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Posted on June 28th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Entertainment, Just Dumb.
NOOOOOO! Say it ain’t so. Who will cure me of my insomnia? Who will get greasy stains from fast food out of my oxford shirts?! Fate is cruel… or was it simply that God required the services of the world’s number one pitch man? Sadly, I am left to ponder such questions as press sources have confirmed that Billy Mays is dead.
Even as infomercials he hosted aired on local stations across the country this morning, the cable news channels were reporting on the death of pitchman Billy Mays.
50-year-old Mays was found unresponsive by his wife in his Tampa home this morning. Mays was on board a US Airways flight yesterday that made an emergency landing in Tampa after its front tires blew out. It is unsure whether Mays’ death was related to the incident.
While this might indeed be a natural death and there is little to suggest otherwise, I would still like law enforcement to check out the ShamWow guy. Where was he at the time of May’s death… and can he prove it? Dude seems a little squirrely to me.
Posted on June 5th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials.
I have seen this look before, from my grandmother aka Oma. This is the look you get before she says through her thick accent, “bullsh*tters”.
It is apparent that Angela Merkel is unimpressed with the populist rhetoric of Mr. Obama. Maybe Germans have just had their belly full of populist leaders promising the world and delivering nothing of the sort. Of course at least their populist leaders of old managed to elevate themselves by building up their nation. In the case of Mr. Obama it seems that he is most comfortable laying on the guilt with all of us, and straight up throwing us under the bus with the rest of the world. Admitting that the US engaged in a coup in Iran in 1953 was a gesture of good will on Mr. “Naive” Obama’s part… but will now and forever be a mallet with which to strike at us for Mr. Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah du jour.
Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News.
According to Barack Obama, America is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. First of all, I didn’t know that America was a Muslim country. I didn’t know that a minority in the range of 1.8 million to 6 million persons made us “Muslim”. Maybe Mr. Obama is a Constitutional Scholar, but he’s obviously no mathematician.
Worse, the president who shunned his Mulsim ties, is now embracing them and putting them front and center before the “Muslim” world. It’s insulting not only to American voters, or Christians… it’s also insulting to Muslims. The net sum game for Obama after this latest populist stunt is that both Christians and Muslims (with a brain in their head) will see that this guy is simply an opportunist. I don’t think he is serious about religion at all. He is a religion unto himself. There is no room for Islam or Christian belief systems within the cult that is… OBAMA.
Barack Obama has no integrity whatsoever. He will say anything in order to convince a given audience that he’s with them. In the end what becomes apparent is that he is with NOBODY. Barack Obama stands for nothing, except his own, disgusting ambitions.
Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, News, Politics.
NBC and its cable sibling MSNBC are a joke. A sick and perverted joke. These two news outlets are the official networks of the Obama Administration. These two news outlets are nothing more than leftist propaganda peddlers for the left. From Chris Matthews to Keith Olbermann to Ed “Shooter” Schultz the radio blowhard and alleged killer of his own hunting dog, the network is nothing but a 24 hour communications arm for the Democratic Party. If Matthews isn’t talking about the tingle up his leg after hearing Obama speak, Olbermann is mumbling insults over Conservative guests. It’s morning noon and night, Obamavision. Now NBC’s Brian Williams is added to the list of fawning Obamaniacs at NBC. What else would one call the Nightly News infomercial “Inside the Obama Whitehouse” that has been aired over the past two days? It is obvious that Williams reveres Obama, so much so that he actually does bow as he ends the interview. I know, some of you are going to say that wasn’t a bow… but what it was, was subservience. It appeared to me that Williams was addressing some kind of a monarch. I guess when Obama turned and left, Williams was able to turn and exit without having to walk backwards as not to show his back to the messiah?
Shameful but moreso than that, unbefitting of a legitimate news outlet. I guess GE knows where its bread is buttered and as a division, NBC needs to fall in line too… why else be the “liberal” network?
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, Political Correctness.
Here is a funny and dare I say accurate take on political correctness that was attached to an email I received.
Political Correctness - “A doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end”
Bloody brilliant!
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News.
Barack Obama is probably a decent fellow. So it makes it unfortunate that I have to say, time and again, that he is weak, ignorant, naive and gullible. One can only surmise that the man is patently clueless when it comes to human nature. While Iran has stated that it wants to pursue nuclear power, it has similarly said that it is entitled to the bomb. North Korea and every other state that has eventually obtained nukes has started with the cliched, “it’s for power”… what we never seem to get is what kind of power they’re talking about. In the case of North Korea, that power wasn’t of the electrical type… it was of the extortion type. The case is for certain similar where it concerns Iran.
