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C’mon, HLN, a little respect please. Just because Ronald Reagan, Jr. used to be a ballet dancer is no reason to cast aspersions.
C’mon, HLN, a little respect please. Just because Ronald Reagan, Jr. used to be a ballet dancer is no reason to cast aspersions.
Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid says unemployed men beat their wives. And since Harry will undoubtedly be unemployed as of Wednesday, November 3, we suggest that Mrs. Reid take a self-defense course or two.
Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid says unemployed men beat their wives. And since Harry will undoubtedly be unemployed as of Wednesday, November 3, we suggest that Mrs. Reid take a self-defense course or two.
The Hill reports the story of Punchy Harry’s pugilistic prognostications:
Reid, speaking in the midst of a Senate debate over whether to pass a $15 billion package meant to spur job creation, appeared to argue that joblessness would lead to more domestic violence.
“I met with some people while I was home dealing with domestic abuse. It has gotten out of hand,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “Why? Men don’t have jobs.”
Reid said that the effects of joblessness on domestic violence were especially pronounced among men, because, Reid said, women tend to be less abusive.
“Women don’t have jobs either, but women aren’t abusive, most of the time,” he said.
“Men, when they’re out of work, tend to become abusive,” the majority leader added. “Our domestic crisis shelters in Nevada are jammed.”
Our money’s on Mrs. Reid. We’re pretty sure she can beat that pasty, sunken-chested little fella like a drum.
Of course, it won’t be nearly as bad as the beating he gets from his Republican opponent.
Source: The Hill
Keith Olbermann attempted to paint the tea parties as angry, all-white lynch mobs. But he seems to have forgotten that he is part of an even whiter lynch mob every night at 9 p.m. EST.
Keith Olbermann attempted to paint the tea parties as angry, all-white lynch mobs. But he seems to have forgotten that he is part of an even whiter lynch mob every night at 9 p.m. EST.
Where are the black faces, Keith? Where are the black faces?
Source: Andrew Bolt
Congressman Beccerra and the CHIRLA/SEIU rally leader appear baffled by the suggestion to begin a meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance.
Congressman Xavier Beccerra (D-LaLaLand) is one of those congressmen. California liberals, that is.
So naturally, he laughed out loud when someone from the Ari David for Congress campaign showed up at an SEIU immigration rally and suggested that the meeting begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. Start the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance? Oh, man, that’s a good one. A real gut-buster.
Beccerra and the CHIRLA/SEIU rally leader appear baffled by this outrageous suggestion. But once the Pledge begins, they’re embarrassed into standing for it.
You can’t miss Beccerra. He’s the one on stage just to the left of the man in the orange jacket.
Consider this a glimpse into Obama’s future of America.
Source: Gateway Pundit
The PC police are at it again. Now they say the mere use of the word “yellow” is offensive to Asians.
The PC police are at it again. Now they say the mere use of the word “yellow” is offensive to Asians.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the saffron-ish details:
Asian-American activists offended that MARTA re-named the train line into the heart of Atlanta’s Asian community the “yellow line” will take their objections to the transit agency’s chief on Friday.
“Yellow,” as a term for skin color, carries a generally negative, racist connotation among Asians.MARTA officials were warned by an employee before the name change last October that Atlanta’s burgeoning Asian community would find the term for the line to Doraville offensive.
“Historically, it has had a derogatory intent,” said John Park, an attorney with the nonprofit Center for Pan Asian Community Services in Doraville, just down the hill from the Marta station. “It physically paints a very unattractive picture. I don’t consider myself ‘yellow.’”
No more yellow lights. No more yellow-bellied sapsuckers. No more yellow cowards.
And, of course, no more sanity.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
At a time when state budgets are in crisis, First Lady Michelle Obama is prodding the nation’s governors to spend more money to keep kids from packing on the pounds.
At a time when state budgets are in crisis, First Lady Michelle Obama is prodding the nation’s governors to spend more money to keep kids from packing on the pounds. She doesn’t care if they avoid economic Armageddon, but she cares deeply that they avoid a Big Mac and fries.
Hey, wait just a darn second. Isn’t telling kids they’re fat supposed to be what causes eating disorders?
Fox News gives us the skinny:
“There’s no place for politics when it comes to fighting childhood obesity,” she told governors at their winter meeting.
