OBAMANOMICS: BY THE (REAL) NUMBERS

Calling TES' recipe for the economics of this country a "recipe for recession," here's a look at the real numbers from Obama's real proposals, having to do with the change he really intends for you and I.

It doesn't just effect the "rich" ... it'll kill anyone whose been working their ass off to get ahead.

Get out your pad and paper and go HERE to see what "change" you're going to have left in your pockets if this eloquent beginner gets elected.

Thanks to Megan J of NYC for the heads up.

UNITED STATES OF OBAMA

Aside from being The Empty Suit, he's an arrogant bastard as well.

And this isn't a right-wing smear

(Update: 8/1/08: After re-reading this, it would appear that I'm talking about a plane. I was incensed at the new tail design, which had been changed from an American flag to this "non-offensive" abomination.

And this moke wants to be president of the US? Forgive me, but a little pride in his country — which, according to the prospective first lady, is a feeling newly arrived in the Obama family — might be appropriate before you try to lead it. What a spit in the face.)

SURF MOVIE ICON PASSES

Bud "Barracuda" Browne, the originator and king of the commercial surf movie passed away in California at age 96 today. Browne — for you non-surfers — filmed Cat on a Hot Foam Board, among many other surf films, that we all jammed into school auditoriums and VFW halls to hoot and holler at ... generally annoying the shit out of the non-surfers in the area. Browne set the stage for Bruce Brown of The Endless Summer fame and those that followed him.


HERE'S the full obit/story.

Thanks to Chris K for the heads up.

OBAMA the PLACATER

Here's something another politician from Illinois once said:

"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere." — Abraham Lincoln; September 11, 1858

Something that reincarnation of Neville Chamberlin, TES (The Empty Suit), might do well to remember the next time he inhales or exhales.

Thanks to Chapman S. of NYC for the heads up.

HOW OUT OF TOUCH IS LES PAYNE?

Les Payne is a long-time syndicated editor from liberal/left mouthpiece Newsday, a Long Island regional paper. Aside from finding fault with white people for everything, he now finds himself, as a member of the MSM, finding fault with himself.

"There's no question that mainstream journalists completely adore McCain and cover him favorably," Payne said, defying anything that even slightly smacks of reality.

I'd go on about how TES (The Empty Suit) ducked question of how much change his change policies have changed (which is actually an interesting story), but I think I would have to stab myself in the eye with my fountain pen.

I guess you have to be black and liberal to say nonsensible things to not be called on it.

Well, he is kinda' old, so I guess it's time to say ta-ta, Les.

NASCAR — RUBBER MATCH

If any of you missed the Brickyard 400 — one of the jewels of NASCAR racing — you missed zippo, nada, nothing, unless you like the NBA's nothing-happens-until-the-last-two-minutes style.

The race ran 52 of 160 (may have the total wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's it) laps under yellow because the tires mounted on the right sides of the cars couldn't run more than 10 laps safely. Juan Montoya and Matt Kenseth had tires grenade on them with such force that the back right sheet metal was strewn all over the place.

The only thing worth than this race was the last F-1 race run here that also had a tire controversy.

With ratings down, this is noooooooo way to get anyone interested in NASCAR. I know it's called the Sprint Cup, but that wasn't meant to mean 10 lap races in between yellow flags.

What a mess.

The saving grace was that it rained all day where I was, so there wasn't anything else to do.

PELOSI — VERBATIM ON OIL

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wants to make sure that we're ALWAYS dependent on foreign oil.

Here's from the arrogant anti-American's conversation with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, courtesy of the July 23 edition of The Wall Street Journal

"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in a July 17 interview with Wolf Blitzer of CNN, on a bill to allow offshore drilling for oil:

BLITZER: John Boehner, who's the Republican leader in the House, he says you have to let this come up for a vote. He says that you're walking your blue dogs, who are the moderate and conservative Democrats, and other vulnerable Democrats off a cliff by not allowing this to come up for a vote, the offshore oil drilling legislation.

