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Obama’s corporate boy toy blames business for the lack of jobs

Obama crony Jeff Immelt gets marched out to defend the job killing effects of Obamanomics by blaming businesses for not creating enough new employment.

President Obama is a study in hypocrisy. He lectures the pubic on the need for sacrifice while wasting millions of their dollars on parties. He promised the most transparent administration in our history but has delivered one of its most secretive. He defends trickle down tax hikes on the middle class by attacking the “fat cat corporations” while all the while enriching those friendly to his regime.

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Immelt and Obama: The boy toy and the manchild

No wonder Obama crony Jeff Immelt gets marched out to defend the job killing effects of Obamanomics by blaming businesses for not creating enough new employment.

This is from CNN:

The head of General Electric (GE) told a jobs summit at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Monday that businesses needed to take the lead on job creation.

At a conference where many of the comments were focused on government barriers to hiring, GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt acknowledged there needed to be some policy changes by Congress and the Obama administration. But he said that the responsibility for hiring lay with businesses.

“The people who are part of the business sector, the people in this room, have got to stop complaining about government and get some action underway,” he told the group. “There’s no excuse today for lack of leadership. The truth is we all need to be part of the solution.”

No Mr. Immelt. If the people in that room want to succeed what they’ve got to do is buddy up to Obama. That way they can get some TARP money and skip out on paying their taxes too.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: CNN

When life hands you a lemon, make a bureaucrat mad by making lemonade

“This gentleman from the county is now telling us because we don’t have a vendors license, the kids won’t be allowed to sell their lemonade,” Carrie Marriott told us, her voice trembling.

It’s a familiar movie cliche. A group of committed youngsters – facing an insurmountable obstacle – band together and confront the issue with plucky resolve, resourcefulness and some sort of montage set to an upbeat popular song of the day. And just when it looks like they will pull off a miracle some sort of bureaucrat enters the picture and threatens to undo the last 80 minutes of film time.

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If the kids had known how to play the game, they would have slipped the inspector a $20 bill and their troubles would have disappeared

Life might not often imitate art it, but can be pretty similar to a poorly imagined kid’s flick.

Montgomery County’s WUSA Channel 9 had film at eleven:

A county inspector ordered the Marriott and Augustine kids to shut down the stand they set up on Persimmon Tree Rd., right next to Congressional. And after they allegedly ignored a couple of warnings, the inspector fined their parents $500.

“This gentleman from the county is now telling us because we don’t have a vendors license, the kids won’t be allowed to sell their lemonade,” Carrie Marriott told us, her voice trembling.

The kids can’t seem to understand it. “I don’t agree, I think the county is wrong.” “We’re sending the money to charity.”

Update: The county has had a change of heart. After moving their lemonade operation about a hundred feet down the road these kids will be able reopen their stand. The fine has even been rescinded.

Whew! What a relief. We were afraid Chuck Norris was going to have to get involved.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: WUSA

Joke of the Day: Nancy Pelosi is a saint

One hot Saturday afternoon in July an aide to Nancy Pelosi visited the Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C…

One hot Saturday afternoon in July an aide to Nancy Pelosi visited the Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.

He told the Cardinal that Nancy Pelosi would be attending the next day’s Mass and asked if the Cardinal would kindly point out Pelosi to the Congregation and say a few words that would include calling Pelosi a saint.

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"...and he asked if the Cardinal would kindly point out Pelosi to the Congregation and say a few words that would include calling Pelosi a saint."

“No,” the Cardinal replied. “I don’t really like the woman, and there are issues of conflict with the Catholic Church over certain of Pelosi’s views.”

Pelosi’s aide then said, “Look, I’ll write a check here and now for a donation of $100,000 to your church if you’ll just tell the congregation you see Pelosi as a saint.”

The Cardinal thought about it and said, “Well, the church can use the money, so I’ll work your request into tomorrow’s sermon.”

As Pelosi’s aide promised, Pelosi appeared for the Sunday worship and seated herself prominently at the forward left side of the center aisle.

At the start of his sermon, the Cardinal pointed out that Speaker Pelosi was present.

“While Pelosi’s presence is probably an honor to some,” the Cardinal said to the congregation, “the woman is not numbered among my personal favorite personages. Some of her most egregious views are contrary to tenets of the Church, and she tends to flipflop on many other issues. Nancy Pelosi is a petty, self-absorbed hypocrite, a thumb sucker and a nitwit. Nancy Pelosi is also a serial liar, a cheat and a thief. I must say, Nancy Pelosi is the worst example of a Catholic I have ever personally witnessed. She married for money and is using her wealth to lie to the American people. She also has a reputation for shirking her Representative obligations both in Washington and in California. The woman is simply not to be trusted.”

