There was quite a scene at LAX yesterday. Brenda Lee, a reporter for the Macon, Georgia Informer wanted to give the President a letter urging him “to take a stand for traditional marriage.”
Two officers picked her up and carried her away – kicking and screaming — because they were afraid she’d attempt to give the letter to the president.
The One is not one to be trifled with.
Source: NBC Los Angeles
It’s too bad no one watches MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow anymore. She just plain went off on President Barack Obama Thursday night. If it weren’t so painful watching Maddow’s tortured delivery, we would say it was a joy to watch.
Believe it or not, she actually finds President Bush’s terrorist detention policy preferable to President Obama’s. In fact, she’s absolutely appalled by Obama’s plan.
“How can a president speak with the kind of poetry that President Obama does about the rule of law and call for the power to indefinitely preventatively imprison people because they might commit crimes in the future? How can those two things co-exist in the same man? Even in the same speech?
She concluded:
“…You could get arrested today and locked up without a trial, without being convicted, without being sentenced for, say, ten years, until the threat of your future criminal behavior passes. Prolonged detention he’s calling it. This was a beautiful speech from President Obama today. Patriotic, moving, even poetic language about the rule of law and the Constitution. And one of the most radical proposals for defying the Constitution that we have ever heard made to the American people.”
Relax, Rachel. This plan is much more likely to be used against Janet Napolitano’s right wing extremists than any actual terrorists. Which means readers of IHateTheMedia.com have a lot more to worry about than Abu Hussein Abu bin-Abu al-Abu does.
Don’t you hate it when Islamist extremists threaten your life? Especially when they do it by mistake?
That’s what happened to radio talk show host Rusty Humphries. He was the target of a fatwah issued on a vile blog called “The Jew Report.” Unfortunately, the genius jihadists confused Rusty Humphries with Rusty Shackleford, a pseudonym used by the author of My Pet JAWA Report, a website that exposes online support of Islamic terrorists.
The threat, which included a photo of Humphries, said: “Yes this Fat descusting (sic) pig you are looking at is the boss of the website Jawareport.com but their are many fat kafirs like him you might ask why are we talking about him here’s why.”
“The Shaabab and muslim Leaders have said enough is enough he has to go and they dont mean move….Inshallah we will see his Fat rottan (sic) torso dumped in the side of the road or in some Florida swamp.”
In other news, the same Muslim extremists hage declared a fatwah on spelling and grammar.
Source: WorldNetDaily.com
The President flew to Nevada on Wednesday. While he was there, he gave a rousing speech highlighting a new report on his “stimulus” bill entitled “100 Days, 100 Projects.”
It was a fine speech. Some called it poetic. Others called it an empty promise.
Because, unfortunately, not one of those 100 projects happens to be in Nevada.
Oopsie.
Source: Politico.com
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi beginning a press conference in which he promised to resign if caught lying about allegations of an improper relationship with a teenager. They say Italians talk with their hands, but this is a bit too illustrative.
Source: Time
Consider the city of San Francisco a microcosm of what’s happening in the rest of California. A bankrupt microcosm.
As you’d expect, it’s doomed by its own socialist spending spree, the cost of providing education, medical and jail facilities to illegal aliens, and a bloated bureaucracy.
But the salaries it’s paying city employees are absolutely insane. In 2007, the city had more than 8000 employees who “earned” more than $100,000 per year. Here’s a list of the city’s twenty highest-paid public employees:
$350,324 for a Special Nurse. $325,452 for the General Manager of the Municipal Railway. $270,171 for a Captain in the Fire Department. It’s insane.
How can a nurse make $350,324? In a word, overtime. Here’s how Special Nurse Christian Kitchin’s income broke down:
Regular pay $117,262
Overtime pay $216,277
Other pay $16,785
Total pay $350,324
And don’t forget that this is on top of generous government retirement and health care schemes that aren’t available to the rest of us.
You can see the details of all 8,000 of these government employees’ salaries with the handy list generator at SFGate.com.
Mayor Gavin Newsom, the whiz kid whose managerial genius has bankrupted San Francisco, is now running for Governor of California.
We know how we’ll vote.
The global warming crowd constantly bleats that wind power is our salvation and to complete the analogy, that we should follow Denmark’s example like a bunch of sheep.
“Denmark’s wind generation industry already employs 9000 people,” said Australian Green leader Bob Brown, “will nicet (sic) 10% of electricity demand by 2000, and is growing at 20% per annum. It’s a major export earner.”
Not so fast. Turns out Denmark’s windmill miracle is more hot air than hot news. When the recalcitrant winds refuse to blow, the country draws its power from Sweden, Germany and Norway.
Uh-oh. Sweden and Germany generate their power with coal and nuclear.
Another uh-oh. Under the Kyoto Protocol, Denmark committed itself to a 29% reduction in green house gasses in the 2008-2012 period. Even with outsourcing their power production to other countries, the country’s 2006 emissions rose 1.7% above its base year emissions.
