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“In the first three months of the year, 1,395 Pakistanis were killed in 1,842 terrorist attacks. At that rate Pakistan’s terror death toll will overtake the toll from Hurricane Katrina by the end of April. By the end of 2009, we could be looking at double the toll from the World Trade Center attacks.
“It’s probably something to do with Presbyterians.”
Source: Tim Blair, Sydney Daily Telegraph
Just last month in Doha, Venezuelan President and Fidel Castro wannabe Hugo Chavez called the U.S. “the great guilty one, the great Satan.”
Chavez also called President Obama “ignorant.” Now Obama has proven Chavez’ point, smiling and giving Chavez the “bro” handshake.
Dude, where’s my country?
Source: Times UK
We know the 70s were simpler times, gentler times, more innocent times. But for God’s sake, man, did no one in the Archdiocesan Youth Commission see anything wrong with this design? No one?
This is an actual logo designed in 1973 for the Catholic Church’s Archdiocesan Youth Commission.
In fact, it won an award from the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles and is shown in the 1974 ADLA Awards Annual.
It can also be found in the Design Archives of AIGA, “the professional association for design.” We know it looks like a sick joke, but you can see it here for yourself.
We know the 70s were simpler times, gentler times, more innocent times. But for God’s sake, man, did no one in the Archdiocesan Youth Commission see anything wrong with this design? No one?
If you weren’t around before 1979, you may think the people of Iran have always been 13th century lunatics.
Not so.
These two photos perfectly demonstrate the difference between the theocratic Iran of today and the Iran of 30 years ago that was the most westernized country in the middle east. (You can see dozens of other photos of surprisingly Westernized, pre-secular Iran here).
Iranian Akhbar Ganji describes the 1979 Iranian revolution as an event that “promised us heaven, but… created a hell on earth.”
Not for the peoples at IHateTheMedia.com. We consider this a preview of what our Islamo-Fascist friends have in mind for the rest of the world. Including America.
Source: FunnyToGo.com via Leenks.com
Or as they say at the Democratic National Committee, “The Fairness Doctrine comes to Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
Source: Wall Street Journal
Ahhh, but don’t break out the champagne quite yet. The court didn’t annul the marriage nor condemn the marriage nor even raise an eyebrow over the marriage. It just said the old geezer couldn’t violate the girl until she reached puberty.
Justice Minister Muhammad Issa said he wanted to end to the “arbitrary” way in which Saudi parents marry off underage girls. But he said nothing about outlawing the practice. Not a word.
This brings up a few questions for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
Is this one of those international laws you want to use as precedent in American law? If you’re not following the United States Constitution, how do you determine which international laws to follow and which ones to ignore? Will your choices as “arbitrary” as those of the Saudi judge? And finally, are you really as friggin’ uninformed and un-American as you appear to be?
Just wondering.
Source: BBC
If you’re an aid worker, consider yourself lucky that you got out of 2008 alive. Reuters reports that last year was the deadliest ever for aid workers. But the wire service left something very important out of its report – who did the killing?
Here’s how CreepingSharia.com revealed what Reuters didn’t or wouldn’t or dasn’t:
al-Reuters reports that 2008 was the deadliest year on record for aid workers and that three countries were responsible for most of the violence. What Reuters fails to mention is what those three countries – Somalia, Afghanistan, and Sudan – have in common that contributed to the killings: Islam.
In fact, the words Islam, Muslim, jihad, and sharia – all significant factors in the record number of aid worker deaths – are never mentioned by al-Reuters, who claims the deaths are an alarming trend.
Unfortunate? Absolutely. Disgusting? Without doubt. Alarming? Not really. Anyone paying any attention at all could tell you jihadists are killing on a regular basis. The alarming trend is not the killings but the refusal of Western governments and the mass media to acknowledge and report on the jihadists and ideology behind the killing. Not to mention policies forbidding use of those terms.
What’s that? There were no bands of crazed 13th century Christians raping and pillaging anywhere in the world? No conservatives slaughtering in the name of God? And no beheadings by disgruntled Republicans?
This is going to come as a big surprise to the Department of Homeland Security.
Source: Reuters via Creeping Sharia
Believe it or not, democracy and capitalism aren’t on the list. Maybe next year.
