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Legacy enhancement: Jimmy Carter not only lost Iran, he lost Egypt

Jimmy Carter’s presidency has always been known for two things – economic malaise and losing Iran. Now he can add a third achievement to that dismal legacy – losing Egypt.

Carter has always taken great pride in the fact that he was the midwife at the birth of the Camp David Accords, which were signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat on September 17, 1978.

begin-carter-sadat-camp-david — Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat solemnly gather in 1978 to mark the loss of Egypt in 2010

Now it turns out that Carter’s proudest achievement is just as disastrous as his other achievements.

The Jerusalem Post has the pathetic particulars:

“After Camp David, all the Arab world sees that we are no longer a leader. Camp David made us a slave”

Like many at Tahir square on Tuesday night, 26-year-old Mohammed Salama of Cairo spoke of an eagerness for Egypt to shelve its nearly three decade old peace agreement with Israel, but insisted he does not want the country to go to war with Israel. In his hands he held a sign reading in Arabic “Netanyahu is worried about Mubarak”, which he said he wrote because “this is my country and my leader, I don’t want him to care about Israel, only about my country.”

… Salama’s friend, Hazan Ahmed, 29, said the years of peace with Israel are tinged with the sting of humiliation, and that Egyptians still feel they’re country is not completely free of the Israeli occupation of the Sinai which ended under Camp David.

“The Egyptian army can’t enter Sinai, we feel that it is still Israel. There are Israeli people there all the time, but when we go, we have to stop at checkpoints and we get turned back. We don’t feel that Sinai is Egyptian.”…

Ahmad Ragab, 42, spoke more vehemently towards Israel saying “look, all Egyptian people hate Israel, only Sadat wanted Camp David …”

Nice work, Jimmy. You so-called peace plan has been festering in the hearts of Egyptians for 30 years.

Maybe you should write another anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic book that explains how the Jews caused this problem.

Source: Jerusalem Post

Hollywood environmentalist James Cameron’s wife is destroying the planet

Suzy Amis Cameron must immediately conduct a lottery to determine which of her children must die to save the planet.

Red Carpet Green Dress highlights its founder’s hypocrisy:

james-cameron-suzy-amis — James Cameron and Suzy Amis Cameron are saving the environment by having more kids than the Kennedys

Suzy Amis Cameron developed the “RED CARPET GREEN DRESS” contest to stimulate sustainable design [and] global green education …

As a model, actress, environmental champion, educational activist, wife of Academy Award winner, James Cameron, and the mother of five children, Suzy’s unique life experience formed the creation of this contest with a deep sense of purpose.

Five children? Five resource-depleting, air-polluting, CO2-spewing, global warming-causing children?

The woman’s uterus is single-handedly destroying the planet (We think we just qualified for Mixed Metaphor of the Year).

Update: added link to LiveScience article for context.

H/T: Tim Blair

Egyptian protestors are schizophrenic: Part II

Some of the Egyptian protesters hate Hosni Mubarak and call him a Jewish collaborator. But others protesters, who seem to hate him just as much, call him Hitler.

Make up your minds, damn it. Which one is it?

Part I: New survey discovers that Egyptians are schizophrenic

All’s well that Orwells: USA Today says that banning incandescent light bulbs is freedom

George Orwell has come back from the dead to write editorials down at USA Today, where truth is fiction, black is white, and green is definitely red.

The Detroit News explains:

In a leap of Orwellian logic, USA Today — America’s second-largest newspaper — argues in its lead editorial Tuesday that banning the incandescent light bulb is a victory for free markets.

“The best way for government to boost energy efficiency isn’t to micromanage by picking winners and losers, a job better suited to free-market innovation. It is to set a reasonable standard — miles per gallon or light per watt, for example — and let the market sort it out,” spins the editorial in support of picking winners and losers. “That’s what Congress did in 2007” in banning the bulb.

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. Banning is choice. Regulation is freedom.

One wonders if USA Today’s editors would tolerate this doublethink if applied to their own industry. Were Congress to ban newspapers in order to force them onto the more “planet-friendly” Internet, would USA Today swallow this as free market economics?

