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In this clip, Handler takes on the stupidity of The Real Housewives of New York. Yeah, we admit she sounds like a commercial for PETA, but c’mon, if you have to take sides between PETA and the Real Housewives franchise, this may be the one time PETA wins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzA97AxQtus
Chelsea Handler’s a lib, but she’s a damn funny one. Kind of like Dennis Miller was funny even back when he was a lib.
In this clip, Handler takes on the stupidity of The Real Housewives of New York. Yeah, we admit she sounds like a commercial for PETA, but c’mon, if you have to take sides between PETA and the Real Housewives franchise, this may be the one time PETA wins.
Who’s the guy in #26 jersey directly behind home plate who turns his back on Obama during the pitch.
Yeah, pretty much everyone has shown this video of President Obama throwing a like a girl tossing out the first pitch at the National’s game.
But we’re far more interested in the guy in the first row directly behind home plate who turns his back on Obama during the pitch. The guy wearing the #26 jersey.
Is he making a silent protest against the President’s policies? Or is he a secret service agent keeping an eye on the crowd? Or is there another answer?
What do you think?
Blanche Lincoln, Arkansas’ Democrat Senator, is quickly learning the price of her vote in favor of ObamaCare. The latest poll show that she’s trailing five – count ‘em, five – different Republicans.
Blanche Lincoln, Arkansas’ Democrat Senator, is quickly learning the price of her vote in favor of ObamaCare. The latest poll show that she’s trailing five – count ‘em, five – different Republicans.
In fact, it looks like she could lose to pretty much anyone who doesn’t have a “D” after their name. Look for members of the Whig and Bullmoose parties to throw their hats into the wide open ring.
Rasmussen reports the depressing Democrat details:
Four of Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln’s Republican opponents now earn more than 50% of the vote as her path to reelection grows even steeper.
The numbers are closer when Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter is the Democrat in the race, but only because there are more undecided voters.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Arkansas, where opposition to the national health care plan is even higher than it is nationally, finds both Democrats stuck in the mid-30s. This suggests that the race continues to be more anti-Democrat in tone than pro-Republican.
Congressman John Boozman, State Senate Republican leader Kim Hendren, State Senator Gilbert Baker and former State Senator Jim Holt all earn 51% of the vote against Lincoln. She in turn picks up 36% support against three of the GOP hopefuls and 35% when matched against Holt.
A fifth Republican, businessman Curtis Coleman, leads Lincoln 48% to 36%.
In every case, the Republicans have gained support, while Lincoln, who earned 38% to 41% in the match-ups last month, has lost ground. Now her numbers are back to the lows she experienced in February.
Bye bye, Blanche. Don’t let the door hit you in the rotunda on the way out.
Source: Rasmussen Reports
The other day on Morning Joe, Gayle King knew she wasn’t going to like the results of a new poll that showed the public prefers Republicans over Democrats, so she asked Mika not to read them on the air.
We’ve never understood why Gayle King is a celebrity except that her resume contains one very important job – Oprah Winfrey’s best friend.
Nevertheless, King shows up here and there to pontificate in ways that only Oprah’s best friend would be allowed to get away with.
The other day on Morning Joe, for example, King knew she wasn’t going to like the results of a new poll that showed the public prefers Republicans over Democrats, so she asked Mika not to read them on the air.
“Every time he speaks,” King concluded, “I get inspired all over again.”
Hey, whaddaya know. We have something in common with Oprah Winfrey’s best friend.
Every time we hear Obama speak, we’re also inspired.
Inspired to see him out of the White House ASAP.
H/T: NewsBusters.org
After watching Congressmen Hank Johnson and Phil Hare last week, we were pretty much convinced that evolution had reversed itself and that man was descending back to ape.
Despite the fact that we are highly-trained paleontologists and human evolutionary experts, we’re going to leave this story to the Telegraph UK:
The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week.
Scientists believe the almost-complete fossilised skeleton belonged to a previously-unknown type of early human ancestor that may have been a intermediate stage as ape-men evolved into the first species of advanced humans, Homo habilis.
