You. The idiot reading this. Yes, you. The moron who didn’t want his children Obamatized by the President this morning. What the hell is wrong with you?
You. The idiot reading this. Yes, you. The moron who didn’t want his children Obamatized by the President this morning. What the hell is wrong with you?
Ahhh, we love the smell of condescension in the morning.
From unions to healthcare, the trend is not President Obama’s friend. According to RasmussenReports.com, things are going south faster than a duck in December.
The trend is not President Obama’s friend. According to RasmussenReports.com, things are going south faster than a duck in December.
“45% Say Unions Weaken America, 26% Disagree”
“47% Blame Global Warming on Planetary Trends, Not Humans”
“83% Say Proof of Citizenship Should Be Required to Get Government Health Aid”
“Daily Presidential Tracking Poll: Obama now at -11”
“51% Say Congress is Too Liberal, 22% Say It’s Too Conservative”
“68% Say Passage of Health Care Reform Will Increase Deficit”
The following list probably doesn’t include all the problems Cash for Clunkers will cause – for the fact is that all the unintended consequences may not be known for years – but it’s a pretty good jumping off point.
There’s one law politicians always choose to ignore. Unfortunately, it’s the immutable Law of Unintended Consequences.
It was sitting out there screaming, “Look at me,” when Congress passed the Cash-for-Clunkers program, but no one in Washington, DC paid any attention to its plaintive wails.
So now we all get to live with the unintended consequences of this unmitigated disaster on wheels.
The following list probably doesn’t include all the problems C4C will cause – for the fact is that all the unintended consequences may not be known for years – but it’s a pretty good jumping off point.
1. You think it’s hard to find a good, honest mechanic now? Fewer clunkers on the road means fewer clunkers being repaired. Repair shops that specialize in older cars will really feel the pinch and many will undoubtedly go out of business.
2. Brother can you spare a muffler? Spare parts will cost more. Cash-for-Clunkers regulations dictate that any spare parts must be scavenged from the clunkers within 180 days. After that, all remaining parts – no matter how valuable – must be shredded. The Law of Supply and Demand dictates that scarcity of spare parts will lead directly to more expensive spare parts. Collision repair shops that depend on buying useable doors, hoods, and other body parts from salvage yards will undoubtedly see price increases.
3. Inflate to $4,500. Older cars will cost more, pricing them beyond the means of the poor who need them most. Since the Cash-for-Clunkers law requires that all trade-ins must be destroyed, the program has taken 690,114 (and counting) vehicles off the used-car market. A contracting supply will lead directly to price the smaller pool of remaining used vehicles. Unfortunately, that means the low-income people most likely to buy clunkers will not be able to afford them.
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The kids at DailyKos.com, home of the most lunatic, far-left web to be found on the web, are becoming a bit disenchanted with their glorious dictator, reflected in comments of embittered members. BuckeyeTexan at FreeRepublic.com held his nose and dug through the site to compile a sampling of quotes, and has posted them in the Freeper forum. Here they are in their entirety. Enjoy.
The kids at DailyKos.com, the most lunatic, far-left site on the web, are becoming a bit disenchanted with their glorious leader. And it’s reflected in comments of the embittered members. BuckeyeTexan at FreeRepublic.com held his nose and dug through the site to compile a sampling of 19 quotes, and has posted them in the Freeper forum. Here they are in their entirety. Enjoy.
I don’t understand Obama’s MOA, or something. Maybe he is weak, on a slow learning curve, maybe he will surprise us in all those wonderful ways. I don’t know anymore, and the bitterness I am hearing in these comments I can understand.
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by boomerchick on Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 01:08:25 AM PDT
What bothers me is that Obama seems to believe his own hype about post-partisanship.
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by magnetics on Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 01:10:13 AM PDT
We are stuck with him now …
-by michael1104 on Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 03:02:25 AM PDT
What good has it done having 60 Senate and 265 House seats? Might as well have had 55 and 240–the higher numbers have made zero difference which is especially troubling to watch when in theory it should be providing us significant reforms with a (formerly) very very popular president with a clear mandate. Obama has squandered that opportunity time and again, to the point where clearly Congress does not fear him and hardly respects him. He is governing like he won by 1 point, not like he won in a landslide. The coat-tails meant nothing in the end if he is totally unwilling to impose his will on a Congress that his party controls by huge margins, it’s absolutely pathetic to watch. And if this continues 2010 will be a disaster.
- by michael1104 on Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 04:00:08 AM PDT
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Complaints are flooding in about a popular European candy’s new packaging. The fruit figures on Haribo MAOAM sour candies appear to have been caught in flagrante delicto. In other words, it looks like they’re doing it.
