The day after telling the Today Show he’s warned his family not to travel on public transportation because of the swine flu, Joe hitched a ride on Amtrak from Washington to Delaware.
Chagrinned Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano later said, “If he could say that over again, he would say if they’re feeling sick, they should stay off of public transit or confined spaces.”
And if President Obama could say it all over again, he’d probably say, “Anybody but Biden.”
Source: FoxNews.com
Second wave? What’s we’ve had so far is more of a ripple than a wave. Maybe it was a bad translation and the headline really said, “U.N. wary of second ripple of flu.”
You can’t make this stuff up. Drudge reports that Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided to use Barack Obama’s “Yes We Can” slogan in his next presidential campaign.
Who knew Ahmadinejad was such a big fan of American political campaigns?
IHateTheMedia.com has discovered that Ahmadinejad’s campaign staff also looked into adapting slogans from several other American presidential campaigns before going with “Yes We Can.”
They considered using George Bush’s “Compassionate Conservatism” but thought the compassionate part might be a tough sell.
They thought about adapting Bill Clinton’s slogan but finally decided that “Building a bridge to the 13th century” wasn’t quite as catchy as “Building a bridge to the 21st century.”
Ronald Reagan said, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Ahmadinejad discovered that “Are you better off now than you were four hundred years ago?” didn’t test well in focus groups.
In 1960 Barry Goldwater’s slogan was “In Your Heart You Know He’s Right.” Ahmadinejad decided that “In Your Heart You Know He’s Nuts” was just too damn honest.
In the end, Ahmadinejad decided he wanted to be just like Obama so they went with the popular “Yes We Can.”
In other news, the Iranian leader announced that if Iran ever developed an auto industry, he would immediately nationalize it.
Source: DrudgeReport.com
Former Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen supposedly said, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” That was obviously decades ago because billions are almost meaningless in today’s Washington, DC.
When President Obama sternly announced that he had ordered his cabinet to trim their budgets by $100,000,000, it sounded impressive. Lots of zeroes.
But in reality, $100,000,000 is truly a drop in the bucket. Here’s a great video demonstrating how truly insignificant Obama’s promise is.
Source: Breitbart TV
Republican Senator Jim Demint ventured into unfriendly territory and appeared on CNN with Rick Sanchez the other day. He made the mistake of saying that the Republicans would rise again by emphasizing freedom.
Sanchez took exception to that concept.
“Freedom? Freedom? What the hell does that mean?” Sanchez blurted. “You have to do better than that.”
Interesting that a CNN anchor would needs to ask a Republican to explain freedom and then say it’s not good enough. This mindset may explain why Fox has left CNN so far behind in the ratings.
You want something better than freedom, Rick? How about freedom with sugar on top. Or freedom three easy monthly payments of $19.95. Or freedom with fries on the side. Or freedom wrapped in thousand dollar bills. Or maybe even freedom to sound stupid on national television.
Source: MofoPolitics.com
Looks like 2009 is going to be a big, big year for Sarah Obama, the President’s grandmother.
First she attended her definitely, positively, absolutely non-Muslim grandson’s Presidential inauguration in January. Now it’s been announced that she will attend the hajj. According to FreeDictionary.com, “at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba; for a Muslim the hajj is the ultimate act of worship…”
The Daily Times of Pakistan reports:
US President Barack Obama’s paternal grandmother, Sara Obama, will perform haj this year along with her son Syed Obama, a private TV channel reported on Saturday. According to the channel, Sara and Syed will also visit Dubai before going to Saudi Arabia for performing haj. Sara (85) is an active participant in welfare and charity programmes. The channel said performing haj is one of the most desired wishes of the US president’s grandmother. daily times monitor.
Grandma’s trip is being paid for by Kenyan property tycoon Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim, who will also accompany her on the Hajj.
A few weeks ago, we reported that Kenya’s Christians and Muslims were battling for the soul of Sarah Obama.
Looks like the Muslims won.
