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California bankrupt because it spent too much, not because it taxed too little

Would someone at the L.A. Times, San Francisco Chronicle or Sacramento Bee please explain how it’s possible for San Diego County to run up a $700 million surplus while the state of California is running up a $45 billion deficit?

These esteemed newspapers seem to think the only solution to the state’s legislature-induced suicide is more taxes, higher taxes, and really creative taxes.

Perhaps they should watch as Dianne Jacob, Chairman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, explains that California has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

Source: BluegrassPundit.com

Top 10 lines from the Goode Family

“The Goode Family” premiered last night on ABC-TV. It was created by politically-incorrect Mike Judge, who also created King of the Hill and Beavis and Butt-head. Most reviews (including our entire staff) agree it was funnier than hell. Here are the top 10 lines we heard.

1. “We can’t shop there. They don’t even have a mission statement.”

2. Ubuntu: “Sorry I used so much gas, dad.”
Dad: “That’s okay. The important thing is you feel guilty about it.”

3. “Don’t say ‘people of color’ because that’s just ‘colored people’ backwards.”

4. “The View is on. The pretty one is saying crazy stuff again.”

5. On a bumper sticker:
“Support our troops. And their opponents.”

6. Bumper sticker on Goode Family hybrid:
“Earth First – Ask Questions Later”

7. “WWAGD? What would Al Gore do?”

8. “Attention One Earth Shoppers. The owner of the SUV is in aisle 4 wearing a ball cap.”

9. “Your mother accidentally bought two-ply (toilet paper). But don’t worry I fixed it.”

10. Goode: “If you want to have proportionately diverse staff, we need three more minority hires.
Jensen: “Why don’t we just fire three white guys. Everybody wins.”

UC Santa Cruz students launch hunger strike, battle the munchies

As you can see in this video, a group of students has launched a hunger strike to protest Governor Schwartzenegger’s budget cuts. This seems short sighted, considering the fact that UC Santa Cruz has a well-deserved reputation as the marijuana capital of California.

The hunger strike vs the munchies. Which one will win?

Source: KSBW-TV

Democrat Waxman doesn’t know what’s in his own tax plan because he hasn’t read it

Democrats have a nasty habit of passing bills they don’t read, like the Stimulus boondoggle. In this instance, Henry Waxman (D-CA), Energy & Commerce Chairman and author of the National Energy Tax, is unclear on what’s actually in his own bill. But never mind that. Democrats voted it out of committee anyway, 33-25.

In this video, Waxman is questioned by Ranking Republican Member Joe Barton (R-TX) when he admits to ignorance of his own handiwork: “I certainly don’t claim to know everything that’s in this bill…I don’t know the details…”

Totaling over 930 pages, this bill is quite the packed sausage. If We the People are forced to pay for these things, is it too much to ask that lawmakers who supposedly write them at least be forced to read them?

Source: National Review

World saved from global warming, Aussie company trumpets “Flatulence Offsets”

No reason to be embarrassed anymore, Fido. You're saving the environment.
No reason to be embarrassed anymore, Fido. You're saving the environment.

An Australian company is selling carbon credits to make up for farting pets and people. (We agonized over that sentence, but it is what it is).

For just $27, Easy Being Green will sell you enough carbon credits to offset your dog’s annual anal methane production. Making your cat carbon neutral is a bargain at just $6.

And if you’re looking for a special anniversary or birthday gift, imagine how happy your loved one will be knowing that you spent US$16 to offset two years worth of their personal trouser trumpet production.

This is all well and good, but as highly-trained environmentalists and marketing geniuses, we think Easy Being Green is missing an obvious business opportunity.

Here’s our idea:

Wind power is intermittent, but dog farts are a constant. We propose erecting a mini-windmill in every Aussie home. Tie each windmill into the power grid. Train all Aussie dogs to fart into the windmills. The windmills spin. Power is generated free of charge. Oil imports are slashed. The economy booms. Australia becomes an ecological role model for the rest of the world.

And to think Al Gore got a Nobel Prize and we didn’t.

