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What’s with the Obama administration bowing to foreign leaders? Now we have Defense Secretary Robert Gates bowing to Azerbaijan’s Minister of Defense General-Colonel Safar Abiyev.
What’s with the Obama administration bowing to foreign leaders? Now we have Defense Secretary Robert Gates bowing to Azerbaijan’s Minister of Defense General-Colonel Safar Abiyev.
At least we think it’s the Azerbaijanian Minister of Defense. Based on the uniform, it may well be the doorman at the Waldorf-Astoria.
H/T: Weasel Zippers
Mickey Kaus, seeming a bit insulted that Obama hasn’t yet offered him a Joe Sestak-like bribe, he listed the three jobs with which the President could induce him to drop out of the race.
Damn, we love Mickey Kaus, the guy who’s running against Barbara Boxer in California’s Democrat primary on Tuesday.
First, he proudly announced that he was most qualified for Boxer’s job because he hadn’t been endorsed by the L.A. Times. Then he ran one of the cleverest political commercials we’ve ever seen.
Now, seeming a bit insulted that Obama hasn’t yet offered him a Joe Sestak-like bribe, he listed the three jobs with which the President could induce him to drop out of the race.
The Los Angeles Times reveals what they are:
Unfortunately, the odds of California Democrats voting for a guy who makes this much sense are slim and who are you kidding?
Source: Los Angeles Times
Poor Ed Schultz. He’s dumbfounded, astounded, horrified that the liberal media hasn’t been able to stir up more opposition to the Arizona illegal immigration law. Guest John Feehery is forced to slap Schultz’ face and try to bring him back to reality.
Every poll shows that an overwhelming majority of the American people approve of Arizona’s new illegal alien law. And a new Qunnipiac University poll found 48% of registered voters nationwide want similar laws passed in their states.
Poor Ed Schultz. He’s dumbfounded, astounded, horrified that the liberal media hasn’t been able to stir up more opposition to the law. Guest John Feehery is forced to slap Schultz’ face and try to bring him back to reality.
Schultz: The numbers are out right now. It’s pretty amazing, as much discussion and negativity that has been out there, the majority of Americans think the immigration law that’s passed in Arizona is good…and also a majority of Americans want to see their states pass something similar.
Feehery: Hey Ed, this is a surprise to nobody except maybe you, and maybe the administration.
The political class (and its MSNBC apologists) are out of step with the American people. Of course, Schultz would say it’s not just out of step, but out of goose step.
‘Cause, you know, we’re all Nazis. Or something.
Jane Norton, Colorado’s Republican Lieutenant Governor and candidate for the U.S. Senate, could teach President Obama a few things about how to throw a baseball.
Jane Norton, Colorado’s Republican Lieutenant Governor and candidate for the U.S. Senate, tossed out the ceremonial first pitch of the National Junior College World Series – an 81 mile an hour heater right down the middle of the plate. In contrast, President Obama’s opening day pitches have always looked like something daughter Sasha might throw.
But in Obama’s defense, they probably didn’t play baseball in Kenya or Indonesia or wherever he grew up.
Far be it from us to make generalizations, but based on the latest actions of the NAACP, one can only conclude that black skin is also very thin skin. The organization has forced Hallmark to pull of those talking graduation cards. They claimed it was racist.
Far be it from us to make generalizations, but based on the latest actions of the NAACP, one can only conclude that black skin is also very thin skin.
The organization has forced Hallmark to pull of those talking graduation cards. They claimed it was raaaaacist.
Hallmark was baffled by the complaint. They said the card’s theme was the solar system and was meant to emphasize the graduates’s ability to take on the universe, even something as powerful as black holes.
“The intent here is to say that this graduate is not afraid of anything,” explained Hallmark spokesman Steve Doyal.
“And you black holes, you are so ominous,” the speaking card said. “Watch your back.”
“That was very demeaning to African American women,” intoned Leon Jenkins, a spokesman for the Los Angeles NAACP. “When it made reference to African American women as whores and at the end, it says ‘watch your back,’”.