The National Governor’s Association assembles in Washington every year to discuss issues that affect all of their states. This year’s main theme is health care — a topic at the heart of the first lady’s new campaign on obesity.
“If we think our health care costs are high now, just wait until 10 years from now,” she said. “Think about the many billions we’re going to be spending then. Think about how high those premiums are going to be when our kids are old enough to have families of their own and businesses of their own.”
Obama wanted to remind the state officials that childhood obesity was not a problem brought on by lazy children.“Our kids didn’t do this to themselves,” she said. “Our kids didn’t decide whether there’s time for recess or gym class, or our kids don’t decide what’s served to them in the school cafeteria.”
Let us sum this up for you:
Spend money you don’t have to solve a problem that just causes another problem.
Liberalism in action.
Source: Fox News
P.T. Barnum said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” In appears that he underestimated it, because there were 69,456,897 suckers born back on November 4, 2008.
However, after one miserable year in office, you may now consider this sucker officially licked.
P.T. Barnum said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” In appears that he underestimated it, because there were 69,456,897 suckers born back on November 4, 2008.
However, after one miserable year in office, you may now consider this sucker officially licked.
Global warming causes killer droughts. Except when it doesn’t.
Here’s another hilarious “oops“ moment from the people who brought you the global warming scam:
First, from the Guardian UK one year ago this month:
The world’s pre-eminent climate scientists produced a blunt assessment of the impact of global warming on the US yesterday, warning of droughts that could reduce the American south-west to a wasteland and heat waves that could make life impossible even in northern cities.
In an update on the latest science on climate change, the US Congress was told that melting snow pack could lead to severe drought from California to Oklahoma. In the midwest, diminishing rains and shrinking rivers were lowering water levels in the Great Lakes, even to the extent where it could affect shipping.
“With severe drought from California to Oklahoma, a broad swath of the south-west is basically robbed of having a sustainable lifestyle,” said Christopher Field, of the Carnegie Institution for Science. He went on to warn of scorching temperatures in an array of cities. Sacramento in California, for example, could face heatwaves for up to 100 days a year.
“We are close to a threshold in a very large number of American cities where uncomfortable heat waves make cities uninhabitable,” Field told the Senate’s environment and public works committee.
Oops. Here’s a report from ABC News this month:
In the span of just a couple years, the U.S. has gone from very high drought conditions to the lowest amount of drought in the last 10 years, [Doug LeCompte of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association] says. “It’s only a few times, really, in the last century that we’ve had this little of the country in drought. That is unusual.”
But please, we beseech you, remember the words of global warming proponents: Weather is not climate.
And then remember the corollary: Global warming is not reality.
Source: Tim Blair
President Obama actually made the Dalai Lama leave through the back door of the White House in hopes the Chinese wouldn’t notice. Now the Dalai Lama knows how Monica Lewinsky felt.
President Obama actually made the Dalai Lama leave through the back door of the White House in hopes the Chinese wouldn’t notice.
Now the Dalai Lama knows how Monica Lewinsky felt.
Written by guest author
Anytime a liberal tries to tell you conservatives are a bunch of homophobic, bible-toting nut jobs, just show them this video where a room of conservatives at CPAC boo a speaker off stage for his distasteful anti-gay remarks.
Anytime a liberal tries to tell you conservatives are a bunch of homophobic, bible-toting nut jobs, just show them this video where a room of conservatives at CPAC boo a speaker off stage for his distasteful anti-gay remarks.
Then remind them which party also freed the slaves.
Written by guest author
Here’s the Conservative Queen of Mean ripping into everyone at last week’s CPAC convention. Obama, Biden, the media, Ted Kennedy. No one was safe from her scathing wit.
Here’s the Conservative Queen of Mean ripping into everyone at last week’s CPAC convention. Obama, Biden, the media, Ted Kennedy. No one was safe from her scathing wit.
Damn, we love this woman.
Sure, those states are hard hit. But Obama announced his largesse in Las Vegas was to help the hardest hit of all, poll-challenged Nevada Senator Harry Reid.
Last week President Obama warned Americans not to spend money like the federal government does. Specifically, don’t go to Las Vegas and bet it all on one spin of the roulette wheel.
