Douchebag of the Week.

This week’s “winner” is very popular in left-wing circles.  In fact, he’s the most popular person in the liberal cocktail circuit right now - Senator Barack Obama. 

The freshman Senator, who once in 2004, while running for the Senate, was the subject of this story:

…pulling out now would make things worse.

A quick withdrawal would add to the chaos there and make it “an extraordinary hotbed of terrorist activity,” he said.

It would also damage America’s international prestige and amount to “a slap in the face” to the troops fighting there

Now he wants to retreat immediately.  However, he said he would send troops back ”if al-Qaida is forming a base in Iraq,” which shows a complete ignorance of who we’re fighting over there.  So if the fecal matter hits the fan (and there isn’t a serious scholar of the region who doesn’t think it would right now), Obama would:

“…reserve the right to go in and strike al-Qaida if they were in Iraq.”

Senator Barack Obama wants to retreat, run the risk of turning Iraq over to al-Qaida and, if that happens, send troops back.  No finishing the job while they’re there, just political points to be scored with those who would like nothing more than a defeat for the United States.

Add to that his silence on his wife’s “proud” comment (really a brave leader there), and his sending his wife out to fight another battle for him, this one about his middle name, Hussein (that’s his middle name, get over it.  Who the hell cares what someone’s name is, what he stands for is the problem.  Expect the “middle name victim card” to become a regular part of his hand in the coming months because it plays with those who don’t think), and you have the makings of a serious contender for Douchebag of the Year! 

But it’s only February, so time will tell on that one.  Until the end of the year, Barack Obama has more than earned the title of Douchebag of the Week.

News of the Weird, News of the World, News of…Whatever!

In our never ending attempt to bring you the news from around the world that you may have missed, here is another bit of the written version of the famed last segment of our podcasts.

Story #1

Italian police have discovered something that will send shivers down the spines of balding, middle aged men everywhere who attempt to compensate for their “short-comings.”  They’ve discovered a counterfeit Ferrari.  Though, now that they’re making fakes, a lot more balding, middle aged men attempting to compensate for their “short-comings” will be able to afford one.

Story #2

There are plenty of ways to die, many of which are complete accidents.  This one, however, is one of the more odd ones.  Expect this monk to make the Darwin Awards.

Story #3

You know how to tell you aren’t cut out for a life of crime?  You try to rob a police station.  You know how to tell you’re really not cut out for a life of crime?  You try to rob a bar with 50 biker dudes in it.  Did this idiot not notice anything odd in the parking lot?

Story #4

Cindy Sheehan needs to buy a rhyming dictionary!  This is a way for all the anti-American hippies out there to earn money for once in their lives.  Kyrgyzstan radicals are offering $1,000 to the person who writes the best protesting American troops in the country.  We’ll start you off, “Get out of Kyrgyzstan, man!  Yes, we can!”

Story #5

Here’s a tip for would be thieves: if you’re going to steal something, make sure parts of it aren’t sticking out of your clothes.  A man in Berlin was arrested while attempting to steal a new suit by stuffing it under his clothes.  One problem, however, he forgot to take it off the hanger, which was sticking out.  The arresting officer said it best, “Only a sign saying ’stop me, I’m a thief!’ would have made the thief look more unprofessional.”

Angelina Jolie: Now is the time for hope in Iraq

Angelina Jolie has written an op-ed in the Washington Postabout the progress in Iraq, and there is progress, no matter what Senator Russ Feingold and his Democrat allies say and are trying to do to under cut it in the US Senate.

Jolie, no right-winger, said the following:

What we cannot afford, in my view, is to squander the progress that has been made. In fact, we should step up our financial and material assistance. UNHCR has appealed for $261 million this year to provide for refugees and internally displaced persons. That is not a small amount of money — but it is less than the U.S. spends each day to fight the war in Iraq. I would like to call on each of the presidential candidates and congressional leaders to announce a comprehensive refugee plan with a specific time-line and budget as part of their Iraq strategy.

As for the question of whether the surge is working, I can only state what I witnessed: U.N. staff and those of non-governmental organizations seem to feel they have the right set of circumstances to attempt to scale up their programs. And when I asked the troops if they wanted to go home as soon as possible, they said that they miss home but feel invested in Iraq. They have lost many friends and want to be a part of the humanitarian progress they now feel is possible.

It seems to me that now is the moment to address the humanitarian side of this situation. Without the right support, we could miss an opportunity to do some of the good we always stated we intended to do.

