WHAT DO THE MUPPETS FAIL TO SEE?

Hat tip:  Glen Foden

-neon leon

Politically Incorrect Gun Rules

1. Guns have only two enemies rust and politicians.
2. It’s always better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
3. Cops carry guns to protect themselves, not you.
4. Never let someone or something that threatens you get inside arms length.
5. Never say, “I’ve got a gun.” If you need to use deadly force, the first sound they hear should be the safety clicking off.
6. The average response time of a 911 call is 23 minutes; the response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second.
7. The most important rule in a gunfight is: Always win – cheat if necessary.
8. Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets . . . You may get killed with your own gun, but he’ll have to beat you to death with it, because it’ll be empty.
9. If you’re in a gunfight:
– If you’re not shooting, you should be loading.
– If you’re not loading, you should be moving.
– If you’re not moving, you’re dead.
10. In a life and death situation, do something . . . It may be wrong, but do something!
11. If you carry a gun, people call you paranoid. Nonsense! If you have a gun, what do you have to be paranoid about?
12. You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or any other word, but a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much a universal language.
13. You cannot save the planet, but you may be able to save yourself and your family.

From a column by Doug Giles at clashdaily.com, but the author is unknown.

-neonleon

That Outsourcing Bastard, Romney....

ALL of my GE lightbulbs and compact fluorescents are made in China.


Isn't Jeffrey Immelt, GE's CEO, chairman of BHO's "Jobs Council?" 


Nothing to see here, nope, no outsourcing. Move along, move along. 


Forward.

DOCTOR BO

A THREE-HOUR TOUR...."

Hat Tip: Mike Ramirez; TownHall.com
-neon leon

SHREDDING, OBAMA-STYLE

"He does not want you to have the self-esteem of getting up and earning, and having that title of American. He'd rather you be his slave."
-Florida Congressman Allen West, speaking yesterday about Obama.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

YOU'RE WELCOME.

Worth a Thousand

It's Always Sunny...

            "Frankly, I don't know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office.  I'm not bragging you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close.  When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we're Number One.  There's no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on 'Macbeth'.  The four of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab.  You don't know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words."

-- Columnist Burt Prelutsky, Los Angeles Times

  

ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID

Attention, all you "Little People!"  Tired of the same old wedding gifts?  Don't want another birthday tie?

Then invite your guests to "give" to the 2012 Obama beg-a-thon!  

I actually wish this was a photoshop, at least, partially.

-neon leon

My Dog's Secret 
My dog sleeps about 20 hours a day.

He has his food prepared for him. He can eat whenever he wants. 
His meals are provided at no cost to him. 
He visits the Dr. once a year for his checkup, and again during the year if any medical needs arise.
For this he pays nothing, and nothing is required of him.
He lives in a nice neighborhood in a house that is much larger than he needs, but he is not required to do any upkeep.
If he makes a mess, someone else cleans it up.
He has his choice of luxurious places to sleep.
He receives these accommodations absolutely free.
He is living like a King, and has absolutely no expenses whatsoever.
All of his costs are picked up by others who go out and earn a living every day.
I was just thinking about all this, and suddenly it hit me like a brick in the head.......

I think my dog is a Member of Congress~!


Hat Tip:  Jim Adamson
-neon leon

SAW THIS COMING, DIDJA?

-neon leon

YOUR GOVERNMENT GONE AMOK

"Man visited by armed EPA agents not satisfied with answers, wants agency changes"

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/09/man-visited-by-armed-epa-agents-not-satisfied-with-answers-wants-agency-changes/#ixzz1xgYB5Y3O


"ARMED" EPA agents?  "ARMED" in order to "Protect the Environment?"  


Stalin would be so proud.


-neon leon

"THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS DOING FINE.."

IF EVER A MAN NEEDED A RADICAL PROCTO-CRANIOECTOMY*, THIS MAN DOES.  "BUFFOON" IS JUST TOO KIND A WORD.


