Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities

Newsweek Writer: “We have this ‘liberty’ business completely backward in this country, and if Bloomberg can start rebalancing individual freedom and the public good, God bless him, I say.” Hey, what if we banned Newsweak (sic) – how many left-wing propaganda rags does the “public good” require anyway? Goin’ out of business for a reason.

Dick Morris – “Bill Clinton does not want Barack Obama to win.” If that’s true, for once we agree with Willie J. In the same vein, Politico says “Bill Clinton is pretty good at sabotaging Obama’s strategy.” Well, we don’t see it as sabotaging Obama as much as helping America. Nuance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5UBMg5mn4I

Barone: America looks like Texas, not like California. Barone says Americans have been fleeing California for two decades with Asian and Hispanic immigrants filling the gap. Due to slowing Latin immigration, it has started losing population. Meanwhile, “Texas has been doing very well. If you draw a triangle whose points are Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, enclosing Austin, you’ve just drawn a map of the economic and jobs engine of North America.”

Obama’s 2008 donors don’t give in 2012. “Nearly 90% of the Americans who gave $200 to Obama’s 2008 campaign haven’t re-upped this year. Disillusionment, and hard times…” Well, the big problem with illusions is that they’re not real to begin with…

Donors who gave $200 to Barack Obama in 2008 but have not yet in 2012, by location. The darkness of the dot corresponds to the number of drop-off donors in that zip code.

Amelia Earhart found? “The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), a non-profit foundation promoting aviation archaeology and historic aircraft preservation, reported new details Friday leading researchers to this conclusion: Earhart and Noonan, … landed on a reef at uninhabited Gardner Island, a small coral atoll now known as Nikumaroro Island.” So first Obama killed Bin Laden and now he finds Earhart. Awesome.

Creepy political intimidation in Wisconsin. A mailing Ann Althouse received from the Greater Wisconsin Political Fund showed “my name and address and the names and addresses of a dozen of my neighbors and whether we’d voted in the last 2 elections. The letter says that ‘we’re taking a new approach… sending this mailing to you and your neighbors to publicize who does and does not vote.’ We’re told this is a matter of ‘public record’ and that ‘After the June 5th election’ (the recall) ‘public records will tell everybody who voted and who didn’t.’ I found that quite disgusting.” The 1930s are back, economically and politically.

Hillary Clinton in Arctic to see impact of climate change. “US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a first-hand look Saturday at the way a warming climate is changing the Arctic, opening the region to competition for vast oil reserves.” Important gubbermint business which, unfortunately, prevents her from participating more vigorously in the election campagin.

Mass. Democrats require photo ID to enter convention. Maybe they already have their quota of 1/32 Cherokees? Seriously, why would they require photo ID for their convention when, according to them, such a requirement for general elections “disenfranchises” nearly everyone who isn’t related to the Koch Brothers? Well, they explained it this way: shut up!

In wake of jobs disaster, Obama departs for six fundraisers. “A mere hour after the catastrophic unemployment report came in, the failed president hopped aboard Air Force One at your expense to attend a mind-numbing six fundraisers.” One whose ticket price is $50K a head. Hey, he’s gotta get some of that loot before it all disappears into mattresses thanks to the booming recovery he’s led us into.

Obama debuts bold, brilliant economic plan. Well, what about those folks with wind-powered furnaces that don’t use thingamajigs? Maybe they cah buy fire whatchamacallits for their Chevy Volts.

NBA star DeShawn Stevenson installs ATM in his kitchen. “For the sports star who has everything there remains one tiresome problem – how do you get hold of your millions without having to leave the house?” Well, you never can tell when you’ll need some quick cash to tip the cabbie who drove you down from the bedroom or something.

Jobs report flop: 69K added vs, 150K “expected.” April revised downward from 115K to 77K. Headline unemployment nbr ticked back up to 8.2%. Not even Obama’s favorite “independent economist” Mark Zandi can spin this disaster. “There’s nowhere to hide on this one”. Well, Bush was at the White House the other day, it’s probably his fault….

Mitt Romney visits Solyndra amid attack on Obama jobs record. ABC says “surprise” visit: “Two years ago President Obama was here to tout this building and this business as a symbol of the success of his stimulus,” said Romney, stepping off a bus and onto the public sidewalk in front of the Solyndra buildings just outside Silicon Valley. “Well you can see that it’s a symbol of something very different today.” People who live in glass white houses shouldn’t throw axelrods.

