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Apparently the makers of this product expect you to believe that it will turn you from a fat black woman to a slightly less fat white woman.
Let’s just call this weight loss ad what it is – the worst ad of the year. Apparently the makers of this product expect you to believe that it will turn you from a fat black woman to a slightly less fat white woman.
H/T: Buzzfeed
Actress Sigoruney Weaver explaining how global warming discriminates against some very unexpected victims: women.
We try to give you an amusing take on the day’s news here at IHateTheMedia.com. Sometimes we’re funny, and sometimes we’re not.
But the simple fact of the matter is that nothing we sweat bullets to create can possibly compare to the unintentionally funny crap that comes from the mouths of Hollyweirdos.
Take, for example, actress Sigoruney Weaver explaining how global warming discriminates against some very unexpected victims:
Over the past month, I have been speaking to women in Canada and the American Midwest about a powerful force that discriminates against us. I am not talking about the glass ceiling or sexists bosses, although we all know those still exist. I am talking about climate change.
You might think that a force as sweeping as global warming would be an equal opportunity threat: that it would endanger men and women alike. But the fact is climate change exacts a heavier toll on women.
Women produce up to 80 percent of the food in the developing world. Drought and unpredictable rains brought on by climate change will make this work far more precarious. Women will have to labor harder and longer to ensure their families have food, fuel, and water…
Far be it from us to express a strong opinion, but that Alien chick is nuttier than Aunt Dodie’s fruitcake.
Source: Huffington Post
Fresh off an appearance on Iranian television, the lunatic and former Congresswoman from Georgia appeared on Libyan television to announce that Gaddafi’s “Green Book Socialism” could cure all America’s ills.
Quick. Can you think of anything this woman has ever said that wasn’t (a) anti-American, (b) nutty, or (c) both?
We can’t. But perhaps you’re smarter than we are or perhaps you have a better memory than we do or perhaps you’re just as whacked out McKinney is.
Fresh off an appearance on Iranian television, the lunatic and former Congresswoman from Georgia Cynthia McKinney appeared on Libyan television to announce that Gaddafi’s “Green Book Socialism” could cure all America’s ills.
Certain rebels currently operating outside Tripoli beg to differ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDwcJ3Uof3E
In an age when foreclosures are rapidly becoming the norm, a Florida couple has literally reversed the trend by foreclosing on a bank. And not just any bank, but Bank of America.
This may be our favorite story of the day. In an age when foreclosures are rapidly becoming the norm, a Florida couple has literally reversed the trend by foreclosing on a bank. And not just any bank, but Bank of America.
WINK-TV has the story:
The foreclosure nightmare started when Warren and Maureen Nyerges paid cash for a home owned by Bank of America in the Golden Gate Estates. They never had a mortgage whatsoever. But, the bank fouled it up and wound up issuing a foreclosure through their attorney.
The couple took their case to court and after a year and a half nightmare the foreclosure was dropped. A Collier County judge said Bank of America has to pay the couple’s $2,534 legal fees for the error. After more than five months the bank still hadn’t paid up. So, the homeowners’ attorney did just what the bank would do to get their money, legally seize their assets.
“I instructed the deputy to go in and take desks, computers, copiers, filing cabinets, including cash in the drawers,” Attorney Todd Allen told WINK News….
Allen says the manager was visibly shaken, “Having two Sheriff’s deputies sitting across your desk, and a lawyer standing behind them, demanding whatever assets are in the bank can be intimidating. But, so is having your home foreclosed on when it wasn’t right.”
After about an hour the bank finally cut a check to satisfy the debt, and no furniture was taken….
Don’t you kind of wish you could have been there to see it all go down?
Source: WINK-TV
President Obama’s solicitor general told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.
Besides being a ridiculous bureaucratic monstrosity destined to fail, one thing we’ve always found troublesome about ObamaCare is its individual mandate provision. Now there’s good news: a way to avoid the mandate which is so easy, one need do nothing at all!
The Washington Examiner reveals the details:
[Neal Kumar Katyal] President Obama’s solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.
