CART WILLIAMS

Curmudgeonly, crusty & cranky.
Always on the right, seldom if ever wrong
yet hardly ever dangerous.


On a mission to impose a hundred and
eighty degree course correction on a confused and
divided nation headed in the wrong direction.

SOUNDS LIKE SLICK WILLY RETURNED WITH A SUN TAN.

President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour

Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072902068.html

OFF TO JAIL WITH YOU SENATOR SLIME.

For decades Alaska justified its raids on the federal Treasury because Washington owned so much of the state and had locked up so many of its natural resources from development (the oil underneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge being the most famous example).

Producing real wealth would be a healthier strategy for most Alaskans than the continuing pillage of the U.S. taxpayer the state's raiding parties in Congress have been conducting for decades.

http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB121744780706197947.html?mod=opinion_journal_political_diary

THAT'S THE PLAN STUPID. MCCAIN WAS TEED UP AS A SACRIFICE.

He's competing as if he expects the other side to lose it for him. Sen. McCain is a famously undisciplined politician. Someone in the McCain circle had better do some straight talking to the candidate. He's not some 19-year-old tennis player who's going to win the U.S. presidential Open on raw talent and the other guy's errors. He's not that good.

Yes, Sen. McCain has honor and country. Another month of illogical, impolitic remarks and Sen. McCain will erase even that. Absent a coherent message for voters, he will be one-on-one with Barack Obama in the fall. He will lose.

http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB121745962594698731.html?mod=todays_columnists

PUT ON SUN SCREEN BEFORE YOU SEEK THE LIGHT.

It is an outrage to consider Obama a mere human being, for it is like calling the sun a star – when you know the sun is so much more than that. The sun may be a star, but that star becomes the sun when we realize it is the center of our universe, a hot glorious rock that sustains all life in our galaxy.

However, like the sun, too much Obama can be unhealthy. Try to avoid afternoon summer Obama between the hours of 11 and 3.

http://www.dailygut.com/

REMEMBER NOW, THIS IS THE GUY WHO TOOK ON AND DEFEATED THE CLINTON MAFIA.

The few who have drilled down on his radical roots have tended to downplay or pooh-pooh them. Even skeptics have failed to connect the dots for fear of being called the dreaded "r" word.

Those who care less about looking politically correct than preserving the free-market individualism that's made this country great have to start calling things by their proper name to avert long-term disaster.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/
IBDArticles.aspx?id=302137342405551

SOCIALISTS ARE LOSERS BUT THEY CONTINUE TO WIN. HOW CAN IT BE?

No war was more mercurial than the Korean between 1950-53, in which the American public was convinced the war was hopeless before it ended in1953 with the preservation of South Korea.

Long after a Seymour Hersh, Moveon.org, Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan, Harry Reid and others are forgotten, Americans will still remember what David Petraeus did for our country. Amen to that!

http://victorhanson.com/

MCCAIN TO VOTE FOR OBAMA.

Economics has never been Mr. McCain's strong suit, but with Iraq receding as a crisis the economy is the ground where the Senator will have to fight and win.

If Mr. McCain can't convince voters that he's better on taxes than is a Democrat who says matter-of-factly that he wants to raise taxes, the Republican is going to lose in a rout.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121737539116495163.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks

THE BAD AND THE UGLY.

For several decades, environmentalists have managed to get Congress to keep most of our oil resources off-limits to exploration and drilling.

As a result, energy prices are at historical highs and threaten our economy and national security.

http://www.townhall.com/
columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/07/30/environmentalists_hold_on_
congress?sort=desc&comments=true#comments

WELL! AFTERALL, HE IS THE MAGNIFICENT MULATTO.

Only now does Obama confer with General Petraeus -- with 38 years serving the US -- about the Middle East, and he confers, not to listen nor to learn, but to announce what he'd already decided about Iraq which he'd visited once and Afghanistan which he'd never seen and on which the Senate sub-committee he chairs has held not a single hearing.

All we do know is that Obama knows that he knows more than anyone else.

http://www.thundertales.blogspot.com/

AND THE CHOICE OF THE VOTERS WILL BE THE EMPTY SUIT.

