Yeah, we know times are tough and this kind of thing could happen to anyone. But, for god’s sake, Ruben Hinojosa isn’t just any Democrat congressman. He’s a member of the House Financial Services Committee. You know, the guys in charge of banks.
Yeah, we know times are tough and this kind of thing could happen to anyone. But, for god’s sake, Ruben Hinojosa isn’t just any Democrat congressman. He’s a member of the House Financial Services Committee. You know, the guys in charge of banks.
The Associated Press has the story:
Do as your party does, Rep. Hinijosa: When you're bankrupt, spend even faster
According to federal bankruptcy court documents, Rep. Ruben Hinojosa, D-Mercedes, has $2.9 million in liabilities, though he also has nearly $1.5 million in assets.
Most of the money Hinojosa owes — $2.6 million — is a claim by Wells Fargo Bank. The congressman says that is due to a loan he personally guaranteed for the H&H Meat Products Co., which went bankrupt.
The Financial Services panel has jurisdiction over legislation affecting banks. House aides and outside experts say the House has no rules forbidding a lawmaker who owes large sums to a bank from serving on that committee.
Well, we’re pretty sure that won’t be a problem for Congressman Hinojosa. Based on his adroit combination of failure and finger pointing, he’s undoubtedly being groomed for a position of great importance in the Obama administration.
But Barack Obama gave that pretty speech in Cairo. But Barack Obama said the world would love us when he became President. But Barack Obama said he’d use Smart Power™ to regain the national stature that George Bush squandered. But…but…but…
But Barack Obama gave that pretty speech in Cairo. But Barack Obama said the world would love us when he became President. But Barack Obama said he’d use Smart Power™ to regain the national stature that George Bush squandered. But…but…but…
Egyptians clamoring for another inspirational speech from President Obama
Investor’s Business Daily reports:
When Barack Obama first ran for the White House, a key argument he made was that he could “heal” America’s battered image in the eyes of the world, especially with Arabs, in the wake of the occupation of Iraq and other Bush administration policies. In June 2009, he gave a much ballyhooed speech in Cairo that the White House dubbed a “new beginning.”
Despite this new beginning, the administration has been largely on the sidelines during the tumult in Egypt, little able to affect or even stay ahead of the events. One reason may be that the U.S. is actually less popular in Egypt today than it was during the Bush years.
According to Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, the U.S. had a 30% favorability rating in Egypt in 2006. That is not much to be proud of, but by 2010 it had sunk to a mere 17%. (Pollster Nate Silver has argued that polls show a recent rise in pro-U.S. feelings in Egypt, but the methodology of that data has been questioned.)
We’ve given it considerable thought and we believe one more speech is exactly what this situation calls for.
U.S. Marines pride themselves on being the toughest sons a bitches in the world. That’s what made it even more touching when tears started rolling down the cheek of one female Marine during the 21-gun salute to Ronald Reagan during his 100th birthday tribute.
U.S. Marines pride themselves on being the toughest sons a bitches in the world. That’s what made it even more touching when tears started rolling down the cheek of one female Marine during the 21-gun salute to Ronald Reagan during his 100th birthday tribute.
The Statue of Liberty says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free.” It doesn’t say, “Give me your lunatics yearning to remain enslaved in a 13th Century death cult and dedicated to the destruction of the West.”
The Statue of Liberty says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free.” It doesn’t say, “Give me your lunatics yearning to remain enslaved in a 13th Century death cult and dedicated to the destruction of the West.”
British Prime Minister David Cameron has figured it out. And he pulls no punches in this speech to an international security conference in Munich. British Muslims, he said, must adopt mainstream Western values of freedom and equality. He also declared that the concept of multiculturalism has failed and must be abandoned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yZgkglFfM
“We won’t defeat terrorism simply by the actions we take outside our borders. Europe needs to wake up to what is happening in our own countries,” Cameron told the conference.
In an attack on Britain’s previous government, Cameron said authorities there had been too hesitant to intervene when some sectors of society espoused abhorrent views.
… “We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run counter to our values,” Cameron said. “We have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream.”
Cameron’s not alone. German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently took the same position:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says nein to multiculturalism
Germany’s attempt to create a multicultural society has “utterly failed,” Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, adding fuel to a debate over immigration and Islam polarising her conservative camp.
Speaking to a meeting of young members of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Merkel said allowing people of different cultural backgrounds to live side by side without integrating had not worked in a country that is home to some four million Muslims.
