WASHINGTON DC - Ending weeks of speculation and rumors, President-Elect Barack Obama today named Bill Clinton to join his incoming administration as President of the United States, where he will head the federal government's executive branch.
"I am pleased that Bill Clinton has agreed to come out of retirement to head up this crucial post in my administration," said Obama. "He brings a lifetime of previous executive experience as Governor of Arkansas and President of the United States, and has worked closely with most of the members of my Cabinet."
Clinton said he was "excited and honored" by the appointment, and would work "day and night" to defeat all the key policy objectives proposed by Mr. Obama during the campaign.
"I am gratified that the President-Elect has entrusted me with this important responsibility," said Clinton. "I'm looking forward to getting back behind, and under, the Oval Office desk again. As I have told the President-Elect, I pledge to do whatever I can to serve his historic administration by making sure that none of that bullshit he talked about during the campaign will ever see the light of day. Americans can rest assured that he will be safely confined to the East Wing, as far away as possible from any potentially dangerous office equipment or nuclear buttons."
The long anticipated naming of Clinton to head Obama's Oval Office team comes after a week that saw Obama appoint dozens of Clinton associates to his transition team including John Podesta, Rahm Emanuel, Eric Holder, Larry Summers, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hundreds of other Clinton Administration holdovers are rumored to be in line for remaining appointments, including Bill Richardson, Janet Reno, Webb Hubbell, Chelsea Clinton, zombie Vince Foster, and zombie Socks the cat.
"Let's face it, it's obvious I'm in way over my head here," explained Obama. "Anyone paying attention knows I am a disaster waiting to happen, and who can blame them? I mean, just look at the stock market. That's why I think it's in the best interest of the country that I hand over the reins to people who, whatever their ethical shortcomings, at least have a faint clue about what they're doing. Come on, man. I've got a 401-k, too."
While the naming of Clinton appears to have momentarily calmed jittery financial markets, it sparked ripples of disapproval at liberal websites like Huffington Post and DailyKos. The progressive blogosphere was an early key source of support for Mr. Obama's candidacy, but a steady stream of Clinton-era appointees since the election has left some charging that he had betrayed his campaign promises to bring them to Washington as part of a sweeping culture of change -- a charge that Mr. Obama vehemently accepted.
"Oh, for Chri... Are you kidding me? Are you friggin' kidding me?" asked Obama. "Of course I betrayed those g**dam**d idiots. Have any of you actually spent five minutes with them? I have, unfortunately. Nothing personal, but I wouldn't trust these internet windowlickers with a plastic spork from Taco Bell, let alone a freaking $3 trillion dollar budget global superpower. Look, I may be naive, but I'm not stupid. And if Kose or Koz or whatever the f*** his name is thinks for one second I give a rat's a** about who he wants in charge of the Treasury Department, he's even stupider than he looks."
"Look, I'm sorry I kinda snapped there, and pardon my French," added Obama. "But I just spent the last two years surrounded by these starstruck moonbat retards, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna spend the next four with them parked in the next cubicle over."
Obama also announced that he had accepted his own appointment of himself as an assistant Undersecretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
"It's a fairly low-stress job that I'm reasonably qualified for," said Obama. "I really can't do much damage there, and it will give me plenty of free time for Oprah specials. Plus work on my next autobiography and re-election campaign."
With heartfelt thanks to iowahawk.typepad.com
How Do You Spell "Thug?"
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
I Want to Shake That Montanan's Hand
(Retired Senator Alan Simpson (D-Big Surprise), co-chair of Obama's "Deficit Reduction Commission," calls American seniors the "Greediest Generation.")
WARNING: Some salty language, but the point is made.