“But when compared to President Obama,” the Cardinal concluded, “Pelosi is a saint.”

H/T: Ray

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

John Walton & Steve Johnson are a couple of former shock jocks now riding high in Houston and eleven other stations around the Gulf Coast.

Walton & Johnson
93.7 The Arrow/Houston (and eleven other Gulf Coast and Virginia stations)
Monday-Friday 5:30-10 am CST

We continue our Top 10 Countdown with #7 today.
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I’ll be here all week: Obama makes joke about confirmation process, but no one laughs

Obama bombed in Washington, DC on Monday. He stunk up the joint. (Sound of crickets) “That’s a joke,” he reminded the audience.

Oh, how far the mighty have fallen. There was a time, just two and a half short years ago, when the media would have hurt themselves laughing at any attempted witticism on the part of the funniest President in history.

No longer. Obama bombed in Washington, DC on Monday. He stunk up the joint.

“Back in the 80’s, Richard was also a five-time Jeopardy champion and a semi-finalist in the Tournament of Champions. Not too shabby,” President Obama said while announcing Richard Cordray’s nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

“That’s why all his confirmation — all the answers at his confirmation hearings will be in a form of a question,” Obama said to silence. 


(Sound of crickets)

“That’s a joke,” he reminded the audience.

And then he concluded with, “Richard just flew in from Ohio and, boy, are his arms tired.”

Harvard researchers: “Hey, fat boy! Pack your bags and say goodbye to your abusive parents!”

As the Western world gets fatter and fatter, the solutions to slimming it down get ever more draconian.

One never knows what kind of nonsense Ivy League researchers will come up with when they’re on the government payroll. Far as we can tell the rule of thumb seems to be, the more preposterous the better.

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When fat is outlawed only outlaws will have fat

Consider, for example, this story from National Journal:

As the Western world gets fatter and fatter, the solutions to slimming it down get ever more draconian. In Britain yesterday, the government issued guidelines saying “children under the age of 5, including babies who can’t walk yet, should exercise every day.” Today, in the States, a pair of Harvard scholars writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association advocate stripping away the custody rights of parents of super obese children. They’re for real!

“The boy’s not fat, he just has heavy bones” won’t fly as an excuse when the nanny state takes over.

“Despite the discomfort posed by state intervention, it may sometimes be necessary to protect a child,” said Lindsey Murtagh, a lawyer and researcher at Harvard’s School of Public Health. The study’s co-author, David Ludwig, says taking away peoples’ children “ideally will support not just the child but the whole family, with the goal of reuniting child and family as soon as possible.” Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital, said his eureka moment was when a 90-pound, 3-year-old girl entered his obesity clinic a number of years ago,” reports Lindsey Tanner at the Associated Press.

Nanny state, yes! Fatty state, no! Chubby chasers are gathering outside the White House to protest this outrageous infringement of their rights.

Source: National Journal

Psychopaths: Fiends in high places

Political psychopaths? We’ve never heard of such a thing, at least not since Obama took office.

The word “psychopath” evokes thoughts of serial killers – guys like Ted Bundy, Charlie Manson, John Wayne Gacy. But Dr. Robert Hare, creator of the 20-point Hare PCL-R (Psychopathy Checklist-Revised), disabuses us of that idea. He says business, religious and political leaders can also be psychopaths.

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For example...

Jon Ronson explains in his book The Psychopath Test:

“Serial killers ruin families,” shrugged Hare. “Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.”

It wasn’t only Hare who believed that a disproportionate number of psychopaths can be found in high places. Over the following months, I spoke to scores of psychologists who all said the same.

Political psychopaths? We’ve never heard of such a thing, at least not since Obama took office.

Here’s Hare’s test. Think of a politician – any politician – and run down the list. For each item, evaluate the subject as a 0, 1 or 2. A total of 30 or more out of 40 indicates a psychopath.

