Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities

Michigan to begin tracking children’s weight.“In an attempt to combat Michigan’s childhood obesity epidemic, Gov. Rick Snyder announced Wednesday that the state would begin tracking kids’ body mass index through the Michigan Care Improvement Registry.”Things are going so well in Michigan, they’ve got extra time to think about things like this.

Obama urges African American journalists to push “jobs” bill. “I need people to get out there and support this. If Congress doesn’t get it done, we know exactly who is holding this up.” Translation: My plan for re-coronation in 2012 is to concoct a stupid “plan” not even my own party in Congress can stomach and when they rightfully refuse to even consider the POS, I can label them a “Do Nothing Congress” and run against them as my strawmen just like Truman did. Of course, none of this would be necessary if you were still buying “Bush’s fault”….

Sonoma County CA bans smoking INSIDE apartments and condos.Seems they found a study that shows second hand smoke can travel thru walls. Stuff liberals want to ban somehow always manages to acquire magical destructive abilities that can only be dealt with by total elimination. Up next: Fox News causes cancer! You can bet your worthless Solyndra stock on it.

Dem Rep Schakowsky:”Americans don’t deserve to keep all of their money.” “I’ll put it this way. You don’t deserve to keep all of it and it’s not a question of deserving because what government is, is those things that we decide to do together.” We’ll put it this way: National Defense, police, fire, etc, YES. Porkulus I and II, Solyndra, GM, ObamaCare, NO. Self-serving hacks like Schakowsky have for too long obfuscated the line between spending on what the public truly NEEDS and spending on what the political class wants to give us (and which enriches THEM.) We want to cut the FAT (and the FAT-HEADS) and leave the muscle.

“I predict a tectonic shift among American Jews and within the Democratic Party if Obama doesn’t quietly retire.”Burn baby, burn.

Paul Krugman in 1997 commented on Social Security’s “Ponzi game aspect”…“Social Security is structured from the point of view of the recipients as if it were an ordinary retirement plan: what you get out depends on what you put in. So it does not look like a redistributionist scheme. In practice it has turned out to be strongly redistributionist, but only because of its Ponzi game aspect, in which each generation takes more out than it put in. Well, the Ponzi game will soon be over, thanks to changing demographics, so that the typical recipient henceforth will get only about as much as he or she put in (and today’s young may well get less than they put in).” Paul Krugman circa 1997 agreed with Rick Perry of 2011 – someone alert the media.

ABC News: Bush admin REJECTED Solynda loans in Jan 2009.“The results of the Congressional probe shared Tuesday with ABC News show that less than two weeks before President Bush left office, on January 9, 2009, the Energy Department’s credit committee made a unanimous decision not to offer a loan commitment to Solyndra.” Change we can lose half a billion on! Here’s one thing not even Obama can say was Bush’s fault… not that that will stop President Pointy Fingers from trying.

Obama’s new production “Stimulus II – The search for more pork!” is getting bad reviews from Democrat critics. “Terrible,” – Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) “That offset is not going to fly, and he should know that,” said Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. “I think the best jobs bill that can be passed is a comprehensive long-term deficit reduction plan,” said Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) Rats, sinking ship, you know the story.

“People feel betrayed, disappointed, furious, disgusted, hopeless,” – Dem source commenting on NY-9.Well, the rest of us have been feeling that way about Obama for a couple of years now, it’s about time you guys shared the “wealth.”

For decades, the U.S. Census Bureau has reported that over 30 million Americans were living in “poverty,” but the bureau’s definition of it differs widely from that held by most Americans.“The overwhelming majority of the poor have air conditioning, cable TV, and a host of other modern amenities. They are well housed, have an adequate and reasonably steady supply of food, and have met their other basic needs, including medical care.” Well, poverty really isn’t the problem, electing liberals and justifying their redistribution of wealth to their favorite interest groups is.

San Francisco legislates bird-safe buildings. “The proposed legislation would require builders to install treated windows on any new construction determined to pose a great risk to birds.” We figured they would require all the windows to be removed so the birds could just fly straight thru the buildings. From the comments: “How about bird-safe windmills?”

Laughter erupts when Carney tries to defend Obama’s constant self-promotion as “campaigning for growth and jobs.” If you watch Carney’s face at around the 50 second mark, he hestitates and appears to be attempting to stifle a grin before he utters the line. The man himself obviously does not believe the crap he is saying.

Union opposition to the Greek government’s austerity program intensified Monday as tax collectors went on strike.Sounds like a plan to revive our economy – if only we can get Obama, his cabinet and the EPA to go on strike.