It should be clear by now that Sen. Obama is a very empty suit. There are few things beyond his undeniable charisma to recommend him for the job.

Self-destruction is inevitable and McCain need not bother himself with that. Others will handle the quite easy task of pointing out the gaffes.

http://www.thundertales.blogspot.com/

AT CROSS PURPOSES.

Although most of the mainstream media are still swooning over Barack Obama, a few critics are calling the things he advocates "naive."

If he is trying to solve his own problem of getting elected, then he is telling the voters just what they want to hear. That is not naive but shrewd and cynical.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell1.asp

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS.

How many in the media have expressed half as much outrage about the beheading of innocent people by terrorists in Iraq as they have about the captured terrorists held at Guantanamo not being treated as nicely as they think they should be?

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell1.asp

AN EXAMPLE OF FACTS OVER BLATHER.

When New York Times writer Linda Greenhouse recently declared the 1987 confirmation hearings for Judge Robert Bork "both fair and profound," it was as close to a declaration of moral bankruptcy as possible.

Those hearings were a triumph of character assassination by politicians with no character of their own. The country is still paying the price, as potential judicial nominees decline to be nominated and then smeared on nationwide television.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/
cols/sowell1.asp

GLOBAL SOCIALISM, WHAT A CONCEPT.

The high court demurred. "Berlin adorns itself with the slogan 'poor but sexy,' but it isn't so poor," observed the presiding judge in his verdict. "Berlin doesn't have a budget emergency. Significant indicators point only to a budget that is under stress."

The judge suggested the city might consider selling off some of the 270,000 housing units it owned, or cutting the wages of Berlin's civil servants, which on average ran 50% higher than Hamburg's, or consolidating its six housing authorities, two zoos, or three opera houses into more manageable units.

http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB121728749255091421.html?mod=todays_columnists

MORE DIM SMOKE AND MIRRORS GAME.

Unfortunately, the Drill Act is likely to be the first of many phony bills offered to the public this year. They will be aimed at giving the appearance of wanting to increase energy supplies. But in reality they will undermine efforts to increase domestic oil production.

Perhaps the Democratic majority will change course in the months ahead, and choose to join with Republicans to adopt commonsense proposals to unlock vast American energy reserves. But that will only happen if the American people make it clear that they know when they are being had.

http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB121728846656591485.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

WE PLAY YOU PAY IS A MESSAGE TO OBAMA.

Erwin Huber, chairman of the center-right Christian Social Union of Bavaria, called Mr. Obama's statement "a disappointment for Europe and Germany."

Welcome to President Bush's world, Senator Obama

. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121728656509891259.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks

THE MONEY TREE LIVES AND THRIVES IN D.C.

Jesse Jackson's Citizenship Education Fund, an offshoot of his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, has received more than $500,000 from Fannie and Freddie since 1996.

Groups on the left complain about "corporate welfare" all the time, but curiously nary a one has opposed the Fannie and Freddie bailout -- which amounts to one of the biggest corporate welfare gifts in U.S. history.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121728651034091275.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks

NEVA HOPPEN. BARAK MUST LEAD US TO THE PROMISED LAND.

McCain's campaign needs a unifying theme, and one less abstract than "country first." Here again, he should take a page from Clinton, offering a conservative version of her theme of a "fighter for you." In particular, he should be fighting for middle-class Americans against ineffectual government and tax-and-spend liberalism.

But it must be harnessed in a tight, hard-hitting campaign uncharacteristic of McCain. This year, simply letting McCain be McCain is a formula for failure.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07252008/postopinion/
opedcolumnists/what_he_can_steal_from_hill_121430.htm

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I think this is a good time to call someone Sugar-Tits.

IT'S NOT FOR ME IT'S ONLY FOR THEE.

Earlier this month, Senator Obama accepted the endorsement of the National Education Association, the largest teachers union. Speaking recently before the American Federation of Teachers, he described the alternative efforts as "tired rhetoric about vouchers and school choice."

Their daughters attend the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where annual tuition ranges from $15,528 for kindergarten to $20,445 for high school.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121720068489088381.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks

OIL GALORE FOR THOSE WHO WOULD USE IT.

