Ok, fun time. Make up your slogan to replace the word “socialist” this picture. Mine’s in the title. Why so stimulus? Let’s hear ‘em!
For those of you who aren’t Futurama enthusiasts, the aforementioned line is taken from an episode where an angry mob of water aliens are trying to get through a thick wooden door by ramming themselves into it (with the predictable “sploosh” each time they hit). What an apt analogy for Republican opposition efforts in Congress right now, and indeed, the veneer is starting to peel. For the first time since taking office, Rasmussen’s daily tracking reports that Obama’s approval ratings have dipped below 50%, and his disapproval is now at 51%.
Presented without comment, one truly inspirational video.
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A couple cool vids that I came across while cruising YouTube.
First a snail eating lettuce. It’s way cool and has some good music to it too!
This next one reminds me of those Hollywood types that attack paparazzi. Presenting a spider attacking a camera:
This cat snags a bat out of mid air. It has to jump 4 feet plus to snag it too. The camera is sideways, but still, pretty amazing. And if you think the bat is a toy, one of the “reply” videos is the cat eating the bat.
Finally, since I play on an adult soccer league and totally blow chunks at it (I am definitely the weakest link), here are some professionals making me feel a bit better about my bad play.
Sometime last week everyone in America heard a loud splatting sound. The sound, of course, was a certain joy that was produced (use your shameful imagination) by Democrats upon Leon Panetta’s admission that the previous administration had considered a secret on again off again program of some sort. Dems couldn’t contain themselves because it seemed to confirm that embattled Speaker Nancy Pelosi wasn’t a total lying shrew when she claimed that the CIA kept her in the dark on water boarding. Everyone carped all week long about this secret CIA program, which was reported to have limited success and which we were totally in the dark on. Indeed, we were kept in the dark on it for a whole week. What could it be? Were we being spied on? Was Dick Cheney rounding up newborns and draining them of blood in a failed attempt to transition from Dracula to human? Nope, turns out they were just trying to find a way to kill Bin Laden. The program centered around training paramilitary groups to infiltrate enemy territories undetected for targeted assassinations against high value targets. The “limited successes” were due to insurmountable logistical difficulties in the prgram. The program was ultimately rendered obsolete by the widespread use of predator drones in that role.
So thank you Nancy & Co. You’ve distracted us for a week from your bald-faced CYA lie with the shocking revelation that the CIA was trying to kill Osama bin Laden. What a pathetic crop of putzes that now occupy the majority in Congress.
Nothing is more fun than making a prediction or two. So, I’m starting an ongoing series, early here, about some of my prognostications for the future. First one here pertains to the 2012 Democratic Ticket. Joe Biden gets dropped. I’d put money on it. It’s as simple as this: Biden was picked as Obama’s running mate in 2008 because he has a 30 year tenure in the Senate and Obama wanted to shore up his perceived lack of experience. Nobody really know what an absolute moron he was and what a colossal drag he would be on both the ticket and the administration. The man produces more gaffs that Dan Quayle ever did, and shows no sign of slowing.
There are also tactical considerations at play here. In 2016 Biden will be 74, and he has a history of aneurysms. There’s no way he’s the Democratic successor. That leaves the prospect of a wide open field in 2016. The Democrats will likely remember what became of 2008, a marathon contest of personalities that degenerated into a Democratic civil war between blue collar and upscale Democrats. They don’t want a repeat of that. Having a successor in place would avert that, and Obama, if he doesn’t already realize this, will be under pressure by those who do to get someone capable of being the party’s nominee on that ticket.
So, the question is, who to bring on? The successor has to be someone young enough to be president, preferably it is someone from a state Barack Obama will have to fight to carry, and it has to be someone with some sort of record upon which he or she could springboard to the presidency. Someone considered a bright prospect within the Democratic party would be key. As it happens, there is just such a person in the Democrat’s arsenal. In 2016, he will only be 62. He hails from a state that Obama will have to fight to carry. He’s served as both a governor and a senator, giving him a record upon which to run his own candidacy. He’s also widely respected and embraced by the Democrats. That man is Mark Warner of Virginia.
So, the summary of Crystal Ball, Vol. 1, in 2012 Obama will dump Biden and name Mark Warner of Virginia as running mate.
Stimulus fallout. Hmm. Sounds like a disease caused by masturbation. Interesting. Anyway, Chris is having major ADD this week. I started out on Sister Toldjah’s website and on it she had a link to a clip of Falling Down. I watched the clip then watched several more and one stood out to me.
