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Bizarre: Rachel Maddow calls Mitch McConnell “Little Mitch, the rodeo queen”

Rachel Maddow, it seems, is fit to be tied that McConnell arranged a vote in the Senate to raise the debt ceiling.

Rachel Maddow is another one of those liberals who’s always touted as brilliant. Brilliant is apparently liberal code for smug and condescending and, in this case, dumb. Really dumb.

Maddow, it seems, is fit to be tied that McConnell arranged a vote in the Senate to raise the debt ceiling.

So Maddow displayed her brilliance by – you’ll pardon the expression – beating a dead horse and repeatedly comparing McConnell to the little girls in Utah who were forced to compete on stick ponies because the real horses came down with equine herpes.

Over at CNN, Anderson Cooper was reportedly miffed by the comparison. He likes to think of himself as the little rodeo queen.

H/T: NewsBusters.org

Two Iraqi “refugees” arrested in Kentucky on terrorism charges

It’s Kentucky, damn it. How about if we just handle this like Daniel Boone would have handled it. Take ‘em out, give ‘em a running start, then shoot ‘em. Let’s call it due process and be done with it.

waad-ramadan-alwan-mohanad-shareef-hammadi — Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, two good ol' country boys from the backwoods of Kentucky

The Bowling Green Daily News has the details:

Two Iraqi refugees living in Bowling Green were arraigned today on federal terrorism charges – including accusations of attempting to kill U.S. troops with explosive devices in Iraq. Waad Ramadan Alwan, 30, and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, 23, are charged in a 23-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Bowling Green on May 26. The men made their initial federal court appearance today in Louisville.

Alwan is accused of conspiring to kill U.S. nationals overseas, conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against U.S. nationals overseas, distributing information on how to manufacture and use improvised explosive devices, attempting to provide material support to terrorists and to al-Qaida in Iraq and conspiring to transfer, possess and export Stinger missiles.

Hammadi is charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorists and to al-Qaida in Iraq, as well as conspiracy to transfer, possess and export Stinger missiles.

What the hell are these clowns doing in the United States in the first place?

Source: Bowling Green Daily News

Weiner “can’t say with certitude” that’s not his weiner. Translation: Yup, that’s my schlong.

Even young Luke Russert, normally a completely unthinking liberal tool, is a bit incredulous at Congressman Anthony Weiner’s protestations of innocence.

Russert: That’s not a picture of you?

Weiner: You know, I can’t say with certitude. My system was hacked. Pictures can be manipulated. Pictures can be dropped in and inserted. One of the reasons I’ve asked the firm that includes internet security arm is to take a look at what the heck happened here was to make sure it doesn’t happen again. But let’s, kinda, keep in mind why this is so silly. You know, someone committed a prank on me. Somehow got access to my Twitter account. By the way, took off a picture that made fun of the name Weiner and that’s what happened here.

Russert: But, Congressman, you would remember if you were to take a photograph of yourself like that.

Weiner: Well, you know one of the reasons we’ve asked an internet security firm to come in is to see maybe something was manipulated, somebody something dropped in. We don’t know for sure what happened here. But let’s try to take a step back. You know, this is a circumstance where someone committed a prank on the internet where someone spoofed me, made fun of me, whatever. We’re taking it seriously in as much we want to make sure it doesn’t happen again but this story has become a little bit out of control to the point that people are asking me, and asking people who follow me on Twitter, you know, personal questions. People are asking what other things are in your internet, on your, on your database.

Russert: But, fair enough. You will not flat-out deny that that photograph is not you?

Weiner: Here what happens I will say: I will say that we’re trying to figure out exactly what happened here. Whether a photograph was manipulated that was found in my account, whether something was dropped into my account, whether a photograph was partially my account, you know. Jon Stewart might have that right last night.

Russert: So, you never intentionally sent anything to Ms. Cordova?

