Tourists paying to help fight Detroit’s fires: Is this idea for real? No, it was just something they were kicking around. Hey, since Detroit is broke, maybe it should face reality like California is doing and build a multi-billion dollar bullet train to fix everything….

NBC: Hey, weak jobs growth beyond is government’s control!* Of course, if jobs growth were strong, it would all be because of the magnificent gubbermint efforts on the economy led by President Vacant Chair. NBC = Nothing But Cronies. (*When a false Democrat god NBC wishes to suck up to is in office.)

Awful: new jobs at 96,000, missing expectations; rate hits 8.1%. Unexpectedly lousy, as expected. New job totals for June and July revised downward. “The Labor Department’s birth-death model, which approximates jobs created by new businesses during the month, added 87,000 to the total, making it primarily responsible for the net job gains.” The birth-death model is basically a guess, and the model appears to be broken.

Heartbreak after teenaged Obama volunteers rewarded with Golden ticket to his speech are now UNINVITED due to space. There’s 52,000 FEWER seats in the smaller indoor venue – sorry, kids. “‘I definitely feel like they should not have promised all these people tickets if there was a chance that we couldn’t actually use them,’ Madeline told ABC.” Obama breaking promises – she should be USED to that by now.

Secret Service looking into DNC delegate who wants to “kill” Romney. Video at the link – it’s a Helen Thomas clone who says “Romney will destroy this country” and “If I see him I would like to kill him.” The party of tolerance and civility displaying their usual intolerance and uncivilness. At least she didn’t call him a “Nazi.” Oh, and her hat seems to think Puerto Rico is the 51st state. Only 6 more to go, Barry.

UK judge lets burglar go free: “It takes a huge amount of courage to burgle somebody’s house.” It takes a huge amount of stupid to say that.

How not to be a racist. BTW, if you watch this video, you’re a racist.

Health insurance premiums for NC college students rise 51% under ObamaCare. “The price per semester last year was $460. This year it will go up to $709. … A significant part of the increase, however, comes from the requirements of comprehensive insurance coverage that will exacerbate those trends rather than limit cost increases.” Well, the yooths were/are the biggest Obama boosters so pay up, guys: the government is the only thing we all belong to, or something.

Contrary to his incessant whining, Obama was handed an economy in recovery. His Zeroness has been blaming Bush for “the mess I inherited” for four years, but there is a case to be made that a recovery had already started when The Great Blamer took over and his policies retarded it. He bent the recovery curve down, so to speak.

The Machine: The Truth Behind Teachers Unions. Who says there’s no such thing as perpetual motion machines?

Still creepy after all these years. Failure or not, the cult of no personality rolls on. The Obama 2013 calendar on sale at the DNC features the photo below for August (Obie Won Ka Nobody’s birthday month.) More at the link for those whose “ewwww” meter needs exercising.

Obama issues “green energy” executive order. The order “aims to increase the number of cogeneration plants in the U.S. by 50 percent by 2020 and slash carbon emissions by 150 million tons per year…” Cap and trade couldn’t pass Congress when the Democrats held all the cards so King Empty Chair the First is going to implement it by fiat.

Reporters: we loathe 2012 campaign. “This is worse than normal, a lot less fun, and it feels impossible for us to change the conversation.” Well, reporters aren’t supposed to change the conversation, they’re supposed to report on it. This boob is in the wrong job, maybe that’s his problem.

Report: Bill Clinton’s ‘closest political adviser’ voting for Romney. “…Band believes an Obama defeat will bode well for Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects.” Not to mention the country’s overall prospects.

“We’ve heard it all before.” Been there, done that: Romney ad shows Obama recycling 2008 speeches. To paraphrase Yogi Berra, “It’s deja-puke all over again.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fZgQhnNRSuw

National Empty Chair Day (photos from around country.) Empty chairs, empty suits and this week the DNC starts… as dead white guy William Shakespeare might’ve said, much ado about nothing. Empty!

“I’m frankly, fed up, with the one-sided bias.” Newt Gingrich calls out the media lapdogs on “Meet the Press.” Newt, don’t forget their heads-up-their-butts smug stupidity….

Exclusive: Full secret agenda of the Democrat National Convention!
12:30 am SATELLITE ADDRESS – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
12:45 am NOMINATION OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA – Nancy Pelosi
12:55 am Barack Obama ACCEPTS NOMINATION, GRAMMY, AND TONY AWARDS
1:15 am THE TRUE STORY: HOW I KILLED BIN LADEN – Barack Obama
1:25 am Max Baucus SINGS NATIONAL ANTHEM
1:30 am CORONATION OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
Go there and read the rest… It beats watching (unless the Obama sand castle washes away completely.)

How Clinton plans to upstage Obama at the DNC. Bill Clinton will give the prime time speech nominating Obama for a 2nd term: “If I were the president,” one of these insiders told me, “I’d wake up at night in a cold sweat wondering what surprises Clinton is going to come up with.” Expect to see “damning with faint praise” raised to an art form.

Heavy rains wash away “Mount Obama” in Charlotte. “A torrential downpour that struck Charlotte on Saturday afternoon damaged the Mount Rushmore-style sand sculpture bust of President Obama — an ominous beginning to what many fear is a plagued convention.” A fitting metaphor and with any luck, a prediction.

House panel probing stimulus cash for MSNBC ads. “A House panel is calling on the U.S. Department of Labor to turn over all records involving a half-million dollar contract funded through President Obama’s $831 billion stimulus program that paid for more than 100 commercials on MSNBC touting a ‘green jobs’ initiative.” Being a bunch of rabid Obamunists has its rewards, it appears.

Voter fraud and the collapse of Democrat registration in Florida. “A conspicuous lack of enthusiasm for Obama can only go so far toward explaining this. If it indicates how large a percentage of the Democrat vote has been illegitimate…” Not as much hanging chad this time around.

Obama planning Hillary-for-Biden VP swap? Some people still think so, even though HC is currently attending talks as far away as humanly possible from the convention. Is her trip halfway around the world just a diversion to cover the real plan? We shall see.

Obama: I was too busy doin’ stuff to explain my wonderful policies. The excuse-maker-in-chief is back again with another variation of his “messaging problem” whine. Yeah, if he didn’t have time to explain anything, what the hell was he talking about during all those prime time speeches that pre-empted CSI? Golf?

”Sixty percent of Milwaukee’s black voters have disappeared.” Obama voters seem to be disappearing. NPR attributes it to the collapse of the housing bubble – foreclosed former homeowners moving to other places. We wonder if there could be other explanations… after all, ACORNs usually don’t fall far from the tree, do they?