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And after President Obama finished killing the economy, he killed an NBA star’s shooting percentage

Shaq’s new autobiography tells the story of how Barack Obama’s impact on the NBA has been just as impressive as his impact on the economy.

Recently retired NBA star Shaquille O’Neal has always understood the value of a good story. He’s kept fans, reporters and other players entertained for a couple decades.

Shaq’s new autobiography, Shaq Uncut, was just released and he tells the story of how Barack Obama’s impact on the NBA has been just as impressive as his impact on the economy:

In early March some of the guys went to the museum of Fine Arts for a fund-raiser and got to hang with President Barack Obama. Everyone was a little bit in awe. The President turns to Ray [Allen], points at Rondo, and says, “Hey, Ray, why don’t you teach this kid how to shoot?” Everyone starts laughing.

… KG told me he saw the look on Rondo’s face and the kid was devastated, embarrassed. Dissed by the President, even though I’m sure Obama didn’t mean any harm. Rondo smiled and went along with all of it, but KG told me he could see it in his eyes. It bothered Rondo. It killed him.

The next day Rondo shot the ball horribly. He stopped taking shots after that. He’s so sensitive. I think it was a real jolt to hear the outside perception of a basketball fan who happens to be the President of the United States. It messed with his mind. I’m sure of it.

Rondo’s monthly shooting percentages from November to February were 54%, 58%, 50% and 48%.

After hearing the President’s comments it dropped to 41% in March and 40% in April.

Nice work, coach.

Source: Yahoo Sports

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! Yet another Obama success story at Bank of America

Yes! President Obama’s new jobs plan seems to be producing amazing results already, even though it’s still not out.

Yes! President Obama’s new jobs plan seems to be producing amazing results already, even though it’s still not out. More proof that he’s the smartest president ever! What’s the anointed one done now, you ask?

bank-of-america-tower — Looks like they'll be needing less space at the Bank of America Tower

This week’s success is Bank of America, which just made the following announcement:

Bank of America Corp. is cutting 3,500 employees this quarter and working on restructuring plans that will ax several thousand more jobs, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported citing people familiar with the situation.

The reports Friday said that the job cuts at the biggest U.S. bank by assets might exceed 10,000 or about 3.5 percent of its current work force.

This must be part of the President’s new jobs stimulus plan that he’s still working on after 2 ½ years in office. We’re sure his new plan will soon produce billions, millions, thousands, hundreds, OK so 20 jobs, after he’s done partying with those rich folks he hates at Martha’s Vineyard and gives another speech about his new jobs program.

Way to go, Mr. President! Way. To. Go. With successes like your Downgrade Bus Tour, where you talked about American jobs while riding in a Canadian-built bus and the B of A job success, we should all be in soup lines in no time at all.

And that just means you’ll soon be taking credit for saving and creating all those jobs in the kitchen making the soup.

– Written by CO2Insanity

Source: My Fox LA

John Maynard Keynes died in 1946, but this story puts another nail in his coffin.

The real reason that we recovered was that once WWII was on, FDR was too distracted by it to continue to tinker with the economy.

Conventional wisdom (commonly known as “the wrong explanation”) proffers the Keynsian theory that the government deficit spending required to wage WWII stimulated the economy and eventually ended the depression of the 1930s.

john-maynard-keynes — John Maynard Keynes can't help but smile while thinking, "I can't believe they bought the load of crap I was selling."

Rand Simberg presents an alternative explanation:

The real reason that we recovered was that once the war was on, FDR was too distracted by it to continue to tinker with the economy, as he had during the thirties, keeping it continually sick (much like a medieval doctor continuing to bleed a patient). He had to get arms production up and could no longer afford all of his random pet nostrums.

Had Roosevelt lived, after the war, he probably would have returned to his damaging tinkering, and in fact Truman wanted to, but the new Republican Congress that came in in 1946 wouldn’t let him, and so finally, after a decade and a half of disastrous Democrat policies, the economy finally recovered, and even boomed. But it doesn’t mean that the solution is a war, or even the “moral equivalent” of one. It means that the solution is sane government.

“Sane government” is an oxymoron. Politics is the path to power and riches for otherwise talentless people. A typical politician is like a hot air balloon: a big bag of gas with a little man underneath.

The first Great Depression ended when WWII forced FDR to get out of the economy’s way. This should be food for thought for the severly malnourished Barack Obama.

