If you think Frank has a low opinion of professional soccer [apologies for the preceding oxymoron], you should hear what Fred had to say about it.
My favorite line, which starts around the 4 minute mark:
“The part that bothers me the most, I think, deep down inside, is it places the most value on these little guys who are so agile and quick and could do a pirouette on the tip of a steak knife with that ball – which is very cute, and very entertaining, kinda like a juggler at a circus. But, I mean, is this a sport for grown men?”
Will be at Burd’s Barber Shop in Franklin, North Carolina:
Thanks to IMAO Reader Jon for passing this along. He also adds this note:
He has a sign on his wall that says: “My bookkeeper’s name is Helen Waite. If you need credit, go to Helen Waite.” BTW, there’s no back door. We lure the hippies back there and punch them in the face three ways: hard, fast, and continuously.
First, I want to say that it irritates me to no end, the effort the media is putting into glamorizing this Fievel Shazam character. Seriously? A smirk, a Bluetooth, and RayBan’s with a glinting sparkle of light reflecting perfectly off the lens? I’ve seen movie posters with less zazz:
He’s a pretty one. They’re gonna love him up good in prison.
But what really bugs me is this other smirky-sunglasses picture that’s floating around.
Every time I see it, I mistake him for Obama.
Come on, check it out side by side and tell me there’s no resemblance:
I was watching the video that explains all the fancy features of the new currency, and there (about 3/4 of the way through) I saw it – the single best line from the Declaration of Independence, clear as day, right over the number:
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government”
It’s like every $100 bill has a Tea Party commercial printed on it.
I’m known to ramble. Sometimes people wish I’d just shut up.
But I’ve got nothing on Barack Obama.
But Friday, at a question-and-answer session with workers at a battery factory, a woman told him she was overtaxed, and asked if more taxes was wise.
What did Obama do? He answered. More precisely, he talked. And talked. And talked…
Obama started out feisty. “Well, let’s talk about that, because this is an area where there’s been just a whole lot of misinformation, and I’m going to have to work hard over the next several months to clean up a lot of the misapprehensions that people have,” the president said.
He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze. His discursive answer – more than 2,500 words long — wandered from topic to topic, including commentary on the deficit, pay-as-you-go rules passed by Congress, Congressional Budget Office reports on Medicare waste, COBRA coverage, the Recovery Act and Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (he referred to this last item by its inside-the-Beltway name, “F-Map”). He talked about the notion of eliminating foreign aid (not worth it, he said). He invoked Warren Buffett, earmarks and the payroll tax that funds Medicare (referring to it, in fluent Washington lingo, as “FICA”).
But no one should be surprised. Remember when he said the timefortalkisover? He simply meant the time for your talking is over. He hasn’t shut up since.
And the left is like that. I’ve noticed that most of the long, obnoxious comments on blog posts are from those on the left.
They’re rude, they’re wrong, they’re long-winded, and they think they are smart.
Maybe that’s it. They think they are so smart, they want to educate the rest of us.
Hank Johnson, who defeated Cynthia McKinney in 2006 to represent Georgia’s 4th District, has a perfect 100% rating from the ACLU. Which makes him the perfect one to ask an Admiral about the impact of U.S. military personnel on Guam:
Johnson’s comments came during a House Armed Services Committee meeting as he questioned Adm. Robert Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, about the impact of U.S. troops on the little island.
“My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize,” Johnson said, straight-faced and seemingly serious.
The admiral seemed to take the question seriously, too. “We don’t anticipate that,” he said, proceeding to describe the population on Guam.
Yes, that’s real. Not an April Fools’ Day joke. Here’s the video. The key piece is at 1:15
Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., said that as he left the Cannon House Office Building with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a leader of the 1960s civil rights movement, some among the crowd chanted “the N-word, the N-word, 15 times.” Both Carson and Lewis are black. Lewis spokeswoman Brenda Jones also said the incident occurred.
“It was like going into the time machine with John Lewis,” Carson said.
Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told a reporter that as he left the Cannon House Office Building with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a leader of the civil rights era, some among the crowd chanted “the N-word, the N-word, 15 times.” Both Carson and Lewis are black, and Lewis spokeswoman Brenda Jones also said that it occurred.
“It was like going into the time machine with John Lewis,” said Carson, a large former police officer who said he wasn’t frightened but worried about the 70-year-old Lewis, who is twice his age. “He said it reminded him of another time.”
African-American Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), a protege of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who helped organize the March on Washington, went to the House floor today to tell Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) that a Tea Party protester called him a “n—–.”
And while most of the invective was directed at the health care bill itself, several House members said there was an ugly tone to comments made by some demonstrators against three black lawmakers: Representatives André Carson of Indiana, Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri and John Lewis of Georgia, all Democrats.
An aide to Mr. Lewis, a leader of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, said that as he walked to the Capitol, Mr. Lewis was called racial slurs.
Protesters outside the Capitol hurled epithets at Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Andre Carson (D-Ind.) as they left the building after President Obama delivered an 11th-hour speech on behalf of the health care bill. Carson told reporters that protesters yelled “kill the bill,” then used a racial epithet to describe Carson and Lewis, who is a revered figure on both sides of the aisle.
They all tell the same story.
And that’s the thing: it’s just a story. It’s not true.
I’m waiting for the excuses as to why video of the event doesn’t match reports of the event.
Perhaps they suffer the same thing Maureen Dowd suffers. She heard “boy” when it wasn’t said. The Congressional Black Caucus seems to hear even worse things that aren’t said.
I suppose if someone won’t make you a victim, you have to make yourself one.
Update: Sarah In Italy sent word that there are two other videos, neither of which contain evidence of any racial slurs:
“[i]t doesn’t help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown — a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid, professional woman — mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another ‘lifestyle choice.’”
And was derided as an intellectual Lilliputian for the rest of his life by the my-own-fart-sniffing leftist elites.
So, if a member of Obama’s cabinet were to speak directly to a cartoon city, you’d think she’d be tarred, feathered and tossed into a septic tank, right?
Last April, Jackson gathered a small band of managers to watch “The Simpsons Movie,” which in 2007 portrayed the EPA head as its main villain. In the movie, the agency head disastrously builds a dome over the fictional town of Springfield to contain its lake pollution and its residents.
The hurtful portrayal, Jackson said, highlights that citizens are nearing a point where they don’t trust the agency. Under her watch, the agency would never dome off a town. “No, we’re not going to do it to you, Springfield, wherever you might be,” she said.
Personally, I’m still waiting for the FCC to offer its reassurances to the Griffins.
[CAUTION: this show is rated TV-14 for a reason - shoo the kiddies out of the room before viewing]
Harry Reid said during a floor speech regarding his $15 billion “jobs” bill:
“I had met with some people while I was home dealing with domestic abuse. It has gotten out of hand. Why? Men don’t have jobs.”
Fred Thompson tweeted:
Reid: Jobless men = domestic abuse. Is he saying we should be worried about Mrs. Reid after the November elections?
and made Harry Reid cry:
Harry Reid’s spokesman isn’t laughing at Fred Thompson’s Wednesday tweet — musing whether the majority leader would beat his wife if he loses reelection in November — calling the comment “despicable” and invoking Reid’s own violence-plagued childhood.
“While Fred Thompson may think he was being funny, it is unfortunate and disappointing that so many on the right would make light of domestic abuse,” Jim Manley wrote me in an e-mail. “As someone who witnessed it firsthand as a child, Sen. Reid does not find the issue funny.”
Apparently Fred was mistaken, and what Reid was really saying was “only a wife-beater would vote against my bill.”
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