Author: Don Carl

The Silky Ponyâ„¢ wants everyone to go to preschool and college and he wants to raise everyone’s taxes to do it! It is rare for any politician to be this honest about an idea that NO one likes, paying higher taxes. The Concord Monitor has the story.

Edwards, a former Democratic senator from North Carolina, says the federal government should underwrite universal pre-kindergarten, create matching savings accounts for low-income people, mandate a minimum wage of $9.50 and provide a million new Section 8 housing vouchers for the poor. He also pledged to start a government-funded public higher education program called “College for Everyone.”

“It is central to what I want to do as president to do something about economic inequality. I do not believe it is okay for the United States of America to have 37 million people living in poverty,” he said in a meeting with Monitor reporters and editors this week. “And I think we need, desperately need, a president who will say that to America and call on Americans to show their character.”

Um, if everyone goes to college, who will work on our cars, build our houses, flip our damned burgers? College is not for everyone, and everyone is not for college. While a well educated populace is a lofty (and worthwhile) goal, this idea simply ignores reality. There will ALWAYS be a need for menial labor, the gardeners, the roofers, the fast food employees, mandating that everyone goes to college is as pointless as it is expensive (hint: Very)
Edwards’ proposals would do nothing more than apply a fresh layer of lubricant to the slippery slope to socialism idealized by the extreme left. All this talk about “Leveling the playing field” and obvious class warfare attacks like this:

“I think if we want to fund the things that I think are important to share in prosperity, then people who have done well in this country, including me, have more of a responsibility to give back,” he said.

are good examples of how to lower productivity. If there is no incentive for exceptional performance, what reason is there to work hard? I’ve always thought the best illustration of this is the automotive industries in the US and Japan (free societies)
vs those of the Soviet Union (Not so free society…)

Reuters reports that Secretary of State Rice has been speaking to former Presidents Clinton and Carter about peace in the Middle East.

Rice invited Carter, a vocal critic of Bush administration policies, to the State Department on Wednesday where the two discussed his Arab-Israeli peacemaking efforts in the 1970s

Rice also telephoned another former Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who tried, and ultimately failed, in his eight years in office to bring the Israelis and Palestinians together.

You don’t ask idiots for advice. This is like asking Ted Kennedy for driving lessons…
Clinton’s State Department, the vestiges of which (due to Bush’s “New Tone”) we are still plagued by was an absolute failure in everything they tried to accomplish. Proving, once again, madmen and terrorists can be negotiated with, they’ll just screw you later.
Carter? Good God! Look, I am only 35, I was in kindergarten when Carter took office, but, I can remember the long lines at the gas pumps and watching my parents shake their heads and pray for the hostages Carter left to the tender mercies of Iranian terrorists. Unless Dr Rice is looking for advice on what does not, has never and will never work, she is talking to the wrong people.

The Daily Mail has this story, about Dr Oliver Curry‘s theory that the human race will split into two different species,

an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures

The two will be called, no doubt, the Eloi and the Morlocks…
This is worse than the Manbearpigs of Algore’s global warming, this is plagiarism of FICTION calling itself science. What really takes the cake, though, is Dr Curry’s research was funded by

men’s satellite TV channel Bravo.

You know, TV’s home of such serious scholarship as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, West Wing re-runs and James Lipton. This article is either 6 months early for April Fools Day 08 or 6 months late for this year.
In case you were wondering:

Dr Curry’s research interests are focussed on evolutionary explanations of human nature, especially moral and political thought and behaviour as well as the implications for social sciences especially moral and political theory.

This is a pretty good example of the kind of science you get from a Poly-sci prof at an economics school.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement released a summary of its investigation of the John Kerry (did you know he was in Vietnam?) event at the University of Florida last month’s tazing of Andrew Meyer. Police stated he was disruptive, and resisted leaving when asked, and used foul language while resisting the officer’s attempts to remove him. The investigation found that the officers had followed state guidelines when they tazed Meyer.
Orlando Sentinel story

Barrack Obama, in a town hall meeting in Dover New Hampshire, stated that Former Vice President, and failed politician Al Gore will be involved in the Obama Presidential Administration in a “very senior capacity” ABC News reports
Gee, Barry, do you NOT want to be president? Because, that is fine for me, but, damn. You couldn’t pick a simpler way to kill your campaign?

Taking a page from the Anti-fur kooks a Code Pink(O) member accosted Secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice in a House committee hearing room.

Gee, how do these nutjobs keep getting into the House’s chambers? It is almost as if someone wants them there…
Secretary Rice again has impressed me with her cool demeanor. Had someone started playing the childish “I’m not touching you” game with me in that manner, they would have gotten laid out.
Breitbart and the AFP have the story.

Six illegals were arrested for “stealing” food and water at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. The stadium is being used as a refuge for victims of the wildfires. Apparently, the six were targeted because they don’t speak English. This is outrageous! They shouldn’t have been arrested for stealing food and water! They should have been arrested FOR BEING IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY!

Border Patrol agents are not looking for illegal immigrants at the center but will continue responding to police calls for assistance.
“We are not in any means at Qualcomm for enforcement capacity,” he said. “We are not there to take advantage of a situation.”

What the hell? The argument has been that it would be too hard to round up illegals to deport them, yet, when they willingly gather the Border Patrol won’t take advantage of the “situation” and nab the CRIMINALS? So much for enforcing the law…
The LA Times has the story

A two year old donated $2300 to Barack Obama’s campaign. So did her 9 and 13 year old siblings. Was it Obama’s pro-Barney stance that enamored him to the tyke? Was his command of L33t enough to garner the contributions of her sister, brother and 13 year old cousins? Or could it be that good ol’ fashioned “Culture of Corruption©”? Not that her uncle is a wealthy Chicago financier or anything…
The Washington Post has the story