Source: NationalGeographic.com

Sotomayor is Obama’s pick for the Court.
Who’s cynical now?

There is no truth to the rumor that Sonia Sotomayor went into law only after failing to win the starring role in ABC-TV's "Ugly Betty"
There is no truth to the rumor that Sonia Sotomayor went into law only after failing to win the starring role in ABC-TV's "Ugly Betty"

Now that our first black president has made history again with his choice of the first Latina for the Supreme Court, let’s revisit a notable quote made two decades ago about our first black Supreme Court Justice.

Guess who said this: “I think that the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black. I don’t believe he could have won had he been white. And the reason is, I think it was a cynical ploy by President Bush.”

That would be the ever-quotable Sen. Joe Biden. Now that Biden is vice president, his administration has made what appears to be an equally cynical pick aimed at a particular voting constituency.

David Frum offers this suggestion: “Maybe somebody should ask Joe Biden whether Sonia Sotomayor would have been nominated if she had been male and white. And the great thing about Joe Biden is — the guy might blurt the truth.”

Source: NewMajority.com

Media ignores recent record low temperatures in the United States and Australia, snow in Saudi Arabia

freezing_man The liberal media’s global warming gang is so busy announcing dire threats to mankind’s existence that they can’t find room to run articles like this:

“Record low temperatures in 28 states”

Record low temperatures in 28 states go unreported by the media. Several of the records were more than 100 years old.

Source: IceAgeNow.com

“Coldest May morning on record in Australia”

Two far north Queensland towns experienced their coldest May morning in history on May 22, 2009.

Cooktown, an hour north of Cairns, dropped to 10 degrees Celsius (two degrees below its previous record low), while Coen on Cape York Peninsula recorded just 10.4 degrees Celsius.

Source: Cairns.com.au via IceAgeNow.com

“Snow in Saudi Arabia”

Saudis were surprised by snow in Al-Baha city south-west of Riyadh on May 19, 2009. Torrential rains accompanied by gusty winds left snow on the mountains, valley areas and forests near Al-Zaraeb and Khayrah.

Source: IceAgeNow.com

California Speaker Bass thinks voters are stupid confused to do the right thing

Why did California voters overwhelmingly reject all those tax-and-spend ballot measures last week? According to California Speaker of the Assembly Karen Bass, it’s because they’re too confused to comprehend the opportunity that had been presented to them by Arnold Schwartzenegger and the geniuses in the state legislature.

“I would go into a room,” she said, “…and I found the basic fact that voters were very confused about what it is we were asking them to do and why we were asking them to help us solve the budget problem.”

They were confused alright, honey. They were confused by the state’s profligate spending. Confused by its ballooning budget. Confused by the millions spent mollycoddling illegal aliens. Confused by the willful waste of their hard-earned tax dollars. And confused by the labor unions’ stranglehold on state’s future.

We were confused, but we just had a moment of complete clarity. So how about if you shut the hell up, Ms. Bass. Slash the spending. Cut the unions down to size. Pass a responsible budget that stops driving business and people out of the state. End the mollycoddling of illegal aliens.

You lying, hypocritical piece of over-spending excrement.

39% of Americans think we should pay more attention to national security, less to individual rights

Former Los Angeles Police Chief Ed Davis once said, ''I recommend we have a portable gallows, and after we have the death penalty back in, we conduct a rapid trial for a hijacker out there, and hang him with due process at the airport.'' Where's Ed Davis when we need him?
Former Los Angeles Police Chief Ed Davis once said, ''I recommend we have a portable gallows, and after we have the death penalty back in, we conduct a rapid trial for a hijacker out there, and hang him with due process at the airport.'' Where's Ed Davis when we need him?

Democrats bend over backward to defend the rights of terrorists. At least that’s what the results of a recent Rasmussen poll show.

According to the poll, 39% of voters nationwide believe our legal system worries too much about protecting individual rights. Just 24% think our legal system worries too much about national security. 25% say the balance is about right.

As you might expect, there’s a split along party lines. 54% of Republicans say the legal system worries too much about individual rights. 42% of unaffiliated voters agree.

