The secret to a really good April fools joke is making it really believable. In this case Car & Driver offered up a story that is so believable that they had to apologize.
APRIL FOOLS? Obama Orders Chevrolet and Dodge Out Of NASCAR...
Sorry! - Car News
April 2009
Car and Driver has a proud tradition of April Fools’ Day jokes stretching back 30 years. We regret if this year’s went too far.
Actually, when Obama returns from his Cavalcade of Chat, where he is putting world leaders to sleep, he will drive Chevy and Dodge not only out of NASCAR, but out of business. He won't feel his work finished until only Toyota remains and all the drivers are illegal aliens.
UPDATE: I was reminded by email that I should be fair to Obama because each race field will be driven not by just illegal aliens, but also former Gitmo inmates and people totally unqualified to race. Each team will also have to conform to socio-economic, sexual orientation and racial guidelines, not to pointless and old fashioned ideas of skill and private ownership. To bring NASCAR up to speed, so to speak, it will be renamed the Fannie & Freddie Unity Car Klash.
I do stand corrected.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
News I Already Knew
FLASH: Obama's aunt can stay in USA another year...
G20 protests turn violent at bank in City of London...
Michael Moore on Firing of GM Head: 'I await the President's next superhero move'...
ANOTHER OBAMA NOMINEE FORCED TO PAY BACK TAXES...
WIRE: Dems punt hard choices on Obama budget...
Large Bonuses a Boon – In Congress...
UPDATE: Razor-thin NY House election goes to absentees...
G20 protests turn violent at bank in City of London...
Michael Moore on Firing of GM Head: 'I await the President's next superhero move'...
ANOTHER OBAMA NOMINEE FORCED TO PAY BACK TAXES...
WIRE: Dems punt hard choices on Obama budget...
Large Bonuses a Boon – In Congress...
UPDATE: Razor-thin NY House election goes to absentees...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
New York Port Authority Doesn't Like The Sound Of Freedom
8 years later there is still just a gaping hole where the World Trade Centers stood when almost 3,000 people were murdered by terrorist thugs.8 years later, our new administration doesn't like the word terrorists so they're just going to pretend it doesn't exist.
In light of the above, the following makes perfect sense.
We let the President of the United States of America hire and fire executives of corporations and it appears we will let Congress set salaries for employees, so why not let communists change the name of the Freedom Tower in NYC? Between Obama and Bloomberg I don't think there is much love for the word or the reality of freedom in America anyway.
Why don't they just go and dictate a bananna republic somewhere and leave the rest of us alone.
This Is Why Obama & His Bonus Babies Want To Regulate Crying
By focusing on the Clintonistas pain model, now that thse same Democrats that are screaming about executive bonuses protected huge bonuses that went to their friends at Freddie and Fannie, Democrats are directing people away from what really caused our economic problems. Liberal executives such as Franklin Raines who that year received a $1.1 million dollar bonus on top of his salary of $526,000 and the always estimable Jamie Gorelick, who has no experience in finance at all, received a $779,000 bonus on top of her $567,000 salary as Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae. She obviously was stealing her salary from the taxpayer.
This is the same Gorelick that took over disgraced Webster Hubbel's position of enforcer as Deputy Attorney General. This is the same Gorelick that made 9/11 possible by Gorelick's "wall of separation" that prohibited intelligence and criminal investigators from cooperating in their separate attempts to protect America. Gorelick has brought down planes, the World Trade Towers and now houses all over America.
This is the same Gorelick that BooHoo Obama wanted to appoint Attorney General of the United States of America.
Just as he was campaigned, Obama's handlers will use bait and switch to constantly keep the focus off the real problems, which would need real solutions to correct. By posing false symptoms as the problem, they can institute false solutions which are actually government wolves in sheep's clothing.
This is the same Gorelick that took over disgraced Webster Hubbel's position of enforcer as Deputy Attorney General. This is the same Gorelick that made 9/11 possible by Gorelick's "wall of separation" that prohibited intelligence and criminal investigators from cooperating in their separate attempts to protect America. Gorelick has brought down planes, the World Trade Towers and now houses all over America.
