For the record, I never joined AARP. My mother did, but if she were still alive, she would prolly opt out now. She only joined it for the discounts.
Sent to me by many readers.
From CharlieB.
Joe and Frank were in the office, and noticed that someone had put up a suggestion box with some 3 x 5 cards next to it. Both decided that this was a great idea, and each took a card to fill out.
Joe wrote: "The office workers should all be given raises!"
When he looked at Frank's card, it said: "Can we all have raises, and keys to the executive washroom, and personal secretaries, and new company cars, and new coffee cups, and longer lunch breaks, and an extra three weeks vacation each year, and a holiday on St. Patrick's Day, and Columbus Day and Martin Luther King's Birthday?"
Joe said, "Frank, that isn't the right way of getting things changed around here.
You shouldn't put all of your begs in one ask-it."
I'll bet Ted Nugent doesn't miss Ted Kennedy.
A real old one here. Originally a Polish joke.
A woman wants the inside of her house painted and she calls a contractor in to help her. They wander around the house, and she points out the colors she wants. She says, "Now, in the living room, I'd like to have a neutral beige, very soft and warm."
The contractor nods, pulls out his pad of paper and writes on it. Then he goes to the window, leans out and yells, "Green side up!"
The woman is most perplexed but she lets it slide. They wander into the next room. She says, "In the dining room I'd like a light white, not stark, but very bright and airy."
The contractor nods, pulls out his pad of paper and writes on it. Then he goes to the window, leans out, and yells "Green side up"! The woman is even more perplexed but still lets it slide.
They wander further into the next room. She says, "In the bedroom, I'd like blue. Restful, peaceful, cool blue."
The contractor nods, pulls out his pad of paper and writes on it. Then once more he goes to the window, leans out and yells "Green side up"!
This is too much. The woman has to ask. So she says, "Every time I tell you a color, you write it down, but then you yell out the window 'Green side up.' What on earth does that mean?"
The contractor shakes his head and says, "I have four blondes laying sod across the street."
I know that a lot of you want me to give the award posthumously to Ted Kennedy. Had he not died, I would have. I was gonna give it to him for wanting to change the law on how to fill out a Senate seat so there would not be a special election when back in 2004 he had the law changed to require a special election. Back then, he thought that if Flipper won, Mitt Romney would get to appoint a Republican. Now, he wanted the current governor to appoint his replacement, prolly a Kennedy.
Anyway, I don't give the award posthumously.
Speaker Blinky was a possibility for trying to politicize his death and saying we should pass Obamacare for Ted. She just won it recently so she doesn't get it this week. I like to spread the wealth.
Nope. I'm giving it to ABC and NBC who have dropped all pretense of impartiality by opposing Obamacare or using Speaker Blinky's new name for it, Kennedycide.
"The ABC Television Network has a long-standing policy that we do not sell time for advertising that presents a partisan position on a controversial public issue," spokeswoman Susan Sewell said in a written statement. "Just to be clear, this is a policy for the entire network, not just ABC News."
This from a network that aired an infomercial on Kennedycide.
NBC, meanwhile, said it has not turned down the ad and will reconsider it with some revisions."We have not rejected the ad," spokeswoman Liz Fischer told FOXNews.com. "We have communicated with the media agency about some factual claims that require additional substantiation. As always, we are happy to reconsider the ad once these issues are addressed."
Yannow, I can remember when the LSM at least pretended to be nonpartisan. So to ABC and NBC which has proven that they are indeed the propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party here is your latest award.
Doesn't happen very often, but Bou's pissed off again.
Did any of you participate in the Cash For Clunkers program? Guess what? BOHICA! The $4500 is taxable. Yep! Bend over and crack a smile because the gummint done screwed you again.
But many of those cashing in on the clunkers program are surprised when they get to the treasurer's office windows. That's because the government's rebate of up to $4500 dollars for every clunker is taxable."They didn't realize that would be taxable. A lot of people don't realize that. So they're not happy and kind of surprised when they find that out," Nelson said.
Why should they be? It's the gummint. You don't get sumpin' fer nuttin' unless you are a welfare recipient.
So here's the deal. You get $4500 for your "clunker" and that's subtracted from the purchase price of your new car. You get charged sales tax on the full purchase price so you're paying sales tax on the $4500. Then, many states are gonna charge income tax on that $4500.
How are y'all liking this program now?
Look out for Wellstone Redux. Remember when Paul Wellstone died and the Dims turned his memorial service into a rocking political event? Yeah. Me too.
Now we have the death of the Floater and the Dims are saying that we should pass gummint run health care as a memorial to the Fat Philanderer. I mean, it's the least we can do as a memorial to his years of service in the Senate. That would be the culmination of his legacy of "public service".
So let me get this straight. Because an alcoholic, philandering, cheating, murdering, treasonous, rape abetting, bloviating blowhard died we are supposed to destroy the best health care system in the world, while at the same time bankrupting the federal gummint.
Makes perfect sense to me. Here is what I think the Kennedy Memorial should look like.
From Dick.
This reminds me of the Chief Petty Officer who, after chewing out one of his underlings, said, "I bet when I die, you'll want to piss on my grave."
Said underling replied, "No Chief. I vowed that when I got out of the Navy I would never stand in line again."
Ted Kennedy wrote another book just before he died. This will be published posthumously.
From Neil.
Yes, I hated the lying, philandering, alcoholic, murdering, bloviating blowhard. Why do you ask>
Woody sent me this.
Yannow, the Dims are supposed to be the party of the common man, but it seems the last two Dim presidents, BJ and Jug Hussein Ears, like to hobnob with the wealthy folks on Martha's Vineyard.
Reagan went to his ranch. Bush 41 went to his home in Maine. Bush 43 went to his ranch.
The Floater just died. I didn't wish that on him but I'm not shedding any tears at his passing. Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.
Lion of the Senate? Puh-lease! Howza 'bout the whale of Chappaquiddick?
Check out this new widget I installed. Simply highlight a piece of text and watch what happens. For example, highlight Social Security and watch what comes up. The neat thing is when you select an option from the widget it opens a new window or tab so you are able to stay on my page while you navigate to another. Kewl!
And if you add Smarter Fox it will enhance Wikipedia, among other neat features.
Normally I give Ron Monday for one of his rants. This time it's Tuesday where he elaborates on what I posted earlier today.
As I heard from an old friend yesterday, let's see if we can figure this HopeyChangey Chicago-style Kenyan administration out.
Here's the way it looks so far . . . what "The-One-We've-All-Been-Waiting-For" wants to do is tinker with a health-care system that 85% of the people are already satisfied with so that 10 million people who don’t even want to be part of a health-care system will be covered, along with 12 million or so illegal aliens and a few million others who either aren’t eligible or interested . . . right?