Axelrod heckled during speech in… Boston. Axelrod intended to attack Romney’s record as guv there, ends up getting heckled by protesters yelling “Solyndra!” and “Where are the jobs?” Reportedly they also shouted “5 more months” although that’s not discernable on this clip. Axelrod then attempts to imitate Jack Nicholson in “A Few Good Men” and retorts, “You can’t handle the truth!” Smooth as a not-obvious-at-all comb-over.

Obama campaign to donors: Get off sidelines and send money now. “‘It’s go time. It’s time to step it up,’ added a top Democrat involved with one of the outside groups working to reelect the president, who said the rallying cry wasn’t a ‘sense of defeat or a sense of demoralization. It’s just the reality.'” Another reality is that Obama has been a miserable failure and that is trumping the other realities.

MoveOn warns “We might have to pull the plug.” “MoveOn, a giant in the progressive political world and an early endorser of Barack Obama in 2008, warns that it might have to ‘pull the plug’ on key campaigns to help Obama and Senate Democrats if its 7 million members don’t pony up with at least $5.” Well, the problem is thanks to Obama and the Senate Democrats, most of its 7 million members don’t HAVE $5. Damned irony again.

Panicky Ed Schultz predicts: If Romney wins, there’ll “never be a Democratic president again.” Icing on the cake.

Romney surrogate Sununu destroys Trump-obsessed Soledad O’Brien. Fighting fire with fire. Sniff, sniff… somethin’ burnin’ in here? Yup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sff5QFZWczs

Warren: “I was the first nursing mother to take a Bar exam” in NJ. Gosh, how the hell does she even know that – is it somebody’s job to keep track of such things? Did the proctor check her bra for crib notes and, finding a baby instead say “Hey, that’s the first time somebody smuggled one of those in here”? But yeah, wow, what a groundbreaker – Ameila Earhart ain’t got nothin’ on her.

Cherokees demand truth from Elizabeth Warren. “It is ridiculous that wannabes, like Elizabeth Warren and Ward Churchill, in these powerful academic positions have to do something wrong in order for anyone to care that they are lying. Churchill made terrible statements about those who died in the 9/11 attack and plagiarized. Elizabeth Warren used her false claims to get ahead of other candidates using affirmative action she did not deserve. No one would care what Elizabeth Warren did if she wasn’t running for Congress, EXCEPT the Cherokees.” Put THAT in your stinkin’ cookbook.

White House Insider: Obama In Serious Trouble – And That Makes Him Very Dangerous. “Because if Obama doesn’t get that second term…the plan is left unfinished and in danger of being undone. And they are gonna be pissed. And that scares the sh-t out of Barack Obama. He owes these people. He owes them for everything. Everything he’s got – they gave to him. Everything. The guy’s Manchurian to the shoes on his feet.”

Racist Democrat leaving party to register as Republican. Artur Davis formerly of Alabama, now of Virginia blogs “If I were to run, it would be as a Republican.” “As I told a reporter last week, this is not Bill Clinton’s Democratic Party (and he knows that even if he can’t say it).” Update: Davis was one of President Obama’s earliest supporters and a former co-chairman for his presidential campaign.

Number of high-school students with jobs hits 20-year low. 32% in 1990 vs. 16% now. “Sectors that traditionally have offered teens their first paying gig – fast-food chains, movie theaters, malls and big-box retailers – have now become the last resorts for out-of-work college graduates or older Americans forced back into the labor force…” Dude, where’s my job? Sorry man, granny took it. Party on.

Obama struggles with campaign them. “President Obama’s campaign has yet to find a clear 2012 reelection slogan that carries the heft of 2008’s ‘Change You Can Believe In,’ raising worries among his supporters… that he is having trouble articulating a concise case for a second term.” The guy who invented “dog poop on a stick” also found it difficult articulating a concise case for his product. Bewildering, ain’t it?

Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA oil company is bloated, “falling apart.” “PDVSA’s payroll has more than doubled to 115,000 employees since Chávez took office in 1999, and debt has risen 10-fold since 2006 to $34 billion. Those increases have seemingly accomplished little: Venezuela’s oil production has dropped more than 25% since 1998 to its current 2.4 million barrels a day, according to OPEC.” Another socialist “success” story.