Yvo de Boer, a former United Nations corruptocrat and global warming scaremonger, has come up with a realistic scenario that will scare the bejeezus out of the delegates at the upcoming conference in Cancun.
Yvo de Boer, a former United Nations corruptocrat and global warming scaremonger, has come up with a realistic scenario that will scare the bejeezus out of the delegates at the upcoming conference in Cancun.
The Editor's grandmother's maiden name was de Boer. He loses sleep at night worrying that he may be somehow related to this U.N. corruptocrat.
The Associated Press reports:
De Boer said climate negotiators in Cancun should focus on “small steps” toward slowing climate change, warning that if there is another failure such as took place in Copenhagen last year, ”no one will take us seriously anymore.”
We believe the actual quote was, “NO ONE WILL TAKE US SERIOUSLY ANYMORE!!!!!!! AND OUR FUNDING WILL BE CUT OFF!!!!!! AND WE’LL STOP HAVING THESE POSH ANNUAL OUTINGS AT FANCY INTERNATIONAL RESORTS!!!!!!”
But let’s not quibble. The AP’s paraphrase was close enough.
Actor Nicholas Cage lost his Bel-Air estate to foreclosure earlier this year. Two weeks ago, an anonymous buyer grabbed the mansion for $10.5 million in cash, less than a third of its original listing price.
Critics say Nicolas Cage is a lousy actor. We don’t know if that’s true, but we do know that he’s a lousy economist.
If it walks like a Democrat and talks like a Democrat and spends like a Democrat...
Cage has proven his Democrat bona fides by giving money to Al Gore, to the California Democratic State Central Committee, to Frank Lautenberg, and to others. On top of that, he’s been named Global Citizen of the Year by the United Nations. And, finally, he supports Amnesty International.
He’s such a loyal Democrat, in fact, that he follows the party’s economic policies in his personal life. With the same disastrous results.
Doug Ross has the details:
Actor Nicholas Cage lost his Bel-Air estate to foreclosure earlier this year. Two weeks ago, an anonymous buyer grabbed the mansion for $10.5 million in cash, less than a third of its original listing price.
Although Cage is reported to have earned $40 million in 2009 alone, he’s suing his former manager for collecting outsized fees and giving ruinous advice. For his part, the ex-manager claims Cage engaged on a “spending binge of epic proportions”, noting that in 2008 the actor had owned “15 palatial homes around the world, four yachts, an island in the Bahamas, a private Gulfstream jet and millions of dollars’ worth of art and jewelry.”
Rumor has it that Timothy Geithner will be leaving the Obama administration early next year. May we be the first to suggest that Nicolas Cage would be a worthy replacement.
Ewald Stadler, a member of the Austrian Parliament, clearly sees what political correctness and insurgent Muslim immigrants have done to his country and its culture. Let’s just say he doesn’t like it.
This is one of those “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore” moments. Except it’s in German.
Ewald Stadler, a member of the Austrian Parliament, clearly sees what political correctness and insurgent Muslim immigrants have done to his country and its culture. Let’s just say he doesn’t like it.
In this video clip, Stadler goes off on the Turkish ambassador, who made the mistake of complaining that Turkish Muslims are now allowed to integrate into Austrian society.
We could use a few more Ewald Stadler’s in the world. Correction: We need a lot more Ewald Stadler’s in the world.
Here you go. Alan Grayson’s last speech on the floor of the House. Five minutes of liberal insanity and class warfare. Five minutes of attacking conservative talk show hosts because they make a lot of money.
Here you go. Alan Grayson’s last speech on the floor of the House. Five minutes of liberal insanity and class warfare. Five minutes of attacking conservative talk show hosts because they make a lot of money.
This, of course, coming from a guy who’s worth $30,000,000.
The always classy Ed Schultz, who worshipped at the altar of Teddy “Chivas On The Rocks” Kennedy, seems to think John Boehner has a drinking problem.
The always classy Ed Schultz, who worshipped at the altar of Teddy “Chivas On The Rocks” Kennedy, seems to think John Boehner has a drinking problem.
Schultz: Yeah, why waste a dinner on John Boehner when he’s probably only going to bring a bottle of Ripple anyway? Yeah, he’s a cheap wine guy. Lot of stuff doesn’t get reported, but he’s a cheap wine guy. I don’t know if you knew that or not. Well, maybe he’ll bring Boone’s Farm.
