John Stossel On Uncommon Knowledge

While I am not a big John Stossel fan, I thought this interview was interesting enough to post on my blog. 

Voting?

Our Replicant Politicians

While I could change my mind, I just moved from the “probably will not vote” category to the “will not vote category.” In particular I will not vote for president for the first time ever. It looks more and more like an exercise in futility. I may still vote in the general election as there are some tax increases on the ballot in California.

There are three issues on my mind.

The first is the economy. I have no doubt that Romney would be a better economic fuhrer than Obama, but only by a hair—by 1% to be exact. The difference between Obama’s budget and the probable Romney budget currently proposed by Ryan is 1%. Ryan is proposing to increase spending by 4% a year while Obama is proposing to grow spending by 5% a year. Hurrah. I blogged about the awfulness that is the Ryan budget here—and here. One point for Romney.

I have been talking recently about American Foreign Policy and the crisis in Syria and the potential for a crisis in Iran and the crisis that is coming with Russia. As bad as Obama’s foreign policy is, Romney’s will be worse. The bellicose statements he has been making toward both Iran and Russia are appalling. Someone must have given his secret underwear a wedgie. One point for Obama.

Finally there are judicial nominees. This is surely a point for Romney. Isn’t it? Consider that Bush appointed Roberts, who was the deciding vote in the obviously flawed ObamaCare Supreme Court decision. How are replicant (ha ha this was an autocorrect error for republican that I decided to leave) nominees for the Supreme Court working out?

So we can vote for Obama with his bad foreign policy and appalling economic policy, or vote for Romney with his bad economic policy and appalling foreign policy.

As Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe said at the siege of Bastogne, “Nuts.”

The Wishing Well

Be careful what you wish for. 

Left Versus Right?

The assumption I often hear is that I am on the far right. Maybe. But I have found more in common with my very left leaning nephew than with mainstream Republicans. I could give a long winded explaination as to why I think this is true. Instead I offer these cartoons to explain.

Media Manipulation

There are many reasons for Media manipulation. I mentioned one in an older blog post-Good Television. Watching the Marshall McLuhan documentary I posted on Tuesday would be helpful to understand this aspect of media manipulation. 

But there are bold outright lies like the one I posted last week that was used against Romney. 

Here are a few more. 

You can not trust the media. And no, I am not saying you can trust the new media either. Do not watch just one kind of media, watch many and evaluate them.