He wants us to have a health-care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, and he wants Congress to pass it even though almost no members of that body have read it and they’re exempt from it anyway . . . that correct so far?
And at the bottom line, after Congress, who will never have read it, passes it and sends it up to the Alien-in-Chief, we’re supposed to live with it because it’s signed by an imposter who smokes cigarettes and hasn’t read the thing either, and it will be funded by a treasury secretary who didn’t pay his taxes, with money from a country that’s so far in debt that it’ll never get out, and it will be overseen by a surgeon general who doesn’t meet the body-mass-index guidelines for good health.
Hell, what on earth could possibly go wrong with a sweet deal like that? Well, let's look at some facts 'n' figgers:U.S. Postal Service -- established 1775 - 234 years to get it right but it's broke, heavily subsidized, and can't compete with private sector FedEx and UPS.
Social Security -- established 1935 - 74 years to get it right; it's broke.
Fannie Mae -- established 1938 - 71 years to get it right; it's broke.
Freddie Mac -- established 1970 - 39 years to get it right; it's broke. Together Fannie and Freddie pulled the entire world into the worst economic collapse in 80 years.
The War on Poverty -- started in 1964 - 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our tax money is confiscated annually for redistribution to "the poor"; it hasn't worked.
Medicare and Medicaid -- established 1965 - 44 years to get it right; both broke; and now the government presents them as models for all US health care.
AMTRAK -- established 1970 - 39 years to get it right; despite bailouts it continues to run at a loss!
The Stimulus Bill of 2009: A trillion dollars committed in this massive political show. It shows NO sign of success except to increase the size of governments across America. It has yet to create a single new private sector job. Our national debt projections (approaching $10 trillion) have increased 400% in the last six months.
"Cash for Clunkers" -- established in 2009 and went broke in a matter of weeks. Most (80%) of the cars purchased were produced by foreign companies, and dealers nationwide are buried under bureaucratic paperwork demanded by a government that is not yet paying them what was promised.
War on Drugs -- well, let's just say it's not working despite billions of dollars wasted and thousands of lives ruined.
So now a rookie who may not even be qualified for the job of President wants us to buy into a system representing nearly one-fifth of our entire economy which would be designed, managed, and funded by a government which can't even turn a profit on a Nevada whorehouse?
Uhhmmmmm . . . let's think about this, guys. I mean, how is it any different from the one Slick and Shrill tried to foist off on us back in the 90s? Only thing I can see is that it'll cost more. And nobody's even read the thing?
I remember my grandfather saying to me one time on a cold winter morning when the furnace was acting up and the coal bin was nearly empty: "Boy, when you hear a man say, 'Tell ya what I'm gonna do for you, son,' don't let him do it TO you."
Fromn Rev Right who got it from here.
I got this from Glen.
Let me get this straight.Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it,
passed by a Congress that hasn't read it and whose members will be exempt from it,
signed by a president who smokes, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes,
overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is broke.
What could possibly go wrong?
Indeed.
Sorry geezers. No Social Security COLA this year.
WASHINGTON -- Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise.
While you're digesting that little piece of news, realize that our "public servants" in Congress will be giving themselves a pay raise just like they do every year. Also, they will not participate in their proposed health care system that they are desigining for us peons.
The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting there won't be a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the next two years. That hasn't happened since automatic increases were adopted in 1975.
Hey geezers! Why dontcha just die? You're bankrupting Medicare and Social Security so it's un-American for you to keep on living.
By law, Social Security benefits cannot go down. Nevertheless, monthly payments would drop for millions of people in the Medicare prescription drug program because the premiums, which often are deducted from Social Security payments, are scheduled to go up slightly.
So you geezers will actually take a Social Security cut. Just think of it as your patriotic duty. Hope and change and all of that bullshit.
"I will promise you, they count on that COLA," said Barbara Kennelly, a former Democratic congresswoman from Connecticut who now heads the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. "To some people, it might not be a big deal. But to seniors, especially with their health care costs, it is a big deal."
And geezers vote. They vote more than any other demographic in the country. When they see their smaller checks next year they're gonna be pissed. I'm a geezer and I'm gonna be pissed as well because with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts next year, I'm gonna see my taxes go up as will other geezers who have done well financially.
Advocates say older people still face higher prices because they spend a disproportionate amount of their income on health care, where costs rise faster than inflation. Many also have suffered from declining home values and shrinking stock portfolios just as they are relying on those assets for income.
Too bad geezers. Maybe you should have voted for the old guy. How's that hope and change working out for you?
From Dick.
And if you believe Jug Hussein Ears and the Dimocrats aren't gonna raise your taxes to create their socialist utopia, you're either on welfare or you're smoking some really good shit.
Hey! It's FOD! Dick sent me this video which he got from here.
Mike sent me this.
WASHINGTON - The stimulus package is living up to its provocative name by funding a bacchanalia of behavioral sex research, a Post analysis reveals.
Hmmmm. I wonder if that research is shovel ready?
The next fiscal year is set to be one of the friskiest ever in the nation's science labs, as researchers probe the ins and outs of sex patterns among humans and even some of our four-legged friends.
I don't think that is the kind of stimulus we were looking for in the porkulus bill.
Among the most titillating grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health are studies that would:* Examine "barriers to correct condom use" at Indiana University, at a cost of $221,000.
* Study "hookups" among adolescents at Syracuse University. Study's cost: $219,000.
* Evaluate "drug use as a sex enhancer" in an analysis of "high-risk community sex networks" at the University of Illinois, Chicago. That study will cost $123,000.
* Study how methamphetamine, thought to produce an "insatiable need" for sex among users, "enhances the motivation for female rat sexual behavior." Some $28,000 has been awarded for the University of Maryland at Baltimore study.
Our tax dollars at work. Who controls Congress and the presidency?
It's not really a pun, but I love Pearls Before Swine so I'm posting it today.
For those of you who haven't seen this yet.
Sent to me by many readers.
Holy crap! It's an all girl Led Zeppelin cover band.
So what lemons does she have that she's talking about having squeezed? I notice that the lead guitarist is playing a Gibson Les Paul just like Jimmy Page. She also has a nice rack.
From Thomas.
A lawyer boarded an airplane in New Orleans with a box of frozen crabs and asked a blonde stewardess to take care of them for him.
She accepted the box and promised to put it in the crew's refrigerator. He advised her that he was holding her personally responsible for them staying frozen, mentioning in a very haughty manner that he was a lawyer, and proceeded to threaten her with what would happen if she let them thaw out. Needless to say, she was annoyed by his behavior.
Shortly before landing in New York, she used the intercom to announce to the entire cabin, "Would the gentleman who gave me the crabs in New Orleans, please raise your hand?"
