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Joe Biden is the gift that keeps on giving. He’s a walking, talking (mostly talking) punch line.
During a White House celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, Vice President Joe Biden asked for God’s blessing for the late mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen. That was very thoughtful of Biden except for one thing. The woman is still alive.
Joe Biden is the gift that keeps on giving. He’s a walking, talking (mostly talking) punch line.
During a White House celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, Vice President Joe Biden asked for God’s blessing for the late mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen. That was very thoughtful of Biden except for one thing. The woman is still alive.
“Stand up, Chuck, let ‘em see you. Oh, what am I talking about?”
What, indeed, Chuck.
It was just announced that the President Obama’s trip has been canceled. Expect celebrations to break out in Jakarta.
UPDATE: It was just announced that the President’s trip has been canceled. Expect celebrations to break out in Jakarta.
To go or not to go, that is the question.
Should President Obama delay his Indonesian trip to satisfy House Democrats? Or should he cancel is completely to satisfy protesting Indonesians?
Politico reports on the House Democrats:
Last week, the president pushed back his planned Friday departure three days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats groused he was leaving at a critical time.
“For the first time in eight months, the president is finally getting his hands dirty, and now he’s going to hop on the plane? Please,” said a Democratic congressman, requesting anonymity.
“These deadlines are sort of silly,” the member added. “Remember the first one? March 18th? That was sort of like putting a calendar on [White House chief of staff] Rahm’s [Emanuel’s] back and inviting members to throw darts at him.”
Another Democrat told POLITICO bluntly, “This trip is really getting in the way of things.”
Ahhh, but if the Democrats think they’re pissed off about Obama’s Indonesian trip, they should talk to some Indonesians.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports the other end of the story:
Thousands of Indonesian Muslims have staged peaceful rallies in cities across the country to protest US President Barack Obama’s visit later this month.
Around 2,000 protesters from the hardline Muslim group Hizbut Tahrir, which aims to establish a Muslim caliphate, shouted “Islam united… will not be defeated. Reject Obama” and tore printouts of the American flag as they marched around the South Sulawesi capital of Makassar on Sunday.
In Central Java’s Solo city, another 500 of the group’s supporters carried posters saying “Expel Obama.. leader of coloniser” and “America.. The Real Terrorists”.
“There are two types of visitors, good and bad. Obama is bad. He might be of a different skin colour from George Bush, but he still oppressed the Muslims,” the group’s spokesman Nur Alam said, referring to former US president George W. Bush.
Hey, wait just a second. Didn’t Obama apologize to the Muslim world? We thought they love us now.
There’s only one way to solve this problem, President Obama. Go over there to Indonesia and give them another speech. Because that approach has worked sooooo well for you on ObamaCare.
Source: Politico, Sydney Morning Herald
Let’s just give you the highlights of Jack Cafferty’s attack on Nancy Pelosi and the whole damn reconciliation process
Let’s just give you the highlights of Jack Cafferty’s attack on Nancy Pelosi and the whole damn reconciliation process:
Just when you think you’ve seen it all in Washington, along comes something like this… Politically speaking, this is beyond sleazy… In Nancy Pelosi’s world, accountability is a dirty word… Republicans are jumping all over this, rightfully so. They’re painting it as a way for Democrats to avoid taking responsibility, which is exactly what it is… We’re learning a lot more about lack of political guts… This reeks!
Uh-oh. No matter whether the bill goes up or down, Obama and the Democrats are going down.
Welcome to the dark side, Mr. Cafferty.
Source: NewsBusters.org
This is not a story about Michelle’s reported drinking problem. It’s a story about her belly hanging over the edge of the table in this Newsweek cover photo.
This is not a story about Michelle’s reported drinking problem. It’s a story about her belly hanging over the edge of the table in this Newsweek cover photo.
OK, so maybe we’re nitpicking. But if she’s going to continue lecturing us about childhood obesity and the evils of fast food, maybe she should remember that old saying about glass houses.
Source: WeaselZippers.net
Forget baseball. The new national pastime is watching the no-longer-compliant press corps go after Robert Gibbs.
When White House reporters won’t let the White House press secretary off the hook, he combines his two least attractive traits: smarminess and squirminess.
Forget baseball. The new national pastime is watching the no-longer-compliant press corps go after Robert Gibbs.
When White House reporters won’t let the White House press secretary off the hook, he combines his two least attractive traits: smarminess and squirminess.
Would anyone disagree that this is the worst press secretary in history?
