Palin pounces on Obama plan to give Brazil’s state-owned oil company $2 billion for off-shore exploration

Why would the United States government give $2 billion of your tax dollars to fund off-shore oil exploration by Brazil’s state-owned oil company, but make it virtually impossible for American companies to explore for oil here? Sarah Palin flat out nails the hypocrisy on her Facebook page.

$2,000,000,000 to help Brazil's government explore for oil, not a penny for American oil
$2 billion to help Brazil's government explore for oil, not a penny for American oil

We’re used to some strange decisions on the part of the Obama administration, but this one is a doozy.

Why would the United States government give $2 billion of your tax dollars to fund off-shore oil exploration by Brazil’s state-owned oil company, but make it virtually impossible for American companies to explore for oil here?

Sarah Palin flat out nails the hypocrisy on her Facebook page:

Today’s Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence.

For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.

So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That’s all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.

Palin’s inescapable logic continues:

Buy American is a wonderful slogan, but you can’t say in one breath that you want to strengthen our economy and stimulate it, and then in another ship our much-needed dollars to a nation desperate to drill while depriving us of the same opportunity.

Source: Sarah Palin

Democrat congresswoman sets etiquette standards for town hall meetings

Cowardly but oh-so-refined Democrat Congresswoman Betsy Markey has announced that she will schedule a series of mini-town halls with no more than 20 constituents per meeting and each attendee will receive a book on etiquette.

Betsy Markey, the ultra-refined congresswoman from Colorado
Betsy Markey, the ultra-refined congresswoman from Colorado

Cowardly but oh-so-refined Democrat Congresswoman Betsy Markey, who’s run out of excuses not to hold town hall meetings, has announced that she will schedule a series of mini-town halls with no more than 20 constituents per.

Apparently the little princess is so afraid that her constituents will channel their inner mob that each attendee will receive a copy of “Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation,” supposedly written by George Washington.

Poor, deluded Betsy. If she thinks this angry mob needs lessons in civility, perhaps she needs to recall some of the protesters who challenged President Bush. You know, the ones about whom she said not a word.

Click “next page” below to see some of the truly incivil (translation: remarkably vile) protests against President Bush. But be warned: Graphic language and nudity is par for the course. Otherwise, we’d have posted them right here on page one.

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Come with us now on a trip to the future of ObamaCare, AKA the post office

The Greatest President In History recently said that ObamaCare could end up just like the post office. That he should use the post office as a success story boggled the minds of even his supporters.

Take a number. Get in line. Shut up. We'll get to your heart attack when we're good and ready.
Take a number. Get in line. Shut up. We'll get to your heart attack when we're good and ready.

The Greatest President In History recently said that ObamaCare could end up just like the post office. That he should use the post office as a success story boggled the minds of even his supporters.

Ray, who frequently comments on stories here at IHateTheMedia.com, lives in Orange County, California. He sat down and dashed off this email after visiting the post office in his upper middle class planned utopia:

“Went to the post office today. Took a number. There were about 20 people in front of me. Only two windows open out of five. One person behind a kiosk to sell postal paraphernalia with no one buying. The local postmaster was out front asking people if he could help. One employee standing behind the two windows just watching (he looked totally stoned). People with lots of little packages, lots of questions, or couldn’t speak English, so each person took loads of time.

“Tempted to go “postal” and ask why they just didn’t open up more windows. Took 35 minutes of standing around before I could mail my package. Should have gone to UPS or FedEx and paid the additional charge.

“Another time I was in line at the main Irvine post office on Sand Canyon. Standing in a long line when all but two clerks decided to go on break at the same time. Then one of the remaining clerks closed her window and proceeded to change the ink cartridges in all the pens which are attached by little chains.

“Saw the future of Obamacare.”

But did they offer end-of-line counseling, Ray?

Obama can’t close the deal, New York dealers say no more Cash-for-Clunkers

Hundreds of auto dealers in the New York area have withdrawn from the government’s Cash for Clunkers program, citing delays in getting reimbursed by the government, a dealership group said Wednesday.

Want to know how badly things are going for the Obama administration? Thanks to the Cars-for-Clunkers fiasco, people probably trust car dealers more than they trust the government.

Hundreds of auto dealers in the New York area have withdrawn from the government’s Cash for Clunkers program, citing delays in getting reimbursed by the government, a dealership group said Wednesday.

The Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association, which represents dealerships in the New York metro area, said about half its 425 members have left the program because they cannot afford to offer more rebates. They’re also worried about getting repaid.

“(The government) needs to move the system forward and they need to start paying these dealers,” said Mark Schienberg, the group’s president. “This is a cash-dependent business.”

“Well, what’s the big deal,” the President responded. “Why don’t they just print more money like we do.”

Source: Breitbart.com

Chernobyl all over again: 68 killed in Russian energy plant accident

More people died Monday in a horrible accident at Sayano-Shushenskaya than died at Chernobyl. So why hasn’t it been the lead story on every newspaper and every network newscast. Simple. Chernobyl was nuclear energy plant, which made it bad.

Sayano-Shushenskaya_hydroelectric_station

More people died Monday in a horrible accident at Sayano-Shushenskaya than died at Chernobyl. So why hasn’t it been the lead story on every newspaper and every network newscast?

Simple.

Chernobyl was nuclear energy plant, which made it bad. Sayano-Shushenskaya was a hydroelectric plant, which made it good. Good and renewable and green.

There’s one important lesson to be learned from this awful accident: Don’t expect consistency from an eco-wacko.

Source: Andrew Bolt

Obama courts the NASCAR crowd, invites top drivers to White House

When the NASCAR’s top drivers show up for a photo op at the White House today, The One will undoubtedly attempt to convince them that he’s the sport’s number one fan. On second thought, perhaps the Obama administration does have a lot in common with them.

NASCAR may be the architect of the entire Obama administration


Who does the president think he’s kidding? He knows more about bowling than he knows about NASCAR. And he’s already demonstrated that he knows nothing about bowling.

Nevertheless, when the sport’s top drivers show up for a photo op at the White House today, The One will undoubtedly attempt to convince them that he’s the sport’s number one fan.

On second thought, perhaps the Obama administration does have a lot in common with NASCAR drivers:

They both go as fast as possible. They both consistently turn to the left. And they both crash and burn far too often.

Source: LA Times

Believe it or not: Jesse Jackson, Jr is even dumber
than his father

It must be some sort of constitutional requirement that Illinois’ elected leaders be both corrupt and stupid. Jesse jackson, Jr. actually thinks the President made sense when he compared ObamaCare to the post office.

It must be some sort of constitutional requirement that Illinois’ elected leaders be both corrupt and stupid.

Jesse jackson, Jr. actually thinks the President made sense when he compared ObamaCare to the post office.

Fox News ratings in stratosphere, now second highest rated of all cable networks

Fox News left its cable news competitors in the dust long ago. Now the network has its sights set on a prize that even Rupert Murdoch would have once thought impossible – number one ratings among all cable networks.

Glenn Beck's ratings have helped propel Fox beyond Rupert Murdoch's wildest dreams
Glenn Beck's ratings have helped propel Fox beyond Rupert Murdoch

Fox News left its cable news competitors in the dust long ago. Now the network has its sights set on a prize that even Rupert Murdoch would have once thought impossible – number one ratings among all cable networks.

Here’s how MediaBistro.com describes the situation:

Last week we reported on Fox News Channel’s primetime programs putting up huge numbers — three nights in a row beating CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and HLN combined in both Total Viewers and the A25-54 demo.

Well now the cable news rankings are out and Fox News was the second most-watched basic cable channel in primetime last week, only behind USA. FNC was 5th overall in Total Day viewership.

MSNBC was 24th in primetime and 32nd in Total Day. CNN ranked 26th in prime and 23rd in Total Day.

That sound you hear is Keith Olbermann whimpering over in the corner.

See last week’s article: O’Reilly-Hannity-Beck go 1-2-3 in cable news ratings again, Fox destroys competition again.

Source: MediaBistro.com

100 days ago Joe Biden promised stimulus bill would create 600,000 jobs by now. How’s that workin’, Joe?

To quote a popular bumper sticker, “Where are the jobs, you lying pile of excrement?” OK, we didn’t really see that last part on a bumper sticker. But we wish we had.

Where are the jobs, Joe? Where are the jobs?
Where are the jobs, Joe? Where are the jobs?

And we quote from a White House press release dated May 13, 2009:

The Vice President today submitted his first quarterly report to the President detailing progress implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The report shows early progress providing immediate financial relief for American families and jump-starting billions of dollars in job-creating projects in the first quarter, with both the pace of spending and job creation expected to accelerate significantly in the coming months.

