Welcome to the Belated Nobama Carnival #7

(This is the second carnival edition prepared by our fill-in editor, Wenchy!)

I just saw the last scheduled contractor for today, so now it's time for blogging and laundry.

Our latest (and I'll consider foremost) entry is from Scott Spiegel--got it hot off the inbox today: All Roads Lead to a Dead End.

"Every choice point they encounter from this stage on leads to an internal contradiction or a dead end. To use a mathematical metaphor, their situation is overdetermined: there are too many conflicting restrictions; there is no solution to their dilemma. (To use a liberal metaphor: It’s a slam dunk!)"

This is their Achilles Heel--they've always managed to box themselves into Liberal Utopia with no plan for getting out.

Our next entry comes Steven Handel of the Emotion Machine: Raising Taxes on Drug Addicts--A Hypocrisy in America.

At this point, they're on the verge of legalizing marijuana just so they can tax the bejeebers out of it! If they could tax illegal aliens for something, they'd legalize them too. I can hardly wait for the soda tax...followed by the junk food tax (tell me who's gonna sit and decide what's junk and what's not), the high-fructose corn syrup tax (that's what SHOULD HAVE BEEN the soda tax), and then maybe a drive-thru tax for those too morbidly obese to get out of their own cars to GET the junk food!

Remember the song "The Tax Man" by the Beatles?

Let me tell you how it will be;
There's one for you, nineteen for me.
'Cause I'm the taxman,
Yeah, I'm the taxman.

Should five per cent appear too small,
Be thankful I don't take it all.
'Cause I'm the taxman,
Yeah, I'm the taxman.

(if you drive a car, car;) - I'll tax the street;
(if you try to sit, sit;) - I'll tax your seat;
(if you get too cold, cold;) - I'll tax the heat;
(if you take a walk, walk;) - I'll tax your feet.

Taxman!

'Cause I'm the taxman,
Yeah, I'm the taxman.

Don't ask me what I want it for, (ah-ah, mister Wilson)
If you don't want to pay some more. (ah-ah, mister heath)
'Cause I'm the taxman,
Yeah, I'm the taxman.

Now my advice for those who die, (taxman)
Declare the pennies on your eyes. (taxman)
'Cause I'm the taxman,
Yeah, I'm the taxman.

And you're working for no one but me.

Taxman!

Our friend Scott Spiegel sends in this ditty: "Please Sir, I Want Some More Troops."

"When it comes to approving a months-old request from his beleaguered general in Afghanistan to increase troops in an eight-years-and-running war to support the dying soldiers already there, Obama engages in leisurely stargazing."

Since this time, other countries have stepped in with minor contributions of troops. I believe this is what Obama wanted in the first place--someone other than us to shed some blood over this. McCrystal will get his 40,000 troops, but they won't all be Americans.

Danny19621 over at Sampson Blinded sees Netanyahu and Obama: The End.

"Unable to defeat his enemies, Obama seeks victory on another front – against his friends. He abandoned the Eastern Europe and Central Asia to Russia, preferred democracy and Hezbollah to Saniora’s government in Lebanon, replaced Egypt as a linchpin of America’s Middle East policy with Iran, and sacrifices Israel. Obama could not further Islamists’ interests any better if he were on their payroll."

Spoken like a true Nobaman!!

One more from The Emotion Machine and Steven Handel: Ayn Rand in 1959--"This Country is Moving Toward Socialism." Coming from Russia, she could see it way back then. Why is it so many can't see it now?

Oh, I know--they're blinded by the supposed "freebies" being tossed about from Obama.

“The traditional American system was a system based on the idea that majority will prevail only in public or political affairs, and that it was limited by inalienable individual rights. Therefore, I do not believe that the majority can vote man’s life, property, or freedom away from him. And I do not believe that if a majority votes on an issue that it makes the issue right – it doesn’t.”

Marcus of Survey Magnet asks, "Did Obama Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?" Clearly, the answer is no, but what can you expect from a handful of hard-left Norwegians hell-bent on one-world rule?

My comment on his blog about his post: "If you notice, the few sitting presidents who received this award are all pretty much of the same political ilk–all three were Democrats, and Roosevelt was borderline Communist. It just goes to show you that if a select handful of Norwegians like what you’re doing (or attempting to do), then you get a prize.

Ho-kay...I'll end it on THAT note. I bid the Carnival and the blog farewell, and will go back to putting my house back together, as well as keeping an intact one running.

(Thanks, Wenchy! The next carnival edition will be timed around Thanksgiving--um, not thanks for Obama, of course--so submit your posts as usual at this link: Carnival Home.)