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Now that Republicans have killed off cowboy poets, they’re going after mimes and accordion players

Rep. Jeff Flake questioned NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman over a number of grants, including those to an international accordion festival and to the San Francisco Mime Troupe.

We really wish video was available of this clip, but if it’s out there, we can’t find it. Pity because this sounds like a classic.

Republican Congressman Jeff Flake went after Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts, about federal money given to San Francisco mimes and to an international accordion festival.

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Renowned mimes everywhere speak out against Jeff Flake. Oh, wait. They're mimes. Guess they won't be speaking out.

The Hill squeezes out the details of the accordion story:

“Those just kind of grants lend themselves to ridicule,” said Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing. “These are a bit tough to justify…how can we justify these types of grants?”

Flake questioned NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman over a number of grants, including those to an international accordion festival and to the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Making grants like these “feeds the cynicism out there about everything we do,” Flake said.

Landesman responded that many of the programs that win NEA support could not exist without the help.

“The marketplace shouldn’t be the sole determinant of what is allowed to flourish,” Landesman said, adding that the renowned San Francisco Mime Troupe would likely not be able to survive solely on ticket sales.

No, of course, not. Some nameless, faceless bureaucrat with an overinflated sense of his artistic judgment should make that decision, Rocco.

Flake said he will do anything it takes to kill funding for the accordion festival, a statement that prompted Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) to say that Flake will be getting hate mail from Polish folk musicians.

“The renowned San Francisco Mime Troupe”? We had no idea any mime troupe was renowned, but now that we know there’s one in San Francisco we shudder at the thought of the things they may mime.

UPDATE: We just found this video clip of the renowned San Francisco Mime Troupe and now we know why the Democrats want to fund them. The troupe performs a skit called Red State in which they make fun of Middle America and the group’s set appropriately features a red star. That being said, the clip does reveal why the renowned San Francisco Mime Troupe is so renowned – it is apparently the world’s most talkative mime group.

Source: The Hill

Barack Obama: “Drill, Baby, Drill” is my middle name

Stand back. Barack Obama is now a wildcatter. He wants oil, damn it. Black gold. Texas tea. Venezuelan velvet.

Stand back. Barack Obama is now a wildcatter. He wants oil, damn it. Black gold. Texas tea. Venezuelan velvet.

Here’s how Ace accurately described his weekly address:

It has to be frustrating to Captain Bullshit, to have to actually forward this sort of thing in a weekly address. “Hey, these gas prices, what the hell? We’d better put those speculators on a short leash, and cut those doggone subsidies and also maybe let em have a lease or two that I will never let them actually produce from.

But he said the words, damn it. And he sounded almost sincere. And that counts for something, doesn’t it?

H/T: Ace of Spades

Mexican cops pull over two trucks carrying 513 illegal aliens headed for the United States

We can’t even comprehend how this is even possible. How do 513 people cram themselves into two trucks? That seems a tad overcrowded even if they were very little people and very big trucks.

We can’t even comprehend how this is even possible. How do 513 people cram themselves into two trucks? That seems a tad overcrowded even if they were very little people and very big trucks. Perhaps there are some strict new Mexican carpooling rules we haven’t yet heard about.

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Holy guacamole! 513 illegal aliens in two trucks?

My FOX NY tells the tale of the Mexican clown cars:

Police on Tuesday detained 513 undocumented migrants from Latin America and Asia who were crammed into two trucks bound for the United States, prosecutors in southeast Mexico said.

The migrants, from Latin America, Japan, China, India and Nepal, “were traveling in inhuman conditions” in the southeastern state of Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border, the local attorney general’s office said in a statement.

Police stopped the trucks, carrying 240 and 273 people, on the outskirts of state capital Tuxtla Gutierrez early Tuesday, after they accelerated through a vehicle scanner at a police checkpoint, the statement said.

Officers chased down the vehicles shortly afterward, it added.

