While Iranians were dying on the streets of Tehran, President Obama showed his support for their struggle by taking the girls out for ice cream.
While Iranians were dying on the streets of Tehran, President Obama showed his support for their struggle by taking the girls out for ice cream.
Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi’s request to meet 1000 prominent Italian women during his trip to Italy last week generated skepticism and amusement in equal measure.
It’s easy to think that maybe Muammar Gaddafi might have a screw loose based on nothing more than his elaborate costumes uniforms. But then he opens his mouth and confirms the theory that he’s nuttier than a fruitcake.
The Libyan strongman and nutcase recently visited Italy. The Age, one of Melbourne’s leading newspapers, describes the Twilight Zone episode that ensued:
(Libyan leader) Colonel Gaddafi’s request to meet 1000 prominent Italian women during his trip to Italy last week generated skepticism and amusement in equal measure. An exotic assemblage filed in. There were leading figures from politics, culture and industry; ministers posed for cameras, lawyers talked earnestly in their seats and reality TV personalities blew kisses across the aisles….
Mara Cafagna, a former topless model turned Minister of Equal Opportunities…started proceedings by describing the event as an “important day for relations between Italy and Libya”.
Ms Cafagna, who once described her experiences as Miss Italy as “a competition that makes you as a woman”, admirably espoused her new role as a figurehead of women’s rights…
Colonel Gaddafi drummed his fingers on the table, lounged back in his large leather chair and perused his little green book, occasionally beckoning one of his female bodyguards…who shuffled back and forth with drinks and boxes of tissues….
Then it all went a bit wrong. Using a peculiar example of a steam train driver, Colonel Gaddafi called for two systems in the professional forum — “one suitable for men, the other for women”.
With growing murmurs in the auditorium and a few noisy exits, Colonel Gaddafi tried to regain some credibility by denouncing the treatment of women in Arabic and Islamic societies.
“Why should these women have to apply to the head of state for the right to drive a car?” he asked. The audience applauded politely, but were soon laughing incredulously as he went on to add that this was a matter that “their husbands or brothers should decide”.
He did not mingle but sat behind an imposing desk up on the stage, with Ms Carfagna next to him on a chair, blowing kisses to the women as he left.
You can’t make this stuff up. You just can’t.
Source: The Age via Andrew Bolt
Robert Gibbs knows government healthcare works in other countries. Just don’t ask him which ones.
When President Obama spoke to the American Medical Association earlier this week, he said a single-payer health care system “works pretty well” in some countries.
That prompted a reporter to ask White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to which countries the president was referring.
“I don’t know exactly the countries. I think if you talk to the people in the countries that have that system, they think their health care is pretty good,” Gibbs said.
The persistent reporter asked again if he knew specifically which countries.
“I assume Canada, Britain, maybe France,” Gibbs said evasively. “I don’t know the exact countries, but again, I don’t think the president is going way out on a limb that some people in other countries have a health care system that they like. Just as some Americans like the health care system that they have.”
Please allow us to translate what Gibbs was trying to say:
“Yes, some unspecified idiots in the United States think we have the world’s best healthcare system, but some other unspecificed geniuses in some other unspecific countries think their socialized medical systems are better. So it looks like the research speaks for itself and we’d need spend a few more trillion dollars on ObamaCare. Now let’s move on to Helen Thomas for a friendlier question.”
Source: CNSnews.com
The U.S. Senate approved a fiercely worded resolution Thursday that attempts to formally apologize for the “fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery” of African-Americans.
In a blatantly political move designed to keep President Obama from hogging all the good apologies, the United States Senate has apologized for slavery.
Here’s how the Wall Street Journal reported it:
The U.S. Senate approved a fiercely worded resolution Thursday that attempts to formally apologize for the “fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery” of African-Americans.
The unanimous voice vote came five months after Barack Obama became the first black U.S. president, and ahead of the June 19 “Juneteenth” celebration of the emancipation of African-Americans at the end of the Civil War in 1865.
Approval by the House of Representatives, which could come as early as next week, would make it the first time the entire Congress has formally apologized on behalf of the American people…”
Right. We understand that slavery was cruel and inhumane. But don’t apologize on our behalf. Our grandparents were still wearing wooden shoes in Holland 50 years after slavery was abolished. They had nothing to do with slavery. Neither did we.