*my own word:  You do the math.
-neonleon

"THE TIMES, THEY ARE A CHANGIN'"

2008 CAMPAIGN 

 2012 CAMPAIGN

O-nopoly, by Dale

The REAL Kill List

Terrorists have nothing to fear from this guy, but we do.


-HT Bob Gorrell
-neon leon

SCORE!

Mike Ramirez scores again:

Hat Tip: Townhall.com
-neon leon

POLITICALLY CORRECT MASCOT NAMES

Thanks to the Oregon Dept. of Education, twenty Oregon schools will have to rename their "mascot" and/or school graphics in order to no longer denigrate the three Native Americans who objected to the "warrior, brave, or Indian" designations.

Without further ado, I offer the following suggested name changes:

Amity High School: Warriors to become the Amity Sharks
Banks High School: Braves to become the Banks Tellers
Lebanon High School: Warriors to become the Lebanon Bedouins
Mohawk High School: Indians to become the Mowhawk Hairstylists
Molalla High School: Indians to become the Molalla Buckaroos
North Douglas High School: Warriors to become the North Douglas Firs
Oakridge High School: Warriors to become the Oakridge Boys
Philomath High School: Warriors to become the Philomath Neuromaths
Reedsport High School: Braves to become the Reedsport Light Housekeepers
Rogue River High School: Chieftains to become the Rogue River Rafters
Roseburg High School: Indians to become the Roseburg Icebergs
Scappoose High School: Indians to become Scappoose's Burnooses
Siletz Valley School: Warriors to become the Siletz Salmon Poachers
The Dalles‐Wahtonka High School: Eagle Indians to become The Dalles-Wahtonka Toys.

When will the abject, unmitigated stupidity in public office finally end?

-neon leon

p.s. Go, Beavers. And Ducks. And Pilots. And Vikings.  Trojans?  Generals?  Democrats?

HOPE AND CHUMP CHANGE

VOMIT WORTHY "NEWS MAGAZINE" COVER

Not even valuable enough to line my birdcage.

THIS SHOULD MAKE YOUR BLOOD BOIL:

Do you know where 4.2 BILLION of your tax dollars go?  
To illegal immigrants.  
As tax refunds.  
And it appears to be LEGAL as this video explains.  
WARNING: IF YOU TRY TO DO THIS, YOU WILL GO TO A FEDERAL PRISON FOR TAX FRAUD!!  These people are professionals,  DON'T try this at home!!

http://www.wthr.com/video?clipId=7054149&topVideoCatNo=103348&autoStart=true

 It's what makes America great!

Hat Tip: Dr. GOG
-neon leon

POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS

Writing and recording this song got a Tennessee teacher/football coach fired.  Apparently it's OK to glorify President #44 in class during school hours*, but not to parody him at home on your own time.  God Bless America!
http://video.staged.com/dtglobal59/tennessee_football_coach_fired_for_making_obama_so
or go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfH46DTAkxo&feature=player_embedded

Hat Tip:  WW
-neon leon
* Watch this pro-O chant and count the schoolchildren being used as pawns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ9wcM0n5aY&feature=related

RATS LEAVING THE SINKING SHIP

David Axelrod, Obama's ex-officio campaign manager, has revealed why America needs to vote for Romney:  From his lips to God's ear!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFUYhN3ikxI

Something to Ponder

Forward, onward, downward toward the abyss of Socialist slavery and serfdom.  "Forward" was also Chairman Mao's slogan as he murdered 20 million Chinese citizens "for the greater good."  Just FYI.


-neon leon

May I offer a Suggestion?

"IF I WANTED AMERICA TO FAIL..."

REDUX

SIMPLIFICATION, or "IT'S THE BORROWING, STUPID!"

