Poor Prof. Bainbridge! It seems the hayseeds and what nots keep expressing themselves and it is all so embarrassing! What can an upperclassman do? (I was going to insert a T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII reference here but I was beaten to the punch)
DaTechguy does an incredible job of answering Bainbridge's 10 point lament leaving me free to simply vent.
I have little patience for those who believe that participation in the democratic process should be reserved for the elite. Typically, the process has been left for the "betters" and we see how that has worked out. No more.
So dear Professor, when you hear the words "Mama grizzlies" does it sound like finger nails on a blackboard? Good. Get used the sound because it is going to get louder. If you are embarrassed then do run along and hunker down with Chuckles, Andy and Kathleen. Oh, and don't let the barn door hit you on the ass.
Read also:
Left Coast Rebel
Legal Insurrection
American Power
Showing posts with label Elitists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elitists. Show all posts
Monday, August 2, 2010
Thursday, December 10, 2009
That's an Odd Title
Politico has a poll out by The New American Foundation that found that 39% of Israelis (both Jewish and Muslim) believe that President Obama is a Muslim. Although the number is a bit higher than I would have expected, I didn't find the poll particularly shocking. What I did find surprising was Andrew Sullivan's title to his post linking the poll:
Israelis Or Appalachians?
Andy didn't elaborate so I have no idea what he is inferring. I would love to hear from him how he believes that Israelis and Appalachians compare to each other. I am sure it would make for a fascinating anthropological treatise.
Israelis Or Appalachians?
Andy didn't elaborate so I have no idea what he is inferring. I would love to hear from him how he believes that Israelis and Appalachians compare to each other. I am sure it would make for a fascinating anthropological treatise.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Chistopher Hitchens Misses the Mark on "Populism"
Via Memeorandum:
Christopher Hitchens doesn’t like Sarah Palin. Hitchens has a penchant for unmasking charlatans and in the Newsweek article Palin’s Base Appeal, he appears to be unmasking Palin but it is those that he perceives as “her base” that he has taken aim at.
Populism is a political ideology based on the perceived interests of ordinary people. Reading the article, it struck me that Hitchens considers “ordinary people” to be nasty little uneducated beings whose interests don’t interest him nor in his estimation should they interest anyone else of substance. In Hitchen’s view, if Palin has had any measure of success it lies in her ability to pull the wool over the eyes of the way too gullible unwashed masses.
They say a good writer writes about what he knows and Hitchens is altogether unacquainted with ordinary people. He does not have a clue why people are angry and if truth were told, he probably believes the anger is caused by the mundane nature of their small lives. But such people are too far below his station to grant any consideration or thought.
Should Hitchens care to actually research the subject of ordinary people before he opines on them again I would be happy to clue him in. But that would most likely bore him.
Christopher Hitchens doesn’t like Sarah Palin. Hitchens has a penchant for unmasking charlatans and in the Newsweek article Palin’s Base Appeal, he appears to be unmasking Palin but it is those that he perceives as “her base” that he has taken aim at.
Populism is a political ideology based on the perceived interests of ordinary people. Reading the article, it struck me that Hitchens considers “ordinary people” to be nasty little uneducated beings whose interests don’t interest him nor in his estimation should they interest anyone else of substance. In Hitchen’s view, if Palin has had any measure of success it lies in her ability to pull the wool over the eyes of the way too gullible unwashed masses.
They say a good writer writes about what he knows and Hitchens is altogether unacquainted with ordinary people. He does not have a clue why people are angry and if truth were told, he probably believes the anger is caused by the mundane nature of their small lives. But such people are too far below his station to grant any consideration or thought.
Should Hitchens care to actually research the subject of ordinary people before he opines on them again I would be happy to clue him in. But that would most likely bore him.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Papa Don't Preach
From The Daley Gator:
When it comes to greenhouse-gas emissions, Energy Secretary Steven Chu sees Americans as unruly teenagers and the Administration as the parent that will have to teach them a few lessons.
Whether it is Chu referring to Americans as teenagers or Sunstein's belief that we are not smart enough to act in our own best interest without a "nudge" from our betters in government, the lack of respect for the citizens of this country is apparent.
We are not acting the Chu wants us to act. There seems to be a prevailing conviction in this administration that "leadership" and "dictatorship" are interchangeable. As if through some "natural order" they are the leaders, we are the followers, they will dictate, we will obey. Fortunately, Americans are not docile people.
