Consensus: Only 3% think the Ivy League produces better workers

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 79% do not think Ivy League students make better workers. Eighteen percent (18%) are undecided.

Surely the Ivy League elite would explain away the results of this survey by testily explaining to society’s losers that they don’t produce workers, they produce leaders.

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John Kerry is living, breathing proof that degrees from Harvard and Yale do not make you superior

Rasmussen has the sad news for America’s elite:

Ronald Reagan was the last president we had who didn’t graduate from an Ivy League school like Harvard or Yale, and the highest levels of government for much of the nation’s history have been filled with Ivy League grads. But that doesn’t seem to influence the thinking of most American Adults.

In fact, only three percent (3%) say individuals who go to Ivy League schools are better workers than those who go to other schools. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 79% do not think Ivy League students make better workers. Eighteen percent (18%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Adults across nearly every demographic agree that an Ivy League education does not necessarily make someone a better worker.

We don’t care what the Ivy League’s response to this survey might be, because this looks suspiciously like a consensus and as Al Gore has taught us, nothing’s surer than a consensus.

Source: Rasmussen

Geithner causes earthquake in financial markets, US dollar drowns in resulting tsunami

Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner announced that the Obama administration was open to seeing a global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund.

What would happen if the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States were to announce that the Obama administration was open to seeing a global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund? Unfortunately, this isn’t a hypothetical question.

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Tim Geithner demonstrates his typical lost expression

The Micro Effect reports:

US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner shocked global markets by revealing that Washington is “quite open” to Chinese proposals for the gradual development of a global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund.

The dollar plunged instantly against the euro, yen, and sterling as the comments flashed across trading screens. David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC, said the apparent policy shift amounts to an earthquake in geo-finance.

“The mere fact that the US Treasury Secretary is even entertaining thoughts that the dollar may cease being the anchor of the global monetary system has caused consternation,” he said.

Mr Geithner later qualified his remarks, insisting that the dollar would remain the “world’s dominant reserve currency … for a long period of time” but the seeds of doubt have been sown.

Is Tim Geithner the worst Secretary of the Treasury in the history of the United States? Corruption and ineptitude are bad enough on their own, but seem fiscally lethal in combination.

Source: TheMicroEffect.com

Obama upside down: 66% of Americans say “Drill offshore, baby, drill offshore”

What the hell is wrong with the American people? The first half of this survey makes complete sense, but the second half makes no sense in light of the first half.

What the hell is wrong with the American people? The first half of this survey makes complete sense, but the second half makes no sense in light of the first half.

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Poll results show that President Obama is under water when it comes to offshore drilling

TheHill.com reports the results that boggle our minds:

Rising energy prices are prompting support among likely voters for expanding U.S. drilling and releasing oil from the country’s emergency stockpiles, a new poll conducted for The Hill shows.

By a 66-25 percent margin, likely voters say President Obama should encourage more oil and gas exploration offshore, and by a 50-35 percent margin they favor releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to moderate gas price increases.

The same survey shows that stepped-up GOP allegations that White House energy policies are raising prices have failed to give Republicans a political edge on the issue.

Slightly more than half the respondents — 52 percent — said neither party should be blamed for high gas prices. Twenty-two percent of those polled blame Republicans, while 19 percent blame Democrats.

So you have a President and a political party who’ve slapped a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf and in Alaska and who have made drilling on most government land damn near impossible while you have another party that supports drilling in all of those locations.

Yet likely voters blame Republicans for high gas prices more than they blame Democrats?

We’re not doing our job well enough.

Source: TheHill.com

The Obama austerity program in action: Michelle’s new $1000 purse

Michelle Obama’s new purse is a Reed Krakoff two-tone ribboned large tote, and you can get it at Mr. Krakoff’s website for $990.

We’re simple guys here at IHateTheMedia.com. So simple that we didn’t even know they made purses that cost $1000 nor the difference between a purse and a tote.

WhiteHouseDossier.com has the hilarious details:

It’s a Reed Krakoff two-tone ribboned large tote, and you can get it at Mr. Krakoff’s website for $990, plus shipping I guess. But we don’t worry about shipping. Fedex it, in fact.

