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Angry Indian demonstrators shout, “Obama go home”

A gaggle of Indian leftists groups protested President Obama’s visit to their country on Saturday, shouting “Obama go home.” Hey, c’mon, India, give us a break. We’ve had the guy for two years. Isn’t it someone else’s turn yet?

A gaggle of Indian leftists groups protested President Obama’s visit to their country on Saturday, shouting “Obama go home.”

Hey, c’mon, India, give us a break. We’ve had the guy for two years. Isn’t it someone else’s turn yet?

H/T: Breitbart.tv

Hilarious: Chris Christie explains why he’s impatient with the New Jersey legislature

Chris Christie points out, before leaving on vacation, the state legislature found time to pass new laws on sterilizing stray dogs, destroying tobacco contraband, regulating foreign-made dentures and illegal lock picking.

New Jersey Governor Christie, the guy all conservatives wish was the governor of their states, held a town hall meeting at Monmouth Junction, New Jersey on October 26.

He noted that while he’s impatient for a whole series of reforms, the state legislature doesn’t seem to share that impatience.

But let’s cut the New Jersey legislature some slack. They may not have done diddly squat on reform, but undoubtedly because they were so busy taking care of other vital matters. As Christie points out, before leaving on vacation, they found time to pass new laws on sterilizing stray dogs, destroying tobacco contraband, regulating foreign-made dentures and illegal lock picking.

India to protect President from sinister simians with team of trained monkey catchers

Looks like the Secret Service won’t be enough to protect President Obama while he’s in India. So the Indian government has unleashed its own team of security experts – the Simian Service.

angry-monkey — We don't know how much monkey catchers get paid in India, but it's not enough

The Times of India has the details of the deployment:

Eighty-foot-high towers being built around the ridge area in the capital are not just being erected for the security of US President Barack Obama but also to keep the monkeys in the vicinity at bay, police said.

Obama will be visiting the national capital on November 8-9 and will be staying at ITC Maurya hotel, situated near the ridge area where the monkey population is high.

“As several incidents of monkey-menace have been reported from the area, we are keeping a watch on the simians,” a police officer said.

He also said that trained monkey-catchers will also be deployed.

For god’s sake, man, if they’re this worried about the trained monkeys, what can they possibly do about the untrained monkeys?

Source: Times of India

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to be Nancy Pelosi

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who saw her powerful position taken from her in Tuesday’s landslide election, was adamant the day after Democrats lost 60 seats in the House that the results were not a rejection of the agenda pursued by President Obama and herself.

There’s the old story of the guy who finds his friend pounding his head against the wall. “Why are you doing that?” he asks. His friend replies, “Because it feels so good when I stop.”

Nancy Pelosi is not, apparently, smart enough to stop pounding her head against the wall.

The Daily Caller has the painful details:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who saw her powerful position taken from her in Tuesday’s landslide election, was adamant the day after Democrats lost 60 seats in the House that the results were not a rejection of the agenda pursued by President Obama and herself.

“Let’s understand the message,” Pelosi told ABC’s Diane Sawyer. “The message was not, ‘I reject the course that you are on.’ The message is it didn’t go fast enough to produce jobs.”

Ms Pelosi will now begin pounding her head against the wall even harder and faster.

Source: Daily Caller

Harry Reid claims he’s a bridge builder between Republicans and Democrats. The bridge is in Brooklyn and it’s for sale.

Senator Harry Reid told “The Early Show” Wednesday he has always played the role of “consensus builder,” and looks forward to continuing that work.

OK, so we’re a little bummed that Harry Reid won’t be retiring this January. But on the bright side we get six more years of the glaringly hypocritical, absurdly buffoonish and mind-numbingly stupid things that have become so essential to the Harry Reid mystique.

harry-reid-consensus — Harry Reid practices his legendary consensus building technique

And it looks like the distinguished Senator from Nevada is wasting no time. According to our friends at CBS news:

Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, who clung to his seat in Congress in Tuesday’s election and will return to Washington as the Senate Majority Leader according to CBS News poll projections, told “The Early Show” Wednesday he has always played the role of “consensus builder,” and looks forward to continuing that work.

