Ahhh, autumn is upon us once more. Baseball season is winding down. Football season is winding up. And somewhere in Europe guys who are supposed to know more than all the rest of us are making asses of themselves.
Ahhh, autumn is upon us once more. Baseball season is winding down. Football season is winding up. And somewhere in Europe guys who are supposed to know more than all the rest of us are making asses of themselves.
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to three guys who still have jobs
Not to be outdone by by last year’s spectacle of the Obama Peace Prize, the Nobel Committee has committed yet another excellent selection.
As reported by CNN Money:
Three economists will share the 2010 Nobel Prize for their work on how government policy affects unemployment, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday.
The Nobel Prize went to Peter Diamond of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.; Dale Mortensen of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.; and Christopher Pissarides of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.
The three received the prize for research on how economic policy affects the job market. Their theories “help us understand the ways in which unemployment, job vacancies, and wages are affected by regulation and economic policy,” said the academy in a statement.
You will have to forgive our sub Nobel Laureate level intelligence for just a moment. But it seems that in a world in which rabid unemployment is the scourge of the age, the last thing anyone should be do is reward employment experts.
In fact, it might not be such a bad idea to suspend the prize altogether until every mainstream economist alive circa 2008 has either retired or moved onto that great Ivory Think Tank in the Sky.
George Soros didn’t get to be a multi-billionaire by making stupid investments. And that’s the category Democrats fall into these days.
George Soros didn’t get to be a multi-billionaire by making stupid investments. And that’s the category Democrats fall into these days.
The NY Times reports:
Mr. Soros, a champion of liberal causes, has been directing his money to groups that work on health care and the environment, rather than electoral politics. Asked if the prospect of Republican control of one or both houses of Congress concerned him, he said: “It does, because I think they are pushing the wrong policies, but I’m not in a position to stop it. I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche.”
George Soros have been the inspiration for Dr. Evil, but no one ever accused him of being the inspiration for Dr. Stupid.
Consider this video clip to be Soros’ prediction for November 2. It’s commmmming, Democrats.
A belated happy death day to Che Guevara, the psychopathic Cuban (née Argentinian) killer and campus T-shirt icon, who died a well-deserved death on October 9, 1967.
A belated happy death day to Che Guevara, the psychopathic Cuban (née Argentinian) killer and campus T-shirt icon, who died a well-deserved death on October 9, 1967.
You, too, can glorify the life of a mass murderer
Humberto Fontova recalls the reality of Che’s reign of terror at Townhall.com:
“When you saw the beaming look on Che’s face as the victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad,” said a former Cuban political prisoner Roberto Martin-Perez, to your humble servant here, “you saw there was something seriously, seriously wrong with Che Guevara.” As commander of the La Cabana execution yard, Che often shattered the skull of the condemned man (or boy) by firing the coup de grace himself. When other duties tore him away from his beloved execution yard, he consoled himself by viewing the slaughter. Che’s second-story office in Havana’s La Cabana prison had a section of wall torn out so he could watch his darling firing-squads at work.
Even as a youth, Ernesto Guevara’s writings revealed a serious mental illness. “My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any vencido that falls in my hands!” This passage is from Ernesto Guevara’s famous Motorcycle Diaries, though Robert Redford somehow overlooked it while directing his heart-warming movie….
The one genuine accomplishment in Che Guevara’s life was the mass-murder of defenseless men and boys. Under his own gun dozens died. Under his orders thousands crumpled. At everything else Che Guevara failed abysmally, even comically.
New MSNBC host Lawrence and South Carolina Senate Candidate Alvin Greene. Dumb and dumber. Literally. O’Donnell apparently thought it would be funny to interview Greene and prepared a series of stupid questions like “Why was your high school nickname ‘Turtle?’”
New MSNBC host Lawrence and South Carolina Senate Candidate Alvin Greene. Dumb and dumber. Literally.
O’Donnell apparently thought it would be funny to interview Greene and prepared a series of stupid questions like “Why was your high school nickname ‘Turtle?’”
But Greene one-upped him in the stupid department by answering every question with the same answer: “Jim DeMint started the recession.”
This, of course, offended O’Donnell, because everyone at MSNBC knows that George Bush started the recession. And the War in Iraq. And the Great Depression. And the Boxer Rebellion.
