Welcome To My Nightmare?

In a speech that lasted three minutes and utilized two heavy-duty teleprompters, President Obama introduced Alan Krueger as the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

He might as well have put Freddy Krueger in the position, because I don't think he could hack up the economy anymore than Obama and crew have already done.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Krueger, Alan, is from Princeton University.

Just like his predecessor Austan Goolsbee, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and other economic advisers such as Larry Summers and Christina Romer, Krueger is someone else from the Ivy League.

Here's what Thomas Sowell had to say about Obama and his Ivy Leaguers on Christmas Eve 2008 --

People who are impressed by how many of Barack Obama's advisors have Ivy League degrees seem not to remember how many people with Ivy League degrees mismanaged the Vietnam war and how many people with Ivy League degrees mismanaged economic policy during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Also as telling, from the same column -- Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.

Sowell Man

Here's some good Thomas Sowell Random thoughts on the passing scene...

A reader suggests that members of Congress should wear uniforms, like NASCAR drivers, so that we will know who their corporate sponsors are. Many of those in Congress should also wear logos representing the teachers' unions, environmentalist extremists and other special interests.

People who are impressed by how many of Barack Obama's advisors have Ivy League degrees seem not to remember how many people with Ivy League degrees mismanaged the Vietnam war and how many people with Ivy League degrees mismanaged economic policy during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The fact that sales at Starbucks are going down, while sales at McDonald's are going up, shows that people are adjusting to economic adversity by cutting back their spending. Only in Congress do people adjust to economic adversity and growing deficits by spending more money.

It is fascinating to see that politicians whose interventions in mortgage lending have created a disaster in financial institutions are now moving on to intervene in the automobile industry.

Wal-Mart has done more for poor people than any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.

Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.

As American incomes have risen over the years, liberals have kept changing the definition of "poverty." Otherwise, the dwindling numbers of people who could be called "poor" would take away the liberals' main claim to influence and power.

I thought they were good and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The More We Know

Here's an interesting tidbit on "wise" ass Supreme Court Justice to be Sonia Sotomayor.

From Drudge...

PAPER: Sotomayor once described herself as 'product of affirmative action'...

...admitted to two Ivy League schools despite scoring lower on standardized tests than many classmates, which she attributed to 'cultural biases... built into testing'... Developing...

That's empathy for you and probably explains her decision in Ricci v. DeStefano.

Obama Supreme Court Pick Slapped Down Reverse Discrimination Case in One-Paragraph Opinion

Interesting and the scientific community is united in that fact.

As I mentioned last Friday (Miss Led), I'm sure there'll be more to trickle out from her past, it explains why the Dummycrats want to rush her through confirmation.

Republicans ask Sotomayor for more documents

Seed cap surprise

I'm not sure which is worse.

The fact that an Ivy League educated (Columbia & Hahvud) Presidential candidate would be surprised Iowans aren't all "ingrown".






Or, that the elitists don't know the difference between a seed cap or a sea hat.

I think they're all on the dope and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Accentuate The Positive

When you're married to a thespian, that word does not mean what you think it means, you end up watching things like the Sound of Music Live.

That, plus the Thursday Night Football game stunk (Houston at Jacksonville?)!

 

When they came to Do-Re-Mi, with the words --

Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long, long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow Sew
Tea, a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do (oh-oh-oh)

It's a cute song for kids.

If you add Big Band music, it could become a classic like Mairzy Doats.

Mairzy doats and dozy doats
And liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too,
Wouldn't you?

If the words sound queer and funny to your ear,
A little bit jumbled and jivey,
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy."

But if you add a Southern Accent to either one you've got a Redneck Dictionary and the scientific community is united in that fact

As an aside, I worked with Bobby Beers, Mairzy Doats vocalist with Lawrence Welk, in my radio career.