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Why, that Anthony Weiner fellow is a bit of a scofflaw

“If you are a congressman, you aren’t supposed to be switching out your plates. I guess that’s the least of his worries.”

The news has not been kind to former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner lately. Not kind at all.

As if L’Affaire De Junk wasn’t difficult enough for the poor, unfortunate New Yorker, he’s now embroiled in another controversy. And this one, like its more famous cousin, is entirely of his own making.

weiner-pathfinder — Who would have guessed that the official Weiner mobile is a 1988 Pathfinder?

The New York Daily News delivers:

When Weiner (D-Queens, Brooklyn) was photographed by the Daily News fleeing the Capitol in his Nissan Pathfinder, it was clear the July 2007 registration sticker in his window was expired, and there was no inspection sticker to be seen. Weiner, through a staffer, said the 1988 Nissan Pathfinder was registered in New York State.

Not so, said the state Department of Motor Vehicles.

The New York license plate bolted on Weiner’s Pathfinder – US Congress 9 – had expired as of 2006, according to the DMV.

“That license plate should not be on a car,” a DMV spokeswoman said. It wasn’t even issued to the Pathfinder, but to another one of Weiner’s cars, a Honda, according to vehicle records.

Valid plates were issued to Weiner’s Pathfinder, but they don’t have the helpful words “US Congress” on them, and so look less official. It’s unclear what happened to those plates.

Unclear? We think not. He’s obviously hiding them in his underpants.

“Switching around license plates is what criminals do,” noted a retired Brooklyn accident investigator. “If you are a congressman, you aren’t supposed to be switching out your plates. I guess that’s the least of his worries.”

Now that Weiner’s not a big shot, loudmouth Congressman anymore, we suspect he may have to pony up the money to take care of this little problem.

Either that or slip a New York copy $20 next time he gets pulled over.

Source: New York Daily News

Sign of the day: The problem with being a terrorist

A reader sent us this photo. We have no idea where it came from, but if we had to guess we’d say it looks like somewhere in Alaska.

Anyone know more about it? Where it was posted? Who posted it? If the author would like to write for IHateTheMedia.com?

H/T: Ray

Hide the decline: Sunspots, magnetic activity and global cooling

Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years.

We take climatology and global warming seriously here at IHateTheMedia.com because we have bets on which eco-celebrity’s beachfront property will be flooded first by the rising oceans.

Unfortunately our path to riches was recently dealt a setback by space.com:

sunspot-earth — Sunspot big. Earth small. 'Nuff said.

Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years.

… the recent findings indicate that the activity in the next 11-year solar cycle, Cycle 25, could be greatly reduced. In fact, some scientists are questioning whether this drop in activity could lead to a second Maunder Minimum, which was a 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 when the sun showed virtually no sunspots.

We thought the “Maunder Minimum” was the cover charge at a cheesy nightspot, but it’s something worse:

The Maunder Minimum coincided with the middle — and coldest part — of the Little Ice Age, during which Europe and North America were subjected to bitterly cold winters. Whether there is a causal connection between low sunspot activity and cold winters has not been proven; however, lower earth temperatures have been observed during low sunspot activity.

Those folks should’ve used windmills and driven their SUVs less. Oh, wait….

We don’t deny earth’s climate is changing because it’s constantly changing. And we don’t deny human activity affects climate because humans are part of the ecosystem. We do, however, deny that ceding control of our lives to politicians and pinheads is going to change that.

They also know this, but a successful conman never reveals the con.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Space.com, Answers.com

Obama promised woman a better life. Now she’s selling his hand-written letter to avoid eviction.

Destiny Mathis, who dedicated herself to getting this charlatan elected, isn’t getting the kind of help she expected from her President.

Destiny Mathis, one of the gullible ObamaBots who dedicated herself to getting this charlatan elected back in 2008, isn’t getting the kind of help she expected from her President.

The Daily Mail UK explains her heartbreaking situation:

Opening the handwritten letter from President Obama brought a glimmer of hope to her life as he promised her that things would get better for her and her family.

And despite the fact Destiny Mathis, from Hobart, Indiana, treasured the letter, more than two years later she has no choice but to sell it as she and her three children face eviction from their home.

The 26-year-old was an avid campaigner for Mr Obama in 2008, getting T-shirts made and encouraging people in her neighbourhood to vote.

Back then her life was tough but she had hope for her own future and the future of America.