Police detained the Mexican drivers of the two trucks, and the migrants were provided with aid and food, the statement said.

Since they had illegally crossed into Mexico we assume that “aid and food” means they were beaten within an inch of their lives and tossed in a squalid Mexican jail.

On the other hand, had they been Mexican citizens hoping to cross illegally into the United States, they probably would have been given a police escort to the American border, a nice warm snack and maps showing them how to get to San Diego.

Source: My Fox New York

We’re pretty sure Newt Gingrich regrets going on Bill Bennett’s radio show

This is just about as tough as an interview can get without the participants coming to blows.

Long-time conservative radio host Bill Bennett absolutely reams newly-announced Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich for coming out against Paul Ryan’s budget plan.

This is just about as tough as an interview can get without the participants coming to blows.

Long-time conservative radio host Bill Bennett absolutely reams newly-announced Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich for coming out against Paul Ryan’s budget plan.

We’re not saying Bennett gently chastised him. We’re not saying he scolded him. We’re not saying he expressed mild displeasure. We’re saying he took Gingrich to the woodshed and spanked his Georgia peaches.

In other words, this is about as much fun as a radio interview can be.

Has a presidential campaign ever gotten off to a rockier start?

Federal government sets new golf rules

President Obama has recently appointed a Golf Czar and major rule changes in the game of golf will become effective in May 2011.

Things we get in our email box. We just pass them along to you.

President Obama has recently appointed a Golf Czar and major rule changes in the game of golf will become effective in May 2011. This is only a preview as the complete rule book (expect 2000 pages) is being rewritten as we speak. Here are a few of the changes.

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Rule 237-A: All beer summits will be held at the 19th hole

Golfers with handicaps:

• below 10 will have their green fees increased by 35%.
• between 11 and 18 will see no increase in green fees.
• above 18 will get a $20 check each time they play.

The term “gimmie” will be changed to “entitlement” and will be used as follows:

• handicaps below 10, no entitlements.
• handicaps from 11 to 17, entitlements for putter length putts.
• handicaps above 18, if your ball is on green, no need to putt, just pick it up.

These entitlements are intended to bring about fairness and, most importantly, equality in scoring.

In addition, a player will be limited to a maximum of one birdie or six pars in any given 18-hole round.

Any excess must be given to those fellow players who have not yet scored a birdie or par.

Only after all players have received a birdie or par from the player actually making the birdie or par, can that player begin to count his pars and birdies again. The current USGA handicap system will be used for the above purposes, but the term “net score” will be available only for scoring those players with handicaps of 18 and above.

This is intended to “re-distribute” the success of winning by making sure that in every competition, the above 18 handicap players will post only “net score” against every other player’s gross score.

These new Rules are intended to CHANGE the game of golf.

Golf must be about Fairness. It should have nothing to do with ability, hard work, practice, and responsibility. This is the “right thing to do.”

Like we said, this just showed up in our mailbox. If you know who originally wrote it, let us know so we can give credit where credit is due.

To bee or not to bee: Research shows that honeybees are being killed by cell phones

Liberals have blamed the epidemic of honeybee deaths around the world on just about everything: global warming, pollution, Paul Ryan’s budget…now…

Liberals have blamed the epidemic of honeybee deaths around the world on just about everything: global warming, pollution, Paul Ryan’s budget…

Now it turns out it’s all caused by the proliferation of cell phone signals.

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Honeybees are confused by cell phones signals. This may explain politicians, too.

Inhabit.com has the apian information:

Scientists may have found the cause of the world’s sudden dwindling population of bees – and cell phones may be to blame. Research conducted in Lausanne, Switzerland has shown that the signal from cell phones not only confuses bees, but also may lead to their death. Over 83 experiments have yielded the same results. With virtually most of the population of the United States (and the rest of the world) owning cell phones, the impact has been greatly noticeable.

What’s a good liberal to do? On one hand they want to give everyone free government cell phones from Safelink. On the other hand, cell phones are killing the honeybees.