In science and engineering, Scientific Notation is used to handle large numbers so they may be understood by those of us who are mathematically challenged:

Lesson # 1:

* U.S. Tax revenue:   $2,170,000,000,000

* Fed budget:             $3,820,000,000,000

* New debt:                $1,650,000,000,000

* National debt:        $14,271,000,000,000

* Proposed budget cuts: $38,500,000,000

Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household

budget:

* Annual family income:              $21,700

* Money the family spent:           $38,200

* New debt on credit card:          $16,500

* Outstanding card balance:     $142,710

* Total family budget cuts:               $385

Time needed to pay off debt: 512 YEARS!!

Got It ??

OK.

Now, Lesson # 2: Another way to look at the Debt Ceiling:

Let's say you come home from work and find there's been a

sewer backup in your neighborhood and your house has sewage

all the way up to your ceilings.

What do you think you should do: 

(A) raise the ceilings, or

(B) pump out the crap?

Your choice is coming Nov. 2012

Hat Tip:  Dr. GOG

-neon leon

WORTH A THOUSAND

-neon leon

CHENEY SAID IT BEST

Former Veep Dick Cheney referred to Mr. Obama as "an unmitigated disaster" as President.  Can anyone prove him wrong.  Anyone?  Anyone?  I thought not.


And here's another gem from Mike Ramirez:  Remember: 93 percent of all income taxes are paid by persons earning just $50,000 or more.

-neon leon

THE NEW 93 PERCENT

From CNS News. com:

– Americans making over $50,000 paid most of the federal taxes that were paid in the U.S. in 2010.

According to statistics compiled from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by the Tax Foundation, those people making above $50,000 had an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent, and carried 93.3 percent of the total tax burden.

Out of the 143 million tax returns that were filed with the IRS in 2010, 58 million – or 41 percent – of those filers were non-payers.

But Tax Foundation data also shows that people who didn’t pay any income tax received $105 billion in refundable tax credits from the IRS.

Apparently welfare isn't a bad gig:  free food, free housing, free medical, plenty of pocket money for flat-screen TV's, smokes, liquor, and drugs...no wonder it's called a "Plantation Mentality."

By the way, the CNS article also states that the federal tax code is 3.8 million words long – 3.5 times longer than all seven books of J.K. Rowling’s famous Harry Potter series combined.  And you thought Obamacare was a ponderous document. Makes Herman Cain's "9-9-9" plan sound a bit better, doesn't it?  

And it makes the "Buffett Rule" look really, really stupid.  I like that.

-neon leon

Understanding the Left

-neon leon

" I (DON'T) FEEL YOUR PAIN

 Remember when?  Just three years ago, you could afford gas.  But thanks to the current Administration's policies on Gulf oil drilling, pipelines, "green" (read: useless) energy loans, this is what you get:  Jimmy Carter-style imbecility-in-office.  Usually I got a drink first, and a cigarette after.

-neon leon

OH, I LOVE THIS:

CDC WARNING !!!

AS A public service, the following  anbnouncement from the CDC (Center for Disease Control):

-neon leon

NETWORK NEWS FOCUS

(AP, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSLSD, PBS) Local schoolboy and all-around good kid mercilessly gunned down by angry white right-wing gun nut.  Photos Attached:

                            Gun nut and Zimmerman,    Schoolboy Martin, the
                            the White Hispanic killer     victim of racist violence

-OR, look at these more recent photos of both, carefully concealed by the major "news" networks:

Nope, no media bias here.  Move along, just move on...

By the way just what the hell is a "White Hispanic?"  May I surmise from this term that there are also black, brown, red, yellow, and plaid Hispanics?  What about Eskimos?

Just how freaking racist can you get as to call someone a "White Hispanic? 

What about a "Black Irish?"  Just what "race" is that?

Now I understand what  "Yellow Journalist" means.

-neonleon

A PAIN IN THE....GASSS

Energy Secretary Steven Chu explains how high gasoline prices actually help everyone:  "It's really simple, once you see it..."

History Being Made

January 8, 2012 Obama: The Affirmative Action President by Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job?

Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present") ; and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator.

And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?

Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:

To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass.

Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass -- held to a lower standard -- because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues:

And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon -- affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.

Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin -- that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.

True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?

In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people -- conservatives included -- ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that's when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth -- it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.

And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job.When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.

THE GOOD HANDS PEOPLE

TODAY'S HEADLINES

Two side-by-side headlines caught my eye this morning.  I say "side-by-side" because "juxtaposed" is so snooty.
The first:  "NCAAP urges U.N. Human Rights Council to 'review' U.S. 'Voter Suppression Laws.'"
Second:  "'Nonsensical' Human Rights Council praises toppled Gadaffi Regime."
The U.N. Human Rights Council is composed of  47 representative nations on a rotational basis, much like our own Congress.  Member nations include, in no particular order:  Saudi Arabia, Uganda, Cuba, Nigeria, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and our dear friends, China.  These are the examiners of our "human rights," and of our "voter suppression" laws. 
Sorry for making you snort coffee out your nose, but the suggestion of requiring voters to show I.D. is so opprobrious to some (dare I say "Democrats?") that the U.N. is being called upon to intervene?  The Horror!  The Humanity!! 
I ask you:  how under Heaven can dead people continue to cast their pro-Democrat ballots if these onerous laws are passed?  How can paid straw voters cast their pro-Democrat votes?  How can Democrats retain political advantages if phantasmal voters are denied access to the polls?   How, indeed.
Have you heard even one Republican decry Voter ID? ONE??
Didn't think so.  Only the Party of Election Fraud, assisted by the Black Panthers, Occupy, the Communist Party USA, the White House and current Attorney General Eric "My People" Withholder, Harry Reid and his cadre, Nancy Lugo-, wait, my bad,  Pelosi, and Debbie Wasserman-Schlutz  are opposed to common-sense voting regulations in America.  Oh, I forgot MSNBC and PBS.
This is not a racial issue, not a gender issue, certainly not a "fairness" issue, nor an human rights issue:  it is simply common bloody sense to require proof of Identity and/or Citizenship in order to cast a ballot.  Sorry Charlie, but only the ID-proven people get to vote in a free America, sort of like as required for:
Buying a firearm (unless you are a drug cartel mule);
Cashing a check;
Getting Welfare or food assistance;
Boarding a plane, train, ship, or bus;
Enrolling in school;
Enlisting in the military;
GETTING A JOB.
And many, many, many more.

Hypocricy, thy name is Dem.

-neon leon

Barack Obama, during his Cairo speech last year, said:  
"I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America 's story."

The Following is an unknown American's reaction:


Dear Mr. Obama:  
Were those the Muslims that were in America when the Christian Pilgrims first landed?  Funny, I was taught that they were Native American Indians.
Were those the Muslims that celebrated the first Thanksgiving  day?  Sorry again, those were Christian Pilgrims and Native American Indians.
Can you show me one Muslim's signature on the United  States Constitution or on the Declaration of Independence ?  Or on The Bill of  Rights?
I didn't think so.


Did any Muslims fight for this country's freedom from England ?  No.
Did any Muslims fight during the Civil War to free the black slaves in America ?  No, they did   not.   In fact, it was the Muslim slave traders who provided  slaves from Africa to the rest of the world! Muslims to this day are still the largest traffickers in human slavery. Your own half brother, a devout   Muslim, still advocates slavery himself, even though Muslims of Arabic descent refer to black Muslims as "pug nosed slaves."  Says a lot  of what the Muslim world really thinks of your family's "rich Islamic heritage," doesn't it Mr. Obama?
Where were any Muslims during this country's Woman's Suffrage era?  Again, not present.  In fact, devout Muslims demand that women are subservient to men in the Islamic culture.  So much so,   that often they are beaten for not wearing the 'hijab' or for talking to a man who is not a  direct family member or their husband.    Yep, those Muslims are all for women's rights, aren't they?