Source: Pakistan Daily Times, GatewayPundit.com
Hey, Harry, did he happen to mention that our grandkids will be paying for his gift?
Source: Associated Press via Yahoo News
Among the many topics he touched on was chemtrails. That’s the wacko theory that contrails left in the sky by jets are secretly laced with chemicals as part of some giant plan to control the public. Or infect the public. Or something like that.
The recording artist once again known as Prince also believes our government should be based on prophecy and morals, which seems odd coming from a guy who showed up on a televised awards show with his butt hanging out of two holes where the seat of his pants should have been.
Oh, and let’s not leave out his comment that there were eight presidents before George Washington.
Prince is nuts. He’s always been nuts. But Little Red Corvette is still a very cool song.
Source: Jezebel.com via BigHollywood.com
Conservative Florida radio personality Shannon Burke has been charged with shooting his wife and dog. Are we the only ones who think this sounds like a bad country and western song?
Burke, who hosts a mid-day show on Florida’s RealRadio 104.1, describes his show as “mixture of outrageous daily, biker attitude and personality, and right-wing style rants.”
Burke’s version of the story is that he got mad at his dog, grabbed a handgun and threatened to shoot it. When the gun “accidentally” discharged, the bullet went through the dog’s leg and then grazed the side of his wife head.
He’s been charged with two counts — aggravated battery with a weapon and animal cruelty. Bond was set at $10,000 and he was ordered to wear an ankle bracelet monitor.
Catherine Burke and the dog were treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Consider this proof that talk show hosts should limit themselves to shooting off their mouths.
Source: WESH.com via Breitbart.TV
On President Obama’s 100th day, CNN did one of its pathetically weak periodic attempts to show its lack of bias by presenting a list the President’s Top 10 faux pas.
Despite the fact that the New York Post was able to put together a list of 100 presidential screw-ups, here’s the best CNN could come up with.
10. Screwing up the oath of office (although CNN laughingly blamed it on Chief Justice Roberts)
9. Whacking his head getting into Marine One
8. Bowing to the Saudi king.
7. The First Lady touches the queen
6. Making the Special Olympics gaffe on the Tonight Show
5. Stepping on wife’s dress during an inauguration dance
4. Teleprompter woes
3. His daughters talk too much
2. Saying Nancy Reagan had a séance
1. Michelle called the new First Dog as Barney instead of Bo (although this was really Michelle’s faux pas)
The way we count it, the score was Barack 6, Michelle 2, Chief Justice Roberts 1, Malia and Sasha 1. In the end, CNN could only find six Obama faux pas. Somehow, they overlooked the foreign policy gaffes, the diplomatic woes, his domestic policy problems, his god awful history of nominee troubles, the exploding deficit, and on and on.
But they did notice that he stepped on his wife’s dress. This is truly investigative journalism at its finest.
Source: Brietbart.tv
Perez Hilton is “an intellectual titan” and a “civil rights leader” while Miss California Carrie Prejean is a vile human being for holding the same opinion as the majority of people in her state and in the nation.
Apparently, Olbermann got his fill of juvenile sex puns in the infamous tea bagging episode, and now decided that breast implants should become his next frontier of intellectual exploration.
We realize it sounds preposterous, but that’s precisely what liberal icon Keith Olbermann and his vile guest discuss. With great glee.
Apparently, Olbermann has given up any hope of attracting a larger audience and is now interested only in being as absurd as humanly possible.
Congratulations, Keith. It’s always nice to see someone achieve their goal.
Source: HotAir.com
There she was — the loveliest, most intelligent, most popular, most down to earth first lady who’s ever graced the White House – volunteering at a Washington, DC food bank.
Naturally, the press fawned over her fashion sense. She was wearing a J. Crew cardigan, an ordinary pair of Capri pants, and…what the hell…a pair of $540 sneakers by Lanvin.
These were no ordinary sneakers. No, siree. They were imported from France, made of suede, laced with grosgrain ribbons and featured metallic pink toe caps.
