Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities

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.

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 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.

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…

‘No hand on the f***ing tiller’: The moment Hillary Clinton let loose on Obama during booze-fueled rant, new book reveals. “Bill once said of Obama: ‘I hate that man Obama more than any man I’ve ever met, more than any man who ever lived.'” The book in question isn’t Hillary’s paean-to-self snoozefest but Edward Klein’s “Blood Feud.” And if you’re going to read a book about Hillary, the choice isn’t hard at all.

Barack Obama’s Terrorist Legacy. At its zenith “Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda consisted of around 400 devotees. …consider what has emerged while Barack Obama has been President–the monster that is ISIL or ISIS. … This group has at least 6000 fanatical adherents.” Not to mention more than $500 million and advanced weaponry. Heckuva job, Puttz!

IRS: Shame and Loathing on the Media Trail. “The mainstream media has been in trouble for years, but their silence about the ills of the Obama administration has finished them off as never before.” If they’re clowns it’s because they beclowned themselves.

Revised estimate says economy shrank 2.9% in 1Q, worst drop since ’09. When socialism works, nothing and nobody else does. Another Recovery Bummer! Unexpectedly!

US exchange student pulled from Tubingen university marble vagina. Insert joke here – hey, that’s what he did. Cigarette, anyone?

Hillary Clinton says she isn’t “truly well off”. “Clinton [suggested] Americans won’t be concerned about the more than $100 million her family has reportedly earned in recent years because they’re not ‘truly well off.'” It’s true – we saw her on the “10 items or less line” at the Dollar Store last night. Or was that a Rolls Royce dealership? We get those two confused sometimes.

Politico: The vast liberal billionaire conspiracy is for real. “Picture this: millionaires and billionaires gathering under tight security in fancy hotels with powerful politicians and operatives to plot how their network of secret-money groups can engineer a permanent realignment of American politics. Only, it’s not the Koch brothers. It’s the liberal Democracy Alliance.” Maybe they just pulled their limos into the parking lot to brainstorm about climate change. More here.

Kerry: “I’m working hard to … have lesbian, bisexual, and transgender ambassadors”. Because all the foreign policy stuff is going so swimmingly, he has nothing else to worry about. Oh, except for climate change.

IRS CANCELLED contract with email-storage firm weeks after Lerner’s computer crash. Wonder what the Democrat-Media complex would be saying now if it was an oil company that had all these strange accidents happen to them…

WaPo: CNN coached audience to cheer for Hillary during town hall event. It takes a Potemkin village to raise a moribund candidate.

Hillary haunted by Benghazi; asked to sign book for slain Amb. Christopher Stevens. “Mr. Mattera [publisher of the website Daily Surge] handed her a copy of the book and said, ‘If you could make it out to Christopher Stevens — I think you knew him.'” Don’t get mad, Hilly, at least he bought a copy of your damn book.

IRS computers destroyed just 10 days AFTER Congress questioned targeting. Don’t try this at home unless you’re a crony of the Obama Administration.

IRS commissioner: You know, e-mail isn’t necessarily an “official record” – IRS Manual says it is. “By the way, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen came to that job from being Chairman of Freddie Mac during the housing bust.” The best and the brightest… all work somewhere else.

California Legislature gearing up to ignore court on teacher tenure. “The issue remains that there are a number of teachers, nurses, counselors – folks who take care of kids every single day – who don’t have basic protections.” Protection from whom? We heard gubbermint is wise, compassionate, caring, generous… all that happy leftist horsepoop. So what do these people need protecting from, climate change?

Furious Tea Party lawyer promises to “Subpoena every single govt agency Lois Lerner talked to”. “She may have lost her emails, but people received those emails. So the people that received them are going to need to turn them over.” In other news, a large number of computers have been seen falling out of windows in DC recently.

Abu Khattala is a nobody and a distraction. “Khattala is nothing more than low hanging fruit plucked by an incompetent Administration desperate to change the subject.” Eat wag the dog.

Missing E-Mail is the least of the IRS’s problems. “In 2014, every government agency should be storing every e-mail that goes in or out in an easily accessible format. That they weren’t bothering suggests that the IRS does not expect to deliver the kind of accountability that it routinely demands of taxpayers. That’s potentially a much bigger problem than anything Lois Lerner stands accused of…” No, they’re actually the same one – banana-republic style arrogance.

NBC/WSJ poll finds 54% have no confidence in Obama’s leadership.“This is the public saying your presidency is over.” We wish. He’ll still be playing golf, signing “executive orders” and leading with his behind on foreign policy. Oh, and climate change.

Hillary: There’s more to find on Benghazi and the IRS. What difference does it make, unless you’re running for some office or something.