That sound you hear is liberal heads exploding across the fruited plain.

H/T: Warren

Source: Inhabitat.com

Family Feud’s Steve Harvey announces that “We’re going to hell”

The question is “Name something that gets passed around” and Steve Harvey gets a couple very surprising answers.

We’ve decided to do the losers over at iOwnTheWorld.com a big favor and link to one of their stories. Lord knows their poorly-read little site can use the traffic sent over from a successful site like IHateTheMedia.com.

If those of you who read this story in the next ten minutes go over to IOTW, you’ll probably double their traffic for the day.

The question is “Name something that gets passed around” and Steve Harvey gets a couple very surprising answers.

H/T: iOwnTheWorld.com

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Top 10 neologisms that define the left

For some time now the left has attempted to influence public thinking by introducing terms into the popular lexicon. We respond with some neologisms of our own.

For some time now the left has attempted to influence public thinking by introducing terms into the popular lexicon. The theory, apparently, is that once society at large has adopted these terms into general usage untold millions may start to associate negative feelings with the things the left wants them to have negative feelings about. In this way the debate is won before the debate has even begun.

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An example of this phenomenon would be the use of the term “swift-boating” to refer to a candidate being unfairly destroyed by false or spurious accusations. Never mind the fact that the only thing false and spurious about the Swift Boat Affair was John Kerry’s outlandish stories, the term has been coined and – it is hoped – a generation from now Kerry’s sorry reputation will be redeemed because of it.

Another example would be the term “nixonian.” Now we’ve no particular love for Tricky Dick but how is it fair to use a term like that when Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton and Obama have been far more “nixonian” than Nixon ever was.

Unwilling to let this slight go unanswered IHateTheMedia.com is responding with some neologisms of our own. Ten of them to be precise:

joe-kennedy – The act of lobotomising your children because their behavior has embarrassed you.

Example: After years of warnings the Carney’s finally had to joe-kennedy their unruly child. Little Jay was never the same again.

ted-kennedy – The act of drowning your troubles.

May be used figuratively: I’m gonna ted-kennedy all my cares with a big bottle of Chivas.

Or literally: When the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts found out his secretary was pregnant he knew he’d have to give her a little ted-kennedy before she had finished making one of her own.

lewinsky – A psychological condition compelling individuals to obsessively clean door handles.

Example: I asked her how long she planned on keeping up this ridiculous lewinsky, but she never stopped polishing my knob long enough to answer.

napolitano – excrement

Example: Four hours after her private meeting with President Obama, Katie Couric still had a little napolitano on her nose.

pelosi – Plastic surgery. Usually, but not always, referring to a face lift.

Example: If Arianna Huffington has any more pelosis it will look like she’s growing a goatee.

biden – The condition of being impossibly stupid.

Example: Barack was amazed that Michelle had bought his story about Reggie Love “just checking my prostrate for lumps”. Not even Biden was that biden.

armitage – To reveal a secret about someone while avoiding all culpability in the matter.

Example: Everybody assumed it was Perez Hilton that had outed Anderson Cooper. But in reality no one knew who the real armitage was.

rather – To knowingly use false documents for political, professional or financial gain.

Example: Barney Frank swore to the officers that he hadn’t known that the young man was using a rathered ID.

obama – To take what is not yours through the threat of physical coercion.

Example: Everybody put your hands up, this is an obama!

clinton – To engage in sexual intercourse with someone against their will.

Example: On the evening of March 29, 1991 William Kennedy Smith clintoned a woman named Patricia Bowman. Luckily for Ms. Bowman she escaped young William’s clutches before he could ted-kennedy her as well.

– Written by Kip Hooker @ TheVitaminPress.com

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney ashamed of America’s first Afro-American president

Former member of the US House of Representatives Cynthia Anne McKinney said she is truly ashamed of America’s first Afro-American president.

