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Barack Obama was wrong. The are only 24 states, not 57. And the 4th of July is the perfect day to celebrate each and every one of them.
Barack Obama was wrong. The are only 24 states, not 57. And the 4th of July is the perfect day to celebrate each and every one of them.
Lahoma Sue Smith, an Oklahoma City prostitute, pleaded no contest after being accused of trading her…uhhh…services for a box of Frito-Lay chips. She was fined $1,142.
What the hell is going on in the nation’s heartland?
Lahoma Sue Smith, an Oklahoma City prostitute, pleaded no contest after being accused of trading her…uhhh…services for a box of chips. She was fined $1,142.
Police report that undercover officers saw Smith “trying to catch a date” by flashing her headlights. (We will pause now while you make your own joke about a prostitute “flashing her headlights.”) When they approached Smith’s car, her blouse was open and a man was pulling his pants up in the passenger seat.
The man told Smith he was looking for company but had no money. He must have caught her in a generous mood, because she agreed to trade sex for the $30 case of Frito-Lay chips she noticed in his back seat. (We will now pause again while you make your own joke about the name Frito-Lay and prostitution.)
When police asked Smith if she had ever been arrested for prostitution, she said, “Yes. Two or three times.”
We assume the attached photo of Smith doesn’t do her justice. Because she’s obviously all that and a bag of chips.
Source: NewsOK.com
School District honcho Ramon Cortines is outraged by photos of pseudo gay fashion icon Sacha Cohen “Bruno” taken with football players at LA’s Birmingham High School.
School District honcho Ramon Cortines is outraged by photos of pseudo gay fashion icon “Bruno” taken with football players at LA’s Birmingham High School.
Cortines howls that the district has “allowed our students to be used.”
We’d salute his efforts to protect the city’s children. Except for one thing: It’s nothing but phony showboating.
In reality, Cortines seems far more worried about students being used by comic predator Cohen in a Hollywood photo shoot than about students being used by real predators in the city’s classrooms.
A recent Los Angeles Times report concluded, “Repeatedly, the district failed to follow up on sexual misconduct complaints against employees once police or prosecutors dropped criminal actions. Some ended up at new schools. In at least one instance…the new principal had no idea of his history.”
Molesting your young students? No problem. Sexually involved with your older students? No problem. But shooting some funny photos with an actor? That’s a problem.
It’s not easy to be this stupid. Cortines must be a graduate of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Source: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times
Looks like we were right to be concerned that the House of Representatives’ apology for slavery was just a prelude to reparations demanded by Congressional Black Caucus.
Looks like we were right to be concerned that the House of Representatives’ apology for slavery was just a prelude to reparations.
Otherwise, it’s difficult to explain black House Democrats’ reaction to a “no reparations” disclaimer inserted in the Senate version of the apology.
The Senate disclaimer says: “Nothing in this resolution (A) authorizes or supports any claim against the United States or (B) serves as a settlement of any claim against the United States.”
Those simple words have angered members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
“I would not want to have any language in place that would deny anyone, any citizen, the right to address a grievance,” said wacko Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat.
“I feel that some method other than just an apology should be made. People should be made whole,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said.
To that we say, “Shut the hell up, Sheila. Close your pie hole, Bennie.”
Uh-oh. Have we gone too far? In that case, we would like to issue an apology for the previous paragraph. But no reparations.
Source: FoxNews.com
President Obama called California’s “energy-efficiency policies” an example for the rest of the nation. Not a good example actually.
President Obama must be a Michael Jackson fan. Because when he talks about California’s energy policy, he’s definitely in Neverland.
Yesterday the President called California’s “energy-efficiency policies” an example for the rest of the nation and noted that “Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average.”
Harvard’s Edward Glaeser logically points out that California’s temperate climate has far more impact on the state’s low energy consumption than the state’s draconian energy policies.
“January temperature does a terrific job of explaining carbon emissions from home heating and July temperature does almost as well at explaining electricity usage,” Glaeser noted. “California has the most temperate climate in the country and as a result, homes use less heat in the winter and less electricity in the summer. In hot, humid Houston or frigid Minneapolis, people use plenty of energy to artificially recreate what California has naturally.”
According to the President’s illogical spin, California’s lack of power plants is another sign of its success. But in reality, California uses 20% more electricity than it generates and is forced to import power from neighboring states that aren’t crippled by California’s overly-strict environmental regulations.
The President may have been completely wrong about California, but at least he’s consistent. He’s wrong about the other 56 states, too.
