I HATE THE MEDIA ™

Maxine Waters in line to take over from Frank on Financial Services. Well, this didn’t take long. The Democrats are replacing someone with a big a-hole with someone with a big pie-hole.

Taliban fighters get £100 a month to stop shooting our troops. “They are also effectively given an amnesty, meaning they will not face trial even if they have attacked and killed British forces, or committed other atrocities, such as the murder of women and children.” They also get to keep their AK47s. What could possibly go wrong?

Politico: Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) will not run for re-election for a 17th term. He’ll hold a press conference at 1 pm ET to discuss his decision. Probably wants to spend more time with his family or something.

Colin Powell blames media and Tea Party for divisive tone in Washington. Sure, there was NO partisanship in Loonytown before the Tea Party got there. And President A-hole in One, Botox Nancy and the other political circus acts (like OWS) have nothing to do with the “divisive” tone in DC either, right? “Divisive” to the political class means you have an opinion different from the one you’ve been told to have.

Video Proof: UC Davis Protesters Were Warned Before Pepper Spray Incident. Oops. Someone had the video camera running at the wrong time.

Shariah Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Court Cases. Across the 50 cases there were 16 foreign countries from which Shariah-based legal conventions or decisions were brought to bear upon the case. Well hell, let’s just change the name of the country to Saudi America.

Hundreds of enraged Pakistanis have taken to the streets across the country, burning an effigy of President Barack Obama and setting fire to US flags after 24 soldiers died in NATO air strikes. Barack Obama makes us long for the sober competence of the Carter years.

2nd round of “Climategate” emails reveals even the BBC thinks “BBC objectivity” is a joke. BBC’s Alex Kirby to climate “scientist” Phil Jones: “…we are constantly being savaged by the loonies for not giving them any coverage at all…and being the objective impartial (ho ho) BBC that we are, there is an expectation in some quarters that we will every now and then let them say something.” The climategate email hacker is a legitimate 21st century hero.

Hillarious video of Micky Maoist that would never have survived the Great Leap Forward. Added bonus: Guy that lost his job as a Jim Henson impersonator lecturing us on some something or other. Hey, at least they let him keep the Rainbow Connection sweater!

http://youtu.be/uE2M7g_IWSE

No word on which of the 57 states Barry was playing golf in when this challenge was issued.

Bill Clinton Praises Newt: “He’s Articulate” And Attracts Independents: Of course Bubba should like Gingrich. Newt gave Slick Willy several years of economic prosperity. But this is Bill Clinton we’re talking about. And he isn’t compelled by gratitude. Nor is he compelled by benevolence. So we must ask ourselves . . . what are the motivations?

Occupy Wall Street plans benefit album for itself. Michael Moore is planning to sing(?) The guy putting the disc together said “the goal is to raise between $1 million and $2 million to help fuel the movement that is protesting income disparity.” So now it’s “income disparity” OWS is protesting? And they do that by disrupting the jobs and careers of average people and small businesses? Why not protest air pollution by passing gas at Moore’s mansion? Makes just about as much sense.

A gift idea for all the golf-playing hyper-educated empty suits on your holiday “don’t wanna give ’em anything but I gotta” list. Available at the barackobama.com store for only $15. Gift wrap it in ironic laughter at no extra cost. Hey, Obama’s now a golf tool! (But wasn’t he always?)

Occupy organizers in Indianapolis recruit the homeless to keep protests going. Astro-effing-turf. It’s so hard to find good helpless these days.

In cash-strapped Washington, President Obama’s $1 trillion health care law is presenting a tempting target for lawmakers seeking funds for other projects, as Congress last week raided the health care piggy bank for the third time in less than a year. Just like the social security “lock box”, if you leave a pile of money laying around in Washington DC, some crooks will inevitably come by and swipe it. We call those crooks “representative” and “senator.” The joke is that Obamacare was already underfunded, requiring 10 yrs of taxes to pay for 6 yrs of benefits. At this rate, it may be broke after 6 months.