How do you know when the Democrats’ entire “Chamber of Commerce is doing something illegal” meme is blowing up in their faces? When even the über liberal New York Times condemns the commercial.
How do you know when the Democrats’ entire “Chamber of Commerce is doing something illegal” meme is blowing up in their faces?
When even the über liberal New York Times condemns the commercial that makes the claim:
A closer examination shows that there is little evidence that what the chamber does in collecting overseas dues is improper or even unusual, according to both liberal and conservative election-law lawyers and campaign finance documents.
In fact, the controversy over the Chamber of Commerce financing may say more about the Washington spin cycle — where an Internet blog posting can be quickly picked up by like-minded groups and become political fodder for the president himself — than it does about the vagaries of campaign finance.
Coming up next: Little old ladies and puppies are collecting illegal foreign money to steal our democracy.
In lieu of making a donation to the Levi Johnston campaign, we did the next best thing: We ran an ad in today’s Wasilla Frontiersman newspaper telling the town’s residents why they should support this All-American Every Boy.
When we heard that Levi Johnston was running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, we cheered. We consider his campaign proof that anyone – absolutely anyone – can succeed in America.
In lieu of making a donation to his campaign, we did the next best thing: We ran an ad in yesterday’s Wasilla Frontiersman newspaper telling the town’s residents why they should support this All-American Every Boy.
We did it because we’re warmhearted, caring people.
So why are we getting all these angry emails?
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Got bad credit? Looking a low cost credit card? No problem. Just move to Venezuela and get one from Hugo Chavez.
Got bad credit? Looking a low cost credit card? No problem. Just move to Venezuela and get one from Hugo Chavez.
The HugoCard. Don't leave home without it.
The Associated Press details Hugo’s credit card offer:
Going into Sunday’s legislative elections, President Hugo Chavez pitched his candidates like a salesman, promising Venezuelans he will give them low-interest credit cards and discounted appliances from washing machines to TV sets.
Chavez turned to his long successful populist appeals seeking to woo voters more concerned with their pocketbooks than with his socialist politics. He is trying to hold off a determined challenge by the opposition, which is intent on breaking Chavez’s stranglehold on the National Assembly for the first time in his presidency.
“I want us to win the elections by knockout!” Chavez told cheering supporters during one of his final campaign rallies, standing amid allied candidates dressed in his party’s signature red.
… Apparently seeking to turn up the heat in the campaign, Chavez has launched a program to provide Venezuelans with special, low-interest credit cards that can be used to shop at state-run stores and for travel, calling it the “Good Life Card.”
The only problem with this technique of getting rid of your credit card debt is that you end up owing money to Hugo Chavez.
And we guarantee that even the pushiest American debt collector is a pussycat compared to Hugo.
Nancy Pelosi said, “It is the biggest bang for the buck when you do food stamps and unemployment insurance.” Media Matters, of course, got angry when Fox News dared to question the Speaker.
Nancy Pelosi said, “It is the biggest bang for the buck when you do food stamps and unemployment insurance.” And she actually sounded as if she believed it.
Media Matters, of course, got angry when Fox News dared to question the Speaker. They brought out the big guns, all of the “experts” who agreed with Pelosi – both of them.
Their first expert, CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf, said that “… transfers to persons (for example, unemployment insurance and nutrition assistance) would … have a significant impact on GDP.” He added, “Because a large amount of such spending can occur quickly.”
This is, of course, the same CBO that claimed ObamaCare would save us gazillions.
Expert #2, economist Mark Zandi, who advised John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, stated that, “Extending food stamps are [sic] the most effective ways to prime the economy’s pump.”
Strangely enough, until this quote surfaced, Media Matters had always considered anyone who worked on McCain’s presidential bid to be criminally insane.
Economic experts from the Obama administration could not be found for comment as most of them have already deserted the sinking ship which is this administration.
Media Matters, as usual, misses the mark by a mile. It’s not that anyone hates the unemployed, but rather the fact that America hates the fact that we have so damn many unemployed when we were promised that we would have a rate no higher than 8% if would just listen to and obey the Great and Powerful Wizard of the White House.
This may explain why people aren’t really listening to the White House anymore. And why they surely aren’t listening to Media Matters, either.
Bat shit crazy Howard Dean went to Austria and said conservatives can’t run anything. How about November 2, Howard. That’s the day we run Barack Obama and his band of socialist sociopaths out of Washington, DC, Howard?