-by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Transterrestrial.com

Is it just us or does the definition of a con artist sound just like a job description for a liberal politician?

Ray was reading an article about con men on a site called HowStuffWorks.com when the proverbial lightbulb went on over his head.

Ray, one of our regular readers and commenters, sent along this little gem. He was reading an article about con men on a site called HowStuffWorks.com when the proverbial lightbulb went on over his head.

Check out this description and you’ll have to agree with his analysis:

How Con Artists Work

“Hey,” Ray thought, “con men sound just like liberal politicians.”

Con artists make money through deception. They lie, cheat and fool people into thinking they’ve happened onto a great deal or some easy money, when they’re the ones who’ll be making money. If that doesn’t work, they’ll take advantage of our weaknesses — loneliness, insecurity, poor health or simple ignorance. The only thing more important to a con artist than perfecting a con is perfecting a total lack of conscience.

The only thing missing is a mention of the con man’s labor union and race hustler accomplices.

H/T: Raymundo

Source: HowStuffWorks.com

Obama lands the coveted Fidel Castro endorsement

Poll after poll spells out bad news for President Obama’s reelection bid, but now Obama has landed the coveted Castro endorsement.

Poll after poll spells out bad news for President Obama’s reelection bid, but now the beleaguered president can breathe a giant sigh of relief thanks to some news that’s sure to reinvigorate his rabid left wing base.

Obama has landed the coveted Castro endorsement.

castro-obama — Castrobama: It's tough to tell where one ends and the other begins

The Real Cuba reported:

Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban dictator Raul Castro, asked three US congressmen who are currently visiting Cuba, to support Barack Obama for a second term to allow him the “opportunity to make things better,” according to a statement posted at her website on Thursday.

Mariela Castro “expressed the view that President Obama should be excused the failures of his first term and support him for a second term, which would give him the opportunity to make things better,” said a statement from the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), which she leads, on its website www.cenesexualidad.sld.cu/

Castro also asked the three pro-Castro congressmen visiting Cuba, Barbara Lee, Lynn Woolsey and Sam Farr to “make a bigger effort” to obtain the freedom of the five Cuban spies who are currently in US jails.

Congratulations to President Obama! With all the bad polling news he’s heard lately, it’s reassuring to know that he still has the full support of the murderous Communist dictator.

Source: The Real Cuba

Two photos, one inescapable conclusion

July 24, 2008: Candidate Barack Obama attracts hundreds of thousands for his speech in Berlin. August 21, 2011: Not so much.

July 24, 2008: Candidate Barack Obama attracts hundreds of thousands for his speech in Berlin

August 21, 2011: President Barack Obama attracts dozens for his arrival at Martha’s Vineyard

Conclusion: This goose is cooked.

New GM claims they’re not responsible for old GM’s lemons

If you expected gratitude from GM after everything taxpayers have done for them, you just ain’t been paying attention.

Your tax dollars bailed their sorry ass out of oblivion. Your tax dollars helped them develop an over-hyped second-rate hybrid vehicle no one wants. If you expected gratitude from GM after all that, you just ain’t been paying attention.

Reuters reports:

General Motors is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit over a suspension problem on more than 400,000 Chevrolet Impalas from the 2007 and 2008 model years, saying it should not be responsible for repairs because the flaw predated its bankruptcy.

…[the plaintiff] contended that her Impala suffered from faulty rear spindle rods, causing her rear tires to wear out after just 6,000 miles.

…the lawsuit demands that GM fix the rods, saying that it had done so on Impala police vehicles.

…GM noted that the cars were made by its predecessor General Motors Corp, now called Motors Liquidation Co or “Old GM,” before its 2009 bankruptcy and federal bailout.

“New GM” said it did not assume responsibility under the reorganization to fix the Impala problem…. In essence, the automaker said, [the plaintiff] sued the wrong entity.

In bankruptcies, the “old” company’s failures usually aren’t the “new” company’s problem. But GM wasn’t a “usual” bankruptcy: bankrupt companies don’t usually get taxpayer-funded blank checks from the government. Bankrupt companies don’t usually vacate claims of senior bondholders in favor of their largest union thanks to a meddling politician. GM can afford to cast the usual excuses aside for Ms. Trusky as it did for its police customers.

We see it as one more reason to never again buy a Government Motors vehicle, no matter how many times they go bankrupt.