Unless we are very much mistaken as to the definition of “consensus-builder” we beg to differ. We beg to differ a lot.

The only consensus Harry Reid can be seriously credited with is the opinion, held by a majority of the American people, that he is a moron. Unfortunately, that majority appear to neither live in Nevada nor vote in their elections.

Not that we blame the good folks of that great state too much. Sending him back to Washington was the best way to keep him out of their state.

– Written by Kip Hooker at VitaminPress.com

Source: CBSnews.com

Obama’s terrorist friend doesn’t have a very high opinion of you

Unrepentant terrorist Bernadine Dohrn, wife of Bill Ayers, co-founder of the radical Weather Underground, and close friend of President Obama, spoke her mind during an interview with NewsClick India.

She said you – assuming that you’re on the right – are “racist,“ ”armed,“ ”hostile,“ and ”unspeakable.“ And while she was on a roll, she said the American government was the “real terrorist.”

If a man is truly judged by the friends he keeps, President Obama was judged properly on Tuesday.

The lucky Democrats lost. The unlucky ones now face ethics trials.

If you thought the bad news was over for Democrats, you’d be wrong. Very wrong. And that’s what we call the feel good story of the day.

rangel-waters — Angry and stupid Maxine Waters, intelligent and smug Charlie Rangel

TheHill.co has the delightful details:

Fresh from a stinging midterm election defeat, House Democrats must quickly face another embarrassing spectacle: public trials for two of their most prominent members.  

Reps. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), two senior House veterans, have opted to fight the separate ethics charges in public ethics trials set to take place later this month and extend into the first week of December.  

Drawing criticism from Republicans, House ethics chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) last month announced the trials would occur after the elections. Rangel’s will commence Nov. 15 and the Waters trial will start Nov. 29.  

To make matters worse for a party still reeling from their losses, Rangel, who is known for his colorful and rambling speeches, could decide to represent himself at the hearing. The Rangel’s trial would undoubtedly attract a lot of attention from the cable news shows.  

“It’s like we’re kicking ourselves in the stomach when we’re already down,” one House Democratic staffer griped. “I’m not looking forward to it.”

We urge Democrats not to kick themselves in the stomach. Aim a little lower.

Source: TheHill.com

Bill Maher is a filthy racist who hates Muslims

Last week it was revealed that the most popular boys’ name in England was Mohammed. Much to conservatives’ surprise and to liberals’ dismay, Maher said he was concerned about the “alarming” number of “baby Mohammeds” in England.

We’re not proud to admit this, but we agree with Bill Maher on something. Please do not hold this shameful admission against us. We beg you.

Wolf Blitzer interviewed the obnoxious HBO host and the CNN host just couldn’t believe that Maher actually said something so rational.

Much to our surprise, Maher didn’t back down. He said he sees no reason to “apologize for being a proud Westerner” or for being concerned that “Muslim people are in these [Western] societies“ having babies ”at a faster clip than non-Muslims.”

He called himself “someone who believes in the values that Western people believe in that a lot of the Muslim world does not, like separation of church and state…”

“I would like to keep those values here,” Maher said.

Why do we get the feeling that this is like that episode of Dallas where Pam finds Bobby in the shower and learns that the entire previous season was one long dream that never really happened.

Hopi and Change: American Indians boot environmental wackos off their reservation

It’s kind of like the punch line to the old joke: “What you mean ‘we,’ white man?.” The Hopi Tribe has a message for the Sierra Club and other environmental groups: Keep out!

It’s kind of like the punch line to the old joke: “What you mean ‘we,’ white man?”

crying-indian — Shedding a tear for the money they're losing by leaving that coal in the ground

The Navajo-Hopi Observer has the heap big news:

The Hopi Tribe has a message for the Sierra Club and other environmental groups: Keep out!

That is the response of the Hopi Tribal Council [earlier this fall] to what it says has been continuous concerted attacks from local and national environmental groups “bent on advancing their interests and agenda at the expense of the Hopi Tribe and its sovereign interest.”

