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Do as Barack Obama says, not as Barack Obama does

Obama tells you what not to smoke, what not to drink, and what not to eat, but is no role model. He smokes, drinks and eats the wrong things.

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In another blatant example of the Obama administration’s “Do as I say, not as I do” Policy, the President wants to give the government a central role in determining your diet. We call it butting in where the government doesn’t belong, but health experts call it a new era of activism.

According to the Politico:

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The president is filling top posts at Health and Human Services with officials who, in their previous jobs, outlawed trans fats, banned public smoking or required restaurants to provide a calorie count with that slice of banana cream pie. 

Even Congress is getting into the act, giving serious consideration to taxing sugary drinks and alcohol to help pay for the overhaul.

To some, it smacks of a “nanny state on steroids” — but for others who fret that America is turning into one big Overeaters Anonymous meeting, Obama’s prescription is like a low-fat dream come true.

“He has expressed more interest in preventing diseases and promoting health than any previous president. It is not a breath of fresh air. It is a tornado,” said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. “That contrast is breathtaking. This is really a rare opportunity to make progress on so many issues.”

obama_beerSo when they tell you what not to smoke, what not to drink, and what not to eat, keep these photos in mind.

Then smoke what you want, drink what you want, eat what you want. And in 2010, vote for what you want.

Source: Politico.com

Good news for terrorists: No longer necessary to kill yourself to get to into paradise

Former Guantanamo detainees are now living it up in Bermuda and Palau. They’re sleeping late, dining out, and living in a lovely beachfront house. Undoubtedly on your dime.

Earlier this week we learned that 13 of the Chinese Uighur terrorists from Gitmo had been “resettled” on the tropical paradise of Palau. Now we learn that four more of them have been “resettled” in Bermuda. (“Resettled,” of course, is a travel industry term that means “treated like you’d like to be treated on the vacation you’ll never be able to afford”).

Yes, four former Guantanamo detainees (otherwise known as enemy combatants) are now living it up in Bermuda. They’re sleeping late, dining out, and living in a lovely beachfront house. Undoubtedly on your dime.

Next thing you know, some genius in the Obama administration will drop a load of terrorists in Bora Bora, thinking that it must be a lot like Tora Bora.

Source: Fox News via GatewayPundit

Al Gore to be sued for fraud by coalition of 30,000 scientists?

Al Gore says the science is settled. Now let’s see if the lawsuit is settled.

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, has put together a coalition of more than 30,000 scientists who don’t buying Gore’s global warming baloney.

Gore won’t debate the issue because he says “the science is settled.” So Coleman thinks his courtroom ploy may give him a chance to expose Gore’s folly.

Al Gore says the science is settled. Now let’s see if the lawsuit is settled.

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, has put together a coalition of more than 30,000 scientists who don’t buying Gore’s global warming baloney.

Gore won’t debate the issue because he says “the science is settled.” So Coleman thinks his courtroom ploy may give him a chance to expose Gore’s folly.

“We have tried and tried and tried to get a debate on global warming with…Al Gore and any of the scientists behind him over at the UN IPCC,” Coleman said. “We’d love to have a debate with them, but they go ‘Oh, no, the debate is over.’ Well, now there are 30,000 of us. We have 30,000 scientists – 9000 Phds – who have signed up to debunk global warming. And they still won’t listen to us…So we figure maybe a court of law.”

We say bring on the law suit and let Al Gore be judged by a jury of his peers.

The only problem will be finding 12 other pompous, bloated rip-off artists willing to serve on the jury.

Australian newspaper editor viciously attacks Sarah Palin’s commencement address

Tim Blair of the Sydney Daily Telegraph recently wrote this scathing attack on Sarah Palin. It needs to be read by every American voter. Please make sure you read all the way to the end to see the viscous, horrible thing Blair says about this speech.

Sarah Palin commencement address

Tim Blair of the Sydney Daily Telegraph recently wrote this scathing attack on Sarah Palin. It needs to be read by every American voter. Please make sure you read all the way to the end to see the viscous, horrible thing Blair says about this speech.

THE world trembled last year as a terrible prospect loomed: the next vice-president of the United States might be a complete moron…intelligent people everywhere were relieved when Palin’s White House bid failed. But what if John McCain and his dimwitted running mate had been elected? Right now we’d be listening to some of the most spectacularly stupid speeches ever made.

