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This homemade bumper sticker was spotted in the parking lot at SeaTac International Airport. Pretty much sums it up for a lot of people, doesn’t it?
This homemade bumper sticker was spotted in the parking lot at SeaTac International Airport. Pretty much sums it up for a lot of people, doesn’t it?
Source: MichaelMedved.com
We really don’t care about this story. We just enjoyed using the words “drilling” and “porn” in the same headline. Thank you for indulging us. We also liked using “staff” and “porn in the same story.
We really don’t care about this story. We just enjoyed using the words “drilling” and “porn” in the same headline. Thank you for indulging us.
Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to an Interior Department report alleging a culture of cronyism between regulators and the industry.
In at least one case, an inspector for the Minerals Management Service admitted using crystal methamphetamine and said he might have been under the influence of the drug the next day at work, according to the report by the acting inspector general of the Interior Department.
The report cites a variety of violations of federal regulations and ethics rules at the agency’s Louisiana office. Previous inspector general investigations have focused on inappropriate behavior by the royalty-collection staff in the agency’s Denver office.
We also liked using “staff” and “porn” in the same story.
Source: Associated Press
As you can see in the video above, Obama told the same joke that Bush did during his 2002 West Point commencement address last weekend. Bush tells joke, cadets roar. Obama tells same joke, cadets respond with, shall we say, restraint. We blame Dick Cheney.
In George W. Bush’s 2002 West Point commencement address, he said:
West Point is guided by tradition, and in honor of the “Golden Children of the Corps”, I will observe one of the traditions you cherish most. As the Commander-in-Chief, I hereby grant amnesty to all cadets who are on restriction for minor conduct offenses. (Applause.) Those of you in the end zone might have cheered a little early. (Laughter.)
Because, you see, I’m going to let General Lennox define exactly what “minor” means. (Laughter.)
As you can see in the video above, Obama told the same joke during his West Point commencement address last weekend.
Bush tells joke, cadets roar. Obama tells same joke, cadets respond with, shall we say, restraint. We blame Dick Cheney.
Source: American Thinker
Patrick Kennedy, the last remaining link to those heady days of Camelot, spoke out against Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law. And he did the Kennedy family proud.
Patrick Kennedy, the last remaining link to those heady days of Camelot, spoke out against Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law. And he did the Kennedy family proud.
“…it violates the spirit of our own Constitution. So, you know, we had a tragic history in this country. The most shameful parts of our history were when we had our slave trade, when we, when we, the Trail of Tears, what we did to our Native Americans. And, you know, the proudest moments in our history are when we had the Civil Rights Act, when we moved forward on integration and expanding the opportunities for all of our citizens.
“So, this idea of, you know, racial profiling, takes us backwards and really goes to the worst character of our nation and it’s, it’s demeaning to our country that we would move in that direction. It’s beneath us as a people.”
Please allow us to translate:
“I love Mexicans. Legal Mexicans. Illegal Mexicans. Tall Mexicans. Short Mexicans. To prove it, I’d like a tequila, bartender. And hold the glass. Just gimme the friggin’ bottle and shut the hell up.”
Carville, the famously outspoken Louisianian who was a chief political aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday that the administration’s response to the spill has been “lackadaisical” and that Obama was “naive” to trust BP to manage the massive clean-up effort.
The latest Rasmussen poll shows Obama with just 44% approval. Democrat strategist James Carville appears to be part of the remaining 56%. He had some very harsh things to say about Obama’s Katrina.
The Huffington Post reports the Louisiana lowdown:
Carville, the famously outspoken Louisianian who was a chief political aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday that the administration’s response to the spill has been “lackadaisical” and that Obama was “naive” to trust BP to manage the massive clean-up effort.
“I think they actually believe that BP has some kind of a good motivation here,” he said. “They’re naive! BP is trying to save money, save everything they can… They won’t tell us anything, and oddly enough, the government seems to be going along with it! Somebody has got to, like shake them and say, ‘These people don’t wish you well! They’re going to take you down!'”
