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Great news: Unemployment’s so high that illegal aliens are going back to Mexico to find work

In our never-ending search for the silver lining, we’ve discovered a positive side to the high unemployment that’s plaguing the nation – illegal aliens are returning to Mexico in record numbers.

In our never-ending search for the silver lining, we’ve discovered a positive side to the high unemployment that’s plaguing the nation – illegal aliens are returning to Mexico in record numbers.

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Illegal aliens are now going in the opposite direction

The Sacramento Bee has the story:

Mexico’s unemployment rate is now 4.9 percent, compared with 9.4 percent joblessness in the United States.

An estimated 300,000 undocumented immigrants have left California since 2008, though the remaining 2.6 million still make up 7 percent of the population and 9 percent of the labor force, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.

… The best-paid jobs for undocumented migrants are in the building industry, “and because of the severe crisis in the construction business here, their first response has been to move into the service industry,” González Gutiérrez said. “But that has its limits. Then, they move to other areas in the U.S. to find better jobs — or back to Mexico.”

If this trend continues, how long will it be before Americans start sneaking across the border in search of jobs in Mexico?

Source: Sacramento Bee

How many Congressmen does it take to screw up a lightbulb?

Q: How many congresspersons does it take to change a light bulb?
A: As many as crony capitalist CFL bulb manufacturers can to afford to buy off!

Q: How many congresspersons does it take to change a light bulb?
A: As many as crony capitalist CFL bulb manufacturers can to afford to buy off!

According to Jeff Jacoby, the incandescent ban, passed in the Democrat-controlled Congress in 2007 but not vetoed by President Bush, has less to do with saving the planet or keeping Al Gore’s mansion from floating away and more to do with bulb-makers’ profits:

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"Hey, here's an idea. Let's rip off the American people."

On paper, [the law’s] purpose is to increase energy efficiency by requiring that bulbs produce more light per watt. But by setting the new standards higher than the common incandescent can reach, the law’s real-world effect is to deprive most Americans of the freedom to buy the light bulbs they prefer. Instead, they will be forced to spend more money for fragile halogen bulbs or for the swirled compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) that have been around for decades but that most consumers have never wanted to buy. 

The use of efficiency mandates to snuff out the standard light bulb was an exercise of unadulterated crony capitalism. It came about after big bulb manufacturers, frustrated by their customers’ refusal to switch from cheap throwaway incandescents to the far more profitable compact fluorescents touted by greens, decided to play hardball.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door, especially if you contribute generously to enough greedy scumbag politicians who’ll mandate it.

By the way, the Germans circumvented their weasel-fuhrers’ ban on incandescents by selling them as “heat bulbs.” Don’t know about you, but we’re starting to feel a bit chilly ourselves.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Boston.com

Pot, meet kettle: MSNBC’s Al Sharpton calls the Tea Party “a monster” that “will destroy you”

The guy makes Chris Matthews look terse, makes Rachel Maddow look conservative, makes Ed Schultz look rational, and makes Lawrence O’Donnell look like a brilliant interviewer.

In a case of the pot calling the kettle black, the Reverend Al Sharpton has called the Tea Party “a monster” that “will destroy you.” Oddly enough, we are of the opinion that Sharpton is a monster that will destroy MSNBC.

The guy makes Chris Matthews look terse, makes Rachel Maddow look conservative, makes Ed Schultz look rational, and makes Lawrence O’Donnell look like a brilliant interviewer.

Need proof? (You probably don’t, but we’re going to provide it anyway.) Here’s the Reverend doing what now passes as an interview with Lee Fang from Think Progress.

H/T: Breitbart.tv

The Editor’s back from vacation

I’d like to thank our regular gang of miscreants for pitching in and keeping IHTM up and running while I was gone…

The Administrator and I hadn’t had a vacation in the two and a half years since IHTM was born. So Mrs Editor and I took the last two weeks off. We flew to Seattle, then drove across Washington, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota and back via Wyoming and Oregon.

We visited the Little Big Horn Memorial, Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial, ran across a herd of buffalo that blocked the road in South Dakota, saw moose in Wyoming, had a giant family reunion in Montana, and fell in love with Boise.