Solyndra is likely just the tip of a hidden moutain of subsidized garbage.“A Soperton, Ga., ethanol plant — founded by major Democratic donor Vinod Khosla — sucked up more than $162 [million] in federal and state subsidies before shutting down without ever producing a drop of ethanol.” Hell, we coulda BOUGHT quite a bit of alcohol for that price. And decent stuff, too, good enough to make us forget Obama is president for a few happy hours.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said she was “wiped out” by fraud allegedly committed by Kinde Durkee, who served as treasurer for her and numerous other Democrat’s campaigns.“‘I was wiped out too, we don’t know how much,’ said Feinstein, indicating the losses in campaign funds could run into hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of dollars. Reps. Susan Davis and Loretta Sanchez, now appear to be victims as well.” They suck at handling their own money as well as the country’s.

Donald Rumsfeld tweets: After reading Krugman’s repugnant piece on 9/11, I cancelled my subscription to the New York Times this AM.Wow, we didn’t know Rumsfeld kept cockatoos.

TSA Creator Says Dismantle, Privatize the Agency.“Everything they have done has been reactive. They take shoes off because of [shoe-bomber] Richard Reid, passengers are patted down because of the diaper bomber, and you can’t pack liquids because the British uncovered a plot using liquids,” said Rep. John Mica (R-FL). “We are one of the only countries still using this model of security other than Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, and I think, Libya.” Well, to the Obamunists that’s a feature, not a bug.

Labor Dept: only 1.75 full-time private-sector workers in the United States last year for each Social Security beneficiary.The Pozni scheme known as Social Security is running short of pigeons. When the system can’t bring in enough new suckers to pay the promised returns to the current “investors”, the con collapses. Ordinarily, this is when the authorities shut down the fraud and arrest the operators but since the operators here are the gubbermint, this is when they increase taxes on the Koch Brothers and their corporate jets. Oh, and you.

Poll: 74% say businesses and consumers are over-regulated.“…while voters understand regulations have increased recently, they don’t understand that the executive branch is exclusively to blame. A majority say that Congress creates regulations, when, in fact, unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats do.” Well, there’s nobody to explain that to folks; it’s not like we have a functional free press or anything.

America needs to test politicians’ ideas and reject the stupid ones (which means rejecting most of them.)“What do politicians do when they think they have a great idea? They just go and implement it. It’s like someone thinking he’s got a cure for cancer and immediately injecting it into everyone he can. That’s a madman, not a scientist. You always have to at least try out your idea on monkeys to make sure it doesn’t kill them.” Trouble is, they tried ObamaCare in Taxachusetts and it fell flat on its stupid face, but Obama implemented it anyway. Hey, he’s anti-science!

Newsweak 1995: Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data.Since data is useless without some smart journalist to tell us what it means, Newsweak (misspelling intentional) was sure it would soon join the pet rock on the ash heap of history. But 15 years later, it’s the internet that’s thriving while Newsweak gets punted from one owner to another like a cheap Christmas fruitcake. The predictions of self-styled elitists are always good for a laugh… but nothing else.

Seven survivors of 9/11/ tell of their narrow escapes and their lives afterwards.Lee Guttentag’s pilot training kicked in as she watched the plane approach her 80th floor office in the North Tower. “Even a plane in distress wouldn’t be in that airspace,” she said. “I knew it was an intentional attack.”

At fifteen seconds after 9:41 a.m., on September 11, 2001, a photographer named Richard Drew took a picture of a man falling through the sky — falling through time as well as through space.“The Falling Man — became the Unknown Soldier in a war whose end we have not yet seen.” Today we remember that unknown soldier and thousands like him who went to work that morning, like any other morning, never dreaming it would be their last.

Change: National Journal blames Obama for looming Weprin loss in NY-9. Laying the turd in the swimming pool at the feet of The Won: “Discontent with Washington and the president is at the heart of Turner’s shocking upset bid.” Turner gets 90% Repub votes, Weprin just 63% of Dems. Indys go Turner 65-27. From the comments: “the “one” has made this country an invalid…i will say no more…i apologize for drinking the kool aid…i was wrong…soooo wrong…anyone who votes ‘present’ is not fit for the highest office in the land…’DUH'” Sounds like NY-9 voters last Thursday were all watching the game, not the game-changer. Ouch.

How Obama’s “jobs” speech would read if he actually followed thru on his promise to make things perfectly clear. Obama never says what he means so WSJ’s Holman Jenkins does it for him: “I am not anti-business. I get a supreme sense of satisfaction when business leaders approach me and, in a deferential manner, ask for subsidies and regulatory favors that will determine whether their companies succeed or fail. Like solar subsidies. This is the kind of job creation I’m interested in.” Well, we sorta knew that without him saying it.