Oop. Here’s President Obama back in 2009 announcing that the government would stand behind GM and Chrysler warranties.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Reuters

Extra credit: University of California gives faculty hefty raises while students pay higher tuition

The University of California will spend $140 million raised from increased student tuition to give raises to professors.

In a move that makes Marie Antoinette’s “Let them eat cake” seem like a kind act, University of California President Mark Yudof has decided, as usual, that they need mo’ money.

"Let them eat their student loan documents!"

The University of California will spend $140 million raised from increased student tuition, general fund money and other UC sources to give merit raises to thousands of faculty members and nonunion employees earning up to $200,000, UC officials said Wednesday.

Let’s see, we have a reduced budget due to the financial crisis, we’ve laid off people, the students get a notice of tuition increases every 5 minutes, but damn the torpedos! Full steam ahead! They all need nice big fat raises!

One student sums it up perfectly:

“So all of a sudden they have money?” said Claudia Magaña, president of the UC Student Association and a senior at UC Santa Cruz. “Is this where our fee increase went to? I wouldn’t want to say they don’t deserve it, but I think it’s questionable that all of a sudden there’s money for this, but there’s no money for our services being cut.”

We have to ask if Mr. Yudof is aware that there’s anything unusual going on outside of his little bubble? Like perhaps a global financial crisis?

Perhaps he should go talk to one of the pointy-headed professors in the university’s economics department.

On second thought, they’re the ones who got us into this mess.

– Written by CO2Insanity

Source: SF Gate

Welcome to Libertarianstan: Democrats and Republicans keep out

Tired of the rat race in the USA? Sick of Democrats and Republicans and their never-ending screw-jobs? Have we got a deal for you!

Yahoo News explains:

Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters.

libertarian-island — Islands in the sturm und drang

Libertarian countries? So what’s the deal with that?

Thiel as been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch–free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place.

No laws, no regulations, no moral codes? Sounds more like anarchy to me than libertarian. We can’t quite imagine living in the middle of the ocean either, might be more exciting than I like if there’s a hurricane or tsunami.

Details says the experiment would be “a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.”

Will this actually work and people will manage to get along with no rules, regulations and a few LAW Rockets in their closets? Or, is it a plan for disaster?

Their best bet would be to declare war on the USA, quickly surrender and then hold their hand out for billions in war reparations and foreign aid.

– Written by CO2Insanity

Source: Yahoo News

What we should have learned from Iceland’s economic meltdown, but didn’t

Iceland is now sailing along like a Senator’s yacht while we’re headed for the rocky shore.

Iceland is a cold country with a very hot economy. Like us, it suffered a housing-related financial crisis in the Fall of 2008. Its stock market plunged, the country’s largest banks collapsed and were nationalized.

Unlike us, Iceland declined to bail out the bank bondholders (no TARPs in Iceland!)

iceland-girls — The economy isn't the only thing that's hot in Iceland (This cheesy photo and caption brought to you by IHTM)

Three years later, we’re flirting with a double dip recession and still have double-digit unemployment. And Iceland? Well, let’s hear from their Central Bank:

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland has decided to raise the Bank’s interest rates by 0.25 percentage points.

…newly released data and the updated Central Bank forecast, published in Monetary Bulletin today, indicate that domestic demand and employment will grow more strongly in 2011 than was assumed in the last forecast.

“Unexpectedly” good results.

In view of the growing momentum in the domestic economy, as is described in the Bank’s updated forecast, the risk that a modest interest rate hike at the current juncture will derail the economic recovery is low…

Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama would kill for that kind of economic news, but won’t do something sensible like butting out and letting the private sector work.

Maybe because Wall St. banks donate big to Democrats and Obama (more so than to Republicans) and are really just welfare cheats in power suits.

Maybe because the collapse gave pols an excuse to create big pots of money (“The Stimulus”) and power-grabs (“Obamacare”) which became sources of goodies for their cronies and themselves.

Or maybe because just they’re idiots who can’t find their villages.

Regardless, Iceland is now sailing along like a Senator’s yacht while we’re headed for the rocky shore.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Sedlabank.is

Racism takes a vacation (it followed Obama to Martha’s Vineyard)

One comment stated (before it mysteriously disappeared), “If he’s tanking in uber-liberal Cape Cod, he’s tanking everywhere.” Good.

If he weren’t such a dick, we could almost pity Barack Obama. All he wanted to do is take a low-profile taxpayer-paid vacation at the getaway of the rich and famous on Martha’s Vineyard and still he is subjected to the vile raaaaacist attacks which have bedevilled his promising presidency.

CapeCodOnline.com reports:

There seems to be a bit of a sea change regarding President Obama’s popularity, as judged by the offerings of businesses along Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs.

Obama said he was going to fix the sea change.

In past years, shops displayed mainly supportive stuff, like t-shirts extolling Obama’s virtues. However, this year a smirking George W. Bush t-shirt is getting laughs from window shoppers. It reads: “Miss Me Yet? How’s that hopey-changey thing working out for ya?”

A t-shirt extolling Obama’s virtues? That list would fit on the price tag. But on Martha’s Vineyard, the shoppers are laughing AT the Bush shirts, not with them, right?

Also, Sharky’s Cantina, a Mexican joint on Circuit Avenue has discontinued their Barack-O-Taco and Barack-O-Guaco (guacamole) “due to the tough economy,” according to a sign outside the restaurant. The Obamarita still survives on the drinks menu, but it has been joined by a Perry Berry Tea-ni, a martini named for the Texas governor and Republican presidential nominee.

Sure, the “tough economy”. And the Iraqis removed all of Saddam’s pictures due to a nail shortage. The Obamarita survives probably because it’s made with kool aid.

One comment stated (before it mysteriously disappeared), “If he’s tanking in uber-liberal Cape Cod, he’s tanking everywhere.” Good.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: CapeCodOnline.com

Probably one of those phony internet things, but we like it anyway

Yeah, this is probably one of those phony internet things. We get ’em all the time. But this one is so well done and so damned appropriate that we’re going with it anyway.

H/T: Raymundo

Vaya con Dios, pendejo: Obama’s support among Hispanics down to 44%

That sound you just heard is Hispanic support for Obama crashing through the floor.

barack-obama-sad — Awwww, Hispanic voters are deserting Obama

CNS has details of the latest Gallup poll:

In the same week that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department was going to review the cases of 300,000 illegal aliens in deportation proceedings and allow “low priority” cases to stay in the country and receive work permits — a move House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith called a “back door amnesty” — President Barack Obama’s approval dropped to an all-time low of 44 percent among Hispanics, according to Gallup polling data released today.

That is a drop of 41 points from the spring of 2009, when Obama’s approval among Hispanic Americans peaked at 85 percent (in the weeks that ended April 26, 2009 and May 17, 2009).

Obama’s approval among Hispanics dropped 5 points last week alone, falling from 49 percent in the week that ended Aug. 14 to its new low of 44 percent in the week that ended Aug. 21.

Down 41 points? That doesn’t sound like a poll, it sounds like the halftime score at a Los Angeles Clippers game.

Source: CNS News

Maxine Waters says, “The Tea Party can go straight to hell.” Would you please save us a space, Maxine?

It’s tough to tell the difference between a confused Maxine Waters and the normal Maxine Waters, so let’s just let Maxine be Maxine.

Poor Maxine Waters seems to be confused. We realize it’s tough to tell the difference between a confused Maxine Waters and the normal Maxine Waters, so let’s just let Maxine be Maxine.

In this case, the California Democrat seems to be confused about who wants to do something to turn the economy around and who wants to continue the policies that got us into this mess. In her confusion she lashed out at the Tea Party.

The Los Angeles Times explains:

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) came out swinging against Republicans in Congress on Saturday as she addressed the unemployed during a forum in Inglewood.

The event occurred a day after new statistics were released showing that California’s jobless rate last month went up to 12%, from 11.8%. California now has the second-highest rate of unemployment in the nation, trailing only Nevada at 12.9%, and its jobless rate is well above the U.S. average of 9.1%.

Waters vowed to push Congress to focus on creating more jobs. “I’m not afraid of anybody,” said Waters. “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the ‘tea party’ can go straight to hell.”

More than 1,000 people attended “Kitchen Table Summit,” which was designed to give the jobless an opportunity to vent to elected officials and share their struggles about finding a job.

Typical liberal concept. “Come on down. We won’t do anything to help you get a job, but we’ll explore your feelings about how tough it is to get a job.

Source: Los Angeles Times

Facebook doesn’t like posts critical of Obama. Not at all.

Those looking to remove their data from Facebook have been provided with a rather novel solution. Just be critical of the President.

Recently poor little billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has been the target of more than a little derision and just about as much criticism. Now some of this avarice is, no doubt, the result of jealousy. After all nobody likes the fact that the geek they regularly pantsed back in middle school can now buy and sell them.

zuckerberg-obama — "So, Mark, would it be too much to ask you to censor any negative comments about me?"

But an awful lot of it is legitimate.

The laundry list of Facebook problems, however, has just been shortened. Those looking to remove their data from the cyber behemoth – a task sometimes impossible in the past – have been provided with a rather novel solution. Just be critical of the President.

News Radio 550 KFYI gets a thumbs up from us for breaking this story:

Facebook said Friday it mistakenly removed a post in which Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer criticized a controversial policy decision by President Barack Obama’s administration to limit deportations of illegal immigrants.

Mistakenly? Yeah, right.

The Republican governor had said in a post Friday that Facebook censored the item she posted Thursday because it apparently violated Facebook’s community standards.

Brewer didn’t elaborate in her post, but she said Friday in an interview that an email she received from Facebook said the post was removed because of an included illustration.

The email, which she read aloud, didn’t specify how the illustration violated standards.

“I’d like to know why it happens,” she said of the removal.

Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes responded to a query by The Associated Press by saying in a brief email that Brewer’s post was removed in error and that Facebook was sorry.

Any one up for an invitation to Google+ ?

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress

Source: KFYI.com

Quick action by TSA saves public from shirtless teen

Thank you, TSA! Thank you for protecting us from our right to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures!

There are many thankless professions across this nation but perhaps none so under appreciated as the good old TSA.

Just like how no one ever wants the police around until they need them, no one ever wants the TSA around until grandma has gone to long without a public molesting.

tsa-4th-amendment — We think this is Aaron Tobey, but it may be an ad for Abercrombie & Fitch. Tough to tell.

And what do they get for their tireless service? They get sued that’s what!

The Richmond Times Dispatch dispatches this in a timely manner:

Authorities involved in the arrest of a protester who removed his shirt and pants at a security checkpoint at Richmond International Airport were doing their jobs and acted appropriately, a government attorney argued Wednesday in Richmond federal court.

Carlotta P. Wells, an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, argued in favor of a motion to dismiss Aaron B. Tobey’s lawsuit, which claims his constitutional rights were violated. Wells said Tobey had made his point by removing his shirt to display words from the Fourth Amendment written on his torso but went too far when he disobeyed a command to pass through a security scanner.

But Anand Agneshwar, an attorney representing Tobey in his lawsuit against airport and federal officials, said the 21-year-old Charlottesville man obeyed the commands of authorities. Agneshwar said it was the authorities who went too far by detaining Tobey for 90 minutes or longer with his hands cuffed behind his back.

Well, if the vast majority of the public won’t say it we certainly will. Thank you, TSA! Thank you for protecting us from our right to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures! Thank you so very much.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: Times Dispatch

Nancy Pelosi wolfs down a big ol’ Satan sandwich

Poor Nancy Pelosi’s not Speaker anymore and now she’s being accused by her loony left constituents in Oakland, California of eating a Satan sandwich.

Poor Nancy Pelosi. She’s not Speaker of the House anymore and now she’s being accused by her loony left constituents in Oakland, California of eating a Satan sandwich.

So what’s in a Satan sandwich? Well, you have one half white bread, one half black bread, you fill it with un-sliced baloney and garnish it with lots of malaise mayonaise. It also comes with a side dish of B.S.

– Written by CO2Insanity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ycn-vQjsaY

Coming Monday, August 29: The new, improved IHateTheMedia.com 2.0

Next Monday, August 29 we will introduce IHateTheMedia.com 2.0. More stories. More snark. More focus. Quicker. Shorter. More stuff, less fluff.

We’ve been banging out this ravenous monster known as IHateTheMedia.com for two and a half years now. We got so excited about hitting 10,000,000 page views that we went off our meds and now our Attention Deficit Disorder is out of control.

We decided it’s time to shake things up, to try something different, to do the unexpected.

So next Monday, August 29 we will introduce IHateTheMedia.com 2.0. More stories. More snark. More focus. Quicker. Shorter. More stuff, less fluff.

We’re going dark this Saturday and Sunday (August 27 and 28) to work out all the bugs and then we’ll go live again on Monday morning.

Everything else will be the same. The same sense of community we’ve built up with our readers. The same trolls. The same semi-amusing commentary (on a good day). The same twisted outlook on the day’s events.

We think you’ll like it. Well, we hope like hell you like it.

Finally! A Democrat speaks the truth! Frank Lautenberg says, “We got to eliminate the rich.”

He let the meat out of the stew pot about the real Democrat agenda when he said, “It’s a tough fight but we got to eliminate the rich.”

Is cannibalism going to be the new in thing for Democrats? We only ask because now we know what the Democrats really want thanks to Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ).

frank-lautenberg — Frank Lautenberg: Older than dirt, dumber than Joe Biden. A bad combination.

He let the meat out of the stew pot about the real Democrat agenda when he said, “It’s a tough fight but we got to eliminate the rich.”

That reminds us of the song I’d Love to Change the World by Ten Years After.

Tax the rich, feed the poor,

Till there are no rich no more

When the rich are eliminated Frank’s going to have a big problem because his campaign donations will drop faster than the stock market did after President Downgrade and the Democrats cost the United States its AAA credit rating. Not to mention the fact that having no rich will certainly put the kibosh on Obama’s jobs plan and further screw up the budget.

We do find it amusing that President Downgrade is at Martha’s Vineyard hob-knobbing with those very same rich people he supposedly wants to eliminate. Perhaps we should henceforth refer to him as President Oxymoron, with special emphasis on the third and fourth syllables.

Something tells us the Democrats are going to need some antacid after eating all those rich people.

– Written by CO2Insanity

If you want to hear the song here’s a link to a video.

YouTube Video for post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Q1WmvQnJo&feature=player_embedded

Our #2 choices for America’s Top Ten Local Talk Show Hosts talk about IHTM on America’s #1 talk station

This is very cool. It’s the kind of thing that makes all the hours we put into IHTM seem worthwhile.

KFI/Los Angeles is a talk radio powerhouse. It features the insane Bill Handel in the morning, Rush Limbaugh mid-day, the hilarious John & Ken in the afternoon, and Tim Conway Jr, our choice for America’s #1 Local Talk Show Host, in the evening.

On top of that KFI is what Rush Limbaugh calls “a flamethrower”. That is, it blasts out 50,000 watts of talk radio power all up and down the west coast. It’s been kicking ass in Los Angeles for about 20 years. And last time we checked KFI had the largest audience of any talk station in the nation.

OK, enough background. Let’s get to the meat of this story:

John & Ken are on vacation. Tim Conway was supposed to fill in on their afternoon show but came down sick on Friday. KFI’s program director, Robin Bertolucci, came up with the brilliant idea of having two guys from Northern California fill in for Tim.

Those two guys just happened to be Armstrong & Getty, who came in #2 on our list of America’s Top Ten Local Talk Show Hosts.

A&G decided to talk about IHateTheMedia.com. How cool is that?

[audio: armstrong-getty-shout-out.mp3]

Marshall McLuhan said, “In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” Since this bit was only 1:44, we figure somebody still owes us another 13:16 coming.

Thanks, Armstrong & Getty.

Al Sharpton’s Moron Moment of the Day: “I’m too fast for ‘em.”

Just when you thought our last Al Sharpton’s Moron Moment of the Day could never be topped, the calendar page turns and the Reverend proves you wrong.

We’re not sure what to make of this one. So we’ll just say watch it for yourself.

And be prepared to laugh.

Pedophilia on parade: Pray for a giant earthquake to strike San Francisco on August 17, 2013

Child advocate Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting professor at Liberty University’s School of Law, said the conference is part of a strategy to condition people into accepting pedophiles.

We’ve heard of nutty psychiatrists, but this one takes the proverbial cake.

pedophile-playground — Do you ever think to yourself that this is a very sick world?

If a small group of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have their way at a conference this week, pedophiles themselves could play a role in removing pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Association’s bible of mental illnesses — the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), set to undergo a significant revision by 2013. Critics warn that their success could lead to the decriminalization of pedophilia.

Yes, you read right! This group wants to normalize pedophilia and keep pedophiles out of prison. Sounds like NAMBLA on steroids. Or perhaps LSD.

The August 17 Baltimore conference is sponsored by B4U-ACT, a group of pro-pedophile mental health professionals and sympathetic activists. According to the conference brochure, the event will examine “ways in which minor-attracted persons [pedophiles] can be involved in the DSM 5 revision process” and how the popular perceptions of pedophiles can be reframed to encourage tolerance.

Child advocate Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting professor at Liberty University’s School of Law, said the conference is part of a strategy to condition people into accepting pedophiles.

There’s already a great way to get them out of prison. Quit putting them in special housing units and put them in with the general prison population. Removal is fast, permanent and provided for free by the inmates.