From a man in Montana....who - like the rest of us - has had enough
Hey Alan,
Let’s get a few things straight…
1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for FIFTY YEARS…
2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63)…
3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR
money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would have made Bernie Madoff proud…
4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and your ilk pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age 67. NOW, you and your shill commission is proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN…
5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now you morons propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because you idiots mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal money from Medicare to pay the bills…
6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you incompetent bastards spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more of our money to pay of YOUR debts…To add insult to injury, you label us “greedy” for calling “bullshit” on your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU…
1. How much money have you suckled from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?
2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?
3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?
4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or, as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?
It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators who are “greedy”. It is you and they who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what?
Votes.
That’s right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.
And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch.
Hat Tip: Dr. GOG
WARNING: Some salty language, but the point is made.
From a man in Montana....who - like the rest of us - has had enough
Hey Alan,
Let’s get a few things straight…
1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for FIFTY YEARS…
2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63)…
3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR
money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would have made Bernie Madoff proud…
4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and your ilk pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age 67. NOW, you and your shill commission is proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN…
5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now you morons propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because you idiots mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal money from Medicare to pay the bills…
6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you incompetent bastards spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more of our money to pay of YOUR debts…To add insult to injury, you label us “greedy” for calling “bullshit” on your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU…
1. How much money have you suckled from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?
2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?
3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?
4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or, as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?
It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators who are “greedy”. It is you and they who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what?
Votes.
That’s right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.
And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch.
Hat Tip: Dr. GOG
How ALL phones SHOULD be answered!
GOOD MORNING,
WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Please Press '1' for English..
Press '2' to disconnect until you learn to speak English.
Hat Tip: JOG
WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Please Press '1' for English..
Press '2' to disconnect until you learn to speak English.
Hat Tip: JOG
Thursday, December 9, 2010
From Randall Hoven, Via American Thinker
A funny thing happened on the way to spreading the wealth: wealth dried up.
A good class warrior wishes for three things (at least).
(1) For tax rates to be highest on the richest. Ideally, only the rich would pay taxes. The Father of Class War, Karl Marx, made "a heavy progressive or graduated income tax" one of the ten planks of his Manifesto.
(2) For no one to be super-rich. Ideally, no one would make more than some amount considered too much. Barack Obama, the Son of Class War, once said, "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."
(3) For Government to have plenty of money so that it can spread the wealth and help the needy. The Democratic Party, the Holy Ghost of Class War, put in its 2008 platform, "For families making more than $250,000, we'll ask them to give back a portion of the Bush tax cuts to invest in health care and other key priorities."
Now think about that for a moment. If the class warriors got their first two wishes, their third wish would be impossible. If you tax only the rich, yet you have no rich, then government collects no revenue. You can't spread wealth if there is no wealth.
And here is the punch line: that is exactly what is happening now, just not as starkly.
In 2007, those making over $200,000 per year did not pay all federal income taxes -- just 52% of them. Then came the Great Recession. Taxable income of that group declined 16% from 2007 to 2008. Taxable incomes went up slightly for the middle class, or those households making between $40,000 and $200,000.
And what about the really rich: those with gross incomes over one million dollars? There were 18% fewer tax returns from such households and 25% less taxable income. As a result, the federal government collected $60 billion less from such households in 2008 than in 2007. (See tables at the end of this article.)
The Great Recession was a great time for class warriors. Incomes for the rich went down quite a bit in a single year (and only the first year of the Great Recession) while those for the middle class stayed about the same.
The result was predictable: much less revenue for the government. Federal income taxes from the middle class ($40,000 to $200,000) went up by $2 billion, but those from the rich (over $200,000) went down by $73 billion. This was not because of tax rate cuts; there weren't any. It was because there were fewer rich households and less income for such households.
Real GDP fell only 2.8% from 2007 to 2008, but federal revenue fell almost twice as much: 5.2% in constant dollars. Through 2009, federal revenues were down 21% from 2007, leaving a gaping shortfall in revenue of over half a trillion dollars (inflation adjusted) and an unprecedented federal deficit. (Tax figures for 2009 are not yet available. I suspect they will show the same pattern: loss of federal revenue due to loss of income at the higher levels.)