Doublethink. Doublespeak. Doubledandy.

Source: The Detroit News

What the hell? Fox rejects John 3:16 Super Bowl commercial

Fox said the Fixed Point Foundation’s John 3:16 Superbowl commercial was rejected for “advancing particular beliefs or practices.” And that, apparently, is against company policy.

We’ve said it plenty of times. We’re not particularly religious and our main focus here at IHateTheMedia is fiscal conservatism, not social conservatism. That being said, we can’t figure out why Fox rejected an innocuous Super Bowl commercial from a Christian group.

Fox said the commercial was rejected for “advancing particular beliefs or practices.” And that, apparently, is against company policy.

The Fixed Point Foundation’s commercial shows a bunch of guys watching a football game on TV. After a close-up shot shows John 3:16 written on a Tim Tebow-ish player’s eye black, the guys do what we’ve done many times and wonder what it means. Then they take the step we’ve never taken – they look it up.

That’s it. That’s the whole commercial. No overt preaching. No suicide bombings of infidels. No beheadings of non-believers.

By the way, in case you’re wondering, here’s what the verse says:

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

Care to comment?

15 reasons for the Egyptian riots that the mainstream media never mentions

IHateTheMedia.com’s crack team of investigative reporters and Egyptologists has put some alternate reasons that explain the outbreak of rioting in Cairo.

Oh, sure, the mainstream media tells you the Egyptians are rioting because they’re pissed at America and because they’re pissed at Israel and because they’re pissed at Mubarak and because they’re pissed at each other. But there are other reasons the Egyptians are pissed. Reasons the mainstream media never talks about.

Luckily, IHateTheMedia.com’s crack team of investigative reporters and Egyptologists has ferreted out some others reasons for the rioting in Cairo. Such as:

1. Angelina Jolie being cast in the remake of Cleopatra.

2. Nation’s failure to inspire a Top 40 hit or stupid dance craze since the mid-1980’s. (See video on left.)

3. Tired of Iranian dominance of the “Crazy Muslim Caucus” at Arab League meetings.

4. Facebook’s “Everybody Draw Ramses Day.”

5. Twilight series of books and movies doesn’t feature a mummy character along with the vampire and werewolf kid.

6. Cairo Blockbuster bringing back late fees.

7. They just found out that the Library of Alexandria was burned down.

8. Practicing soccer hooliganism for upcoming World Cup.

9. Redneck cops tasering innocent camels.

10. Haven’t had a chance to break out the camel cavalry outfits and sabers since World War I.

11. Rioting is their way of saying, “My religion of peace will bash in more heads than your religion of peace.”

12. Introduction of an innovative new program called “Winning the 14th Century.”

13. Muslim chicks dig rioters.

14. Rumor that Justin Bieber was playing at Tahir Square.

15. It’s an Islamic thing. You wouldn’t understand.

Sad news: Rupert Murdoch won’t be rehiring Keith Olbermann, “He was a nut … it was impossible.”

We have bad news for those of you hoping for a reunion between Rupert Murdoch and Keith Olbermann. It ain’t gonna happen. Murdoch has made it clear he doesn’t want the obnoxious former MSNBC host anywhere near Fox Sports.

The Daily Caller has the disappointing details:

In a FNC interview that aired Wednesday, host Neil Cavuto asked News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch if he would consider rehiring Olbermann, who was canned from the network.

“No,” Murdoch said. ”We fired him once, we don’t believe in firing people twice.”
“You called him a ‘nut,’” Cavuto said.

“Well he was a nut on…We had him on ‘Late Night Fox Sports’…It was impossible,” Murdoch said.

Olbermann worked at Fox from 1998 to 2001, when Murdoch gave him the boot.
“I fired him…He was crazy,” Murdoch said.

C’mon, Rupert. Don’t you think it would be fun to rehire Olbermann just so you can fire him again? Kind of like Val Halen does with David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar every couple years.

Hire him, Rupert. Fire him, Rupert. Make his head spin like Linda Blair in the Exorcist.

Source: Daily Caller

It’s a mandate: South Dakota to require all residents to own a gun?

Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any adult 21 or older to buy a firearm “sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense.”

