Month: December 2013

IL Common Core School Assignment Requires Parents to Self-Identify as Conservative or Liberal. We would have written “None of your damn business” on it and asked  shouldn’t the title be be “Are You a Communist?”

Low-Information Leadership. “The president’s problem right now is that people think he’s smart. They think he’s in command, aware of pitfalls and complexities. That’s his reputation: He’s risen far on his brains. They think he is sophisticated.” Seriously, Peg, I think most of us dopes were long ago disabused of that particular canard. It’s only now that the political class is getting it, and it took months worth of hits with the 2×4 we call “ObamaCare” to make the point.

Detroit bankruptcy judge rules public pensions haircuts OK. “…decision is a critical milestone. …pensions, like any contract, can be cut, adding that a provision in the Michigan Constitution protecting public pensions isn’t a bulletproof shield in a bankruptcy.” So much the canard that Detroit can’t declare bankruptcy because it would be “failing to honor President 404.”

Potemkincare. “The Obama administration has not created a functioning Web site. Rather, it has erected a Potemkin village online — a façade that temporarily conceals the lack of architecture behind it.” What did you expect? Obama himself is just a facade that temporarily concealed the lack of character behind it.

Archie Comics CEO sued for gender discrimination. Nancy Silberkleit is accused of calling male employees “Penis” instead of using their names. Her official response in a court filing is that white males are not a protected class so she can call them whatever she wants… otherwise known as the “Eric Holder Theory of Civil Rights.”

Venezuela goes dark. (Again.) Socialism in action. USA, take a good hard look at your future.

New brain study suggests men and women are wired differently. Yet another “scientific” study from the university that brought us Michael Mann and his Hockey Stick. File this one in the No Shit Sherlock Department.

No security ever built into Obamacare site: Hacker. “When you develop a website, you develop it with security in mind. And it doesn’t appear to have happened this time.” Yeah, but it has kewl graphics and Obama’s name is mentioned on it so… Mission Accomplished! [Video at the link.]

Official: White House to push benefits of Obamacare, PR offensive on the way. Translation: ObamaCare is costing people more money for less service and the stupid website doesn’t even work so we’ll create a media-based sophmoric pep rally to make U like it! Even warehouses full of hammers could not be this dumb.

ObamaCare website crashes when CNN tests upgraded version. “I have to say it did work a lot more smoothly this morning.” Yeah, it let’s you type in a lot more stuff before it loses all of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4eM8-RafyE

New York lawsuit seeks “personhood” for chimpanzees. The lawsuit, filed by Nonhuman Rights Project, claims Tommy, the chimp plaintiff, is “a cognitively complex autonomous legal person with the fundamental legal right not to be imprisoned.” One question: have they explained to Tommy that winning will mean having to buy Obamacare?

Hard sell: Going door-to-door for Obamacare. “Non-partisan” Obamacare evangelists go door-to-door spreading the manure good news about the Holey Redeemer’s healthcare scam, and get about the reaction you’d expect. “’Obamacare!’ says Shirtless, elbowing Pitbull. Pitbull then starts making finger-pistol signs directing me down the street. ‘Keep on walking with Obamacare,’ he says, still convulsing.” And that was one of the friendlier ones.

Muslim congressman says Obama showed “integrity” when he apologized for lying. So now we know how Muslims define integrity.

Media attacks Obama’s ‘”Soviet-style” publicity policy. “Major media organisations protest against being shut out of president’s events in favour of official photographer.” The dopes that put him on a pedestal are now bitchin’ about what they’ve wrought. If we had a 3D printer, we’d print up a nice violin to play.

MITCH MCCONNELL: TIME FOR GOP ESTABLISHMENT TO ‘STAND UP TO’ TEA PARTY: McConnell is fooling himself if he believes that a mere 3 billion dollar dam can hold back the wave of popular sentiment rising up against him.

Wage Strikes Planned at Fast-Food Outlets: If they get their way then they can well plan on the consumers to enact a strike of their own.

Obama spends $600 million on rail projects that benefit private companies: More payoffs for the likes of Warren Buffet. Want to tell us again how Obama is “sticking it to big business”?

Gender-confused students at women’s college don’t like personal pronouns. Instead of “he” or “she” they want to be called “ze,” “e,” “ou,” or “ve…” although that last one sounds dangerously sexist to us. We dare anyone, at any college anywhere, to get a woman’s attention by shouting, “Hey, ve!”

HHS to spend $7 billion designing ways to save money on Obamacare. Here’s an idea, Ms. Sebelius: don’t spend the $7 billion. See? We just saved a bunch of money.

Viral “Poverty Thoughts” essay is totally ridiculous. “…not only does Linda say she’s living in seedy motels and stabbing roaches, but she’s also working two jobs, taking a full load of college courses,,, She’s in desperate need of dental work, and her body is full of infection, but she can’t afford to spend the money on medical or dental care. It’s a tragic, tragic story. It’s also tragically fictional.”

Man Tosses Down $1,000 at Shopping Mall: A thousand dollars? He’s gonna have to do a lot better than that if he ever wants to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve.