New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has built a career on his own unique combination of ignorance and arrogance. So we never thought we’d see the day that he admitted he didn’t know everything about everything.
In the words of the Editor’s dear, departed grandmother, “Why, I never …”
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has built a career on his own unique combination of ignorance and arrogance. So we never thought we’d see the day that he admitted he didn’t know everything about everything. He’s been consistently wrong on the economy, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, foreign affairs, global warming, and based on the appearance of his beard, personal grooming. Yet, this vast ignorance has never once – until now – slowed the speed of his pompous pontifications.
If they ever give out a Nobel Prize for Ignorance, Krugman should win by acclamation.
Rule #1: Do not drink vodka with your students. It cannot lead to anything good. Here’s a story of a teachers’ advisor who is in desperate need of a teachers’ advisor advisor:
Rule #1: Do not drink vodka with your students. It cannot lead to anything good.
The Daily Caller has the story of the teachers’ advisor who is in desperate need of a teachers’ advisor advisor:
"We were just working on a little extra credit assignment, your honor."
A teacher who advises colleagues on how to avoid affairs with students was caught having sex with a teenager in the back of her car.
Courtney Bowles was found by a police officer naked lying on top of the boy, who was also completely naked, from her school in Colorado.
A partly consumed bottle of vodka was also found in the car with the couple.
Her student lover initially said he was 20 years old – but later admitted he was 16.
Bowles, 31, was employed at his school as a teacher’s instructional coach. It was her job to train teachers on how to maintain a professional distance from students.
Damn it. We were this close to our third hickey story of the week, but it just didn’t quite pan out.
Here’s Christie talking about police salaries, pensions and layoffs during a town hall meeting in Middletown, New Jersey. He faces down an angry cop and tells him what’s what.
Save your comments. We know that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s no social conservative. But the way we look at it, nothing social conservatives care about will matter if the country goes bankrupt.
We say keep the house from burning down, then worry about whether the firemen trampled your shrubs.
Here’s Christie talking about police salaries, pensions and layoffs during a town hall meeting in Middletown, New Jersey. He faces down an angry cop and tells him what’s what.
Is there another politician in this country with the balls to take on his harshest critics face-to-face?
How many innocent American lives will be lost because of the violent rhetoric found in the names of these companies? How many? These ten must be put out of business immediately.
How many innocent American lives will be lost because of the violent rhetoric found in the names of these companies? How many?
As Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnick will tell you, it’s only a matter of time before some deranged individual is driven to violence by these extreme right wing hate talk contained in these corporate names. Why, we wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out that all these companies are sponsors on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Send us photos of extreme right wing hate talk company names in your town. We’ll add them to the list. Send them to [email protected].
Clever devils, those socialists. They’ve devised a devious plan to create progressive driving rates, whereby the rich will be required to pay more per mile of driving than the poor.
Clever devils, those socialists. They’ve devised a devious plan to create progressive driving rates, whereby the rich will be required to pay more per mile of driving than the poor.
How, you may ask, is that possible? How can that be accomplished when gas pumps don’t know your income? Simple. By migrating gas-powered drivers to electric cars.
Fill 'er up, Comrade! We need to get to the revolution!
Consider, for example, the fact that Barack Obama and Joe the Plumber can now fill their gas tanks down at the corner Arco station and they’ll each pay the same price per gallon and the same taxes per gallon. In effect, a flat tax.
This obviously does not sit well with liberals. In their ideal world, everything would be taxed progressively.
And that’s where the electric car comes in.
When you drive an electric car, you will no longer fill ‘er up down at the corner gas station and pay that same taxes, rich or poor. No. You’ll charge your electric car at home and be billed for the additional power by your electric utility.
Therein lies the socialist rub. Electric rates are not the same for every home and every homeowner. They are determined by the amount of electricity a home uses, usually defined in progressive (uh-oh, there’s that word again) tiers based on the number of kilowatt hours used. The more electricity you use, the higher tier you fall in, the more you pay, just like the progressive income tax.
The owner of a small home that uses very little electricity may get all his electricity at the lowest rate. He may even get it for free, because exemptions and subsidies allow some low-income people to avoid some or even all of their electric bill. However, the additional electricity required to power a medium-sized home is priced at a higher rate. And the additional electricity required to power a McMansion is priced at a still higher rate.