Source: HotAir.com
Cindy Sheehan is about to start another anti-war camp. This one will be in Washington, and it could conceivably last for months.
Poor Cindy Sheehan. She was the liberal media darling when she protested all of George Bush’s supposed misdeeds. But now that she’s protesting Barack Obama’s war machine, the daft old dear is finding reporters and news cameras in very short supply.
Cindy Sheehan is about to start another anti-war camp. This one will be in Washington, and it could conceivably last for months. The problem?
“I’m kind of over the whole camping thing,” she admits.
It’s a fair enough statement for Sheehan, who gained international attention in 2005 for “Camp Casey,” a five-week protest outside of then-President George W. Bush’s Crawford, Texas, ranch during which she demanded a meeting with the commander in chief to hear an explanation for her son Casey’s death in Iraq. She spent most of that time in a ditch on the side of a road leading to the president’s grounds.
Five years and a new president later, however, Sheehan will be sleeping under the stars again, and for the same cause. Her new coalition, Peace of the Action, is launching the Camp OUT NOW! tent city at the base of the Washington Monument next week in an effort to get President Barack Obama to pull troops out of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan immediately. (Sheehan concedes that this time around, she will rent a bedroom in which to store her belongings, take showers and occasionally sleep.)
She’s protesting Barack Obama? We’ll watch for all those engrossing Cindy Sheehan updates that are sure to air on the nightly news.
Source: The Hill
In all the hullabaloo about Obama’s 3000% comment, everyone missed this little gem from the same speech: “And she upped her deductible last year to the minimum [sic], the highest possible deductible.”
In all the hullabaloo about Obama’s 3000% healthcare comment, everyone missed this little gem from the same speech:
“And she upped her deductible last year to the minimum [sic], the highest possible deductible.”
This may have escaped under the radar, but it’s equally instructive as to what this President knows and doesn’t know about the real world.
ObamaCare will raise federal tax rates to 50-60%, says Jim Cramer. So what’s your point, Cramer? Isn’t that exactly what this whole exercise is all about?
So what’s your point, Cramer? Isn’t that exactly what this whole exercise is all about?
Oh, and Jim, we haven’t forgotten you endorsed Obama for president.
Back in September we reported the story of the crying glacier that supposedly symbolized the emotional trauma global warming was causing the earth. Well, hell’s bells, man, what will the eco-wackos say about this bleeding glacier in Antarctica?
Back in September we reported the story of the crying glacier that supposedly symbolized the emotional trauma global warming was causing the earth.
Well, hell’s bells, man, what will the eco-wackos say about this bleeding glacier in Antarctica?
WebEcoist.com reports the Southern Hemisphere’s hemoglobic happenings:
The waters beneath Taylor’s Glacier are a kind of ancient time capsule where a community of microorganisms was able to develop and evolve in an environment not found anywhere else on Earth. When the lake was trapped under the glacier some 1.5 – 2 million years ago, some simple life forms were trapped in it. The subglacial lake contains no oxygen, but is home to at least 17 different types of microorganisms. The water is hyper-salinated (very salty), and its unusual coloring is due to its high iron content, which instantly rusts upon being exposed to air outside of its closed-in origin, creating the blood red waterfall. The strange and inhospitable conditions in the subglacial lake had led researchers to wonder just how all of those microorganisms could have survived in the extremely cold, airless, completely dark environment for so long.
No, it’s not natural. It’s not. It’s caused by man, damn it. Man is making the planet bleed. And the only way to stop it is to raise taxes and make Al Gore even richer.
Yeah, that’s the answer.
Source: WebEcoist.com
We’re not quite sure what to make of all this.
In the first video clip, Presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett thinks it’s good that Obama is “womanly.”
In the second clip, we have visual evidence from last year’s major league all-star game that Obama throws like a girl.
We’re not quite sure what to make of all this.
In the first video clip, Presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett thinks it’s good that Obama is “womanly.”
In the second clip, we have visual evidence from last year’s major league all-star game that Obama throws like a girl. (And while we’re at it, let’s not forget the controversy about the “mom jeans” he was wearing when he threw out that pitch).
Damn, we wish we had a president with balls.
Where’s Hillary when you need her?
After Harry Smith’s colonoscopy was aired live on CBS’ The Early Show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann decided it might be a good idea to have one, too.
“I always have my head up my ass anyway,” Olbermann said, “so I might as well look around while I’m up there and see if I have any cancerous cells to match my cancerous opinions.”
After Harry Smith’s colonoscopy was aired live on CBS’ The Early Show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann decided it might be a good idea to have one, too.