This is the same Gorelick that BooHoo Obama wanted to appoint Attorney General of the United States of America.
Just as he was campaigned, Obama's handlers will use bait and switch to constantly keep the focus off the real problems, which would need real solutions to correct. By posing false symptoms as the problem, they can institute false solutions which are actually government wolves in sheep's clothing.
BooHoo Obama Network Will Do A Better Job Than Dr. Phil
The Boo Hoo Obama Network will start handing out Kleenex soon and looks forward to diaper changing and holding correct-parenting classes soon.
GOVERNMENT WEBSITE TO WARN OF SADNESS/CRYING OVER ECONOMY
Head Nanny, Nancy Pelosi, will be offering green-tips for wiping baby's butt every Tuesday and Thursday in the former smoking lounge at the Capitol. Barney and Harry have already volunteered their time as diaper models.
GOVERNMENT WEBSITE TO WARN OF SADNESS/CRYING OVER ECONOMY
Head Nanny, Nancy Pelosi, will be offering green-tips for wiping baby's butt every Tuesday and Thursday in the former smoking lounge at the Capitol. Barney and Harry have already volunteered their time as diaper models.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Obama Brings In Ringers For The Hard Questions
Obama Town Hall Questioners Were Campaign Backers
But while the online question portion of the White House town hall was open to any member of the public with an Internet connection, the five fully identified questioners called on randomly by the president in the East Room were anything but a diverse lot. They included: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National Committee who campaigned for Obama among Hispanics during the primary; a former Democratic candidate for Virginia state delegate who endorsed Obama last fall in an op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star; and a Virginia businessman who was a donor to Obama's campaign in 2008.
...
President Obama has promised to change the way the government does business, but in at least one respect he is taking a page from the Bush playbook, stocking his town hall Thursday with supporters whose soft -- though far from planted -- questions provided openings to discuss his preferred message of the day.
The last paragraph above was actually the first in the story as printed. Shocking how the writer slips in phrases such as, "but in at least one respect he is taking a page from the Bush playbook", and "-- though far from planted --" to make the story slant just a certain way.
Even more shocking is this yellow journalism came from such a "respected" source such as The Washington Post. At least I'm shocked. Shocked that this rag is still wasting paper and ink.
But while the online question portion of the White House town hall was open to any member of the public with an Internet connection, the five fully identified questioners called on randomly by the president in the East Room were anything but a diverse lot. They included: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National Committee who campaigned for Obama among Hispanics during the primary; a former Democratic candidate for Virginia state delegate who endorsed Obama last fall in an op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star; and a Virginia businessman who was a donor to Obama's campaign in 2008.
...
President Obama has promised to change the way the government does business, but in at least one respect he is taking a page from the Bush playbook, stocking his town hall Thursday with supporters whose soft -- though far from planted -- questions provided openings to discuss his preferred message of the day.
The last paragraph above was actually the first in the story as printed. Shocking how the writer slips in phrases such as, "but in at least one respect he is taking a page from the Bush playbook", and "-- though far from planted --" to make the story slant just a certain way.
Even more shocking is this yellow journalism came from such a "respected" source such as The Washington Post. At least I'm shocked. Shocked that this rag is still wasting paper and ink.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Obama's World (Our World) Imploding, But Save The NCAA From Itself
Schwarzenegger Opens Up Fairgrounds to Residents of Tent City... but CA can give everybody...
States consider drug tests for welfare recipients... bout time
NKOREA LOADING ROCKET just chat with them
CLINTON WARNS Minnie Me is quaking in his Blow Fish skin boots
PENTAGON DEPLOYS ANTI-MISSILE WARSHIPS Obama the militarist
Roubini Says Stocks Will Drop, Government Will Nationalize More Banks... Obama the Socialist
SOROS: 'I'M HAVING A VERY GOOD CRISIS'... Soros the Socialist who preys on countries
Postal chief says post office running out of money... try email
NYC transit agency adopts fare hikes, service cuts... but NYC can give everybody...
