Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities

Rep. John Larson, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, thinks the Occupy Wall Street astroturf is the start of a US “Arab Spring.” “They see the inequities that exist in this country,” Larson said, “and the point is that even an advanced democracy like ours -the Constitution says, ‘We the people, in order to create a more perfect union.’ We’re not there. It’s something that continues to evolve.” Funny that when these people see the Constitution “evolving”, it’s always toward some Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist model.

Stress has become the most common reason for a worker being on long-term sick leave, a report reveals today. Experts said the psychological condition was the “21st century equivalent of the Black Death.” The Black Death killed 30-60% of Europe’s population in the mid-12th century. We don’t wish to minimize the dangers of long-term psychological stress, but comparisons with the Black Death are hyperbolic. Note that much of the info comes from “experts” whose livelihoods are enhanced by such pronouncements. To someone with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Micheal Moore again attacks all wealthy people that are not him: “They’re kleptomaniacs, is what they are. They’re out of control. I think there is some sort of sociopathic illness and they know what us to life in a kleptocracy. Where the kleptomaniacs run the show.” Sounds to us like he’s describing the Obama Administration.

The FLOTUS’s trip to South Africa and Botswana in June cost taxpayers well over $424,000, according to new accounting based on Air Force manifests obtained by Judicial Watch. The group states the bill for Air Force aircraft ALONE was $424,142, and that DOESN’T include food, lodging and ground transport for the 21 family and staff. Given the “let them eat cake” attitude shown by Michelle Antoinette in prior venues, we’d guess the total bill would be enough for a couple of Solyndras. But when she takes time off from helping explode the national debt, she goes to Target, right?

CBS reporter says White House screamed, swore at her over her coverage of Fast and Furious. The Obama White House screaming at their MSM bed mates? Somebody thinking of packing their bags and moving out? Nah, everybody else available right now is an (ugh) Republican.

Forget unconvincing liberal demands that Clarence Thomas recuse himself from the ObamaCare case because his wife is a Tea Partyer. Ex-Obama operative Elena Kagan has a true conflict. Democrat attacks on Justice Thomas’s wife are a smokescreen to deflect attention from the fact Kagan was more than knee-deep in the Obamacare swamp.

Harry Reid-backed Nevada Geothermal: another Solyndra? “A year and a half and $145 million in taxpayer financing later, and the company that built the [Nevada Geothermal] plant is in dire financial straits.” Green energy is a kind of cosmic black hole for taxpayer money: any that gets close to it is sucked down an abyss, never to be seen again. Speaking of black holes, we wish we could get Barry and Harry tickets on the first starship that gets too close to one.

Voters say Obama doing a poorer job than… Jimmy Carter! “Amazingly, nearly twice as many Americans were satisfied with the way things were going at this point in the Carter presidency than they currently are under Obama. Consumer confidence was also eight percent higher. And that was after Carter’s malaise speech, after he fired his cabinet, with stagflation and an oil crisis hitting the country.” And, in case you missed it, Carter lost his bid for re-election in a landslide.

“Disappointing” turnout at Warren Buffett-headlined Obama fund-raiser. Sure, charge folks $10,000 a plate to hear a self-absorbed egotistical failure insult them for not paying their “fair share” of his vacation fund and not very many show up. Go figure. Gotta be raaaaacism or something.

“Unlike the incumbent, Herman Cain has at least twice identified the causes of a large failing enterprise, designed goals, achieved them and by all accounts inspired the people he was supposed to lead.” Of course, Janeane Gagawfulo will scream only raaaaacists value competence over unicorn farts. Riiiiight.

Fellow walks away from mortgage; a year later, is hit with a judgement for $192,000. Forty-one states allow lenders to sue for mortgage debt if a home fetches less than the mortgage in a foreclosure sale. They’re called “deficiency lawsuits” and they’re giving rise to a new industry, companies that buy banks’ soured mortgages and sue the borrowers for the remaining debt. Lawsuits, the Democrats’ favorite type of entepreneurship!

