2008 election called by Bill Kristol

It’s official – Obama has won the 2008 election. The actual polls need not even open.

One needs only to follow the simple laws of logic. Modus ponendo ponens holds that in every case where P→Q and P is asserted Q will always hold true. In this case let P=“William Kristol states n” and let Q=”it is necessarily the case that ¬n.” So, the sentence “if William Kristol says n, then it is necessarily the case that ¬n” becomes a familiar instance of modus ponens; P→Q, P, therefore Q. In this instance Kristol states in a New York Times Op-Ed piece that McCain will stand a good chance of defeating Obama in the general election. So, n≈”McCain will win against Obama.” Therefore it is not the case that McCain will win against Obama. Quod erat demonstrandum.

I am so tired of this election

I don’t think that I am capable of voting for Hilary. I certainly won’t vote for McCain. If she somehow gets the nomination, my vote will go to a third party candidate. I don’t care if McCain wins. He is the same as her. If Obama gets the nomination and loses the election it will be almost entirely her fault.

Pro-Death.

I am pro-death. I favor abortion rights and I like guns. I think that the inclination to remove guns from the arms of citizens is a well intentioned, but ultimately flawed intention of left-wingers. I happen to agree with many of their ideas about human rights and the like. However, disarming America leaves the door open for the final subjugation of American freedom.

Blue Cross of California asks Doctors to rat out their patients

"The state's largest for-profit health insurer is asking California physicians to look for conditions it can use to cancel their new patients' medical coverage.Blue Cross of California is sending physicians copies of health insurance applications filled out by new patients, along with a letter advising them that the company has a right to drop members who fail to disclose "material medical history," including "pre-existing pregnancies." - By Lisa Girion, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer February 12, 2008

Well another sad chapter in American health care. BC of CA is a non-profit, so hopefully they aren’t looking for too much personal gain and are trying in vain to keep health care costs down.

Dr Phil is a douchebag

Apparently he has totally gone over the edge. Confidentiality doesn't apply to him. Peep this NY Times article. This guy was a licensed psychologist in Texas for 20 years apparently. For some reason he was invited to see Britney in her hospital room by her extremely well family. Then he spilled the beans about it to the media, because...because....what else would he do?

Glad to see that the helping professions are being repped to the masses by this self aggrandizing megalomaniacal narcissist. God bless you Phil McGraw.

Corporate Naughtiness Revisited

I read this on dailykos this morning. Big surprise here - of course.

"The Rich Are Different by Devilstower

Thu Dec 27, 2007 at 01:54:10 PM PST

Michelle Leder at footnoted.org specializes in reading company reports and looking for those little special treats given to those folks who have their feet at the top of the corporate ladder.

So what has she found? Marketplace has some of Michelle's best finds for 2007.

How about the CEO at Qwest, whose daughter gets to use the corporate jet to travel to school? Puts that kid whose mother pulls up to jr. high in a Hummer in her place. Cost to the stockholders: about $600,000.

Personal travel was a theme in CEO perks this year. Just ask the CEO of I2. The company covered his commuting expenses so he could live in Maine while the company offices were in Dallas. Cost to the stockholders: $949,000 -- and by the way, the company was busy scrambling to avoid collapse. I'm sure the other employees got equally nice treatment."(rest of post here)

They were jacking it from Marketplace themselves. There is something devilishly wonderful about the self-righteous snarkiness that progressives, liberals, or whatever the preferred nomenclature is, express when these perennial stories pop up. Plus who doesn’t like to snark a little themselves?

I was at a funny little dinner party a few days ago with some friends of the family who all work in higher education. They were speaking about the move of some people on the sub-continent away from agriculture and toward manufacturing jobs. Their main thesis appeared to be that if the poor Indians could see the results of the move away from AG to factories ten years on, then they would stay in AG.

I love these people; I grew up with them. But please, give me a break. Do they wish that they themselves had stayed agrarian? I looked in all the packages and gift bags from the day and I only found one not made in China. Talk about hypocritical. I think I disappoint my family when I make comments to this effect, but isn’t it easy to sit in your heated house streaming internet Christmas radio, exchanging inexpensive gifts and even cheaper social commentary?

Progressives are just as complicit in this corporate world as anyone else. As long as cable television is cheap and consumer goods are cheap, we are all willing to grind brown and yellow people into the ground.

Mad Max - Nigeria Edition

"At least 45 people were burned to death on the outskirts of Lagos when fuel they were siphoning from a buried pipeline caught fire. Nine out of 10 people in Nigeria, Africa’s top exporter of crude oil, live on less than $2 a day, and many are prepared to take huge risks to obtain free fuel." By REUTERS Published: December 27, 2007

Is this Mad Max or what? I can just see this type of thing happening down here in South Florida where I live. This really made my morning special when I saw it on the NY Times site. I can't wait for the fuel crisis to really heat up. At least in the US we can still buy guns.