The University of California will spend $140 million raised from increased student tuition to give raises to professors.
In a move that makes Marie Antoinette’s “Let them eat cake” seem like a kind act, University of California President Mark Yudof has decided, as usual, that they need mo’ money.
"Let them eat their student loan documents!"
The University of California will spend $140 million raised from increased student tuition, general fund money and other UC sources to give merit raises to thousands of faculty members and nonunion employees earning up to $200,000, UC officials said Wednesday.
Let’s see, we have a reduced budget due to the financial crisis, we’ve laid off people, the students get a notice of tuition increases every 5 minutes, but damn the torpedos! Full steam ahead! They all need nice big fat raises!
One student sums it up perfectly:
“So all of a sudden they have money?” said Claudia Magaña, president of the UC Student Association and a senior at UC Santa Cruz. “Is this where our fee increase went to? I wouldn’t want to say they don’t deserve it, but I think it’s questionable that all of a sudden there’s money for this, but there’s no money for our services being cut.”
We have to ask if Mr. Yudof is aware that there’s anything unusual going on outside of his little bubble? Like perhaps a global financial crisis?
Perhaps he should go talk to one of the pointy-headed professors in the university’s economics department.
On second thought, they’re the ones who got us into this mess.
Tired of the rat race in the USA? Sick of Democrats and Republicans and their never-ending screw-jobs? Have we got a deal for you!
Tired of the rat race in the USA? Sick of Democrats and Republicans and their never-ending screw-jobs? Have we got a deal for you!
Yahoo News explains:
Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters.
Islands in the sturm und drangLibertarian countries? So what’s the deal with that?
Thiel as been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch–free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place.
No laws, no regulations, no moral codes? Sounds more like anarchy to me than libertarian. We can’t quite imagine living in the middle of the ocean either, might be more exciting than I like if there’s a hurricane or tsunami.
Details says the experiment would be “a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.”
Will this actually work and people will manage to get along with no rules, regulations and a few LAW Rockets in their closets? Or, is it a plan for disaster?
Their best bet would be to declare war on the USA, quickly surrender and then hold their hand out for billions in war reparations and foreign aid.
Iceland is now sailing along like a Senator’s yacht while we’re headed for the rocky shore.
Iceland is a cold country with a very hot economy. Like us, it suffered a housing-related financial crisis in the Fall of 2008. Its stock market plunged, the country’s largest banks collapsed and were nationalized.
Unlike us, Iceland declined to bail out the bank bondholders (no TARPs in Iceland!)
The economy isn't the only thing that's hot in Iceland (This cheesy photo and caption brought to you by IHTM)
Three years later, we’re flirting with a double dip recession and still have double-digit unemployment. And Iceland? Well, let’s hear from their Central Bank:
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland has decided to raise the Bank’s interest rates by 0.25 percentage points.
…newly released data and the updated Central Bank forecast, published in Monetary Bulletin today, indicate that domestic demand and employment will grow more strongly in 2011 than was assumed in the last forecast.
“Unexpectedly” good results.
In view of the growing momentum in the domestic economy, as is described in the Bank’s updated forecast, the risk that a modest interest rate hike at the current juncture will derail the economic recovery is low…
Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama would kill for that kind of economic news, but won’t do something sensible like butting out and letting the private sector work.
Maybe because Wall St. banks donate big to Democrats and Obama (more so than to Republicans) and are really just welfare cheats in power suits.
Maybe because the collapse gave pols an excuse to create big pots of money (“The Stimulus”) and power-grabs (“Obamacare”) which became sources of goodies for their cronies and themselves.
Or maybe because just they’re idiots who can’t find their villages.
Regardless, Iceland is now sailing along like a Senator’s yacht while we’re headed for the rocky shore.
One comment stated (before it mysteriously disappeared), “If he’s tanking in uber-liberal Cape Cod, he’s tanking everywhere.” Good.
If he weren’t such a dick, we could almost pity Barack Obama. All he wanted to do is take a low-profile taxpayer-paid vacation at the getaway of the rich and famous on Martha’s Vineyard and still he is subjected to the vile raaaaacist attacks which have bedevilled his promising presidency.