We know that drilling is prohibited on 85% of America’s offshore waters. From sources of James Inhofe (Senate Committee on Environment) the Pacific and Atlantic regions of the Outer Continental Shelf hold an estimated 14 billion barrels of oil which are equivalent to over 25 years of imports from Saudi Arabia.

In the Green River Formation (Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah), the Rand Corporation estimates that 1.1 trillion barrels are recoverable at prices as low as $35-$48/barrel within the first 12 years of commercial scale production.

http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/
kroeten_20080728.html

KNOWING WHERE YOU WANT TO GO AND GETTING THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT MATTERS.

The senator unintentionally exposed one of the biggest dilemmas liberals have forced upon mankind: Utopia is as appealing as it is impossible. It’s easy to get applause in Europe by condemning nuclear weapons. It is difficult to approach an antagonistic nation that is developing such weaponry and try to get them to stop. It’s easy to tell Europe how important a player it is in meeting the challenges of the world community. It’s difficult to get them to pull their share of the wagon by contributing cash and troops.

Liberals worship diversity yet they refuse to acknowledge the diversity of ambitions and beliefs that flourish throughout the world community. That makes them as unsafe as they are naive.

http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/jbell_
20080727.html

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OBSERVATION FROM IRELAND ABOUT U.S. POLITICS.

jw Says:

this just in from ireland:

what on earth are ya lads thinkin’ over in the colonies?

July 26th, 2008 at 9:31 am

FROM THE WOMB OF A BLESSED VIRGIN SPRUNG THE WORLD'S FIRST MAGIC NEGRO.

From The Times July 25, 2008

He ventured forth to bring light to the world.

The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/
gerard_baker/article4392846.ece

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

And suddenly, with the men appeared the archangel Gabriel and the whole host of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising God and singing: “Yes, We Can.”

EVERYTHING IS KOOL IN ARNOLD'S KULIFORNIA.

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Calm down. All we need here in KA need is an increase in our meager 8 1/2% sales tax to balance the budget.

Pete

Posted by Pete at July 25, 2008 02:17 AM

http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/

SOCIALISM CAN BE HARD ON GRANDMAS.

http://www.lucianne.com/

By Daily Mail Reporter

Grandmother arrested on race charges after

telling rowdy Asian students to 'go home.

The 51-year-old grandmother was astonished when four months later she was arrested and accused of being a racist. It turned out that two Asians in the group had complained to the police.

In April, Miss Calvert-Mindell, who has never been in trouble with the police before, was charged with using racially aggravated threatening words or behaviour under section 5 of the Public Order Act.

Jo Calvert-Mindell was carted her off to the police station charged with using racially aggravated words.

After being woken for the third time in one night by a group of drunken and noisy students, Jo Calvert-Mindell was at her wits' end.

The former policewoman got dressed, went outside and shouted at them: 'Why can't you go back to where you come from and make some noise there? I bet your families and neighbours wouldn't put up with it.

'You don't care about us and do just as you like. What gives you the right to frighten my elderly neighbours, cause damage and keep us awake at night?'

She also reported the incident to police, who came and dispersed the eight students.

The 51-year-old grandmother was astonished when four months later she was arrested and accused of being a racist. It turned out that two Asians in the group had complained to the police.

In April, Miss Calvert-Mindell, who has never been in trouble with the police before, was charged with using racially aggravated threatening words or behaviour under section 5 of the Public Order Act.

In May, she appeared at Folkestone Magistrates' Court in Kent, where she denied the charge.

The case hung over her until the Crown Prosecution Service decided to drop it last week, admitting there was little chance of conviction. Now she is filing a complaint about the way the police treated her.

Yesterday, Miss Calvert-Mindell, a Liberal Democrat councillor and community volunteer, said: 'The last thing I am is a racist.

'I have a totally inclusive attitude to different races and cultures - I don't care if you are black, white, green or a Martian.

'Their colour had nothing to do with it - it was their behaviour.

'I think there is something very wrong in our society when a resident can't go out and try and prevent crime and disorder and encourage the defendants to go back home and that they can then play the race card to completely absolve themselves of responsibility for that behaviour.

