A woman was thrown out of a theater for sending text messages, she called the theater and left an angry voicemail, and now the theater has used the voicemail in their own ad.
The Alamo Drafthouse is a small, quirky theater chain down in the Lone Star State. It has a strict policy against texting during movies. The rule is simple: Text during a movie and we’ll boot your butt out the door.
This is where the story starts to get funny. Really funny. ABC news the #@$%! details:
About a month ago, Tim League [Alamo House owner] says, a woman was thrown out of one of the chain’s 10 theaters for sending text messages — and retaliated by leaving an angry voice mail on the box office phone line. League said he thought it was so over-the-top that it was funny. They used it as the public service announcement they play before films to encourage people to keep quiet.
“The reaction has been huge,” League said in a telephone interview with ABC News. “People love it in the theater.”
Now if you could just buy a popcorn and a Coke without having to mortgage your house, life would be perfect.
NOTE: In the interest of full disclosure, we must point out that the Administrator has been banned from most of the theaters in our town after an unfortunate incident in which he jumped three rows in a theater to silence another patron who wouldn’t shut up during a movie.
Here’s the Alamo Drafthouse’s public service announcement:
No one would be able to get to Chicago quicker than now. Only in America does anyone call a train that averages 45 miles per hour “high speed rail.”
What’s bigger than a breadbox and slower than a bus? Hint: Joe Biden fantasizes about it. Give up? New Geography solves the riddle:
The state of Iowa is being asked to provide funds to match federal funding for a so-called “high speed rail” line from Chicago to Iowa City.
High speed rail: Pissing away your tax dollars faster than any competitive system
Luxury intercity bus service is [already] provided between Iowa City and Chicago twice daily. The luxury buses are equipped with plugs for laptop computers and with free wireless high-speed internet service. Perhaps most surprisingly, the luxury buses make the trip faster than the so-called high speed rail line, at 3:50 hours. The trains would take more than an hour longer (5:00 hours). No one would be able to get to Chicago quicker than now. Only in America does anyone call a train that averages 45 miles per hour “high speed rail.”
For the sake of accuracy, that last line should read “Only in the Obama Administration…” as we don’t recall that idiot Bush proposing anything this “visionary.” Nor this hallucinatory.
By the way, fares are simply un-fair:
The state would be required to … [make] up the substantial difference between costs and passenger fares. This is despite a fare much higher than the bus fare, likely to be at least $50 (based upon current fares for similar distances). By contrast, the luxury bus service charges a fare of $18.00…
The plan will be workable once Obama decides the Commerce Clause empowers him to outlaw buses.
In the 1940s, F.A. Hayek wrote about “The Road to Serfdom”; now we have hi-speed rail to get there. Progressives are all about progress.
Even Democrat Senator Al Franken (Ugh. Just typing those words still makes our skin crawl) occasionally stumbles on an unavoidable truth.
Even Democrat Senator Al Franken (Ugh. Just typing those words still makes our skin crawl) occasionally stumbles on an unavoidable truth.
Fox News reveals Franken’s revelation:
Things might not be looking so good for President Obama in 2012, according to one of Washington’s most liberal lawmakers. Senator Al Franken D-Minn., forecast a potentially gloomy outcome for his party’s first-term president during a hearing about FBI director Robert Mueller, and the former comedian wasn’t kidding.
“I should note, President Obama could nominate a new director that would be there for ten years,” Franken explained. “In two years, he may not be the President. So I think that bears just a mention.”
While you’re at it, Al, it also bears a mention that you might not be a senator in four years.
But don’t give it another thought. We wouldn’t want too much reality to intrude on your socialist fantasies.
Last week the elder statesman of disgraced Congressmen offered Weiner some advice: Shut up. This week he comes to his defense in a tortured sort of way.
Unlike rational members of Congress, Charlie Rangel seems intent on injecting himself into the Anthony Weiner story. Last week the elder statesman of disgraced Congressmen offered Weiner some advice: Shut up. This week he comes to his defense in a tortured sort of way.
