Month: June 2014

Dawn of the Age of Oligarchy: the alliance between government and the 1%. “…both political parties are to blame. Republican fealty to the interests of the investor class has been long-standing. But Obama and the Democrats are also increasingly backed in their ‘progressive’ causes by the very people – Wall Street traders, venture capitalists and tech executives – who benefit most from the federal bailouts, cheap money, low interest rates, and low capital gains tax rates.” And each party hates the oligarchs of the other – at least they pretend to – because they don’t want to point fingers at their own cronies. Hence, today’s politics is just a noisy kabuki dance meant to distract the rubes.

NOAA Reinstates July 1936 As The Hottest Month On Record. The lying bastards responsible for altering the records should be fired.

GM to recall 8.2 million more vehicles over ignition-switch defect. GM, the gift that keeps on giving.

Israel’s new weapon against Hamas: Lollipops with an anti-Hamas message attached, distributed to children in the West Bank. Yes, really. Just when we thought the world couldn’t get any crazier, the Israelis start acting loony.

Arizona education officials call teacher a “f*cktard.” His crime was writing an op-ed for the local newspaper criticizing Common Core. (Gasp!) Now, state officials are blackballing him, insulting him, and trying to intimidate him.

Hillary Support Falls Below 50 Percent. We wonder if she’s thinking ‘what difference does it make,’ now?

North Korea to put two detained Americans on trial. Why now? Who cares? If you’re dumb enough to go to North Korea, sorry, but we just can’t feel any sympathy for you.

Justices: Can’t make employers cover contraception. Obama loses again! Should be about time for another vacation to hideout someplace.

Is the breakup of Iraq good or bad for America? “The intrusion of reality benefits the likes of Putin, because Putin is a realist. It hurts us, because we refuse to accept reality. Our leaders live in ideological bubbles; they are incapable of considering the consequence of their errors…” They tell you when they realize they’ve made an error by blaming it on someone else.

The pretty darn exhaustive Obama nickname list. All the names that are fit to print, anyways.

Obama ignores Boehner’s lawsuit threat: ‘I’ll keep taking actions on my own’: Ah Boehner. The man hasn’t heard the words ‘well done’ since the last time he paid a visit to the tanning salon.

Video: And now, a spectacular political ad from a conservative in Alabama: After the dirty tricks they pulled this week the GOP isn’t worthy of a candidate that seems this awesome. We hope Darius Foster will accept a giant IHTM thumbs up for making a political add that has restored some of our faith in humanity.

GM in hot water as they recall 475,000 more vehicles. What do you get when you have a government and a union running a car manufacturer? Junk.

COLORADO RESTAURANT WANTS CUSTOMERS, EMPLOYEES TO CARRY GUNS. The safest place to eat in the United States.

LOIS LERNER ATTORNEY: IT’S ‘SILLY’ TO THINK SHE DESTROYED EMAILS. It’s sillier to think anybody with an IQ above 10 is going to believe that line of crap.

Army’s Apache under assault: PC police call helicopter’s name racist. How about we re-name them the Douchebag, Mom Jeans, Golf, Vacation and Fundraiser?

Violent Night Leaves At Least 13 Shot In All Five Boroughs. This must be the result of drinking too many big gulps.

Obama to ask for $2B to toughen up border control. Pardon our cynicism but we’re guessing he means to toughen up the border with Canada to keep those pipeline-buildin’ oil-exportin’ terrorists out.

While veterans died waiting for an appointment… the VA, under the direction of the Obama administration, using stimulus money allocated in 2009, spent $420 million on windmills and solar panels. (St. Cloud, Minnesota VA & windmill pictured above.)

Antarctica sets new record for sea ice area. Now watch my pocket watch go back and forth. It’s getting hot, very very hot, the ice is melting, the penguins are frying…it’s getting very very hot.

Facebook conducted secret psychology experiment on users’ emotions. “Facebook were able to carry out the experiment because all users have to tick a box agreeing to their terms and conditions.” The “terms and conditions” probably didn’t mention “using you as a lab rat” but that’s implied, you see.

100% of U.S. employment growth since 2000 went to immigrants. “Government data show that since 2000 all of the net gain in the number of working-age (16 to 65) people holding a job has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal).” Even after several “recovery summers”, the economy is not creating new jobs – so when the Democrats and the RINOs (but we repeat ourselves) demand still more immigration, you gotta wonder what’s up with that…

IRS Officials To Face Judge Who Once Sicced a Special Prosecutor on the DOJ. On July 10th get your popcorn machine out and fire it up.

Obama blames worldwide foreign policy debacles on World Cup. He says nobody will answer the phone because they’re too busy watching soccer games.

Slate says Iraq being destabilized by… climate change. Which is causing a drought which is causing radical Muslims to kill everybody, long story short. Best line in the whole article:

“A previous study has linked dehydration with decreased cognitive performance and increased levels of anxiety.”

So there you go. It’s not Obama’s fault.