Remember when the Democrats said ObamaCare would give all Americans the kind of government-operated healthcare that’s available to the British? That’s exactly what we’re afraid of.
Remember when the Democrats said ObamaCare would give all Americans the kind of government-operated healthcare that’s available to the British? That’s exactly what we’re afraid of.
The Daily Mail UK explains what critics of ObamaCare were talking about:
Poor Margaret Hutchon died of a severe case of government healthcare
A former NHS director died after waiting for nine months for an operation – at her own hospital.
Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had been waiting since last June for a follow-up stomach operation at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex.
But her appointments to go under the knife were cancelled four times and she barely regained consciousness after finally having surgery.
Her devastated husband, Jim, is now demanding answers from Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust – the organisation where his wife had served as a non-executive member of the board of directors.
He said: ‘I don’t really know why she died. I did not get a reason from the hospital. We all want to know for closure. She got weaker and weaker as she waited and operations were put off.’
To repeat: A former Director of the Great Britain’s National Health Service died when her operation was canceled four times at her own hospital. John Lennon summed up this situation perfectly:
Instant Karma’s gonna get you,
Gonna knock you right on the head,
You better get yourself together,
Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead
President Obama took time out of his very busy schedule to record an important YouTube message for the people of the Ivory Coast.
President Obama took time out of his very busy schedule to record an important YouTube message for the people of the Ivory Coast.
We suppose that’s all well and good. Except for a couple things:
First, the President refers to the nation as Côte d’Ivoire instead of Ivory Coast for a good reason – French is its official language, but they also speak 60 native dialects with Dioula the most widely spoken. Yet the President recorded his message in English.
Second, the per capita GDP of Côte d’Ivoire is a mere $1800 per year, so we question how many of the nation’s residents have computers on which to view the President’s message.
On the other hand, Côte d’Ivoire’s unemployment rate is estimated to be 40-50%, so perhaps its citizens have spent their ample idle hours sitting around learning English and watching YouTube videos.
Hey, have you seen the one about the dog that says, “Je t’aime.”
From 30,000 feet, everybody down there kind of looks alike what with all the women in burkas, all the men in keffiyehs, and all the goats in fear.
It’s a tragedy, but what’s a NATO pilot supposed to do? From 30,000 feet, everybody down there kind of looks alike what with all the women in burkas, all the men in keffiyehs, and all the goats in fear.
Reuters has details of NATO’s mission gone wrong:
Defining the mission: We had to kill the civilians to save the civilians
At least 40 civilians have been killed in air strikes by Western forces on Tripoli, the top Vatican official in the Libyan capital told a Catholic news agency on Thursday, quoting witnesses.
“The so-called humanitarian raids have killed dozens of civilian victims in some neighborhoods of Tripoli,” said Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli.
“I have collected several witness accounts from reliable people. In particular, in the Buslim neighborhood, due to the bombardments, a civilian building collapsed, causing the death of 40 people,” he told Fides, the news agency of the Vatican missionary arm.
Libyan officials have taken foreign reporters to the sites of what they say were the aftermath of Western air strikes on Tripoli but evidence of civilian casualties has been inconclusive.
Western powers say they have no confirmed evidence of civilian casualties from air strikes, which they have carried out under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians caught in conflict between Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and rebels.
“It’s true that the bombardments seem pretty much on target, but it is also true that when they hit military targets, which are in the middle of civilian neighborhoods, the population is also involved,” Martinelli said.
Translation: Shit happens.
Is it just us or does this sound suspiciously like “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
You can’t watch this CBS News story from the sands of Libya without rolling your eyes and asking yourself, “What the hell are we doing supporting this band of morons?”
You can’t watch this CBS News story from the sands of Libya without rolling your eyes and asking yourself, “What the hell are we doing supporting this band of morons?”
It’s not the gang that couldn’t shoot straight. It’s the gang that shoots at random.
Of course, as we’ve come to expect from this administration, 100% doesn’t eally mean 100% and the rule of law is often replaced by the rule of “good for thee, but not for me.”