While the Senate’s in an apologizing mood, maybe they could apologize for some other stuff. Like that plaid sports coat my dad wore to church every Sunday. Pat Boone records. Spaghetti-Os. Afro perms. Leisure suits. Car 54, Where Are You. MTV. White bread. Yanni. The Black Sox scandal. Joe Biden’s hairplugs. The 1958 Cadillac. Barry Bonds.
Maybe the Senate could even get a head start and apologize now for the reparations movement their slavery apology is sure to inspire.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Based on that criteria, Joe Biden may be the next to go.
Source: FoxNews.com
The Bermudians Bermudites Bermudese people of Bermuda are not happy about having four Uighur terrorists plopped down on their island paradise. Not happy at all.
The Bermudians Bermudites Bermudese people of Bermuda are not happy about having four Uighur terrorists plopped down on their island paradise. Not happy at all.
Here’s how The Royal Gazette reports the story:
“Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Cabinet building this afternoon to call for the Premier to step down following his decision to bring four Guantanamo detainees to Bermuda without consulting with the Governor or the UK Government.”
“The huge crowd first heard speeches by rally organisers outside Sessions House demanding Dr. Ewart Brown’s resignation, before marching en masse to the Cabinet lawn.”
And just to add insult to injury, it turns out the Obama administration made the decision to bring the former Guantanamo detainees to Bermuda without consulting with the Governor or the government of the United Kingdom.
The Uighurs responded to the diplomatic flap by saying, “Bring us another round of mai tais, waitress. The ones with the little umbrellas.”
Source: Royal Gazette via BluegrassPundit.com
President Obama’s popularity has been sinking faster than the Titanic lately. This is confirmed by today’s Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll.
President Obama’s popularity has been sinking faster than the Titanic lately. This is confirmed by today’s Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll.
32% of voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. 34% Strongly Disapprove. That gives the President a Presidential Approval Index rating of -2%
That’s the first time President Obama’s daily rating has ever gone into negative territory.
Rasmussen says, “Sixty percent (60%) of Democrats Strongly Approve of the President’s performance but only 8% of Republicans share that view. Sixty-one percent (61%) of Republicans Strongly Disapprove.”
Say bye-bye healthcare. Say adios cap and trade. Say au revoir further stimulus.
Source: Rasmussen Reports
We can’t wait for this movie. Sacha Baron Cohen is crude and rude, blasphemous and hilarious. Here’s a red carpet interview with Bruno at the star studded London premiere. His ability to ad lib in character is remarkable.
We can’t wait for this movie. Sacha Baron Cohen is crude and rude, blasphemous and hilarious. Here’s a red carpet interview with Bruno at the star studded London premiere. His ability to ad lib in character is remarkable.
“What I’m trying to undo tonight,” Bruno says, “is the badness done by that film ‘Milk’ which has really set the gay community back 20 years with that terrible stereotype.”
Of course, he says it while prancing around in leather hotpants and a Beefeater hat.
Jibjab’s latest and sure to be viral video stars Barack Obama, in “He’s Barack Obama.”
Jibjab, the creators of this video, need no introduction, so just sit back and enjoy.
Move over, Woody Allen. Make room for Morgan Freeman in the Vaguely Perverted Hall of Fame.
Freeman and his wife of 25 years, Myrna Colley-Lee, are going through an ugly divorce. Part of the ugliness revolves around accusations that the 72-year old actor carried on decade-long affair with E’Dena Hines, his step-granddaughter.
Hines is the granddaughter of Morgan’s first wife, but was raised by Morgan and Myrna.
“Myrna said E’dena told her that when she was a teenager, she and Morgan went to dinner at a friend’s house one evening,” a family friend told the Enquirer. “Both had been drinking and when they returned home Morgan attempted to have sex with her. They stopped just short of having intercourse.”
Myrna confronted Morgan about the incident, but somehow managed to look the other way while the forbidden relationship escalated.
Freeman’s not talking. Probably on the advice of his attorney, his accountant, and anyone else with an ounce of sense.