The council wants the Sierra Club and other environmental groups and on-reservation organizations affiliated with these groups to know they are not welcome on the Hopi Reservation, declaring them persona non grata — no longer favored or welcome.

By a resolution approved 12-0, the council said environmentalists have deprived the tribe “of markets for its coal resources” and coal revenues needed to sustain governmental services, provide jobs for tribal members and safeguard Hopi culture and tradition.

In 2005, environmental groups played a significant role in the shutdown of the Mohave Generating Station, which the Hopi Council contends “deprived the Hopi Tribe of many millions of dollars of annual operating revenues,” according to the resolution.

Revenue losses from the Mohave power plant range from an estimated $6.5 million to $8.5 million annually.

The council feels that the economic viability of the Navajo Generating Station – the tribe’s only remaining coal customer – is also being threatened, and that environmentalists’ actions could lead to “total economic collapse of the tribe.”

So much for the environmentalists’ image of the peaceful red man, living in harmony with nature. Because as far as the Hopi are concerned, nature gave them a big ol’ pile of coal and it’s not doing anyone any good as long as it sits in the ground.

Source: Navajo-Hopi Observer

The Chris Matthews Theory of Political Evolution: Republicans turned Obama into a lefty

Turns out Barry Obama was virtually indistinguishable from Barry Goldwater until those dastardly Republicans forced him – against his will, apparently – to become a lefty.

We were way off base in our analysis of President Obama’s political philosophy. Turns out Barry Obama was virtually indistinguishable from Barry Goldwater until those dastardly Republicans forced him – against his will, apparently – to become a lefty.

At least that’s Chris Matthews’ new theory:

Matthews: The Republican strategy over last two years has been to force Obama over to the left so that he could only pass left-wing legislation without the grace of bipartisan support, they won, they made him into a lefty.”

By the way, we love the way Townhall.com now tags all their videos with Will Smith’s ludicrous comment that “Obama as an idea marks an evolutionary flashpoint for humanity.”

¡Ay, caramba! Even Latinos don’t support illegal immigration.

This is the last thing the Democrats wanted to hear. One of their most reliable voting blocks is abandoning them on one of their most reliable wedge issues.

The San Bernardino Sun has the details of Democrat discord:

A new study shows Latinos have soured considerably on illegal immigration in the last three years.

In 2007, 50 percent of Latinos surveyed told the Pew Hispanic Center that the growing number of illegal immigrants was a positive force for the existing Latino population. In a Pew survey released Thursday, that number had plummeted to 29 percent.

Thirty-one percent said illegal immigration had a negative effect, and 20 percent said it had no effect.

While the wording of the question changed slightly in 2010 – striking the phrase “growing number” to reflect studies that show illegal immigration declining – several local advocates on different sides of the issue called the change in perception unsurprising.

Those Inland Empire voices diverged significantly, however, when it came to explaining the shift and what it means for immigration policy.

Raymond Herrera, president and founder of a Claremont-based group called We the People, California’s Crusader, said political will has been shifting since 2004.

Herrera said that’s when activists like him began loudly calling for reform, slowly building what he said is a national consensus that illegal immigrants should be deported.

“The Minutemen stood up six years ago and brought the awareness level to the American people,” he said. “It is now at an apex where … enough people have had their American dream stolen (by illegal immigrants).”

Somehow, we think this is going to play havoc with the Democrats’ claim that anyone who’s against illegal aliens is racist.

Source: San Bernardino Sun

Seems contradictory: Indian officials to remove all coconuts before Obama’s visit

We have to admit that when we saw a headline that said, “Coconuts removed in India ahead of Obama visit,” we thought it was some kind of racial insult.

You may remember how liberals taunted Michael Steele by calling him a coconut when he ran for the U.S. Senate in Maryland.

coconut-obama — Coconuts: Taboo in Mumbai

In racial terms, of course, a coconut is a person who is dark brown on the outside, but white on the inside. And let’s face it, Barack Obama is the whitest brother in the history of brothers.

