Thursday, December 09, 2010

Non-profit, 'apolitical' Media Matters beclowns itself again: accuses Fox of 'spin' for calling government-run health care government-run

There are two hilarious aspects to the non-smoking gun, non-story advertised by the Marxist nuts at Soros Matters. First -- the background:

The latest meme among the legions of lefty Fox-haters is that FNC "distorted" or "skewed" the ObamaCare debate by instructing employees to call the "public option" the "government option" or some variation of that. The horror!

Of course none of the Fox-haters uttered a word of criticism when National Public Radio officially instructed employees to drop the "pro-life" and "pro-choice" labels in favor of "abortion rights opponent" and "abortion rights advocate," labels that clearly frame the debate favorably for the pro-choice position (who wants someone's rights denied them, after all?).

Hilarious aspect #1: every crackpot Leftist blog including the seventh-tier, incoherent "Zandar vs. Himself" jumped on this story as if it were Watergate.

However, even Time Magazine and Salon agree: Media Matters consists of a small cabal of Statist losers who seek to destroy this society and are willing to make up stories from whole cloth to advance their Marxist agenda.

I'm paraphrasing, of course.

Just a hint for Zandar: when Time and Salon are aligned against you -- and the story has only the imprimatur of Soros Matters behind it -- run. Run like the wind.

The second hilarious aspect: the Daily Beast -- not exactly a bastion of conservative thought -- offered the best take on the media's use of various phrasing alternatives.

Other news organizations periodically described the plan as government-run or used the terms interchangeably [and] news executives routinely offer guidance about proper wording in news stories...

Precisely. The New York Times, the vanguard of Leftist agenda journalism, routinely makes up entire news stories: witness the John McCain-lobbyist 'affair' and Al Qaqaa hit pieces, to name but two.

If you're a reporter, using Soros Matters to source a story is akin to giving your teenage son a fifth of Cuervo and the keys to the Porsche. A lot of things can happen -- and all of them are bad.

Which explains Keith Olbermann, among others.


Curious: First Impeachment Since President Clinton's Trial Results in Conviction of Federal Judge Appointed By... President Clinton

Yesterday the Associated Press described the fate of another member of the Clinton Crime Family™, one of the few who hasn't fled the country or simply -- eh -- "disappeared"*.

The Senate on Wednesday convicted U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous of Louisiana on four articles of impeachment, making him just the eighth federal judge in history to be removed by Congress.

...two attorneys who once worked with Porteous had testified that they gave him thousands of dollars in cash, including about $2,000 stuffed in an envelope in 1999, just before Porteous decided a major civil case in their client's favor. They also said they paid for meals, trips and part of a bachelor party for one of Porteous' sons in Las Vegas, including a lap dance at a strip club.

Another witness, New Orleans bail bondsman Louis Marcotte, described a long-standing relationship in which Marcotte and his employees routinely took Porteous to lavish meals at French Quarter restaurants, repaired his automobiles, washed and filled his cars with gas, and took him on trips. In return, Porteous manipulated bond amounts for defendants to give Marcotte the highest fees possible, said Marcotte, who served 18 months in prison on related corruption charges.

...The case was the first impeachment trial since the 1999 proceedings against President Clinton...

Try to contain your shock.


* Please refer to "The Clinton Legacy"

Larwyn's Linx: A Guide to the Loss of Your Rights

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Nation

A Guide to the Loss of Your Rights: FlopAce
Harry, We Hardly Knew Ye: JOM
Obama Begs Supporters to, Uh...Support Him: Ace

DREAM Act Nightmare Passes House: Malkin
Holder, Vilsack Claim They'll Fight Pigford Reparations Fraud: GWP
Reparations? When Pigford Flies: IBD

Economy

The Small Business Killer: Unemployment 'Benefits': Malkin
A Ceiling on the Government's Share: Glittering Eye
The School Lunch Program -- More Harm Than Good: RWN

Obama uses labor board to revive Card Check: Tapscott
Carnival of Crony Capitalism: Wizbang
Pensions Troubles Getting Some Attention: RWN

The Economic Legacy of the Four-Year Democratic Congress: AT
FDA Will Cut Off 17,000 Women From Lifesaving Drug: RWN
Social Security: Successful Failure: AT

Climate & Energy

Another publication discovers U.S. on verge of energy independence without green fuels: Tapscott
Climate Predictions Come Up Short (As Usual): Patterico
WikiLeaks Cables Confirm Worst Fears of Climate Skeptics: PJM