Not one hand went up... so she took them home and ate them.
Two lessons here:
1. Lawyers aren't as smart as they think they are.
2. Blondes aren't always as dumb as most folks think
Bawney Fwank. He asked some dumb bitch (who wasn't a Republican, by the way) at a town hall meeting what planet she was from. This isn't my joke, but I'm gonna use it. We all know what Bawney's favorite planet is. Just think about it. It will come to you.
Here's your award you MFCS!
Find out if Sarah Palin would bang you at LiquidGeneration.com!
Thanks to Darrell.
From Neil.
Yeah, you rubes. Don't think about health care. Jug Hussein Ears, Speaker Blinky, and Harry know what's right for us. How dare we disrupt town hall meetings and exercise our First Amendment rights.
Well America, here is our future If JHE and the Dims get their way. Thanks to PeggyU for the link.
VANCOUVER — Vancouver patients needing neurosurgery, treatment for vascular diseases and other medically necessary procedures can expect to wait longer for care, NDP health critic Adrian Dix said Monday.Dix said a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority document shows it is considering chopping more than 6,000 surgeries in an effort to make up for a dramatic budgetary shortfall that could reach $200 million.
So let me get this straight. Medicare and Medicaid are broke. So the Dims solution is to expand them to cover everybody. Make no mistake. They might not get it this time, but they will keep trying until they do. That is their endgame. When that happens, we'll see stories like this in our country. Then again, maybe we won't. At least not on the LSM.
Why would you want the same people responsible for the sub-prime mess to design a health care system?
“This hasn’t been announced by the health authority … but these cuts are coming,” Dix said, citing figures gleaned from a leaked executive summary of “proposed VCH surgical reductions.”The health authority confirmed the document is genuine, but said it represents ideas only.
“It is a planning document. It has not been approved or implemented,” said spokeswoman Anna Marie D’Angelo.
Don't worry. We're the gummint. You can trust us. We're not gonna fuck you over. This is just a planning document that you rubes were not supposed to see. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Dr. Brian Brodie, president of the BC Medical Association, called the proposed surgical cuts “a nightmare.”“Why would you begin your cost-cutting measures on medically necessary surgery? I just can’t think of a worse place,” Brodie said.
Dr. Brodie, you don't understand how gummint works do you? Politicians always cut important stuff so they can get our attention. That justifies the tax increases that are coming down the pike.
According to the leaked document, Vancouver Coastal — which oversees the budget for Vancouver General and St. Paul’s hospitals, among other health-care facilities — is looking to close nearly a quarter of its operating rooms starting in September and to cut 6,250 surgeries, including 24 per cent of cases scheduled from September to March and 10 per cent of all medically necessary elective procedures this fiscal year.The plan proposes cutbacks to neurosurgery, ophthalmology, vascular surgery, and 11 other specialized areas.
Get ready Seattle. You're about to get an influx of people coming from Vancouver to get medical treatment. Sorry Canada. In a few more years we won't be able to help you out. We'll be cutting services and rationing health care in this county as well.
And we'll have done it to ourselves.
Update: Dick sent me this video that addresses this.
He says the same thing that I said. Medicare and Medicaid are all broke and the Dims want to fix them by expanding them to cover everyone.
Tonight I get to spoil myself once again and go taste some wines. In August, the Sommelier Guild of Atlanta usually has a Sauvignon Blanc tasting. This year, though, we are doing Northern California Whites. It will be held at Lola in Buckhead. Here be the wines and the menu.
First Flight
Selene Sauvignon Blanc “Hyde” 2003
Grgich Hills Sauvignon Blanc 2006
Duckhorn Sauvignon Blanc 2007
Seared diver scallop, celery root potato puree, fresh herbs
Second Flight
Handley Pinot Gris 2007
Trefethen Dry Riesling 2007
Handley Dry Gewurztraminer 2008
Salmon oreganatta with fresh housemade pasta
Third Flight
Jarvis Chardonnay 2006
Paul Hobbs Chardonnay 2007
Lewis Chardonnay 2007
Roasted bone-in chicken breast with late harvest vegetables and truffle jus
Dessert
Robert Mondavi Muscato de Oro 2006
Chef’s sampling of sweets
I was forwarding all my spam to flag@whitehous.gov. I guess they don't like me anymore because it's all bouncing back to me. Just damn!
MoK sent me this great video which is an excerpt of a speech made by Daniel Hannan in Washington DC.
For those of you who have never heard of this dude, he is a Brit who is a Member of the European Parliament from Southeast England. Just the Churchill joke makes this video worth viewing.
Another thing I noticed is that he doesn't look like he is watching a tennis match like our TOTUS does when he speaks reads.
Yannow, I love my two BMW's but I draw the line at having sex with them, at least not in public. Link from Toejam.
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - An Albuquerque man faces indecent exposure charges after police say children saw him simulating a sex act with his car in a grocery store parking lot.
I knew New Mexico was a little weird when I ordered some Nebbiolo wine in a restaurant in Las Cruces and was told that it was a sweet wine. Nebbiolo sweet? This is the grape that is used in the Piedmont area of Italy to make mighty Barolo and Barbaresco wines.
Danny Brawner, 46, was indicted on two counts of aggravated indecent exposure and one count of indecent exposure for the July 28 incident in the parking lot of the Smith's Food and Drug store on 101 Coors Blvd. NW, according to a news release from Bernalillo County District Attorney Kari Brandenburg's office.Witnesses told police they saw Brawner "humping" his car's trunk while swinging his arms in the air and shouting. His pants were around his ankles, witnesses said.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! No word in whether or not the car enjoyed it.
An officer said he found Brawner asleep next to his car. The officer woke him up and arrested him. The officer said Brawner appeared to be intoxicated.
Ya think?
Two children saw the alleged sex act, which is why Brawner faces the aggravated indecent exposure charges. They're fourth-degree felonies.If convicted on all counts, Brawner could be sentenced to serve up to four years in prison and attend mandatory counseling.
If convicted of the aggravated indecent exposure charge, under New Mexico law, Brawner would have to register as a sex offender.
Can you imagine having to explain your sex offender status by saying you boinked your car?
From longtime reader Ralph Gizzip.
Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment community. The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71. Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Captain Crunch. The grave site was piled high with flours. Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times, he still was a crusty old man but was considered a positive roll model for millions. Doughboy is survived by his wife, Play Dough, three children: John Dough, Jane Dough and Dosey Dough, plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly father, Pop Tart. The funeral was held at 350 for about 20 minutes.
Here's a guy playing a Gibson Les Paul.
And another guy. Yeah I've posted this before.