Weiner: No. Nothing. She says that. I’m saying that. I’ve said that since Saturday when I said that originally. Look, this is a prank, intended I believe to make fun of me and to throw me off my game. I confess that it’s done that a little more than I would have liked.

Hey, you know what? The Editor hasn’t done a Cops reference in a couple weeks, so it may be time to mention his favorite episode of his favorite TV show again.

The cops arrest a suspected drug user. They frisk him and find drugs in his pocket.

His excuse? “These aren’t my pants.”

In a similar vein (and we hope you’ll overlook our use of the word ‘vein” in this context), Weiner now says, “Those may or may not be my underpants.”

Bad boys, bad boys, whatchu gonna do when they come for you?

H/T: NewsBusters.org

Weinergate: Wolf Blitzer says “I don’t think this story is going away.” Chris Matthews tries to prove him wrong.

Believe it or not, CNN has been on top of the Weinergate story. MSNBC, on the other hand, seems to find the story less than interesting.

Believe it or not, CNN has been on top of the Weinergate story. The normally leftist network has covered the story as if that was a Republican erection in Anthony Weiner’s pants.

MSNBC, on the other hand, seems to find the story less than interesting.

Here’s a funny juxtaposition of two video clips. In the first, Wolf Blitzer says, “I don’t think ths story is going away” despite Weiner’s attempts to make it do just that.

In the second, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews devotes less than seconds to the story.

H/T: Brietbart.tv here and here

Gallup: Americans don’t want electric cars no matter how expensive gas gets

No matter how hard the Obama administration tries to cram these lemons down our throats, America doesn’t want them. Not even if gas goes to $10 a gallon.

The headline on a recent Gallup poll cracked us up: “Electric Cars Not an Attractive Option to Many Americans.”

It might just as well have read “Americans Don’t Like Getting Poked In the Eyes With Sharp Sticks” or maybe “Americans Like Pounding Their Heads Against the Wall Because It Feels So Good When They Stop.”

The bottom line: No matter how hard the Obama administration tries to cram these lemons down our throats, America doesn’t want them. Not even if gas goes to $10 a gallon.

barack obama electric car — We're willing to bet the immense IHTM fortune that this is the only electric car Barack Obama will ever drive

Gallup has the details:

Americans are less likely to say they would buy an electric car than they are to say they would buy a more fuel-efficient one if gas prices rise to the $5-per-gallon range. Just 12% say at that price, they would be willing to buy such a car that they could drive only a limited number of miles at one time. Another 10% would make such a purchase if gas prices are in the $6- to $7.99-per-gallon range and another 9% if gas prices reach $8 to $10 per gallon. Still, 57% say they would not buy such an electric car no matter the price of gas.

High-income Americans are about twice as likely as those with low incomes to say they would purchase an electric car if gas prices rose to the $5 range. Otherwise, no matter whether respondents view higher prices as temporary or permanent, or the degree of financial hardship high gas prices are causing them, electric cars are equally unpopular as a response to high gas prices.

Who cares? Certainly not an administration committed to destroying the oil industry. Not an administration that believes in the religion of global warming. Not an administration that’s committed to “fundamentally changing America.”

And therein lies the rub. You can fundamentally change America all day long, but you can’t change market forces.

Source: Gallup

Green energy update: It don’t take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Or don’t blow.

They said the world was running out of oil and wind power was the answer. Damn it. Now it looks like the world’s running out of wind, too.

Greens were soooo confident that they had finally come up with a winning argument when they said the world was running out of oil and wind power was the answer. Damn it. Now it looks like the world’s running out of wind, too.

windmill-uk — Hmmmmm. What happens to offshore wind farms when they're lost to rising sea levels?

The Telegraph UK tells about the latest ill winds blowing for the green movement:

According to government figures, 13 of the past 16 months have been calmer than normal – while 2010 was the “stillest” year of the past decade.