Speeches such as a commencement address at North Carolina’s Wake Forest University earlier this month, for example. Let’s imagine how Palin might have handled it…

“Thank you very much. I say to all the faculty, this will be painless. They have felt like – I suspect they’ve heard a hundred – all the commencements since the beginning of the school.”

The “they” to whom Palin refers is unclear. Is she saying that the faculty feels like an abundance of speeches?

“I had planned on driving my ‘67 Corvette up the middle of this area here. But the Secret Service said they wouldn’t let me do it.”

Such callous disregard for the environment would be typical of an ignorant woman who shoots moose and wants to drill Alaska for oil.

“Well, I love today and one of the reasons I do is because of all of you. I believe so strongly, as you may recall when I was here in October, not in you particularly but your generation…”

She doesn’t believe in the students?

“I don’t have a single doubt in my mind we’re on the cusp not only of a new century but a new day for this country and the world.”

It’s 2009. We’re eight entire years past the cusp.

“You’re about to graduate into a point in history where everything is going to change no matter what you do, but you can affect the change.”

That’s reassuring. The next generation are a bunch of change changers. Potentially, changed change means everything stays the same. Keep going, Mrs VP:

“Throughout the span of history though, only a handful of us have been alive at times when we can truly shape history. Without question, this is one of those times…”

And only a handful of people are alive. Just 6,800,000,000 or so – more than at any other time in history.

“We’re either going to revive and reverse climate change, or literally drown in our indifference.”

Why would anyone want to revive climate change? These are the words of a madwoman. Also, as for “literally drowning”, the campus at which we’re locating this speech is nearly 300m above sea level. Residents would be safe from drowning even if every bit of ice on earth was melted.

“Non-action is action, unlike most generations.”

How much ice is in that gin Palin’s drinking?

“There’s not a single issue on this President’s plate that will not yield a change – just merely by ignoring it, it will change.”

She’s really losing it. And remember, Palin is but a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

“Remember your physics class? You’re driving along in an automobile and you move the wheel slightly to the left or right, and you send the car careening in the direction that absent another change will end up a significant distance from where you were aimed.”

My car always goes exactly where I aim it. What kind of comedy opposite-steering clown cars do they drive in Alaska?

“When I graduated, all had not changed utterly yet. Today, it has. And in the last 12 to 15 years, a terrible beauty has been born. It’s a different world out there than it has been any time in the last millennia.”

Now she sounds like someone on an oxycontin bender. Some more details on this “terrible beauty” that was born in 1997 or 1994 would be helpful (Bruce Willis’s daughter Tallulah?), but crazy Sarah has already moved on.

“So embrace the moment. Don’t shy away from it. You know how I feel. I’m confident you must feel the same way.”

Hand over some of that oxycontin and you might be right.

“It is to not sustain – we know we cannot sustain the way we’re going now. So it’s time to steel our spines, and embrace the promise of change, even though we cannot guarantee exactly what that change will bring.”

More reassurance.

“In the past, it’s always been older generations, my generation speaking – standing up here at commencements telling the next generation the ways of the world … Well, graduate, I’ll have to admit, it’s a lot different today. You’ve flipped the script, as you might say. You’re, quite simply, teaching us.”

Someone has to. Did Dan Quayle ever deliver a speech that maintained this level of incoherence for so long?

“You are the possible. That is not hyperbole. You are the possible. We are the possible.”

It isn’t hyperbole. It also isn’t anything close to making sense. You’ve just been reading a speech delivered on May 18 by US vice President Joe Biden.

Damn, we love Tim Blair. You should read his blog every day like we do.

Source: Tim Blair/Sydney Daily Telegraph

How to help the Iranian Revolution through Twitter

A guide to helping the Iranian protesters in Iran so you do not harm the Iranian protesters by doing things on Twitter that can give away locations of people tweeting and otherwise communicating to us from within Iran, or spread other information that could play into the hands of the Iranian government.

There are several tweets per second regarding Iran on Twitter right now. You can catch what going on at either:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=iranelection

or

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=gr88

It’s inspiring, sad, angering and confusing. But it’s history unfolding in front of your very eyes. It very well could be the first revolution aided by social networks, in particular Twitter.

But make sure you do not harm the Iranian protesters by doing things on Twitter that can give away locations of people tweeting and otherwise communicating to us from within Iran, or spread other information that could play into the hands of the Iranian government.