For once, we understood every word Carville said. But we somehow doubt that anyone in the White House understood it.
Source: Huffington Post
Dolce & Gabbana has nothing on Biden & Pelosi when it comes to the latest fashions. The Vice President and the Speaker of the House are now sporting colorful new bracelets to protest Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law.
Dolce & Gabbana has nothing on Biden & Pelosi when it comes to the latest fashions. The Vice President and the Speaker of the House are now sporting colorful new bracelets to protest Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law.
HotAir.com explains that this new liberal fashion trend was developed by California Democrat Congressman Joe Baca:
As part of his general boycott of Arizona — which includes his refusal to fly through Phoenix on his weekly trips to and from Washington — Baca, D-Rialto, is distributing wristbands inspired by the Lance Armstrong LiveSTRONG craze.
Baca put in an order for 2,500 of his version, which will be red, yellow and blue — the colors of Arizona’s flag — to be worn as a show of solidarity against the controversial law…In Washington, Baca has gotten House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and most members of the Democratic leadership to wear them, as they did — along with golfing legend Chi Chi Rodriguez — at a recent fundraiser for Baca. Baca said his office is fielding calls from people inquiring how they can get one of the wristbands.
“Everyone wants them,” Baca said. “They’re going like hot potatoes.”
And that, Joe, is what you call a Freudian slip. We’re pretty sure Baca meant to say, “They’re going like hot cakes” because the definition of a hot potato is “A problem that is so controversial or sensitive that those handling it risk unpleasant consequences.”
With every poll showing overwhelming support for the Arizona law, these stupid wrist bands are definitely hot potatoes.
Source: HotAir.com
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio called attention to this frightening ad that ran in the Arizona Republic.
The Sonoran tourism office may want to rethink its ad campaign aimed at Arizona tourists.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio called attention to this frightening ad that ran in the Arizona Republic. From the good sheriff’s twitter page:
“I want the public to call 1-800-4SONORA & demand to know the meaning of this ad that was in the AZ Republic today http://twitpic.com/1ptueq”
Surely the ad means that when they spot a tourist from Arizona, they’ll buy him a nice cool cerveza and a delicious taco dinner courtesy of the Federales.
No?
H/T: Bluegrass Pundit
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 24% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20.
Is it possible that people are finally figuring out that his policies are making everything – and we mean everything – worse? His approval rating is starting to crater even faster than the stock market.
Continue reading “Obama approval back to -20: Worse to come?”
The first round match in the French Open between Switzerland’s Patty Schnyder and Venus Williams remarkable not for its tennis, but for for Williams’…uhhh…backcourt.
The first round match in the French Open between Switzerland’s Patty Schnyder and Venus Williams remarkable not for its tennis, but for for Williams’…uhhh…backcourt.
Holy friggin’ moly. Joe Biden never ceases to amaze. He’s the kind of politician who gives politicians a bad name. Here he is kissing the asses of European bureaucrats by telling them that Brussels – yes, Brussels – is the capitol of the free world. And we quote:
Holy friggin’ moly. Joe Biden never ceases to amaze. He’s the kind of politician who gives politicians a bad name.
Here he is kissing the asses of European bureaucrats by telling them that Brussels – yes, Brussels – is the capitol of the free world. And we quote:
“As you probably know, ladies and gentlemen, not only am I pleased to be back here in Brussels for the second time as vice president. As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the ‘capitol of the free world.’ But it seems to me that in this great city, which boasts 1000 years of history and which serves as the capital of Belgium and the home of the European Union and the headquarters for NATO, this city has its own legitimate claim to that title.”
And, of course, Biden has a point. The Brusselonians are famous for shedding their blood to defend the free world. One simply cannot think of the word freedom without thinking, “What’s that city in Belgium that’s synonymous with freedom?”
At least the moron didn’t bow to anyone. Not on camera, anyway.
You can find them just outside Kansas City, Missouri on Interstates 26 and 70. You can’t miss ’em. Just look for the words “Marxist”, “Obamanation” and “Revolution.”