The Obama administration and Government Motors bet the windfarm that electric and hybrid cars would be the latest rage, but they’re so expensive and impractical that no one’s buying them. What’s a president to do?
The Detroit News reveals that President Obama intends to rig the game by having the federal government buy the cars in massive numbers:
President Obama wonders how far he could go between charges in a bulletproof, bombproof Chevy Volt limousine
Obama announced the plan this week to “green” the federal fleet.
“I’m directing our departments and our agencies to make sure 100 percent of the vehicles they buy are fuel-efficient or clean energy cars and trucks by 2015. Not 50 percent, not 75 percent — 100 percent of our vehicles,” Obama said today at an appearance in Landover, Md., at UPS facility.
Of course, as we’ve come to expect from this administration, 100% doesn’t eally mean 100% and the rule of law is often replaced by the rule of “good for thee, but not for me.”
The U.S. Secret Service said today that some federal vehicles for law enforcement and security purposes will be exempt from President Barack Obama’s directive that all federal vehicles purchased starting 2015 be advanced technology models.
Secret Service spokesman Robert Novy said the directive wouldn’t apply to vehicles used for some law enforcement or security reasons by various federal agencies.
“Certain specialized vehicles including those with law enforcement and security specifications are not subject to this directive,” Novy said.
That would include the GM-built Cadillac presidential limousine and other vehicles in the motorcade.
Interesting, isn’t it, that this regulation should be proposed by someone whose only driving experience has been driving the nation to the edge of bankruptcy.
During an online question and answer session, President Obama, the nation’s first undocumented president, said he wants undocumented non-presidents to succeed in America.
During an online question and answer session, President Obama, the nation’s first undocumented president, said he wants undocumented non-presidents to succeed in America.
CNS News relates the exchange:
The exchange came during a town hall event sponsored by the Spanish-language television network Univision at a Washington, D.C., school. An illegal alien student, who appeared via Skype, asked: “My question for the president is, why [is the government] saying that deportations have stopped or the detention of many students like me, why is it that we are still receiving deportation letters like this one?”
Obama answered, “We have redesigned our enforcement practices under the law to make sure that we’re focusing primarily on criminals, and so our deportation of criminals are up about 70 percent. Our deportation of non-criminals are down, and that’s because we want to focus our resources on those folks who are destructive to the community.
We’d like illegal aliens to succeed, too. Succeed in crossing the border back to wherever the hell they came from.
(The first video we put up has been “removed by user.” If this one gets removed please let know.)
A Taco Bell drive-through customer who became enraged because of a price increase on Beefy Crunch Burritos, and chaos ensued.
Some restaurants you go to for the atmosphere. Some restaurants you go to because they’re cheap. Given that the atmosphere at Taco Bell’s is largely methane, the faux Mexican fast food chain fits decidedly into the latter category. And so it is reasonable to believe that some customers may have an adverse reaction to price increases –- not to mention the Grade H meat.
Taco Bell is to Mexican food as Mt. Rushmore is to electricity
Reuters reveals the whole enchilada:
A Taco Bell drive-through customer who became enraged because of a price increase on Beefy Crunch Burritos fired a BB gun through the window at a manager on Sunday, police said.
As the restaurant’s employees and customers hit the floor, the manager called police, and when officers arrived, the angry patron fired several shots at the police cars, Benavides said.
The man then barricaded himself inside a nearby motel room, sparking a standoff that lasted until police lobbed tear gas inside and the man surrendered.
Benavides said the burritos had been sold for 99 cents each as a promotion, but the man was apparently angry that the promotion had ended, and the price had gone up to $1.49.
The name of the ‘taco rage’ suspect has not been released because he had not yet been formally charged early Monday. Benavides said that the man will be charged with three counts of attempted capital murder, and that additional charges are possible.
Forget about Iran-Contra. Forget about amnesty for illegal aliens. There is not the slightest doubt in our minds that the biggest mistake Ronald Reagan ever made was reproducing a second time.