She graduated top of her class in 2005 and was working as a surgical technician while also helping her mother, who was battling cancer at the time.

She said: ‘I campaigned for him hard. I got the shirts made, the Barack the Vote shirts made. We’ve done a lot.’

We initially felt badly for Destiny. Then we noticed something about the photo that came with her story – the one that showed the 26-year old with her three kids, including a baby and another one that’s still young enough to suck on a bottle.

Our questions for Destiny:

Did it ever occur to you to keep your knees together rather than cranking kids out on an assembly line?

If you graduated from school in 2005 and have had at least two kids since then, how much have you actually worked since you got out of school?

If you were unable to work because you were either pregnant or raising your children, have you been on welfare?

Where’s the father or fathers of your children? He or they seem to be conspicuously absent from this story and your personal finances.

And finally, Destiny, how’s that hopey changey thing working out for you?

Source: Daily Mail UK

Operation Fast and Furious is very damn curious

You can’t help but notice that issues that fall within the Justice Department’s purview, like controlling borders and preserving voting rights, don’t interest Attorney General Eric Holder.

You can’t help but notice that issues that fall within the Justice Department’s purview, like controlling borders and preserving voting rights, don’t interest Attorney General Eric Holder. He isn’t a golfer so just how does he spend his time?

holder-issa — Attorney General Eric Holder should probably plan on spending the summer with Rep. Darrell Issa

Congressman Darrell Issa’s committee was also curious:

“Fast and Furious” is the moniker for the Obama administration program that purposely released hundreds of sophisticated rifles, handguns and other weapsons to members of the Mexican drug cartels in an effort to link their users to crimes.

“ATF agents have shared chilling accounts of being ordered to stand down as criminals in Arizona walked away with guns headed for Mexican drug cartels,” Issa said. “With the clinical precision of a lab experiment, the Justice Department kept records of weapons they let walk and the crime scenes where they next appeared. To agents’ shock, preventing loss of life was not the primary concern.”

The DOJ sells guns to drug gangs while simultaneously suing states trying to intercept them at the border. Sounds like a movie plot about a cop on the take.

The report gets curiouser and curiouser:

The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords created a “state of panic” within the group conducting the operation as they initially feared a “walked” gun might have been used. (p. 38)

The media told us Sarah Palin’s metaphors were responsible. We smell a journalistic rat, or rather a nest of them, creating a smokescreen to cover Holder’s (and Obama’s) butt. Where there’s smoke, there’s often fire, in this case gunfire.

Something here smells, and we ain’t talkin’ roses.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Newsflavor.com, Washington Examiner

Red faces in the Obama administration: Green cars not so green

An electric car owner would have to drive at least 129,000km before producing a net saving in CO2. Many electric cars will not travel that far in their lifetime.

Obviously, we exaggerate. Not about green cars not being green, but about red faces in the Obama administration. This bunch proved long ago that they are beyond being embarrassed by any of their actions.

But let’s get back to the green car myth with The Australian:

obama electric car — "It's for the environment" has joined "It's for the children" in the pantheon of plaintive liberal wails

Electric cars could produce higher emissions over their lifetimes than petrol equivalents because of the energy consumed in making their batteries, a study has found.

How is that possible? We’ve been told that electric cars would cure all our ills.

An electric car owner would have to drive at least 129,000km before producing a net saving in CO2. Many electric cars will not travel that far in their lifetime because they typically have a range of less than 145km on a single charge and are unsuitable for long trips. Even those driven 160,000km would save only about a tonne of CO2 over their lifetimes…

The study was commissioned by the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, which is jointly funded by the British government and the car industry. It found that a mid-size electric car would produce 23.1 tonnes of CO2 over its lifetime, compared with 24 tonnes for a similar petrol car. Emissions from manufacturing electric cars are at least 50 per cent higher because batteries are made from materials such as lithium, copper and refined silicon, which require much energy to be processed.

Electric cars. The vehicles we’ll all drive on the road to ruin.

H/T: The Australian

Have an extra $10,000 lying around? Good news! You can have your photo taken with Michelle Obama!

Ahhh, memories, misty watercolor memories of the way we were. Surely you understand and share our sense of excitement.

It’s the kind of thing that will go down in family lore. “Look. There’s Grandpa Administrator with the First Lady.” Or “Back in 2011, your Uncle Editor was lucky enough to have this photo taken with Michelle Antoinette.”

angry michelle obama — The first three contributors got photos of a smiling First Lady. The next 497 got the real snarling, angry Michelle.

