I HATE THE MEDIA ™

“Giving the federal government more money would be like giving a cocaine addict more cocaine.” House Speaker John Boehner is, of course, correct. But liberals would say it’s society’s fault they blew their inheritance on fast cars, cheap women and expensive drugs.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the Obama administration will do its utmost to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay before next year’s presidential elections despite political opposition. They ARE the most transparent administration in history because a blind man could see what they’re up to a mile away. They have all the subtlety of a thief who knocks on doors and announces “Burglar!”

Pig, meet trough: Solyndra investor George Kaiser explains how to clean up on the mother of all government handouts. Somebody help us out. Is that odor that just wafted in the smell of pigs or the stench of corruption?

GM to Build Electric Cars in China, Protect Chevy Volt Technology. Look! Here’s some more of President Obama’s shovel-ready jobs heading offshore.  No one here wants Volts, so we guess the geniuses at Government Motors thinks the Chinese must be stupid enough to buy them. They evidently didn’t talk to Warren Buffet, or read the China Times.

Obama falls to new lows in national polling. For the first time in the history of the McClatchy-Marist poll, President Obama’s job approval rating has fallen below 40 percent. Now we see why he’s referred to as President Zero. It’s because he keeps heading in that direction in the polls.

U.S. IS SH**ING ON IT’S OWN: MICHAEL MOORE SAYS AMERICA IS CRUEL & DELUSIONAL THINKING WE ARE NUMBER ONE, THERE WILL BE RIOTS IN THE STREET SOON. Michael’s movies shit on the US, but that’s OK. Now go eat another dozen hamburgers Wimpy. If we have food riots we’ll know whom to blame.

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AP fact-checks Obama: Secretaries do NOT pay a higher tax rate than billionaires. From the AP article: “This year, households making more than $1 million will pay an average of 29.1% of their income in federal taxes, ….between $50,000 and $75,000 will pay 15%, …between $40,000 and $50,000 will pay an average of 12.5%… between $20,000 and $30,000 will pay 5.7%.” Well, to paraphrase candidate Obama in 2008, “It’s not about revenue, it’s about campaign bullcrap.”

Occupy Wall Street Live Stream. Watch the action comedy live. Read the chat on the right for even more laughs. Here’s a sample: “That_guise: monkey I know tents are illegal, the exact wording is “errected structure” but I wonder if people holding tarp is considered Errected”

Tony Bennett on 9/11 Attacks: ‘They Flew the Plane in, But We Caused It.’ “They flew the plane in, but we caused it,” Bennett responded. “Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.” We caused it? From now on, when we hear Tony, the channel is getting changed.

“These millionaires and billionaires have contributed $3 trillion to our deficit.” Guess who said it. Was it (a) Nancy Pelosi. (b) Tim Geithner. (c) Barack Obama. (d) None of the above. If you picked (d) you are correct. It’s a quote from well-known economic genius Harry Reid.

“We’ve got to do something to reduce the awful philanthropy surplus plaguing this country!” New York Times columnist David Brooks realizes he’s been “a sap” for believing Obama. In the words of Freddie Mercury and Queen, “Another one bites the dust.” Another Obamaniac sees the error of his ways.

Obama endorses ending 1 day of mail delivery. Isn’t it funny. The only time this man seems interested in cuts is when it comes to Constitutionally sanctioned programs that provide at least some return service to the tax payer. Sure, maybe the Post Office is a concept that has passed us by and needs to be restructured or even shut down. But it is hardly the first thing on the list that needs to be cut. But that is par for the norm. As always with Obamanomics “the first to pay are last to play”.

Around the world in 60 seconds: Incredible time-lapse video from the International Space Station. It took Phileas Fogg 80 days to circumnavigate the world but, thanks to the wonders of technology, it is now possible to do it in just a minute. Things are so ugly lately we thought some beauty was called for. Please enjoy!

http://youtu.be/cj6J3Rd0Tq4

Study Confirms Cutting Federal Regulations Lowers Unemployment. “On average,” the Phoenix Center says, “eliminating the job of a single regulator grows the American economy by $6.2 million and nearly 100 private sector jobs annually. Conversely, each million dollar increase in the regulatory budget costs the economy 420 private sector jobs.” We say: Let the firing begin!