Where were any Muslims during World War II?  They were aligned with Adolf Hitler.  The Muslim grand mufti himself met with Adolf Hitler, reviewed the troops and accepted support from the Nazi's in killing Jews.
Where were any Muslims during the 1960's Civil Rights era of this country?  Not present. There are no pictures nor media accounts of any Muslims walking side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. or  
helping to advance the cause of Civil Rights in any way.
Finally, Mr. Obama, where were Muslims on Sept.11th,  2001?  If they weren't flying planes into the World Trade Center , the Pentagon or a field in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 innocent people on our own soil, they were rejoicing in the Middle East!  No one can dispute the pictures, from all parts of the Muslim world, shown celebrating the attack on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other cable news networks that very day. 
Strangely, the very "moderate" Muslims who's a$$es you bent over backwards to kiss in Cairo , Egypt on June 4th were stone cold silent post 9-11.  To many Americans, their silence has meant tacit approval for the demonic acts of that day. 


 Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to mention the Barbary Pirates, you know, the ones on "the shores of Tripoli?"  They were also peace-loving Muslims, hijacking trade ships for ransom until the United States Marine Corps solved that little problem. And now we can add November 5, 2009 - the slaughter of American soldiers at Fort Hood by a Muslim major who is a doctor and a psychiatrist and who was supposed to be counseling distraught soldiers returning from battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan.


And THAT, Mr. Obama, is the "rich heritage" Muslims have here  in America.

 

Hat Tip: Mike H.

-neon leon

TWO INSIGHTS

 Ken Catalino

Mike Ramirez

-neon leon

A BILLION HERE, A BILLION THERE, AND PRETTY SOON WE'RE TALKING REAL MONEY!

Manchurian President Obama wants a billion dollars of YOUR money to help develop more "alternative" cars, such as the ever-popular Volt, the Tesla, and the pedi-cab.  As if we haven't wasted enough on these chimeral phantasms, these windmills in Barack Quixote's mind.  There is a reason that steamers replaced sailing ships.  There is a reason that locomotives replaced wagon trains.  There is a reason the automobile replaced the ox cart.  But Mr. Obama's dream from his father seems to be a universal return to the Stone Age for all the "litle people" out there, and if you don't believe YOU ae one of those "little people," of the man's mindset, then how do you explain his boast about creating "shovel-ready jobs?"  Doctor Johnson?   Engineer Hartman? Draftsman Lewis?  Auto-CAD designer Murphy?  Have you all gotten your shovels, or are you still unemployed?   To the anointed one, YOU are mere esnes, the grumbling proletariat to be subdued and controlled by any available means. 

Have you ever wondered why Safeway doesn't get its products shipped in by bus?  I would pay a bunch of money, say up to two or three dollars, to watch Sam Adams bring home a new queen-sized mattress set on his Schwinn, or to see Best Buy getting all their 55-inch plasmas from the light rail stop. 

Anyway, Mike Ramirez has speared the obvious flaw in this eco-plugin-algaemagic-fuel policy with just a few strokes of his acerbic pen:

QUOTE OF THE MILLENNIUM

 
  Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way you can understand. We have a lot of work to do.

"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."

Hat Tip:  Dr. GOG
-neon leon

AN EDSEL FOR OUR TIME

One week after a campaign congratulatory speech by purported President Obama, during which he promised to buy a Chevy Volt upon retirement (hopefully a 2013 model), GM, the automaker nationalized by the stroke of a Presidential Bic, announced the "temporary" stoppage of production on the Volt and the subsequent layoff of 1,300 GM shareholders assembly line workers. Given Mr. O's penchant for golf, I can understand his desire for a Volt, as it serves no useful purpose as an automobile, nor ever shall it.

The closest thing to a truly "green economy" vehicle is GM's proposed Silverado pickup which can run on natural gas, of which some 98% of available supply is produced right here in the USA, not Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, nor Iran.  Having driven a commercial truck which ran on propane, I think the CNG is a grand idea:  low CO2 output, cleaner-burning than gasoline or diesel, and available in all 57 states, unlike Obama's birth records.

