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September 10, 2009

The urge to save humanity

Burt Prelutsky asks a number of politically incorrect questions (but what questions aren't these days). While I am tempted to quote his summary of what American tax payers are getting for a half billion of their dollars from their United States consulate in Jerusalem (blood pressure warning for the linked revelations), I am instead going to cite his closing observations.

The ex-Mrs. William Saroyan once made a very perceptive remark about the writer, famous for writing lovingly about the Armenian community in Fresno, Calif. She said, "Bill loved mankind, but he hated people."

When I look at Obama, I see a lot of Saroyan there. Although he's made millions of dollars off his books and CDs, it's common knowledge that he has one relative, apparently an illegal immigrant, living in public housing and another in an African village, surviving on pennies a day. But Obama keeps telling us that he's heart-sick about the unemployed and the uninsured. Well, as H.L. Mencken once observed: "The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it."

I suppose I should add I have, uhh, nothing to add to last night's farcical health care address. Better by far, it seems to me, to target the next czar. As a Canadian citizen, I realize it is a bit forward of me to suggest one to my American cousins; particularly so given the windfall his policies would provide for Canadian beef producers.

But, seriously, look carefully at Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein.

Cattlemen in this country own and manage most of the lands that are covered by the Endangered Species Act, that are subject to control. So you ask: Why is Cass Sunstein’s hatred and animus toward meat eating such a big deal? It’s because he’ll be in a position to be able to use the Endangered Species Act to put cattlemen out of business. And then the price of your steak goes up. And then the price of your cheeseburger goes up.

To be clear, the price of your steak goes up and the price of your cheeseburger goes up. Making steak and burgers from imported Canadian beef is another story.

Related: Victor Davis Hanson deconstructs the whup ass.

There is a strange pseudo-culture in America, of which Obama is a perfect example. Millionaire Michael Moore announces, “Capitalism is evil” as he hypes promotion of his moneymaking new movie. Oliver Stones praises Chavez, as the dictator shuts down voices of dissent—yet Stone himself could not make a movie in Venezuela as he does here. So too the murderer Che becomes a popular T-shirt emblem among the college elite. Van Jones calls Bush a “crackhead” but then in self-important style flashes on his website, “As a tireless advocate for disadvantaged people and the environment, Van helped to pass America’s first ‘green job training’ legislation: the Green Jobs Act, which George W. Bush signed into law as a part of the 2007 Energy Bill.” Bush is a crackhead in front of some audiences, compliant supporter to others?

Posted by Ghost of a flea at September 10, 2009 07:08 AM

Comments

Let me be clear: The only thing that, uhh, saved last night's speech from, uhh, total inanity was Wilson's rude but accurate outburst. Yes We Can!

Posted by: Varenius at September 10, 2009 01:09 PM