Naturally, Democrats go the other way. Only 34% of them say the legal system is too concerned about national security.

We say, “Off with their heads.” But the difference between us and the terrorists is that we’re only speaking figuratively.

Source: RasmussenReports.com

Culture of Corruption Update: Democrats three times more cultured than Republicans

The face of corruption in Washington, DC. And a lovely face it is.
The face of corruption in Washington, DC. And a lovely face it is.

Funny thing. We’re not hearing the Democrats bang that culture of corruption drum much these days. Maybe it’s because they cleaned up all the corruption.

Just kidding.

It’s actually because the overwhelming number of politicians under investigation in Washington, DC these days are – drum roll, please – Democrats.

Fact is, there are now 12 active investigations looking into Democrats and only 4 looking into Republicans.

Democratic members of Congress under investigation: Sanford Bishop of Georgia, Jesse Jackson of Illinois, Allan Mollohan of West Virginia, John Murtha of Pennsylvania, Charlie Rangel of New York, Linda Sanchez of California, Loretta Sanchez of California, Pete Visclosky of Indiana.

Democratic Senators under investigation: Roland Burris of Illinois, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Bob Menendez of New Jersey.

Republican members of Congress under investigation: Jerry Lewis of California, Garry Miller of California, Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania, Don Young of Alaska.

Republican Senators under investigation: None.

Sad to say, we don’t attribute this to any great sense of honesty on the part of the Republicans. It’s more likely that they’re just so weak and ineffectual that they’re not worth trying to corrupt them anymore.

Source: NationalReview.com

Tired? Stressed? Feeling unproductive? Florida Democrat thinks you should have a paid vacation

The uncredited co-author of Congressman Alan Grayson's Paid Vacation Act
The uncredited co-author of Congressman Alan Grayson's Paid Vacation Act

Congressman Alan Grayson is getting ready to introduce legislation that he calls “The Paid Vacation Act.” Somehow, based on nothing but the name of this bill, we knew he had to be a Democrat.

The legislation will make paid vacation time a requirement under Federal law.

Grayson was visiting DisneyWorld in his home district when this brainstorm shorted out his synapses.

“There’s a reason why Disney World is the happiest place on Earth: The people who go there are on vacation,” Grayson said. “Honestly, as much as I appreciate this job and as much as I enjoy it, the best days of my life are and always have been the days I’m on vacation.”

“The bill would require companies with more than 100 employees to offer a week of paid vacation for both full-time and part-time employees after they’ve put in a year on the job,” Politico noted. “Three years after the effective date of the law, those same companies would be required to provide two weeks of paid vacation, and companies with 50 or more employees would have to provide one week.”

Grayson thinks more vacation will stimulate the economy. Workers will be happier, more productive, and miraculously call in with fewer sick days.

Why stop there, Congressman? If one week’s vacation will stimulate the economy, why not three weeks? Five weeks? Hell, let’s legislate that everyone gets 52 weeks paid vacation per year.

Then bring in illegal aliens to do all the work while we sit around watching Oprah and eating bonbons.

It’s obvious that this legislation was inspired by DisneyWorld, because it appears to have been written by Goofy.

Source: Politico.com

Biden latest blunder: He agrees with Cheney – not Obama – on Gitmo

Joe Biden looking confused when confronted with the fact that he agrees with former Vice President Dick Cheney, not Barack Obama
Joe Biden looking confused when confronted with the fact that he agrees with former Vice President Dick Cheney, not Barack Obama

When President Obama hears about Joe Biden’s latest statement, you can bet the phone lines will burn up between Washington, DC and Kosovo.

That’s where Biden tossed his boss under the bus and this is how the Telegraph UK reported it:

It seems that all a reporter has to do to find out about the pickle Barack Obama’s is really in over his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison is to ask the veep…

So will Obama fulfill his vow – announced amid great fanfare in an executive order on day two of his presidency – to close the facility by January 2010? “I think so,” Biden responded, according to Newsweek’s Holly Bailey.

