More of The Way We Are Now

Bailout: The press and much of the public is no longer able to recognise a swindle when they see one.  Of course, also, it would not be nice to criticise our well-meaning bankers and politicians, and Americans are nothing if not nice.

Then, too, it is a sad truth that a crime, if it is big enough and successful, is not considered a crime.

The newspapers, of course, are dying.  As has been said, this is in part due to the growth of electronic media.  However, there is also the factor that the ignorance of the reporters is increasing even faster than the ignorance of the readers.

I have always found it interesting that the people who find it destructive that working men have a union to protect themselves are the same people who think that corporations should be able to collude and to ask for government support.

I just learned that Obama is a smoker.  Maybe this fellow is not as bad as I thought.

I know I am naive, but I did not realise until I retired that you have to pay income tax on the "Social Security" payments you receive back.   Just one of many ways the government swindles the decent, law-abiding, and middle class for the benefit of politicians and their clients.

It is a nice little agit-prop coup.  The newspeople tell us that Hamas wishes to "kidnap" Israeli soldiers.  Enemy soldiers are not "kidnapped."   They are taken prisoner.

I hereby swear and affirm that I am not now and have never been a member of the Republican party or any other subversive organisation.

The housing market has gone down.  Does this mean that we are not all going to get rich on real estate after all?

A little bit of extra enjoyment is added to the Christmas/New Year season when I remember that "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "Auld Lang Syne" are coded Jacobite messages.

Speaking of holidays, George Bush is opposed to Confederate Memorial Day but loves Kwanzaa.

I am not the least bit surprised and should have expected it all along.  I just learned that Clint Eastwood is my compatriot in the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

"I don't really see how the Obama devotees can in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists, or people who claim to have been abducted by flying saucers."   —Peter Hitchens