Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities

Young Obama bullied a female middle-school classmate. Incidents from the pre-adult history of the candidates are important; that is what we’d infer from the WaPo’s recent revelation of Romney’s alleged forcible cutting of a high-school classmate’s hair. (BTW, how come the WaPo is interested in what Romney may have done to a classmate in 1965 but doesn’t care about Obama’s DOJ sending across the border firearms that killed hundreds of Mexicans as well as US agents?) From “Dreams From My Father”, the best-selling book almost no one’s read:

Democrats having second thoughts about Charlotte for convention? Despite public assertions that the DNC is staying, angry reactions by the party’s rank-and-file to last Tuesday’s vote outlawing gay marriage in NC has Dem officials privately wondering if Charlotte is the best place to launch Barack II, The Sequel. Well, don’t go to West Virginia, BO barely beat a convict in the primary there.

How much do you owe government workers? In cities like St. Paul and Oakland, local governments are using tax surcharges and special levies to finance broken pension systems (Oakland’s went bust in the 1970s.) Author suggests home buyers consider asking real estate agents, “Just how much would I owe your government workers?” before buying. That’s gonna really help the housing market in states like California and Illinois.

Lugar fallout: time to repeal the 17th Amendment? The 17th took election of US Senators from state legislatures in favor of the general public. Michael Walsh says it’s has made the Senate an insular club whose members’ allegiances lie with one another rather than their constituents and tipped the balance of power from the states to the feds. He’s right about the insularity and the balance of power but we’re not sure repealing the 17th would change that. Here’s a website if you’re interested.

Why France has so many 49-employee companies. Here’s a hint: it has something to do with a truckload of government regulations that take effect once a company has 50 employees. FYI: Obamacare, aka “The POS Nobody Read”, has a mandate that takes effect once a company gets 50 employees. Just sayin’.

Obama, the Underdog: ebbing enthusiasm among the president’s base points to the possibility of a decisive defeat. “President Obama will be running for a second term under a stagnant economy and his two most significant legislative accomplishments, health care reform and a job-goosing stimulus, remain deeply unpopular. It doesn’t take a professional pundit to recognize that’s a very tough ticket for reelection.” Job-goosing stimulus? Sure pal, whatever you say. But does this guy think Obama could actually lose? Yes he can!

John Kerry laments Dick Lugar’s primary loss. The Senator from Ketchup is not amused that these fly-over country peasants did not read his memo on Dick Lugar’s right to this seat. Where do they get off thinking a “Senator from Indiana” represents them? He will smite them but good – none of them will ever eat lunch on one of his yachts again.

House Republicans vote to cut DOJ salaries until they answer Fast and Furious questions. In other news, a House Dem has broken ranks and backed the Holder subpoena. Forward! Holder lied, hundreds died!

Report suggests Elizabeth Warren ancestor rounded up Cherokees for Trail of Tears. “Ms. Warren’s great-great-great grandfather was apparently a member of the Tenn. Militia who rounded up Cherokees from their family homes in the Southeastern U.S. and herded them into government-built stockades in what was then called Ross’s Landing (now Chattanooga), TN – the point of origin for the horrific Trail of Tears, which began in January, 1837.” In other news, our irony meter has just exploded.

Bill Ayers to students: join me and help drive NATO out of Chicago on May 20. “If I have this straight, Bill Ayers is facing off against Rahm Emanuel in Chicago, in an attempt to disrupt an elite meeting of the world’s premier military alliance led by Barack Obama. It’s like the liberal Legion of Doom in a Bizarro World episode.” No word if Obama’s autobiographer got any takers (skip ahead to 2:30 in the video to hear his “invitation.”)

In new biography, Obama asks: Am I an American? “Obama emerges as a man questioning whether he viewed himself, or wanted to be viewed by others, as an American. Not in a citizenship sense… but in the sense of how he saw the world and wanted to be seen by it. …Obama chose to become an American in part because that’s what he needed to be to accomplish his goals.” Manufactured.

WTF? Obama advises French not to end austerity measures. “…France’s new socialist President is looking for higher taxes and government spending — which is Obama’s plan for America. And he tells them they shouldn’t do that, because it will damage the world economy?” Could be a case of “do as I say, not as I doofus.”