I’d like to thank our regular gang of miscreants for pitching in and keeping IHTM up and running while I was gone – Kip Hooker, Perlcat, J.P. Travis, Bonfire of the Absurdities, Sven Waring and Patrick Michael (in no particular order). Thanks, guys. The Administrator and I really appreciate your help.

“Where are the tax revenues? … We got nothing,” Norah O’Donnell beseeches Jay Carney

O’Donnell complained about how many GOP demands were met by the deal, and then said to Carney: “You gave them everything they wanted and we got nothing.”

CBS White House correspondent Norah O’Donnell showed her true colors Monday. In a post-debt ceiling session she confronted Press Secretary Jay Carney with what cannot be interpreted as an impartial question.

Commentary Magazine has the details:

… CBS’s Norah O’Donnell peppered Carney with terse, accusatory questions about the lack of tax revenue (read: tax increases) in the debt ceiling deal. O’Donnell complained about how many GOP demands were met by the deal, and then said to Carney: “You gave them everything they wanted and we got nothing.”

We? We as in liberal Democrats?

Would someone please tell the pretty, but dimwitted reporter that she’s not supposed to reveal that kind of thing in public?

Source: Commentary Magazine

Another reason we want to have Marco Rubio’s baby: “Save the whole house or it will all burn down”

Here’s our man on the floor of the Senate speaking about the debt ceiling and, even better, slapping John Kerry around like a little girl.

We’re not embarrassed to admit that we are gay for Marco Rubio. Very gay. In fact, we may need a quick session at Michele Bachmann’s husband’s clinic to repress the homosexual urges we have for this guy.

Here’s our man on the floor of the Senate speaking about the debt ceiling and, even better, slapping John Kerry around like a little girl.

Hubba hubba.

40 die in a Chinese hi-speed train wreck. Instead of sending doctors, government sends media instructions.

“Do not report the accident too frequently. Report moving stories about people donating blood or taxi drivers not taking fares from victims. Do not investigate the cause of the accident.”

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is an unabashed fanboy of the Chinese government and their hi-speed trains. He writes column after column extolling the genius of the first and the efficiency of the latter.

Should the liberal lunatic stumble upon IHateTheMedia.com, we would suggest that he skip this story.

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Anyone know the Mandarin word for "Oops"?

The Telegraph UK has the details:

Chinese officials have instructed the media not to sensationalise the accident, and fresh instructions sent to reporters yesterday said: “Do not report the accident too frequently. Report moving stories about people donating blood or taxi drivers not taking fares from victims. Do not investigate the cause of the accident.”

The instructions added: “The name of the Wenzhou accident will be ‘The 23 July Wenzhou Line Railway Accident’. From now on, use the headline: ‘Great Love in the Face of Great Tragedy’. On television, provide the relevant information, but be careful of the music used.”

Great idea. From now on we will not use the term “debt ceiling fiasco.” Instead we will call it “Great Love in the Face of Great Stupidity.”

Source: Telegraph UK

Joe Scarborough reveals the obvious: Democrats secretly admit Obama’s no leader

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough says that Democrats secretly admit to something Republicans already knew – Barack Obama is to leader as Leona Helmsley is to generosity.

Does it qualify as news if it’s something that everyone already knows? In this case, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough says that Democrats secretly admit to something Republicans already knew – Barack Obama is to leader as Leona Helmsley is to generosity.

“I have got to clear this up. Mika heard two days ago on Capitol Hill Democrats all saying the same thing. And that is, this president has been invisible, he is not a leader. They said this all behind closed doors. Democratic leaders, Democratic rank-and-file. In fact, 40, 50 of the most powerful Democrats on the Hill. I will just stop right there. The complaints were all the same. The president has vanished. He has left us here alone again like he did with health care. Where is he? Now, they didn’t call him a loser, but they sure as hell didn’t call him a leader.”

As we used to say in high school, “No shit, Sherlock. Where’d you get your first clue?”

http://youtu.be/_VFdRRBx80A

Source: Real Clear Politics

Barack Obama, comedy genius, says FDR was “fiscally conservative”

Stop, Barry, stop. You’re killing us. Our stomachs hurt from laughing. Dy-no-mite, baby, dy-no-mite.