Source: Wall Street Journal Best of the Web
So-called Town Hall meetings have always been a farce. Same with Obama’s idea of “transparency.” Now reporters are even starting to complain.
So-called Town Hall meetings have always been a farce. Same with Obama’s idea of “transparency.” Now reporters are even starting to complain.
Absent the pretense of a campaign “debate” platform, Town Hall meetings are now merely infomercials. Pure propaganda. Filled with hack partisan activists and axe-grinders who have nothing better to do than ask pre-approved questions. Unless it’s your job to report on these charades, you shouldn’t be watching them.
But it seems the media lapdogs are growing restless. Some in the White House press corps are no longer content to be the Obama administration’s public relations pep squad.
Helen Thomas has covered every president since Lincoln, er… Kennedy. Anyway, she’s old enough to know better and to resent the spoon-feeding. We don’t agree with Thomas on muchof anything, but we can’t help but cheer for her in this video. Watch as she teams up with CBS’ Chip Reid to confront smarmy spokes-tool Robert Gibbs about the White House’s manipulative question-planting techniques and his insulting non-answers.
Then imagine the outcry if the Bush team had been as “transparent” as this bunch.
Source: RealClearPolitics.com
President Obama called on three complete strangers at his healthcare town hall forum. Not so random though.
President Obama called on three complete strangers at his healthcare town hall forum get-together and ice cream social, three random Americans who just happened to be in the neighborhood.
As the Washington Post reports, “The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence.”
Yup. A whole roomful of people showed up and our Fearless Leader coincidentally calls on three who just happen to be members of organizations that back his healthcare legistlation.
That’s not a coincidence, it’s a friggin’ miracle. What are the odds? No wonder this guy wanted to speak at Harry Reid’s fundraiser in Las Vegas. Let it ride, baby. When you’re hot, you’re hot. Baby needs a new pair of shoes.
Either that or the whole damn thing was as pre-planned as a White House press conference.
Make your own decision.
Source: Washington Post via Ace of Spades
A University of Michigan study says love stories told in G-rated children’s films (such as Disney’s Little Mermaid) are responsible for what they label “heteronormativity.” Real world translation: Not enough gay sex.
Hold onto your hats. You’re not going to believe this one.
A University of Michigan study says love stories told in G-rated children’s films (such as Disney’s Little Mermaid) are responsible for what they label “heteronormativity.”
Real world translation: Not enough gay sex.
“Despite the assumption that children’s media are free of sexual content, our analyses suggest that these media depict a rich and pervasive heterosexual landscape,” said a report in Gender & Society, a publication of the Sociologists for Women in Society.
Researchers looked at the most successful G-rated movies between 1990-2005 and concluded that kids’ films “construct heterosexuality” via “depictions of hetero-romantic love as exceptional, powerful, transformative, and magical,” and “depictions of interactions between gendered bodies in which the sexiness of feminine characters is subjected to the gaze of masculine characters.”
“Characters in love are surrounded by music, flowers, candles, magic, fire, balloons, fancy dresses, dim lights, dancing and elaborate dinners,” the report noted. “Fireflies, butterflies, sunsets, wind and the beauty and power of nature often provide the setting for – and a link to the naturalness of – hetero-romantic love.”
We say, bravo, you brave researchers. That’s what’s wrong with America’s kids. They need more gay sex in their cartoons! More group sex! More bestiality!
And for god’s sake, man, somebody put some pants on that perverted Donald Duck.
Source: LifesiteNews.com
Once again, Joe Biden has made a gaffe, this time telling the crowd hat “the Buick LeSabre is made in Ontario, Canada,” and that “the UAW worker in Canada makes the same wage as the UAW worker in the U.S.”
President Obama may need to appoint a Biden Speech Czar just to keep an eye on the vexing Vice President.
Biden was appearing at a town hall meeting in the lovely city of Perrysburg, Ohio. The subject was “the middle class and manufacturing” but the veep veered off into unexplored and unexplained territory.
He blithely informed told the assembled crowd that “the Buick LeSabre is made in Ontario, Canada,” and that “the UAW worker in Canada makes the same wage as the UAW worker in the U.S.”
He was trying to make the point that the Canadian-made LeSebre cost 14% less to build because of that country’s socialist healthcare system.
But as we’ve all learned, Biden just makes crap up as he goes along.
In reality, they haven’t built the LeSabre since 2005. It was actually manufactured in the United States, not Canada. And to complete the Biden trifecta, Canadian Auto Workers split from the UAW and became an independent union way back in 1985.
