Flashes of red

On the wing. And poppies around town this Memorial Day weekend.

Tea Party New Year

One nation, under God. Bless America.

A Ninja Cow Before Christmas

The legend out of Nebraska.

Occupy yourselves, lefties

Listen and learn. Via small dead animals, Daniel Hannan's 10 pt memo to the OWS crowd. This is pretty funny:

We are not against equality. We generally recognise the benefits in Scandinavian-style homogeneity: crime tends to be lower, people are less stressed etc.

Get honest.

Talking Turkey

The cost of a Thanksgiving dinner is up 13%.

And millennials are moving in with the 'rents:

According to Census data, 5.9 million Americans between 25 and 34 years of age—nearly a quarter of whom have bachelor's degrees—live with their parents, a significant increase from 4.7 million before the recession.

But many parents can't afford the extra expense. A full 26% of those polled by the nonprofit group took on more debt to help their offspring, 13% delayed a planned life event such as a home purchase, and 7% postponed retirement.

Compounding the problem is the fact that certain parents are crowding the younger generation out of the job market because their support of their grown kids means they can't afford to retire.

It's potluck around the table. That pricey turkey economy.

P.S. Retirement wars. The growing "wealth gap" between old and young could get ugly as it dawns on the latter that they won't have anything to retire on. #OccupyReality  Some of their parents won't either. 
...Time for a classic --crossposted at BackyardConservative

The Fraudulent Franken Majority

Minnesota leads the nation in voter fraud convictions:... as a tiny non-profit corporation, we netted more than double the number of convictions in one year than the US Department of Justice was able to find in five

Generational Warfare. "Stop calling our country Taxdonia. This is Lovelandia!

MoDo notwithstanding--oh, yeah, we're the crazy ones--It's worse than we think:

If we keep raising successive generations’ lifetime net tax rates, we will eventually be hitting up our progeny for every penny they earn, leaving them unable to consume or save. If they can’t save, they can’t invest, which means they won’t be able to maintain -- let alone increase -- the economy’s stock of capital needed to produce goods and services.

The U.S., incidentally, has a national savings rate of zero and a domestic net investment rate of only 4 percent of national income. Both are postwar lows.

Memo to House Republicans: Budget balance doesn’t imply generational balance.[snip]

So what's the bottom line, hmm?

The Youngsters have hired some young economists to use generational accounting to examine the lifetime net tax treatment of different cohorts. Their report isn’t pretty. It shows that past cohorts received, on a lifetime basis, far more than they put in and that the current young are being asked to participate in a Ponzi scheme.

They also learn that measuring debt is a meaningless labeling game since the government can take from the young with the words “taxes,” rather than “borrowing,” and incur debts via promises of future repayment that are tied to the “taxes.”

Today's young aren't feeling the love. They thought it was embodied in Obama. Now more than a few are figuring out he's an empty suit.

Who will be the next young, hot star? 

P.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (TEA Party R-IL): Sen. Rob Portman: Matching debt increases with spending cuts will balance the budget in a decade without raising taxes. Wall Street Journal

UPDATE: Doorbell, a Powerline entry: 

   --crossposted at BackyardConservative