“This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed,” Merkel told the meeting in Potsdam, south of Berlin.
In the land Down Under, the Australian government seems to have come to the same conclusion according to the government’s white paper on counter-terrorism:
“A … shift apparent since 2004 has been the increase in the terrorist threat from people born or raised in Australia, who have become influenced by the violent jihadist message,” it warns. “A number of Australians are known to subscribe to this message, some of whom might be prepared to engage in violence. Many of these individuals were born in Australia and they come from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds …”
”The scale of the problem will continue to depend on factors such as the size and make-up of local Muslim populations, including their ethnic and/or migrant origins, their geographical distribution and the success or otherwise of their integration into their host society.”
Great Britain, Germany and Australia get it. Still waiting to see how long it takes for France, Canada and the United States to get it.
January 20, 2013 at the earliest would be our guess.
The wisdom of the universe is revealed through anagrams. We went to the Oracle of Anagrams and asked her to share her wisdom about the Egyptian situation.
The wisdom of the universe is revealed through anagrams. We went to the Oracle of Anagrams and asked her to share her wisdom about the Egyptian situation.
We refuse to call this guy Ronald Reagan, Jr. His words and actions always fall so far short of the Great Man’s name that we just can’t bring ourselves to type the words. From now on he is Sonny Boy Reagan to us.
We refuse to call this guy Ronald Reagan, Jr. His words and actions always fall so far short of the Great Man’s name that we just can’t bring ourselves to type the words. From now on he is Sonny Boy Reagan to us.
Sonny Boy Reagan dancing around the fact that he's a humorless hypocriteThe Associated Press highlights Sonny Boy’s latest hypocrisy:
Sarah Palin is honoring one Reagan and offending another with the same speech.
The former Alaska governor is scheduled to speak in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Friday at a tribute to former President Ronald Reagan — just one of the celebrations marking the centennial of the 40th president’s birth on Feb. 6.
But his son, Ron Reagan, tells The Associated Press he doesn’t see anything in common between his dad and the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, who was invited to speak by the event’s sponsor, the conservative Young America’s Foundation.
“Sarah Palin is a soap opera, basically. She’s doing mostly what she does to make money and keep her name in the news,” Reagan says.
To repeat: “She’s doing mostly what she does to make money and keep her name in the news.”
Words uttered by a failed talk show host who’s currently out there flogging a book about his father in a desperate attempt to make money and keep his name in the news.
Newly-elected New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, a Republixan, went and did one of those Republican-ish things yesterday. But this time Democrats can’t cry raaaaacism because as you may have been able to tell by her last name, Martinez is Hispanic.
Newly-elected New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, a Republican, went and did one of those Republican-ish things yesterday. But this time Democrats can’t cry raaaaacism because as you may have been able to tell by her last name, Martinez is Hispanic.
The standard Democrat charge of raaaacism doesn't hold much agua when the Governor is Hispanic
KOAT-TV has the details:
Martinez ordered the reversal of the state’s “sanctuary status,” which prohibited law enforcement from asking criminal suspects about their citizenship. Now, officers will be able to ask anyone they suspect of a crime about their immigration status.
Marcela Diaz, of Somos Un Pueblo Unido, an immigrant rights organization, said this will essentially turn police into immigration agents.
“I think this was a knee-jerk decision that was not well thought out,” Diaz said. “Not only will this lead to increased racial profiling, it taxes resources of limited enforcement.”
The new governor said allowing law enforcement to inquire into immigration status is a big step forward in protecting the public, but Diaz and others believe this move could create more victims.
Obviously, it won’t create more victims, because if it did Marcela and the other Democrats would heartily approve of it. Democrats love victims like drug addicts love robbing convenience stores.
Perhaps this winter’s massive snow storms have convinced Al Gore to change his mind about global warming and word just hasn’t reach us yet.
Perhaps this winter’s massive snow storms have convinced Al Gore to change his mind about global warming and word just hasn’t reach us yet.
Telegraph UK has the story:
Progress: The 2011 electric car is half as fast as the 1830 stage coach
In its obsessive desire to promote the virtues of electric cars, the BBC proudly showed us last week how its reporter Brian Milligan was able to drive an electric Mini from London to Edinburgh in a mere four days — with nine stops of up to 10 hours to recharge the batteries (with electricity from fossil fuels).