Forget about Iran-Contra. Forget about amnesty for illegal aliens. There is not the slightest doubt in our minds that the biggest mistake Ronald Reagan ever made was reproducing a second time.
It's no longer Ron Reagan Jr, it's non-Reagan Jr
The BBC reports Non’s latest insults to his father:
Reagan Jr.’s remarks came when the BBC’s Matt Frei asked him, “Are you happy the way [Ronald Reagan] is remembered in this country, especially by the conservatives?”
“Oh, I just think it’s inevitable,” Reagan Jr. responded. “Who else are they going to remember that way? Richard Nixon? I don’t think so. Warren Harding? Maybe. But he is a fetish object for the far right, he’s sort of the rubber bustier of the far right — you know, they all have to go and touch him, as it were.”
Ronaldus Magnus was against abortion, but in this case a retroactive one wouldn’t be a bad idea.
We’ve been contacted by a representative of the religion of peace. Jameela, Messenger of Allah & Defender of Islam, has commented on several of our stories in the last few days. Here’s one not to be missed.
EDIT: Subsequent to writing this article, this islamist troll was busted for sending a pig’s foot to, and threatening, a U.S. Congressman. Read this story first, and then go learn what Jameela Barnette did.
We’ve been contacted by a representative of the religion of peace. Jameela, Messenger of Allah & Defender of Islam, has commented on several of our stories in the last few days.
You may have noticed her (?) comments over there in our “Recent Conversations” column on the right side of our home page. But just in case you missed them, we thought we’d share one with you.
"After I send this comment to IHTM, let's go down to Piggly Wiggly and get some pork rinds."
We checked Jameela’s IP address, assuming that we would find that the message came from Iran or Egypt or some other hotbed of Islamic lunacy. Unfortunately, we discovered that Jameela, Messenger of Allah & Defender of Islam, is in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.
We hope you enjoy her particularly warm and touching expression of peace and love:
Americans are the Slaves of the Jews
Jew’s live the American Reality, while their Christian slaves live the American Dream; the definition of dream is: a state of abstraction and trance. Over 300 million Americans aspire and desire to live in a state of abstraction and trance. The American Dream is home ownership and how is paying your greedy Jew masters $200,000.00 in interest on a $150,000.00 home a dream? It is not, it is: an event that is extremely distressing, which is the definition of Nightmare. The American State of Abstraction & Trance aka Dream is the mechanism that facilitated the Jew’s enslavement of Americans; as usury is a Jew-invented and Jew-owned evil.
The American State of Abstraction & Trance is the MATRIX the evil Jew’s created for their Christian slaves to exist in. Just as the American Dream is an abstract fantasy and illusion; so is Christianity when you peel away the layers of deceit. Christian’s exist in a Jew-induced Trance, which is the result of them disobeying Allah and eating cursed Jews {swine-flesh permeated with parasitic worms which control the diseased minds of their Christian slaves}, feasting on Jew-god corpse {Jesus}, drinking Jew-god blood under the pretense of Holy Communion and the invocation of Satan by lighting candles; as Satan, like the Jew’s, were created from the smokeless flame of fire; these are all the activities of a cult; the Cult of Christianity.
American journalists, Helen Thomas and Rick Sanchez were terminated from their jobs for speaking the truth about the Jew’s. Cynthia McKinney lost her re-election bid because she spoke the truth about the Jew’s sadistic and oppressive enslavement of the Palestinians. A Muslim student group was suspended from UC Irvine for protesting the illegal Zionist Regime’s apartheid system. Let it be known! Speaking out against your evil JINN aka Jew Masters is punishable by lost of livelihood. The definition of freedom is: the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints. These tip-of-the-iceberg episodes only prove that freedom in America is but an abstract illusion of such; just as the American Dream and Christianity are illusions. This is the Jew-invented Matrix Americans want to maintain and spread in the ME under the guise of Democracy.Islam is NOT a religion of peace, as violence is necessary to repel the Jew’s attempt to force Muslims to eat Jew-god corpse and drink Jew-god blood under the guise of “Holy” Communion and enslave Muslims in the same oppressive manner the Jew’s have enslaved Christians. GO DIE IN IRAN you corpse-eating, A S S-wipes of the Jews you worship, revere, finance and give your worthless lives for.