While they’re at it maybe they should put the psychiatrists in with them.

– Written by CO2Insanity

Source: The Daily Caller

Yogi Bear goes solar. Consider it a boo-boo.

Yosemite just spent $4.5 million on a solar installation to save them $50,000 per year.

Due to another government boondoggle Ranger Rick is going to have to tell Yogi his pic-a-nic basket will be empty for decades to come. And we owe it all to the geniuses who run Yosemite National Park.

The problem? Solar energy, something many people and the government think is free or is going to quickly pay for itself.

yogi-bear — Smarter than your average environmentally-conscious National Park Service bureaucrat

Yosemite just spent $4.5 million on a solar installation to save them $50,000 per year. They also claim $700,000 in rebates. $4.5 million minus $700,000 leaves $3.8 million net cost, which divided by $50,000 per year means 76 years to break even, or about a lifetime.

That’s bad enough, but since solar panels only last about 25 years it means they’ll have to replace them about 2 more times over that 76 years, costing another $9+ million. Add that to the original $3.8 million and that’s $12.8 million total costs, which divided over 76 years equals $168,421 per year to save $50,000 per year. That’s a net loss of $118,421 x 76 years, a total loss of about $9 million of your tax dollars so a few people can be touchy-feely. (And we won’t even bother getting into the the accounting farce of one government agency counting a rebate from another government agency.)

With savings like that we can all now see why the United States is broke. As one can plainly see whomever approved this is not smarter than the average bear.

– Written by CO2Insanity

Source: Mother Nature Network

Eco-wacko update: The triumphant return of the three dog night

To reduce the energy you use while watching TV, take another tip from grandma and share the warmth. Snuggle up under a rug, snuggle with your family or cuddle your favourite pet.

Remember Three Dog Night, the rock band that had a string of hits in the late ’60s and early ’70s? They had three lead singers and the oddest name this side of Strawberry Alarm Clock.

sleeping-dogs — "The dingo ate my economy!"

Wikipedia explains the origin of the name:

…vocalist Danny Hutton’s then-girlfriend June Fairchild suggested the name after reading a magazine article about indigenous Australians, in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep in a hole in the ground whilst embracing a dingo, a native species of wild dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs and if the night was freezing, it was a “three dog night”.

Well, sad to say, but the eco-wackos of the world want to take us back to the technological level of the Australian aboriginies.

Check out the recommendation provided by Living Greener, an Australian government website:

To reduce the energy you use while watching TV, take another tip from grandma and share the warmth. Snuggle up under a rug, snuggle with your family or cuddle your favourite pet.

And if it’s really, really cold, cuddle with Al Gore. That big, pudgy pile of suet could keep your entire family toasty.

Source: Living Greener Australia, Wikipedia

CNN pundit has nightmare about Rick Perry, cries for Momma Obama

One James C. Moore is wetting his pants over the idea of Rick Perry winning the presidency next year. The whining, near-hysterical tone of his CNN “piece” is a bright spot in the Obama gloom.

One James C. Moore is wetting his pants over the idea of Rick Perry winning the presidency next year. Is he certain Perry will triumph or simply crying wolf to scare up enthusiasm for the Amazing Collapsing Presidency?

Either way, the whining, near-hysterical tone of his CNN “piece” is a bright spot in the Obama gloom:

[Perry] is entering the race for the White House and will spawn the ugliest and most expensive presidential race in U.S. history, and he will win.

In other words, “It’s raaaaacist for Perry to enter the race and try to win.”

A C and D student, who hates to govern, loves to campaign, and barely has a sixth grader’s understanding of economics, will lead our nation into oblivion.

We thought he was talking about Obama until we remembered Perry’s the one who revealed his grades.

[When] Obama criticizes the Texas economy for its minimum wage job boom, [he] will be accused of attacking … working men and women… (Texas has created a large share of the new jobs in the United States in the last decade but studies indicate many of them are at places like Wal-Mart and Carl’s Jr.)

The Texan economy is so terrible, people are flocking there from California.

President Obama will also get beaten up for presiding over the first bond rating downgrade in U.S. history as well as high unemployment.

It’s so unfair to beat up an incumbent president for the problems he’s caused.

… they will write the epitaph to set upon the tombstone of history’s greatest democracy: Perry-Palin, 2012.

Obama already done enough to this country. We say bring it on.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: CNN.com

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