We are still making our minds up on Global Warming. The science is not settled and neither are we. Chu should brace himself for more "unruly behavior."
More at:
Memeorandum
When it comes to greenhouse-gas emissions, Energy Secretary Steven Chu sees Americans as unruly teenagers and the Administration as the parent that will have to teach them a few lessons.
Speaking on the sidelines of a smart grid conference in Washington, Dr. Chu
said he didn’t think average folks had the know-how or will to to change their
behavior enough to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
“The American public… just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a
way that they should act,” Dr. Chu said. “The American public has to really
understand in their core how important this issue is.”
Whether it is Chu referring to Americans as teenagers or Sunstein's belief that we are not smart enough to act in our own best interest without a "nudge" from our betters in government, the lack of respect for the citizens of this country is apparent.
We are not acting the Chu wants us to act. There seems to be a prevailing conviction in this administration that "leadership" and "dictatorship" are interchangeable. As if through some "natural order" they are the leaders, we are the followers, they will dictate, we will obey. Fortunately, Americans are not docile people.
We are still making our minds up on Global Warming. The science is not settled and neither are we. Chu should brace himself for more "unruly behavior."
More at:
Memeorandum
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Too Small To Count?
Via Don Surber:
What is the latest out of Leftie ObamaLand: Your state is too small to matter.
Pollack, June 23: “Then again, the seven states they represent are incredibly unrepresentative of American society. These have a combined population of less than 11.2 million, markedly less than greater Los Angeles. They include no major metropolitan areas. Their total population is less than 2 percent African-American, almost one-seventh the proportion in the U.S. population as a whole.”
Matthew Yglesias, July 28: “We’re talking, after all, about Max Baucus of Montana, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, Susan Collins of Maine, Mike Enzi of Wyoming, and Chuck Grassley of Iowa. Collectively those six states contain about 2.74 percent of the population, less than New Jersey, or about one fifth the population of California. The six largest states, by contrast, contain about 40 percent of Americans.”
Kos diarist, July 28: “But this health care reform-killing cabal of six Senators from small states is even more undemocratic than that — again, they represent a 2.7 percent micro-minority of the country.”
Collins, today: “The senators on this special committee hail from Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Iowa, Maine and Wyoming. This was quite a coup on Baucus’s part, since you have to work really hard to put together six states that represent only 2.77 percent of the population.”
Since when do only people who live in California or New York rate a say in the policies of this country. News flash: WE pay taxes, OUR loved ones protect this country, WE VOTE! I apologize for being crude but the only rational answer to elitist snobs who think that they alone have the right to express an opinion is, SCREW YOU! If the elitist had their way we would be CUBA.
Together we represent the back bone of this country. We will not back down and we will not shut up. The elitists are a threat to our very freedom. They need to go back to their poetry readings and sipping their lattes and leave the hard work of carrying this country forward to those of us who are up to the task.
What is the latest out of Leftie ObamaLand: Your state is too small to matter.
Pollack, June 23: “Then again, the seven states they represent are incredibly unrepresentative of American society. These have a combined population of less than 11.2 million, markedly less than greater Los Angeles. They include no major metropolitan areas. Their total population is less than 2 percent African-American, almost one-seventh the proportion in the U.S. population as a whole.”
Matthew Yglesias, July 28: “We’re talking, after all, about Max Baucus of Montana, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, Susan Collins of Maine, Mike Enzi of Wyoming, and Chuck Grassley of Iowa. Collectively those six states contain about 2.74 percent of the population, less than New Jersey, or about one fifth the population of California. The six largest states, by contrast, contain about 40 percent of Americans.”
Kos diarist, July 28: “But this health care reform-killing cabal of six Senators from small states is even more undemocratic than that — again, they represent a 2.7 percent micro-minority of the country.”
Collins, today: “The senators on this special committee hail from Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Iowa, Maine and Wyoming. This was quite a coup on Baucus’s part, since you have to work really hard to put together six states that represent only 2.77 percent of the population.”
Since when do only people who live in California or New York rate a say in the policies of this country. News flash: WE pay taxes, OUR loved ones protect this country, WE VOTE! I apologize for being crude but the only rational answer to elitist snobs who think that they alone have the right to express an opinion is, SCREW YOU! If the elitist had their way we would be CUBA.
Together we represent the back bone of this country. We will not back down and we will not shut up. The elitists are a threat to our very freedom. They need to go back to their poetry readings and sipping their lattes and leave the hard work of carrying this country forward to those of us who are up to the task.
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