We’re always told that neutral Switzerland is the world’s most peaceful nation. But opponents of the second amendment don’t want you to know the reason it’s so peaceful is that its citizens are armed to the teeth.
We’re always told that neutral Switzerland is the world’s most peaceful nation. But opponents of the second amendment don’t want you to know the reason it’s so peaceful is that its citizens are armed to the teeth.
The country is crawling with assault rifles. More than 600,000 of them.
All Swiss men aged 21 to 32 men serve in Switzerland’s militia. They’re each issued an M-57 assault rifle and 24 rounds of ammunition which they’re required to keep in their homes.
After fulfilling mandatory military service, Swiss men then serve in something very similar to the U.S. National Guard. They’re issued bolt rifles and are still required to train occasionally. Women aren’t required to own guns, but they’re strongly encouraged to do so.
And you thought Swiss army knives were impressive.
It’s a conundrum. Who do you root for when a ragged band of Somali pirates hijacks an Iranian fishing boat?
Is that a Somali pirate behind those Foster-Grants?
It’s a conundrum. Who do you root for when a ragged band of Somali pirates hijacks an Iranian fishing boat?
Iranian Deputy Managing Director for Maritime Affairs Saeed Izadian said an Axis of Evil fishing boat has been captured in international waters by Somali pirates on Sunday.
“A number of armed men off the coast of Somalia hijacked this Iranian vessel,” Izadian sputtered.
He pegged the number of crewmen held hostage at 29, saying that pirates have not yet demanded a ransom.
Iranian fishermen versus Somali pirates. Vegas oddsmakers say take the fishermen and the points.
The Speaker of the House has danced around the issues since the day she was first elected. So it’s only natural that she should become the inspiration for the hottest dance craze to hit Washington, DC since Lyndon Johnson did the Vietnamese Dance of Death.
The Speaker of the House has danced around the issues since the day she was first elected. So it’s only natural that she should become the inspiration for the hottest dance craze to hit Washington, DC since Lyndon Johnson did the Vietnamese Dance of Death.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 25% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16. That’s the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.
Damn you, Rasmussen. Why must you be so accurate? Why must you tell those inconvenient truths? Why must you torment our beloved President day after day with new lows?
Here’s how the accursed pollster reports today’s worsening news for President Obama:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 25% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16. That’s the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.
The 25% who Strongly Approve matches the lowest level of enthusiasm yet recorded. That’s partly the result of declining enthusiasm among Democrats. While Democrats continue to offer their approval, just 43% Strongly Approve.
Quick, Mr. President. Time to give another one of those rousing speeches.
Ahhh, yes. Let’s harken back to when Barack Obama was a boy in Indonesia. Surely, he still remembers those carefree days of reading Karl Marx’ Communist Manifesto while sitting under a coconut tree.
One of the designs being considered for Indonesia's "Obama-as-a-boy" statue
Ahhh, yes. Let’s harken back to when Barack Obama was a boy in Indonesia. Surely, he still remembers those carefree days of reading Karl Marx’ Communist Manifesto while sitting under a coconut tree.
ABC’s Jake Tapper gives the tale a decidedly liberal twist on his blog:
A six-and-a-half foot statue of President Obama as a 10-year-old boy has been commissioned in Jakarta, Xinhua reports.
The president spent some of his formative years there as a boy, where he was educated at a school that was decidedly not a madrassa, despite some false reports pushed by conservative news outlets two years ago.
A group called “Friends of Obama” made the announcement today, saying the statue will be inaugurated on December 10 in a playground in the Jakarta suburb Menteng Dalam, where Obama lived from 1967 until 1971 with his mother and stepfather.
“The statue is designed to inspire Indonesian children that they can be anyone they want to be,” said Friends of Obama chairman Ron Muller.
And, of course, Obama Safe School Czar Kevin Jennings was inspired when saw the words “erect” and “boy” in the same sentence.
Ahh, those wacky guys at Minnesotans For Global Warming have done it again. They’ve just released a new Christmas Album called “It’s A Climate Gate Christmas”.
Ahh, those wacky guys at Minnesotans For Global Warming have done it again. They’ve just released a new Christmas Album called “It’s A ClimateGate Christmas”.
Damn it. Just as ClimateGate was getting into high gear, along comes a new global warming scandal – NASAgate.
Damn it. Just as ClimateGate was getting into high gear, along comes a new global warming scandal – NASAgate.
Texas Republican Congressman Ted Poe goes off on NASA because they’re following in the footsteps of the CRU and refusing to release their global warming data as requested under a Freedom of Information Act request.
