Friday, October 09, 2009

Wearing it like a Sommelier


Dan from New York:

All kidding aside, Mr. Obama should feel right at home when he's presented with that shiny medal. Maybe he'll start wearing it around his neck all the time - like a sommelier.

2009: Barack Hussein Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize. Former recipients include:

2005: MOHAMED ELBARADEI (joint winner). He's done such a nice job with Iran.

2004: WANGARI MAATHAI. The Kenyan ecologist peacefully teaches that the AIDS virus is a biological agent deliberately created by the Man.

2002: JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America. A true cosmopolitan, he has undermined the foreign policy of his own country and vouched for the bona fides of tyrants and murderers all over the world. Gave the Ayatollahs their big break.

2001: UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA. KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General. Among other things, they have respectively served as the vehicle for, and presided over, one of the biggest scams in history.

1994: YASSER ARAFAT (joint winner), Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority. A cold-blooded murderer both before and after receiving the award.

1992: RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM, Guatemala. She is the notorious Guatemalan faker and author, sort of, of I, Rigoberta Menchu.

1988: THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A. Notwithstanding rapes and sex abuse committed by the team in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and the Congo, still doing fine work all over the world.
Nobel Fun Factoid: This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner (Our Esteemed President, peace be upon him) recently refused to meet with the winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama, in an attempt to suck up to China.





Best of the Stunned Obama Nobel Prize Reactions


CBullitt: Jack Squat Wins Nobel



Hot Air:

Two key White House aides were both convinced they were being punked when they heard the news, reported ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos.

“It’s not April 1, is it?” one said.



Vanderleun: There He Is.... Miss-ter A-MER-I-CA!: Nobel Committee Now Officially Not Worth the Dynamite It Would Take to Blow Them Away:

Accomplishments are not the only thing that's a bit fuzzy about this "moment." Here's a screen shot of the Nobel announcement page at 3:07:

Rather symbolic, isn't it?

Somewhere in the private quarters of the White House, two people are having a big, big laugh.

But not, I fear, the last laugh in this rolling farce.



Gateway Pundit: ARAFAT-- CARTER-- GORACLE-- OBAMA:



No Quarter: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize for wanting world peace:

Other candidates for consideration include:

Miss Teen South Carolina - For her desire to provide the US Americans, South Africans and The Iraq with maps.



Jules Crittenden: Peace in our time (commenter Fatty Bolger):

Confirmed! Here’s the leaked text of Obama being notified by IM that he is the recipient of the Peace Prize:

Emanuel: HLY F U GOT TEH MF PC PRIZ
Obama: HUH?
Emanuel: U GOT NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Obama: SRSLY?
Emanuel: YAH
Obama: WTF?




Progressive Douchebag Watch: I will always remember what I was doing when I heard that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize: Taking a Crap


New York Daily News: In one fell swoop, the Nobel Prize jury just made a mockery of the world's most revered honor


Barry Rubin: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize--What More Do You Need to Know to Understand Today's World?:

...I checked over and over and over again on the Internet and called up several people just to make sure that this wasn’t a satire, that some new type of computer virus hadn’t infiltrated my software that would make fools of anyone credulous enough to believe this hoax.

And then I realized that it makes perfect sense.

It was considered a big joke when people quoted Woody Allen, the American comedian and film director, as saying, that showing up is eighty percent of success. (Allen says he doesn’t remember ever having said that.) With Obama the percentage is considerably higher.



BlogProf: The Nobel Peace Prize Is Dead To Me



Michelle's Mirror: World Readership



Antiwar: Bizarro Peace Prize Awarded to Obama


No Pasaran: The Nobel Peace Prize: Finally, the Apologizer-in-Chief Gets Returns on His Denigration of America



Jammie Wearing Fool:

A commenter at Ace of Spades gave us a great idea. Start stuffing the ballot, folks. In fact, from this day forward, for any online contest, be sure to nominate/vote for Obama just as a means of showing what a joke his "peace" prize is.



Don Surber: Nobel for Obama ties him with Carter and Al Gore


Jules Crittenden: One Other Thought


Ace: Top Ten Candidates Who Almost Won the Nobel Prize:






Sad Old Goth



Sondrak



Dr. John




Hat tips: Larwyn and Memeorandum.

Obama wins Masters, too!


Ben sent this one in.