Source: National Enquirer via Los Angeles Times
Barack Obama is an amazing man. He spoke in Cairo on June 4 and instantly transformed the entire Middle East. In fact, the transformation has been so complete that the dictatorial regime in Egypt can now give Obama lessons on how to speak out against the brutal Iranian regime.
Barack Obama is an amazing man. He spoke in Cairo on June 4 and instantly transformed the entire Middle East. In fact, the transformation has been so complete that the dictatorial regime in Egypt can now give Obama lessons on how to speak out against the brutal Iranian regime.
Here’s a translation of a June 18 editorial from the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram:
Events in Iran have followed in close succession since the announcement that fundamentalist candidate Ahmadinejad was elected to a second term in the presidential elections. Between the mass demonstrations [of the reformists] decrying electoral fraud, and the counter-demonstrations accusing the reformists of allegiance to the West, the international community has stood confused about what position to take towards this democratic outpouring in a country that is on the threshold of acquiring nuclear capabilities, something all international and regional actors consider an unwelcome development.
The caution that has characterized the position of the principle international actors towards the abuses occurring in the streets of Iran, up to and including the killing [of protesters], may be sending the wrong message to the ruling powers there. The upshot of this message is that the strong desire to reach a political resolution to the Iranian nuclear crisis and to avoid a clash with the Iranian authorities is a goal that supersedes all other considerations – even if these other considerations be support for international principles and human rights, and the urging of the [Iranian] government to stop the violence and bloodshed and to lend an ear to the views of the Iranian opposition. [This opposition] has expressed its rejection of the election results and its resistance to a second term for the current president, primarily for domestic reasons, and principle among them [Ahmadinejad’s] failed management of the economy.
In other words, grow some cojones, President Obama.
(“Cojones,” of course, is an Arabic word meaning “backbone.”)
Source: Al-Ahram via Gateway Pundit
This multimedia presentation is one of the best anti-Obama videos we seen in quite sometime. Great foot-tapping music, hundreds of images, and it perfectly captures the mood of the left in America, who ask, Obama, here’s my check?
This multimedia presentation is one of the best anti-Obama videos we seen in quite sometime. Great foot-tapping music, hundreds of images, and it perfectly captures the mood of the left in America, who ask, “Obama, here’s my check?”
As they used to say on American Bandstand, “It’s got a great beat and I can dance it to.”
Barack Obama is turning into Washington, DC’s version of Rodney Dangerfield. He’s apologized to nearly everyone and still can’t get any respect.
Angela Merkel is appalled by his economic program. Hugo Chavez insults him. Mahmoud Achmadinejad fixes an election with inpugnity. Kim Jong-Il ignores him. Fidel Castro taunts him. And now, in the ultimate sign of disrespect, a Taliban spokesman is comparing him to George Bush.
Mullah Nazeer Ahmad, Emir of the Taliban Mujahideen in Pakistan’s South Waziristan, insists the Taliban’s jihad will not end when the U.S. pulls out of Afghanistan. Nope. He says the Taliban jihad is going global.
“One white ass has gone. A black ass has taken over in his place. To have any expectations will corrode our belief. We put our trust only in Allah…We cannot expect from Bush or Obama that they will be relief for us. Instead, our difficulties are soothed by jihad.”
Yeah, we’ve always found that there’s nothing more soothing than slicing off an infidel’s head to sooth us at the end of a long, stressful week. Either that or an apple cocktail.
How’s that apology tour working out for you, Mr. President?
Source: Religion of Peace via Gateway Pundit
We’re going to try something different this weekend. We’re going to open the comments of this thread up for whatever it is you would like to talk about.
We’re going to try something different this weekend. We’re going to open the comments of this thread up for whatever it is you would like to talk about. To keep it somewhat organized, try and reply directly to the comment if it is related, so the conversation can start together. So, come on in.
Continue reading “Weekend Open Thread”
“Until we get the economy moving again,” Jim Cramer told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, “I think everybody just kind of wishes Obama would go away for a little bit.”
A New York Times poll showed that Americans are more concerned about deficits than stimulus. “Until we get the economy moving again,” Jim Cramer told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, “I think everybody just kind of wishes Obama would go away for a little bit.”