You Christian savages should pressure your evil, N I G G A president into attacking Iran, so the brave and fearless Iranian Muslim Warriors can send you to your partially-eaten and bled-out Jew corpse you call god {Jesus}.
Lovely Marietta, Georgia, home of Jameela, Messenger of Allah and Defender of Islam
I advise you corpse-eating Christian’s who will murder Jesus after his Resurrection for the sole purpose of bleeding him out to bathe in his blood; to reconsider your blasphemous and diabolical worship of a DEAD Jew aka jinn and read the Qur’an and discover the Jew’s are the JINN and Israel is not a country; Israel is Satan and the Jew’s patriarch. Don’t read the Koran, as the Koran is a crazy book written by crazed Jews in an attempt to portray Muslims to be the homicidal maniacs the Jew’s have proven themselves to be. On the Day of Resurrection, the cannibals known as Christians will only wish they had been Muslims in the life of this world, as they will learn on this Day; Islam is the only religion Allah will accept from his slaves to gain entry into Paradise. I know you insane Christian ghouls will laugh, but you are the ones living in a state of abstraction and trance.
Long live OSAMA BIN LADEN, the brave and fearless Muslim Warrior who brought the S H I T pile aka America to her Jew-worshipping knees.
On the Joy Behar Show, Roseanne Barr told Michael Moore that she may run for president. No. Seriously. We kid you not.
You may wonder how Roseanne Barr, Michael Moore and Joy Behar all work their way into one story. Allow us to explain.
Roseanne Barr guest hosted Behar’s show on whatever network it’s on. Moore was a guest. Moore suggested that O’Donnell should run for office and she informed him that she intends to start at the top and run for President.
No. Seriously. We kid you not. Here’s how the conversation went:
Moore: Start supporting this. Barr: Start, yes, start being active. Right? Start being active. Moore: Yes, but not just going to demonstrations. You need to organize your neighbors, your churches, your schools and can I just say — Barr: Yes, but we’re running out of time. Moore: Can I just say this into your camera? Some of you need to run. You need to run for office. Barr: I’m running. That’s what I was going to ask in the next — Moore: You need to run. Barr: — in the next segment. I’m going to run for President of these United States. Moore: Wow. Barr: On behalf of the tax-paying people. Moore: Wow. Barr: I’m thinking about it, anyway. On this Red Bull.
Wow, indeed, Michael. (And quite an endorsement for Red Bull, we might add.)
According to President Obama, a Libyan rebel war council is virtually indistinguishable from a local Rotary Club meeting. If you could just learn to ignore the rocket propelled grenades, you couldn’t tell one meeting from another.
According to President Obama, a Libyan rebel war council is virtually indistinguishable from a local Rotary Club meeting. If you could just learn to ignore the rocket propelled grenades, you couldn’t tell one meeting from another.
From left to right: Professional (with knife), lawyer, doctor, rocket propelled grenade
The Australian has details of the President’s description:
The US is considering giving weapons to rebels battling Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya, despite concerns that some could have terrorist links to al-Qa’ida and Hezbollah.
“We are examining all options to support the opposition,” President Barack Obama said yesterday. His comments, a day after his nationally televised address on the reasons for US military involvement in Libya, came as leaders from countries involved in the military operation now under NATO leadership met in London to co-ordinate efforts against the Gaddafi regime
US officials also appear unclear about the allegiances of rebel groups and what sort of governmental system might replace the dictator’s rule after 41 years.
In one of three interviews yesterday, Mr Obama said the rebels were “saying the right things” so far. “Most of them are professionals, lawyers, doctors, people who appear to be credible,” he told CBS.
“That doesn’t mean that among all the people who oppose Gaddafi, there might not be elements that are unfriendly to the United States and our interests.”
“This week’s meeting of the Benghazi Rotary Club is now called to order. First item on the agenda is a report on this weekend’s al Qaeda bake sale.”
