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Democrat congressman admits Cap & Trade is just a great big ol’ tax in disguise
Despite the fact that Cap & Trade would more appropriately be called Smoke & Mirrors, the Obama administration is moving the legislation forward.
Democrat Congressman John Dingell doesn’t like it. He doesn’t like it at all.
“Nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax,” he said to Al Gore in a congressional hearing. “And a great big one.”
Unfortunately, the camera wasn’t on Al Gore at that moment, so we can only imagine that he immediately put his forefinger to his lips and made one of those “Ssssh” sounds librarians make.
Source: Gateway Pundit
Conservative teaches liberal how the real world works
This is a very funny video. Liberals should consider it a life lesson. So should conservatives. It demonstrates perfectly that libs don’t understand how the real world works. They simply can’t comprehend that some people would rather pay more for a better product. Or more for a product that’s merely perceived as better.
Guy #1 in this video wants to give his product away for free. He doesn’t know how to cope when Guy #2 sets up business next door offering a better product at a higher price.
Next thing you know the Obama administration will get involved. They’ll say Guy #2 is guilty of unfair competition. They’ll force him to unionize. They’ll say that since he’s a highly-compensated capitalist, he should pay for health care for Guy #1. They’ll say that since Guy #2 is making money and Guy #1 isn’t, Guy #2 should pay higher taxes to subsidize Guy #1.
We wish it were a joke.
Source: InfidelsAreCool.com
Say good night to your morning newspaper, circulation in freefall
The Audit Bureau of Circulation, the bible of the newspaper business, just released the latest circulation figures for the country’s newspapers.
In a word, ouch.
Circulations are plunging faster than Janet Napolitano’s credibility. In fact, the only major paper to gain circulation in the last twelve months was Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal. Other’s dropped in jaw dropping percentages.
It’s getting so bad that single digit drops look good. The New York Post dropped more than 20%. The San Francisco Chronicle almost 16%. The Newark Star-Ledger almost 17%. And the Atlanta Journal Constitution almost 20%.
Here are the daily averages for Monday-Friday circulation for the nation’s top 25 papers.
Source: Editor & Publisher
“Ratchet-jawed purveyors of monkey-doodle
and baked wind”
This comes from a speech P.J. O’Rourke recently delivered in Sydney. Damn, this guy knows how to string words together.
America has wound up with a charming leftist as a president. And this scares me. This scares me not because I hate leftists. I don’t. I have many charming leftist friends. They’re lovely people – as long as they keep their nose out of things they don’t understand. Such as making a living.
When charming leftists stick their nose into things they don’t understand they become ratchet-jawed purveyors of monkey-doodle and baked wind. They are piddlers upon merit, beggars at the door of accomplishment, thieves of livelihood, envy coddling tax lice applauding themselves for giving away other people’s money. They are the lap dogs of the poly sci-class, returning to the vomit of collectivism. They are pig herders tending that sow-who-eats-her-young, the welfare state. They are muck-dwelling bottom-feeders growing fat on the worries and disappointments of the electorate. They are the ditch carp of democracy.
Source: Tim Blair/Sydney Daily Telegraph
Introducing the John Murtha Pork Barrel International Airport, where pigs really do fly
Ever wonder how your tax dollars are being invested spent wasted? Here’s an absolutely terrifying example – the John Murtha Pork Barrel International Airport. Located, of course, right in the heart of Democrat Congressman John Murtha’s home district.
It is a monument to the complete corruption of the system in general and John Murtha specifically.
$150,000,000 of your tax dollars have gone to build this gilded memorial to Mr. Murtha in the last ten years. To repeat, $150,000,000.
For that you get three flights a day, all of them to Washington, DC, which makes it extremely convenient for Rep. Murtha.
In 2008, an average of only 20 people per day flew out of the airport. The government subsidizes every ticket to the tune of $100. That means that you – the taxpayer – often pay more per ticket than each of those travelers did.
The airport’s motto should be, “The John Murtha Pork Barrel International Airport, where your money flies out the window.”
Source: ABC News via BluegrassPundit
Government bailout subsidizing Olbermann salary,
sign the petition
Left wing lunatic Ben Afleck does a perfect impression of
left wing lunatic Keith Olbermann on Saturday Night Live.
Is Keith Olbermann a hypocrite? Of course. A congenital liar? Certainly. A lunatic. Without a doubt.
That’s why we’re happy to lend our support to this internet petition objecting to his latest outrage. Click on the link at the bottom of the story to sign the petition.
