* So on Labor Day, Obama met with some teamsters — yeah, you may have heard about teamsters on Mad Men or something, but they’re actually still around. Anyway, at the event, Jimmy Hoffa (with a name like that, you know he’s not corrupt) said about the Tea Party “President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.”
Now, some conservatives are upset that Obama didn’t condemn these remarks. See, the left has been constantly wetting their pants at supposedly violent right-wing rhetoric, but they seem quite unconcerned when anything intemperate comes from their side. I think by now, though, everyone knows not to take the left’s complaints about rhetoric seriously, and it’s pretty obvious that the left just likes wetting their pants — possible because it’s quicker than finding a bathroom.
Also, it’s kind of hard to be threatened by the teamsters; they’re just so quaint now. Union membership has been hugely declining for years and there is no real plan to change that, so unions are sort of like newspapers and typewriters. And it’s kind of cute for them to act all powerful — it’s like a little mouse squeaking about how it will take over the world. Was Obama supposed to say to it, “Bad mouse; you’re scaring people!” or should he have said, “That’s so cute. Here’s a piece of cheese.”?
One day we won’t have unions anymore, and then people will have to be lazy without all the organization.
* It’s Tuesday, so you know what that means: Obama’s hit new lows in another poll. He has 51% disapproval in a new NBC/WSJ poll. Obama’s big problem seems to be that he’s not very good at being president. Maybe to improve his poll numbers he could try to look less like someone completely in over his head who has no idea what he’s doing.
Or maybe he could have more rallies with unions. Everyone loves unions; they’re so cute!
* The US Post Office is on the brink of default. It could soon completely run out of money and then… what exactly do we use the post office for anymore? I guess Netflix disks. Well, I canceled the disk portion of Netflix when they raised the price, so I don’t care about that. I guess I also get a few bills, but they can e-mail those to me if they have to. Not really sure we even really need the post office anymore; it’s another one of those things that’s kind of quaint these days. And one of the reasons it’s running out of money is that its workers are unionized — double quaint!
* It’s nearing the tenth anniversary of 9/11, so expect lots of articles on the true meaning of 9/11 and how we overreacted and were mean to terrorists and stuff. I’m kind of dreading it.
Anyway, here’s an article about how the next 9/11 could be from nature. And you know the article is filled with scientific fact because it quotes Al Gore a lot. If nature attacks us, I wouldn’t like to bomb nature.
I’d love it.
* And there’s no reason for nature to be mad at us because scientists are working on ways to resurrect extinct species. That means we can ravage nature and then set everything back to normal — no harm no foul. It sounds like one of the first creatures they’re going to restore is the wooly mammoth, which is great news for anyone whose main complaint about elephants is that they aren’t large enough and aren’t hairy enough.
Could this lead to resurrecting dinosaurs and putting rocket launchers on them? Well, we don’t have much dinosaur DNA, plus Obama has put tough regulations on rocket launchers and what animals you can mount them on (because he hates America). You’d think Obama would really support bringing dinosaurs back to life; if we could bring back dinosaurs, maybe we could bring back unions.
* Wisdom of the Day: “Cats: Keeping your pill bottles under your sofa since 1909.” –Dan Harmon
* Friend of IMAO author Mike Williamson has a new novel out today, Rogue
Baen needs to start getting their books on Kindle, though. I know they have their own DRM free distribution, but it’s a convenience thing. They publish novels about the future, so they should know people in the future like convenience. And shooting aliens.
* In Britain, they’ve taken seven children away from their parents for being too fat. That’s great, because I think everyone agrees things aren’t hard enough already on fat kids so we also need to take away their parents. I can just imagine the court hearing with a lawyer pointing at the kids and saying, “Look how fat they are! They’re FAT! Let’s take their parents away!” Then a social worker will come to the crying children and say, “Sorry, but you’re just too fat to have parents.” And the whole time Michelle Obama will be standing in the back of the courtroom, pointing and laughing. She sure hates fats kids. Don’t we all?
Mammoths aren’t hairy they’re wooly
Frank, just remember: fat babies are okay. It’s ‘baby fat.’
No – that’s bullys
All your pills are belong to us!
Taking fat kids from their parents? Where does the power of government stop? There is currently an advertising campaign in Florida promoting the banning of smoking in all “public” places…including the private “public” places. Still trying to wrap my brain around that one!
Its Official
The Worker against The People
>I think everyone agrees things aren’t hard enough already on fat kids so we also need to take away their parents.<
There is no amount of physical harm from being obese that will equal the psychological harm of knowing you are fat enough to be Exhibit "A" at your parents' child abuse hearing. In fact, why not just make the kids wear t-shirts with Exhibit "A," Exhibit "B" and so on printed right on them? It's not like they are human beings with human feelings or anything.