You’re probably asking “Why didn’t I think of that?” We posited this would also be a foolproof way to avoid taxes. But, as usual, there is a catch….
The so-called “hardship exemption” in the health care law is limited, and only applies to people who cannot obtain insurance for less than 8 percent of their income. So earning less isn’t necessarily a solution, because it could then qualify the person for government-subsidized insurance which could make their contribution to premiums fall below the 8 percent threshold.
No problem. ObamaCare is driving premiums up and Obama’s economy is driving wages and employment down. Shortly, everyone financially south of Donald Trump will be exempt.
But what would happen if large numbers of folks employed this tactic? Wouldn’t that cause economic calamity? Well, more economic calamity? And with the economic pie shriveling, who’s gonna pay for all those subsidies? Perhaps we’ve stumbled upon a flaw in Obamacare and socialism in general.
And for once it wasn’t Joe Biden who inadvertently blurted out the truth.
– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities
Source: Washington Examiner
Based on our cursory reading of this study, it appears that his last name set Anthony Weiner on an inescapable path to be a complete dick.
Well, this explains it all, doesn’t it? The name your parents give you determines how you are viewed by others and what they will expect of you.
Based on our cursory reading of this study, it appears that his last name set Anthony Weiner on an inescapable path to be a complete dick.
Live Science has the penile particulars:
“The name you give your kid is sort of a proxy for a whole bunch of things in our culture,” study researcher John Waggoner of Bloomberg University of Pennsylvania told LiveScience. Names have been linked to many life choices, including what kind of work people do and how they donate to charity.
The study looked into whether people’s names affect what others expect of them.
The researchers asked a group of 89 undergraduate students (about half of whom were prospective teachers) to guess, on a scale of 1 (“not very successful”) to 10 (“very successful”) how they thought a student with a certain name would perform academically.
Participants tended to judge those with names that have been correlated with lower maternal education and socioeconomic status as low educational achievers, compared with the possessors of higher-status names.
“What future teachers expect is that Cody will do a lot worse in school, relatively, than Benjamin and Samuel,” Waggoner said. “The more things you have going for you, the better people expect you to do.”
Our interpretation: You cannot run from your fate. The name Weiner is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Unfortunately, this sets up a brand new category of Democrat victimhood: Namists.
“I can’t help being a complete tool. It’s my parents’ fault.”
Source: Live Science
The clowns in Brussels decided to free up a little cash to promote similar success in the United States. And when we say “a little cash” we mean thirty million smackers a year.
The European Union, the political pipedream of one world European socialists, is a joke. It’s falling apart socially and economically. Nevertheless, the clowns in Brussels decided to free up a little cash to promote similar success in the United States. And when we say “a little cash” we mean thirty million smackers a year.
The Daily Mail UK has the story:
The EU Human Rights Fund is intended to help promote Western values in the developing world. But a shock report has found at least £17million of cash – around £2million from British taxpayers’ – has been ploughed into promoting the pet causes of Eurocrats in the U.S.
It is being spent on promoting abolition of the death penalty, discussion of climate change, green energy, and the International Criminal Court – all controversial subjects in the U.S.
The study by the Heritage Foundation, a centre-right Washington think-tank, found a further £4million has been ploughed into pro-EU propaganda in the U.S., including funds for advertising and publicity material.
More than £3million has been funnelled to American universities to promote the benefits of European integration and a further £3million to think-tanks who want to study EU affairs.
The European Commission’s own accounts show millions have also been paid to unnamed individual opinion formers in the U.S.
The report’s British author Sally McNamara said: ‘It is impossible to justify EU human rights budgets being spent in one of the world’s freest nations.’
Tory MP Douglas Carswell said: ‘The U.S. was founded by North Americans fed up with Europeans interfering in its internal affairs.
Just think, if these efforts are successful the United States can look forward to having the freedom of speech of the Dutch, the well-integrated Muslim population of the French, the ingenius political system of the Italians and the economy of the Greeks.