Overall, it was a fine speech. Other than the everything-he-said-was-wrong part.
Source: Detroit News via Tim Blair
Jesse Jackson offers up an inspirational message for Michael Jackson’s fans.
Don’t ask us to explain this video.
As far as we can tell, some guy named Raffle van Exel grabbed Jesse Jackson as he was walking through an airport and asked him to offer up an inspirational message for Michael Jackson’s fans.
Reverend Jackson, of course, has never met a microphone he didn’t like, so he started jabbering away.
We just have three questions about the Reverend’s comments:
Question #1: What’s this “dignity” he attributes to Michael Jackson? The guy’s date at the Grammy Awards was a chimpanzee named Bubbles.
Question #2: When did “decency” become an acronym for child molester?
Question #3: Is it our imagination or is Jesse’s speech pattern starting to sound like he’s reading Dr. Seuss?
Source: Dori Monsoon via Ace of Spades
Charles Krauthammer said “whenever you find yourself on the side of Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and the Castro twins you ought to re-examine your assumptions.”
Charles Krauthammer asks the basic question, “What’s wrong with this picture?”
“Two weeks ago he refuses to meddle in a country where peaceful demonstrators are getting shot by a theocratic dictatorship. He doesn’t want to choose sides. And, now he’s eager to meddle on behalf of a president in Honduras who’s a Chavez wannabe who’s strong-arming his way to a referendum that has been declared illegal by his Supreme Court as a way to have a referendum to establish a assembly that will establish a new constitution that will be a Chavez-like dictatorship… Look a rule of thumb here is whenever you find yourself on the side of Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and the Castro twins you ought to re-examine your assumptions.”
“If it’s dogmatic and autocratic, my support is automatic.” Barack Obama is starting to sound like Jesse Jackson.
Cynthia McKinney was aboard a ship attempting to break the Israeli’s blockade of the Gaza coastline. The Israelis intercepted the ship, boarded it, and arrested nineteen of the 21 people aboard, including her.
Leftist loon and former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has discovered that being a loose cannon isn’t enough to win a war against the Israeli military.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, McKinney was aboard a ship attempting to break the Israeli’s blockade of the Gaza coastline. The Israelis intercepted the ship, boarded it, and arrested nineteen of the 21 people aboard. McKinney was one of the nineteen.
The Greek-registered ship, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, is officially named Arion but the U.S.-based Free Gaza Movement prefers to call it the Spirit of Humanity.
This is getting to be a habit, because McKinney was aboard another ship that collided with an Israeli naval vessel while trying to get to Gaza last December.
“This is an outrageous violation of international law against us,” said McKinney (D-GA). “Our boat was not in Israeli waters and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip. President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that’s exactly what we tried to do. We’re asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey.”
A show of hands, please. Who wants to tell McKinney that President Obama is not the Commander-In-Chief of the Israeli military?
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution via Bluegrass Pundit
A reporter asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs if President Obama will stand by his campaign pledge to not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000.
Gibbs hemmed and hawed, stuttered and stammered and finally said, “the question is hypothetical.” When that didn’t placate the reporter, he went with “we are going to let the process work it’s way through.” Reporters actually laughed at him. Not with him, mind you, but at him.
Remember that scene at the end of The Graduate where Dustin Hoffman breaks up Katherine Ross’ wedding and the two of them are sitting in the back of the bus? Instead of looking joyful because he got the girl, a slight look of terror creeps across his face as he realizes he doesn’t really know her.
We picture that same look creeping across reporters’ faces at the White House on Monday after one of them asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs if President Obama will stand by his campaign pledge to not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000.
Gibbs hemmed and hawed, stuttered and stammered and finally said, “the question is hypothetical.” When that didn’t placate the reporter, he went with “we are going to let the process work it’s way through.”
Reporters actually laughed at him. Not with him, mind you, but at him.
“Oh, crap,” the press corps thought as that Dustin Hoffman look crept across their collective faces, “Maybe we shouldn’t have eloped with this Obama guy.”
H/T: BluegrassPundit.com
President Obama said Friday that he doesn’t take Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s demand for an apology seriously after the Iranian president accused him of interfering in the country’s affairs.
We’ve been laughing so damn hard we can’t catch our breath. Give us just a sec. OK, OK, OK, we think we can continue with this story now.
Fox News reports, “President Obama said Friday that he doesn’t take Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s demand for an apology seriously after the Iranian president accused him of interfering in the country’s affairs.