Dear Mr. Olbermann,
While General Electric, the parent-company of your MSNBC network, was negotiating a $126 billion taxpayer-funded bailout, you signed a new contract raising your salary from $4 million to $7.5 million annually. You have used your show as a platform to call for the resignation of corporate executives accepting excessive bonuses on the backs of taxpayers who are picking up the tab for these atrocious bailouts, yet you yourself have no problem engaging in the same “class economic rape” that you accuse them of.
Please heed your own advice and stop accepting taxpayer money to subsidize your nightly diatribes. Resign or return the balance of your excessive raise to the U.S. Treasury.
Sincerely,(add your signature at the link below)
Source: WorstBailoutInTheWorld.com
How we could have saved Obama $328,825 without scaring the bejeebers out of New York City
Looks like no one in the Obama administration can resist a camera. Not even his airplane.
They took Air Force One on location on Monday for a photo shoot over the skies of New York City. Unfortunately, they did it without notifying anyone in Mayor Bloomberg’s administration.
It was instant panic when the good citizens of New York City saw another 747 screaming in low over the skyline. They screamed. They ran. They feared for their lives. And rightfully so.
Perhaps all this could have been avoided with a little 
No flights over New York City were necessary. No Air Force One. No fighter jets. No pilots. No crew. No fuel. It would have save you about $$328,825 and a ton of bad publicity.
IHateTheMedia.com proudly offers the President this stunning PhotoShop version of Air Force One over the Statue of Liberty.
Just one thing, President Obama. Could you send us $10 for the PhotoShop work? That’s what the kid next door charged us.
Update: I see Rush is mentioning Air Force One and photoshop all morning. Someone get him this story so he can see it.
Disney accused of racism for demonstrating that they’re not racist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0j7EactM9s Damn those racists at Disney. They’ve produced a new animated movie called “The Princess and the Frog.” The lead character is a black princess named Tiana.
Race baiting critics did what they always do – they accused the studio of racial insensitivity.
So Disney did what American business always does – they caved in and made changes to the cartoon. But you can never do enough for the race baiters. Never.
Here’s how Fox News reports the story: Continue reading “Disney accused of racism for demonstrating that they’re not racist”
Fox to air ‘Lie to Me’ instead of Obama news conference
But…but…but how will we know the difference?
President Obama plans primetime party disguised as press conference
Wednesday is the President’s 100th day in office and he’s “requested” another hour of the TV networks’ evening schedules.
“It’s an arbitrary day in which presidents are measured. We get that. We’re playing along,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.
However, this request is more painful than previous ones because it comes during “sweeps week,” the time of year when ratings are measured and advertising rates established for the coming quarter. The networks roll their top programs during sweeps week. So they are loathe to give up their most valuable time for what Gibbs admits is an arbitrary date.
But in keeping with his other actions during the previous 99 days, the president has shown that his TV face time is more important than the networks’ advertising time.
Wednesday’s press conference will be the president’s third conducted in primetime. At the current pace, he is on track to hold one a month.
This guy obviously wants his own weekly TV show. So let’s just make him the only contestant on American Idol each week.
Randy can say, “Barack is in the house, dog.” Kara can say, “Is Paula sober tonight?” Paula can say, “You know, you really made America your own.” And Simon will be deported for being honest.
Obama Vs. The Teleprompter: Round 9
“Sorry. I just noticed that I jumped the gun here. Go ahead and move it up. I’d already…I’d already introduced all you guys.” Damn teleprompter.
Source: Breitbart.TV
Why has President Obama spent more than $1,000,000 to prevent the release of his birth and college records?
To be honest, we’re not among those who think the President was born in Kenya. And if he had been, we’re not even sure that would disqualify him as President.
That being said, we find it extremely odd that he would fight so hard to keep his birth records and college transcripts hidden from the public.
According to the Federal Election Commission, Obama paid the Perkins Coie law firm $683,316.42 in the first quarter of 2009 to keep those records from being released. That’s on top of the $378,375.52 he paid them in the last quarter of 2008.
We’re not in on the conspiracy theory, but it makes you wonder.
Source: WorldNetDaily via BluegrassPundit.com
UK Member of Parliament says he may kill Miss California, kills career instead
Alan Duncan is a Member of Parliament in Great Britain. He wants to be Home Secretary, but after last night he may find himself unemployed instead.
The boneheaded MP was discussing Miss California, Carrie Prejean, on the BBC comedy show “Have I Got News For You” when he called Prejean a “silly bitch.” If would have been bad enough had he stopped there, but he didn’t.
“If you read that Miss California is murdered,” he said, “you will know it was me.”
At least we think that’s what he said. It was difficult to tell with his foot buried so deeply in his mouth.
Viewers complaints began flooding into the BBC and Britain’s Broadcasting Standards Authority almost immediately.