On second thought…
Source: Daily Mail UK
There have been a number of stories linking the name Jack Kevorkian with deaths. And now, after 83 years, we come to a story where the death detailed is his own.
There have been a number of stories linking the name Jack Kevorkian with deaths. And now, after 83 years, we come to a story where the death detailed is his own.
We found this story, in both name and sentiment, at Yahoo:
Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who captured the world’s attention as he helped dozens of ailing people commit suicide, igniting intense debate and ending up in prison for murder, has died in a Detroit area hospital after a short illness. He was 83.
Kevorkian, who said he helped some 130 people end their lives from 1990 to 1999, died about 2:30 a.m. at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, close friend and prominent attorney Mayer Morganroth said.
He had been hospitalized since last month with pneumonia and kidney problems, Morganroth said.
An official cause of death had not been determined, but Morganroth said it likely will be pulmonary thrombosis.
News of the man’s passing is hardly likely to dampen the debate or the controversy that has surrounded this figure for so long. Some will see him as a man of deep compassion. Others will believe him to be Dr. Death and little more than the world’s most famous psychopathologist.
Either way one thing is certain. He was very good at the mechanics of what he did. And when the time came Jack Kervorkian required no assistance in the ending of the life that was his own.
Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com
Source: Associated Press
Obama told the automakers “that the recovering U.S. economy took a hit that even a Jeep Wrangler couldn’t rebound from quickly.” Didn’t go over well.
Know your audience. That’s the basic rule of public speaking that President Obama violated in Toledo on Friday.
He told a audience of autoworkers who build the Jeep Wrangler “…that the recovering U.S. economy took a hit that even a Jeep Wrangler couldn’t rebound from quickly.”
He hasn’t dropped a bomb this big in Libya.
But putting his lousy joke aside, does it not appear that his Teleprompter isn’t working? He’s delivering his remarks with the same hesitance and awkwardness that are usually the hallmarks of a recalcitrant TOTUS.
http://youtu.be/Px20jWN4ifQ
So why did we bury Obama bin Laden at sea? Was it in accordance with strict Islamic law? Some Islamic scholars say it violates Islamic tradition. This video explains it all.
We’ve been told that Osama Bin Laden was buried at sea in accordance with strict Islamic law. Unfortunately, many Islamic scholars contend that such a burial actually violates Islamic tradition.
So why did we do it? This video explains it all.
H/T: CJ
That sound you hear is the ACLU howling in protest. Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Republican, just signed a bill that requires welfare applicants to get drug tested.
That sound you hear is the ACLU howling in protest. Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Republican, just signed a bill that requires welfare applicants to get drug tested. The theory behind it is that if taxpayers are required to get drug tested at work, then the people supported by their tax dollars should be required to meet the same strict standards. Seems fair to us.
CBS Miami has the pee particulars:
The bill also requires that those who apply for welfare must pay for the drug testing out of their own pockets. However, the cost would be reimbursed if the person passes the drug test.
Republicans said the measure was needed because if taxpayers are screened at their place of employment, so should welfare recipients. The drug testing bill was a priority for Scott.
“While there are certainly legitimate needs for public assistance, it is unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction,” Governor Scott said. “This new law will encourage personal accountability and will help to prevent the misuse of tax dollars.”
Next stop? We say candidates for political office should also be drug tested.
Overuse of controlled substances may be the only way to explain Democrat policies.
Source: CBS Miami
Gennette Cordova, the Seattle college girl embroiled in WeinerGate, has a really interesting theory on what really happened.
Gennette Cordova, the Seattle college girl embroiled in WeinerGate, has a really interesting theory on what really happened. And it veers dangerously close to throwing the man she once called her “boyfriend” under the bus.
The New York Post has the intimate inside information:
Cordova thinks the package-hugging picture — which Weiner “can’t say with certitude” isn’t his — was meant for somebody else and landed in her Twitter account by mistake.
Cordova is one of 198 people, many of them young, beautiful women, whom Weiner follows on Twitter.
Until recently, the congressman also followed stripper and porn actress Ginger Lee, 28, who openly gushes about her “Mr. Sexy Congressman” on social-network sites.