We’re waiting for Schultz to report the story of Boehner driving his car off a bridge and killing a girl or Boehner being involved in a “waitress sandwich” with Chris Dodd or Boehner getting so drunk that he doesn’t recall his nephew committing rape.
Apparently, Schultz is an elitist and his real problem is that Boehner’s drink of choice isn’t something classy like Chivas and that Boehner doesn’t repeatedly embarrass himself in public like the Lion of the Senate did oh-so-many times.
This should be entertaining. Miserable failure Jimmy Carter is going to meet with his latter day political doppelganger.
This should be entertaining. Miserable failure Jimmy Carter is going to meet with his latter day political doppelganger.
Politico.com has the story of the blind leading the bland:
If at first you don't succeed, give your successor advice on how to succeed
Jimmy Carter wants to see President Barack Obama drop his efforts at bipartisanship during the next two years, and he thinks the president will heed his call.
“In the next two years, President Obama will be much more independent in fighting hard to prevail and not trying to reach out,” the former president said in an interview with CBS News on “Washington Unplugged.” “I think he’ll be a much more tough proponent of what he stands for in the future, giving up on Republicans’ support and taking his case to the American public.”
Meanwhile, Carter will meet with Obama on Tuesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed.
Carter had planned to meet with the White House’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon. Obama then asked Carter if he would stop by for a meeting, Gibbs told reporters on Tuesday.
What advice could Carter possibly have? How to handle the Iranian threat? How to improve the economy? How to control a domineering wife?
Fair Game, Sean Penn’s movie about poor, innocent Valerie Plame and the evil Bush administration, is a dog. A flop. A bomb. A stinkeroo. A total box office failure.
Even liberals won’t show up at the box office for Sean Penn’s latest lunacy.
Fair Game, Penn’s movie about poor, innocent Valerie Plame and the evil Bush administration, is a dog. A flop. A bomb. A stinkeroo. A total box office failure.
The movie, which stars serial liberal wacko Penn and Naomi Watts, has rung up a paltry $4,393,000 in American ticket sales in 21 days of release. It’s worldwide take is just $9,349,628.
Considering that it cost $21 million to make, the investors are taking a well-deserved bath.
In comparison, Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, the number one movie in the country, has brought in $170,000,000 in seven days, which proves that there is a market for fantasy films, just not for liberal fantasies.
Here. Here’s the 2-minute trailer. Watch it and consider yourself lucky you didn’t plunk down any money to see the whole movie.
Imagine that you’re Ben Chandler, a blue dog Democrat from Kentucky. You just watched 63 of your House colleagues go down in flames while you managed to hang onto your seat by the razor thin margin of just 648 votes…
Imagine that you’re Ben Chandler, a blue dog Democrat from Kentucky. You just watched 63 of your House colleagues go down in flames while you managed to hang onto your seat by the razor thin margin of just 648 votes.
Blue Dog Democrat Ben Chandler: Is he dumbfounded or just plain dumb?
Heads are going to roll, you think to yourself. And then you find out that your surviving colleagues think Nancy did a dandy job and should remain as the Democrats’ leader in the House.
Do you think you’d describe yourself as (a) shocked, (b) pissed, (c) dumbfounded, or (d) all of the above.
Rep. Ben Chandler (Ky.), who won reelection by only 648 votes, said in a recent interview that he blames outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for Democrats’ deep defeats in the midterms.
“If not there, where else does the responsibility lie?” Chandler told McClatchy. “You’re talking about the loss of 60 or something seats held by capable public servants. There had to be something going on at a level above them.”
He added, “If that isn’t the lesson, I don’t know what is.”
Chandler, a member of the moderate Blug Dog Coalition, voted against Pelosi for caucus leader, saying that her opponent, Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.), was a “better fit” for his district.
“It baffles me that you can suffer the largest defeat since 1938 and still maintain the leadership of your caucus,” Chandler said of Pelosi.
Well, Ben, you’re one step ahead of us. We still can’t figure out how a radical like Pelosi became your party’s leader the first time around.
The Kronen Zeitung newspaper claims Helmut G. was told by a court in Graz, Styria, that his yodelling offended his next-door Muslim neighbours.
We would have said that yodeling is odd, but not offensive. But what the hell do we know? We’re not Muslim.