Meteorologists believe that changes to the Atlantic jet stream could alter the pattern of winds over the next 40 years and leave much of the nation’s growing army of power-generating turbines becalmed…

Last year, wind speeds over the UK averaged 7.8 knots (8.9mph), a fall of 20 per cent on 2008, and well below the mean for this century, which stands at 9.1 knots (10.5mph)…

Meteorologists have found that the position of the jet stream has been influenced by the lower levels of activity on the Sun.

The sun? The sun? What kind of poppycock is that? What could the sun possibly have to do with the earth’s climate?

Damn deniers.

Source: Telegraph UK

How’s that Muslim outreach going? Al Jazeera headlines article “Emperor Obama vs the Arab people”

According to Al Jazeera, President Obama’s even less popular in the Arab world than he is in the United States.

President Obama made his Cairo speech soon after taking office. Then he used his unparalleled powers of persuasion again a couple weeks ago to speak out to the Muslim world once again.

According to Al Jazeera, President Obama’s even less popular in the Arab world than he is in the United States:

angry-muslim — Anyone know how to say "Hope and change" in Arabic?

While dubbing his speech Winds of Change, in reference to the uprisings ongoing across the Arab World, his speech made it clear that the same winds were not yet blowing in Washington DC, and perhaps never will. President Obama’s second speech on the Arab world, delivered on 19 May, showed such constancy and lack of change in US policy as his first speech, delivered in Cairo on 4 June 2009. This is not to say that the two speeches lacked flair and imperial hubris in the delivery, but rather that their characteristic lack of substance or novelty, let alone their decorative and gratuitous verbosity, demonstrate that imperial climate control in Washington can never be “changed”, not even by the wind of the Arab uprisings.

The problem with US policy in the Arab world is not only its insistence on broadcasting credulous US propaganda – easily fed to Americans, yet with few takers elsewhere in the world – but also that it continues to show a complete lack of familiarity with Arab political culture and insists on insulting the intelligence of most Arabs, whom it claims to address directly with speeches such as Mr Obama’s.

… When Obama speaks of how America’s “short-term interests” in the region, at times, “don’t align perfectly with our long-term vision for the region”, he is peddling the biggest imperial lie of all. America’s short- and long-term interests in the region have always been control of oil resources, securing US profits, and defending Israel. Until “winds of change” blow on these interests, the position of the United States as the most powerful anti-democratic force in the Arab World will remain the same, Emperor Obama’s speeches notwithstanding.

Uh-oh. Looks like the Muslim world has figured out the same thing American voters have figured out:

Hope and change is really smoke and mirrors.

Source: Al Jazeera

Weiner proves he’s a dick, refuses to answer questions, calls interviewer a jackass

We don’t know if that was really Weiner’s penis in that photo, but we know the guy’s a real prick. If you ever doubted it, here’s 7:55 of pure, unadulterated prickishness.

CNN’s Dana Bash and an unidentified reporter go after Weiner. Not rudely, not even particularly aggressively, but insistently. They have questions, but Weiner refuses to answer them, instead pretending that this is silly little penis issue is distracting him from the people’s work.

Snide? Condescending? Evasive? Anyone have a thesaurus handy.

We cannot deny that we’d like to see Weiner roasted.

Get it? Weiner. Roasted.

Eat your heart out Mark Twain.

DNC chair confuses illegal illegal aliens with legal illegal aliens. Or something like that.

In this video clip, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz displays the remarkable intelligence that earned her the job of DNC Chair. Or maybe the intelligence of a chair. We’re not sure which.

Here’s what she said late last week about illegal aliens:

“I think the president was clearly articulating that his position, the Democrats’ position, is that we need comprehensive immigration reform. We have 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country that are part of the backbone of our economy. And that is not only a reality but a necessity. And that it would be harmful if — the Republican solution that I’ve seen in the last three years is that we should just pack them all up and ship them back to their own countries, and that, in fact, it should be a crime and we should arrest them all. I mean that was the legislation that Jim Sensenbrenner advanced a couple of years ago.”