No wait a second, you can’t get it, because it’s already sold out, at least in the teal color she got.

Love it with the blue slippers, BTW. It just WORKS, okay?

Of course, Michelle has asked ordinary Americans to sacrifice and this is her way of showing that she can sacrifice, too. After all, she’s not wearing her $2500 second hand dress nor her $540 tennis shoes.

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H/T: WhiteHouseDossier.com

Ay, caramba! Republicans introduce bills to make English the nation’s official language

Republicans in both the House and Senate have introduced legislation that would declare English the official language of the United States.

Well, this will never pass. It just makes too damn much sense. And if by some strange turn of events it did pass, President Obama would veto it faster than you can say, “C’est la vie.”

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Speak Engalish, damn it

TheHill.com has the details:

Republicans in both the House and Senate have introduced legislation that would declare English the official language of the United States and require the development of English language testing guidelines for those applying for U.S. citizenship.

The English Language Unity Act would set out a new chapter in U.S. code that imposes an obligation on U.S. officials to “preserve and enhance the role of English as the official language of the Federal Government.”

Part of this chapter would include a “uniform English language rule” holding that “all citizens should be able to read and understand generally the English language text of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the laws of the United States made in pursuance of the Constitution.”

Here in California, we currently produce ballots in at least eight written languages (English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Japanese, Khmer and Korean) and one language (Cahuilla) that has no written form.

And we wouldn’t be surprised if Ebonics joined the list very soon.

Source: TheHill.com

The girls toss around a football

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard presented President Obama with an official Aussie Rules football. Then the two ladies tossed it around a bit.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard dropped by the White House the other day and presented President Obama with an official Aussie Rules football. Then the two ladies tossed it around so that official White House photographers could capture the moment for eternity.

The thought of the most effeminate President in history tossing around a football is comical, especially since he’s already proven that he can’t bowl and can’t throw a baseball.

We can only assume that he never had any balls during his childhood in Indonesia. Which appears to be the same assumption our enemies are making today.

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Al-Qaeda Cosmo: New magazine offers beauty, fashion and suicide bombing advice for jihadi ladies

This is too bizarre to be believed, but we’re assured that it’s true. Al-Qaeda now publishes a women’s magazine that offers beauty, fashion and suicide bombing tips.

This is too bizarre to be believed, but we’re assured that it’s true. Al-Qaeda now publishes a women’s magazine that offers beauty, fashion and suicide bombing tips.

We couldn’t make up something this bizarre if our lives depended on it. And they may.

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al-Qaeda Cosmo: Think about a subscription for the jihadi lady in your life

The Daily Mail UK has the publishing particulars:

Dubbed ‘Jihad Cosmo’, the glossy magazine’s front cover features the barrel of a sub-machine gun next to a picture a woman in a veil.

There are exclusive interviews with martyrs’ wives, who praise their husbands’ decisions to die in suicide attacks.

The slick, 31-page Al-Shamikha magazine – meaning The Majestic Woman – has advice for singletons on ‘marrying a mujahideen’.

Readers are told it is their duty to raise children to be mujahideen ready for jihad.

And the ‘beauty column’ instructs women to stay indoors with their faces covered to keep a ‘clear complexion’.

They should ‘not go out except when necessary’ and wear a niqab for ‘rewards by complying with the command of Allah Almighty’.

… A trailer for the next issue promises tips on skin care – and how to wage electronic jihad.

We have no smart ass closing line for this story. We are mute with amazement.

Source: Daily Mail UK

Freudian Slip-a-rama: Chris Matthews calls Obama “President Carter” and says he doesn’t work

Chris Matthews committed two Freudian slips in one paragraph this weekend. And we’re pretty sure he’d like to take both of them back if he could.

Out of the mouths of boobs: Chris Matthews committed two Freudian slips in one paragraph this weekend. And we’re pretty sure he’d like to take both of them back if he could.

Matthews: If the Republicans get a real opportunity next year because President Carter, President – there’s a mistake – President uh, uh, Obama doesn’t seem to have a grip on it, he doesn’t seem to be able to pull the economy back. He’s not, it’s not working. Who would be the best to exploit that situation? Because that’s the person who would win.

