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Speculation is running rampant as to why Barack Obama and supermodel Carla Bruni didn’t enjoy (from his point of view, in our opinion) the customary French double cheek kiss when they first met Friday morning in Strasbourg, France. After all, Michelle exchanged kisses with both Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla, and the two presidents even had their warm manhug. But what went wrong when Barack and Carla’s turn came?
Your guess is as good as ours. In fact, let’s hear your theories.
The Associated Press makes it pretty clear where they come down politically. In fact, they couldn’t disguise it if they tried.
Take Saturday’s AP story on Detroit, for example. They asked three homegrown Detroit celebrities – Michael Moore, Ted Nugent, and Mary Wilson – about the city’s troubles.
They lead off with liberal fantasy moviemaker Moore, giving him seven paragraphs and 204 words. Yet conservative Motor City Madman Nugent merits only two paragraphs and 96 words (previous article). Even politically unannounced former Supreme Wilson tops that with four paragraphs and 104 words. The story even allowed Moore a chance to promote his new “documentary,” but mentioned no current or future projects from Nugent nor Wilson.
We’d like to propose a debate between the Moore and Nugent. A ten round debate. Mary Wilson can be the ring girl. Sell tickets. Bingo. Detroit’s financial problems are solved.
Mortgage your house. Put the money on Nugent.
We’re geniuses.
Source: Associated Press
The always entertaining Ted Nugent, the Motor City Madman, talking about the future of Detroit and the American auto industry
Source: Associated Press
According to President Obama, that will make them state number 59.
Headline: DrudgeReport
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSe38dzJYkY A Spanish court is deciding whether to put former President Bush and six members of his administration on trial for war crimes.
Human rights lawyers brought the case before anti-terror judge Baltasar Garzon, who will send it to prosecutors if he determines that it has merit.
The ex-Bush officials are former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington, Pentagon attorney William Haynes, and Justice Department officials John Yoo and Jay Bybee.
Give it a break, Spain. You lost the damn Spanish-American War fair and square. How about we just give you Puerto Rico back and call the whole thing even?
Perhaps President Bush should watch this Monty Python video just to see what kind of treatment he can expect at the hands of the dastardly Spaniards.
Source: NewsMax.com
Socks that cat is dead. We’re not exactly Columbo, but we suspect Bill Clinton may have been the cause of his or her death.
Socks died after a long bout with throat cancer. One of the leading causes of throat cancer is cigar smoke. Bill Clinton loved cigars in the White House (and sometimes even smoked them). The dangers of second-hand smoke have been well-documented. So simple logic leads us to believe that Socks died as a direct result of the former president’s filthy smoking habit.
The Clintons loved Socks while he was young, playful and good for public relations. However, he eventually lost his kitten-ish appeal and when the Clintons left the White House, they dumped Socks like an old pair of shoes.
“Socks brought much happiness to Chelsea and us over the years and enjoyment to kids and cat lovers everywhere,” said a Clinton Foundation statement. “We’re grateful for those memories, and we especially want to thank our good friend, Betty Currie, for taking such loving care of Socks for so many years.”
We bid a fond farewell to Socks, who was the White House cat at the same time that Bill Clinton was the White House horndog.
Source: Gateway Pundit
Our guess would be that they’re divided between those who earn over $100,000 and those who don’t.
Source: RasmussenReports.com
Looks like the Bridge to Nowhere has a new construction supervisor.
Source: DrudgeReport
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Just when we started to think Thad McCotter was the lone voice of reason in Congress, we discover Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI).
Harry Truman said, “I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.”
Truman would probably like Paul Ryan.
Source: MofoPolitics.com
If you want to see the kind of trouble that can be caused by the undemocratic Employee Free Choice Act, watch this video. It tells the sad tale of employees being harassed by United Auto Workers Union organizers at a non-union plant.
Thanks, Fox News.
Blair admitted the President is considering releasing some of the remaining 240 Gitmo detainees in the United States. Of course, he reassured us this would only happen if they can’t be returned to their home countries, because their governments don’t want them back or because the administration thinks they might be abused or tortured by their governments.
Then Blair dropped the real bombshell. He said the former prisoners would have to be given some sort of assistance to start their brand spankin’ new lives in the US of A. “We can’t put them out on the street,” he said.
