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Uh-oh. Even perky Katie Couric has noticed that all is not well in ObamaLand and that reality may just be considerably different than the rosy fiction being spun by the administration.
Uh-oh. Even perky Katie Couric has noticed that all is not well in ObamaLand and that reality may just be considerably different than the rosy fiction being spun by the administration.
Reporter Chip Reid filed this skeptical report on Couric’s CBS Evening News:
Continue reading “Circle the wagons: Even CBS finds Obama’s stimulus claims “hard to believe””
In a sure sign that the Democrats consider New York’s 23rd Congressional District race a lost cause, Joe Biden got shipped in to do a little last minute campaigning for Democrat Bill Owens.
In a sure sign that the Democrats consider New York’s 23rd Congressional District race a lost cause, Joe Biden got shipped in to do a little last minute campaigning for Democrat Bill Owens.
In an equally sure sign that quality reporting is a lost cause, CNN referred to him as “former Vice President Joe Biden.”
For CNN, a simple error. For the rest of us, wishful thinking.
From now on, we will all lead our lives based on the wisdom found in The Ten Commandments According To Barack Obama.
The deification of Barack Obama continues.
Sting says, “He’s sent from God.” Archbishop Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle of Ghana said there is “a divine plan behind” Obama’s election. “It’s like the biblical story repeating itself,” the Archbishop said, noting the Old Testament story of Joseph, who became a top government official after being sold into slavery.
As a result, the 1900-page ObamaCare bill will probably be the last piece of legislation ever passed in Congress.
After that, we will all lead our lives based on the wisdom handed down in The Ten Commandments According To Barack Obama.
Verily.
Source: Breitbart.com, Bretibart.com
Lost amid the exciting news that the American economy is roaring back to life and that the Obama administration is creating jobs like nobody’s business is the most important job of all – that of deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.
Lost amid the exciting news that the American economy is roaring back to life and that the Obama administration is creating jobs like nobody’s business is the most important job of all – that of deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.
Under increasing pressure from the Obama administration to violate its own constitution, Zelaya’s opponents have agreed to a U.S.-brokered deal that will return the legally-ousted would-be dictator to power four months after a coup forced him to leave the country.
We can only hope that this job, like most of the other jobs created by Obama’s so-called stimulus, is just a temporary one.
According to numbers from statistics provided by the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion group, 1,784 blacks are aborted each day. Dr. Alveda King, niece of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “… abortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of.”
Oh, Obama! Say it ain’t so!
A new report from the U.S. Center for Disease Control reports that abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities (New York City and the District of Columbia) that reported abortions by race in 2005. Contrast this with the Tuskegee Institute’s famous report that said 3,437 lynchings of African Americans occurred between 1882 and 1968 and troubling genocidal questions begin bubbling to the surface.
According to numbers from statistics provided by the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion group, 1,784 blacks are aborted each day.
Dr. Alveda King, niece of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “… abortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of.”
Abortion kills more black Americans than the other seven leading causes of death (heart disease, cancer, strokes, accidents, diabetes, homicide, and chronic lower respiratory diseases ) combined, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2005, the latest year for which the abortion numbers are available.
When asked to comment on this report, Dr. Freda Bush, a black, pro-life obstetrician and gynecologist said, “I would like for them to explain why there’s such a significant proportion of their (Planned Parenthood) clinics that are located in minority communities.
White Liberals respond, “We like black people. We just don’t like so many of them.”
The response of Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, Urban League, and the National Action Committee of Al Sharpton was a collective, “We’ve got our piece of the pie, why should we share it?”
Source: CNSnews.com
Fox News’ Red Eye is the funniest, most irreverent show on television. And fearless. Did we mention fearless? Well, we should have. Here they even make fun of Keith Olbermann.
Fox News’ Red Eye is the funniest, most irreverent show on television. And fearless. Did we mention fearless? Well, we should have. Here they even make fun of Keith Olbermann.
Thank god for Tivo.
Sir David King, who was once chief scientific advisor to Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, is nothing if not realistic.
Sir David King, who was once chief scientific advisor to Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, is nothing if not inconsistent realistic.
Here’s what he now says about global warming alarmism:
“When people overstate happenings that aren’t necessarily climate change-related, or set up as almost certainties things that are difficult to establish scientifically, it distracts from the science we do understand. The danger is they can be accused of scaremongering. Also, we can all become described as kind of left-wing greens.”
– Sir David King, October 30, 2009
Really, Sir David? You seem to have changed your tune in the last year.
“If all the ice on Greenland were to melt, sea level would rise by seven metres. Is that likely to happen? Well I was saying six years ago unlikely [but] I’m afraid that that’s having to be revised… 80 percent of our human population lives within less than a one metre rise of sea level so imagine the destabilisation of our geopolitical system with a sea level rise of the order of one or two metres. And that is on the cards I’m afraid.”
– Sir David King, June 19, 2008
Welcome to reality, Sir David. Perhaps you could bring a few of your friends next time you visit.
Source: PlanetGore
Dennis Miller: “Not since Lana Turner hooked up with Johnny Stompanato has a great star exhibited such poor taste in men.”