Then this week he traveled to Las Vegas and said, “We’re going to spend another $1.5 billion on another wacky liberal scheme to save your house. And by the way, vote for Harry Reid.” OK, perhaps that’s not an exact quote, but it’s a reasonable approximation.
Obama’s move, detailed by aides in advance of his town hall here Friday, is the latest by a White House determined to show it is helping families rebound from a deep recession. The downturn is taking an election-year toll on Obama’s party as voter frustration builds.
Obama was to announce that housing finance agencies in the five hardest-hit states in the housing crisis will receive $1.5 billion to help spur local solutions to the problem. Those five are Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan and Nevada.
Sure, those states are hard hit. But Obama announced his largesse in Las Vegas was to help the hardest hit of all, poll-challenged Nevada Senator Harry Reid.
This guy has poll numbers that make Obama’s look positively robust. And $1.5 billion of your tax dollars is a mere pittance if it will help keep one Democrat in office.
Source: Associated Press
Apparently, this terrorist genius didn’t know that the latest technology allows American troops to track incoming mortar rounds back to their source. Bad mistake. The kind you only make once.
Apparently, this terrorist genius didn’t know that the latest technology allows American troops to track incoming mortar rounds back to their source. Bad mistake. The kind you only make once.
Source: IOwnTheWorld.com
A few weeks ago Glenn Beck said that Obama was slaughtering the American people and the left went crazy. Olbermann immediately began frothing at the mouth and Zsa Zsa Huffington quickly followed suit.
A few weeks ago Glenn Beck said that Obama was slaughtering the American people and the left went crazy. Olbermann immediately began frothing at the mouth and Zsa Zsa Huffington quickly followed suit.
Now we have a beautiful opportunity to see the left’s hypocrisy in action.
Low-rated radio talk show host Ed Schultz and socialist Senator Bernie Sanders were discussing healthcare insurance when Schultz said:
“You can’t have it both ways and hold credibility with the people who are getting gouged. How can Evan Bayh sit there as an honest player for health care reform when his wife works for an industry that is just absolutely butchering the American people, raising rates 100 percent on some people, and Anthem Blue Cross is a subsidiary of WellPoint.”
Conservative says Obama is slaughtering the American people and the libs go crazy.
Yet somehow we doubt that Zsa Zsa will show up on ABC’s This Week to condemn Ed Schultz.
Source: NewsBusters.org
Now that the American people aren’t buying President Obama’s line of crap anymore, they’re not buying the line of crap with his picture on it anymore, either.
Now that the American people aren’t buying President Obama’s line of crap anymore, they’re not buying the line of crap with his picture on it anymore, either.
U.S. News reports the over-stocked details:
One sign that Washington, D.C., had been home to Obama Mania was the number of independent retailers selling all sorts of Obama merchandise. Every street corner, it seemed, had Obama wares (or Obama wear) for sale. Now, however, most of the winter caps for sale are not emblazoned with the Obama logo. T-shirts depicting our president as a dunking Michael Jordan, a victorious Muhammad Ali, or saber-baring Luke Skywalker (yes, these shirts all existed) are nowhere to be found. This time last year, the Obama Store was teeming with customers. Ideally situated in the basement of Washington’s Union Station, the store was filled with consumers eager to buy anything with Obama’s likeness while others took pictures of the life-size cut-outs of the president and first lady. Now, the Obama Store is boarded up. How quickly things change in a year.
The Obama Store was capitalism at its most brilliant rawness; find a market and exploit it quickly. The store made possible one-stop shopping for all of your tacky Obama merchandise needs. T-shirts! Hats! Calendars! Hand-warmers! Keychains! It was like something out of Spaceballs (“Obama: The Flame Thrower! The kids love this one.”). The store carried every imaginable product with the words “Obama” and “Commemorative,” except, notably, the Obama Chia Pet.
Just a wild, unsubstantiated guess, but we bet the Chia Pet Obama may be the only Obama product that’s still selling.
C’mon, man, it’s a clay head that looks like Obama and it grows a green afro. Who wouldn’t want one of those?
Source: US News
Instead of featuring the faces of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt, the backside of Mount Rushmore will feature the backsides of Harry Ried, Nancy Pelosi, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanual telling the American people to kiss their backsides.
