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Written by Dave at 1:33 pm
At the nation’s elite colleges. This article, while long, exposes the cancer at the heart of diversity programs in the Ivy League.
Here’s the money graf:
But what Espenshade and Radford found in regard to what they call “career-oriented activities” was truly shocking even to this hardened veteran of the campus ideological and cultural wars. Participation in such Red State activities as high school ROTC, 4-H clubs, or the Future Farmers of America was found to reduce very substantially a student’s chances of gaining admission to the competitive private colleges in the NSCE database on an all-other-things-considered basis. The admissions disadvantage was greatest for those in leadership positions in these activities or those winning honors and awards. “Being an officer or winning awards” for such career-oriented activities as junior ROTC, 4-H, or Future Farmers of America, say Espenshade and Radford, “has a significantly negative association with admission outcomes at highly selective institutions.” Excelling in these activities “is associated with 60 or 65 percent lower odds of admission.”
It’s disgusting even if it’s a little bit true. The left-wing bias in university admissions makes a total mockery of the idea of actual diversity. What we have instead is selection based on the right skin color.
Without seeing the Obamessiah’s college transcripts, we’ll never know if he was an affirmative action choice or not. Left-wing social engineering is one of the most poisonous and pernicious elements extant in modern culture, and it must be exposed at every turn. The health of this country is at stake.
Written by Dave at 6:03 pm
Those dumbass Jews don’t trust the Obamessiah because of his middle name:
During the interview Wednesday, when confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that “some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion.”
“Ironically, I’ve got a Chief of Staff named Rahm Israel Emmanuel. My top political advisor is somebody who is a descendent of Holocaust survivors. My closeness to the Jewish American community was probably what propelled me to the U.S. Senate,” Obama said.
No, the Israelis don’t trust you because you’ve been nothing except hostile to Israel, and spent twenty years in the pew of a church led by a virulent anti-Semite.
The malignant narcissism of this president is absolutely mind-boggling. It literally does not occur to him that there might be people out there with good reason to disagree with or distrust him. His lack of class and grace are a cringing embarrassment to the office.
Written by Dave at 12:51 pm
I was thinking about posting more statements from individual Democrats supporting the idea that ObamaCare’s true purpose was to redistribute wealth from the less-deserving to the more deserving, but Byron York has gathered them all into one piece:
By talking openly about redistribution, Baucus and others have gone seriously off-message. Democrats knew there was no way they could ever sell a national health care bill to a skeptical public by basing their case on income inequality. That’s one reason they went to such lengths to argue — preposterously, in the view of most Americans — that the bill could cover 32 million currently uninsured people and still save the taxpayers money.
Through it all, Obama further lowers the office to which he was elected by naming individual Americans in a whine about how badly he’s being treated. What’s enlightening and disturbing is that these leaders of the Democrat party are very comfortable telling us publicly that their true interest is in leveling that playing field.
Eventually, your outrage meter gets pegged in the red and just sticks there. It’s pretty tiring.
The only thing you can come away with is that if you believe in free-market principles, personal responsibility over government authority, and charity over confiscation, don’t vote Democrat. Party trumps person, and we are now witnessing the end result of what happens when you give the liberal left too much power.
Written by Dave at 5:55 pm
I…I don’t believe it.
The White House political and legislative operations were said to be livid with the announcement by several large U.S. companies that they were taking multi-million or as much as a billion dollar charges because of the new health-care law, the issue was front-and-center with key lawmakers. By last Friday, AT&T, Caterpillar, Deere & Co., and AK Steel Holding Corp. had all announced that they were taking the one-time charges on their first-quarter balance sheets. More companies were expected to make similar announcements this week.
I do not believe it. They’re lying partisans, the lot. Probably racists, too.
On Friday White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett were calling the CEOs and Washington office heads of the companies that took the financial hits and attacked them for doing so. One Washington office head said that the White House calls were accusatory and “downright rude.”
No! They were just…just zealous in their advocacy of the untrammeled good that is ObamaCare. No doubt President Obama could explain it better to them.
“Most of these people [in the Administration] have never had a real job in their lives. They don’t understand a thing about business, and that includes the President,” says a senior lobbyist for one of the companies that announced the charge. “My CEO sat with the President over lunch with two other CEOs, and each of them tried to explain to the President what this bill would do to our companies and the economy in general. First the President didn’t understand what they were talking about. Then he basically told my boss he was lying. Frankly my boss was embarrassed for him; he clearly had not been briefed and didn’t know what was in the bill.”
LIES! All lies.
This guy’s a liar, too.
Thanks to Ace for the pointer.
Written by Dave at 7:10 pm
Max Baucus has the integrity to admit it:
“Too often, much of late, the last couple three years, the mal-distribution of income in American is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy and the middle income class is left behind,” he said. “Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America.”
Rather than redefining socialism further and further toward capitalism, it’d be nice if the Democrat party and its supporters would just come right out and tell us how much they hate free-market principles.
“We’re going to take things away from you for the common good.”
Exactly.