But no, India is actually removing coconuts from the trees. Real coconuts.

The BBC has the story:

Officials in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) have taken extraordinary measures to protect US President Barack Obama ahead of his visit. In their effort to provide maximum security in the run-up to his visit on Friday, they have removed coconuts which may fall on his head from trees.

All coconuts around the city’s Gandhi museum have now been cut down, an official told the BBC.

Every year in India people are injured or even killed by falling coconuts.
Mani Bhavan, where Mahatma Gandhi stayed during his freedom struggle against the British, is among five places the US president is visiting apart from a school, college and hotels attacked by Islamic militants in 2008.

“We told the authorities to remove the dry coconuts from trees near the building. Why take a chance?” Mani Bhavan’s executive secretary, Meghshyam Ajgaonkar, told the BBC.

Luckily, Michael Steele is not part of the President’s entourage.

Source: BBC

Go, Alvin: Greene may run against Lindsey Graham in 2014

Believe it or not, Alvin Green got almost as many votes as victorious Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. So with his Democrat power base firmly established, Alvin is looking to his political future.

Believe it or not, Alvin Green got almost as many votes as victorious Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The final tally was Reid 361,655 and Greene 358,069. So with his Democrat power base firmly established, Alvin is looking to his political future.

alvin-greene — Alvin Greene is our man in 2014

The Daily Caller has the details:

Though Senator Jim DeMint is projected to have won reelection by a long shot by the major news networks, Democratic challenger Alvin Greene has yet to give up hope on ballots that haven’t been counted yet.

“I don’t know,” Greene said in a phone interview with The Daily Caller. “They aren’t all in yet.”

Greene has also told TheDC he is mulling a possible run against Republican Lindsey Graham in 2014.

“I would have run against Graham three years ago if I wasn’t in the military,” Greene said. For a potential 2014 candidacy, Greene said, “I have to see where my priorities are.”

We’ll make you this pledge right now, Alvin:

If you decide to run against RINO Lindsey Graham, we’ll throw the full support of IHateTheMedia.com behind your campaign. You couldn’t be worse than Graham and you’d give us a lot more laughs.

Source: DailyCaller.com

Dead Democrat wins state senate seat in California

We’ve heard of local candidates being propped up by state parties, but this one sounds like Weekend at Bernie’s.

With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, deceased candidate, Democrat Jenny Oropeza, defeated Republican John Stammreich in the race for State Senate in the 28th district.

Oropeza, 53, died on Oct. 20. Because her death was within 10 days of the election, her name remained on the ballot.

The governor now has two weeks to declare her seat empty, and schedule a special election within three to four months. This allows Democrats a chance to find a new candidate to run for Oropeza’s seat.

A week after her death, Democrats sent out mailers to residents, calling for voters to still reelect Oropeza. The mailers featured Secretary of State Debra Bowen and Democratic Party general counsel Martha Escutia.

Naturally, this district, which encompasses parts of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is overwhelmingly Democrat.

Democrats are often accused of turning out the dead vote, but this is one of the rare times when they’re able to vote for one of their peers.

Source: NBC Los Angeles

Pot, meet kettle. Chris Matthews calls Obama an elitist.

Chris Matthews really is schizophrenic these days. One day he still feels that special tingle up his leg at the merest mention of Obama’s name and the next day he lurches into brief moments of clarity.

Monday was a clarity day. He told Andrea Mitchell that America voted for the patriotic and inclusive Obama and now he’s become an elitist.

And Mitchell just sits there looking as if this liberal blasphemy is going to give her a major stroke.

Question of the Day: Is Obama A Keynesian?

Too freakin’ funny. The dimwits at the Stewart/Colbert rally don’t know the difference between a Kenyan and a Keynesian.

“Why, how can you wingnuts call him a Keynesian? Everyone knows he was born in Hawaii.”

But remember, it’s the conservatives who are stupid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnpuEx6bzy4

The Chinese develop an Obama Sex Doll: Provide your own punch lines

Americans may have fallen out of love with Barack Obama, but the president of the United States is still an object of affection for the Chinese, who have remodeled him as a blow-up sex doll.