LONDON — President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful.
In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, he also restated plans to pursue direct diplomacy with Tehran to encourage it set aside any ambitions for nuclear weapons it might harbor.
Oh, I feel better… he’s going to “encourage” Ahmadinejad to set aside ambitions for nukes. Ahmadinejad has shown a real propensity for reason and compassion in the past, hasn’t he?
Iran has insisted its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity. But the U.S. and other Western governments accuse Tehran of seeking atomic weapons.
“What I do believe is that Iran has legitimate energy concerns, legitimate aspirations,” Obama said, adding that the international community also “has a very real interest” in preventing a nuclear arms race.
The president has indicated a willingness to seek deeper international sanctions against Tehran if it does not respond positively to U.S. attempts to open negotiations on its nuclear program. Obama has said Tehran has until the end of the year to show it wants to engage with Washington.
“Although I don’t want to put artificial time tables on that process, we do want to make sure that, by the end of this year, we’ve actually seen a serious process move forward. And I think that we can measure whether or not the Iranians are serious,” Obama said.
Sanctions? Oh yeah, now there’s a real threat. He doesn’t want to put artificial time tables on the process? Hello, Mr. Obama, there is a very real time table at play here, sir. When they have the bomb and an ability to deliver it, your options become few… but then I think you know that, and that’s what frightens me. Barack Obama seems to be saying to Iran, “Hurry up!” It makes his ability to throw up his hands and say, “Awwww well,” that much easier when Iran has the bomb.
“What we want to do is open a dialogue,” Obama told the BBC. “You know, there are misapprehensions about the West, on the part of the Muslim world. And, obviously, there are some big misapprehensions about the Muslim world when it comes to those of us in the West.”
Oh, here we go again. While the Muslim world has misapprehensions about the West, we in the West have “big” misapprehensions about the Muslim world. See, we’re just misguided racists over here. Guys like Ahmadinejad are human beings too and well, human beings are all wonderful at heart. Just ignore Ahmadinejad’s calls for the destruction of Israel and denials of the Holocaust. He’s simply misunderstood.
Barack Obama has shown an ability to recklessly abandon reality and reason when it comes to his world perspective. It seems America can do nothing right, sees nothing for what it is, and owes the whole of the world an apology. At the same time, hateful, miserable, petty despots of the world are held up as “legitimate”.
Congratulations America, we elected ourselves a guy that wants to put this country second, third or fourth behind the likes of Iran, North Korea and Venezuela. In this crazy pseudo reality, our ally Israel is the nation deemed illegitimate. Madness. Obama’s commitment seems to be rooted in reining in Israel while allowing Iran to run amok.
Obama sounded an optimistic note about making progress toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, although he offered no new ideas for how he might try to secure a freeze on new building of Israeli settlements. The United States has called for a freeze, but Israeli leaders have rejected that.
Uhmmm Barry, Israel isn’t stopping. Israel is running war drills at this very moment. Mr. President, I implore you to please, get a clue.
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: News.
Hopefully this thing will be dispatching Jihadists to Allah while leaving our soldiers safe in the cozy comfort of an airconditioned mobile command vehicle. Created by twin brothers in their mid 30s, the Ripsaw shows that it isn’t just the “military industrial complex” that has the ingenuity and know-how to build weapons which address the needs of our military in this ever changing world landscape. Well done brothers Howe!
Here is a video of the Ripsaw in action with a mobile command vehicle following behind. With unmatched maneuverability and a top speed of around 80mph, this sucker is looking like it might be the future of mechanized ground based warfare. It’s nice to see that the unit can be controlled from a mobile unit that might have a better battlefield perspective than the remote command centers that control aircraft such as the Predator.
Posted on June 1st, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News.
You could be moved to tears reading Michael Moore’s account of GM’s demise and the ruination of his home town of Flynt. Woe are the autoworkers and the families of Michigan. Who could have seen this coming? Nevermind that twenty years ago Michael Moore created “Roger and Me” a “documentary” about the demise of none other than Flynt Michigan. Did Mike think that there was going to be some kind of a robust BOOM in Flynt? Did he not garner from his own film that Flynt was a town in ruins? Apparently not.