CapeCodOnline.com reports:
There seems to be a bit of a sea change regarding President Obama’s popularity, as judged by the offerings of businesses along Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs.
Obama said he was going to fix the sea change.
In past years, shops displayed mainly supportive stuff, like t-shirts extolling Obama’s virtues. However, this year a smirking George W. Bush t-shirt is getting laughs from window shoppers. It reads: “Miss Me Yet? How’s that hopey-changey thing working out for ya?”
A t-shirt extolling Obama’s virtues? That list would fit on the price tag. But on Martha’s Vineyard, the shoppers are laughing AT the Bush shirts, not with them, right?
Also, Sharky’s Cantina, a Mexican joint on Circuit Avenue has discontinued their Barack-O-Taco and Barack-O-Guaco (guacamole) “due to the tough economy,” according to a sign outside the restaurant. The Obamarita still survives on the drinks menu, but it has been joined by a Perry Berry Tea-ni, a martini named for the Texas governor and Republican presidential nominee.
Sure, the “tough economy”. And the Iraqis removed all of Saddam’s pictures due to a nail shortage. The Obamarita survives probably because it’s made with kool aid.
One comment stated (before it mysteriously disappeared), “If he’s tanking in uber-liberal Cape Cod, he’s tanking everywhere.” Good.
Yeah, this is probably one of those phony internet things. We get ’em all the time. But this one is so well done and so damned appropriate that we’re going with it anyway.
Yeah, this is probably one of those phony internet things. We get ’em all the time. But this one is so well done and so damned appropriate that we’re going with it anyway.
That sound you just heard is Hispanic support for Obama crashing through the floor.
That sound you just heard is Hispanic support for Obama crashing through the floor.
Awwww, Hispanic voters are deserting Obama
CNS has details of the latest Gallup poll:
In the same week that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department was going to review the cases of 300,000 illegal aliens in deportation proceedings and allow “low priority” cases to stay in the country and receive work permits — a move House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith called a “back door amnesty” — President Barack Obama’s approval dropped to an all-time low of 44 percent among Hispanics, according to Gallup polling data released today.
That is a drop of 41 points from the spring of 2009, when Obama’s approval among Hispanic Americans peaked at 85 percent (in the weeks that ended April 26, 2009 and May 17, 2009).
Obama’s approval among Hispanics dropped 5 points last week alone, falling from 49 percent in the week that ended Aug. 14 to its new low of 44 percent in the week that ended Aug. 21.
Down 41 points? That doesn’t sound like a poll, it sounds like the halftime score at a Los Angeles Clippers game.
It’s tough to tell the difference between a confused Maxine Waters and the normal Maxine Waters, so let’s just let Maxine be Maxine.
Poor Maxine Waters seems to be confused. We realize it’s tough to tell the difference between a confused Maxine Waters and the normal Maxine Waters, so let’s just let Maxine be Maxine.
In this case, the California Democrat seems to be confused about who wants to do something to turn the economy around and who wants to continue the policies that got us into this mess. In her confusion she lashed out at the Tea Party.
We think we just figured out our costumes for next Halloween.
The Los Angeles Times explains:
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) came out swinging against Republicans in Congress on Saturday as she addressed the unemployed during a forum in Inglewood.
The event occurred a day after new statistics were released showing that California’s jobless rate last month went up to 12%, from 11.8%. California now has the second-highest rate of unemployment in the nation, trailing only Nevada at 12.9%, and its jobless rate is well above the U.S. average of 9.1%.
Waters vowed to push Congress to focus on creating more jobs. “I’m not afraid of anybody,” said Waters. “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the ‘tea party’ can go straight to hell.”
More than 1,000 people attended “Kitchen Table Summit,” which was designed to give the jobless an opportunity to vent to elected officials and share their struggles about finding a job.
Typical liberal concept. “Come on down. We won’t do anything to help you get a job, but we’ll explore your feelings about how tough it is to get a job.
Those looking to remove their data from Facebook have been provided with a rather novel solution. Just be critical of the President.