'The authorities today are so sensitive to being criticised for being racist that any claims of racism just raises their antennae, instead of using common sense.'

The incident that led to her court appearance happened in the early hours of November 8 last year on the Hales Place estate in Canterbury.

Miss Calvert-Mindell, who has a daughter and three grandchildren, was woken three times by students from the nearby University of Kent, who were shouting drunkenly and kicking bins.

Fed up after months of sleeplessness caused by noisy students she put her clothes on and went down to tell them to be quiet.

She said that when she shouted at the students 'all I meant was that they would not do that at their family homes wherever they had come from in England.'

But one of the students said she was being racist. Two Asians in the group later complained to police.

Assistant district crown prosecutor Carol Chastney said: 'Following a review we decided to discontinue the proceedings against the defendant as there was no longer sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction.'

Kent Police refused to apologise. Superintendent Chris Hogben said: 'An allegation was made that was fully investigated. A case was presented to the CPS and the decision was made to prosecute.

'If Miss Calvert-Mindell would like to discuss our response and the conduct of officers I would urge her to contact me direct.'

DAVID BROOKS NEW YORK TIMES.

As I've said elsewhere, I find Obama's stance to be a liberal internationalist version of the same crusading, feelgood, soaring, moralistic universalism that led us down the primrose path when it came out of the mouth of George W. Bush (compare Obama's speech to Bush's second inaugural address).

But this Obama Messiah business is absurd. People think the guy is going to usher in a New Jerusalem; guess what, folks -- it's a Potemkin Village

http://www.lucianne.com/

SURGERY TOO LATE TO SAVE THE PATIENT.

Speaking at the New York Public Library Mr. Paulson said that a strong dollar is "really very important." Coming from an administration that has otherwise been largely agnostic about the value of the U.S. currency, this seemingly pro-forma statement was greeted by the market as an unqualified endorsement. Stocks rallied, oil sank further and the dollar moved up against the yen and euro.

With Congress passing a housing bill and bank stocks rallying, he may now have more political room to begin raising rates. If so, the move is overdue and may help take the wind out of energy and grain prices.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121693784304882617.html?mod=opinion_journal_political_diary

DIMOCRAT SLIGHT OF HAND O.K. WITH REPUBLICANS.

An explicit government guarantee for Fannie and Freddie could ultimately end up costing taxpayers more than $1 trillion, according to an analysis by Standard & Poor's in April.

"I'm deeply disappointed the White House will sign this bill in its current form," said Mr. Boehner in a statement. "We must take responsible steps to ensure our financial and housing markets are sound, but the Democrats' bill represents a multibillion dollar bailout for scam artists and speculative lenders at the expense of American taxpayers."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121694283773782871.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

GOOD WORK AND GOOD FRIENDS BRING SATISFACTION.

Say, how do "hot lap dances" affect global warming? Last week, a Gore supporter, Louis Posner, enraged over the result of the 2000 presidential election and founder of the Democratic voter organization Voter March, was arrested in New York on charges of prostitution and money laundering.

Imagine the important reporting we could have gotten on the Hot Lap Dance Club story if only the entire American media weren't with the Messiah on his "Ich Bin Ein Berlitzer" Tour!

http://www.anncoulter.com/

GLOBAL RICE BOWL.

The raison d'etre for NATO was the Red Army on the Elbe. It disappeared two decades ago. The Chinese army left North Korea 50 years ago. Yet NATO endures and the U.S. Army stands on the DMZ. Why?

And that is why the Empire will endure until disaster befalls it, as it did all the others.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27696

THE SAVAGE YEARS.

From 1989 to 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Empire and breakup of the U.S.S.R., America had an opportunity to lay down its global burden and become again what Jeane Kirkpatrick called "a normal country in a normal time."

Yet, opportunity has come anew for America to shed its imperial burden and become again the republic of our fathers.

http://www.humanevents.com/
article.php?id=27696

I TOLD YOU SO. BLESSINGS OF GLOBAL SOCIALISM COMING SOON TO WHERE YOU LIVE.

BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA:

People of the world -- look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.