“Not since Lana Turner hooked up with Johnny Stompanato has a great star exhibited such poor taste in men.”
Source: Washington Examiner
We don’t want to say people don’t like the Vice President, but his popularity has plunged so low that he barely outscores gonorrhea.
We don’t want to say people don’t like the Vice President, but his popularity has plunged so low that he barely outscores gonorrhea.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Vice President Joe Biden’s favorable rating has fallen to 42 percent in a new Gallup poll, down from a high of 59 percent just after last year’s election. Biden’s unfavorable rating in the new poll is 40 percent, up from 29 percent last November. (Eighteen percent of those surveyed say they have no opinion of Biden.)
Biden’s average favorable rating during his time in office so far is 45 percent — well below the average 65 percent favorable rating for Vice President Dick Cheney during Cheney’s first year in office. Vice President Al Gore’s favorable rating during his first year, 55 percent, was also higher than Biden’s. (Gallup did not measure vice presidential popularity before Gore.)
Biden’s rating has fallen most dramatically among independents. Last November, 55 percent of them had a favorable impression of Biden. Now, it’s 32 percent. Biden’s favorable rating among Democrats is 73 percent, down from 88 percent last December, and among Republicans it is 18 percent, down from 33 percent last year.
On the other hand, Biden is still very popular among columnists and bloggers in need of punch lines.
Source: Washington Examiner
Britain and other European Union nations are having trouble negotiating with the missilized mullahs of Iran. Who’d a thunk? “It’s like playing chess with a monkey,” said one diplomat close to the talks. “You get them to checkmate, and then they swallow the king.”
Britain and other European Union nations are having trouble negotiating with the missilized mullahs of Iran. Who’d a thunk?
“It’s like playing chess with a monkey,” said one diplomat close to the talks. “You get them to checkmate, and then they swallow the king.”
Two points:
First, if an American diplomat had uttered those words, he would immediately be removed from his position and forced to apologize for comparing the fine, upstanding mullahs to monkeys.
Second, the idiot Europeans obviously haven’t tried America’s super successful approach. Just give them a big, wide grin and a hearty handshake and insult your own country.
Works every time for President Obama.
Source: Telegraph UK
We’re not sure which moment from this “news” clip we like best: The host describing his “giggly” nephew. Or the little “don’t ask, don’t tell” soldier. Or the kid who wants to be a pastry chef.
The Onion does such a great job with parodies of real news that it’s sometimes tough to tell which is which.
We’re not sure which moment from this “news” clip we like best: The host describing his “giggly” nephew. Or the little “don’t ask, don’t tell” soldier. Or the kid who wants to be a pastry chef.
Happy Halloween.
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I saw Obama being interviewed by NBC’s Savannah Guthrie. The people who say he’s still campaigning are right. He wants to be both the first black President and the first woman President.
I saw Obama being interviewed by NBC’s Savannah Guthrie. The people who say he’s still campaigning are right. He wants to be both the first black President and the first woman President.
– Ray from OC
Despite his “controversial” views on global warming, Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics and now the new Superfreakonomics, visits with Jon Stewart and finds a surprisingly warm welcome.
Despite his “controversial” views on global warming, Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics and now the new Superfreakonomics, visits with Jon Stewart and finds a surprisingly warm welcome.
Who’d a thunk it?
The French government Tuesday detailed plans of a project called “My Free Newspaper,” under which 18- to 24-year-olds will be offered a free, yearlong subscription to a newspaper of their choice.
Earlier this year, Democrat Senator Ben Cardin introduced a bill to help struggling newspapers by allowing them to restructure as nonprofits giving them a boatload of tax breaks. Ahhh, but the French government has one-upped Cardin.
Naturally, the story is reported by the New York Times, which would, of course, be one of the primary beneficiaries if a similar plan were to be adopted in the United States:
Newspapers have tried many things to stave off a seemingly relentless decline in readers. Now France is pushing forward with a novel approach: giving away papers to young readers in an effort to turn them into regular customers.
The government Tuesday detailed plans of a project called “My Free Newspaper,” under which 18- to 24-year-olds will be offered a free, yearlong subscription to a newspaper of their choice.
“Winning back young readers is essential for the financial survival of the press, and for its civic dimension,” the culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, said.
The project is one of a number of measures, including direct financial subsidies, announced by the government last winter, after a study of the problems facing the newspaper industry.
About 60 publications are participating in the new project. In addition to papers like Le Monde and Le Figaro, they include a variety of local publications, as well as the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times. Even L’Équipe, a popular sports daily, is taking part.
Where the hell are the Democrats on this issue? C’mon, man, we want our free newspapers. We already have our free food, free rent, free cars, and free cell phones.
It’s a right. We’re pretty sure it’s in the Constitution. Isn’t that what they meant when they talked about freedom of the press?
Source: Reuters, New York Times
Republican Congressman Steve LaTourette of Ohio joked about the Democrats’ intraparty squabbles and mocked them for crying that “Republicans won’t let us have health care reform.”
This is one of the funniest speeches we’ve ever seen in the House.