Experts who have seen the skeleton say it shares characteristics with Homo habilis, whose emergence 2.5 million years ago is seen as a key stage in the evolution of our species.
The new discovery could help to rewrite the history of human evolution by filling in crucial gaps in the scientific knowledge.
Most fossilised hominid remains are little more than scattered fragments of bone, so the discovery of an almost-complete skeleton will allow scientists to answer key questions about what our early ancestors looked like and when they began walking upright on two legs.
Palaeontologists and human evolutionary experts behind the discovery have remained silent about the exact details of what they have uncovered, but the scientific community is already abuzz with anticipation of the announcement of the find when it is made on Thursday.
The skeleton was found by Professor Lee Berger, from the University of the Witwatersrand, while exploring cave systems in the Sterkfontein region of South Africa, near Johannesburg, an area known as “the Cradle of Humanity”.
This is excellent news. Because after watching Congressmen Hank Johnson and Phil Hare last week, we were pretty much convinced that evolution had reversed itself and that man was descending back to ape.
Source: Telegraph UK
You are all a bunch of sad, racist little haters who stand against our President because he’s not white. Everything else is smoke and mirrors at the core you hate him because he’s Black. period. End of story.
Ahhh, you know you’re doing something right when you can generate this kind of love from the libs:
From: IloveObama@*****.com
You are all a bunch of sad, racist little haters who stand against our President because he’s not white. Everything else is smoke and mirrors at the core you hate him because he’s Black. period. End of story.
Fortunately the vast Majority of Americans are better than you and we will continue to grow and prosper while you and the hate you so readily embody will die out like typewriters as a thing of the past.
Thank you. That you very much. We’ll be here all week.
Barack Obama filled out his family’s census form Monday, but could be in a heap of trouble for falsifying information.
Barack Obama filled out his family’s census form Monday, but could be in a heap of trouble for falsifying information.
The Harvard-educated President seems to have intentionally overlooked his caucasian mother’s contribution to his racial makeup and checked only one box – the one that said “Black, African Am., or Negro”.
The Population Reference Bureau says:
The 2010 Census continues the option first introduced in the 2000 Census for respondents to choose more than one race.
The law states that fines of up to $500 may be assessed for submitting false information, so we expect Attorney General Eric Holder to come knocking on the White House door any day now.
In other news, Obama’s Alzheimers condition will not be covered under new health care plan.
Source: Politico, Population Reference Bureau
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It appears that Obama’s approval ratings in Indonesia are following the same trajectory they’re following in the United States.
About as well, we’d say, as that hope and change thing is working out here in the United States.
You might remember back in 2007 when candidate Barack Obama, said, “Instead of retreating from the world, I will personally lead a new chapter of American engagement. It is time to offer the world a message of hope to counter the prophets of hate. My experience has brought me to the hopeless places. As a boy, I lived in Indonesia and played barefoot with children who could not dream the same dreams that I did.”
Maybe we misinterpreted the speech. We thought he was talking about the Muslim world when he talked about “the hopeless places.” Subsequent events indicate that he may have been talking about Detroit.
Based on the Washington Post article above, it appears that Obama’s approval ratings in Indonesia are following the same trajectory they’re following in the United States.
H/T: National Review Campaign Spot
Pakistan: Dozen of media persons have been subjected to the horrible torture by doctors in the presence of police at Jinnah Hospital.
Hey, you American media people should just read this story and consider yourselves damn lucky.
The report comes in from Pakistan’s GEO TV:
Dozen of media persons have been subjected to the horrible torture by doctors in the presence of police at Jinnah Hospital here on Wednesday.
Tension began when media persons went to hospital to cover a demonstration staged by the relative of 60-year-old patient, who died due to alleged negligence of the doctor.
The doctors became annoyed when journalists asked them the reason for the death of patient while instead of answering the question, they started beating the media persons.