In most states, the highest usage tiers are priced significantly higher than the lower ones. For example, here’s what those progressive tiers look like on Pacific Gas & Electric bills in California:
Price per Killowatt Hour
Tier 1: $0.11877 for the first 98 KwH
Tier 2: $0.13502 for the next 29.4 KwH
Tier 3: $0.29062 for the next 68.6 KwH
Tier 4: $0.40029 for the next 52.3 KwH
(As you can see, socialism has come to our electric rates just as surely as it’s come to our tax code.)
Larger incomes mean larger homes. Larger homes mean more electricity. More electricity means higher tiers. Higher tiers means higher prices.
Finally, since electric and hybrid cars generally cost considerably more than their gasoline equivalents, it stands to reason that they are being purchased primarily by higher income earners who already live in larger homes and already pay higher electrical rates. If they weren’t already in the highest tier, the additional electricity required to power their new electric vehicles will surely put them there now.
Viola! Just like that, a person converting from a gasoline-powered car to an electric car goes from a flat tax (the same price for every gallon of gas) to a progressive tax (tiered pricing depending on usage).
Very clever, you socialist redistributors of income. Very clever, indeed.
Oops. Sorry. The Taurus 28 gauge short barreled shotgun revolver no longer available. Not because they were sold out, but because the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said, “You can’t sell that thing.”
Ladies and gentlemen, we are pleased to introduce the Taurus 28 gauge short barreled shotgun revolver.
Oops. Sorry. It’s no longer available. Not because they were sold out, but because the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said, “You can’t sell that thing.”
The Taurus shotgun revolver, striking fear in hearts of burglars across the fruited plain
Yes, BATFE dropped by the Taurus booth at a major gun show and declared that the Brazilian-made 28 gauge revolver was actually an illegal short barreled shotgun, not a handgun.
As we understand it, Taurus checked the little box that said it was a shotgun instead of the one that said it’s a revolver. And that, apparently, is enough to get it banned in the United States. Burglars and other assorted bad guys are sending bouquets to the boys from BATFE this morning.
Too bad. We had already worked up a nifty little ad slogan for Taurus:
“When you get burglarized, the burglar gets vaporized.”
Andrew Bolt, one of our favorite Aussie bloggers, reveals that global warming skeptics recently had a very good day at the thoroughbred races Down Under.
Andrew Bolt, one of our favorite Aussie bloggers, reveals that global warming skeptics recently had a very good day at the thoroughbred races Down Under:
Al Gore reacts to the results of the eighth race at Caulfield
At Caulfield today ‘Global Warming’ came 8th in the 10 horse field.
At Murray Bridge today ‘Globalwarmnsceptic’ won and paid $4.40!
Al Gore was reportedly seen tossing away his losing tickets in the Caulfield parking lot while mumbling something about “How could this happen? I was so positive that Global Warming was a winner.”
Well, that settles it. Here we thought Hosni Mubarak was a brutal dictator who had clung to power for 30 years through the use of brute power.
Well, that settles it. Here we thought Hosni Mubarak was a brutal dictator who had clung to power for 30 years through the use of brute power.
That’s why we’re grateful that a man like Joe Biden is around to correct our misconceptions and fill in the gaps in our knowledge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk-Ae25tPNE
Here’s the garrulous Veep on the PBS News Hour with the surprising news that Mubarak is not a dictator and shouldn’t step aside.
Lehrer: Has the time come for President Mubarak of Egypt to go, to stand aside? Biden: No, I think the time has come for President Mubarak to begin to move in the direction that—to be more responsive to some of the needs of the people out there… Lehrer: The word—the word to describe the leadership of Mubarak and Egypt and also in Tunisia before was dictator. Should Mubarak be seen as a dictator? Biden: Look, Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things and he’s been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interests in the region: Middle East peace efforts, the actions Egypt has taken relative to normalizing the relationship with Israel. And I think that it would be—I would not refer to him as a dictator.
Yeah, right, Joe. He’s been elected by acclamation by the Egyptian people for the last 30 years.
You know what? Dan Quayle may have been funny dumb, but this guy is dangerous dumb.
There’s a very good reason that dedicated environmentalist Robert Redford opposes a proposed eco-village near his Napa, California vineyard: He cares a lot more about having green in his wallet.
There’s a very good reason that dedicated environmentalist Robert Redford opposes a proposed eco-village near his Napa, California vineyard: He cares a lot more about having green in his wallet than he cares about having green in his world.
