As IF Times

link RealClearPolitics – Video – Moore On Wealthy Peoples Money: “Thats Not Theirs, Thats A National Resource, Its Ours”.

It’s pretty clear that news conduits are publishing Moore’s comments for comic relief on a slow news day.   It’s obvious that at core, he harbors strong communist values despite his curious success in the capitalist world.  The appearance is even a giveaway.  The unkempt hair, the hat, the scruffy beard.  He looks like a Fidel Castro but much better fed.  Some may recall that just recently, he was suing the Weinstein brothers for monies allegedly owed to him from his recent celluloid delusion.  If he believes everyone’s money belongs in the collective socialist pool, why bother fighting for it? 

There is no more remarkable testament to America’s freedom of expression than the fact that Moore is able to spread his deranged gospel …and people will pay for it!  He reminds me of the precocious but annoying kid at family gatherings who always wishes to be the centre of attention by doing goofy things such as pulling spaghetti from one nostril through to the other.  As he gets older, he becomes a social pariah and thus behaves more bizarrely to get attention from increasingly aloof peers.  Somehow, kindred spirits to Moore find him and they glom onto each other like so many globules of mercury.  Unfortunately for us, some of those kindred spirits own media outlets and so Moore’s warped views reach the mainstream without his parents around to tell him to go to his room. 

What our hero is advocating in the linked video is outright socialism.  Someone should drop a note in his breakfast barrel to remind him that he lives in a country that happens to be ground zero of capitalism in the world, though admittedly many are trying to change that.   It’s as if he had filled himself at the buffet table and then preached to the people after him not to eat there.  Why don’t people get tired of hypocrites like Moore?  Why don’t they tie him up in the dead of night, throw him in a rucksack and ship him one way to Cuba?  His opinion of things may change when he’s in a place where the access to Big Macs is not as easy as he has obviously become accustomed to.   It will dawn upon him as to why there are no fat communists, except the leaders.   He may be surprised to find that in a society which shares the wealth, there isn’t any. It’s easy to share nothing.  All those with brains and drive have left…to the U.S.  But maybe he’ll find a more willing audience for his opinions there…if they let him speak at all.  I’m sure there would be many Cubans willing to swap places with him.

Moore mistakes his limited commercial success to genius.  In America, they’ll buy anything.  Even William Hung of American Idol fame sold albums.  He should confine his voracious appetite to restaurants instead of the hand that feeds him.

link AFP: US senator calls for aid to Arab democracy.

And speaking of fantasy world,  John Kerry is making the case now to send U.S. financial aid to help the strife ridden Arab economies in order to build democracy.  !!!  There are few representatives more removed from reality save perhaps the other 52 Democratic senators and 193 members of Congress.  Kerry is the guy who, like his buddies, exhorts the little guy to pay more taxes but who parks his yacht in another state to avoid… taxes.  If he was a contestant on Jeopardy, his answer to the query, ‘taxes’ , would be ‘what other people pay’.

Unfortunately, all the time spent on the yacht precluded him from being able to keep up with the news affecting the U.S. economy, the main story being that the government, aka the people, are out of money.  I’m not sure how he reads the polls, but my guess is that if you asked the average Joe to shovel more money to the middle east to support nationhood, it may get a some push-back.  Heck, when you balance paying the mortgage against  paying taxes to support the middle east, the decision could be tough.

Recently, another guy, by the name of Bush,  spent a few billion with the hope of  building nations and spreading democracy in that part of the world too.  That didn’t go very well as he was roundly excoriated for his ‘imperialist’ and meddling efforts.  Ironically, Iraq is now the only nationstate there besides Israel that can be considered a democracy.   In fact, Kerry was one of the leading critics of that effort.  He is now officially against nation building before he is now in favor of it.

The other fact that has become evident with the ouster of despots in that part of the world is that the leaders have somehow managed to squirrel away some rainy day money during their time in office.  From accounts of the amount of money involved, it looks like there’s enough to sustain these guys for about 200 years of rain.  Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, 5 billion.  Egyptian Hosni Mubarek, rumored to be up to 70 billion.   This guy Gaddaffi, some large amount, yet to be counted, but rumored to be in the mid ‘B”s.  Assuming that this money wasn’t made from the hourly rate of being in the state leader business, perhaps it would be wise to re-funnel that money back into the respective states!   Even Bernie Madoff gave back his ill-gotten loot.

Finally, it may only seem illogical to the rest of the rational world that the middle east, the greatest source of natural resource wealth in the world today, should be the recipient of financial aid from a nation that is essentially running on financial fumes.  This however is logical when all your life, you’ve only dealt with other people’s money.  In the case of Kerry, maybe he thinks that if you put a bit of ketchup on it, people will swallow anything no matter how distasteful.