We know this doesn’t really have much to do with media, but it does take us back to a sweeter, gentler, happier time in America. (Are you ready for our tenuous media connection? Because here it comes) You know, those times the media tells us were angry, racist, misogynist, homophobic times. Oh, wait. They’re still telling us that.
So what the hell, here’s number twenty-three:
Cash Registers That Make a Ka-Ching Sound
Ka-ching — it’s a synonym for making money — the sound of the cash register ringing up a sale. Lots of people still say it, but some of them don’t know its origins because they have never heard the real thing. Cash registers that go “ka-ching” have been replaced by silent computers or self-checkout machines whose nasal artificial voices annoy more than help when they whine, “Don’t forget to take your change.”
Check out the entire list, you angry, racist, misogynist, homophobe.
Source: WalletPop.com
No president has ever understood the welfare system better than Barack Obama. Because somehow, our new President and his missus managed to bring home $201,913 for jobs they didn’t perform.
Lest we be accused of being inaccurate, let’s admit that President Obama did spend about 12 minutes doing the actual work of a United Sates Senator in 2008. He showed up to cast a vote or two when he was campaigning somewhere near Washington, DC. For that Herculean effort, he was paid $139,204.
But Michelle, well, that’s a different story. She took home $62,709 from the University of Chicago Hospitals. To repeat, she didn’t work a lick, but still took home $62,709. That’s not bad work if you can get it.
In fact, after she resigned her position, her job was eliminated. I’m sure Michelle would say it was eliminated because she couldn’t be replaced. But it’s much more likely that the job was eliminated because it wasn’t a real job in the first place.
So on one hand, these two got paid for work they didn’t do. And on the other hand, they see nothing wrong with increasing your taxes for the work you did do.
It all starts to make sense now.
Source: Associated Press via Sweetness And Light, Bluegrass Pundit
Yup, that pretty much says it all. We don’t know who the photographer was. Wish we did. It’s just one of those things floating-around-the-internet things that was sent in by one of our readers.
Another story the media just conveniently overlooks in its efforts to be politically correct:
Those darn moderate Taliban factions with whom President Obama wants to negotiate are already causing problems in Pakistan.
Here’s how the ANI news agency reports the story:
Pakistani’s Taliban will not lay down heir arms in a northwestern valley as part of a deal that included the introduction of Sharia law but will take their struggle’ to new areas, a militant spokesman said today.
“Sharia doesn’t permit us to lay down arms,” Muslim Khan said by telephone. “If a government, either in Pakistan or Afghanistan, continues anti-Muslim policies, it’s out of the question that Taliban lay down their arms.”
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, under pressure from conservatives, signed a regulation on Monday imposing sharia law in the Swat valley to end Taliban violence.
The strategy of appeasement has alarmed US officials, while critics say the government has demonstrated a lack of capacity nd will to fight the Taliban and al Qaeda.
According to Dawn, details of the deal have not been made public but government officials backing the pact have said part of it as that militants would give up their arms.
But a Pakistani Taliban spokesman in the scenic valley, a one-time tourist destination 125 km northwest of Islamabad, said they would be keeping their guns.
He said “When we achieve our goal at one place, there are other areas where we need to struggle for it.”
Based on this, we can foresee the day when American Muslims can have guns for religious reasons, but other Americans can’t have them for legal reasons.
That, of course, will allow the IslamoFascists to help Homeland Security hunt down rightwing extremists.
Source: Yuvaz.com
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill., duh) took time out of her busy tax-and-spend schedule to denounce the Tea Party protests as “despicable” and shameful.”
In a statement, Schakowsky parroted Democratic/CNN talking points that the Tea Parties were “an effort to mislead the public about the Obama economic plan that cuts taxes for 95 percent of Americans.”
“It’s despicable that right-wing Republicans would attempt to cheapen a significant, honorable moment of American history with a shameful political stunt,” she said. “Not a single American household or business will be taxed at a higher rate this year. Made to look like a grassroots uprising, this is an Obama bashing party promoted by corporate interests, as well as Republican lobbyists and politicians.”
What her statement failed to mention was that her husband, lobbyist Robert Creamer, pled guilty to bank fraud and tax cheating in 2005. She also signed off on their tax returns.
If this is the most ethical and transparent congress in history, we can’t imagine what the most corrupt would be like.