“You hear the ‘r’ in there. ‘Whores,’ not, ‘holes.’ The ‘r’ is in there,” said Minnie Hatley, another Los Angeles NAACP rep.
“It sounds like a group of children laughing and joking about blackness, again,” said yet another paranoid NAACP member.
Naturally, Hallmark gave in and is pulling the card from all its stores.
Is it just us or is this vaguely reminiscent of the incident a few years ago when a school official got in trouble for using the world niggardly and the incident more recently when black groups complained that the day after <s>Christmas</s> Thanksgiving was referred to as Black Friday.
Lunacy. Absolute lunacy.
Source: ABC
The left wing lunatics at MSNBC.com are running a poll, but the results are not what they expected. Not even close. “Do you support Arizona’s tough new law on illegal immigration?”
The left wing lunatics at MSNBC.com are running a poll, but the results are not what they expected. Not even close.
Do you support Arizona’s tough new law on illegal immigration?
In July, Arizona will begin enforcing a new law that requires law enforcement officers to check someone’s immigration status if they have reason to suspect that he or she is in the country illegally. Do you think this is a good idea?
At the time this story was written almost 600,000 votes have already been cast and the tally was “Yes” 95.6%, “No” 4.4%
You can participate in the poll by clicking on this link.
Let’s see if we can give Keith Olbermann a stroke by pushing “Yes” all the way up to 99% of the vote.
Source: MSNBC.com
We weren’t surprised to find out that former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was a participant in the latest Gaza “Peace Flotilla.” We were just surprised that the left wing lunatic took more than a week to spout off about it.
We weren’t surprised to find out that former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was a participant in the latest Gaza “Peace Flotilla.” We were just surprised that the left wing lunatic took more than a week to spout off about it.
Andrew Sullivan, once a conservative blogger, but now an attention-seeking lunatic, appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO show Friday night. He had too much information about Al Gore. “It is well known in Washington,” Sullivan cooed, “that he is the most hung politician around.”
Andrew Sullivan, once a conservative blogger, but now an attention-seeking lunatic, appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO show Friday night. He had too much information about
Al Gore.
“It is well known in Washington,” Sullivan cooed, “that he is the most hung politician around.”
We’re not quite sure how to break this to you, Andrew, but you misinterpreted the rumors.
They said he is a big dick, not he has a big dick.
Dagen McDowell tells Fox News that we could cut $340 billion off the deficit simply by cutting public wages to the level of private sector wages.
Dagen McDowell tells Fox News that we could cut $340 billion off the deficit simply by cutting public wages to the level of private sector wages.
Don’t stop now, Dagen. How much more could we save if we cut government medical benefits and retirement programs back to private sector levels, too?
Holding a pair of deuces in a race-card game to inflame the legal residents of the country, Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) called Arizona’s new anti-illegal alien law the product of “white supremacist groups.”
Holding a pair of deuces in a race-card game to inflame the legal residents of the country, Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) called Arizona’s new anti-illegal alien law the product of “white supremacist groups.”
The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports Sanchez’ ill-advised comment:
“There’s a concerted effort behind promoting these kinds of laws on a state-by-state basis by people who have ties to white supremacy groups,” said the lawmaker, who is of Mexican descent. “It’s been documented. It’s not mainstream politics.”
Based on that comment, would it be wrong of us if we demanded to see Linda Sanchez’ documents? The ones that tie the Arizona law to white supremacist groups, that is.
And while we’re in a demanding kind of mood, there’s one other thing we’d like to demand. Take a look in your own back yard, Linda, and speak to the family of Jamiel Shaw.
The innocent teen was killed in Los Angeles in 2008 by an illegal alien gang member who had been recently released from jail. Jamiel’s family supports the Arizona law.
And we think they might have some serious trouble joining a white supremacist group.
Source: San Gabriel Valley Tribune, ISupportJamielsLaw.com
At a recent event at the White House, everybody’s second favorite former Beatle took the opportunity to unload on America’s most recent former President.