Complaints are flooding in about a popular European candy’s new packaging.
The fruit figures on Haribo MAOAM sour candies appear to have been caught in flagrante delicto. In other words, it looks like they’re doing it.
Here’s how London’s Daily Mail reports the sordid story:
Simon Simpkins was buying Haribo MAOAM sour candies for his children when he noticed the “pornographic” illustrations of limes, lemons and cherries romping with each other. Mr Simpkins of West Yorkshire said: “The lemon and lime are locked in what appears to be a carnal encounter.”
“The lime, whom I assume to be the gentleman in this coupling, has a particularly lurid expression on his face,” he said.
He told said: “I demanded to see the shop manager and, during a heated exchange, my wife became quite distressed and had to sit down in the car park.”
A spokesman for Haribo said the “fun” packaging of the sweets was introduced in Germany in 2002 and added: “This jovial MAOAM man is very popular with fans, both young and old.”
The lemon insisted she doesn’t normally do nude scenes, but said the producers assured her that the label would be handled artfully.
Source: Daily Mail UK
“One might say (William) Rice is lucky to have lost only a finger, when ObamaCare may end up costing all of us an arm and a leg.”
Source: Wall Street Journal
Captain Morgan is now produced in another U.S. territory, Puerto Rico, and critics say the Virgin Islands’ subsidy for the new distillery there, along with the other benefits, are so generous that they practically guarantees a profit on every gallon of rum produced there by Diageo, the biggest distilled spirits maker in the world.
We can’t explain this one and we doubt that President Obama can, either.
He just agreed to pay a British company nearly $3 billion so it can move from Puerto Rico to the Virgin Islands.
London-based Diageo PLC will receive tax credits and other benefits worth $2.7 billion over 30 years, including the entire $165-million cost of building a state-of-the-art distillery on the island of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, a U.S. territory.
Virgin Islands officials say the arrangement complies with the letter and spirit of tax law and will help the islands’ sagging economy.
Captain Morgan is now produced in another U.S. territory, Puerto Rico, and critics say the Virgin Islands’ subsidy for the new distillery there, along with the other benefits, are so generous that they practically guarantees a profit on every gallon of rum produced there by Diageo, the biggest distilled spirits maker in the world.
“The U.S. taxpayer is basically being asked to line the pockets of the world’s largest liquor producer,” says Steve Ellis, the president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog organization.
The Lord Obama giveth to one U.S. territory and taketh from another.
Puerto Rico loses 300 jobs in this move, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It also uses 90% of the taxes it derives from rum on public welfare.
Unfortunately, we know the way this administration thinks. So we’re completely prepared for the announcement that they’re going to spend another billion or two moving all of Puerto Rico’s unemployed to the Virgin Islands.
Would you be surprised?
Source: Chicago Tribune via HotAir.com
Bill O’Reilly, the Ultimate Authority On Everything, has declared that ObamaCare is unconstitutional. Megyn Kelly and Lis Wiehl were discussing the issue when O’Reilly issued his verdict that under the commerce clause of the Constitution, the government can’t force you to buy anything.
If you ever had any question about the legality of ObamaCare, it’s been settled by the Chief Justice of the Cable News Supreme Court.
Bill O’Reilly, the Ultimate Authority On Everything, has declared that ObamaCare is unconstitutional. Megyn Kelly and Lis Wiehl were discussing the issue when O’Reilly issued his verdict that under the commerce clause of the Constitution, the government can’t force you to buy anything.
We really want to like O’Reilly, but he’s just so damned smug. Even when we agree with the guy, we feel a little bad admitting it.
By the way, the word of the day is “smug.” Look it up.
But while the hard truths of war are still in evidence, what’s missing is the non-stop negative news coverage of the conflicts. Another thing’s missing: There are no protesters. No drum beaters at the White House. No mass protests in Europe.
Remember that nasty Iraq War?
Well, this may come as a huge surprise, but it’s still going on. A recent spike in bombings in stories buried deeply in the Washington Post proves it.
And that conflict in Afghanistan? Oh, it’s still going on, too.
Just the other day, an air strike on a couple of fuel trucks hijacked by the Taliban was hit by an allied air strike, resulting in 90 casualties, including a large group of civilians.
Then there are the “lurid photos” – as described by the Wall Street Journal – of Afghan guards and embassy workers mucking about like drunken frat boys. Shades of Abu Ghraib? Nah. Not when Democrats control the government.
But while the hard truths of war are still in evidence, what’s missing is the non-stop negative news coverage of the conflicts. Obviously, during the Obama administration negative news just doesn’t resonate the way negative news did during the Bush administration because, well, because it was the Bush administration.