Democrat corruption comes in a variety of styles and colors
The Associated Press offers up Rangel’s latest idiocy:
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel told reporters Friday that he still believes Weiner can be an effective lawmaker, “if the press gets off his back.”
He suggested that other members of Congress had done things more immoral than Weiner, who admitted this week to sending racy messages and explicit photographs of himself to women he didn’t know.
Rangel says Weiner, “wasn’t going with prostitutes. He wasn’t going out with little boys.”
Thanks to Congressman Rangel, we now know what sort of behavior the Democrats consider unacceptable. At least until the first Democrat in Congress is caught with a prostitute or a little boy.
He’s insane. What else would make a member of Congress think it was a good idea to take photos of himself while naked and holding his house member in the House Members’ gym?
He’s insane. What else would make a member of Congress think it was a good idea to take photos of himself while naked and holding his house member in the House Members’ gym?
Time for Weiner to stop hanging out in Washington.
This is just one of a dozen or so photos Weiner took of himself in the House gym. You can see the others – if you’re so inclined – at the TMZ link below.
National Institutes of Health (NIH), has spent $3,634,807 getting monkeys to smoke and drink drugs such as PCP, methamphetamine (METH), heroin, and cocaine.
Pardon us. We’re a bit embarrassed. We saw that headline and immediately assumed it had something to do with Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. But, no, we were wrong.
Much to our surprise, the story about the dope smoking, menstruating monkeys had nothing to do with Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
CNS News has the latest installment of “Let’s Piss Away Your Money On The Stupidest Crap Imaginable”:
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division of the federal government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH), has spent $3,634,807 over the past decade funding research that involves getting monkeys to smoke and drink drugs such as PCP, methamphetamine (METH), heroin, and cocaine and then studying their behavior, including during different phases of the female monkeys’ menstrual cycles.
The study also uses “interventions” as “treatment models” for monkeys who have been taught to use drugs.
Precursor research on drug-using monkeys, also funded by NIDA, discovered that after smoking cocaine monkeys exhibited “dilated pupils and slightly agitated, hyperactive behavior”—which helped researchers conclude that the “physiological effects” of cocaine on monkeys “were similar to those reported in studies of human subjects.”
Monkeys and members of Congress are reportedly lining up to volunteer for the next phase of the experiment.
Dick Durbin, the number two Democrat in the Senate, appeared on MSNBC and spoke that which has so far been unspeakable for Democrats.
With friends like this, who needs enemies?
Dick Durbin, the number two Democrat in the Senate, appeared on MSNBC and spoke that which has so far been unspeakable for Democrats. He admitted that this is now Barack Obama’s economy and the voters will rightfully hold him accountable for it.
Spoken like a man who doesn’t face reelection until 2014 and won’t have to worry about getting swept away in the coming 2012 landslide.
That gives him two years to make a comeback. And with the Republicans propensity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, Durbin’s probably pretty safe.
Here is the dumbest comment of the week about Anthony Weiner and Weinergate.
A lot of stupid things – no, a lot of really stupid things – have been said about Anthony Weiner and Weinergate in the last week, but we think we’ve run across what may be the dumbest comment of them all.
It’s brought to you courtesy of the nimrods at CNN:
Pointing fingers of blame everywhere except where they belong
Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Reps. Allyson Schwartz of Pennsylvania, Michael Michaud of Maine, Mike Ross of Arkansas and Niki Tsongas of Massachusetts joined a growing chorus of Democratic voices that have called for Weiner, D-New York, to step down over sexually tinged online communications with several women that he then lied about.
A Democratic legislator familiar with discussions with and about Weiner told CNN that Weiner’s colleagues are telling him he should resign “to preserve his own dignity.”
“To preserve his own dignity”? Hah! That’s like saying Weiner’s porn star should resign to preserve her virginity.
This guy had no dignity before Weinergate and he certainly has none now.
Ali Bongo is the corrupt dictator of Gabon and, apparently, someone who finds the welcome mat out when he drops in at the White House.
Ali Bongo sounds like some kind of intestinal disorder: “Oh, my god. I came down with a bad case of Ali Bongo last night and I thought I was going to die.”