Let’s give Poe credit: This is the first time we’ve heard the term “NASAgate.” But we suspect it won’t be the last.
Neil Cavuto talks to master handyman Glenn Haege about a remarkably stupid new government giveaway called “Cash-for-Caulkers.” Haege explains why a national “weatherization” program will pound more money down a rathole without creating any jobs.
Neil Cavuto talks to master handyman Glenn Haege about a remarkably stupid new government giveaway called “Cash-for-Caulkers.”
Haege explains why a national “weatherization” program will pound more money down a rathole without creating any jobs.
But, then, why should this program be any different?
(Note: We tried and tried and tried to come up with a way to use a “caulk seeker” pun, but failed. Trust us, it wasn’t a sudden a sudden outbreak of maturity that prevented it.)
CEOs and Hollywood stars got their comeuppance last weekend at the annual Kennedy Center Honors. Much to their chagrin, they discovered that George Bush was much warmer and more hospitable than Barack Obama.
Words you never thought you'd hear: "So, George, can you give me some advice on winning over that Hollywood crowd?"
Comeuppance. Yeah, that’s the word we’ve been trying to think of.
CEOs and Hollywood stars got their comeuppance last weekend at the annual Kennedy Center Honors. Much to their chagrin, they discovered that George Bush was much warmer and more hospitable than Barack Obama.
Here’s how Variety, show so-called show biz bible, explains the comeuppance:
The show itself honoring Bruce Springsteen, Robert De Niro and Mel Brooks, among others, was a resounding hit, but the White House seemed to be still traumatized by the incursions of the social-climbing, state dinner-crashing Salahis.
While President Bush in past years shook every celebrity hand and posed for photos with visitors at the White House reception, the Obamas remained aloof, fleeing to their box at the Kennedy Center.
Stunned by recent security breaches, the White House kept guests shivering outside in 30-degree weather, opening the reception 10 minutes late and shuttling guests through 25 minutes of repeated screenings and pat-downs, all of which took place outside.
Several stars grumbled; one suggested to a social secretary that the Obama staff study the Academy Awards for lessons in celebrity management.
The story reaches a sad Hollywood dénouement:
White House staffers maintained a stony distance during this weekend’s events. Rahm Emanuel, the chief of staff, sat with his wife for 20 minutes before Obama’s brief presentation Sunday, and hardly anyone approached him with a greeting, nor did he circulate.
“I never thought I’d miss the Bushes,” said one prominent Hollywood actor, “but this place seemed a lot warmer when they were here.”
It was probably just global warming, but don’t you worry, Hollywood. Barack Obama is over there in Hopenchangen fixing that little problem, too.
And that brings us to Al Gore’s brilliant new poem, Our Choice, which bears a striking resemblence to “A Horse.” Same themes, same images, same style. Which, of course, is completely understandable since Al Gore bears a striking resemblance to the rear end of a horse.
Of course, we realize that “worst song ever written” is subjective. But almost every “worst song” list ever compiled contains America’s “A Horse With No Name” because of its insipid, meaningless lyrics.
And that brings us to Al Gore’s brilliant new poem, Our Choice, which bears a striking resemblence to “A Horse.” Same themes, same images, same style. Which, of course, is completely understandable since Al Gore bears a striking resemblance to the rear end of a horse.
Nevertheless, Gore’s acolytes at Vanity Fair raved about the poem:
“The result is a surprisingly accomplished, nuanced piece of writing. The images Gore conjures in his (untitled) poem turn a neat trick: they are visually specific and emotionally arresting even as they are scientifically accurate.”
Decide for yourself. Listen to “A Horse With No Name” while you read the poem. Six of one, half dozen of another.
“Our Choice”
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Neptune’s bones dissolve
Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning’s celebration
Unknown creatures
Take their leave, unmourned
Horsemen ready their stirrups
Passion seeks heroes and friends
The bell of the city
On the hill is rung
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools
Last night Barbara Walters crowned The Most Beautiful First Lady in History as The Most Fascinating Person of 2009. What’s fascinating to us that Walters does not know that Michelle Obama is a democrat.
Last night Barbara Walters crowned The Most Beautiful First Lady in History as The Most Fascinating Person of 2009. What’s fascinating to us that Walters does not know that Michelle Obama is a democrat.
Earlier in the evening she did an interview with Bill O’Reilly and she made a point (watch minute 5:45 in the video above) to O’Reilly that there are no democrats on this list.
But maybe she’s right. To be fair, she didn’t say there were no socialists on the list.
Global warming skeptics have said that meeting the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s harsh emission goals would require a return to life the Stone Age.