The Austrian Times has the Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooos news:
An Austrian has been fined for yodelling while mowing his lawn, according to a report.
The Kronen Zeitung newspaper claims Helmut G. was told by a court in Graz, Styria, that his yodelling offended his next-door Muslim neighbours.
The men reportedly accused the 63-year-old of having tried to mock and imitate the call of the Muezzin. The daily paper writes the Austrian was fined 800 Euros after judges ruled he could have tried to offend them and ridicule their belief. The Muslims, whose nationalities were not revealed by the report, were right in the middle of a prayer when the Austrian started to yodel.
“It was not my intention to imitate or insult them. I simply started to yodel a few tunes because I was in such a good mood” the man told the newspaper today (Mon).
In case you’d like to offend a sensitive Muslim (is there any other kind?) in your neighborhood, here’s a video that should do the trick.
According to NBC, Manning is a victim. A poor, innocent victim who only did the things he did because he was teased about being gay when he was a child. And that, friends, is why “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” needs to be repealed. Or something like that.
The armchair psychologists at NBC have determined why Pvt. Bradley Manning turned on his country and released more than 250,000 secret documents. It’s your fault, damn it.
According to NBC, Manning is a victim. A poor, innocent victim who only did the things he did because he was teased about being gay when he was a child. And that, friends, is why “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” needs to be repealed. Or something like that.
For god’s sake, man, is there nothing the liberal media won’t forgive or explain away?
The Editor was teased unmercifully as a child because he was so skinny. And the Administrator was teased unmercifully for being so damn good looking. And neither of us has ever given away any state secrets.
Of course, that may be explained by the fact that no one has ever trusted either of us with state secrets. Or any other kind of secrets.
Dedicated environmentalist Sheryl Crow is selling her home – her 10,264 square foot home that sits on 150 acres. Our question: how could anyone who’s so full of shit advocate using just one square of toilet paper?
Dedicated environmentalist Sheryl Crow is selling her home – her 10,264 square foot home that sits on 150 acres. Our question: how could anyone who’s so full of shit advocate using just one square of toilet paper?
Anorak has the hypocritical highlights:
6662 Cross Keys Road is 150+/- Acres, 10,264+/- Sq Ft Home; Gated Entry with Security System; Brick Construction [she’s showing off]; Five Bedrooms; Seven Full Baths; One Half Bath, Six Car Attached Garage; Private In-Law or Nanny Quarters; 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Guest House; Additional residence on farm (with Life Estate); Fourteen Stall Barn; Indoor Riding Arena with lighting and sprinkler system; Theater Room; Music Studio- Incorporating additional living space; Salt Water Pool & Spa with Pergola; and recording studio.
Now in case you’re concerned that this estate may not be environment-friendly, worry not:
Cross Creek Farm is a fully functional “Solar Farm” generating over 40% reduction in electric costs.
Damn it. We just noticed that bidding ended November 23. Looks like our dreams of moving IHTM HQ back to Tennessee have been dashed.
At this point, it’s pretty well established that environmentalism is one part philosophy, one part hypocrisy. Take Bono, U2’s resident empty suit, for example.
At this point, it’s pretty well established that environmentalism is one part philosophy, one part hypocrisy. Take Bono, U2’s resident empty suit, for example.
Bono and Al Gore argue about which of them is the bigger environmental hypocrite
Here’s Bono expressing his philosohy in Tokyo back in 2008:
“My prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet.”
The environmental group Keen for Green responded with high praise:
If your (sic) looking for an environmental role model, Irish rockstar, Bono (born Paul David Hewson, May 10, 1960), of the band U2 is a good place to start. Bono … participated in a tree planting ceremony in Tokyo Bay, Japan, in 2008, where efforts are being taken to turn a landfill into an 88 hectare forest. Bono has also been active in the Greenpeace community since 1993 when his entire band participated in a protest against a nuclear power plant, Sellafield, in England. And of course, Bono is self-reported avid recycler and drives a car which runs on ethanol instead of gasoline.
Now here’s Bono expressing his hypocrisy in Melbourne in 2010:
U2’S 360 Degrees tour, the most expensive rock spectacle ever, is here. The tour, with a daily running cost of $850,000, arrived on six 747 jets…
“You compare a tour by the number of trucks they use,” production manager Jake Berry said. “The Rolling Stones ran 46 trucks. We are running 55. This is the biggest.”