Here are some rules of the road:

  1. Use only hashtags #iranelection and #gr88. These are the only ones most people are following.
  2. Change your Twitter setting to say your location is Tehran and you time zone is GMT +3:30 so there become way too many people for security forces to monitor.
  3. Do not tweet proxy IP addresses as government forces are monitoring tweets. Those that know how to send the proxies to them are doing so. If you are creating new proxies for our Iranian friends, DM them to @stopAhmadi or @iran09 for distribution. Otherwise they will be immediately blocked.
  4. Do not retweet the names/handles of sources from within Iran! Don’t name them anywhere, on a site, in an email, nowhere. You could cause their death.
  5. Don’t believe everything you read and automatically retweet, especially regrading locations, as government forces are now tweeting false information to hunt and trap people.

By the way, we just heard a report of a group of 500 security forces turning sides. We can only hope and pray this is true.

Note: If you have any other things we should cover, place a comment here and we’ll update the list with it.

Hilarious: Eco-wackos sobbing like little girls over trees

Video of Earth First environmental lunacy in its full glory as they cry over trees.

The folks at Earth First has always been lunatics. But here’s a video clip that demonstrates that environmental lunacy in its full glory.

“I want to mourn the loss of all the old growth trees I’m seeing and tell them that we love them and that we don’t want them to die and that there are people here who do care. So I want you to know that, trees, that we care.”

You’ll love the sniveling, the sobbing, the wailing and the weeping. And the primal scream is pretty funny, too.

How did we miss this: Obama declares June “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month”

President Obama has proudly, but oh-so-quietly declared June “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month.”

June is National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month. July is National Black Midget Elf Pride Month.
June is National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month. July is National Black Midget Elf Month.

Remember when Presidents announced things like “National Mom and Apple Pie Month” and “National Flag Month”? Well, those days are gone.

President Obama has proudly, but oh-so-quietly declared June “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month.”

“In a difficult-to-find declaration posted on the White House Web site on June 1,” the Christian Post notes, “Obama praised LGBT Americans for their continual ‘great and lasting contributions’ that ‘strengthen the fabric of American society.’”

“Obama follows in the footsteps of former President Bill Clinton,” the Post continues, “who also issued a similar proclamation in 1999 and 2000. But Clinton did not use the term transgender in his version. He did, however, reference bisexuals. President George W. Bush, in contrast, did not issue any LGBT proclamation during his eight years in office.”

What about black midgets elves? What about left-handed native Eskimo barbers? What about cross-eyed albino terrorists?

For god’s sake, President Obama, do the right thing and give these oppressed minorities the national months they so richly deserve.

Source: The Christian Post via AudacityofHypocrisy.com

World Health Organization suffers because too few people are dying of swine flu

It’s panic time at the World Health Organization. Avian flu flopped. And SARS generated more headlines than deaths. WHO wants a pandemic. It needs a pandemic. So it got a pandemic even if it’s a phony one.

If the Swine Flu scam doesn't work, the World Health Organization will try more creative fundraising techniques
If the Swine Flu scam doesn't work, the World Health Organization will try more creative fundraising techniques

It’s panic time at the World Health Organization. Avian flu flopped. And SARS generated more headlines than deaths. WHO wants a pandemic. It needs a pandemic. So it got a pandemic even if it’s a phony one.

But what’s a blood-sucking bureaucracy supposed to do when its funding depends on fear and their best and brightest hopes for human death sputter out?

Michael Fumento explains:

In 2005 (WHO) rewrote the definition of “influenza pandemic,” which formerly required “enormous numbers of deaths and illness.” Under its new definition, a handful of cases and zero deaths can nonetheless constitute a “pandemic.” And that’s pretty much what we’ve seen. The term “influenza pandemic” has simply lost any truly useful meaning.

Thanks, WHO, for putting politics and self-interest above the interests of public health.

“WHO lied. No one died.”

More bumper sticker material from the day’s real news.

Source: Michael Fumento

New Chrysler car designed to pound your tax dollars down a rat hole

According to Chrysler, their new 2009 Chrysler Peapod will have a “new look and feel.” And if that doesn’t give you a warm glow about President Obama’s brilliant investment, they also say it has an “innovative, groundbreaking design.”