“Mr. Duncan has crossed the line,” said the Reverend George Hargreaves. “A senior politician suggesting, even as a joke, that it is OK that Ms. Prejean should be murdered for her Evangelical Christian views is totally unacceptable.”
“If you read that my career is dead,” Duncan shold have said, “you will know it was me.”
Source: Gateway Pundit
Republican Congressperson accuses Al Gore of making windfall profits on cap-and-trade regulations
Looks like those evil oil companies aren’t the only ones making windfall profits these days.
Republican Congressman Congresswoman Congressperson Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee finally did what we’ve been waiting for – she confronted Al Gore about the vast fortune he expects to make from Cap-and-Trade legislation to supposedly fight climate change.
Gore tap dances. Gore acts shocked. Gore acts insulted. Gore shucks and jives.
Hey, there’s an idea. Maybe they should be honest here and change the name from Cap-and-Trade to Shuck-and-Jive.
Who would ever believe we weren’t political science majors?
Source: The Hill via Gateway Pundit
Reporters disgusted by Hillary Clinton sex scandal
Put yourself in this situation and imagine how horrified you’d be.
You’re a reporter. You’re assigned to cover the State Department. The White House gives you a special phone number so you can call in and listen to a Hillary Clinton conference call. You call the number expecting to hear Hillary and you hear:
“Do you have any hidden desires? Well, if you feel like getting nasty, you came to the right place.”
Luckily for any reporters with delicate stomachs, it wasn’t Hillary talking.
Someone at the White House screwed up gave reporters a phone number that was off by one digit. Instead of getting Hillary’s conference call, they called the “Swank” phone sex line.
The recording went on to say that Swank’s services would cost from $2.99 to $5.99 per minute.
Today’s world is full of frightening things. But none – absolutely none – are more frightening than the words “Hillary” and “pornography” in the same sentence.
Source: WashingtonExaminer.com
The One’s one hundred mistakes in the first one hundred days
While the left is celebrating the greatest president in history, the hippest president in history, the greatest orator in history, the…ok…you get the idea. While they’re doing all of that, some people are living in the real world and seeing what an unmitigated disaster this unskilled rookie has become.
An article in Sunday’s New York Post lists the top 100 screw-ups in The One’s first one hundred days.
1. “Obama criticized pork barrel spending in the form of ‘earmarks,’ urging changes in the way that Congress adopts the spending proposals. Then he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them, some that members of his own staff shoved in last year when they were still members of Congress. ‘Let there be no doubt, this piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business, and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability,’ Obama said.” — McClatchy, 3/11
2. “There is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments.” — Obama during the campaign.
3. This year’s budget deficit: $1.5 trillion.
4. Asks his Cabinet to cut costs in their departments by $100 million — a whopping .0027%!
5. “The White House says the president is unaware of the tea parties.” — ABC News, 4/15
6. “Mr. Obama is an accomplished orator but is becoming known in America as the ‘teleprompt president’ over his reliance on the machine when he gives a speech.” — Sky News, 3/18
7. In early February, the 2010 census was moved out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House, politicizing how federal aid is distributed and electoral districts are drawn.
8. Obama taps Nancy Killefer for a new administration job, First Chief Performance Officer — to police government spending. But it surfaces that Killefer had performance issues of her own — a tax lien was slapped on her DC home in 2005 for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help. She withdrew.
9. Turkey tried to block the appointment of Anders Fogh Rasmussen as new NATO secretary general because he didn’t properly punish the Danish cartoonist who caricatured Mohammed. France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany’s Angela Merkel were outraged; Obama said he supported Turkey’s induction into the European Union.
10. . . . and he never mentioned the Armenian genocide.
If you’re strong enough to handle it, click here to see the rest of the list.
Source: New York Post
Dueling Headlines
One in Three Children Fear Earth Apocalypse
Source: treehugger.com
Earth-Sized Planet Discovered By Scientists
Source: HuffingtonPost.com
Take your choice of punch lines: That other one must be the planet liberals live on. (rimshot) Just in time for the children to migrate. (rimshot) Let’s hope it has more intelligent life forms than this one does. (rimshot)
Energy Secretary Steven Chu babbles when Congressman asks him where oil comes from
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this guy is in charge of America’s energy future.
Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) asked the energy expert where oil comes from and Steven Chu begins babbling about continental plates drifting around and geology and scientific stuff like that. But he finally bit on Barton’s bait and said, in effect, “Yes, the oil drifted up there.”
Kind of like this administration is drifting. Only slower.
Extra! Extra! Time Magazine sets a new record for presidential butt kissing, puts Obama on cover for 13th time in a year.