Global warming skeptics have said that meeting the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s harsh emission goals would require a return to life in the Stone Age.
This seemed preposterous until we saw a photo of Rajendra Pachauri, Director General of the Energy and Resources Institute and Chairman of the IPCC. Suddenly, it all makes sense.
Pachauri and the Geico caveman. Separated at birth?
Oh, how our hearts go out to Rachel Maddow for her recent loss. Loss of audience, that is.
Would Rachel Maddow's last MSNBC viewer please turn the lights out?
Oh, how our hearts go out to Rachel Maddow for her recent loss. Loss of audience, that is.
The premiere of her program was marked by grand hoopla, which was a bit of a mystery to us. We couldn’t figure out how a failed lesbian radio host (clarification: she is a failed radio host, but we have no reason to assume she is not a successful lesbian) could achieve success by teaming up with a failed cable TV network.
Despite our misgivings, it all seemed to work for a while. MSNBC rode the anti-Bush bandwagon and Maddow rode the pro-bush bandwagon to a modicum of success in 2008.
But those days are long gone. Maddow’s viewers have abandoned her like she’s a girl baby in China.
In the early days, her program regularly and handily topped one million total viewers per night. But recent ratings tell a much different story.
Take, for example, her ratings for the week of November 30-December 4. It happens to be Maddow’s lowest rated week ever:
Date
Total Audience
Fri, Dec 4
643,000
Thur, Dec 3
789,000
Wed, Dec 2
952,000
Tue, Dec 1
924,000
Mon, Nov 30
816,000
Total Viewers
3,924,000
Five days under 1,000,000 total viewers. Three days under 900,000 viewers. Two days under 800,000 viewers. One day under 700,000 viewers.
And the total viewers for the week added up to just 3,924,000 which is Maddow’s fewest total weekly viewers since MSBNC premiered her nightly smarmfest.
Keep up the good work, Rachel. See you back on Air America with a live show real soon.
Ahhh, those wily Democrats. They tried to say that ten years of ObamaCare would cost under a trillion dollars. But then it came out that their numbers were based on ten years of goes-inna and only six years of goes-outta.
Ahhh, those wily Democrats. They tried to say that ten years of ObamaCare would cost under a trillion dollars. But then it came out that their numbers were based on ten years of goes-inna and only six years of goes-outta.
Maybe Montana Democrat Senator Max Baucus was overcome with guilt or maybe he was secretly injected with truth serum – there’s no real way of knowing – but he unexpectedly spilled the beans about ObamaCare.
“Healthcare reform, whether you use a ten-year number or when you start in 2010 or start in 2014, wherever you start at, so it is still either $1 trillion or it’s $2.5 trillion, depending on where you start…”
Expect an angry phone call from the White House today, Senator Baucus.
A British pharmacy has developed a calculator based on the concept of Six Degrees of Separation. Except that this calculator is called Sex Degrees of Separation. It uses highly complex algorithms to determine how many people you’ve slept with directly and indirectly.
No points for lusting in your heart, Mr. President
A British pharmacy has developed a calculator based on the concept of Six Degrees of Separation. Except that this calculator is called Sex Degrees of Separation.
It uses highly complex algorithms to determine how many people you’ve slept with directly and indirectly.
According to Lloyds Pharmacy, the British company that developed the calculator, the average person has slept with about 2,800,000 people directly and indirectly.
We recommend that you take the test fast. Tiger Woods could go online at any minute and overload the damn thing’s circuits.
Much like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thinks there are no gays in Iran, Levi Johnston has never seen one in Alaska. Hasn’t this guy’s 15 minutes of fame expired yet? And while we’re at it, didn’t Joy Behar’s 15 minutes of fame expire about six years ago.
Much like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thinks there are no gays in Iran, Levi Johnston has never seen one in Alaska.
Hasn’t this guy’s 15 minutes of fame expired yet? And while we’re at it, didn’t Joy Behar’s 15 minutes of fame expire about six years ago.
This is truly a case of the blind leading the blind. Or the moronic leading the moronic.
In a case of remarkably bad timing, the cover story on this month’s Golf Digest is “10 Tips Obama Can Take From Tiger.” Turns out, though, that Tiger actually had 20 tips for the President, but space constraints forced Golf Digest to print just ten of them. Luckily, we have uncovered the tips that didn’t make the cut
In a case of remarkably bad timing, the cover story on this month’s Golf Digest is “10 Tips Obama Can Take From Tiger.”
Turns out, though, that Tiger actually had 20 tips for the President, but space constraints forced Golf Digest to print just ten of them.