What the BBC omitted to tell us was that in the 1830s, a stagecoach was able to make the same journey in half the time, with two days and nights of continuous driving. This did require 50 stops to change horses, but each of these took only two minutes, giving a total stopping time of just over an hour and a half.
Al Gore just called to say that he’s very concerned about the stage coach’s carbon hoofprint.
You have to laugh. You just have to. More than 200 global warming activists decided that jumping into the freezing ass waters of the mighty Potomac would be an outstanding way to attract a little attention to their discredited movement.
You have to laugh. You just have to. More than 200 global warming activists decided that jumping into the freezing ass waters of the mighty Potomac would be an outstanding way to attract a little attention to their discredited movement.
30 degree water temperature + 20 degree air temperature = shrinkage. In the ranks and the shorts of the global warming believers.
After President Obama finished his softball interview with Bill O’Reilly yesterday, he went back to doing what he does every other day of the year: The opposite of what he tells ordinary Americans to do.
After President Obama finished his softball interview with Bill O’Reilly yesterday, he went back to doing what he does every other day of the year: The opposite of what he tells ordinary Americans to do.
On Super Bowl Sunday, that means eating all the fatty, sugary, delicious foods he and his wife tell us not to eat.
President Obama had a big ol' hypocrite sandwich on Super Bowl Sunday
The Daily Caller reports the White House Super Bowl menu:
President Obama and his guests will be eating bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep-dish (i.e. Chicago style) pizza, German potato salad, twice-baked potatoes, and assorted snacks. Despite the cold Washington weather, ice cream will also be served.
In an attempt at bipartisanship, both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania beers will be available, according to The New York Times.
Somewhat ironically, the news comes just one week after the federal government issued new nutrition guidelines urging Americans to cut back on fatty foods such as pizza, sausage, cheeseburgers…well, just about everything the president is eating this evening.
And we’re pretty sure that while the President and his wife were eating pizza and cheeseburgers and twice-baked potatoes and ice cream, they forced Malia and Sasha to eat salads in an effort to go along with the First Lady’s dictates on children’s diets.
Ever the gracious host, Sean Hannity welcomed radical, anti-American, Islamic cleric Anjem Choudary on Wednesday night. He bid his guest a fond farewell.
Ever the gracious host, Sean Hannity welcomed radical, anti-American, Islamic cleric Anjem Choudary on Wednesday night. He bid his guest a fond farewell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRyI7x-rpCM
“Now here’s the point I’m trying to make to you and I will finish my thought. You believe every woman should wear a burqa. You’re a fascist. You want to ram that down people’s thoats. You want to cut off people’s hands that steal. You want to stone people that commit adultery. You want to rob Israel’s land. And, I believe, but you don’t have the courage to admit it because you are a coward, that you believe that people who killed 3,000 Americans are going to heaven and are going to get 72 virgins. So can you not step back from your sick twisted bizarre ideology here to see that those 3,000 people were innocent victims, sir… You’re one sick, miserable, evil S.O.B but thank you for coming on anyway.“
And don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
There may not have been cheerleaders at the Super Bowl game, but there was one giant boob. Pop singer Christina Aguilera delivered her version of the national anthem, which varied slightly from Francis Scott Key’s version.
There may not have been cheerleaders at the Super Bowl game, but there was one giant boob. Pop singer Christina Aguilera delivered her version of the national anthem, which varied slightly from Francis Scott Key’s version.
Here’s the video. Both version of the lyrics follow.
“Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.” (real lyrics) What so proudly we watched at the twilight’s last reaming.” (Aguilera version)
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?”
Is it just us or is Christina Aguilera beginning to look waaaaay too much like Cyndi Lauper?
Believe it or not, MSNBC’s leading Obama sycophant appeared on Morning Joe to harshly criticize the way President Obama has handled the Egyptian crisis.
That thrill up Chris Matthews’ leg has turned into a lump in the back of his pants.
Believe it or not, MSNBC’s leading Obama sycophant appeared on Morning Joe to harshly criticize the way President Obama has handled the Egyptian crisis.
Matthews said Obama’s words and actions have made him “ashamed as an American.” He reamed the President for his disloyalty to Egypt’s leader, Hosni Mubarak.
“Barack Obama,” Matthews said, “as much I support him in many ways, there is a transitional quality to the guy that is chilling.”
“I believe in relationships…” he continued. “You treat your friends a certain way. You’re loyal to them.”
