Signs of the apocalypse: Feds force New York City to spend $27,000,000 to change street signs from all-caps

Federal copy editors are demanding the city change its 250,900 street signs — such as these for Perry Avenue in The Bronx — from the all-caps style used for more than a century to ones that capitalize only the first letters.

Was anyone paying attention? Did you happen to note the exact moment when democracy was replaced by bureaucracy in the United States?

The New York Post has the latest example of federal bureaucrats forcing taxpayers to piss away their money:

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WARNING: IT'S UNSAFE TO READ THIS CAPTION BECAUSE IT'S IN ALL-CAPS

Federal copy editors are demanding the city change its 250,900 street signs — such as these for Perry Avenue in The Bronx — from the all-caps style used for more than a century to ones that capitalize only the first letters.

Changing BROADWAY to Broadway will save lives, the Federal Highway Administration contends in its updated Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, citing improved readability.

At $110 per sign, it will also cost the state $27.6 million, city officials said.

…The new regulations also require a change in font from the standard highway typeface to Clearview, which was specially developed for this purpose.

As a result, even numbered street signs will have to be replaced.

…The Highway Administration acknowledged that New York and other states “opposed the change, and suggested that the use of all upper-case letters remain an option,” noting that “while the mixed-case words might be easier to read, the amount of improvement in legibility did not justify the cost.”

Damn the expense. The letter of the law must be followed. But only if it’s upper and lower case.

Source: New York Post

If Bush Had Said It, Part CXXVI: Obama can’t pronounce the name of the Democrat candidate he’s endorsing

Problem with a Teleprompter is that it can show you the words, but it can’t tell you how to pronounce them. Wonder if Diane Denish was ever a “corpseman.”

Problem with a Teleprompter is that it can show you the words, but it can’t tell you how to pronounce them. Wonder if Diane Denish was ever a “corpseman.”

Rahm Emanuel greets the people of Chicago. Whether they want to be greeted or not.

Poor Rahm. The little guy (5’ 4” in his booster shoes) went to a train station in Chicago on Monday morning, stood tall and proud and greeted the voters of Chicago as they went off to do something he’s never done – an honest day’s work.

Poor Rahm. The little guy (5’ 4” in his booster shoes) went to a train station in Chicago on Monday morning, stood tall and proud and greeted the voters of Chicago as they went off to do something he’s never done – an honest day’s work.

The voters showed about as much enthusiasm as you’d expect them to show for the little thug behind the Thug in Chief.

Obama says combat is over in Iraq. One of our readers in Iraq begs to differ.

We got this email from one of our readers in Iraq. He’s still there and he’s still fighting the bad guys, no matter what President Obama says.

No humor here. Nary a laugh. We got this email from one of our readers in Iraq. He’s still there and he’s still fighting the bad guys, no matter what the President says:

What about the Combat units that Obama forgot out here? I say this not thirty minutes after returning from a mission into the red zone in Baghdad.

Last time I checked (let me look at the patch on my shoulder again), I belong to an Infantry Brigade Combat Team, and still roll outside the wire on missions almost every day, with on average three firearms (an M4 rifle, M9 pistol, and M240/M249 machine gun depending on the mission) in full body armor, in the turret of an MRAP, with over one thousand rounds of ammunition within easy reach.

If all the combat units/troops are out of Iraq, can we come home now? Were we forgotten?

I must withhold my name as per the law regarding soldiers speaking of such topics, but feel free to research a unit I can not confirm nor deny I belong to, but is also one of these forgotten units: the 256th IBCT national guard unit from Louisiana. If the war is over and we combat units are no longer needed/no longer here, why do I see Baghdad when I step outside my CHU? Why can’t I turn in my weapons and see my family again?

Greta Van Susteren tells Gloria Allred she’s “almost delusional.” Almost?

Is Gloria Allred a camera whore? Most assuredly. Is Gloria Allred a leftist hack who’s trying to destroy Meg Whitman’s campaign with some trumped up charges? Most definitely. Is Gloria Allred one of the most annoying people in America. Yes.

It doesn’t take a Magic 8-Ball to answer the following questions:

Is Gloria Allred a camera whore? Most assuredly. Is Gloria Allred a leftist hack who’s trying to destroy Meg Whitman’s campaign with some trumped up charges? Most definitely. Is Gloria Allred one of the most annoying people in America. Yes. And finally, did Greta Van Susteren make a fool of Gloria Allred on Friday night? Friggin’ A, Ray.