Thanks for five creative legislators in South Dakota, Democrats are about to learn the meaning of the phrase “hoisted on your own petard.”

The Argus Leader has the particulars of the petard:

Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any adult 21 or older to buy a firearm “sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense.”

Barney Frank has come out against the individual mandate since he learned that it includes neither a man nor a date

The bill, which would take effect Jan. 1, 2012, would give people six months to acquire a firearm after turning 21. The provision does not apply to people who are barred from owning a firearm.Nor does the measure specify what type of firearm. Instead, residents would pick one “suitable to their temperament, physical capacity, and preference.The measure is known as an act “to provide for an individual mandate to adult citizens to provide for the self defense of themselves and others.”

Rep. Hal Wick, R-Sioux Falls, is sponsoring the bill and knows it will be killed. But he said he is introducing it to prove a point that the federal health care reform mandate passed last year is unconstitutional.

“Do I or the other cosponsors believe that the State of South Dakota can require citizens to buy firearms? Of course not. But at the same time, we do not believe the federal government can order every citizen to buy health insurance,” he said.

Can’t wait to hear this one argued before the Supreme Court. Or even the People’s Court.

Source: ArgusLeader.com

Carla Bruni no “longer feeling left-wing” after three years of marriage to Nicolas Sarkozy

Ooh, la friggin’ la. Nicolas Sarkozy is a stud. Not only is his wife the world’s hottest presidential first lady, but he’s turned her from flaming liberal to conservative in three short years.

carla bruni nude — God bless you, Nicolas Sarkozy. God bless you.

The Telegraph UK has the transformational info:

Only two years ago Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy had claimed that she was “instinctively left-wing” after at one stage supporting her husband’s Socialist rival in the 2007 presidential elections. She had also publicly opposed Mr Sarkozy’s plan to conduct DNA tests on immigrants.

In 2008, she told the Libération newspaper: “Nobody has to be joined at the hip in politics or with one’s husband”. A year earlier she told a British newspaper: “I would never vote on the Right.”

But in Monday’s interview with Le Parisien newspaper, she said her previous political persuasion was only due to her belonging to a “community of artists.” “We were bobo (bourgeois bohemians), we were left-wing but at that time I voted in Italy (her native country).” I have never voted for the Left in France and I can tell you, I’m not about to start now. I don’t really feel left-wing anymore,” she said.

Although his current marital situation prohibits him from spending three years with any hot Hollywood starlets, The Editor is pretty sure he could get sneak from home for an evening or maybe even a weekend if the opportunity arose to convert Jennifer Aniston or Halle Berry.

He requests, however, that you do not mention his dedication to the conservative cause to Mrs. Editor.

Source: Telegraph UK

For sale: ObamaCare exemption, $20,000 or best offer?

You’ve probably seen the news that 733 companies or unions and 2,189,636 workers have been exempted from ObamaCare. We wondered how one gets one of those coveted exemptions.

sieben-polk-law — The Sieben Polk law firm got an ObamaCare exemption. And we're positive that it had absolutely nothing to do with Michael Sieben's $20,000 Obama Victory Fund contribution

Well, this story from EconomicCollapse.net clears it all up:

… So, how does one obtain an exemption to Obamacare? Is it all based upon the stated criteria, or are there other factors left unwritten? A cynic might conclude there could be some political favors being handed out, when you see the number of unions in the list.

If you browse through the list, you’ll find the names quite interesting. On one hand, there are huge groups like the 19,000 workers belonging to the “Communications Workers of America, Local 1180 Security Benefits Fund.” But on the other hand, there are some small companies like the Sieben Polk Law, a firm of personal injury lawyers in Minnesota …

Not that I would suspect anything out of the ordinary, but I thought I’d look more closely at Sieben Polk, just for the heck of it, since it seems like such a small company to be on this list. Just the curious blogger that I am, looking through public information.

In my searching of the web, one of the first things Google showed me was a political contributions page for partner Michael Sieben. I pulled it up, and golly, It showed that he donated over $20,000 to the Obama Victory Fund.