Looking ahead, an additional 600,000 jobs are expected to be created or saved under the Recovery Act in the next 100 days and billions of dollars in contracts and grants are expected to be awarded in the coming months. The report finds that the anticipated funds are already having an effect on economic and job growth as private sector companies staff up to meet expected demand for their products under Recovery Act programs and state and local governments adjust their spending plans ahead of receiving additional Recovery Act funds.

And to quote a popular bumper sticker, “Where are the jobs, you lying pile of excrement?”

OK, we didn’t really see that last part on a bumper sticker. But we wish we had.

Source: WhiteHouse.gov

Pitt hot for pot except when he’s not

Brad Pitt showed up on Bill Maher’s show the other night to show the world that you don’t have to be stoned to be incoherent. He seems to have taken diametrically opposed positions on the same issue – pot.

Brad Pitt showed up on Bill Maher’s show the other night to show the world that you don’t have to be stoned to be incoherent. He seems to have taken diametrically opposed positions on the same issue – pot.

Early in the interview, Maher asks Pitt about the rumors that he’s going to run for mayor of New Orleans.

“They were asking about running for mayor, which has been a T-shirt in New Orleans,” Pitt responded, “and I said something to the extent of, ‘No religion, legalization and taxation of pot and pro-gay marriage.’ Which is basically the Bill Maher going straight to hell campaign.” (1:10 to 1:48)

Later, Maher asks Pitt why he gave up pot and the movie star replied, “I’m a dad now and you want to be alert.”
(Time: 3:51 to 5:15)

The way we understand this genius’ position, it’s OK to smoke yourself senseless up to the moment you become a father. Maybe even light up a fatty and pass it around the delivery room while you’re becoming a father.

Yup, looks this guy’s dumb enough to succeed Ray Nagin as mayor of New Orleans.

6% of American voters believe in unicorns think they’ll get a tax cut under Obama.

The number of Americans expecting a tax cut has fallen to 6%. During Election 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. When he was elected, 22% expected a tax cut.

Three American voters who still believe President Obama will cut their taxes
Three American voters who still believe President Obama will cut their taxes

Hmmmm. How best to sum up the results of the latest research from Rasmussen Reports. How’s this?

The latest research from Rasmussen Reports seems to indicate that 6% of American voters are possibly deaf, dumb and blind. And morons. They’re likely morons, too.

Just six percent (6%) of voters nationwide now expect their own taxes to go down during the Obama years. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 42% expect their taxes to go up while 40% expect little change. Another 12% are not sure.

This is the first time since last November’s election that the number expecting a tax cut has fallen to single digits. During Election 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. When he was elected, 22% expected a tax cut. That number has been trending down ever since.

Maybe we’re being too harsh. Maybe we’re wrong.

Nah. They’re idiots.

Source: RasmussenReports.com

Obama’s Director of New Media blames email hullaballoo on “sinister conspiracy theories”

In keeping with the administration’s philosophy of never accepting the blame for anything they do wrong, Macon Phillips absolved himself of blame for the White House email snaufu and put the blame for the screw up squarely at the feet of “outside groups of all political stripes.”

What lesson can be learned form this episode? Never trust a guy who looks like that guy from SuperBad
What lesson can be learned form this episode? Never trust a guy who looks like that guy from SuperBad

After warning that mysterious third-party groups could have been responsible for the snafu in which White House e-mails were sent to people who never signed up for them, President Obama’s new media director decided to clear up the confusion. Personally. Right there on the WhiteHouse.gov website.

However, in keeping with the administration’s philosophy of never accepting the blame for anything they do wrong, Macon Phillips absolved himself and put the blame for the screw up squarely at the feet of “outside groups of all political stripes.”

“An ironic development is that the launch of an online program meant to provide facts about health insurance reform has itself become the target of fear-mongering and online rumors that are the tactics of choice for the defenders of the status quo,” he wrote on the official White House blog. “Despite reports by some bloggers and others in the media that have invoked a variety of sinister conspiracy theories, more people signed up for updates last week than during the entire month of July.”

Quick. Close the drapes and take cover, Macon. Those black helicopters are circling the White House again.

Source: WhiteHouse.gov

Fashion icon in shorts vs. ignorant Nazi whore in shorts

Fashion icon in shorts vs. ignorant Nazi whore in shorts. Michelle Obama versus Sarah Palin. Our vote goes to the ignorant Nazi whore. We’re just sayin’. What do you say?

obama-palin-in-shorts Our vote goes to the ignorant Nazi whore. We’re just sayin’.