Of course, as you might expect, Danes pay the highest prices in all of Europe for their power.
This may not be scientific, but it looks like the only way this wind power thing is going to work is if Al Gore puckers up and blows.
Source: Andrew Bolt/NewsCorp
This is one of the most worst stories we’ve ever read. Really. One of the worst.
“Union leaders, clergy and liberal members of Congress gathered in the mostly empty U.S. Capitol Visitors Center early Tuesday morning,” according to CNSnews.com, “to hear multicultural choir music, speeches from religious leaders–and to pray for the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. The prayer breakfast was sponsored by Faith Leaders for Workplace Fairness–a coalition of liberal religious groups that was formed for the sole purpose of promoting the ‘card-check’ bill.”
Yes. You read that right. These people prayed for the end of the secret ballot in union elections.
Why stop there, you slackers? Why not pray for the end of democracy? Pray that Jimmy Carter will fly in to monitor all future American elections. Pray that Obama takes over every industry he hasn’t yet taken over. Pray that Joe Biden becomes intelligent.
Nah, even God couldn’t pull that one off.
Source: CNSnews.com
U.S. House Speaker and dim bulb Nancy Pelosi is visiting China. Rumor has it that she made the sudden trip only after getting a fortune cookie that said, “Chinese reporters don’t ask you about waterboarding.”
While speaking at Tsinghua University, Pelosi tried to link human rights and environmental justice and confused those who speak English just as badly as she confused those who speak Chinese.
“I do see this opportunity for climate change to be … a game-changer,” she declared. “It’s a place where human rights — looking out for the needs of the poor in terms of climate change and healthy environment — are a human right.”
She then turned to the president of the university and asked for an order of fried rice, orange peel chicken and pot stickers.
Wouldn’t surprise you, would it?
Source: AP via Google
Would someone at the L.A. Times, San Francisco Chronicle or Sacramento Bee please explain how it’s possible for San Diego County to run up a $700 million surplus while the state of California is running up a $45 billion deficit?
These esteemed newspapers seem to think the only solution to the state’s legislature-induced suicide is more taxes, higher taxes, and really creative taxes.
Perhaps they should watch as Dianne Jacob, Chairman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, explains that California has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.
Source: BluegrassPundit.com
“The Goode Family” premiered last night on ABC-TV. It was created by politically-incorrect Mike Judge, who also created King of the Hill and Beavis and Butt-head. Most reviews (including our entire staff) agree it was funnier than hell. Here are the top 10 lines we heard.
1. “We can’t shop there. They don’t even have a mission statement.”
2. Ubuntu: “Sorry I used so much gas, dad.”
Dad: “That’s okay. The important thing is you feel guilty about it.”
3. “Don’t say ‘people of color’ because that’s just ‘colored people’ backwards.”
4. “The View is on. The pretty one is saying crazy stuff again.”
5. On a bumper sticker:
“Support our troops. And their opponents.”
6. Bumper sticker on Goode Family hybrid:
“Earth First – Ask Questions Later”
7. “WWAGD? What would Al Gore do?”
8. “Attention One Earth Shoppers. The owner of the SUV is in aisle 4 wearing a ball cap.”
9. “Your mother accidentally bought two-ply (toilet paper). But don’t worry I fixed it.”
10. Goode: “If you want to have proportionately diverse staff, we need three more minority hires.
Jensen: “Why don’t we just fire three white guys. Everybody wins.”
As you can see in this video, a group of students has launched a hunger strike to protest Governor Schwartzenegger’s budget cuts. This seems short sighted, considering the fact that UC Santa Cruz has a well-deserved reputation as the marijuana capital of California.
The hunger strike vs the munchies. Which one will win?
Source: KSBW-TV
Looks like the legislature ended its session early this year.
Source: Sacramento Bee via DrudgeReport
Democrats have a nasty habit of passing bills they don’t read, like the Stimulus boondoggle. In this instance, Henry Waxman (D-CA), Energy & Commerce Chairman and author of the National Energy Tax, is unclear on what’s actually in his own bill. But never mind that. Democrats voted it out of committee anyway, 33-25.
In this video, Waxman is questioned by Ranking Republican Member Joe Barton (R-TX) when he admits to ignorance of his own handiwork: “I certainly don’t claim to know everything that’s in this bill…I don’t know the details…”
Totaling over 930 pages, this bill is quite the packed sausage. If We the People are forced to pay for these things, is it too much to ask that lawmakers who supposedly write them at least be forced to read them?
Source: National Review
An Australian company is selling carbon credits to make up for farting pets and people. (We agonized over that sentence, but it is what it is).
For just $27, Easy Being Green will sell you enough carbon credits to offset your dog’s annual anal methane production. Making your cat carbon neutral is a bargain at just $6.