The interview just didn’t go the way Allred expected. Watch the way her smile slowly disappears as the interview progresses. But the highlight is when Greta looks her in the face and says, “Gloria, this is almost delusional.”

Why so understated, Greta?

Top ten unbelievable things Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes

What does Ahmadinejad believe? IHateTheMedia.com’s editor sat down for an in-depth interview with the Iranian leader and this is what he told us:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently gave a speech outlining his firm decision to govern his nation by guidance from a collection of mistruths, lies, distortions and urban legends. Fortunately, he gave this speech at the United Nations where they’ve been doing that for years.

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - bon vivant, anecdotalist, gourmet chef, murderous wacko

But what else does Ahmadinejad believe? IHateTheMedia.com’s editor sat down for an in-depth interview with the Iranian leader and this is what he told us:

10. Islam specifically bans trick-or-treating because of shards of glass and razor blades have been implanted in candy by evil people, who are probaby Jewish.

9. While parking with his girlfriend, Ahmadinejad heard the news that a political prisoner who had a hook for a hand escaped from a nearby re-education facility. He immediately left the area and when he got home, he found a hook lodged in the car’s door handle!

8. Captain Kangaroo was a trained Marine sniper. He was also probably Jewish.

7. A Nigerian prince has $2 million that he wants Ahmadinejad to hold onto. Damn sanctions make it impossible for him to claim his cash.

6. Barack Obama was born in the United States

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Loretta Sanchez strikes again, promises lame duck vote on amnesty

Loretta Sanchez, one of the House’s sinister Sanchez sisters, strikes again, this time promising a lame duck vote on amnesty if the Democrats lose in November.

Loretta Sanchez, one of the House’s sinister Sanchez sisters, made the news last week with a racist rant – in Spanish – against Vietnamese-Americans and Republicans.

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Loretta Sanchez' motto: Open mouth, insert foot

This week she’s hopped into a new vat of hot water with this gem:

“The problem is this, and I am going to lay it in front of the Latino community: If we do not win, in November, there will be no vote for a reform until another 10 or 20 years. If we win, we will have a voting in November or December. I do not know if we’ll pass the law but we will take a vote. But if we do not win, we are going to have to wait another 10 to 20 years because what is happening in this country is very anti-immigration.”

Two words: Incapacitado pato (If our schoolyard Spanish hasn’t failed us, that means “lame duck” in Spanish. But the odds are 50-50 that is means “Your mother is a whore.”)

H/T: PoliPundit.com

Al Gore hates Florida: Tampa heckler hollers, “You are a fraud! Global warming is a hoax!”

Florida continues to be unkind of Albert Gore, Jr. The former next President of the United States made a campaign appearance for Florida Senate candidate Kendrick Meek in Tampa on Thursday, but it didn’t go well.

Florida continues to be unkind of Albert Gore, Jr. The former next President of the United States made a campaign appearance for Florida Senate candidate Kendrick Meek in Tampa on Thursday, but it didn’t go well.

When the Gore started blathering on about global warming, one Florida resident couldn’t take it anymore. He began screaming, “You’re a fraud. Global warming is a hoax.”

The other interesting thing about Gore’s speech is that he never mentioned the words “Barack Obama.” Not in this short clip, not in the entire speech.

Our theory? Gore saw a poll in the paper that said, “Obama under water in Florida” and thought to himself, “See, I told you. global warming is causing the sea levels to rise.”

How we long for the good ol’ days (and when we say “good ol’ days” we mean April, 1980)

This cover of National Lampoon from April, 1980 may be politically incorrect today, but damn, it sure seems emotionally correct.

This cover of National Lampoon from April, 1980 may be politically incorrect today, but damn, it sure seems emotionally correct.

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Big, fat Ed Schultz lays a big, fat egg at One Nation

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz went on the air after Glenn Beck’s 8/28 rally and said that if he held a rally, he could draw more than 300,000 people. Didn’t quite turn out that way.

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz went on the air after Glenn Beck’s 8/28 rally and said that if he held a rally, he could draw more than 300,000 people. Didn’t quite turn out that way. Not even close, even with the support of every left wing-union-environmentalist wacko organization in the country.

Sorry, Ed. You tried to make it sound like this was your rally, but One Nation’s socialist and communist organizers refused to give you anything but the opening slot.