NotEvilJustWrong.com has the details:
Redford is one of the main opponents of a plan by the Pacific Union College to build an eco-village in Angwin, California. The college says it needs the funds because of a dire financial situation. The village is close to Redford’s vineyard in the Napa Valley. However whilst publicly opposing this development “to preserve the rural heritage” Redford has been quietly selling development lots in the Sundance Preserve for $2 million. These lots are intended for vacation homes close to Redford’s Sundance Ski Resort.
The double standard is revealed in a short film Robert Redford Hypocrite which has just been released.
Film director Ann McElhinney said the film is not criticising Redford for selling his property.
“It is great that in a recession Mr Redford can find so many buyers. I am delighted that those houses will be built, creating jobs and vitality in a remote area but it is shocking that Mr Redford would deny others similar opportunities to make a profit and create jobs.”
The film’s co-director Phelim McAleer said the film was highlighting the double standards of so many celebrities and environmentalists. “This is just another example of environmental elites telling the rest of us how and where we must live and what we are not allowed to do, but thinking that those rules don’t apply to themselves. Robert Redford has shown himself to be a hypocrite – plain and simple,” said McAleer.
If McAleer wants to do series of films about green hypocrites, he’ll end up with more sequels and prequels than Star Wars.
With Dennis Kucinich’s sandwich lawsuit in mind, it seems to us that the Congressional cafeteria should introduce these new sandwiches named after Washington, DC political and media types.
The Los Angeles Times reports, “After making headlines this week for accusing a congressional cafeteria of selling him a ‘dangerous’ sandwich, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, released a statement today announcing his lawsuit seeking $150,000 in damages had been settled.”
Surely, that sandwich will forever more be known in the Congressional cafeteria as the Kucinich Special. We’re pretty sure customers are already lining up and saying, “Gimme that Dennis Kucinich sandwich.”
Mmmmm. A huge f'ing joe Biden sandwich sounds good right now.
With that in mind, it seems to us that the Congressional cafeteria should introduce a whole line of sandwiches named after Washington, DC political and media types.
Please allow us to make some suggestions:
The Obama Surprise: Some days it’s all baloney and no bread. Other days it’s de-boned and spineless chicken on dark rye (You never really know what you’ll get. That’s why it’s called a surprise.)
The Barney Frank: Rump roast with an extra helping of salami.
The Harry Reid: Cold, aged beef with no seasoning on white bread.
The Ed Schultz: Beef tongue with an extra serving of fat. Always served hot.
The Keith Olbermann: This item has been removed from the menu.
The Joe Biden: This is a huge f’ing sandwich. It contains a lot of f’ing pork. It’s a f’ing fork-ready project. (NOTE: The Joe Biden Combo comes one fry short of a happy meal.)
The Nancy Pelosi: Cold, crusty chicken, hold the pickle, on old rye.
The Helen Thomas: Non-Kosher meats and cheeses that have been aged beyond recognition. It’s all served on Halal-friendly breads (all profits from this sandwich will be donated back to Palestinian freedom fighters seeking the destruction of Israel a peaceful two-state alternative.
The Tim Geitner: Lean, greasy turkey. Tax-free through April 15.
The Michelle Obama: You don’t order the Michelle Obama. The Michelle Obama orders you!
The Al Sharpton: A delightful low carb alternative featuring dark meat turkey wrapped in a thin skin of pure cheese.
The Ben Nelson: Sorry, ladies and gentlemen, The Ben Nelson has sold out.
The Ted Kennedy: Dry, aged liver patty. Ask for the Kennedy Combo and get a free Bloody Mary.
We’ve come up with a funny headline or two in our time, but our best efforts pale in comparison to the one on this week’s Time magazine. “Why Obama Loves Reagan. And what he’s learned from him” may be the funniest ten words ever written in the English language.
We’ve come up with a funny headline or two in our time, but our best efforts pale in comparison to the one on this week’s Time magazine. “Why Obama Loves Reagan. And what he’s learned from him” may be the funniest ten words ever written in the English language. (And let’s not even get into Time’s use of the heart symbol in a sad, dated attempt to be relevant nor the strange PhotoShopping that makes Reagan’s left arm appear to be about four feet long.)
Yes, America, according to yuckmeisters over at Time magazine Ronald Reagan is Obama’s role model.
Time says, “Obama and Reagan share a number of gifts….” But, quite honestly, we’re at a bit of a loss as to what those gifts may be other than sharing a common DNA pattern.
According to Time, “Obama was clearly impressed by the way Reagan had transformed Americans’ attitude about government.” Hint, President Obama: He didn’t do it by spending trillions of dollars nor by taking over private industry nor by coddling government employee unions.
We also can’t recall Ronald Reagan hanging out with terrorists, nor appointing communists, socialists, and Marxists to government positions. And perhaps our memories are failing, but we can’t recall him appeasing our enemies and appalling our friends.
Where Ronaldus Magnus boldly stated, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” Barack Obama would have bowed to the Russian leader and borrowed money from China to provide him with additional bricks at no cost.
Nevertheless, Time just can’t get over the similarities between the two men, even quoting Douglas Brinkley as saying, “Obama is approaching the job in a Regananesque fashion.”
And then Time said, “We just flew into town. And, boy, are our arms tired. Thank you. Thank you very much. We’ll be here all week.”
Stop it, Time. You’re killin’ us. We can’t catch our breath. Our stomachs hurt from laughing.
Hey, wait just a gol danged minute. We thought the science was settled. Didn’t Al Gore tell us the Himalayan glaciers were melting away.
Hey, wait just a gol danged minute. We thought the science was settled. Didn’t Al Gore tell us the Himalayan glaciers were melting away and that the entire Indian subcontinent was about to make the Oklahoma dust bowl look like the Garden of Eden?
The Himalayan glaciers are advancing, but Al Gore's credibility is in full retreat
Hmmmm. Hard to believe as this may be, it turns out that none of it is true.
The Telegraph UK has the report you probably won’t see in the American media:
Himalayan glaciers are actually advancing rather than retreating, claims the first major study since a controversial UN report said they would be melted within quarter of a century.
Researchers have discovered that contrary to popular belief half of the ice flows in the Karakoram range of the mountains are actually growing rather than shrinking.
The discovery adds a new twist to the row over whether global warming is causing the world’s highest mountain range to lose its ice cover.
It further challenges claims made in a 2007 report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the glaciers would be gone by 2035.
So the way we understand this story, the glaciers are growing. The only things shrinking are Al Gore’s bank account and his credibility.
An Indiana school district that told a black teenager to perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” in a “traditional way” after receiving complaints about her performance is drawing questions now about whether the complaints and directive were racially motivated.
Let us say right up front that we don’t get it. Yeah, she added a few flourishes here and there that vary from the original, but jeez, we’ve heard a lot of singers do a lot worse things to the National Anthem. Roseanne Barr comes to mind.
Here’s the story from Yahoo News:
An Indiana school district that told a black teenager to perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” in a “traditional way” after receiving complaints about her performance is drawing questions now about whether the complaints and directive were racially motivated.
Shai Warfield-Cross, 16, has performed the national anthem at sports events at Bloomington High School North over the last year without incident. But school officials said they received complaints about her performance during a game in Martinsville.
Principal Jeff Henderson told The Herald-Times in a statement that people had complained that while the words to the anthem were the same, the tune was unrecognizable. He declined to comment to The Associated Press.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KVQUjxrgrM
Here the part we really hate. Note that the first paragraph of the story pointed out that Shai is black. And this following paragraph will point out that the complaint came from a town that is “predominately white.”
Some who complained after the game in Martinsville – a predominantly white community about 30 miles southwest of Indianapolis – also said they felt the rendition was disrespectful to current and former members of the military, Henderson said.
It doesn’t say that the complaint came from a white person. It doesn’t say that the complaint said that Shai’s rendition was “black.” In fact, there’s nothing in the story to suggest that the complaints had anything to do with race except that Shai is black and the complaint came from the ominously-categorized “predominately white” town.
Well, you know what that means. The complaint must be raaaacist!
Warfield-Cross’ family says athletics director Jen Hollars told the teen last Friday that she would not be allowed to sing the anthem unless she modified her version and sang in a more traditional way. Hollars declined to comment and referred questions to Henderson, who said school officials told Warfield-Cross the performances should be more “traditional” to ensure the song’s tune is recognizable.
Our take: Whoever complained is a horses’s ass. The principal is a horse’s ass. The athletic director is a horse’s ass. And whoever wrote Yahoo story and inserted the racial angle is a horse’s ass.
We’re also horses’ asses, but that a completely different story.