Item 1 Glibness/superficial charm
Item 2 Grandiose sense of self-worth
Item 3 Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
Item 4 Pathological lying
Item 5 Cunning/manipulative
Item 6 Lack of remorse or guilt
Item 7 Shallow affect
Item 8 Callous/lack of empathy
Item 9 Parasitic lifestyle
Item 10 Poor behavioural controls
Item 11 Promiscuous sexual behaviour
Item 12 Early behaviour problems
Item 13 Lack of realistic long-term goals
Item 14 Impulsivity
Item 15 Irresponsibility
Item 16 Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
Item 17 Many short-term marital relationships
Item 18 Juvenile delinquency
Item 19 Revocation of conditional release
Item 20 Criminal versatility

As far as politicians go, if we didn’t know it was a psychological test, we would’ve guessed “resume.”

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Guardian UK

Sean Hannity sucker punches Juan Williams

Oh, sure, it was a figurative sucker punch, but it left poor Juan’s head spnning nonetheless. The best part is the stunned look on Williams’ face at the very end of the clip.

Oh, sure, it was a figurative sucker punch, but it left poor Juan’s head spnning nonetheless.

Hannity reeled off a list of Eric Cantor’s outrageous comments about raising the debt ceiling and asked for William’s response. When Juan finished ripping Cantor, Hannity unleashed the sucker punch and told him that the comments all came from Senator Barack Obama back in 2006, not Eric Cantor in 2011.

The best part is the stunned look on Williams’ face at the very end of the clip.

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

Doug McIntyre called his show Red Eye Radio long before Greg Gutfeld created his Red Eye TV show for Fox News. In fact, Gutfeld should probably pay McIntyre residuals for use of the name.

Doug McIntyre
KABC/Los Angeles (and 25 other stations around the country)
Monday–Friday Midnight–3 am

We continue our Top 10 Countdown with #8 today.

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What a bunch of dicks: $900,000 in grants to study penis size in the gay community

The American government has wasted your hardearned tax dollars on some pretty stupid stuff, but the length and girth of this one tops them all.

The American government has wasted your hardearned tax dollars on some pretty stupid stuff, but the length and girth of this one tops them all.

The Daily Mail UK reveals the hard facts about how you’re getting screwed. Or at least how someone’s getting screwed:

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Another completely transparent excuse to show Anthony Weiner's weiner again

As the country plunges further into debt and with the small task of securing a multi-trillion dollar deal still on the cards, it has emerged that thousands of tax dollars were wasted on a study examining the correlation between a gay man’s penis size and his sex life. 

The study was among several backed by the National Institutes of Health who granted almost $900,000 in one year on this and other studies.

We don’t even want to know what the other studies may have been. We’re still reeling over this one.

It has not been ascertained how much of the $900,000 grant went to he 2009 report, called The Association Between Penis Size and Sexual Health Among Men Who Have Sex with Men, but the coalition release stated that at least $9.4 million went to a ten-year study that included the penis-size research.

According to Fox, the grant was administered by NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse, and went first to a group called Public Health Solutions and a researcher with the National Development and Research Institutes before going to individual researchers.

It compiled data from a survey of more than one thousand gay and bisexual men at events in New York City held for the gay community.

And now, let’s conclude with the highlight of the story.

Those who participated were given a free movie voucher.

And if they were lucky, they found Pee Wee Herman in the theater of their choice demonstrating the results of the survey.

Source: Daily Mail UK

Congresswoman says Americans are too stupid to understand the debt ceiling debate. And that’s where the fun begins.

In this clip the Socialistkowski says that she agrees with President Obama that average Americans are just incapable of comprehending the debt ceiling and the dire threat to social security.

We were just thinking that we hadn’t heard anything really stupid from Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky for a while. And then, bang! She solved that problem.

In this clip the Socialistkowski says that she agrees with President Obama that average Americans are just incapable of comprehending the debt ceiling and the dire threat to social security.

And then she demonstrates that she can’t explain it herself.

Classic socialist stupidity from Schakowsky.

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Where has this guy been all our lives? Marco Rubio says Obama’s “incompetent” and “not up to the job”

Why has it taken this long for our supposed leaders to find their testicles? Why can’t they all sound like Marco Rubio?

Why has it taken three years for Republicans to find their cojones (as Rubio’s father might have said). Why has it taken three loooooong years for Republican leaders to say what the man in the street has been saying since Obama first went to Iowa? Why has it taken this long for our supposed leaders to find their testicles? Why can’t they all sound like Marco Rubio?

Why?

H/T: Breitbart.tv

Surprise! Obama opposed to cutting spending, capping spending and balancing the budget

The White House on Monday warned President Obama will veto GOP legislation to “cut, cap and balance” spending and the budget.