At a recent event at the White House, everybody’s second favorite former Beatle took the opportunity to unload on America’s most recent former President.
According to Sir Paul McCartney, “After the last eight years, it’s great to have a president who knows what a library is.”
It always seems to be the young who suffers the most in bad economic times like these. And we can’t help but wonder why dirty old men should benefit from this innocent young girl’s misfortune?
It always seems to be the young who suffer the most in bad economic times like these. And we can’t help but wonder why dirty old men should benefit from this innocent young girl’s misfortune?
It’s just so unfair.
“Ugly” is indisputable. Ditto with “old.” Anti-Semitic has always been assumed. But now the angry old bat has finally slipped and put her anti-Semitism on display for the whole world to see.
“Ugly” is indisputable. Ditto with “old.” Anti-Semitic has always been assumed. But now the angry old bat has finally slipped and put her anti-Semitism on display for the whole world to see.
We eagerly await her official statement that she was misquoted when she said of the Israeli Jews, “Tell them they should go back to Poland and Germany.”
Of course, the response to this will surely be universal condemnation by the rest of the press corps and she will just as surely be stripped of her seat in the first row at future White House press briefings.
Oh, man, we crack ourselves up.
A matador cheated death by millimetres when the beast he was tormenting rammed its horn straight through his chin and out through his mouth.
Horrifying. Awful. Sickening. And as far as we’re concerned, the matador had it coming.
SkyNews.com has the story of the bull’s dramatic win:
A matador cheated death by millimetres when the beast he was tormenting rammed its horn straight through his chin and out through his mouth.
It only took a split second for Julio Aparicio to became the bull’s bloody victim at a Madrid bullring.
The animal had already been pierced with several banderillas and was close to being killed when he seized his chance of revenge.
Aparicio stumbled and the angry beast charged at him, prompting the crowd at the Las Ventas bullring to gasp in horror – expecting the bull to rip off the fighter’s jaw or even his head.
Remarkably, the beast stepped back and his horn slipped out of the matador’s face as swiftly as it had entered.
A few rambling disconected thoughts in conclusion:
Maybe it’s just us, but we always root for the bull in this barbaric sport.
Is it true that the bull gets to retire and life a life of luxury when he wins? We hope so.
And finally, the New York Post is known for great headlines, but this one should be sent directly to the newspaper hall of fame.
Souce: SkyNews.com
Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking.
This is a video of Ian Fry, the Tuvalu delegate to the United Nations Climate Change Conference & Swap Meet in Copenhagen last December. He made an impassioned plea to save his beloved Tuvalu and other low-lying island nations.
Fry tearfully concluded that “The fate of my country rests in your hands.” (Translation: “Give us money before everyone figures out that this is a scam.”)
Too late, Ian. The latest research is a complete rebuff to Al Gore and his global warming acolytes:
Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking.
Islands in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those which have grown, largely due to coral debris, land reclamation and sediment.
The findings, published in the magazine New Scientist, were gathered by comparing changes to 27 Pacific islands over the last 20 to 60 years using historical aerial photos and satellite images.
Auckland University’s Associate Professor Paul Kench, a member of the team of scientists, says the results challenge the view that Pacific islands are sinking due to rising sea levels associated with climate change.
“Eighty per cent of the islands we’ve looked at have either remained about the same or, in fact, gotten larger,” he said.
Bad week for Al Gore. First he lost his wife. Then he lost another talking point. And we’re not sure which one he’ll miss more.
Source: ABC News Autralia
This is one of those days when a blogger wakes up early because he hears the internet screaming his name. Consider this Seinfeldian story from Omaha.com.
This is one of those days when a blogger wakes up early because he hears the internet screaming his name. Consider this Seinfeldian story from Omaha.com:
An Omaha woman offers a different uniform while she cleans house: topless, bottomless or fully nude.
This week, a brochure advertising those services was distributed in the neighborhood near 83rd and Burt Streets.
The business, ODD’Z & EN’Z Janitorial & More, advertises “house cleaning and more . . . in plain or exotic professional attire,” as well as cooking services and child care, according to the flier.
