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Obama’s on the case: Will spare no effort to determine why killer of U.S. airmen screamed “Allahu Akbar”

Two U.S. airmen were shot and killed in Germany on Wednesday by a man screaming, “Allahu Akbar.” The Perry Mason of presidents is now sifting through the clues to determine why this teabagger committed such a horrible crime.

The Politico reports:

President Obama says the government will “spare no effort” to determine why two American airmen were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting in Frankfurt, Germany.

“I’m saddened, and I am outraged, by this attack that took the lives of two Americans and wounded two others. I think the American people are united in expressing our service to those who were lost,” Obama told reporters in a surprise appearance in the briefing room. “We are praying for a speedy recovery for those who were injured.”

Obama promised that “we will spare no effort” to figure out “how this outrageous attack took place.”

“We don’t have all the information yet,” he told reporters. “You will be fully briefed as we get more information.” He added that the attack is a “stark reminder” of the “extraordinary sacrifices” made by the members of the military.

Have you ever heard a guy who’s “outraged” speak with less passion?

Source: Politico.com

Great news: Summer jobs for the young socialists in your family

This socialist summer camp is sponsored by all the usual left wing extremists: Amnesty International, the ACLU, the League of Conservation Voters, Planned Parenthood, Equality California…

If the Great Recession has hit your family, don’t worry. Just send your kids out to work this summer. It’s about time the lazy little slugs begin contributing to the family.

According to this ad from Craigslist Boston, this socialist summer camp is sponsored by all the usual left wing extremists: Amnesty International, the ACLU, the League of Conservation Voters, Planned Parenthood, Equality California, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Democrat National Committee, MoveOn.org, Repower America, Working America, Common Cause and the Center for American Progress.

The ASPCA? Did we miss something? When did the ASPCA become a radical organization?

H/T: C02 Insanity

L.A. Mayor doesn’t believe in a border fence, but now wants a security wall around his mansion

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who doesn’t believe in walling off the Mexican border and who led LA City efforts against Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law, isn’t quite so forgiving when it comes to protecting his own property.

los angeles mayor house — If you were a resident of Los Angeles, you would know that a fence around the mayor's mansion would keep the bad elements inside

CBS Los Angeles has the details:

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has asked for approval for a six-foot-wall around the Getty House, the mayor’s official residence in Windsor Square, according to city documents.

But at least one planning official was “caught off guard” by Villaraigosa’s request for increased security around the taxpayer-owned property.

The mayor’s office filed its request on Feb. 2 for a variance to city bylaws with plans to erect a security wall around the property at 605 S. Irving Blvd.

Officials say the wall’s design includes “embedded” security features that will save taxpayer money by cutting costs for security staffing.

Initially, the mayor proposed an eight-and-a-half-foot wall, which was quickly rejected by the Windsor Square Association.

Villaraigosa has scaled down his plans, but the new proposal still exceeds the permitted 42-inch height.

Please note that Villaraigosa’s mansion is located at 605 South Irving Boulevard in Los Angeles. Let’s all meet there at noon and have a picnic lunch on his front yard.

Make sure you leave your trash when you leave. We’ll all go inside the mansion like we own it and use his bathroom or if it’s being used we’ll just use the bushes. If any of us get hurt, we’ll go inside the house and demand that he give us medical care. And if any of us are short of money, we’ll demand that he Villaraigosa cut us each a check.

Anyone know how to say hypocrite in Spanish?

Source: CBS Los Angeles

Mmmm, mmmm: Gallup says Americans have some hot, hot love for Israel

Americans’ views toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict held fairly steady over the past year, with a near record-high 63% continuing to say their sympathies lie more with the Israelis.

This is not going to sit well in the White House. Despite the best efforts of the Obama administration to destroy the special relationship the United States has always had with Israel, the American people show more support than ever for the Middle East’s only democracy.

Gallup explains it in one short paragraph and one simple chart:

Americans’ views toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict held fairly steady over the past year, with a near record-high 63% continuing to say their sympathies lie more with the Israelis. Seventeen percent sympathize more with the Palestinians.

Call us crazy, but we’re pretty sure this isn’t the kind of change the Obama administration had hoped for.

