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IRS Allowed $4.2 Billion in Credits to Undocumented Workers, Audit Finds. At issue is use of a tax break based on earned income called the additional child tax credit. No wonder we see all these vans with the little papa, mama, and 10 kids stickers running around. Hell, we probably paid for some of those vans ourselves.

In what could be a way of lowering expectations for next Thursday’s big economic speech, aides to President Obama are privately spreading word that he will not present his entire jobs plan in his address to a Joint Session of Congress. No way he wants to lower expectations. If anything, Obama thinks his “plan” is so supercraptasticly cool that nobody but a rocket scientist like himself will be able to absorb all the drooly-dreamy fabulousity in one night. Besides, splitting it up will give the lumpenproletariat more chances to watch the thing they love most on TV: Barry reading off his teleprompters. Oooh, sign us up for more that.

Is the Chevy Volt Already Out of Gas? Speaking of gas. I thought this to be a fitting followup to the farting lightbulbs. August Volt sales were a whopping 302.

British Ad Completely Filled With Farting Lightbulbs. This ad is really a gas.

Snowballs formed in hell today after control-freak President Barack Obama WITHDREW a controversial EPA regulation (yes, you read that right) designed to tighten smog rules. Apparently things are so BAD in the economy even Barack Obama has noticed. When it comes to his re-election, there’s NOTHING he won’t throw under the bus. Memo to Krugman, Friedman, et al: Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Road trip! UCLA student goes to Libya to fight with the rebels for a ‘sick’ summer break. Extra credit in stooopid.

In an international twist in the Dodgers’ ownership saga, Frank McCourt has been offered $1.2 billion to sell the team to a group indirectly financed by the government of China. While the sale could spell big profits for McCourt the players may be less than satisfied with the deal. Especially when they discover that their wages will be capped at 12 cents a day and in the off season they will be expected to “spend some time in manufacturing”.

Amazon.com has promised to hire 7,000 more people in California if the state puts a recently enacted online sales tax on hold for two years, More jobs, lower cost of living for consumers . . . yeah there is no way good government is going to let those greedy corporate bastards get away with that crazy scheme.

The Fed’s shadow TARP. Here’s more reasons about how Obama’s transparency pledge works. Trillions of them.

Stretch Leafousine. The perfect vehicle for ecotards going out on a night on the town to sing Kumbayah at the local karaoke club.

Obama full-month approval plumbs new depths. Rasmussen reports, “In August, the number who Strongly Approve of Obama’s job performance was at 21%. That’s down three points from 24% in July and the lowest level measured during Obama’s entire presidency. The previous low was 23% reached in both April and June of this year.” In the immortal words of Chubby Checker’s Limbo Rock, “How low can you go?”

Quote of the day: “Racists that they are, blacks voted for Obama because he’s black, not because he’s qualified.” Black author Kevin Jackson guested with Megyn Kelly and had that harsh response to Congressman Andre Carson’s assertion that Tea Partiers want to see blacks hanged from trees. This Jackson fellow is obviously a racist. Oh, wait. He’s black? In that case he’s obviously an Uncle Tom.

Employers add ZERO net jobs in August; unemployment rate unchanged That’s ZERO as in “no”, “nada”, “zilch”, “none whatsoever”, “not even a rumor of a job”. Unemployment rate? Unchange we can believe in. The prediction was for 70,000 jobs so the MSM will report “job creation narrowly misses expectation by a mere 70,000.” Just call him “President Zerobama.”

Ohio man arrested for having sex with inflatable raft. It’s even worse than you may think. According to the last line of the article: “Tobergta had been arrested at least five times for similar offenses, most recently in 2008….” Five times? If this had happened in California the raft would already qualify for palimony.

The weather makes a liar out of Al Gore and the Editor’s dad. Al Gore said we were headed toward a hot, dry desolate world where snow was a thing of the past. The Editor’s dad grew up in Montana and always said he moved to California “because August was the only month it never snows in Montana.” Oopsie. Accuweather says, “Snow started falling during the day Wednesday [August 31] in the Canadian Rockies and will continue in some areas across the northern Rockies of the U.S. early today. Enough cold air has arrived for snow to fall as low as 6,500 feet in Montana’s Glacier National Park….” Time for both men to readjust their thinking. That readjustment will be considerably tougher for the Editor’s father since he died in 1985. Gore, on the other hand, is still alive, although his credibility died sometime around 2001.

NASCAR Drivers Blow Off Obama Invite to White House. Looks like this is the week for Obama to get blown off. First the Speaker of the House, then the NFL and now NASCAR. Who’s next?

A fund to help channel $100 billion in climate-change aid annually to developing nations should encourage private financing instead of counting mostly on money from cash-strapped industrialized countries, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said. Finally! Al Gore can put his money where his big fat mouth is! Want to bet he won’t donate anything?

The “Obama Clock” iPhone app is a countdown to … his final days as President of the United States. In addition, the application will download and update the following important voter metrics: Approval Rating, Public Debt, Unemployment Level, Gasoline Cost Per Gallon, Housing Price Index This is an app Dante might’ve created to mark the time until he could escape the inferno. In that context, the app’s display of Obama’s visage is entirely apropos.

Democrats Distancing Themselves From Obama. The president’s dismal poll ratings, should they continue into next year, could sink Democratic hopes for reclaiming ground in the House and retaining control of the Senate — especially in battleground states and swing districts. Unemployment is what’s dragging the economy down and Obamacare is what’s keeping unemployment high. Congressional Dems could save their worthless butts and be heros by repealing Obama’s vastly unpopular signature curse. No brains, no guts, no nothin’.

Tea Party vs. Green Party in Napa, California. Busloads of Tea Partiers descended on Napa, California last weekend and that sent the moonbats over the edge. The Green Party organized a counter-protest and promised a “massive anti-Tea Party rally.” Let’s just say that it wasn’t quite as massive as they’d hoped for. In fact, they could have held the rally in a phone booth.

Tax evasion in Greece threatened to take organised form on Thursday when café and restaurant owners refused to pay a 10-point VAT rise, as a deep recession clashes with the government’s increasingly desperate search for revenue. The US is not the only government that views small business as their beast of burden. Of course, cutting spending is out of the question – what would the pols use to buy votes with?

New Jersey public employee unions, seeking to block a law reducing pension and health benefits, sued Governor Chris Christie and other state officials. A gold digger met a handsome stranger in Vegas who told her he was a billionaire and offered her a million bucks for a night of sweaty sex. In the morning, he reveals to her he’s actually only a bus boy and the million bucks ain’t happening. So she sues him for it. Sounds like a plan, right?

Italian PM Berlusconi vows to leave “sh*tty” Italy in conversation recorded by police. Another “frustrated” politician with “bad luck” stumbles upon a solution. It’s an option Barack Obama should consider, given how poorly our country has treated him. Will they rename the nation “Sh*taly”?

Sick irony: Libyan rebels backed by black U.S. president massacring blacks. Didn’t Obama say we were bombing Libya to protect innocent civilians?

Green Bay NBC Station Will Air Packers Over Obama Speech. Gotta love those cheeseheads. As far as Green Bay’s NBC affiliate is concerned, the Green Bay Packers and pre-game festivities come first and President Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress comes second. Congress probably feels the same way except for Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi who are both looking forward to a long nap.