Obama is supposedly sending dollars into infrastructure for roads and all. You just know that when the democrat state governments get hold of that cash, they’ll make sure their “base” roads are taken care of and the areas that need it the most will still go untouched. It happens here in North Carolina all the time. The burbs where highway 485 runs are 2 measly lanes and one of the most important patches remains incomplete. All those patches run through pretty red counties here in NC. But over in Raleigh, where there are blue counties, there is a brand new 4 lane each way highway that connects 2 small cities. Less than 8000 cars a day will use that road and it gets 8 total lanes. Democrats making sure their support gets rewarded.
Anyway, I digress. I am just wondering if we’ll have a D-fens stepping up to make waves like this:
Doubt it, but hey, we can dream. And while we’re dreaming, here’s my other favorite parts of that great movie. Oh, by the way, there’s a sequel of it coming out.
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Mike at Pursuing Happiness found a little tidbit on the new spin for the Obama waste of money stimulus. At 6:07 of the clip, Bill Burton calls Obama’s waste of money stimulus “one of the biggest tax decreases for the middle class in the countries history”. Um, yeah. I guess I didn’t get that check. Check it out for yourself. As Mike notes, Juan Williams gives him a total pass.
So, the “saved jobs” didn’t stick. The unemployment would be worse didn’t stick. Wonder if they’ll get away with this one…
Maybe she didn’t want to be president as badly as her fans wanted her to? I don’t know. What I do know is that this is a killer for most careers and more that likely will be for her. However, just as Obama rode a perfect storm to the White House, maybe Palin can as well. Remember, the big reason that Obama won was Bush fatigue. People were so fed up with Bush and his party that they went with the unknown quantity despite the obvious flaws. If there would have been a video of Obama dealing drugs to preschoolers, it would not have mattered. He would still have been elected. That’s how badly Bush and the Republicans were hated in November. Now, the tide is turning.
There’s a good chance that Obama/Democrat fatigue will be just as great, especially when the cap and trade impact starts hitting in a couple years. Toss on his taxes and other economy killers and Americans will be ready for new blood again. Even after this, Palin could win that matchup. She would just have to get out of the primaries. That would be the tough part, yes, but her fan base is pretty rabid so it’s possible. And if not, hey, we have that nice photo shoot in Runners World!
But then again, maybe she is just looking to be private citizen Palin for the rest of her life. One of the things I really admire about her is that she is down to Earth and just like the rest of us. Speaking for myself, if I was in her shoes, I’d walk away too rather than deal with all the crap. In the meantime, another star falls from the Republican sky. If they keep disappearing like this, we’ll have to dig up Reagan’s corpse and run it. Hey, wait a minute, maybe that would work. Obama is just a teleprompter reading puppet, maybe we can get Reagan’s corpse, tie some strings to it for motion control and play some of his speeches. It just might work.
Anyway, my ADD is running amok. Sorry. God Speed Sarah Palin in what ever you decide and thanks for being the only thing worthwhile in the last election.
Mr. Obama came into office betting all his hopes on recovering the nation’s economy through a massive stimulus package. Well, that’s failed. The stimulus was supposed to make unemployment go down, not up. Now we’re deeper in debt, worse off for employment, and Mr. Obama owns it all now. Remember way back when, when this thing was going through the Senate. Only three of ours crossed over to vote for it, and one of them later became a Democrat. This is Mr. Obama’s economy now, and it’s lousy, and his falling approval ratings attest to this. Couple this with his dreadful handling of the Iran situation, and his decision to back the leftist dictators of Latin America in condemning the courts and congress of Honduras, and this administration looks more and more like Jimmy Carter’s every day. Stagflation and dictators beware, Mr. Obama is limiting his days in office.
Ok, I’m still way burnt out on the serious political stuff. Yeah, yeah, I know. I was never that good with the political. I tried. Anyway, today, we are going to have a SPECIAL EDITION of White Trash Wednesday! I give you White Trash Wednesday, Special Sunday Edition: Fun with mug shots! We will cruise the Gaston Gazette and look at the mug shots from the weekend.
Here in North Carolina, we have our share of major rednecks. You can just hear the country music and the yeehaws. “here’s Uncle Joe, he’s moving kind of slow at the Junction”
Do the Palin glasses make me look smart too?
Now we also have our really cute ladies with the temper. These two hotties are charged with assault. Let’s get them a boxing ring with some mud and sell tickets!
Now this one in the red tank had a great weekend. On Friday, she assaulted someone and on Saturday she got drunk and started running around the neighborhood and was arrested again for drunk and disorderly. Sister, I want to party with you! Hey! She could take on the winner of the other 2 girls!
So, when you get arrested and you have no shirt, or are in PJ’s, it’s a 99% certainty that you’re a wife beater. Here are 3 of those “oh so tough they have to hit a woman to prove it” men:
This loser is actually a career actor. He’s always plays a townfolk in any western/redneck/mountain movie.
Yes, this dude in the hospital gown was charged with assault on a female.