PAPER: Rahm Emanuel's Short FREDDIE MAC stay made him $320,000+... teh insiders insider
PAPER: FOREIGN FAILURES, NEW PREZ FLUNKING GLOBAL TESTS... shoulda studied
EU leader condemns US 'road to hell'; Attack highlights growing rift... just chat with them
URGENT MATTERS: Senate reviewing how college football picks No. 1... R's found some impact
Obama's Spending Plan Faces First Voter Test in New York Race... Developing... rigged test
Back in Boston, Obama's aunt fighting deportation... call nephew, chat
Geithner to Propose Vast Expansion Of Government Oversight... Obama the Socialist
Power to Regulate Hedge Funds, Markets... Obama the Socialist
Task Force to Overhaul Tax Code; 'Rebalance'... Obama the Socialist
AIG employees detail numerous, vile, outrageous death threats... Obama has found the enemy
TENSION: China criticizes new US report on its military... Hillary sure can chat
OBAMA SHOW: Viewership declines for press conference... Obama the long winded bore
CLINTON: USA to blame for much of Mexico violence... Hillary sure can chat
States consider drug tests for welfare recipients... bout time
NKOREA LOADING ROCKET just chat with them
CLINTON WARNS Minnie Me is quaking in his Blow Fish skin boots
PENTAGON DEPLOYS ANTI-MISSILE WARSHIPS Obama the militarist
Roubini Says Stocks Will Drop, Government Will Nationalize More Banks... Obama the Socialist
SOROS: 'I'M HAVING A VERY GOOD CRISIS'... Soros the Socialist who preys on countries
Postal chief says post office running out of money... try email
NYC transit agency adopts fare hikes, service cuts... but NYC can give everybody...
PAPER: Rahm Emanuel's Short FREDDIE MAC stay made him $320,000+... teh insiders insider
PAPER: FOREIGN FAILURES, NEW PREZ FLUNKING GLOBAL TESTS... shoulda studied
EU leader condemns US 'road to hell'; Attack highlights growing rift... just chat with them
URGENT MATTERS: Senate reviewing how college football picks No. 1... R's found some impact
Obama's Spending Plan Faces First Voter Test in New York Race... Developing... rigged test
Back in Boston, Obama's aunt fighting deportation... call nephew, chat
Geithner to Propose Vast Expansion Of Government Oversight... Obama the Socialist
Power to Regulate Hedge Funds, Markets... Obama the Socialist
Task Force to Overhaul Tax Code; 'Rebalance'... Obama the Socialist
AIG employees detail numerous, vile, outrageous death threats... Obama has found the enemy
TENSION: China criticizes new US report on its military... Hillary sure can chat
OBAMA SHOW: Viewership declines for press conference... Obama the long winded bore
CLINTON: USA to blame for much of Mexico violence... Hillary sure can chat
NASCAR STIMULUS PACKAGE CREATES JOBS
From my email
JEFF GORDON FIRES HIS ENTIRE PIT CREW
NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon has announced he has taken advantage of the new Stimulus Package program to employ inner-city youth by firing his professional pit crew and replacing them with ex-gangbangers.
The decision to hire the boys was inspired by a recent documentary on how unemployed youth from street gangs were able to remove a set of wheels from a car in less than 6 seconds, even without proper equipment. Gordon's existing pit crew could only do it in 8 seconds, even with the benefit of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of high-tech machinery.
The scheme was hailed as an "excellent and bold move" by Gordon's management team, as most races are won or lost in the pits.
At the crew's first practice session, not only was the inexperienced crew able to change all 4 wheels in under 6 seconds, but within 12 seconds they had changed the paint scheme, altered the VIN and sold the car to Dale Earnhardt Jr. for 10 cases of Bud, and a bag of weed.
JEFF GORDON FIRES HIS ENTIRE PIT CREW
NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon has announced he has taken advantage of the new Stimulus Package program to employ inner-city youth by firing his professional pit crew and replacing them with ex-gangbangers.
The decision to hire the boys was inspired by a recent documentary on how unemployed youth from street gangs were able to remove a set of wheels from a car in less than 6 seconds, even without proper equipment. Gordon's existing pit crew could only do it in 8 seconds, even with the benefit of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of high-tech machinery.
