Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities

Former US ambassador wonders why Kerry isn’t in Baghdad. Duh, the climate isn’t changing there, silly. Besides, there’s no place to dock his yacht, and Leonardo Di Caprio says the cuisine there is pedestrian.

Lois Lerner on IRS hard drive crash: “Sometimes stuff just happens”. How convenient.

Metropolitan Opera romanticizes one NYer’s murder. In 1985, Palestinian terrorists hijacked a cruise ship and shot a wheelchair-bound WWII vet in the head, then dumped his body overboard. NYC’s Met thinks this would make a good opera.

Famous Clinton courage exhibited in Hillary’s answer to Keystone question: “I can’t respond”. She would’ve said “What difference does it make?” but she’s used that one already.

Kerry: Protecting oceans from climate change a “vital security issue”. “With the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) advancing rapidly through Iraq… Secretary of State John Kerry hosted a conference on the world’s real ‘vital security issue’.” Don’t have to worry about doing stupid sh*t, Kerry beat ya to it.

Donald Sterling hires private investigators to dig up dirt on NBA owners, commissioner.“The gloves are off, as they say, have them dig up all the dirt they can find.” Looking for their own petards to hoist them on, he is.

Gallup: Majority says Obama not “honest and trustworthy”.“Fifty-one percent of the Americans who responded…” The other 49% said “Who’s Obama?” Just kidding. Maybe. Back in Nixon’s day, they called this a “credibility gap.”

In the Middle East, the End of the Beginning. “…we now can see clearly that there are no real nation-states in the Islamic world, only the ummah, of which the caliphate for which ISIS and other groups are fighting is its political expression. … At last we have met the enemy, and he is the same enemy he has always been.” Well, some of us can see that clearly, but we’d wager Obama is not one of them.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard heads to Iraq to take on ISIS. Our best hope is that they beat each other to a pulp and it ends in a draw with both sides exhausted, as it did in 1980-1988.

The Benghazi attackers reported to their bosses using stolen State Department phones. Just calling them to find out the title of that inflammatory YouTube video.

Biden: We need “constant, unrelenting stream” of immigrants. Well, we’ve had that from the Obama Administration the last five…. oh sorry, we thought that said “idiocy”, not “immigrants.”

Russian bombers fly within 50 miles of California coast. Probably just hoping to lure some businesses fleeing Moonbeamland to Moscow instead of Texas.

California judge strikes down tenure for public-school teachers as violating students’ right to quality education. “The plaintiffs argued that California’s current laws made it impossible to get rid of low-performing and incompetent teachers, who were disproportionately assigned to schools filled with poor students. The result, they insisted, amounted to a violation of students’ constitutional rights to an education.” So is the solution to get rid of bad teachers or simply make sure they’re distributed equally to all districts? Let’s see… teacher unions, Democrat politicians, campaign $$$$…. nope, we haven’t a clue.

Poll: Americans still hate Obamacare. Even after they found out what’s in it… “By a 55-38 percent margin, people wish the Affordable Care Act had never passed and the 2009 system were still in place. That includes a quarter of Democrats (25%), a majority of independents (58%) and most Republicans (85%).”

Are Democrats giving up on Obama? Yeah, five years late and several trillion dollars short. Thanks Democrats.

The president’s very real Military problem. “Now you know what members of our U.S. military are thinking and saying. They have lost all respect for their commander in chief.” A lot of that going around these days for some reason.

Psychologist worries “erratic” Obama may not be “sane”. “It really seems to me like this President is demonstrating behavior that is not only anti-American, but irrational and erratic and perhaps not exactly what we might want to deem sane.” His community is not organized… big surprise, eh?

Obama and Putin publicly ignored each other at D-Day Memorial. “But they did have an informal conversation for 10 to 15 minutes during a lunch… the White House said.” We can imagine how it went… Obama: “The cold war called, it wants its foreign policy back!” Putin: “Why don’t you trade me an aircraft carrier for a 1980 Trabant? You know you want to!” And so on, and so on…

Secret documents reveal Bergdahl declared jihad, fraternized with captors. “…’he became much more of an accepted fellow’ than is popularly understood. He even reportedly was allowed to carry a gun at times.” Yeah, we know, what difference does it make?

Harry Reid on Bergdahl Deal: “What difference does it make?” Dingy Harry either now thinks he’s Hillary or “What difference does it make?” has become the default excuse line when the Clown College effs up again. “Hey, we just traded an aircraft carrier to the Taliban for a ton of goat poop! What difference does it make?”

ECB imposes negative interest rate. “It cut its deposit rate for banks from zero to -0.1%, to encourage banks to lend to businesses rather than hold on to money.” The problem is that nobody wants to borrow – negative interest rates aren’t going to change that. Hey, is all the QE actually causing deflation, the very thing it was supposed to prevent? Some fans of Keynesian stimulus are starting to think so..

Obama ignored chances to rescue Bergdahl because he WANTED a terror trade to help close down Guantanamo Bay, claim Pentagon sources. “The question is how many of these Taliban guys he can sneak past the goalie while Congress is busy hassling him about the IRS, the VA and Obamacare.” With so many disasters, it’s hard to know which one takes priority.

White House aides now accusing Bergdahl’s squad of “swift-boating” him. What’s next, raaaaacism?

Bloomberg columnist defends Bergdahl Deal: “The President managed to get five guys out of Gitmo”. Yeah, Obama probably stayed up nights for 3 weeks trying to figure out how to spring them. Now if only King Putts can unload some nukes and $10 billion in cash on the Taliban, this boob can get really excited.

Prisoner swap blows up on WH. We’ll be lucky if that’s the only thing that blows up. “Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provided Obama with some political cover on Tuesday, saying she doesn’t believe in ‘second-guessing’ the president.” There’s more bullsh*t in that one sentence than all the pastures in Texas.