Ahhh, memories, misty watercolor memories of the way we were. Surely you understand and share our sense of excitement.

The Daily Caller has the details:

If Barack Obama’s worried about finding enough cash for his 2012 election campaign, he needn’t be — his wife’s got it covered.

The First Lady charged lucky — and wealthy — bidders a whopping $10,000 to have their photograph taken with her at a fundraising luncheon today in Los Angeles.

With 500 attendees, it means Michelle Obama could have netted up to $5 million just for smiling at the camera, on top of the $1,000 each person paid per plate.

Just one problem. How are they going to get someone as bitter and angry as the First Lady to smile 500 times?

Source: Daily Caller

Janet Napolitano: Profile Muslim men under 35? Why would we want to do that?

Seemed reasonable to us that profiling young Muslim men might just help stop a bit of terrorism. Luckily Janet Napolitano showed us the error of our ways.

Once again, our gut instincts have been proven wrong by the geniuses in the Obama administration.

Seemed reasonable to us that profiling young Muslim men might just help stop a bit of terrorism. Luckily, Director of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is on the job to show us the error of our ways.

NewsBusters.org has the transformational information:

According to Janet Napolitano, concentrating terrorist screening efforts on young Muslim men is “not using good logic.”

Her response came after a reporter in the audience asked, “Why wouldn’t the Department focus more of its attention on the category of individuals that turned up most often as the suspect?”

Napolitano retorts, “You’ve got to use actual intelligence that you receive…All you’ve given me is status, not a technique, a tactic, a behavior.”

We’ve been racking our brains trying to come up with an example of terrorism that wasn’t committed by a young Muslim man, but we just can’t come up with one. Shoe bomber, young Muslim man. 9-11 hijackers, young Muslim men. Underwear bomber, young Muslim man. Fort Hood shooter, young Muslim man. Times Square bomber, young Muslim man.

“You’ve got to use actual intelligence…” Good advice for everyone in the Obama administration, Ms. Napolitano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5IRdiMwYnY

H/T: NewsBusters.org

Fraud alert: Here’s why we hate the free government cell phone program

WTF? Can someone explain to us why someone can afford a house full of fancy electronics yet still qualify for a free government cell phone?

We’ve run numerous articles about the Safelink Wireless free government cel phone program. As we’ve said many times, it’s a program that’s ripe for, and undoubted rife with, fraud.

Of course, the articles we’ve run are always followed by dozens (sometimes hundreds) of comments from people who call us cold-hearted bastards who lack even a shred of human decency.

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They may be right about that, but we’re right about the potential for fraud. Want proof? Check out the following police incident report from ENCtoday.com, which calls itself “Eastern North Carolina’s source for news and information.”

Incident reports

The following incidents were reported by the Kinston Department of Public Safety and the Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office:

… On June 9, a woman on Norline Drive, La Grange, reported someone broke into her residence and stole the following: A Dell computer valued at $200; a 50″ Panasonic flatscreen TV valued at $1,000; a Wii game system valued at $250; an RCA stereo system valued at $100; a Belkin wireless router valued at $70; a Safe Link cell phone valued at $0.

WTF? Can someone explain to us why someone can afford a house full of fancy electronics yet still qualify for a free government cell phone?

Or is there now some free government 50” flatscreen TV scam, too?

Source: ENC Today

New York Times says Congresswomen don’t have sex scandals, ignores widely-known liberal case

According to the New York Times, women in Congress just don’t get involved in sex scandals:

“I’m telling you,” said Representative Candice Miller, a Michigan Republican, “every time one of these sex scandals goes, we just look at each other, like, ‘What is it with these guys? Don’t they think they’re going to get caught?’”

Republican Candice Miller is unlikely to get involved in a sex scandal. Very few men want to sleep with a woman who looks like the Quaker Oats guy.

Ms. Miller’s question raises an intriguing point: Female politicians rarely get caught up in sex scandals. Women in elective office have not, for instance, blubbered about Argentine soul mates (see: Sanford, Mark); been captured on federal wiretaps arranging to meet high-priced call girls (Spitzer, Eliot); resigned in disgrace after their parents paid $96,000 to a paramour’s spouse (Ensign, John) or, as in the case of Mr. Weiner, blasted lewd self-portraits into cyberspace.