“’I don’t take Mr. Ahmadinejad’s statements seriously about apologies, especially given the fact that the United States has gone out of its way not to interfere with the election process in Iran and I’m really not concerned about Mr. Ahmadinejad apologizing to me,’ Obama said in a joint White House appearance with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after they conferred privately.”
And who can blame the President? That Mahmoud is such a well-known kidder. Those weren’t protests in Iran, they were laugh riots. He’s like an Iranian Shecky Greene. The Henny Youngman of the Middle East. You just can’t take the guy seriously.
“I just flew in from Tehran and, boy, are my arms tired.”
Source: FoxNews.com
President Obama throws like a girl. He can’t pitch at the Major League Baseball all-star game, and he threw like a girl trying to dunk Rahm Emnauel at Congressional Picnic.
President Obama is supposed to throw out the first pitch at this month’s major league baseball all-star game. But based on the way he threw at the recent White House Tax-and-Spend, Cap-and-Trade, Luau-and-Funfest, that first pitch video could become an instant YouTube classic.
The studliest president in history and Obama throws like a girl.
7/15/09 Update: Turns out Barack Obama pitched like a girl at the Major League Baseball All Star Game as well. We hear Fox didn’t show the pitch landing due to Obama’s media request since he didn’t want to be embarrassed on TV.
7/15/09 Update II: We found a video that shows where the pitch actually landed. Sorry Fox, your protection of him did not work.
We’ve also published a related article on this: First pitch at all-star game symbolic of Obama’s presidency: It came up a bit short.
President Obama postage stamp. Turns out the stamp isn’t sticking to envelopes very well.President Obama postage stamp.
Bad news down at the United States Postal Service. They’re having trouble with their new President Obama postage stamp. Turns out the stamp isn’t sticking to envelopes very well.
This has apparently enraged the President, who immediately demanded a full investigation.
After spending $7.8 million in “stimulus” funds on scientific research, the source of the problem was discovered:
Democrats were licking the back side of the stamp until there was no adhesive left. And Republicans were spitting on the front side of it.
A Naval Academy professor says the Naval Academy is so intent on developing a more diverse collection of midshipmen that it has unofficially set up separate policies for white and nonwhite applicants.
Here we go again. Affirmative action run amok.
A Naval Academy professor says the Naval Academy is so intent on developing a more diverse collection of midshipmen that it has unofficially set up separate policies for white and nonwhite applicants.
Bruce Fleming says the academy’s admissions board uses more lenient standards for candidates who check the the black, Latino or Asian box on the application. He says too many of the nonwhite midshipmen in his classes just aren’t qualified for college-level work.
“The academy is like a team,” Fleming said “…where we choose a remedial player, where there’s no guarantee you can even remediate him.”
Officials from the Naval Academy dispute Fleming’s assertions and say the reason for the record number of nonwhite midshipmen is that their recruiting pitch targeted to nonwhite students.
They call this diversity? We say, “Hah!”
What about illegal alien midshipmen? What about militant Muslim midshipmen? What about Chinese spy midshipmen? Unfortunately, the ACLU is probably working on the lawsuit as we speak.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the death of Michael Jackson, it’s that life goes on. Especially if it’s Elizabeth Taylor’s life.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the death of Michael Jackson, it’s that life goes on. Especially if it’s Elizabeth Taylor’s life.
The former Hollywood leading lady issued this heartfelt statement about her good friend:
My heart . . . my mind . . . are broken. I loved Michael with all my soul and I can’t imagine life without him. We had so much in common and we had such loving fun together. I was packing up my clothes to go to London for his opening when I heard the news. I still can’t believe it. I don’t want to believe it. It can’t be so. He will live in my heart forever but it’s not enough. My life feels so empty. I don’t think anyone knew how much we loved each other. The purest most giving love I’ve ever known. Oh God! I’m going to miss him. I can’t yet imagine life with out [sic] him. But I guess with God’s help . . . I’ll learn. I keep looking at the photo he gave me of himself, which says, “To my true love Elizabeth, I love you forever.” And, I will love HIM forever.
Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web points out that the self-absorbed former star referred to herself 23 times in this 162 word statement (and that’s if we exclude the word “we” from the total).
There’s one thing in Taylor’s statement that cannot be disputed.
Her mind is definitely broken.
Source: Boston.com via Best of the Web
It appears that Fernandez’ Peronist party will lose its majority in Argentina’s lower house and barely cling to a majority in the Senate.
In last month’s European elections, liberalism was rejected in one country after another. Now you can add Argentina to the list of countries going conservative.