And if you’re looking for a special anniversary or birthday gift, imagine how happy your loved one will be knowing that you spent US$16 to offset two years worth of their personal trouser trumpet production.
This is all well and good, but as highly-trained environmentalists and marketing geniuses, we think Easy Being Green is missing an obvious business opportunity.
Here’s our idea:
Wind power is intermittent, but dog farts are a constant. We propose erecting a mini-windmill in every Aussie home. Tie each windmill into the power grid. Train all Aussie dogs to fart into the windmills. The windmills spin. Power is generated free of charge. Oil imports are slashed. The economy booms. Australia becomes an ecological role model for the rest of the world.
And to think Al Gore got a Nobel Prize and we didn’t.
Source: NationalGeographic.com
Now that our first black president has made history again with his choice of the first Latina for the Supreme Court, let’s revisit a notable quote made two decades ago about our first black Supreme Court Justice.
Guess who said this: “I think that the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black. I don’t believe he could have won had he been white. And the reason is, I think it was a cynical ploy by President Bush.”
That would be the ever-quotable Sen. Joe Biden. Now that Biden is vice president, his administration has made what appears to be an equally cynical pick aimed at a particular voting constituency.
David Frum offers this suggestion: “Maybe somebody should ask Joe Biden whether Sonia Sotomayor would have been nominated if she had been male and white. And the great thing about Joe Biden is — the guy might blurt the truth.”
Source: NewMajority.com
The liberal media’s global warming gang is so busy announcing dire threats to mankind’s existence that they can’t find room to run articles like this:
“Record low temperatures in 28 states”
Record low temperatures in 28 states go unreported by the media. Several of the records were more than 100 years old.
Source: IceAgeNow.com
“Coldest May morning on record in Australia”
Two far north Queensland towns experienced their coldest May morning in history on May 22, 2009.
Cooktown, an hour north of Cairns, dropped to 10 degrees Celsius (two degrees below its previous record low), while Coen on Cape York Peninsula recorded just 10.4 degrees Celsius.
Source: Cairns.com.au via IceAgeNow.com
“Snow in Saudi Arabia”
Saudis were surprised by snow in Al-Baha city south-west of Riyadh on May 19, 2009. Torrential rains accompanied by gusty winds left snow on the mountains, valley areas and forests near Al-Zaraeb and Khayrah.
Source: IceAgeNow.com
No kidding. California could probably do a lot better without him, too.
Source: Yahoo
“Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our highest court are granted life tenure, often serving long after the presidents who appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some of the most difficult questions of our time.”
HotAir.com hypothesizes that he was actually referring to the bible instead of the Constitution. Maybe so, because if Bush had said this, the press would have crucified him.
Source: HotAir.com
Would someone please wake us up when Obama leaves office?
Source: CNSnews.com
OK, so maybe it’s not coming to a theater near you soon. But we wish it were, because it would be funnier than hell.
Source: IOwnTheWorld.com
Why did California voters overwhelmingly reject all those tax-and-spend ballot measures last week? According to California Speaker of the Assembly Karen Bass, it’s because they’re too confused to comprehend the opportunity that had been presented to them by Arnold Schwartzenegger and the geniuses in the state legislature.
“I would go into a room,” she said, “…and I found the basic fact that voters were very confused about what it is we were asking them to do and why we were asking them to help us solve the budget problem.”
They were confused alright, honey. They were confused by the state’s profligate spending. Confused by its ballooning budget. Confused by the millions spent mollycoddling illegal aliens. Confused by the willful waste of their hard-earned tax dollars. And confused by the labor unions’ stranglehold on state’s future.
We were confused, but we just had a moment of complete clarity. So how about if you shut the hell up, Ms. Bass. Slash the spending. Cut the unions down to size. Pass a responsible budget that stops driving business and people out of the state. End the mollycoddling of illegal aliens.
You lying, hypocritical piece of over-spending excrement.
Democrats bend over backward to defend the rights of terrorists. At least that’s what the results of a recent Rasmussen poll show.
According to the poll, 39% of voters nationwide believe our legal system worries too much about protecting individual rights. Just 24% think our legal system worries too much about national security. 25% say the balance is about right.
As you might expect, there’s a split along party lines. 54% of Republicans say the legal system worries too much about individual rights. 42% of unaffiliated voters agree.
Naturally, Democrats go the other way. Only 34% of them say the legal system is too concerned about national security.
We say, “Off with their heads.” But the difference between us and the terrorists is that we’re only speaking figuratively.
Source: RasmussenReports.com
If you get an email titled “Nude photos of Sarah Palin,” don’t open it. It could contain a virus.
If you get an email titled “Nude photos of Nancy Pelosi,” don’t open it. It could contain nude photos of Nancy Pelosi.
Sometimes things are not as they appear. Even this British TV reporter couldn’t believe the results of his “hard-hitting” investigation of racism in real estate.
Source: Tim Blair/Sydney Daily Telegraph