Don’t read too much into this, because Matthews is like an abused wife who has her husband arrested and then drives down to the jail to bail him out. By this time next week he’ll once again be telling us he loves Obama.
There was a time when CNBC could be counted on for actual, factual reporting, but now they’ve obviously become cheerleaders for the Obama-General Electric team. And it drives Rick Santelli absolutely nuts.
There was a time when CNBC could be counted on for actual, factual reporting, but now they’ve obviously become cheerleaders for the Obama-General Electric team. And it drives Rick Santelli absolutely nuts.
Robert Gibbs insisted that President Obama wants a transition of power in Egypt now. But all that tough talk started to fall apart when a reporter had the temerity to ask what Obama’s definition of now is
Robert Gibbs put on one of his more remarkable bravura performances in a White House press briefings last week.
He insisted that President Obama wants a transition of power in Egypt now. But all that tough talk started to fall apart when a reporter had the temerity to ask what Obama’s definition of now is and heard Gibbs define it as sometime between yesterday and September.
This clip shows the entire boring press briefing, so save yourself some pain by going to the 14:45 mark in this clip. (Transcript follows the video.)
Q Thank you, Robert. When you talk about the transition happening now, how do you define “now”? Because now means today not September.
MR. GIBBS: Well, no, now means yesterday — because when we said now we meant yesterday.
Q Right.
MR. GIBBS: So I mean I think the definition of now is —
Q But when you say now today, it means now —
MR. GIBBS: And I meant yesterday —
Q — or yesterday.
MR. GIBBS: This is — again, I want to be clear. This is — though we are in the here and now, now started yesterday. Again, I think that’s what, Dan — what the people of Egypt want to see is not some process that starts a week, a month or several months from now. This is a —
Q So you’re not satisfied with September as an out date for President Mubarak?
MR. GIBBS: If you’re asking if now is September, it is unseasonably warm, but it is not September. Now means now. The transition — there are things that the government needs to do. There are reforms that need to be undertaken, and there are opposition entities that have to be included in the conversations as we move toward free and fair elections that we’ve advocated for quite some time.
Q So is the White House then satisfied with Mubarak in power until September?
MR. GIBBS: Again, I am not going to get into all the details of what they discussed. The conversation was frank and the transition must begin now.
Bill Clinton said, “It all depends on what your definition of is is.” The Gibbs Corollary is, “The definition of now is different now than it was then.”
One tells jokes, the other one is a joke, as this story clearly demonstrates. Larry O’Donnell made not one, but two bonehead blunders on his show Monday night.
One tells jokes, the other one is a joke, as this story clearly demonstrates.
Larry O’Donnell made not one, but two bonehead blunders on his show last week.
First, he got the words to “America the Beautiful” wrong when he said, “God shed His light on thee” instead of “grace.” If Palin had made that same mistake, MSNBC would present an entire week of shows declaring her an idiot and un-American (which they’ll do anyway.)
Later in the show, Larry let his Palin Derangement Syndrome blind him while citing a joke Palin made over the weekend. Referring to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank’s call for a “Palin Free February” in the media, she said it sounds good because “there’s a lot of chaos in Cairo and I can‘t wait to not get blamed for it—at least for a month.”
Larry the Cable News Guy’s misinterpretation of the joke comes at the 5:20 mark of the clip below.
Yes, that’s right. Palin mocks Larry and the media for their obsession with her, and Larry thinks she’s mocking Egypt.
Considering where Larry’s head usually resides, you’d think it would be easy for him to discern that he was the butt of the joke.
There are no cheerleaders at the Super Bowl today, since neither the Steelers nor Packers has a squad. But here is TV commercial with a not blonde in it to hopefully make up for it. It has boobs and is funny, so why not?
Nando’s is a restaurant chain that started in South Africa and now has stores in 38 countries (including one in Washington D.C.) They specialize in Portuguese chicken dishes.
We found a comment that said this was a South African commercial, but the blonde is definitely an Aussie, so we’re not sure where it was made. We could get into a long discussion about whether the commercial was done in Australia or whether it was done in South Africa to make fun of Australians or whether …
Who cares? It’s funny and it has boobs.
The Editor says, “Green Bay by seven” and the Administrator says, “Who’s playing?”
Nigel Farage is one of the United Kingdom’s representatives to the European Parliament. Think of him as Chris Christie with an English accent.
Nigel Farage is one of the United Kingdom’s representatives to the European Parliament. Think of him as Chris Christie with an English accent.