But it is, in reality, a man’s name. A very bad man. He’s the corrupt dictator of Gabon and, apparently, someone who finds the welcome mat out when he drops in at the White House.
Gabon "President" Ali Bongo looks exactly like Eddie Murphy's version of a corrupt African dictator in "Coming to America"
Naturally, we have to depend on the Daily Mail UK to report the story the American media has chosen to ignore:
The U.S. President will today have a coveted private meeting with President Ali Bongo of Gabon in the Oval Office despite his appalling track record.
Bongo’s family has ruled the impoverished African nation with an iron fist for five decades and have used its oil riches to fund a life of outrageous luxury.
Meanwhile one third of people in Gabon live on less than $2 a day and thousands starve to death each year or are forced to pick through garbage to find food.
Critics have pointed out that Gabon, with a population of 1.5 million, is the third-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa.
They claim that the only reason Mr Obama has agreed to the meeting is that he wants to curry favour with an ally to secure America’s fuel supplies – regardless of who it is.
Yeah, that’s one way to go about it. Another way might be to allow American oil companies to drill domestically and to stop throwing roadblocks up in front of American coal miners.
But that’s just crazy talk. What were we thinking? Much easier to kiss the ass of a corrupt, third world, tin horn dictator.
t’s telling – very telling – that Weiner is more afraid of Hillary Clinton than he is of the President. Unfortunately, that’s not unusual…
Democrats are shunning Anthony Weiner. He’s become a laughing stock. Even his internet paramours have turned on him. But if you think it couldn’t get any worse for the New York Democrat, think again.
The Huffington Post tells the terrifying tale:
Hillary Clinton advises the unfortunately-named Huma Weiner
Rep. Anthony Weiner has lost nearly all support in Congress, sources told The Huffington Post, but the embattled New York Democrat has an even tougher audience yet to face: He has to explain himself to Hillary Clinton, the formidable secretary of state he has come to regard as his honorary mother-in-law, people who know the Clintons and Weiner said.
“It scares me, and I’m nowhere near Weiner,” said one Clinton-world insider. “I get nervous even thinking about it.”
Weiner’s elegant — and reportedly pregnant — wife, Huma Abedin, is beloved by the former first lady, who has kept Abedin as an aide for 15 years. Hillary Clinton even described her as a second daughter when Weiner and Abedin married last July.
In order to zig just when you thought we were going to zag, here’s our take on this story:
It’s telling – very telling – that Weiner is more afraid of Hillary Clinton than he is of the President. Unfortunately, that’s not unusual, because it appears that no one is afraid of Barack Obama. Especially our enemies.
No fear, no respect. The United States of America, 2011.
What the hell. If President Obama can take credit for the Navy SEAL success, we’ll take credit for Sarah Palin’s line on Sunday’s Fox News Sunday.
What the hell. If President Obama can take credit for the Navy SEAL success, we’ll take credit for Sarah Palin’s line on Fox News Sunday.
Yeah, we said this line. It was ours. It was a gutsy call on our part.
Here’s Sarah Palin on FOX News Sunday using our line about Barack Obama running for reelection:
The point is this administration has got to be honest and candid with the American public. The bottom line is their plans for bigger government, more federal control over our private sector, more regulations, and more burdensome mandates on our businesses and on our people, it’s not working. And we do need to shift gears and change course. It’s very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with the sinking ship but I prefer and many Americans prefer that we start plugging the hole that we start powering up the bilge pump and start getting rid of some of the unsustainable debt that is sinking our ship. We don’t have to go the way of the Titanic.
We also wrote the Gettysburg Address, the Beatles’ song Yesterday, and the play Death of A Salesman. But Barack Obama helped us with the last one.
Obama just offered to borrow communist money we’re unable to repay to give to socialists who are unwilling to repay it.
While the media has busied itself with a Weiner roast, President Obama has quietly been focusing laser-like on the debt crisis. Not ours, the one in Greece.