Another thing’s missing: There are no protesters. No drum beaters at the White House. No mass protests in Europe.
It makes you wonder whether all those crazy parades were protests against war after all.
Source: Wall Street Journal
As Steam said in 1969 and as hockey fans always sing to players heading for the penalty box, “Hey hey-ey, goodbye. Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey-ey, goodbye.
As Steam said in 1969 and as hockey fans always sing to players heading for the penalty box,
“Hey hey-ey, goodbye
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey-ey, goodbye
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey-ey, goodbye
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey-ey, goodbye
[repeat many times and fade out]”
And to paraphrase Casey Kasem one more time, “Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars, Van.”
Miyuki Hatoyama, wife of Japan’s Prime Minister-elect, Yukio Hatoyama, is a lifestyle guru, a macrobiotics enthusiast, an author of cookery books, a retired actress, a divorcee, and a fearless clothes horse for garments of her own creation, including a skirt made from Hawaiian coffee sacks. But there is more, much more. She has travelled to the planet Venus. And she was once abducted by aliens.
Sure, Michelle Obama has been anointed Most Stylish First Lady In History and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is undoubtedly the hottest first lady ever and Italy’s first lady is busy divorcing her playboy husband. But most of the world’s first ladies just blend into the background.
That’s about to change according to the Independent:
Miyuki Hatoyama, wife of Japan’s Prime Minister-elect, Yukio Hatoyama, is a lifestyle guru, a macrobiotics enthusiast, an author of cookery books, a retired actress, a divorcee, and a fearless clothes horse for garments of her own creation, including a skirt made from Hawaiian coffee sacks. But there is more, much more. She has travelled to the planet Venus. And she was once abducted by aliens.
The 62-year-old also knew Tom Cruise in a former incarnation – when he was Japanese – and is now looking forward to making a Hollywood movie with him. “I believe he’d get it if I said to him, ‘Long time no see’, when we meet,” she said in a recent interview. But it is her claim in a book entitled “Very Strange Things I’ve Encountered” that she was abducted by aliens while she slept one night 20 years ago, that has suddenly drawn attention following last Sunday’s poll.
Perfect. Hatoyama can remember meeting Tom Cruise in a prior life, but Michelle Obama can’t remember meeting Bill Ayers in this life.
Source: Independent UK
The economy must be even worse than we thought. We have a record number of Americans on food stamps and now the Democrats are resorting to cannibalism. An ObamaCare supporter bit off the finger of an anti-ObamaCare protester Wednesday at a healthcare rally in Thousand Oaks, California. All the way down to the second knuckle.
The economy must be even worse than we thought. We have a record number of Americans on food stamps and now the Democrats are resorting to cannibalism.
An ObamaCare supporter bit off the finger of an anti-ObamaCare protester Wednesday at a healthcare rally in Thousand Oaks, California. All the way down to the second knuckle.
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This is the kind of media we love. Veteran reporter Ron Wood of WSYR-TV in Syracuse, New York was stung by a bee right in the middle of a report, causing him to let loose with a string of obscenities. Careful, Ron, the FCC is watching.
This is the kind of media we love. Veteran reporter Ron Wood of WSYR-TV in Syracuse, New York was stung by a bee right in the middle of a report, causing him to let loose with a string of obscenities. Careful, Ron, the FCC is watching.
WARNING: Not for sensitive ears.
We just can’t make up our minds about Baron Hill, a Democrat Congressman from Indiana. Part of us thinks he’s a complete jerk, but a kinder, gentler part of us says, no, he’s just a complete ignoramus.
We just can’t make up our minds about Baron Hill, a Democrat Congressman from Indiana. Part of us thinks he’s a complete jerk, but a kinder, gentler part of us says, no, he’s just a complete ignoramus.
Hill called on a young woman at a recent town hall meeting. She told him she was a journalism student working on a school project and objected to the fact that she was told she couldn’t videotape the event.
Student: Why can’t I film this? Isn’t this my right?
Hill: This is my town hall meeting, and I set the rules, and I’ve had these rules … (crowd jeers) … Let me repeat that one more time. This is my town hall meeting for you. And you’re not going to tell me how to run my Congressional office. Now, the reason why I don’t allow filming is that usually the films that are done end up on YouTube in a compromising position.
Apparently Hill didn’t notice that someone else in the crowd was breaking his rules and taping his answer.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we’re proud to present Congressman Baron Hill’s YouTube debut.
Source: NationalReview.com
True/Slant writer Jeff McMahon wets his pants while trapped somewhere between his fear of global warming and his schoolboy crush on Barack Obama.