The scheme was hailed as an "excellent and bold move" by Gordon's management team, as most races are won or lost in the pits.
At the crew's first practice session, not only was the inexperienced crew able to change all 4 wheels in under 6 seconds, but within 12 seconds they had changed the paint scheme, altered the VIN and sold the car to Dale Earnhardt Jr. for 10 cases of Bud, and a bag of weed.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Democrats Form Circular Firing Squad In Lieu Of Eating Each Other
Obama is getting push-back from within his own Democrat Party.
W.H. allies target moderate Dems
President Barack Obama’s liberal allies are turning up the heat on a band of moderate Democratic senators with a new ad urging them to support his budget.
Actually, I believe that is threatening them to support Obama's state control budget. Hey, what's a union for if not that?
Americans United for Change (AUC), the labor-backed organization that has produced a steady stream of pro-White House ads, is going up on the air Wednesday in 11 states and Washington, D.C. The goal is to push Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and members of a new group of centrist Democrats to get behind a spending blueprint that many of them have already criticized.
Democrats are going through growing pains since allowing more moderate democrats into their Party, actually they recruited them, to win elections. Now that those who made the Democrats the majority Party in Congress are trying to exert their beliefs on the Party as a whole, the leadership is now going to put them in their place with the help of "card check" backers helping them to see the light.
Hey, Blue Dogs, welcome to the back of Obama's liberal bus. Just be glad you haven't been thrown under it. Yet.
W.H. allies target moderate Dems
President Barack Obama’s liberal allies are turning up the heat on a band of moderate Democratic senators with a new ad urging them to support his budget.
Actually, I believe that is threatening them to support Obama's state control budget. Hey, what's a union for if not that?
Americans United for Change (AUC), the labor-backed organization that has produced a steady stream of pro-White House ads, is going up on the air Wednesday in 11 states and Washington, D.C. The goal is to push Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and members of a new group of centrist Democrats to get behind a spending blueprint that many of them have already criticized.
Democrats are going through growing pains since allowing more moderate democrats into their Party, actually they recruited them, to win elections. Now that those who made the Democrats the majority Party in Congress are trying to exert their beliefs on the Party as a whole, the leadership is now going to put them in their place with the help of "card check" backers helping them to see the light.
Hey, Blue Dogs, welcome to the back of Obama's liberal bus. Just be glad you haven't been thrown under it. Yet.
Obama's Left Wing Desperately Flapping Alone
The only real accomplishment of the Obama Administration so far is Axlerod's new teleprompter to deliver his words to Obama as our President Obama speaks to the country and the world.The country and the world are scared, confused and flailing in all directions. Just like Obama.
It is ironic that on this day in 1785 President Thomas Jefferson proposed a national coinage system to bring order to our currency and national economic system. Today we see an administration bringing its disorder to our very doorsteps in direct opposition to the policies of Jefferson who wrote his own speeches and delivered them in his own voice.
The embarrassing desperation of a president is never pretty. Obama's obvious cluelessness gives one that sickening feeling in the pit of their stomach as they realize that this train wreck will not end soon, but seemingly go on and on and on.
Any sampling of headlines from The Drudge Report on any given day portrays an administration stumbling in all directions with no ability to coordinate its movements nor manage a cognitive decision making process as if it is a slobbering bovine suffering from mad cow disease.
Today's sampling:
NEWSPAPER REVITALIZATION ACT: CONGRESS MOVES TO SAVE PRINT; OUTLAW POLITICAL ENDORSEMENTS...
White House to Hunt for New Tax Revenues...
REBATE OFF TABLE?
Defends tax plan on charitable giving...
Fed to Start Buying Treasuries in $300 Billion Plan to Cut Borrowing Costs...
Obama to meet with top bank CEOs...
Obama skips major papers: No NYT, WASHPOST, WSJ, USATODAY...
Dems in senate scrap...
Dodd's Wife a Former Director of AIG Controlled Company...
Rejects China's call for new global currency...
'Super Currency' Call Shows Dollar Concern...
This is day 65 of the Obama Administration and the damage it is doing America will be felt for decades and paid for by generations.
