Not The Kind Of Convergence He'd Intended

Racist Cuba: 90% of Its Prisoners Are Black

That's right - 90% of all all prisoners in Cuba are black - while they make up only 10% of the population (35% including mulato).

Have you ever heard this quote from the toast of the left Ché Guevara:

“The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities and booze, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent,” wrote Ernesto “Che” Guevara in his diaries. When during a 1959 press conference a Cuban black asked Guevara, “what his Revolution would do for blacks?” Che sneered: “we’ll do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the Cuban revolution. By which I mean: nothing!”

I guess he said that because he was such an enlightened revolutionary.

The Violent Ignorance of Jimmy Carter, Oliver Stone, et al...

How can supposedly peace-loving "progressives" support murderous dictators?

How can one visit a country like Cuba, knowing full well that there are many political prisoners suffering in terrible conditions, and serving long sentences?

Think about that - if Jimmy Carter, Oliver Stone, Michael Moore, and all of them know that there are political prisoners in Cuba - then the liberal elite crowd must think those prisoners deserve their fate. Oliver Stone has actually said as much in public. So while they call George W. Bush Hitler, they shake hands and have tea with a murderous dictator who imprisons people for decades for much less (wanting civil rights, for example).


Excellent post here by Humberto Fontova.


Fox did a show on Cuba's wonderful and free health care system - see below.






And if you can stomach it, look here at TheRealCuba.com.

Incoherent and Irate Make a Terrible Combination

The late Ted Kennedy's son, rambling on incoherently about media coverage of the war in Afghanistan.

Some very cool science pics at Fox...

The "Ché" Movie: Straight From Cuba's Ministry of Propaganda

Another Hollywood director tries to rewrite history.

This time, he did it by meticulously sourcing... Fidel Castro's propaganda guys. Lovely. No agenda there!

Read here, Soderbergh’s ‘Che’ and Historical Accuracy, Part II

Quotes:

Fidel Castro, you see, wrote the forward to Che‘s Diaries wherein this Davy Crocket-esque-at-the-Alamo version of events appears. These diaries were published in Castro’s Cuban fiefdom by the Stalinist dictator’s very own propaganda ministry. So lest they unwittingly fudge their film’s historical accuracy, Soderbergh and co-producer Benicio Del Toro were scrupulous in repeatedly visiting Castro’s Stalinist fiefdom to get the unvarnished truth straight from Castro’s own propaganda ministry!

Funniest Ad ev-ah!!!

And who knew? Old Spice?!?!? That was some cheap smellin' crap. I hope their new products are better. Anyway, their ads are awesome...




And, even better, how they made the ad... (one take!!!)

See? Now that Bush is gone, the world loves us and Obama!

from: The Jerusalem Post.

Syria's Dictator Openly Mocks Sec. of State Clinton

Every day this administration becomes more of an embarrassment. They're lucky they're Democrats, otherwise this would be all over the media.

From Mona Charen on NRO: Mostly Hope : Optimism is not a foreign policy, as recent events have shown.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did make one request though — that Syria reciprocate for these gestures by distancing itself from Iran. Last week, Bashar Assad responded. Hosting Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Damascus, Assad ostentatiously signed a treaty of friendship with Iran and said of the secretary of state’s request, “I find it strange how they talk about Middle East stability and at the same time talk about dividing two countries.” Further mocking her, Assad joked, “We must have understood Clinton wrong because of bad translation or our limited understanding, so we signed the agreement.”

Government-Run Health Care is About Government

wowzers...

Great post from Mark Steyn:
It’s About Government, Not Health Care

Quotes:

Indeed. Look at it from the Dems’ point of view. You pass Obamacare. You lose the 2010 election, which gives the GOP co-ownership of an awkward couple of years. And you come back in 2012 to find your health-care apparatus is still in place, a fetid behemoth of toxic pustules oozing all over the basement, and, simply through the natural processes of government, already bigger and more expensive and more bureaucratic than it was when you passed it two years earlier. That’s a huge prize, and well worth a mid-term timeout.

Because government health care is not about health care, it’s about government. Once you look at it that way, what the Dems are doing makes perfect sense. For them.