WithThat in mind, expect gasoline prices to remain at record highs near the $5-per-gallon goal of the Obama DOE until Labor Day, when prices should drop to about $1-to-$1.50-per-gallon.  Oddly, the Democratic National Convention will commence the following day, but I digress...in fact, I don't care, my best-performing stock is CVX (ChevronTexaco).

Hat Tip:  Glen Foden

-neon leon

WHO'S GONE FIRST?

COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.
ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It's 8.3%.
COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?
ABBOTT: No, that's 18%
COSTELLO: You just said 8.3%.
ABBOTT: 8.3% Unemployed.
COSTELLO: Right 8.3% out of work.
ABBOTT: No, that's 18%.
COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 18% unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, that's 8.3%...
COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 8.3% or 18%?
ABBOTT: 8.3% are unemployed. 18% are out of work.
COSTELLO: IF you are out of work you are unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, you can't count the "Out of Work" as the
unemployed. You have to look for work to be unemployed.
COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!
ABBOTT: No, you miss my point.
COSTELLO: What point?
ABBOTT: Someone who doesn't look for work, can't be counted with those
who look for work. It wouldn't be fair.
COSTELLO: To who?
ABBOTT: The unemployed.
COSTELLO: But they are ALL out of work.
ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work... Those who
are out of work stopped looking. They gave up. And, if you give up,
you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.
COSTELLO: So if you're off the unemployment roles, that would count as
less unemployment?
ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!
COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don't look for
work?
ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That's how you get to 8.3%. Otherwise
it would be 18%. You don't want to read about 18% unemployment do ya?
COSTELLO: That would be frightening.
ABBOTT: Absolutely.
COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means they're two ways
to bring down the unemployment number?
ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.
COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?
ABBOTT: Correct.
COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a
job?
ABBOTT: Bingo.
COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the
easier of the two is to just stop looking for work.
ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like a Democrat.
COSTELLO: I don't even know what the hell I just said!

Now you know why Obama's unemployment figures are improving, and you should
be  better able to understand Obama's news releases.

 

Hat Tip: Michael H.
-neon leon 

OBAMA ENERGY SOLUTIONS IN PICTURES

"Moron" is just inadequate. 

Hat Tip:  Chip Bok, Mike Ramirez
-neon leon

THE PARABLE OF THE KOSHER DELI

In Case you didn't see this in the lamestream media, and I know you didn't  because it was largely ignored by our Socialist overlords,  here is Bishop Lori's testimony before Congress regarding the "contraception mandate" in Obamacare.  It is BRILLIANT, and worth the time to read.

"THE PARABLE OF THE KOSHER DELI"

Written Testimony of The Most Reverend William E. Lori

Roman Catholic Bishop of Bridgeport, Conn.