Its ineptness is a disgrace and we haven't even gotten to a discussion of border security, stopping global terrorism, furthering the family and keeping our Constitutional rights intact.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Obama's Economic Plan WORKING!
For Russia and China.
BEIJING TO PITCH NEW GLOBAL CURRENCY; DUMP DOLLAR...
FLASHBACK: Kremlin to Pitch New Currency...
Laughing Boy is having the time of his life. Controlling companies who wouldn't hire him on a bet and ridiculing Wall Street, capitalists and entrepreneurs.
We're not laughing. The joke is over even for those that voted for him. The Hell with the cover, this book can't be read period because it has never been written. It's just empty pages.
BEIJING TO PITCH NEW GLOBAL CURRENCY; DUMP DOLLAR...
FLASHBACK: Kremlin to Pitch New Currency...
Laughing Boy is having the time of his life. Controlling companies who wouldn't hire him on a bet and ridiculing Wall Street, capitalists and entrepreneurs.
We're not laughing. The joke is over even for those that voted for him. The Hell with the cover, this book can't be read period because it has never been written. It's just empty pages.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Coming For Your Job: Obama's Socialism
Don't you just hate that plumber that makes too much money, even as he cleans out your mess at 3:00 AM? How about that stupid clown that fixes your car because he was too dumb to go to college, but now has a nicer home than you? Well, now you can hate them for real and maybe get Congress and the President to satisfy your hatred by regulating their pay. It's outrageous that some doctor can charge so much for that emergency surgery, especially because the patient has a drinking and driving problem. And no insurance. Doctors make too much money.
Social engineering through economic punishment or how governments screw up economies by pandering to the public.
Administration seeks increase in oversight of executive pay
The new rules will cover all financial institutions, including those not now covered by any pay rules because they are not receiving U.S. government bailout money. Officials say the rules could also be applied more broadly to publicly traded companies, which already report about some executive pay practices to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Last month, as part of the stimulus package, Congress barred top executives at large banks getting rescue money from receiving bonuses exceeding one-third of their annual pay.
Beyond the pay rules, officials said the regulatory plan is expected to call for a broad new role for the Federal Reserve to oversee large companies, including major hedge funds, whose problems could pose risks to the entire financial system.
Obama, et al are using AIG and others to implement what they intended all along and now that some corporations can be blamed, it gives Obama cover for implementing government control. His Swedish Model. Socialism.
How else would one describe a form of government that doesn't just tell business what they can't do, but also what they must do and how they do it?
Social engineering through economic punishment or how governments screw up economies by pandering to the public.
Administration seeks increase in oversight of executive pay
The new rules will cover all financial institutions, including those not now covered by any pay rules because they are not receiving U.S. government bailout money. Officials say the rules could also be applied more broadly to publicly traded companies, which already report about some executive pay practices to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Last month, as part of the stimulus package, Congress barred top executives at large banks getting rescue money from receiving bonuses exceeding one-third of their annual pay.
Beyond the pay rules, officials said the regulatory plan is expected to call for a broad new role for the Federal Reserve to oversee large companies, including major hedge funds, whose problems could pose risks to the entire financial system.
Obama, et al are using AIG and others to implement what they intended all along and now that some corporations can be blamed, it gives Obama cover for implementing government control. His Swedish Model. Socialism.
How else would one describe a form of government that doesn't just tell business what they can't do, but also what they must do and how they do it?
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Bill of Attainder: Republican Hall of Shame
Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 of the Constitution. It's not good to pander. Otherwise just be a Democrat. It's bad business to go about your business badly.
