LEE RODGERSTHE GASBAG TALKS ABOUT GASOLINE ...
EVEN THE STUPID VOTE; THAT'S DEMOCRACY ...
"SANCTION" SILLINESS FAILS WITH IRAN
EVEN THE STUPID VOTE; THAT'S DEMOCRACY ...
"SANCTION" SILLINESS FAILS WITH IRAN
“I understand what folks are going through because it wasn’t that long ago that I was having to fill up my gas tank and drive to work, shuttle the kids back and forth to school or events, and it takes a big bite out of folks paychecks.” -- Barack Obama, doing his "just plain folks" act. Even if that's true, Mr. Solar, you didn't fill your tank with gasoline costing up to (or beyond) $4 a gallon.
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Phoniest photo-op of the year" Obama, getting himself pictured in front of an oil well. Mr. Solar, who grudgingly okays building a pipeline HALFWAY up to the Canadian oil, playing the total mugwump role on energy.
(Definition: Mugwump. A bird that sits on the fence with his mug on one side and his wump on the other.)
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From Reader Wes ...
With Obama now giving the go ahead to build the pipeline as far as Oklahoma, is it going to be called the "pipeline to nowhere?"
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I have been reviled more than once for candidly stating my fear that this nation, as a whole, may be too stupid to survive. I did, and do, fear that to be the case.
I will consider my argument totally justified if the American electorate chooses to reelect a president whose actions denote a devotion to Marxist economics and either ignorance or an utter disdain for common sense in the policies he is imposing upon the nation. His policy decisions are based on either foolishness or being deliberately destructive. Or both.
He is undermining both the national economy and the defense structure upon which we must depend in a hostile world.
His foreign policy wavers between cowering before avowed enemies and subverting friends.
He says he's a Christian, but the world's Muslims believe he is one of them. After all, Islam declares all the children of a Muslim father are themselves Muslims. It is not optional.
It also declares that any Muslim who rejects that faith is to be killed. Has anyone heard of Barack Obama being targeted for being an apostate? Some Muslim leaders may detest him; it's common for Muslims to despise other Muslims whose interpretation of Islam differs from their own. But Obama apostasy -- straying from being a Muslim -- has never been charged. So they DO believe he is one of them.
His background remains shadowy, but his ties to leftist radicals and black racists are crystal clear.
Yet a majority of American voters chose him -- admittedly over a Republican candidate who had all the charisma of a fire hydrant. That choice reflects the reality that, while most Americans were busy with other things, the sixties radicals effectively took control of the education system and turned it into the joke of the civilized world.
If voters behave so irresponsibly a second time, I genuinely fear that the nation is beyond salvation. Stupidity DOES carry a price-tag.
We've had a long run-in-the-sun. Over two hundred years. But nothing lasts forever. If you have the power to communicate with the departed, ask any old Roman who was around in the year 476. Or just study a little history.
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"With President Obama's approval rating hovering at 49 percent according to the latest Rasmussen tracking poll, it is becoming increasingly clear that he is a formidable threat for re-election. Gas prices are through the roof; the economy remains in shambles; the situation in the Middle East has never been so tenuous. And yet nearly half of all Americans think Obama's doing a decent job. Which shows that nearly half of Americans are either dependent on the government or devoid of common sense or both." -- Ben Shapiro, Townhall.com --
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Another farcical Obama threat to Iran is already disintegrating. Trade sanctions? Nonsense! Now Secretary of State Hillary announces exemptions on those sanctions that Obama promised would bring Iran to its senses over building nukes; exemptions to Japan and several European nations. China and India have already said they'll ignore any such sanctions. So how simple-minded would you have to be to actually believe this game of diplomatic patty-cake will be effective?
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Ever notice how often Big Media folk refer to concern that Romney may be moving "too far to the right," yet seldom even mention how far left Obama has gone?
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Words to live by ...
Always believe the worst of any politician. Odds are better than even that you'll be right.
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Wes Pruden (Washington Times) has a course in political entomology and the loose cannon in Romney's entourage ...
"It’s not the wasps, bees and mosquitos, though stingers all, that bedevil presidential candidates. It’s the fruit flies. Insignificant in their own right, they nevertheless have the ability to damage and even sink a campaign.
"That’s the lesson for Mitt Romney, as taught by Eric Fehrnstrom, his once-anonymous 'top aide' who confided to a CNN interviewer that Mr. Romney is not really a born-again conservative, that he’s only pandering to the unwashed crazies on the right. As soon as he locks up the nomination, he’ll hit the re-set button to emerge as the RINO – Republican in name only – he really is, to appeal to independent voters. Mr. Fehrnstrom didn’t say it quite like that (fruit flies never light long enough to make anything clear), but that’s the clear message he intended to send."
Thus the Romney image as a flip-flopper continues to grow. Obama has to go, but one's expectations of a Romney presidency shouldn't be excessive. In his bosom beats the heart of a RINO.