Media

Trevor Loudon, Commie Slayer: iOTW
The 'Islamophobia' myth: Jacoby
Olbermann's 'Measly Crumbs': Belmont Club

Food Fights: Sarah Palin vs. the Liberals: Ace
Obama’s base starts to catch up with the rest of us: Treacher
The Daily Kos Reaction To Obama Cutting A Deal On Taxes: RWN

Meet Michael J. Copps, control freak on steroids: Wizbang
The Obama/Republican Tax Compromise: Should Conservatives Support It?: RWN
They’re Socialists, All Right: RWN

World

Student Day in Iran: Surprise! They Don’t Like the Regime: Ledeen
Why Do Poor People Remain Poor?: Stossel
Good News From WikiLeaks: Sky is Falling in Iran, North Korea: PJM

George Soros: Combination of Fox, Beck, Tea Party Has America on “Verge of Becoming Dictatorial Democracy”: WZ
Hamas TV: Allah, Kill Christians, Jews And Communists “To The Last One”: WZ
Wikileaks: WMD program existed in Iraq prior to US invasion: Examiner

SciTech

Stuxnet: It's the real thing, baby: Ricks
Can you really see who viewed your Facebook profile? Rogue application spreads virally: Sophos
WikiLeak Supporters Declare Cyberwar on Palin, Others: LegalIns

Cornucopia

Liquor Ads are Fun, and Amazingly Creative: Killing Time
Ace still stuck at #51 along with Ahmet, Jugdish, Sydney, and Clayton: Ace
Richard Burton reads Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem 'The Leaden Echo & The Golden Echo' :AmDigest

Image: Bomb blast outside a Hindu temple in India (Maktoob)
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Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Walking Back the Wildcat

This is one of Iran's medium-range missiles, which it is placing on Venezuelan soil according to a November 25, 2010 report in Die Welt.

The same report asserts that Venezuela will permit Iran to open a military facility staffed with Iranian missile officers and soldiers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Medium-range missiles launched from this base could reach cities in the United States; a likely first-strike scenario involves the detonation of EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) weapons over the continental U.S.

Where did Iran get such sensitive missile guidance and avionics technologies? Western intelligence services pin the blame on China, which reportedly sold the Mullahs the Nasr-1, -2 and other missile technologies.

These missiles are now mass-produced by Iran, but were "originally developed and built in China, and have been advertised as being in service with the Chinese armed forces."

Missile technologies are only part of the problem. This is an Iranian defector, the former diplomat Mohammad Reza Heydari. He and others report that North Korea has collaborated with Iran on the design of nuclear weapons, including warhead design techniques.

This is a Pyongyang military parade that took place in October. The military dictatorship has become increasingly belligerent since it detonated a small fission weapon and demonstrated increasing expertise with missile guidance systems.

And where did North Korea get its nuclear- and missile-guidance technologies? Experts point to China, with scientists stating that, "[t]here is no possibility of North Korea achieving what nuclear capability it has without Chinese help."

It is worth asking: how did Red China move so quickly to acquire sophisticated missile guidance and other avionic technologies?

In 1998, in an unprecedented repudiation of the wishes of numerous defense and intelligence officials, President William J. Clinton signed a waiver allowing a sophisticated Loral satellite to be launched into orbit by a Chinese rocket.

Why would Clinton sign such a waiver when it risked allowing sophisticated weapons guidance technology to fall into Chinese hands? In fact, Loral would later plead "no contest to a long list of U.S. national security violations, including the unauthorized transfer of missile guidance technology to the Chinese army."

This is Clinton with the chairman of Loral, Bernard L. Schwartz, who coincidentally was the largest single donor to the entire Democrat Party in 1997.

Clinton repeatedly met with and entertained other Democrat contributors -- several of whom turned out to be operatives of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Exactly what they got for their money remains unknown to the general public.

That is because full investigative report of the Clinton administration's actions is embodied in The Cox Report, the complete version of which is still classified "Top Secret". Its summary, however, is enough to send chills down the reader's spine: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has stolen design information on the United States’ most advanced thermonuclear weapons.

In short, Clinton and the Democrats allowed sensitive technologies to escape to China. Later they rippled from China to rogue terror states like Iran and North Korea.

Thus, thanks in large part to the wanton greed and criminality of the Democrat National Committee and Bill Clinton, subsequent generations of Americans will be needlessly exposed to the risk of rogue regimes gaining access to America's most sensitive nuclear and missile guidance secrets.