What do you say? (poll now closed)
michelle-obama-poll

Source (and more photos): MofoPolitics.com

Democrat calls for “immediate action” to repair the immediate action Democrats took last month

Turns out car dealers can’t pry money out of the federal government to pay for the clunkers they took in trade. So Democrat congressman Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania is demanding “immediate action” from President Obama to correct the problem that Democrats themselves caused by rushing the Cash-for-Clunkers fiasco into law.

Joe Sestak paused while trying to ram ObamaCare through Congress to complain about the last program the Democrats rammed through congress
Joe Sestak paused while trying to ram ObamaCare through Congress to complain about the last program the Democrats rammed through congress

Cash-for-Clunkers is so messed up that even a liberal Democrat is calling it messed up.

Turns out car dealers can’t pry money out of the federal government to pay for the clunkers they took in trade. So Democrat congressman Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania is demanding “immediate action” from President Obama to correct the problem that Democrats themselves caused by rushing the Cash-for-Clunkers fiasco into law.

According to Sestak, only 2% of claims have been paid and 80% of the applications have been “rejected for minor oversight.”

Auto dealers across the fruited plain are pissed that the government’s Cash-for-Clunkers reimbursement payments are taking far longer than had been promised. Sestak says those complaints aren’t isolated incidents.

One billion dollars down. Another two billion to go. Ain’t big government great?

Source: FoxNews.com

Latest laughable U.N. global warming claim: 50 million may be displaced by 2010

Koko Warner, a senior U.N. researcher at the loftily-named UN University Institute for Environment & Human Society, claims 25-50 million people will be become refugees as climate change unleashes more natural disasters and slashes farm output.

"Damn it. Where's my car? I know I parked it around here somewhere."
"Damn it. Where's my car? I know I parked it around here somewhere."

Quick. Call Bekins. Because a whole lot of people need to move in the next 16 months.

Koko Warner, a senior U.N. researcher at the loftily-named UN University Institute for Environment & Human Society, claims 25-50 million people will be become refugees as climate change unleashes more natural disasters and slashes farm output.

The Thaindian reports Koko’s dire predictions from the heart of the subcontinent:

“Climate change will displace 25-50 million people by next year. The situation will be the worst in the poorer countries.”

The Thaindian continued:

“Most people will seek shelter in their own countries while others (will) cross borders in search of better odds.

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Thanks, Barack: New poll shows more conservatives than liberals in all 50 states

A new Gallup Poll shows that people who call themselves conservative outnumber those who call themselves liberal. Not just in one state, not just in two states, but in all 50 states. This is what we call hope and change.

Back from the dead: It's party time for conservatives
Back from the dead: It's party time for conservatives

Bad news for James Carville, the liberal pundit who predicted that Barack Obama’s election had ushered in a 40-year era of Democrat rule:

A new Gallup Poll shows that people who call themselves conservative outnumber those who call themselves liberal. That’s not just in one state, not just in two states, but in all 50 states. The conservative advantage holds true even in 30 states where Democrats lead Republicans in party identification.


So much for that 40-year socialism thing.

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And away we go: 2,000,000 American citizens emigrated to other countries in 2008

We know for sure that Barbra Streisand and Alec Baldwin never left like they promised they would. But 2,000,000 other Americans did pack up and hightailed it for other countries in the last twelve months.

Maybe they're all emigrating to Hollywood. It's not just another country, it's another planet.
Maybe they're all emigrating to Hollywood. It's not just another country, it's another planet.

We know for sure that Barbra Streisand and Alec Baldwin never left like they promised they would. But 2,000,000 other Americans did pack up and hightailed it for other countries in the last twelve months.

In 2008, over two million US citizens fled the United States for greener pastures, and while this figure still represents less than 1% of the total US population, the trend is astounding. Between 2006-2008, the average number of US permanent resident filings stood at roughly 1.1 million/year, placing the legal inflow at negative 900,000 people. In a country of immigrants, the trend is emigration, not immigration.

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College student goes mano-a-mano with Obama at Colorado town hall

Zack Lane, a polysci major at asked the University of Colorado Bolder not only hit the President with a tough question, but challenged him to go mano-a-mano in an Oxford-style Debate.