If you’re anything like us (and for the sake of your own self respect, we hope you’re not), you’ve been wondering what’s become of Cynthia McKinney, the lunatic who once represented Georgia in Congress.

Well, she’s back. She’s now a member of the Green Party and recently took her lunacy international.

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Hard to believe, but Cynthia McKinney sounds just as wacky as she looks

Iran’s FarsNews has the details:

Former member of the US House of Representatives Cynthia Anne McKinney said she is truly ashamed of her country’s policies.

Addressing an international conference dubbed ‘International Coalition against Terrorism for Fair Peace’ here in Tehran on Saturday, the former US House member urged Washington to avoid imposing its will on the world nations through the use of force, violence and weapons.

“As an American, I am upset with the policies of my country, but the measures adopted by the first Afro-American president of the United States has ashamed us all,” she said.

“If there is no truth, there won’t be any justice, and today the US policies are rooted in lies, injustice and war,” she continued.

But, Cynthia, Joe Biden said the guy was articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking. So we’re pretty sure all those policies you oppose were the work of his nefarious white half.

Source: FNA

Important legal news: Court permits Brazilian to masturbate at work

No one can honestly say they haven’t jerked off at work, but for most of us it’s just a figure of speech. Not so for one Brazilian woman.

IHateTheMedia.com’s ace legal department sent us this story, which tells you a lot about our legal department.

No one can honestly say they haven’t jerked off at work, but for most of us it’s just a figure of speech. Not so for one Brazilian woman.

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Every time her boss said, "Take a letter, Miss Lopes," the Brazilian secretary said, "I'd like an o."

M24Digital is an oddly appropriate source to tell us about the woman’s digital manipulation:

This is the story of Ana Catarina Bezerra Silvares, an employee of an accounting firm, a divorced mother of three who lives in the village Vila Velha, Espírito Santo.

The woman suffers from a rare condition known as “compulsion orgasmic”, caused by a chemical alteration in the brain region of the cortex, which leads her to masturbate several times a day to relieve the deep anguish that it causes.

Under this circumstance, Bezerra started legal proceedings with the company where she works that eventually won and that enables to masturbate for 15 minutes every two hours, besides using the computer to see erotic images that stimulate her desire.

The Brazilian newspaper North Regiao reported that the woman confessed, “There was a day I had to masturbate 47 times”, adding: “I began to suppose that this could not be normal, and decided to seek help.”

Currently, Bezerra follows a treatment that includes a potent cocktail of sedatives which gets her to “only” masturbate 18 times a day.

Ahhhh, reminds the editor of his 13th summer. But this really is neither the time nor the place.

Source: M24Digital.com

Is Obama getting “wisdom and advice” from CNN? Or isn’t he?

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria made a very odd claim on Friday’s Eliot Spitzer show. He said that President Obama often calls him for “wisdom and advice.”

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria made a very odd claim on Friday’s Eliot Spitzer show. He said that President Obama often calls him for “wisdom and advice.” We say odd because it calls into question any claim of journalistic impartiality.

Oh, but wait. It’s CNN we’re talking about, so that that’s really never been an issue, has it?

We’re pretty sure that someone screamed in Zakaria’s earpiece that he had said something stupid, because he’s as soon as the show ended he went into spin mode and claimed he said what he said but didn’t really mean what he said when he said it. Or words to that effect.

By Saturday night he had moved into spin overdrive by blogging:

Clarifications on my conversations with the president:

The characterization that I have been “advising” President Obama is inaccurate. Over the last few months I’ve had a couple of conversations with the president, off-the-record. At no point did President Obama ask me for advice on a specific policy or speech or proposal, nor did I volunteer it. I know that he has had similar meetings with other columnists.

Considering what a mess Obama has made of his presidency it seemed entirely reasonable that he has been getting advice and wisdom from a second tier analyst on a third tier cable news network.

But, seriously, folks, isn’t getting political wisdom and advice from CNN like getting chastity advice from Madonna?

Definition of chutzpah: Syria kills 780 protesters, then condemns Israel for firing on Syrian invaders

The Assad regime has slaughtered 780 protestors according to human rights groups. Then they condemn Israel for firing on Syrian invaders.

Syria’s response to the Arab Spring has been brutal. The Assad regime has slaughtered 780 protestors according to human rights groups. But this is one of those situations where you can call your sister ugly, but no one else can.

The Jerusalem Post reports Assad’s hypocrisy:

“Hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinians approached the fence at Maroun a-Ras. The Lebanese army did not stop them. When IDF saw them attempting to destroy the fence, they took steps to stop them,” Brig.-Gen. Yoav “Poli” Mordechai told Channel 10 News.

Of course, the reaction was just what you would have expected.

Syria condemned on Sunday Israel’s “criminal activities” in the Golan Heights,Gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon where Israeli forces had fired to disperse pro-Palestinian protests.

Israeli troops shot at protesters in three separate locations to prevent crowds from crossing Israeli frontier lines.

State news agency SANA quoted the foreign ministry as saying it called on the international community to hold Israel responsible for the incidents, the deadliest such confrontation along the borders in years.

Of course, they want to hold Israel responsible. According to the Arabs, Israel has been responsible for every bad event in the world since the White Sox threw the 1919 World Series. Yes, that was 30 years before Israel was founded, but those damn Zionists undoubtedly had something to do with it.

H/T: Gateway Pundit

New York becomes Mexico: Everyone under 30 crossing the border to other states

Just as young Mexicans flee Mexico looking for jobs and better lives, young New Yorkers are fleeing the Empire State in search of the same things.

Just as young Mexicans flee Mexico looking for jobs and better lives, young New Yorkers are fleeing the Empire State in search of the same things. The only real difference is that Janet Napolitano doesn’t greet the New Yorkers with milk and cookies when they cross the border.

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Red states are now taking her tired, her poor, her huddled masses, yearning to breathe free.

The New York Daily News reports the emigration information:

A new Marist College poll shows that 36% of New Yorkers under the age of 30 are planning to leave New York within the next five years — and more than a quarter of all adults are planning to bolt the Empire State.

The New York City suburbs, with their high property values and taxes, are leading the exodus, the poll found.

Of those preparing to leave, 62% cite economic reasons like cost of living, taxes — and a lack of jobs.

“A lot of people are questioning the affordability of the state,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

Cost of living. Taxes. Lack of jobs. Sound like lyrics from a song called The Blue State Blues. Look for it on new albums from Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks and Barbra Streisand.

Source: New York Daily News

Here we go again: Exposing the free government home repair scam. This time, the Weatherization Assistance Program.

Now you can get free government assistance (read: money) to repair your home. But only anyone who’s already receiving some other kind of government assistance probably can.

Now you can get free government energy assistance (read: money) to repair your home. Well, in the interest of accuracy, you probably can’t get it. But anyone who’s already receiving some other kind of government assistance probably can.

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Snuggies would be a lot cheaper and the government could probably buy them in bulk on QVC

Yes, good ol’ Uncle Sam now offers free home repairs to low income families. In theory, the grants are money savers because those families often live in drafty homes and have high heating bills. In reality, we’re pretty sure it’s just another way to pound money down a rat hole and all the insulation in the world won’t plug that hole.

Here, according to eHow.com, are the five easy-peasy steps necessary to suck a few more bucks from the government teat through the Energy Assistance Program:

Instructions

1. The home repair program provides licensed contractors to seal attics, walls, floors, air ducts, cover water heaters and other basic maintenance. This program, is designed to save low income families, about $300 a year in energy costs.



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2. Check your state: Contact the department of Energy in your state, for further information on the Weatherization Assistance Program [Energy Assistance] or home repair grants in your area.