A giant died this week. Les Paul was 94 years old. Not only did he invent the electric guitar, but he also pioneered multi-track recording. Listen to any of the stuff he did with his wife, Mary Ford. He invented 8 track recording. Here he is with another giant.
A short and sweet one from Mark.
Did you hear about the two blondes who froze to death in a drive-in movie?
They had gone to see 'Closed for the Winter.'
So many candidates to choose from. We have Sheila Jackson-Lee who talked on a cellphone while one of her constituents was asking a question at a townhall meeting. Way to keep it classy Queen Sheila.
We have Princess Blinky calling dissenters at the townhall meetings Nazis and un-American. Wait a minute. I thought dissent was patriotic. When did that change?
I just gave Princess Blinky the coveted AOTW Award so this week I'm giving it to Harry Reid for calling Americans who oppose Obamacare as evil mongers.
Town hall protesters are "evil-mongers," says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)Reid coined the term in a speech to an energy conference in Las Vegas this week and repeated it in an interview with Politics Daily.
Such "evil-mongers" are using "lies, innuendo and rumor," to drown out rational debate, Reid said.
Oh kiss my crippled ass Harry. The only people using "lies, innuendo and rumor" are you anti-American rat bastard commies. You're also the only ones using violence by unleashing your union thugs on dissenters.
"It was an original with me," Reid said of the term. "I maybe could have been less descriptive," he said, adding that "I doubt you'll hear it from me again."
Wanna bet?
Nevertheless, Reid worked in the word one more time during the interview."I feel I haven't done anything to embarrass [my children]," Reid joked. "Except maybe call somebody an evil-monger."
Way to go asshole. Here's your award.
You've prolly all seen this video.
What does Sheila Jackson Lee say about this episode?
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee today scrambled to explain away a controversial cell phone conversation during a recent town hall meeting. She suggested that the video showing her talking on her phone, while being asked a question, might have been a fake.
Might have been a fake? She was either on the phone or she wasn't on the phone. Which was it?
“Maybe it’s a doctored video,” she told CNN’s Rick Sanchez today, referring to the YouTube clip of the town hall meeting. The video, which went viral after Jackson-Lee’s Tuesday town hall meeting, shows the congresswoman all but waving off constituents as she converses with someone on her cell phone.
A "doctored video"? She was either on the phone or she wasn't. Which was it? Ironic that she would use the term "doctored video" since this was a health care forum.
Sanchez tried to draw an apology out of Jackson-Lee today, growing frustrated at times and insisting that “you’re completely ignoring my question,” but she insisted that her conversation “was not disrespectful” and refused to apologize.
Of course not. The questioner was white so she was obviously a racist. Queen Sheila ain't gonna apologize to no racist honky bitch!
By the way, this was the person who, during one of the Mars Rover missions, visited NASA in Houston and asked if the Rover was anywhere near any of the flags the astronauts planted.
Fortunately for her, her constituents are even dumber than she is so she will not face any problems getting reelected.
From MoK.
I wonder if that would make the car eligible for the Cash for Clunkers program?
Finally, there is a good use for spam. JackieD told me that she is sending all of her spam to Flag@Whitehous.gov. That's what I'm doing with all of my spam. I've had trolls sign me up for moveon.org and the Gay Men's chorus of Columbia. All that stuff now goes to the White House "fishy" site. Let's try to overwhelm their server.
My friend Pres sent me this.
Democrats, realizing the success of the President's "Cash For Clunkers" rebate program, have revamped a major portion of their National Health Care Plan.
President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Sen. Reed are expected to make this major announcement at a joint news conference later this week. I have obtained an advanced copy of the proposal which is named....
"CASH FOR CODGERS" and it works like this... Couples wishing to access health care funds in order to pay for the delivery of a child will be required to turn in one old person. The amount the government grants them will be fixed according to a sliding scale. Older and more prescription dependent codgers will garner the highest amounts.
Special "Bonuses" will be paid for those submitting codgers in targeted groups, such as smokers, alcohol drinkers, persons 10 pounds over their government prescribed weight, and any member of the Republican Party.
Smaller bonuses will be given for codgers who consume beef, soda, fried foods, potato chips, lattes, whole milk, dairy products, bacon, Brussel sprouts, or Girl Scout Cookies.
All codgers will be rendered totally useless via toxic injection. This will insure that they are not secretly resold or their body parts harvested to keep other codgers in repair.
But the tactics that the Dims are using appear more akin to the Nazis.
From Dick.
My friend Bou, who hardly ever does politics, wrote an open letter to Jug Hussein Ears.
Dear President Obama,First let me say, that I have never written so many letters to a President! I know, you won't actually read this, but it surely makes me feel better putting it out there, knowing I actually did write it even though I didn't send it to an email address at the White House or put a stamp on it only for it to wallow with whoever sorts your mail.
I thought I'd clue you in on a couple things because: 1) you are surrounded by yes men, 2) your yes men appear to be rather clueless and mean spirited and 3) you don't seem to understand some very basic things going on in this country.
It appears that either you feel or those close to you feel that by winning the election with 52% of the ballot, that all those Americans actually voted FOR you. Quite frankly, nothing could be further from the truth. You see, President Obama, the average American doesn't vote FOR anyone. They vote against who they feel they like less.
Read the whole thing.
Why tell the truth when it is so much easier to lie.
Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), didn't appreciate President Obama's shout-out at the New Hampshire town hall meeting this afternoon.Obama said that the voluntary end-of-life counseling in one version of the bill had a Republican sponsor — and he mentioned Isakson by name.
His response.
"Isakson vehemently opposes the House and Senate health care bills, and he played no role in drafting language added to the House bill by House Democrats calling for the government to incentivize doctors by offering them money to conduct end-of-life counseling," Isakson's office said in a statement.
What did Isakson do?
But Isakson did sponsor a Senate health committee amendment in July, which would allow anyone who participates in a long-term health benefit to receive living will and power of attorney counseling. Isakson offices says the difference with his amendment is that it allows patients to ask for help on these issues instead of incentivizing doctors who take Medicare to provide this counseling.
Jug Hussein Ears has also said that if you like your insurance you can keep it. Another lie. What happens when a company realizes it can dump its insurance coverage on the gummint. Guess what? You've just lost your insurance plan and you are now on Gummint Insurance. Don't thiink that's not gonna happen because it will. you better hope your doctor takes Gummint Insurance or you lose him as well.
Obamacare is only gonna cost $1 trillion over the next ten years. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Anyone who believes that lie is a major league booger eatin' moh-ron.