As I sit here in GM’s birthplace, Flint, Michigan, I am surrounded by friends and family who are filled with anxiety about what will happen to them and to the town. Forty percent of the homes and businesses in the city have been abandoned. Imagine what it would be like if you lived in a city where almost every other house is empty. What would be your state of mind?
I don’t know Mike. Maybe after 20 years of watching my town be flat busted, I’d have moved myself and my family out of there and followed the 40% of the people that were REALISTS. Oh but hey, what am I saying? The people themselves have nothing to do with their lives, the blame rests solely with the heartless corporations… namely, GM.
So here we are at the deathbed of General Motors. The company’s body not yet cold, and I find myself filled with — dare I say it — joy. It is not the joy of revenge against a corporation that ruined my hometown and brought misery, divorce, alcoholism, homelessness, physical and mental debilitation, and drug addiction to the people I grew up with. Nor do I, obviously, claim any joy in knowing that 21,000 more GM workers will be told that they, too, are without a job.
But you and I and the rest of America now own a car company! I know, I know — who on earth wants to run a car company? Who among us wants $50 billion of our tax dollars thrown down the rat hole of still trying to save GM? Let’s be clear about this: The only way to save GM is to kill GM.
Yes, kill GM. Make it something tangible. Drive that stake into the heart of the beast! Make it into a scapegoat for all of the “misery, divorce, alcoholism, homelessness, physical and mental debilitation, and drug addiction” that has befallen people that worked for the auto giant. Nevermind that GM has sustained generations. Nothing good ever came out of GM. It just used people up, right Mike? Nevermind that GM buried itself in legacy costs that rendered it uncompetetive. I know, with proper management things would have been different. Of course that’s easy to say, seeing as we never got to witness the alternative… that is until now. Now we’ll see what liberal politicians know about running a couple of auto companies. I’m sure Ford, Toyota, Honda and Nissan are quaking in their boots. Since Obama hasn’t yet levitated, perhaps he can make a car that does?
In the end, Moore ends up stating that he saw this all coming 20 years ago… I wish he’d make up his mind. First it’s all GM’s fault that the people of Flynt are a tattered remnants of drug addled, booze addicted, wife beaters… and now he says in essence, I told you so?! So people that have been living in Flynt for the last 20 years are still VICTIMS? When do people have to take responsibility for themselves in Mr. Moore’s world? Is ten years enough? No. Fifteen? Nah. Twenty? Doesn’t seem so. In Moore’s world, there are only hapless dupes, evil corporations and juggernaut bureacracies.
Unfortunately, it’s more government that Mr. Moore seems to want. Nevermind that they’ve proved to be as inept as any corporation. He runs through a littany of “suggestions” that he feels should be considered given that he foresaw all of this… uh huh. Most of Mr. Moore’s suggestions seem to revolve around mass transit. Gee, just what free wheeling Americans want… to be bogged down on buses and trains. Yes, I’m sure that the people will be flocking to these transit options. Nevermind that in South Florida, Tri-Rail is nearly bankrupt. Ah, but Mike has this covered. See you get people out of their cars by TAXING THE HECK OUT OF GAS! Gee, there’s another novel idea… eh? Who else has spewed the old “tax it” line when it comes to gas? Gore, Kerry, the list of liberals intent on making the freedom of personal transport extinct in this country goes on, and on, and on. We should all be living in cities. We should all be crowded together like cattle. Leave the suburbs and the countryside to the animals, or the wealthy… like Mr. Moore. That’s what so irksome about what he suggests. This is the kind of socialistic rambling that you expect from garden variety liberals these days. We’re too dumb or too reckless to be FREE.
You can read Mr. Moore’s “letter” on his website. While he makes good points about outsourcing and the inferior products that GM has been manufacturing it all gets buried beneath his folksy blame game. It’s a shame that he can’t see that the relationship between GM and its workforce was unhealthy from both sides. Maybe his “documentaries” would be more readily accepted as factual if he took into consideration both sides of the topics he explores. Just a suggestion.
Posted on June 1st, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: News.
Come on. It’s enough already. Does the Obama Administration think that the Chinese government is as dumb as the American public? Apparently, as Obama keeps sending envoys to China to convince them that they shouldn’t believe what they read or trust their lying eyes. This week, it’s Timmy Geithner that is in China trying to convince the communist regime and bankroller of American debt, that all is well. It would be laughable if not for the fact that it’s so darn pathetic. Here we are, the United States of America, and we’re trying to convince CHINA that we’re worth the investment.