Source: TheHill.com
The problem with liberals is that most of them don’t live in the real world. Not even in the same neighborhood. Hair-brained schemes hatched in the hallowed halls of academe don’t work any more than the professors who concoct them.
Then there’s Harry Alford, president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, someone with both feet planted squarely in the real world. Here’s what Alford had to say about lib healthcare concepts:
“Yeah, I love Ted Kennedy. I love what he stands for, but he has come out over the years with some ideas that I think just don’t work. I remember his office called me and they wanted to – any business that had over 100 employers would have to have medical insurance for all the employees. And he was aiming this at fast food chains. And I said, all the McDonald’s and Burger King owners are going to do is make sure he doesn’t have 100 employees because he can’t afford it. You can’t make him do this. They’ll be fewer jobs.”
Fewer jobs? Perfect. That would allow the libs to test some of their equally ineffective job creation theories.
Source: CNSnews.com
Lousy actress and poor singer Rosario Dawson has given President Obama that would only be considered a compliment in the twisted world of Hollywood. She says his administration is very “vagina friendly.”
The D.C. Examiner reports it like this:
Rosario Dawson has been a vocal supporter of President Barack Obama’s policies, appearing both at the Democratic National Convention and the “We Are One” concert, but Tuesday, she expressed a new reason why she loves our President.
“I feel like we have a very vagina-friendly administration,” Dawson said, speaking at the first Men Can Stop Rape conference at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill.
She didn’t elaborate on how the administration was “friendly,” but we presume she meant his work that supports the speech she gave about preventing sexual violence against women. She received a standing ovation.
We think that last line was a typo. It was supposed to have said, “She received a standing ovulation.”
Source: D.C. Examiner via BluegrassPundit
We don’t know crap about rap, we don’t know sh*t about the hits, and we don’t know pop from hip hop. We’d say this one was number one with a bullet, but Janet Napolitano might accuse us of inciting violence. Damn right wingers.
| To: | Janeane Garofalo |
| From: | An outraged conservative |
| Re: | Republican racists |
| Date: | April 17, 2009 |
Earlier today we published the story Angry activist, actress Janeane Garofalo announces that you’re a racist where she told Keith Olbermann that tax protesters are nothing but a bunch of racist white power wackos.
Well, Janeane, here’s one of those racist Republicans at a Tea Party in Santa Ana, California, right in the heart of whitebread Orange County.
Oh, wait. That woman appears to be black. A black woman had the nerve to tweak Barack Obama’s America-bashing overseas statements on one side of her sign, then tweak Michelle Obama’s ’08 campaign comment on the other (“For the first time in my adult life I’m proud of my country”).
Being in Orange County, she probably isn’t authentically black. But take our word for it, she is authentically outraged.
Update: For some reason our Digg It button not working in this article. You can Digg it here. That is, if you want to send Garofalo the memo.
Janet Napolitano finds herself this morning standing in a big pile of something that smells very bad.
Even a leading House Democrat wants to know why the Secretary of Homeland Security chose to issue a report that targets veterans as potential terrorists.
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he was “dumbfounded” by the report.
“This report appears to raise significant issues involving the privacy and civil liberties of many Americans — including war veterans,” Mr. Thompson stated in the letter to Napolitano.
“As I am certain you agree, freedom of association and freedom of speech are guaranteed to all Americans — whether a person’s beliefs, whatever their political orientation, are ‘extremist’ or not.”
You know the Department of Homeland Security report is a gross distortion of the truth when someone with Thompson’s solid liberal credentials sees the danger in it.
Source: HotAir.com
Sarkozy is calling time out on President Obama’s attempts to reassert American leadership, calling them as unoriginal, unsubstantial and overrated.
The French president is a little pissy about the superstar treatment Obama received on his European tour a couple weeks ago.
According to the Times of London:
The American President’s call to free the world of the menace of a nuclear nightmare” was hot air, Mr Sarkozy’s diplomatic staff told him in a report. “It was rhetoric – not a speech on American security policy but an export model aimed at improving the image of the United States,” they said. Most of Mr Obama’s proposals had already been made by the Bush administration and Washington was dragging its feet on disarmament and treaties against nuclear proliferation, the leaked report said.