Experts warn Greek default could tip US into recession. Don’t you just love economists who expect you to believe that the economy has recovered and we’re not in a recession? What are they going to tell us next . . . creating a trillion dollars out of nowhere won’t result in massive inflation?

My EBT the Rap! We’re a bit conflicted about this video. On one hand it seems to promote a lifestyle that punishes the tax payers and keeps its “beneficiaries” beholden to the state and trapped in a hardly ever ending cycle of disappointment and failure. On the other this guy is pretty damn funny and his song is likely to do more to raise awareness about the problem of massive welfare fraud than any number of articles appearing in Townhall or Reason Magazine. Be warned, this video contains some explicit lyrics.

Dick Durbin and the fierce urgency of “not now!” Dick Durbin says the Senate will get around to voting on the Obama’s urgent “pass this jobs bill now!” thingy sometime next month. We can tell the Senate Dems really, really, really want to pass this POS, it’s just that in their anxiety to pass it, they don’t want to make any mistakes like accidentally forgetting about it. When nobody’s looking. So please stop looking.

Somali kids win weapons in Quran contest. The station announced Monday that the first prize winner in the contest received a rifle and $700, the second prize winner got a rifle and $500, and the third prize winner received two bombs. All three children also received religious books. The losers got special ribbons in the shape of targets. A proud day for all, indeed.

No jet lag for 120 donkeys after Hawaii-LA flight. Looks like there is no shortage of jackasses from Hawaii.

U.S. Company Developing Radioactive Steam-Powered Car Engine. This radioactive car should give Greenpeace, et al, something to protest about. Just one gram of thorium would provide the equivalent of 7,500 gallons of gasoline, so a thorium-powered car could last for 300,000 miles or 5,000 hours of driving between fill-ups. At the current price of $0.25 per gram we can’t wait.

Who’s that ridin’ in that sharp SUV? Why, it’s Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick who recently declared this “Car Free Week!”“ Odd coincidences like this happen all the time in Massachusetts, home of John “Raise Taxes on the rich” Kerry who docked his yacht in Rhode Island to avoid paying his, as well as state Rep. Michael Rodrigues who was spotted buying booze in New Hampshire shortly after voting to raise the Massachusetts tax on same. Must be something in the water up there. Did we mention the late wind power champion Ted Kennedy who fought tooth and nail to keep windmills from being built where he would have to look at them?

New government fees pepper Obama deficit plan. Air travelers, federal workers, military retirees, wealthier Medicare beneficiaries and people taking out new mortgages are among those who would pay more than $130 billion in government revenues raised through new or increased fees. Ahhh! They finally figured out if they call it a “FEE” it isn’t a “TAX”. Can’t wait for the “Income Reduction Fee”. Or how ’bout that “Oxygen Consumption Fee”.

FLASHBACK: Obama Says You Don’t Raise Taxes In A Recession

“The Real danger to America is not Barack Obama, it is a citizenry capable of entrusting such an inexperienced and incompetent man like Obama with the Presidency.” A perspicacious blog comment, purportedly lifted from a Prague newspaper. If anyone understands the dangers of intellectually, spiritually and economically bankrupt statism, it’s the ex-utopians from behind the Iron Curtain. “It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama Presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their President.” Damn, if only we had newspapers like that here.

Keith Olbermann calls his show Countdown because he’s counting down to his final viewer. The New York Daily News reports, “For the week of Sept. 5–11, “Countdown” attracted an average 142,000 total viewers and an average 46,000 adults aged 25–54 — the demographic category that advertisers consult when buying time on cable network news programs.” That means he now has half the viewers he had during his debut week, but twice the viewers he deserves.