I know that we're eventually gonna wind up with Gummint Medicine. It's inevitable. My problem is the current approach favored by the Dims is a fraud and will be a colossal failure. Why don't we have a national dialogue rather than ramming this bullshit bill drafted behind closed doors written by lawyers for lawyers? That's what has the people so riled up. The Dimocrat congresscritters have stated that they haven't read the bill and don't understand the bill. Is that why we sent them to Congress? To vote on unread bills that they don't understand? And we tolerate this? And we pay them huge salaries to do this?
This is what has started the Tea Party movement. We have out of touch, big spending, and overpaid politicians who are voting on stuff that they don't read and couldn't understand if they did. Is this any way to run a country? No wonder there are so many pissed off voters.
I'm all for some sort of health care reform but only after a public dialogue and an open debate in the House and the Senate. Is that too much to ask? Is than an unreasonable request? What are the Dims afraid of? Certainly not their jobs or they would start paying attention to the mood of the country and listening to the outraged people without calling them Nazis or racists.
Ignore the people at your own peril. Americans are waking up and they don't like what they are seeing and hearing.
I like to keep track of what's going on back in St. Louis where I grew up. Actually it was right outside of St. Louis in Webster Groves where I was raised. So I'm really interested in the townhall meetings. If I still lived in St. Louis, Carnahan would be my congresscritter. McCaskill would be one of my senators. Ugh! Almost as bad as when I was in Cynthia McCommie's district.
I stole the following picture from here.
You may have read that at the Carnahan townhall meeting last week a black dude got beat up by SEIU thugs. There was an article in Saturday's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation about it. They mentioned that violence broke out and that six people were arrested. Naturally, what was left out was that all six were SEIU members or Carnahan supporters.
I loved this video.
McCaskill asks if they think they are persuading people by shouting like that? The answer could be is that they were acting like Code Pink, ACORN, or Moveon since those are the tactics they use. So now Claire knows how Republicans feel. She also found out that they don't trust her. She was just like Stumpy here in Georgia. He campaigned as a conservative, but as soon as he hit DC he was right there with the liberal Dims. McCaskill is the same way and hopefully she will go the way of Stumpy and be an ex-senator.
Update: More warning signs here.
At last! A recycling program I can get behind.
From Dick.
Yannow, one thing I've noticed at these townhall meetings are that there are a lot of geezers attending. Of course, technically I'm a geezer now as well. I'm 62, I'm retired, and I collect Social Security. But I'm seeing geezers who are older than I am at these events.
What has the geezers so upset?
Being old does not mean that you're stupid. Jug Hussein Ears did not do too well with geezer voters. Maybe they're racist. That's it. They're against Obamacare because they're racist. Yeah. That's the ticket!
Perhaps they realize that Medicare is broke and putting the rest of the country on Medicare is not gonna solve the problem but is only gonna make it worse. The only way this flies is by drastically raising taxes or by drastically reducing services. Most geezers live on a fixed income and the last thing they need is to have their taxes go up.
Maybe they wonder why, if Obamacare is so good, the politicians are not gonna be covered by it? I wonder that myself.
Maybe they also wonder why this is being rammed through with no debate or bipartisan support. And Arlen Sphincter declared in a townhall meeting just recently that members of Congress didn't have time to read the bill. Why not? Why not take the time? How can these dipsticks vote on bills without knowing what's in them. Is that why we send them to Congress?
I saw one geezer state that JHE took six months to decide what kind of dog to get but wants Obamacare passed in three to four weeks.
They've noticed that a lot of the legislation that this Congress has enacted has been rammed through so quickly that no one has had the time to read the bills. Why? What's the hurry? Where's the debate? Is this any way to run a republic?
Maybe they wonder why Queen Blinky is calling them a bunch of Nazis.
The geezers are waking up and guess what? Geezers vote, and they vote at a higher percentage than the rest of the general population. Dimocrats are antagonizing geezers at their own peril.
Geezer power. Fear it.
Please note that I'm not implying that Jug Hussein Ears is a Nazi. I'm implying that he is a rat bastard commie which is what he is.
Dick sen me this.
Town hall meetings are one of my favorite ways to communicate with constituents. I have held hundreds during my years of service in Congress and always welcomed everyone to attend. Unfortunately, due to a coordinated effort to disrupt our town hall meetings, we will be restricting further attendance to residents of the 29th Congressional District and verifying residency by requiring photo identification. (Emphasis his.) Whether individuals agree or disagree, we must maintain order to have a civil discussion of the issues. While I regret this restriction, it is necessary for the safety and consideration of our constituents. Those who do not reside in the 29th Congressional should contact their Member of Congress to voice any concerns that they may have on issues before Congress.
The irony here is that this Congresscritter opposes showing an ID to vote.
One of my readers said she is forwarding all of her spam to the White House. This would be funny if it weren't so serious.
Ron rants.
Government fraud. Check.Government waste. Yep!
Government abuse. You betcha!!
Government ineptitude, government arrogance, government unawareness, government idiocy . . . this could turn into a giant inventory without much effort.
What's becoming painfully apparent is that it's getting more and more difficult to support our government in the style to which it has become accustomed. And what's worse is that the job of government is to PROTECT and SERVE the people, you know . . . the rubes from whom it derives its just powers according to one of those moldy old documents we drag out from time to time and oooh and aahhh over.
Well, if part of the government's responsibility is to protect us, how about protecting us from theft, guys? I mean, The rate of taxation our Precedent President is proposing, and according to some of the language in his health care program it will be MANDATORY (i.e., COERCIVE taxation), will be tantamount to official theft. How 'bout you protect us from THAT!?
But n-o-o-o-o-o-o . . . taxes rarely wind up benefiting the taxed, and rulers, legislators, and judges generally do not reduce taxes to be magnanimous or reasonable, merely to win the next election, and then only grudgingly. Disasters, wars, mismanagement, and greed generally drive up taxes, and about the only thing that can lower tax rates is impending economic catastrophe.
Of course, in this case, our Kenyan rookie can't even see THAT fundamental truth. Apparently what he's trying to do is establish a non-working class of people who sit around and do essentially nothing and then commandeer the earnings of those who DO work and produce something so the non-working class doesn't feel bad or do without blackberries or HDTV or iPods, or something like that.
Three hundred years ago, this continent afforded its people vast resources. Today it appears that the first one we're going to run out of is honest taxpayers. At its inception, this nation strenuously resisted taxation without representation; today we have representation which causes us to work until nearly July 4th to pay taxes in various forms. The Obama administration is working diligently to construct a Scylla of taxation and a Charybdis of inflation to grind ordinary citizens into mincemeat while forcing the rich to get off the boat before it's crushed and invest their capital somewhere else.