Aderholt
Alexander
Barton (TX)
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Blunt
Bono Mack
Boozman
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Calvert
Camp
Cantor
Cao
Capito
Cassidy
Castle
Crenshaw
Davis (KY)
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Duncan
Ehlers
Emerson
Fleming
Fortenberry
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gerlach
Goodlatte
Guthrie
Heller
Herger
Hoekstra
Johnson (IL)
Jones
Kirk
Lance
Latham
Lewis (CA)
LoBiondo
Manzullo
McCaul
McClintock
McHugh
McMorris Rodgers
Mica
Miller (MI)
Moran (KS)
Petri
Platts
Putnam
Rehberg
Reichert
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Roskam
Ros-Lehtinen
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Schmidt
Schock
Shimkus
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Stearns
Tiberi
Turner
Upton
Walden
Wamp
Whitfield
Wittman
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Aderholt
Alexander
Barton (TX)
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Blunt
Bono Mack
Boozman
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Calvert
Camp
Cantor
Cao
Capito
Cassidy
Castle
Crenshaw
Davis (KY)
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Duncan
Ehlers
Emerson
Fleming
Fortenberry
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gerlach
Goodlatte
Guthrie
Heller
Herger
Hoekstra
Johnson (IL)
Jones
Kirk
Lance
Latham
Lewis (CA)
LoBiondo
Manzullo
McCaul
McClintock
McHugh
McMorris Rodgers
Mica
Miller (MI)
Moran (KS)
Petri
Platts
Putnam
Rehberg
Reichert
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Roskam
Ros-Lehtinen
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Schmidt
Schock
Shimkus
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Stearns
Tiberi
Turner
Upton
Walden
Wamp
Whitfield
Wittman
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Congress Will Control Everything We Do If We Let Them
FDR started all this crap and now the giddy power hungry morons in charge of Congress want to take federal power even farther.
via Instapundit
Will Congress kill farmers' markets?
What this will do is force anyone who produces food of any kind, and then transports it to a different location for sale, to register with a new federal agency called the "Food Safety Administration." Hmmmmm? (Via a TennZen tweet)
Interesting. A co-sponsor's husband has Monsanto as a client.
UPDATE: Govtrack.us. And here's the Library of Congress' Thomas. And here's the Cato Institute's WashingtonWatch.
UPDATE II: The bill would appear to even cover some fishing boats and potentially your downtown hot dog street vendors. More here.
Question; Won't this also tick off the "organic" base of the Democrat Party?
I see a new bumper sticker:
via Instapundit
Will Congress kill farmers' markets?
What this will do is force anyone who produces food of any kind, and then transports it to a different location for sale, to register with a new federal agency called the "Food Safety Administration." Hmmmmm? (Via a TennZen tweet)
Interesting. A co-sponsor's husband has Monsanto as a client.
UPDATE: Govtrack.us. And here's the Library of Congress' Thomas. And here's the Cato Institute's WashingtonWatch.
UPDATE II: The bill would appear to even cover some fishing boats and potentially your downtown hot dog street vendors. More here.
Question; Won't this also tick off the "organic" base of the Democrat Party?
I see a new bumper sticker:
Russia Displays New Respect For New Administration
KREMLIN TO PITCH NEW GLOBAL CURRENCY...
Russia confirms Iran missile contract...
...Signals Harder Line on Relations With USA
Those chats Obama told us Bush never had, but he would, seem to be really paying off. Not as well as the payoff AIG made to Obama's campaign, but paying off none the less.
International Respect in the morning. It smells like victory!
This administration was a 10 at 2 and in the clear light of morning is a 2 at 10.
Russia confirms Iran missile contract...
...Signals Harder Line on Relations With USA
Those chats Obama told us Bush never had, but he would, seem to be really paying off. Not as well as the payoff AIG made to Obama's campaign, but paying off none the less.
International Respect in the morning. It smells like victory!
This administration was a 10 at 2 and in the clear light of morning is a 2 at 10.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Now We Know Where Libs Get Their Daily Talking Points
Ever wondered how media members, leftist organizations and liberal bloggers all seem to be able to start writing and talking about the same subject as if they have been briefed?
Well, they have been briefed. Just cut and paste. Cut and paste
JournoList: Inside the echo chamber
For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList.
Proof of a vast liberal media conspiracy?
Not at all, says Ezra Klein, the 24-year-old American Prospect blogging wunderkind who formed JournoList in February 2007. “Basically,” he says, “it’s just a list where journalists and policy wonks can discuss issues freely.”
But some of the journalists who participate in the online discussion say — off the record, of course — that it has been a great help in their work. On the record, The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin acknowledged that a Talk of the Town piece — he won’t say which one — got its start in part via a conversation on JournoList. And JLister Eric Alterman, The Nation writer and CUNY professor, said he’s seen discussions that start on the list seep into the world beyond.