Recently poor little billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has been the target of more than a little derision and just about as much criticism. Now some of this avarice is, no doubt, the result of jealousy. After all nobody likes the fact that the geek they regularly pantsed back in middle school can now buy and sell them.
"So, Mark, would it be too much to ask you to censor any negative comments about me?"
But an awful lot of it is legitimate.
The laundry list of Facebook problems, however, has just been shortened. Those looking to remove their data from the cyber behemoth – a task sometimes impossible in the past – have been provided with a rather novel solution. Just be critical of the President.
News Radio 550 KFYI gets a thumbs up from us for breaking this story:
Facebook said Friday it mistakenly removed a post in which Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer criticized a controversial policy decision by President Barack Obama’s administration to limit deportations of illegal immigrants.
Mistakenly? Yeah, right.
The Republican governor had said in a post Friday that Facebook censored the item she posted Thursday because it apparently violated Facebook’s community standards.
Brewer didn’t elaborate in her post, but she said Friday in an interview that an email she received from Facebook said the post was removed because of an included illustration.
The email, which she read aloud, didn’t specify how the illustration violated standards.
“I’d like to know why it happens,” she said of the removal.
Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes responded to a query by The Associated Press by saying in a brief email that Brewer’s post was removed in error and that Facebook was sorry.
Thank you, TSA! Thank you for protecting us from our right to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures!
There are many thankless professions across this nation but perhaps none so under appreciated as the good old TSA.
Just like how no one ever wants the police around until they need them, no one ever wants the TSA around until grandma has gone to long without a public molesting.
We think this is Aaron Tobey, but it may be an ad for Abercrombie & Fitch. Tough to tell.
And what do they get for their tireless service? They get sued that’s what!
The Richmond Times Dispatch dispatches this in a timely manner:
Authorities involved in the arrest of a protester who removed his shirt and pants at a security checkpoint at Richmond International Airport were doing their jobs and acted appropriately, a government attorney argued Wednesday in Richmond federal court.
Carlotta P. Wells, an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, argued in favor of a motion to dismiss Aaron B. Tobey’s lawsuit, which claims his constitutional rights were violated. Wells said Tobey had made his point by removing his shirt to display words from the Fourth Amendment written on his torso but went too far when he disobeyed a command to pass through a security scanner.
But Anand Agneshwar, an attorney representing Tobey in his lawsuit against airport and federal officials, said the 21-year-old Charlottesville man obeyed the commands of authorities. Agneshwar said it was the authorities who went too far by detaining Tobey for 90 minutes or longer with his hands cuffed behind his back.
Well, if the vast majority of the public won’t say it we certainly will. Thank you, TSA! Thank you for protecting us from our right to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures! Thank you so very much.
Poor Nancy Pelosi’s not Speaker anymore and now she’s being accused by her loony left constituents in Oakland, California of eating a Satan sandwich.
Poor Nancy Pelosi. She’s not Speaker of the House anymore and now she’s being accused by her loony left constituents in Oakland, California of eating a Satan sandwich.
So what’s in a Satan sandwich? Well, you have one half white bread, one half black bread, you fill it with un-sliced baloney and garnish it with lots of malaise mayonaise. It also comes with a side dish of B.S.
Next Monday, August 29 we will introduce IHateTheMedia.com 2.0. More stories. More snark. More focus. Quicker. Shorter. More stuff, less fluff.
We’ve been banging out this ravenous monster known as IHateTheMedia.com for two and a half years now. We got so excited about hitting 10,000,000 page views that we went off our meds and now our Attention Deficit Disorder is out of control.
We decided it’s time to shake things up, to try something different, to do the unexpected.
So next Monday, August 29 we will introduce IHateTheMedia.com 2.0. More stories. More snark. More focus. Quicker. Shorter. More stuff, less fluff.
We’re going dark this Saturday and Sunday (August 27 and 28) to work out all the bugs and then we’ll go live again on Monday morning.
Everything else will be the same. The same sense of community we’ve built up with our readers. The same trolls. The same semi-amusing commentary (on a good day). The same twisted outlook on the day’s events.
We think you’ll like it. Well, we hope like hell you like it.
He let the meat out of the stew pot about the real Democrat agenda when he said, “It’s a tough fight but we got to eliminate the rich.”