Second electric car battery fire involving Chevy Volt. “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday that three Volt battery packs were crash-tested last week. In one instance, the battery caught fire afterward, and in another the battery emitted smoke and sparks.” GM blamed goverment officials for “not storing the tested batteries correctly”. It seems, finally, that every last finger has been pointed.

Not photoshopped: beam of light shines on fallen soldier’s miracle dog. Message from a fallen soldier to his survivors and his best friend or just a lens flare captured by the photographer? You get to decide. Then check out some of the exploding heads in the comments to the story.

In Massachusetts, thousands of “jumpers and dumpers” are buying health plans just before major operations and procedures and then chucking their coverage afterwards, sticking remaining policy-holders with the bills. Same loophole exists in ObamaCare. The pols decided it was just out of greed that evil insurance companies denied coverage for so-called “pre-existing” conditions. Another epic failure for the country’s smarter-than-everyone-else pack of morons. But don’t worry, they’ll find somebody else to blame for their stupidity this time, too.

Wife proves quite ‘handi’ in kitchen for all the wrong reasons. Zainab tried a new ingredient for Korma yesterday – her husband. The korma popularised in UK curry houses is invariably mildly spicy and may often feature nuts, usually almonds or cashews, and coconut.

Not exactly Top Chef material. Catchy title? or just a lame reason for posting a photo of Padma Lakshmi?

Former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis says that anti-fraud measures are needed to protect African-Americans from corrupt political bosses — many of them African-Americans themselves — who run Democratic Party machines in the South. Anti-fraud measures like Voter-ID laws? Could that be the real reason why the Democrats are opposed to them? Nah!

What a turkey! Outrage as Obama leaves God out of Thanksgiving address. The Turkey-in-Chief strikes again.

Chavez price caps spark panic buying of coffee, toilet paper. Hope n’ change, Venezuela style: Step 1. Evil clown president prints money causing inflation. Step 2. Evil clown president enacts price controls to tame the inflation he caused. Step 3. Bitter clingers buy up goods prior to enactment of controls in anticipation of shortages and black market gouging, thus fueling inflation further. Step 4. Go to step 1.

‘Rent Is Too Damn High’ Guy Facing Eviction: But it isn’t what you might be thinking. Jimmy McMillan (AKA The Rent is too Damn High Guy) is facing this action because his landlord believes that Jimmy is not actually staying in the apartment. Which is true. But only so that his son can have some alone time in order to make babies. Apparently the plan to make them the old fashioned way, in the back seat of a car, fell apart when it was discovered that the sort of government meddling that resulted in too damn high rent has had much the same effect on the price of gasoline.

Tea Party Activists Challenge ‘Occupy Black Friday’ With ‘BUYcott Black Friday’: In a sane era we would be tempted to suggest that people save their money and practice the sort of fiscal responsibility that will get this nation’s economy back on track. But this is not a sane time. This is a time when the labor of we the producers is conscripted to buy the votes of the tax eaters. This is a time when the whiney-whine percent is looking to increase our contribution to the system so that they can increase their demands on it. This is a time when those that have already paid more than their fair share can do no more than shake their heads in disgust as the value of their savings is gutted from the inflation brought on by those that rigged the system with their hand-outs and their pay-off’s to GE and their quantitative easing . So go ahead and buy that xbox. Buy that iPad 2. Buy that 70 inch flat screen 3D TV. Because in a time as screwed up as this if you don’t spend your money on yourself it is a pretty good bet that you’ll be spending it on some greedy flea bagger and his hairy arm-pitted girlfriend.

“I have never heard of a reporter briefing staffers. It’s supposed to be the other way around. This arrangement seems highly unusual.” WaPo journolist Ezra Klein sets the ethical bar for his moribund “profession” quite a bit lower. What’s the difference between a WaPo reporter and a used car salesman? The latter would never claim that lemon he’s trying to sell you is a super-genius with great judgement.