2009 Chrysler Peapod What’s Chrysler doing with those billions of tax dollars you’ve so kindly handed them? Trust us, you don’t want to know. But since you asked, it’s our obligation as journalists to tell you the truth.

How innovative can the PeaPod be when it looks just like a golf cart?
How innovative can the PeaPod be when it looks just like a golf cart?

Sigh. According to Chrysler, their new 2009 Chrysler Peapod will have a “new look and feel.” And if that doesn’t give you a warm glow about President Obama’s brilliant investment, they also say it has an “innovative, groundbreaking design.”

Are we the only ones who think this concept may have been originally sketched on a cocktail napkin on the 19th hole at some golf course outside Dearborn, Michigan?

You know all that bail out money President Obama’s poured into Chrysler? Kiss it good-bye.

Source: PlanetGore

Gallup says America has two conservatives for every liberal

According to Gallup, “40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal.

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Is that Keith Olbermann we hear choking on his own tongue? James Carville going into cardiac arrest? Janeane Garofalo hyperventilating?

According to Gallup, “40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This represents a slight increase for conservatism in the U.S. since 2008, returning it to a level last seen in 2004. The 21% calling themselves liberal is in line with findings throughout this decade, but is up from the 1990s.”

Don’t look now, but the emperor has no clothes and even his magnificent pecs aren’t distracting the populace any longer.

Source: Gallup.com

News Update: Jimmy Carter is still an idiot

The former President had this to say about Mahmoud Achmadinejad and the “election” in Iran: “I think this election has bought out a lot of opposition to his policies in Iran, and I’m sure he’ll listen to those opinions and hopefully moderate his position.”

If you’re going to fly around the world observing elections, shouldn’t you be a little more observant? Here’s a video that shows you exactly how Mahmoud is listening to his people – with nightsticks.

Can someone explain the Chastity Bono situation to us?

Chastity Bono is a lesbian. Her girlfriend is another lesbian. But now Chastity’s having a sex change surgery. Seriously, if the girlfriend stays with the new Chastity-man (as she’s already announced she will), doesn’t that mean she’s now straight?

Aren't you just asking for trouble when you name a kid Chastity?
Aren't you just asking for trouble when you name a kid Chastity?

We readily admit that we’re just not smart enough to figure this out.

The Situation: Chastity Bono is a lesbian. Her girlfriend is another lesbian. But now Chastity’s having a sex change surgery.

The Question: After Chastity becomes a man, will her lesbian lover still be a lesbian?

Seriously, if the girlfriend stays with the new Chastity-man (as she’s already announced she will), doesn’t that mean she’s now straight? Haven’t we been told that a person can’t change their sexual orientation? Doesn’t that fly directly in the fact of that assertion?

Figure this one out and you probably qualify for a Nobel Prize of some sort.

We’re just not sure what category.

Misinterpreted Headline of the Day:
“Air Force pounds MILF lairs with rockets”

Air Force attack planes pounded yesterday the position of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels in Guindulungan, Maguindanao, as fighting between government troops and guerrillas entered its fourth day, a military spokesman reported. Whew! Angelina Jolie can rest easy.

We couldn’t figure out what the Air Force had against attractive moms. Then we read the story.

MANILA, Philippines – Air Force attack planes pounded yesterday the position of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels in Guindulungan, Maguindanao, as fighting between government troops and guerrillas entered its fourth day, a military spokesman reported.

Whew! Angelina Jolie can rest easy.

Source: PhilStar.com

The “new” GM comes up with “new” ideas
by stealing them

Now that President Obama has written out a big, fat check to General Motors and put a 31-year old crony with no business experience in charge of it, you’re probably wondering what they’re doing with the money. The answer, according to Wired, is stealing the best ideas from tax paying entrepreneurs.

GM engineer "reverse engineering" another company's battery technology.
GM engineer "reverse engineering" another company's battery technology.

Now that President Obama has written out a big, fat check to General Motors and put a 31-year old crony with no business experience in charge of it, you’re probably wondering what they’re doing with the money.

The answer, according to Wired, is stealing the best ideas from tax paying entrepreneurs.

GM invested $25 million in the 33,000-square-foot Global Battery Systems Lab to develop and test the drivetrains underpinning the Chevrolet Volt and other hybrid, battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

The automaker believes the facility, at its sprawling Warren Technical Center campus outside Detroit, Michigan, will help make it a market leader in battery and EV technology.