Freudian Slip #1: Calling President Obama “President Carter.”

A completely understandable error. The two Presidents are now united by such equally inept foreign and domestic agendas that anyone could easily mistake one President for the other.

Freudian Slip #2: “He’s not…it’s not working.”

No, he’s not working. He’s attending parties and playing golf and voting present and showing absolutely no leadership on any issue.

Consider this proof that the only time you get the truth out of Chris Matthews is when he makes a mistake.

H/T: NewsBusters.org

Dana Perino tells the truth: Obama lies

President Obama’s “We’re producing more oil than ever” lie put former GWB Press Secretary Dana Perino over the top.

President Obama’s “We’re producing more oil than ever” lie put Dana Perino over the top.

The former GWB Press Secretary showed up on Fox News Sunday and said, “It’s interesting to me how the administration allows President Obama to say things that are so quickly proven false.”

Looks like it might be time to update that old joke and change the name in the punch line from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama::

George Washington couldn’t tell a lie. Richard Nixon couldn’t tell the truth. And Barack Obama can’t tell the difference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmS31TRslZw

H/T: Gateway Pundit

British leader on Iran boycott of London Olympics: “Don’t let the door hit you in the Farsi on the way out”

That international sporting powerhouse otherwise known as Iran is threatening to boycott the London 2012 Olympics. And the world trembles. Except for British Prime Minister David Cameron.

That international sporting powerhouse otherwise known as Iran is threatening to boycott the London 2012 Olympics. And the world trembles. Except for British Prime Minister David Cameron.

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It's like looking at clouds. We saw a puppy dog, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saw a Jewish conspiracy.

The BBC has the report:

Last week, Iran threatened to stay away over claims the 2012 logo was racist as it resembled the word “Zion”, a biblical term for Israel.

The prime minister told London-based paper Jewish News: “It’s completely paranoid. If the Iranians don’t want to come, don’t come – we won’t miss you.
“It would be a crazy reason for not coming,” he said.

Crazy? C’mon, Prime Minister Cameron. Crazy is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s middle name.

In the 2008 Olympics, Iran one won gold in Mens 80 kg Taekwondo and tied for a bronze in Men’s 60 kg wrestling. That’s it. 73,000,000 people and they won one gold and tied for a bronze medal.

Save yourself the airfare, Mahmoud. And the embarrassment.

Source: BBC

And on the seventh day the Lord created the NIH: Pelosi says it has “biblical power to cure”

Nancy Pelosi argued against Republican budget cuts by attributing “biblical powers to heal” to the National Institutes of health.

There’s nothing funnier than liberals touting their religion. Absolutely nothing. Take Nancy Pelosi, for example. She argued against Republican budget cuts by attributing “biblical powers to heal” to the National Institutes of health.

CNS News has the details of Pelosi’s religious awakening:

When speaking at a press conference on Capitol Hill celebrating the first anniversary of the health care bill’s passage, Pelosi said, “There’s a cut in funding for the National Institutes of Health. This is not a healthy thing for our country because that research has answers, you know, that every family in America is one telephone call, one diagnosis, one accident away from needing the kind of biomedical research that can cure – really have the biblical power to cure in a very, very special way and so to cut back on that research is wrong.”

Holy Moses. The woman is nuts.

Source: CNS News

Liberté, égalité, stupidité: French eco-wackos want to replace trees with non-trees

Trees are so 2010. This is 2011 and yesterday’s old-fashioned foliage has been replaced by Treepods. That’s right. Trees are out, Treepods are in.

Trees are so 2010. This is 2011 and yesterday’s old-fashioned foliage has been replaced by Treepods. That’s right. Trees are out, Treepods are in.

Gizmag.com has the anti-foliage facts:

[A]n initiative from Mario Caceres and Cristian Canonico of the Influx Studio in Paris, working with SHIFTboston, is looking to roll out a man-made forest of air-cleaning Treepods throughout Boston … which are powered by solar and kinetic energy.