Luckily, the Woodward & Bernstein-like investigative reporters at IHateTheMedia.com have uncovered the tips that didn’t make the cut:
10. If you’ve played the wrong hole, just take the penalty and move on.
9. Never let a stranger touch your putter.
8. Never switch holes in the middle of a round.
7. If it’s out-of-bounds, even if it looks like you could hit it, it’s out-of-bounds.
6. Remember that playing the wrong hole is loss of hole in match play.
5. A stiff shaft and a big head are no guarantee your balls will go straight.
4. In fact, the bigger the head, the greater the odds your balls will go astray.
3. The grass is always greener over there on that other course you’ve always wanted to play.
2. Trading your old bag for a new bag can really mess up your game.
1. Hey, Michelle is hot. What’s she doing Saturday morning at, say, 7:18?
To sum this story up briefly, ACORN has just conducted an investigation into ACORN and has determined that ACORN is not guilty of any ACORN-like activities.
ACORN looked really hard and couldn't find any scandal here.
To sum this story up briefly, ACORN has just conducted an investigation into ACORN and has determined that ACORN is not guilty of any ACORN-like activities.
Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, who was selected to perform an investigation of ACORN despite his past ties to the organization, wrote in his report, “While some of the advice and counsel given by ACORN employees and volunteers was clearly inappropriate and unprofessional, we did not find a pattern of intentional, illegal conduct by ACORN staff; in fact, there is no evidence that action, illegal or otherwise, was taken by any ACORN employee on behalf of the videographers.
”ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis, predictably, was pleased with the report, which lays out nine steps for the group to take to ‘regain public trust shaken by the video controversy.’”
“The report is part vindication, part constructive criticism and 100% road map to the future,” Lewis said. “This evaluation shows even the low-level employees portrayed in the videos did not engage in any illegal activity or seek to encourage it.”
Based on this precedent, O.J. Simpson has demanded a retrial, stating that it was unconstitutional for him to be denied the right to serve and his own judge and jury.
Based on this photo, this administration believes the only thing more powerful than the president of the United States making points to your face is the president of the United States making those same points to your chest.
“The president sees it as a chance to present our points and advance our interests, and you’re not conceding anything,” said an unidentified administration official. “What’s more powerful than the president of the United States making these points to your face?”
Based on this photo, this administration believes the only thing more powerful than the president of the United States making points to your face is the president of the United States making those same points to your chest.
Please be informed that no one at IHateTheMedia.com has slept with Tiger Woods. But we’ll be like half the other whores in the world and claim we did unless he immediately sends us a check for $1,000,000.
Until now we wouldn’t have put her mind on a list of things we admire about Angelina Jolie. But an article in US magazine has convinced us to have a change of heart.
Grrrrrrrrr: We admire Angelina Jolie for her mind
Until now we wouldn’t have put her mind on a list of things we admire about Angelina Jolie. But an article in US magazine has convinced us to have a change of heart:
Barack Obama does not have Angelina Jolie’s seal of approval.
“She hates him,” a source close to the U.N. goodwill ambassador, 34, tells the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands now).
“She’s into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts. She thinks Obama is really a socialist in disguise,” adds the source.
But don’t expect to see the Salt actress rally against Democrats on Fox News like her staunch Republican father, Jon Voight.
“Angie isn’t Republican, but she thinks Obama is all smoke and mirrors,” the source says.
And that’s where we part ways with the lovely Angelina. Barack Obama is not all smoke and mirrors.
No one has mastered the scam of getting global warming funding better than Penn State’s Michael Mann, one of the prime players in the East Anglia CRU email revelations.
Here’s how the global warming scam works:
Announce that you’ve discovered something called “global warming” that will destroy the earth. Make up statistics “proving” that it’s true. Apply for lots of government grants that allow you to research the problem even further.
No one has mastered this scam better than Penn State’s Michael Mann, one of the prime players in the East Anglia CRU email revelations.