So far, so good. But here’s where it gets a little iffy:

The lab also features a thermal shaker table for testing the structural integrity of each pack and a battery tear-down workshop for failure analysis and reverse-engineering competitors’ batteries.

Please allow us to translate: We gave GM billions of dollars so they could rip off good ideas from the entrepreneurs and companies who helped contributed to their bail out.

Perfect. Just friggin’ perfect.

Source: Wired via PlanetGore

How long until you start following the latest Obama fashion trend?

The One grew one. What about you?
The One grew one. What about you?

When President Obama made his speech in Cairo last week, people noticed something new, something now, something oh-so-Obama.

We’re referring to the wispy, but stylish ‘stache gracing his upper lip. Admittedly, it wasn’t the manliest mustache and it would have been more at home on a 15-year old boy.

Nevertheless, a new wispy mustache craze is sweeping Washington, DC. Everyone wants one because everyone wants to be just like the Greatest President In History. The literati, the glitterati, the cognoscenti. What about you?

It won’t be long before you’re no one without one.

As you can see, the trend is spreading faster than Swine Flu and it’s a lot less deadly.

Joe Biden mustache

Joe Biden

Next time Joe Biden puts his foot in his mouth, it will just call attention to the brand new Obama on his upper lip.

John Edwards with mustashe

John Edwards

John Edwards needed a new image. Who could resist voting for a guy sporting a suave ‘stache like this?

Continue reading “How long until you start following the latest Obama fashion trend?”

Hollywood trade mag thinks Jon Voight is “outrageous” for calling Obama a “false prophet”

Variety, the long-time Hollywood trade publication, obviously believes Barack Obama is God because they’ve accused actor Jon Voight of being “outrageous” for calling him a “false prophet.” Even worse, they compared him to Janeane Garofalo. We don’t know which is worse.


It’s not really surprising that the same Malibu-meets-Babylon crew that embraces Scientology would also embrace another phony religion like Obamology.

Variety, the long-time Hollywood trade publication, obviously believes Barack Obama is God because they’ve accused actor Jon Voight of being “outrageous” for calling him a “false prophet.” Even worse, they compared him to Janeane Garofalo. We don’t know which is worse.

Variety’s WilshireAndWashington.com said, “Jon Voight earned praise from Republican leaders when he gave a speech at a Republican fundraiser this week calling the president a “false prophet,” a comment that matches in outrageousness anything the likes of Janeane Garofalo has said from the left.”

Voight’s got a lot of nerve calling The One a false prophet when everyone in Hollywood knows he is the true prophet, a god walking among mere mortals, a savior come to earth. Voight is sure to be condemned to burn forever in eternal damnation (which in Hollywood means no more leading roles, nothing but bit parts).

But to say “false prophet” is as outrageous as anything Janeane Garofalo has said? Apparently, the boys at Variety haven’t been paying real attention to Janeane for the last few years. For Variety’s edification, we proudly present this video clip of the lovely and talented Ms. Garofalo guesting with the equally lovely and talented Keith Olbermann.

Watching it may convince you that Obama is a true prophet, because you’re sure to say, “Oh, my god.”

Source: WilshireAndWashington.com

New branch of pyschology to deal with eco-wackos

Sigmund Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Ecopsychologists say, "Sometimes a scam is just a scam."
Sigmund Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Ecopsychologists say, "Sometimes a scam is just a scam."

Looking for something special for the eco-wacko in your life? How about a gift certificate for a couple sessions with an ecopsychologist.

Yes, ecopsychology. It’s a new branch of psychology that helps you reduce your worries while while simultaneously helping reduce your carbon footprint. It helps you work on personal relationships and your relationship to nature.

In other words, you still tell the psychologist that your mother didn’t understand you. But now you can add that your elm tree doesn’t understand you, either.

“Global warming has added an extra layer of anxiety to what people are already feeling,” said Sandy Shulmire a practicing ecopsychologist.

Some psychologists think the whole thing is a giant load of bunkum.

“If the patient has generalized anxiety disorder, he or she is going to be worrying about almost everything,” noted Dr. Scott Lilienfeld, a psychology professor at Emory University.

Odds are you won’t be able to see your own doctor under Obama’s new healthcare plan, but will be able to see an ecopsychologist.

Or are we just being eco-paranoid?