Larwyn's Linx: Congress’ Secret Plan to Pass Obamacare - CONFIRMED

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Nation

WTF?? Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize?: Riehl
One Page: GOP Consensus Bill For Health Reform: Ace
Fraudulent Art in the White House?: Snapped Shot

Congress’ Secret Plan to Pass Obamacare - CONFIRMED: Foundry
Dems to start funding ACORN in November: GWP
Corzine: I suck as governor, but Christie is fat: BlogProf

The Victimhood Hierarchy -or- Leftist Food Chain: Sanity
You can stop a Pelosi Democrat on November 3rd!: Riehl
Corzine's Hilarious Ethnic Jokes: NRO

Obama’s health care writer turns on Obamacare: Surber

Economy

Pelosi 2003: "Where are the jobs, Mr. President?": Wizbang
Sound Banking: a Capitalist Imperative: Denninger
Baucus Fantasy Plan: Sharp Increase in Taxes: GWP

Obama's Stimulus for Unions: STACLU
We Are Now the Biggest Keynesians in the World: Corner
Spending a trillion to save billions: Surber

How The Fate Of The Equity Market Lies In A $8,000 Tax Credit: ZeroHedge
Baucus fantasy plan to result in dramatically higher taxes: GWP

Media

White House vows to fight back against media: JWF
Gateway Pundit had a very good September: GWP
CBS: Deficit, Passive-Voice, Tripled from 2008 to 2009, Apparently Without Human Intervention: Ace

Art, imitation, and the Obamas: Malkin
Pro-Abortion Olbermann: How can we not be unified against death?: BlogProf

“Safe School Czar” Backs Teaching Gay Sex Acts To Kids: GrandRants

Climate & Energy

Today's proof of global warming: Surber

World

Excuse Mongering Again: Rubin
Genius: Captain Wonderful's New Solution for Afghanistan Has 7% Percent Support: Ace
We knew about Qom since 2006: Rubin

Broken Arm? NHS will fix it in 10 months. Maybe: Surber
Fiasco: Authors of the 2007 Iran NIE have some explaining to do: WSJ

Sci-Tech

Pocket Nukes: JWF
The bra that doubles as a gas mask: HappyHosp
Honda Chief: "Hyundai is awesome.": AutoBlog

Cornucopia

Daily Scoreboard: Surber
A Bold and Modern White House: Crittenden

Thursday, October 08, 2009

Welcome to Zimbabwe: World Economic Forum ranks U.S. financial stability 38th, currency stability 50th globally


The Democrats' game plan is working. They've already tripled the deficit, they're desperately trying to nationalize one-fifth of the economy with trillions more in spending and they're not done yet.

Economists are not pleased. The World Economic Forum has issued its 2009 Financial Development Report (PDF) and the news for the United States is decidedly poor.

...the impact of the systemic risk potentially created by some of these activities is captured only in the financial stability pillar; the United States achieves very low scores in overall financial stability (38th)...

Particular disadvantages are evident in currency stability (50th) and banking stability (36th) measures. The banking system in general also exhibits signs of weakness, with relatively lower scores in size (21st) and efficiency (26th).

Potential areas of improvement in the institutional environment include the strength of auditing and reporting requirements (25th), the regulation of securities exchanges (29th), and public trust of politicians (26th).

Trust in politicians? I didn't know an instrument existed that could measure trustworthiness in the likes of Pelosi, Reid and Obama.

Welcome to the third world, courtesy of the outstanding leadership of the National Socialist Democrat Party.


Linked by: InstaPundit, Gateway Pundit and Mark Levin. Thanks!

Obama Snafu: "More troops? Who knew?"


Oh, for the love of...

Oh Dear God...Obama Didn't Know COIN Meant More Troops?


One of the confusing things about Obama's hesitancy about adding troops to Afghanistan is that many thought this was settled back in March when the Administration announced a comprehensive new strategy focusing on Counter Insurgency (COIN).

Turns out, Obama and his team had no clue what they were agreeing to at the time.

That conclusion, which was later endorsed by the president and members of his national security team, would become the first in a set of recommendations contained in an administration white paper outlining what Obama called "a comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan." Preventing al-Qaeda's return to Afghanistan, the document stated, would require "executing and resourcing an integrated civilian-military counterinsurgency strategy."

To senior military commanders, the sentence was unambiguous: U.S. and NATO forces would have to change the way they operated in Afghanistan. Instead of focusing on hunting and killing insurgents, the troops would have to concentrate on protecting the good Afghans from the bad ones.

And to carry out such a counterinsurgency effort the way its doctrine prescribes, the military would almost certainly need more boots on the ground.

To some civilians who participated in the strategic review, that conclusion was much less clear. Some took it as inevitable that more troops would be needed, but others thought the thrust of the new approach was to send over scores more diplomats and reconstruction experts. They figured a counterinsurgency mission could be accomplished with the forces already in the country, plus the 17,000 new troops Obama had authorized in February.

Turns out some of the big brains on Team Obama thought it meant more diplomats and aid workers...you know, the community organizers of the government. Yes, those elements are part of COIN but they come after the military operations...Clear, Hold, Build. You can't send in reconstruction teams to areas where the enemy is running wild or can come back and destroy what you have created.