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On the other hand ...
"Rick, it's time to quit." That's the message Santorum, who has bungled his campaign badly in the last couple of weeks, is getting -- even from hardcore conservatives. Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, probably the most conservative member of that body, is now speaking well of Mitt Romney. And anyone who believes that Rick Santorum is a rock-steady man of principle should remember that four years ago he was endorsing Romney as THE conservative in that race. Now he's saying that if HE (Santorum) doesn't get the nomination, then Republicans should vote for Obama. Say WHAT??!!
Maybe it's time for Rick Santorum to again -- using his own words -- "take one for the team."
You may have an opportunity later to say, "I told you so," but for now, you're just spinning your wheels.
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Jay Leno --
"According to a new book, President Obama blames Fox News for his political problems and losing voters. How could Fox News lose him voters? If you're watching Fox News, you're probably not voting for him in the first place."
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Isn't it comforting to know that Los Angeles has solved all its problems so that the local board of supervisors can now concentrate on censoring the airwaves?
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AFP, the French news service, passes along a report on life for women in Muslim Pakistan ...
“At least 943 women were killed in the name of honor, of which 93 were minors,” wrote the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in its annual report.
Seven Christian and two Hindu women were among the victims, it said.
The Commission reported 791 “honor killings” in 2010.
Around 595 of the women killed in 2011 were accused of having “illicit relations” and 219 of marrying without permission.
Some victims were raped or gang raped before being killed, the Commission said. Most of the women were killed by their brothers and husbands.
Now, if Sandra Fluke wants to take on a REAL cause ...
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I am hearing frequently from people who are alarmed that, upon visiting a doctor, they are asked on a questionnaire if they have a gun in their house. They suspect the motive behind the question. So do I. The only proper answer is, "None of your GD business!"
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I was once labeled by Keith Olberman, failed sportscaster-turned-leftwing-propagandist, as "the worst person in the world." I would have worn it with pride if he'd had a larger audience.
Now I note with amusement -- but not surprise -- this revelation in the DC Caller ...
"When MSNBC discarded Keith Olbermann, al-Qaida mourned. So reports David Ignatius, the Washington Post columnist who has gained exclusive access to some of the documents recovered from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
"In his Wednesday column in the Washington Post, Ignatius reported on the details of a 21-page letter to bin Laden written by al-Qaida media adviser Adam Gadahn. Though the letter was undated, Ignatius says that it was likely written sometime after November 2010.
"Laying out the current media landscape for the now waterlogged terrorist kingpin, Gadahn, an American-born Jewish convert to Islam, lamented the firing of Olbermann from MSNBC."
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R. Emmett Tyrrell of The American Spectator says we're facing a hard reality check ...
"We in America today live in a country circumscribed by entitlement policies devised by an America that has steadily been disappearing. Those policies established more than a generation ago cannot possibly - in mathematical or demographic terms - support the America of the present, much less the America of the future. That is the stark reality.
"We need to reform those policies or we shall go bankrupt, and raising taxes on the “rich” will not fix things. Even raising taxes on the middle class will not fix things. Nor will spending a trillion dollars more than we have on hand to fix things. Eventually, those trillion-dollar deficits have to be paid off. Facts are facts; the day of reckoning that our hayseed politicians have said was up the road a piece is here."
He summarizes that we'd better get House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's plan, or something like it, passed into law and crush -- at the polls -- the Socialists-disguised-as-Democrats who oppose it.
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Did you know that Progressive Insurance, whose commercials are all over TV with that annoying, goofy lady in white, is the company created by Peter Lewis, one of the biggest big-money supporters of ultra-left-wing activist groups like Media Matters? He's Soros without the charisma.
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What liberals do ...
At Liberty Middle School in Fairfax County, Virginia, a teacher named Michael Denman gave his 8th-grade students an assignment to do opposition research on Republican candidates -- material that might be used against them -- to be forwarded to someone in the White House who could make use of it.
Count on it: the teachers' union and the school administrators will protect this scumbag.
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Craig Ferguson --
"When I heard the Republicans were in President Obama's home state, I said, 'They're holding a primary in Kenya?'"
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Sheila sends along this modern fable circulating on the internet ...
Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front yard, my neighbors stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their dog. During our friendly conversation, I asked their little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up.
She said she wanted to be President some day.
Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?"
She replied... "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."
Her parents beamed with pride!
"Wow...what a worthy goal!" I said. "But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that!" I told her.
"What do you mean?" She replied.
So I told her, "You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, and I'll pay you $50. Then you can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house."
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?"
I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."
Her parents aren't speaking to me any more.
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Conan O'Brien --
"Tim Tebow has been traded to the Jets. When told he was going to be spending the rest of his career in New Jersey, Tebow said, 'There is no God.'"
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."