Is cannibalism going to be the new in thing for Democrats? We only ask because now we know what the Democrats really want thanks to Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ).
Frank Lautenberg: Older than dirt, dumber than Joe Biden. A bad combination.
He let the meat out of the stew pot about the real Democrat agenda when he said, “It’s a tough fight but we got to eliminate the rich.”
That reminds us of the song I’d Love to Change the World by Ten Years After.
Tax the rich, feed the poor,
Till there are no rich no more
When the rich are eliminated Frank’s going to have a big problem because his campaign donations will drop faster than the stock market did after President Downgrade and the Democrats cost the United States its AAA credit rating. Not to mention the fact that having no rich will certainly put the kibosh on Obama’s jobs plan and further screw up the budget.
We do find it amusing that President Downgrade is at Martha’s Vineyard hob-knobbing with those very same rich people he supposedly wants to eliminate. Perhaps we should henceforth refer to him as President Oxymoron, with special emphasis on the third and fourth syllables.
Something tells us the Democrats are going to need some antacid after eating all those rich people.
– Written by CO2Insanity
If you want to hear the song here’s a link to a video.
YouTube Video for post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Q1WmvQnJo&feature=player_embedded
This is very cool. It’s the kind of thing that makes all the hours we put into IHTM seem worthwhile.
This is very cool. It’s the kind of thing that makes all the hours we put into IHTM seem worthwhile.
KFI/Los Angeles is a talk radio powerhouse. It features the insane Bill Handel in the morning, Rush Limbaugh mid-day, the hilarious John & Ken in the afternoon, and Tim Conway Jr, our choice for America’s #1 Local Talk Show Host, in the evening.
On top of that KFI is what Rush Limbaugh calls “a flamethrower”. That is, it blasts out 50,000 watts of talk radio power all up and down the west coast. It’s been kicking ass in Los Angeles for about 20 years. And last time we checked KFI had the largest audience of any talk station in the nation.
OK, enough background. Let’s get to the meat of this story:
John & Ken are on vacation. Tim Conway was supposed to fill in on their afternoon show but came down sick on Friday. KFI’s program director, Robin Bertolucci, came up with the brilliant idea of having two guys from Northern California fill in for Tim.
Those two guys just happened to be Armstrong & Getty, who came in #2 on our list of America’s Top Ten Local Talk Show Hosts.
A&G decided to talk about IHateTheMedia.com. How cool is that?
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Marshall McLuhan said, “In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” Since this bit was only 1:44, we figure somebody still owes us another 13:16 coming.
Child advocate Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting professor at Liberty University’s School of Law, said the conference is part of a strategy to condition people into accepting pedophiles.
We’ve heard of nutty psychiatrists, but this one takes the proverbial cake.
Do you ever think to yourself that this is a very sick world?
If a small group of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have their way at a conference this week, pedophiles themselves could play a role in removing pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Association’s bible of mental illnesses — the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), set to undergo a significant revision by 2013. Critics warn that their success could lead to the decriminalization of pedophilia.
Yes, you read right! This group wants to normalize pedophilia and keep pedophiles out of prison. Sounds like NAMBLA on steroids. Or perhaps LSD.
The August 17 Baltimore conference is sponsored by B4U-ACT, a group of pro-pedophile mental health professionals and sympathetic activists. According to the conference brochure, the event will examine “ways in which minor-attracted persons [pedophiles] can be involved in the DSM 5 revision process” and how the popular perceptions of pedophiles can be reframed to encourage tolerance.
Child advocate Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting professor at Liberty University’s School of Law, said the conference is part of a strategy to condition people into accepting pedophiles.
There’s already a great way to get them out of prison. Quit putting them in special housing units and put them in with the general prison population. Removal is fast, permanent and provided for free by the inmates.
While they’re at it maybe they should put the psychiatrists in with them.
Yosemite just spent $4.5 million on a solar installation to save them $50,000 per year.
Due to another government boondoggle Ranger Rick is going to have to tell Yogi his pic-a-nic basket will be empty for decades to come. And we owe it all to the geniuses who run Yosemite National Park.
