Mostly Moonbats

The Heritage Foundation has released its 2007 Index of Economic Freedom (click the image for the full-size graphic). Here are the Top Ten Nations, with the degree of economic freedom they possess, according to The Heritage Foundation:

1. Hong Kong (89.3%)
2. Singapore (85.7%)
3. Australia (82.7%)
4. United States (82.0%)
5. New Zealand (81.6%)
6. United Kingdom (81.6%)
7. Ireland (81.3%)
8. Luxembourg (79.3%)
9. Switzerland (79.1%)
10. Canada (78.7%)

Last place? North Korea. Surprised? I thought not. (h/t: Glenn and TaxProf Blog)

Last week I put up a post about Bill Richardson shortly after he declared his presidential candidacy. We had some discussion in the comments to that post, and, in so doing I said I could and would vote for the governor if someone put a gun put to my head and forced me to vote for a Democrat, any Democrat. Well, no more.

"As someone who served in Congress for 14 years, I know the power they hold, should they choose to wield it," New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson told the DNC yesterday at the Hilton Washington hotel. "The Congress passed a resolution authorizing war. They need to pass another one that overturns that authorization and brings our troops home by the end of the calendar year."

That’s from today’s WaPo. I watched the speech in real-time on C-SPAN yesterday and that wasn’t all he said. Unfortunately I didn’t take any notes, but The Guv completely destroyed what little credibility he had with me. Just sayin’.

Gov. Richardson was followed by a complete and total moonbat who made Richardson look like Reagan, by comparison. That guy? Former Senator Mike Gravel… Once again, from the WaPo:

Former senator Mike Gravel (Alaska), the fourth speaker at yesterday's session, was perhaps the harshest of any of the candidates in denouncing those Democrats who supported the war initially. But he did little to advance his dark-horse candidacy, according to party activists, by delivering a 25-minute speech, the longest of the weekend and 18 minutes longer than the routinely ignored seven-minute time limit imposed by the DNC.

“Harsh” isn’t the word I’d use to describe Gravel; other words —such as “demented,” “crazed,” and the previously-used “moonbat”— are much more appropriate. That boy really turned me off when he claimed Eisenhower’s warning about the military-industrial complex had come to pass and that the MIC was in complete and total control of the country. It got worse from there… What I couldn’t believe is all the applause he received from the audience. Perhaps they were just being polite, I don’t really know. But a Democratic party that entertains people like Gravel, even for a moment, is not a serious party.

And speaking of serious/not serious, here’s a tiny little article about the songs the various candidates selected as intro/outro music for their DNC speeches. Remember how I went on about not liking the fact Chevy uses Mellencamp’s “This Is Our Country” as the theme song for their new truck ads? Well, now I have another reason not to like that frickin’ song. John Edwards is using it as his “theme song.” The article I linked isn’t all-inclusive, as it omitted the fact that the moonbat Gravel used Lennon’s “Power to the People” as his music. Is that frickin’ predictable, or what?

Speaking of moonbats… Here’s Captain Ed on the (in)famous and moneyed George Soros:

It's hard to get surprised by Leftist characterizations of conservatives as fascists The epithet flows so freely that even members of the Senate have used it, the last time by an ex-Klansman. The latest version of the insult comes from George Soros, speaking at the Davos Economic Forum last week about the situation in Iraq. Claiming that the US needs to cleanse itself from conservatives, Soros compared the process necessary to that used by the US in Germany:

He went on to say that Turkey and Japan are still hurt by a reluctance to admit to dark parts of their history, and contrasted that reluctance to Germany's rejection of its Nazi-era past. "America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany," Soros said. "We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process."

This is highly inflammatory and, quite frankly, anti-American. (Emphasis mine)

No kidding! I’ll bet Barack cringed when he read the comments Soros made at Davos. Coz Soros has given Barack a lot of money… That aside, I’m beginning to think there must be something in the water at Davos…

No comment: “Science Panel Calls Global Warming ‘Unequivocal’.” Well, no comment beyond this.

Resist.

(h/t: Donald Sensing)

Today’s Pic: I know. I said no more baby pics. But…just one more. This one was my wallpaper for the longest time.
August, 1998.