Ladies and gentlemen, let’s have a warm IHateTheMedia.com welcome for a new young comic who’s getting a lot of attention for his comedy stylings. He just flew in from Washington, DC, and, boy, are his arms tired. With no further delay, here he is. Let’s make some noise for Barry “Shecky” Obama:

… FDR comes in, he tries all these things with the New Deal. But FDR, contrary to myth, was pretty fiscally conservative. And so, after the initial efforts of the New Deal and it looked like the economy was growing again, FDR then presented a very severe austerity budget. And suddenly, in 1937, the economy started going down again. And, ultimately, what really pulled America out of the Great Depression was World War II.

Stop, Barry, stop. You’re killing us. Our stomachs hurt from laughing. Dy-no-mite, baby, dy-no-mite.

Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions boils it down to the essence: “The President thinks it’s all about him”

It’s taken two and a half years, but Congressional Republicans are finally starting to say what the rest of us scream at our televisions on a nightly basis.

It’s taken two and a half years, but Congressional Republicans are finally starting to say what the rest of us scream at our televisions on a nightly basis.

In this case, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions went to the floor of the Senate and offered up this gem during his discussion of the debt ceiling and the Reid plan:

“The president said—really—this is what the president said a week ago: ‘The only bottom line that I have is that we extend this debt ceiling through the next election, until 2013,’” Sessions says in the video. “The president thinks this is about him. It’s all about him. This is about America, and what’s good for this country. It’s not about the president. It’s not about politics.”

In the words of Burt Bacharach:

What’s it all about, Alfie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What’s it all about when you sort it out, Alfie?
Are we meant to take more than we give?

In the words of IHateTheMedia.com:

What’s it all about, Barry?
Is it just for the moment you live?
What’s it all about when you sort it out, Barry?
Are we meant to works our fingers to the bone to earn enough money to pay the taxes it takes to support your socialist, nanny, welfare Islamic, third world state?

Maybe not as elegant as the Bacharach version, but it just feels right today. Feel free to sing along.

Losing the future: Chinese “miracle” mostly smoke and mirrors

The Chinese government spends wildly, produces shoddy products while cronies and pols make out like the bandits they are. Not much different from our model after all.

US political-class types like Barack Obama and New York Times China apologist Tom Friedman think the Chinese model of crony capitalism and central planning is just dandy. They envy how the ex-commies can uproot millions and spend billions at the drop of a bayonet, certain that emulating the Chicom model can dig us out of Obama’s holes.

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Crash and burn: Are we talking about the bullet train or the Chinese economy?

Critics like Ying Ma think that’s a crock. As an example, she derails Casey Joe Biden’s high speed train fantasy:

Westerners have consistently pointed to the rapid construction of China’s high-speed rail system, now the most extensive in the world, as Exhibit A of China’s infrastructure prowess.

…going high-speed in China has highlighted endemic corruption and created unhappy customers. In February, Liu Zhijun, China’s minister of railways and architect of the country’s $300 billion high-speed rail network, was fired and arrested amid accusations of wheeling and dealing in bribes of $155 million — and keeping 18 mistresses.

…concerns about shoddy construction and safety have surfaced.

China’s state media once trumpeted the trains’ top speed of 210-236 mph as the fastest in the world, but the trains were never designed to run above 186 mph. … Caxin.com … reports that the “high-speed bubble” was all a “naked, systemic lie,” concocted and fanned by the Railways Ministry.

…most Chinese citizens cannot afford to ride the shiny new trains and have opted instead to pack into buses for their long-distance travel.

The Chinese government spends wildly, produces shoddy products while cronies and pols make out like the bandits they are. Not much different from our model after all.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: PajamasMedia.com

Paul Ryan sets fire to the pile of kindling known as Harry Reid’s budget plan

Here’s Ryan explaining the faulty logic behind Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid absurd budget plan:

Here’s the deal. If we can’t have Marco Rubio’s baby, we want to have Paul Ryan’s baby. Both of these guys offer a superior gene pool for little Ronald Reagan Ryan or Ronald Reagan Rubio. We’ll be fabulous mothers and raise the kid right.

Here’s Ryan explaining the faulty logic behind Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid absurd budget plan:

“Let’s pass a bill to cover the moon with yogurt that will cost $5 trillion today. And then let’s pass a bill the next day to cancel that bill. We could save $5 trillion.”

Don’t know about you, but Ryan is getting us kind of hot right now.