For my testimony today, I would like to tell a story. Let’s call it, “The Parable of the Kosher Deli.”
Once upon a time, a new law is proposed, so that any business that serves food must serve pork. There is a narrow exception for kosher catering halls attached to synagogues, since they serve mostly members of that synagogue, but kosher delicatessens are still subject to the mandate.
The Orthodox Jewish community—whose members run kosher delis and many other restaurants and grocers besides—expresses its outrage at the new government mandate. And they are joined by others who have no problem eating pork—not just the many Jews who eat pork, but people of all faiths—because these others recognize the threat to the principle of religious liberty. They recognize as well the practical impact of the damage to that principle. They know that, if the mandate stands, they might be the next ones forced—under threat of severe government sanction—to violate their most deeply held beliefs, especially their unpopular beliefs.
Meanwhile, those who support the mandate respond, “But pork is good for you. It is, after all, the other white meat.” Other supporters add, “So many Jews eat pork, and those who don’t should just get with the times.”
Still others say, “Those Orthodox are just trying to impose their beliefs on everyone else.”
But in our hypothetical, those arguments fail in the public debate, because people widely recognize the following.
First, although people may reasonably debate whether pork is good for you, that’s not the question posed by the nationwide pork mandate. Instead, the mandate generates the question whether people who believe—even if they believe in error—that pork is not good for you, should be forced by government to serve pork within their very own institutions. In a nation committed to religious liberty and diversity, the answer, of course, is no.
Second, the fact that some (or even most) Jews eat pork is simply irrelevant. The fact remains that some Jews do not—and they do not out of their most deeply held religious convictions.
Does the fact that large majorities in society—even large majorities within the protesting religious community—reject a particular religious belief make it permissible for the government to weigh in on one side of that dispute? Does it allow government to punish that minority belief with its coercive power? In a nation committed to religious liberty and diversity, the answer, of course, is no.
Third, the charge that the Orthodox Jews are imposing their beliefs on others has it exactly backwards. Again, the question generated by a government mandate is whether the government will impose its belief that eating pork is good on objecting Orthodox Jews.
Meanwhile, there is no imposition at all on the freedom of those who want to eat pork. That is, they are subject to no government interference at all in their choice to eat pork, and pork is ubiquitous and cheap, available at the overwhelming majority of restaurants and grocers.
Indeed, some pork producers and retailers, and even the government itself, are so eager to promote the eating of pork, that they sometimes give pork away for free.
In this context, the question is this: can a customer come to a kosher deli, demand to be served a ham sandwich, and if refused, bring down severe government sanction on the deli. In a nation committed to religious liberty and diversity, the answer, of course, is no.
So in our hypothetical story, because the hypothetical nation is indeed committed to religious liberty and diversity, these arguments carry the day.
In response, those proposing the new law claim to hear and understand the concerns of kosher deli owners, and offer them a new “accommodation.” You are free to call yourself a kosher deli; you are free not to place ham sandwiches on your menu; you are free not to be the person to prepare the sandwich and hand it over the counter to the customer. But we will force your meat supplier to set up a kiosk on your premises, and to offer, prepare, and serve ham sandwiches to all of your customers, free of charge to them. And when you get your monthly bill from your meat supplier, it will include the cost of any of the “free” ham sandwiches that your customers may accept. And you will, of course, be required to pay that bill.
Some who supported the deli owners initially began to celebrate the fact that ham sandwiches didn’t need to be on the menu, and didn’t need to be prepared or served by the deli itself. But on closer examination, they noticed three troubling things. 
First, all kosher delis will still be forced to pay for the ham sandwiches.
Second, many of the kosher delis’ meat suppliers, themselves, are forbidden in conscience from offering, preparing, or serving pork to anyone. Third, there are many kosher delis that are their own meat supplier, so the mandate to offer, prepare, and serve the ham sandwich still falls on them.
This story has a happy ending. The government recognized that it is absurd for someone to come into a kosher deli and demand a ham sandwich; that it is beyond absurd for that private demand to be backed with the coercive power of the state; that it is downright surreal to apply this coercive power when the customer can get the same sandwich cheaply, or even free, just a few doors down.
The question before the United States government—right now—is whether the story of our own Church institutions that serve the public, and that are threatened by the HHS mandate, will end happily too. Will our nation continue to be one committed to religious liberty and diversity? We urge, in the strongest possible terms, that the answer must be yes. We urge you, in the strongest possible terms, to answer the same way.
Thank you for your attention.

Hat Tip: CNSNews 
neon leon

"IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!"

Progress, Obama Style

WE'RE MAD AS HELL, AND WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!