Instead of featuring the faces of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt, the backside of Mount Rushmore will feature the backsides of Harry Ried, Nancy Pelosi, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanual telling the American people to kiss their backsides.
It will, of course, be funded by the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009. It will be carved by an army of SEIU members and contribute another one million jobs saved or created.
God works in mysterious ways, as is proven by the fact that Pope just named his top ten albums of all time.
They include the Beatles (Revolver), Santana (Supernatural), Oasis (Morning Glory), Michael Jackson (Thriller), Paul Simon (Graceland), U2 (Achtung Babuy), Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon), Donald Fagen (Nightfly), David Crosby (If I Could Only Remember My Name) and Fleetwood Mac (Rumours).
God works in mysterious ways, as is proven by the fact that Pope just named his top ten albums of all time.
They include the Beatles (Revolver), Santana (Supernatural), Oasis (Morning Glory), Michael Jackson (Thriller), Paul Simon (Graceland), U2 (Achtung Babuy), Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon), Donald Fagen (Nightfly), David Crosby (If I Could Only Remember My Name) and Fleetwood Mac (Rumours).
In order to be absolutely impartial, we asked Satan (aka Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkness, Lucifer, the Archfiend, the Evil One) to name his top ten songs of all time.
“The Pope’s taste in music sucks,” a Satan spokesman said. “Here’s a top ten list that kicks ass.”
The IHateTheMedia.com Administrator prefers the Pope’s choices, but the Editor goes with Beelzebub.
1. Highway to Hell – AC/DC
Continue reading “Satan responds to Pope’s top ten pop album list by naming his own top ten hits”
Here in the socialist section of the Obama library we see The American Socialist Movement and The Socialist Party of America.
Rob Port of of the SayAnything blog toured the White House on Wednesday and took this photo in the library. He quotes the tour guide as saying the library is stocked with books specifically selected by First Lady herself.
Here in the socialist section of the library we see The American Socialist Movement and The Socialist Party of America.
Obviously, the inclusion of these books means nothing in and of itself. (The Editor of IHateTheMedia.com has biographies of Hitler and Napoleon in his library and that makes him neither a Nazi nor a Bonapartist).
But, as Port notes, it is interesting in light of White House advisor Anita Dunn calling Chairman Mao her favorite philosopher and the First Lady putting a bright, shiny Mao ornament on the White House Christmas tree.
Interesting, no?
Source: SayAnything via Gateway Pundit
Olympic speedskater asks NBC reporter, “Are you stupid?” Who among us hasn’t screamed that at the television at one time or another?
“Are you stupid?” Who among us hasn’t screamed that at the television at one time or another?
As time goes by, Obama’s Camelot resembles the Monty Python version of the fabled kingdom more than the Kennedy-era Camelot. One of the knights of Obama’s round table, Senator Evan Bayh, announced Monday that partisanship has caused him to give leave of Washington D.C.
As time goes by, Obama’s Camelot resembles the Monty Python version of the fabled kingdom more than the Kennedy-era Camelot.
One of the knights of Obama’s round table, Senator Evan Bayh, announced Monday that partisanship has caused him to give leave of Washington D.C.
(According to the mainstream media, “partisanship” is any time that conservatives refuse to go along with liberal initiatives. When liberals thwart conservatives, it’s called “gallant opposition.”)
We have composed a little ode and dedicated it to Brave Sir Evan. With apologies to Monty Python.
Brave Sir Evan ran away.
(“No!”)
Bravely ran away away.
(“I didn’t!”)
When politics reared it’s ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
(“No!”)
Yes, brave Sir Evan turned about
(“I didn’t!”)
And gallantly he chickened out.Bravely taking (“I never did!”) to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat.
(“All lies!”)
Bravest of the braaaave, Senator Evan!
(“I never!”)
– Gallantly composed by Sven Waring, DotPenn.com
Biden calls Iraq one of Obama’s greatest achievements. In other words, “Mission accomplished.”
52 percent of Americans said President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve reelection in 2012, according to a new poll. 44 percent of all Americans said they would vote to reelect the president in two and a half years, less than the slight majority who said they would prefer to elect someone else.