Source: Gallup.com

Democrats in 2009: Never let a crisis go to waste.
Democrats in 2011: Those damn Republicans are exploiting this crisis

Remember back in 2009 when Democrats said, “Never let a crisis go to waste”? Well, that was then and this is now. Now Joe Biden informs us that using a crisis to push through your agenda is a bad thing. A very bad thing, indeed.

TheHill.com has the latest from the voluble Veep:

Unions are not the cause of the country’s economic woes, Vice President Biden said Wednesday.  

“Public employees are not the problem. The problem is much deeper,” Biden said during a fundraiser in New York for Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.).

Rather, Biden said, unions are part of the reason the country has a middle class.

Biden said the Republicans are trying to use the bad economy that their policies created to push a conservative social agenda.

“We are going to see the economic conditions they created used as an excuse to fundamentally go after the social agenda that the far right has been trying to accomplish for a long time,” Biden said.

It’s horrible that those Republicans would attempt to use economic conditions to help achieve their agenda. Absolutely horrible. Quick, Joe, call Rahm Emanuel and lget him know they’re crowding in on his territory.

Source: TheHill.com

The Walter Williams Social Security Salvation Solution: Keep the money, give me government land instead

Walter Williams: “Just give me 100 acres of land and I will give up all of my rights to Social Security. How do you like that, Congress?”

Walter Williams, professor of economics at George Mason University and frequent fill-in host for Rush Limbaugh, has come up with an interesting way to save Social Security from bankruptcy.

Let’s let the ol’ Perfesser explain it in his own words:

“By the way, before I leave the subject of what government should be doing, I have an idea for the Congress to deal with, let’s say the insolvency of Social Security. The government owns a whole lot of wasting assets. Namely, they own most of the land in Nevada, Utah, I believe California and Alaska.

I’ll tell you what I would do – I will make a deal with the United States Congress. I will exchange all of my Social Security payments in the future for a hundred acres of land in Alaska anywhere — and they can keep the mule they promised my ancestors. Just give me 100 acres of land and I will give up all of my rights to Social Security. How do you like that, Congress?”

The mule reference of course, refers to the United States government’s pledge to give each freed slave 40 acres and a mule. Because, yes, Walter Williams is black.

Of course, this is radio so that racist Rush Limbaugh probably didn’t know that when he gave Williams the fill-in gig.

By the way, we’re also take the same deal, but we’re slightly more selective than Williams. If the government would be so kind, we would like our 100 acres to be on a nice bluff overlooking the Pacific somewhere in Hawaii. And in return for being less selective we’ll settle for less land. Maybe even just ten acres.

Sound fair?

H/T: DailyCaller.com

Michael Moore’s foolproof scheme for solving the nation’s problems: Steal from the rich

“They’re sitting on the money,” Michael Moore said, “They’re using it for their own — they’re putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with our life, with that money.

“They’re sitting on the money,” Moore said, “They’re using it for their own — they’re putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with our life, with that money. We’ve allowed them to take that. That’s not theirs, that’s a national resource, that’s ours. We all have this, we all benefit from this or we all suffer as a result of not having it.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfd_sNw2-Y

Michael Moore is wasting his time making documentaries. He should really try his hand at comedies, because based on that economic theory, he’s the funniest man who’s ever lived.

“Take my money, please.”

“A rich man walks into a bar with a duck under his arm…”

“Slowly I turned progressive…”

“Is that a wad of cash in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”

“Lenin, Trotsky and Ronald Reagan are in a boat…”

Ahhh, you crack us up, Michael. Stop it, Michael. You’re killin’ us. Our sides ache from laughing.

But wait. It was reported last week that “On Feb. 7, Michael Moore filed papers claiming he was owed at least $2.7 million on 2004 doc ‘Fahrenheit 9/11.’” Considering his desire to confiscate wealth, we assume that he wants those millions only so he can donate them to the United States Treasury.

Holy hypocrisy, Fatman!

Source: Variety

Let the celebration begin: March 3 is Charles Ponzi Day

Today, March 3, is Charles Ponzi Day. Or as it’s known around IHateTheMedia.com, “Barack Obama Day.” o commemorate the theory that you can get out of debt by going further into debt. To remember our valiant forefathers who brought us the Social Security pyramid scheme.