Revenues did not fall because of a tax rate cut; there was no tax rate cut between 2007 and 2009. Revenues did not fall because of some give-away to the rich. In fact, the problem was just the opposite.
Revenues fell because there were fewer rich and the rich made less money -- just as class warriors wanted.
We had a progressive tax structure that relied on the rich getting richer. Then we got what we wished for: for the rich to become like us. So now we're all broke. We had a bubble-based tax system, and the bubble burst.
Why do you think revenues fell by over 20% to the federal government and states like California during the Great Recession, when GDP fell only 4%? Because the federal government and states like California have extremely progressive tax structures. You get rid of the rich, and you get rid of government revenues (and job creation). Believe it or not, the rich lost more money in the Great Recession than the rest of us did. Our golden goose is cooked.
Discussions of how much to tax the rich are ever more akin to fiddling while Rome is burning. Before you can get money from the rich, you have to have rich households and they have to have money. You can't tax what you've destroyed.
Be careful what you wish for. Or vote for.
Randall Hoven can be contacted at randall.hoven@gmail.com or via his web site, randallhoven.com.
A good class warrior wishes for three things (at least).
(1) For tax rates to be highest on the richest. Ideally, only the rich would pay taxes. The Father of Class War, Karl Marx, made "a heavy progressive or graduated income tax" one of the ten planks of his Manifesto.
(2) For no one to be super-rich. Ideally, no one would make more than some amount considered too much. Barack Obama, the Son of Class War, once said, "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."
(3) For Government to have plenty of money so that it can spread the wealth and help the needy. The Democratic Party, the Holy Ghost of Class War, put in its 2008 platform, "For families making more than $250,000, we'll ask them to give back a portion of the Bush tax cuts to invest in health care and other key priorities."
Now think about that for a moment. If the class warriors got their first two wishes, their third wish would be impossible. If you tax only the rich, yet you have no rich, then government collects no revenue. You can't spread wealth if there is no wealth.
And here is the punch line: that is exactly what is happening now, just not as starkly.
In 2007, those making over $200,000 per year did not pay all federal income taxes -- just 52% of them. Then came the Great Recession. Taxable income of that group declined 16% from 2007 to 2008. Taxable incomes went up slightly for the middle class, or those households making between $40,000 and $200,000.
And what about the really rich: those with gross incomes over one million dollars? There were 18% fewer tax returns from such households and 25% less taxable income. As a result, the federal government collected $60 billion less from such households in 2008 than in 2007. (See tables at the end of this article.)
The Great Recession was a great time for class warriors. Incomes for the rich went down quite a bit in a single year (and only the first year of the Great Recession) while those for the middle class stayed about the same.
The result was predictable: much less revenue for the government. Federal income taxes from the middle class ($40,000 to $200,000) went up by $2 billion, but those from the rich (over $200,000) went down by $73 billion. This was not because of tax rate cuts; there weren't any. It was because there were fewer rich households and less income for such households.
Real GDP fell only 2.8% from 2007 to 2008, but federal revenue fell almost twice as much: 5.2% in constant dollars. Through 2009, federal revenues were down 21% from 2007, leaving a gaping shortfall in revenue of over half a trillion dollars (inflation adjusted) and an unprecedented federal deficit. (Tax figures for 2009 are not yet available. I suspect they will show the same pattern: loss of federal revenue due to loss of income at the higher levels.)
Revenues did not fall because of a tax rate cut; there was no tax rate cut between 2007 and 2009. Revenues did not fall because of some give-away to the rich. In fact, the problem was just the opposite.
Revenues fell because there were fewer rich and the rich made less money -- just as class warriors wanted.
We had a progressive tax structure that relied on the rich getting richer. Then we got what we wished for: for the rich to become like us. So now we're all broke. We had a bubble-based tax system, and the bubble burst.