Shocking. Those damn Republicans want to treat criminals as if they’ve committed crimes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asJNCKLoLNA

With Patriot Act extension Obama proves that the autopen is mightier than his word

There was a time when a President broke his campaign promises he had the decency to do it in person. That time honored tradition, it seems, is just the latest casualty in the “hope and change” era of this White House. But not everyone is so quick to accept the legitimacy of President phone-in’s latest stunt.

autopen-obama — Hail to the Chief: President Autopen

The Hill gives us a quick sneak and peek at this story:

Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) is questioning President Obama’s use of an autopen in signing an extension of the Patriot Act.

In a letter Friday, Graves asks Obama to confirm that he saw the law prior to its autopen signing.

“Mr. President, I write to request your confirmation that S. 990, as passed by Congress, was presented to you prior to the autopen signing, as well as a detailed, written explanation of your Constitutional authority to assign a surrogate the responsibility of signing bills passed into law,” Graves wrote.

Obama signed the bill into law late Thursday night. The autopen was used because the president was in France, meeting with G8 leaders, and the bill’s provisions expired at midnight.

Graves cited Article 1 Section 7 of the Constitution, which says that the president must sign a bill to approve it into law.

Our personal advice would be for Mr. Graves to try a different tact. It’s no good threatening the man with The Constitution. He has no respect for it. It would be far better to enlist the help of Michelle and Teleprompter. Obama is mortified of those two. And we seriously doubt either of them is very happy about giving up any of their control to Autopen.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: The Hill

Are government global warming experts smarter than a fifth grader?

Whose hurricane predictions have been correct only twice in the past 7 years? NOAA. Who is one of the leading advocates for the global warming issue? NOAA.

Who tries to predict how many Atlantic hurricanes we will see each year? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA for short.

Whose predictions have been correct only twice in the past 7 years? NOAA.

Who is one of the leading advocates for the global warming issue? NOAA.

Who funds this multi-billion dollar federal agency? Those suckers otherwise known as the American taxpayers.

Last year we bet on a trained chimp with a pair of dice to predict how many hurricanes we would see. The chimp almost beat the NOAA experts.

This year we’re putting our money on a pair of fifth grade kids.

Who would you bet on? A multi-billion dollar, taxpayer funded agency that cannot get things right more than 29% of the time or a couple of kids with a 50/50 chance of making the right prediction.

– Written by Whiskeyriver

Tuesday morning Weinergate update: Rep Weiner calls his attorney, not the police

It’s been a long holiday weekend and you may not have been following the news. So let us bring you up to date on what is now being called WeinerGate.

The most appropriately named man in Congress, Rep. Anthony Weiner, is followed by tens of thousands of people on FaceBook. He, in return, follows only 91 people. One of them happens to be a very attractive college student in Seattle who has referred to Weiner online as “my boyfriend.”

In what must count as one of strangest coincidences in history, Weiner tweeted on late Friday afternoon that he is “Heading to 30 Rock to chat with Rachel at 9. #Thats545InSeattleIThink”

At 8:00 pm, a photo of Weiner’s erect penis was tweeted to said same college girl in Seattle.

Weiner claims it was all the work of hackers. He claims he doesn’t know the young woman in Seattle, despite the fact that she’s one of only 91 people he Likes on Facebook. He claims that’s not his penis. He claims it’s all just one big prank meant to distract him from his important work (which apparently is the seduction of young girls on the other side of the country).

BreitbartTV reveals that even CNN is having a bit of trouble with Weiner’s weiner coverup:

CNN’s John King asks a great question: “There’s one way the congressman could try to put this to rest, and that would be to call the Capitol Police or call the FBI and say ‘come on in, please launch an investigation because I was hacked.’ Why hasn’t he done that?”

According to Dana Bash, Rep. Weiner’s office did not respond to that question but informed CNN that the congressman instead has hired a lawyer.

