Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities

European carbon market is an expensive failure. “…as a result of a subsequent recession and poor management, the market is saturated – and could be for years to come – with permits that give companies the right to emit carbon without penalty.” Well, Europe itself is an expensive failure these days so their carbon market should feel right at home.

Obama’s OMB director undercuts legal case for Obamacare. OMB director Zients told Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) that if someone making less than $200K opted not to carry health insurance as mandated by Obamacare, the fine associated with that decision is not a tax. But the administration’s case before the Supreme Court is that the mandate is Constitutional because it’s a tax and government has taxing power. Maybe it’s a quantum particle shapeshifter thingy and changes whenever someone looks at it. Whatzit gonna be next? Look, now it’s Barry’s golf scorecard!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5KuTNQIDQ8&feature=player_embedded

FCC moves to kill LightSquared over GPS interference concerns. “…government testing showed LightSquared’s network would cause widespread problems with GPS devices, including ones used by pilots to prevent their airplanes from crashing.” Reality trumps politics when bureaucrats and politicians find their own asses on the line.

Obama wants cheaper pennies and nickels. In 2011, it cost 2.4 cents to make one penny and 11.2 cents for each nickel, so Obama wants to find a cheaper metal mix. What for? Spending twice as much as something is worth sounds exactly like his energy policy, the Stimulus, Obamacare, etc, etc.

Gallup: health costs, gov’t regulations curb small business hiring. Small businesses asked why are you NOT looking for new employees, 48% indicated “worried about the potential cost of healthcare” and 46% indicated “worried about new government regulations.” Yeah, that’s what they say but the real reason is raaaaacism.

Detroit has been dubbed “the most liberal city in America” where progressive policies still prevail. Howzat workin’ out? In 1950, Detroit was the wealthiest city in America on a per capita income basis. Now, the 2nd poorest after Cleveland. Yeah, but it’s not the policies, it’s the implementation. What do you call something that nobody seems to be able to do correctly? In the real world, we call something like that “unworkable.” In politics, we call it “progressive.”

State agent inspects sack lunches, forces preschoolers to purchase cafeteria food instead. The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the lunch inspector. Well, if the kid needed a vegetable, it sounds like there was one close by – inspecting her lunch.

Gone with the wind? Hurricanes could destroy the offshore wind farms the US is planning to build in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. Yeah, but that means we’ll just have to re-build them again! Stimulus! Sounds like a feature, not a bug (unless you live somewhere where your power will be out for a few years until the wind farm gets rebuilt.)

Obama boosts government subsidies for buyers of the Chevy Volt and other new-technology vehicles to $10,000 per buyer. Oh, and the average income of the Chevy Volt’s buyers is $170,000 per year, according to General Motors CEO Dan Akerson. The car’s so good, we gotta bribe wealthy people to buy them.

U.S. Taxes really are unusually progressive. “Income taxes in America are more progressive than in other rich countries–according to an authoritiative official study…” Yeah, but we got an incompentent liberal president who needs to distract from his lousy record to be reelected and this doesn’t fit his chosen narrative so it must be a raaaaacist lie of some sort.

Is Athens burning? Yes, yes it is. Greece has a problem: it’s basically like the unskilled, unemployed dude that owes a lot of money to his siblings that he can’t pay back. When they cut his allowance, his only way of dealing with it is to set fire to the basement. There’s no good way out of the mess for the Greeks, and maybe no bad way either. Worst of all, Greece may be the canary in the coal mine.

Obama campaign launches “Truth Teams.” Can’t wait until he makes it a cabinet-level department, The Department of Truth. Mr. Orwell, please call your office.

Jim Cramer: Obamacare is going to derail economy. Anyone who has seen Jim Cramer on CNBC’s “Mad Money” know he’s generally pro-Obama and a liberal Democrat (like most other Wall St. types.) Cramer predicts Obamacare will send jobs to Mexico or Asia and increase the number of people “hired off the books.” He’s obviously just a raaaaacist nutcase.

SSDI, a program intended to help disabled workers, has become a form of long-term unemployment insurance. The loser is the broader public good. Robert Samuelson deconstructs a good program gone bad. Maybe the famous quote should read “I have seen the future and nobody works.”

Obama letter to unemployed carpenter: “It will probably take another year or two to fully dig our way out of this hole.” Maybe the real problem is we shouldn’t be trying to dig our way out of a friggin’ hole. Duh.

“Do not follow me down the road to jihad. Go and get a good education in the West”: Osama Bin Laden’s extraordinary instructions to his young children. So say his in-laws. Did he come to realize his path was a dead end or are they just saying what they think people want to hear? Either way, it may give some food for thought.

Samuel L. Jackson: “I voted for Barack Obama because he was black.” “Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them.” Yeah, right. So voting for Obama “because he is black” is not raaaaacism but voting against him because you disagree with his policies is? Nuance!

No civility for you: “As the Party of Take, the Democrats view the Occupiers as both useful idiots and intimidating shock troops.” “The coming election will boil down to a duel to the death between taxpayers and moochers, between Americans who believe in personal responsibility and the ‘entitlement class’ that thinks the world owes it a living.” The masks are off and what’s underneath is even uglier.

“Protesters” at Friday’s “Occupy CPAC” event, organized by AFL-CIO and the Occupy DC movement, said they were paid “$60 a head.” “I have nothing nice to say about Local 100. They just told me ‘you wanna make $60? So c’mon,’” the protester said. Another astro-turfed grass-roots movement. Isn’t that what they said about the Tea Party? The left always accuses its opponents of the crap they themselves do the most.

Breitbart tells CPAC: I have videos of Obama in college and they’ll come out during the election. Whatever’s on there probably won’t surprise any of us, but sure could drive the journ0list crowd a bit (more) batty. Say, we wonder if Breitbart found Emperor Zero’s transcripts as well? Veni, Vidi, Vacation!

Obama’s Tammany-on-the-Potomac.“This is the connecting thread of the Obama administration’s major policy decisions: the clients come first. If there is room for the public interest after they have been taken care of, great. If not, so what?” Any similarity between the Obama Administration and Tammany Hall, Boss Tweed’s 19th century corrupt political machine based on patronage and graft is not-at-all surprising.

Obama/Volt 2012! What better way to celebrate the massive success of the Chevy Volt than by having this beautiful piece of machinery as President Obama’s running mate in 2012? We’re sold. On the Volt replacing Biden thing, that is, not on the car itself.

Ex-Shell Oil Exec: Who’s up for some $5 gas this year? Maybe us. He attributes it to some esoterica about “supply and demand” or something. Our unicorns tell us it’s all raaaaacist propaganda. We do expect renewed calls for a “People’s Profit Board” from the usual gang of idiots.

Rand Paul question to Obama: “Do you hate all rich people or just those who aren’t campaign contributors?” “Do you hate poor people or just poor people with jobs?” Well, we suspect ZerO dislikes everyone, rich or not, who don’t support his campaign. Note: In the video, it takes about 15 secs for the sound to emerge so don’t turn up the volume too high if you’re one of the shrinking pool of folks who haven’t fallen out of the labor force yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dl7vTcCQXXY#!

White House to announce ‘accommodation’ for religious organizations on Contraception Rule. A non-accomodating accomodation, so to speak. Even ABC says “The move, based on state models, will almost certainly not satisfy bishops and other religious leaders…” We hope Barry sticks to his guns. He’s finally shining a light on all the Marx scribbled on the blank slate the country elected.