While not one of the 57 states Obama needs for re-election in 2012, Greece is a “headwind” making his failing economic policies fail.
First official photo of the next generation trying to dig themselves out of the hole we dug for them
CNBC has the story:
President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged European countries and bondholders to prevent a “disastrous” default by Greece and pledged U.S. support to help tackle the country’s debt crisis.
Mr. Obama was quoted, “… we have pledged to cooperate fully in working through these issues, both on a bilateral basis but also through international and financial institutions like the IMF.”
Too many nuances there for our taste. Daniel J. Mitchell translates:
The story doesn’t have much detail, but it appears that Obama is willing to brutalize American taxpayers directly (which is what he means by “on a bilateral basis”) and indirectly (i.e., the reference to “international and financial institutions like the IMF”).
Brutalized by the IMF and we’re not even hotel maids. The 48% of us who pay taxes are used to that by now. And the money’s going for a good cause, right?
Another bailout will be a case of throwing good money after bad. And it will exacerbate the.economic damage by delaying the economic reforms that are needed to put Greece’s economy in better shape.
… the other insolvent European welfare states will look at what’s happening in Greece and conclude that they also can avoid necessary reforms and wait for handouts from American and German taxpayers.
“Ooooh, I have an idea,” Behar says excitedly. “How about if I blurt out something crazy about that photo Breitbart has of Anthony Weiner’s weiner.
We picture a pre-production meeting at The View. Barbara Walters gathers her co-hosts around a conference room table in her spacious office and says, “OK, Whoopi made the stupid comment yesterday, so I believe it’s Joy’s turn today.”
“Ooooh, I have an idea,” Behar says excitedly. “How about if I blurt out something crazy about that photo Breitbart has of Anthony Weiner’s weiner. Like maybe, ‘How do we know that’s not Breitbart’s weiner?’”
“That’s so crazy it might just work,” Walters replies.
Not to be outdone, Whoopi jumps in to kiss Walter’s ass. “And then, Barbara, maybe you can jump in and say how attractive Weiner’s weiner is in the photo.”
“Outstanding idea, Whoopi. That’s why I pay you millions of dollars a year to sit on this pathetic panel.”
We’re not sure if that’s how the pre-production meeting went, but that’s how it went on the air.
Columnist Richard Glover says it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.
For some time now it has been the standard operating procedure for some on the left to equate “climate-change deniers” to Holocaust deniers. We’re not sure whose clever idea this was. We are sure that it really wasn’t all that clever.
As is often the case with the progressives this rhetoric could only exist for so long before it was no longer progressive enough. Now, it seems, there is at least one guy willing to ditch the talk of Holocaust deniers and fantasize about incorporating the tactics of the very guys that brought that particular horror about.
Global warming Nazis are on the march
Australian Broadcaster and Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Glover explains:
Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. Not necessarily on the forehead; I’m a reasonable man. Just something along their arm or across their chest so their grandchildren could say, ”Really? You were one of the ones who tried to stop the world doing something? And why exactly was that, granddad?”
On second thoughts, maybe the tattooing along the arm is a bit Nazi-creepy. So how about they are forced to buy property on low-lying islands, the sort of property that will become worthless with a few more centimetres of ocean rise, so they are bankrupted by their own bloody-mindedness? Or what about their signed agreement to stand, in the year 2040, lashed to a pole at a certain point in the shallows off Manly? If they are right and the world is cooling – ”climate change stopped in the year 1998” is one of their more boneheaded beliefs – their mouths will be above water. If not …
L.A. County is now demanding that Alan Fahey tear down his “unusual” home or face up to seven years in jail.
Alan Fahey started building his home 20,000 square foot home thirty years ago in Acton, California, a ramshackle community that sits on the sandy fringe of Los Angeles County. He calls it “Phonehenge” because it’s built atop pilings made of telephone poles.
Unfortunately, the county is now demanding that Fahey tear down the home or face up to seven years in jail.