…But there may be something else at work: Research points to a substantial gender gap in the way women and men approach running for office. Women have different reasons for running, are more reluctant to do so and, because there are so few of them in politics, are acutely aware of the scrutiny they draw — all of which seems to lead to differences in the way they handle their jobs once elected.

All this is, of course, nonsense. It completely ignores the case of one current Southern California Congresswoman who is widely rumored to have bedded half the officers in the Pentagon.

She is, of course, a liberal Democrat, so the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Huffington Post, Media Matters and Daily Kos choose to ignore her indiscretions.

Why?

Because if she were a Republican her actions would threaten the very institutions of Democracy. But since she’s a Democrat it’s just a personal matter.

Source: New York Times

President Senator Marco Rubio makes his first speech on the floor of the Senate

Tuesday may go down in history as … well … historic. That’s the day future President Marco Rubio offered his first speech on the floor of the Senate.

Yeah, well, maybe we’re getting ahead of ourselves just a little here, but we love this guy. His speech was built on the theme of “The New American Century” and highlighted what he called “the American miracle.”

“Indeed we do now stand at a turning point in our history,” Rubio noted. “One where there are only two ways forward for us. We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America’s decline.”

Telegenic. Smart as a whip. A Reaganesque speaker. Hispanic. Conservative.

Ready for your close up, Mr. President.

Prominent Egyptian cleric urges all men, women and children to grow beards

Egyptian Salafists are trying to persuade other Muslims to grow beards to show devotion to Allah. You won’t believe their bizarre twist on Muslim tradition.

Salafists belong to a puritanical Muslim sect that has become associated with violent jihad. Now there’s a group of Egyptian Salafists that’s trying to persuade other Muslims to grow beards to show their devotion to Allah. But you won’t believe their bizarre twist on Muslim tradition.

bearded-muslim-woman — In the words of Stevie Wonder, "Isn't she lovely, isn't she wonderful," Allah willing

The Egyptian Gazette has the details:

These Salafists are calling for a million men to be bearded before the holy fasting month of Ramadan which starts in August.

“This freedom is a fruit of the January 25 revolution. In the presence of the [now disbanded] State Security Police under Mubarak, asking Egyptians to grow beards was like dreaming of touching the moon,” says Sheikh Safwat Hegzai, a Salafist cleric.

… Sheikh Mohamed Hassan, a veteran cleric with strong Salafist leanings, has lauded the campaign, hoping that 80 million Egyptians (this would include all Egypt’s women and children too) grow a beard like the Prophet Mohamed.

Secularists and liberals have denounced the campaign for a million Muslims to grow beards, saying the timing of such a campaign could lead to a rift in Egyptian society.

We would imagine that a nation of 80,000,000 bearded women will, indeed, cause a rift. It will also cause burqa sales to skyrocket.

Source: Egyptian Gazette

If Anthony Weiner’s life were a novel, which one would it be?

While we take no joy in another’s misfortune, getting the weiners out of Washington will help the economy and reduce unemployment; we’re all for that.

In the 1941 novel “What Makes Sammy Run?”, the title character was an amoral hustler who rose to the heights of the Hollywood studio system. The modern version would likely be about an amoral hustler already at the heights of his profession and desperate to avoid sinking out of sight.

anthony weiner — Separated at birth: Anthony Weiner and amoral hustler Sammy Glick

The NY Post fills in the details:

Even if scandal-stained Rep. Anthony Weiner didn’t want to stay in office, he needs to stay in office.

Unlike many of his peers in the House, Weiner doesn’t have a business or even a law degree to fall back on.

Weiner, 46, took home $156,117 in 2010, according to his federal tax returns released by his staff.

If he steps down, he could grovel to cable TV execs for talking-head “analyst” gigs that hopefully pay more than the $825 he gets for appearing on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

But with Weiner’s reputation in ruins, other lucrative jobs may be hard to get.

“He would most likely have to go to friends in the business sector, but he doesn’t have a financial background,” said political consultant Joseph Mercurio.

An individual with no real skills or experience writing laws that affect the lives of useful people. Sounds familiar for some reason. We note many other folks are unemployed for reasons OTHER than abusing positions of power, reasons like the Obamacare and “stimulus” bills Weiner and fellow tweeters championed.

While we take no joy in another’s misfortune, getting the weiners out of Washington will help the economy and reduce unemployment; we’re all for that.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: New York Post

But … but … but they’re electric: Bumper cars banned in Britain

Every once in a while environmentalists collide head-on with nanny staters. In this case, they collided in what used to be known as bumper cars.