House cleaning by a nude maid starts at $125, according to the flier. Nude cleaning with “satisfaction” is $175.
The business owner, Kia Carroll, 27, said she’s not a prostitute. Instead, she said, “I am providing entertainment, cleaning up houses and having fun doing it.”
Omaha.com gets down to the barenaked truth:
Carroll said she has been cleaning houses for two years, but the exotic twist is a relatively new thing. A while back, she said, a client asked her to help out with a barbecue. Carroll said the client asked “if I had any exotic clothes I could wear.”
The idea was born.
If Carroll serves beer while she cleans, she may be the best house cleaner ever. EVER.
Source: Omaha.com
This worldwide obesity chart shows the four countries with the fattest women are Qatar, Saudi Arabia, West Bank/Gaza and Lebanon. Suddenly, we understand why Muslim men demand that their women wear the burkha.
Check out this worldwide obesity chart. It shows that the four countries with the fattest women are Qatar, Saudi Arabia, West Bank/Gaza and Lebanon.
Other top ten countries include Albania (70% Muslim), Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Lurking just outside the top ten are Iran, Kuwait and Turkey.
Suddenly, we understand why Muslim men demand that their women wear the burkha.
H/T: The Big Feed, Factbook.net
Stuff the hole with all the damn Justice Department attorneys descending on Louisiana. Start with Eric Holder.
Stuff the hole with all the damn Justice Department attorneys descending on Louisiana. Start with Eric Holder.
This is a real story. We’re not making it up. We’re not even exaggerating it for comedic effect. Liz Carter, a white woman from Georgia, has been barred from a debate for Congressional candidates. The reason? She’s white.
This is a real story. We’re not making it up. We’re not even exaggerating it for comedic effect.
Liz Carter, a white woman from Georgia, has been barred from a debate for Congressional candidates. The reason? She’s white.
The forum, moderated by Newsmakers Live, is solely for the black Republicans and Democrats running for Johnson’s 4th Congressional District seat, Carter took to the Internet to say.
Carter, a Republican, expressed her disappointment on Twitter Wednesday, asking, “What happened to diversity?”
“We called them, we asked to participate,” said Carter’s campaign manager, Cheryl Prater. But she said Newsmaker Live’s event moderator, Maynard Eaton, told the campaign that because Carter is white, she’s only allowed to sit in the audience and not participate.
Coming up next: Separate but equal bathrooms, drinking fountains and schools for blacks and whites.
That sound you hear is Martin Luther King turning over in his grave.
Source: DailyCaller.com
Breitbart.tv put together this great video compilation of the Obama ripping President Bush a new one for his administration’s “unconscionable ineptitude” in New Orleans following Katrina.
Just about the same time that oil from the Gusher in the Gulf began washing ashore on the pristine white sands of Pensacola, Florida, President Obama hosted a Paul McCartney concert at the White House on Wednesday night.
Do not mistake this for resting because, you know, the President assured us that he wouldn’t rest until that damn hole is plugged. In the President’s defense, listening to the pompous 70-year old former Beatle sing for two hours has definitely become more work than pleasure so we do not believe it qualifies as “rest” on Obama’s part.
Breitbart.tv put together this great video compilation of the Obama ripping President Bush a new one for his administration’s “unconscionable ineptitude” in New Orleans following Katrina.
You know, sort of like the “unconscionable ineptitude” his administration is now showing in the Gulf.
We would like to pay homage to Art Linkletter by showing how the administration of the Best Loved By Kids President Of All Time has been attempting to reprise Art’s old show.
Art Linkletter passed away recently at the ripe old age of 97 and will best be remembered as the host of the old “Art Linkletter Show” and its famous “Kids Say the Darnedest Things” segment.
We would like to pay homage to Art by showing how the administration of the Best Loved By Kids President Of All Time has been attempting to reprise Art’s old show.