Welcome to Phonehenge, located in lovely Acton, California
Yahoo News has the story:
A jury began hearing the county’s case against Fahey last week: He is charged with 14 criminal misdemeanor counts, including unlawful use of land. L.A. County deputy District Attorney David Campbell told the paper that Fahey repeatedly ignored city officials’ warnings that he was violating multiple municipal building safety and fire codes and thinks he is above the law.
“He has set up his own arrogant interpretation of the law,” Campbell told the paper.
Fahey’s lawyer Jerry Lennon says county officials were negligent in enforcing their own rules, leaving his client alone for two decades before deciding to crack down.
“This is an exceptional place,” an L.A.-area advocate for code reform, David Lewis, told the L.A. Times. “Most of the properties that are involved in code enforcement actions are not visually striking. It’s something the public can look at. It’s something special that shouldn’t be demolished.”
The Watts Towers, piles of junk that have been designated as a National Historical Landmark.
On the other hand, the city of Los Angeles honors an equally unpermitted and inelegant series of structures known as the Watts Towers. Here’s how Wikipedia describes them:
The Watts Towers … is a collection of 17 interconnected structures, two of which reach heights of over 99 feet (30 m). The Towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato (“Sam” or “Simon”) Rodia in his spare time over a period of 33 years, from 1921 to 1954. The work is an example of non-traditional vernacular architecture and American Naïve art…
The sculptures’ armatures are constructed from steel pipes and rods, wrapped with wire mesh and coated with mortar. The main supports are embedded with pieces of porcelain, tile, and glass. They are decorated with found objects, including bed frames, bottles, ceramic tiles, scrap metal and sea shells. Rodia called the towers Nuestro Pueblo (which means “our town” in Spanish). He built them with no special equipment or predetermined design, working alone with hand tools and window-washer’s equipment. Neighborhood children brought pieces of broken glass and pottery to Rodia, some of which were added, but the majority of his material consisted of damaged pieces from the Malibu Pottery or CALCO (California Clay Products Company), located nearby. Green glass includes recognizable soft drink bottles from the 1930s through 1950s, some still bearing the former logos of 7 Up, Squirt, Bubble Up, and Canada Dry; blue glass appears to be from milk of magnesia bottles.
In other words, the Watts Towers are giant piles of junk, yet they were declared a National Historical Landmark in 1990. Perhaps Los Angeles County should follow the example of Los Angeles City and, instead of prosecuting Fahey, support a similar designation for Phonehenge.
As our reader Kimmy Queen said, “You decide: Should the government enforce safety measures or is the government out of control because it chooses to enforce NOW after 20 or 30 years of doing nothing? Hands up if you believe that they will throw the tax code book at him if he turns it in a museum and asks for donations.”
Now Barack Obama’s inability to speak in public without those trusty devices seems to have rubbed off on the First Lady.
Extemporaneous is not a word often used in the Obama White House. President Obama’s over-reliance on Teleprompters makes it look like he’s watching a tennis match when he gives a speech. Now his inability to speak in public without those trusty devices seems to have rubbed off on the First Lady.
The difference between delivering a speech and reading a speech
Politico reveals the details:
In a Newsweek profile published Sunday, the first lady’s staff members said the first lady will “spend hours and even days preparing for one appearance,” according to the article.
For major speeches, like a commencement address at West Point, Obama will edit drafts by hand, according to the magazine. “Staff will then drag a lectern into her office, where she will rehearse the speech with a teleprompter for days,” it said.
“She demands a lot of herself,” David Axelrod, President Obama’s former senior adviser, told the publication.
Well, that’s one way of putting it. The less charitable among us might say, “She has no confidence in herself.”
As expected, Reuters reports yesterday that the latest rise in jobless claims is “unexpected.” There are none so blind as those who will not see bad news during a Democrat administration.
As expected, Reuters reports yesterday that the latest rise in jobless claims is “unexpected.”
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment aid unexpectedly edged higher last week, stoking fears of a stalled economic recovery even as a separate report showed record exports in April.
Initial claims for state jobless benefits increased 1,000 to 427,000, the Labor Department said. However, economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims dropping to 415,000 from a previously reported count of 422,000.