When reporters asked about the shoes, the First Lady’s spokesperson dismissively snorted, “They’re shoes.”
And that was that. End of story. Except for one thing.
During the Presidential campaign, however, it became a campaign issue when John McCain wore a pair $520 shoes. CNN devoted an entire report to McCain’s “Well-heeled campaign.” His shoes were used as evidence that he was out of touch with ordinary people.
We never bought this regular folks façade the press presses on Michelle Obama. And a pair of $540 seems to show that our cynicism was well deserved.
But what do we know? We’re wearing Nikes. They’re rubber and some sort of synthetic material. The laces are cotton. They set us back $29 down at the neighborhood discount sporting good store.
Source: NYDailyNews.com, HotAir.com
If it’s a perversion sick enough to deserve its own scientific name, the Democrats are for it. That’s the bottom line of their new hate crimes bill.
Impeached former judge and current Democrat Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings wanted to make sure everyone understood exactly which perversions were protected by the bill.
So he stood up in front of the Congress of the United States of America and reads off a list of “alternative” sex acts. A Republican amendment tried to exclude things like pedophilia and necrophilia from the hate crimes bill and that upset Hastings.
We’ve never heard of most of them (no, really, we haven’t) and it was apparent that Hastings hadn’t, either. But that didn’t stop him from supporting them.
“All Americans,” Hastings said, “regardless of race, color, religion, national origin…(at this point Hastings actually lists the specific perversions covered by the bill. We are unable to enumerate them here because we’ve never heard of most of them and have no idea how they may be spelled)…or all of these philias and fetishes and isms that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are.”
It was simply unbelievable to see a United States Congressman standing on the floor of the House of Representatives stating that these disturbing “philias and fetishes and isms” deserve protection.
Truth be told, there’s no telling what a person will find sexually stimulating.
Hell, Mary Matalin sleeps with James Carville and we can’t imagine anything more perverted than that.
Source: Patterico.com via HotAir.com
The White House announced that it now has a Twitter account. They picked up 7,000 followers in first four hours.
Here, as a public service, are the tweets they wouldn’t let Joe Biden make:
Swine flu is bad. Don’t let your kids ride trains. Make them ride in limos like mine do.
We need socialized medicine so everyone can get subsidized hairplugs.
Why didn’t that guy stand up when I asked him to?
The most important thing facing the middle class is a three letter word: J-O-B-S.
Barack Obama is a very clean black guy. Much cleaner than Clarence Thomas.
How come I wasn’t one of People magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People? I’m better looking than Michelle.
I said Hillary Clinton was more qualified to be Vice President than I am. But what the hell, so is almost anyone.
My wife hates it when I toot. Do you think she’ll mind if I tweet?
If the British Prime Minister doesn’t want those 25 DVDs, I’ll take ‘em. That Jim Carrey cracks me up.
What’s wrong with bowing to the Saudi king? It’s not like Obama kissed his ass or anything.
We honestly don’t ask much of our government. But we pray that they let Joe Biden tweet.
You gotta love Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. If he’d been around in the old west, he probably would have just pulled out his six shooter and solved problems with a little lead. These days, he has to use more civilized means.
Race monger Al Sharpton announced that he was going to lead a protest against Arpaio in an attempt to force his resignation. We’re not sure why Sharpton’s upset, but we don’t really care.
Here’s one paragraph from Arpaio’s hilarious letter to Sharpton:
And Sheriff Joe was just getting started. Read the entire kick ass letter for yourself by clicking the thumbnail on the left.
We pray that Sharpton breaks some law while he’s leading a protest in Phoenix. He’d look a lot better in one of Sheriff Joe’s pink jumpsuits than he does in those $2,000 suits he usually wears.
Source: wvwnews.net via ConservativeGrapevine.com
This is a year old, but it is one of the best videos you will ever see. It shows excerpts of Dennis Prager’s speech at the Freedom Center 20th Anniversary Gala on May, 20, 2008. As valid today as it was then.