Source: New York Times

Schwarzenegger tries to scam the voters again with flat tax proposal

Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger personifies the sad decline of the state of California
Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger personifies the sad decline of the state of California

California’s sad excuse for a governor has come out in favor of a flat tax. Hah!

As the LA Times reports: “Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today that he would like to see such ‘radical’ proposals come out of a commission now studying an overhaul of the state’s tax system. The governor told the editorial board of the Sacramento Bee that he hoped the commission would not be afraid to propose something like ‘a 15% straight tax.’”

“That’s the kind of radical, daring kind of a proposal that I want to see on the table so we can look at it and say, ‘Oh, let’s study this, maybe that is the way to go,’ ” Schwarzenegger said.

Don’t get us wrong. In theory, we love the flat tax concept: Everyone pays the same percentage of all income. Minimal or no deductions.

But here’s the problem with the Schwartzenegger’s scam. The current highest tax rate in California is 9.1% on taxable income over $91,000 (after all your deductions are considered), but under this bogus flat tax plan everyone would pay 15% with minimal or no deductions.

It’s going to be interesting to see how Schwartzenegger tries to convince the people of California that paying 15% with no deductions is better than paying 9.1% with deductions.

In the thoughts, if not the words of the Governor, “Keep your eye on the pea while I move these walnut shells around.”

Source: LA Times

When liberals attack liberals: Roseanne Barr vs Stephanie Miller

Well-known lunatic Roseanne Barr appeared on the almost listenerless Stephanie Miller Show on Monday and hilarity ensued.

The last thing Miller expected was to have Barr stray off the Obama Ranch. But stray she did. Miller was completely caught off guard by Barr’s comments.

Now don’t get us wrong – Barr didn’t go conservative. She complained that Obama hasn’t fulfilled his campaign promises, that he’s “the same as Bush,” and that the media is letting him skate.

But the highlight was when Barr told Miller, “C’mon, everybody’s on the Kool-Ade.”

Miller is almost speechless, which would be an improvement.

Source: The Radio Equalizer

Nanny state run amok: Illinois passes bowling shoe regulations

As if determined to prove that there’s absolutely nothing into which they won’t stick their collective (and collectivist) noses, the Illinois Senate voted 51-4 last week to slap controls on bowling shoes.

Video: Barack Obama throws consecutive gutter balls during the presidential campaign. Blame it on the shoes.

According to the Springfield State Journal-Register, “The measure would require alley owners to clearly place signs near entrances and exits warning that bowling shoes are ‘specialized footwear’ meant only to be worn inside the alley. Users are cautioned that they could slip or stumble if they wear the shoes outside in rain, snow or other debris and then come back in.”

Senator Donne Trotter (D-Chicago) denied a suggestion by Senator Dale Righter (R-Mattoon) that he wanted bowlers to wear helmets (earlier this year, senators voted down another Trotter bill that would have mandated helmets for motorcycle riders).

Keep one thing in mind: when bowling shoes are outlawed, only outlaws will have bowling shoes.

Source: Springfield State Journal-Register

NOW condemns Letterman, throws in gratuitous Limbaugh insult

File photo of David Letterman from about 20 years ago, back when he was funny
File photo of David Letterman from about 20 years ago, back when he was funny

Much to everyone’s surprise, and for the first time in support of a conservative woman in recent memory, the National Organization for Women condemned David Letterman’s ugly attack on Sarah Palin and her 14-year old daughter.

Here’s part of the statement from NOW’s website:

Letterman said “I recognize that these are ugly” jokes. NOW agrees. Comedians in search of a laugh should really know better than to snicker about men having sex with teenage girls (or young women) less than half their age.

The sexualization of girls and women in the media is reaching new lows these days — it is exploitative and has a negative effect on how all women and girls are perceived and how they view themselves. Letterman also joked about what he called Palin’s “slutty flight attendant look” — yet another example of how the media love to focus on a woman politician’s appearance, especially as it relates to her sexual appeal to men. Someone of Letterman’s stature, who appears on what used to be known as “the Tiffany Network” (CBS), should be above wallowing in the juvenile, sexist mud that other comedians and broadcasters seem to prefer.