This story makes it too damn easy. Punch lines just leap to mind. It’s not even a challenge, but feel free to write your own if you wish.

The Telegraph UK has the sordid story:

Americans may have fallen out of love with Barack Obama, but the president of the United States is still an object of affection for the Chinese, who have remodeled him as a blow-up sex doll.

A doll wearing a dark blue suit and red tie, and with Mr Obama’s face carefully screen-printed onto its head, was exhibited at the recent 8th Sex Culture Festival in the southern city of Guangzhou.

The doll was photographed by Chinese state media nestling behind several other standard plastic female toys.

Mr Obama is widely popular in China, and a “Maobama” t-shirt, bearing an image of his face crossed with a portrait of Chairman Mao, has become a best-seller.

Notice the remarkable strength and maturity that we’re showing here. Not one cheap, sleazy punch line has left our laptop.

Also see: The Barack Obama Blow-Up Love Doll. Seriously. We’re not making this up.

Source: Telegraph UK

Let’s celebrate the elections with free Slurpees for everyone

It’s not every day your team wins a landslide victory. So let’s celebrate. To commemorate President Obama’s 25th reference to “Republicans are sippin’ Slurpees,” IHateTheMedia.com is giving away Slurpees to 25 lucky winners.

Obama slurpee contest — Hey, these things cost $1.89 down at our local 7-Eleven, so 25 of them damn near depletes our annual promotional budget

It’s not every day your team wins a landslide victory. So let’s celebrate.

To commemorate the Republican’s Tuesday Tsunami and President Obama’s 25th reference to “Republicans are sippin’ Slurpees,” IHateTheMedia.com is giving away Slurpees to 25 lucky winners.

A reporter even asked the President about Slurpees in today’s post-election press conference. So let’s strike while the subject is hot and the slushy, icy drinks are cold.

It’s easy to win one of IHateTheMedia.com 25 Slurpees. Just submit your entry in a comment on this post. Tell us in 25 words or less what you liked most about Tuesday’s elections. Contest ends midnight (PST) November 12, 2010.

This ain’t no liberal contest, so creativity and cleverness will get you extra points.

Please, only contest entries allowed in comments; sorry, but we’ll have to delete anything else.

Source: CBS News

Legendary: Alan Grayson’s concession speech

In this concession speech, Alan Grayson modestly describes his victory in 2008 as “legendary.” And his wacko supporters don’t help matters when they take up the “Yes We Can” chant two years too late.

Alan Grayson is a lunatic to the bitter end. And we don’t use the word “bitter” lightly.

In this concession speech, Grayson modestly describes his victory in 2008 as “legendary.” And his wacko supporters don’t help matters when they take up the “Yes We Can” chant two years too late.

Grayson also explains that the only reason he lost was that his district was gerrymandered by the evil Republicans.

Ahhh, we’ll miss you Alan. You were good for at least one hysterically funny story every week.

Big news from Media Matters: America rejected the Republican Party in Tuesday’s elections

Media Matters Karl Frisch attempts to spin the Tuesday’s tsunami as a defeat for Republicans.

If you watched TV on Tuesday night or checked the internet on Wednesday morning, you may have come to the incorrect conclusion that the Republican Party was victorious in the elections. You know, 60 or so seats in the House, half a dozen in the Senate, an additional twenty or more state legislatures.

Nevertheless, when your livelihood depends of finding fault with “the other guys,” that’s what you must do no matter what. Even when the claim is ridiculous.

Like this little gem, where Media Matters Karl Frisch attempts to spin the Tuesday’s tsunami as a defeat for Republicans.

H/T: Breitbart.tv

Is this the worst opening to a newscast ever?

Nothing goes right during this 11 a.m. newscast at Channel 10 in San Diego. Absolutely nothing.