“Her name is Ginger — it makes sense he might have mixed us up,” Cordova said, noting that two of the first three letters of their names are the same.
The co-ed has a pretty good theory. The idea that Weiner accidentally sent the photo of his junk to Cordova while attempting to send it to a porn star makes far more sense than any of the other stupid stories Weiner’s floated in the last few days.
Source: New York Post
OK, so John Edwards finally got indicted. We’re not really sure if we should care about this story or not.
OK, so John Edwards finally got indicted. We’re not really sure if we should care about this story or not.
On one hand, no one cares about John Edwards anymore. At least we don’t. On the other hand, we don’t mind admitting that schadenfreude occasionally rears its ugly head here at IHTM and this is one of those occasions. We kind of enjoy seeing the biggest prick this side of Anthony Weiner’s underwear getting his comeuppance.
So as far as we’re concerned the only real news here – at least to us – is John Edwards’ real, full name:
A federal grand jury has indicted two-time presidential candidate John Edwards over massive sums of money spent to keep his mistress in hiding during the peak of his 2008 campaign for the White House.
The case of USA v. Johnny Reid Edwards contains six counts, including conspiracy, four counts of illegal campaign contributions and one count of false statements. The indictment was returned in the Middle District of North Carolina Friday.
Johnny Reid Edwards? His real name is Johnny and nickname is John? That’s backwards. But we shouldn’t be surprised because everything is backwards about this degenerate loser.
Such is his legacy.
Just for old times sake, here’s the other part of Edwards’ tattered legacy:
Source: Associated Press via Huffington Post
For god’s sake, who was in charge of Harry Reid this week? Whoever it was screwed up by letting him read today’s jobs report and then by letting him get in front of a microphone again.
For god’s sake, who was in charge of Harry Reid this week? Whoever it was screwed up by letting him read today’s jobs report and then by letting him get in front of a microphone again.
First, today’s miserable jobs report, followed by the addled old coot’s reaction to it:
Employers in May added the fewest jobs in eight months, and the unemployment rate inched up to 9.1 percent. The weakening job market raised concerns about an economy hampered by gas prices and the Japanese nuclear disaster.
The key question is whether the meager 54,000 jobs added last month mark a temporary setback or are evidence of a more chronic problem. That total is far lower than the previous three months’ average of 220,000 new jobs per month.
White House correspondent Mark Knoller tweeted poor ol’ Harry’s demented response to a rise in the unemployment rate and a slowdown in hiring:
What the hell were you people in Nevada thinking last November?
Source: Associated Press
Let this be a warning. If you value your life, do not piss off a Gurkha soldier. Corporal Dipprasad Pun single-handedly opened a can of whoop ass on 30 Taliban soldiers and has been awarded Britain’s second highest honor, the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, for his heroics.
Let this be a warning. If you value your life, do not piss off a Gurkha soldier. Corporal Dipprasad Pun single-handedly opened a can of whoop ass on 30 Taliban soldiers and has been awarded Britain’s second highest honor, the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, for his heroics.
The Daily Mail UK tells the remarkable story:
… The soldier fired more than 400 rounds, launched 17 grenades and detonated a mine to thwart the Taliban assault on his checkpoint near Babaji in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, last September.
… Defending the base from the roof, the Gurkha remained under continuous attack from rocket-propelled grenades and AK47s for more than a quarter of an hour.
Most of the militants were about 50ft away from him, but at one point he turned around to see a ‘huge’ Taliban fighter looming over him.
The soldier picked up his machine gun and fired a long burst at the man until he fell off the roof.
When another insurgent tried to climb up to his position, the Gurkha attempted to shoot him with his SA80 rifle. But it did not work, either because it had jammed or because the magazine was empty.
He first grabbed a sandbag but it had not been tied up and the contents fell to the floor.
Then he seized the metal tripod of his machine gun and threw it at the approaching Taliban militant, shouting in Nepali ‘Marchu talai’ (‘I will kill you’) and knocking him down.