So perhaps he will. Or perhaps not. We’ll see.

Biden continued: “But, look, what the president said is that this is going to be hard. It’s like opening Pandora’s Box. We don’t know what’s inside the box.”

He also said that “to the best of my knowledge” the number of prisoners “who are a real danger who are not able to returned or tried” has “not been established” by the Obama administration.

So he basically just confirmed his predecessor Dick Cheney’s analysis that the decision was taken “with little deliberation, and no plan”.

So Biden says closing Gitmo is like opening Pandora’s box.

That’s either zen-like in its wisdom or just a really bad simile. We vote for the really bad simile.

Source: Telegraph UK

Why we celebrate Memorial Day. And why we apologize to no one.

Our American troops sacrificed everything for freedom and never felt it necessary to deliver any apology speeches. That, apparently, is President Obama’s job.

Some of our country’s greatest accomplishments have been saving Europe from tyranny in two world wars. Here, as a tribute to our fallen soldiers, are twenty European cemeteries dedicated to American soldiers who gave their lives so that freedom could live. Just take it in and contemplate what they did.

1. The American Cemetery at Aisne-Marne, France. A total of 2289 of our military dead.

Alsne Marne
Continue reading “Why we celebrate Memorial Day. And why we apologize to no one.”

Thanks, President Obama: Cap-and Trade means a new $4300 per family energy tax

Save your pennies. Cap-and-Trade is coming.
Save your pennies. Cap-and-Trade is coming.

The Democrats’ Cap-and-Trade bill passed out of committee this week on a party line vote.

They passed it despite the fact that Cap-and-Trade has been a corruption-plagued failure in Europe. They passed it despite the fact that logic says you can’t pile billions of dollars of expenses on the economy without increasing costs. They passed it despite all logic and reason.

Heritage.org did an analysis that shows this preposterous program will cost the average American family $4,300 per year.

They predict that the direct impact on household energy bills will average $1500 per year. That includes the increases the increased costs of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, and gasoline for your car.

“But the direct tax on household energy use is just the beginning,” Heritage reported. “The energy tax also hits producers. As the higher production costs ripple through the economy the household pocketbooks get hit again and again. When all the tax impacts have been added up, the average per-family-of-four costs rise by $4,300 per year.”

Heritge.org continued: “As President Obama warned us on his campaign trail, electricity prices will ‘necessarily skyrocket.’ So will everything else, except for our income and standard of living.”

After President Obama has finished his ‘Round the World Apology Tour 2009, perhaps he can come home and apologize to the American people for this Obamanation abomination.

Source: Heritage.org

Barney Frank supports ACORN’s freakin’ fraud

There are no red states. There are no blue states. There are only states where ACORN's already been indicted and states where they'll soon be indicted.
There are no red states. There are no blue states. There are only states where ACORN's already been indicted and states where they'll soon be indicted.

Naturally. Of course. Not surprised. Wouldn’t have expected anything less.

The same guy who led us down the primrose path on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is now out there as ACORN’s loudest supporter.

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, may have pulled off the most widespread voter fraud in American history last year. They’re being investigated or have already been convicted in 14 states.

In response, Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachman proposed an entirely reasonable amendment that would have barred any organization under federal indictment from receiving funds from the mortgage reform bill.

But blatantly Barney Frank, ACORN’s congressional sugar daddy, saw to it that the amendment was removed, defeated, condemned to the ash heap of history. Remarkably, ACORN will now have access to up to $8.5 billion (with a “b”) from President Obama’s various “stimulus” schemes.


Frank claims ACORN isn’t eligible for any of the moneyOf course, this is the same guy who defended Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and had a prostitution ring operating out of his condo.

Apparently the prostitution ring is still operating, but has moved its headquarters to Washington, DC.

Read the full details of the corrupt relationship between Frank and ACORN here.

Source: YidWithLid

Jesse Jackson, Jr. accused of misusing campaign funds, Jesse Sr. bursting with pride

Jesse Jackson, Sr congratulates his son for expanding the family business
Jesse Jackson, Sr congratulates his son for expanding the family business

Imagine how proud you must be when the son you love chooses to follow in your footsteps. That’s the warm glow race-grifter Jesse Jackson is feeling right now. 