The support of which she speaks is nothing more than military in nature, i.e. troops.  And the troops she speaks of are typical, not the rarities often championed by liberals.  Sure, anecdotes can be offered about soldiers you personally know, but they are in no way the norm.

If Jolie can admit the truth, can’t the rest of the liberals out there? 

Hey Kanye, you should talk with Bob Geldof.

Singer Kanye West famously said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”  Well, if you ask fellow musician and actual humanitarian, he might say, “Kanye West doesn’t care about the truth.”

Bob Geldof, the man who brought the world Live Aid and Live 8, among many other charitable events, has penned an article on President Bush that paints a different picture of our 43rd President than you are likely to see on your nightly newscast, CNN and definitely MSNBC, because it’s a look at the man and his impressive record on fighting AIDS in Africa.  Since Bush has single-handedly done more to combat the disease and keep people alive than every other President before him combined, the mainstream media doesn’t report on it, doesn’t fit the agenda.

But Geldof isn’t interested in taking sides and scoring political points, he wants to tell the story the way it is.

For those of you convince President Bush is an idiot who only cares about his rich oil buddies (and there are a lot of you ignorant people out there), read the article by Geldof and open your minds.  Sadly, it’s more likely you see Geldof as a tool and go burn your copy of the movie The Wall.

Congressman John Lewis makes the political move – Drops support of Hillary Clinton, now backs Barack Obama.

A Member of Congress changing their mind is rarely news, but rarely is it done for such obvious political advantage.  Georgia Congressman  and Superdelegate John Lewis has dropped his support of Hillary Clinton and now backs Barack Obama. 

Why?  He claims it’s to reflect the will of the voters, but that is a complete load.  He wants to be relevant.

Like most politicians, he does what is in his own best interest, period.  Lewis thinks the Clinton ship is going down and he wants to surround himself with winners, so he’s jumped ship. 

You may be thinking, “How dare you say that about a civil rights leaders!”  Well, we dare say if for two reasons.

First, the Constitution allows us to say whatever the hell we want.

Second, what exactly has happened in the last few weeks that could have changed the mind of Congressman Lewis besides the polls?  Clinton and Obama are basically the same person on the issues with only minor differences between them, so it sure couldn’t be the issues.  Neither one of them has made any ground-breaking new proposals in the last few weeks, nor have they reversed themselves on anything.  They still spout the same left-wing talking points they’ve been spewing since the beginning of the race (since neither has locked up the race, they’re still both attempting to appeal to their left flank).

The only thing that has changed since Lewis announced his support is the person he was supporting, who was ahead at the time, is now losing. 

This move by Lewis is the ultimate opportunism and should surprise no one.  It could also be the cover many Clinton supporters use to join him in jumping ship.  Everyone loves you when you on top…

Can Barack Obama walk on water?

While checking out the Huffington Post today, couldn’t help but notice they seem to have posted high school love note from a woman named Lisa Gans to Barack Obama.  What’s scary isn’t the fact that the author of a piece entitled “Why I think Obama is the Best Candidate on Foreign Policy” isn’t actually a high school student, but an international human rights lawyer, but the cult-like worship and future accomplishments she has assigned to Obama without one single fact to back them up.

Recently, I survived a large-scale attack by the Taliban on a hotel in Kabul, so my sense of urgency about national security and the safety of Americans abroad is based on a very real understanding of the dangers we face. I plan to return to Kabul shortly, and I know I will feel safer and more confident of success in Afghanistan if Barack Obama is in the White House.

How?  Why?  What about Obama makes her think the Taliban will just give up because he’s President?  Doesn’t matter, she knows she’ll “feel safer.”  And that, after all, is what matters, right?  Feeling safer, not actually being.

Yet another magical power she assigns to Obama is this:

Barack Obama has the ability to deal both with American’s (sic) allies and its enemies.

Why?  Because she says so!  She can feel it, like a strange disturbance in The Force!

She continues:

Right now, in Afghanistan and around the world, the U.S. needs the support of its friends. Not only does Obama have the skills necessary to reach out to those we have alienated, he has expressed a willingness to do so.

First off, the US needs the support of its own citizens, something liberals have been undercutting for political purposes for the last 6 years.  Second, what skills?  As Senator, not only has Barack Obama essentially accomplished nothing, he has only worked with people on “the other side of the aisle” once!  And that was on Coburn-Obama, a tap in putt bill about government transparency.  Where is this mystical skill to reach out to people been demonstrated anywhere?

This hero/savior worship is a boon to Republicans for one simple reason – No one, absolutely no one, can live up to these expectations, especially someone as untested, unchallenged and unaccomplished as Barack Obama is.  When it comes, and it will, his fall will be fast and furious, and fun to watch. 