As John King says: “Curious.”

Curious? No, it’s more than just curious.

As one wag said, “Victims call the police. Criminals call their attorneys.”

Hypocrisy: Head of DNC, who knocks Republicans for not supporting US carmakers, drives a Japanese car

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz rails on Republicans for opposing the administration’s giveaways to the autoworkers union. But she drive a Japanese car.

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Barack Obama’s brand new, hand-chosen Chairwoman of the Democrat National Committee, spoke at a forum sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. She was fired up. She was angry. She took the Republicans to task for opposing the administration’s giveaways to the autoworkers union.

“If it were up to the candidates running for president on the Republican side,” Wasserman-Schultz said, “we would be driving foreign cars.”

Why, those damn Republicans! Those evil conservatives! Those awful import-buying, Tea Partying …

Unfortunately, reporter Michael O’Brien of The Hill followed Wasserman-Schultz into the parking lot to see what kind of car she was driving.

Oops.

The Congresswoman climbed into 2010 Infiniti FX35. And last time we checked, the Infiniti was a Japanese car.

This woman could make the Democrats think of the good ol’ days when Howard Dean was the party’s chairman.

Shell game in Detroit: Government lends Chrysler $3.5 billion so Chrysler can repay government $3.5 billion

There’s a shell game going on in Washington. They think they’re sneaky, by the con is easy to see. The government lends Chrysler $3.5 billion so Chrysler can repay government $3.5 billion

When President Obama finally leaves office, we expect him to end up working in New York. Not on Wall Street, but in Times Square. He’ll be there with a card table, challenging suckers to figure out which shell the ball is under.

While you may think this is an odd occupation for a former resident of the White House, it seems to be the one for which he is most qualified.

chrysler-obama-shell-game — Suckers continue to lose the Barack Obama shell game

The Washington Examiner has the story:

American taxpayers have already spent more than $13 billion bailing out Chrysler. The Obama administration already forgave more than $4 billion of that debt when the company filed for bankruptcy in 2009. Taxpayers are never getting that money back. But how is Chrysler now paying off the rest of the $7.6 billion they owe the Treasury Department?

The Obama administration’s bailout agreement with Fiat gave the Italian car company a “Incremental Call Option” that allows it to buy up to 16% of Chrysler stock at a reduced price. But in order to exercise the option, Fiat had to first pay back at least $3.5 billion of its loan to the Treasury Department. But Fiat was having trouble getting private banks to lend it the money. Enter Obama Energy Secretary Steven Chu who has signaled that he will approve a fuel-efficient vehicle loan to Chrysler for … wait for it … $3.5 billion.

“Come on up, friends. It’s easy. Just keep your eye on the little ball. Tell me which shell the ball is under and you can win. Come on up.”

Source: The Washington Examiner

Barney Frank frankly admits that he’s corrupt

You have to admire the audacity of someone who says “If you think I’m unethical, your definition of ‘unethical’ is wrong.”

The Boston Herald is on corruption patrol today:

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank admitted he helped his ex-lover land a lucrative post with Fannie Mae in the early 1990s while the Newton Democrat was on a committee that regulated the lending giant — but he called questions of a potential ethical conflict “nonsense.”

barney frank — Barney Frank is not only corrupt, he's proudly corrupt

Well, duh! Barney’s a liberal Democrat. With most of the media, that ends the discussion. But the fascist Herald is unmoved so Barney adds:

“If it is (a conflict of interest), then much of Washington is involved (in conflicts),” Frank told the Herald last night.

This reminds us of the thief who attempted to palliate his act by telling the judge, “If stealing makes me a crook, then my whole gang are crooks, too!” Our sentiments exactly. Likely Barney recognized the flaw in that logic, for then he played his trump card (no, not the “raaaaaacist” one:)

“It is a common thing in Washington for members of Congress to have spouses work for the federal government. There is no rule against it at all.”