PELOSI: Is that right? Well, you know, just because John Boehner, who is my friend and whom I respect, says it, doesn't make it so. . . .

BLITZER: Are you afraid if this comes up for a vote in the House you will lose, given the support for offshore oil drilling among these so-called blue dogs, or moderate Democrats, who will join with Republicans?

PELOSI: Afraid is not a word that is in my vocabulary. . . .

BLITZER: So let me get -- will you allow this issue, offshore oil drilling, to come up for a vote on the floor of the House?

PELOSI: We're going to exhaust our other remedies in terms of increasing supply in America by...

BLITZER: So the answer is no?

PELOSI: I have no plans to do so."

IN TYPICAL FASHION

If you pay attention to what goes on in politics vis a vis the "coverage" provided by the self-neutered MSM, you may note that the rejection of the John McCain editorial went through the usual process: 1) rejection based on subjectivity; b) scorn by payroll pundits; c) disappearance from MSM.

I just wish one of these erstwhile journalistic outlets had the balls to do something similar to Obama, just to keep up the guise of objectivity, but they're too ball-less to do so.

Ah, well, soon the print versions will no longer exist and the ethereal versions will be just so much more white noise.

Nuke Iran

THE NY TIMES SUCKS ... BIG TIME

Of course that's only when they're not bending over for BO and can't. Suck, that is.

The New York Times, after presenting an opinion piece by The Changeling (prominently, I might add), rejected one by his opponent, John McCain. (Yeah, Barack Obama actually is running for prez against someone who isn't Barack Obama)

The Drudge Report broke the story, so you may as well read it there.

What gall. And some idiot editor at the Times — a newspaper known for its crossword puzzles and little else these days — actually defended it by stating that the opinion it presented wasn't the same kind of opinion that BO presented in his piece, and thus they wouldn't run it.

Yeah ... that's the good ol' fair-and-balanced MSM for ya.

Assholes.

Let's see how well the media covers this.

(UPDATE: Another elitist lefty at the Huffington Report, who proudly proclaimed he teaches op-ed writing (and what do we say about teachers, class?), proceeded to parse the piece to shit, never once mentioning anything the editor of the Times complained about — the latter, a former press secretary and speechwriter for Bill Clinton.

Personally, the assassination of these lying elitists strikes me as the eminent exercise of mass communication and one which is morally justifiable based on their arrogance towards the rest of us.)

AND THE WINNER IS ...

Burt Prelutsky wins this week Best Graf of the Week award with the following:

“The Obamans insist that mentioning any of the man’s disreputable friends and religious mentors is a no-no that smacks of McCarthyism. This is an odd complaint because, one, McCarthy was right when he pointed out that the folks who associated with other people at Communist cell meetings were in fact Communists, and, two, every child is told that he’s going to be judged by the company he keeps. So, let’s face facts—John Dillinger ran with a nicer crowd than this guy.” — Burt Prelutsky, writer, screen writer, humorist, etc., et al.

(Thanks to the folks at Patriot Post for turning me onto him. He's a funny writer and idiots everywhere earn a shot from him.)

WMD REDUX

Yeah, that George Bush is a dirt bag, starting a war to enrich his oil-well buddies under the guise of weapons of mass destruction. Hah, what a low life MFer ... Bush Lied, Men Died.

Er, Well, maybe this'll change your mind?

Ah, it probably won't. It's too factual and hasn't appeared in the MSM.

“Hear about the 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium found in Iraq? No? Why should you? It doesn’t fit the media’s neat story line that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq posed no nuclear threat when we invaded in 2003. It’s a little known fact that, after invading Iraq in 2003, the U.S. found massive amounts of uranium yellowcake, the stuff that can be refined into nuclear weapons or nuclear fuel, at a facility in Tuwaitha outside of Baghdad. In recent weeks, the U.S. secretly has helped the Iraqi government ship it all to Canada, where it was bought by a Canadian company for further processing into nuclear fuel..." — From Investors Business Daily

The American Left: Proven Wrong Time and Again by Facts and History ...

OR

What ... Me Worry?

AND THIS MORNING FROM IRAN ...

