Things I’d Like to Post About Today ….. (012009, Morning Round 2)

….. But I Don’t Have Time For:

• Surprise (not; HT Hot Air) — “Obama backed same-sex marriage in 1996.” Read the article and visit the links, and you learn that Mr. No Core Beliefs’ current “opposition” to same-sex marriage is only a “strategy” that will be discarded when in his view the populace’s view has become more accepting.
• Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters — “Global Warmingist-in-Chief Al Gore is losing his propaganda war to convince Americans carbon dioxide is destroying the planet.” Just in time, I might add.
• Y’know, I haven’t been impressed with a certain outfit that does statewide blog rankings for Ohio because they don’t disclose their formula. But this result from a couple of weeks ago persuaded me that whatever the formula is, it is “obviously” absolutely accurate and beyond reproach (/kidding).
• That there was a concerted effort, as noted in the Wall Street Journal last week, to persuade the Kennedy family in the 1960s and 1970s that support of abortion and Catholicism were somehow compatible — which they aren’t — is not surprising. But it is sad — actually tragic.
• Obama was cooking the books on the expected deficit even before his inauguration.
• It would appear that according to Bill Cosby, anyone who isn’t African-American who makes the same points he has been making about the importance of intact families in the African-American community for about the past five years is a racist.
• Worldwatch says that we must “Halt all (net) carbon emissions by 2050.” Seriously.
• How to blow up the private health insurance system — “A new plan by New York Governor David Patterson would mandate employers buying health coverage from commercial insurers to provide dependent benefits up to age 29.” You read that right.
• There will be no tears shed here at the demise of Circuit City. I feel for those directly affected by the store closures and their families. The linked Associated Press article blames the chain’s demise on “the expanding financial crisis.” Horse manure — The company is dead because its employment practices were horrid; those practices will hopefully die along with it. First, some 7 or so years ago they took away the sales commission system that got them to where they were and replaced it with a straight (very low) hourly rate arrangement. Expertise largely disappeared. Then a little less than two years ago, the company in essence fired everyone on the sales floor and made them re-apply for their jobs — at a rookie’s hourly rate. Duh — store morale was absolutely dreadful. No one should be surprised at the result. Hopefully, the rest of the business world will learn that short-sighted bean-counting, top line-ignoring, unethical practices such as those used at “Circuit” don’t work.