Are we the only ones who think this is un-freakin-believable? A couple years ago these guys were living in caves in Afghanistan. They had a long term Caribbean vacation. Now we’re going to bring them to the United States and pay them to live here.
Fine. Bring ‘em over.
But not unless each Democrat who spoke in their defense is willing sponsor one of these maniacs, take him into his home, and help him get started in his new life.
Kind of like Madonna with the Malawi kids.
Source: Weekly Standard
A former Texas pastor has pleaded guilty to possessing and trafficking child pornography. And to make matters even worse, he did it on his church’s computers.
Steve Richardson, pastor at the First United Methodist Church in Royse City, Texas, pleaded guilty to two federal counts – possession of child pornography and transporting and shipping child pornography.
The scumbag faces the possibility of decades in prison, hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, and lifetime supervised release following imprisonment and restitution. He’ll be sentenced on June 15.
Richardson admitted to trading child pornography on his church computer, but told prosecutors church officials were unaware of his offenses.
This sicko used the disturbing email address “[email protected] when he distributed child pornography to undercover agents over a period of months in 2007 and 2008.
No funny closing here. Have a lovely time in prison, Steve. Hope you make some nice friends.
Source: Rockwall County Herald-Banner via WSJ.com
Just another lovely morning at the G20 conference in London. Off for a violent overthrow of the government and a spot of tea. Pip, pip, cherrio, old chap.
Source: GatewayPundit
We have a real estate developer friend. He said he knows his construction supervisor is stealing from him, but said, “At least he’s not greedy about it.” Must be the same principal working here.
Rasmussen Reports reports:
“Twenty-one percent (21%) of U.S. voters now think Congress is doing a good or excellent job, its highest ratings in over a year, but nearly twice as many (41%) also think most members of Congress are corrupt.”
Source: Rasmussen Reports
“The Fine Line Between Massage and Torture”
Headline, Chicago Tribune, March 26
Kind of like the fine line between being detained at Gitmo and a long-term Caribbean vacation.
Source: WSJ.com
The New York Times is making headlines for ignoring news that could have damaged Barack Obama, who as you may have noticed, is a Democrat.
According to the Bulletin, “A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 The New York Times had killed a story in October that would have shown a close link between ACORN, Project Vote and the Obama campaign because it would have been a ‘a game changer.’”
An informant had been providing inside information to The Unofficial Democratic Mouthpiece about ACORN’s election activities and several stories had been written. The articles abruptly stopped when it was revealed that the Obama presidential campaign had sent its maxed-out donor list to ACORN’s Washington, D.C. office as a way to “reach out to the maxed-out donors and solicit donations from them for Get Out the Vote efforts to be run by ACORN.”
In what may have been a rare moment of candor, The Times reporter actually told the informant that editors wanted to kill the story because “it was a game changer.”’
Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) said the footsie-playing between Obama and ACORN could be a violation of federal election law.
The Times’ Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications, Catherine Mathis, stated in an email, “political considerations played no role in our decisions about how to cover this story or any other story about President Obama.”
Take that for what it’s worth. After all, it comes from the New York Times.
Source: The Bulletin
Here’s how Byron York explains it in the Washington Examiner:
“…the House Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, has approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill. The new legislation, the “Pay for Performance Act of 2009,” would impose government controls on the pay of all employees — not just top executives — of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the terms of compensation agreements already in place. And it would give Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies.
The purpose of the legislation is to “prohibit unreasonable and excessive compensation and compensation not based on performance standards,” according to the bill’s language. That includes regular pay, bonuses — everything — paid to employees of companies in whom the government has a capital stake, including those that have received funds through the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The measure is not limited just to those firms that received the largest sums of money, or just to the top 25 or 50 executives of those companies. It applies to all employees of all companies involved, for as long as the government is invested. And it would not only apply going forward, but also retroactively to existing contracts and pay arrangements of institutions that have already received funds.
In addition, the bill gives Geithner the authority to decide what pay is “unreasonable” or “excessive.” And it directs the Treasury Department to come up with a method to evaluate “the performance of the individual executive or employee to whom the payment relates.”
Tim Geither, an ineffective, unelected appointee, gets to decide what’s unreasonable or excessive? Take a long, hard look in the mirror, Tim. Then hand it over to Barney and let him take a look, too.
Those images you see — that’s what unreasonable and excessive looks like.
