LEE RODGERSOBAMA HATES RICH BUT WANTS THEIR MONEY
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DEMOCRATS' UTOPIAN SILLINESS ...
'TEMPORARY' TAX IN CALIFORNIA
DEMOCRATS' UTOPIAN SILLINESS ...
'TEMPORARY' TAX IN CALIFORNIA
The biggest phony in presidential history presented both of his faces yesterday. He made a speech to a bunch of young women at Barnard College blasting private capital investment firms, then went straight to a $35,800 per-person dinner at the home of the president of the biggest private equity firm in the nation, the Blackstone Group.
Since the high price of Barnard suggests most of the student body consists of offspring of wealthy parents, ponder the concept of those young ladies applauding an attack on the wealthy. (Tuition, fees, housing and meals at Barnard run well over $50,000 per year.)
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Jay Leno --
"Mitt Romney apologized for holding down Michele Bachmann's husband and cutting his hair."
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The simple-minded liberals never figure it out.
They call endlessly for higher taxes on "big business" -- and small, as well -- without ever stopping to think about where the money comes from to create jobs -- perhaps their own.
If there is no profit incentive, what's the point of investing? Would you want to invest in an enterprise whose profits, if any, are subject to government confiscation? In addition to the inherent risk of a business investment?
Ah, but perhaps the government will provide employment! Didn't Michelle Obama pointedly recommend that young people go into "public service" -- government jobs -- rather than the tawdry world of private enterprise?
There you are! Everybody working for the government! And that worked out so well for the Soviet Union, didn't it?
(Please forward the above to any liberal you may have in your family or circle of acquaintances.)
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So-called "economists" in the NY Times and elsewhere insist that it would be a mistake not to continue government spending far beyond our means, and continue to do so even with the example of Greece and many other failed Utopian experiments right in front of them. These delusional wackos are, in a word, hopeless.
The tragedy is that so many wishful-thinkers succumb to such nonsense. Even regular reminders that there truly is no such thing as a free-lunch is insufficient to convince them that they can't have freebies without somebody, somewhere having to pay for them.
As the young woman in Tampa, Florida, said during the 2008 presidential campaign, "Obama's gonna make my house payment and my car payment!" Then, when asked where he'd get the money, she candidly admitted, "I don't know, but he's gonna do it!"
Such mental incapacity is likely incurable, but those so afflicted can vote!
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Political comedy in California, where Gov. Jerry Brown has arrived at the intersection of insane spending and an intransigent liberal legislature and, in response, confronted the public with a plea to raise taxes, but only "temporarily." Are even the mass of Californians dumb enough to believe that any Democrat-sponsored tax increase will be "TEMPORARY?!" Having lived there for twenty-five years, my guess is ... yes.
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Jimmy Fallon --
"After just one term in office, French President Nicolas Sarkozy lost his re-election bid because he was unable to fix his nation's economy. Or as Obama put it, 'Uh-oh'."
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Big Government, founded by Andrew Breitbart, blows the whistle on another Obama lie ...
"Realizing that Obama's reelection is in serious jeopardy, the President's campaign today released a two-minute ad slamming Mitt Romney for layoffs made at a company controlled by Bain Capital. The ad is built around interviews with former steelworkers at GST Steel, a mill in Kansas City, who were laid off as the company collapsed in the wake of a downturn in the steel market. The ad is certainly gripping and emotional. It is also, however, completely wrong.
"The company was shut down in 2001. Romney left Bain in 1999, long before the plant closing, to run the Winter Olympics.
"However, there was a political power-player serving as a director of Bain at the time of the company's bankruptcy and layoffs--Jonathan Lavine. Lavine joined Bain in 1993. He is currently Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer. He is also a major bundler for Barack Obama, raising between $100-200k for the his reelection."
Before you swallow the Obamadopes' attacks on Bain, better check on who's running it now!
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How it must have pained two big liberal propaganda outfits to report it, but the poll jointly sponsored by CBS and the New York Times (reluctantly, no doubt) finds Romney leading the Boy Wonder, 46% to 43%.
Day-to-day polls in a long presidential race are essentially meaningless this far from election, but this one has a certain ... piquancy.