What ever happened to Howard Dean?

 Howard Dean, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is more likely to be spotted on milk cartons than news shows these days.  Dean, a man known for sticking his foot in his mouth, hasn’t been around much since taking the post.  Anyone else find that a bit odd?

He resurfaced yesterday at an event at Georgetown University, hardly Meet the Press, to talk about Black History Month and, in typical Dean fashion, step in it.

He told the crowd:

…with a woman and an African-American as the two front-runners, the Democratic field “looks like America,” while the all-white male Republican field “looks like the 1950s and talks like the 1850s.”

There really isn’t a part of that statement that isn’t stupid and indicative of Democrat thinking. 

First, who cares what race or gender a candidate is?  Well, Democrats do.  That’s what they see, that’s how they think, they categorize people by how they look.  Anyone who dare step outside the expected mold of a Democrat is open to racist charges of being an “Uncle Tom.”  Just ask Clarence Thomas or Michael Steele how open-minded Democrats are.

Then, since it was  Black History Month event, Dean has to throw in line implying Republicans are racist with the “1850s” comment.  Too bad for Dean that liberal education policies have dumbed-down kids to the point that only 2 in 5 could even pin point the 50 year period in which the Civil War took place, so not many got his reference to slavery.

Coward Dean, er, Howard Dean is a disgrace, but he typifies too many Democrats these days in that he only sees the things about people that have nothing to do with who they are as people, and he plays on those stereotypes in the hope of appealing to a subconscious better left ignored.  Using code words to stir emotions and manipulate people without thought to anyone’s best interest is the currency in which Dean trades.  It is little wonder he is not allowed to speak with adults.

What President Barack Obama would do to make us safe.

There doesn’t seem to be much Barack Obama wouldn’t do as President to disarm this country and make sure the next generation of military weapons are developed by other nations, both friend and foe, rather than here.  He seems oblivious to the fact that national defence is the President’s main job, not feel good pap that will harm the economy. 

Watch this 52 second video where he explains what he would do. 

As for his claim that missile defence systems are “unproven,” maybe this was recorded before we shot down a satellite.  But that doesn’t change the fact that Liberals are fast becoming the “No we can’t” party.  They seem to have faith in nothing but themselves.  Anything with which they disagree can come to pass, so they’ll simply stop it from progressing. 

Thank God none of the Liberals around today were around at the time of our nation’s founding or we’d be paying taxes to the Queen.

RIP William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. has passed away.  We’ve lost a great American.

From National Review Online:

“William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died overnight in his study in Stamford, Connecticut.

After year of illness, he died while at work; if he had been given a choice on how to depart this world, I suspect that would have been exactly it. At home, still devoted to the war of ideas.

As you might expect, we’ll have much more to say here and in NR in the coming days and weeks and months. For now: Thank you, Bill. God bless you, now with your dear Pat. Our deepest condolences to Christopher and the rest of the Buckley family. And our fervent prayer that we continue to do WFB’s life’s work justice.”

Explaining the Laffer Curve Part 2

You may remember part 1 of the video explaining the Laffer Curve, well our friends at the Center for Freedom and Prosperity have produced part 2.  Check it out.

Global Warming meets reality: the world has gotten colder.

We’ve been saying for a long time that global warming is a myth, but the alarmists and devout followers of Pope Goreus the VI would have nothing to do with it.  Al Gore has gotten rich (well, more rich) from travelling the world on private jets warming of the coming end of life as we know it because of lifestyles like his.  Well, since he believes CO2 warms the planet, maybe he should fly more because it’s getting colder. 

That’s right, the temperature is dropping (as the chart above shows).  In fact, check this out:

The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C — a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year’s time.

We pointed it out some time ago, that the old argument was that a new ice age was coming just a few decades ago, but that didn’t stop the fanatics.  And yet here we are today. 

Who would’ve guessed that the big ball of fire in the sky that gives us all our heat is the driving force behind our temperature.

If anything about the climate is certain it is that nothing about the climate is certain.  Don’t get fooled again.

Music and topics from this week’s First Friday Podcast

You can hear the show on our homepage, http://www.itsfirstfriday.com/ (New shows every Tuesday, unless Monday is a holiday, then the new show is posted on Wednesdays.) You can download and play all our shows on your iPod or media player with the ability to fast forward and rewind by going to the archives here.