Bat shit crazy Howard Dean went to Austria and said conservatives can’t run anything.
How about November 2, Howard. That’s the day we run Barack Obama and his band of socialist sociopaths out of Washington, DC, Howard?
On Sunday, Barack Obama condemned the United States Chamber of Commerce as evil purveyors of foreign campaign money. On Monday, he praised the same organization as accomplices in his socialist scheme for America.
“My daughter. My sister. My daughter. My sister. My daughter and my sister.”
Barack Obama’s as conflicted as Faye Dunaway in Chinatown.
On Sunday, he condemned the United States Chamber of Commerce as evil purveyors of foreign campaign money.
On Monday, he praised the same organization as accomplices in his socialist scheme for America.
OK, maybe those weren’t his exact words, but that’s the bottom line.
President Barack Obama spoke in front of 10,000 people in Philadelphia on Sunday and suddenly discovered his inner black man and pandered to a black audience by talking about “black folks” and sounding more like Jim from Huckleberry Finn than the Harvard educated attorney he really is.
President Barack Obama spoke in front of 10,000 people in Philadelphia on Sunday and suddenly discovered his inner black man.
“They said he was a p’fessor in a college, and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. And that ain’t the wust. They said he could VOTE when he was at home. Well, that let me out. Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to? It was ‘lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn’t too drunk to get there…”
Oh, no. What were we thinking? That was Jim from Huckleberry Finn, not President Obama.
But in our defense, it’s tough to tell the difference when Obama starts pandering to a black audience by talking about “black folks” and sounding more like Jim than the Harvard educated attorney he really is.
An Indianapolis cookie shop could be evicted from its longtime location for refusing a special order from a college homosexual group for gay cookies.
A little clarification may be in order: When we say gay cookies, we don’t mean little gingerbread men holding hands and demanding the right to have a gingerbread preacher join them in holy matrimony.
Three cookies for a dollar. That's what we call a homosexual value.
Let’s just let OneNewsNow explain the details:
An Indianapolis cookie shop could be evicted from its longtime location for refusing a special order from a college homosexual group.
The bakery “Just Cookies” has operated in a city-owned market for over 20 years. The president of the board that oversees the market told the Indianapolis Star that he would “hate to lose them” as a tenant — but that could very well happen because owner David Stockton took a moral stand and did not want to endorse homosexual activity.
Controversy arose this week after the owners of the bakery cited moral objections to a special-order request for rainbow-decorated cookies for next week’s “National Coming Out Day” observance at a nearby university campus. Stockton told the caller he did not feel comfortable in supporting homosexual values, especially because it would not set a good example for his two daughters.
Micah Clark of the American Family Association of Indiana says there are reports the city might evict Stockton, citing a local “anti-discrimination” statute.
Gay cookies. Add a little extra sugar and a pinch of spice and the next thing you know, Barney Frank is your best customer.
Anyone still holding out hope that the world is in perilous trouble due to Global Warming, Big Business, and Carbon Emissions need only to read this article from Reuters titled “No carbon market boom without U.S.: delegates.”
Anyone still holding out hope that the world is in perilous trouble due to Global Warming, Big Business, and Carbon Emissions need only to read this article from Reuters titled “No carbon market boom without U.S.: delegates.”
If you breathe, they'll tax it.
According to the article:
“The global carbon market will not be worth $1-2 trillion a year by 2020 if the United States does not speed up efforts for a federal emissions trading scheme, delegates warned at a carbon conference in London on Monday.
“There will be, I’m afraid, no real expansion of the carbon markets to their global potential without movement in the U.S.,” said Henry Derwent, chief executive and president of the International Emissions Trading Association.
“Until someone explains to them (the U.S.) how wrong they are, we will be stuck with a comfortable living in the European market but nothing, nothing near the potential we should be earning,” he added. (emphasis ours)
Poor guy. The Americans won’t go along with the lie, so he’s stuck with making a comfortable living – not the bank he “should” be earning.
Consider it definitive proof once and for all that Global Warming/Climate Change/Man-Made Climate Disruption is nothing more than what you always knew it was – a tax on the air we breathe conceived because they’d already taxed everything else.
That’s kind of brilliant if you really think about it. Too bad the “science” had to get in the way.