A Christchurch doctor had to treat a woman after she was partially paralysed by a lovebite from her amorous partner.
Good thing this story comes from New Zealand. If it had happened in the United States some scientist would get a multimillion dollar grant from the Center for Disease Control to study the hickey epidemic afflicting American teens.
Hickey is one of those words you look at and say, "That's a very odd word."
A Christchurch doctor had to treat a woman after she was partially paralysed by a lovebite from her amorous partner.
Dr Teddy Wu, who is currently working in the neurology department at Christchurch Hospital, said he believed it was the first time someone had been hospitalised by a “hickey”.
An article on the case has appeared in the New Zealand Medical Journal. Wu said he saw the woman over a year ago while he was working in Middlemore Hospital in Auckland.
The 44-year-old Maori woman went to the emergency department after experiencing loss of movement in her left arm.
It happened while she was sitting watching television.
The only injury was a lovebite on the right of her neck near an artery.
“Because it was a lovebite there would be a lot of suction. Because of the physical trauma it had made a bit of bruising inside the vessel,” said Wu.”There was a clot in the artery underneath where the hickey was.”
The clot had gone into the woman’s heart and caused a minor stroke that led to the loss of movement, he said.
We’re going to start selling ribbons to support the victims of this heartbreaking epidemic. They’ll be dark purple.
This is a remarkable 1994 clip from the Today Show in which Katie Couric and Bryant Gumble reveal that they don’t have a clue what that internet thingy is.
From the Every Once In A While A Blind Sow Finds An Acorn Department:
The knuckleheads over at iOwnTheWorld.com found this remarkable 1994 clip from the Today Show in which Katie Couric and Bryant Gumble reveal that they don’t have a clue what that internet thingy is. They don’t know what that little @ sign means, either. But they do know that people in Los Angeles are sleeping with their shoes on.
The money quote over at iOwnTheWorld.com is, “These people who posture and preen for a living, as if they are insightful and knowledgeable, are amazingly ignorant when they go off script.”
We think they were talking about Gumbel and Couric, but if you’ve ever visited IOTW you’ll know that may well have been talking about themselves.
Despite all the hype and all the promotion and a huge first night, Piers Morgan’s ratings are dropping faster than F-bombs from a rapper.
Despite all the hype and all the promotion and a huge first night, Piers Morgan’s ratings are dropping faster than F-bombs from a rapper.
Glenn Garvin, TV critic at the Miami Herald, has the details:
Much to his dismay, the former judge on America's Got Talent is learning that America's also got discernment
Talking about ratings in the first couple of weeks of a talk show is usually unfair; it takes a new one time to build an audience. But in Morgan’s case, he’s losing an audience. His show debuted on January 17 with 2.1 million viewers tuning in to see him chat up Oprah Winfrey. They were so impressed that almost half of them didn’t return for day two.
Since then, Morgan’s ratings fell every day except for a small upward blip last Tuesday when Rudy Giuliani was the guest. By the time the Kardashians had finished hyperventilating Thursday night, Morgan had lost more than three-quarters of the viewers he started with last week.
(Hey, you wanna know who’s really enjoying reading this? Larry King. In its final six months, his show was averaging 613,000 viewers, was low enough to get him kicked off the air after 50 years in broadcasting. But it’s about 20 percent bigger than Morgan’s audience Thursday night.)
At the rate Morgan’s ratings are dropping, they’ll soon be smaller than the opening in one of Larry King’s ventricles.
Americans don’t hear much from U.S. Surgeon-General Regina Benjamin, but on Thursday, she issued a news release urging “everyone” to “help make breastfeeding easier.”
Boobs. That’s right, we said boobs.
(Sorry, but we’re trolling for search engine traffic and using the word “boobs” usually brings in lots of hits. But in our defense, it’s appropriate for this story.)
Ahhh, now we remember Regina Benjamin. She's the fat Surgeon-General who said the rest of us need to lose weight.
CNSnews.com has the story:
Americans don’t hear much from U.S. Surgeon-General Regina Benjamin, but on Thursday, she issued a news release urging “everyone” to “help make breastfeeding easier.” She cited the “health benefits” of breastfeeding for baby and mother, and pointed to a study saying that breastfeeding would save billions in health care and other costs…
Everyone? We applaud Surgeon-General Regina Benjamin (although we have to admit we’ve never heard of her) and suggest that this program would prove a lot cheaper and a lot more popular than ObamaCare. Especially if it’s taken to the extremes that Saudi women have taken it in an effort, apparently, to assure the continued good health of Saudi cab drivers.