Yes, this week’s show is a “best of” because we couldn’t get together to record a new one.  But this week’s show is 3 of the News of the Weird clips that are the last segment of the show every week.  It’s worth a listen.  Plus, there is a new ad at the beginning of the show, so it’s not all rerun!

Ad for the new fragrance, SHAME ON YOU by BARACK OBAMA

News of the Weird, News of the World, News of…Whatever!

The return of Knight Rider
The Knight Rider theme

Man arrested for urinating on Latvian monument like Ozzy on the Alamo and messing with Texas
Crazy train – Ozzy Osborne

Australia raises the max weight for letter carriers
Fat Bottom Girls – Queen

British cartoon has a character called Mr. Rude who speaks with French accent and has problem gas
Surrender – Cheap Trick

Government in London hires psychic to rid public housing of poltergeist because residents threatened to go live on the street unless they did something about it, and a tangent on Steve Guttenberg’s career
Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr

Church in Florida issues challenge to married members to have sex every day for 30 days, men like church again
Date to Church – The Replacements

German woman who auctioned sex off on a website gets pregnant by one of 6 men who “won” on hookerbay sues to find identity of the “winners”
Time of the Season – Zombies

Mexico City’s 2 time winner of Cop of the Year get arrested for extortion
Theme from Shaft – Isaac Hayes

Obama Helmet ad
Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before – The Smiths

The Adventures of Superdelegate
Superman 1950’s TV Theme

Bumper Music
Suffragette City – David Bowie

News of the Weird, News of the World, News of…Whatever!The Grammys, no one cared to watch
Rehab – Amy WinehouseIrish are thinking of switching the side of the road they drive on
She drives me crazy – Fine Young Cannibals

In order to clean up for the Olympics China is outlawing spitting
Dirty little secret – All-American Rejects

London Realty Company finds home owner hanging dead in closet while showing house to lots of people
Hang Ups – Bash and Pop

Hospital in Belgrade bans gossip, short skirts, rudeness and grumpiness
Don’t worry, be happy – Bobby McFerrin

Drunk man with TV remote control threatens to blow up Australian town
Crazy – Gnarlz Barkley

Hungarian man arrested for suspicion of faking his own death for insurance money
Pretend we’re dead – L7

ACLU ad for voter fraud
American Idiot – Richard Cheese

Bill Clinton Race Card Ad
Love me, I’m a Liberal – Jello Biafra

Bumper Music
Hobo Humpin’ Slobo Babe – Whale

News of the Weird, News of the World, News of…Whatever!
Germans are drinking less beer!
Tragedy – Bee Gees

New drug may do away with the need for sleep in monkeys, politicians who never sleep and flinging poo, naturally
I’m so Tired – The Beatles

A random discussion of the career of Patrick Swayze, Roadhouse, Dirty Dancing and his finest hour, Red Dawn
She’s like the Wind – Patrick Swayze

A kid in China wins lottery, quits school (duh!) and what we’d do had we won the lottery at 19 and Commies in China ban drinking booze at lunch of party members (not much of a party then)
Money – Pink Floyd

Woman finds dead mouse in her crackers, not the kind you eat
Dead – The Pixies

Prisoner bitch about prison conditions (idea, don’t commit the crime)
Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash

Fights and guns at soccer games
Kung Fu Fighting – Carl Douglas

Reuter’s Top Ten Quotes of the Year
Dumb – Nirvana
Stupid Girl – Garbage

Wrap-up and thank yous for the last show of the year
The End – The Doors

Whole lot a star f*cking going on…Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Seth Rogen.

There seems to be a new trend in Hollywood, well, not new, of everyone f*cking everyone.

First came the Sarah Silverman video, then Jimmy Kimmel’s response, then, not to be out done, the man who gave us Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Kevin Smith, gave us the Seth Rogan video with Elizabeth Banks.  All funny stuff. 

If you’re easily offended, don’t click play.  But then you should probably ask yourself why you’re reading this website…

The endorsement Barack Obama didn’t want – Louis Farrakhan

Given the asinine “controversy” over the photo above of Barack Obama on a trip to Kenya in 2006 (when in Rome…), the support of racist Louis Farrakhan is the last person Obama could have wanted an endorsement from.

Farrakhan took a break from blaming whites and Jews for everything wrong in the world to say Obama reminded him of Nation of Islam founder Fard Muhammad because they both had white mothers.  Irrelevant generalities anyone?

“A black man with a white mother became a savior to us,” he told the crowd of mostly followers. “A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.” 

No exploration of Obama’s policy positions or experience (ha!).  What a jackass.

Global Warming, where are you when we need you? Oh yeah, you’re a myth.