Small business owner Jim Garvin has a lot to say, and it's all worth your time: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8SGyVNippvA

-neon leon

Clarice's Pieces

Clarice Feldman is a truly gifted satirist.  Her latest post at American Thinker is a thing of beauty:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/leni_riefenstahl_congratulations_on_the_hhs_regulations.html

-neon leon

Treasury Secretary Timothy "TurboTax" Geithner told the House Budget Committee Thursday that President Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget, recognized as “the most expensive in United States history" would “put the U.S. on an ‘unsustainable’ course if enacted.”
Geithner also told Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) that although the Obama administration doesn’t have a “definitive solution" to the debt crisis, it definitely knows it doesn’t like the Republican alternative.
“We have a $99.4 trillion unfunded liability. Our government is making promises to Americans that it has no way of accounting for. And so you’re saying, yeah, we’re stabilizing it but we’re not fixing it in the long run. That means that we’re just going to keep lying to people,” Rep. Paul Ryan said.

Sweet dreams, little ones.  Your Social Security "retirement" fund is a box full of IOU's, even though you and all of your employers have prepaid into since you began working.  Prepaid.  Your Medicare benefits, for which you have prepaid into since 1964 and will pay upwards of $100 per month as "premium," is, in the vernacular, Fertig! Verfallen! Verlumpt! Verblunget! Verkackt!  In English, after having pressed "1," it is Kaput.  Bupkis.  Oy Vey, goy,   it's DEAD BROKE.  Veteran's benefits?  If I could stop crying, I'd laugh.

Your Congress wants to call these "entitlements," and wants to weasel out of returning YOUR MONEY to you because they have already piddled it away ten times ten times over again, and now it's YOUR FAULT in their eyes.  If a private bank tried that, what would you do?  If you bought a house and paid all cash only to be told that the house was sold to someone else and your money was loaned to the other person in order to buy YOUR house, what would you do?

Don't be a schnook, and Honk if you want to see the entire lot of those lying ganefs, putzes, schmucks and mamzers unemployed in 2012.

Hat Tip:Washington Free Beacon

-neon leon
p.s.  See, Mom?  Not one four-letter word used about Congress!

MORE? YOU WANT MORE??

Treasury Secretary "TurboTax" Tim Geithner testified to Congress that the "only option" is to raise taxes in order to keep supporting Obamanomics, otherwise known as national financial suicide:

http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/senator-geithner-heres-200-billion-we-could-save-instead-raising-taxes

What I'm hearing is:  "Honey, the only we can continue to support my gambling, drinking, smoking, and whoring is to stop feeding the children and paying the heat bill."

What did you hear?

-neonleon

OBAMANOMICS FROM THE HORSE'S...........OK,OK: MOUTH

THE NANNY STATE'S FOOD POLICE ARE WATCHING YOU

(FoxNews)

A preschooler was fed chicken nuggets for lunch because a state worker felt that her homemade lunch did not have "enough nutritional value."

The student was in her classroom when a state agent, who was inspecting lunch boxes, decided that the child's home-packed lunch, which consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, apple juice and potato chips, “did not meet U.S.D.A. 'guidelines.'"

The decision was made under consideration of a regulation put in place by the the Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services, which requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs to meet USDA "guidelines."  Note:   "By definition, following a 'guideline' is never mandatory. Guidelines are not binding and are not enforced." ( U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs).

“When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care providers must supplement them with the missing ones."

The student’s mother received a note from the school about the "incident" and was charged $1.25 for the cafeteria tray, from which her daughter only ate three chicken nuggets, some of the corn, none of the zucchini, lemon squash, nor the broccoli, only a single bite of watermelon, some of the muffin, and drank part of the "chocolate-y dairy drink" (WTF??)  Approximately 60% of the federally subsidized and mandated lunch went into the trash, which is an obviously sterling example of another highly successful nanny-government mandate-posing-as-a-"guideline."

The mother, who was not identified in the report, expressed concern about school officials telling her daughter that she wasn’t “packing her lunch box properly.”  Another MYOFB intrusion into a citizen's personal choice concerning raising her own child.

So, mothers everywhere, be sure to call your local food police before sending your precious snowflake off to school without "enough" broccoli, cauliflower, kale, swiss chard, and some soy nuggets or you will be charged as a food felon. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZrgxHvNNUc

Welcome to the Dickens, 1984, and Baracktopia mashup.

-neon leon