But I don’t know why I really even bothered to mention this insignificant, and I’m certain, unrelated tidbit. I’m sure the Sieben Polk Law firm has a good reason to have an approved exemption from the landmark healthcare program passed into law by the president to whose 2008 campaign fund partner Michael Sieben donated $20,000.

If you’ve never visited EconomicCollapse.net, give it a try. It has lots of information that will either piss you off or scare you to death. Or both.

H/T: Economic Collapse

Cramming it in where it doesn’t belong: UK schools introduce gay math, geography and science

UK leaders have decided that what its school children really need is a celebration of the gay community in math, geography and science courses.

Things haven’t gone so well in the United Kingdom for the last hundred years or so. So the nation’s leaders have decided that what its school children really need is a celebration of the gay community in math, geography and science courses.

Yes. Gay math. Gay geography. And gay science.

village-people — The Village People teach gay spelling: "Y-M-C-A"

The Telegraph UK has the bizarre details:

The initiative will be officially launched next month at the start of “LGBT History Month” — an initiative to encourage teaching about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual issues.

The lesson plans, spread across the curriculum, will be offered to all schools, which can choose whether or not to make use of them.

But critics last night called the initiative a poor use of public money which could distract from the teaching of “core” subjects.

Among the suggestions are:

Maths — teaching statistics through census findings about the number of homosexuals in the population, and using gay characters in scenarios for maths problems;

Can’t wait to hear how they explain that gays can’t multiply.

Design and technology — encouraging pupils to make symbols linked to the gay rights movement;

Like a giant limp wrist unfurling a rainbow flag. But be careful when spelling flag, kiddos.

Science – studying animal species where the male takes a leading role in raising young, such as emperor penguins and sea horses, and staging class discussions on different family structures, including same-sex parents;

And unicorns. Don’t forget the unicorns. They’re, like, the gayest animals ever.

Geography — examining the transformation of San Francisco’s Castro district in the 1960s from a working-class Irish area to the world’s first “gay neighbourhood”, and considering why homosexuals move from the countryside to cities;

While you’re at it, examine what an Indian was doing in the Village People.

Languages — using gay characters in role play scenarios, and teaching “LGBT vocabulary”

Role-playing gays. Now how could this go awry?

While this is definitely an outstanding addition to school curriculum, we can’t wait to see what happens when the United Kingdom’s celebration of the gay community in math, geography and science runs headlong into the United Kingdom’s celebration of the Muslim community in math, geography and science courses.

This should be interesting.

Source: Telegraph UK

Good lord: Kathleen Sebelius incoherently compares ObamaCare to owning a television

We are not religious here at IHateTheMedia.com. Not at all. But we had to say a little prayer for our nation after watching this clip of Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius explaining why ObamaCare is constitutional.

Sebelius: Well, I think that the…I…let me begin by saying I’m not a lawyer. And I’m leaving those arguments to our legal team from the department of justice. But I think there are certainly lots of talented Constitutional lawyers who feel that the Commerce Clause very much is broad enough to cover the interstate commerce of healthcare and that we have a unique product because people access services of healthcare whether or not they have insurance. What they’re choosing not to do is actually pay for those services. So it isn’t like if I don’t have a 27-inch TV for the Super Bowl I can’t demand that they have the Super Bowl that somebody deliver that TV because I have a right to it. On the other hand, if I don’t have insurance and I come to the door of an emergency room I get treated and get cared for and somebody else picks up that tab. And I think it’s that framework for a layperson that the two judges who have ruled who find that this law is constitutional found to be well within scope of the commerce clause.

“Dear Lord, save us from these lunatics who pass laws no one wants and who babble incoherently when they attempt to explain those laws and who have hands that wave around in a manner that seems completely unrelated to anything they’re saying. Amen. Let’s eat.”

Maybe Arnold wasn’t the worst governor in history: Jerry Brown compares California to Egypt

He’s only been in office for two weeks, but Jerry Brown is already making people long for the good ol’ days when Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor.

He’s only been in office for two weeks, but Jerry Brown is already making people long for the good ol’ days when Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor. His State of the State speech on Monday night must have been the most disjointed, poorly-delivered political speech in history. And we’d say that even if he hadn’t used the situation in Egypt to push another tax increase.

