Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities

Occupy Wall St now has an “anthem”! “Our canvas is freedom/ Your blood is our paint” and “But it will be late/ And long out of fashion/ Strung up you’ll bleed/ Like the pig you became/ A symbol of hatred/ And one with no name/ And our country will come back.” Music to sh*t in the street by. Memo to Barack Obama: have we got a campaign theme song for you!

Big Hollywood presents photos of Michael Moore’s Michigan vacation mansion. “The fact is that Moore is so wealthy that he does not need to worry about his income. According to public tax records, Moore owns a massive vacation home on Torch Lake, Michigan–one of the most elite communities in the United States–in addition to his posh Manhattan residence.” Yeah, all us 99 per-cent members do well. More photos at the link – embrace the lying, manipulative hypocrisy.

Chevy Volt catches fire weeks after crash, prompting closer look at safety. The NHTSA put the Volt thru a 20 mph side-impact test to see if it deserved a 5-star crash safety rating. The results? Can we get a mulligan here? “The crash punctured the Volt’s lithium-ion battery, and after more than three weeks of sitting outside, the vehicle and several cars around it caught fire.” Unsafe at any speed, including zero. It’s the vehicular version of socialism.

8 reasons why Italy is such a mess. One big one is “Italy has more pensioners than workers and currently spends about 14 percent of GDP on pensions — more than any other country in the OECD.” As Robert Fulford said, “I have seen the future and it doesn’t work.”

OWS protesters coming down with the “Zuccotti Lung”. “That’s what demonstrators are calling the sickness that seems to be spreading among them at an unpleasantly high rate these days.” If one of OWS’s “goals” was to turn NYC into a third-world nation, mission accomplished! And think about what one OWSer said: “We’re the biggest tourist attraction in New York, and we shake everyone’s hands.”

Eurozone debt jitters creeping into French bonds. France is the continent’s No. 2 economy after Germany. If France goes, game over.

Man shot and killed near Occupy Oakland. “The person on the ground was not part of the occupation. I can verify that,” Shake Anderson, an Occupy Oakland organizer told AP. “This is a street incident. It happens all the time.” Yeah, the dead guy wasn’t on the official guest list. Must’ve been a party crasher. OO is celebrating its one-month birthday, ya know. Whoo, whoo!

#occupy sanatorium: Tuberculosis breaks out at Occupy Atlanta’s base. “The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying have contracted the drug-resistant disease.” Yep, capitalism is unfair to infectious diseases, doncha know.

Disgraced Penn St coach Sandusky wrote biography, published in 2001: “Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story.” “‘Touched’ is the story of Jerry Sandusky’s life in his own words. From his childhood to his professional career, this book goes behind the scenes to explore the successes and challenges that Jerry Sandusky has faced in life, both on and off the football field. After graduating from Penn State in 1966, Sandusky went on to coach collegiate football for 34 years. Thirty-two of those years were with Penn State, as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach under Joe Paterno, until his retirement in 1999. The book also explores Sandusky’s involvement in children’s charities, including the founding of his charity, ‘Second Mile.'” We couldn’t make stuff like this up if we tried.

SEIU siphons ‘dues’ from Michigan Medicaid payments. “If you’re a parent who accepts Medicaid payments from the State of Michigan to help support your mentally-disabled adult children, you qualify as a state employee for the purposes of the Service Employees Intl Union (SEIU).” Why? Because you’re a caregiver. “This allows the SEIU to deduct union dues from your Medicaid payment!” Yep, the Democrat Party lives to serve the public… over easy on toast to their cronies.

“Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher, on a date with former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) in 1985, claims the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) asked her “do you think you’ll be having sex with Chris at the end of your date?” She said Kennedy also asked her “Would you have sex with Chris in a hot tub?” No word on whether Kennedy asked her if she would have sex with the Sweetheart of Countrywide in an Oldsmobile. Where’s Gloria Allred when you need her?

New study says reducing dietary sodium does reduce blood pressure but other changes, such as higher cholesterol and triglycerides, may offset those benefits. Self-righteous food nazis like Nanny Bloomberg and Mochelle Obama hardest hit. Forget occupying Wall St., what America really needs is a “shut up, go away and leave me alone” movement.

Celebrity Chris Rock not unhappy with Obama’s presidency thus far because “You can’t really do your gangsta sh— until your second term.” So if you think he’s taking a lot of vacations now, just wait! BTW, Rock explains the Democrat party for us: “We want revenge; we don’t want justice. That’s the problem with the Democrats. We want revenge.” Good to know.