"The missile technology passed by Loral and Hughes to the Chinese army has matured into a nuclear-tipped monster called the DF-31, which can waste whole American cities in a blinding flash of nuclear hell... ...the results of years of abuse during the 1990s remain with us well into the 21st century." -- (source)

Evil is on the march--evil aided and abetted by the Clinton administration, just one in a series of disastrous Democrat presidencies.


Linked by: Michelle Malkin, NewsReal and BizzyBlog. Thanks!

One Chart To Rule Us All

Using data from the Office of Personnel Management, I generated the following graph that depicts the number of federal employees, year by year, since 1940. I purposely omitted the Department of Defense, which it turns out is actually a legitimate function of the federal government.

Some striking observations:

• The raw growth in bureaucrats during Barack Obama's first year in office appears to be the largest since WWII.

• How did we ever survive before the Department of Transportation was created in the sixties?

• Are there really 100,000 Agriculture Department employees and, if so, what the hell are they doing?

• It would appear that we now have about 175,000 Homeland Security employees, yet we can't seem to secure the border with Mexico.

• Is anyone else curious about the roughly 300,000 employees marked "Other"?

A federal employee, fully loaded, runs about $100,000 annually -- more in the DC area. In rough terms, every 100,000 federal bureaucrats excised from the federal trough would cut $100 billion annually from the deficit. As Martin Lawrence used to say: "get to steppin'".

It's time to slash and privatize large swaths of this unaccountable bureaucracy that grows uncontrollably in good times and bad.

President Obama Lambastes Democrats in Congress for Holding the "American People Hostage" to Tax Cuts for the Rich

In yesterday's press conference, President Obama showed flashes of anger -- not about terrorism, North Korea or unemployment, but about the halfhearted criticism he's receiving from the professional Left.

I've said before that I felt that the middle-class tax cuts were being held hostage to the high-end tax cuts. I think it's tempting not to negotiate with hostage-takers, unless the hostage gets harmed. Then people will question the wisdom of that strategy. In this case, the hostage was the American people and I was not willing to see them get harmed.

Because Democrats hold super-majorities in both houses of Congress, the hostage-takers he's describing must be members of his own party.

This is not a situation in which I have failed to persuade the American people of the rightness of our position. I know the polls. The polls are on our side on this. We weren't operating from a position of political weakness with respect to public opinion.

So why not pass whatever you want with your super-majorities?

Oh, and concerning the fact that he's been forced to "compromise" (as opposed to capitulate, which is what most Americans would prefer), Obama used the following analogy -- roughly equivalent to having Michael Moore serve as a spokesman for Weightwatchers.

This is why FDR, when he started Social Security, it only affected widows and orphans. You did not qualify. And yet now it is something that really helps a lot of people. When Medicare was started, it was a small program. It grew.

And now they're bankrupt. In 2008 the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas estimated Social Security's unfunded liability at $14 trillion and those of Medicare at $86 trillion.

And that was before the meltdown.

These unfunded liabilities must either be repaid or defaulted upon. This is the infernal choice that Democrats have laid at the feet of our children and grandchildren.

The longer we wait to act, the more disastrous the effects upon our nation.

And one other thought: everything the President has said and done in the last two-plus years has been wrong. Everything. Gird your loins.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

Larwyn's Linx: Post-partisan president 'itching for a fight'

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Nation

Post-partisan president 'itching for a fight': Pundette
Which Crimes Get a Pass Under the 'DREAM' Act?: Malkin
DREAM Act Uses Children as Pawns: IBD

Reid Trying to Jam Amnesty and Card Check Through Now: RWN
Reeding Iz Phun-Duh-Mentull: Wizbang
Unbelievable: Obamacare Lobbyist Runs for RNC Chairmanship: GWP

Economy

An Unmitigated Disaster: MaxedOutMama
San Fransisco Fed: Stimulus Was A Huge Waste: RWN
'Tax Cut' Rhetoric Doesn't Cut It: Sowell

Crony Car Capitalism: AT
Levin: Tax Deal Is a Bad Deal: TRS
DeMint comes out against tax deal: Caller

Climate & Energy

Cancun's Climate Crock: AT
Eco-nuts try for big payoff with Lame Duck bonanza: WashExam
Rockefeller eyes omnibus to block EPA climate rules: Hill