Obama knows how his bread is buttered. With the labor of generations of tax payers yet to be born. And the president is willing to fight tooth and nail for his right to benefit from that labor far more than most of our children ever will.

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Obama puts his feet up on the desk in the Oval Office and laughs about the thought of your grandchildren toiling to pay his bills

The Hill is alive with the sound of this administration’s muzak:

The White House on Monday warned President Obama will veto GOP legislation to “cut, cap and balance” spending and the budget.

In a statement of administration policy, the White House Office of Management and Budget labeled the GOP bill as an “empty political statement.”

The House Rules Committee is expected to take up the measure on Monday, and it is likely to receive a floor vote on Tuesday. The measure would cut spending in fiscal 2012 by $111 billion, cap future spending at 19.9 percent of gross domestic product and allow for the debt ceiling to be increased if a balanced-budget amendment is approved by Congress and sent to the states.

The administration said the measure, which is not expected to move through the Senate, is unnecessary and unrealistic.

Yes, of course. It is unnecessary and unrealistic to expect the government to live within its means. Especially at a time when the taxpayers are expected to live so far below their means in order to finance all the votes and favors Obama is going to need if he expects to have a prayer at getting re-elected.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: The Hill

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

In addition to being a great morning man, Jamie Allman’s a real newsman,  a guy who’s won 14 Emmys and multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards as a TV investigative and political reporter.

Jamie Allman
KFTK 97.1 FM Talk/St Louis
Monday–Friday 5 – 9 am

Our countdown to #1 continues today with the #9 pick.

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Hilarious: Olbermann has to pay guests to appear on his low-rated TV show

Guests generally appear on most broadcast and cable news shows for free. But that’s not how it currently works for Olbermann at Current TV.

Guests generally appear on most broadcast and cable news shows for free. They do it for the exposure, to help them sell books or newspaper columns or to build reputations. But that’s not how it currently works over at Current TV.

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We would imagine that Olbermann has to pay people to be guests at his home, too

Business Insider has the inside info:

Interesting tidbit form Keith Olbermann’s Q&A with Cindy Adams in today’s New York Post.

Here’s how Olbermann made sure his new Countdown on Current got good guests: he pays them.

Being a smaller network, any difficulty in getting A-1 guests?

“It was a concern considering we’re starting from scratch, so I decided to formalize guests. Pay them even if it’s not much money. Make law professors, nonpolitical people, contributors. We built this in a matter of weeks, but the baseline is we’ve formalized it so it wouldn’t be a problem.

Paying guests is unusual, but certainly not unheard of. We wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Olbermann has to pay viewers, too.

And there ain’t enough money in the world.

Source: Business Insider

Quote of the Day: “Why is it that compromise always means increasing taxes today and doing cuts ten years from now?”

Republican Rep. Raul Labrador asked the simple question, “Why is it that compromise always means increasing taxes today and doing cuts ten years from now?”

Damn, we love that line. And it’s about time someone – anyone – said it. In this case the quotee was Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador.

After Cokie Roberts reflexively spewed a litany of Democrat talking points, Labrador asked the simple question, “Why is it that compromise always means increasing taxes today and doing cuts ten years from now?”

“Homina, homina, homina,” Roberts said in response.

H/T: Breitbart.tv

Lord Obama demands more sacrifice from his subjects

After a number of years of benefiting from our sacrifice without providing any of his own he is once again returning to that old rhetoric.

From the dawn of his national political career the President has talked to the country of sacrifice. And after a number of years of benefiting from our sacrifice without providing any of his own he is once again returning to that old rhetoric.

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"Why don't you little people sacrifice while I try on this nifty hat."

Yahoo the website has this story on yahoo the president:

President Barack Obama is urging US lawmakers to quickly forge a deal to keep the world’s richest nation from plunging into debt default, saying he is “willing to compromise.”

Obama has warned of economic “Armageddon” should Congress fail to raise the debt limit to allow more US borrowing, with his administration highlighting disastrous ripple effects that would churn through the global financial system.

But after five straight days of crisis talks ended Thursday without a clear solution, Obama implored fellow Democrats and opposition Republicans to embrace “shared sacrifice” to help break the stalemate that has led ratings agencies and top US lender China to sound the alarm over US creditworthiness.

“I’m willing to compromise. I’m willing to do what it takes to solve this problem, even if it’s not politically popular,” Obama said in his weekly radio address Saturday.