Time magazine’s report on Obama’s First 100 Days begins with a swoon: “Obama’s start has been the most impressive of any President since F.D.R.” At that point we fell asleep faster than Obama’s economic advisor Lawrence Summers.
Does anybody really read Time anymore? Of course not. That was a rhetorical question. Their “news” is always a week old. People must look at it for the exciting pictures, like the behind-the-scenes photo essay consisting of 77 dynamic shots of The One contemplating paintings, moving a chair, and a dandy close-up of his healthy snack consisting of cheese, crackers and a pear. (Yawn.)
Sorry. Dozed off at the keyboard. If you manage to get through the story, let us know if there was anything “newsworthy.”
Any guesses as to who will be Time’s next Man of the Year? For the next four years. Maybe eight.
Source: Time Magazine, TMZ.com
Kenya’s Muslims and Christians battling for the soul of Barack Obama’s grandmother
Oh, my! We have a battle going in Kenya. Muslims claim Christians are trying to convert Sarah Obama, who just happens to be the president’s grannie.
Mrs Obama, who’s been basking in her grandson’s aura since he became the most powerful man in the world, was recently stopped from going to a Seventh Day Adventist Church by local Muslims who feared she might convert to Christianity.
Not to worry, say the Seventh Day Adventists. They say she had merely been invited to attend one of their events.
“We had invited her to grace our meeting in Kisumu which was to mark the end of a three-week convention, but although she had prepared, she did not attend,” said Lewis Ondiek, a senior church figure.
Hey, Reverend Wright. Get your butt on a plane bound for Kenya. You may have lost one Obama, but it looks like there’s another one ripe for conversion.
Source: Ecumenical News International via Telegraph UK
Susan Boyle, Britain’s virgin singing sensation, offered $1,000,000 to make porn flick
If you thought Simon Cowell looked stunned when he heard Susan Boyle sing on “Britain’s Got Talent,” imagine the look on his face when he sees her in a porn flick.
Los Angeles-based Kick Ass Films has offered the singing British spinster one million smackers to star in a porn flick.
Unfortunately, the deal calls for the homely virgin with the fabulous voice to sacrifice her virginity on camera. Boyle, a self-confessed virgin, says she’s never kissed a man, much less bedded one.
“We want to get this movie shot and out while Susan has the world’s attention,” said Kick Ass honcho Mark Kulkis. “Besides, after 47 years of virginity, I’m sure Susan is also anxious to get something cracking as soon as possible.”
If Boyle accepts the offer, Kulkis says Kick Ass will fly her to Hollywood on Virgin Airlines.
A YouTube.com clip of Boyle singing on Cowell’s British TV show, “Britain’s Got Talent” has been viewed more than 100 million times around the world.
We just hope that the woman with the voice of an angel isn’t seduced by the man with the soul of the devil.
Source: New York Daily News
The funniest music video ever made, especially if you’re a Beatles fan
This is called “Penny Lane: The Literal Video Version.” It’s a brilliant parody of the pretentious music videos that made MTV famous.
Enjoy it.
Source: Tim Blair/Sydney Daily Telegraph
If government officials are prosecuted for approving torture, let’s include Congress
So much for “looking forward”.
Well, if government officials are to be prosecuted for approving “torture,” shouldn’t we include Congress? After all, Congress was fully briefed and approved of the “enhanced” interrogation tactics used by the CIA. But then, that would mean Congress would have to investigate and prosecute itself. You know, kind of like Barney Frank fixing the financial mess he helped create.
The Wall Street Journal notes in its “Presidential Poison” editorial that Bush officials won’t (or shouldn’t) be the only ones on the hot seat if this goes forward: “Congress will face questions about what the Members knew and when, especially Nancy Pelosi when she was on the House Intelligence Committee in 2002.
The Speaker now says she remembers hearing about waterboarding, though not that it would actually be used. Porter Goss, her GOP counterpart at the time, says he knew exactly what he was hearing and that, if anything, Ms. Pelosi worried the CIA wasn’t doing enough to stop another attack. By all means, put her under oath.
Here’s an idea that might help jog Pelosi’s memory as to what she actually heard and approved:
Waterboard ‘er.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Report: Fat people cause of global warming
We’re talking about big, beefy butterballs. Citizens of the Blimpish Empire. Chunky folks. Corpulence incorporated. The elephantine. Hefty hombres. The euphemistically-fleshy. The terminally obese. Lard bottoms. Fatties. Moby Dickheads. The rolypoly, pudgy, paunchy, porcine, portly, potbbellied and the pudgy. Al Gore.
This is irony at its finest.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
