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The United Nations welcomes Ahmadinejad, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu asks those who did not walk out on the Holocaust denier, “Have you no shame?”
Benjamin Netanyahu asks the question any reasonable person would ask.
“The man who called the Holocaust a lie spoke at this podium. To those who refused to come and to those who left in protest, I commend you. You stood up for moral clarity and you brought honor to your countries. But to those who gave this Holocaust denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere — have you no shame? Have you no decency?”
Sadly, the answer seems crystal clear.
The FMG9 is exactly what you need when you’re strolling down a dark street in a dangerous neighborhood. It may look like an ordinary flashlight, but push one button and it transforms into a Glock semi-automatic weapon.
The FMG9 is exactly what you need when you’re strolling down a dark street in a dangerous neighborhood. It may look like an ordinary flashlight, but push one button and it transforms into a Glock semi-automatic weapon.
Who thinks this stuff up?
In one of the most amazing statistics evere gleaned from a survey, a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows that 9% of Americans think they’ve seen or heard too little from President Obama during his presidency.
In one of the most amazing statistics evere gleaned from a survey, a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows that 9% of Americans think they’ve seen or heard too little from President Obama during his presidency.
This, of course, is said about the president who just completed interviews on five Sunday morning TV shows, Letterman, and spoke at the opening of the United Nations. He’s the only sitting president to have appeared live on both Letterman and Leno. He’s held more prime time press conferences than any president in history. And another survey last week showed that he’s given three times as many interviews as either of his two predecessors.
For the rational 91% of the population, the law of supply and demand has once again proven its infallibility.
Source: Wall Street Journal
San Francisco activists are “encouraging” the new owner of KNGY-FM to bring back the gay-oriented programming it featured until recently.
To be absolutely honest, we’re not sure what “gay music” is, but San Francisco activists want it returned to the airwaves.
Yes, San Francisco activists are “encouraging” the new owner of KNGY-FM to bring back the gay-oriented programming it featured until recently.
The station’s new owners switched its call letters from KNGY to KREV and flipped its format from “gay” to Top 40.
You can’t blame the new owners for changing formats. Ratings for the gay format sucked so badly that it trailed even Air America’s San Francisco affiliate. They each had less than 10% of the audience of top-rated KGO.
Nevertheless, Bay Area gay activists and politicians consider the format flip an insult to the community and they’re encouraging the new owners to “rethink” the decision. County supervisor Bevan Dufty (another one of our favorite names) has even introduced a resolution to that effect.
The FM station can be found at 92.7, which, naturally, is on the extreme left side of the dial.
Source: The Radio Equalizer
Obama Tells Letterman: I Was Black Before the Election.” Don’t look now, media, but he was also a socialist before the election, too.
Don’t look now, media, but he was also a socialist before the election, too.
Source: CBS News
FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd: “White people” should be forced to “step down…so someone else can have power.” His opinions on the First Amendment, race, power and the American system make Van Jones’ opinions seem positively mainstream.
That’s a quote from Mark Lloyd, the Federal Communications Commission’s new Chief Diversity Officer. His opinions on the First Amendment, race, power and the American system make Van Jones’ opinions seem positively mainstream.
“It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
“…the purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance.”
Of course, Lloyd loves Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’ “incredible … democratic revolution.” He also admires the way “Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country.” Translation: Chavez closed down any media outlets that deigned to oppose him.
What’s baffling is that any president ever appointed anyone with these fringe, extreme leftist beliefs to any position in the American government.
Of course, we’ve never had a President like Barack Obama before.
Source: Brietbart.tv
This video shows school children being led in a song about The One. We’re not sure which bothers us more — the introductory group chanting of the name “Barack Hussein Obama” or the fact that it’s sung to the tune of “Jesus Loves the Little Children.”
“What the hell is wrong with those paranoid conservatives? Why would they object to the president of the United States speaking to school children? His speech was inspirational.”
Blah-blah-blah. Shut up, libs.
This video shows school children being led in a song about The One. We’re not sure which bothers us more — the introductory group chanting of the name “Barack Hussein Obama” or the fact that it’s sung to the tune of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” with some lyrics from “Jesus Loves the Little Children” thrown in for good measure.
Any other questions about why conservatives didn’t want Obama speaking to their children?
Update: Song Lyrics
Song 1:
Mm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
Yes!
Mmm, mmm, mm
Barack Hussein Obama
Song 2:
Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say “hooray!”
Hooray, Mr. President! You’re number one!
The first black American to lead this great nation!
Hooray, Mr. President we honor your great plans
To make this country’s economy number one again!