Every once in a while environmentalists collide head-on with nanny staters. In this case, they collided in what used to be known as bumper cars. We say “used to be known” because the cars are still allowed, but bumping has been outlawed.

No. Seriously. You know it has to be true, because no one could possibly make up a story this moronic.

bumper-car-obama — In the nanny state, only the nanny staters are allowed to have fun

The Telegraph UK has the details:

Staff at all three Butlin resorts in Bognor Regis, Minehead and Skegness are instructed to ban anyone found guilty of bumping into each other in the electric cars equipped with huge bumpers.

Bemused customers who assume that the ‘no bumping sign’ is in jest are told to drive around slowly in circles rather than crash into anyone else for fear of an injury that could result in the resort being sued.

Telegraph columnist Michaal Deacon, who has just returned from a holiday at the Bognor Regis resort, said the experience was like “trundling round an exitless roundabout”.

“I’m not convinced that the dangers were great, given that the bumper cars were equipped with bumpers,” he said. “Seat belts, too. There were no airbags for the drivers, but it can be only a matter of time.”

Henceforth and forever more they shall be known as driving around in polite circles cars.

Source: Telegraph UK

Historic news: MSNBC anchor announces that LBJ was never elected President

This is surely going to be news to Barry Goldwater, the 36th President of the United States, who apparently defeated LBJ in the 1964 election.

Stop the friggin’ presses! MSNBC has breaking news!

The same network that chortles over Sarah Palin’s supposedly inaccurate comment about Paul Revere announced on Monday that Lyndon Baines Johnson was never elected President of the United States.

This is surely going to be news to Barry Goldwater, the 36th President of the United States, who apparently defeated LBJ in the 1964 election.

Far as we can tell, MSNBC is spending so much time leaning forward that they can’t be bothered with looking backward.

Surprise: Herman Cain announces that he’s not African-American

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain says he does not like to be called African-American.

We love Herman Cain. Unfortunately, there’s something gnawing at our gut telling us that he’ll say something to self-destruct even before the media has a chance to destroy him, but we love him nonetheless.

Bloomberg reports that the Republican presidential candidate does not like to be called African-American:

“I am an American. Black. Conservative,” he said, punctuating each aspect of his self-identity. “I don’t use African-American, because I’m American, I’m black and I’m conservative. I don’t like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.”

What is it about the word “African” that the candidate doesn’t particularly appreciate?

“Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America,” he said, hitting those last four words with a hammer. “And then it goes back to slavery. And I’m sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I’m a black man in America.”

Far as we’re concerned, Cain is just getting this out of the way before the liberal media begins announcing that he’s not an authentic African-American because he doesn’t support all the typical liberal causes.

What could Herman Cain possibly know about being black? As we’ve learn in the last few years, you can’t be an authentic African-American unless you’re half white and were raised in Indonesia.

Source: Bloomberg

Readin’, writin’ and arithmetic go up in smoke in the Obama Justice Department

DOJ officials pressured the Dayton Police and Fire Departments to lower testing standards because not enough African-American candidates passed the written exam.

Looks like Eric Holder’s Justice Department has another racial fiasco on its hands. The Obama administration has decided that competence and qualifications are far less important to a fire department than racial quotas.

Please allow us to restate the problem: Competence and qualifications mean nothing. Race means everything.

dayton-house-fire — When your house is on fire, don't you hope the fireman who shows up got an 'A' on his test?

Big Government has the smokin’ hot story:

Judicial Watch uncovered hundreds of documents from the City of Dayton, Ohio, showing that Department of Justice (DOJ) officials pressured the Dayton Police and Fire Departments to lower testing standards because not enough African-American candidates passed the written exam.

In a rational world, the candidates who didn’t pass would be told to study hard and try again next year. But this isn’t a rational world, it’s an Obamanation:

According to a report by Dayton’s ABC News affiliate on March 11, 2011, the ultimate compromise struck between the City of Dayton and the DOJ resulted in a lowering of test standards for Police Department candidates:

The Dayton Police Department is lowering its testing standards for recruits. It’s a move required by the U.S. Department of Justice after it says not enough African-Americans passed the exam. Dayton is in desperate need of officers to replace dozens of retirees. The hiring process was postponed for months because the D.O.J. rejected the original scores provided by the Dayton Civil Service Board, which administers the test.