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I think that I shall never see, God, a poem lovely as a Treepod (perhaps our best photo caption EVER)

SHIFTboston is an incentive aimed at focusing new, exciting, innovative and environmentally responsible ideas to transform Boston into a more dynamic city. Hoping to help the city of Boston reduce its carbon dioxide, Caceres and Canonico from Influx Studio in Paris have come up with what they describe as a CO2-scrubbing living machine called Treepods, that is said to “embody and artificially enhance the capacity of trees to clean the air.”

The carbon dioxide removal process used by Treepods is based on technology developed by Dr Klaus Lackner, director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at Columbia University. It enables the energy-efficient capture of carbon dioxide from air. He was inspired by his daughter’s prize-winning 8th grade project which successfully extracted carbon dioxide from the air using a fish tank pump and a battery, and proceeded to create a machine which cleansed the air like a living tree.

Columbia University, the city of Boston and the French. Why are we not surprised that the concept of replacing real trees with ugly, expensive, artificial ones comes from that unholy alliance?

We say it’s a sooper dooper idea. In fact, let’s start bulldozing the Amazon rainforest and installing a bunch of Treepods. Why wait? Let’s start now.

Source: Gizmag.com

Police department lowers its standards because not enough black candidates passed the test

Want to be a policeman in Dayton, Ohio? If you’re black, an ability to write your name is just about the only qualification necessary.

If you take blood pressure medication, you may want to pop a pill or two before reading this story.

Want to be a policeman in Dayton, Ohio? If you’re black, an ability to write your name is just about the only qualification necessary. Thanks to President Obama’s ironically-named Department of Justice, an “F” is now a passing grade.

ABC Dayton has the details:

Dayton is in desperate need of officers to replace dozens of retirees. The hiring process was postponed for months because the D.O.J. rejected the original scores provided by the Dayton Civil Service Board, which administers the test.

Under the previous requirements, candidates had to get a 66% on part one of the exam and a 72% on part two.

The D.O.J. approved new scoring policy only requires potential police officers to get a 58% and a 63%. That’s the equivalent of an ‘F’ and a ‘D’.

“It becomes a safety issue for the people of our community,” said Dayton Fraternal Order of Police President, Randy Beane. “It becomes a safety issue to have an incompetent officer next to you in a life and death situation.”

“The NAACP does not support individuals failing a test and then having the opportunity to be gainfully employed,” agreed Dayton NAACP President Derrick Foward.

… “If you lower the score for any group of people, you’re not getting the best qualified people for the job,” Foward said.

Welcome to America 2011, where the color of your skin is more important than the content of your skull.

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

Source: ABC Dayton

Forget Libya, Japan and unemployment. President Obama uses weekly address to discuss the important issues.

President Obama is a big thinker. He can’t be bothered with minor issues like Libya and Japan. As he demonstrated in his weekly address to the nation, he’s zeroed in on the one issue that is greatest concern to every American: equal pay for women.

Civil War is Libya, not so important. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan, ditto. Unemployment, no big deal.

President Obama is a big thinker. He can’t be bothered with minor issues like that. As he demonstrated in his weekly address to the nation, he’s zeroed in on the one issue that is greatest concern to every American – equal pay for women.

Seriously.

Holy moly: Bill Maher tells Muslim Congressman that the Koran is a hate-filled book. And worse.

HBO’s Bill Maher went off on pseudo-crying Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison. If he gets sued, we’re pretty sure he’ll cop the temporary sanity plea.

Somebody get us the smelling salts because we’re feeling a little faint. HBO’s Bill Maher went off on pseudo-crying Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison. If he gets sued, we’re pretty sure he’ll cop the temporary sanity plea.

Mediaite.com has the remarkable turn of events:

Ellison, who was raised Catholic, said he was drawn to Islam initially due to a message of “inclusion and “social justice,” and spoke of the need for “religious pluralism” in society. It was smooth sailing at that point – Maher even said “right on.” But then, Maher went off on radical Islam, deeming “the threat, potentially, from radicalized Muslims…a unique and greater threat” – one, he said, that’s in its “medieval era.” In addition, he cited “trying to get nuclear weapons” and a “culture of suicide bombing.”