“Simply put, it will take a balanced approach, shared sacrifice, and a willingness to make unpopular choices on all our parts.”

Under normal circumstances this the part of our story where we would have written something (hopefully) clever to tie the piece altogether. We didn’t have to do that this time. The perfect summation had already been written. IHateTheMedia.com would like to thank Ayn Rand for the following bit of brilliance:

It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

What she said.

Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: AFP via Yahoo

Ahhh, the fresh breeze of civility and tolerance wishes 40 percent of America were dead

Attack the ideas, they tell us, not the person. Just ask uber-liberal and gay sex advice columnist Dan Savage.

Liberals tell us that we must work and live together to create a better nation. We must learn to treat one another – even those of a different political philosophy – with respect. Attack the ideas, they tell us, not the person.

Just ask uber-liberal and gay sex advice columnist Dan Savage.

In a heated exchange about the debt-ceiling debate on the HBO’s Real Time, Savage, in the spirit of this new political civility, said of Republicans, “I wish they were all fucking dead.”

The funny thing: No one really in the panel called him on it. It’s as if they agreed with the statement that it’s OK to wish forty percent of their fellow Americans dead and – if truth be told – they probably wished those deaths were not peaceful slides off the mortal coil. We’re just supposing, though.

Could it be that civility works one way? Could it be that liberals think that any time one of their ideas or leaders is criticized that this is being “uncivil” and they can threaten and curse against their opponents all they like.

Civility, it seems, is a one-way street where everyone drives on the left.

H/T: NewsBusters.org

Jane Fonda says vast right wing conspiracy stopped her from selling crappy book on QVC

Forty years later, Jane Fonda’s acts from the Vietnam days have come back to haunt her when she was banished from the QVC Shopping Channel.

In the 1970s, actress Jane Fonda sat on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. Unfortunately, it had nothing to do with a dating dry spell.

Forty years later, her acts from that era have come back to haunt her when she was banished from the QVC Shopping Channel. She’s upset about it.

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After 40 years, still not fond of Fonda

Big Hollywood has Jane’s sad lament:

I was to have been on QVC today to introduce my book, “Prime Time,” about aging and the life cycle. …

The network said they got a lot of calls yesterday criticizing me for my opposition to the Vietnam War and threatening to boycott the show if I was allowed to appear.

Bottom line, this has gone on far too long, this spreading of lies about me! None of it is true. NONE OF IT! I love my country. I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us.

Jane exercised her rights (perhaps “abused” is a better term) and now is upset when others exercise theirs. As QVC shoppers might say, “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”

It’s so unfair – Jane does a little PR for the enemy and POWs have the nerve to remember it.

Life’s a bitch. But Jane’s a traitor.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: BigHollywood

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

Berry says his show is a “controversial discussion of issues” where listeners “discuss openly what they typically think but can’t say.”

Michael Berry
“The Czar of Texas Radio”
NewsRadio KPRC/Houston 2-5 pm
News Radio 740 KTRH/Houston 5-7 pm

Our countdown to #1 begins today.

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Sheila Jackson Lee says the debt ceiling battle is raaacist

We knew sooner or later someone would say it. It was just a matter of who and when.

We knew sooner or later someone would say it. It was just a matter of who and when. The results are in and those of you who had Sheila “Today we have two Vietnams side by side” Jackson Lee (D-Mars) in the pool, come claim your winnings.

The Hill has the story:

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday strongly suggested that members of Congress are making it difficult for President Obama to raise the debt ceiling because of his race.

“I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness [toward] this president,” said Jackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. “Why is he different? … In the minority community that is question that is being raised. Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully? Why has the debt limit been raised 60 times? Why did the leader of the Senate continually talk about his job is to bring the president down to make sure he is unelected?”

We realize the Democrats don’t know much civics – for example, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-Fantasyland) thinks the 3 branches are President, House and Senate – but the debt ceiling debate is a legislative issue to be decided between the Democrat and Republican legislators, not Obama and the raaacists.

As for the leader of the Senate thing… Harry Reid did work tirelessly to bring President Bush down, but they were from different parties. But since President Obama is from Harry’s party … maybe Harry’s just a raaaaacist.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: The Hill

Kossacks elated at Murdoch woes and a “world without Fox News”

Vyan at Daily Kos is getting giddy in a post headlined “Could we soon see a world without Fox News?”