Today, March 3, is Charles Ponzi Day. Or as it’s known around IHateTheMedia.com, “Barack Obama Day.”

It’s a special day to celebrate the entire Obama agenda. To commemorate the theory that you can get out of debt by going further into debt. To remember our valiant forefathers who brought us the Social Security pyramid scheme. To honor those who gave their lives that they might live off of other people’s money. To note the words of former Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, who said, “A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.”

We’re going to make this special day a family event by taking our loved ones down to the nearest Government Motors dealership and telling the salesman, “We’d like a brand new 2011 Ponzi. Please load it up with all the latest accessories. And let the next guy through the door pay for it.”

Join us in honoring Charles Ponzi (right), architect of the Obama Pyramid Scheme

Not too brrrrrrright: Students are freezing in $40,000 solar powered classroom

Eco-campaigners who built a classroom powered by the sun have been taught a valuable lesson – there is not enough sun in North London to sufficiently heat their building.

Just one quick question before we get to the meat of this story: Are you aware of an eco-project – any eco-project anywhere in the world – that actually works and doesn’t require massive government subsidies? This one certainly doesn’t qualify.

solar-powered-classroom — Learning is difficult in this British eco-classroom because the teacher's lectures are drowned out by the chattering of the students' teeth

The Daily Mail UK reports the chilling details:

Eco-campaigners who built a classroom powered by the sun believed they were paving the way for the future. Instead they have been taught a valuable lesson – there is not enough sun in North London to sufficiently heat their building. The much feted zero-carbon Living Ark classroom was opened three months ago to great fanfare.

It boasts laudable green credentials and is made from sustainable wood, sheep’s wool and soil. The roof is made of mud and grass and it has its own ‘rain pod’ and solar panels. But there is snag – its solar panels only provide enough energy to power a few lightbulbs. As a result the classroom is bitterly cold and uninhabitable for lessons.

Parents have branded it ‘useless’, an ‘expensive piece of wood’ and a ‘great idea for the Caribbean’.

The Living Ark was built at Muswell Hill Primary School, North London, at the cost of £25,000.

If we could merely harness the hot air expelled by Al Gore and his band of global warming acolytes, the classroom would be so damn hot that the little British tykes would have to strip down to their skivvies. Which would, of course, present a whole different set of problems.

Source: Daily Mail UK

“I cain’t quit you!” Chart proves that government employees are overpaid

Are government employees overpaid? If you listen to the union goons, the answer is a resounding no. If you take even a cursory glance at this chart, the answer is an even more resounding yes.

Daniel J. Mitchell has an interesting analysis that will help you pick a side in the dispute:

..the Bureau of Labor Statistics has a Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, and this “JOLTS” data includes a measure of how often workers voluntarily leave job, and we can examine this data for different parts of the workforce.

Every labor economist, right or left, will agree that higher “quit rates” are much more likely in sectors that are underpaid and lower levels are much more likely in sectors where compensation is generous.

Not surprisingly, this data shows state and local bureaucrats are living on Easy Street. As the chart illustrates, private sector workers are more than three times as likely to quit their jobs.

If we were betting men, we’d bet that private sector workers are also three times as likely to be fired from their jobs. At least three times as likely. Maybe more like ten times.

Source: Daniel J. Mitchell

New Hawaii Governor says the tax hike the people don’t want is “the people’s will”

Libs seem to be completely flummoxed by the tax revolt that’s going on in this country. Take new Democrat Governor Neil Abercrombie, for example.

Libs seem to be completely flummoxed by the tax revolt that’s going on in this country. Take new Democrat Governor Neil Abercrombie, for example. Much like the ~~Kenyan~~ Hawaiian boy he knew who grew up to be President, Abercrombie’s solution to soaring debt is more spending and higher taxes.

abercrombie-obama — Two peas, one pod: The solution to debt is more spending and higher taxes

The Hawaii Free Press has the taxing tale from the Aloha State:

After campaigning on a promise not to raise taxes and specifically not to raise the GE [General Excise] Tax, Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie this week has promised to sign any GE Tax hike approved by the Legislature. Abercrombie says it is up to the legislature to decide “if some want to benefit at the expense of others.” And he is blaming the public for not rallying behind his proposed pension tax and Medicare Part B cuts without which he says “every body’s taxes will go sky-high”.