Quote of the Day: Samuel Adams

“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, not your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” –Samuel Adams, 1776

Found at BigJournalism.com.

Another registered sex offender kills..

The evidence may be pointing to two murders, a year part but in the same area, by the same guy, who is now in custody.

Remains of Missing California Girl, 14, Found Year Later

It's always striking to me, these heinous crimes. We read the headlines, and are maybe shocked for a few moments, then we go back to our lives, back to electing the soft-hearted idots who create the laws that let little-girl-kidnappers walk free.

In any sane society, if a man kidnaps, lures, etc., a young girl, he wouldn't ever walk free again. Not ever.

Yet we seem to be glad to just live with these obscene crimes as long as they don't make us think, change our vote, or otherwise inconvenience us.

Where is the anger at these crimes????

Has it ever occurred to you that we could live in a society virtually free of these crimes?

They finally nailed Fat Boy...

March 8 UPDATE: It's NOT Fat Boy. Someone with a similar name.





Officers: Pakistan arrests American-born al-Qaida

The Laffer Curve Illustrated

There is a maximum rate of taxation, above which people will simply stop paying taxes and either do something else with their money, or hide their income.

A man named Arthur Laffer famously drew this curve on a napkin, forever entering this idea into the public consciousness.

The Cato Institute does a great job here of illustrating this with actual examples...

Summed up - under Carter and the Dems in the 70's, the top tax rate hit 70%. 70%!!!!
By '88, Reagan reduced that to 28% - and the number of taxpayers in the top bracket quintupled. That is, tax receipts were 5 times higher from that group and there were more of them reporting - way more than can be accounted for, even adjusting for inflation and other things.

Weakness begets... disaster in foreign policy

Great article at the increasing awesome American Thinker on Obama's weakness in foreign policy.

Obama's willingness to abandon his own purported values is genuinely shocking. Russia has a pandemic problem of race murder, yet when Obama visited Moscow, he ignored it. When he met with Russian human rights leaders at the White House recently, they reported that he told them, "Human rights is not the only issue that he has to take into account. Security and trade are also important, and he can't help but try to engage the governments in order to achieve result in these spheres."

2 years later, the Monolith Media Come Around To Corruption

I can't believe I'm finally seeing this in headlines...

Democrats mired in swamp they vowed to drain

First reported in the NY Post, and posted here, almost 2 years ago, Rep. Charles Rangel is his own swamp of corruption.

And the shocking part of this story - he's "temporarily" stepping down.

Does anyone even remember what Newt Gingrich was accused of?? Tom Delay??? No. Because it was so freakin' minor, that's why. And they were forced to step down. But when a senior Democrat fails to report $500,000 in income over a couple of decades, it's only a minor problem (let alone all of his other problems).

Now Rangel's list of sins has grown so long that no one can (any longer) honestly cover it up.

Hubble Pics

wowzers. These are awesome.

Hubble Pics.

Our Rock-Solid Climate Change Data Gathering Methods

From Fox News:

Human-Error-Prone temperature data gathering methods.

Norman Borlaug - the greatest hero you've never heard of.

How many people have saved 1 billion lives and have NOT become a household name?

Read about this amazing American who spent his life teaching the world to grow better crops, thus feeding themselves, thus circumventing the scenario where places like India wouldn't be able to feed themselves.

Read the full article at the WSJ.

Highlights:

The very personification of human goodness, Borlaug saved more lives than anyone who has ever lived. He was America's Albert Schweitzer: a brilliant man who forsook privilege and riches in order to help the dispossessed of distant lands. That this great man and benefactor to humanity died little-known in his own country speaks volumes about the superficiality of modern American culture.

In 1999, the Atlantic Monthly estimated that Borlaug's efforts combined with those of the many developing-world agriculture-extension agents he trained and the crop-research facilities he founded in poor nations saved the lives of one billion human beings.

Borlaug told me a decade ago that most Western environmentalists "have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for 50 years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists in wealthy nations were trying to deny them these things."

"Without high-yield agriculture," Borlaug said, "increases in food output would have been realized through drastic expansion of acres under cultivation, losses of pristine land a hundred times greater than all losses to urban and suburban expansion."

Caught Lying About His True Goals