So far, so good. But it was as if NOW just couldn’t bear chastising a liberal, so just for good measure they piled on Rush Limbaugh for something he said back in the early ‘90s:

On that point, it’s important to note that when Chelsea Clinton was 13 years old she was the target of numerous insults based on her appearance. Rush Limbaugh even referred to her as the “White House dog.” NOW hopes that all the conservatives who are fired up about sexism in the media lately will join us in calling out sexism when it is directed at women who aren’t professed conservatives.

Back at you, NOW. Might be nice if you guys came out in support of a conservative woman a little more often.

Source: NOW.org

British politician’s hilarious denunciation of Prime Minister Gordon Brown

We need more politicians like Daniel Hannan, a British Conservative and Member of the European Parliament.

He spoke about Gordon Brown, the embattled British Prime Minister, the night that leftists were thrashed in elections all across Europe. Brown’s Labor Party finished a dismal fifth in the British elections. It’s as if the Democrats tallied fewer votes than Ralph Nader and the Peace and Freedom Party.

Hannan describes Brown’s dying administration like this, “It’s like the closing scenes of Terminator. However clearly you blow the thing up, the flames clear and then the claw comes out and you see the eyes going on and you see the creature pulling its way forward.”

But the highlight is when he quotes his three-year old son’s favorite author to demand that Gordon Brown resign now.

Why can’t there be just one American politician who speaks this bluntly, this clearly, this hilariously?

Uh-oh. Reporter asks President tough question about Korea and Iran

The Scene: A joint press conference with French President Sarkozy.

The Reporter’s Question: “Iran and North Korea. What has the current policy – which is largely the same as ones of recent years – produced other than given time to North Korea and Iran to advance their nuclear ambitions?”

The President’s Answer: Almost three minutes of stuttering and stammering and reviewing the past in the most vague of terms in hopes that everyone would simply forget what the question was.

The Result: We’re not sure. We forgot the question.

H/T: HotAir

Kim Jong-Il names youngest son as successor, because older son “had the warm heart of a girl”

His father has the height of a young girl and Kim Jong Chul has the heart of a young girl.
His father has the height of a young girl and Kim Jong Chul has the heart of a young girl.

When you claim to be 5’6” but wear booster shoes and a poofie pompadour hairdo to get there, you just don’t want your successor to have the warm heart of a girl. Especially if you’re the brutal dictator of North Korea. Especially if he’s your son.

Kim Jong Un, Crazy Kim Jong-Il’s youngest son, has been declared North Korea’s next beloved leader. He won out over his two older brothers.

To tell the truth, we really don’t care which nutty son succeeds the North Korean dictator. But the older brothers, Kim Jong Nam and Kim Jong Chul, seem far more interesting. Back in 2001 Japanese officials detained Nam when he tried to visit Tokyo Disneyland on a forged passport. He also been spotted enjoying the nightlife in Paris, Beijing and Macau. And according to former Pyongyang insider Kenji Fujimoto, “The older brother, Jong Chul, had the warm heart of a girl.”

Seriously, if you have the warm heart of a girl, North Korea is not the place for you. San Francisco, maybe, but not Pyongyang.

Source: Times UK

Fewer Iranians favorable to U.S. under Obama than under Bush: So much for apologies and pretty words

Iranian students demonstrating their love for America now that Barack Obama is president
Iranian students demonstrating their love for America now that Barack Obama is president

Here’s another reason we hate the media:

Look how the Associated Press reported the results of a poll conducted by Terror Free Tomorrow, a bipartisan group that tries to undermine support for terrorism, and for the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute.

Few Iranians have favorable opinions of the United States, a view that has changed little since the election of an American president who has expressed a willingness to talk to Tehran, a rare poll of Iranian citizens showed Monday.

Got that? Iranians hate us just as much as they always have. Except for one thing – when you actually read the results of the poll, it turns out they hate us more now than they used to.

Just 29 percent of Iranians said they have favorable views of the United States in the latest poll, which was conducted last month. In a similar survey in February 2008 — nearly a year before Barack Obama became president — 34 percent had positive opinions about the U.S.

Our interpretation of those numbers is different than AP’s. They say Iranian opinion “has changed little.” But from our jaundiced point of view, the number of Iranians who hate us increased 17% over when George Bush was president.

How is that possible? Where has the sweetness and light gone? What about all those beautiful words The One has spoken? What about all those lovely apologies he’s given?

Ahhh, screw it. These people are lunatics who can’t be reasoned with. Take care of this, would you, Israel.

Source: Associated Press via Yahoo

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