Why do you think revenues fell by over 20% to the federal government and states like California during the Great Recession, when GDP fell only 4%? Because the federal government and states like California have extremely progressive tax structures. You get rid of the rich, and you get rid of government revenues (and job creation). Believe it or not, the rich lost more money in the Great Recession than the rest of us did. Our golden goose is cooked.
Discussions of how much to tax the rich are ever more akin to fiddling while Rome is burning. Before you can get money from the rich, you have to have rich households and they have to have money. You can't tax what you've destroyed.
Be careful what you wish for. Or vote for.
Randall Hoven can be contacted at randall.hoven@gmail.com or via his web site, randallhoven.com.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Words to the Wise
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the
necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America .
Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president." -author unknown, but spot on.
Hat Tip: Dr. GOG
necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America .
Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president." -author unknown, but spot on.
Hat Tip: Dr. GOG
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...
My, my, my. Christmas is drawing near, you can tell by the chill in the air, the twinkling lights and cheery music, and the increased FBI activities: Another American citizen attempts mass-murder in the name of Allah the wonderful, that Islamic version of the Grinch:
This morning, the feds arrested Muhammed Hussain, a Muslim convert formerly known as Antonio Martinez, in the Baltimore area on charges related to a bombing plot against military recruitment centers.
He was using the identical cell-phone technology as the Portland choirbo, I mean, accused mass-murder attemptee Mohammad Osman Mohammud, and was arrested by the FBI after his attempts (again, plural: attempts) to detonate a false bomb.
Of course, MSLSD will identify this latest jihadist as "Mr. (or perhaps Senor) Martinez, just as Richard Reid and Jose Padilla were identified in the dying lamestream media outlets NBC, CBS, ABC, and PMS. After all, they might be misunderstood if identified by their chosen new names: Jose Padilla chose to become Abdullah al-Muhajir. Richard Reid preferred Abdel Rahim, Antonio Martinez wants to be known as Muhammad Hussein. All Mormon converts. No, wait: I meant MUSLIM converts, you know, "the religion of PEACE."
Oddly, the media had no problems with Muhammad Ali, nee Cassius Clay, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, nee Lewis Alcindor, Jr. (daddy must be so proud), nor "Cat" Stevens, now Yusuf Islam. Sayyyy, you don't think we're being deliberately mislead, do you? Naahhhh. Not by Diane Sawyer nor Keith Olbermann!!
Am I sensing a pattern here? Or would that be "profiling?" After all, Mohammed O. Mohamud is "a nice boy, drank the occasional beer, seemed quiet, not fitting the typical radical's profile..." hey, wait a minute, is "profiling" OK when trying to prove that "profiling" is wrong?
"Oh, Mister Game Warden, I'm so confused: Is it Wabbit season, or is it Duck season?"
Thank God that Janet Napolitano doesn't run the FBI.
This morning, the feds arrested Muhammed Hussain, a Muslim convert formerly known as Antonio Martinez, in the Baltimore area on charges related to a bombing plot against military recruitment centers.
He was using the identical cell-phone technology as the Portland choirbo, I mean, accused mass-murder attemptee Mohammad Osman Mohammud, and was arrested by the FBI after his attempts (again, plural: attempts) to detonate a false bomb.
Of course, MSLSD will identify this latest jihadist as "Mr. (or perhaps Senor) Martinez, just as Richard Reid and Jose Padilla were identified in the dying lamestream media outlets NBC, CBS, ABC, and PMS. After all, they might be misunderstood if identified by their chosen new names: Jose Padilla chose to become Abdullah al-Muhajir. Richard Reid preferred Abdel Rahim, Antonio Martinez wants to be known as Muhammad Hussein. All Mormon converts. No, wait: I meant MUSLIM converts, you know, "the religion of PEACE."