A recently released Democrat-run People’s Pulse poll shows 68% oppose GE Tax hike—including 49% who “strongly oppose” a GE Tax hike. But the news of Abercrombie’s latest broken campaign promise is drawing the slimmest media attention.

Christina M, a Hawaii resident who sent us this tip, said it best:

Does this remind you of anyone in particular? Maybe his “best friend” the President? At least that is what Ambercrombie keeps saying every chance he gets.

This is the same guy who promised to find Obama’s birth certificate, then admitted it probably didn’t exist.

This guy, within 5 seconds of being governor, released $30Mil that the last gov had in savings so that furlough Fridays would end. Then, not 8 weeks later, was asking the legislature for money because now the state can’t pay its bills. He also wants to raise taxes on alcohol 50% and taxes on non-diet sugary soft drinks by like 10 or 15%!

Pray for me, I have to live in this state with this liberal whack-job!

H/T: Christina M

Source: Hawaii Free Press

President Obama says stimulus helped states manage their budgets. Is that what it was supposed to do?

We’re morons because we thought the purpose of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act was to stimulate the economy, to finance all those shovel ready projects and to keep unemployment from going over 8%.

We’re morons, which, of course, comes as no surprise to anyone who reads IHTM on a regular basis.

But in this particular case, we’re morons because we thought the purpose of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act was to stimulate the economy, to finance all those shovel ready projects and to keep unemployment from going over 8%.

Looks like we were, oh, so wrong. Here’s what President Obama told the nation’s governors on Monday:

“As the Recovery Act funds that saw through many states over the last two years are phasing out and it is undeniable that the Recovery Act helped every single state represented in this room manage your budgets, whether you admit it or not. You face some very tough choices at this point on everything from schools to prisons to pensions.”

In other words, the Recovery Act supplied crack to the addicts, but now the pusher man has run out of crack.

At least that’s the way we interpret what he said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UeCkwZ8BU

Applications now being accepted for the IHTM Virgin Bodyguard Squad

So to follow the outstanding example set by Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, we’ve decided it would be wise to hire our own squad of IHateTheMedia.com Virgin Bodyguards.

We’ve seen video of those union goons roughing up conservatives in Madison. And we’ve had our own fair share of death threats lately.

So to follow the outstanding example set by Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, we’ve decided it would be wise to hire our own squad of IHateTheMedia.com Virgin Bodyguards.

IHTM-virgin-bodyguards — A few of the IHTM Virgin Bodyguards line up for morning inspection

We don’t know what it’s like in Libya, but finding virgins in a college town like San Luis Obispo, California is a lot more difficult than we expected. So, unfortunately, we’ve fallen considerably short of our original hiring goals.

Since we’ve already given you 15 little known facts about Muammar Gaddafis’ Virgin Bodyguard Squad, here are top 12 little known facts about the IHTM Virgin Bodyguard Squad.

12. All virgins who are martyred in the line of duty are guaranteed IHTM t-shirts in the afterlife.

11. To ensure maximum proficiency, hand-to-hand combat is practiced in a vat of oil.

10. Since IHTM is strictly halal, squad members are always expected to hide the salami.

9. Sexual harassment seminars are conducted 24/7 at IHTM headquarters.

8. To assure that they’re not hiding any weapons, the Administrator and the Editor insist on being frisked at least twice a day.

oil-wrestling — See Little Known Fact #11

7. Some sneaky devil keeps pulling the Cavity Search Alarm.

6. 78% of the IHTM Virgin Bodyguards dated Keith Olbermann immediately prior to making the decision to remain virgins.

5. We had to kick one virgin off the squad when we found out she was majoring in Journalism.

4. None of our Virgin Bodyguards are allowed to fly or engage in any activities that could bring them into contact with the TSA. For obvious reasons.

3. Interestingly, two of the IHTM Virgin Bodyguards had to resign for violating the terms of their employment. On the same day. And they roomed together. Like we said, interesting.

2. Charlie Sheen has already offered the virgins more money than we can afford. Bastard!

1. Since we began hiring our Virgin Bodyguards, the biggest threats we’ve received have come from Mrs. Editor and Mrs. Administrator.