Please allow us to reprise this story from the IHTM files:
Saudi women plan to turn a controversial fatwa (religious ruling) to their advantage and launch a campaign to achieve their long-standing demand to drive in this conservative kingdom. If the demand is not met, the women threatened to follow through the fatwa which allows them to breastfeed their drivers and turn them into their sons.
We would imagine it's very easy for Saudi women to hail a cab these days
The campaign will be launched under the slogan: “We either be allowed to drive or breastfeed foreigners,” a journalist told Gulf News. Amal Zahid said that their decision follows a fatwa issued by a renowned scholar which said that Saudi women can breastfeed their foreign drivers for them to become their sons.The renowned scholar said Saudi women can breastfeed their foreign drivers for them to be become their sons and brothers to their daughters. Under this relationship, foreign drivers can mix freely with all members of the family without breaking the Islamic rule which does not allow mixing of genders. Breast milk kinship is considered to be as good as a blood relationship in Islam. “A woman can breastfeed a mature man so that he becomes her son. In this way, he can mix with her and her daughters without violating the teachings of Islam,” the scholar said.
If there’s anything that can bring our two cultures together, this may be it.
Let’s just rename it The Cab Driver Health Act of 2011.
It’s been a few of weeks since we’ve done one of these inexplicable photo caption contests. Have fun.
It’s been a few of weeks since we’ve done one of these inexplicable photo caption contests.
The same rules apply: No prizes, but make ’em funny or the Administrator will come over to your house and force you to watch his special “Keith Olbermann: The MSNBC Years” DVD.
Illinois’ state legislature’s budget solution is to increase taxes by 66%. So Chris Christie is running radio commercials in Illinois that invite the state’s businesses to pack up and move to New Jersey, where he promises no new taxes.
The Governor of New Jersey has balls. Big balls. Balls the size of musk melons. He needs to have his pants specially-tailored just to accommodate them.
Illinois has spent its way to the edge of the fiscal abyss and the state legislature’s solution is to increase taxes by 66%. So Chris Christie is swooping in like a buzzard on roadkill and running radio commercials in Illinois that invite the state’s businesses to pack up and move to New Jersey, where he promises no new taxes.
Warning: Do not stand at the state border. You may be trampled in the stampede.
Bill O’Reilly took a few minutes to ruminate about The Olbermann Incident without mentioning his former competitor by name. Not once. And from Olbermann’s point of view, that’s probably the worst insult O’Reilly could have delivered.
Bill O’Reilly took a few minutes to ruminate about The Olbermann Incident without mentioning his former competitor by name. Not once. And from Olbermann’s point of view, that’s probably the worst insult O’Reilly could have delivered.
“They took one of their guys out and then they’re moving everybody else around. Doesn’t matter who he is or why they took him out,” O’Reilly said. “[I] don’t want to get involved with any of that personal stuff.”
When he says they’re moving everybody else around, we’re pretty sure he means like deck chairs on the Titanic.
O’Reilly noted that MSNBC was ranked 28th overall in cable ratings, which he said demonstrated failure, especially considering the fact the network has the resources of NBC behind it.
“Sure, look — we know the double standard, but it is and we’ve accepted the double standard, Bernie and I have because we can’t do anything about it,” O’Reilly said. “Bernie left CBS. I left CBS. Now we are here at Fox News. But let me ask you this: When you read in the print press about all of this garbage and that’s what it is, this network with NBC’s resources behind it to be ranked 28th is a disgrace. That’s a failure. Now they could squeeze out a few million dollars of profit, I guess, but it’s a failure. But the Fox News Channel is a colossal success – colossal success. You never read that. I very rarely read that.”
If you thought politicians were to blame for the spending frenzy that put us in our current economic situation, you’re wrong. And CNN contributor Roland Martin is there to set you straight.
If you thought politicians were to blame for the spending frenzy that put us in our current economic situation, you’re wrong. And CNN contributor Roland Martin is there to set you straight.
It’s not the politicians’ fault. It’s your fault. You and the rest of the greedy American people.
The Daily Caller points out Martin’s finger pointing:
On CNN’s pre-State of the Union address coverage on Tuesday, Martin explained politicians are not completely to blame for the dire straits of entitlements. But instead he said it was the American people – since they’re not either willing to accept spending cuts or higher taxes.