Federal election records show that his son, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., paid his wife at least $247,500 out of campaign funds since 2001. That includes at least $95,000 after the lovely and effervescent Sandra Jackson was elected to the Chicago City Council two years ago. She received the $95,000 for “political consulting.” Of course, this happened after she pledged during to give “my full attention” to her city council job.

But following in the Jackson family tradition, Junior’s fiduciary fiddling was far from finished.

His committee directed another $298,927 in cash and in-kind contributions to the missus’ campaign fund. That helped finance her city council campaign. Her salary for that plum job is more than $100,000 per year.

The odds of being honest were stacked against this kid. After all, his father is Jesse Jackson, Sr., he’s a Democrat, and he lives in Illinois.

Strike three.

Source: TheBigFeed

Allah ™

A Malay court will decide if a Catholic church will be able to continue to pray to Allah. The official language of Malaysia calls God Allah, and this particular church is trying to make a point. But the Muslims are not too happy about it, apparently believing they own the trademark. They are taking the church to court to forbid them from using the word Allah, as they argue its use by other faiths could cause cause confusion and conversions. Islam has 99 other names for Allah, you’d think they could spare one.

If the church can win this battle, we think they should offer 72 73 virgins for new converts from Islam.

Mollycoddled college students stressed and depressed. Welcome to the real world, kids.

Think you're depressed now? Wait 'til next year when you don't get the whole summer off.
Think you're depressed now? Wait 'til next year when you don't get the whole summer off.

According to an Associated Press-mtvU poll 85% of college students surveyed report feeling stress recently.

The little darlings are worried about grades, school work, money and relationships. 42% said they had felt down, depressed or hopeless several days during the past two weeks. 13% showed signs of being at risk for mild depression or worse.

No friggin’ wonder, cupcake. You’ve been babied since the day you were born and told that you were special. You learned to play soccer without keeping score because losing might damage your delicate psyche. Your grades were inflated because…well…we don’t even know why grades were inflated. Your teachers took classes to learn how to build your self-esteem up bigger than Barry Bonds biceps even when you didn’t deserve it. And you actually thought Barack Obama would fill the world with sweetness and light.

Hah. Let us just say, welcome to the real world.

Of course, you’re depressed. The real world is filled with real pressure. Mommy and daddy aren’t going to pay your bills anymore. Your new boss won’t say “I’m giving you an A because you tried hard.” No. He’s more likely to say, “Turn in a piece of crap like this again and your ass will be on the street.”

Get over yourselves. Shut the hell up. Get a job. Work your ass off like the rest of us.

Sometimes you’ll win. Sometimes you’ll lose. But if you work hard you’ll discover that hard work is its own reward. So get to work.

One more thing: In the real world, they keep score.

Source: Associated Press via Yahoo

Obama birth certificate controversy outed in billboard campaign

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We’re not big believers in the Barack Obama birth certificate issue. That being said, the controversy refuses to go away.

World Net Daily is erecting outdoor boards across the country “to raise awareness of questions surrounding the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to serve as president.”

The message on the boards is simple: “Where’s the birth certificate?”

The first board has already been posted in Louisiana and additional boards are planned in Los Angeles and in Pennsylvania.

“I wish such a campaign were not absolutely necessary,” Farah commented. “I wish there were checks and balances in our political and electoral systems to ensure that constitutional eligibility of presidential candidates was established before politicians could assume the highest office in the land. I wish my colleagues in the news media believed the Constitution really means what it says and pressed this issue as hard as we have pressed it at WND. I wish radio talk-show hosts were bold enough to ask this question. But wishing is not enough. It’s time to raise the visibility of this issue vital to the rule of law in America. I ask everyone to pitch in and help WND make a simple yet profound statement: The Constitution still matters.”

Only one flaw in Farah’s reasoning – it’s becoming more and more obvious that the Constitution really doesn’t matter here in ObamaLand.