Hooray Mr. President, we’re really proud of you!
And we stand for all Americans under the great Red, White, and Blue!
So continue —- Mr. President we know you’ll do the trick
So here’s a hearty hip-hooray —-
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
Update: Youtube removed the video, but we found another version and inserted it. Hopefully it stays.
In response to Senator Robert Bryd being hospitalized, and fresh from rushing through a bill that will allow them to overrule themselves and appoint a temporary replacement for Senator Ted Kennedy, the Massachusetts legislature introduced a bill that would allow them to name replacement senators from any state.
Senator down, Senator down. ABC News reports on West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd’s latest health problems:
Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., will remain in the hospital for “a few days” after falling down Tuesday morning in his Northern Virginia home, his office said in a statement.
In addition to his fall, the 91-year-old senator has an elevated white cell count, a possible sign of an infection.
In response, and fresh from rushing through a bill that will allow them to overrule themselves and appoint a temporary replacement for Senator Ted Kennedy, the Massachusetts legislature introduced a bill that would allow them to name replacement senators from any state.
“‘Senator Mike Dukakis, Democrat from West Virginia’ has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?” asked one unidentified Massachusetts legislator.
President Obama and The Most Glamorous First Lady Ever attended a Medal of Honor ceremony for U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti who was killed in Afghanistan in June 2006. Some critics said her attire was more appropriate for a garden party.
President Obama and The Most Glamorous First Lady Ever attended a Medal of Honor ceremony for U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti who was killed in Afghanistan in June 2006.
Mrs. O showed up in a floral frock with a bold, red rose print, accessorized with green kitten heels and chandelier earrings.
Some critics said her attire was more appropriate for a garden party than a solemn ceremony honoring an American hero, but the Michellistas at a website called Mrs-O.org disagreed. Oh, did they disagree.
Read on. But be prepared to be either amused or horrified by their blind, over-the-top idol worship.
Source: Mrs-O.org
Is your criticism of President Obama’s programs legitimate? Or are you one of those eeeeevil racists the Democrats keep talking about?
Is your criticism of President Obama’s programs legitimate? Or are you one of those eeeeevil racists the Democrats keep talking about?
Missourah.com recognized just how exhausting it can be trying to differentiate between legitimate criticism and racial hatred. So they developed this handy flow chart that makes the decision oh so very simple.
Source: Missourah.com
“…the MediaMutters guys are also humorless. They haven’t even pointed out that the Mississippi Acorn office is located on Hooker Street.”
– James Taranto
“…the MediaMutters guys are also humorless. They haven’t even pointed out that the Mississippi Acorn office is located on Hooker Street.”
– James Taranto
Source: Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web Today
Woodward and Bernstein helped bring down a president in the 1970s. Now O’Keefe and Giles are helping to bring down both ACORN and the fourth estate with their series of Internet videos. And the press is taking it none too kindly.
Woodward and Bernstein helped bring down a president in the 1970s. Now O’Keefe and Giles are helping to bring down both ACORN and the fourth estate with their series of Internet videos. And the press is taking it none too kindly.
In response, they’re smearing the messenger instead of doing their job by spreading the message that ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Racketeering Now) is rotten to the core and that President Obama has a long history with the taxpayer-funded group.
The Washington Post once accepted anonymous revelations from a secret source known only as “Deep Throat” that proved damaging to the president of the United States in 1972. Yet now the same paper now questions the motives of two amateur reporters whose secretly filmed revelations are proving embarrassing to the current president.
Did the Post or any other news organization question Woodward and Bernstein’s motives back then? Of course not.
In a devastating piece, Dan Calabrese asks,
Why, exactly, do O’Keefe and Giles now have to defend themselves and their independence, when the result of their work clearly speaks for itself?
Part of the issue is obviously ideological bias. The mainstream media is far less happy to see a left-wing organization exposed as a criminal fraud, especially one so closely connected to the left-wing president in which they have so much invested.
But there is more to it than that.
O’Keefe and Giles represent the kind of new reality that threatens the very existence of media dinosaurs like the Washington Post.
Read it and weep, dinosaurs. Read it and weep.
Source: PajamasMedia.com, NorthStarNational.com
That’s not a sign. That’s a damn rallying cry. Would someone please print the T-shirts and bumper stickers.
That’s not a sign. That’s a damn rallying cry. Would someone please print the T-shirts and bumper stickers.
Nancy Pelosi recently said “Insurance companies are out there in full force, carpet bombing, shock and awe against a public option.” She might have added, “And throwing me a $2,500 a plate fundraiser.”