AL JAZEERA HEADLINE: Iran would launch attacks against Israel and the US navy in the Gulf

Iran would launch attacks against Israel and the US navy in the Gulf as its first response against any American attack, an aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday ... A Guards' official said "If Iran is attacked, we will overwhelm the enemy with our firepower."

They're holding maneuvers as we speak and it's only a matter of time before some Koran-thumping sheep-shagger launches something becaue he actually believes in the 72 virgin crap.

Only — thanks to all the pussy-footing liberals — WE have to lose some people FIRST.

Think I make this shit up?

Go HERE for the full story ... and don't miss reading the comments at the bottom. You can't make that stuff up either.

Nuke Iran Now

DISTURBING NON-REPORTAGE

I got an e-mail this morning (thanks to Paul L) regarding a May 18 (I believe) speech in which The Empty Suit mentions campaigning in "57 states."

Now this — on face value — doesn't necessarily mean ANY thing, but when you add in the fact that there are "57" Islamic States, things get , shall we say, interesting. [Allow me to clarify the previous statement: The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is an international organization with a permanent delegation to the United Nations. It groups 57 nations, most of which are Islamic, from the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Caucasus, Balkan, Southeast Asia, South Asia and South America.]

So, naturally, I gotta check this out. I go through four pages of Google citation before I find a newspaper that mentions it (The Amboy Press Times of NJ). Hmmm. Curiouser and curiouser, she said.

Do NOT even attempt to tell me that "anyone" would make a slip such as that. Fifty or 51 states, maybe, but not 57, which just "happens" to coincide with a religion The Empty Suit is constantly maintaining he knows nothing about. Ain't a goddamn American who doesn't have a Muslim background knows anything about 57 Islamic States ... until The Empty Suit's Freudian slip.

Shit ... as Rush noted: Quayle spelled ""potato" wrong and they're STILL making jokes about that.

But nary a word about The Empty Suit's gaffe.

Hmmmm. Do you suppose...?

BUDGET ANALYSIS

This was — surprisingly — written for the Los Angeles Times, though I found it in the Houston Chronicle (it's not surprising that the LAT wouldn't headline it).

Anyway, it's a budget analysis that deals with the reality of the government budget; i.e., Obama is promising everything to everyone based on money that will never be there (the ol' Empty Suit remains true to form).

And yes, they talk about McCain as well. This is written with partisan and non-partisan research, and neither agrees with the Obama campaign numbers.

God help America, 'cause if he doesn't we're sooooo screwed.

HERE'S the link to the story.

[Update at 1518. Apparently the above story was a front page story in the LAT, it was Google's news gathering Al Gore Rhythm that decided it wasn't newsworthy enough. CBS copped to it two hours ago.—GPJ]

WITH A STRAIGHT FACE, HE SAID

This from an article about FOX News in The New York Times. Although relatively true, it's definitely the pot calling the kettle black.

"Fox News found a huge runway and enormous success by setting aside the conventions of bloodless objectivity ..."

Some of these "journalists" don't know how funny they are ... and only The New York Times would print that in a non-April fool's issue.

THE GREAT FLOOD

When the people of New Orleans were too stupid to get out of town as a hurricane approached, the hue and cry of the media lasted for weeks. And when we lost the city — and all we lost was a tenement city with a music history, the center of which locals used to mark tourists for rolling (I've been there. That's what it was) — you would have thought we'd lost somewhere that contained social treasures of serious import. And let us not forget that nary a word was mentioned about those who lived north of New Orleans, who did get out of the way of the hurricane and who suffered huge losses nonetheless.

I happened to fly over the Mississippi last week, and if you want to bemoan the loss of something via natural disaster, you're going to be bemoaning the flooding along the Mississippi, because it is going to affect the economy in ways you can't imagine. Food price hikes are just the beginning.

And the media. What flooding? They're to busy canonizing a guy who — ostensibly — comes from the Midwest (or is it the Mideast) and doesn't care.

Good morning to all ... hope you had a good Fourth.

Nuke Iran before someone else does.