The crew of tax cheats and hypocrites in Washington today have plenty of support from the left, though. Any government which robs Peter to pay Paul will always get full support from Paul. By the time The Kenyan's cap-and-trade and health-care programs are in place, and with a 60-seat majority in the Senate the outcome seems almost as certain as a 7-2 ratio on SCotUS by 2016, this country will owe more money than it's worth.Looks to me as if the crew Mr. Soetoro has assembled intends not only to milk the cow, but pull off the udder . . . not just shear the sheep, but skin them as well . . . and stick their collective hand about 3 feet up the golden goose's ass. By the time my children apply for their Social Security benefits, the well will have run dry. The dime will replace the dollar, since it for all practical purposes BE a dollar with all the taxes deducted.
I'm sure books exist which can explain how to get out of this morass we're wading into, this swamp of debt and worthless bank notes, but nobody seems interested in finding it, and I have my doubts that they'd understand it even if someone dropped it into their laps.
All we can do, mes amis, is have faith in the people and trust that when government becomes destructive to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness the People will alter or abolish it and institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness. I read that in one of those moldy old documents that people like to quote during political campaigns but rarely take seriously.
People have to eat. They have to have water, and shelter, and clothing, and work. So no matter how wasteful central government becomes, no matter how heavy the tax burden becomes, no matter how restricting the laws become . . . I'm hoping that one day the drive to survive will produce capital at a rate which even the most inept, corrupt, and arrogant government can't waste as fast as it materializes.
Fortunately, I won't be around to see it happen. It's already too late for the America I grew up in to rise from the ashes; the fires of socialism are burning blue and hot, and those moldy old documents are already singed on the edges. Soon, like the god they trusted in, they'll be used as mere conversation pieces, out-of-date place mats, dim memories from long-gone times when a man's word was a contract, his funds came from his labor, and his government served him, not vice versa.
This one is from Richard.
A clown moved into an apartment building for circus performers. He was quite happy with the apartment. But he had one complaint: There was no ironing board. The clown called the building superintendent to ask for an ironing board. The superintendent refused to provide one.
"But, the acrobats and the lion tamers all have ironing boards," said the clown.
"You'll have to use the window ledge," said the superintendent. "It's in your lease.
Every clown has a sill for ironing."
Quinn in St. Louis suggested this one.
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Jeff Beck. I got a hard on watching this. Back in the early 70's I remember hearing on KSHE 95 another band, the Alabama State Troopers, playing this song and they used a slide guitar in it.
Gotta love this. The SEIU issued a statement on the thuggery that occurred last night in Mehlville Missouri at Russ "Clueless" Carnahan's townhall meeting.
"Last night, in St. Louis, a Reverend and SEIU member was assaulted at a town hall dedicated to discussing our national healthcare crisis. The incident, along with a town hall in Tampa, Florida, has been all over the radio and cable news shows. GOP operatives are rushing to paint it as SEIU thug violence. That couldn't be further from the truth.
Who ya gonna believe? This dipstick or your own lying eyes.
"In fact, the Reverend, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, and others who attended in hopes of a peaceful dialogue about our nation's healthcare crisis, endured the latest attempt by right-wing fringe groups to hijack the democratic process through violence if necessary. Last night, the Teabaggers' violent tactics broke and dislocated the shoulder of the Reverend.
We know the cops must be in on it since they only arrested the SEIU choirboys.
"Let's be clear: These groups, backed by insurance companies and corporate front groups, want nothing more than to preserve the status quo system of rationing, where HMOs choose doctors, and insurance companies deny us the care we need. Their dearest hope is that by resorting to outrageous charges of Nazism and euthanasia, they can make the American public too afraid to support real reform.
What are you dudes afraid of? If the bill is such a great thing, why are you trying to ram it through? Shouldn't there be a long and extended debate on the bill's merits? Shouldn't there be public hearings? Shouldn't there be a national dialogue. As someone at one of the rallies states, "It took Obama 6 months to decide on a dog and he wants to ram health care reform through Congress in three weeks."
"But SEIU and hardworking women and men all over this country are standing up to their bullying tactics. We deserve a national conversation about how we will fix our failing healthcare system and help make this an economy that works for everyone."
But you assholes don't want a national conversation on health care. And as for the bullying tactics, let's talk about Kenneth Gladney the black dude who started all the violence. The SEIU dude's fist was minding its own business when BAM! Gladney's face attacked it. And then to make things worse, the innocent SEIUs dudes' feet were minding their own business when Gladney's body, which had gone down on the ground to fight dirty, attacked their feet. What a sneaky mobster he is!
This one is from Pres.
A blonde gets home early from shopping and hears strange noises coming from the bedroom. She rushes upstairs only to find her husband naked lying on the bed, sweating and panting......
'What's up?' she asks.
'I think I'm having a heart attack,' cries the husband...
The blonde rushes downstairs to grab the phone, but just as she's dialing, her four-year-old son comes up and says, 'Mommy! Mommy! Aunty Shirley is hiding in your closet and she's got no clothes on!'
The blonde slams the phone down and storms back upstairs into the bedroom, right past her husband, rips open the closet door and sure enough, there is her sister, totally naked and cowering on the floor.
'You rotten 'Bitch', she screams. 'My husband's having a heart attack, and you're running around naked playing hide and seek with the kids!!'
I guess it should come as no surprise that I'm giving the coveted AOTW to Speaker Blinky for saying that the the protesters showing up at the townhall meetings are Nazis and are wearing swastikas. Ya mean like this Speaker Blinky?
See it's OK to call Chimpy McHalliburton Bushitler a Nazi and wear a swastika to an anti-Bushitler demonstration. That was back when "dissent was the highest form of patriotism". Now dissent gets you branded as a Nazi and you may get your ass kicked by union thugs. Just in case you think the union thugs were provoked, they were the only ones resorting to violence and they were the only ones arrested.
Keep calling the opposition Nazis and keep on encouraging your union thugs. SEIU looks to be your version of Hitler's Brown Shirts except they wear purple shirts.
Here's your award you worthless piece of shit.
As runner up we have Russ Carnahan who has consistently looked like a clueless idiot at every press conference or interview he's been in in the last few weeks. Watch him squirm. If I still lived in St. Louis this dooshbag would be my congresscritter.
Dana Loesch has pictures of those angry "well dressed" mobs at the townhall meetings. Here's one of 'em.
See the rest here.
Violence is starting to break out at the town hall meetings that our congresscritters have set up in their home districts. So, are "the thugs" the "well dressed" protesters who have started showing up at these meetings and outside their representatives' offices? The Dims are saying that these "well dressed" protesters are being organized by the insurance companies. Once again we see projection at work. Remember it's the Dims who have to bus protesters in. These "well dressed" insurance company lackeys seem to be able to get to the protests on their own.