Hat tip to @AwakenToTruth
Don’t you hate critics who review “films” instead of “movies.” You know, those self-important nimrods who think they’re too smart by half and wear out their thesauruses (thesauri?) in an attempt to convince you of the same thing.
The Times of London just ran one of those reviews on the new Star Trek movie that premieres May 8.
(One disclaimer: we are not ashamed to say that we are long-time Trekkies. We don’t even attempt to hide behind the supposedly more dignified name “Trekker.”)
Let’s just go with one paragraph of this freshman poly sci term paper disguised as a movie review:
There was always a very close relationship between the American Dream — not to mention American imperialism — and Star Trek, with its liberal, secular, multiracial, technophiliac vision of the future. But the two seem almost to have mind-melded with the election of an optimistic, liberal, multiracial President with a Kenyan father and a white American mother (Star Trek featured the first interracial kiss on US television, sparking protests at the time) — and, who is himself something of a 1960s tribute act, with his JFK and Martin Luther King cadences. Suddenly, with Barack Obama at the helm, America looks like a brand that people can believe in again. Or at least root for at the movies.
For God’s sake, it’s just a friggin’ movie, Limey Boy. It’s cowboys and Indians in outer space. Good guys versus bad guys. White hats versus black hats.
Read the whole thing. Just to remind yourself why newspapers are neither living long nor prospering.
We have to go now. Advance tickets just went on sale downtown for the May 8 opening.
Source: Times of London via Big Hollywood
According to a nearly gleeful report in the New York Post:
NYT Co. May Sell Classical Radio Station
Beethoven and Bach could become the latest victims of the New York Times Co.’s financial crisis. Rumors are raging that top suits have discussed putting classical radio station WQXR (96.3 FM) on the block to shore up the company’s dwindling cash stash.
The Times has already sold off its landmark headquarters building to escape killer mortgage payments. They’re threatening to shutter the Boston Globe because closing it is cheaper than operating it. Their share of the Boston Red Sox is also on the chopping block. And now it looks like classical music may be the latest victim of the Times downturn.
According to a report last week, the company has $1.3 billion in debts and a relatively paltry $36 million in the bank.
You can’t feel too badly for The Times. They sold out to the extreme left many years ago. And now they’re willing to sell out to just about anybody.
Source: New York Post
There’s a reason Karl Rove is a political advisor and not a diplomatic advisor. He’s just not very diplomatic.
He appeared on the O’Reilly Factor and had this to say about New York Times publisher Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger:
“I thought Pinch Sulzberger was right to worry about why he had to sell his building and his stock is in the toilet, and I’m glad it is… Look I’m from Texas. You take a New York liberal. I met this guy, little Pinch Sulzberger. He is a elitist, effete snob who thinks he know better than the rest of America and has views that are distinctly outside the mainstream of what America is all about.”
C’mon, Karl. Tell us how you really feel. Don’t be so shy. Do you like the guy or not?
Source: Gateway Pundit
She’s makes adult movies. But she’s not just a porn star. She’s also a porn writer, director and producer.
Next week Stormy’s launching a “Listening Tour” across Louisiana. She’s hitting Baton Rouge on Tuesday and New Orleans on Wednesday to find out about the issues and concerns of Louisiana’s regular people.
“I wanted to take over the world and I guess ‘senator’ is a good place to start, right?” Ms. Daniels observed. “I’ve been handed a golden opportunity and I should take advantage of it.”
Daniels doesn’t think her career will be a problem for the voters of Louisiana, because David Vitter, her Republican opponent has his own sex issues. In 2007 he was connected to Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the “D.C. Madam” via phone records.
Stormy Daniels. She may be the first candidate in history to announce in advance that she’s willing to screw her constituents.
Source: Politico.com
Here’s how Time describes the results:
In a stunning result, the winner of the third annual TIME 100 poll and new owner of the title World’s Most Influential Person is moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of the online community 4chan.org, whose real name is Christopher Poole, received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100) to handily beat the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Oprah Winfrey. To put the magnitude of the upset in perspective, it’s worth noting that everyone moot beat out actually has a job.
