From Jim Geraghty:

“I’m fascinated by the Obama administration’s mentality that the fact that violent Mexican drug cartels are raising hell just over the border doesn’t justify additional border security or a fence, but it does justify making it harder for American citizens to own a gun.”

(hat tip the guy who puts puppies into a blender and then laughs when they cry out)

Steven Crowder wrote a letter to Lorne Michaels offering his services to help SNL make fun of Obama and thus appealing to huge segment of people out there. Not going to happen. It would be irresponsible. If someone made fun of President Obama (pbuh), there would be mass confusion and riots in the streets. You saw what happened with the chimp cartoon when people thought it was possible that it was trying to make fun of Obama. I don’t care if Obama gets a bucket stuck on his head and repeatedly runs into walls in front of visiting dignitaries; we don’t make fun of him. We need to treat him like that kid who could send people to the cornfield and keep saying to him no matter what he does, “That’s a real smart thing you did, Obama. A real smart thing.” Otherwise, someone is going to send us to the cornfield.

Personally, my definition of intellectual is “useless idiot obsessed with sounding smart.” If sounding smart is all that’s important to conservatives, then let’s go with the intellectuals. If you want people who know what they’re talking about and can actually get things done, then let’s shun the intellectuals and make fun of them and call them names and stick “Kick Me” signs on their backs when they aren’t looking. And then punch them while saying, “Shut up, you.”

Unless you’ve actually accomplished something useful, I don’t care what you think.

I thought there was no question we were in a period of warming and that the only debate is whether it’s primarily man made or not, but no. Do we have any objective proof that these scientists know what the hell they’re talking about? I mean, have they made any accurate predictions?

This is a big problem with science. It’s really complex, so you just have to trust those who spent the time studying it in depth because no one has the time to prove it all themselves. I mean, when I read a book on math, the author could just be making up stuff about integrals for all I know but at least I have some idea how to find that out. On the other hand, if Stephen Hawkings plays solitaire all day instead of researching and then just pulls his findings about black holes out of his ass, is there any way any of us would know?

Tony Blankely is arguing in a grammatically correct fashion, “Obama lied; the economy died.” He says the difference between that statement and the “Bush lied, people died” is that while Bush never lied and was only mistaken, Obama actually lied when he said, “As soon as I took office, I asked this Congress to send me a recovery plan by President’s Day that would put people back to work and put money in their pockets. Not because I believe in bigger government – I don’t.” I think Blankley might be being partisan and unfair, though. Maybe Obama was also mistaken. Maybe he really didn’t believe in bigger government when he said that, but right after someone explained to him, “Big government means you take more of people’s money and have more control over everything,” and Obama was like, “Oh… well I do like that. I guess I do believe in bigger government. Let’s make that happen right now!” When we automatically think the worst of people, it doesn’t make for good political arguments, so let’s cut Obama some slack.

Man, Obama is really trying to destroy the economy quickly. He’s not even done with his first one hundred days, and already a lot of the moderates who drank the Obama Kool-Aid are starting to wake up and realize Obama is an idiot on the economy. I didn’t even expect him to do this poorly coming out of the gate.

I think it’s a strategy.

What if Obama completely decimates the country right away? Then in 2010 pretty much no Democrat will be reelected and there will be huge boost for Republicans. Then they will prevent Obama from doing any further damage, and the economy, which will be so awful it can only improve, will start getting significantly better before 2012. And then Obama will ride the good feelings into an easy reelection.

It’s a good strategy. The last thing Obama needs is for the economy to slowly fail so that he’s still getting blamed in 2012, so he might as well wreck it now. If you look at things from that perspective, Obama is a pretty smart guy and knows exactly what he’s doing.

Awesome.

It will be important to study this because the one area conservatives should focus on the most is awesomeness. America needs a leader that will embrace America’s overwhelming awesomeness, a president who understands that space lasers and dinosaurs with rocket launchers are just the next logical step for our country. That’s how we need to differentiate ourselves from the namby pamby liberals.

(hat tip Jonah Goldberg)