Liberal talk show host claims fracking caused the Virginia earthquake. The closest fracking is done about 160 miles away in Pennsylvania, and at 4000 feet, which is about 2.9 miles above the epicenter. Would it be unfair to say that Thom Hartmann is a frackin’ lunatic?
Ron Reagan Jr says Dick Cheney is a war criminal
Ron Reagan Jr says Dick Cheney is a war criminal. Junior is a little man who’s very uncomfortable wearing a big name. No wonder Laura Ingraham nicknamed him “Non Reagan”.
AFL-CIO honcho Richard Trumka says unions may dump the Democratic Party
AFL-CIO honcho Richard Trumka says unions may dump the Democratic Party. Sorry. We can’t come up with a punch line any funnier than that one. Maybe Trumka would like to come to work for IHTM. Based on that line, he’s one very funny guy.
Seeing lessa Contessa: Brewer out at MSNBC
Seeing lessa Contessa: Brewer out at MSNBC. Imagine how you’d feel if your show got cancelled the same week that Al Sharpton secured a daily slot. Credit to Ace of Spades with the best line ever: “She is one of the dumbest, most blatantly biased gutterscrunts on MSNBC; she’s basically Ed Schultz with a smaller rack.”
Unique defense: Underwear Bomber thinks he should be released because the Koran okays killing infidels
Unique defense: Underwear Bomber thinks he should be released because the Koran okays killing infidels. Screw you and the goat you road in on, Umar. Oh, wait, screwing goats is also okayed by the Koran. Never mind.
Rick Perry says, “I dislike Washington. I think it’s a seedy place.”
Rick Perry says, “I dislike Washington. I think it’s a seedy place.” No, Rick, Tijuana is a seedy place. Seems to me you’re giving Washington far too much credit.
Still no solar panels on White House because project is mired in the “competitive procurement process”
Still no solar panels on White House because project is mired in the “competitive procurement process.” Might be time for one of those no-bid Halliburton contracts.
Obama’s promise that the stimulus would lower unemployment was “the stupidest thing that basically any administration probably ever said.”
Obama’s promise that the stimulus would lower unemployment was “the stupidest thing that basically any administration probably ever said.” Believe it or not, a Democrat said that. To be specific, it was Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY). He has not, apparently, heard that Barack Obama is the most intelligent man who’s ever graced the Oval Office.
Q2 GDP revised sharply downward to 1.0%
US now on recession watch: Q2 GDP revised sharply downward to 1.0%. It’s almost zen-like, isn’t it, that GDP numbers should always be unexpectedly revised downward while unemployment numbers are always unexpectedly revised upward? Ohmmmmmmm. The universe is in balance.
Romney likes it both ways?
Washington Times: Romney likes it both ways? Perhaps Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) knows something we don’t about Mitt Romney? Talk about running hot and cold!
Alcohol but no illegal drugs in Amy Weinhouse toxicology report
Alcohol but no illegal drugs in Amy Weinhouse toxicology report. This is where we need Al Michaels screaming, “Do you believe in miracles?”
The truth about Texas job growth (Liberals, please go look up the definition of “truth” before proceeding)
It seems that Dallas Fed chief Richard Fisher has a different take on things Keynesian and uses Texas as a shining example:
Obama and his loony tune financial advisers seem to think that doing all things Keynesian will get the economy back on track.
It seems that Dallas Fed chief Richard Fisher has a different take on things and uses Texas as a shining example:
On Wednesday, Richard Fisher, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, gave a speech in which he separated “fact from fiction” about the record of job creation in Texas.
We can help but wonder whose fiction he was talking about?
Texas job gains are a result of pro-growth policies on taxes, spending and regulations: “…people and businesses have been picking up stakes and moving to Texas in significant numbers over a prolonged period… And yet Texas, like all states, is subject to the same monetary policy as all the rest… From this, I draw the conclusion that private sector capital and jobs will go to where taxes and spending and regulatory policy are most conducive to growth.”
Want further proof this guy is right? Look at the financial mess the U.S. is in and look at what’s going on in California, a state losing businesses daily to Texas and other states with better business climates.
Don’t believe us? Let’s send Rick Perry to California and send Jerry Brown to Texas and see what happens. We’d wager millions of unemployed workers in California would soon be working again and Texas would be bankrupt.