3. Qualifications: To be eligible for a home repair grant or help to winterized your home, your income must be below 125% to 150%. Some states will vary in the income qualifications.



4. The application: The application process is very simple. You must provide proof of income, unemployment, ownership or renting, to be considered for the program.



5. 
Acceptance: Once you have been approved for a home repair grant, local agencies will come to your home to be assess possible heat loss, carbon monoxide leaks and a plan of action will be designed to weatherize your home.

Hey, here’s an idea. Maybe you can call all the free government contractors on your free government cell phone while you’re driving around in your free government car.

And that, friends, is what we call the socialist circle of life.

Source: ehow.com

Lawrence O’Donnell demonstrates the left’s version of “fair and balanced”

Which cable news network is truly fair and balanced – Fox or MSNBC – was proven once again when the story was President Obama’s invitation to rapper Common for the White House Poetry Night.

Which cable news network is truly fair and balanced – Fox or MSNBC – was proven once again last Wednesday night (in other words, it was just like every other night of the week). The day’s top story was President Obama’s invitation to rapper Common to participate in Poetry Night at the White House.

On Fox, O’Reilly brought on not one but two liberal radio talk show hosts to present the leftist point of view. MSNBC’s Larry “The Cable News Guy” O’Donnell brought on one liberal to parrot his talking points.

Might this be why the latest ratings reveal The Factor more than triples The Last Word’s number of viewers?

While attacking Republicans for speaking out against the invitation, O’Donnell singled out the line, “Tell the law my Uzi weighs a ton” as the reason for the Republican’s objection.

Larry purposely, conveniently omitted what Republicans made very clear as their objection: lyrics about burning President Bush, and defending cop killer Joanne Chesimard.

The straw man that O’Donnell and his guest offered as substitute? Racism. Being MSNBC, would you expect anything else?

Shamelessly substituting lies for truth with phony righteous indignation: Larry O’Donnell – a proud graduate of the Edward R. Olbermann School of Yellow Journalism.

– Written by Sonny Palermo

Obama issues warning: “You don’t want to be between Michelle and a tamale”

“You do not want to be between Michelle and a tamale,” joked the president. “It’s true. It’s true. But she’s moving, though, so she can afford to have as many tamales as she wants.”

We’re just trying to imagine the response if we had said something like that about Mrs. Editor and Mrs. Administrator. Let’s just say it wouldn’t be pretty.

ABC News has the story of our brave President putting himself in harm’s way:

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Historic: We finally found something on which we agree with Michelle Obama

President and Mrs. Obama welcomed a big crowd to the White House for a Cinco de Mayo reception in the East Room. Hispanic politicians, Hispanic Americans serving in the Obama administration, and members of a commission on exploring the creating of a new national museum of the American Latino were among those in attendance.…The crowd learned a little tidbit about the first lady, courtesy of her husband.

Said Obama: “I asked Michelle the other day, I said, ‘What’s your favorite food’ — because we were sitting around with the girls. She said, ‘Ah, Mexican food.’”

“You do not want to be between Michelle and a tamale,” joked the president. “It’s true. It’s true. But she’s moving, though, so she can afford to have as many tamales as she wants,” said Obama in a nod to his wife’s “Let’s Move” healthy campaign.

Question of the day: Which is more dangerous – standing between Michelle and a tamale or standing between Barack and a TV camera.

Eithe way, you’re liable to get trampled.

Source: ABC News

Swami Tim Geithner says we’ll have a double dip recession if debt ceiling isn’t raised

You have to give Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner points for creativity even if you can’t give him points for honesty.

You have to give Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner points for creativity even if you can’t give him points for honesty.

He’s peered into the official Treasury Department crystal ball and seen a double dip recession in our future. So instead of admitting that Obamanomics has failed, he’s laying the groundwork to blame it on the people who want to reverse those failed policies.