From 1985 to 1988 Barack Obama ran something called the Developing Communities Project in Chicago, and he increased his organization’s number of employees by 1200%, grew its budget by 471% and then he took eight weeks vacation.
Critics often complain that President Obama had never run anything before he became President. But that’s not true. Back in his community organizing days, from 1985 to 1988 he ran something called the Developing Communities Project in Chicago.
Wikipedia says “During his three years as the DCP’s director, its staff grew from one to thirteen and its annual budget grew from US$70,000 … to US$400,000….”
The article also says, “In mid-1988, he traveled for the first time in Europe for three weeks and then for five weeks in Kenya, where he met many of his paternal relatives for the first time.”
So in three years, he increased his organization’s number of employees by 1200%, grew its budget by 471% and then he took eight weeks vacation.
Can you blame them? It’s like being born with the last name Stalin or Hitler or Manson or, in this case, Olbermann. It just can’t help as you go through life.
Can you blame them? It’s like being born with the last name Stalin or Hitler or Manson or, in this case, Olbermann. It just can’t help as you go through life.
The New York Times has news of new nomenclature:
NBC Universal and Microsoft, the parents of MSNBC.com, are holding high-level talks about a name change, something that could be a risky endeavor for the third most popular news Web site in the United States.
The two parents have determined that the brand of MSNBC.com, a strictly objective news Web site, is widely confused with MSNBC, the cable channel that has taken a strongly liberal bent in recent years, according to internal memorandums obtained by The New York Times this week.
Charlie Tillinghast, MSNBC.com’s president, wrote in a memo last March, “Both strategies are fine, but naming them the same thing is brand insanity.” The channel and Web site are already separate companies.
Alluding to the challenge that the two companies face in conceiving a brand-new news identity, MSNBC.com this week pushed back a board meeting on the topic by three weeks. “Consensus in this case is a tall order,” Mr. Tillinghast wrote in a message to employees Tuesday.
Isn’t this backwards? Shouldn’t the failing cable news network that made the brand name so toxic be the one that changes its name and gets a new url?
How about lyingsacksofshit.com. Is that available?
Thanks, suckers. You work hard, you pay your taxes, and California welfare recipients are using their welfare cards like credit cards with no credit limits.
Thanks, suckers. You work hard, you pay your taxes, and California welfare recipients are using their welfare cards like credit cards with no credit limits.
In the last couple of year, they’ve drawn $69 million in California welfare payments while out of state. Hell, out of state wouldn’t even be so bad if they weren’t pissing your money away in casinos and on cruises and shopping sprees.
The day the welfare checks arrive. Or as it's known in California, "Party time, baby!"
The Los Angeles Times has the disturbing details:
Las Vegas tops the list with $11.8 million spent at casinos or taken from ATMs, but transactions in Hawaii, Miami, Guam and elsewhere also raise questions. Officials say budget cuts hinder investigations.
More than $69 million in California welfare money, meant to help the needy pay their rent and clothe their children, has been spent or withdrawn outside the state in recent years, including millions in Las Vegas, hundreds of thousands in Hawaii and thousands on cruise ships sailing from Miami.
State-issued aid cards have been used at hotels, shops, restaurants, ATMs and other places in 49 other states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, according to data obtained by The Times from the California Department of Social Services. Las Vegas drew $11.8 million of the cash benefits, far more than any other destination. The money was accessed from January 2007 through May 2010.
Free credit cards. Free money. Free cruises. Free hotel rooms. Free shopping. All paid for by the suckers formerly known as taxpayers.
Great production values. Great positioning. Great music. Great editing. OK, Marlin Stutzman’s delivery is the weakest part of the commercial, but who cares. We’re ready to run through a brick wall for the guy after watching this commercial.
Great production values. Great positioning. Great music. Great editing. OK, Marlin Stutzman’s delivery is the weakest part of the commercial, but who cares. We’re ready to run through a brick wall for the guy after watching this commercial.
We realize that we’ve been mistaken all these years and the word whore is now considered not only acceptable, but something worthy of getting you endorsed, please allow us to be the first to call a few other women whores.
California Democrat Jerry Brown didn’t disagree when one of his aides was caught on tape calling Republican Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman “a whore.” A few hours later, he was he was rewarded with an endorsement by the National Organization of Women.
Florida Congressman Alan Grayson also called a female lobbyist a whore and, sure enough, NOW also endorsed him.
