31
Aug
John Cusack has never been a particular favorite of mine. Right behind Keanu Reeves’ stoic one-expression acting is John Cusack’s ability to stare straight ahead through an entire career of movies, he ranks as the second worst actor in Hollyowood. He finally makes ONE movie I enjoy, mainly because he pulls off being a crackhead so well
“I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS,”
OK, I’m not really in the mood to debate Hollywood crackheads experiencing a meltdown, but I’ll give it my best shot:
John, step away from the crack, slowly.
OK, I’m done.
What exactly is one to debate? That made absolutely no sense at all. All it really does to me is reinforce my original assumption that he’s a talentless crackhead propped up by his family’s Hollywood connections. And, when feeling threatened, he does what all liberals do, resort to name calling and insults rather than making even the remotest attempt at logically discussing the topic.
The only thing better than Cusack becoming completely unhinged was this:
“His provocative tweets could easily incite a rabid fan to commit violent acts against Fox News Headquarters and others he names,” said Dr. Carole Lieberman, a Beverly Hills-based psychiatrist and author of “Coping with Terrorism: Dreams Interrupted
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I know she means well, but I don’t really think Cusack has any rabid fans. Someone can prove me wrong if they want as that is purely a hunch on my part. But, I’m guessing Fox, Dick Armey, and Newt are as safe now as they were before Cusack’s call to action to form a satanic death cult.
31
Aug
Dutch Question 2 Men Arrested on Terror Suspicion on Flight From Chicago to Amsterdam
Dutch investigators on Tuesday questioned two Detroit-area men arrested at Amsterdam’s airport after U.S. authorities found suspicious items in their checked luggage, including a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle and a knife and box cutter.
The pair were arrested Monday morning at Schiphol Airport after getting off a United Airlines flight from Chicago, where their decision to change their flight plans raised flags in the U.S. that they were potentially assessing the aviation system for a potential future terror attack
They were being held at the airport for questioning, but neither has been charged with any offense in the Netherlands, said Martijn Boelhouwer, spokesman for the national prosecutor’s office. Under Dutch law, the men can be held without charges for up to six days.
Sources told Fox News that the men posed no immediate danger to the flight, but U.S. officials are looking into whether the men were “testing the system.”
Not sure who Fox’s “source” is, but they are dumber than mud and not to be considered a trustworthy “source”. My memory seems to be better than the “source”, follow the wavy lines:
OK, I’ll have to let someone else make the argument for needing a box cutter on an actual flight. I personally can’t think of one. Toss in the fact that one of the Al-whatevers is from Yemen flying all over the civilized world with lots of cash and pretend IED’s and I think you’ve got someone who really just needs to be locked up permanently or gotten rid of for eternity.
And once Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi and Hezam al Murisi have been given their martyrdom, that “source” needs to be taken as far away from airports as you can possibly get. When I fly I want someone who knows what a threat is and does something about it ASAP.
The story doesn’t read terribly clear but if they knew that these Muslems had box cutters before they got on the plane to fly to Amsterdam, I’d be suing the hell out of whoever made that decision to let them fly if I were on that flight. That’s just nuts. Spy on them later. Let them know getting on planes with box cutters isn’t tolerated now.
While employment still failed to gain any traction, businesses increased their inventories and invested in infrastructure. Usually when businesses invest heavily, you get employment. This time however, it all came from overseas by way of imports, which surged 28%.
The reason is simple, it’s so much cheaper to buy overseas than it is to try to manufacture this stuff here. And, with Obama making damn sure hiring people gets as expensive as he possibly can, it’s just going to get worse. There’s no law that tells businesses they have to buy domestic. Even with Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program, most of that money went to buy foreign made cars. Sure, some of them were manufactured in the United States, but a lot were not. And apparently a good deal of the current ARRA money is being sent out of the country. That just doesn’t really do us much good now does it? Borrowing money to give to other countries. Bad plan.
Rule #1: If you receive Recovery money, it has to stay here. That won’t solve the whole problem, but it will certainly mitigate the damage of these brain-dead stimulus programs.
And the next time Obama brags on the millions of jobs he saved, ask him which country they were in.
26
Aug
A few months or so ago, Obama hit the beach and started delivering his “economy is recovering, but not enough” message. Some think this was in response to the rather catastrophic forecast of the first Tuesday in November. Personally, I do. “It’s the economy, stupid.” Simple message, hard to debate. The message then was that the recovery was so obvious even his critics had to admit it. He wouldn’t say who they were, but you know who they are because they would go home and take credit for the successes. Well, as of today, it’s not being reflected on Wall Street. That’s who Obama blames for all of our problems.
When he gave that speech, the Dow had just topped 10,500. As of today, it’s 9,985. What’s scarier is some finance guys are forecasting 5,000 in less than two years. I won’t rule them out. I’m looking for that “critic” that has to admit that negative growth is an obvious sign of recovery.