– Written by CO2Insanity
Source: The Cypress Times
Now it can be revealed: ObamaCare contains an appetite suppressant
They had to pass it to find out what was in it and now it’s been discovered that Obamacare contains an appetite suppressant.
They had to pass it to find out what was in it and now it’s been discovered that Obamacare contains an appetite suppressant. Specifically, the uncertainty the bill creates regarding future healthcare costs suppresses any appetite companies may have for investing money in their operations.
At least, that’s what CKE Restaurants (owner of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr restaurants) CEO Andy Puzder says in this video:
Healthcare is probably the most significant unknown at the moment. People are unsure how much it will impact their business but they know … it will be negative. It’s very hard to model the costs because the [Obamacare] bill was so complex and it’s very difficult to find people that understand it. We have a national healthcare … consultant that we use …. and the range that they gave us for our healthcare costs increasing at CKE restaurants was between $7.3 and $35.1 million dollars. That’s a huge range… Their estimate was that it would increase our healthcare costs by about 18 million dollars. We spent about 9 million dollars last year building new restaurants so that would be totally wiped out.
OK, demolishing the only “achievement” he has to show for his political career ain’t as much fun for Obama as taking bus tours or dropping mega-bucks for a train from Nadaville to Zerotown. But if he’s serious about creating jobs, the surest way is to remove his roadblocks and let those who normally do it, do it. That’s the problem.
Unfortunately, allowing the private sector to create jobs now would mean Obamacare, the Stimulus and all of his Keynesian delusions were wrong. Ensuring high unemployment and blaming his opponents appears to be the strategy around which his 2012 campaign is wrapped.
Obama has to make sure nothing (nor anyone) works.
PS – Your new Carl’s Jr. advertising campaign sucks, Andy. Dull, dull, dull.
– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities
Charles Blow: Suddenly it’s a name and not a sexual demand
Charles Blow, the New York Times columnist who seems to spend his fantasy time fellating Barack Obama, surprised the world by writing something critical about The One.
Charles Blow, the New York Times columnist who seems to spend his fantasy time fellating Barack Obama, surprised the world by writing something critical about The One.
Of course, force of habit required that he spend the first 2/3 of his column setting up the criticism by comparing Republicans to robots but then he did the unthinkable and concluded by nothing Obama’s cold, aloof robotic personality:
Blow, Charles, blow:
But one person I never thought would fall into this valley was Barack Obama, the charismatic candidate who electrified the electorate in 2008 and whom many saw as the fulfillment of the dream of the even-more-electrifying Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Yet here Obama is, down in the valley, struggling to connect with the American people and failing, increasingly coming across as dispassionate to some and outright revolting to others.
A robotic Sustainer-in-Chief with an eerie inhumanity will not satisfy.
And we know from countless previous columns that Charles likes to be satisfied by President Obama.
Source: New York Times
Mom was right! You will go blind from masturbating too much.
Do the porn attorneys think this guy downloaded their porn flick and then went blind after watching it over and over and over?
Or, at least that sounds like what the attorneys for porn studio Imperial Enterprises, Inc., must think. We mean really, do they think this guy downloaded their porn flick and then went blind after watching it over and over and over?
In what seems to me to possibly be the stupidest lawsuit we’ve ever seen:
A porn studio is accusing a blind man of illegally downloading the company’s pornographic content.
The blind man, known only as John Doe in the suit, is one of the 3,500 people being sued by California porn studio Imperial Enterprises, Inc.
He claims he was too busy to password-protect his wifi connection and that someone else must have used his network and downloaded the porn in question.
… The firm are now demanding a few thousand dollars from him in a settlement.
Looks to be proof-positive that attorneys are not only sleazebags, they work for sleazebags, too.
What next? Will they check to see if he’s got hairy palms?
– Written by CO2Insanity
Source: Daily Mail
On Wall Street three piece suits now come with bulletproof vests
In the wake of Britain’s riots, a group of American radicals are planning a “Day of Rage” targeting Wall Street and U.S. capitalism.