So now that we realize that we’ve been mistaken all these years and the word whore is now considered not only acceptable, but something worthy of getting you endorsed, please allow us to be the first to call a few other women whores.
Whore!
The White House: Michelle Obama
The Senate: Barbara Mikulski, Jocelyn Burdick, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Carol Moseley Braun, Patty Murray, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Deborah Stabenow, Maria Cantwell, Jean Carnahan, Lisa Murkowski, Claire McCaskill, Amy Klobuchar, Jeanne Shaheen, Kay Hagan, Kristen Gillibrand
Whore!
The House of Representatives: Tammy Baldwin, Melissa Bean, Shelly Berkley, Madeleine Bordallo Corrine Brown, Lois Capps, Kathy Castor, Donna Christensen, Judy Chu, Yvette Clarke, Kathleen Dahlkemper, Susan Davis, Diane DeGette, Rosa DeLauro, Donna Edwards, Anna Eshoo, Marcia Fudge, Gabrielle Giffords, Deborah Halvorson, Jane Harman, Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin, Mazie Hirono, Sheila Jackson Lee, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Marcia Kaptur, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Mary Jo Kilroy, Ann Kirkpatrick, Suzanne Kosmas, Barbara Lee, Zoe Lofgren, Nita Lowey, Carolyn Maloney, Betsy Markey, Doris Matsui, Carolyn McCarthy, Betty McCollum, Gwen Moore, Grace Napolitano, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Nancy Pelosi, Chellie Pingree, Laura Richardson, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Loretta Sanchez, Linda Sanchez, Jan Schakowsky, Allyson Schwartz, Carol Shea-Porter, Louise Slaughter, Jackie Speier, Betty Sutton, Dina Titus, Nicola Tsongas, Nydia Velazquez, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, Lynn Woolsey.
Whore!
The Obama Administration: Hillary Clinton, Janet Napolitano, Jocelyn Elders, Valerie Jarret, Melody Barnes, Regina Benjamin, Carol Browner, Lisa Jackson, Valerie Jarrett, Karen Gordon Mills, Janet Napolitano, Susan Rice, Mary Schapiro, Kathleen Sebelius, Hilda Solis, Nancy Sutley, Christina Romer, Lisa Jackson, Desiree Rogers
The Supreme Court: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan
Whores Emeritus: Monica Lewinsky, Janet Reno, Jocelyn Elders, Madeleine Albright, Donna Shalala, Hazel O’Leary, Alice M. Rivlin, Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Rosalynn Carter, Anita Hill, Donna Rice, Jackie Kennedy-Onasis, Lynda Bird and Luci Johnson, Ann Richards, Donna Brazile, Geraldine Ferraro
Whore!
Hollywood: Ashley Judd, Barbra Streisand, Rosie O’Donnell, Cameron Diaz, Kim Bassinger, Alicia Silverstone, Natalie Maines and the other two Dixie Chicks, Whoopi Goldberg, Jane Fonda, Sheryl Crow, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Madonna, Janeane Garofalo, Shirley MacLaine, Marlo Thomas, Raquel Welch, Goldie Hawn, Dionne Warwick, Carole King, Jennifer Anniston, Perez Hilton (included on a technicality), Angelica Huston, Kathleen Turner, Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bianca Jagger, Gillian Anderson, Lily Tomlin, Marg Helenberger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Salma Hayek, Caherine Zeta Jones, Mia Farrow, Tea Leoni, Jill Clayburgh, Bonnie Franklin, Loretta Swit, Emma Thompson, Annie Lennox, Jennifer Connelly, Kate Hudson, Goldie Hawn, Sharon Stone, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Penelope Cruz, Rosie Perez, Kirsten Dunst, Melanie Griffith, Stockard Channing, Daryl Hannah, Natalie Imbruglia, Elizabeth Taylor, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Melissa Etheridge, Glenn Close, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sally Field, Annette Bening, Joan Baez, Pamela Anderson, Naomi watts, Diana Ross, Natalie Cole, Aril Lavigne, Janet Jackson, Ellen DeGeneres, Scarlet Johannsen, Rosario Dawson, Susan Estrich, Sarah Silverman, Maya Angelou, Andrea Mitchell, Joan Walsh, Tina Fey, Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron
Egad! Whore!