Two insurgents were still attacking by the time the heroic Gurkha had used up all his ammunition, but he set off a Claymore mine to repel them.
Remarkable. And we love the name of the award. The Conspicuous Gallentry Cross. Sounds so very, very British, doesn’t it?
“Pip, pip, cheerio. I’ve just killed 30 of those pesky Taliban chaps. Care for a spot of tea?”
Source: Daily Mail UK
Perhaps our earlier condemnations of Charlie Rangel were too harsh. We assumed he was corrupt, but this video clip leads us to believe he is merely stupid.
Perhaps our earlier condemnations of Charlie Rangel were too harsh. We assumed he was corrupt, but this video clip leads us to believe he is merely stupid.
Here’s ol’ Charlie spouting Keynesian nonsense (pardon our redundancy) with Judge Andrew Napolitano on Fox News.
“We have to really cut back in our spending,” Charlie said. “Everyone knows that, and we have to raise revenue in order to do it.”
Sit back and read that sentence again. Luxuriate in its utter stupidity. Swim in its ignorance.
All brought to you courtesy of Charlie Rangel, D-NY.
This survivor of the Tuscaloosa tornado – this black survivor of the Tuscaloosa tornado – now realizes that hope and change is really just huffery and puffery.
Who better than someone who’s lived through a tornado to recognize hot air when she sees it?
This survivor of the Tuscaloosa tornado – this black survivor of the Tuscaloosa tornado – now realizes that hope and change is really just huffery and puffery.
“When Obama came here Obama said we’re gonna help everybody. That’s a lie. Tell Obama ‘Shirley said that and she lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.’”
What the country needs is another ten million just like Shirley Billingsley. Chinks in that solid black voting bloc, that is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S0y4GTpFGY
Rachel Maddow, it seems, is fit to be tied that McConnell arranged a vote in the Senate to raise the debt ceiling.
Rachel Maddow is another one of those liberals who’s always touted as brilliant. Brilliant is apparently liberal code for smug and condescending and, in this case, dumb. Really dumb.
Maddow, it seems, is fit to be tied that McConnell arranged a vote in the Senate to raise the debt ceiling.
So Maddow displayed her brilliance by – you’ll pardon the expression – beating a dead horse and repeatedly comparing McConnell to the little girls in Utah who were forced to compete on stick ponies because the real horses came down with equine herpes.
Over at CNN, Anderson Cooper was reportedly miffed by the comparison. He likes to think of himself as the little rodeo queen.
H/T: NewsBusters.org
It’s Kentucky, damn it. How about if we just handle this like Daniel Boone would have handled it. Take ‘em out, give ‘em a running start, then shoot ‘em. Let’s call it due process and be done with it.
It’s Kentucky, damn it. How about if we just handle this like Daniel Boone would have handled it. Take ‘em out, give ‘em a running start, then shoot ‘em. Let’s call it due process and be done with it.
The Bowling Green Daily News has the details:
Two Iraqi refugees living in Bowling Green were arraigned today on federal terrorism charges – including accusations of attempting to kill U.S. troops with explosive devices in Iraq. Waad Ramadan Alwan, 30, and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, 23, are charged in a 23-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Bowling Green on May 26. The men made their initial federal court appearance today in Louisville.
Alwan is accused of conspiring to kill U.S. nationals overseas, conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against U.S. nationals overseas, distributing information on how to manufacture and use improvised explosive devices, attempting to provide material support to terrorists and to al-Qaida in Iraq and conspiring to transfer, possess and export Stinger missiles.
Hammadi is charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorists and to al-Qaida in Iraq, as well as conspiracy to transfer, possess and export Stinger missiles.
What the hell are these clowns doing in the United States in the first place?
Source: Bowling Green Daily News
Even young Luke Russert, normally a completely unthinking liberal tool, is a bit incredulous at Congressman Anthony Weiner’s protestations of innocence.
Even young Luke Russert, normally a completely unthinking liberal tool, is a bit incredulous at Congressman Anthony Weiner’s protestations of innocence.
Russert: That’s not a picture of you?