Yes, Wall Streeters, you are evidently the next target for anarchy, violence and looting, brought to you by the kind folks at ACORN, SEIU and a host of others who want you to work your ass off so they can reap your rewards and sit on their asses. Just think London riots and you’ll know what we’re talking about.
World Net Daily channels the rage:
In the wake of Britain’s riots, a group of American radicals are planning a “Day of Rage” targeting Wall Street and U.S. capitalism.
The upcoming protests, replete with a planned tent city in downtown Manhattan, is closely tied to the founders of ACORN and leaders of major U.S. unions, including the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU.
There are indications the protesters are training to incite violence, resist arrest and disrupt the legal system.
The protest aims to take root nationwide.
Activists are advertising on social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter for a “Day of Rage” on Sept. 17 to begin with the “occupation” of Wall Street and continue with protests across the nation.
It will be interesting to see if Mayor Bloomberg sits on his ass while New York burns or if he’ll do something needed like sic the whole NYPD on these clowns.
It’s amusing (and when we say amusing we mean sickening) that when the liberals don’t get their way they go from 0 to violence in 7 seconds, something they accuse conservatives of doing.
In psychology it’s called projection. It blogging it’s called unadulterated bullshit.
– Written by CO2Insanity
Source: World Net Daily
Can’t tell if it’s too hot outside? OSHA has an app for that.
Believe if or not, OSHA now has a new app for your smart phone that will tell you when it’s too hot outside.
We’ve always thought that many government workers were dumber than a rock, but this takes government mandated you can’t fix stupid to a whole new level.
Believe if or not, OSHA now has a new app for your smart phone that will tell you when it’s too hot outside.
But the problem is the workers have to be in the area they’re trying to measure, which means they’re already outside — and therefore already know it’s hot.
Hell, even the IHTM dog knows enough to come inside when it’s too hot outside and he’s not even a very smart dog. If you’re so friggin’ stupid that you can’t tell if it’s too hot outside or not, how do you even hold a job to begin with? Well, considering some of the bureaucrats we’ve dealt with, we retract that question.
The government already gives out free cell phones via the Safelink Wireless program. We suppose this app will be an excellent excuse for them expand that program to give out smart phones to minimum wage workers and welfare queens nationwide.
We can hear King Obama now. “Vote for me and I’ll put a smart phone in every pocket and an EBT card in every wallet.” Can you think of a better way to maximize the use of your new Obama Twitter account to send out campaign messages to those poor voters?
Note to government workers: If you’re getting wet that probably means it’s raining.
– Written by CO2Insanity
Source: Fox News
Survey says Washington DC is only place in America where most people think the economy is improving
It’s just a guess on our part, but we suspect that someone is slipping hallucinogens into the waters of the Potomac River. That’s the only reasonable explanation for this story.
It’s just a guess on our part, but we suspect that someone is slipping hallucinogens into the waters of the Potomac River. That’s the only reasonable explanation for this story.
CNS News has the details:
Only in Washington, D.C.— home of a federal government that has dramatically increased its spending as a share of the U.S. economy over the last three years—did a majority of the people say they believe the economy was getting better not worse in the first half of this year, according to a survey released today by Gallup.
In not one state did more than 41 percent of those surveyed tell Gallup they believed the economy was getting better.
From January through June, Gallup asked 87,634 American adults in all 50 states and the District of Columbia this question: “Right now, do you think the economic conditions in the country are getting better or getting worse?”
In D.C., 60 percent said the economy was getting better and 31 percent said it was getting worse.
Nowhere else in the nation did the majority think the economy was getting better. Nowhere.
Even in neighboring Maryland, where lots of excess federal government dollars lap up along the shores of Chesapeake, only 41% think things are getting better while 52% think they’re getting worse.
And in Virginia, the other neighbor that benefits from the flood of federal employment gushing out of Washington DC, 40% said things are improving while 55% laughed their asses off when they heard the question.
Wait. We’ve come up with another reasonable explanation. The regime has banned all radio, television and internet access in the nation’s capital and its residents are now getting all their news from the Washington Post.
Source: CNS News
And after President Obama finished killing the economy, he killed an NBA star’s shooting percentage
Shaq’s new autobiography tells the story of how Barack Obama’s impact on the NBA has been just as impressive as his impact on the economy.