According to Geo correspondent Faisal Karim, media persons were invited for talks at the hospital’s conference room, where they were beaten again both by the doctors and police.
Faisal said he was also among the journalists, who were also severely beaten by the doctors-turned-rioters.
Rioting doctors? Thanks to ObamaCare, we’re only a couple steps away from that in the United States.
Much as we would like to follow the Pakistani doctors’ example and beat Keith Olberamm silly, we will refrain. We think he suffers far more pain when people laugh at him.
Source: Geo Television
Easter eggs aren’t the only thing that are going to roll at the WhiteHouse today. We expect heads to roll, too, when David Axelrod discovers that these lovely Barack Obama-inspired eggs were available, yet not used.
Easter eggs aren’t the only thing that are going to roll at the WhiteHouse today. We expect heads to roll, too, when David Axelrod discovers that these lovely Barack Obama-inspired eggs were available, yet not used.
This year, the White House went with Easter eggs that were “made from paperboard that contains no wood fibers from endangered forests, is recyclable and features vegetable-oil based inks and a water-based coating. What’s more, they’ll come in purple, pink, green and yellow and feature the stamped signatures of both President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.”
Stamped autographs? That’s it? No 21st century American kid is ever going to be indoctrinated inspired by a lousy water-colored egg with a phony stamped autograph.
So in the future, expect David Axelrod to demand that these Obama design eggs be used at all White House Easter Egg Rolls.
After all, what better way for children to learn the true meaning of Easter than to roll eggs emblazoned with the image of the one true God.
Yes, my little schatzi, it’s true. Freeze a German’s ass off for a few months and the next thing you know, he’ll say Al Gore’s a dummkopf.
Yes, my little schatzi, it’s true.
Freeze a German’s ass off for a few months and the next thing you know, he’ll say Al Gore’s a dummkopf.
The Local brings us the cold, hard facts:
Germans are losing their fear of climate change, according to a survey, with just 42 percent worried about global warming.
It seems the long and chilly winter has taken its toll on climate change sensibilities despite the fact that weather has nothing to do with climate.
The latest figure is a clear drop from the 62 percent of Germans who said they were scared of such changes just in autumn 2006.
The new survey, carried out by polling company Infratest for Der Spiegel magazine, showed a quarter of those questioned thought Germany would profit from climate change rather than be badly affected by it.
Many people have little faith in the information and prognosis of climate researchers with a third questioned in the survey not giving them much credence. This is thought to be largely due to mistakes and exaggerations recently discovered in a report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, the IPCC.
And in other news, a German cold front is set to invade Poland this weekend.
Source: The Local
Why have the American people not yet bowed down en masse to thank The Greatest President In History for the blessings of ObamaCare? According to President Obama it’s because people are just too damn impatient.
Why have the American people not yet bowed down en masse to thank The Greatest President In History for the blessings of ObamaCare? According to President Obama it’s because people are just too damn impatient.
“It just happened last week! It’s only been a week! Can you imagine if some of these reporters were working on a farm and you planted some seeds and they came out next day and they looked — ‘Nothing’s happened! There’s no crop! We’re going to starve! Oh no! It’s a disaster!’ It’s been a week, folks.”
Might we note that there’s one thing farming and ObamaCare have in common: Liberal amounts of bullshit are required to make either one succeed.
H/T: Bluegrass Pundit
One, the media is so busy making up phony conservative-on-liberal violence that they completely overlook authentic liberal-on-conservative violence. Consider this convincing evidence of liberal media bias.
There are two very important lessons to be learned from this video clip.
One, the media is so busy making up phony conservative-on-liberal violence that they completely overlook authentic liberal-on-conservative violence. Consider this convincing evidence of liberal media bias.
Two, if the liberal perpetrator of this crime had been smart, he would have bitten off the finger of someone who actually needed a finger bitten off (see photo). Consider this convincing evidence that liberal central planning always results in misallocation of resources.
Robert Gibbs seems to think “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” means “Don’t ask me any tough questions and I won’t tell you any outlandish lies.”