It’s not seen on this clip, but one of the idiot lefties who introduced Schultz said (and this is verbatim), “We want a clean environment, so our children will never have to report to drinking water, breathing air and staying healthy.”

Four notes on Ed’s dismal screaming.

  • The crowd seems small compared to Beck’s, but that doesn’t factor in all the dead voters ACORN bussed in.
  • Early in his screed, Ed had a 70s flashback and actually screamed, “Power to the people.”
  • We think we heard a couple crickets chirping after Ed screamed, “Do you love America?”
  • He may call Chris Christie “a fat slob,” but it’s been a while since Ed shopped for suits anywhere but the portly department.

Awwwww: The cutest political commercial ever!

Louis Pate is a conservative running for the North Carolina State Senate. We’re not sure if his commercial is just cute as hell or a brilliant parody of typical political commercials. Or maybe both.

Louis Pate is a conservative running for the North Carolina State Senate. We’re not sure if his commercial is just cute as hell or a brilliant parody of typical political commercials. Or maybe both.

Watch it all the way through just for the last line.

H/T: Bluegrass Pundit

Preview: Rush Limbaugh guest stars on Family Guy this Sunday night

Family Guy is rude, crude, and generally hilarious. It’s the kind of show that makes you laugh out loud one minute and say, “Oh, my god. Did they really say that?” the next. And Sunday’s episode stars Rush Limbaugh.

Family Guy is rude, crude, and generally hilarious. It’s the kind of show that makes you laugh out loud one minute and say, “Oh, my god. Did they really say that?” the next. And Sunday’s episode stars Rush Limbaugh.

Here’s a two-minute preview that includes an interview with Rush and series creator Seth McFarlane.

And by the way, who could disagree with the theory that Nancy Pelosi is a monster who’s addicted to crack?

Arianna Huffington ‘fesses up, tells middle class to “face up to the fact that the president is not that much into them”

Arianna Huffington, who is increasingly looking and sounding like Zsa Zsa Gabor, showed up on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow, who is increasingly looking and sounding like Ronald Reagan, Jr.

Arianna Huffington, who is increasingly looking and sounding like Zsa Zsa Gabor, showed up on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow, who is increasingly looking and sounding like Ronald Reagan, Jr.

The octogenarian operator of the Huffington Post (what’s that, she’s not 80?) said:

“Maybe progressives and the middle class need to sort of face up to the fact that the president is not that much into them, that he would rather hang out with Larry Summers, or flirt with Olympia Snowe, or play wargames late into the night with General Petraeus.”

Barack Obama flirting with Olympia Snowe? It’s an odd image, but considering who he’s married to, a completely understandable one.

Rick Sanchez fired by the evil Jewish media overlords at CNN

Adios, amigo. You were usually good for at least one “stupid anchorman” story each week. So let’s bid Rick a fond farewell by taking a look back at three of Rick’s most embarrassing comments.

If you hear of any television stations or cable news networks that are looking for an ignoramus anchor, please let Rick Sanchez know.

CNN just released this statement:

“Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well.“

This, of course, comes just hours after the public became aware of Sanchez’ satellite radio interview with CNN contributor Pete Dominick in which the now-former anchor said:

“I’m telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like (Jon) Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority? Yeah.”

We ended our previous Rick Sanchez story by asking the question, “How long until Sanchez is fired?” The answer, it turns out, was about four hours.

Adios, amigo. You were usually good for at least one “stupid anchorman” story each week. So let’s bid Rick a fond farewell by taking a look back at three of Rick’s most embarrassing comments.

This is for you, Rick.

Alan Grayson hates children and seniors, but loves him some Satan

Turnabout is fair play, especially in politics. So Townhall.com put together this brilliant parody of Grayson’s commercial.

Alan Grayson, the leading lunatic in Congress, made a campaign commercial in which he took his opponent Dan Webster’s words completely out of context. It was such a blatant lie that even MSNBC objected.

Grayson’s response? Refuse to back down. Continue running the commercial even though the opponent’s clear meaning was the exact opposite of what the commercial said it was.

But turnabout is fair play, especially in politics. So Townhall.com put together this brilliant parody of Grayson’s commercial.

Source: TownHall.com

Rick Sanchez becomes the Mel Gibson of cable news, says CNN is part of a national Jewish media cabal

The CNN moron went off on Jon Stewart and his Jewish bosses on Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show yesterday. He got things rolling by calling Stewart “a bigot” and it went downhill from there.

