Posts Tagged ‘George W. Bush’
George Bush 9/11 Interview by National Geographic
In honor of this time in our nation’s history spend a few minutes of your weekend watching this special by National Geographic:
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Best Links of the Week
George W. Bush has a few refreshingly rare words for a former president in a recent interview:
I don’t want to go out and campaign for candidates. I don’t want to be viewed as a perpetual money-raiser. I don’t want to be on these talk shows giving my opinion, second-guessing the current president. I think it’s bad for the country, frankly, to have a former president criticize his successor. It’s tough enough to be president as it is without a former president undermining the current president. Plus, I don’t want to do that.
Huge insult during Chinese delegation visit and huge blunder by Obama administration – “A State Insult with Chinese Charateristics.” This further highlights
Indian government has a $35 tablet computer.
“Why You Should Always Run Up the Score” – First Things
GOP entertaining privatizing Medicare.
The most sued companies in America. Surprise, all the usual subprime suspects lead the list…
China keeps ramping up the dollar rhetoric.
FCIC Report – Financial Crisis was Avoidable – I am not sure whether this is the case or not. It is a rather complex question of whether it was avoidable or not. It leaves me with the question, does human irrationality not necessitate the existence of irrational bubbles?
Over 99% vote for secession in Southern Sudan
Drug smugglers attempt to catapult drugs over U.S./Mexico border. Nothing like profit driving innovation… I wonder if they came up with their pot trebuchet idea while smoking pot.
Tons of British Anglicans fleeing the Anglican church in favor of Roman Catholicism
Baseball player walks away from $12 million salary because he says he ‘doesn’t deserve it.’
Rafi Eitan recounts the story of their capture of Nazi Holocaust chief architect Adolf Eichmann.
Truly excellent interview with Francis Ford Coppola:
There is something we know that’s connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.
UN spends $288,700 per “green job”
Consumer confidence crashing in the UK
11% of all homes are vacant in U.S. – this amounts to 18 million homes
Florida Judge rules that Obamacare is unconstitutional. In the same vein, “Tawdry Details of Obamacare”
“Greatest Putt-Putt Shot Ever”
Smooth Criminal on Cello
The Scam of Obamanomics
I remember during my time in undergrad at University of Florida several interactions with the staunch political left. I was there during the 2000 election and for the primaries and for some of the buildup to the 2004 election. I recall one of the main critiques of the those staunch left was the relationship of the Republican party with “big business.” They would cite ties with oil and such. Those ties definitely existed within the Bush administration. The Bush family is from Texas and has roots in oil. VP Dick Cheney was the former CEO of Halliburton. Their critiques would not bother me if it were not for par for the course for the left and right alike.
Here is one of the many scams of Obamanomics…
The big banks made a boatload of money this past year. One of the big ways they did it was through a genius little scam the Obama administration (and the quasi-independent Federal Reserve) has setup for them. Its pretty simple. The Fed has the interest rate that banks can borrow (almost limitlessly) at zero percent interest. These same banks then with that zero percent loan money but up US Treasury Bills (whose interest rates vary from relatively small to 4.5%+ for the 30 year variety). The banks get rich, Obama gets some financial donors, and the American taxpayer gets screwed. In effect, the American taxpayer is subsidizing the big banks. I am all for capitalism. I am not for subsidizing these banks through this scam. Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, and the supposed chief architect of our financial recovery, has taken the opportunity to make sure Goldman Sachs gets very wealthy and that his former competitors get less-than-favorable deals with the federal government. Unimaginable greed drives these scammy deals. The accumulation of wealth is not intrinsically evil, but the means of accumulating that wealth should have at least some level of integrity and morality.
I think Timothy Carney’s book entitled Obamanomics: How Barack Obama is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, likely has some similar themes.
Best Links of the Week
Planned Parenthood - Eugenics is still alive and kickin'
1. World Magazine goes undercover at Planned Parenthood.
2. Some pretty shocking statistics from Mark Driscoll of 18-23 Protestants who attend church at least 2-3 times per month.
3. Newsweek article on the monetization of privacy: Google and Facebook.
4. John Frame’s thoughts on Francis Schaeffer’s thought.
5. Video Timeline of unemployment figures by county since 2007.
6. Obama administration pushing for unrestricted and warrantless access to cell phone tracking. Create fear, expand government, push for less freedom on altar of ‘security’… (Bush did it too). I’ll take my chances because I don’t worship security.
7. A scathing and apt critique of George Barna’s ridiculous book Pagan Christianity.
8. UK’s top climate scientist (and same figure in the center of climategate scandal) says there has been no global warming in last 15 years.
9. On Friday (2/12/10) 49 of 50 states had snow on the ground.
10. Potential genetic link between Jews and Taliban – it seems that one of the 10 exiled Northern tribes of Israel/Ephraim went over to India.
11. Millionaire Says Money ‘Prevents Happiness’ and gives away all money and property.
12. Atlantic Monthly on What Makes Great Teachers and on the subject of education, Justin Taylor has a nice write up on Fred Sanders book Education for Human Flourishing.
13. Marine Lance Cpl. walks away from sniper shot to the head.
“Waiting for Armageddon” Movie Trailer
I ran across this movie trailer today on Hulu. It is a film analyzing the impact of classical Premillenial Dispensationalism on Israel, American culture, neo-conservativism, American foreign policy, Islam, and Mideast peace. Suffice to say, without having seen the film, I most likely agree with the disturbing affects of classical Dispensational Premillenialism on all of the aforementioned spheres.
Should a 150 year old doctrine that isn’t taught at any seminary drive American foreign policy? Your thoughts?