The problem? Solar energy, something many people and the government think is free or is going to quickly pay for itself.
Smarter than your average environmentally-conscious National Park Service bureaucrat
Yosemite just spent $4.5 million on a solar installation to save them $50,000 per year. They also claim $700,000 in rebates. $4.5 million minus $700,000 leaves $3.8 million net cost, which divided by $50,000 per year means 76 years to break even, or about a lifetime.
That’s bad enough, but since solar panels only last about 25 years it means they’ll have to replace them about 2 more times over that 76 years, costing another $9+ million. Add that to the original $3.8 million and that’s $12.8 million total costs, which divided over 76 years equals $168,421 per year to save $50,000 per year. That’s a net loss of $118,421 x 76 years, a total loss of about $9 million of your tax dollars so a few people can be touchy-feely. (And we won’t even bother getting into the the accounting farce of one government agency counting a rebate from another government agency.)
With savings like that we can all now see why the United States is broke. As one can plainly see whomever approved this is not smarter than the average bear.
To reduce the energy you use while watching TV, take another tip from grandma and share the warmth. Snuggle up under a rug, snuggle with your family or cuddle your favourite pet.
Remember Three Dog Night, the rock band that had a string of hits in the late ’60s and early ’70s? They had three lead singers and the oddest name this side of Strawberry Alarm Clock.
"The dingo ate my economy!"
Wikipedia explains the origin of the name:
…vocalist Danny Hutton’s then-girlfriend June Fairchild suggested the name after reading a magazine article about indigenous Australians, in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep in a hole in the ground whilst embracing a dingo, a native species of wild dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs and if the night was freezing, it was a “three dog night”.
Well, sad to say, but the eco-wackos of the world want to take us back to the technological level of the Australian aboriginies.
Check out the recommendation provided by Living Greener, an Australian government website:
To reduce the energy you use while watching TV, take another tip from grandma and share the warmth. Snuggle up under a rug, snuggle with your family or cuddle your favourite pet.
And if it’s really, really cold, cuddle with Al Gore. That big, pudgy pile of suet could keep your entire family toasty.
One James C. Moore is wetting his pants over the idea of Rick Perry winning the presidency next year. The whining, near-hysterical tone of his CNN “piece” is a bright spot in the Obama gloom.
One James C. Moore is wetting his pants over the idea of Rick Perry winning the presidency next year. Is he certain Perry will triumph or simply crying wolf to scare up enthusiasm for the Amazing Collapsing Presidency?
Either way, the whining, near-hysterical tone of his CNN “piece” is a bright spot in the Obama gloom:
Isn't it funny how the liberal media has suddenly transformed Rick Perry from relatively unknown governor to right wing lunatic?
[Perry] is entering the race for the White House and will spawn the ugliest and most expensive presidential race in U.S. history, and he will win.
In other words, “It’s raaaaacist for Perry to enter the race and try to win.”
A C and D student, who hates to govern, loves to campaign, and barely has a sixth grader’s understanding of economics, will lead our nation into oblivion.
We thought he was talking about Obama until we remembered Perry’s the one who revealed his grades.
[When] Obama criticizes the Texas economy for its minimum wage job boom, [he] will be accused of attacking … working men and women… (Texas has created a large share of the new jobs in the United States in the last decade but studies indicate many of them are at places like Wal-Mart and Carl’s Jr.)
The Texan economy is so terrible, people are flocking there from California.
President Obama will also get beaten up for presiding over the first bond rating downgrade in U.S. history as well as high unemployment.
It’s so unfair to beat up an incumbent president for the problems he’s caused.
… they will write the epitaph to set upon the tombstone of history’s greatest democracy: Perry-Palin, 2012.
Obama already done enough to this country. We say bring it on.
Los Angeles radio professionals named Tim Conway, Jr their #5 on-air personality in the nation’s biggest, toughest, most competitive radio market.
KFI’s Tim Conway, Jr was the #1 pick in our recent countdown of America’s Top Ten Local Talk Show Hosts. Our judgment has been confirmed by Los Angeles radio professionals who named Conway their #5 on-air personality in the nation’s biggest, toughest, most competitive radio market.