The stupidest man in news has gone beyond mere stupidity to career suicide. He’s now become the Mel Gibson of cable news.

The CNN moron went off on Jon Stewart and his Jewish bosses on Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show yesterday. He got things rolling by calling Stewart “a bigot” and it went downhill from there.

Dominick: How is he a bigot?
Sanchez: I think he looks at the world through, his mom, who was a school teacher, and his dad, who was a physicist or something like that. Great, I’m so happy that he grew up in a suburban middle class New Jersey home with everything you could ever imagine.
Dominick: What group is he bigoted towards?
Sanchez: Everybody else who’s not like him. Look at his show, I mean, what does he surround himself with? … I’m telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority? Yeah.

Two questions:

  1. How long until Sanchez is fired?
  2. How long until some liberal media maven calls Sanchez a “conservative bigot?”

UPDATE: The answer to question #2, it turns out, was just four hours. Go to Rick Sanchez fired by the evil Jewish media overlords at CNN

Source: Mediaite

Global warming propaganda video fantasizes about killing non-believers

The global warming movement has officially moved into that insane territory inhabited by Muslim extremists in which non-believers are killed. At least in the eco-wackos’ fantasies.

The global warming movement has officially moved into that insane territory inhabited by Muslim extremists in which non-believers are killed. At least in the eco-wackos’ fantasies.

10:10 is a worldwide global warming climate change global climate disruption campaign. They recently released this hideous video in which skeptics are blown to smithereens simply because they disagreed with the extremists’ premise.

Fortunately, the reaction to this violent video has been so overwhelmingly negative that the eco-wackos were forced to remove it from their website.

Too late, wackos. Your sick fantasies now live on the internet.

H/T: Andrew Bolt

Paul Krugman says Hitler, not Roosevelt, ended the Great Depression

Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times liberal lunatic Paul Krugman has thrown FDR under the bus. He now admits that Roosevelt’s tax-and-spend socialism didn’t end the Great Depression, but World War II did.

Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times liberal lunatic Paul Krugman has thrown FDR under the bus. He now admits that Roosevelt’s tax-and-spend socialism didn’t end the Great Depression, but World War II did.

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Paul Krugman wants you to take the $10,000 bill and go buy yourself a hamburger

We’re not sure he knows that’s what he did, but read his words from a recent column for yourself and see if that isn’t the obvious conclusion:

A naive view says that what we need is a return to virtue: everyone needs to save more, pay down debt, and restore healthy balance sheets.

The problem with this view is the fallacy of composition: when everyone tries to pay down debt at the same time, the result is a depressed economy and falling inflation, which cause the ratio of debt to income to rise if anything. That is, we’re living in a world in which the twin paradoxes of thrift and deleveraging hold, and hence in which individual virtue ends up being collective vice.

So what will happen? In the end, I’d argue, what must happen is an effective default on a significant part of debt, one way or another. The default could be implicit, via a period of moderate inflation that reduces the real burden of debt; that’s how World War II cured the depression. Or, if not, we could see a gradual, painful process of individual defaults and bankruptcies, which ends up reducing overall debt.

A little inflation. That’s all we need. And, of course, government economists are so adept at monetary policy that they will be able precisely control the amount of inflation they introduce into the economy.

Much like they’ve been able to precisely control the rest of the economy for the last two years.

Argentina, here we come.

Source: New York Times

Obama says “I’m my brother’s keeper.” Obama’s brother says, “I wish.”

Since the President’s actual brother is still living in a 60-square foot hovel in the slums of Nairobi, we can only assume he means that in a Big Brother sort of way.

So there’s President Obama, talking to ordinary Americans in a backyard in Albuquerque, when he says the following:

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First Brother George Obama is still waiting for a little foreign aid from his brother Barack

“So I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead–being my brothers’ and sisters’ keeper, treating others as they would treat me.”

Since the President’s actual brother is still living in a 60-square foot hovel in the slums of Nairobi, we can only assume he means that in a Big Brother sort of way.

Source: McClatchyDC.com

Alan Grayson is a stupid rat. Literally.

By continuing to run his latest campaign commercial despite the shocking response it has elicited, Democrat Congressman Alan Grayson keeps pulling the wrong lever, in effect proving what his constituents have been saying since he first came to congress – Alan Grayson is a stupid rat.