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is particularly proud of this technological achievement and will reportedly celebrate by using the powers of the presidency to force engineers to blow the horn as they pass him at railway crossings.
To those of you who say Islamic culture is lost in the thirteenth century, Iran says, “Hah!” To prove that it’s not true, the nation has introduced early 20th century technology – its first diesel locomotive.
"Come ride the little train that is rolling down the tracks to the junction, Burka Junction"
Fars News reports:
Iran on Tuesday unveiled the first diesel-engine locomotive, produced by the country’s experts, in a ceremony attended by First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi.
After unveiling the diesel engine locomotive, Rahimi was briefed on the potentialities of this national achievement gained by the Iranian experts.
This diesel locomotive has been produced at the cost of 77 billion rials and it is about 3,710 kilos in weight.
Its engine power is rated at 1,000 kW per minute.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is particularly proud of this technological achievement and will reportedly celebrate by using the powers of the presidency to force engineers to blow the horn as they pass him at railway crossings.
As Rush Limbaugh often notes, the experts are surprised every time new unemployment stats come out. How expert can they be if they’re surprised by the numbers month after month after month?
As Rush Limbaugh often notes, the experts are surprised every time new unemployment stats come out. How expert can they be if they’re surprised by the numbers month after month after month?
Al Gore is the epitome of an expert who is always wrong
The New York Times explains the inexplicable:
This is the problem Dan Gardner tackles in “Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Next to Worthless, and You Can Do Better.” Gardner, a Canadian journalist and author of “The Science of Fear,” takes as his starting point the work of Philip Tetlock, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Beginning in the 1980s, Tetlock examined 27,451 forecasts by 284 academics, pundits and other prognosticators. The study was complex, but the conclusion can be summarized simply: the experts bombed. Not only were they worse than statistical models, they could barely eke out a tie with the proverbial dart-throwing chimps.
And that is, of course, why all predictions at IHateTheMedia.com are always made by dart-throwing chimps.
The most generous conclusion Tetlock could draw was that some experts were less awful than others. Isaiah Berlin once quoted the Greek poet Archilochus to distinguish between two types of thinkers: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Berlin admired both ways of thinking, but Tetlock borrowed the metaphor to account for why some experts fared better. The least accurate forecasters, he found, were hedgehogs: “thinkers who ‘know one big thing,’ aggressively extend the explanatory reach of that one big thing into new domains” and “display bristly impatience with those who ‘do not get it,’ ” he wrote. Better experts “look like foxes: thinkers who know many small things,” “are skeptical of grand schemes” and are “diffident about their own forecasting prowess.”
There you have it – Al Gore explained in twenty-five words or less:
Being an expert on the internet doesn’t make you an expert on global warming.
According to the Obama administration, acts of terrorism are now “man-caused disasters.” The global war on terror is now “overseas contingency operations.” Taxes are now “investments.” And wars are “kinetic military actions.”
According to the Obama administration, acts of terrorism are now “man-caused disasters.” The global war on terror is now “overseas contingency operations.” Taxes are now “investments.” And wars are “kinetic military actions.”
In this clip, an unidentified representative from the Obama administration explains exactly what a kinetic military action is.
As he says at the very end, “It’s not cheap, but I’m sure the government will buy it.”
The President who said his was going to be the most open, most transparent administration in history held a secret ceremony Wednesday to accept an award for being open and transparent.
Of all the odd things this administration has done, this is undoubtedly one of the oddest.
The President who said his was going to be the most open, most transparent administration in history held a secret ceremony Wednesday to accept an award for being open and transparent.
Hush little baby, don't you cry. Daddy's gonna give you an alibi.
Politico.com has the super secret details:
The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be open to the press pool.
This time, Obama met quietly in the Oval Office with Gary Bass of OMB Watch, Tom Blanton of the National Security Archive, Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight, Lucy Dalglish of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Patrice McDermott of OpenTheGovernment.org, without disclosing the meeting on his public schedule or letting photographers or print reporters into the room.