Another blatant promotional story for KFI's Tim Conway, Jr. We're such pathetic groupies.
Here’s what some of LARadio.com’s readers had to say about Tim:
• “Incredibly entertaining no matter what he’s discussing. For the first time in a long time I actually turn off the tv at home and turn up the radio at 7 p.m. to listen.”
• “I wish sometimes I got out of work later in the evening to hear more of his brilliance. His father’s comedic genius is in his DNA. Love the ‘What did Jesse Jackson Say?’ bit Also, props to his newsperson and semi-side kick Aron Bender. They have great chemistry.”
• “A brilliant talk show host with impeccable comedic timing and audience connection. Whether deconstructing the latest celebrity meltdown or riffing on a local news story, Tim is tough to turn off. Tim’s show exudes the ‘something is always happening’ vibe on his show. Tim’s humor cannot be found anywhere else on the talk dial. In 2012, Conway should be holding down morning drive in LA radio.”
• “Very funny. A highly entertaining show that does not rely on a politics-only approach. It’s clear he’s following his own instincts instead of being forced in a box. And he’s drawing a much larger audience on AM than he ever did on fm. An enormous, obvious lesson here if anyone is paying attention.”
• “One of the most likeable guys, both in and out of the control room. Conway’s irreverent style has won him a solid following. Some of my favorite moments are when he cracks himself up during the show. Generally speaking, that must mean that his material comes from somewhere outside of his own notes and show prep. One of the last great entertainers and master storytellers on talk radio.”
• “Tim is smart, dryly funny, and unique, a major talent ready for prime time.”
We sent Conway a congratulatory email when we read that he had been named #5 on LARadio.com’s list. It said, “Yeah, well, that’s nice and all, but we’re sure you’re much prouder of being #1 on IHateTheMedia.com.”
He responded with a witty “You’re 1,000 percent right.”
OK, maybe not all that witty, but it was Tim Freakin’ Conway, Jr and we’ll take what we can get.
The world’s second or third richest man (depending on the day of the week) is singing away in the New York Times about how the ultra-rich should have the snot taxed out of them.
The world’s second or third richest man (depending on the day of the week) is singing away in the New York Times about how the ultra-rich should have the snot taxed out of them.
"I gots the blues, the billionaire blues, I gots the silly old white man billionaire blues."
From the official newspaper of record:
“Last year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office.”
Warren thinks the ultra-rich aren’t taxed enough and that they should be taxed more even though corporations already tired of 35% tax rates are relocating to places like Switzerland with 15%-16% tax rates. Will the ultra-rich be next?
When is someone going to get the right idea and lower taxes like JFK in the 60s? Lower taxes and the ultra-rich and corporations will be happy to stay in the USA. Missing jobs and tax money will reappear and the economy will pick up.
If you’re so patriotic, Warren, why don’t you write a check to Uncle Sam for a few billion and get your ultra-rich buddies to write them, too?
Why not a flat-tax, Warren? Then everyone would pay fairly!
Hit it, Warren: “I got dem billionaire blues, ’cuz I’m rich I be tellin’ everbody what to do, even if it makes me look like a fool, I got dem billioinaire blues.
It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack.
Until now, the threats climate change cultists warned us about have been terrestrial: sea levels rising, year-round snowfalls, year-round heat waves, etc. That wasn’t enough to frighten change-denying terrorists, so now the believers are rolling out the big guns: aliens!
On one hand the government says aliens don't exist. On the other hand, the government says aliens will destroy us.
Even the UK Guardian seems a bit skeptical:
It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.
Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth’s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.
When Neil Armstrong said, “One small step for man…”, one of the lizard people said, “There goes the astronomical neighborhood.”
“Green” aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet.
Hmmmm. The aliens sound a lot like progressive Democrats.
“These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems.”
ETs may not like the growth that’s already here. We’d advise rich libs like Al Gore to move into eco-friendly huts pronto.
It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets,” the authors write.
It’s also important for us to limit our bullcrap emissions since it’s likely that frauds and hypocrites can be spotted from other planets, too.