My G-d, how can they not get this? Sometimes kids are just fat. My brother has two beautiful young daughters. One is a wraith, hates almost all food and has to be cajoled, threatened, forced into eating. The other happily eats everything in sight and has enough "baby fat" for two or three kids – definitely built like the Michelin Man. Same parents (neither one overweight), same food available, same nutrition-conscious menu planning, same genetics (apart from body size, the girls look remarkably alike – no cuckoos in the nest), same encouragement to exercise, same everything except the tendency to eat or not eat as much food as is available. If the second daughter were the only daughter, the parents would be considered "abusers" in England. Faugh. Obama should not have returned that bust of Churchill – the English do not deserve to have it.
Disagree about the Teamsters? Whatcha gonna do about it?
Q: What’s invisible and smells like a postal worker?
A: Rottweiler farts.
Before we perform a wholesale firing of those
useless lazy turdshard working postal union members we should probably figure out how to re-gruntle disgruntled workers.Is this the same Jimmy Hoffa who’s the leader of the crookedest union in the country? Can’t be can it…and he’s calling other Americans SOB’s…for the crime of wanting to cut spending and borrowing? What’s up with that?
I hope they take these fat kids to a school full of a bunch of kids that are just like I was when I was young. HEAVEN!!! Fat kids to pick on ALL DAY!!! I’m getting wood!
I hope the Republicans are smart enough to keep their fat yaps shut while the evil democRATs are shooting theirs off! “while your opponent is destroying himself” and all…
Mail. Does anyone actually put something in an envelope anymore and like lick it? I stopped that like 5 years ago. Too many paper cuts on the tongue! OUCH!!! Then you have to to teh ghey and go buy stamps!!! I do email and stuff…
Hoffa! Bring it! Your democrat friends don’t have any guns! So they can bring a baseball bat to the gun fight!!! Muwhahahahahah!!!
I have Kindle for my Android phone. You can download the Baen books and move them to your Kindle folder to read them. Baen Webscriptions also has an option to e-mail the book to your Kindle account but it costs a little extra money ($0.99/Mb, I think.)
Addendum: The extra charge to e-mail your Baen book to Kindle is Amazon’s charge, not Baen’s.
Correction: $0.15/Mb
“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out”
Now I’m REALLY looking forward to the next local “Tea Party Rally” I attend…or, as they may now be renamed, the “Let’s All Beat The Crap Out of Union Jackasses Festival.”
Speaking about books on the Kindle, when will “The Chronicles of Dubya Volume 1: The Defeat of Saddam” be available for my kindle?
Instead of taking the kids away, give them all free liposuction.
Isn’t that what makes nationalized health care so great?
Bob may have discovered an untapped energy source there.
I picture two fat kids in the back of a smart car hooked up to a liposuction machine feeding a diesel engine.
The term ‘morbidly obese’ usually applies to the fat kids. Would a morbidly obese person be an ugly bag of mostly ___ and ___? (hint: words start with ‘f’ and ‘s’)
Right on! I’m in total agreement with Jimmy Hoffa!!……….Jared Lee Loughner
I didn’t know what Hoffa said. I was at work that day.
Let’s hold a big Tea Party at the 10 yard line at the Meadowlands with shovels. Whoever exhumes Hoffas’ fathers’ body first wins.
Liberals: they say you can’t tell welfare leeches they can’t buy junk food with their food stamps and then they want to ban junk food for everyone else.
They say “girls are starving themselves to be skinny like in the movies and it’s baaaaaaaaaad”…then they punish kids for being fat. (yes liberals, taking
a little kid away from his parents in punishing them) I was actually shocked to see the word ‘father’ in that story, but of course, liberals would never take
a kid away from a welfare ‘mother’ cuz we all know that single ‘mothers’ are the biggest source of Obama voters in history.
So I said to a liberal ( married lesbian <<<key word super liberal) good work, voting for Obama, this is what you get. Liberal: yeah, but I could never vote for a republican, they're against abortion………
Good luck America, you're gonna need it.
Oh yeah, unions are great. When they aren’t declaring war on people who want to balance the budget, they go and bully teenagers and trespass on private property and scare children with their lives until they call 911 and hide in closets.
Obama’s NLRB does not think unions are finished – they are pumping out regulations and judegments that make unions even more powerful.
And wait till you see how much MONEY the unions pump into pro big government, anti freedom, campaigns – especially next year.
There’s no “I” in Teamster… http://t.co/zskVpyg