“I always have my head up my ass anyway,” Olbermann said, “so I might as well look around while I’m up there and see if I have any cancerous cells to match my cancerous opinions.”
Monday in Strongsville, Ohio, President Obama said that ObamaCare will reduce health insurance premiums for businesses by “3,000 percent.” Now that’s what we call stimulus! Considering a 100% reduction would result in premiums of zero, just think how much money a business will actually make with the other 2,900%!
Monday in Strongsville, Ohio, President Obama said that ObamaCare will reduce health insurance premiums for businesses by “3,000 percent.” Now that’s what we call stimulus! Considering a 100% reduction would result in premiums of zero, just think how much money a business will actually make with the other 2,900%!
Please send your job applications in to IHateTheMedia, where we will provide you with the most lavish health coverage we can find.
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann explains to radio host Chris Baker the democrats’ latest outrageous trickery that may be used to pass Obamacare, with what is called the “self-executing” rule.
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann explains to radio host Chris Baker the “self-executing” rule — the democrats’ latest, outrageous trickery that may be used to pass Obamacare.
We can go one better than Nancy, Harry, Barry and their co-conspirators. How about trying the “mass self-executing rule?”
So much for the fantasy that American kids are the world’s most ignorant. According to a new survey, British kids are no geniuses, either.
So much for the fantasy that American kids are the world’s most ignorant. According to a new survey, British kids are no geniuses, either.
The BBC reports the dumb details:
One in 10 children thinks the Queen invented the telephone, a survey of children’s science knowledge suggests.
Others gave credit for the invention to Charles Darwin and Noel Edmonds.
One in 20 of the 1,000 pupils polled thought Star Wars character Luke Skywalker or Richard Branson had been the first to set foot on the Moon.
Some 60% of nine- and 10-year-olds thought Sir Isaac Newton discovered fire, the survey for science campaign Birmingham Science City found.
Despite these misconceptions, more children want to win a Nobel prize for science than the X Factor.
The survey of primary and secondary school children in the UK suggests there is some confusion about key scientific achievements.
Just under a half of boys (49%) correctly pinned down gravity as Newton’s ground-breaking discovery, compared with 76% of girls.
Just over a third of boys said Newton discovered fire, while the remaining 16% either said he invented the internet, or discovered the solar system or America.
Stupid Brit kids thought Sir Isaac Newton invented the internet? C’mon, wake up, you little morons. Everyone knows Al Gore invented the internet.
Source: BBC
Why, lord a’mighty, these Washington, DC folks spend tax dollars like Monopoly money. Good thing we have an aggressive cost cutter like Barack Obama in the White House.
Why, lord a’mighty, these Washington, DC folks spend tax dollars like Monopoly money. Good thing we have an aggressive cost cutter like Barack Obama in the White House.
H/t: WeaselZippers.net
There are days when this blogging thing is easy. Like shooting Easter bunnies in a barrel. Fox News has details on the White House’s latest environmental inanity.
There are days when this blogging thing is easy. Like shooting Easter bunnies in a barrel.
Fox News has details on the White House’s latest environmental inanity:
This year’s White House Easter Egg roll will be eggs-actly what the bunny ordered. The environmentally concerned bunny, that is.
A White House announcement Monday said the eggs at this year’s April 5 roll will be 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.
Just what every three year old kid wants — a phony autograph of Barack Obama on a phony Easter egg.
Doesn’t that just sum up this administration perfectly?
Source: Fox News
“Tom Marino’s husband’s sister is carrying his babies. They used his husband’s sperm and a donor egg to conceive their babies through IVF.”
Somedays this blogging stuff is pretty damn easy. Especially when you run across a headline like the one on this story.
The Village Voice reports the stranger than fiction story:
“Tom Marino’s husband’s sister is carrying his babies.
“They used his husband’s sperm and a donor egg to conceive their babies through IVF.
“Previously, they used Tom’s sperm to conceive their now two-year old son-using the same surrogate (the sister) and donor eggs.
“On the outside, Marino is a buttoned up white collar dad who is a regional banking manager, monogamous husband, devout Catholic, former altar boy and former Civil Air Patrol member.
“However, he is also a former exotic dancer and author of Tomorrow May Be Too Late–a very honest and gritty memoir about toxic homosexual love and living a life of debauchery.
“With your audience, Marino can share intimate accounts and devastating real-world incidences about how he spent the last two decades rebuilding his ‘tomorrow’ after a unflattering series of events–including a messy (heterosexual) divorce, one-night-stands, white collar crime, heartbreak, spiritual intervention and the birth of a child-to become a real-life example of a modern American family.”