Weiner: You know, I can’t say with certitude. My system was hacked. Pictures can be manipulated. Pictures can be dropped in and inserted. One of the reasons I’ve asked the firm that includes internet security arm is to take a look at what the heck happened here was to make sure it doesn’t happen again. But let’s, kinda, keep in mind why this is so silly. You know, someone committed a prank on me. Somehow got access to my Twitter account. By the way, took off a picture that made fun of the name Weiner and that’s what happened here.
Russert: But, Congressman, you would remember if you were to take a photograph of yourself like that.
Weiner: Well, you know one of the reasons we’ve asked an internet security firm to come in is to see maybe something was manipulated, somebody something dropped in. We don’t know for sure what happened here. But let’s try to take a step back. You know, this is a circumstance where someone committed a prank on the internet where someone spoofed me, made fun of me, whatever. We’re taking it seriously in as much we want to make sure it doesn’t happen again but this story has become a little bit out of control to the point that people are asking me, and asking people who follow me on Twitter, you know, personal questions. People are asking what other things are in your internet, on your, on your database.
Russert: But, fair enough. You will not flat-out deny that that photograph is not you?
Weiner: Here what happens I will say: I will say that we’re trying to figure out exactly what happened here. Whether a photograph was manipulated that was found in my account, whether something was dropped into my account, whether a photograph was partially my account, you know. Jon Stewart might have that right last night.
Russert: So, you never intentionally sent anything to Ms. Cordova?
Weiner: No. Nothing. She says that. I’m saying that. I’ve said that since Saturday when I said that originally. Look, this is a prank, intended I believe to make fun of me and to throw me off my game. I confess that it’s done that a little more than I would have liked.
Hey, you know what? The Editor hasn’t done a Cops reference in a couple weeks, so it may be time to mention his favorite episode of his favorite TV show again.
The cops arrest a suspected drug user. They frisk him and find drugs in his pocket.
His excuse? “These aren’t my pants.”
In a similar vein (and we hope you’ll overlook our use of the word ‘vein” in this context), Weiner now says, “Those may or may not be my underpants.”
Bad boys, bad boys, whatchu gonna do when they come for you?
H/T: NewsBusters.org
Believe it or not, CNN has been on top of the Weinergate story. MSNBC, on the other hand, seems to find the story less than interesting.
Believe it or not, CNN has been on top of the Weinergate story. The normally leftist network has covered the story as if that was a Republican erection in Anthony Weiner’s pants.
MSNBC, on the other hand, seems to find the story less than interesting.
Here’s a funny juxtaposition of two video clips. In the first, Wolf Blitzer says, “I don’t think ths story is going away” despite Weiner’s attempts to make it do just that.
In the second, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews devotes less than seconds to the story.
H/T: Brietbart.tv here and here
No matter how hard the Obama administration tries to cram these lemons down our throats, America doesn’t want them. Not even if gas goes to $10 a gallon.
The headline on a recent Gallup poll cracked us up: “Electric Cars Not an Attractive Option to Many Americans.”
It might just as well have read “Americans Don’t Like Getting Poked In the Eyes With Sharp Sticks” or maybe “Americans Like Pounding Their Heads Against the Wall Because It Feels So Good When They Stop.”
The bottom line: No matter how hard the Obama administration tries to cram these lemons down our throats, America doesn’t want them. Not even if gas goes to $10 a gallon.
Gallup has the details:
Americans are less likely to say they would buy an electric car than they are to say they would buy a more fuel-efficient one if gas prices rise to the $5-per-gallon range. Just 12% say at that price, they would be willing to buy such a car that they could drive only a limited number of miles at one time. Another 10% would make such a purchase if gas prices are in the $6- to $7.99-per-gallon range and another 9% if gas prices reach $8 to $10 per gallon. Still, 57% say they would not buy such an electric car no matter the price of gas.
High-income Americans are about twice as likely as those with low incomes to say they would purchase an electric car if gas prices rose to the $5 range. Otherwise, no matter whether respondents view higher prices as temporary or permanent, or the degree of financial hardship high gas prices are causing them, electric cars are equally unpopular as a response to high gas prices.