Source: Washington Examiner
Is there anyone on television more distasteful than Bill Maher?
The liberal HBO talk show host has done it again, this time insulting the U.S. military
Here’s what the so-called comedian had to say on his March 27 HBO show:
“Forget about bringing the troops home Iraq – we need to get the troops home from World War II,” Maher said. “Can anybody tell me why in 2009, we still have more than 50,000 troops in Germany and 30,000 in Japan? At some point these people are going to have to learn to rape themselves.”
The insults continued, but let’s get to the response from former Army Staff Sergeant David Bellavia, author of “House to House.” He’s already won a Silver Star and a Bronze Star and has been recommended for the Medal of Honor.
“While Democrats want to accuse the right in America of being hijacked by the talking points of Rush Limbaugh and talk radio,” Bellavia noted, “it is more than a little odd to me that the greatest minds on the left today are community organizers, washed up former sports commentators and stand up comedians. It’s insensitive and hurtful.”
“The fact is that the German people would be the first to protest our leaving their country,” Bellavia continued. “Areas like Vilseck would have no economy without American business and young foolish soldiers emptying their bank accounts on the German local scene.”
The Fallujah veteran said he wasn’t surprised by Maher remarks and explained many on the left like Maher don’t understand the concept of military service.
“Maher’s comments are nothing surprising to me,” Bellavia said. “Newsflash – the left doesn’t get the military. They don’t understand how a person can see something bigger then themselves. And the vast majority of liberals have zero idea of what we face overseas and moreover, cannot understand any situation that could possibly involve taking the life at war. They never have. And they never will.”
Funny thing is, there’s probably some Taliban with a satellite dish outside his cave in Waziristan keeping track of which western “comedians” will be the first to be eliminated when they take over.
Maher’s only hope is that he’s so completely unfunny that the Taliban never figure out he’s a supposed to be a comedian.
Source: Culture & Media Institute
One would hope this story would sound a very loud alarm in Hollywood: More than 100 prisoners in Iraq face execution after reportedly being convicted of the crime of “being gay.”
According to Ali Hili of Iraqi-LGBT, Iraq will begin executing them in groups of 20 starting this week. The London-based group believes 128 executions are imminent. They’re asking the UK Government, human rights groups and the UN Human Rights Commission to step in and stop “this tragic miscarriage of justice.”
“In 2008, at least 285 people were sentenced to death, and at least 34 executed,” Mr Hili said in an interview with UK Gay News. “In 2007 at least 199 people were sentenced to death and 33 were executed, while in 2006 at least 65 people were put to death.
“The actual figures,” Mr. Hili added, “could be much higher as there are no official statistics for the number of prisoners facing execution.”
Uh-oh. Obama Justice Department nominee Harold Koh wants the United States to accept Sharia Law, which calls for shooting or beheading gays and drug addicts.
Who’s going to be left in Hollywood to make movies?
Source: InfidelsAreCool.com
We apologize in advance for using the words “brilliant” and “Los Angeles Times” in the same sentence. However, there’s a brilliant op-ed piece by Andrew Klavan in last Sunday’s Los Angeles Times.
If you are reading this newspaper, the likelihood is that you agree with the Obama administration’s recent attacks on conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh. That’s the likelihood; here’s the certainty: You’ve never listened to Rush Limbaugh.
Oh no, you haven’t. Whenever I interrupt a liberal’s anti-Limbaugh rant to point out that the ranter has never actually listened to the man, he always says the same thing: “I’ve heard him!”
On further questioning, it always turns out that by “heard him,” he means he’s heard the selected excerpts spoon-fed him by the distortion-mongers of the mainstream media. These excerpts are specifically designed to accomplish one thing: to make sure you never actually listen to Limbaugh’s show, never actually give him a fair chance to speak his piece to you directly.
Klavan concluded:
The mainstream media (a.k.a. the Matrix) don’t want you to listen to Limbaugh because they’re afraid he’ll wake you up and set you free of their worldview. You don’t want to listen to him because you’re afraid of the same thing.
Don’t believe me? Well, then, gird your loins. Gather your courage. Accept the Limbaugh Challenge. See what happens.
I dare you.
Today, Rush Limbaugh. Tomorrow, Fox News. You never know where this could end up.
Source: Los Angeles Times
President Obama just nominated a character named Harold Koh to be the State Department’s top legal advisors. He sounds more dangerous than unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers.