“A toxic homosexual love affair and living a life of debauchery. ” Big deal. Just sounds like an average day in the office of New York Democrat Eric Massa.
Source: Village Voice
We missed Rupert Murdoch’s 79th birthday on March 11. He’s still the smartest guy in the room. Still strong like bull. Still driving the liberals crazy.
Shame on us. We missed Rupert Murdoch’s 79th birthday on March 11. He’s still the smartest guy in the room. Still strong like bull. Still driving the liberals crazy.
Hope you enjoy many, many more, Mr. Murdoch.
Former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers let fly a string of excuses and requests Wednesday, asking Cohn to set aside her guilty plea and consider her children and aging husband, U.S. Rep. John Conyers.
“Well, nobody never ‘splained it to me that way,” said the judge, “So let me just set you free.”
Consider that a paraphrase. Because what U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn actually did was send Monica Conyers, a former member of the Detroit City Council, up the proverbial river for 37-months.
MLive.com reports from the detritus that is Detroit:
After months of relative silence following her plea deal, the former Detroit City Councilwoman let fly a string of excuses and requests Wednesday, asking Cohn to set aside her guilty plea and consider her children and aging husband, U.S. Rep. John Conyers.
“I don’t feel I should go to jail for something I didn’t do,” she told Cohn. “And it’s been said that you’re going to make an example of me, and the news media is pressuring you to put me to jail, and I just don’t feel that’s appropriate.”
She also vowed an appeal, a promise she made good on later in the day.
The Detroit Free Press reports Conyers filed a notice of appeal Wednesday afternoon and was appointed representation by the Federal Defender’s Office. Her attorney, Steve Fishman, told the newspaper he would not represent her in the appeal.
Her appeal is a long shot however, as the plea deal she signed in June indicates that if she receives a sentence of five years or less she “waives any right to appeal her conviction or sentence.”
Conyers resigned from the Detroit City Council in June after admitting she accepted cash from Houston-based Synagro Technologies in exchange for her vote on a sludge-hauling contract with the city in 2007.
“I may be guilty of extortion, but I never took a bribe,” she told Cohn.
Well, that just about settles it for us. This woman doesn’t deserve jail time, she deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
Source: MLive.com
Turns out James Sikes, the driver of San Diego’s so-called runaway Prius, hasn’t been making payments on the Prius, filed for bankruptcy in 2008, has $700,000 in debt, has had several previous vehicles “stolen,” and to top it all off, reportedly operates a sexually-oriented website.
We don’t know if the Prius has trouble stopping or not, but we do know that nothing will stop the cockroaches from crawling out of the woodwork.
Turns out James Sikes, the driver of San Diego’s so-called runaway Prius, hasn’t been making payments on the Prius, filed for bankruptcy in 2008, has $700,000 in debt, has had several previous vehicles “stolen,” and to top it all off, reportedly operates a sexually-oriented website.
Jalopnik.com has the juicy details:
We received an email earlier today from an anonymous tipster who claims James (Jim) Sikes, the driver of the runaway Toyota Prius, was in financial trouble and even behind by five months on his payments for the Prius. If that’s true, it’s potential motivation for wanting to find an out — any out — on paying for the vehicle.
We did some public records searches (thanks to the help of Gawker’s John Cook) and found Sikes and his wife Patty found themselves, like many in the California real estate business, on the bursting side of the real estate bubble last year. The two declared bankruptcy in June of 2008 and have a combined liability of over $700,000 dollars in debt.
Among the list of creditors holding secured claims is none other than Toyota Financial Services for a lease on a 2008 Toyota Prius with 7,200 miles on the odometer. Total value of the lease at the time of bankruptcy was $20,494.
So, with almost three-quarter million dollars in debt there’s obviously the potential for financial motivation here. But, for his part, when we questioned Mr. Sikes over email earlier today, he denied being behind on his Prius payments.
Mr. Sikes also has not shied away from cameras appearing on CNN and numerous other television programs. In each, he’s stated numerous times he’s not going to sue and isn’t looking for any financial remuneration from Toyota other than a new vehicle.
We’ve asked the law firm representing him to furnish us with an up-to-date copy of his Toyota statement and we’ll post that as soon as we receive it — to either debunk this myth or add fuel to any fire.
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But regardless of what happens with the Sikes case, the bigger issue for Toyota will be every cash-strapped ‘yota-owner looking for an easy out on their loans and leases potentially thinking about doing just this with their car. That’s a lot of potential carnage to wade through.