You can find them just outside Kansas City, Missouri on Interstates 26 and 70. You can’t miss ’em. Just look for the words “Marxist”, “Obamanation” and “Revolution.”
H/T: Bluegrass Pundit
Odds are some reporter woke up from his stupor the other day and realized that New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez has a Hispanic surname. Surely, the reporter thought, I can get this guy to condemn Arizona’s racist anti-illegal alien law.
Odds are some reporter woke up from his stupor the other day and realized that New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez has a Hispanic surname.
Surely, the reporter thought, I can get this guy to condemn Arizona’s racist anti-illegal alien law.
Looks like Sanchez is pretty damn smart despite going to USC.
“When it comes to politics, my candid answer is, I’m football player and it doesn’t matter what I think,” he said in a transcript provided by the New York Jets. “The most important thing is you see both sides. I haven’t read the legislature, so I won’t pass judgment on it.
“I understand both sides have a point to be made. While people coming across the border or people here who may appear like they’ve come across the border, if I said that hopefully politically correct, we don’t want to racially profile anyone, just like in an airport you don’t want to racially profile anyone. Same situation.
“At the same time, if you live in Arizona and somebody’s coming over in to your territory, it’s like, ‘What’s going on? We need some sort of rule to stop that.’ I wouldn’t pass judgment on it until I read the legislature. I’m interested in the topic, but at this point I don’t know enough about it to comment further.”
We’re not going to hold the fact that he used the word “legislature” instead of “legislation.” Because for a guy who went to USC, he seems to be pretty damn smart.
Source: New York Post
Everyone knew this guy was making crap up as he went along and that he knew he could never pull the troops out in 16 months. But we’re still waiting for the anti-war protestors to condemn President Obama for his blatant lie.
Everyone knew this guy was making crap up as he went along and that he knew he could never pull the troops out in 16 months. But we’re still waiting for the anti-war protestors to condemn President Obama for his blatant lie.
But there’s something else in this clip that we never noticed before. “As Commander in Chief,” Obama said, ”I would be setting strategy.”
Say what? A community organizer with no real world experience is going to set the strategy for a difficult foreign war?
If that’s true, we can save a lot of money by firing all those highly-paid generals. Just don’t need ‘em anymore now that The Greatest President In History is setting the strategy.
Pennsylvania Congessman Joe Sestak is adamant about his claim that the White House offered him a job (read “bribe”) as an incentive to drop out of the Pennsylvania Democrat Senate primary.
Pennsylvania Congessman Joe Sestak is adamant about his claim that the White House offered him a job (read “bribe”) as an incentive to drop out of the Pennsylvania Democrat Senate primary.
The White House responds with an unconvincing, “Huh? You talkin’ to us? What’d you say?”
Somebody’s flat out lying. Who do you think it is?
OK, so maybe the name Barack didn’t come up in the survey. But we’re willing to bet that it will soon rocket to the top of the “Boy, we wish we hadn’t done that” list.
OK, so maybe the name Barack didn’t come up in the survey. But we’re willing to bet that it will soon rocket to the top of the “Boy, we wish we hadn’t done that” list.
The New York Daily News reports the negative nomenclature news:
One in five parents reports having second thoughts on the name they so carefully chose for their baby, a study in Britain found.
Many of the 3,000 parents surveyed said they wish they’d picked a less popular name, while one in 10 say they chose a quirky moniker only to have the novelty quickly wear off.
That could be because 15 percent of parents say their baby’s name has sparked amusement from friends and relatives – and one in five have felt scorn from a stranger. Ouch.
“Today’s baby name trends move very quickly, so names that seem relatively unusual and quirky can quickly become mainstream and common in the classroom,” Faye Mingo of the parenting club Bounty, which sponsored the survey, told The Sun.
So far, there are no reports of anyone naming their children after Joe Biden.
Source: New York Daily News
It’s remarkable, is it not, that the media is able to spot a rodent in the White House, but remains completely oblivious to a socialist.