There are none so blind as those who will not see bad news during a Democrat administration.
Cate Blanchett’s latest purchase might make one think she doesn’t believe her own line of global warming hysteria.
Can we call actress Cate Blanchett a Hollywood hypocrite? We think it’s a reasonable appellation, because while she may live in Australia, but her global warming hypocrisy reaches all the way to Tinseltown.
Sunset at Havannah Harbour marks that moment when the sun sets on Cate Blanchett's credibility
Blanchett’s latest purchase might make one think she doesn’t believe her own line of global warming hysteria:
The movie star-turned-eco warrior is believed to have recently bought a plot of land in Vanuatu, one of the countries hardest hit by global warming….
Blanchett is thought to have bought some waterfront property in or around the luxury area of Havannah Harbour during a visit last year…
Other sources said she bought property around Havannah Harbour, where the property market for international celebrities and other jetsetters is booming…
The Vanuatu travel and luxury magazine Pacifique breathlessly opined: “Cate Blanchett’s purchase in Havannah Harbour has everyone rethinking this tropical paradise.”
Far as we can tell, there are only two possible conclusions that can be drawn from this story:
1. Blanchett has made the worst real estate investment in history because her new purchase will soon be under water due to the global warming Blanchett rails against, or
2. Blanchett is just the latest in a long line of global warming hypocrites.
Anthony Weiner was a man who believed in taking risks. Stupid risks. What he really needed was someone who could have computed the odds for him. Someone like Bodog, the online gambling company.
Anthony Weiner was a man who believed in taking risks. Stupid risks. What he really needed was someone who could have computed the odds for him. Someone like Bodog, the online gambling company.
The Daily Caller has the details:
Odds that Anthony Weiner's pecs have been surgically enhanced: 1-1
All y’all gamblers out there, heads up! Odds are set for Anthony Weiner’s resignation and divorce.
The gambling company Bodog is accepting bets for two Weiner related categories:
1. Will Anthony Weiner resign by July 4th 2011? Odds for “yes:” 5 to 4, for “no:” 1 to 2.
2. Will Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin file for divorce in 2011? Odds for “yes:” 2 to 1, no odds for “no.”
Adam Young, head odds maker at Bodog, explained that a lot of research goes into making the odds such as these because, unlike a sporting event (which is what Bodog primarily does), there is no empirical data.
“We get a feel for what the actual story is and what the opinions are in politics. After we assess that we try to put it into a percentage,” Young said.
Offering odds on unusual situations is nothing new for Bodog. In 2007 it offered odds on Heather Mills [the ex-wife of Paul McCartney] losing her prosthetic leg during her apparance on “Dancing with the Stars”.
Weinergate is very similar. Except instead of wondering if Heather Mills will lose her leg, they’re wondering if Anthony Weiner will lose his ass.
This story irks the hell out of us. So may we suggest that you let out a big sigh before you read it. There. That’s it. Let it all out. Relax. Calm yourself.
This story irks the hell out of us. So may we suggest that you let out a big sigh before you read it. There. That’s it. Let it all out. Relax. Calm yourself.
OK, now it’s probably safe to read about the lunatic pacifists in the Midwest:
Oh, say can you see that not all the students at Goshen College agree with banning the National Anthem
A small northern Indiana college has decided to stop playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at sporting events after starting to do so for the first time last year.
Goshen College’s board of directors says it will find an alternative that honors the country and the Mennonite Church-affiliated school’s pacifist traditions.
The 1,000-student college has been playing an instrumental version of the national anthem, followed by a peace prayer, before games and other events. Some were upset with the school’s decision last year because the song’s lyrics contain references to using war and military might to defend the country.
Art professor John Blosser tells The Goshen News that there is much national pride at the school, but that most people aren’t going to blindly accept what the country does.
Wouldn’t you just know the whole thing would be explained by an art professor? It’s never a professor from the business schoool nor someone from the athletic department. It’s always an art professor.
Cordova, the Washington co-ed who received the fateful Tweet of Anthony Weiner’s weiner, was named “Most Likely To Be Involved In A Tabloid Scandal” in her high school yearbook.