To inject a completely personal note, IHateTheMedia.com’s editor drove an Audi 25 years ago when they were supposedly prone to uncontrollable sudden acceleration. Today he drives a Toyota that is, of course, supposedly prone to uncontrollable sudden acceleration.
Weird.
Source: Jalopnik.com via Gawker.com
An Ohio inmate who intentionally overdosed on pills hours before his scheduled execution has returned to prison and is on suicide watch.
You just can’t make this stuff up. No one would believe it. Luckily, Fox News was there to record the insane details:
Officials say an Ohio inmate who intentionally overdosed on pills hours before his scheduled execution has returned to prison and is on suicide watch.
Prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn says 43-year-old Lawrence Reynolds Jr., who admitted taking an overdose of medication prescribed to him, arrived at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown shortly after noon on Tuesday.
Walburn says Reynolds is isolated from other inmates and under constant observation.
Reynolds was treated at a Youngstown hospital after he was found unconscious in his death row cell Sunday night.
The type of drug he used and why it was prescribed aren’t being disclosed. How he accumulated the pills is under investigation.
Reynolds’ execution for the 1994 murder of his neighbor near Akron has been rescheduled to next week.
In summation: a guy who is hours away from being executed tries to kill himself. The state spends thousands of tax dollars to save his worthless life so they can turn around and spend millions of additional tax dollars to execute him.
Where the hell is Dr. Kevorkian when we need him?
Source: FoxNews.com
Abraham Lincoln said, “You can fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” But if only 50% of the people think Barack Obama is an idiot, he’s still managing to fool the other 50%.
Abraham Lincoln said, “You can fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” But if only 50% of the people think Barack Obama is an idiot, he’s still managing to fool the other 50%.
RealClearPolitics.com reveals the details:
Tongue-in-cheek, the President remarked that his staff did not spare him the wrath of his correspondents – selecting a representative portion of 10 letters for him to read when he returns to the White House residence at night.
“I will tell you, that my staff is very even-handed, because about half of these letters call me an idiot!” Mr Obama said overnight, chuckling at his own joke during a rally in Saint Louis, Missouri.
IHateTheMedia.com surveyed its readers and discovered that 50% agree and called Obama an idiot.
However, 27% called him a Kenyan, 13% called him a Communist, 9% called him completely unqualified, and 1% called him a completely unqualified idiot Kenyan Communist.
The people have spoken.
Source: Real Clear Politics
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We’ve decided it might be a good idea to help promote some of the cool stuff sold by online conservative stores. The more the message gets out, the better for all of us. So with that in mind, we proudly present IHateTheMedia’s favorite conservative shirt-of-the-week:
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Well, let’s give Andrea Mitchell credit. She says what she thinks and thinks what she says. Of course, she oozes liberalism, which sounds horribly unpleasant.
Here’s a quick clip in which the so-called reporter openly shills for ObamaCare with Congressman Elijah Cummings because, well, just because the President needs it, damn it.
Well, let’s give Andrea Mitchell credit. She says what she thinks and thinks what she says. Of course, she oozes liberalism, which sounds horribly unpleasant.
Here’s a quick clip in which the so-called reporter openly shills for ObamaCare with Congressman Elijah Cummings because, well, just because the President needs it, damn it.
Mitchell: Bottom line, what happens if you don’t get health care for this president is, this is really all-or-nothing for the sense of his power, his legacy, he’s invested so much in this, in this first year. You’ve got to get this for him.
Cummings: Andrea, I agree with you a million percent.
“Gimme an O, gimme a B, gimme an A, gimme an M, gimme an A. What does it spell? Bankruptcy.”
Uh-oh. Sounds like Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak has had it just about up to here with promises from Nancy Pelosi the Obama administration. He doesn’t like their attempts to rahm ObamaCare through the House of Representatives. And he doesn’t like the endless series of meetings where nothing is accomplished. Not one little bit.
Uh-oh. Sounds like Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak has had it just about up to here with promises from Nancy Pelosi the Obama administration. He doesn’t like their attempts to rahm ObamaCare through the House of Representatives. And he doesn’t like the endless series of meetings where nothing is accomplished. Not one little bit.
He explains it all in this hilarious clip with Greta Van Susteren.
Greta: So what happens at these meetings?
Stupak: Nothing, the same people just get up and talk.
We say, man up, Stupak. We’re just as tired of hearing about it as you are.
H/t: Gateway Pundit