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A photographer was on hand to capture Tim Geithner choking on the truth

The National Journal covers Geithner’s preemptive butt covering:

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said if Congress fails to lift the debt ceiling and the U.S. defaults on its obligations “this abrupt contraction would likely push us into a double dip recession,” painting the most explicitly dire prediction to date of the consequences of inaction.

In a heavily-anticipated response to Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., who asked Geithner to document the economic and fiscal impacts of failing to lift the statutory debt limit, the Treasury secretary detailed a chain reaction that would cripple the economy, costing jobs and income.

A default would inflict catastrophic far-reaching damage on our nation’s economy, significantly reducing growth and increasing unemployment,” said Geithner in the letter to Bennet which was dated May 13. “Even a short-term default could cause irrevocable damage to the economy.”

Of course, this is nothing more than Geithner delivering the Obama administration’s agreed upon message:

“The failure of our policies is someone else’s fault.”

Source: National Journal

Bin Laden death photos show “brains hanging out of the eye socket.” Cool.

Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe, one of the select few who was allowed to view the infamous death photos of Osama Bin Laden, told Fox News’ Shep Smith exactly what he saw.

We guess we’re supposed to be shocked and horrified about this, but we’re not. Far as we’re concerned, it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe, one of the select few who was allowed to view the infamous death photos of Osama Bin Laden, told Fox News’ Shep Smith exactly what he saw.

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Bin Laden must have had a premonition, because he’s always worn a bandage on his head

Mediaite has the explicit details:

Inhofe confirmed that the photographs from the compound, taken right after SEAL Team Six members shot and killed bin Laden, are indeed “gruesome,” and clarified that he was also shown three older photos as a means of comparison. So. What, exactly, constitutes as gruesome? Inhofe described two, close-up pictures taken of bin Laden’s ear, adding that he is unsure whether a bullet went through the terrorist’s ear and out his eye, or went through his ear after entering his head through his eye socket. The Senator added that brain matter was visible exiting through the socket.

Inhofe added that bin Laden’s beard was shorter and grayer than it had appeared in older photos, and that he was wearing “underwear.” (Smith, amusingly, seemed to find this rather shocking.)

To tell the truth, we’re far more horrified by the thought of Bin Laden in his underwear than we are by his brains hanging out of his eye socket.

Call us callous. We’ve been called worse.

Source: Mediaite

Friday afternoon and all the reporters took off early. Good time to announce 200 more ObamaCare waivers.

The Obama administration isn’t good at much, but it has mastered the art of burying bad news by releasing it late on Friday afternoons.

The Obama administration isn’t good at much, but it has mastered the art of burying bad news by releasing it late on Friday afternoons.

The theory is that most reporters have taken off early to investigate the effect of bloody Marys on the human body, so bad news will get lost in the weekend shuffle.

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The Obama administration has mastered the fine art of the Friday afternoon document dump

Fortunately, this story didn’t slip by the folks over at The Hill:

The Obama administration approved 204 new waivers to Democrats’ healthcare reform law over the past month, bringing the total to 1,372.

The waivers are temporary and only apply to one provision of the law, which requires health plans to offer at least $750,000 worth of annual medical benefits before leaving patients to fend for themselves. Still, Republicans have assailed the waivers as a sign of both favoritism and of major problems with the law.

“The fact that over 1,000 waivers have been granted is a tacit admission that the healthcare law is fundamentally flawed,” Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said in March. Upton is one of three House committee chairmen who has used new oversight powers to investigate the annual limit waivers.

We haven’t yet seen this new list of exemptions, but if it looks anything like previous lists, it’s a hodgepodge of unions, healthcare providers and other big Democrat contributors.

Would someone please grant us a waiver from this administration?

Source: The Hill

Arizona governor throws down the gauntlet: Tells Obama to stop the jokes, secure the border

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is pissed off. Really pissed off. And the object of her pissoffedness is President Obama.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is pissed off. Really pissed off. And the object of her pissoffedness is President Obama.