Let’s just let the Los Angeles Times take if from here:

Citing the pro-democracy unrest in Egypt and Tunisia, Gov. Jerry Brown called it “unconscionable” that GOP legislators are vowing to block his attempt to ask voters to extend tax hikes to balance the budget.

“When democratic ideals and calls for the right to vote are stirring the imagination of young people in Egypt and Tunisia and other parts of the world, we in California can’t say now is the time to block a vote of the people,” Brown said in his first State of the State address in nearly 30 years.

He said the budget has tough choices but that the people “have a right to vote” on the package.

Let’s see. Mubarak’s been in power for 30 years and Egypt is a corrupt state on the verge of collapse. California’s Democrats have run the state legislature for 30 years and California is a corrupt state on the verge of collapse.

On second thought, maybe the comparison isn’t so outlandish.

Source: Los Angeles Times

Bad Idea of the Day: Handcuffed suspect jumps out of moving police car moronic escape attempt

Nicholas Duffy of Sandy, Utah was first arrested, then, while he was being transported to jail, the criminal genius saw his chance to escape.

20-year old Nicholas Duffy of Sandy, Utah had a bad day last week.

First he was arrested, because that’s the sort of thing police tend to do when they discover you have outstanding warrants. Then, while he was being transported to jail, he told the officers that he wasn’t feeling well. When the officer kindly rolled down the back window so Duffy could get a little fresh air, the criminal genius saw his chance to escape.

He wiggled out the window. Of course, since he was handcuffed and the police car was speeding down he freeway at the time of his escape, Duffy’s landing didn’t go quite as smoothly as he had hoped for. He was injured and immediately arrested again.

And it’s all on video.

NOTE: In Duffy’s defense, the Editor has been to Sandy, Utah and escape was also the only thing on his mind during his entire visit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTb-5X2XXTE

“Marco Rubio reporting from Afghanistan, sir”

Marco Rubio can say he’s not interested in higher office all he wants, but he’s not fooling us. Why else does a freshman senator rush off to Afghanistan if not to burnish his foreign affairs experience?

Rubio made the trek to Afghanistan to get a feel for how things are going. In this clip, he reveals what he learned.

Don’t print the Rubio 2012 bumper stickers yet. But Rubio 2016 is probably a pretty good bet.

New survey discovers that Egyptians are schizophrenic

The situation in Egypt is confusing and the Egyptian people are confused. Very confused. Two recent surveys from Pew highlight exactly what we mean.

The situation in Egypt is confusing and the Egyptian people are confused. Very confused. Two recent surveys from Pew highlight exactly what we mean:

sphinx egypt — The Sphinx' lesson for the Egyptian people: Do not cut off your nose to spite your face

…the Pew researchers found that 84 percent of Egyptians favor the death penalty for people who leave the Muslim religion.

In another survey, Pew found that 90 percent of Egyptians say they believe in freedom of religion.

Our interpretation? Egyptians believe you should have the freedom to become a Muslim, but not the freedom to un-become one.

Part II: Egyptians protestors are schizophrenic

Source: Washington Examiner

The rejected version of this week’s Time magazine cover

Our mole at Time magazine tells us that an alternative cover was proposed for this week’s Reagan-Obama issue. For some reason, it was rejected.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman finally admits he knows nothing

In the words of the Editor’s dear, departed grandmother, “Why, I never …”

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has built a career on his own unique combination of ignorance and arrogance. So we never thought we’d see the day that he admitted he didn’t know everything about everything. He’s been consistently wrong on the economy, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, foreign affairs, global warming, and based on the appearance of his beard, personal grooming. Yet, this vast ignorance has never once – until now – slowed the speed of his pompous pontifications.

If they ever give out a Nobel Prize for Ignorance, Krugman should win by acclamation.

Source: New York Times

Oops! Teacher who advises colleagues how to avoid affairs with students caught having sex with student

Rule #1: Do not drink vodka with your students. It cannot lead to anything good. Here’s a story of a teachers’ advisor who is in desperate need of a teachers’ advisor advisor:

Rule #1: Do not drink vodka with your students. It cannot lead to anything good.