Republican Congressman Steve LaTourette of Ohio joked about the Democrats’ intraparty squabbles and mocked them for crying that “Republicans won’t let us have health care reform.”
Whaaaa!
Source: Gateway Pundit
Alex Renton, a British environmentalist and lunatic thinks the world would be better off if American and Australian women had fewer babies so African women can have more of them.
Seriously. Alex Renton, a British environmentalist and lunatic – but we repeat ourselves – thinks the world would be better off if American and Australian women had fewer babies so African women can have more of them. And he said it with a straight face.
The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children. If they behave as the average person in the rich world does now, they will emit some 11 tonnes of CO² every year of their lives. In their turn, they are likely to have more carbon-emitting children who will make an even bigger mess…
In 2050, 95% of the extra population will be poor and the poorer you are, the less carbon you emit. By today’s standards, a cull of Australians or Americans would be at least 60 times as productive as one of Bangladeshis… As Rachel Baird, who works on climate change for Christian Aid, says: “Often in the countries where the birth rate is highest, emissions are so low that they are not even measurable. Look at Burkina Faso.” So why ask them to pay in unborn children for our profligacy…?
But how do you reduce population in countries where women’s rights are already achieved and birth-control methods are freely available? Could children perhaps become part of an adult’s personal carbon allowance? Could you offer rewards: have one child only and you may fly to Florida once a year?
After all, based on current emissions and life expectancy, one less British child would permit some 30 women in sub-Saharan Africa to have a baby and still leave the planet a cleaner place.
This is a great idea, but Alex has just scratched the surface here. Not only will those 30 starving, diseased African children produce fewer emissions each year, but they’ll lead much shorter lives than their American and Australian counterparts, thereby enriching Mother Earth even further.
These people give lunatics a bad name.
Source: Guardian UK
In news that will surely shock liberals across the fruited plain, Democrats are ignorant.
In news that will surely shock liberals across the fruited plain, Democrats are ignorant.
According to a new Pew Research study, they know far less about political matters than Republicans and Independents.
This, of course, runs contrary to everything you’ve ever read or heard from the liberal media. You are stupid. Too stupid to vote. Possibly too stupid to breathe. You move your lips when you read. If you read at all, that is.
And yet, you know more than Democrats.
Source: Pew Research
A new Pew poll shows far fewer Americans believe there’s solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. The number has plunged from 71% to only 57% in the last 18 months.
This is shaping up as a very frightening Halloween for Al Gore and his global warming acolytes.
A new Pew poll shows far fewer Americans believe there’s solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. The number has plunged from 71% to only 57% in the last 18 months. Fewer people believe that global warming is due to human activity, too. That number has declined from 47% to just 36%.
On the other hand, a recent Gallup poll indicates that 37% of Americans believe houses can be haunted.
Don’t worry. That scary moaning sound you hear is not coming from a haunted house. It’s just Al Gore curled up in the fetal position over in the corner.
Source: Pew, Gallup via Care2.com
NASCAR introduces the official ObamaCare pace car
Source: IOwnTheWorld.com
Uh-oh. Bad news from Great Britain. Meat is killing Mother Earth. Clogging up the old gal’s arteries and slowly but surely cutting off her blood supply.
Uh-oh. Bad news from Great Britain. Meat is killing Mother Earth. Clogging up the old gal’s arteries and slowly but surely cutting off her blood supply.
As the Times UK reports:
Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”
Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas.
Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.
This from Lord Stern, perhaps the most appropriately named man on earth.
Source: Times UK
Someone said that the best think about cash for clunkers is, now most of the Obama stickers are GONE!
Someone said that the best think about cash for clunkers is, now most of the Obama stickers are GONE!
– Hack ‘80s actor Scott Baio
Why oh why would Kelli Carpenter want to divorce Rosie O’Donnell?
Just two things missing from this photo of Rosie O’Donnell: a double-wide and a six-pack.
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly sends correspondent Griff Jenkins to Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson’s office. Grayson doesn’t like it. Not one little bit.
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly sends correspondent Griff Jenkins to Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson’s office. Grayson doesn’t like it. Not one little bit.
Source: MofoPolitics.com
Republican Congressman Steve King took the opportunity to grill NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell about the hypocritical treatment Rush Limbaugh received.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was on Capitol Hill testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. Republican Congressman Steve King took the opportunity to grill the Commish about the hypocritical treatment Rush Limbaugh received at the hands of the league.
That sound you hear is Ed Schultz whimpering over in the corner.
The wackos at 350.org are now resorting to skin to try and sell their global warming hoax.
The wackos at 350.org are now resorting to skin to try and sell their global warming hoax.
At least know that climate change believers aren’t too bright — the YouTube description of the video says, “We know that not everyone reads the newspapers. So we figured we’d try to get the point across the best way we know how–with clothes, or really, with the lack of clothes.”
Yeah, that’s a brilliant idea. Have hot young models strip to show that the warmer it gets, the fewer clothes we’ll need. These idiots just lost the support of Rachel Maddow, Ellen DeGenerous and Rosie O’Donnell and every man in the world.
We rise as one and say, “More global warming, please.”