Orrin Hatch describes ObamaCare in words we didn’t know he knew

Goodness gracious sakes alive. Good golly. Gee willikers. And holy friggin’ moly. That Utah Senator Orrin Hatch is a real garbage mouth when it comes to describing ObamaCare.

TheHill.com reports on a recent Hatch speech:

During at an appearance at an event sponsored by the Utah State University College Republicans, Hatch was asked whether he thought the nation’s healthcare system needs serious reforms. He acknowledged that states have different problems when it comes to healthcare, but called the federal law Democrats passed last year a “dumb-ass program” that will not solve them.

“Every state has different demographics, every state has different problems,” Hatch said, according to a Utah Statesman report published Monday. “It’s good to allow them to work out their own problems rather than a one-size-fits-all federal government, dumb-ass program. It really is an awful piece of crap.”

“Dumb-ass, awful piece of crap.” Too damn funny. And, unfortunately, too damn accurate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiP5JbCWEWk

Source: TheHill.com

Eric Holder says Black Panther voter intimidation case demeans his people

To tell the truth, when we heard that Attorney General Eric Holder had uttered the phrase “my people,” we kind of hoped that he was talking about average Americans.

To tell the truth, when we heard that Attorney General Eric Holder had uttered the phrase “my people,” we kind of hoped that he was talking about average Americans. Or justice department attorneys. Or socialists. Or even guys who look like guys who starred in the old Barney Miller TV show.

No such luck. The man sworn to protect and defend the Constitution was talking about black people.

Politico reports Holder’s rather racist rant:

Attorney General Eric Holder finally got fed up Tuesday with claims that the Justice Department went easy in a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because they are African American.

Holder’s frustration over the criticism became evident during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing as Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) accused the Justice Department of failing to cooperate with a Civil Rights Commission investigation into the handling of the 2008 incident in which Black Panthers in intimidating outfits and wielding a club stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia.

The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment Culberson read in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.

“Think about that,” Holder said. “When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia—which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people,” said Holder, who is black.

Lord, set my people free. And when we say “my people,” we’re talking about moron bloggers. And guys who sit around in their underwear making smartass politic comments. And, oh yeah, outraged Americans.

Source: Politico

Volt revolt: Consumer Reports says GM’s electric car “doesn’t really make a lot of sense”

Government Motors says the Chevy Volt is the future. But if that the case, it’s not a future Consumer Reports is looking forward to.

The latest issue of the highly respected magazine shines the harsh glare of reality on the electric Chevrolet:

volt-obama — "A Volt buying scheme?" the President sputtered. "I thought you said a vote buying scheme."

“When you are looking at purely dollars and cents, it doesn’t really make a lot of sense. The Volt isn’t particularly efficient as an electric vehicle and it’s not particularly good as a gas vehicle either in terms of fuel economy,” said David Champion, the senior director of Consumer Reports auto testing center at a meeting with reporters here. “This is going to be a tough sell to the average consumer.”

… The magazine has put about 2,500 miles on its Volt. It paid $48,700, including a $5,000 markup by a Chevy dealer.

Champion noted the Volt is about twice as expensive as a Prius.

He was said the five hour time to recharge the Volt was “annoying” and was also critical of the power of the Volt heating system.

“You have seat heaters, which keep your body warm, but your feet get cold and your hands get cold,” Champion said.

You know you have a problem when the best word you can pull from a review is “annoying.”

Source: The Detroit News

Going down is the leading cause of cancer rates going up

Some headlines just beg to be written. This is one of those cases. It was like a big ol’ hanging curveball, just waiting to be pounded out of the park.

The Daily Caller has the details:

American scientists now say that oral cancer caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV) has become more prevalent in the U.S. than oral cancer caused by tobacco.

We wouldn't be surprised if the Obama administration uses this as an excuse to tax sex

Maura Gillison, a cancer researcher at Ohio State University told reporters Sunday at an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting that scientists have found a 225 percent increase in the number of oral cancer cases in the U.S. during the last three decades.

“When you compare people who have an oral infection or not … the single greatest factor is the number of partners on whom the person has performed oral sex,” said Gillson, adding that studies have shown that people who have performed oral sex on more than six partners have an eight times greater risk of developing head or neck cancer than their perhaps less promiscuous peers.

