TONY, TONY, TONY

The other day Tony Bennet was on the radio with Howard Stern and put his foot in it when he implied that the jihadists flew the planes into the towers but it was really our (The U.S.) fault. Now, I like Tony but it seems he hangs with the San Francisco crowd too much. Not knowing Tony’s political viewpoint I give him a break here because I think he got in over his head.

Hollywood and it’s celebrity citizens seem to have adopted too much of what is called, in the academic world, a post modernist philosophy. It’s certainly geared to their mentality. Now, to tell the truth I know squat about philosophy, and even less about post modernism, but it was used in an article I read the other day and I looked it up in google. To sum it up, it means just about nothing outside of academia, but since a great many of the ivory tower elite are a progressive bunch I offer the following to explain why progressives think the way they do and how they slowly ingrain the populace with their drivel via the educational system, top to bottom..

Post modernism, particularly as an academic movement, can be understood as a reaction to modernism in the Humanities. Whereas modernism was primarily concerned with principles such as identity, unity, authority, and certainty, post modernism is often associated with difference, plurality, textuality, diversity, and skepticism. While the term "Postmodern" and its derivatives are freely used, with some uses apparently contradicting others, those outside the academic culture have described it as merely a buzzword, but the thought patterns of plurality, diversity, textuality,and skepticism are prevalent in far left political pronouncements and seep their way into the culture. Not good for culture and I mean anybody’s .

And so, since I like Tony so much, I feel sad that he got sprinkled with inane progressive Pixie dust and all can be forgiven, especially since he apologized with a well written PR piece. Here’s hoping he has seen the light and it’s not fluorescent .

SAY WHAT WARREN ??

The news and my day yesterday are beginning to unravel my gray neurons, so I’ve got to ask the question about the addled brained Warren Buffet. The news keeps reporting that the great one paid a lower percentage of taxes than his secretary who supposedly made 60,000 dollars and he thinks that’s a terrible atrocity perpetrated by the IRS and the federal tax code, in that millionaires and billionaires should be paying less than the hired help....................................................... My first problem here is that Warren only pays a secretary, who obviously must possess some degree of competence, only $ 60,000 dollars. Of course, knowing the brilliance of media reporting these days, no one knows whether that’s gross salary or taxable income, which in any case does not equate to 29 per cent paid in taxes, as reported in many sources. In either case she did not pay more than 18 per cent and in the gross salary scenario about 13 per cent . (According to the 2010 tax tables, with some interpolation)................ We assume that whining Warren paid 17 per cent. 15 on capitol gains and the other 2 per cent for salary or whatever. The problem here( yes Ron, “here”) is that the two tax payments are totally misleading. As everyone knows Warren pays capital gains and the secretary pays in straight income, but...................In either case I believe that the secretary paid about the same or less, except, maybe she actually made a hell of a lot more than anybody knows. ...............................................................The real question then is this, how much in actual money did she pay and how much in taxable income does one have to have to be in the 29 per cent bracket ?.............................................If anyone actually believes anything that comes from the expounding of progressive thought,they should have their heads examined along with the whimpering Warren..............The answer to the 29 per cent tax paid is, the secretary made about 370,000 dollars taxable income. You don’t really believe she worked for Warren and didn’t have a little skin in the game, did you ? If you did, I have some season football tickets to the Pittsburgh Pirates games this winter. 100 dollars takes all 42 games.

HOW RIGHT WAS THAT 2007 BLOG

AFTER FOUR YEARS I CAME BACK TO THIS SIGHT AND AMAZED HOW RIGHT MY FEELING WAS BACK THEN. NEGATIVE. THE REASON I CAME BACK IS BECAUSE I'M STILL NEGATIVE BUT WILL TRY MY BEST TO CONVINCE THE PROGRESSIVE WAY IS ABSOLUTELY THE WRONG WAY. LET 2012 BEGIN..............