Written by Dave at 6:15 pm
Here’s some more civility from Obama:
Speaking without his suit jacket, Obama suggested that opposition springs from “fear-mongering and plenty of overheated rhetoric.”
He added: “You turn on the news, you’ll see the same folks are still shouting about how it’s going to be the end of the world because this bill passed. …. Leaders of the Republican Party, they called the passage of this bill ‘Armageddon.’ Armageddon! End of freedom as we know it! So after I signed the bill I looked around to see if there were any asteroids falling. Some cracks opening up in the Earth! Turned out it was a nice day!”
Petty.
Say what you like about George Bush, he wasn’t a petty little asshole like this. What a cringing, graceless embarrassment of a boy he is.
Written by Dave at 4:20 pm
Well, it’s costing Caterpillar $100,000,000 so far:
Caterpillar Inc. said Wednesday it will take a $100 million charge to earnings this quarter to reflect additional taxes stemming from newly enacted U.S. health-care legislation.
The world’s largest construction equipment manufacturer by sales, warned last week that provisions in the legislation would subject the company to federal income taxes on the subsidies it receives for providing prescription drug benefits for its retirees and their spouses.
Thanks to Hot Air for the pointer.
That’s just an isolated incident, right?
No:
Yesterday I posted a memo that Verizon sent to its employees concerning its view that the Democrats’ health-care bill would probably cause its costs to go up. Specifically, the memo keyed in on a change in the tax treatment of the Medicare Part D retiree drug subsidy. This is a subsidy that the government pays to employers that offer prescription-drug coverage to their retirees; it was created as part of the Medicare prescription-drug entitlement to encourage employers not to dump their retirees into the public system. As the Wall Street Journal editorial board reports today, the subsidy costs taxpayers $665 per person, “while the same Medicare coverage would cost $1,209.”
There are going to be many stories like this coming down the pike.
According to a CBS poll, most people want the Republican party to continue to fight ObamaCare.
Oh, and the Obamessiah Brain Trust who brought you the national horror story we call ObamaCare forgot to add kids with pre-existing conditions. You’d think that this brilliant, principled group of individuals would have added that bit.
Bottom line is that the socialist wing of the Democrat party has imposed a vastly unpopular law upon us that has already done some damage. The party of “spread the wealth around” is spreading it around, that’s certain.
My only consolation is the imagining of the butthurt of any Caterpillar and Verizon employees who voted for Obama.
UPDATE: One thing I forgot to add is the one greatest thing that ObamaCare has done so far is force the American citizen to buy a service that he doesn’t want from the federal government. That’s huge. While I understand that there are many of us who feel that the government does know best, that the government should be in charge of your life. That your personal freedom should take a backseat to what the government says is best for you. It’s a little unfair for you to demand that the rest of us bend over, spread the national cheeks, and hope that it doesn’t hurt too much, however.
Written by Dave at 4:23 pm
Ace discusses this.
They all seem quite pleased about this whole thing. I’d be pretty embarrassed, myself.
Written by Dave at 5:47 pm
President Obamessiah is about to sign a new healthcare bill into law. It’s time for a little plain talk.
This radical redefinition of 1/6th of the American economy puts the lie to the idea that Obama and the Democrat leaders in Congress are not seeking to push the country into socialism. No serious thinker can reasonably say that this pronounced leftward shove, against the wishes of the American people, is anything but a gigantic step toward a European-style social democracy.
I have no doubt that this is what many of Obama’s voters were looking for when they poured their hopes and dreams and wishes for free stuff at the expense of others into the empty suit that is Barack Obama. Call it leveling the playing field or social justice or helping out the poor or whatever polite fiction you like to use, this unread horror story of a health care bill is the single largest entitlement package created since the Great Depression. No social program, once enacted, has ever been repealed. Hence, ObamaCare is here to stay, whether we like it or not.
This is a victory for people who feel that they’re owed a living. It’s a victory for people who lack the integrity to donate to charity, instead demanding your money at gunpoint: the government at the Great Dispenser of Social Justice. It’s a victory for the Hope and Change crowd whose thinking never reaches past the depth of a bumper sticker. It’s a victory for those whose work is not valued by society at large, let alone private industry, and instead rely upon the requirement of subsidy to hold a job (or get health insurance). It’s a victory for individuals who buy $8.00 lattes and own Sean John clothes, but won’t change their lifestyles to accommodate the cost of health insurance.
It may be that this is a victory for you. If it is, you’ve given up the luxury of being treated like an adult. You’ve made me and everyone else responsible for your health choices. If you’re overweight, it’s now my business. Do you smoke? Do drugs? Snowboard? Have unprotected sex with strangers? You’ve now involved me in that. Now that Government, and by small extension the American taxpayer, is the one paying for your health care, you’ve kind of infantilized yourself.
Grow the fuck up. Take some fucking responsibility for yourself. You’re an embarrassment. You’re the tyranny the Founding Fathers fought to free us from. You’re the antithesis of the can-do spirit that made America the world’s last great hope.
Written by Dave at 2:17 pm
The perfect gift for butthurt Obama voters concerned about their Messiah’s significant disapproval ratings.
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