This is what now passes for news with the crack reporters in the White House press corps.
The Associated Press reports the recent rodent alert:
In the midst of his battle with the titans of Wall Street, President Barack Obama was nearly upstaged by a rodent. Obama had just begun a Rose Garden statement lauding the end of a Senate filibuster on his financial overhaul when some kind of rodent dashed out of the bushes to his right, just outside the Oval Office.
As photographers snapped away in the sun-drenched garden, the critter scurried straight past the gray podium with the presidential seal and made a bee-line for another set of bushes to Obama’s left.
It’s not clear if the president could even see the streaker, but he didn’t show any reaction. And he concluded his statement minutes later, returning to his office without answering a few shouted questions on other topics.
Once he was safely inside the Oval Office, a fierce debate erupted among the photographers and reporters who’d witnessed the dash. Was it a rat or a mouse? Or maybe a mole, or some other kind of related creature.
It’s remarkable, is it not, that the media is able to spot a rodent in the White House, but remains completely oblivious to a socialist.
Source: Associated Press
As might be expected, we get a different perspective on the Gulf oil gusher from the foreign media than from the American media. Far different. And, we’d like to think, far more honest.
As might be expected, we get a different perspective on the Gulf oil gusher from the foreign media than from the American media. Far different. And, we’d like to think, far more honest.
Dominic Lawson comments in the Independent UK:
Barack Obama’s media advisers were quite distressed when the President travelled down to the Louisiana coastline last week to make his first on-the-spot statement about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Their distress was caused by what they didn’t discover, rather than what they did. Despite their frantic requests, no photogenic dying oil-covered birds could be found to form a backdrop for the Presidential tirade as he weighed into BP.
The same fact – the oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon rig has not (yet) hit the coastline itself – presumably explains why the incident has not been big on the television news, for all the alarm and even hysteria that has been expressed. On a visual medium there is little enduring interest to be had in footage of oil floating on water – even if it is a lot of oil on a lot of water.
Where are the dead birds? Where are the dead turtles? Where are the dead dolphins? And most important, where is the bounce in the polls?
Source: Independent UK
he Republicans came up with a clever online poll that lets Americans – anyone, really – vote on which programs they’d like to eliminate from next year’s budget.
The Republicans came up with a clever online poll that lets Americans – anyone, really – vote on which programs they’d like to eliminate from next year’s budget.
That just didn’t sit right with Florida democrat and impeached former federal judge Alcee Hastings. Keep in mind while you watch these rambling, wacky comments that Hastings is the same congressman who said during an ObamaCare meeting of the House Rules Committee, “When the deal goes down, all this talk about rules, we make ‘em up as we go along.”
Hastings has a bit of a point. It’s technically possible that Osama Bin Laden is sitting in a cave somewhere in Pakistan, filling out his eHarmony membership questionaire and voting in Republican polls, but we doubt it.
Alcee Hastings: Impeached. Corrupt. Stupid.
The trifecta.
First Attorney General Eric Holder, then Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, now State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley. And you know that President Obama hasn’t read Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law…
First Attorney General Eric Holder, then Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, now State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley.
And you know that President Obama hasn’t read Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law because he’s had that laser-like focus thing of his going on creating jobs. Or stopping the oil spill. Or something.
The real question is no longer who hasn’t read it. It’s who has read it.
Anyone?
Anyone?
Anyone?
Adios, Abdul. Bye bye, Bashir. Happy trails, Hamza. (WARNING: VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS SOME REALLY APPROPRIATE PROFANITY.)
Adios, Abdul. Bye bye, Bashir. Happy trails, Hamza.
(WARNING: VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS SOME REALLY APPROPRIATE PROFANITY)
Source: ViralFootage.com
Okay, so it wasn’t a physical bow, but you could hear the synapses creaking as Obama did a mental act of genuflection to Mexican President Calderon. The thought of a standing US president supporting a third world leader instead of the will of the American people is, well, no longer unexpected.