Source: WorldNetDaily.com

Paranoid Ugandan president says Africans must travel to the moon

The hideously ugly Ugandan national flag. Let's tackle the problems here on earth before we go to the moon.
The hideously ugly Ugandan national flag. Let's tackle the problems here on earth before we go to the moon.

You may have thought Uganda had enough problems, what with poverty, various civil wars, child slavery, mass murder, AIDS, and a hideously ugly national flag.

Nope. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has bigger fish to fry. He says Africans need to go to the moon.

Why? To investigate what developed nations have been doing up there.

“The Americans have gone to the moon. And the Russians. The Chinese and Indians will go there soon. Africans are the only ones who are stuck here,” Museveni said in a speech to the Uganda Law Society.

“We must also go there and say, ‘What are you people doing up here?’”

We really can’t think of any concluding comment funnier than that. So let’s just repeat it.

“We must also go there and say, ‘What are you people doing up here?’”

Source: TheBigFeed

Joe Biden Twitter impersonator even funnier than Biden himself

"Twitter? I hardly know 'er," the Cheap Veep insisted.
"Twitter? I hardly know 'er," the Cheap Veep insisted.

@JoeyBiden is our favorite Twitter impersonator. He posts phony tweets supposedly written by the Vice President.

The guy is anonymous and hilarious. So are his followers. Their tweets are so incredibly stupid that you’ll quickly find yourself thinking, “Hey, maybe Biden did write this.”

Here are just a few examples:

  • from @hannahighpoint who will win American Idol? || That chinaman, William Hung
  • from @EconDog should we be worried about China messing with our $?|| Of course not.I’ll worry about China when they have more people than us
  • from @SnakeBucket What will we do if Iran gets nukes? || If that happens you guys are screwed. Im moving south to Canada
  • from @samishamieh If I could waterboard anyone who would it be?|| Easy. Jake Tapper. That guy better fall in line with the rest of them
  • from @DanCleary Boxers or briefs? || I go commando. Its the way Jill and Rahm like it
  • The dinner was ok last night. That guy Wanda kinda sucked.
  • Just left 7-11. There was a white person working the counter. I havent been this surprised since I found out Wanda Sykes was a woman
  • Just received a lovely email from the widow of a Nigerian prince. Its urgent and confidential so I am directing 85% of bailout $ to her
  • Just ran into Bob Costas & told him Im a big fan. He stormed away angrily. Was just told it was actually Rachel Maddow
  • I can sum up that burger in 3 letters- Delicious
  • Ok,Ive been reading the constitution for weeks & I still can’t find the part about the VP having to walk Bo the dog.I hope this isnt a joke
  • Huge split in the administration over who to appoint to the Supreme Court. My choice is a no brainer. Judge Reinhold
  • Just left a meeting. Obama said he was surprised Miss California didn’t finish in 57th place

Source: Twitter.com/JoeyBiden

Helping the Obama administration practice obfuscation reality enhancement

The Obama administration speaks fluent obfuscation
The Obama administration speaks fluent obfuscation

When President Obama promised “change,” no one knew he wanted to change the names of things that are clearly understood to names that are…well…clearly not understood.

“Global War on Terror” became “overseas contingency operation.” “Terrorism” became “man-caused disaster.” Now the Treasury wants “toxic assets” to be called “legacy assets” name and the CDC wants “swine flu” to be called “H1N1.”

Unfortunately, no one’s buying these names. Not even the biased liberal media. When was the last time you heard Katie Couric report an overseas contingency operation?

Eric Swartz, the San Francisco-based TaglineGuru, wants to help. So he came up with some ideas to help the Obama administration rebrand other policy terms. Some of his suggestions:

Detainees: Custodial informants
Terrorists: Improvised ideologues
Deficit: Long shortfall (or inverted surplus)
One trillion dollars: Nth power financing
Border violence: Territorial imperative
Torture: Non-verbal questioning
Taxes: Income tweaks

We like it. Or as they might say in the Obama administration, it’s favorability enhanced.

Source: FoxNews.com

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