Al Franken lets his fingers do the walking. And by walking we mean putting a strangle on the cell phone industry.

It appears Al Franken is bringing his vast experience as a failed comedian and talk show host into the arena of telecommunications.

It appears Al Franken is bringing his vast experience as a failed comedian and talk show host into the arena of telecommunications.

We can only hope this venture doesn’t turn out so poorly for the consumer as their regulation of the energy industry has.

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Sorry we don't have a funny caption to accompany this story, but there's absolutely nothing funny about Al Franken

Up to The Hill for more:

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) became the latest lawmaker to publicly oppose AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA on Tuesday, arguing the deal would harm consumers, stifle competition in the wireless market and lead to thousands of lost jobs.

Franklin complained.

“This transaction is not in the public interest. If approved, it would result in greatly reduced competition, the potential loss of thousands of jobs, higher consumer prices, and less innovation in technology.”

And it continued.

In an unusual argument, Franken also claimed the merger would undermine the principle of net neutrality “because it would place de facto control of our nation’s information infrastructure in the hands of only two companies.”

In a way it is interesting to witness Franken arguing for more competition in the market. We are all for that. Which also accounts for our opposition to the very government forces that destroy competition by removing from consumers the authority to decide what succeeds and what fails.

It is also interesting to note that in the end its down to this issue of net neutrality. Don’t be fooled though. Net neutrality has as much to do with neutrality as the fairness doctrine had to do with fair. Net neutrality is a pleasant euphemism for Stuart Smalley regulating our use of the Internet.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: TheHill.com

The country’s problems are just gonna have to wait a little while. It’s time for Obama to get his party on!

Staggering unemployment. Crippling inflation. Crushing deficits. The country wallowing in a new great malaise. What’s the most smartest president in the history of the American Republic to do?

Staggering unemployment. Crippling inflation. Crushing deficits. The country wallowing in a new great malaise. What’s the most smartest president in the history of the American Republic to do?

Throw himself a party, that’s what!

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You know who puts the party in the Democrat Party

The Chicago Sun Times rounds up the details so you can RSVP ASAP:

President Obama returns to Chicago on Aug. 3 to mark his 50th birthday with fund-raisers at the Aragon Ballroom, with tickets ranging from $50 a person to $35,800 per couple, which includes VIP seating at a “Birthday Concert” where celebs will be performing and a dinner with the president.

The fundraiser at the Aragon, the historic ballroom in Uptown, will be one of the biggest third quarter events, expected to draw in national supporters. Obama’s 50th birthday is Aug. 4. UPDATE The Aragon is a cosy venue–I went to concerts there in college and high school–and I heard Thursday afternoon all the performers will be native Chicagoans. END UPDATE

The Obama team on Wednesday reported collecting more than $86 million in second quarter fund-raising over $47 million directly for the Obama 2012 campaign and more than $38 million for the Democratic National Committee.

But wait it gets better!

The event is multi-tiered: There is a concert at 4 p.m.–Foster said songstress Jennifer Hudson may perform–for the basic $50 contribution, of which there is supposed to be “limited availability.”

For $10,000, a person gets a souvenir photo with Obama at a reception and preferred seating at the concert. For $1,000 a person gets seated in a “premium section” with a “hosted bar.” A general admission ticket is $200.

What’s that you say? The peasants have no bread? No worries, let them eat Obama’s birthday cake.

Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Representative James Clyburn urges Obama to transform the Presidency into a monarchy

So this is how James Clyburn would have our democracy end. Not with a bang. Not even with a whimper. But with Obama assuming the unilateral power.

So this is how James Clyburn would have our democracy end. Not with a bang. Not even with a whimper. But with Obama assuming the unilateral power to further sell off our children’s futures to China in his never ending crusade to buy votes and pay back his political cronies.

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"The Constitution? Hmmmmm. I've heard people talk about it, but I'm not really familiar with it myself."

Real Clear Politics provides the stage:

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC): “I’ve said time and time again, if the President gets up to August 2nd, without a piece of legislation, he should not allow this country to go into default. He should sign an Executive Order invoking the 14th Amendment and send that to all the governmental agencies for us to continue to pay our bills. He could do that with a stroke of a pen.

“We’ve seen many big things done in history that way. I’ve joked with my staff the other day, ‘tell me what was the bill number of the Emancipation Proclamation.’ It was an Executive Order.