“Our understanding going into the meeting was that it would have a pool photographer and a print reporter, and it turned out to be a private meeting,” Bass told POLITICO. “He was so on point, so on target in the conversation with us, it is baffling why he would not want that message to be more broadly heard by reporters and the public interest community and the public generally.”
Remarkable. Even the people who gave him the award for being open and transparent don’t understand why the meeting was closed and undisclosed.
This would be funny if it weren’t so damn symbolic of the gulf between this administration’s words and its actions.
Contrary to what Sharpton has to say, we’re pretty sure you can be for states rights and civil rights. But odds are you’ll be against civil rights scammers.
Here’s race con man Al Sharpton at the NAACP State Convention:
“My point is that they are advocating states rights which they are, immigration, they want Arizona to be able to supercede federal law and in other areas. States rights has always been the enemy of civil rights. The idea of the civil rights movement was for the federal government to protect citizens, not leave them alone. So that the basis of the Tea Party is antithetical to civil rights.”
Contrary to what Sharpton has to say, we’re pretty sure you can be for states rights and civil rights. But odds are you’ll be against civil rights scammers.
It’s really getting ugly for Democrats. Uglier than a love child born to Helen Thomas and Yasser Arafat. The latest Rasmussen poll points out the particulars in a far less hideous fashion.
It’s really getting ugly for Democrats. Uglier than a love child born to Helen Thomas and Yasser Arafat.
The latest Rasmussen poll points out the particulars in a far less hideous fashion:
It’s been two months since Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives and they are now trusted more than Democrats on nine out of 10 important issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports.In early January, voters trusted the GOP on all ten issues. That was the last time Republicans held trust on every issue since late August 2010. Still, this shows a sharp contrast from two years ago when Democrats were trusted more than Republicans on most issues.
Nice work, Democrats. Like we said, uglier than a love child born to Helen Thomas and Yasser Arafat.
Far be it from us to repeat ourselves, but that image is so particularly revolting that we thought it was worthwhile.
What happens when animal advocates run smack dab into wind farm advocates? Or to state the question a bit more precisely, what happens when birds run smack dab into wind mills. Civil war, that’s what.
What happens when animal advocates run smack dab into wind farm advocates? Or to state the question a bit more precisely, what happens when birds run smack dab into wind mills. Civil war, that’s what.
In 1861, the American Civil War broke out at Fort Sumter. 150 years later, the Environmental Civil War broke out in Spain.
The Daily Caller has the avian information:
On Tuesday an international bird watchdog group based in Spain, Save the Eagles International (STEI), warned that the expected construction of 3.5 million wind turbines worldwide will result in the extinction of a variety of bird species.
STEI is calling for a moratorium on all wind farm construction and an investigation into whether the threat to wildlife is worth the amount of energy produced — when, they say, there are so many other, more efficient sources of energy.
Which sources would those be? Nuclear’s unacceptable to environmentalists. They want hydro-electric dams destroyed. Coal’s a non-starter. Oil won’t fly.
According to STEI it is a fallacy to compare wind turbine bird deaths to other sources of bird carnage such as automobiles and high windows, as wind turbine construction is optional.
“[M]ortality caused by windfarms and their power lines is new and additional”, said STEI president Mark Duchamp. “[A]nd like the proverbial last drop that spills the glass, its effects will be upsetting. To wit the Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle, which has been condemned to extinction by the construction of seven windfarms in its habitat.”
Nooooooooo! Not the Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle! It’s our favorite of all the wedge-tailed eagles.
Just answer a few multiple choice questions and it will tell you where stand on the political spectrum compared to some famous world leaders and political philosophers.
Just answer a few multiple choice questions and it will tell you where stand on the political spectrum compared to some famous world leaders and political philosophers.
The Editor and the Administrator took the test and we came out surprisingly, freakishly close, both over there in the conservative-libertarian quadrant near Friedman. We’re hoping that’s Milton Friedman, not Kinky Friedman.
Take the test and leave a comment telling us where you landed on the chart.
Eurocrats have decided they can cut CO2 emissions by 60 percent by 2050 by outlawing internal combustion engine cars in all European cities.