Robert Gibbs seems to think “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” means “Don’t ask me any tough questions and I won’t tell you any outlandish lies.”
Is it just us or does everyone feel like they need a bath after watching Gibbs perform?
Wave goodbye to another pile of your tax dollars and a few more of your freedoms. An adviser to the FCC wants to create a “public media” that can “filter” the news and be used as a “megaphone” by a vast network of government-funded journalists.
Wave goodbye to another pile of your tax dollars and a few more of your freedoms. An adviser to the FCC wants to create a “public media” that can “filter” the news and be used as a “megaphone” by a vast network of government-funded journalists.
Sounds like a great idea. What could go wrong?
Ellen Goodman, a Rutgers University law professor and distinguished visiting scholar with the FCC’s Future of Media Project, has a frightening plan to reshape the federal government’s communications policy…
“Information gaps are especially keen in the areas of investigative journalism, effective teaching materials, and content directed to underserved, minority, and poor populations…” according to Goodman and co-author Anne Chen.
“We have identified three core functions of digital public media, based on the directives of the Public Broadcasting Act and research on best practices in the field,” she says. “These functions are (1) to create content – particularly narratives in the form of journalism, long-form documentaries, oral histories, and cultural exploration – that markets will not and that is important to individual and social flourishing; (2) to curate content, serving as both a filter to reduce information overload and a megaphone to give voice to the unheard; and (3) to connect individuals to information and to each other in service of important public purposes.”
Of course, this is all necessary Goodman says, because while information is abundant, “wisdom and knowledge remain hard won.”
Absolutely. Certainly. For sure. And as we know, the government is the ultimate source of all wisdom.
Don’t know about you, but we really don’t want the government determining what gets filtered and who gets the megaphone. Especially this government.
Source: CNSNews.com
You can always count on getting a good laugh from the comedy stylings of the New York Times’ Paul Krugman. In this interview with Jake Tapper, he sets the record straight and calls death panels by their proper name, which is … uhhhh … death panels.
You can always count on getting a good laugh from the comedy stylings of the New York Times’ Paul Krugman.
In this interview with Jake Tapper, he sets the record straight and calls death panels by their proper name, which is … uhhhh … death panels.
But that’s ok, because like every other provision of ObamaCare, they’ll save us money. Big money. Lots of money. Piles of money.
Krugman: Think about people on the right. They’re simultaneously screaming, they’re going to send all of the old people to death panels and it’s not going to save any money. That’s a contradictory point of view.
Tapper: Death panels would save money, theoretically.
Krugman: The advisory path has the ability to make more or less binding judgments on saying this particular expensive treatment actually doesn’t do any good medically and so we’re not going to pay for it. That is actually going to save quite a lot of money. We don’t know how much yet. The CBO gives it very little credit. But most of the health care economists I talk to think it’s going to be a really major cost saving.
This just in. Sarah Palin would like to thank Mr. Krugman for his inadvertent support.
H/T: Radio Vice
It must have been difficult for President Obama to hear Harry Smith’s question when it was asked because of the fact that newsman’s lips were firmly planted on the President’s ass, causing the words to be a bit muffled.
It must have been difficult for President Obama to hear Harry Smith’s question when it was asked because of the fact that newsman’s lips were firmly planted on the President’s ass, causing the words to be a bit muffled.
So just in case you have trouble hearing the question and answer, he’s a quick summary:
Smith: Listening to talk radio… The kindest of terms, you are sometimes referred to out in America as a socialist. The worst of which I heard you called a Nazi.
Obama: Well I think that when you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck it’s pretty apparent. It’s troublesome.
Indeed, we can imagine that it does seem a bit troublesome when freedom of speech keeps getting in the way of your socialist utopia.
Good god, man, just when we knew Hank Johnson (D-GA) was hands down the dumbest guy in congress, Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL) runs into the spotlight and hollers, “Hey, look at me.”
