Obama’s new campaign slogans
Conan O’Brien recently tried to help the Obama campaign by trying out a few new campaign slogans.
Via IMAO
Obama on immigration-related executive orders
In March 2011, Obama clearly stated that he could not just go around Congress on the issue of immigration-related executive orders. He took great pains to explain the roles and responsibilities of each branch of government to the people listening to this speech. But last week, he just ignored those sentiments and did the very thing he said was illegal, just 15 months ago.
So … I’m left wondering what changed over the past year?
Of course it appears that the electoral ‘love’ he might have gained from ignoring his own words with his Dream Act-related executive order, has been effectively quashed with this little number.
¡Cuidado! No Forks Allowed at Obama’s Latino Luncheon
Judging from Obama’s actions at this years National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) luncheon, Obama’s newest fear is Latinos with forks. Obama had the Secret Service confiscate all the dinner forks from the participants at the June 22 event held in Orlando, Florida.
Several participants Tweeted that butter knives were banned outright and forks were confiscated as soon as the diners finished eating and before the President entered the room to speak.
The attendees were elected officials and their staffs, not just the average Jose off the street. Nevertheless, Obama took away their forks as if they were inmates at a prison. Many of these elected officials are probably wondering why the president was concerned for his safety.
JD Hayworth debates David Callahan
Never heard of Demos or Callahan, but JD was in fine form for this interview. He absolutely demolishes Callahan – doesn’t even break a sweat.
And his closing line, “vote Democrat, it could always be worse” was classic.
“Have you seen any people of color around?”
Classic video by Bob Parks of Black & Right that asks several attendees of the 9/12 Tax Payer March if they’ve “seen any people of color around?”
Best line in the video is by the fellow at the end (3:30),
We’re just all American citizens, trying to speak to our president … and tell him “get your hands out of our pockets.”
The end of the world as we know it
Not sure why, but this seems unusually funny to me. How many other ‘famous’ people are that arrogant that they would write their memoirs as a teenager?
Harper Collins announced today that Bieber is publishing a memoir with the colon-heavy title “Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story” that will be be released in October. The book promises to reveal all the details of his “amazing journey to stardom,” a journey that, it should be pointed out, has lasted all of 16 years.
This is almost as good as the songs that have the 15-year old boy bands singing that they’ll “never love another the way I loved you.” Can anyone take this seriously?
More to the point. As a product of the current U.S. government school system, I’d be shocked if this kid could even manage one cogent written sentence, let alone an entire book? (I’m actually wondering how long would it take to recount 16 years in texting shorthand.)
The perfect metaphor for the modern progressive movement
Excellent description of the complete failure of the modern progressive movement. Despite all their good intentions, their expended energy, their struggles, their planning, their happy thoughts, and their concern, they remain wholly incapable of accomplishing anything of substance. Take it away, Tam
In sum total, what you people did was drive someplace where there wasn’t a problem, complain about something you don’t fully understand, get in the way of people who may actually be performing a function, and then do nothing, en masse, except hope that someone else notices your little snit and makes it all better.
… if there’s a more perfect metaphor for the modern progressive movement, I’ve never seen it.
Comedy Central – breaking new ground (or not)
James Allen has this one dead to rights,
They’re just sooo edgy aren’t they…After editing out any Muhammad related content from a recent South Park episode, including Muhammad dressed in a bear suit, the BRAVE folks over at Comedy Central are planning a new Jesus Christ cartoon
They’re too scared to attack MO, but they’ll tear into Jesus any day of the week because they live life on the EDGE!!!
Pathetic. Comedy Central, the shows mocking Jesus have been done to death. Let us know when you grow a pair and come up with something truly on the edge.
Anti-AZ crowd: “Weapons grade stupidity”
Excellent post at JammieWearingFool on the ‘weapons grade stupidity’ demonstrated by some of the anti-Arizona crowd (in case you missed it, they’re OUTRAGED over the passing of SB1070).
Apparently the haters out there are boycotting Arizona Iced Tea, completely ignorant of the fact that its made in New York.
More in the post.
One other thing that the AZ-haters seem to have missed is that SB 1070 was supported by 70% of Arizona’s voters. Also, persons of Hispanic or Latino origin make up more than 30% of the Arizona population. So the haters are out there crying “racism” and “fascism,” but the simple fact is that you don’t get to 70% support of anything in Arizona without a substantial number of Hispanics supporting it.
Failed Earth Day predictions
It’s EARTH DAY!!!!! (bells ringing & people singing) watch for the media, green groups, and other assorted nuts running around preaching doom, gloom, pestilence, and death. You’ll be inundated with it, so it shouldn’t be hard to catch.
But, as their Malthusian frenzy reaches its zenith and you feel that you can’t take another minute, remember that they’ve been wrongly predicting apocalypse now for centuries. And since Earth Day is 40 today, it is worthwhile to cast our eyes back on some of the more pressing hyperbolic and serious silly predictions from the original Earth Day crew.
“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
• Life Magazine, January 1970“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, EcologistStanford’s Paul Ehrlich announces that the sky is falling.
Stanford’s Paul Ehrlich announces that the sky is falling.
“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
• Kenneth Watt, EcologistKeep these predictions in mind when you hear the same predictions made today. They’ve been making the same predictions for 39 years. And they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.
Here we are, 39 years later and the economy sucks, but the ecology’s fine. In fact this planet is doing a lot better than the planet on which those green lunatics live.
You’ll also enjoy (or hate) our article, 25 Global Warming Debunking Videos Al Gore Doesn’t Want You To See.
Update: Earth Day 2010 version.
Source: Reason.com
U.K. Govt forced to pull climate ads
The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change was spanked by the Advertising Standards Agency for “going beyond mainstream scientific consensus” in a few of their recent global warming adverts.
Anyone else would call it fear mongering.
John Conyers – Obamacare is constitutional
John Conyers actually tried to state that Obamacare was constitutional. He claimed that the federal government forcing people to purchase some product (in this case, health insurance) was covered by the “Good and Welfare” clause.
FAIL!
Note to Rep. Conyers – No such thing as a “good and welfare” clause.
Chris Matthews admits race is his first filter
Wow!!!
Chris Matthews admits openly that for an hour he “forgot that (Obama) was black tonight.” Once again, we see that Matthews views everything — first and foremost — through the prism of race. He states clearly that he sees an African-American standing before a “bunch of other white people.” He doesn’t see the President — a human being — standing in front of a group of other people. He sees skin color before he sees or thinks about anything else.
Now, who’s the racist?
Update — John Stewart’s take on Matthew’s comment is absolutely priceless. (Watch right after the 4 minute mark.)
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We’ll spare NO expense to get you into your new home
What some people won’t do to make a sale. (H/T Minyanville and the Columbia Daily Herald)
Now, how do I get myself transferred to Tennessee, so I can get me some beans?!?