Eurocrats is such a perfect name for the nameless, faceless and seemingly senseless bureaucrats who people the European Union. Now these geniuses have decided they can cut CO2 emissions by 60 percent by 2050 by outlawing internal combustion engine cars in all European cities.
When cars are outlawed, only outlaws will have cars
The Telegraph UK has the story:
The European Commission on Monday unveiled a “single European transport area” aimed at enforcing “a profound shift in transport patterns for passengers” by 2050 …
Top of the EU’s list to cut climate change emissions is a target of “zero” for the number of petrol and diesel-driven cars and lorries in the EU’s future cities.
Siim Kallas, the EU transport commission, insisted that Brussels directives and new taxation of fuel would be used to force people out of their cars and onto “alternative” means of transport.
“That means no more conventionally fuelled cars in our city centres,” he said. “Action will follow, legislation, real action to change behaviour.”
The Association of British Drivers rejected the proposal to ban cars as economically disastrous and as a “crazy” restriction on mobility.
“I suggest that he goes and finds himself a space in the local mental asylum,” said Hugh Bladon, a spokesman for the BDA.
Too late, Hugh. He already works for the European Commission, which may not be a mental asylum, but is virtually indistinguishable from one.
Pot, meet kettle. Turns out the hypocrite had his own stack of unpaid Washington, DC parking tickets – more than $2000 worth – until he quietly paid them off earlier this month.
Is there anyone left who doesn’t think Anthony Weiner is the biggest dick in Congress? Anyone?
The New York Democrat is getting ready to run for mayor of New York City, so he’s been on a rampage about U.N. diplomats who use their diplomatic immunity to rack up unpaid parking tickets.
A classic case of misdirection: Point fingers at everyone else so no one points fingers at you
Pot, meet kettle. Turns out the hypocrite had his own stack of unpaid Washington, DC parking tickets – more than $2000 worth – until he quietly paid them off earlier this month.
The New York Daily News has the hypocritical headline:
From 2007 to March of this year, Weiner’s ticket total was 2,180 for violations near the Capitol and at Reagan Washington National Airport, Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, reported Tuesday.
A Weiner spokesman said all of the fees have since been paid. Aides to the Queens Democrat claim that part of the problem may have that D.C. sent notices to a bad address.
But Weiner “is pleased to have helped decrease the D.C. budget deficit,” the spokesman told Roll Call.
We really doubt that Weiner cares about the budget deficit, but he certainly hopes the voters have an attention deficit.
Weiner has raged against foreign dignitaries who ignore New York City’s traffic rules, and last year introduced a bill seeking to get $18 million in unpaid parking tickets from 180 nations for the city.
“It’s insulting to all New Yorkers that countries like Yemen, Zimbabwe and Iran owe the city millions in unpaid parking tickets,” Weiner said.
Let’s hear it for Anthony Weiner, ladies and gentlemen, the most appropriately named man in Congress.
Now black Georgia lawmakers have filed suit against five cities for being too white.
We think we see a trend here. Monday we had the story of the feds telling Marin County, California that it was too white. Now black Georgia lawmakers have filed suit against five cities for the same offense.
Welcome to Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, which has been declared "too white"
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has details of the scary story:
The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus filed a lawsuit Monday against the state of Georgia seeking to dissolve the city charters of Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, Milton and Chattahoochee Hills. Further, the lawmakers, joined by civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery, aim to dash any hopes of a Milton County.
The lawsuit, filed in a North Georgia U.S. District Court Monday, claims that the state circumvented the normal legislative process and set aside its own criteria when creating the “super-majority white” cities within Fulton and DeKalb counties. The result, it argues, is to dilute minority votes in those areas, violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
“This suit is based on the idea that African Americans and other minorities can elect the people of their choice,” said Democratic State Sen. Vincent Fort.
The Office of the Governor and the Office of the Attorney General declined comment pending further review of the case.
Too white! Where’s Jesse Jackson? Where’s Al Sharpton? And even more importantly, where’s common sense?