The Media: Roseanne Barr, Barbara Walters, Gloria Steinem, Oprah Winfrey, Roseanne Barr, Rosie O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow, Randi Rhodes, Susan Estrich, Andrea Mitchell, Joan Walsh, Dee Dee Myers, Ellen Goodman, Mika Brzezinski, Helen Thomas, Sally Quinn
Miscellaneous: Teresa Heinz-Kerry, Caroline Kennedy, Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton, Cindy Sheehan, Elizabeth Kucinich
Personal Knowledge: Caroline J, the bitch who broke the heart of the IHTM Editor in high school
Although this list is lengthy, we doubt that it is comprehensive and we extend our deepest apologies to any whores we may have omitted.
We now sit back and eagerly await NOW’s glowing, wholehearted endorsement of IHateTheMedia.com.
If you can think of any whores we overlooked, please feel free to add their names in the comments section.
If you’re ever short of cash and think a “payday loan” or “payday advance” sounds like a reasonable idea, there are two things you should know before you walk in the door.
See that garish neon sign down at the local strip mall that says “Payday loans!”
If you’re ever short of cash and think a “payday loan” or “payday advance” sounds like a reasonable idea, there are two things you should know before you walk in the door. (1) The money for your payday rip-off is provided by the same big banks you bailed out with your tax dollars, and (2) The interest rate payday loan lenders charge is so high it would make a loan shark like Tony Soprano blush.
Payday loans: Interest rates that would make Tony Soprano blush
In fact, according to a report by WFAE, the payday loan industry wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Wells Fargo and Bank of America:
“These banks were bailed out by the American taxpayer and they need to stop investing in an industry that thrives off bilking the American taxpayer,” says George Goehl, executive director of National People’s Action, a community advocacy group that co-sponsored the report. It estimates big banks extend as much as $3 billion in credit to payday lenders each year.
Wells Fargo is the largest funder with a lead role in financing six of the nation’s largest payday lenders. According to the report, Bank of America and its subsidiaries own more than a one-percent stake four of the top five publicly-held payday lenders. Neither bank disputes the report, but both say they put payday lenders through a strict screening process to qualify for funding…
Which one was it, Ed? Was the speech “off the top of you head” or did you “do your best to prepare it?” Those two options are contradictory. And then there’s this video clip of the world’s largest Teleprompter being used by another speaker at the OneNation rally.
Of course, he lied. It’s Ed Schultz. It’s MSNBC.
Here’s how Ed Schultz opened his show on October 4, the Monday following the One Nation rally in Washington, DC:
“This is the story that has me fired up tonight. And really, it’s something that I’m gonna remember for the rest of my life. Ask yourself the question, ‘What do you think it would be like to stand on the Lincoln Memorial and give a speech off the top of your head?’ I don’t know if you can prepare for that. I did my best.”
Which one was it, Ed? Was the speech “off the top of you head” or did you “do your best to prepare it?” Those two options are contradictory.
And then there’s this video clip of the world’s largest Teleprompter being used by another speaker at the One Nation rally.
Now, admittedly, we have no proof that Ed used the Teleprompter, but he did seem to be looking off to his left frequently during the speech and it did seem a lot more coherent than most of the things he says.
Police say that a man wearing an Obama mask robbed a convenience store in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Hmmmm. We’re not so sure.
Police say that a man wearing an Obama mask robbed a convenience store in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Hmmmm. We’re not so sure.
"He looked like Barack Obama," the clerk said. "Was there a big, ugly woman driving the getaway car," the detective asked.
A quick glance at surveillance video taken inside a local convenience store might lead someone to believe the 44th president of the United States committed a crime.Police said a man wearing a mask of President Barack Obama robbed the Sheetz on Somerset Center Drive at about 3:24 a.m. on Wednesday.
Police said the man, who was armed with a handgun, demanded money and left after he was given cash.
He was last seen driving away in a compact gold or silver vehicle, police said.
Sources inside the Winston-Salem Police Department said Wednesday morning that a suspect is in custody. No other details were given since he hasn’t yet been charged.
We suspect that the culprit really was the President of the United States and this was simply his attempt to cut out the middleman.
A Florida man arrested Wednesday on drug charges told cops that a bag of cocaine found hidden inside his buttocks did not belong to him.
We’re all guilty of saying some stupid things when we’re unexpectedly put on the spot. But the next time Raymond Roberts is arrested, he may want to think his alibi through a little more thoroughly than he did this time:
Is that a bag of crack in your ass or are you just happy to see me?
