTUS and the United States.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Is The Economic Downturn Over? posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “Is this economic recession over? Some thoughts!”

Well – that would be nice.  However, I look at the other indicators as well – the GDP, GNP, Productivity, and the housing market – in addition to the ones in your post.  These other indicators are all still down – and – other economists, in addition to the Association of Realtors, is stating there is another wave of foreclosures coming – not only in the consumer market – but as well as in the commercial market.  There has been an increase in delinquent payments from the A-rated borrowers.  Personally, I think this latest volley from the administration trying to say the recession is over is just a propoganda push.  If you say it enough – people will start believing it.  The four indicators I mentioned are still in decline.

The Smarter Wallet presents Euro vs Dollar (USD): Weak US Dollar Ahead? posted at The Smarter Wallet, saying, “Do we have inflation ahead? Forecasting inflation by checking how the US dollar is behaving.”

Another good analysis on your part.  All the indicators would suggest inflation, actually I would say, hyperinflation is just ahead.  With oil being pegged to the dollar, and the dollar still in decline, all other currencies are up on the dollar – I would say you can bet on it.  As for trading for Euro’s – interesting.  I’ve been investing in gold, personally.

NotYourDaddy presents How to Undermine the Economy posted at Government is not your Daddy., saying, “If you wanted to come up with a plan to undermine the economy of the most prosperous and successful nation on earth, how would you go about it? The first thing you’d have to do would be to debase the underlying value system that provides the foundation for prosperity.”

Surely, you wouldn’t be suggesting that our socialist President is putting all this in to place? If you haven’t seen this video already – wow – nevermind – I had a video from youtube bookmarked – it was titled 45 goals for U.S. Marxism – taken from the 1963 congressional record – seems to have been pulled because of a “terms of use violation.”  We already know that google and youtube are in the tank for this administration.  But – with my skills – I was able to find this. It’s the transcripts.  Sounds eerily similar to what you have put forth and to what is exactly happening in this country now.

Liberal

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Dear Senator Inhofe posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.

Mad Kane – looks like you’re the only liberal who dared venture in to the carnival this week.  I am actually one of those “birthers” myself.  Until I see an actual true copy of this original birth certificate – I won’t believe me.  The one they continue to show around was printed on a dot-matrix printer – you know – something they didn’t have in 1961 – yet – no one really discusses that point.  However, regarding your limerick and Inhofe – not a really big fan of that guy myself.  He’s as crooked as the rest of the Dems and Repubs up there.

News

taucan62 presents New York Shipping Out The Homeless posted at rjjrdq’s America II, saying, “It looks like the big apple wants to make homelessness your problem, not theirs.”

Hey, Taucan – welcome back to the carnival.  That was exactly my first thought when I heard about this.  Giving the homeless a one-way ticket out of NY.  What ever happened to those compassionate liberals up there in NYC?  Is this how they really take care of the underserved and underprivileged – by making them the problem of other states?  Freakin’ crazy if you ask me.

SpkTruth2Pwr presents Iran Election: Fraud Allegations Die Without A Trace posted at The Apathy Remedy.

I can’t imagine living in a country like that either where opposition to the government is dealt with by death. It’s no wonder they are backing down from their claims.  Given that our administration didn’t support them, I can understand it.

Politics

Norbert Sluzewski presents The Lobbyist Does Not Speak the Peoples’ Voice posted at Naked Liberty.

I like the analogy using the “echo” game.  That does appear to be what is happening.  Lobbyists are only the voice of their clients.  Unfortunately, we the people, who actually should have the power, have no voice.  Our government has resigned themselves to listening only to lobbyists and special interest groups.  In fact, one particular special interest group – The Apollo Project – wrote the last “stimulus” bill.  Whatever happened to politicians actually writing the bills.  When you have lobbyists and special interest groups actually being the designers and architects of our bills – we no longer have a government for the people, by the people.  We need a serious overhaul of our government and we need to start electing representatives that will vow NEVER to do business with lobbyists or special interest groups.  I know Obama said he wouldn’t have lobbyists – but – he also said a lot of other things that he lied about.  Some of us tried to warn the people and to look at his past.  I’m hoping that after seeing his example, the electorate (we the people) will really start paying attention to history rather than rhetoric.  Great post.

Riversider presents Labour’s Public Spending Cuts Strategy – Asylum Seekers Can Be Hammered First posted at River’s Edge, saying, “The Labour government in the UK are beginning a huge programme of public spending cuts. Who have they chosen to hit first with their cuts? Yes the weakest, poorest and most desperate people around, asylum seekers. Wonder who will be next?”

Riverside – thanks for including this in the carnival this week.  It’s a great look inside the government of our cousins across the big pond.  When the U.S. government makes cuts – they always seem to threaten to cut the services of the underserved and underprivileged – not to mention – vital services like police and firefighters.  I wonder why they never consider cutting salaries of government workers, reducing the size of over-bloated departments, and just flat out getting rid of wasteful spending programs and departments altogether.  We give out hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to stupid things like studying the effect of alcohol on strippers in Venezuela, or giving money to the arts to produce underground pornography – yet – they cut spending on vital services.  Looks like your government sucks as much as ours.

Wenchypoo presents My View on “Cash-for-Clunkers” posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket.

Good one.  The only thing this program will do is force used car businesses out of business using our tax dollars to do it.  Those so-called clunkers that get turned in are required to be scrapped and the engines completely disabled then shredded.  This will create an artificial reduction in the number of used cars in this country.  When supply is down and demand is up – prices go up.  Those once affordable used cars will now be so over-priced and no longer affordable that you may as well get a new car – one that the government will force on us – ones that we don’t want.  Just more government control. They can’t even run this program efficiently and they want to take over health care?

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