True/Slant writer Jeff McMahon wets his pants while trapped somewhere between his fear of global warming and his schoolboy crush on Barack Obama:
Can Obama steer America between a rock and hard place to Copenhagen?
The destination is the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
The ravenous Scylla is the set of high expectations that this tender, ailing world holds for Barack Obama–particularly at that conference. Here he comes to save the day! Surely, if anyone can rally the planet to save itself it’s the community organizer who rose from the blood-spattered ruins of the South Side of Chicago to depose the most virulent strain of American conservatism yet. And the world is counting on him…
It’s enough to make a community organizer, whose task is to organize the world community, lose his cool. As you pass through these perilous straits, Barack, keep your eye on the Little Mermaid. Her waters are getting warm.
Sounds like Jeff’s waters are getting a little warm, too.
Source: True/Slant
It was big news last week when a man showed up at an ObamaCare rally with a semi-automatic assault rifle slung over his shoulder and a pistol strapped on his hip. Now it turns out the whole thing was just a radio stunt. A stunt by gun rights advocates, to be sure, but a stunt nonetheless.
It was big news last week when a man showed up at an ObamaCare rally with a semi-automatic assault rifle slung over his shoulder and a pistol strapped on his hip.
Headlines screamed. News anchors were atwitter. And talk radio was abuzz.
Now it turns out the whole thing was just a radio stunt. A stunt by gun rights advocates, to be sure, but a stunt nonetheless.
Conservative talk radio host Ernest Hancock went on CNN and said he had been in the middle of interviewing Chris (no last name provided) when the news network’s cameras showed up. The two men have known each other for two years.
Rick Sanchez: The more we look into this, the more it appears that it was really planned.
Hancock: Oh, it’s more planned than you think.
Rick Sanchez: This was a publicity stunt.
Hancock: Oh, absolutely.
Unfortunately, the CNN interview has been removed from YouTube and replaced with a notice that says, “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”
See, this is one of the reasons we hate the media. The horrifying news of an armed racist at an Obama rally, a potential assassin targeting America’s first black president, spread across the media like wildfire.
But when the reality of the situation is revealed, the media finds it far less worthy of their valuable airtime and newsprint.
We’re embarrassed to have to find the truth at CNN and the Huffington Post.
Source: HuffingtonPost.com
Someone at Good Morning, America had the bright idea of interviewing the Beach Boys. But no one bothered to find out what kind of drugs Dennis Wilson had been taking the night before. Or maybe even that morning.
Someone at Good Morning, America had the bright idea of interviewing the Beach Boys. But no one bothered to find out what kind of drugs Dennis Wilson had been taking the night before. Or maybe even that morning.
The funniest part is how the rest of the Beach Boys attempt to complete the interview as if they don’t notice that Dennis was completely whacked out.
Darrell Issa, Republican congressman from California, has introduced a simple, one-page health care bill that average Americans will love and Democrat leadership will hate. “I have a simple bill,” Issa said
Darrell Issa, Republican congressman from California, has introduced a simple, one-page health care bill that average Americans will love and Democrat leadership will hate.
“I have a simple bill,” Issa said. “It is only one page that simply says, every American can have the same health care that Congress has without preexisting conditions, without any problem changing plans. It’s one page to give every American a choice of over 300 private plans that are all affordable.
Bottom line: If it’s good enough for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, it’s good enough for you.
Is Issa insane? Why next thing you know, this lunatic will propose that the little people should get to fly around in fancy private jets just like Congress does.
Source: BluegrassPundit.com
Rasmussen Reports puts presidential approval at -12 last Tuesday. And its generic congressional poll has Republicans at +7, the largest lead since Obama was a young boy in Kenya, Hawaii.
Who could forget “Limbo Rock” by Chubby Checker in which the artist asks the musical polling question, “How low can you go?”
Rasmussen Reports puts presidential approval at -12 on Tuesday. And its generic congressional poll has Republicans at +7, the largest lead since Obama was a young boy in Kenya Hawaii.
Source: RasmussenReports.com
Ed Klein, former Newsweek editor and long-time friend of Teddy Kennedy, appeared on Diane Rehm’s radio show and revealed something very disturbing about the late senator: he would ask people, have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?
Ed Klein, former Newsweek editor and long-time friend of Teddy Kennedy, appeared on Diane Rehm’s radio show and revealed something very disturbing about the late senator:
“I don’t know if you know this or not, but one of his favorite topics of humor was, indeed, Chappaquiddick itself. And he would ask people, have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick? That is just the most amazing thing. Its not that he didn’t feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too.”
