Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities

Tesla Motors’ design flaw: $100K car may turn into a $100K brick. “If the battery is ever totally discharged, the owner is left with what Tesla describes as a “brick”: a completely immobile vehicle that cannot be started or even pushed down the street. The only known remedy is for the owner to pay Tesla approximately $40,000 to replace the entire battery.” Well, at least they don’t catch fire three weeks later…. None that we’ve heard about, anyway.

Florida drivers shelling out nearly $6 a gallon at some gas stations. Gotta be (Jeb) Bush’s fault.

Chris Christie: Warren “Tax Me” Buffett should just write a check and shut up. Yeah, but what Warren and the rest of the “patriotic millionaires” don’t tell you is that they profit when everyone’s taxes go up. They’re happy to personally write a check for 10% more in that scenario because the gubbermint spending machine will throw that and a lot more back to them. But if they are the only ones writing the checks…. what’s the point?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA0bKtZE2HI

UK 50% top tax rate results in lower revenue. Seems the UK’s raaaaacists capitalists are expending more effort avoiding taxes (like docking their yachts in “Road Island”?) instead of making money. Who knew? Well, Obama did. In 2008, he said it wasn’t about revenue, it was about “fairness”. Class warriors don’t care if everybody gets poorer as long as nobody gets richer.

OWS letter to the editor in USA Today: we will storm Wall Street with guns. But it will likely be a largely peaceful murderous rampage, so we’ve been told. Krugman, Froma Halfwit and the rest of the MSM Civility Patrol are likely banging out their condemnations as we speak. Stop laughing.

Joe Biden’s off to ‘Road Island’ after White House spelling gaffe. Sure, one of the original 57 colonies. Duh.

Regardless of what the government reports, Gallup’s unemployment and underemployment measures show a sharp deterioration in job market conditions since mid-January. Obama’s policies are turning the economy around…. and around and around and around….

Soldiers don fake belly, breasts to better understand pregnant troops’ exercise concerns. It’s part of a program to train NCOs to lead exercises for pregnant soldiers, in case you were wondering. We certainly were.

Jobless disability claims soar to record $200B as of January. “The jump in successful disability claims also is making the unemployment picture look extra rosy because those folks are falling off the jobless rolls.” Unexpectedly, the bloodhounds in the MSM failed to notice.

PPP poll shows Bush 43 at 45/46 while Obama at 46/49. “Sure, the numbers fall within the margin of error. But what a difference 3 years make. The longer Barack Obama is president, the better George Walker Bush looks.” The longer Barack Obama is president, the better Mickey Mouse looks.

Why we honor George Washington. “George Washington was the man who established the American republic. He led the revolutionary army against the British Empire, he served as the first president, and most importantly he stepped down from power.” That last one is astonishing, espeically considering the pants-load of self-righteous statists and do-gooding crypto-fascists we have today. Please God, send us more George Washingtons! BTW, his actual birthday is Feb 22.

Goodnight sunshine – Germany is cutting solar-power subsidies because they are expensive and inefficient. Well, yeah, if we’re talking about generating power or some silly thing like that. But if we’re talking about rewarding political cronies and donors, where the real action is, then they’re hard to beat.

The European project is splitting apart at the very core. Beyond its national bankruptcy, Greece is the fault line where the political ground is fracturing, threatening not just the increasingly shaky eurozone but perhaps the post-WWII Franco-German alliance itself. Back to the future? Deja-vu all over again? Stay tuned.

Germany drawing up plans for Greece to leave the euro. The endgame approacheth. Some observers predict it will be an anticlimax, suggesting Greece has been de facto bankrupt for quite some time. Others believe it will be the start of another Lehman moment for the global financial system. Either way, it’s gonna suck to live in Greece for quite a while.

UT Austin study says fracking hasn’t contaminated groundwater. Studies? Who cares about your figgin’ studies? Hydraulic fracturing not only contaminates groundwater, it provides non-nutritious school lunches and denies women free contraceptives. The science is settled. Now, pass the cheetos.

Logistics of an Israeli strike on Iran: an informed view from Germany. How things might play out, in the remote event that smart power and sanctions don’t work (and by “remote” we mean “likely.”)

Tea Party and OWS protest side-by-side against Obama in San Francisco. Well, they told us Obama was a uniter, not a divider… and for once, they were right.

Osama bin Laden “had stoned fantasies about marrying Whitney Houston and murdering Bobby Brown.” So says Sudanese author Kola Boof, purportedly OBL’s mistress. And when he wasn’t fighting decadent Western culture, OBL filled his spare time with sex, smoking cannabis and dancing to pop groups like the B52s and Van Halen. Not to mention cognitive dissonance.

Occupy Oakland protester has been charged criminally for kicking a police sergeant last Saturday night following a peaceful march protesting police brutality. Occupy projection!

Tea Party protests Obama in San Francisco. “San Francisco’s Nob Hill was home to many of the famous 19th century ‘robber barons,’ the crony capitalists of their day. So it is natural that Pres. Obama would hold fundraisers there.” Very well put. More here.

DWS: religious groups shouldn’t be imposing their values on employees (that’s the government’s job.) What “values” is she alluding to? Why, an employer’s belief they shouldn’t pay for stuff the government wants the employer to pay for in order to further Obama’s reelection kabuki dance, that’s what values. Prediction: in the not-too-distant future, there will be no employees, just temps and contractors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fKvbPzsl5aQ

Obama touts S.C. Boeing plant that his NLRB tried to close. It’s one thing to take credit for something one had nothing to do with but it takes a world-class lying hypocritical fraud to take credit for something one did one’s best to destroy. Obama is world-class.

Happy Birthday, Dear Stimulus. Remembering the day when 780 billion bucks got together and, at the behest of Obama, Pelosi, Reid and other DC “smart people”, decided to jump down a rathole. Pay tribute to their “accomplishment” by buying an overpriced cake and throwing it in the garbage.

Fears of military coup mounting as Greece melts down. All socialist roads lead to Athens.

Raaaaacist ad says “Turn this ship around!” Glenn Morton is running against House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer in Maryland’s 5th CD. He says on his web site that he voted for Obi “I Won” Kenobi in 2008 and now states “Obamacare is the greatest threat to our freedom and way of life.” His ad says it all. Don’t wanna sail with this ship of fools… turn this damn ship around.

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