Time continued:
Undoubtedly, many people will question moot’s worthiness of the title World’s Most Influential Person. TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel says moot is no less deserving than previous title holders like Nintendo video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto (2007) and Korean pop star Rain (2006). “I would remind anyone who doubts the results that this is an Internet poll,” he says. “Doubting the results is kind of the point.”
Time’s circulation is plummeting. And they seem to think that the way to reverse that trend is to conduct and promote a poll that they themselves admit is meaningless.
What the hell. It’s an improvement over just plain making crap up.
Source: Time Magazine
Professor, diplomat, author, national security expert and 66th US Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, gave this know-it-all liberal student a little lesson in the trouble of dealing with religious fanatics. Enhanced interrogation were legal and they worked.
AirTran Airways Flight 85 from Cancun, Mexico radioed ahead that the two men had fevers and were sick to their stomachs. It was feared that they had the swine flu.
Luckily, it turned out they were suffering not from the swine flu, but the wine flu. In other words, they’d each had too much to drink while partying south of the border.
Last time we were in Cancun, the wine flu seemed to be an epidemic. Especially around the swimming pool.
Source: WTOP.com
Former CIA Director Porter Goss came out blasting about waterboarding last Friday. Contrary to what Pelosi says on this video clip, there’s no question about what she knew nor when she knew it.
Here’s the statement from Goss. It’s remarkably unlike the diplomatic pablum normally served up in Washington, DC:
Today, I am slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed; or that specific techniques such as “waterboarding” were never mentioned. It must be hard for most Americans of common sense to imagine how a member of Congress can forget being told about the interrogations of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In that case, though, perhaps it is not amnesia but political expedience.
Let me be clear. It is my recollection that:
– The chairs and the ranking minority members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, known as the Gang of Four, were briefed that the CIA was holding and interrogating high-value terrorists.
– We understood what the CIA was doing.
– We gave the CIA our bipartisan support.
– We gave the CIA funding to carry out its activities.
– On a bipartisan basis, we asked if the CIA needed more support from Congress to carry out its mission against al-Qaeda.
I do not recall a single objection from my colleagues.
When Goss refers to the ranking Democratic member on the House intel committee, he means none other than Pelosi.
Pelosi’s video is the least sincere sounding denial to come out of Washington, DC since Bill Clinton said, “I did not have sex with that woman.”
Source: HotAir.com
The latest scare headline from the government is “Airplane ‘bird strikes’ have climbed dramatically, FAA records show.”
Is this really worth worrying about? Or have the number of incidents increased dramatically just because the number of flights has increased dramatically? And is the number of strikes really high enough to cause concern?
An article in the Los Angeles Times said:
Aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport struck birds or other animals in 940 instances from 1990 through 2008, according to data released Friday by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The strikes involved gulls, hawks, pigeons and other creatures hitting windshields, wings and stabilizer areas.
Only 36 of the incidents, or 3.8%, resulted in substantial damage, records show. There were no fatalities. At least five times, planes reported hitting foxes.
According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Air Transport World, there were 650,000 take offs and landings at LAX in 2007. The government bird strike report covers a 19-year period. That an average of just 49 animal contact incidents per year. (In addition to birds, the government report also included foxes and lizards but it’s highly unlikely that any of those animals got up in the air high enough to cause much engine damage).
That’s equal to one incident every 13,265 flights. And that doesn’t mean one bird-in-the-engine incident, because the report indicates that the impacts may well have been on the planes’ wings or stabilizers.
Although we’ll take 1 in 13,265 odds, liberals will not. They will demand that President Obama appoint a new government Bird Czar. He will call together a blue ribbon panel to study the matter and they will propose a new bird tax on all flyers to compensate the birds’ grieving families.
It won’t really solve the problem, but taxes liberal solutions never do.
Source: Los Angeles Times, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Air Transport World