So violence broke out in Missouri. After all, the Dims are busing in and organizing union thugs to counter the "well dressed" insurance company lackeys. And guess who's right in the middle of the action?
Purple shirts = SEIU = Union thugs
BTW, the dude they were attacked had to get medical treatment for his injuries.
Kenneth Gladney, 38, a conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with "Don't tread on me" printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room at St. John's Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was awaiting treatment for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack."It just seems there's no freedom of speech without being attacked," he said.
Not when there are union thugs around.
I met Tammi a few years back, and have seen her once since then. She never seemed to be very political back then, but things have really changed since then. She's very political now and doesn't like what she sees. For example, the White House snitch program.
If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Tammi's take? Here I Am!
Yep. It says what you think it says. They are asking American's to "monitor" each other.Gotta tell you.....that really pisses me off. So....I'm making it easy for them. Yes, I linked to the blog. If they find this post....well, oh well. And now...this is what I have to say in response to this whole thing.....
I am totally against the President's health care reform. Totally. I do believe that he's trying to get the government involved in areas of our lives that it should just stay out of. I believe that it flies in the face of my freedom.
Read the whole thing.
Oh. And I'm sure some of my trolls will soon be reporting me to the White House as well.
And Babs Boxer (Idiot, CA) said that the Republican mobs are well dressed.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
With the fight over health care reform absorbing all the bandwidth on Capitol Hill, Democrats fear a major climate change bill may be left on the cutting-room floor this year.
And that's the good news!
A handful of key senators on climate change are almost guaranteed to be tied up well into the fall on health care. Democrats from the Midwest and the South are resistant to a cap-and-trade proposal. And few if any Republicans are jumping in to help push a global warming and energy initiative.
The longer we can put off the crap and tax legislation the better. Of course this will prolly be blamed for Jug Hussein Ears not getting his mythical 3.5 million good paying green jobs.
As a result, many Democrats fear the lack of political will and the congressional calendar will conspire to punt climate change into next year.
Just in time for the 2010 elections. Maybe the Stupid Party can get their shit together and point out just how disastrous crap and tax will be for the American economy.
“The reality is [the health reform bill] is going to happen before cap and trade,” said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Rep. Collin Peterson, who’s been working with farm-state senators on the climate legislation. “Who knows if it will ever come out of the Senate?”
Hopefully, it will never come out of the Senate. Now if we could only do the same for health care. That's the bad news. The Senate is gonna concentrate on health care.
What seniors can look forward to under Obamacare.
Got it from Tina.
But our "public servants" in Congress don't have to worry about this because they will have their own goldplated plan paid for by us peasants.
Look for a lot of canceled town hall meetings this month.
My favorite quote: “Why would you guys try to stuff a health care bill down our throat in 3-4 weeks, when the President took six months to pick what he wanted for a dog for his kids”
As I've said before, and I'll say it again, I'll start thinking about letting the gummint run health care when our elected "public servants" agree to be covered by the same plan that they're trying to foist on us. When hell does what?
Howza 'bout some end of life counseling for the Floater? Here Ted, take the blue pill.
From here. Thanks to Pthalo who suggested the postcard campaign.
Now some people might say that this is a successful gummint program because it's been so popular and ran out of money in a week. Well, it is not a successful gummint program and I'll give you three reasons why.
1. All it is doing is time shifting auto purchases. The people who are buying cars now, are the same people who would eventually be buying cars in the future but now won't. So the auto sales numbers look good now but this is just at the sacrifice of future car sales.
2. In the name of "clunkers" perfectly good cars are being destroyed. I posted a video of a perfectly good Volvo engine being destroyed. This is a car that could have replaced an actual clunker, yannow, like one of those really rundown wrecks that "the poor" drive that we really need to take off the road. This is a wanton destruction of capital but then this program was created by rat bastard commies and no one knows how to destroy capital and wealth better than rat bastard commies. See Zimbabwe, Cuba, and the old USSR. Coming soon, Venezuela.
3. The people replacing the "clunkers" are not buying American. Thanks to Paul for the link.
Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Four of the top five models sold so far under the U.S. “cash for clunkers” program, aimed at boosting the auto industry, are made by foreign automakers, according to Transportation Department data.
So we're stimulating sales of foreign automobiles. How neat is that? So what is the top selling American car?
Ford Motor Co.’s Focus was the top seller, followed by Toyota Motor Corp.’s Corolla, Honda Motor Co.’s Civic and Toyota’s Prius and Camry, data from the department showed today.
Holy crap! Ford, the only Anerican company not to take a bailout from the gummint is the top seller!
Initial clunkers legislation sponsored by Representative Betty Sutton, an Ohio Democrat, would have barred discounts for new vehicles manufactured overseas and offered higher payments for cars and trucks produced in the U.S. than for those made in Canada and Mexico. The “Buy American” provision was dropped from the final legislation because of opposition from foreign automakers and free-trade advocates who said it would conflict with U.S. obligations to the World Trade Organization.
As a free trader, I would have been against that legislation. I'm against the cash for clunkers bill because it is a waste of money and is taking perfectly good cars off the road.
Turns out reason three does not bother me after all. I just think it is a delicious irony that the federal gummint is stimulating the sales of foreign cars. What do you think of that all of you UAW workers?
Vehicles made by the three largest U.S. automakers -- General Motors Co., Ford and Chrysler Group LLC -- were fewer than half of sales under the program through Aug. 1, according to Transportation Department data obtained yesterday. The companies accounted for 47 percent of the clunkers transactions.
Looks like the American people know where to go for quality. Granted, some of the foreign cars were built in the US.
The data didn’t break out where the cars sold were manufactured. Some vehicles sold by foreign companies are manufactured in the U.S.“A lot of these cars are made in America by American workers in plants that are right here in America,” Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said today in an interview on Bloomberg Television.
Honda’s Civic is built in Greensburg, Indiana, and Alliston, Ontario. Those plants make more than 95 percent of the Civics for North America.
The BMW Z3 I bought back in 2001 was built in South Carolina.
So let's review. The US gummint is now gonna throw another $2 billion to get people to buy cars they would have bought eventually anyhow. Then they're gonna destroy the perfectly good "clunkers" like that Volvo, that people trade in. The largest beneficiaries of this boondoggle are foreign automakers.
Liberals would be cute if they weren't so stupid.
Well here's a big surprise. Businesses are moving jobs offshore.
US companies are increasingly turning to offshoring their functions to achieve cost savings, and few plan to bring those jobs back to the United States, the Conference Board said Monday.
And it's a smart thing to do. Rat bastard commies Dimocrats are in control and they love to raise taxes on businesses.
The number of US companies with a corporate offshoring strategy in place more than doubled in the past three years, according to the fifth annual report on offshoring trends, published by Duke University in collaboration with the Conference Board.