We don’t mean to quibble but it likely wouldn’t matter if there were such a rule. Don’t go by us, just ask New York Congressman Chuck Rangel whose wrist did not stop smarting for several minutes after he ran afoul of those vicious rules Congress makes.

And he’s not the only one who “suffered” the cruel wrath of Congressional ethics. Why, the complete list would fill a … Congress!

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Boston Herald

Obama motorcade stops at a gas station in London. A BP gas station.

Obama’s entire motorcade in London had to pull into a BP gas station and fill ‘er up. And from what we hear, they didn’t spill a drop.

The President of the United States, the most powerful man in the world next to Chinese President Hu Jintao, got a little low on gas Thursday in London. His entire motorcade had to pull into a gas station (excuse us: petrol station) and fill ‘er up.

They stopped at a BP station. And from what we hear, they didn’t spill a drop.

beast-limo-BP-gas — The President's version of the American Dream: Filling your tank with gas that costs $8.40 per gallon

This is London tops off your tank with the details:

Workers at a garage in Pimlico today told of their astonishment after Barack Obama’s car and the presidential entourage pulled up for refuelling.

The armoured limousine, nicknamed “The Beast”, arrived with six other vehicles and police escort at a BP petrol station on Vauxhall Bridge Road during the president’s state visit to London.

Onlookers said the cars took up the entire forecourt when they arrived yesterday at around 3pm.

They also told how the Cadillac – which is fitted with bullet-proof glass and has an armoured body, its own oxygen supply and even samples of the President’s blood – took up a bay and a half while Mr Obama’s driver filled it up with £50 worth of unleaded.

Workers at the station, who at first did not realise who the car belonged to, said the presidential entourage spent £350 in total between seven cars at the station, where a litre of unleaded costs 136.9p.

Look for President Obama to use this event to claim he’s now an expert on the oil industry.

Source: This Is London

You could have heard a pin drop

Some terrific short stories commemorating Americans who fought and died in military service. You’ll want to pass this story around.

JFK’s Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60’s when Charles de Gaule decided to pull out of NATO. De Gaule said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible.

Rusk responded,

“Does that include those who are buried here?”

DeGuale did not respond.

You could have heard a pin drop.

***

When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of ’empire building’ by George Bush.

He answered by saying, “Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.”

You could have heard a pin drop.

***

There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, “Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?”

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: “Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?”

You could have heard a pin drop.

***

A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries.

Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, “Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?”

Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied, “Maybe it’s because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn’t have to speak German.”

You could have heard a pin drop.

***

And finally…

Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on.

“You have been to France before, monsieur?” the customs officer asked sarcastically.

Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.

“Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.”

The American said, “The last time I was here, I didn’t have to show it.”

“Impossible. Americans always have to show their passports upon arrival in France!”

The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained, ”Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn’t find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to.”

You could have heard a pin drop.

H/T: OC Madam

“I don’t care much for Memorial Day”

This grizzled old Vietnam vet from New Mexico sent us his poignant perspective on Memorial Day and we thought you might enjoy it as much as we did.

If you’re a regular at IHTM you’ve undoubtedly seen comments from WhiskeyRiver. The grizzled old Vietnam vet from New Mexico sent us his poignant perspective on Memorial Day and we thought you might enjoy it as much as we did.

I don’t care much for Memorial Day, it reminds me to remember things I would rather forget. This weekend is the beginning of the summer season. People will be heading to the lakes and campgrounds. Boats, beer, fishing and playing, most having no clue as to why they are getting a three day weekend. Most do not understand that Veterans Day is the day we should be celebrating with our veterans who are still with us. Memorial Day is the day we remember, and honor, those no longer with us.

arlington-national-cemetery — No comment necessary. WhiskeyRiver said it all.

I have always thought the two days we remember, honor and thank our veterans should be reversed.

Today should be Veterans Day. Spring is here, the grass is green, the fruit trees have bloomed, nature’s life cycle has begun again and what could be better than celebrating the coming of the summer season with a vet. Veterans Day is about the living and should be celebrated when our earth’s cycle of living begins once again.