Under the previous requirements, candidates had to get a 66% on part one of the exam and a 72% on part two. The D.O.J. approved new scoring policy only requires potential police officers to get a 58% and a 63%. That’s the equivalent of an ‘F’ and a ‘D’.

The equivalent of an ‘F’ and a ‘D’. In other words, the first and last letters of the world F-R-A-U-D.

Source: Big Government

Gunfight at the VP Corral

We heartily disagree with former Vice President John Nance Garner. Joe Biden’s definitely worth that warm bucket of you-know-what.

Former Vice President John Nance Garner once dismissed the vice presidency as “not being worth a bucket of warm piss.”

We can’t help wondering if the man had a little Nostradamus in him and was having a psychic vision of the current bucket when he made that comment:

biden-waterfight — Joe Biden testing the only weapons we'll soon be able to afford

The vice president and second lady hosted a party for journalists at their Naval Observatory residence Saturday and weren’t shy about squirting their guests.

Jill Biden toted a very large Super Soaker and wore a disguise: a black wig, camouflage pants with a matching hat and a gray U.S. Army T-shirt with the sleeves rolled up.

The veep sported his aviators and went after reporters with his loaded Water Warriors Titan water gun.

Sounds like Sheriff Joe was indulging in a little fantasy, pretending to be Barack Obama leading a Navy Seals mission.

But we don’t begrudge the veep a little down time. After all, he works hard. He’s head of the Middle Class Task Force (remember that?), a top advisor on foreign policy (he’s really paid off in that department), overseer of stimulus spending (he’s the one who did the actual flushing) and premier advocate of high-speed rail (sitting on trains is something he’s REALLY good at.) And the sheriff just got a new gig: President Obama put him in charge of a new project with the lofty goal of increasing accountability and cutting waste (we can suggest a place to start.)

We heartily disagree with Garner. Joe’s definitely worth that warm bucket of you-know-what.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Politico

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: The economy is firing on all cylinders, even if I’m not

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz informs America’s unwashed and unlearned that they are also uninformed if they think we’re anywhere near a double dip recession.

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, esteemed Florida congressperson and Chair of the DNC, put in a true tour de force Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. Getting two stupid clips from one program is rare, indeed, but DW-S is no typical politician.

In the first clip, she informs America’s unwashed and unlearned that they are also uninformed if they think we’re anywhere near a double dip recession. Hell, no. Barack Obama has turned this economy around, damn it.

In the second clip Meet the Press Host David Gregory asks Wasserman-Schultz why she initially sprang to Anthony Weiner’s defense by saying his dork-a-thon was strictly a “personal matter” even after Weiner’s ludicrous “stolen identity” claims.

Damn, it’s fun watching her squirm. Her tenure at the DNC is going to provide us with damn near infinite fodder.

Obama has the greatest memory in the history of mankind. And don’t you forget it.

Remembering a jazz concert and receiving a basketball before the age of two is nothing for a man of Barack Obama’s talents.

Barack Obama reveals to People magazine that he has a remarkable memory. A really remarkable memory. While talking to the puff piece publisher about parenting, the President told how his relationship with his birth father influenced his relationship with his daughters.

Mr Obama said he regretted not being present because of his own experiences in his troubled childhood.

‘I grew up without a father around I have certain memories of him taking me to my first jazz concert and giving me my first basketball as a Christmas present. But he left when I was two years old,’ he wrote.

A normal person might think that remembering a jazz concert and receiving a basketball before the age of two is a remarkable accomplishment. But it’s nothing for a man of Barack Obama’s talents. After all, he already told us that he remembers his own birth.

He also seems to have memorized Karl Marx’ Das Kapital and Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals verbatim.

But even this remarkable man’s memory isn’t perfect. No matter how hard he tries, he seems to have a little trouble remembering the United States Constitution.

Source: Daily Mail UK

Watch this as fast as you can: A whole new approach to “Don’t break the speed limit” commercials

“Enjoy the Ride” is a commercial produced by the Western Australia Office of Road Safety. They abandoned the typical threatening and frightening approaches and tried to show drivers that there’s a better way to look at driving and life.

“Enjoy the Ride” is a commercial produced by the Western Australia Office of Road Safety.

They abandoned the typical threatening and frightening approaches and tried to show drivers that there’s a better way to look at driving and life.