According to the New York Post, Koh believes:
Judges should interpret the Constitution according to other nations’ legal “norms.” Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an “axis of disobedience” along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq.
Until he was nominated for the State Department position, Koh was dean of the Yale Law School. He believes in a “transnational legal process.” That is, he believes the distinctions between United States law and international law should be eliminated.
What would this look like in a practical sense? Well, California voters have overruled their courts, which had imposed same-sex marriage on the state. Koh would like to see such matters go up the chain through federal courts — which, in turn, should look to the rest of the world. If Canada, the European Human Rights Commission and the United Nations all say gay marriage should be legal — well, then, it should be legal in California too, regardless of what the state’s voters and elected representatives might say.
Please click on this link and read the entire article. It will frighten you for the future of this country.
It’s a bad day today. Almost nothing in the news is funny.
Source: New York Post
Are you sad? Are your spirits lower than your bank balance? Are you as depressed as the economy? Fear not. It’s Obama to the rescue. Because as all good Americans know, there is nothing this 21st century Superman cannot do.
Our thanks to Drudge for breaking the news of this latest nanny state fiasco:
The U.S. government is set to offer an online emotional rescue kit!
“Getting Through Tough Economic Times” will launch Tuesday with a media push across all platforms.
The site is meant to help people identify health concerns related to financial worries.
The feds will warn of depression, suicidal thinking and other serious mental illnesses. It will raise warning flags for: Persistent sadness/crying; Excessive anxiety; Lack of sleep/constant fatigue; Excessive irritability/anger.
The only problem is trying to remember the government’s catchy URL:
samhsa.gov/economy
May we respectfully suggest some catchier, snappier, more memorable URLs?
How about ImMoreDepressedThanMyIRA.gov. Or My401KsNotOK.gov. Or CradleToGraveHappiness.gov. Or our personal favorite, NannyState.gov.
Feel free to use them, President Obama.
Source: DrudgeReport.com
Thousands of Catholics rioted in London today, burning cars and battling police while protesting what they called a “blasphemous” portrayal of Pope Benedict XVI in a Times of London cartoon.
Other Christian leaders called for the death of the cartoonist Peter Brooks for his appalling caricature of the Pope wearing a condom instead of his normal triregnum.
Oh, wait. We got our stories slightly confused. It was the Muslims who rioted over a cartoon of Allah. The Catholic response was a bit milder. They wrote letters.
“I was appalled at the tasteless cartoon depicting Pope Benedict XVI,” Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor wrote in a letter to the Times. “No newspaper should show such disrespect to a person who is held in high esteem by a large proportion of Christians in the world. To pillory the Pope in this way is totally unacceptable.
“We will not accept the Pope being made the object of mockery and offence, in the media or elsewhere,” said Angelo Bagnasco, an Italian Bishop. “He represents for everyone a moral authority, which this journey has made people appreciate even more.”
No word yet on whether cartoonist Brooks has gone into hiding to avoid a potential Catholic fatwah.
Source: MediaWatchWatch.org
According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, Sunni Islamic scholar Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi recently delivered a sermon on Qatari TV. Here’s part of what he said:
A few days ago, a Muslim asked me if we were allowed to possess WMDs — nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. I said to him: “Yes, we must possess such weapons, but not use them.” We must possess such weapons in order to strike terror in our enemies–“Strike terror in the hearts of the enemies,” and frighten them.
Obviously, the sermon must have been delivered prior to the Obama administration’s decision that terrorist acts are no longer to be called terrorist acts, but rather “man-caused disasters.”
Just as obviously, this new terminology will cause twisting of both logic and tongues. Because if the act is now called a “man-caused disaster,” what do you call the person who commits the act?
A man-caused disaster-er?
Source: WSJ.com
According to the latest statistics, the “so-called” animal rights organization killed 99.7% of the animals they receive.
The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills an average of 5.8 pets every day at its Norfolk, VA headquarters.
According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 21,339 dogs and cats have died at the hands of PETA workers.
To repeat, only seven out of 2,124 pets were adopted. And the rest were euthanized. That means they euthanized 99.7% of all the pets that were brought to them.
We don’t much like Obama, the IHateTheMedia.com office cat. But after reading this, we’d never turn him over to the animals at PETA.
Source: ConsumerFreedom.com