American Spectator discovered that Mann is so proud of all his government grants that he actually lists them on his online resume. Here’s a list of Mann’s funded proposals:
2009-2013 Quantifying the influence of environmental temperature on transmission of vector-borne diseases, NSF-EF [Principal Investigator: M. Thomas; Co-Investigators: R.G. Crane, M.E. Mann, A. Read, T. Scott (Penn State Univ.)] $1,884,991
2009-2012 Toward Improved Projections of the Climate Response to Anthropogenic Forcing: Combining Paleoclimate Proxy and Instrumental Observations with an Earth System Model, NSF-ATM [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann; Co-Investigators: K. Keller (Penn State Univ.), A. Timmermann (Univ. of Hawaii)] $541,184
2008-2011 A Framework for Probabilistic Projections of Energy-Relevant Streamflow Indices, DOE [Principal Investigator: T. Wagener; Co-Investigators: M. Mann, R. Crane, K. Freeman (Penn State Univ.)] $330,000
2008-2009 AMS Industry/Government Graduate Fellowship (Anthony Sabbatelli), American Meteorological Society [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.)] $23,000
2006-2009 Climate Change Collective Learning and Observatory Network in Ghana, USAID [Principal Investigator: P. Tschakert; Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, W. Easterling (Penn State Univ.)] $759,928
2006-2009 Analysis and testing of proxy-based climate reconstructions, NSF-ATM [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.)] $459,000
2006-2009 Constraining the Tropical Pacific’s Role in Low-Frequency Climate Change of the Last Millennium, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigators: K. Cobb (Georgia Tech Univ.), N. Graham (Hydro. Res. Center), M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.), Hoerling (NOAA Clim. Dyn. Center), Alexander (NOAA Clim. Dyn. Center)] PSU award (M.E. Mann): $68,065
2006-2007 Acquisition of high-performance computing cluster for the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC), NSF-EAR [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann, Co-Investigators: R. Alley, M. Arthur, J. Evans, D. Pollard (Penn State Univ.)] $100,000
2003-2006 Decadal Variability in the Tropical Indo-Pacific: Integrating Paleo & Coupled Model Results, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigators: M.E. Mann (U.Va), J. Cole (U. Arizona), V. Mehta (CRCES)] U.Va award (M.E. Mann): $102,000
2002-2005 Reconstruction and Analysis of Patterns of Climate Variability Over the Last One to Two Millennia, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann, Co-Investigators: S. Rutherford, R.S. Bradley, M.K. Hughes] $315,000
2002-2005 Remote Observations of Ice Sheet Surface Temperature: Toward Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Antarctic Climate Variability, NSF-Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Oceans and Climate System [Principal Investigators: M.E. Mann (U. Va), E. Steig (U. Wash.), D. Weinbrenner (U. Wash)] U.Va award (M.E. Mann): $133,000
2002-2003 Paleoclimatic Reconstructions of the Arctic Oscillation, NOAA-Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR) Program [Principal Investigators: Rosanne D’Arrigo, Ed Cook (Lamont/Columbia); Co-Investigator: M.E. Mann] U.Va subcontract (M.E. Mann): $14,400
2002-2003 Global Multidecadal-to-Century-Scale Oscillations During the Last 1000 years, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigator: Malcolm Hughes (Univ. of Arizona); Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann; J. Park (Yale University)] U.Va subcontract (M.E. Mann): $20,775
2001-2003 Resolving the Scale-wise Sensitivities in the Dynamical Coupling Between Climate and the Biosphere, University of Virginia-Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology (FEST) [Principal Investigator: J.D. Albertson; Co-Investigators: H. Epstein, M.E. Mann] U.Va internal award: $214,700
2001-2002 Advancing predictive models of marine sediment transport, Office of Naval Research [Principal Investigator: P. Wiberg (U.Va), Co-Investigator: M.E. Mann] $20,775
1999-2002 Multiproxy Climate Reconstruction: Extension in Space and Time, and Model/Data Intercomparison, NOAA-Earth Systems History [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (U.Va), Co-Investigators: R.S. Bradley, M.K. Hughes] $381,647
1998-2000 Validation of Decadal-to-Multi-century climate predictions, DOE [Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators: H.F. Diaz, M.E. Mann]
1998-2000 The changing seasons? Detecting and understanding climatic change, NSF-Hydrological Science [Principal Investigator U. Lall (U. Utah); Co-investigators: M.E. Mann, B. Rajagopalan, M. Cane] $266,235K
1996-1999 Patterns of Organized Climatic Variability: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Globally Distributed Climate Proxy Records and Long-term Model Integrations, NSF-Earth Systems History [Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, M.K. Hughes] $270,000
1996-1998 Investigation of Patterns of Organized Large-Scale Climatic Variability During the Last Millennium, DOE, Alexander Hollaender Postdoctoral Fellowship [M.E. Mann] $78,000
That’s almost $6 million you’ve paid for Mann’s models, reconstructions and tricks over the last 13 years.
The earth has a fever! And Michael Mann has 6,000,000 reasons to diagnose it.
In a case of remarkably bad timing, the cover story on this month’s Golf Digest is “10 Tips Obama Can Take From Tiger.”
“The president sees it as a chance to present our points and advance our interests, and you’re not conceding anything,” said an unidentified administration official. “What’s more powerful than the president of the United States making these points to your face?”