It’s very fitting the John Fund writes about how the Global Warming alarmists (we’re looking at you, Al Gore) are attempting to stifle debate on the day that this story about how North America, Siberia and Mongolia have more snow cover than any time since 1966.

Maybe Al Gore needs to up the meds in the Kool-Aid he’s serving, seems reality is setting in with some people.

The Oscars were a ratings flop…kind of like the nominated movies were.

Not too many people watched the Oscars Sunday night, in fact, they were the lowest rated in history.  The show itself was boring, host John Stewart had a few good moments, but the nominees were people most viewers didn’t know, from movies no one saw.  In fact, of all the nominees, on Juno has grossed more than $65 million at the box office.

This isn’t to say that the Oscars should become a popularity contest, we already have the Blockbuster Awards for that, but the academy should stop being so snobby as to think the only worthy movies produced are boring.  The comedies have long been the redheaded step children that get ignored while stuffy British actors and actresses walk away with statues.

If drama is so difficult, why do comedic actors do it, but dramatic actors suck in comedies?

Sen. Clinton once got one issue right

so, of course, she’s running away from her position as quickly as possible.

There was a time Sen. Hillary Clinton supported free trade. It was when she was First Lady Hillary Clinton, and her husband (his name escapes me) signed the North American Free Trade Agreement.

That was then. Now, Hillary’s running for President herself, and channeling former candidate John Edwards. NAFTA, she now insists, is a mistake foisted on the country by George H.W. Bush.

The simple fact is that free trade benefits America and Americans. Most goods and services are cheaper and more plentiful today than they’ve ever been. Meanwhile, more Americans than ever are working.

The Progressive Policy Institute ran the numbers, and they show the U.S. has gained 20 MILLION jobs under NAFTA. 

The bottom line is that it’s easy to attack free trade while enjoying its benefits. Any politician can find somebody who’s lost a job because of free trade. But nobody talks to the millions of Americans who’ve gained jobs through free trade, because these people are too darn busy working and making money to complain about their job.

Pity Hillary. NAFTA was one of her husband’s few accomplishments, and she can’t wait to distance herself from it.

Bob Lutz: Heretic to the Church of Global Warming

Bob Lutz, Vice-Chairman of General Motors, is a ballsy man worthy of admiration. Why?  Because he dares to say what he believes no matter how much hell he stands to catch for doing so. 

Mr. Lutz first came to the notice of the thought police when he offended both the obese and environmentalists by saying that raising mileage regulations for new cars was a way to force Americans to buy smaller cars.  He said it was “like trying to address the obesity problem in this country by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell smaller, tighter sizes.” 

The comedy is true, and that is gold.   

As if upsetting Liberals once wasn’t enough to endear himself to us, he went and did it again, this time hitting them right in their sweet spot – global warming. 

Lutz called global warming “a crock” because, well, it is.  But not many people in positions of prominence are willing to speak the truth on the issue because the devout followers of Pope Goreus the VI come down like a ton of bricks on those who dare educate themselves on the issue.  Hell hath no fury like a hippie (Al Gore, tree-hugger – pick the one you like best) scorned. 

But, proving he is worthy of admiration, Lutz is refusing to take it back, which is upsetting hippies from New York to San Francisco. 

Bob Lutz – thank you!

Congratulations, you’re the worst!

To say it hasn’t been the best year for Lindsay Lohan is an understatement.  With the Oscars last night honoring the best acting performances of the year, a little noticed award show too place the day before, the Razzies. The Razzies “honor” the worst in film of the year, and there were plenty of films worthy of honoring.  But this year’s big “winner” was Lohan for the bomb “I know who killed me.”  And no, it wasn’t about her parents or even her drug dealer.

Other “honorees” were “Norbit” and “Daddy Day Camp.” 

No word on whether Eddie Murphy or Cuba Gooding Jr. plan on posing nude any time soon.

Saber-Rattling Academic Urges Aggression, Bullying, Sanctions, and Annexation.

Writing for the Financial Times, a professor from the London School of Economics identifies a number of enemy jurisdictions that pose a grave threat to the world. Some of these jurisdictions should be subject to sanctions, he writes, but in other cases he urges much more aggressive tactics, including annexation.What makes his article so interesting is his choice of targets. He is not targeting Iran. Presumably he does not worry about nuclear weapons in the hands of Islamic fundamentalists. Nor is he targeting North Korea, a rogue state that lets its own people starve. Other despotic regimes such as Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela also get a free pass. Instead, Professor Buiter’s Axis-of-Evil is comprised of places such as Liechtenstein, Jersey, Luxembourg, Andorra, Guernsey, Switzerland, and Monaco.