Memorial Day should be observed on November 11. The weather is usually cold, bleak and windy, more fitting for the moment. It is a day to remember those who never made it home, those who were lost or buried in some foreign land. It is the day we shed a tear over those who came home in a flag-draped coffin. It is the day we celebrate the lives of those who survived, and now feel sorrow because they are gone.

I hope all of you take a moment to remember what this holiday is all about while you are enjoying your time with family and friends. Stop for a minute, gather them around you then say a little prayer for those who have fought and died protecting our country and freedom. Little John, Stan, J.R. and Bill. I will never forget my brothers and I will keep your memories alive until it is my time to join you.

May God bless America and the men and women in our armed forces. May He bring our sons and daughters home soon, never to be sent to die on foreign soil again.

Unprecedented: Barack Obama turns down undeserved award

Barack Obama has refused to attend a Royal Society banquet in his honor at which he was to be awarded with a prestigious medal.

This news just in from the Telegraph UK’s “Man Bites Dog” Department:

Barack Obama has snubbed Britain’s most eminent scientists by refusing to attend a Royal Society banquet in his honour at which he was to be awarded with a prestigious medal.

"I'm honored to give you this award naming you the bestest president ever."

The US President was offered the chance to receive the King Charles II medal, which is awarded in “exceptional circumstances” to heads of state who have “made an outstanding contribution to furthering scientific research in their country”.

We admit to doing a double take. Not to be cynical, but our president turns down an award about as frequently as Dominique Strauss Kahn refuses a free hotel room. We wondered if due to the language barrier, Obama’s team mistakenly thought he was being offered a bust of Churchill.

The Royal Society seemed to have its own explanation:

A British government source close to the Obama visit said: “The Royal Society was really keen to do something with Obama and they expected him to be very honoured by the medal.

“Instead they received a very short response from his people saying that it would be better for him to visit a state school.

“The inference they took from that was that he was more interested in cultivating his street cred than in building links with British scientists.”

We understand perfectly. Obama has received all the undeserved adulation one man can stand in a lifetime. Pity their response was tinged with a bit of racism, as perhaps was their original offer.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Telegraph UK

Gutsy move: Lech Walesa shuns Obama

Poland’s Solidarity-era legend Lech Walesa said he would not accept an invitation to meet with fellow Nobel winner US President Barack Obama.

The Democrats have put their propaganda machine into overdrive recently in an attempt to convince us that giving the order to kill Osama Bin Laden was a “gutsy move” by President Obama.

They could learn a few things from Lech Walesa, the gutsy Polish labor leader who stood up to the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Looks like he’s not done being gutsy yet.

Breitbart.com has the details:

Lech Walesa, Poland’s Solidarity-era legend, ex-president and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner said Friday he would not accept an invitation to meet with fellow Nobel winner US President Barack Obama.

“It’s difficult to tell journalists what you’d like to say to the president of a superpower. This time I won’t tell him, I won’t meet him, it doesn’t suit me,” Walesa told Poland’s public broadcaster TVP.

Obama is due to arrive in Poland later Friday after the G8 summit in France.

Walesa was originally scheduled to meet Obama Saturday along with other key figures in Poland’s post-1989 transition from communism to democracy.

Walesa stood up to the brutal communists of the Soviet Union. He shouldn’t have any trouble handling an effete socialist from the United States.

Source: Breitbart.com

Religious wackos argue about the end of the world

Oh, these wacky religious fanatics and their competing visions of the end of the world as we know it. Whose version of the Rapture is correct?

SFist.com presents the first religious fanatic’s vision of the Rapture:

camping-gore — Two hucksters present their competing visions of the apocalypse

Outside Harold Camping’s Alameda house at 6:01 p.m. on Sunday, very little (save a cloud of shame and regret) hung over the false prophet’s abode where he and his family waited for the rapture. Camping had used numerology and The Bible to make a proclamation that he and his Family Radio followers would be beamed to heaven at 6:00 p.m. on May 21.