But that paled next to Maher’s criticism of the Qur’an, which he called a “hate-filled holy book…which is taken very literally” by radical Islamic terrorists. Ripping suicide bombers is one thing…maligning the holy book for the entirety of Islam is quite another. Ellison, of course, disagreed, saying Maher was “lumping together things that shouldn’t be lumped together,” and that terrorists “take things out of context to do what they want to do” – in fact, that “terrorist rhetoric” has little to do with religion at all.

Maher allowed that the “vast, vast giant majority of Muslims aren’t the problem,” but added that with terrorists, “it just takes one.” Maher also seemed unconvinced of Ellison’s Qur’an defense, even as Ellison cited a passage that claims that taking one life is akin to killing the whole world, and saving a life is like saving the entire world: “Am I getting the wrong translation? ‘Cause that’s what every Muslim always tells me.”

Maher’s Hollywood friends – we know you’re probably wondering how someone as vile as Maher could have friends, but please note that we said Hollywood friends. Everyone knows that Hollywood friends have nothing in common with real friends. Hollywood friends are just people who do that Sopranos hug and back slap thing to people they secretly loathe at awards shows and then pray that the person they’re hugging and slapping never gets another role because that would be one less role that they could get and Hollywood is fueled by equal quantities of jealosy and deception. And, of course, cocaine…

Anyway, as we were saying, Maher’s Hollywood friends are undoubtedly staging an intervention at this very moment.

H/T: Mediaite.com

Rand in command: Senator Paul reams an official from the Energy Department

Rand Paul tells an official from the energy department to stay out of his bathroom, out of his bedroom, out of his kitchen, out of his whole friggin’ life.

We’re really starting to like this Rand Paul guy. In this clip he tells an official from the energy department to stay out of his bathroom, out of his bedroom, out of his kitchen, out of his whole friggin’ life.

It was all prompted by the department’s idiotic light bulb energy efficiency regulations.

If Paul is willing to do this after just two months on the job, think how much fun he’s going to have in the next six years.

Go, Rand, go.

Costumed Madison protesters reveal the problem with government unions

Protesters dressed as dairy cows marched in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday.

Protesters dressed as dairy cows marched in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday.

Years ago, the Editor used to drop in unannounced at his friendly competitor’s office. One day one of the competitor’s employees approached the Editor in the hallway and angrily said, “Know what’s wrong with this place? Too many milkers, not enough cows.”

And that, friends, is the problem with socialism as unwittingly demonstrated by the protesters in Madison.

Case closed.

H/T: Gateway Pundit

Pay up, Mr. President: Obama owes Springfield, Illinois $55,457

In 2008, Candidate Obama held a campaign rally at Illinois’ Old State Capitol to announce Joe Biden as his running mate. Now they are stiffing the city for the cost of security.

Springfield mayor Frank Edwards is pissed off. Back in August 2008, Presidential candidate Barack Obama held a campaign rally at Illinois’ Old State Capitol to announce Joe Biden as his running mate. Now the deadbeat and the running mate are stiffing the city for the cost of security.

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Barack Obama and Joe Biden pause for a moment to think about the money they owe Springfield, Illinois

St. Louis Today has the details of the mayor’s debt threat:

Edwards has written President Barack Obama seeking the balance of the bill the city ran up for police when the then-candidate visited in 2008 to announce his running mate.

The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reports that the city submitted a bill for $68,139. It’s still owed $55,457.

The interim mayor says there appears to be confusion about whether the Secret Service or the White House owes the money.

Edwards wrote that “sometimes only the executive himself can cut through such inter-departmental differences of opinion.”

He says he’s not trying to embarrass anyone, but times are tight.

If President Obama can’t scrape together enough cash to pay this bill, perhaps he should handle it the same way he pays every other bill:

Borrow the money from China.

Source: St Louis Today

Columbia students explain how to fight Islamic terrorism: All you need is love

O’Reilly producer Jesse Watters took his camera to Columbia University to ask the question, “Is there a Muslim problem in the world?”

O’Reilly producer Jesse Watters took his camera to Columbia University to ask the question, “Is there a Muslim problem in the world?”

Of course, our intellectual superiors living in the ivory towers of academe think the answer is no.

We would have world peace, though, if we just had more love and less Fox News.