These jurisdictions, by virtue of their low tax rates and respect for human rights, attract capital from high-tax nations and therefore make it a bit more difficult for politicians in places such as France and Germany to buy votes with other people’s money. Interestingly, Buiter’s penchant for aggression varies depending on the expected level of resistance. He wants little countries such as Monaco and Liechtenstein to be forcibly annexed as part of a tax-motivated Anschluss. But he is much less bellicose in the case of Switzerland, perhaps because every able-bodied male is a member of the militia and possesses a fully-automatic machine gun. And he doesn’t even mention the United States, even though Delaware and Nevada companies are excellent tax havens for non-Americans.

Perhaps it is just a matter of time before he bravely adds America to his hit list. In any event, his article is a revealing glimpse into the mind of a tax-aholic.

Read the whole thing.

Ralph Nader is running again…and still no one cares.

So Ralph Nader has decided to run for President, yet again.  If you were to look up “making a joke of yourself” in a book somewhere, there would be many pictures next to the definition.  Jimmy Carter (worst President of the last 100 years claiming high ground on anything), Britney Spears and Paris Hilton (though they were always a joke, they’re just not funny any more), any Hollywood liberal who sings the praises of Castro (the list is too long to write, but you know who they are, and how they praise a murderous dictator who would imprison and/or kill them were they born under his rule is, well, a joke), and the list goes on…

But it has a new member in the political world – Ralph Nader.

The “consumer advocate,” who is actually a lobbyist, has decided to run yet again for President.  He won’t matter, he won’t make the debates, and he won’t get very much attention past this announcement, but reality rarely stands in his way.

The purpose he hopes to serve with this attempt is unclear, differing levels of socialism are offered by all the Democrats who ran this year, Nader just offers the cherry on top in that he has been practicing it for years (though he somehow managed to become a millionaire in the process).  So it is without shock that no one really cares that he’s said he’s running again.  Though don’t be surprised if you see the Democrats attempt to block his ability to get on the ballot in several states.  There’s not point in fighting it, he won’t matter and anyone who would vote for Nader would never vote for a candidate who stood a chance, it just makes them look bad.

I’m so happy I could loot! Some in Serbia celebrate their independence in ways that shame their new country.

The YouTube video below is a hit, and making headlines.  It’s the story of two women who use the turmoil over there as an opportunity to loot.  With their faces all over the Internet, hopefully they will be arrested and spend a long time in jail. 

This is from the video director’s description of the footage.  It is a direct paste, so the spelling errors are his and understandable since English isn’t his first language:

First part of this video happened in store on Slavija. I accidentally taped that two girls. Two hours later I met them again on Terazije where they were stealing. Since I was astonished whit their persistence to get new cloth on “total sale”, I decided to continue following them. I want to say that these persons are just extremes and that they don’t represent Serbs as a nation. Citizens of Serbia are mostly normal and honest and I am proud because I’m one of them.
I thanks to everyone who supported me.

Welcome to freedom, now hire some cops to get these douchebags.

 

You can’t say that! Bill O’Reilly and “lynching.”

 The fascists on the Left are on a witch hunt for the head of anyone who disagrees with them, but they’re failing miserably, and we think it’s great. 

Emboldened by claiming the head of Don Imus, one of their own politically, but a head none the less, they have tried to get Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly to stuff and put over their mantle.  Media Matters, the Clinton/Soros founded spin machine, monitors every word everyone not on the fascist Left says in the hopes of finding something they can take out of context to give them their prize.  Again, they continually fail.  Lucky for them that continued failure is by no means going to have any sway over their fund raising, they’ve got mega-rich people who’ve sheltered their cash in trusts and off-shore accounts footing the endless bill.

Their current attempt to get Bill O’Reilly stems for a comment he made while actually defending Michelle Obama’s stupid comments.  He dared use the word “lynching” while making a reference to a woman who happened to be black.  The comment and context were clear, but it was a chance for Media Matters and their partners on the web and at MSNBC to go after him again.

It doesn’t matter if you like O’Reilly or not, who cares, but this raises an important question: Are we such weak-spined individuals always ready to take offense that there are certain words that simply can’t be said in context if they are about people of certain races?

Bill said, “And I don’t want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there’s evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that’s how she really feels — that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever — then that’s legit. We’ll track it down.”

It was in response to a caller who was bashing Mrs. Obama for saying this was the first time in her adult life she was proud of her country.  Bill actually displayed restraint and has since defended her many times over.