Recently retired NBA star Shaquille O’Neal has always understood the value of a good story. He’s kept fans, reporters and other players entertained for a couple decades.
Shaq’s new autobiography, Shaq Uncut, was just released and he tells the story of how Barack Obama’s impact on the NBA has been just as impressive as his impact on the economy:
In early March some of the guys went to the museum of Fine Arts for a fund-raiser and got to hang with President Barack Obama. Everyone was a little bit in awe. The President turns to Ray [Allen], points at Rondo, and says, “Hey, Ray, why don’t you teach this kid how to shoot?” Everyone starts laughing.
… KG told me he saw the look on Rondo’s face and the kid was devastated, embarrassed. Dissed by the President, even though I’m sure Obama didn’t mean any harm. Rondo smiled and went along with all of it, but KG told me he could see it in his eyes. It bothered Rondo. It killed him.
The next day Rondo shot the ball horribly. He stopped taking shots after that. He’s so sensitive. I think it was a real jolt to hear the outside perception of a basketball fan who happens to be the President of the United States. It messed with his mind. I’m sure of it.
Rondo’s monthly shooting percentages from November to February were 54%, 58%, 50% and 48%.
After hearing the President’s comments it dropped to 41% in March and 40% in April.
Nice work, coach.
Source: Yahoo Sports
Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! Yet another Obama success story at Bank of America
Yes! President Obama’s new jobs plan seems to be producing amazing results already, even though it’s still not out.
Yes! President Obama’s new jobs plan seems to be producing amazing results already, even though it’s still not out. More proof that he’s the smartest president ever! What’s the anointed one done now, you ask?
This week’s success is Bank of America, which just made the following announcement:
Bank of America Corp. is cutting 3,500 employees this quarter and working on restructuring plans that will ax several thousand more jobs, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported citing people familiar with the situation.
The reports Friday said that the job cuts at the biggest U.S. bank by assets might exceed 10,000 or about 3.5 percent of its current work force.
This must be part of the President’s new jobs stimulus plan that he’s still working on after 2 ½ years in office. We’re sure his new plan will soon produce billions, millions, thousands, hundreds, OK so 20 jobs, after he’s done partying with those rich folks he hates at Martha’s Vineyard and gives another speech about his new jobs program.
Way to go, Mr. President! Way. To. Go. With successes like your Downgrade Bus Tour, where you talked about American jobs while riding in a Canadian-built bus and the B of A job success, we should all be in soup lines in no time at all.
And that just means you’ll soon be taking credit for saving and creating all those jobs in the kitchen making the soup.
– Written by CO2Insanity
Source: My Fox LA
John Maynard Keynes died in 1946, but this story puts another nail in his coffin.
The real reason that we recovered was that once WWII was on, FDR was too distracted by it to continue to tinker with the economy.
Conventional wisdom (commonly known as “the wrong explanation”) proffers the Keynsian theory that the government deficit spending required to wage WWII stimulated the economy and eventually ended the depression of the 1930s.
Rand Simberg presents an alternative explanation:
The real reason that we recovered was that once the war was on, FDR was too distracted by it to continue to tinker with the economy, as he had during the thirties, keeping it continually sick (much like a medieval doctor continuing to bleed a patient). He had to get arms production up and could no longer afford all of his random pet nostrums.
Had Roosevelt lived, after the war, he probably would have returned to his damaging tinkering, and in fact Truman wanted to, but the new Republican Congress that came in in 1946 wouldn’t let him, and so finally, after a decade and a half of disastrous Democrat policies, the economy finally recovered, and even boomed. But it doesn’t mean that the solution is a war, or even the “moral equivalent” of one. It means that the solution is sane government.
“Sane government” is an oxymoron. Politics is the path to power and riches for otherwise talentless people. A typical politician is like a hot air balloon: a big bag of gas with a little man underneath.
The first Great Depression ended when WWII forced FDR to get out of the economy’s way. This should be food for thought for the severly malnourished Barack Obama.
-by Bonfire of the Absurdities
Source: Transterrestrial.com
Is it just us or does the definition of a con artist sound just like a job description for a liberal politician?
Ray was reading an article about con men on a site called HowStuffWorks.com when the proverbial lightbulb went on over his head.