In the last two decades, incidents of oral cancer in the U.S. from HPV have doubled. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that half of all sexually active Americans will get HPV throughout the course of their lifetime.

HPV has gotten attention in recent years for causing cervical cancer in women, with some states mandating and gynecologists recommending Gardasil and Cervarix to their patients as preventative vaccines. With this troubling data, however, researchers are advising boys and men to get vaccinated as well.

This story is hard to swallow.

(Please accept our apologies for that closing line. Our mothers would be ashamed. Of course, our mothers were often ashamed even before we started IHateTheMedia.com, so just imagine how they must feel now. Again, we apologize.)

Source: Daily Caller

Raaacists: Texas group offers college scholarships to white men only

We’re just not smart enough to figure out what racism is anymore. All we know is that only white people can be guilty of it.

In an era when black students voluntarily segregate themselves into blacks only fraternities and sororities, form black student unions, and are the beneficiaries of scholarships reserved for blacks only, and none of that is considered racism, we’re just not smart enough to figure out what racism is anymore. All we know is that only white people can be guilty of it.

whites-only-sign — Congratulations! You've just won a scholarship!

Some Texas students have noted the same phenomenon and decided to do something about it.

Reuters has the details:

Members of a new Texas association are starting a college scholarship program for a group of students they say do not have as many scholarship options as others — white men.

Colby Bohannan, a student at Texas State University in San Marcos, and some friends have formed the non-profit Former Majority Association for Equality, which will provide the scholarships. The idea was that there are many scholarships geared toward helping minorities and women attend college, and there are also scholarships for people from certain religions or from certain families. But Bohannan thought his demographic group was missing.

“We know that we’re going to be receiving some vicious attacks, from people claiming that we are racists, or promoting some bigotry-filled agenda,” Bohannan said on Thursday.

Starting this summer, the association plans to provide as many as five $500 scholarships to deserving white men who have at least a 3.0 grade point average, Bohannan said.

“Our aim is actually just to help students,” he said. “We are not trying to jump on any political agenda or bandwagon.”

… To qualify for the group’s scholarship, applicants have to be able to prove that they are at least 25 percent Caucasian,” Bohannan said.

“We’re not looking for blond-haired, blue-eyed, stereotypical white males,” he said. “My feeling is that if you can say you’re 25 percent Caucasian, you’re Caucasian enough for us.”

Stand by the phone, guys. You should be hearing from the ACLU any minute now.

Source: Reuters

Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift on the McLaughlin Group “Since when does Scott Walker represent the people?”

This week the panel consisted of Pat Buchanan, Monica Crowley, Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post and Eleanor Clift, who uttered one of the more remarkable lines EVER about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

Much to our surprise, the McLaughlin Group is still on the air. We really thought it had ended its run sometime back in the 90s. But, no, it grinds on, irrelevant as ever.

Buchanan: You’ve got to stop the, they call it collective bargaining. It is collusive bargaining. What you’ve got is a union puts enormous amounts of money in, they get their buddy in the governor’s chair, then they get together, they cut a deal, give them a sweetheart contract and give it to the taxpayers. What this Governor Walker is saying, “Those days are over. We’ve got somebody representing the people now, and this is going to be an adversary proceeding between you folks and us.”

Capehart: None of these deals are over unless you’re police or firefighters

Clift: Since when does Scott Walker represent the people? He’s representing…

Buchanan and Crowley: (Together) He got elected!

Clift: …the money interests that helped him get elected including…

McLaughlin: Let her finish.

Clift: …including lots of money from the Koch brothers.

Eleanor Clift puts the red in red herring. She demonstrates that Newsweek wasn’t even worth the $1 Sidney Harmon paid for it.

H/T: NewsBusters.org

ABC’s Christiane Amanpour interviews Muammar Gadhafi, not invited to join his virgin bodyguard squad

ABC’s Christiane Amanpour landed an interview with Libya’s lunatic Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (or Gadhafi, as ABC spells it) and learned a little something about love.

ABC, obviously, has the details:

I interviewed Col. Moammar Gadhafi this evening, when he told me he could not step down because he is not a president or king, and denied there were demonstrations against him anywhere in Libya.  

“My people love me. They would die for me,” he said.

