Get those profits

Liberals want to grab those nasty profits from oil companies. Great idea. Who cares if those greedy Bush friends get leprosy and rot? Well, maybe nearly everyone. Here is a brief lesson on stocks. The value and hence the price of a stock goes up with earnings. Idiotic politicians should consider the following:

• Almost 43 percent of oil and natural gas company shares are owned by mutual funds and asset management companies that have mutual funds. Mutual funds manage accounts for 55 million U.S. households with a median income of $68,700.
• Twenty seven percent of shares are owned by other institutional investors like pension funds. In 2004, more than 2,600 pension funds run by federal, state and local governments held almost $64 billion in shares of U.S. oil and natural gas companies. These funds represent the major retirement security for the nation's current and retired soldiers, teachers, and police and fire personnel at every level of government.
• Fourteen percent of shares are held in IRA and other personal retirement accounts. Forty five million U.S. households have IRA and other personal retirement accounts, with an average account value of just over $22,000.

Crowd Control

I had never heard of this, and it may be as effective as a threat as it would be in reality, but I can't wait for it to be used at the Dems convention this year. Read more about it here.

Political activists planning protest rallies at the upcoming Democratic Convention in Denver have their stomachs in knots over a rumor about a crowd control weapon - known as the “crap cannon” - that might be unleashed against them.

Also called “Brown Note,” it is believed to be an infrasound frequency that debilitates a person by making them defecate involuntarily.

Good Veep Choice for McCain

Here is a very complete analysis and introduction to the Governor of Alaska whom many suggest McCain should choose as his running mate. The more sense it makes, the less likely it is he will choose her.

Good Question

Obama recently uttered in his acceptance speech the following:

"I face this challenge with profound humility and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people … . I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal … . This was the moment – this was the time – when we came together to remake this great nation."

Mark Steyn asks the obvious question in the following way:

As for coming together "to remake this great nation," if it's so great, why do we have to remake it?

We will miss her

Hillary gets analyzed

The media all seem driven to examine the failed campaign of Hillary since it was once assumed by these same analyzers that she was a shoo-in. Here is a snippet of one of the best---from Britain. Read it all here.

Obama ran a good campaign but he was helped by the fact that he was pitched against an opponent who had nothing whatsoever to commend her except for her gender – that, and the fact that she was one of the fairly large number of women who very occasionally had sexual intercourse with a popular president, Bill Clinton. None of Bill’s magic washed off on her; she appeared shrill, stiff, disingenuous and even vicious.

Confusing Math

BestView is perplexed by the liberals in Congress who claim that drilling in ANWR and adding 10 billion gallons of oil would not give us enough supply to affect prices at the pump. However, these same geniuses now claim that if we tap into the 700 million barrels of oil in our strategic reserves, gas prices will come down meaningfully. What utter nonsense.

Get me away from the sexist Democrats

Hillary is now widely complaining that she has been the victim of misogynists in her bid for the nomination in the dem primary contest. Large numbers of the democrat voters are sexist, she claims. At the same time, she claims that she is better able than Obama to defeat McCain next Fall. This seems to suggest that the contest in November would favor her because the voters who are Republican or who may be independent with no party affiliation would overlook her sex and vote on the issues she feels favor her.

I am not sure she would agree with the BestView conclusion, but it seems that Hillary should consider joining the Republican party since it is apparently not as populated with sexists.

Religion of Peace

Just wondering

When will the liberal media and pundits start using the word "gravitas" in the same sentence with BHO?

Obama Nonsense

Here is a direct quote of BHO's most recent nonsense. This is tired liberal drivel from academia that most of the electorate will accept without thinking.... mostly because they can't. Who is going to ask the electorate to consider whether a robust industrialized economy is going to consume more energy than a backward country in Africa whose population is still living in grass huts? Boy, this is depressing.

We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times, whether we’re living in a desert, or living in the tundra, and then just expect that every other country’s going to say okay, you guys just go ahead and keep on using 25% of the world’s energy, even though you only account for 3% of the population.

The Abortion Effect

The BestView theory of this election holds that many, if not most, of the liberals who are giving Obama the nomination are not comfortable with him. As his inexperience and lack of thought about international circumstances become painfully evident, they will in the end stick with him for one reason. They will risk the possibility of catastrophic international consequences from Obama's pursuit of Jimmy Carter's second term in order to preserve a woman's right to kill her babies.