Hmmmm. What happened three years ago that could have caused this? Hmmmm. Let me think. It's right out there. I oughta know. Aha! I remember. The rat bastard commies Dimocrats took over Congress.
Of the companies surveyed, 53 percent had a corporate offshoring strategy in place, up from 22 percent in 2005, said the Conference Board, a nonprofit business research organization."Sixty percent of companies that had already offshored say they have aggressive plans to expand existing activities, and very few plan to relocate activities back to the United States," it said.
But that's OK. Jug Hussein Ears will replace all of these lost jobs with good paying green jobs, 3.5 million of 'em. He told us so so it's got to be true.
Currently the US has the third highest corporate tax rate in the world. That's not an incentive for business. You want less of sumpin' you tax it. Cut the corporate tax rate and you'll get more businesses locating here and more jobs.
Unfortunately, rat bastard commies Dimocrats don't think that way and we're gonna see more businesses and jobs moving offshore. And those 3.5 million green jobs? That's nothing but a pipe dream, and what's in that pipe is green and I'll bet it's really good shit. Maybe he could legalize pot and create 3.5 million green jobs by growing it and selling it.
Just in case you were wondering, portraying Jug Husseein Ears as the Joker is mean-spirited.
A poster depicting Barack Obama as Batman villain The Joker has been called 'mean-spirited and dangerous' by the U.S. President's supporters.The image, which has been adopted by Mr Obama's critics, shows him wearing the white face paint and smudged red lips of the character most recently played by the late actor Heath Ledger. Beneath the picture reads the word 'socialism'.
So this is not OK.
But this is OK.
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I'm glad we got that straight. Thanks to Karl for pointing this out.
As I've said before, I'll show JHE the same amount of respect that the left showed Chimpy McHalliburton Bushitler.
Remember back in 1992 when BJ campaigned on a middle class tax cut? Did we get one? Are you kidding? BJ is a Dimocrat. Dimocrats do not cut taxes, they raise them. So here we are with Jug Hussein Ears who also promised a tax cut, this time to 95% of the tax payers. He said he wouldn't raise taxes. Let's not forget that the Bush tax cuts expire next year but for some reason Dimocrats don't consider that to be a tax increase even though it will raise taxes on the middle class as well as the eeee-vil rich. And if that's not enough, tax cheat, Timmy Geithner will not rule out additional tax increases.
To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a “This Week” exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, "We’re going to have to do what’s necessary.”Geithner was clear that he believes a key component of economic recovery is deficit reduction. When I gave him several opportunities to rule out a middle class tax hike, he wouldn’t do it.
Here's a novel thought: why not cut spending? Yeah, like that's gonna happen. Thanks Republicans for being so irresponsible when you were in charge, thus allowing a bunch of rat bastard commies to take control and actually make your spending look frugal by comparison.
“We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically,” Geithner told me. “And that’s going to require some very hard choices.”
Hard choice number 1: Scrap Obamacare.
Hard choice number 2: Scrap tax and crap as that will drive companies offshore and slow the economy.
Hard choice number 3: Quit spending so much money! The JHE administration is predicting a budget deficit of $1.85 trillion dollars (that they are blaming on Chimpy McHalliburton Bushitler). I'm predicting it will be over $2 trillion.
“We will not get this economy back on track, recovery will be not strong and sustained, unless we convince the American people that we are going to have the will to bring these deficits down once recovery is firmly established,” he said.
So the Bush tax cuts will expire and just like BJ, JHE will renege on his promises not to raise taxes. Wait for him to say sumpin' like BJ did. Remember what he said when he was raising taxes? "It's the hardest thing I've ever done." Of course, I took exception with that. I always thought siring Chelsea was the hardest thing he's ever done. Thunder Rodent Thighs was a barker even when she was young.
“I want to emphasize the basic reality that unemployment is very high in this country,” the secretary said. But, he underlined that the administration is “going to do what is necessary to bring growth back on track.”
Raise the minimum wage. Yep! that will really lower unemployment.
Saddle the economy with an unaffordable healthcare system and enact unfunded mandates on small businesses. That's always worked to lower unemployment.
Raise taxes on small businesses. That always helps unemployment, at least if you want to raise it.
Increase energy costs with crap and tax. That will really lower unemployment.
Dimocrats love to raise taxes and the really neat thing for them is that they don't pay them like tax cheat Timmy Geithner. Like tax cheat Charlie Rangel who is the chairman of the committee that writes the tax code. Like Tom Daschle who was gonna spearhead the gummint health care plan until it was found out that he too was a tax cheat. Cheating on one's taxes seems to be a resume enhancement if you want a job in the JHE administration.
So to the American middle class, I have only one thing to say: BOHICA. You did it to yourselves by voting in the most liberal president this country has ever had and by giving control of Congress to rat bastard commies headed by Speaker Blinky and Harry Reid. How's that hope and change stuff working out for y'all?
One Big Assed Mistake America.
Todd sent me this picture he took in South Carolina.
The $1 billion dollar cash for clunkers program that was supposed to last until October is already out of money. It only took a week to blow through the $1 billion. The people who came up with this are the same people who are saying that Obamacare will only cost $1 trillion over ten years. That sure gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling about Obamacare.
Another thing that bugs me about this stupid program is all the good used cars that will be taken off the roads, while a lot of the real clunkers, that are about all "the poor" can afford, are still out there.
In case you haven't seen this video, here's a perfectly good Volvo "clunker" being destroyed.
The procedure used is the oil is drained and replaced with a sodium silicate solution, and the engine is then started and run until the dehydrating solution causes engine internals to abrade and ultimately seize. The engine in this video lasts for quite a while before blowing.
This looks like a fun job. I've blown two engines in my life and I sure didn't get paid for it.
A visual pun from Josh
Is this statutory rape???
Or is It just a moosedemeanor.....
Got this from Dick.
This is especially appropriate to the geezers who will be screwed under Obamacare.
I may have posted this one before. I originally heard this as a drunk joke. Got it from Mike.
Two bowling teams, one of all Blondes and one of all Brunettes, charter a double-Decker bus for a weekend trip to Louisiana. The Brunette team rode on the bottom of the bus, and the Blonde team rode on the top level.
The Brunette team down below really whooped it up, having a great time, when one of them realized she hadn't heard anything from the Blondes upstairs. She decided to go up and investigate.
When the Brunette reached the top, she found all the Blondes in fear, staring straight ahead at the road, clutching the seats in front of them with white knuckles.
The brunette asked, "What the heck' s going on up here? We're having a great time downstairs!"
One of the Blondes looked up at her, swallowed hard and whispered... "YEAH, BUT YOU'VE GOT A DRIVER!"
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