“Chinese assets are very safe,” Geithner said in response to a question after a speech at Peking University, where he studied Chinese as a student in the 1980s.
His answer drew loud laughter from his student audience, reflecting skepticism in China about the wisdom of a developing country accumulating a vast stockpile of foreign reserves instead of spending the money to raise living standards at home.
But later in the day, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan said it was important for the two nations to show the world they are working together through their joint economic dialogue.
“We must through our dialogue send a clear signal that China and the U.S. are engaged in practical cooperation to address the crisis,” Wang told Geithner.
Poor Tim Geithner, students are LAUGHING at the guy… but then China has little to laugh about as it finds itself in a position where it either sinks or swims depending on our ability to keep buying JUNK. Tim made sure that the Chinese had nothing to fear in the way of exporting the aforemention JUNK to our shores and onto the shelves of retail giants. At the same time in an effort to likely dissuade the Chinese from a move away from the dollar it seems that Team Obama is looking to make China a bigger economic player, offering it a larger role at the IMF.
Geithner offered U.S. backing for a higher-profile role for China in running global institutions including the IMF — a controversial proposition since it raises the sensitive issue of reducing Europe’s voting share in the global lender.
“The United States will fully support having China play a role in the principal cooperative arrangements that help shape the international system, a role that is commensurate with China’s importance in the global economy,” he said.
In words clearly intended to soothe Chinese concerns that its vibrant export economy might be targeted by U.S. lawmakers who are feeling pressure from soaring American joblessness, Geithner said the Obama administration would resist any such moves.
“As we go through the severe stresses of this crisis, we must not turn our backs on open trade and investment,” he said. “In return, we expect increased opportunities to export to and invest in the Chinese economy.”
Tim expects increased opportunities to export and invest in the Chinese economy? Wow, it seems that the Treasury Secretary is tragically naive when it comes to our relationship with the Chinese on an import/export basis. I’m sure that comment elicited laughter from the Chinese government. I’m wondering what we’d export to China anyway given that we don’t seem to manufacture anything.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s open mic night/amateur hour in the US government… and we’re all along for the ride.
Posted on June 1st, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News.
We knew it was coming. We knew that General Motors was going to go belly-up. It should have happened sooner rather than later. We have thrown good money after bad for far too long. GM should have been in bankruptcy a long, long, time ago. The company is in the hole for a reported amount of $173 BILLION DOLLARS. Excuse me? How is a company that owes $173 billion, VIABLE, in any sense of the word?
What’s even more amazing than the amount owed by GM however, are the galling comments that Barack Obama made about the bankruptcy. Apparently he wasn’t going to allow GM to become a welfare ward of the American taxpayer. Really? Then why the hell is he throwing another $30 billion at GM?! What do we get for the near $50 billion we’ve pumped into GM thus far? We get a 60% stake in a company that is WORTHLESS. To top it off, the government is going to be purchasing a fleet of vehicles from the “new” GM. No, no corporate welfare to be seen here… shuffle off. Is this guy for real?
I remember when Barack Obama said that he had no interest in running GM. Well, I think somebody missed the memo because while GM is closing plant after plant, it’s also going to open a new plant that will build small cars, apparently the smallest ever offered by the automaker. Seems to me that GM has gotten Obama’s message (more like mandate) loud and clear. Who is it that is going to buy these tiny vehicles? Have Americans shown a real interest in buying these micro vehicles that GM is set to start selling? No…. but hey, who cares, it’s not like GM is actually conducting BUSINESS. After all, when the US government is your sugar daddy, you really don’t have to worry about making something people want to BUY.
This is insanity. It’s time for conservatives and people that believe in CAPITALISM to walk away from every company currently taking money from this government. We cannot REWARD these companies for their failures by buying what they’re selling. These are not American enterprises be they banks, insurance companies or automakers. Abandon them wholesale. You might be stuck with a bank for your mortgage, but you can move investments, insurance policies, retirement funds, checking/savings accounts from these parasitic companies and reward those companies that are conducting a quality business.
Sorry for the rant, but I am enraged by these developments. That Barack Obama would pretend that GM is not still on the government dole because of this bankruptcy filing is an OUT AND OUT lie. We are now in deeper than ever. Make no mistake about it.