If you’re President Obama, you show up at a town hall event confident that your people have packed the audience with friendly faces. And then some damn college kid stands up and asks an Econ 101 question that exposes you as the fraud you are.

That’s exactly what happened at President Obama’s Town Hall Meeting in Grand Junction, Colorado when Zack Lane, a polysci major at asked the University of Colorado Bolder not only hit the President with a tough question, but challenged him to go mano-a-mano in an Oxford-style Debate.

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Quote of the Day:
“President Obama is making great progress on climate change. He’s changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.”

“President Obama is making great progress on climate change. He’s changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.” – Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty

Applause please for Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.

Congressman tells Lawrence O’Donnell “You’re illustrating why MSNBC’s viewership is in the tank”

It’s been a bad week or so for MSNBC’s grating, obnoxious host substitute Lawrence O’Donnell. A really bad week. Guest Republican Congressman John Culberson of Texas came out with all barrels blasting.

It’s been a bad week or so for MSNBC’s grating, obnoxious host substitute Lawrence O’Donnell. A really bad week.

He recently conducted what has been widely called “the worst interview in history” while filling in for Ed Schultz.

Apparently O’Donnell didn’t see the reviews, because he tried the same obnoxious, pushy tactics while filling in for Chris Matthews on Friday.

But this time the result was different. Republican Congressman John Culberson of Texas came out with all barrels blasting:

“You know, Lawrence, for your listeners, you’re illustrating why MSNBC’s viewership is in the tank. Because you don’t allow your people you’re interviewing to answer questions. And, you know, Lawrence, this is why Katie and everybody else is going to Facebook, everyone’s going to the Internet because why listen to MSNBC when you won’t even let the people you’re interviewing answer the question?”

Letting Republican congressmen make you look bad is no way to get a regular gig, Lawrence.

Source: Newsbusters.org

49% of registered voters tire of all-Obama-all-the-time on television

49 percent of Americans say they would like to see less of Obama on television, up from 36 percent who felt that way previously. We fear that the brain trust at the White House will read that 49% want to see less of Obama and interpret it to mean that 51% want to see more of him.

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The results of a new Fox/Opinion Dynamics poll cannot be encouraging for The Cult of Obama:

“With the president traveling the country to discuss health care and the economy, almost half of Americans (49 percent) say they would like to see less of Obama on television, up from 36 percent who felt that way previously (3-4 March 2009).”

Unfortunately, we fear that the brain trust at the White House will read that 49% want to see less of Obama and interpret it to mean that 51% want to see more of him.

Source: FoxNews.com

Global Warming Update
Season’s first three storms given incorrect names

The National Hurricane Center has named them Ana, Bill, and Claudette, but we think the names should be reconsidered. They should be AlGore, Barack and Carter. Here’s why.

Hurricanes - Week 11

It’s party time at Goracle HQ. Ten weeks and five days into hurricane season and we finally have the season’s first tropical storm. In fact, we have three of them at the same time.

The National Hurricane Center has named them Ana, Bill, and Claudette, but we think the names should be reconsidered.

The first storm of the season should have been named Algore instead of Ana. It started with lots of bluster and looks like it will eventually peter out in Florida.

The second storm should have been named Barack instead of Bill. It sprang to life somewhere far outside the United States, is marked by a lot of hot air, but doesn’t look like it’s really going to do very much. Nevertheless, it will dominate the television news.

Finally, the third storm should have been named Carter instead of Claudette. It came in from the south and proved to be far weaker than anyone ever anticipated.

Looking forward a few weeks, we anticipate Hurricane Hillary being a dark and angry storm, capable of inflicting major damage to anything in the path of its destruction.

Source: National Hurricane Center

SnowbamaCare: Canadians rethinking single-payer monstrosity

Uh-oh. The Canadian Medical Association believes the country’s system is “sick” and needs help from the doctors to cure it.
“We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize,” said Dr. Anne Doig.

Uh-oh. The Canadian Medical Association believes the country’s system is “sick” and needs help from the doctors to cure it.

“We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize,” said Dr. Anne Doig. The doctor added that it’s a little thing called sustainability that’s causing massive problems with the Canadian health care system.

She added, “We know that there must be change. We’re all running flat out, we’re all just trying to stay ahead of the immediate day-to-day demands.”

Why, they’re even uttering the unutterable: They want private insurers allowed back in the Canadian system.

It’s almost like our neighbors to the north were adopting a free enterprise system. Or something.

Source: CTA.ca

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