Cutting and pasting sure saves time, especially if one doesn't have to even think about what to produce each day.
Presto! Here's today's talking points kids. Stay on message...
Well, they have been briefed. Just cut and paste. Cut and paste
JournoList: Inside the echo chamber
For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList.
Proof of a vast liberal media conspiracy?
Not at all, says Ezra Klein, the 24-year-old American Prospect blogging wunderkind who formed JournoList in February 2007. “Basically,” he says, “it’s just a list where journalists and policy wonks can discuss issues freely.”
But some of the journalists who participate in the online discussion say — off the record, of course — that it has been a great help in their work. On the record, The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin acknowledged that a Talk of the Town piece — he won’t say which one — got its start in part via a conversation on JournoList. And JLister Eric Alterman, The Nation writer and CUNY professor, said he’s seen discussions that start on the list seep into the world beyond.
Cutting and pasting sure saves time, especially if one doesn't have to even think about what to produce each day.
Presto! Here's today's talking points kids. Stay on message...
Zack Space Drunk Driver Medalist
Zack Space doesn't really have to come up with his own caustic lines when he can steal and then twist statements from PJ O'Rourke;
"Giving money and power to Congress is like giving whisky & car keys to teenagers."
As the cliche goes, if you put Congress in charge of deserts, there'd be a sand shortage in no time.
Zack, never one to lose a chance to pander, now has evolved from a "consumer protection" lawyer into a businessman extraordinaire. AIG is contractually obligated to pay the bonuses, but Zack the businessman says they are exhibiting "irresponsible behavior" if they follow the law. Maybe Zack is trying to drum up some business to help the aggrieved recipients if the bonuses are not paid or maybe he is just following the de jour memo from Pelosi to keep beating on business and raising taxes more and more.
SPACE CALLS FOR 100% TAX ON AIG BONUSES
03/17/09- Taxpayers Would Recoup “Reward” for Irresponsible Behavior -
Responding to calls for action from outraged constituents, Congressman Zack Space (OH-18) today called for a 100% tax on bonuses awarded by AIG to their top employees. Despite taking $170 billion in taxpayer-funded bailout, AIG is unbelievably awarding their executives $165 million in bonus compensation.
“Giving these executives bonuses for their performance with AIG is like giving a drunk driver a medal,” Space said. “Instead of handing these reckless executives checks for millions in bonuses, they should be handed pink slips.”
“If AIG can’t figure out a way to stop these payments, we will just have to take that money back,” Space continued.
The AIG Taxpayer Protection Act, which Space has cosponsored, would require AIG to pay 100% of the value of the bonuses awarded back to the taxpayers. This bill is set to be introduced today.
Congressman Space is also an original cosponsor of the Cap Executive Officer Pay Act of 2009, a bill that will limit the amount of salary, bonuses, and stock options for executives of companies receiving federal rescue assistance to prevent this from happening in the future.
Congressman Space has represented Ohio's 18th Congressional District since 2007. He is working to restore integrity to the office, create the conditions to bring new industry and jobs to Ohio, and support renewable energy.
Maybe Congress needs to tax these people at 100% to make up for all the Obama nominees who didn't pay their taxes. Of course, Zack's dream is to tax every business 100%. That'll teach the money grubbing business owner a thing or two. Of course it would put the federal government further in debt, but they'll just print more bogus money. That's how they do business.
The Axis Of Idiots
In my email an article that should be reread many times and passed on to other people.
'THE Axis of Idiots'
Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement.You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home,and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when theytook our embassy and our people hostage. You're the runner-in-chief.
Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the U.S.S. Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.
John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam . Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You've accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq . You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam . You're a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the Vietnamese. Iraq , like Vietnam , is another war that you were for, before you were against it.
John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq . You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa . Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You're not a Marine, sir. You wouldn't amount to a good pimple on a real Marine's butt. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John.
Dick Durbin, you accused our soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a goodteacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run.
Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster-sized pictures from Abu Ghraib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraqi's torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news, Teddy? The IslamicNazis demonstrated another beheading for you. If you truly supported our troops, you'd show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to acommunist victory there......
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, DianeFeinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras andbroadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we'll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer. It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours after they have gained both strength and momentum.
American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.
You are America 's 'AXIS OF IDIOTS.' Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don'tever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam . If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.
Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends withself. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.
No, Mr. President, you don't get off the hook, either. Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force. It's your obligation to support them by confronting the AXIS OF IDIOTS.
America must hear it from you that these self-centered people are harming our country, abetting the enemy and endangering our safety. Well up a little anger, please, and channel it toward the appropriate target. You must prosecute those who leak national security secrets to the media. You must prosecute those e in the media who knowingly publish those secrets.
Our Soldiers need you to confront the enemy that they cannot.They need you to do it now.
'THE Axis of Idiots'
Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement.You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home,and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when theytook our embassy and our people hostage. You're the runner-in-chief.
Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the U.S.S. Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.
John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam . Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You've accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq . You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam . You're a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the Vietnamese. Iraq , like Vietnam , is another war that you were for, before you were against it.
John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq . You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa . Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You're not a Marine, sir. You wouldn't amount to a good pimple on a real Marine's butt. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John.
Dick Durbin, you accused our soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a goodteacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run.
Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster-sized pictures from Abu Ghraib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraqi's torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news, Teddy? The IslamicNazis demonstrated another beheading for you. If you truly supported our troops, you'd show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to acommunist victory there......
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, DianeFeinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras andbroadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we'll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer. It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours after they have gained both strength and momentum.
American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.
You are America 's 'AXIS OF IDIOTS.' Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don'tever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam . If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.
Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends withself. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.
No, Mr. President, you don't get off the hook, either. Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force. It's your obligation to support them by confronting the AXIS OF IDIOTS.
America must hear it from you that these self-centered people are harming our country, abetting the enemy and endangering our safety. Well up a little anger, please, and channel it toward the appropriate target. You must prosecute those who leak national security secrets to the media. You must prosecute those e in the media who knowingly publish those secrets.
Our Soldiers need you to confront the enemy that they cannot.They need you to do it now.
Obama & Friends Have Found How To Screw Our Military
UPDATE: This Ain't Hell has more on this travesty. Will America stand by as Obama and his liberal/progressive/socialist friends in and out of the administration treat soldiers as second class? This is so outrageous I really can't believe these morons are actually proposing it.
They should be totally ashamed. Where the hell is the Republican Party? This issue should be the prime example of what is wrong with the administration and liberals in the Congress, the administration and the bureaucracy. That they would even propose such a piece of back stabbing trash shows they should be put back on the streets looking for real work.
President won’t budge on veteran insurance proposal
OriginalPost:
I got this from Jenkins Hill, a new blog, who has found how the Administration plans to screw our military thus our national security. As he says, "How simply diabolical."
Nationalize the Banks, But Privatize the Military
In the world of the Obama Administration the world is viewed as not as it should be thus the world will have to change for the Administration. This seems to be written in jello just above the door entering the Oval Office.
The American Legion Strongly Opposed to President's Plan to Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment
The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.
Great idea Obama. Once you've made the military a mess you'll then have to come in to save it as only you know how to do.
Obama, change you can't live with.
They should be totally ashamed. Where the hell is the Republican Party? This issue should be the prime example of what is wrong with the administration and liberals in the Congress, the administration and the bureaucracy. That they would even propose such a piece of back stabbing trash shows they should be put back on the streets looking for real work.
President won’t budge on veteran insurance proposal
OriginalPost:
I got this from Jenkins Hill, a new blog, who has found how the Administration plans to screw our military thus our national security. As he says, "How simply diabolical."
Nationalize the Banks, But Privatize the Military
In the world of the Obama Administration the world is viewed as not as it should be thus the world will have to change for the Administration. This seems to be written in jello just above the door entering the Oval Office.
The American Legion Strongly Opposed to President's Plan to Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment
The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.
Great idea Obama. Once you've made the military a mess you'll then have to come in to save it as only you know how to do.
Obama, change you can't live with.
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