Things I’d Like To Post About Today ….. (011409, Morning)

….. But I Don’t Have Any Time For:

• Michelle Malkin — “Obama’s recession remedy: Tax the poor!” Yes, Bull-SCHIP (my term) Is back.
• A partial post title at NewsBusters presents a troubling visual image — “Helen Thomas Whacks Obama for Being Heartless.”
• The Cleveland Plain Dealer (HT to a commenter at another post) continues to avoid mentioning the Democratic Party affiliation of Cuyahoga County officials under investigation.
• Surely among the most odious contentions of some far leftists is the stereotype that “families as economic units selfishly pursue their own interests and become especially prone to consumerism.” No, the family, when done right, is the most successful focused charitable effort ever, uh, conceived.
• Globaloney Update — “Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979.”
• Another brilliant quote from Walter Williams (as if there is any other kind) — “Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, with about $60 billion in assets each, are America’s richest men. With all that money, what can they force us to do? ….. A GS-9, or a lowly municipal clerk, has far more life-and-death power over us. It’s they to whom we must turn to for permission to build a house, ply a trade, open a restaurant and myriad other activities. It’s government people, not rich people, who have the power to coerce and make our lives miserable.”
• Someday this kind of thing will get into a longer “told ya” post, but for now, this will do — “Research papers on easier and better ways to create pluripotent stem cells keep coming and coming. Restrictions on creation of pluripotent stem cells from embryos are going to matter less and less as these alternative ways to create such cells keep getting better.” I’d say that they already make life-killing embryonic stem cell research irrelevant as well as morally unacceptable. Told ya. In fact, some one owes me a few beers.