But the fact that he used the word “lynching” has all the Liberal’s panties in a bunch because douchebag racists (Democrats, by the way) used to lynch blacks in the south because, well, they were racists douchebags.

The word itself is not racists, you can say it all you want about a white person and no one would think anything of it.  But it’s considered racially insensitive to say it about a black person because of the history of it.  Isn’t it time we get past this crap?

It’s a word with a very specific meaning, and was aptly used by O’Reilly.  Most other languages have genders for things, just go try to learn German and you’ll see what we’re talking about.  Are we going to have to have races for our language?  Are we going to have to say one thing about a person of one race and use a different word for the same thing for someone of another?  Are we not going to be able to say a friend of ours is “slaving away at their job” if they’re black or Jewish but can say it about anyone else?  Are we going to have to rename the sport of surfing because surfs were oppressed by their masters in the Middle Ages?  This politically correct garbage is going too far, people have to stand up to it.

The Left-Wing Hate Machine is calling O’Reilly a racist every chance they get, but they are the true racists.  They assume adult humans can’t understand context so they take offense for someone based on their race.  Assuming Michelle Obama couldn’t and shouldn’t have to hear that word in any context because one of the things it refers to in human history was a bunch of racists being evil is to not give her the credit any human being deserves, let alone one educated at Harvard and Yale. 

People like Bob Cesca are the true racists, incapable of seeing an person for the person they are without categorizing them by the pigment in their skin.  The comments on the post are made by pigs as well, but they are mindless lemmings, it’s the leaders of this mob that are seeking to mentally lynch Bill O’Reilly (yes, we said it, and they are) who should be ashamed of themselves and run out of town.  But that won’t happen.  George Soros has too much money sheltered around the world and an agenda that has yet to be realized (thankfully) for him to stop now. 

So the Keith Olbermanns of the world will keep being “offended” and calling people names…and cashing those checks. 

Douchebag of the Week – New York Times

It should come as little surprise that the rag that claims “All the news that’s fit to (mis) print” has lost its once great glory and has now become a laughing stock to most Americans.  Since the majority of Americans believe the media is biased, it makes sense that the shadow of suspicion should fall on the New York Times since they often set the agenda for a lazy media.  While the influence of the Times is falling faster than their circulation, they can still make a splash that ripples through out the “news world.” 

They did so this week, though not the type they’d hoped. 

When the Timesran a long-spiked story on Senator McCain that contained more un-sourced quotes and attributions than a Jayson Blair column on page 1, to say they jumped the shark would be an understatement, they jumped it, dried off, went home and were in bed already. 

The truth about this disgrace is that the Times wasn’t going to run the story because there was no “there” there.  But the left-wing rag The New Republic (former home to Stephen Glass and Scott Thomas Beauchamp) was going to run a story about how the Times wasn’t running the story, so the Times felt pressure to actually run it.  They did, it bombed.

You know a “news” story has trouble when there are more reporters and contributors (6) than sources (2), yet the story was page 1, above the fold.

As the “paper of record” continues to lay people off from their “news” room, time may prove those people to be the lucky ones.

It is for all these reason (and many more, because they have a rich history) that the New York Timesis this week’s winner of Douchebag of the Week.

Sure people will starve to death, but Al Gore will be happy.

Aside from the fact that it takes 80 percent of the energy it takes to produce on gallon of gasoline to produce one gallon of ethanol, takes more ethanol to run a car than gas, and that man-made global warming is a myth, the rush to find “alternative” energy sources to appease the Pope Goreus the VI and other profiteers who perpetuate this garbage continues.

Al Gore and his ilk support ethanol subsidies (as do most candidates for President because people in Iowa love their government checks) as a better alternative than straight gasoline for the environment, though even that is in doubt.  But the Members of the Church of Global Warming is not known for bothering with facts that don’t fit their mold.

Now there is this story about how the push for ethanol has led to higher food prices and food shortages…

Way to go, Pope Goreus the VI!  Though this isn’t that far off of what some faithful want.

One of the funnier lines you’ll ever read.

As everyone knows, Huffington Post is an outlet for radical left-wing spin and press releases.  While they’re all pretty amusing and a joke, there is one post today that takes the cake.

Posted by their “political reporter,” which means this guy is one of the few besides Arianna who makes money off of the site (the site is very parasitic that way), it details the latest ultra-rich left-winger seeking to bail water from the Titanic that is Air America.  Air America, for anyone who hasn’t seen the glowing stories in the New York Times, is the failed liberal radio network actively seeking to elect Democrats that couldn’t make a profit or attract an audience if it were the only game in town. 