“I wish he’d go away with me,” fantasized MSNBC host Chris Matthews with a faraway look in his eyes.
The liberal media swears up and down that it’s impartial. Completely unbiased.
Of course, that doesn’t exactly square up with the revelation that 130 ABC employees made donations to Obama, but only 4 donated to McCain/Palin.
The liberal media swears up and down that it’s impartial. Completely unbiased.
Of course, that doesn’t exactly square up with the revelation that 130 ABC employees made donations to Obama, but only 4 donated to McCain/Palin.
But it may explain why ABC News was granted the exclusive right to tout Obama’s healthcare fiasco in an all-day White House-a-thon broadcast on June 24.
Ace of Spades notes:
If a Muslim group accuses them of exhibiting anti-Muslim bias, they don’t pooh-pooh that charge. They immediately have meetings with the group, put a panel on the subject on Nightline, elevate a Muslim journalist to some sort of bias-ombudsman position, etc.
They take such charges of bias seriously, in other words, so long as the charges come from groups associated with the left.
It’s only when Republicans charge bias they dismiss the complaints and refuse to make any attempts at amelioration at all.
ABC. It used to stand for “American Broadcasting Company,” but now it stands for “All Barack Channel.”
Source: Ace of Spades
Russian strongman Vladamir Putin thinks Barack Obama’s plan to raise taxes on American business is nuts. Just plain nuts.
Russian strongman Vladamir Putin thinks Barack Obama’s plan to raise taxes on American business is nuts. Just plain nuts.
Yes, you read that correctly. The power behind the Russian throne understands capitalism better than the President of the United States.
Here’s how the Moscow Times reports it:
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday criticized U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan to raise taxes on U.S. companies’ foreign operations, saying it would amount to double taxation that will hurt the global economy.
“This is a serious decision for the world economy,” Putin said at a meeting of the Presidium, the government said on its web site. “If taxes are imposed on all companies working abroad, then it will mean the total destruction of the system for avoiding double taxation.”
This should come as no surprise. Communists never understand economics as well as former communists.
The Obama administration will order the Navy to hail and request permission to inspect North Korean ships at sea suspected of carrying arms or nuclear technology, but will not board them by force.
Watch out, Kim Jong-Il. President Obama’s on the warpath. Well, it’s not so much the “warpath” as it is the “talk-really-nice-and-dictators-will-do-what-you-want path.”
It’s been reported that he’s ordered the American Navy to ask real nicely if we can inspect the cargo on North Korea’s ships.
Here’s how the New York Times reports it: “The Obama administration will order the Navy to hail and request permission to inspect North Korean ships at sea suspected of carrying arms or nuclear technology, but will not board them by force, senior administration officials said Monday.”
“Well, sure, Imperialist Yankee Dogs. Come aboard and take a look. And while you’re here, let’s have a little kim chee.”
We suspect that this will work out about as well as Obama’s fist bump with Hugo Chavez and his pretty letter to Mahmoud Achmadinejad.
Maybe there is something to this reincarnation stuff. Because it sure looks like Barack Obama was Neville Chamberlain in a previous life.
Source: New York Times via BluegrassPundit.com
Labour Foreign Office Minister Chris Bryant wants to dump the Red Cross’ well-known logo because it is supposedly linked to the Crusades against muslims.
There’s a reason Gordon Brown’s Labour party is going down in flames. Well, there are actually a lot of reasons. But here’s another one.
Labour Foreign Office Minister Chris Bryant wants to dump the Red Cross’ well-known logo because it is supposedly linked to the Crusades.
Forget the fact that the logo has been one of the world’s most identifiable symbols for more than 100 years. Bryant is quivering with fear that it may suddenly offend Muslims. And that, of course, simply will not fly in today’s politically correct world.
Don’t dispair. There are voices of reason in the British Parliament.
“At face value to the layman it seems at best a solution looking for a problem,” said Philip Davies, a Tory Member of Parliament, “and at worst another example of extreme political correctness. No one has ever suggested to me that the Red Cross refers to the Crusades.”