Good god, man, just when we knew Hank Johnson (D-GA) was hands down the dumbest guy in congress, Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL) runs into the spotlight and hollers, “Hey, look at me.”
Hare told a disgruntled group of constituents, “I care more about the people who are dying every day than the Constitution in this.” When one of the angry voters pointed out that Hare had sworn to uphold the Constitution, the congressman quoted from the document.
Unfortunately, the constituent pointed out that instead of quoting the Constitution, Hare had actually quoted the Declaration of Independence and didn’t appear to know the difference between the two.
Finally, Hare told his constituents that he read the incredibly complex 2500+ page ObamaCare bill three times before he voted for it. When it was pointed out that that’s a page a minute every minute of the day and night between the time the bill was posted and when it was voted on, Hare did what any self-respecting congressman would do – he shrugged he shoulders, did a head fake, and ran for his car.
Let this be a lesson to the voters of Illinois:
Never vote for a congressman who looks like Barney Rubble.
H/T: Ace of Spades
Turns out a little known provision of ObamaCare has come to light. A brand new tax to be withheld from your paycheck. They call it voluntary, but the extra tax will be automatically withheld from your paycheck unless you opt out.
We don’t remember the congressional debate about long term care for the elderly, do you? We must have gone into the kitchen for a sandwich while that one was being discussed.
Turns out a little known provision of ObamaCare has come to light. A brand new tax to be withheld from your paycheck. They call it voluntary, but the extra tax will be automatically withheld from your paycheck unless you opt out.
And, if we’re not mistaken, this one also breaks Obama’s pledge not to raise taxes on anyone making under $250,000 per year.
Long-term care for the elderly. Just another of those surprising little provisions buried deep within ObamaCare.
H/T: IOwnTheWorld.com
Bono, lead singer of Irish rock band U2, who travels the world preaching that everyone should pay higher taxes but then moved the band’s corporate headquarters to the Netherlands in an effort to avoid paying higher taxes, won’t have to worry about that issue this year. Because he lost his Irish ass in the stock market in 2009.
Bono, lead singer of Irish rock band U2, who travels the world preaching that everyone should pay higher taxes but then moved the band’s corporate headquarters to the Netherlands in an effort to avoid paying higher taxes, won’t have to worry about that issue this year. Because he lost his Irish ass in the stock market in 2009.
The San Francisco Business Journal tells how Bono hit some sour financial notes:
U2 singer Bono’s investments into Elevation Partners, which has offices in New York and Menlo Park, have helped make him the “worst investor investor in America,” according to the online publication 24/7 Wall Street.
With large investments in Palm, Forbes, and Move.com — “an unprecedented string of disastrous investments which even bad luck could not explain” — Elevation Partners has earned the distinction of being “arguably the worst run institutional fund of any size in the United States,” 24/7 Wall Street asserts.
…Elevation bought 25 percent of Palm in 2007, and the company’s stock has since tanked – down to $3.65 from $18 last September…
Elevation Partners put $300 million into Forbes’ online operations in 2006, and the company’s total value has dropped from $750 million to “perhaps $100 million.”
Elevation put $100 million into Move.com, which owns home and real estate websites, and company shares subsequently lost 50 percent of their value, 24/7 noted.
There’s more, but our uncharacteristic schadenfreude seems to be getting the better of us. Suffice it to say, if Bono had been around in 1845 he probably would have invested in potatoes.
Source: San Francisco Business Journal
Admiral Robert Willard was able to keep a straight face while being questioned by Rep. Hank Johnson about the Navy’s plan to transfer 8,000 personnel and their families to the tiny island of Guam. Johnson worries that adding so many people to such a small island might make it “tip over and capsize.”
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) is a liberal triple threat: Dumber than Nancy Pelosi, crazier than Dennis Kucinich and less coherent than Joe Biden.
The most surprising thing about this video clip is that Admiral Robert Willard was able to keep a straight face while being questioned by Johnson about the Navy’s plan to transfer 8,000 personnel and their families to the tiny island of Guam.