Not only do little kids adore Barack Obama, they take every opportunity to ask him the most politically astute questions. Here are just a few of the totally unscripted, unedited and just plain child adoration moments:
First there was the classic “Why do people hate you?”
Continue reading “Kids say the darnedest things. To Art Linkletter and Barack Obama.”
Apparently, those idiot Republicans in New Mexico momentarily forgot that they are all racists and sexists, because they went out and nominated Susana Martinez, a Hispanic woman, as their candidate for governor.
Apparently, those idiot Republicans in New Mexico momentarily forgot that they are all racists and sexists, because they went out and nominated Susana Martinez, a Hispanic woman, as their candidate for governor.
Fox News reports the remarkable results:
She’ll face Democrat Diane Denish in a general election race deciding who becomes New Mexico’s first female governor.
It will be the third woman-against-woman gubernatorial general election match-up in U.S. history.
Martinez, the Dona Ana County district attorney, won a five-way contest for the GOP nomination Tuesday night with 51 percent of the vote in unofficial returns and nearly half of precincts reporting.
Yeah, but…yeah, but…yeah, but if she were gay they wouldn’t have voted for her.
Source: FoxNews.com
Pundits have been wondering what Barack Obama and Bill Clinton talked about at their private lunch last week. Well, wonder no more. IHateTheMedia.com’s microphones were there to record the private tête-à-tête.
Pundits have been wondering what Barack Obama and Bill Clinton talked about at their private lunch last week. Well, wonder no more. IHateTheMedia.com’s microphones were there to record the private tête-à-tête.
Clinton: Here’s what you gotta do, Barack.
Obama: I’m taking notes.
Clinton: Visit a beach in Louisiana.
Obama: Good idea. It’s been a while since America’s seen my sculpted pecs.
Clinton: Cool down, big fella. We’re going for the concerned leader shot. I want you to squat in the sand.
Obama: Squat?
Clinton: In the sand. Then get a faraway look on your face that says, “It’s me against the world.”
Obama: Then what?
Clinton: Then you reach down and pick up a little something out of the sand.
Obama: Like what?
Clinton: Well, I picked up rocks in Normandy in ’94. The press ate it up. But since this is an oil spill photo op, pick up something oily.
Obama: How about one of those little oil balls?
Clinton: (laughing) Ha, ha, ha. Oil Balls. That’s what Monica called me.
Obama: You’re sure this will work, Bill?
Clinton: Trust me. The press eats this stuff up. (Aside) I can’t believe Hillary lost to this guy.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in recent years, it’s that hurricanes aren’t very predictable, but hurricane prognosticators are. Year in and year out, the “experts” predict that this will be a major hurricane season.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in recent years, it’s that hurricanes aren’t very predictable, but hurricane prognosticators are.
Year in and year out, the “experts” predict that this will be a major hurricane season. As Reuters reports, his year is no different:
The Atlantic storm season could produce as many as 14 hurricanes this year, the U.S. government’s top climate agency predicted on Thursday, setting the scene for potentially the most intense season since 2005.
In its first forecast for the storm season that begins next Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast 14 to 23 named storms, with 8 to 14 developing into hurricanes, making it one of the most active ever.
Three to 7 of those could be major Category 3 or above hurricanes, with winds of more than 110 miles per hour (177 km per hour), the agency said, echoing earlier predictions from meteorologists for a particularly severe season that could disrupt U.S. oil, gas and refinery operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sooner or later, the “experts” have to be right. But we are issuing our official annual prediction that this won’t be the year.
Source: Reuters
Media Matters is unhappy with ABC News. Very unhappy. Rather than rely on any of the junior fellows around the office, “Senior Fellow” Eric Boehlert took on the task of critiquing the network for what left wing lunatics perceived as improper use of the word “job.”
Media Matters is unhappy with ABC News. Very unhappy. Rather than rely on any of the junior fellows around the office, “Senior Fellow” Eric Boehlert took on the task of critiquing the network for what left wing lunatics perceived as improper use of the word “job.”
Continue reading “Media Matters defines “job.” Now if only they could define “Matters””