Ray, one of our regular readers and commenters, sent along this little gem. He was reading an article about con men on a site called HowStuffWorks.com when the proverbial lightbulb went on over his head.
Check out this description and you’ll have to agree with his analysis:
How Con Artists Work
“Hey,” Ray thought, “con men sound just like liberal politicians.”
Con artists make money through deception. They lie, cheat and fool people into thinking they’ve happened onto a great deal or some easy money, when they’re the ones who’ll be making money. If that doesn’t work, they’ll take advantage of our weaknesses — loneliness, insecurity, poor health or simple ignorance. The only thing more important to a con artist than perfecting a con is perfecting a total lack of conscience.
The only thing missing is a mention of the con man’s labor union and race hustler accomplices.
H/T: Raymundo
Source: HowStuffWorks.com
Obama lands the coveted Fidel Castro endorsement
Poll after poll spells out bad news for President Obama’s reelection bid, but now Obama has landed the coveted Castro endorsement.
Poll after poll spells out bad news for President Obama’s reelection bid, but now the beleaguered president can breathe a giant sigh of relief thanks to some news that’s sure to reinvigorate his rabid left wing base.
Obama has landed the coveted Castro endorsement.
The Real Cuba reported:
Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban dictator Raul Castro, asked three US congressmen who are currently visiting Cuba, to support Barack Obama for a second term to allow him the “opportunity to make things better,” according to a statement posted at her website on Thursday.
Mariela Castro “expressed the view that President Obama should be excused the failures of his first term and support him for a second term, which would give him the opportunity to make things better,” said a statement from the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), which she leads, on its website www.cenesexualidad.sld.cu/
Castro also asked the three pro-Castro congressmen visiting Cuba, Barbara Lee, Lynn Woolsey and Sam Farr to “make a bigger effort” to obtain the freedom of the five Cuban spies who are currently in US jails.
Congratulations to President Obama! With all the bad polling news he’s heard lately, it’s reassuring to know that he still has the full support of the murderous Communist dictator.
Source: The Real Cuba
Two photos, one inescapable conclusion
July 24, 2008: Candidate Barack Obama attracts hundreds of thousands for his speech in Berlin. August 21, 2011: Not so much.
July 24, 2008: Candidate Barack Obama attracts hundreds of thousands for his speech in Berlin
August 21, 2011: President Barack Obama attracts dozens for his arrival at Martha’s Vineyard
Conclusion: This goose is cooked.
New GM claims they’re not responsible for old GM’s lemons
If you expected gratitude from GM after everything taxpayers have done for them, you just ain’t been paying attention.
Your tax dollars bailed their sorry ass out of oblivion. Your tax dollars helped them develop an over-hyped second-rate hybrid vehicle no one wants. If you expected gratitude from GM after all that, you just ain’t been paying attention.
Reuters reports:
General Motors is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit over a suspension problem on more than 400,000 Chevrolet Impalas from the 2007 and 2008 model years, saying it should not be responsible for repairs because the flaw predated its bankruptcy.
…[the plaintiff] contended that her Impala suffered from faulty rear spindle rods, causing her rear tires to wear out after just 6,000 miles.
…the lawsuit demands that GM fix the rods, saying that it had done so on Impala police vehicles.
…GM noted that the cars were made by its predecessor General Motors Corp, now called Motors Liquidation Co or “Old GM,” before its 2009 bankruptcy and federal bailout.
“New GM” said it did not assume responsibility under the reorganization to fix the Impala problem…. In essence, the automaker said, [the plaintiff] sued the wrong entity.
In bankruptcies, the “old” company’s failures usually aren’t the “new” company’s problem. But GM wasn’t a “usual” bankruptcy: bankrupt companies don’t usually get taxpayer-funded blank checks from the government. Bankrupt companies don’t usually vacate claims of senior bondholders in favor of their largest union thanks to a meddling politician. GM can afford to cast the usual excuses aside for Ms. Trusky as it did for its police customers.
We see it as one more reason to never again buy a Government Motors vehicle, no matter how many times they go bankrupt.
Oop. Here’s President Obama back in 2009 announcing that the government would stand behind GM and Chrysler warranties.
– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities
Source: Reuters