(Sorry for the stupid music in this version, but YouTube killed the original version we put up.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e7LMFM4UNU

Coincidentally, the field reporter seen down at the San Ysidro border crossing is Adrienne Moore, who used to work here in IHateTheMedia.com’s town. You can’t really tell in this short clip, but she’s hot. Really hot. Unbelievably freakin’ hot.

One day back when Adrienne worked at our local TV station, the Editor’s cell phone rang. The caller, a trainer down at the local gym, said, “Hey, if you get down to the gym in the next five minutes, you can see Adrienne Moore doing bent over rows.”

It was a sad day when she left our little town to go to a big market like San Diego, but we’re happy to celebrate the glory that is Adrienne with this short snippet of what has been called the worst newscast opening ever.

(That being said, another station in our market is so bad that people organize pools and bet on how long it will take for the first mistake to occur in each newscast. Ahhh, life in a small market.)

Hey, Adrienne, if you read this, drop us an email here at IHTM. We’d love to have you as the celebrity judge for an upcoming IHTM contest.

No stalking, we promise.

Sissy-in-Chief

The President of the United States, supposedly the most powerful man in the world, flinching like a little girl during a martial arts exhibition.

You’ve seen video that shows him rolling gutter balls. You’ve seen video of him wearing mom pants and making a sissy girl first pitch at the all star game. You’ve seen him riding a girl’s bike and looking like Urkel. You’ve seen him hanging draperies. You’ve seen him sipping beer with his little finger sticking out like he’s having tea with the Queen.

And now this. The President of the United States, supposedly the most powerful man in the world, flinching like a little girl during a martial arts exhibition.

Putin up, Mr. President, Putin up.

H/T: Moonbattery.com

President Obama reacts to last night’s election

“Republicans are extremists. The Tea Party will doom the Republican Party. We’ll hold the majority. People will love ObamaCare once they understand it.

“Republicans are extremists. The Tea Party will doom the Republican Party. We’ll hold the majority. People will love ObamaCare once they understand it. Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhh!”

Let’s see if lib radio host Stephanie Miller is all talk

Back in August, conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt said Republicans were going to kick ass in November. Lib radio talker Stephanie Miller scoffed, said Hewitt was wrong and announced that she’d play this clip on her radio show to prove it.

Miller: Hugh, I’m going to play this tape of you on my radio show after you’re wrong in November.
Hewitt: Good, nobody will hear it.
Loesch: Ohhhhhhhh!

Let us know what time you’re going to play it so we can tune in, Stephie.

Bond guru says Fed actions will cause the dollar to drop 20%. Is it time to buy gold?

Bill Gross, the brains behind the incredible growth of Pimco and manager of the world’s largest mutual fund, and he thinks the Fed is going to cause the dollar to collapse by another 20%.

You’ve probably seen financial guru Bill Gross on CNBC. He’s been called the Warren Buffett of bonds, he’s the brains behind the incredible growth of Pimco and manager of the world’s largest mutual fund, and he thinks the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing is going to cause the dollar to collapse by another 20%.

The dollar is in danger of losing 20 percent of its value over the next few years if the Federal Reserve continues unconventional monetary easing, Bill Gross, the manager of the world’s largest mutual fund, said on Monday.

“I think a 20 percent decline in the dollar is possible,” Gross said, adding the pace of the currency’s decline was also an important consideration for investors.

“When a central bank prints trillions of dollars of checks, which is not necessarily what (a second round of quantitative easing) will do in terms of the amount, but if it gets into that territory—that is a debasement of the dollar in terms of the supply of dollars on a global basis,” Gross told Reuters in an interview at his PIMCO headquarters.

So how do you take Gross’ theory and make money from it? Is it time to buy gold? Is it time to move your money to a country with a commodities-based economy? Or is it time to mortgage the house and let Gross manage your money?

These are questions, not recommendations. What are you doing to protect your financial future? Let’s get a little discussion going here.

Disclosure: Mrs. Editor is a former employee of Pimco. Had she stayed with the company we would now be gazillionaires. Instead, she decided to teach autistic children and make minimum wage.

Damn her and her big heart. Damn her to hell.

Source: CNBC

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