There used to be a saying. “If you can’t beat them join them and change them from within.” While the President appears to be utilizing that tactic from the White House, the Kos Kooks are looking to employ a rather different technique in their plan for media monopoly.

That tactic can be summed up thusly: If you can’t beat them, hope they go to jail, or at least out of business.

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Daily Kos readers are angry, yipping little creatures

Newsbusters busts a moves all over this story:

Vyan at Daily Kos is getting giddy in a post headlined “Could we soon see a world without Fox News?” It’s apparently all over for FNC: “In less than a week the News of the World Wiretapping and Bribery Scandal has quickly metastasized into a Multi-Headed Dragon of Death for Murdoch Empire and simply lopping off one head, doesn’t seem to be enough – the infection has already spread.”

Now that Fox-hating liberal interest groups, bloggers, and Democrat politicians are vowing to investigate, the Kosmonauts think Murdoch’s “criminal enterprise” is about to collapse…

Of course we all understand the left’s hatred of Fox. It’s hard to control the people when you no longer control all of the people’s information. But maybe this could be a good thing, because Fox has been getting a bit RINO over the years. Perhaps its time for them to be replaced by a truly conservative news network.

IHTM-TV anyone?

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: Fox News

Then: Freedom Gardens
Now: Prison Gardens

In another example of government overreach, a couple in Oak Park, Michigan faces jail time for growing a garden in their front yard.

The government is like a person with two left feet. Heavy, heavy emphasis on the “left” part of that phrase.

In another example of government overreach, a couple in Oak Park, Michigan faces jail time for – we hope you’re sitting down – growing a garden in their front yard.

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Tremendous photo op for Michelle Antoinette

We know what you’re thinking – isn’t this something that the Obamas have been begging Americans to do?

Maybe. But could the tentacles of bureaucracy be growing at such a rate that even the best intentions of the Community Organizer-in-Chief be tripped up?

From the story:

Julie Bass says, “We thought we’re minding our own business, doing something not ostentatious and certainly not obnoxious or nothing that is a blight on the neighborhood, so we didn’t think people would care very much.”

But some cared very much and called the city. The city then sent out code enforcement.

“They warned us at first that we had to move the vegetables from the front, that no vegetables were allowed in the front yard. We didn’t move them because we didn’t think we were doing anything wrong, even according to city code we didn’t think we were doing anything wrong. So they ticketed us and charged me with a misdemeanor,” Bass said.

Typical government operation: Too little garden, too much manure.

– Written by Sven Waring at DotPenn.com

Source: The Agitator

Your “Chris Matthews is a moron” moment of the week

In this clip Matthews says that rich people committed suicide during the Depression because they were ashamed of “what they did.”

Last week we shared a video clip of President Obama just plain making up crap about the history of the Transcontinental Railroad. Chris must have seen this clip and said to himself, “Hey, this job’s a lot easier if you can just make up history to fit your agenda.” So that’s what he did.

In this clip Matthews says that rich people committed suicide during the Depression because they were ashamed of “what they did.”

Chris, buddy, it was raining stockbrokers on Wall Street because they’d lost everything, not because they felt bad about other people losing everything.

But if that’s the story you want to believe, we’re pretty sure there won’t be any convincing you otherwise. After all, you work for MSNBC so there’s no real incentive to tell the truth.

Introducing our all-time favorite Democrat: William Boyland, Jr

On one hand, he’s a liberal Democrat which would normally be points against him. On the other hand, we consider him to be a role model for all politicians.

William Boyland Jr. is a five-term member of the New York State Assembly.

On one hand, he’s a liberal Democrat which would normally be points against him. On the other hand, we consider him to be a role model for all politicians.

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In addition to being an adept politician, Assemblyman William Boyland, Jr. is a sharp dresser and a mouth breather

The New York Daily News explains what we mean:

Boyland, who pleaded not guilty in April to federal charges that he did political favors for Brookdale University Hospital in exchange for a consulting gig, skipped 20 of the Assembly’s 60 sessions this year, attendance records show.

Boyland (D-Brownsville), also was the only lawmaker in either the Senate or Assembly who did not introduce a single bill.

We need more Democrats like Billy Boyland – guys who don’t introduce an endless series of  bills and designed solely to waste our hard-earned money. Guys who believe that serving in the legislature should be a part-time job. Guys who don’t jump in front of every camera they see.

Billy Boyland, you may be a crook and you may be a Democrat (and we may be redundant), but we salute you.

Source: New York Daily News

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