It looks like Gennette Cordova’s classmates in the Shorecrest High School Class of 2007 were psychic.
Cordova, the Washington co-ed who received the fateful Tweet of Anthony Weiner’s weiner, was named “Most Likely To Be Involved In A Tabloid Scandal” in her high school yearbook.
We just have one question: What the hell happened to that slacker Alex Murphy?
Britain’s MI6 and their Communications Headquarters hacked into Al Qaeda’s online magazine “Inspire” replacing bomb-making instructions with cupcake recipes.
We’ve discovered that the real reason nanny state nags like NYC Mayor Bloomberg and First Mama Michelle Obama are obsessed with our diets lately is concern for national security. There’s a good chance that Al Qaeda may have shifted their focus from shoes and underwear to death by cupcakes.
Make cupcakes, not war!
Fox News has the ingredients of a very odd story:
British intelligence agency MI6 and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters cooked up a cyberattack and hacked into terror group Al Qaeda’s online magazine “Inspire” — replacing bomb-making instructions with cupcake recipes, according to the Daily Telegraph.
When followers of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula tried to download the 67-page instructions for how to “Make a bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom” by “The AQ Chef,” the terrorists were instead greeted with a web page of recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America” published by the “Ellen DeGeneres Show,” the newspaper reported.
Terrorists could then learn how to make a mojito cupcake made of white rum cake and draped in vanilla buttercream, instead of making a lethal pipe bomb using sugar.
The inducement to become a TSA crotch-grabber may have just increased exponentially. Besides getting to ogle backscatter X-rays of hot babes, they may now get to eat Ellen DeGeneres’s cupcakes.
We were dying to know if the modern-day Ayers and Dohrns figured out the scam:
The terrorist group was able to reissue the magazine two weeks after the cyberattack and has produced four other issues.
Damn it. Now the only way to get that mojito cupcake recipe is to watch reruns of Ellen DeGeneres. And we’re pretty sure the Supreme Court has already defined that as cruel and unusual punishment.
If the Bump-In-Chief wishes to find the real culprit, he should consider Pogo’s line, “We have met the enemy and he is us!”
Someone once said that success has a thousand fathers while failure is an orphan. But when the prodigy in question is today’s rotten economy, President Obama sees more sperm donors than there were unread pages in his health care bill.
President Obama should look this guilty every time he appears in public
President Obama is pointing to problems in Japan and Europe as challenges for the U.S. economy, placing some blame on events abroad for a domestic recovery that is showing signs of slowing down.
…U.S. unemployment rose to 9.1 percent, up from 9.0 percent in April.
That bump is a political challenge for the president, whose re-election in 2012 may depend on his ability to convince voters that his economic policies have been successful.
We concur. For some reason, convincing folks policies are successful is much harder when those policies are failures. Go figure. Since the “Bush’s fault” meme is getting old, Obama has turned to “Casablanca’s” Captain Renault: “Round up some NEW usual suspects”…
“Lately, it’s high gas prices, the earthquake in Japan, and unease about the European fiscal situation. That will happen from time to time. There will be bumps on the road to recovery.”
The bumps he alluded to are called “Obamacare”, “stimulus” and “excessive regulations” to name a few. And those high gas prices are partially because he feels about the domestic oil industry the way Khruschchev felt about capitalism: “We will bury you.”
If the Bump-In-Chief wishes to find the real culprit, he should consider Pogo’s line, “We have met the enemy and he is us!”
This official White House photo says it all. President Obama’s in the dark when it comes to economics. He’s in the dark when it comes to domestic policy. He’s in the dark when it comes to foreign policy. He’s in the dark…
This official White House photo says it all. President Obama’s in the dark when it comes to economics. He’s in the dark when it comes to domestic policy. He’s in the dark when it comes to foreign policy. He’s in the dark when it comes to the Second Amendment. He’s in the dark when it comes to fuel prices. He’s in the dark when it comes to … well, it might be easier to tell you what he’s not in the dark about.