Personal pique and French politics are also behind the souring of Mr Sarkozy’s self-promoted honeymoon with the United States. On the personal side, the French President is needled by the adulation for an unproven US leader whose stardom has eclipsed what he sees as his established record as a world troubleshooter. “The President is annoyed by what he sees as the naivety and the herd mentality of the media,” said a journalist who is privy to Elysée thinking.
One member of IHateTheMedia.com’s Editorial Board suffered through two years of French in high school. He’s had an intense dislike of the country and its culture and its people and its food ever since. He hates French poodles, French fries, and French braids, French maids, French pastries, French accents and French perfume.
But now he says, “Vive la France! Vive Le Sarkozy!”
Source: Times of London
We got excited when we saw the headline. Then we read the story and found out he was eventually coming back. Don’t tease us that way, Drudge.
Source: DrudgeReport
So there’s a magazine out there called Allure. Or so we’ve been told.
One of the IHateTheMedia.com wives describes it as “sort of a cross between Shape and Vogue with lots of fashion and make-up and stuff like that.”
So the May issue of the magazine is called “The Nude Issue.” It features Top Chef host (and former wife of Salmon Rushdi) Padma Lakshmi, E! talk show host Chelsea Handler and “Dollhouse” star Eliza Dushku stripped down to…well…nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Rest assured, this is tasteful nudity. Artistic, one might even say. And as supporters of the arts, they’re right up our tasteful alley. Our review of the art can be summed up in a word:
Va-va-voom.
“I tend to sleep in the nude… I’m a sensual-leaning woman,” Padma said. “You have to use the word ‘leaning’ or it sounds like I’m boasting.”
When asked about her favorite body part, Chelsea said: “My boobs are good. They’re real and perky.”
Eliza: “I’ll strip down to my underwear and my Ugg boots when I eat lunch in my trailer.”
We just have one question. What time is lunch?
Source: Allure via HuffingtonPost.com
According to Rasmussen’s daily Presidential Tracking Poll released on Sunday, President Obama has slipped to the lowest approval rating of his presidency.
“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 34% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-two percent (32%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +2, his lowest total to date.”
For God’s sake, man, this guy just got a puppy and he named it Bo. And the media reported it with more enthusiasm than when he named his Secretary of State. The damn dog will probably give him a bounce in tomorrow’s poll.
California Democrat Congressman Henry Waxman is at it again and the compliant mainstream media is doing its best to keep it under wraps.
A provision quietly inserted in a House climate bill would allow “victims” of global warming to sue the federal government and businesses.
The Washington Times says that Waxman and fellow Democrat Rep Edward Markey of Massachusetts slipped it into their climate bill.
The provision would set grounds for plaintiffs who have “suffered” or expect to suffer “harm” so that they can somehow blame on government inaction. “Harm” is defined as “any effect of air pollution (including climate change).” Each plaintiff could walk away with as much as $75,000 a year in government payouts. Ahhh, but don’t you worry your pretty little head. Waxman the Watchdog is watching out for you. His bill says no one can get more than $1.5 million in lifetime payouts.
Where do we sign up? We’re already expecting to suffer some harm from global warming. A starving polar bear could wander down from Alaska and ate our lunch.
Bingo. When can we expect the check?
Source: Washington Times via Fox News
She believes America’s conservatives are more dangerous than Islamo-Fascist radicals.
She just issued a report in which she breathlessly tells the nation’s law enforcement agencies to watch out for you. “You” meaning anyone who doesn’t like President Obama, disgruntled veterans, states rights advocates, people who are suffering in the recession, and really successful talk show hosts.
She wants to put you in jail. But thanks to President Obama’s policy of renaming existing government programs, jail is no longer called jail.
Henceforth, it will now be called “President Obama’s Housing Program for Conservatives.”
It’s the joyous annual holiday on which Democrats gather with their families, feast at the government trough, and give thanks for all the taxes they “forgot to pay” or “overlooked” or “got incorrect advice from their tax preparer” or “missed because of a glitch in TurboTax.”
Tom Daschle. Tim Geithner. Hilda Solis. Ron Kirk. Kathleen Sebelius. And half the other people nominated for positions in the Obama administration will be celebrating today. And they will offer this simple prayer: “We thank you, FDR, for the bounty you have given us. And for all those phony Schedule C deductions, too.”
Remember President Obama’s pledge to simplify the tax code? What he meant, obviously, was “It’s simple to cheat on your taxes and get away with it. Especially if you’re a Democrat.”