“It’s not just they when we talk about politicians, it’s also the people who send them to Washington, D.C.,” Martin said. “When you look at the CBS poll where they laid out where they said, ‘Oh no, we don’t want taxes raised, but we don’t want cuts made to our Social Security or Medicare benefits. And again, the American people also want their cake and eat it as well. They’re also part of the problem. We can’t just sit here and say it’s 535 members in Congress.”
Understand? It wasn’t Congress’ 75 years of vote buying. It wasn’t their 75 years of selling drugs down at the economic junior high school. It wasn’t their 75 years of fixing free lunches. It wasn’t their 75 years of redistributing work ethic as well as income.
Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, but the Soviet Union tried to keep his memory alive by keeping his preserved body on display in Red Square. If the Russian people have their way – always a questionable prospect – the evil, old Communist will finally be buried.
Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, but the Soviet Union tried to keep his memory alive by keeping his preserved body on display in Red Square. If the Russian people have their way – always a questionable prospect – the evil, old Communist will finally be buried.
For 87 years, Lenin's body has been on display in his own personal Madame Tussaudski's Wax Museum
Time has the details:
Seventy percent of Russians voting in an online poll support the removal of the former revolutionary’s body and his burial–totaling 178,022 votes.
To mark Lenin’s 87th anniversary of his death, the goodbyelenin.ru online poll, which attracted votes from 270,000 people, was organized by Russian Prime Minister Putin’s ruling party after one of its members of parliament, Vladimir Medinsky, last week strongly backed Lenins’s burial.
“It’s well known that Lenin himself did not plan to put up any mausoleums to himself, and his living relatives, his brother and sister, were categorically against,” Medinsky was quoted as saying on the poll’s website. “Communists could not care less about what Lenin himself or his relatives wanted.”
Fair is fair. Considering how many Russians were buried as a result of Lenin’s legacy, it’s only fitting that he should be buried, too. Perhaps in Siberia alongside so many of his victims.
It was late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild…
It was late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a chief in a modern society, he’d never learned the old tribal secrets. He couldn’t look at the sky to predict what the winter was going to be like.
"It's going to be a very cold winter."
So just to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect firewood to be prepared.
But after several days, he had an idea. He went to the reservation’s phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, “Will it be cold this winter?”
“Oh, yes,” the meteorologist at the Weather Service replied, “It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold.”
So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared.
A week later, he called the National Weather Service again. “Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?”
“Yes,” the meteorologist again replied, “It’s going to be a very cold.”
The chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.
Two weeks later, the chief called the National Weather Service again. “Are you sure it’s going to be very cold winter?”
“Absolutely,” the man replied. “It’s looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters we’ve ever seen.”
“How can you be so sure?” the chief asked.
“Simple,” the weatherman replied, “The Indians are collecting a shitload of firewood.”
Oh, sure, you laugh. But it’s as accurate as any prediction Al Gore ever made.
Good news! The United Nations is committed to solving all the world’s ills. Including, of course, the deadly plague of junk food. No problem too small for these corruptocrats.
Good news! The United Nations is committed to solving all the world’s ills. Including, of course, the deadly plague of junk food. No problem too small for these corruptocrats.
Please note that U.N. corruptocrats never put champagne and caviar on their list of banned junk foods
The Associated Press has the details:
The U.N. health agency says world leaders will discuss efforts to clamp down on junk food marketing to children when they meet in New York on Sept 19-20.
The World Health Organization says heads of state will use the U.N. General Assembly meeting to talk about limiting the number and type of ads that children are exposed to.
WHO says 43 million preschool children around the world are overweight or obese. Experts talk of a “fat tsunami” that is already causing millions of premature deaths each year.
Bjorn-Inge Larsen of the Norwegian Directorate of Health told reporters Friday that he expects voluntary measures limiting junk food advertising to eventually evolve into laws banning the practice in the same way that has occurred with tobacco.
“Mommy, mommy, I’d like a Twinkie in my lunch box.”
“Sorry, honey. Have this nutritious and United Nations-approved Ban Ki-Moon Pie instead.”
By the way, this is just a guess on our part, but we’re willing to bet they’d kill for some Twinkies and Snickers bars in Darfur right about now.
In the words of the Editor’s dear, departed grandmother, “Why, I never …”