Here’s a video clip that shows a band of those “peaceful” Muslims beheading a grandma whose corpse was later dangled from a helicopter.
Here’s a video clip that shows a band of those “peaceful” Muslims beheading a grandma whose corpse was later dangled from a helicopter.
Unfortunately, if you’re a fan of helicopters, we have bad news: The helicopter is not shown in this clip.
Even more unfortunately, if you’re a fan of grandmothers keeping their necks attached to their shoulders, we have more bad news: That is also not shown in this video.
CAUTION! THIS IS AN EXPLICIT VIDEO SHOWING AN ACTUAL BEHEADING. IT IS NOT FOR CHILDREN OR SQUEAMISH ADULTS.
We’re pretty sure Al lost track of where he was going about twenty seconds and three clauses into this question, yet continued to press forward.
MSNBC’s Al Sharpton is a quick learner. In just a matter of weeks he has mastered the fine art of asking interminably long, convoluted questions that end with the host’s exhaustion rather than with a question mark, something that has taken Chris Matthews years to perfect, and an area in which we are demonstrating our skill with the construction of this sentence?
We’re pretty sure Al lost track of where he was going about twenty seconds and three clauses into this question, yet continued to press forward, completely undeterred by the confusion in which he was enveloped.
It would have been a perfect Al Sharpton Moron Moment of the Day if only his guest had said, “Could you repeat the question?”
At a small, exclusive New York City fundraiser Thursday night… Obama compared himself and his agenda to that of Martin Luther King Jr.
James Thurber’s masterpiece “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is about a milquetoast who daydreams about doing heroic things. We mention this because, like “1984” and “Das Kapital”, it’s apparently another piece of fiction Obama seems intent on acting out.
Barack Obama is just like Martin Luther King. Except for that "content of their character" thing
The White House Dossier relates the bizarre tale:
At a small, exclusive New York City fundraiser Thursday night… Obama compared himself and his agenda to that of Martin Luther King Jr.
“And now that King has his own memorial on the Mall I think that we forget when he was alive there was nobody who was more vilified, nobody who was more controversial, nobody who was more despairing at times. There was a decade that followed the great successes of Birmingham and Selma in which he was just struggling, fighting the good fight, and scorned, and many folks angry. But what he understood, what kept him going, was that the arc of moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. But it doesn’t bend on its own. It bends because all of us are putting our hand on the arc and we are bending it in that direction. And it takes time. And it’s hard work. And there are frustrations.”
Sounds like the arc of moral universe also bends toward non-sequiturs. Or maybe a metaphor delivery truck slammed into a roadside gibberish stand.
We hate to rain on the president’s vacation, but just because someone is vilified, controversial and despairing doesn’t mean he will eventually be vindicated.
Some people are vilified for good reason and Barack Obama is one of them.
Let’s take that $20 million and divide it by 14 jobs, which gives us a figure of $1,428,571 cost per job created.
Pardon us, Mr. President. Here we’ve been wondering where all those “shovel-ready” jobs you keep talking about are and lo and behold we think we’ve found them!
Who needs a golden parachute when you can have a golden shovel?
Seattle’s KOMO News has the story:
Last year, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced the city had won a coveted $20 million federal grant to invest in weatherization. The unglamorous work of insulating crawl spaces and attics had emerged as a silver bullet in a bleak economy – able to create jobs and shrink carbon footprint – and the announcement came with great fanfare.
Wow! $20 million for jobs! Fantastic! Amazing! Pathetic! Wait. Did we say pathetic? Yes, that’s exactly what we said. While this was supposed to create 2,000 jobs the reality is:
But more than a year later, Seattle’s numbers are lackluster. As of last week, only three homes had been retrofitted and just 14 new jobs have emerged from the program. Many of the jobs are administrative, and not the entry-level pathways once dreamed of for low-income workers. Some people wonder if the original goals are now achievable.
Back to those simple mathematics that seem so elusive to the Obama administration. Let’s take that $20 million and divide it by 14 jobs, which gives us a figure of $1,428,571 cost per job created.
Yes, that certainly sounds like “hope and change” to us. No hope and with spending like that, the taxpayers will get no change at all. Not even a penny.