She invited the Commander in Chief to come to Arizona and visit the Mexican border nearly a year ago, but he’s been very busy bankrupting the country and hasn’t been able to work it into his schedule. He did find time, however, to have the federal government sue Arizona for doing what the federal government wouldn’t – protect the border.



Brewer has huevos grandes, something this President is sorely lacking, so she put together this new commercial that challenges Obama to get off his duff, to stop making juvenile jokes about illegal aliens, and to perform his constitutionally mandated duties.

Hey, it’s a mandate, President Obama. You should love it.

A quote from our buddy, the Top Gun instructor, regarding the death of Osama Bin Laden

Here’s what our Top Gun instructor buddy had to say about Osama Bin Laden and the Navy SEALs and Barck Obama’s “bravery”.

Guys with nerves of steel appreciate other guys with nerves of steel. Here’s what our Top Gun instructor buddy had to say about Osama Bin Laden and the Navy SEALs and Barck Obama’s “bravery.”

“Thanking Obama for killing Bin Laden is like going into McDonald’s and thanking Ronald McDonald for the hamburger. It’s the guy cooking the burger that should get the credit, not the clown.”

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Harry Reid’s inspirational speech: We need the people of America to rise up for amnesty

We’re not sure why they call Barack Obama the greatest orator of all time. Not while Harry Reid’s alive, that is.

We’re not sure why they call Barack Obama the greatest orator of all time. Not while Harry Reid’s alive, that is.

If anything can build a fire under a crowd and convince them to rise up, it’s an exciting speech by the Nevada dynamo.

Here’s ol’ Harry calling on the American people to rise up and let their elected leaders know how important the DREAM Act is.

/sarcasm-off. Seriously, would anyone be surprised to find out that Harry’s addicted to Quaaludes? He must be the single most boring speaker in the history of America. In fact, it’s possible that Harry Reid is just one huge Weekend At Bernie‘s prank on the American people.

Is Juan Williams trying to get his old NPR job back?

We want to like Juan Williams. We really do. There are times when he seems like a nice guy, sometimes even a rational liberal. But…

We want to like Juan Williams. We really do. There are times when he seems like a nice guy, sometimes even a rational liberal.

Then there are other times – like Sunday morning on Fox News Sunday – when he veers so far to the lunatic left that we can only shake our heads in amazement.

Here’s Juan the lunatic liberal sounding as if he’s auditioning to get his old NPR gig back again:

“Let me finish this point. So what if we got some information by means of torturing people. As President Obama and we heard this morning from Tom Donilon, it’s not in our values to pull out people’s teeth and eyeballs and secondly, you know, we could get that information in other ways.”

Juan apparently has some inside information that Amnesty International hasn’t yet gotten its hands on. Information that says we now extract prisoners’ teeth and eyeballs while extracting information.

Keep this up, Juan, and Fox will be forced to move you from the Sunday morning news show to the Saturday morning cartoon show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SqwxUchYYQ

H/T: Gateway Pundit

Man charged with barking at police dog. His defense? “The dog started it.”

There’s an old adage in journalism that says, “Dog bites man isn’t news. Man bites dog is.” This story is a bit of a twist on that theory.

There’s an old adage in journalism that says, “Dog bites man isn’t news. Man bites dog is.” This story is a bit of a twist on that theory.

The Associated Press gets it teeth into the story:

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Dick Cheney was a man who knew how to snarl at a pack of rabid dogs

A police report says 25-year-old Ryan James Stephens was charged with teasing a police dog in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason.

Officer Bradley Walker wrote that he heard the K9 dog barking uncontrollably inside his patrol car while he was investigating a car crash at a pub early Sunday morning. Walker says Stephens was making barking noises and hissing at the animal.

Walker reported that Stephens said “the dog started it” when asked why he was harassing the animal. The officer said Stephens appeared highly intoxicated.

The Associated Press missed a sure bet in this story when it neglected to say that the officer had collared the suspect.

Source: Associated Press

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