Probe into oil costs could prove only thing higher than gas prices is Obama

He wants to know why gas costs so much, and he wants to make sure no funny stuff is going on with the markets.

Challenging times demand timely challenges. And just as JFK once spurred the country to greatness with words of leadership, wisdom and inspiration -so now has BO laid forth his challenge to this nation of ours. But instead of merely landing a man on the moon and returning him safely Obama has given the country a far more exacting mandate. He wants to know why gas costs so much, and he wants to make sure no funny stuff is going on with the markets.

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If you think gas prices are high now, wait 'til you see where Obama's policies take them in the future

Marketwatch has the score:

President Barack Obama ordered a probe into potential gasoline price-gouging on Friday and said the government is watching for manipulation in oil markets.

Speaking at a White House press conference, Obama said he’s asked his attorney general and U.S. government agencies to work with state attorneys general to monitor for gasoline-price gouging, “to make sure that nobody is taking advantage of working families at the pump.”

As good American subjects, we here at IHateTheMedia.com have heard the President’s call and will answer.

Dear Mr. Obama:

Gas prices are high for a number of reasons. Here are some of the biggies:

1. You’ve decreased supply by banning drilling in the Gulf and ANWR. There has been no such similar decrease in demand. Scarcity of the resource has increased its value.

2. Congress has mandated the combining of gasoline with ethanol. This ethanol has led to food shortages across the world. These food shortages have resulted in the destabilization of oil producing nations. Speculation on the further scarcity of oil, due to regional difficulties, has greatly increased the price of gasoline.

3. The government taxes the hell out of it.

4. Your economic policies have destroyed the value of the dollar. As a consequence it takes more of them to buy every barrel of oil.

With warmest personal regards,

The Guys at IHateTheMedia.com

P.S.: Please say hi to Barney Frank and tell her we really think she’s a swell gal.

Oh, my god, we crack ourselves up.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: MarketWatch.com

Britain outlaws breast milk ice cream, destroying another brilliant IHTM business idea

Damn it! We were this close to joining the legends of American business. This close, we tell you. But now it looks like our new chain of IHTM 16 Flavors Human Breast Milk Ice Cream stores will never come to be.

Damn it! We were this close to joining the legends of American business. This close, we tell you. But now it looks like our new chain of IHTM 17 Flavors Human Breast Milk Ice Cream stores will never come to be.

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Naturally, every ice cream cone at the IHTM 17 Flavors Human Breast Milk Ice Cream store was going to be a double scoop

ClickOnDetroit.com has the details of our demise:

A spokeswoman from Westminster City Council said it was responding to two complaints from the public over whether a shop should be selling edibles made from other people’s bodily fluids and awaiting guidance from Britain’s Food Standards Agency. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with council policy.

The official said the ice cream, marketed as “Baby Gaga” and launched last week, is being tested with the full cooperation of The Icecreamists, the parlor marketing the dessert.

Viruses, including hepatitis, can be passed on through breast milk.

You’re probably asking yourself, “Gee, I wonder what flavors were going to be served at IHTM’s 17 Flavors Human Breast Milk Ice Cream Stores.” Please allow us to elucidate:

1. Fudge-Suckle
2. Pam Anderson Silicone Surprise
3. Whoopi’s Bitter Chocolate
4. Michelle’s Fudge Ripple
6. Cherry Boobilee
7. Melon Twist
8. Old-Fashioned Vanilla: Just Like Mom Used To Make
9. Boob-berry
10. Booblegum
11. Aerola Granola
12. Ta-ta Tapioca
13. Reese’s Peanut Butter C-Cup
14. Double Coconut
15. Strawberry Double D-Light
16. Areola Oreola Cookie Dough
17. Nipplepolitan

Unfortunately, we suspect that this is also going to play havoc with our other business idea:

TCBY, the Country’s Breast Yogurt.

Source: ClickOnDetroit

Conservative? Nah. Libertarian? Nah. NPR’s interim CEO is a Democrat political donor.

File this one in the folder labeled “Least Surprising Things That Have Happened This Week.” NPR has whipped out its corporate cookie cutter and used it to replace disgraced CEO Vivian Schiller.