Supreme Court to Hear Global Warming Case: AT
Ecokooks: Plants Should Be Able to Sue: RWN
What happened to the 'warmest year on record': The truth is global warming has halted: Daily Mail (UK)

Media

Meet the FCC Commissioner who wants to control the news: Caller
For Media, 'Birthers' Are Big News; Socialists, Not So Much : NewsBusters
Mr. Lonely: Belmont Club

When Liberal Democrats Attack: Pundit Press
FCC push to regulate news draws fire: Hill
Elizabeth Edwards, R.I.P.: Malkin

Hillary's Bad Hair Week: AT
By 6-to-1 Margin, Networks Paint Debate Over 'Tax Cuts,' Not Raising Rates: NewsBusters
Obama Pal Bill Ayers Outraged After Someone Says He Renounced Violence: WZ

World

Perfect: Muslim Brotherhood Front Group Trains Airport Screeners: Hair
The Third War on Terror: AT
Revealing Crime Stats in Denmark: TAB

Why the Senate Should Reject the New START: AT
Obama Officials Now Referring to Hezbollah Terrorist Organization As the “Armed Resistance”: GWP
Obama Administration Gives Up On Pointless "Freeze" Diplomacy: BRubin

Obama Calls Republicans “Hostage Takers” Over Taxes While American Citizens Are Being Held Hostage In Iran: Glob
Muslim Exchange Student Sent Home After Writing ‘Death to America’ On Classroom Board: WZ
UK Obamacare Update: British mom dies of cancer while waiting 3 month for CT scan: BlogProf

SciTech

7 Programming Languages on the Rise: InfoWorld
Samsung Gloria to be a 10-inch Windows 7 tablet with slide-out keyboard?: Engadget
Special Forces Units Ignore Memo, Save Lives: BMW

Cornucopia

The Derby: Vimeo
Rise and Fall of Hope and Change: iMaksim
Grandma Got Molested at the Airport: Ruby Slippers

Image: Barking Crayon
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

'This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow...'

"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." -- Barack Obama, 3 June 2008

In the late nineties, members of the UN's International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were tasked with assessing the scientific validity of the Kyoto Protocol.

The Protocol was an international emissions reduction treaty which required signatories to cut overall greenhouse gas emissions.

The IPCC subsequently produced the Special Report on Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry.

The report found that "carbon offsets" and "carbon trading" were viable ways to barter the right to pollute, because they would fund new forestry initiatives.

But one critical detail was never disclosed in the report.

That is: members of the IPCC, such as Pedro Moura-Costa (above) and Gareth Philips, had major conflicts-of-interest. They owned, created and/or worked for businesses -- such as Ecosecurities and SGS Forestry -- that would directly profit from the report's conclusions.

In fact, the IPCC panel members' companies were positioned to earn millions of dollars from the report. But the mainstream media did not report these conflicts and instead piled on the "global warming" and "carbon offset" bandwagons.

The carbon offset market quickly exploded. And, just as quickly, it became the subject of rampant allegations of fraud.

In 2009 the market was estimated to be $100 billion; it was so rife with questionable trading that the United Nations suspended the world's largest auditor of 'clean-energy' projects.

Put simply, a wide range of respected scientists, environmentalists, researchers, agriculturalists, and activists believe that carbon offsets are a "scam", "fantasy", "fiction", "nonsense", "fraudulent" and worse. And they've been saying so since 2000, though to read the daily fish-wrap you wouldn't know it.

The World Rainforest Movement, for example, investigated these bizarre financial ties and concluded that the IPCC report must "...be shelved due to their clear conflict of interest and a new report instigated which will be free of the taint of intellectual corruption."

To demonstrate the fraudulence of the carbon offset market, one need only request quotes from various carbon offset sellers. The price for offseting a flight from London to Toronto and back?
  • $85: from Climate Care (UK), which says 6 tons of CO2 must be offset.
  • $60: Carbon Neutral (UK), which says 4.3 tons of CO2 must be offset.
  • $195: Climate Friendly (Australia) asserts that 11.63 tons of CO2 must be offset.
  • $180: Green Seat (Netherlands) says 8.68 tons of CO2 must be offset.
Executive Summary: they're all making it up as they go along.

Whether you believe the world is warming or cooling, there is no arguing Democrats want more expensive energy for American citizens.