We conducted the interview at a restaurant in the Corniche, a coastal road on Tripoli’s Mediterranean coast. Gadhafi, dressed in a brown-orange robe, drove up in a small convoy of sedans, got out and greeted us. He said he wanted to get the truth out, and he spent more than an hour with us trying to put forth his side of the story for us.

Libya’s longtime leader laughed when I asked him whether he would step down in response to calls against violence by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama. He invited the United Nations and any other organization to come to Libya and do a “fact finding mission” and questioned how they could freeze assets, impose sanctions and implement a travel ban based purely on media reports.

There you have it. Muammar hates the media.

Maybe he’s not such a bad guy after all.

Source: ABC News

“They’re voting to take away my chemo”

Here we thought those Wisconsin Republicans were trying to keep the state from bankruptcy. But it turns out those dastardly sons of bitches are actually trying to kill liberals by taking away their chemo.

Well, you learn something every day. Here we thought those Wisconsin Republicans were trying to keep the state from bankruptcy. But it turns out those dastardly sons of bitches are actually trying to kill liberals by taking away their chemo.

She may be right, because she definitely appears to be under the influence of some chemicals.

FBI files: Teddy Kennedy was exactly what you always thought he was

New FBI documents have been revealed that prove something conservatives have always known: Teddy Kennedy was a vile, perverted traitor who was willing – eager, in fact – to sell out his country to foreign leftists.

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained previously redacted material from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file of the late Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy, who died in August 2009 from brain cancer. Judicial Watch obtained the records pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit originally filed on June 9, 2010 (Judicial Watch v. FBI (Case No. 10-963)).
The documents include a December 28, 1961, State Department memo describing a tour of several Latin American countries taken by then-Assistant District Attorney of Suffolk County Kennedy. This document as it was originally made public was almost completely redacted. After an initial challenge by Judicial Watch, a version with fewer redactions was released. Judicial Watch continued to argue that the blackouts were baseless and, after six more months, the FBI relented. Among the statements previously withheld but now made available to Judicial Watch:

“While Kennedy was in Santiago he made arrangements to ‘rent’ a brothel for an entire night. Kennedy allegedly invited one of the Embassy chauffeurs to participate in the night’s activities.”

“[I]n each country Kennedy insisted on interviewing ‘the angry young men’ of the country. He wanted to meet with communists and others who had left-wing views. . . . Ambassador Freeman, Bogota, said the first person whom Kennedy wanted to meet was Lauchlin Currie.” (The document subsequently identifies Currie as a person who “had been mentioned in Washington investigations of Soviet spy rings.”)

“[I]n Mexico Kennedy asked Ambassador Mann that certain left-wingers be invited to the Embassy residence where interviews could be held. Mann took the strong position that he would not invite such people and stated that if any such interviews were to be conducted, all arrangements should be made by Kennedy himself.”

Add these stories to the declassified Soviet revelations that Teddy had volunteered to work with the U.S.S.R. to undermine President Reagan and the final portrait of Kennedy is what might be called horribly unflattering.

So please fix yourself Teddy’s favorite drink, a Chivas and soda and join us in this toast:

May you burn in hell, you perverted old traitor.

Source: JudicialWatch.org

Top 15 Little-Known Facts About Muammar Gaddafi’s Virgin Female Bodyguards

While lots of world leaders find themselves surrounded by beautiful women, Gaddafi puts his in uniform and calls them his Virgin Bodyguard Squad.

It’s no secret that Muammar Gaddafi is nuttier than the proverbial fruitcake. The way he dresses and the things he says just aren’t what anyone would call normal. And while lots of world leaders find themselves surrounded by beautiful women, Gaddafi puts his in uniform and calls them his Virgin Bodyguard Squad.

IHateTheMedia.com’s team of crack reporters ferreted out these fifteen little known and undoubtedly untrue facts about the Virgin Bodyguards:

gaddafis-virgin-bodyguards — Muammar Gaddafi's vaunted Virgin Bodyguard Squad

15. The captain of the squad is solely responsible for the grooming and trimming of Muammar’s ’70s-era porn actor ‘stache.

14. Turn-over is rapid in the Virgin Bodyguard Squad, especially after those late-night drinking binges at Muammar’s palace.