Johnson worries that adding so many people to such a small island might make it “tip over and capsize.” Seriously. That’s what he said. And as you’ll see in the clip, he’s serious. Absolutely serious.
Holy friggin’ moly.
Update: We found the second dumbest congressman, Phil Hare, just the next day.
Yahoo reporter Aaron Task interviewed Uncle Joe Biden and learned that the gaffe-prone vice president doesn’t like to call socialism socialism.
Yahoo reporter Aaron Task interviewed Uncle Joe Biden and learned that the gaffe-prone vice president doesn’t like to call socialism socialism.
After running through a laundry list of wealth distribution programs, Biden finally gets into his definition of socialism.
Task: What do you think of the charge that this is a redistribution of wealth? Even the New York Times, famously liberal, said, “The Health Care bill is the federal government’s biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.”
Biden: Look, It’s a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care … If you call that a ‘redistribution of income’ — well, so be it. I don’t call it that. I call it just being fair — giving the middle class taxpayers an even break that the wealthy have been getting … Taxes have been lowered for the wealthy considerably over the years. It’s about time we get a little tax equity here.
You call it socialism, Joe Biden calls is fairness. You call Joe Biden a Marxist, we call him a Leninist.
Source: Yahoo
If you’ve ever seen President Obama dance, you know that he got his rhythm gene from his mother. And according to a new study, that may explain all the difficulties he’s encountered in his first year in office.
If you’ve ever seen President Obama dance, you know that he got his rhythm gene from his mother. And according to a new study, that may explain all the difficulties he’s encountered in his first year in office.
LiveScience.com reports the rhythm-challenged details:
A study published in the Public Library of Science’s genetics journal in 2006 suggested that long ago the ability to dance was actually connected to the ability to survive.
According to the study, dancing was a way for our prehistoric ancestors to bond and communicate, particularly during tough times. As a result, scientists believe that early humans who were coordinated and rhythmic could have had an evolutionary advantage.
The researchers examined the DNA of a group of dancers and non-dancers and found that the dancers shared two genes associated with a predisposition for being good social communicators.
It was not reported if there were any genes associated with the inability to communicate without a Teleprompter.
Source: LiveScience.com
First Canadians took political humorist Mark Steyn before their Human Rights Commission. Then they threatened to do the same to Ann Coulter. Now a Canadian comedian is in trouble for insulting some lesbian hecklers.
What the hell is going on in the Great White Multi-cultured North?
First they took political humorist Mark Steyn before their Human Rights Commission. Then they threatened to do the same to Ann Coulter. Now a Canadian comedian is in trouble for insulting some lesbian hecklers.
This is no joke. They’re going after a comedian for responding to hecklers.
Guy Earle, a twenty-year veteran of the stand-up circuit, was the volunteer master of ceremonies for an amateur comedy night in Vancouver back in May 2007 when the disturbing incident occurred:
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Don’t you get the impression that global warming advocates compete to see who can make the most outrageous comments? British scientist James Lovelock just moved into first place.
Don’t you get the impression that global warming advocates compete to see who can make the most outrageous comments? British scientist James Lovelock just moved into first place.
The Guardian UK reveals Lovelock’s latest lunacy:
Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades. This is the stark conclusion of James Lovelock, the globally respected environmental thinker and independent scientist who developed the Gaia theory.
It follows a tumultuous few months in which public opinion on efforts to tackle climate change has been undermined by events such as the climate scientists’ emails leaked from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit.
“I don’t think we’re yet evolved to the point where we’re clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change,” said Lovelock in his first in-depth interview since the theft of the UEA emails last November. “The inertia of humans is so huge that you can’t really do anything meaningful.”
One of the main obstructions to meaningful action is “modern democracy”, he added. “Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.”
Get your limey ass in line, pal. Here in the good ol’ USA, we’ve already put democracy on hold for healthcare. Can’t put it on hold for anything else for the foreseeable future.
Source: Guardian UK