According to a new CNN/Opinion Research survey, 52% of Americans think Obama’s doing such a lousy job that they wouldn’t vote for him for dogcatcher. We paraphrase, of course, but that’s the gist of the survey.
Specifically, it said, “52 percent of Americans said President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve reelection in 2012, according to a new poll. 44 percent of all Americans said they would vote to reelect the president in two and a half years, less than the slight majority who said they would prefer to elect someone else.
“Obama faces a 44-52 deficit among both all Americans and registered voters, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll released Tuesday. Four percent had no opinion.”
Unbeknownst to most media outlets, ACORN conducted a simultaneous survey. It found that 103% of all voters would vote for Obama twice, maybe three times, and that 108% of all conservatives are racists.
Source: The Hill
“A float called ‘Yes we can be ecologist’ depicting U.S. President Barack Obama, parades during the 126th edition of the Nice Carnival, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, in Nice, southern France. The carnival’s theme this year is ‘King of the Blue Planet.’”
The Associated Press reports, “A float called ‘Yes we can be ecologist’ depicting U.S. President Barack Obama, parades during the 126th edition of the Nice Carnival, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, in Nice, southern France. The carnival’s theme this year is ‘King of the Blue Planet.’”
To tell the truth, we can’t tell if that damn thing is a balloon like you see in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade or something more akin to a Rose Parade float. But we’re going with balloon because the other answer screws up our entire premise.
So now, without further delay, the top ten ways the real Obama is just like the balloon Obama
Source: Associated Press
– Written by Sven Waring
Mr. Schwarzenegger singled out environmental obstacles that are blocking construction of alternative energy farms in the Mojave Desert.
There was a time when Arnold Schwarzenegger battled alien robots and Russian spies. After several years in politics, his enemies have come down a few notches. He now fights squirrels.
The worst governor in California history is upset with economic impact of the red tape the Democrat-controlled legislature has imposed on the state.
The Wall Street Journal reports the governor’s grievances:
“Right now the way it’s written, a lot of those laws, it’s an invitation to misuse them,” he told reporters last week. “And it holds up projects for too long a period of time, especially now.”
Mr. Schwarzenegger singled out environmental obstacles that are blocking construction of alternative energy farms in the Mojave Desert. Some of his green allies have become “fanatics,” he said, and “go overboard.” He then launched an extended riff explaining why he thought environmental objections to the Mojave Desert projects on the grounds they could hurt endangered species were, well, specious.
“So the environmentalists . . . are confused because they want to have renewable energy but then when it comes to the permitting process, creating that renewable energy and building the solar plants, they are then in the way.
And they then talk about, ‘You cannot go and destroy this squirrel.'”
“I say, ‘What squirrel? I was out there, I didn’t see a squirrel.’
“They say, ‘Well, there could be a squirrel coming very soon.’
“So I say, ‘But there’s no squirrel there right now.’
“‘But you’ve got to protect things that could be there.'”
He’s right, of course, but it’s just difficult for any California resident to believe anything that comes out of this guy’s mouth anymore.
But by using squirrels, Schwarzenegger has captured the perfect metaphor for California’s dysfunctional government.
Source: Wall Street Journal
CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller actually worked up the courage to speak the truth about President Obama’s “outreach” to Republicans, observing that while the President says he wants bipartisan solutions, what he really wants is Republican surrender.
Blasphemy! Heresy! Sacrilege!
CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller actually worked up the courage to speak the truth about President Obama’s “outreach” to Republicans, observing that while the President says he wants bipartisan solutions, what he really wants is Republican surrender.
Mr. Obama said he “won’t hesitate to embrace a good idea from my friends in the minority party.” But he wants his way. He wants his energy policy enacted along with his jobs bill, his financial regulatory reform and his health care plan.
And if the opposition continues to block his objectives, he said he “won’t hesitate to condemn what I consider to be obstinacy that’s rooted not in substantive disagreement but in political expedience.”
When a sitting president calls for bipartisanship by the opposition – he really means surrender. And if they block his proposals, its “obstinacy” and not political views they hold as strongly as he holds his.
This, of course, begs that question, why shouldn’t Obama expect them to surrender? The Republican party has a long, proud history of capitulation that makes them the envy of Frenchmen everywhere.
We can only hope that this time will be different.
Source: CBS News
