Not photoshopped: beam of light shines on fallen soldier’s miracle dog. Message from a fallen soldier to his survivors and his best friend or just a lens flare captured by the photographer? You get to decide. Then check out some of the exploding heads in the comments to the story.
In Massachusetts, thousands of “jumpers and dumpers” are buying health plans just before major operations and procedures and then chucking their coverage afterwards, sticking remaining policy-holders with the bills. Same loophole exists in ObamaCare. The pols decided it was just out of greed that evil insurance companies denied coverage for so-called “pre-existing” conditions. Another epic failure for the country’s smarter-than-everyone-else pack of morons. But don’t worry, they’ll find somebody else to blame for their stupidity this time, too.
Former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis says that anti-fraud measures are needed to protect African-Americans from corrupt political bosses — many of them African-Americans themselves — who run Democratic Party machines in the South. Anti-fraud measures like Voter-ID laws? Could that be the real reason why the Democrats are opposed to them? Nah!
Chavez price caps spark panic buying of coffee, toilet paper. Hope n’ change, Venezuela style: Step 1. Evil clown president prints money causing inflation. Step 2. Evil clown president enacts price controls to tame the inflation he caused. Step 3. Bitter clingers buy up goods prior to enactment of controls in anticipation of shortages and black market gouging, thus fueling inflation further. Step 4. Go to step 1.
“I have never heard of a reporter briefing staffers. It’s supposed to be the other way around. This arrangement seems highly unusual.” WaPo journolist Ezra Klein sets the ethical bar for his moribund “profession” quite a bit lower. What’s the difference between a WaPo reporter and a used car salesman? The latter would never claim that lemon he’s trying to sell you is a super-genius with great judgement.
A chef was stunned to find she was almost banned from buying two limes from a supermarket because they could be classed as a weapon… the citric acid could be squirted in someone’s eye. After the “nanny state”, the next stage on the road to perdition is the “ninny” state.
Congress now suffering from low self-esteem. Our esteemed congressfolk are angry about beclowning themselves, and lay the blame for this on… everyone else. Well, crap rolls downhill from the top. Maybe they’re all simply following the president’s example. Fore!
Zuccotti Utopia: Portraits of The New Revolutionaries. Photojournalist El Marco took a number of pictures of the OWS crowd. The fellow pictured below has a question mark at the end of his text: “…ask what your country can do for YOU?” Is his message ironic rather than demanding? The look on his face makes one think his use of the question mark was pointed and intentional. Compare to the other pictures taken, viewable at the link.
“New Company Policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone.” A West Georgia businessman is putting these signs in his company trucks. We’re hoping he receives truckloads of job applications come mid-January 2013.
Barney Frank: Supercommittee failure “good news” for Dems. The congressclown from Fannie Mae blurts out the inconvenient truth that the “stupercommittee” was merely political performance art all along, just like the OWS psychotic street kabuki. Obama and the whole Democrat experience is really just a big, untalented theatre company. We hope it closes soon.
A sign we ought to see. Reminder: please pick up after your local Democrat-supported Warren-inspired union-funded reelect Obama street theatre company. It’s just one more thing they expect us to do for them.
On Morning Joe, Meacham flatly stated his belief that President Obama “doesn’t particularly like people and politicians who don’t like people are kind of in the wrong business.” It’s hard to like anyone when you have a deep-rooted contempt for them.
Was the MF Global collapse a planned “hit” on small commodities traders betting against the Fed’s plans for the markets? One poster seems to think so. Of course, given the way Corzine screwed NJ’s finances into the ground, simple stupidity is also a viable explanation.
Obama NH “jobs” speech “interrupted” by occupy protesters. Evil conservatives are heckled by speaking-truth-to-power protestors. Enlightened leaders like Obama are interrupted by misguided youngsters. Gotta get the narrative straight lest those idiots miss the whole point of this charade, which is to help Obama blame his opponents for his mess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu7hLyTx9D4
US government may be primary suppliers of Mexican drug cartel guns. Not civilian gun dealers: “A 2008 State Department memo to then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi shows a $1,000,000 shipment of select fire M4A2 assault rifles to the Mexican Federal Police Force, (AKA Federales) one of the most corrupt Mexican government agencies.” Insane “leadership” we can believe in.
“MF Global may have gone down on the Democrat’s watch. But first, Jon Corzine was a proud progressive who made New Jersey proud.” NJ was so proud, it kicked him to the curb after one term as governor. Corzine was so busy being proud he forgot to pay attention to the money he was hired to manage. A little (well, not a little) destruction of private capital is OK as long as you’ve spent the last decade wasting billions of public capital – for the “right” reasons.
Alabama’s unemployment rate drops as immigration reform enacted. Illegal immigrants basically compete in the unskilled labor market, driving salaries in that segment down. These are people Obama and the Democrats pretend to want to help. Actions speak louder than empty words.
The Newspaper Guild, a union that represents many journalists in NY including some at The New York Times, is a branch of the CWA (Communications Workers of America), one of the strongest supporters of the “Occupy” effort in the nation. From Wikipedia: “The CWA is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States representing about 550,000 members in both the private and public sectors.” The union’s home page on the Web, for instance, proudly declares, “CWA Supports the Occupy Movement.’’ So the media is an excellent source of impartial information, then.
Toronto school bans students from playing with “hard balls” at recess. They’re not talking about banning Chris Matthew’s sparsely-watched show but “soccer balls, footballs, volleyballs and tennis balls.” The only kind of balls allowed will be nerf balls or sponge balls… you know, the kind of things many modern educators use for brains.
Occupy movement targets major retailers on Black Friday. Helping the 99% by making it impossible to get their Christmas shopping done.
Dutch fall out of love with windmills. “Faced with the need to cut its budget deficit, the Dutch government says offshore wind power is too expensive and that it cannot afford to subsidize the entire cost of 18 cents per kilowatt hour — some 4.5 billion euros last year.” On-shore windmills face fierce local opposition – the NIMBY syndrome. But outside of those minor drawbacks, things are going really, really mediocre.
Supercommittee failure a “career ender” for John Kerry? So, the supercommittee is not necessarily a total loss, then. Ah, who’re they kidding? He’s a Democrat from Taxachusetts – those seats are so secure, they’re listed as personal property in wills.
14,000 Abandoned Wind Turbines In The USA. “It’s a bubble which bursts as soon as the government subsidies end.” Everybody wants to put them up, nobody wants to take them down. So there they sit, fitting reminders of the propeller-heads that wasted your money on them. Wind is a myth; it’s politicians that blow.
Newt tells OWS “Go get a job right after you take a bath”. The line draws sustained applause. The audience must be made up entirely of raaaaacists who live downwind from the stench.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KJN56XPldms
Chris Tingles turns on Obama: “Why does he want a second term?” Matthews: Obama never talks to lawmakers, “he doesn’t like their company.” He finally figured out that tingle down his leg when Obama spoke is just incontinence. Ten-to-one says he’ll vote for Obama regardless.