Okay, so it wasn’t a physical bow, but you could hear the synapses creaking as Obama did a mental act of genuflection to Mexican President Calderon.
The thought of a standing US president supporting a third world leader instead of the will of the American people is, well, no longer unexpected.
The President and El Presidente agreed that we need to do away with our hurtful, racist, unfriendly laws.
In lieu of that, perhaps we could come up with some kinder, more gentle names for crimes that wouldn’t hurt the feelings of the illegal aliens who commit them. May we suggest:
Even the word law sounds so angry. How ‘bout “Suggestion”.
Ahhh, much kinder, much gentle, much better. Muy bueno.
Donna Milo could be president of the Republican Women’s Club of South Florida. But a few years ago, she could have been president of the Republican Men’s Club. That’s right, big tenters, Donna is the first known transgender Republican candidate for congress.
Donna Milo could be president of the Republican Women’s Club of South Florida. But a few years ago, she could have been president of the Republican Men’s Club.
That’s right, big tenters, Donna is the first known transgender Republican candidate for congress.
The Miami Herald has the details:
Donna Milo — a Cuban-American, conservative Republican, transgender woman running for Congress — says she doesn’t like labels.
“I’m an American. I make my way on the basis of ability. My triumphs are based on my abilities, not on a label or a crutch,” said Milo, a Miami Planning Advisory Board member running to replace U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston, one of the House’s most liberal Democrats.
Milo, 48, will speak Monday night at Fort Lauderdale City Hall, a guest at the monthly meeting of the Sunshine Republicans club, a conservative group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender South Floridians.
“Donna is a very unique individual,” Sunshine Republicans President Benjamin Lewis said. “She brings a story with her candidacy. The story is of overcoming obstacles and desires to become the person she has wanted to be.”
Milo has found that her transgender status has enhanced her ability to run for congress in Broward County because she is now able to tell the voters, “Look, no hanging chad.”
Source: Miami Herald
We have gone over Richard Blumenthal’s resume with the proverbial fine tooth comb and discovered 37 other things this congenital liar claims to have done, but didn’t.
We now know that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal didn’t serve in Vietnam. And we also know that he wasn’t captain of the Harvard swim team.
But we have gone over his resume with the proverbial fine tooth comb and discovered 37 other things this congenital liar claims to have done, but didn’t. Such as:
Continue reading “37 more lies discovered on Richard Blumenthal’s resume”
A new study of ocean life off the balmy shores of Greenland has discovered 10 species of fish that have never before been seen in the area. And they are some of the ugliest damn fish you’ve ever seen.
A new study of ocean life off the balmy shores of Greenland has discovered 10 species of fish that have never before been seen in the area. And they are some of the ugliest damn fish you’ve ever seen.
Naturally, scientists fear that global warming is responsible for attracting these unattractive fish to the area.
National Geographic has the money quote:
“Rising ocean temperatures due to global warming–which could be drawing unfamiliar fishes to the region–and increased deep-sea fishing may be responsible for the spike in fresh fish faces seen off Greenland.”
Can global warming, perhaps, be blamed for the rash of unattractive species recently attracted to Washington, DC?
Source: National Geographic
If we said, what’s the craziest idea you can think of, it probably wouldn’t be half as crazy as this. The Australian reports the latest details of political correctness run amok.
If we said, what’s the craziest idea you can think of, it probably wouldn’t be half as crazy as this.
The Australian reports the latest details of political correctness run amok:
In Britain, the benefits of diversity are apparently boundless. Now that the Pagan Police Association has received government recognition, police officers can take a string of pagan festivals as official holidays.
These include celebrating the festival of lactating sheep, and drinking mead and dancing naked to celebrate the harvest. In court, pagan officers will be allowed to pledge to tell the truth not before God but by what “they hold sacred”…
The Festival of Lactating Sheep. It must be religious because our only reaction is a stunned “Holy friggin’ moly.”
H/T: Andrew Bolt