The best thing about Farage is that he somehow got himself elected as the UK’s representative to an organization in which he doesn’t believe. He regularly takes his turn behind the microphone and tells the Eurocrats exactly what the thinks of them and their economic and social machinations.
“We’ve reached a point with this, actually, where it doesn’t matter what any of you say,” Farage rages. “Nobody believes you. The public don’t support you. I hope and pray the markets break you.”
Christie-Farage 2012. Print the bumper stickers now.
What’s that? He’s not eligible because he’s not an American citizen? Ahhh, if only he’d been born Kenyan instead of British.
According to newly released information, our Commander in Chief wanted the Russians to sign the dubious START Treaty so badly that he gave them the UK’s nuclear secrets as an incentive.
Thanks to Wikileaks, we’ve finally found someone more traitorous than Wikileaks itself – President Obama.
According to newly released information, our Commander in Chief wanted the Russians to sign the dubious START Treaty so badly that he gave them the UK’s nuclear secrets as an incentive.
The lesson to be learned: America can't be trusted by her friends
The Telegraph UK has the horrifying story:
The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.
Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.
The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
Details of the behind-the-scenes talks are contained in more than 1,400 US embassy cables published to date by the Telegraph, including almost 800 sent from the London Embassy, which are published online today. The documents also show that…
…A series of classified messages sent to Washington by US negotiators show how information on Britain’s nuclear capability was crucial to securing Russia’s support for the “New START” deal.
Although the treaty was not supposed to have any impact on Britain, the leaked cables show that Russia used the talks to demand more information about the UK’s Trident missiles, which are manufactured and maintained in the US.
Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers to Britain.
This is what you call a win-win for Russia and a traitorous-traitorous for everyone else.
What are the odds? We went two years without ever mentioning the word “hickey” here at IHateTheMedia.com and now we end up with two hickey stories in the same week.
What are the odds? We went two years without ever mentioning the word “hickey” here at IHateTheMedia.com and now we end up with two hickey stories in the same week.
CBS Boston has details of what Perry Mason would have called The Case of the Boisterous Bruise:
Police found 34-year-old Troy Burston wounded outside a home on Exchange Avenue at 10:40 p.m. Sunday. He was not wearing a shirt and had been stabbed in the chest.
He was rushed to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he died.
Police arrested his wife, 39-year-old Shawntina Burston.
Investigators say the two had come home from a party and began arguing and hitting each other. She allegedly found a hickey on his neck and stabbed him with a cooking knife.
Looks like she didn’t buy the old “Honest, honey, my neck ran into a door knob” excuse.
We’d never heard of Larry Griswold until we ran across this old clip. Admittedly, this is not our typical story, but Griswold is not your typical show business act.
We’d never heard of Larry Griswold until we ran across this old clip. Admittedly, this is not our typical story, but Griswold is not your typical show business act.
Look at it this way: You have to be pretty damn good to get Frank Sinatra to introduce you.
Bernie Sanders, the independent socialist who votes with the Democrats on virtually every issue, said to get rid of the health insurance companies.
Bernie Sanders, the independent socialist who votes with the Democrats on virtually every issue, gives away his allies’ game with this comment on MSNBC:
“At the end of the day, if you are going to provide health care to all of our people in a cost-effective way, you have to get rid of the health insurance companies, not profiteering and bureaucracy.”
Ssssssh. Quiet, Bernie. The sheeple aren’t supposed to know that’s the real goal.
The guy got fired? Really? That seems a bit harsh. We think they should have given him a special bonus for creativity on the job.
The guy got fired? Really? That seems a bit harsh. We think they should have given him a special bonus for creativity on the job.
The Daily Mail UK has the details of the marital mayhem:
James Brolin may want to give this idea serious consideration next time Barbra Streisand leaves the country
An immigration officer tried to rid himself of his wife by adding her name to a list of terrorist suspects.
He used his access to security databases to include his wife on a watch list of people banned from boarding flights into Britain because their presence in the country is ‘not conducive to the public good’.
As a result the woman was unable for three years to return from Pakistan after travelling to the county to visit family.
The tampering went undetected until the immigration officer was selected for promotion and his wife name was found on the suspects’ list during a vetting inquiry.
The Home Office confirmed today that the officer has been sacked for gross misconduct.
There’s a lesson to be learned from this. And the lesson is, quick, someone find out when Barbra Streisand’s next international tour is scheduled.