Don’t get us wrong. We’re pretty sure everyone completely ignored this commercial and continued driving like maniacs, but we still like the way they turned the problem upside down and inside out and came at it from a whole new direction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRwfwyaHXDk

Archie Bunker versus Jimmy Carter Barack Obama

As you can see in this clip, all the things Archie Bunker said about the Georgia peanut farmer back in the ‘70s apply to Barack Obama today.

Need proof that Barack Obama is simply Jimmy Carter 2.0? Well, here you go.

As you can see in this clip, all the things Archie Bunker said about the Georgia peanut farmer back in the ‘70s apply to Barack Obama today.

Damn, we miss Archie and Edith.

http://youtu.be/BtRbIz-GHo8

Texas theater turns foul-mouthed customer complaint into hilarious #@%*! commercial

A woman was thrown out of a theater for sending text messages, she called the theater and left an angry voicemail, and now the theater has used the voicemail in their own ad.

The Alamo Drafthouse is a small, quirky theater chain down in the Lone Star State. It has a strict policy against texting during movies. The rule is simple: Text during a movie and we’ll boot your butt out the door.

This is where the story starts to get funny. Really funny. ABC news the #@$%! details:

About a month ago, Tim League [Alamo House owner] says, a woman was thrown out of one of the chain’s 10 theaters for sending text messages — and retaliated by leaving an angry voice mail on the box office phone line. League said he thought it was so over-the-top that it was funny. They used it as the public service announcement they play before films to encourage people to keep quiet.

“The reaction has been huge,” League said in a telephone interview with ABC News. “People love it in the theater.”

Now if you could just buy a popcorn and a Coke without having to mortgage your house, life would be perfect.

NOTE: In the interest of full disclosure, we must point out that the Administrator has been banned from most of the theaters in our town after an unfortunate incident in which he jumped three rows in a theater to silence another patron who wouldn’t shut up during a movie.

Here’s the Alamo Drafthouse’s public service announcement:

H/T: Kimmy Queen

Source: ABC News

Ride The Twenty-First Century VERY Limited

No one would be able to get to Chicago quicker than now. Only in America does anyone call a train that averages 45 miles per hour “high speed rail.”

What’s bigger than a breadbox and slower than a bus? Hint: Joe Biden fantasizes about it. Give up? New Geography solves the riddle:

The state of Iowa is being asked to provide funds to match federal funding for a so-called “high speed rail” line from Chicago to Iowa City.

High speed rail: Pissing away your tax dollars faster than any competitive system

Luxury intercity bus service is [already] provided between Iowa City and Chicago twice daily. The luxury buses are equipped with plugs for laptop computers and with free wireless high-speed internet service. Perhaps most surprisingly, the luxury buses make the trip faster than the so-called high speed rail line, at 3:50 hours. The trains would take more than an hour longer (5:00 hours). No one would be able to get to Chicago quicker than now. Only in America does anyone call a train that averages 45 miles per hour “high speed rail.”

For the sake of accuracy, that last line should read “Only in the Obama Administration…” as we don’t recall that idiot Bush proposing anything this “visionary.” Nor this hallucinatory.

By the way, fares are simply un-fair:

The state would be required to … [make] up the substantial difference between costs and passenger fares. This is despite a fare much higher than the bus fare, likely to be at least $50 (based upon current fares for similar distances). By contrast, the luxury bus service charges a fare of $18.00…

The plan will be workable once Obama decides the Commerce Clause empowers him to outlaw buses.

In the 1940s, F.A. Hayek wrote about “The Road to Serfdom”; now we have hi-speed rail to get there. Progressives are all about progress.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: New Geography

Blind sow of the day: Al Franken realizes that Barack Obama might not be president in 2013

Even Democrat Senator Al Franken (Ugh. Just typing those words still makes our skin crawl) occasionally stumbles on an unavoidable truth.

Fox News reveals Franken’s revelation:

Things might not be looking so good for President Obama in 2012, according to one of Washington’s most liberal lawmakers. Senator Al Franken D-Minn., forecast a potentially gloomy outcome for his party’s first-term president during a hearing about FBI director Robert Mueller, and the former comedian wasn’t kidding.

“I should note, President Obama could nominate a new director that would be there for ten years,” Franken explained. “In two years, he may not be the President. So I think that bears just a mention.”

While you’re at it, Al, it also bears a mention that you might not be a senator in four years.

But don’t give it another thought. We wouldn’t want too much reality to intrude on your socialist fantasies.

Source: Fox News

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