Perhaps someone should let the honorable Representative James Clyburn know. Through the Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln sought to free some of the slaves, not create new ones.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: Real Clear Politics

“I’m just quitting,” a tale of going Galt

David McElroy shares the story of one Ronnie Bryant who operates coal mines in Alabama.

Smart folk in Washington are busily staring into their crystal balls (or perhaps Magic 8-Balls) trying to figure out why unemployment is so “unexpectedly” high. Perhaps if they stopped playing with their balls and listened to some real employers, they might get a clue.

David McElroy shares the story of one Ronnie Bryant who operates coal mines in Alabama. Bryant went to a public hearing in an innercity Birmingham neighborhood for various government officials to get public input on local environmental issues. After listening to two hours of business bashing by environmentalists and other activists, he finally had his say:

I got a permit to open up an underground coal mine that would employ probably 125 people. They’d be paid wages from $50,000 to $150,000 a year. We would consume probably $50 million to $60 million in consumables a year, putting more men to work. And my only idea today is to go home. What’s the use? I don’t know. I mean, I see these guys — I see them with tears in their eyes — looking for work. And if there’s so much opposition to these guys making a living, I feel like there’s no need in me putting out the effort to provide work for them. So as I stood against the wall here today, basically what I’ve decided is not to open the mine. I’m just quitting. Thank you.

Memo to President Obama: Words matter and your words matter more than most. Businesses aren’t stupid. Keep bashing them and they’ll take the hint and go away.

Think about that between holes.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: David McElroy

John McCain tells “Tea Party hobbits” to jump back in their holes while begging the MSM to do the same with his

It looks like John McCain is in the mood. In the mood for a little mainstream media love. And he knows just how to get it.

It looks like John McCain is in the mood. In the mood for a little mainstream media love. And he knows just how to get it.

First he puts on a little Barry White. Then he pours a little of the bubbly and finally he gets them really purring by lampooning the Tea Party while letting it oh-so-casually slip that the RINO from Arizona has a fetish for those wee little people of Middle Earth.

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John McCain covers his face. Unfortunately, it wasn't done in shame.

One Reason story to rule them all:

The five-term Republican senator from Arizona gets his sneer on:

Mr. McCain mocked Tea Party-allied Republicans in the House for believing — wrongly, he said — that President Obama and Democrats will get the blame for a default if Republicans refuse to increase the nation’s debt ceiling.

By that flawed logic, “Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced budget amendment and reform entitlements and the Tea Party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth,” he said, quoting a Wall Street Journal editorial

“This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into G.O.P. nominees,” he jeered, referring to two losing Tea Party candidates for the Senate in 2010.

And while we would like to commend the man for the sort of crackhead political thinking that will lead to the creation of a third major party we’re not sure we need any more lessons from John McCain.

He’s already taught us everything we need to know about losing presidential elections.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: Reason

Insomniac-in-Chief: Crisis-mongering keeps Obama up nights

Awww. President Obama is working so feverishly convincing grandma that John Boehner wants to kill her, he’s losing sleep.

Awww. President Obama is working so feverishly convincing grandma that John Boehner wants to kill her, he’s losing sleep. At least that’s the narrative his staff is pushing to make it appear the roadblock-in-chief is not the one actually blocking the road.

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He's coming to scare your granmother

Wipe your tears away as we hear from that purveyor of conventional wisdom, Reuters:

President Barack Obama is deeply involved in trying to win a debt deal and his White House was working flat out, aides said…

They’re so busy they haven’t had time to actually write a plan.

“He’s getting absolutely no sleep. He’s working tirelessly, meeting with his economic team, doing a lot of outreach, exploring all kinds of possibilities for compromise,” top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett told Reuters Insider.

In Obama-speak, “compromise” means “doing what I want.” He’s working tirelessly on ways to obfuscate that.

Several press conferences and a prime-time televised address to the nation by the president from the stately East Room, plus a background briefing by senior Obama aides that went late into Friday night, have added to the controlled frenzy at the White House.

Obama’s concept of “work” is babbling to the media. Listening to the fool is even harder.

This has translated into even longer days than normal at the White House, which already begin in the early hours of every morning as senior staff prepared for their daily 7:30 a.m. meeting in the office of the chief of staff.

