Left Turn on Bird Street

A few thoughts from the Right Side of Bird Street

Every now and again in this upside world of ours, one needs to cross over and take a look at things from the other side.

In this case, let's take walk across the street and look at things from The Right Side of Bird Street.

First of all, here is a video Tom found on YouTube from the self-proclaimed favorite son of Michigan, Mitt Romney. As a native of the Great Lake State, I must say this is pretty funny. Kudos to the producer. Have a watch:

Thanks to lots of cross-over voters in Michigan, we will have a few more weeks of Republicans killing one another.

On a more ominous note from the Right Side of Bird Street is finding yourself in partial agreement with conservative populist, Pat "Peasants with Pitchfork" Buchanan.

In a posting on his blog, Buchanan correctly describes the economic situation we find ourselves in now:

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy.

We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called “isolationism.”

And the chickens of globalism are coming home to roost....

America, to pay her bills, has begun to sell herself to the world.

While I do not agree with everything Buchanan says in his "Subprime Nation" posting, he does raise great points regardless of whether you are on the Right or Left Side of Bird Street.