Obama’s close friend Bill Ayers says residents of a country with an American military base should be able to vote in an American presidential election.
Bill “Yeah, I’m Still An Unrepentant Terrorist” Ayers, a close personal friend of President Obama, is so far off to the left that you need a telescope to find him.
“Every resident of a country with an American military base within its borders ought to have the right to vote in an American presidential election,” Ayers said. “That causes a different kind of way of thinking, doesn’t it? I mean, imagine, you know, if hundreds and hundreds of millions of people voting for the American president from countries as diverse as Cuba and Italy and, you know, wherever. (indistinguishable) I think it’s a great idea. What do you think?”
What do we think? Well, Willie, we think you have it backwards. We have military bases in those countries because, at one time or another, we saved their asses from some oppressor.
Seems to us that if fair was fair, we should be able to vote in their elections, not vice versa.
President Obama is apparently in hot pursuit of the student vote. He announced Monday that he thinks our poor, pampered little darlings are either bored by tests or punished by them.
President Obama is apparently in hot pursuit of the student vote. He announced Monday that he thinks our poor, pampered little darlings are either bored by tests or punished by them.
President Obama is against testing. This really makes us want to see those missing report cards.
The Associated Press has news that tests our patience:
President Barack Obama said Monday that students should take fewer standardized tests and school performance should be measured in other ways. Too much testing makes education boring for kids, he said.
“Too often what we have been doing is using these tests to punish students,” the president told students and parents at a town hall hosted by the Univision Spanish-language television network at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, D.C.
Obama, who is pushing a rewrite of the nation’s education law that would ease some of its rigid measurement tools, said policymakers should find a test that “everybody agrees makes sense” and administer it in less pressure-packed atmospheres, potentially every few years instead of annually.
At the same time, Obama said, schools should be judged on criteria other than student test performance, including attendance rate.
“One thing I never want to see happen is schools that are just teaching the test because then you’re not learning about the world, you’re not learning about different cultures, you’re not learning about science, you’re not learning about math,” the president said. “All you’re learning about is how to fill out a little bubble on an exam and little tricks that you need to do in order to take a test and that’s not going to make education interesting.”
“And young people do well in stuff that they’re interested in,” Obama said. “They’re not going to do as well if it’s boring.”
Let us summarize the President’s position: Don’t judge students on things like tests, because that could cause members of the teachers unions to look bad, but do judge them on things like showing up for class because that causes more tax dollars to flow directly into the school districts.
In othe words, let’s just change it from “No Student Left Behind” to “Leftist Students Sitting On Their Behinds” and get it over with.
New York Senator Chuck Schumer is this close to having a tizzy fit. This close. The Democrat is irate that New York City’s population barely budged in the last ten years.
New York Senator Chuck Schumer is this close to having a tizzy fit. This close. The Democrat is irate that New York City’s population barely budged in the last ten years.
The New York Daily News has the details:
The perfect juxtaposition of publicity-seeking senator and unfortunately-positioned background sign
Sen. Chuck Schumer called on the federal government Saturday to probe the 2010 U.S. Census’ finding that New York City had grown by a mere trickle.
“These numbers cry out for investigation,” Schumer said, adding his voice to a chorus of critics, including Mayor Bloomberg, who have railed against the decennial count.
“I’m going to put a lot of pressure on them to do it,” he said. “For the census director to just shrug his shoulders … isn’t good enough.”
The U.S. Census reported that the city grew by 166,855 over a decade to 8.175 million despite a Census estimate last year that reported the city was home to 8.3million people.
Schumer called for the investigation in a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves.
Oh, yeah, this should be a fascinating investigation as Schumer delves into whether a Democrat President and a Democrat House of Representatives and a Democrat Senate and a Democrat Census Director all conspired to shortchange a Democrat stronghold.
We would propose that there’s a perfectly logical explanation as to why New York City fell short of earlier census estimates: If you had a Congressmen like Anthony Weiner and Charlie Rangel and a senator like Chuck Schumer, wouldn’t you consider moving somewhere else, too.