And here’s how the environmentalist groups responded:
(Sound of crickets)
And now, ladies and gentlemen, here’s U2 performing their international megahit, “We Are Big, Bloody Environmental Hypocrites (or Something Like That).”
In ObamaWorld, the skies open and Lord Obama descends from the heavens to spread joy and enlightenment to the masses. Michelle Obama speaks, an enthralled nation listens.
In ObamaWorld, the skies open and Lord Obama descends from the heavens to spread joy and enlightenment to the masses.
Michelle Obama speaks, an enthralled nation listens:
“If I had to pick the man I’d want to be in politics – the kind of person that we seek out in this country – somebody who’s honest and sincere and smart as a whip – he would be the person I would pick, and that has always been why I followed him into these escapades because I would feel guilty to think that because of me somebody like him didn’t do what this country needed. And I still feel that way. And I’ll feel that way until the job is done.”
Hey, wait just a darn second. Did she say escapades? If we’re not mistaken, Michelle just admitted that Obama’s policies have been illegal.
Princeton.edu’s online dictionary defines an escapade as an “adventure: a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful).”
But let’s not take the word of just one dictionary. Let’s double check this. Wikitionary.com calls it “a daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.”
And just to make sure, let’s triple check. Merriam-Webster.com says it is “a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct.”
We’re not surprised she believes it, just surprised she admits it.
Chubby elementary school children in Flagstaff, Ariz., have more than just bullies to worry about. If they’re too fat, their school will notify their parents.
This gives a whole new meaning to grading on the curve.
The Daily Caller has the latest skinny…uhhh…let’s change that to the fat facts:
Little Johnny just got an F+.
Chubby elementary school children in Flagstaff, Ariz., have more than just bullies to worry about. If they’re too fat, their school will notify their parents.
Starting in the fall, students in the Flagstaff district will be weighed and measured at school. Students who are found to be overweight, marginally overweight, or underweight will have a letter sent home to their parents, which will include graphs showing a range of appropriate weights for a given age and height.
This is just such nonsense. When the Editor’s wife, who is now a goddess, was in school she was a fat girl (do me a really big favor and don’t tell her I said that.) And when the Editor himself was in school, he was so damn skinny that he looked like a pipe cleaner with ears and yet he is now a golden bronzed Adonis whose lean, muscular body makes strong women swoon.
Kids grow. Kids change. Unfortunately, liberal nanny staters do neither.
As if they were intentionally poking global warming fanatics in the eye, meteorologists are predicting that snow will cover the United Kingdom this week.
As if they were intentionally poking global warming fanatics in the eye, meteorologists are predicting that snow will cover the United Kingdom this week.
C'mon, gang, let's all sing "I'm dreaming of a global warming Christmas"
Not just up in the Scottish highlands and not just in Northern England and not just in that Welsh town with the really long name and not just on the outskirts of Belfast. No, we’re talking about the entire United Kingdom. Every square inch of it.
The Daily Mail UK has the chilly details:
Snow is expected to blanket Britain today with no part of the country escaping the big freeze.
London, the South East and the Midlands, which had until now largely escaped the worst of the severe weather, are all likely to be covered by up to two inches of snow, forecasters have warned.
Winter Safety Tip #37: Don't forget the scrape the global warming off your windscreen
Siberian winds will make it feel as cold as -12c in some areas, in what is already the coldest November for a quarter of a century.North-east England and Scotland, which were deluged by 2ft of snow over the weekend, are also braced for fresh falls.
… The AA reported an ‘unprecedented’ demand for its services for this time of year, with more than 2,100 calls an hour yesterday. Helen Chivers, of the Met Office, said it had been the heaviest snowfall for late November since 1993 – and the worst was yet to come.
Global warming experts, of course, said this unprecedented early winter and heavy snowfall is proof that global warming is real.
O’Reilly couldn’t take it anymore. Just couldn’t take it. “I don’t think there’s anybody in the world who fears Barack Obama,” he ranted. “I don’t think anybody does!”
Brit Hume got together with Bill O’Reilly to talk about the Wikileaks mess. After discussing Obama’s weak response to the issue, O’Reilly couldn’t take it anymore. Just couldn’t take it.
“I don’t think there’s anybody in the world who fears Barack Obama,” he ranted. “I don’t think anybody does!”