Nancy Pelosi recently said “Insurance companies are out there in full force, carpet bombing, shock and awe against a public option.” She might have added, “And throwing me a $2,500 a plate fundraiser.”
Steve Elmendorf, a registered lobbyist for UnitedHealth, is hosting the fundraiser at his palatial home.
Odd, isn’t it, that everyday Americans opposed to the health care program are called insurance company lackeys, Nazis, un-American and assholes. (Oh, wait. That last one came from the communist who got fired, so it shouldn’t be counted against Nancy).
So let’s make one thing clear: when you have a $2,500 a plate fundraiser thrown for you by the same people that you vilify on a daily basis, you are not an asshole.
But you are a freakin’ hypocrite.
Source: NiceDeb
– Written by Patrick Michael
The top 11 videos, plus a bonus video, of Anderson Cooper being a bit of a….girlyman.
A misguided gaggle of global warming harpies dressed as suffragettes dumped a pile of horse manure in the driveway of a British TV host Jeremy Clarkson to protest vehicle emissions.
A misguided gaggle of global warming harpies dressed as suffragettes dumped a pile of horse manure in the driveway of a British TV host Jeremy Clarkson to protest vehicle emissions.
Six women stood by the dung in the drive of his home in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, with a sign that read: “This is what you’re landing us in.”
The protesters from direct action group Climate Rush said they were being as “blasé as him” about emissions.
Fact is, the suffragettes have the whole story backwards. If it weren’t for the internal combustion engine, the world would be awash in horse manure. Just imagine the horror of the eco-wackos if six billion people rode horses and their manure was hip deep in every city around the world.
The same wackos would be protesting horses and demanding that the government subsidize the development of the internatl combustion engine.
Source: BBC
Quote of the Day: Kanye West just interrupted Patrick Swayze’s funeral to let everyone know that Michael Jackson’s funeral was better!
“BREAKING NEWS! Kanye West just interrupted Patrick Swayze’s funeral to let everyone know that Michael Jackson’s funeral was better!”
– Craig Hines, Los Angeles radio personality
Source: LARadio.com
A crazy theory is advanced in “A President was killed the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this,” an article written by Eric Boehlert at Media Matters.
A new theory claims Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t responsible for the assassination of JFK. Neither was LBJ nor Cuba nor the unions nor the Mob. No, it was caused by “right wing hatred running wild.”
This theory is advanced in “A President was killed the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this,” an article written by Eric Boehlert at Media Matters.
Boehlert draws heavily on his experiences in the 1960s which, we assume, may have included ingesting numerous mind-altering substances.
“I’ve been thinking a lot of Kennedy and Dallas as I’ve watched the increasingly violent rhetorical attacks on Obama be unfurled,” Boehlert says, “as Americans yank their kids out of class in order to save them from being exposed to the President of the United States who only wanted to urge them to excel in the classroom. And as unvarnished hate and name-calling passed for health care ‘debate’ this summer.”
“The radical right, aided by a GOP Noise Machine that positively dwarfs what existed in 1963, has turned demonizing Obama–making him into a vile object of disgust–into a crusade,” he continues. “It’s a demented national jihad, the likes of which this country has not seen in modern times.”
Unfortunately for Boehlert, all the individuals and groups suspected in the Kennedy assassination were of the leftist variety. Oswald was an communist wannabe. LBJ was liberal. Cuba was and is communist. And union’s? Pretty much leftists.
So pardon us if we’re confused as hell by Boehlerts’ theory.
But, then, we’re guessing that he’s confused, too.
Source: MediaMatters.com
– Written by Patrick Michael
This short video clip demonstrates that the lovely and charming Ms. Garofalo may own the smartest dog in the world. The pooch manages to do to Garofalo exactly what she’s been doing to conservatives.
This short video clip demonstrates that the lovely and charming Ms. Garofalo may own the smartest dog in the world. The pooch manages to do to Garofalo exactly what she’s been doing to conservatives.
Please note that this may be the first time in history that the words “Garofalo” and “dog” have been used in the same sentence while referring to different things.
H/t: IOwnTheWorld.com
So which is it, gentlemen? Are the Nazi mobs working class and elderly or are they preppies wearing $2000 Brooks Brothers suits?
“My sense of the teabaggers is more complicated: they are primarily working-class, largely rural and elderly white people.”
– Joe Klein, Time Magazine
Source: Time.com
“…the Brooks Brothers Brigade in Florida in 2000, appear to have rented a similar bus and are appearing together at town hall meetings throughout the country.”
– Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary
Source: TalkingPointsMemo.com
So which is it, gentlemen? Are the Nazi mobs working class and elderly or are they preppies wearing $2000 Brooks Brothers suits?
President Obama hit ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday as part of his Talk Tour 2009. Host George Stephanopoulos actually had the nerve to challenge the President. He took the obvious position that a mandate forcing individuals to obtain health insurance coverage is a tax.
President Obama hit ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday as part of his Talk Tour 2009. Host George Stephanopoulos actually had the nerve to challenge the President. No, seriously, he did.
Stephanopoulos took the obvious position that a mandate forcing individuals to obtain health insurance coverage is a tax.
Stephanopoulos: That may be, but it’s still a tax increase.
Obama: No. That’s not true, George. The… ?for us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. What it’s saying is, is that we’re not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore than the fact that… right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase. People say to themselves, that is a fair way to make sure that if you hit my car, that I’m not covering all the costs.
Stephanopoulos: But it may be fair, it may be good public policy…
Obama: No, but… but, George, you… you can’t just make up that language and decide that that’s called a tax increase. Any…
Stephanopoulos: Here’s the…
What did wishy washy John McCain think of Jimmy Carter saying any animosity expressed toward Obama is racist. “It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.”
What did wishy washy John McCain think of Jimmy Carter saying any animosity expressed toward Obama is racist.
“I’m deeply disturbed by those accusations because it’s an unfair and untrue commentary on the American people and for them to exercise their God-given right to disagree with this administration. It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.”
Hard to believe we finally agree with the man who has earned his place as if not the worst presidential candidate in history, the worst presidential candidate of the 20th Century.
Peter Davies, the new mayor of Doncaster, England has been making news. And for all the right reasons. He;s cut his salary, abolished diversity, disregards environmentalism{ everything we want in a mayor.
Peter Davies, the new mayor of Doncaster, England has been making news. And for all the right reasons.
Here’s how the Telegraph UK reports it:
In his first week in office he cut his own salary from £73,000 to £30,000, which is putting one’s money where one’s mouth is. He also scrapped the mayoral limousine. He is ending Doncaster’s twinning with five towns around the world, an arrangement which he describes as “just for people to fly off and have a binge at the council’s expense”. He intends now to reduce (that’s right, reduce) council tax by 3 per cent this year.
The “diversity” portfolio has been abolished from the council’s cabinet. From next year no more funding will be given to the town’s “Gay Pride” event, on the grounds that people do not need to parade their sexuality, whatever it may be, at taxpayers’ expense. Black History Month, International Women’s Day and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month are similarly destined to become history.
Council funding of translation services for immigrants has been scrapped because he believes incomers should take the trouble to learn English. Officials have been ordered to abandon bureaucratic gobbledegook language. Davies is saving the taxpayers £80,000 by disaffiliating from the pointless Local Government Association and the Local Government Information Unit. He aims to abolish all non-jobs on the council, as epitomised by “community cohesion officers”. He is taking advice from the Taxpayers’ Alliance and the Campaign Against Political Correctness.
…He disregards all “green claptrap”, is creating more parking spaces to encourage traffic in the town for the benefit of business (”I’m not green and I’m not conned by global warming”). He has asked the Electoral Commission to reduce the number of Doncaster’s councillors from 63 to 21 (”If Pittsburgh can manage with nine councillors, why do we need 63?”).
IHateTheMedia.com is headquartered in a county that has a $60,000 per year “fat consultant” on the payroll.
If Mayor Davies were in charge, we have a feeling he would cut the fat. And the fat consultant.
Source: Telegraph UK via Tim Blair
Abbott & Costello explain how the government employees union works. Who’s on first? What’s on second? And Barack Obama’s on TV. Some things never change.
Who’s on first? What’s on second? And Barack Obama’s on TV. Some things never change.
Well, what the hell. The President can’t be expected to know the names of any Republicans. After all, he’s never really met or spoken to any of them. Which may explain why the President thought Alabama Congressman Spencer Bachus’ first name is Sheldon.
“We’ve worked closely with leaders in the Senate and the House,” President Obama said, “including not only Barney [Frank], but also Senators Chris Dodd and Richard Shelby and Barney is already working with his counterpart, Sheldon Bachus.”
Well, what the hell. The President can’t be expected to know the names of any Republicans. After all, he’s never really met or spoken to any of them. Which may explain why the President thought Alabama Congressman Spencer Bachus’ first name is Sheldon.
Smartest. President. In. History.
H/Te: HotAir.com