Kennedy vs. Khrushchev

Obama,who is either "history-challenged" or even more devious and naive than most believe, has cited the Kennedy and Khrushchev meeting as something that ratifies his suggested meeting with all despots "without preconditions". The following account in the New York Times, of all places, puts the record straight for Obama and other Kool-Aide sippers in his camp.
Historical evidence suggests Kennedy knew immediately that he had made a mistake and the erection of the Berlin Wall two months later and the installation of missiles in Cuba within a year confirmed how big a mistake it was to send an inexperienced idealistic liberal to the White House. Read the whole article.

Good thing he is a liberal

Obama on Sunday:

“I mean, think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela — these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying, ‘We’re going to wipe you off the planet.’ ”

Obama on this past Tuesday after McCain and others challenged him:

Iran is a grave threat. It has an illicit nuclear program. It supports terrorism across the region and militias in Iraq. It threatens Israel's existence. It denies the Holocaust," he said. "The reason Iran is so much more powerful than it was a few years ago is because of the Bush-McCain policy of fighting in Iraq and refusing to pursue direct diplomacy with Iran. They're the ones who have not dealt with Iran wisely.

Another bullseye from Coulter

Calling the fight against terrorism "the defining challenge of our time" -- which already confused liberals who think the defining struggle of our time is against Wal-Mart -- Bush said:

"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

The way liberals squealed, you'd think someone had mentioned Obama's ears.

Read the whole thing here.

Georgia Breaks New Ground

There has been a major development in the State of Georgia yet the so-called mainstream media has completely ignored it and even the alternative media hardly has covered it. This past week Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed into law the most expansive school-choice program in the nation.

Unlike similar programs in other States, this program has no demographic restriction. All students are eligible for private school scholarships. The State Legislature set the cost of the school choice budget at $50 million. If the demand is similar in other States that amount likely will rise considerably. All pupils K-12 are eligible.

Read the whole thing here.

Dream Dinner Party

If I were to give a dinner party for 10 people, who would I invite? Assuming the guests were not family or politicians, the following 10, in no particular order, would be my choice. Anyone wanting to offer a competing list is welcome to post a comment here on BestView.

Stephen Hawking--I am sure he could get me to understand the universe by the time dessert is served.
Boone Pickens--A Texan who has given millions to Oklahoma State and has a continuous stream of investment ideas for how to make more. Surely he would share some with me.
Camille Paglia--What other woman could better represent all womanhood at this dinner party?
Tom Wolfe--He would need to be seated by Camille with a hidden recorder needed to preserve their conversation.
Tiger Woods--Maybe he could help with my game, but if not, he would probably be the most widely respected person in the room.
John Bolton--the former U.N. Ambassador has a world view that I admire and more common sense than anyone observing the world scene.
Billy Graham--someone needs to bless this meal and he probably has a better line of communication to God than anyone else.
Terry Fator--Another Texan. Any dinner party needs an entertainer and he is the most talented one I have ever seen or heard.
Antonin Scalia--a brilliant man I would have sitting to my right so I could readily get his take on whatever came up in the various conversations.
Doyle Brunson--a Texan who has been playing poker successfully for 50 years. It would be fun to watch him correctly size up the dinner participants in the first 10 minutes.

Life is good down on the farm

The farm bill going through Congress is such a boondoggle, it would take much of the day to document all of the obscenities included therein. Let's start with this. The bill continues the practice instituted after Katrina whereby farmers are allowed to lock in price support payments at the lowest possible price, sell at the highest possible price and then pocket the difference. This means you and I are paying twice for the same bushel of wheat.
Bush wanted to cap these benefits at an annual income of $200,000, but Congress will have none of that and went instead for $750,000. This in itself is a mirage since it doesn't include loan programs or disaster payments and it allows spouses to qualify for payments too. With clever accountants, it has been calculated that a farmer can have an income of up to $2.5 million and still get a handout.
BestView can't go on. It is too depressing.

Don't test me!

The New York teachers unions have successfully managed to prevent student performance from being considered in tenure decisions. This, like most aspects of modern education, violates common sense. As with all other liberals, teachers feel we should be content to assume their good intentions are sufficient to keep them in failing positions for life.

Obscene Profits

Liberals like those running for President think it would just be a dandy idea to impose an additional tax on oil companies since their profits are obscene and the cause of high gas prices--even though neither is the case. However, if their profits are indeed so extravagant, maybe we should also consider those of the grain farmers who are beneficiaries of the increased price of corn and other grains from the idiotic conversion of our food into fuel for automobiles instead of people.