Bill is correct. The only thing they still fear is that he’s going to start talking again.
One staffer was conspicuously overweight. The president, in an incident that Wolffe believes proves how caring the man is, took it upon himself to present the aide with a salad for lunch…
MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe has written a new book called “Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside Obama’s White House.” And somehow he found a publisher willing to lose money on another book destined to gather dust in stores across America.
Based on its title, you know this is supposed to be seen as a serious tome, but one of the more meaningful incidents in the book shows the President taking his nanny state mentality down to the personal level.
MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe has written a book that's sure to sell dozens of copies
The New York Post has the snippet:
One staffer was conspicuously overweight. The president, in an incident that Wolffe believes proves how caring the man is, took it upon himself to present the aide with a salad for lunch — “then listened to him protest that he could take care of his own health. ‘I love you, man,’ Obama said. ‘I want you to look after yourself. Eat the salad.’ ”
I love you, man. Eat the salad. That is the Obama presidency in a plastic see-through clamshell. (Hold the ranch dressing!) The president loves us. He knows what’s best for us. We should bow to his superior wisdom.
… The “eat the salad” command is echoed throughout the book, which finds Obama in emergency mode at all times and always convinced that his combination of charisma, intelligence and moral authority makes him uniquely qualified to solve any problem that has bedeviled humanity for any number of generations. As Obama sees the hapless White House underling — an oaf who has never heard of salad and has been waiting for a visionary to guide him to the land of arugula — he sees the world.
Isn’t this a microcosm of Obama’s problem? He thinks can solve any problem and he thinks we are hapless oafs.
Here are our top twelve lunatic lib comments at the reliably lunatic lib Huffington Post, about the arrest of the Portland bomber, Mohamed Mohamud.
The FBI arrested a 19-year old immigrant neer-do-well named Mohamed Mohamud (MoMo to his friends, we assume) who tried to use a car bomb to kill thousands of Christians celebrating the Christmas season in downtown Portland, Oregon.
Cause for celebration? Reason to congratulate the FBI for a job well done? Time to breathe a sigh of relief? Not if you’re a reader of the Huffington Post.
Here are our top twelve lunatic lib comments at the reliably lunatic lib HuffPo.
Don't you think Mohamed Mohamud should have been from Walla Walla?
1. sillyfrog
This is the perfect age for the military mostly because this age group can easily be influenced. The older law officers know this. I hope a smart good lawyer gets this kid out of this mess and gets him on a better path.
2. writersbloc
As a Black kid, foreign and Muslim, I can imagine him being on the receiving end of taunts and harassment, or just isolation. Or maybe he’s a sociopath. Maybe his mom didn’t hug him enough. Maybe people won’t stop asking him about Somali pirates.
3. MNmommy
Look at this young man’s beautiful face. He could have been redirected to modeling instead of encouraged in terrorism by the FBI. What does that say about us?
4. BIG JOHN
What’s worse, what this guy tried to do or what the teabagger who stumped the woman in the head did? I just wonder.…
5. HUFFPOST SUPER USER capt ayhab
How wonderful. Our entire intelligence apparatus is engaged in targeting a 16 year old Somalian named Mohammad, approaching him with fame and glory, wait till he is 18, teaching him how to build a bomb. Better yet build one themselves and detonate in remote area. Buy him a van, fill it with fake explosives. Get him a cell phone, give him a number to dial to explode the device in crowded and the arrest him.
6. photog606
ANOTHER “terrorist” manufactured out of whole cloth… the FBI only had to supply the time, the location and the phony bomb… then swoop in to save the gullible US citizenry from a scenerio THEY set-up and created.
7. harmlesstree
And I am sure this attempted terrorist attack, by a Somali, has nothing to do with what the U.S. has done to his homeland, just like 9-11, and all the other acts of Islamic terrorism directed against us, had nothing to do with the brutal foreign policy America conducts within the Islamic world? I must say, I love sanctimonious Americans whose government is, and has been since WW2, the greatest purveyor of violence, to borrow a line from Martin Luther King, in the world ( the U.S. is literally responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people over the last 60 years) lecturing Muslims about violence!
8. Olethea
Please make an attempt to educate yourself. Religious terrorism is not limited to one religion. Here you go: The Christian Militia plot against law enforcement
9. Johnny Steps
This shouldn’t even be news, and the fact that the mouthbreathers are insisting this is validation of the efforts of our right wing anti terror campaigns is just insulting to those of us with anything resembling intelligence.