Just look at the moustache. Is there any question of his charge? Or it’s accuracy? L-O-S-E-R!
Ok, so let’s go to the DWI winners and caption these mugs!
“Quick, take the wheel. I have a DWI already. They won’t arrest you! I’m going to kick his ass when I get out of here…”
Please let me go. PLEASE! I’ll do anything…
“I’m not drunk officer, I’m high. Oh, man, I’m so high. Wow, a unicorn!”
“Honey, the funniest thing happened to me on the way home from the bar!”
“Oh, Hi daddy! I’m going to need some money. And a lawyer too…”
“If I show them my boobs, will they let me go? I think I’ll just lean into the camera a bit. Can’t hurt!”
These three kings of Orient are arrested for…
If you said assault on a female, you’d be correct! Remember, shirtless means beater.
This next pair is in the category of “your family tree is a stump”. Yes, these next 2 are brothers, as if you couldn’t tell, and were arrested for drugs (gosh, no, really? Shocking!). Their names are Dustin and Justin. I guess like these two, their mom and dad weren’t too bright either. I think Thing 1 and Thing 2 would have been better.
Ok, this one was charged with “forced rape”. No comment.
These two were charged with prostitution and soliciting. I guess there’s a Viagra commercial there somewhere! “After I take Viagra, I am so ready, I offer money to every woman I see!!”
Here in North Carolina, we get our share of stars. Here’s Gary Bussey’s twin brother!
And finally, the winner of tonights white trash Wednesday, Sunday edition, this woman was charged with 10 different crimes. DWI, Posession, etc. The last one was public nudity when she did a strip for the officers before her mug shot, hoping that the entertainment would get them to let her go. As you can see by her expression the answer was “No dice”. Dang, she usually gets at least 20 for the lap dances and this one will have to be for free. However, all is not lost, the nudity charge was dropped when the DA said that the jail photo room was not public and therefore it had to be tossed.
So that completes this edition of white trash Wednesday, Sunday Special: fun with mug shots. I hope you enjoyed it. Here’s hoping we don’t find your picture here, or yes, it will get posted!
Mark Sanford purports to be a conservative. Well, last I checked, family values are an important aspect of conservatism. Sanford has admitted to an affair, and while the decision on whether or not he stays married is the domain of his family, his state and his party deserve far better than a hypocrite. Sanford should resign as governor of South Carolina immediately, and if not the party should expel him from its ranks and mount a primary challenger for the next election.
So, 2012 prospect Jon Huntsman is going on exile. . . .errr. . . appointment to an ambassadorial position in China. Of course, he wasn’t our only ace in the hole. Well, wasn’t. We had Mark Sanford, but, I guess he has a tendency to flake out and go run off into the woods for a week when things get tough. Oh yeah, I can see the 3 am call ad now, Obama waking up to take the call, an empty White House bedroom for Sanford. Then the scene turns into a guy off in the woods next to a camp fire eating a squirrel on a stick. Well, here’s to hoping we have a candidate by 2016.
UPDATE Nevermind, like so many of our supposed party leaders, he’s just cheating on his wife. *facepalm*
I try to root for Mousavi and this young, freedom-loving mass of Iranians out there, I really do. Then, Mousavi opens his flap about how he’s ready to be a martyr, and I just can’t bring myself to do it. In all honesty I didn’t really ever think it mattered who won this election, but seeing that this same zeal for martyrdom that is so wrong in so much of the rest of the middle east is indeed a driving force in Mousavi as well, I think we might be better off with the devil we know over the devil we don’t.
Were you all watching it!? I know I was! Just look at those demonstrators out there! They’re fed up! They’re fed up of the censorship, the control of their lives, the dictatorship. They’re fed up, and they’re demonstrating for change. Surely democracy is just around the corner in China!
Remember that? Remember how euphoric the world got over the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square? Everyone was convinced back then, too, that democracy was just around the corner in China. Unfortunately, brutal reality was about to rear its ugly head. Out went the cameras. In came the military. Gone into thin air were the protests. Democratic reform? Off the table. The communist party clamped down, hung on, and would some day be headed by a man who shut down opposition newspapers in Shanghai to keep demonstrations from spreading. Political prisoners are, well, still prisoners. Uighurs and Tibetans are still oppressed. Media is still censored. China is, well, still the China that it was in 1990, just with more economic opportunity.
So, before we wax poetic about the demonstrations in Iran, let’s put this all in perspective. The mullahs still control the military. In a day these pro-Mousavi demonstrations can be shut down in bloody fashion, and Iran can become another example of unjustified western euphoria over a movement of young people. Iran too can see the bold but powerless crushed like a buzzing fly, and proceed on to another unchallenged two decades of despotism.
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