So in honor of The Lion of the Senate, here’s our all-time favorite Teddy Kennedy joke:
An aide went into Rose Kennedy’s bedroom early one morning to tell her the sad news that Jackie had died. “That’s terrible,” the old lady rasped. “Was Teddy driving?”
That, my friends, is a great joke. It’s short (just 29 words), yet manages to include three different Kennedys and evokes Chappaquiddick without mentioning it by name.
“Barney Frank is, perhaps, one of the best examples of what a great legislator is today. – Alec Baldwin in the Huffington Post
“Barney Frank is, perhaps, one of the best examples of what a great legislator is today.”
– Alec Baldwin in the Huffington Post
Source: Huffington Post
Good ol’ Uncle Charlie Rangel, the New York Democrat who heads the committee that writes the tax laws, is under investigation for a wide range of tax violations. So naturally, he decided this would be a good time to make campaign contributions (wink, wink) to some of the other fine, upstanding gentlemen on the committee that’s investigating him.
Good ol’ Uncle Charlie Rangel, the New York Democrat who heads the committee that writes the tax laws, is under investigation for a wide range of tax violations.
So naturally, he decided this would be a good time to make campaign contributions (wink, wink) to some of the other fine, upstanding gentlemen on the committee that’s investigating him.
The beneficiaries of Rangel’s largesse include Kentucky Democrat Ben Chandler, North Carolina Democrat G.K. Butterfield, and Vermont Democrat Peter Welch.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Rangel’s been spreading the wealth around the House of Representatives at a furious pace, making donations to 119 different Congressmen since the ethics probe was launched last year.
Rangel, of course, remains nothing if not arrogant.
“I recognize that all of you have an obligation to ask questions knowing that there’s none of you smart enough to frame it in such a way that I’m going to respond,” Rangel told reporters.
Time for a perp walk here. Ankle cuffs, orange jump suit, the whole shebang.
Source: MoeLane.com
Barack Obama says he never really knew unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground. He was just a guy around the neighborhood. Hmmm…the Weather Underground and the Obama logo look suspiciously similar.
Barack Obama says he never really knew unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground. He was just a guy around the neighborhood.
Just guy around the neighborhood who held a meeting in his home to launch Obama’s political career. Just a guy around the neighborhood who sat on several committees with Obama. Just a guy around the neighborhood whose office was in the same building as Obama’s. Just a guy around the neighborhood who babysat Obama’s kids.
Just a guy around the neighborhood whose murdering terrorist group the Weather Underground had a cool logo.
Our hat’s off to IOwnTheWorld.com for putting these logos together.
The leftwing lunatics at Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream are celebrating Vermont’s decision to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples by renaming its “Chubby Hubby” ice cream flavor “Hubby Hubby” for the month of September.
The leftwing lunatics at Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream are celebrating Vermont’s decision to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples by renaming its “Chubby Hubby” ice cream flavor “Hubby Hubby” for the month of September.
Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up.
“At the core of Ben & Jerry’s values, we believe that social justice can and should be something that every human being is entitled to,” said Ben & Jerry’s CEO, Walt Freese.
“From the very beginning of our 30 year history,” he continued, “we have supported equal rights for all people. The legalisation of marriage for gay and lesbian couples in Vermont is certainly a step in the right direction and something worth celebrating with peace, love and plenty of ice cream.”
Hubby Hubby contains chocolate-covered peanut butter-filled pretzel nuggets.
We assume it also has twice as many nuts as the old Chubby Hubby.
Source; Telegraph UK
Van Jones, President Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar,” an admitted black nationalist and radical communist, on 09/12/01, led a vigil in Oakland, California to express solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans.
Van Jones, President Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar,” an admitted black nationalist and radical communist, is either crazy or dangerous. Maybe both.
On 9/12/01, he led a vigil in Oakland, California to express solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims of “U.S. imperialism” around the world. It was spearheaded by Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a Communist revolutionary group founded and lead by Jones.
Get this:
“Reclaiming Revolution,” STORM’s official manifesto, proudly states that the purpose of the vigil was to express solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans and to mourn the civilians killed in the terrorist attacks.
They should have stopped there, but went on to say, “as well as the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world.”
“We honored those who lost their lives in the attack,” the manifesto said, “and those who would surely lose their lives in subsequent U.S. attacks overseas.”
Equally. The victims of 9/11, the “victims” of American imperialism, and victims of American attacks that had not yet happened. So STORM was not only Communist, but clairvoyant. Their logo should be a hammer and a sickle and a crystal ball.
2012 cannot come soon enough.
Source: World Net Daily