13. Last year, a group of Virgin Assassins attempted to kill Gaddafi, but the Virgin Bodyguard Squad gave each assassin an atomic wedgie, defusing the hostile situation.

12. One of the oldest members of the Virgin Bodyguards was tossed out of the squad recently when it was discovered that she was a virgin because she was just really ugly.

11. All Virgin Bodyguard Squad members must complete rigorous training in Jiu-Jitsu, Tang Soo Do, Judo and lap dancing.

10. When the squad’s religious leader is selected each year, she must personally prove to Gaddafi that she’s ready to assume the missionary position.

gaddafi virgin bodyguards — Is Muammar Gaddafi crazy? Hmmmm. We're not so sure.

9. Particularly good virgin bodyguards are kept on the team even after being labeled “virgin-ish.”

8. The phrase “Look at the bazookas on that one” has multiple meanings in Gaddafi’s inner circle.

7. The prize for winning Guard of the Month is two nights with Muammar (the losers get three nights).

6. Transsexuals DO have a place in Islam!

5. The mandatory midnight pillow fights frequently end up in the E.R.

4. Rule #28 of the Guard Code requires that each virgin must have the ability to touch her nose with her tongue.

3. Those aren’t DD breasts, it’s body armor 🙁

2. During a recent Scrabble game, the Virgins discovered a previously-unknown 15th way to spell “Gaddafi.”

And the number one little known fact about Muammar Gaddafi’s Virgin Bodyguard Squad:

1. They are ALL liars.

Call the Guinness Book: Rahm Emanuel mayoral team sets record for fastest ethics charge

Rahm Emanuel was elected mayor on Tuesday, appointed his transition team on Thursday and an ethics violation forced his co-chair to resign on Friday.

Our heartiest congratulations go out to Rahm Emanuel and his Chicago mayoral transition team for a new Chicago corruption land speed record.

He was elected mayor on Tuesday, appointed his transition team on Thursday and an ethics violation forced his co-chair to resign on Friday.

judy-erwin-chicago — Awww, too bad Judy Erwin had to resign. She sure looks like she'd be a lot of fun.

The Chicago Tribune tells the sad tale:

A veteran politician Rahm Emanuel named to his mayoral transition team resigned her high-level state job last summer and paid a fine for conducting political business on state time, according to a newly filed ethics report.

Judy Erwin, a co-chair of Emanuel’s mayoral campaign, said late Friday night that she would resign her new post on his transition team after the Tribune contacted her and the campaign. She said she hadn’t informed Emanuel of the ethics violation.

Erwin, the former executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, admitted using her office e-mail and phone while working on a campaign committee for presidential candidate Barack Obama, using staff resources to plan her trip to the 2008 Democratic National Convention and engaging in campaign fundraising activity while on the job, the state’s Executive Ethics Commission ruled in a decision filed Feb. 16…

In an interview with the Tribune, Erwin said she got careless while she was very busy at work, cooperated with investigators and hoped her 30 years of history in state government would outweigh the ruling.

“I’m not corrupt, I’m just careless.” Isn’t that the same one-size-fits-all Democrat excuse Tim Geithner and Charlie Rangel used when they didn’t pay their taxes?

Source: Chicago Tribune

Noted California climate expert says it’s getting colder, not warmer

Okay, he’s not really a scientist per se, but he does have a solid reputation for predicting the weather. Meet Mojave Max, a 34-year-old desert tortoise who lives in Palm Desert, California.

max-the-desert-tortoise — Noted California climate expert says says global warming has slowed to a crawl

When Max stops hibernating and crawls out of his burrow, that’s considered by locals to be the end of winter. They even have an annual contest where people try to guess when it will happen.

Thing is, Max is waking up later and later each year. Historically he rubs the sleep out of his eyes and comes out of hibernation by February 15, but this year he waited until the 22nd. Last year he barely beat the deadline, crawling out on the 13th wearing ear muffs and a look of regret on his face, but two years ago he waited until the 24th.

Seems Max is trying to tell us something: “Baby, it’s cold outside.”

Three days later weather forecasters predicted snowfall in San Francisco for the first time in 35 years. So Mojave Max knows what’s he doing.

Somebody get this guy a job at the IPCC.

– Written by J.P. Travis of JPAttitude.com

Sources: KPSP-TV, DesertTortoise.gov

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