Reuters reports: “Argentines cast ballots in congressional elections on Sunday and are expected to throw out allies of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in a rejection of her interventionist economic policies and combative style.”
Fernandez is a leftist often compared to Hillary Clinton because she succeeded her husband, ex-President Nestor Kirchner. Under her rule, Argentina’s economy has stagnated after a six-year expansion. As a result, Fernandez has seen her approval rating fall to a mere 30%.
It appears that Fernandez’ Peronist party will lose its majority in Argentina’s lower house and barely cling to a majority in the Senate.
And she didn’t even have an auto industry to nationalize.
Source: Reuters.com
Global warming causes everything. Absolutely everything. Including reducing and increasing the population of cats and dogs.
Too many cats! Blame it on global warming!
“The RSPCA claims climate change is producing a boom in the number of feral felines prowling streets in Melbourne’s leafy east.”
Source: Whitehorse Leader via Andrew Bolt
Not enough cats! Blame in on global warming!
“Climate change could kill pets, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), as warmer temperatures cause an increase in exotic diseases among cats and dogs.”
Source: Telegraph UK via Andrew Bolt
Fox News Steve Doocy points out, no, she hasn’t actually read the car and trade energy bill. Damn conservative media, why can’t they just play nice like the liberal media?
Energy Czar Carol Browner should be on Dancing With the Stars. Because this woman can dance around a question like nobody’s business. Fox News’ Steve Doocy asks her if she’s actually read the Cap-and-Trade energy bill and she starts with a mean paso doble, segues into a tango, and finishes off with a creditable tap dance.
But as Doocy points out, no, she hasn’t actually read the bill. Damn conservative media being unfair again.
Source: HotAir.com
Just when we were ready to write off Morgan Freeman as a Hollywood wacko for having with his step granddaughter, we run across this video. It shows Freeman telling an absolutely incredulous Mike Wallace why he’s against Black History Month.
Damn it. Just when we were ready to write off Morgan Freeman as a Hollywood wacko for having an affair with his step granddaughter, we run across this video. It shows Freeman telling an absolutely incredulous Mike Wallace why he’s against Black History Month.
Mike Wallace: Black history month you find ridiculous. Why?
Morgan Freeman: You’re going to relegate my history to a month?
Mike Wallace: Oh, c’mon.
Morgan Freeman: What do you do with yours? Which month is white history month? Well, c’mon, tell me.
Mike Wallace: I’m Jewish.
Morgan Freeman: OK, which month is Jewish history month?
Mike Wallace: There isn’t one.
Morgan Freeman: Oh, oh. Why not? Do you want one?
Mike Wallace:No.
Morgan Freeman: No, I don’t either. I don’t want a black history month. Black history is American history.
Mike Wallace: How we gonna get rid of racism until…
Morgan Freeman: Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man. And I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman.
He made so much sense that 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace is left damn near speechless.
And for that alone, Freeman is working his way back into our good graces.
Former Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson is accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from a Nigerian businessman in exchange for brokering deals between an American company and a Nigerian startup.
Former Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson is accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from a Nigerian businessman in exchange for brokering deals between an American company and a Nigerian startup.
Jefferson’s undoubtedly a crook, but we have to give him a lot of credit.
He may be the only guy who ever got money out of one of those emails from Nigeria.
Source: FoxNews.com
Joe Biden wrapped up his remarks by saluting Tim Kaine as the “great governor of New Jersey.” The only problem is, Kaine is the governor of Virginia, not New Jersey. One would think Biden would know this, because Kaine is also chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Joe “But-But-But-But” Biden is a never-ending source of amusement. And amazement. Not to the biased media of course, who liked to ignore all but Republican gaffes.
They sent the Vice President out to speak at a LGBT fundraiser the other night. He spoke for about twenty minutes and managed to cover all the gay bases. So far, so good. His keepers were breathing a sigh of relief as he came down the home stretch. Then disaster Biden struck.
He wrapped up his remarks by saluting Tim Kaine as the “great governor of New Jersey.” The only problem is, Kaine is the governor of Virginia, not New Jersey. One would think Biden would know this, because Kaine is also chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Sending Joe Biden out to speak is becoming an exercise in sadism. But what the hell, this was the LGBT dinner, so a little sadism will probably go unnoticed.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Maybe Governor Sanford was just trying to help the environment – Living more hours naked each day’ has ‘positive effect’ on global warming
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admits affair
Source: Politico.com
‘Living more hours naked each day’ has ‘positive effect’ on global warming
Source: NY Times via Drudge