10. Earl
Do you think that muslim kids might feel a bit more “American” if we weren’t reserving public spaces for christian-only ceremonies?
11. EarDrummer
If america would learn humility then we wouldn’t have to worry about people trying to kill us, as it is, america’s lack of humility obligates people to kill us.
12. WRichardWagner
The FBI has hundreds of these muslim sleeper patsies. Whenever the public gets uppity about police state measures, they activate one.
Remember the good ol’ days when Barack Obama was ratings gold for the networks? Was it really less than two years ago? Well, in the words of Bob Dylan, the times they are a changin’.
Remember the good ol’ days when Barack Obama was ratings gold for the networks? Was it really less than two years ago? Well, in the words of Bob Dylan, the times they are a changin’.
Barack Obama and Barbara Walters join forces to bore a nation
The Orlando Sentinel has the recent ratings revelations:
Friday was not a good night for President Barack Obama in the ratings. He got a shellacking there, too, to follow the one in the midterm elections.
His conversation with Barbara Walters placed second in total viewers to a rerun of CBS’ “Blue Bloods” and third in the 10 p.m. time slot in the 18-to-49 age group. On that count, Obama was behind Tom Selleck and NBC’s broadcast of the fantasy film “Enchanted.”
The Walters interview averaged 5.7 million viewers for ABC. The “Blue Bloods” repeat, the second of two Friday night, pulled in 7.6 million for CBS.
Seriously. What was ABC thinking? What question could Barbara Walters possibly ask Barack and Michelle Obama that hasn’t been asked and evasively not answered a thousand times?
General Motors is running a holiday commercial that pokes taxpayers in the eye by thanking them for helping the company get back up. The ad says, “Everyone falls down.” And that’s true, But, damn it, when most of us fall down, the government doesn’t rush in to give us $50 billion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr94zStsk8E
General Motors is running a holiday commercial that pokes taxpayers in the eye by thanking them for helping the company get back up.
The ad says, “Everyone falls down.” And that’s true, But, damn it, when most of us fall down, the government doesn’t rush in to give us $50 billion.
What GM should really be thanking us for is losing $9 billion on their initial public offering. And for all the stock that was given to the corrupt UAW. And the for $45 billion in unique tax credits they were awarded. And for the way the original stockholders and bondholders were screwed so that the President’s allies would profit. And for the way they were allowed to claim they had repaid the loan when they really hadn’t.
In reality, the commercial shouldn’t say, “We all fall down.” It should say, “We’ve fallen and we can’t get up without screwing the taxpayers.”
Good god, man, will someone please shut down this WikiLeaks thing before they team up with the TSA. It’s one thing if they leak enhanced X-rays of Sarah Palin or Nikki Haley or Megan Kelly, but do you really want to see Barney Frank in the buff?
Good god, man, will someone please shut down this WikiLeaks thing before they team up with the TSA.
We’d say the odds are pretty good that WikiLeaks will eventually run out of top secret documents and team up with some rogue TSA agent to release millions of x-rays showing intimate details of your, shall we say, carry on baggage.
It’s one thing if they leak enhanced X-rays of Sarah Palin or Nikki Haley or Megan Kelly, but do you really want to see Barney Frank in the buff?
An Obama administration official says we need a special socialist wing of the media to promote the grand achievements of Dear Leader. Well, maybe so, but MSNBC isn’t going to appreciate the competition.
An Obama administration official says we need a special socialist wing of the media to promote the grand achievements of Dear Leader. Well, maybe so, but MSNBC isn’t going to appreciate the competition.
The whole plan is outlined in this article from the socialists down at People’s World:
Know what else we need? Giant banners like this hanging in city squares across the country.
The mainstream media has become so biased against working people that even a federal agency can’t get its message out, says a senior Department of Labor official.
President Obama’s Labor Department has an impressive list of accomplishments, but most of the media doesn’t bother to report on them, Carl Fillichio, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis’s senior adviser for public affairs and communications, told the annual gathering of the International Labor Communications Association.
Referring to the midterm elections, Fillichio said, “Why we fared the way we did three weeks ago is because things weren’t explained enough to people. There is a great need for people to get the full story.”
The role of labor media is therefore all the more precious, he continued. In many cases, the only way his department can get its accomplishments known is through the independent media.