Boo-hoo. Life would surely be easier if members of the Obama administration spent a bit of time amongst the legions of “funemployed” where their policies have put so many others. Someday soon, if we’re lucky.

-Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Reuters

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #1 – Tim Conway/Los Angeles

Conway’s quirky, funnier than hell, unafraid to take an unpopular position, and the creator of What the Hell Did Jesse Jackson Say? That alone is enough to make us love him.

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KFI/Los Angeles
Monday-Friday 7-10 pm

If Tim Conway, Jr worked on any station in the world except KFI/Los Angeles, he’d be a household name. Unfortunately (or fortunately, as the case may be), he works on the number one talk station in the country, KFI/Los Angeles, a station packed with so much talent that he finds himself relegated to 7-10 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Conway’s quirky, funnier than hell, unafraid to take an unpopular position, and the creator of What the Hell Did Jesse Jackson Say? That alone is enough to make us love him.

And, yes, his father is that Tim Conway.

Here’s Conway riffing on Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters and The View:

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And here he is playing the hilarious game What The Hell Did Jesse Jackson Say?

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Listen to Tim’s show live from 7-10 pm PDT or catch his podcasts any damn time you want.

The Top 10:

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #1 – Tim Conway/Los Angeles

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #2 – Armstrong & Getty/Sacramento

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #3 – Sean Rima/Austin

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #4 – Jack & Tedd/Tampa Bay

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #5 – Casey Bartholomew/Free Agent

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #6 – Mandy Connell/Louisville

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #7 – Walton & Johnson/Houston

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #8 – Doug McIntyre/New York & Los Angeles

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #9 – Jamie Allman/St Louis

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #10 – Michael Berry/Houston

Hot Russian girls urged to strip for Putin to win an iPad

Inviting girls to strip off for Putin for the chance of winning an iPad2, the campaign comes ahead of the March 2012 presidential vote.

Proving that our favorite mucho macho, would-be dictator isn’t all bad, former KGB spook Vladimir Putin has inspired some very attractive ladies to expose their most closely held secrets for the good of the party . . . in their pants.

To paraphrase one  of our least favorite architects of despotism, hotties of the world unite. You’ve nothing to lose but your clothes.

The Telegraph UK better acquaints us with some of these Moscow girls gone wild:

Called “Putin’s Army”, it features a video of a blonde student called Diana who struts along Moscow’s streets in high heels and a black suit before scrawling “I will tear my clothes off for Putin” on a white top in red lipstick and starting to undo her clothes.

Inviting girls to strip off for Putin for the chance of winning an iPad2, the campaign comes ahead of the March 2012 presidential vote. Putin was president between 2000-2008 before handing the reins to his protégé Dmitry Medvedev.

Widely seen as Russia’s key decision-maker, Putin may return to the Kremlin next year.

For a land known for it’s cold, inhospitable winters it is good to see these warm fronts popping up . . . and out.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: Telegraph UK

Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders: “Primary that right-winger Obama!”

Bernie Sanders, the only officially declared socialist in Congress, thinks President Obama veers too far to the right and he’s not talking about the latter’s putting.

This comes not from the Onion but from “Think Progress” (a euphemism, we’re sure.)

Bernie Sanders, the only officially declared socialist in Congress, thinks President Obama veers too far to the right and he’s not talking about the latter’s putting. He can’t be joking, there’s no such thing as socialist humor.

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Bernie Sanders, just as crazy as he looks

Sanders: “… I think there are millions of Americans who are deeply disappointed in the president; who believe that, with regard to Social Security and a number of other issues, he said one thing as a candidate and is doing something very much else as a president; who cannot believe how weak he has been …in negotiating with Republicans and there’s deep disappointment. …I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing. …I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.” 

True, millions are unhappy with President Obama, but not because he’s not bankrupting them fast enough as ol’ Bernie believes. No matter, as a famous Chicagoland thug once said, “Never waste a good crisis.”

So you go, Bernie, primary Obama. Make him turn left so much he spins like a top and drills himself another hole to dig out of.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

H/T: Hot Air

U.S. government now being largely run by and on behalf of two classes of people

Sadly, the U.S. Government is now being largely run by and on behalf of two classes of people: Theorists and Agitators.