Scientists test the intelligence of rats by putting them in a cage with two levers – one releases a food treat, the other delivers an electric shock. Smart rodents learn quickly which lever to press and which to avoid.

By continuing to run his latest campaign commercial despite the shocking response it has elicited, Democrat Congressman Alan Grayson keeps pulling the wrong lever, in effect proving what his constituents have been saying since he first came to congress – Alan Grayson is a stupid rat.

Factcheck.org and PolitiFact have both labeled his “Taliban Dan” attack ad on Republican opponent Dan Webster as false. In the commercial, Grayson took video of Webster out of context to make it seem like he said the exact opposite of what he actually said.

The ad is such a blatant lie that even lefty outfits CNN and MSNBC have condemned Grayson for it. And the spot has backfired, causing money to pour into the Webster campaign (donations are up over 300% since the ad first aired) while making the discredited Grayson’s own poll numbers drop (Crazy Al said on MSNBC that he’s leading by double digits when he’s actually behind in most polls by 5-6 points.)

So just how loony is Grayson? He’s defending the ad and continues to run it.

Despite being taken entirely out of context, Webster is not getting anywhere near the network coverage or sympathy that Shirley Sherrod got.

Is it a penalty for being white? A penalty for being conservative? A penalty for being both? Or is it just a professional courtesy extended to Grayson by the rats in the media?

– Written by Sonny Palermo

Of course, Barbara Boxer is in favor of illegal immigration. Where else will she find campaign workers?

Republican Carly Fiorina was debating Barbara Boxer at wacko left wing radio station KPCC. An interesting thing happened when a citizen journalist began interviewing sign-holding Boxer supporters –- he found out they were day laborers who didn’t even know who Boxer is.

Republican Carly Fiorina was debating Barbara Boxer at wacko left wing radio station KPCC. An interesting thing happened when a citizen journalist began interviewing sign-holding Boxer supporters –- he found out they were day laborers who didn’t even know who Boxer is.

Where’s Gloria Allred? Shouldn’t she be out there signing u[ these guys as clients like she signed up Meg Whitman’s housekeeper.

H/T: BigGovernment.com

When Ed Schultz calls Chris Christie fat, it’s incisive political commentary. When someone calls Schultz fat, it’s “hate speech”

Based on Ed Schultz’ theory, would it be considered hate speech if we called him a fathead? Please fill in the blank, hate speakers. Ed Schultz is so fat that ____________________

Based on Ed Schultz’ theory, would it be considered hate speech if we called him a fathead?

Please fill in the blank, hate speakers.

Ed Schultz is so fat that ____________________.

Feel good video of the day: Barney Frank gets heckled at a campaign event

Barney Frank is not only having trouble at the polls, he’s having trouble at his own campaign events.

The Red Wave continues. Barney Frank is not only having trouble at the polls, he’s having trouble at his own campaign events.

“Fire Barney!” is the best cry heard in the Boston area since, “One if by land, two if by sea.”

Prince Charles is nuttier than the proverbial fruitcake

This one’s going to make the Queen of England proud. Her son, Charles, Prince of Wales and King of Fools, is committed to the environment and equally committed, it appears, to proving that he’s insane.

This one’s going to make the Queen of England proud. Her son, Charles, Prince of Wales and King of Fools, is committed to the environment and equally committed, it appears, to proving that he’s insane.

Australia’s Nine Network has the strange details:

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Convincing evidence that inbreeding is a terrible thing

In a remarkably candid interview for a BBC documentary, Prince Charles dismisses suggestions he is “loony” but confesses to lying on the floor at his Highgrove home to eavesdrop on visitors.

During the hour-long program, he is seen wandering around the extensive grounds of the Gloucestershire estate with gardener Alan Titchmarsh.

According to the News of the World, he tells the presenter: “I got a lot of flack for a lot of things. I mean, bewildered, frankly, as though you were doing something positively evil.

“I mean potty this, and potty that, loony this and loony that.”

But he admits: “I have eavesdropped on what the visitors have said.”

He reportedly tells Titchmarsh: “When they’re going round outside the windows sometimes you’ve got to lie on the floor.”

And he describes speaking to shrubbery as something which keeps him “relatively sane”.

“I happily talk to the plants and the trees, and listen to them. I think it’s absolutely crucial,” he is reported to say.

Does anyone know if Charles’ parents are brother and sister? That might explain the whole thing.

Source: Nine Network

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