After scandals and bankruptcy, someone else is going to try to create something an audience doesn’t want.  While that a joke, it’s not the joke.

The funniest thing we’ve read in a while is the opening line of the press release, er, report:

Air America, one of the country’s more powerful radio networks and a major progressive megaphone, is switching ownership.

The yardstick by which “reporter” Sam Stein measures power is unknown, but we’d imagine it could fit nicely into a Smurf’s pocket.

Great video on the FISA bill by the House Republican Conference.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Pelosi appeased her base while threats mounted…and maybe while plots were hatched.  If Congress doesn’t act soon, we may not know until the world knows.

Surprise! People like to protect themselves.

While school shootings are more rare than being struck by lightening, you coverage they get causes fear among many students and faculty.  Some students are defying the unconstitutional ban on guns on certain college campuses (you can’t just decide a Constitutional right doesn’t apply somewhere because administrators don’t like it) and carrying with them to class their Second Amendment right. 

This story about one such student at the University of Utah will probably cause a witch-hunt, but you can bet any sick bastard considering doing something evil on campus will now at least pause to ponder the whereabouts of ”Nick” before they plot their stupidity. 

Let the hate flow: Left wing hate blogs go crazy for gossip story.

The story being billed as a “Bombshell” about John McCain has become the story itself, since it has less sourced quotes on the accusations than people it took to write it (did it really take 6 contributors to write what is essentially a glorified Page 6 blurb of innuendo and rehash or something for which McCain was cleared before 90 percent of Obama’s voters were even born?).  Hell, even Keith Olbermann called BS on this story last night. 

But that won’t stop some people, facts are simply an annoyance to some people, mainly left-wing hate bloggers and those who comment on the rumors.  The only thing that would give them more joy is if someone they disagreed with died.  Yet they are the “tolerant” ones, right?

Could copy and paste these comments, the ones that revel in McCain’s torture for 6 1/2 years, or Nancy Reagan’s recent fall, or wishing Tony Snow death when his cancer returned, but reading the comments thread in its entirety is the only way to do it justice.  There is no other conclusion to make but the “enlightened” liberals are really nothing more than immature children for whom schadenfreude is the main reason they get out of bed in the morning.  Hate-filled humans who pay no mind to truth, just see something they want to be true and run with it. 

It matters not to them that these allegations are far from schadenfreude, have been levelled by anonymous people and have been vigorously denied by all involved.  These people simply live to attack a man that lost 6 1/2 years of his life having his arms continually broken by his captors defending their right to be the slime they are. 

The tone and content of these threads will be what leads to victory for Republicans in November.  Can see the ads now…

And remember, these sites screen their comments, though mostly just for conservatives, so we can only guess what was deemed to be too much.

UCLA attempts to tug at your heart strings, instead exposes elitism.

This sad tale of woe attempts to tug at your heart strings and inspire sympathy in the reader does just the opposite, makes the subject seem like cry-baby and the writer seem like an insulated douchebag.

Yes, Stephanie Solis got screwed by her parents because they didn’t tell her that they’re here in the country illegally until she was older, if you believe her story, but so what.  What did she do when she found out?  Nothing.  Didn’t go to INS and make her case, which would be pretty easy to make, if her story is true, and get legal.

The story in the UCLA student paper details the “hardships” Stephanie had to go through in order to graduate, tragedies like public transportation and working.  Welcome to the real world, Stephanie.  Most of us had to work our way through college and/or are paying off a lot of money in loans.  Here’s a tip, if it costs a ton of money to go to a particular school, go to a different school!

You can’t really complain about the choices you made and expect others to feel sorry for you because those choices had consequences, clear consequences that in no way could be considered to have snuck up on you. 

No one cares that your life sucks because you haven’t done anything to make your life not suck.  And quit bitching that you’ve had to work while going to college, most Americans don’t even go to college, they go straight to work for 40 years, so you’re ahead of the curve.

As for the writer of the article, Jessica Chou, she needs to be her head of where the sun don’t shine and the air quality it poor and realize lines like this one aren’t going to inspire anything but a “so f-ing what!” from most people:

Instead, many undocumented students are forced to pick up odd jobs to pay for their education.

Only a Liberal who hasn’t earned much but has a lot could look at that line and think it is somehow unique to illegal aliens.  Anyone not born with a silver foot up their ass works their way through college, if they’re lucky enough to go in the first place.  To call that being “forced to pick up odd jobs to pay for their education” exposes the bubble in which Jessica has lived her life.