All that said, the real problem — and the reason Pelosi really does deserve blame — is that Democrats’ political goal of reducing carbon emissions continues to trump their populist rhetoric on gasoline prices. The two stances are impossible to reconcile. Try as they might to blame oil companies for the pain Americans feel at the pump, the Democrats want higher prices for gasoline — and for all forms of energy that emit carbon. Economic barriers against CO2 emissions are a requirement for environmental progress in the Democrats’ view, and this is the entire purpose of the carbon cap-and-trade system... to create economic disincentives for emitting CO2.

Because of the falsity of its premise, cap-and-trade is intended to do one thing: allow Democrats to control industrial policy.

It all comes back to carbon offsets, which represent the currency for the "global warming" scam promoted by the UN's IPCC and the Democrat Statists in Washington.

Whether it's through unelected bureaucrats at the EPA, outright cap-and-trade, or John Kerry's 'compromise' climate plan, the economic toll on Americans will be devastating. Even in the latter case, estimated GDP losses of $2.1 trillion and consumer electricity price increases of up to 42% are estimated in less than two decades' time.

Democrats want to control your life. Your health. Your private property. And they really don't care what kind of scam they use to justify it.



Can You Spell 'Delusional'? Leftist Media Pillories President Obama For Not Being Sufficiently Marxist; Kucinich Could Challenge in Primary

It would appear that the man who nationalized two auto companies; took over the student loan business; rang up $3.5 trillion in new deficit spending; orchestrated socialized medicine; controls most of the financial sector; and will regulate school vending machines isn't sufficiently Statist for the Soros-Democrat Party. Oh, it's not just me saying that. It's the Soros-Democrats themselves:

• "On the way to a failed presidency?" (Washington Post)
On the way? Holy shnikeys.

• A comment at Paul Krugman's latest secretion -- recommended by 156 readers -- laments the lack of a tax hike and its author waxes poetic, albeit pathetically: "I wish Obama would resign, With me his departure'd be fine, To keep my comment terse, Biden couldn't be worse, And is likely to be less benign." Oh, my.

• Little Dick Durbin: "Dems could 'walk out' on tax-cut deal"

• World's Dumbest Blogger: "we’re ... already looking forward to the day when the hole in the budget blown by the Bush tax cuts becomes rhetorical justification for spending cuts that undue [sic] the stimulative impact of the good ideas in here"
Suddenly dumbs*** is worried about a "hole in the budget". The Democrat House under Speaker Pelosi has added $5 trillion in deficit spending over the last four years alone. How's that "stimulative impact" working out from those five trillion wasted dollars, dumbs***?

• And, predictably, the Kos Krackpots are freaking: "The progressive rebellion to the deal is spreading. You can join it by signing our petition in support of the rebels here.".
Help 'em out and sign the petition.

Okay, I just made up that part about Dennis Kucinich offering a primary challenge to President Obama.

But I do think that Dennis would make an awesome presidential candidate for the Democrats.


DHS wants you to report suspicious activity at Wal-Mart, except for anything remotely related to illegal immigration

If you were going to create a sit-com about national security, could you do any better than starting with the walking character actress known as Janet NapoliReno?

“Big Brother” is very busy these days — and so is Big Sister. From the Department of Homeland Security website:

Washington, D.C. – Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the expansion of the Department’s national “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign to hundreds of Walmart stores across the country-launching a new partnership between DHS and Walmart to help the American public play an active role in ensuring the safety and security of our nation.

"Homeland security starts with hometown security, and each of us plays a critical role in keeping our country and communities safe," said Secretary Napolitano. "I applaud Walmart for joining the ‘If You See Something, Say Something' campaign. This partnership will help millions of shoppers across the nation identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to law enforcement authorities."

Now when you’re in line at Walmart in the coming months, as if the screaming babies, unattended kids, guy who hasn’t showered since the Nixon administration and a variety of disgruntled shoppers weren’t enough, you’ll also be subjected to... friendly announcement[s] from the Department of Homeland Security.

Let's reset: 80-year old nuns are getting full-body pat-downs at the airport... your shopping cart will be monitored for non-recyclable sacks, but when it comes to millions of illegals streaming over the border each year, Napolitano and Obama are curiously silent.

The Democrat Party must be politically nuked from orbit in 2012. It's the only way to be sure.


Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.