Now they are stuck with the reality of what their strategy announcement meant and are lost.

Were any of these idiots paying attention to the last 3 or so years in Iraq? Is there anyone who pays the least bit of attention to the news who doesn't know the general outline of modern day COIN methods? Of course Obama isn't just anyone, no he's the smartest, most deliberate thinker ever. Hell, he was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker gave their presentations about the Iraq 'surge'.

Maybe he would have paid more attention to this if he thought COIN and reconstruction efforts had some contracts that could be directed to his friends at ACORN.

If this story is true, it is criminal incompetence.

It's C. O. I. N.

He thought it meant: it's Community Organizers I Need.

And, after all, aren't the Taliban the ultimate community organizers?


Linked by: Don Surber. Thanks! Hat tip: Dan from New York.

To Err Is Human: The Journal's House Liberal


Dan from New York:

The Wall Street Journal (bless ‘em) upholds an affirmative action policy on its editorial pages and keeps one column reserved for a liberal - regardless of merit. Owing to the overwhelming leftward bias of our nation’s media, demand must be high and recruits must be scarce in this writing category because those who’ve taken the job have been intellectual mediocrities, even by liberal standards (sic).

For years the fort was held down by Al Hunt, whose writing crackled with cynicism, anger and bitterness – and that was on days he wasn’t hung over. The Journal finally threw Hunt overboard a few years ago and mercifully left the slot vacant until the spring of ’08, when I assume they felt the need to have a “liberal voice” in place for the election, and hired Thomas Frank to write left-leaning cogitations (once every other week).

No doubt, Frank had much to recommend him: a proven track record for keeping his finger on the pulse of liberalism. Frank managed to turn a standard-issue Upper West Side wisecrack – What’s The Matter With Kansas? – into a book-length explanation of why folks from the fly-over are too dumb to vote their interests. Pure genius.

Well, the election has come and gone, but Frank still has his Dow Jones laptop. In case you’ve managed to live without his comedy stylings until now, the headline and subhead of today’s composition tell you all you need to know about Frank and the topsy-turvy world he’s trapped in. Health Care and the 'Predator State' It is corporate power, not the government, that we need to worry about.

Thomas Frank versus John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison... gee, that's not a tough call.

Al Gore's 4th Annual Carbon-Offset Going-out-of-Business Sale!



Ha. Mah name is Al Gore. You've heard me talk before about the dangers of global warming.

Put simply, humans have destroyed the Earth. While some blame cow toots and others point to solar storms, I know for a fact that the Chevy Impala behind me -- and millions of vehicles like it -- are solely, completely responsible for warming the Earth.

Scientists tell us that over the next five years, sea levels will rise by as much as three hundred feet.

When that happens, millions of folks like you and me will have to leave their Malibu beach homes and migrate to the Midwest. Yes. They'll have to immigrate to... ... ... Red states. No tofu. No pet spas. And lots of pickup trucks with gun racks. Oh, the humanity.

And look at the glaciers behind me. Never, in the history of the world, have glaciers melted before. Never! Not even after the last ice age!

And, within the next five years, the entire world will be a barren desert reminiscent of Barack Obama's college transcripts. Uhm, except for the parts that are completely underwater. Which will also be... ...a lot.

And anyone who says otherwise is an unscientific crackpot that should be... slaughtered like a baby seal --er-- I mean like a money-grubbing, capitalist.

Scientists have also proven that humans caused Hurricane Katrina to explode out of the gulf with a fury never seen before, not even in Galveston, Texas.

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Congressional Lost & Found


Can you help return these items to their rightful owners? They were found in the Capitol:

FOUND: On the Republican Side of the Aisle

"GI Joe" Force RECON Marine

"GI Joe" Force RECON Marine Includes: USA flag; belt-fed, man-portable automatic weapon; Javelin anti-tank weapon; NATO-style back-back; M1911 .45 caliber sidearm and nine spare magazines.

FOUND: On the Democratic side of the Aisle

"GI Jacques" French-speaking UN Soldier

"GI Jacques" French-speaking UN Soldier Includes: Guide book ("How to Surrender in 44 Languages including Arabic and Farsi"), white flag, laminated pinup photograph of Yassar Arafat and extra pair of underwear.

Porsche's Stimulus: Budget Boxster


4 Wheel News reports that Porsche may introduce a "budget" vehicle to compete in the new economy.

...the German manufacturer is now a step closer in producing its own version of the Volkswagen Bluesport Concept unveiled in January at the Detroit Auto Show.

For those who don’t know, the Bluesport is a two-seater, mid-engined roadster, powered by a 2.0-litre diesel engine which promises to make quite a buzz if will be produced. The new model developed by Porsche will be cheaper that the Boxster and according to our sources it represents a top priority for the firm...

Fire Nancy Pelosi: 1 of 204,997


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