A Florida man arrested Wednesday on drug charges told cops that a bag of cocaine found hidden inside his buttocks did not belong to him. Though the suspect did cop to ownership of a bag of marijuana hidden alongside the coke.
The narcotics were discovered by Manatee County Sheriff’s Office deputies after Raymond Roberts’s Hyundai was pulled over on a Bradenton street for speeding Wednesday morning. Investigators, who reported smelling a strong odor of marijuana emanating from the vehicle, subsequently searched the 25-year-old Roberts and discovered his hidden stash.
… Roberts quickly disavowed ownership of the cocaine. “The white stuff is not mine, but the weed is,” he claimed, adding that the crack in his crack was the property of a friend who had previously borrowed the car and left the drug on the passenger seat. Roberts explained that when he was pulled over for speeding, he concealed the second bag of narcotics.
IHTM’s editor is not embarrassed to admit that Cops is his favorite TV show. And one of his all-time favorite episodes is the one where the police find drugs in a suspect’s pockets while frisking him. The suspect’s response? “These aren’t my pants.”
We didn’t think any suspect could top that line, but Mr. Roberts seems to have proven us wrong.
Joe Biden routinely insults the intelligence of his admirers. But now he’s just plain insulting them.
Joe Biden routinely insults the intelligence of his admirers. But now he’s just plain insulting them.
Joe Biden: Open mouth, insert foot. Repeat as necessary.
The Hill delivers the derogatory details:
Vice President Joe Biden got a laugh from his audience at a Wisconsin fundraising event Thursday when he tried to rile the crowd about the economic collapse of 2008.
“We want to reward people who manufacture things in the United States, in Wisconsin, not to take them overseas to China and to other countries!” he said to a silent room at the event for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tom Barrett, according to a White House pool report.
The crowd didn’t erupt in spontaneous cheers for the Obama administration’s remarkable achievements in unemployment, which annoyed the gaffe-tastic vice president:
He continued, saying, “You’re the dullest audience I’ve ever spoken to,” at which point he got applause and laughs. “Do you realize how many jobs Wisconsin lost? It’s staggering!”
Yes, of course, they realize how many jobs the state lost, Joe. That’s why they didn’t cheer in the first place.
What an administration. The President reminds everyone of Jimmy Carter. And the Vice President reminds everyone of Dan Quayle.
After getting slapped around a few days ago, Gloria Allred decided – incorrectly, as it turned out – that it would be a good idea to go back on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show.
Far as we can tell, the phrase “bitch slap” was created with Gloria Allred in mind. It’s not easy to degrade the legal and media professions any further, but she is able to accomplish both tasks singlehandedly.
After getting slapped around a few days ago, Allred decided – incorrectly, as it turned out – that it would be a good idea to go back on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show.
There are a lot of great moments in this clip, but our favorite is Greta saying, “I think she would have been a lot smarter to talk to a lawyer who worried about whether she would be deported than some sort of public statement on someone running for office … You know what, Gloria? The first thing for a lawyer to do is to protect the client, not throw the client out to the wolves. If you can’t protect the client you shouldn’t do the job….”
Anyone think Gloria will stagger back into the studio for round three?
Charlie Crist, turncoat Republican and now Independent candidate for governor of Florida, assured his own defeat on Thursday when he threw out the first pitch at game two of the American League playoff game.
Seems to us that the American people want their President to be a manly man. Someone who can go toe-to-toe with Vladimir Putin. Somebody who can chop wood. Somebody who can fire a fastball down the middle of the plate.
Maybe that’s why there’s a bit of a correlation between the moment President Obama began slipping in the polls and the night he threw out that girly first pitch at the 2009 major league all-star game.
If that’s the case, then Charlie Crist, turncoat Republican and now Independent candidate for governor of Florida, assured his own defeat on Thursday when he threw out the first pitch at game two of the American League playoff game between Tampa Bay and Texas. It may have been the worst first pitches in the history of baseball.
Based on our previous experience with President Obama, it’s unfair to say that Crist throws like a girl. But it’s not unfair to say he throws like a Democrat.
Wikipedia says “During his three years as the DCP’s director, its staff grew from one to thirteen and its annual budget grew from US$70,000 … to US$400,000….”