Oddly, the media had no problems with Muhammad Ali, nee Cassius Clay, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, nee Lewis Alcindor, Jr. (daddy must be so proud), nor "Cat" Stevens, now Yusuf Islam. Sayyyy, you don't think we're being deliberately mislead, do you? Naahhhh. Not by Diane Sawyer nor Keith Olbermann!!
Am I sensing a pattern here? Or would that be "profiling?" After all, Mohammed O. Mohamud is "a nice boy, drank the occasional beer, seemed quiet, not fitting the typical radical's profile..." hey, wait a minute, is "profiling" OK when trying to prove that "profiling" is wrong?
"Oh, Mister Game Warden, I'm so confused: Is it Wabbit season, or is it Duck season?"
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
SEMPER FI
Monday night, I had the distinct honor and privilege of helping to entertain the wounded at the Fort Vancouver Medical Center.
I met men with missing legs, shattered skulls, missing eyes, hands or fingers, but none lacking spirit, none feeling self-pity. No, they insist upon thanking us for our time, yet it is we who ought thank them for their sacrifice. One, a Korea vet with parts of his skull and brain blown to powder more than 60 years ago, has not seen his family for years, not even at Christmas nor his birthday, nor for any other occasion. Save for the attendant nurses, he is alone, utterly, irredeemably alone. Thanks for your service, sarge.
I met men with missing legs, shattered skulls, missing eyes, hands or fingers, but none lacking spirit, none feeling self-pity. No, they insist upon thanking us for our time, yet it is we who ought thank them for their sacrifice. One, a Korea vet with parts of his skull and brain blown to powder more than 60 years ago, has not seen his family for years, not even at Christmas nor his birthday, nor for any other occasion. Save for the attendant nurses, he is alone, utterly, irredeemably alone. Thanks for your service, sarge.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
I Have Seen The Future, Part XXXVIII
For those who still believe that Government can solve all of mankind's problems, via the London Daily Mail, here's a tidbit from Great Britain, the shining example toward which Obamacare advocates and mega-bureaucracy fans so gleefully point:
A hero soldier who lost a leg in Afghanistan has been denied a disabled parking badge three times by council bosses.
Lance Corporal Johno Lee has clocked up £800 (about $2100 American) in fines for parking in disabled bays in his home town of Newark, Nottinghamshire, on days when he uses a wheelchair or feels unable to walk very far.
When he first applied to Nottinghamshire County Council for a blue badge, he was advised: "he was young and 'may get better.'"
His right leg was amputated below the knee after he was caught up in an explosion in Helmand Province in 2008 and was catapulted into a minefield.
He said yesterday: "I replied that they possibly did not quite understand the situation and that I thought it unlikely my leg would grow back."
In a public statement, the Council's Service Director Mr Paul McKay said: "We are looking into the matter and have arranged for a member of staff to meet Mr Lee to review the situation. We will urgently assess whether he meets the criteria for a disabled parking badge as laid down by the Department of Transport."
There are no words. Be afraid, citizen. Be very afraid.
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A hero soldier who lost a leg in Afghanistan has been denied a disabled parking badge three times by council bosses.
Lance Corporal Johno Lee has clocked up £800 (about $2100 American) in fines for parking in disabled bays in his home town of Newark, Nottinghamshire, on days when he uses a wheelchair or feels unable to walk very far.
When he first applied to Nottinghamshire County Council for a blue badge, he was advised: "he was young and 'may get better.'"
His right leg was amputated below the knee after he was caught up in an explosion in Helmand Province in 2008 and was catapulted into a minefield.
He said yesterday: "I replied that they possibly did not quite understand the situation and that I thought it unlikely my leg would grow back."
In a public statement, the Council's Service Director Mr Paul McKay said: "We are looking into the matter and have arranged for a member of staff to meet Mr Lee to review the situation. We will urgently assess whether he meets the criteria for a disabled parking badge as laid down by the Department of Transport."
There are no words. Be afraid, citizen. Be very afraid.
T-Shirt from LarsLarson.com
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