Category: News New Format

Euro bail-out in doubt as ‘hysteria’ sweeps Germany. The Telegraph UK reports that, “The seething discontent in Germany over Europe’s debt crisis has spread to all the key institutions of the state. ‘Hysteria is sweeping Germany,’ said Klaus Regling, the EFSF’s director.” Translation: The deadbeats in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy are starting to worry that the hardworking, thrifty Germans don’t want to support them.

Russian nationalists: F— McCain. I guess the Russian Tea Party doesn’t like RINO’s either. Perhaps they should hire Country Joe and the Fish to do the Fish Cheer for the Senator. (Warning uses the F-word).

Daryl Hannah arrested in White House oil protest. Who? Seriously, Daryl “Where Did My Career Go” Hannah spent way too much time underwater filming “Splash”.

Michelle Obama, rosewood smuggler? Seems in 2009, the FLOTUS gave a Gibson guitar with a fretboard made from Indian rosewood (the same wood the DOJ is busting Gibson for now) to the First Lady of France, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. If she were a Republican donor, she’d be in real trouble now.

Obama’s HUD Violated ACORN Funding Ban. Laws? Laws? We don’t got to show you no stinkin’ laws! At least that seems to be the mantra of much of the Obama administration when it comes to doing things like obeying the law, showing up to testify at Congress and answering Freedom of Information Act requests.

Poverty is spreading, particularly among children. The hardest hit include what was an emerging middle class of African-Americans, Latinos and other minorities. Or so says Jesse Jackson. Jesse Jackson, if you didn’t know, claims to be a civil rights activist. We find this somewhat hard to believe. To put it as Ayn Rand once did “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

It’s Time To Kill The Electric Car, Drive A Stake Through Its Heart And Burn The Corpse. Another satisfied Volt owner? No, this fellow’s gripes are that the metals to make batteries will be scarcer than fossil fuels in the coming years, and that the constant charging-recharing wears the electronics out quicker. Nature cannot be fooled but foolishness is natural.

Obama has a 70% approval rating. Oh, wait. That’s only among Muslims. His overall approval ratings may be crumbling, but according to the Pew Research Center, there’s one group that still loves them some President Obama. 70% of American Muslims think he’s doing a bang up job. NOTE: When we say “bang up” it is not meant to refer in any way to suicide bombings. Because that would be insensitive and we pride ourselves on our sensitivity.

Newsweek journalist is a little hazy on the concept of memoirs. Dan Stone appeared on MSNBC’s News Live to voice a strange complaint about Dick Cheney’s new memoir. “This book is very focused on rehashing. It’s very based on the past, from what I can tell.” Dan, buddy, books that take place in the future are called science fiction, not memoirs.

Wisconsin Labor Day parade says, “No Republicans allowed.” Those tolerant, all-inclusive, open-minded Democrats strike again.

DOJ raids Gibson Guitar in search of Republican donors. While Barry O plays the “Have no clue how to create jobs blues”, his hack AG Eric Holder is busting one the few American companies left that still makes anything in America. Memo to Obama: if you want employment, you need employers. If you had ever held a job yourself, you’d know that.

School official takes 800K pay cut for schools. Wait. This guy made $250,000 per year as a school superintendant? How do we get more back from him? Well, at least he gets his pension… please remove all sharp objects from within your reach when you watch this video.

A new CNN poll finds that 27% of Democrats are raaaaacists. Well, they did say they would like to see their party nominate somebody OTHER than Barack Obama for president in 2012. According to everything we’ve heard lately on the subject, that is the very definition of raaaaacism.

Main Street Rafters Arrested for Lack of Common Sense. Seems to me it’s a hell of a lot safer to be in a raft than to be standing out in the water doing a report on the dangers of being in the water.

http://youtu.be/fwuokQNnS38

If the Sheet Fits, You Must Use It By California Law. For a moment we thought this had something to do with the KKK, but alas, it’s just more silliness from the illustrious California legislature. Frankly, we’ve had enough of this sheet.

Fired because you’re ugly? Hire a lawyer! Just what we need in this country! More frivolous lawsuits! I wonder if fugly lawyers with ugly clients will use this excuse to file an appeal if they lose a case?

Strange songstress Lady Gaga prompted many jaws to drop during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday. It wold seem that Gaga has made the age old mistake of assuming that because art can be shocking; anything that is shocking must be art. For our part though we hope Gaga will someday do something truly shocking . . . like making music that doesn’t suck.

Space Station may be abandoned, thanks Obama! Cancelling the space shuttle program? Priceless! Depending on the Russians? Priceless! Evacuating the space station? Priceless! Chalk up another Obama downgrade.

UCLA professor says only one thing keeps average state from voting like Texas or Tennessee: Media bias. And in the words of esteemed political analyst Gomer Pyle, “Surprise, surprise, surprise.” Unfortunately, even if you could strike media bias from the formula, the lunatics in California would still vote like Vermont.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbosuIX3O3w

People who oppose efforts to solve global warming will one day be loathed like racists, Al Gore said in a recent interview. Apparently the man that gave us the internet doesn’t realize that is can be such a useful tool for discovering the meaning of words. Otherwise he might have learned that “loathed” is hardly a term that can be applied to William Fulbright, Robert Byrd or his own bigoted father.

Americans rate Federal Government dead last. Talk about losing a popularity contest. A new Gallup poll has the Feds rated worse than attorneys and banks. Another Obama success!

Global Warming causes mental illness! – We always knew there was a correlation, but didn’t they get the headline backward?

Robert Reich says America isn’t broke, but is imperiled by Fox News’ lies. When the former Treasury Secretary thinks that borrowing 40-some cents out of every dollar we spend is not a problem, that’s a problem. And when he thinks a cable news network is an even bigger problem than our spending, that’s an even bigger problem.

Martin Luther King’s daughter says Abraham Lincoln is remembered for signing the Declaration of Independence. Based on that theory, Lincoln was approximately 130 years old when he was sworn in as President. History was apparently not Bernice King‘s strongest subject in school.