Who cares? Certainly not an administration committed to destroying the oil industry. Not an administration that believes in the religion of global warming. Not an administration that’s committed to “fundamentally changing America.”
And therein lies the rub. You can fundamentally change America all day long, but you can’t change market forces.
Source: Gallup
They said the world was running out of oil and wind power was the answer. Damn it. Now it looks like the world’s running out of wind, too.
Greens were soooo confident that they had finally come up with a winning argument when they said the world was running out of oil and wind power was the answer. Damn it. Now it looks like the world’s running out of wind, too.
The Telegraph UK tells about the latest ill winds blowing for the green movement:
According to government figures, 13 of the past 16 months have been calmer than normal – while 2010 was the “stillest” year of the past decade.
Meteorologists believe that changes to the Atlantic jet stream could alter the pattern of winds over the next 40 years and leave much of the nation’s growing army of power-generating turbines becalmed…
Last year, wind speeds over the UK averaged 7.8 knots (8.9mph), a fall of 20 per cent on 2008, and well below the mean for this century, which stands at 9.1 knots (10.5mph)…
Meteorologists have found that the position of the jet stream has been influenced by the lower levels of activity on the Sun.
The sun? The sun? What kind of poppycock is that? What could the sun possibly have to do with the earth’s climate?
Damn deniers.
Source: Telegraph UK
According to Al Jazeera, President Obama’s even less popular in the Arab world than he is in the United States.
President Obama made his Cairo speech soon after taking office. Then he used his unparalleled powers of persuasion again a couple weeks ago to speak out to the Muslim world once again.
According to Al Jazeera, President Obama’s even less popular in the Arab world than he is in the United States:
While dubbing his speech Winds of Change, in reference to the uprisings ongoing across the Arab World, his speech made it clear that the same winds were not yet blowing in Washington DC, and perhaps never will. President Obama’s second speech on the Arab world, delivered on 19 May, showed such constancy and lack of change in US policy as his first speech, delivered in Cairo on 4 June 2009. This is not to say that the two speeches lacked flair and imperial hubris in the delivery, but rather that their characteristic lack of substance or novelty, let alone their decorative and gratuitous verbosity, demonstrate that imperial climate control in Washington can never be “changed”, not even by the wind of the Arab uprisings.
The problem with US policy in the Arab world is not only its insistence on broadcasting credulous US propaganda – easily fed to Americans, yet with few takers elsewhere in the world – but also that it continues to show a complete lack of familiarity with Arab political culture and insists on insulting the intelligence of most Arabs, whom it claims to address directly with speeches such as Mr Obama’s.
… When Obama speaks of how America’s “short-term interests” in the region, at times, “don’t align perfectly with our long-term vision for the region”, he is peddling the biggest imperial lie of all. America’s short- and long-term interests in the region have always been control of oil resources, securing US profits, and defending Israel. Until “winds of change” blow on these interests, the position of the United States as the most powerful anti-democratic force in the Arab World will remain the same, Emperor Obama’s speeches notwithstanding.
Uh-oh. Looks like the Muslim world has figured out the same thing American voters have figured out:
Hope and change is really smoke and mirrors.
Source: Al Jazeera
We don’t know if that was really Weiner’s penis in that photo, but we know the guy’s a real prick. If you ever doubted it, here’s 7:55 of pure, unadulterated prickishness.
We don’t know if that was really Weiner’s penis in that photo, but we know the guy’s a real prick. If you ever doubted it, here’s 7:55 of pure, unadulterated prickishness.
CNN’s Dana Bash and an unidentified reporter go after Weiner. Not rudely, not even particularly aggressively, but insistently. They have questions, but Weiner refuses to answer them, instead pretending that this is silly little penis issue is distracting him from the people’s work.
Snide? Condescending? Evasive? Anyone have a thesaurus handy.
We cannot deny that we’d like to see Weiner roasted.
Get it? Weiner. Roasted.
Eat your heart out Mark Twain.