“We battle every single day when we try to put something out,” he said. “The Washington Post, the New York Times, cable television” and others want to focus only on the nuts and bolts of policy issues. “Nobody is really telling the true story about how this is going to affect real people in real time in real ways.”
Fillichio announced at the meeting that he had hired a staff person specifically to deal with labor media, and then proceeded to give his name, e-mail address and phone number to everyone in the audience.
The message was appropriate for the crowd. ILCA, with nearly 500 members, is the professional association of newspapers, websites and other forms of media published by labor unions or about the labor movement across the country. (The People’s World is a member.)
Along this same line, you know what else we need? Some of those big, central squares in every city like they have in other countries. If we had some of those, we could cover them with giant murals of Dear Leader to inspire the people.
Here’s Harry Reid on the floor of the Senate, opening the lame duck session with a remarkably rambling tale of football. And redemption. Or something. This is who you just re-elected, Nevada.
It wasn’t just the old man smell, it was the constant repetition of the same boring story with details changing in every telling of the tale.
Here’s Harry Reid on the floor of the Senate, opening the lame duck session with a remarkably rambling tale of football. And redemption. Or something.
This is who you just re-elected, Nevada. On behalf of conservative bloggers across the fruited plain, let us give you a big thank you.
In what’s become a bizarre and insulting tradition, Michelle Obama once again chose a very odd place to flaunt her wealth on Thanksgiving: a Washington, DC-area food bank.
In what’s become a bizarre and insulting tradition, Michelle Obama once again chose a very odd place to flaunt her wealth on Thanksgiving: a Washington, DC-area food bank.
Last April she she appeared at the same food bank wearing Lanvin sneakers that cost more than the average annual income in Kenya. This year she wore a $495 Prova scarf.
The Washington Examiner has the fashion highlights from down at the food bank:
For this occasion of serving the community, Michelle opted to wear an ivory knit vest layered atop another long sleeve, ivory knit sweater. This is a rather interesting choice of apparel. If she wanted to layer, you would think she would have chosen two separate colors, right? However, the monochromatic look is indeed in this season. Perhaps, the first lady was trying to be on the cutting edge of fashion, as she so often is. She paired these sweaters with a silk, lavender colored Prova scarf (similar to the one she wore at an Indonesian mosque recently). The scarf was highlighted layered fringes of gunmetal beads and white pom poms.
We don’t know Prova from Pravda, but it turns out there might not be that much difference between the two – the line also includes a line of “Sandinista” scarves.
We’re honestly surprised that Michelle Antoinette didn’t wear one of those in support of the murderous, socialist Nicaraguan regime.
UPDATE: Turns out Michelle does own one of Prova’s Sandinista scarves. You can see it covering her head during her visit to the Indonesian mosque last month. Figures.
If there’s anyone – anyone – who still believes the United Nations still plays any positive role in the world, this story should dissuade them of that fantasy.
If there’s anyone – anyone – who still believes the United Nations still plays any positive role in the world, this story should dissuade them of that fantasy.
How Iran defines the term "gay swingers"
The Huffington Post has the details, so let’s not have any of that “This is just another crazy conservative conspiracy” talk:
Last week, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly voted on a special resolution addressing extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary executions. The resolution affirms the duties of member countries to protect the right to life of all people with a special emphasis on a call to investigate killings based on discriminatory grounds. The resolution highlights particular groups historically subject to executions including street children, human rights defenders, members of ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority communities, and, for the past 10 years, the resolution has included sexual orientation as a basis on which some individuals are targeted for death.
The tiny West African nation of Benin (on behalf of the UN’s African Group) proposed an amendment to strike sexual minorities from the resolution. The amendment was adopted with 79 votes in favor, 70 against, 17 abstentions and 26 absent …
All the usual suspects voted for the right to kill gays: Muslim nations (Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Egypt, Eritrea, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan, Sudan, Yemen), an assortment of well-known human rights violators (China, Congo, Cuba, North Korea, Russia, Vietnam and Zimbabwe), and an assortment of nations with surprisingly harsh anti-gay laws (Bahamas, Belize, Jamaica, Grenada, Guyana, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and South Africa).
None of them, apparently, believe the persecution and execution of gays is important enough to condemn or investigate.
Screw the United Nations. And I think you know where.
