The obliviation of antediluvian excrescences postulates a didactic promorphistic inclusionary ascensional sine qua non, perhaps rectifying the recidivisual deconcurrence of reductive influences, remaining not ineffectual per se though expressing a certain contradissonance trending towards mass disembarkation. We seek to reconfirm the aforementioned while attaining a hitherto unforeseen unknowability.
I know those guys; they really do trend toward a mass disembarkation.
Before we humans came along with our Industrial Revolution and our greenhouse gases, the earth was hurtling towards an intense ice age that could have covered much of the northern hemisphere with deep ice sheets as soon as 10,000 years from now, according to a tentative new study.
The Wall Street Journal reports: Intelligence Policy to Stay Largely Intact. “President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence policies, advisers say, an approach that is almost certain to create tension within the Democratic Party.”
The ‘marketplace’ for carbon allowances will be one in which both supply and demand are set by governments, in which intense corporate lobbying for changes to both supply and demand is all but certain, and in which moral hazard — in the form of an expectation of a government bailout — is an absolute certainty. Valuing the toxic instruments created by Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac, that corrupted the pool of debt securities, will seem like child’s play in comparison.”
Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.
This sounds like conscription to me. I understand this is a well meaning plan, but as the saying goes: “The road to hell path to destruction is paved with good intentions.”
Update: The America Serves web site has been updated since my post and no longer uses the word require. It also includes details about refundable tax credits. As it reads now, Obama’s America Serves project is a substantially different proposition than outlined previously. I’ve updated my link above to hit the cached version. I’m not sure how long that will work.
As I noted in the comments, I think it’s fine for local school districts to include public service in their curriculum. I don’t believe the federal government should mandate it, especially for college. I’m all for public service, as long as it’s voluntary. I have volunteered (i.e. served) in the military and with various civic organizations. The experience was great and I encourage everyone to volunteer.
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity, campaign officials confirmed.
Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged. Instead, the campaign is scrutinizing its books for improper donations after the money has been deposited.
The inescapable conclusion is that Barack Obama is a highly deceptive, often dishonest individual. Again, many would say this is standard operating procedure for politicians in our culture (and most others too). But Obama presents himself as something different, a new kind of post-modern politician above the conventional dirty dealings of backroom politics.
Like Roger, the crux of my problem with Obama is not his left wing past, but that he tries to hide it. It’s the dishonesty that is troubling. The willful, even enthusiastic, participation of the MSM in promoting the lies and deception disturbs me.
The MSM keep referring to William Ayers as a 1960’s radical, as if his politics have moderated. Here’s some fairly recent video of Ayers being interviewed by Luis Bonilla-Molina, President of the Centro Internacional Miranda, where he shares his views on the role he believes critical education can serve in the promotion of Bolivarian Revolution.
[Three minutes and fifty-eight seconds into the interview.]
Ayers:One way of looking at is the Weather Underground was a great teaching moment; and to the extend that we didn’t fully realize what we attempted we were bad teachers.
It is obvious Ayers, the Chicago education reformer, has radical views about the role of education in politics, and vice versa. I don’t know exactly when this video was filmed, but I’m pretty certain it was after the years Obama and Ayers worked together at the Annenberg Challenge.
As Stanley Kurtz points out, “Ayers’ radicalism isn’t something in the past. It’s something to which Obama gave moral and financial support as an adult. So when Shane says that Obama has never expressed sympathy for Ayers’ radicalism, he’s flat wrong. Obama’s funded it.”