CNS News presents the other religious fanatic’s vision:

In his commencement speech at Hamilton College on Sunday, former Vice President Al Gore told the graduates that global warming is “the most serious challenge our civilization has ever faced.”

Far as we’re concerned, one religious wacko is just as bad as another. We vote for “None of the above.”

Source: SFist.com, CNS News

You are getting sleepy. Very, very, sleepy: British politician dozes during Obama speech

Obama’s speech was so boring, in fact, that British Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke appeared to take a little catnap as the President spoke.

Barack Obama, the greatest orator of all time, spoke at Westminster Hall on Wednesday. It was a rousing, inspirational speech. A barnburner. A classic.

Who do we think we’re kidding? It was boring as hell. So boring, in fact, that British Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke appeared to take a little catnap as the President spoke.

We say “appeared” because we’re confident that Clarke was merely closing his eyes in order to concentrate more fully on every word Obama said.

Yeah, right.

For god’s sake, it’s no wonder the sun has set on the British Empire. Here in America we have to listen to this guy drone on damn near every day and we don’t fall asleep.

Man up, you limey bastards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KMXd_yz3a4

First Lady’s new hair style creates sensation in Ireland

Just as the Obamas stepped off Air Force One in Dublin, the wild Irish winds kicked up and did very strange things to the First Lady’s hair.

Monday was a very good day for Michelle Obama. OK, well, it wasn’t actually all that good for Michelle, but it was an excellent day for snarky bloggers with juvenile senses of humor. And that pretty much pegs us.

Just as the Obamas stepped off Air Force One in Dublin, the wild Irish winds kicked up and did very strange things to the First Lady’s hair.

Where have we seen that style before? we asked ourselves. Then, suddenly, we realized that those pesky breezes had transformed the First Lady into Ed Grimley, the Saturday Night Live character played by Martin Short back in the mid-80s.

Here’s Ed dancing to Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor composed by Johannes Brahms.

Go ahead. Try to tell us the hair style isn’t identical. And maybe the dancing style, too.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner won’t talk about sexual predators at the IMF

Politico’s Mike Allen asked Timothy Geithner if he knew about the IMF’s culture of harassment of women.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner used to be a bigwig at the International Monetary Fund. He served as it’s director of Policy Development and Review from 2001-2003.

The IMF has now been exposed as a hot bed (you’ll pardon the expression) of sexual harassment. So Politico’s Mike Allen asked Geithner if he knew about the organization’s culture of harassment of women.

To tell you the truth, we’re not exactly sure what Geithner’s answer was. He stuttered. He stammered. He double-talked. He said words that didn’t link together in coherent thoughts.

Best as we can tell, he finally said, “I’m not qualified to talk about sexual harassment because I’m a man.”

One of the worst non-answers ever from one of the worst non-entities ever.

LA Times: Obama is so smart that his mouth can’t keep up with his brain

You cannot make this stuff up. Well, we can’t make it up, but Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum can. She can even, we assume, make herself believe it.

We’ve all see numerous cases of the President stuttering and stammering when he attempts to speak without his Teleprompter. Well, you’ll be glad to know it’s not really a stutter. No, it’s merely an “intellectual stammer” caused by the fact that he’s so smart that his big mouth can’t keep up with his giant brain.

It’s not that Obama can’t speak clearly. It’s that he employs the intellectual stammer. Not to be confused with a stutter, which the president decidedly does not have, the intellectual stammer signals a brain that is moving so fast that the mouth can’t keep up. The stammer is commonly found among university professors, characters in Woody Allen movies and public thinkers of the sort that might appear on C-SPAN but not CNN…

Yo, Meghan. Does this explain Joe Biden’, too?

Source: Los Angeles Times via NewsBusters.org

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