Barack Obama accepts his party’s nomination for President of the United States tonight. He says America is better off because he has been in charge.
This is “better off”? Are they nuts?
I didn’t want to write this column but I snoozed through most of the Monday n00z.
Everybody’s writing about how Olympic “cyclists covered a 156 mile course through the English countryside and towns south of London including the town of Dorking, which is home to the world-famous Dorking Cockerel” and I’m tired of politics because none of those airheads is doing anything new. They all went to Dorking Cockerel, too, I think, but they didn’t stay there.
This photo is making the rounds on the Interwebs.
What, are you nuts?
The least little reading of history — even a World Book Encyclopedia entry — not to mention economics should have taught us how American business followed the river, the trail, the railroad, and then the highway. See, you don’t have trade without transport.
Business success drove some roads. Indiana entrepreneur Carl Fisher dreamed up the Lincoln Highway, a road that would make a bee-line coast-to-coast from Times Square to San Francisco. It was first officially recorded in 1913 only about 40 years after the first steam powered, carriage-sized “automobile” drove the existing wagon roads in Wisconsin. About the same time Mr. Fisher was pushing roughly along the 40th Parallel, the Atlantic Highway was established to connect Quebec and Miami. We know that road today as U.S. 1.
Mr. Fisher drove down the Atlantic Highway and did a little bit of real estate development around Miami. Fisher Island, for instance.
Automobile traffic increased. Trade grew. Trade increased. Automobile traffic grew. Planners started drawing a nationwide highway system in 1921. The New York parkway system, Route 66, and other famous routes were built in the twenties as local or state highway systems but we needed the interconnected national system to supplement the existing United States Numbered Highways system.
Yeah, yeah. Dr. Paul maybe wants to make the point that Korea builds roads for different reasons than we do. And the Rightie-Tighties apparently want to remind us that Mr. Obama wants to build more roads with our money.
Or something.
Regular visitors may recall that I abhor negative advertising. I dislike stupid advertising even more.
My grandfather would not use Dial soap because their TV ads trumpeted, “Don’t you wish everybody did?”
He didn’t wish that and so he didn’t use the product.
If your political ads piss off the voters, they won’t vote against the other guy. If your political ads lie to the voters, they won’t vote against the other guy. They simply won’t vote. And that’s a vote for the other guy.
Mr. Obama, speaking in Roanoke on July 13, said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
The North Korean highway photo doesn’t answer that. The North Korean highway photo just annoys anyone even a little economically literate. At least posters like this one are a far better play on that theme:
Passersby thought a New York man was dead behind the wheel of a locked car in a Lake George motel parking lot. They called the law.
The poor fellow was instead really really really drunk. Like passed out drunk. Like too drunk to walk, let alone drive drunk. Like not bothering a soul drunk.
Warren County sheriff’s deputies saw the car was locked and the man couldn’t respond so they broke the window. That’s when they discovered he was alive, but very drunk.
A blood test (I guess he couldn’t blow in the tube) showed his blood-alcohol content was 0.27 percent. The legal limit in New York for driving while intoxicated is 0.08 percent.
He was parked in a motel parking lot. Parked. On private property. Sleeping it off.
Sheriff’s deputies broke his car window to get to him. The law won.
He was charged with aggravated DWI.
Say what?
Enola “Fanny” Guay and the rest of the lefty loon brigade went batpoop crazy over BP’s past Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and Shell’s current Arctic drilling rig stumbling around the Aleutians. Shell and BP’s rigs met all U.S. safety and environmental regulations.
Cuba (Cuba!) is drilling holes just minutes from the ecologically sensitive Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and is there a peep out of the Far Green?
Nope.
Shell and BP’s rigs met U.S. safety and environmental regulations. Does Cuba even care about U.S. safety and environmental regulations?
Nope.