French and Germans explore idea of smaller euro zone. France and Germany want to kick Greece and the other weak sisters to the curb, but they want them to go away without going away mad. Thus, they mutter about creating a “two tier euro zone” with a central core and the rest left as a “confederation.” The second-tier nations are not fooled by the smokescreen and are not keen on the idea. But Merkel and Sarkozy sense they have to act quickly before the house of cards collapses completely.

GM is sticking by its prediction that it will sell 10,000 electric/hybrid Chevy Volts by the end of the year. Only 5,000 had been through October. So where will all these Volts actually go? Mickey Kaus is launching Project Voltwatch to try and find out. They’ll undoubtedly do a better job than the DOJ did tracking the guns they sold to Mexican gangs. BTW, Obama’s DOE is expecting 120,000 to be sold next year (Volts, not guns.)

Owner of Panini & Co. Breads, located across from Zuccotti Park: “…demonstrators broke a bathroom sink, flooding the shop, and clogged the toilet — setting her back $3,000 in damages.” On Friday, a crazed squatter burst into the shop and demanded that workers fill a 10-gallon container of water. “He said he was entitled to have it for free.” This isn’t a protest movement, it’s psychotic street theatre. Obama and the Democrats own it.

NBC’s David Gregory: No “Grand Wizard” in GOP to force Cain out. On the Today show, Ann Curry asked Gregory if the GOP just wishes Cain would go away. He replied: “Well there is no, you know, Grand Wizard in the party right now who can really force the issue.” Too bad there are no, you know, competent objective journalists in NBC now who can really force the issue.

Barclays says Italy is finished: “Mathematically beyond point of no return.” “Simple math–growth and austerity not enough to offset cost of debt.” Damn that math! It’s been screwing up the plans of political super-geniuses for centuries.

Moochelle: “I mean this is scary,” she said. “Shoot, being married to Barack Obama? He’s got big plans. He’s always pushing us beyond our comfort zones, and I’m dragged along going, `What’s he doing now? No, not this.'” Lady, you’re even more full of crap than Zuccotti Park.

China threatens massive venting of super greenhouse gases in attempt to extort billions as UNFCCC meeting approaches. The fuss is about a gas named HFC-23. The UN-backed EU carbon offset trading markets were paying China lotsa money to destroy HFC-23 until they figured out China was MAXIMIZING the production of the gas – so they could get paid lotsa MORE money to destroy it. When the EU carbon cultists decided to stop paying to have the gas destroyed, China demanded “either you pay up or we’ll release the HFC-23 into the atmosphere.” The carbon-trading extortion racket finds itself being extorted. Irony.

One Bruce Crumley in “Time”: Firebombed French Paper Is No Free Speech Martyr. “…hard to have much sympathy for the French satirical newspaper firebombed this morning, after it published another stupid and totally unnecessary edition mocking Islam.” So, pardon us if we don’t give a crap if somebody firebombs Bruce Crumley when he says something they don’t like. Basically, the idiot has just written an article justifying such violence. Just replace “Islam” with the easily-angered-group of your choice.

Unexpected: serial sexual harrasser who served two terms as president wants to repeal the 22nd Amendment which prevents him from serving a third term. Sure, why not president for life? We see how well it’s worked having tin pot dictators like Henry Waxman and Barney Frank as a permanent part of the scenery in Congress. We’d prefer more potted plants, personally.

Cain accuser Sharon Bialek lived in same building As David Axelrod. Sharon Bialek, Cain accuser: “I saw him in the gym. I mean — everybody nods to each other. It is friendly building but I never had any interaction with him.” Yeah, Chicago’s just one of those towns where everybody knows everybody else. Really, would Axelrod phony up a story like this using someone who lives in his building? That would either be stupid… or extremely arrogant.

In advance copy of testimony, Holder advocates for new gun-control laws that he says would have halted, or at least prevented, Operation Fast and Furious. Yeah, and having better people than Obama and Holder in office would’ve prevented it also. FYI: This scenario is discussed in a recent session with the possibly-fictional-but-sure-is-believeable “White House Insider.”

Witness: Cain accuser hugged him during Tea Party meeting a month ago.“They [Cain and Bialek] hugged each other backstage in a full embrace like old friends.” The witness is Amy Jacobson, a radio co-host at WIND. Friends one month, enemies the next? BTW, Cain’s accuser Bialek is from Chicago. Interesting.