The Chicago Boyz (they’re free market advocates, not cronies of President Pampers) have an interesting hypothetical question: what if there were a shovel-ready project that would generate American jobs, require NO government money or debt, provide America with a secure source of energy and benefit an important ally… what would we think of an American administration that continually obstructed this project?

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Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton get together to protest this crazy talk about an agitator class

Turns out there IS such a project, the Keystone XL pipeline. And it’s being blocked by the Genius-in-Chief on behalf of the usual suspects:

The reality is that large segments of the environmental movement have become so unhinged that they will instinctively oppose any large-scale construction project, even if it involves the transportation of magical pixie dust.

Actually, transportation of magical pixie dust is probably the one thing Obama would support.

The Chicago Boyz come to this unhappy conclusion:

Sadly, the U.S. Government is now being largely run by and on behalf of two classes of people:

–Theorists, whose heads are so deeply buried in books, models, and spreadsheets that they are unable to see the actual world and have lost all semblance of balance and judgment.

–Agitators, who “earn” their living and get their sense of satisfaction in life from stirring up all segments of society against one another, in a neo-Hobbesian war of all against all.

A bunch of pinheads and weiners, the Obama Administration is the albatross around our necks. And while we’re sitting in the dark waiting for our windmills to turn, China will buy the oil and the Canadians will get even richer.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Chicago Boyz

Going out on a limb: Eco-wackos describe the house of the future

Millions of years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees, walked erect and kicked every other species asses. Now, if the eco-wackos have their way, we’ll soon reverse millions of years of evolution and return to the trees.

Millions of years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees, walked erect and kicked every other species asses. Now, if the eco-wackos have their way, we’ll soon reverse millions of years of evolution and return to the trees.

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Back to the future: Eco-wackos are taking us back to the trees

This is what’s known as progress to environmentalists.

PlanetaryOne.com explains the home of the future:

Our dwelling is composed with 100% living nutrients. Here traditional anthropocentric doctrines are overturned and human life is subsumed within the terrestrial environs. Home, in this sense, becomes indistinct and fits itself symbiotically into the surrounding ecosystem.

This home concept is intended to replace the outdated design solutions at Habitat for Humanity. We propose a method to grow homes from native trees. A living structure is grafted into shape with prefabricated Computer Numeric Controlled (CNC) reusable scaffolds.

Yes. It’s a tree. A tree house, to be exact. Take your choice of closing lines:

1. Not only will you love it, but so will every dog in the neighborhood.

2. This is just what the housing industry needs to once again become a growth industry.

3. Only one problem. The builder says it won’t be ready to move into for another 50 years.

Source: PlanetaryOne.com

Wynn the future: Harry Reid booster Steve Wynn trashes Obama

I’m saying it bluntly, that this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business, and progress and job creation in my lifetime …

Casino mogul Steve Wynn describes himself as a Democratic businessman and Harry Reid supporter. While supporting McCain in 2008, his wife drank the Kool Aid. But like many astute businessmen, Wynn cares more about business than politics and is not above supporting Republicans when necessary, or excoriating a Democrat president either.

Wynn’s press conference rant drew Business Insider’s attention:

…I’m saying it bluntly, that this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business, and progress and job creation in my lifetime … I could spend the next 3 hours giving you examples of all of us in this market place that are frightened to death about all the new regulations, our healthcare costs escalate, regulations coming from left and right. [Obama] keeps using that word “redistribution.”

…until we change the tempo and the conversation from Washington, it’s not going to change. And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President … this is Obama’s deal and it’s Obama that’s responsible for this fear in America.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don’t invest, their holding too much money. We haven’t heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody’s afraid of the government and there’s no need soft peddling it, it’s the truth.

Well, even Krugman thinks it’s 1937 again.

By the way, Steve, your buddy Harry Reid helped Obama significantly to realize his “accomplishments”. Maybe it’s past time you considered downgrading his freebies. Just sayin’.

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– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Business Insider

Praise the Lord and start your engines

Here’s Pastor Joe Nelms of the Family Baptist Church in Lebanon, Tennessee delivering the greatest prayer in the history of NASCAR.

Here’s Pastor Joe Nelms of the Family Baptist Church in Lebanon, Tennessee delivering the greatest prayer in the history of NASCAR. Maybe even the greatest prayer in the history of prayers.

Say hallelujah!

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