Davies is on the right track. Turns out the logo has absolutely nothing to do with the Crusades. In fact, the Red Cross Movement wasn’t founded until 1863. It’s logo, a red cross on a white background, is the reverse of the Swiss flag. It’s never had any religious meaning and tradition says it’s a tribute to legendary Swiss neutrality.
Davies is also demanding that Hershey change the logo for the Hershey bar because it’s half nuts and that will offend Muslims, too.
Source: Creeping Sharia
The Obama administration is poised for its most forceful confrontation with the American public on the sweeping and life-altering consequences of a failure to act on global warming with the release today of a long-awaited scientific report on climate change.
Here’s how the Guardian UK reports Obama’s release Wednesday of a new report on global warming:
“The Obama administration is poised for its most forceful confrontation with the American public on the sweeping and life-altering consequences of a failure to act on global warming with the release today of a long-awaited scientific report on climate change.”
And here’s how the same newspaper reports his response to the democratic movement in Iran:
“It’s not productive given the history of U.S.-Iranian relations to be seen as meddling.”
It’s also not productive, apparently, to have a backbone or core beliefs.
Source: Guardian UK
Dueling headlines: Cocaine seized in dead sharks & Scientists: Fish can learn despite small brains
“Cocaine seized in dead sharks”
“Scientists: Fish can learn despite small brains”
But when will they learn that drugs kill?
PETA, aka People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, should now stand for People for the Equivalent Treatment of Anything. The organization officially became a caricature of itself as it criticized President Obama for swatting a fly.
There’s really nothing left to satirize. Absolutely nothing. Soon The Onion will be running straight news, because everything has become parody.
PETA, aka People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, should now stand for People for the Equivalent Treatment of Anything. The organization officially became a caricature of itself as it criticized President Obama for swatting a fly.
“We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals,” PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said. “Swatting a fly on TV indicates he’s not perfect.”
So to make sure it doesn’t happen again, PETA sent the president a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, which allows users to trap and release flies.
On the bright side, life must be practically heaven on earth when this is all you have to complain about.
For the record, we love animals and hate animal cruelty. But how is a fly the same as an animal? What’s next, equal rights for mosquitoes?
Source: New York Times
Just picture how the Barack Obama action figure will stimulate their imaginations as they pretend they’re stimulating the economy. They can pull the string and hear the Obama action figure apologize in 12 languages. They can even pretend to appoint a car czar to run Matchbox Cars.
Believe it or not, this is an authentic product currently being sold on eBay.
What self-respecting American kids would want a baby-killing G.I. Joe or an oppressed female Barbie when they can have an action figure based on the Greatest President In The History of the Universe.
Just picture how the Barack Obama action figure will stimulate their imaginations as they pretend they’re stimulating the economy. They can pull the string and hear the Obama action figure apologize in 12 languages. They can even pretend to appoint a car czar to run Matchbox Cars.
Note: Karl Marx action figures sold separately. Batteries not included.
Source: eBay.com
Things are getting so tense on the Korean Peninsula that Yoko Ono has threatened to go nuclear.
Things are getting so tense on the Korean Peninsula that Yoko Ono has threatened to go nuclear.
According to the Associated Press, “North Korea’s communist regime has warned of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula while vowing to step up its atomic bomb-making program in defiance of new U.N. sanctions.”
“The North’s defiance presents a growing diplomatic headache for President Barack Obama as he prepares for talks Tuesday with his South Korean counterpart on the North’s missile and nuclear programs.”
Update: We’ve just been informed that the photo attached to this article is actually of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il, not Yoko Ono. Our deepest apologies to Kim. No one should be mistaken for Yoko Ono.
Soure: Associated Press
Glenn Beck was at his best last night when he interviewed fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin. And for a guy who’s supposed to be disoriented and demented, Walpin was pretty damn good, too.
Beck tops the whole interview off by giving Walpin the official government test used to determine if someone is suffering from dementia.
Glenn Beck was at his best last night when he interviewed fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin. And for a guy who’s supposed to be disoriented and demented, Walpin was pretty damn good, too.
Beck tops the whole interview off by giving Walpin the official government test used to determine if someone is suffering from dementia.
The clip is 11:30 minutes long, but worth watching. You’ll quickly discover that Walpin may be disarming, but he certainly isn’t disoriented.