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Consider this a warning about where the crooks are who are most likely to steal your money ...
"The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the world’s largest anti-fraud organization, found that public-sector administration employees are responsible for more than 10 percent of fraud cases, ranking behind only financial professionals.
"A congressional staffer who has worked to combat fraud at the federal level agreed that the amount of money being spent has stretched the government thin and left limited accountability. A culture has developed that excuses lavish spending programs, he said, pointing to the GSA’s $800,000 Las Vegas retreat, which has resulted in several firings and resignations.
“'The federal government is sending all of this money out and there’s no follow up, no accountability,” the staffer said. It’s part of the culture'.”
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Further proof that the Transportation Security Administration hires the dumbest, most ignorant people on the planet. The airport Gestapo at New York's LaGuardia Airport forced a wheelchair-bound man to stand for a full pat-down search.
The man's name: Henry Kissinger.
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Jed Babbin in The American Spectator with a reminder about Obama's media shills ...
"In the minds of the Gatekeeper Media, we aren't entitled to know about Obama's character, what he said or believed, or what he did before he began his 2008 campaign. The Gatekeepers -- ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and many other newspapers -- don't want to investigate for fear of what they might find. They're intent on re-electing Obama and will, as they have in the past, simply decline to report on those stories."
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Do the math on this.
Every day, this nation is going another $4 billion DEEPER into debt. A quick check of history determines that the entire ANNUAL U.S. budget passed the $100 billion mark during the Eisenhower presidency, when the Interstate Highway System was being built.
Thus, every twenty-five days we're adding to our DEBT by an amount equal to the entire annual federal budget at that time.
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Cathy considers the good and bad among commercials ...
"The Dos Equis spots are great.
"I also love the dog in the Travelers Insurance commercials.
"Hate the Progressive ones with the bimbo Flo. I wonder how much money that @!#@!!%# is making off those spots? And now she's on the radio too!"
The Lady in White IS doing quite well. I recall one particular commercial I did for Kraft Foods that ran on network TV for two years. It paid for my swimming pool.
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Only people blinded by their prejudices could rationalize something this stupid.
Rush Limbaugh was honored by being inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians and Democrats in the Show Me state had a hissy-fit, obviously based on an utterly irrational belief that he ISN'T famous.
These are clearly crazy people who should be locked-up lest they injure themselves.
Love him or hate him, Limbaugh is obviously famous unless the definition of that exalted status is limited to those acceptable to the lunatic left.
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Reader Rick is biting the bullet ...
The President (ordered the cabinet to cut $100,000,000.00 ($100 million) from the $3,500,000,000,000.00 ($3.5 trillion) Federal budget.
I'm so impressed by this sacrifice that I have decided to do the same thing with my personal budget.
I spend about $2,000 a month on groceries, household expenses, medicine, utilities, etc., but it's time to get out the budget cutting axe, go through my expenses, and cut back.
I'm going to cut my spending at exactly the same ratio: 1/35,000 of my total budget or multiply by 0.000285714285.
After doing the math, it looks like instead of spending $2,000 a month, I'm going to have to cut that number by SIX CENTS ($.06).
Yes, I'm going to have to get by with $1999.94...but that's what sacrifice is all about.
I'll just have to do without some things, that are, frankly, luxuries – six cents worth.
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Jay Leno, after Obama came out favoring gay marriage --
"In fact, he changed his campaign slogan from 'forward' to 'fabulous'."
Conan O'Brien --
"President Obama came out in favor of same-sex marriage. He said he hoped his support would make it easier for gay people to get married and for John Travolta to get a massage."
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Bill reminds us of a timeless quote from George Orwell ...
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
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A contribution from Arnold "The Thrill" Hill ...
Three guys are talking about what constitutes fame.
The first defines it as "Being invited to the White House for a chat with the President."
"Nah!" says the second. "Real fame would be if the red phone rang when you were there, and the President wouldn't take the call."
"You're both wrong," says the third. "Fame is when you're in the Oval Office and the red phone rings, the President answers it, listens for a second, then says, "It's for you."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."