Thar’s oil in them thar hills: …by 2017, investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts the US could be poised to pass Saudi Arabia and overtake Russia as the world’s largest oil producer. While President Softee and the no-Keystone cops are flushing our money down a Solyndrical tube, North Dakota oil producers are getting rich and reducing our energy imports. The center of gravity in global energy is shifting, no thanks to you-know-who.

We’ve obviously displeased Obama in some way because he hasn’t delivered all the hope and change he promised us. How can we get Obama to like us again? “Stop worrying about math so much. People are always wondering why the budget doesn’t add up and why we’re spending more than we take in, and Obama obviously really doesn’t like us focusing on that.” Making Obama like us is really not worth the trouble.

NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, and the death of EU Fiscal Union. “If this means the euro will shed some members or blow apart – as it almost certainly does – then the rest of the world must prepare for the day.” Germany has drawn a line in the sand, and refuses to keep throwing good money after bad. German national guilt over World War II may have finally reached its limit.

Harvard-educated historian says Obama “grammatically challenged.” Seen on our milk carton this morning: “Missing – evidence of Obama’s superior intellect, since AT LEAST 2008.” And in other news, Janeane Garofalo says grammar is for raaaaacists.

Obama tells HS students ‘I Don’t Think Ethics’ Was My Favorite Subject. “…but if you’d ask me what my favorite subject was back in 8th grade, it was basketball.” Still is, the way we hear it.

First lady a not-so-secret 2012 campaign weapon. The media is still trying to sell the canard that everyone loves this woman, so much so they’ll return her SCOAMF husband to office so they can keep watching her traipse around the world in jewelry that costs more than most people’s cars. Frankly, she reminds us of Leona Helmsley (the “Queen of Mean.”)

Fiat money: money doesn’t grow on trees, it simply appears out of thin air. Why do libs like Soros and Buffet not seem to care about their taxes going up? Maybe it’s because they’re near the top of the fiat money pyramid, a pyramid scheme like no other.

NYC Mayor Bloomberg tells UN: “Government’s Highest Duty” Is to Push “Healthy” Foods. Bloomberg is taking the term “nanny state” to new depths as mom was the last one to take this much interest in our eating habits. This man belongs in an insane asymlum – one that serves a healthy diet, naturally.

The upside of collectivism… Elizabeth Warren argues for redistribution of hot sex. Well, Bill Clinton and JFK tacitly agreed it was part of the social contract but we don’t recall them campaiging for shared sacrifice.

Climate change: It’s all in the thermometer, stupid. “An independent climate science think tank produces evidence from a leading infrared thermometer manufacturer proving that climatologists were mistakenly taking incorrect readings of atmospheric temperatures. Latest findings are set to trigger a paradigm shift in climate science.” More unsettling news for the settled science.

Massachusetts Muslim man accused of plotting to “turn the tables” on the U.S. military by targeting the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol with unmanned drones packed with explosives. Reportedly an American citizen with a degree in physics from Northeastern University, so he’s probably just some Tea-Partyer still upset about Obamacare.

Romney has raised more than twice as much money from Wall Street as Obama, an edge gained in part by luring away at least 100 donors, mostly investors, who backed the president in 2008. “It’s going to be very hard for the president to bash the rich and create jobs at the same time.” Not to mention raising money from them.

Google To Build Three Data Centers In Asia, Investment To Exceed $200 Million. Obama’s class-warfare rhetoric inspires a capital strike in the US while his BFFs, such as GE and Google, create facilities and jobs overseas. Does anyone else get the feeling he’s trying to drive capital offshore and destroy the American economy? The Manchurian candidacy?

“Obama’s lecture on the euro crisis … is overbearing, arrogant and absurd. … In a nutshell, he is claiming that Europe is to blame for the current financial crisis, which is ‘scaring the world.’ Excuse me?” Europe discovers beneath those styofoam columns is a styrofoam politician. How does one say STFU in German? Ooops, never mind, they just did.