In the time he gave that speech, new housing permits have dropped from historic lows. I don’t think anyone in housing construction is quite ready to admit that negative growth is an obvious sign of recorvery either.
In the time since he gave that speech, unemployment has dropped .2%. However, employment has dropped precipitously as well. It’s not that fewer are claiming unemployment benefits because they’re finding jobs, it’s that fewer people are even trying to at this point. I don’t think too many critics will admit that fewer people working is an obvious sign of recovery either.
Quite frankly, the speech he made on May 18, 2010 claiming his critics were going home taking credit for the obvious recovery is just a flat out lie. It looked bad then, it looks much worse now. I’d shout out “You lie!”, but then I’d be called a racist. So, I won’t. I’ll just type it very quietly here.
The prevailing story that liberals have hung their hat on for the last couple of years is Obama can’t win because he was strung with funding two wars. No economy can sustain that. Case closed. Sounds simple enough. Numbers should back that one up, right?
Look close at that again. Make sense? Try again. Without going into a whole lot of detail, quite simply, in his first year, Barack Obama spent more on his stimulus than the entire Iraq War. The CBO puts the actual cost of the Iraqi war at $709 billion. Not the $3 trillion cited by Obama.
It’s not that he was slightly wrong on an estimate or anything, he was way off. No one has a clue where that number came from. That amounts to about $100 billion a year. To put it in perspective, his stimulus plans have accounted for about $800 billion. A year. All those wonderful things he could have done with that $3 trillion never would have existed. He lied to you.
To put it in proper perspective, his one year of stimulus cost us more than the entire eight years of the Iraq War. Raise your hands, how many people benefited from the stimulus? We could have benefitted probably, but his special interests got it first. I’m not in a union, it didn’t do squat for me.
If we couldn’t afford those wars, then it’s obvious we can’t afford Obama.
H/T: K2.
In my case, unfortunately, it’s not been funded. 2/3′s of the country has issues with this project. That’s why Nancy Pelosi hears about it everywhere she goes. That very simple concept is well beyond her grasp apparently.
H/T: K2.
12
Aug
It’s been a strange week. Not that any have been terribly normal since January 2009. First we had Howard Stern trashing Democrats:
To which Robert Gibbs suggested the “professional left” should be drug tested. Howard Stern on drugs? No way.
Also during this day of both Perseids AND a massive CME, Gibbs suggested those same “professional liberals” would only be happy with Dennis Kucinich. Am I supposed to think that’s merely a coincidence? I ain’t buying it.
And to top it all off, Charlie Rangel spent 37 minutes of Congress’s time belaboring everyone that he’s not a criminal, just stupid, and that some simple reprimand’s not a good enough charge, he wants expulsion. He then threw a party. This of course comes on the heels of Nancy Pelosi’s claiming that she had nothing to do with the ethics charges against Rangel or Waters. “Draining the swamp” only applies to conservatives obviously, duh.
Steven Slater then decided to pull the cord and use the chute.
H/T: K2
This judge came to the incredible epiphany that, oh sheez, this is so complicated I’m sure most everyone will have a very difficult time understanding it. But, I will do my utmost best to word it in such a way that it makes some sense. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Steven Brick came to the conclusion that paying people to work less causes them to not make as much money as they would have. I kid you not, he figured it out. I’m sure he had help since it took him over a year to come that conclusion. But he got it.
Do I really think Judge Brick is that dense? No. It just took them that long to find an activist judge who has absolutely no regard whatsoever for what 99% of the people would consider common logic. In the real world, the one I live and work in, when your employer runs out of money, you, as an employee, are SOL. I contract with quasi-governmental agencies. When they run out of money, I’m SOL. It’s in the contract ya see. “Availability of funds” is a bugger of a clause. However, it’s a seriously major part of the budget process. If it weren’t for that, there would be no budget process. In California, as of right now, there’s not one. As long as Judge Brick’s running California, bouncing checks and writing IOU’s will be the norm. There will be no need whatsoever for anyone to write a budget. I mean, why waste taxpayer’s time and money? Just hire a bunch of people at whatever rate you want and off you go. The state will just have to eat it.
So, in the last few months, judges have determined that 55% of the voters of California, the state legislature, and now the governor, have no say in California. It’s purely up to the individual judges to determine what can or can not be done in California. It’s pretty amazing to me that although a lot of Californians are more than happy to cede their individual rights to activist judges, they’re real pissy when other states try to protect theirs.
John Boehner says maybe not. What do you think?
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OK, now what I’d really like to actually discuss is how many people actually know WHY the 14th exists and why it actually applies in the 21st century. I don’t care if anyone thinks Boehner or the Republicans in general are pandering to the Tea Party, I’m sure they are so that’s not the issue. The only issue I have is how many people think he’s right or not and why.
Right now Glenn Beck is waxing metaphorical how stop lights vs stop signs reflect the differences between conservative and liberal values. I did that a while back here. With my royalty check I’d just like a one week cruise in the Caribbean on the Island of the Seas. That’s all.