File this one in the folder labeled “Least Surprising Things That Have Happened This Week.” NPR has whipped out its corporate cookie cutter and used it to replace disgraced CEO Vivian Schiller.

The Daily Caller has the details:

If NPR is trying demonstrate in the wake of the video scandal that it embraces a diversity of viewpoints and is not the left-wing outlet it has been portrayed to be, its first move after the resignation of president and CEO Vivian Schiller isn’t a particularly good start.

After Schiller announced her resignation on Wednesday, the NPR Board of Directors promptly named Joyce Slocum as NPR’s interim CEO. According to a statement from NPR, Slocum’s appointment was part of a CEO succession plan adopted by the Board in 2009. Slocum, however, appears to be just another Democrat.

According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics website OpenSecrets.org, Slocum has donated $3,480 dating back to 1999 — all to Democratic candidates.

This barely qualifies as news. News would have been if they had hired someone who had even once in his or her life donated to a conservative. Or someone who would even admit to knowing one.

Yeah, if that were to happen NPR would be forced to do one of those “We interrupt this broadcast for this special news bulletin” announcements.

Source: Daily Caller

It’s corkscrewed and we’re screwed: Trash collectors won’t pick up new energy-saving bulbs

Think of it as central planning at its finest: Enviromental wackos hate current technology. Government changes regulations to please wackos. Law of unintended consequences bites us all in the ass.

Think of it as central planning at its finest: Enviromental wackos hate current technology. Government changes regulations to please wackos. Law of unintended consequences bites us all in the ass.

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The way we understand the theory, this light bulb will save the environment by spewing poisonous mercury into the atmosphere. Maybe we're missing a few details.

The Daily Mail UK has the details:

Councils across the UK are refusing to pick up low-energy lightbulbs from homes as they contain toxic mercury, which gives off poisonous vapours.

But confused consumers are putting the new bulbs — classed as hazardous waste — in their dustbins when they burn out, potentially putting the safety of thousands of binmen at risk.

… A study by Germany’s Federal Environment Agency found that when [a compact fluorescent bulb] breaks, it emits levels of toxic vapour up to 20 times higher than the safe guideline limit for an indoor area.

The Republicans are making some muted noises about repealing the law behind this idiotic lightbulb, but we don’t expect them to see the light until it’s too late.

Source: Daily Mail UK

He should name it Hollywood Pork: Texas farmer holds pig races next to new mosque

A group of Muslims bought some land in Texas, but apparently never bothered to check out how the neighboring land was being used. That was an unfortunate lapse…

This story is from 2008, but we’d never seen it until it was emailed to us by Miles, the Editor’s tax guy:

A group of Muslims bought some land in Texas, but apparently never bothered to check out how the neighboring land was being used. That was an unfortunate lapse, because the land adjacent to the planned mosque was a pig farm.

The owner of the pig farm got pissed off when the Imam called him a liar at a local planning commission meeting. So instead of getting rid of his pigs he built a track and began training the porkers to race. Now he holds pig races each week during the mosque’s Friday night services.

The pig races are pretty funny on their own, but as far as we’re concerned, the highlight of the video clip is right at the beginning when Shep Smith tries to keep a straight face while his production crew cracks up in the background.

H/T: Miles, the Editor’s Tax Guy

Ba-da-bling: Melee breaks out at rap music awards show

You’ve got to be kidding. No way. You’re not serious. A giant free-for-all broke out at a rap music awards ceremony? Didn’t see that one coming.

You’ve got to be kidding. No way. You’re not serious. A giant free-for-all broke out at a rap music awards ceremony? Didn’t see that one coming.

MyFoxDC.com has the fisticuffular facts:

Arlington police say a brawl broke out during the DMV music awards ceremony, sending one person to a local hospital.

Police say five people were treated Saturday night at the scene of the awards ceremony, which honors local rap, hip-hop and R&B performers.

About 1,500 people attended the ceremony at the Crystal City Hyatt, and witnesses said more than 20 police vehicles responded to deal with a half dozen fights that broke out.

It gives the term “rap sheet” a new meaning.

Source: MyFoxDC.com

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