Massachusetts bans school bake sales. “Bake sales, the calorie-laden standby cash-strapped classrooms, PTAs and booster clubs rely on, will be outlawed from public schools as of Aug. 1 as part of new no-nonsense nutrition standards, forcing fundraisers back to the blackboard to cook up alternative ways to raise money for kids.” No problem, substitute cooked asparagus and we’re sure nobody will notice.

What if they gave a campaign and no one cared? “In politics, when you’re explaining you’re losing, and when you’re explaining missed expectations, you’re really losing. Going by what occurred Saturday at Ohio State University, President Obama’s re-election campaign kickoff was a double barreled loss.” Obama’s campaign has become a Potemkin Pillage.

How Big Government makes life worse. “The problem is not with one agency, but with the vast expansion of federal and state government, which takes our money and freedoms and leaves a path of destruction wherever it goes. Sure the Occupy protesters are annoying. But the real surprise is why the rest of us aren’t at least as angry as they are.” Well, the one thing big gov is good at is blaming everybody else for its messes.

Labor Force Disappears in Obama’s Depression. “About a fifth of working-age Americans aren’t working — and a fifth of all personal income is transfer payments. These numbers are astonishing and without precedent. If they continue, America will go bankrupt….If you’re not scared, you haven’t read the numbers.” Either that, or you’ve been listening to the MSM flacks misrepresent them.

NY Times accuses American voters of opposing Obama because he’s black. The people at the NY Times seem inordinately obsessed with things like race. We wonder if they hate Romney simply because he’s white. Perhaps they need some sort of therapy…

Former AG Michael Mukasey: Obama officials drafted memo to blame military if OBL mission failed. They couldn’t think of a way to blame Bush or the Koch Bros? Yeah, sounds like President Spike D. Ball’s “leadership” style… hog all the credit when stuff goes well, blame anyone and everyone else when it fails.

Pathologically altruistic ideologies: Beware the mob that advocates fairness. History shows that the results are often not pretty. “The Occupy movement seeks to make things fair for everyone, not by allowing people to flourish with their natural talents, but rather by focusing on and tearing down anyone who has more—more talent, more industriousness, more intelligence and, often as a consequence of these natural qualities, more possessions.” Occupy that.

No longer “unexpected”? Unemployment “down” to 8.1% as more workers exit labor force. Even the MSM is starting to notice the headline unemployment number is declining for the wrong reason. When that happens with a Democrat in office, things must be terrible.

Sen. John Kerry seems to have a gift for making a buck or two million trading stocks of companies affected by legislation before Congress. And he’s also now an Obama campaign surrogate. President Killed-OBL repeatedly reminds us greedy one-percenter investors are responsible for the poor economic climate he’s been busy exacerbating for 3 years. Is it just non-Democrat greedy one-percenter investors he’s talking about?

Dem congressman for Solyndra’s district thinks Solyndra makes cars. Pete Stark wishes he could afford one of “those new ‘S’s’ that Solyndra’s going to make down there, the electric car.” (Someone dig up an Edsel and offer to sell it to him at a “bargain price.”) He’s also surprised to hear his district contains something called “Silicon Valley.” Fear not, he’s a Dem and a shoo-in for reelection, assuming he can find his way back home to file.

Elizabeth Warren: I listed myself as minority in order to make friends “with people who are like I am.” We understand perfectly – the media listed George Zimmerman as a “white hispanic” because they were hoping he made friends in the Republican Party. Update: Warren: My Grandfather Had High Cheekbones ‘Like All the Indians Do.’

“Justice for Trayvon”: 15 Whites Beaten By Gangs of Black Thugs… So Far. Our gallant media-ocrities are burying these stories for fear of “inflaming racial tensions” like the ones they helped inflame with their phony edits and slanted reporting on the original story. And what about our post-racial uniter-not-a-divider Hopey-Changey guy? He’s busy jumping up and down on Bin Laden’s corpse, man.

Germany’s “green” economy foreshadows our own future. “Every year 600,000 households (2 million people) are getting their power switched off in Germany because they can’t afford the skyrocketing electric bills. At that rate the country (population 80 million) will become blacked-out like North Korea by 2050.” It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! WE are going to save the planet from climate something something by making YOU sit in the dark. Forward!