Larwyn's Linx: WikiLeaks Founder Assange Arrested in UK

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Nation

Is the DREAM Act DOA?: RWN
WikiLeaks Founder Assange Arrested in UK: WashExam
Obama Caught Cooking the Books on Deportations: Patterico

Ding-Dong, the Hillary Clinton Era is...: LegalIns
Power Corrupts: AT
NY-1: Judge Reviews Ballots--Illegal Democrat Voting Suspected: RWN

Economy

Deal With the Devil: Malkin
Hey, Let's Bankrupt Social Security!: Surber
Figures: Fed has $110B Problem With New Benjamins: WZ

Let the Triangulation Begin!: Ace
Liberal Math: Hanson
Staggering Medicaid Fraud: Wolf Files

Put Uncle Sam on an Allowance: AT
Obama caves -- Bush tax cuts remain: GWP
Even Obama’s debt panel doesn’t buy Obamacare: Pethokoukis

Climate & Energy

Idiocy Alert: UN says illegal immigration caused by global warming: GWP
Eco-Diplomacy, The Chicago Way: IBD
WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord: Guardian (UK)

Media

FCC Commissioner Wants to Control the Content of Broadcast Media: AT
Mark Halperin: Obama Will Need Some "Luck" To Become Popular Again, You Know, Like A Terror Attack: Ace
“Obama and the State of Progressivism, 2011″: ProWis

Me & Mrs. Sherrod -- And The $1.25 Billion Pigford II Black Farmers' Settlement: Breitbart
Krauthammer on Obama's Televised Tax Announcement: He Was Addressing Daily Kos, NYT and MoveOn: NewsBusters
Anti-Gun Nut Picked to Head ATF: RWN

On the unhelpfulness of defining the boundaries of unhelpfulness: ProWis
ANWR demonstrates just how messed up today's eco-whackjobs are: RWN
Is the government trying to find out who has what?: NoisyRoom

World

Dereliction of Duty: Leaked cables reveal a presidency's ongoing national security failures: PJM
Wikileaks Gives Terrorists a List of Targets: Patterico
"Boomerang Bombs" Used Against Iranian Scientists: LegalIns

Qatar: the Wrong Destination for World Cup 2022: PJM

SciTech

Radiologists, you've come a long way baby: Wolf Files
Android Map App Will Get 3D Buildings, Compass Orientation, And Offline Capabilities: TechCrunch
ReWalk exoskeleton on sale in January, for a price you can't afford: Engadget

Cornucopia

The Daily Scoreboard: Surber
Those Who Serve: Kesler
Hey, Remember When Networks Had Battles?: Ace

Image: Moonbattery.
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Monday, December 06, 2010

The Second Annual PUK Awards, Installment Deux

This is the second batch of entries for iOwnTheWorld's PUK awards (click here for Part One).

October 20, 2010 - Obama's Prediction



October 18, 2010 - I seriously cannot stop



October 15, 2010 - O-Pression



August 12, 2010 - Ground Zero Mosque: The Last Laugh



August 8, 2010 - Imam Rauf Unveils Artist's Conception of Ground Zero Tolerance Mosque



July 18, 2010 - Democrat Party unveils cute, fuzzy mascot to distract liberals from its unblemished streak of domestic, economic and foreign policy blunders

Washington (DRNS) - Citing concerns over plummeting poll numbers, the Democrat National Committee today unveiled Postracialosaurus, its new mascot designed to appeal to liberals and children.

"Our hope is that we can really pump up turnout with 'Postie'," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), "that's what our focus groups told us and that's what we believe."

"Look at that insurance company's caveman and lizard ads. Or that f***ing duck! A duck! It increased sales like a gazillion percent for them."

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid helped fund the effort with taxpayer dollars, and the Senate majority leader also played a key role in the focus groups that approved the new mascot.

"Harry really helped craft the approach," said Van Hollen, "We could tell when 'Postie' danced into the room that we had a winner. Harry was clapping and laughing and squealing like a little girl as the mascot launched into a series of Party anthems including F*** the Constitution, the Soviet National Anthem (Гимн Советского Союза) and Democrats über alles."

"Look, anyone with an ounce of sense knows that we really screwed things up. We had a Stimulus program that hurt the economy... we passed a 'health care reform' bill that didn't fix Medicare or Medicaid... and we passed a 'financial reform' bill that didn't address Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. And we did all of those things against the will of the vast majority of Americans. So we thought: hey, it's time for a mascot!"

Van Hollen explained that, given the infantile thought processes of the left, Democrat pollsters were predicting that turnout among progressives would increase roughly 8.4% with a marketing campaign heavy on 'Postie' and light on facts.

July 17, 2010 - Still waiting for my Dealergate apology