The Daily Caller has the story of the teachers’ advisor who is in desperate need of a teachers’ advisor advisor:

courtney-bowles — "We were just working on a little extra credit assignment, your honor."

A teacher who advises colleagues on how to avoid affairs with students was caught having sex with a teenager in the back of her car.

Courtney Bowles was found by a police officer naked lying on top of the boy, who was also completely naked, from her school in Colorado.

A partly consumed bottle of vodka was also found in the car with the couple.

Her student lover initially said he was 20 years old – but later admitted he was 16.

Bowles, 31, was employed at his school as a teacher’s instructional coach. It was her job to train teachers on how to maintain a professional distance from students.

Damn it. We were this close to our third hickey story of the week, but it just didn’t quite pan out.

Source: Daily Caller

Chris Christie goes where others fear to tread: Tells police that their union contracts are “obscene”

Here’s Christie talking about police salaries, pensions and layoffs during a town hall meeting in Middletown, New Jersey. He faces down an angry cop and tells him what’s what.

Save your comments. We know that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s no social conservative. But the way we look at it, nothing social conservatives care about will matter if the country goes bankrupt.

We say keep the house from burning down, then worry about whether the firemen trampled your shrubs.

Here’s Christie talking about police salaries, pensions and layoffs during a town hall meeting in Middletown, New Jersey. He faces down an angry cop and tells him what’s what.

Is there another politician in this country with the balls to take on his harshest critics face-to-face?

10 companies that must be put out of business to save innocent American lives

How many innocent American lives will be lost because of the violent rhetoric found in the names of these companies? How many? These ten must be put out of business immediately.

How many innocent American lives will be lost because of the violent rhetoric found in the names of these companies? How many?

As Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnick will tell you, it’s only a matter of time before some deranged individual is driven to violence by these extreme right wing hate talk contained in these corporate names. Why, we wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out that all these companies are sponsors on the Rush Limbaugh Show.

Send us photos of extreme right wing hate talk company names in your town. We’ll add them to the list. Send them to [email protected].

Continue reading “10 companies that must be put out of business to save innocent American lives”

Highway robbery: The progressives’ devious plan to make the rich pay more per mile of driving

Clever devils, those socialists. They’ve devised a devious plan to create progressive driving rates, whereby the rich will be required to pay more per mile of driving than the poor.

How, you may ask, is that possible? How can that be accomplished when gas pumps don’t know your income? Simple. By migrating gas-powered drivers to electric cars.

electric car charging — Fill 'er up, Comrade! We need to get to the revolution!

Consider, for example, the fact that Barack Obama and Joe the Plumber can now fill their gas tanks down at the corner Arco station and they’ll each pay the same price per gallon and the same taxes per gallon. In effect, a flat tax.

This obviously does not sit well with liberals. In their ideal world, everything would be taxed progressively.

And that’s where the electric car comes in.

When you drive an electric car, you will no longer fill ‘er up down at the corner gas station and pay that same taxes, rich or poor. No. You’ll charge your electric car at home and be billed for the additional power by your electric utility.

Therein lies the socialist rub. Electric rates are not the same for every home and every homeowner. They are determined by the amount of electricity a home uses, usually defined in progressive (uh-oh, there’s that word again) tiers based on the number of kilowatt hours used. The more electricity you use, the higher tier you fall in, the more you pay, just like the progressive income tax.

The owner of a small home that uses very little electricity may get all his electricity at the lowest rate. He may even get it for free, because exemptions and subsidies allow some low-income people to avoid some or even all of their electric bill. However, the additional electricity required to power a medium-sized home is priced at a higher rate. And the additional electricity required to power a McMansion is priced at a still higher rate.

In most states, the highest usage tiers are priced significantly higher than the lower ones. For example, here’s what those progressive tiers look like on Pacific Gas & Electric bills in California:

Price per Killowatt Hour

Tier 1: $0.11877 for the first 98 KwH
Tier 2: $0.13502 for the next 29.4 KwH
Tier 3: $0.29062 for the next 68.6 KwH
Tier 4: $0.40029 for the next 52.3 KwH

(As you can see, socialism has come to our electric rates just as surely as it’s come to our tax code.)

Larger incomes mean larger homes. Larger homes mean more electricity. More electricity means higher tiers. Higher tiers means higher prices.

Finally, since electric and hybrid cars generally cost considerably more than their gasoline equivalents, it stands to reason that they are being purchased primarily by higher income earners who already live in larger homes and already pay higher electrical rates. If they weren’t already in the highest tier, the additional electricity required to power their new electric vehicles will surely put them there now.

Viola! Just like that, a person converting from a gasoline-powered car to an electric car goes from a flat tax (the same price for every gallon of gas) to a progressive tax (tiered pricing depending on usage).

Very clever, you socialist redistributors of income. Very clever, indeed.

Just what you need when that drug-crazed burglar is coming in your bedroom window at 3 a.m.

Oops. Sorry. The Taurus 28 gauge short barreled shotgun revolver no longer available. Not because they were sold out, but because the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said, “You can’t sell that thing.”

Ladies and gentlemen, we are pleased to introduce the Taurus 28 gauge short barreled shotgun revolver.

Oops. Sorry. It’s no longer available. Not because they were sold out, but because the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said, “You can’t sell that thing.”

Yes, BATFE dropped by the Taurus booth at a major gun show and declared that the Brazilian-made 28 gauge revolver was actually an illegal short barreled shotgun, not a handgun.

As we understand it, Taurus checked the little box that said it was a shotgun instead of the one that said it’s a revolver. And that, apparently, is enough to get it banned in the United States. Burglars and other assorted bad guys are sending bouquets to the boys from BATFE this morning.

Too bad. We had already worked up a nifty little ad slogan for Taurus:

“When you get burglarized, the burglar gets vaporized.”

Source: TheFirearmsBlog.com

H/T: Hardwurkindaddy

Horse sense: Global warming comes up a loser

Andrew Bolt, one of our favorite Aussie bloggers, reveals that global warming skeptics recently had a very good day at the thoroughbred races Down Under.

Andrew Bolt, one of our favorite Aussie bloggers, reveals that global warming skeptics recently had a very good day at the thoroughbred races Down Under:

al-gore-angry — Al Gore reacts to the results of the eighth race at Caulfield

At Caulfield today ‘Global Warming’ came 8th in the 10 horse field.   

At Murray Bridge today ‘Globalwarmnsceptic’ won and paid $4.40!

Al Gore was reportedly seen tossing away his losing tickets in the Caulfield parking lot while mumbling something about “How could this happen? I was so positive that Global Warming was a winner.”

H/T: Andrew Bolt

Why are those crazy Egyptians so upset? Joe Biden says Mubarak’s not a dictator.

Well, that settles it. Here we thought Hosni Mubarak was a brutal dictator who had clung to power for 30 years through the use of brute power.

That’s why we’re grateful that a man like Joe Biden is around to correct our misconceptions and fill in the gaps in our knowledge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk-Ae25tPNE

Here’s the garrulous Veep on the PBS News Hour with the surprising news that Mubarak is not a dictator and shouldn’t step aside.

Lehrer: Has the time come for President Mubarak of Egypt to go, to stand aside?
Biden: No, I think the time has come for President Mubarak to begin to move in the direction that—to be more responsive to some of the needs of the people out there…
Lehrer: The word—the word to describe the leadership of Mubarak and Egypt and also in Tunisia before was dictator. Should Mubarak be seen as a dictator?
Biden: Look, Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things and he’s been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interests in the region: Middle East peace efforts, the actions Egypt has taken relative to normalizing the relationship with Israel. And I think that it would be—I would not refer to him as a dictator.

Yeah, right, Joe. He’s been elected by acclamation by the Egyptian people for the last 30 years.

You know what? Dan Quayle may have been funny dumb, but this guy is dangerous dumb.

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JPTravis on See the Epstein trial records.: “I read about this. What a despicable performance by the Florida prosecutors. It seems clear they were bought and paid…” Jul 3, 06:51
deepthinker on Biden in France for D-Day, just tried to sit on an invisible chair.: “Are you sure he was trying to sit or did he do the Biden and really sit?” Jun 16, 04:10