* So no deal on the debt ceiling yet. During the negotiations, Obama walked. Or maybe the Republicans walked away. Or maybe they both walked away. But they’ll need to make a deal soon because society itself will collapse if the government is unable to create more debt.
Wish we the taxpayers could walk away. I have drinking water and beef jerky; I say we default. Not everyone will be able to survive — I expect all the politicians to die off during winter — but then things should settle pretty nicely after that.
* The Huffington Post reports that a new “Super Congress” is being planned by the Republicans and Democrats. This could just be paranoid ramblings, but let’s assume it’s true and get upset. The last thing we need is a “Super Congress”; if anything, Congress needs less power. Instead, we need a new like “Kiddie Congress” where they can only pass resolutions and don’t have power to do anything or spend anything. You can’t help balance the budget, you go to Kiddie Congress.
Kiddie Congress is in Antarctica.
* Here’s an article from the Los Angeles Times on the Norway murders: “Muslims feel sting of initial blame”. Subtitle: “Non-Muslims feel bullets, shrapnel.” Really, who would think of writing an article like this? It’s as if there’s a plot to portray Muslims as either savage terrorists or whiny losers indifferent to Islamic terrorism. Yeah, why in the world would people see bombs and random murder and think “Muslims”? Where in the world would we get that crazy idea from? If Muslims are angry at anything other than the people in their own religion murdering people, they’re doing it wrong.
* Ron Paul is polling neck and neck with Obama, 41% versus Obama’s 42% in the latest Rasmussen poll. So either Ron Paul has become more popular, or that’s just how unpopular Obama is. I guess we need to see how Obama polls versus a turnip to decide.
RON PAUL!
* With the end of the shuttle, 1,600 have been laid off in Florida. Obama really racking up those jobs. Really, though, people getting off government jobs would be a good thing if there were private sector space jobs to go to. Lately in America, though, it seems like we’ve been trying too hard to skimp by to actually innovate. Is the private sector going to genetically resurrect dinosaurs and put rocket launchers on them any time soon? Probably not — partially because of oppressive regulations on rocket launchers.
* Red states have better schools than blue. You don’t need higher taxes to succeed, apparently; you just need standards and to break up those teachers unions. I mean what are teachers unions but an organization devoted to making sure your kids get the least amount of education for the most amount of money… plus they tend to be in bed with the Democrats who run the blue states. No amount of poor education will ever make liberals believe they’re not smarter than everyone else, though.
* Cern scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (not the Medium Hadron Collider or the Fun-Size Hadron Collider) think they may have caught a glimpse of the Higgs Boson particle. If you don’t know what a Higgs Boson particle is — and who does — I think it’s like the missing link between matter and energy. Anyway, I already know the twist ending to this: *SPOILER ALERT* The Cern scientists were Higgs Boson particles all along!
* New Crowder video! And it makes fun of Bill Maher which always seems both cruel and necessary:
* Also, if you want more video fun… RIFFTRAX IS NOW AVAILABLE ON HULU!!!!
Sorry, but I love RiffTrax. If you want to watch them make fun of a modern movie (though the movie is a few years old, they just released a riff for X-Men: The Last Stand which was hilarious) you’ll still have to sync that up yourself, but now you can watch on Hulu them riff old educational shorts and movies that no one has the rights too (which surprisingly includes Night of the Living Dead). Anyway, here is the educational short Drawing for Beginners: The Rectangle.
* Friday, I asked you all for a three-part plan to clean up the government. A lot of your plans involved murder. Come on; you can solve anything with murder. We need to be more creative than that.
Anyway, winner of HIGH PRAISE is Yosoff with:
1) 49 states secede from the union leaving only California in the USA and holding the bag for all of the debt.
2) Form a new United States with the same constitution plus a balanced budget amendment and an amendment banning purse-dogs.
3) Anyone who suggests raising taxes gets catapulted over the wall & alligator filled moat into California.
Yosoff, it is such an honor to me that you read my blog.
You’re doomed, Yosoff!! Doomed! It’s a kiss worse than
deathWasserman-Shultz delivered by Frank!!We will all move to Jimmy’s farm in wherever Jimmy lives, where we will eat potatoes while my round American wife and I raise cats and cook them for us!
“i have drinking water and beef jerky; i say we default.”
the timing is right. the proclaimed default date is august 2. third quarter payments are due sept 15. it the feds don’t get it done, we walk away on sept. 15.
leaves time to lay in more jerky.
In a three-way match up both Obama and Ron Paul lost to a turnip. Ron Paul supporters objected to the poll claiming that many voters were confused and unable to distinguish Ron Paul from a turnip.
@DamnCat: TURNIP!!!!!1!!!!!11!11!!!!!!!
“So no deal on the debt ceiling yet. During the negotiations, Obama walked. Or maybe the Republicans walked away. Or maybe they both walked away.”
This whole situation is completely backward. Right now politicians should be sitting nervously on the sidelines as we, the American taxpayers, meet to decide under what conditions we’ll continue to pay taxes.
Now that NASA is pretty much history, if you want to nuke the moon, you’ll have to pony up thirty million or so to pay the Russians to do the deed.
So, Yosoff how does Frank’s butt taste anyway? You sellout to “the man”!
My truck became a Ron Paul supporter. The miles just hit 111111.
Who will it support when it hits 222222?
–ME–
ya know, if muslims don’t want the blame for every car bombing, it would help them immeasurably if that as the last bit of debris finally impacts the ground, some muslim group didn’t call and claim credit for the latest blast.
It might also help if 99% of those car bombings were not actually done by muslims.
Before the shooting started, someone in my timline on twitter admitted shock at the bombing in Norway of all places.
My reply was first: “last year, every single case of sexual assault in Norway was by a muslim. I am not surprised one went and bombed them.”
followed by: “also Norge is home to a ton of white supremacists so one of them may be why as well. Don’t let the place fool ya.”
Hey! Yosoff just copied from “Escape From LA”!
🙂
The last time I checked it wasn’t the Lutherans or Amish that flew airliners into skyscrapers or behead women for smiling in public.
Yosofff, for a butt kisser that was pretty good.
It was a shame Friday afternoon to see a grown man lying on the floor and pounding his fists and crying “Waahh !!! Don’t take my checkbook away !! I want to spend more money !! Ron Paul !!11!11eleventy eleventy”
Better than Rifftrax on Hulu…wait for it…Mystery Science Theater 3000!!1!!11!! But they haven’t yet laid their hands on “I Blame My Parents,” although “Giant Gila Monster” is pretty good.
Sigh of relief? Sigh of relief!! When has this community ever cared when the bony finger of blame was righteously pointed at Muslim extremists? To breathe a sight of relief is to actually give a crap that terrorism is being committed in one’s name. Now, as for this rat-stinking, son of a hyena, mother raping, evil Norwegian who claims to be a Christian, he deserves a fate worse than the jihadists, and that’s a heck of a fate. Oh, and he deserves to receive it slowly.
Burma, I have seen I Accuse My Parents on the YouTubes.
FrankJ:“A lot of your plans involved murder.”
“Murder” is such a harsh and judgmental term. I prefer “choice”. Or in the case of our current crop of politicians–justifiable homicide for self defense.
You know how the femisogynists think of unborn babies as “lumps of goo”? It’s kinda like that. Think of them as malignant tumors that need to be excised. You never hear people say “the doctor murdered my cancer so now I’m cured” do you?
High Praise! Finally! I am truly humbled at this inevitable recognition of my brilliance. I shall frame it and hang it on my wall next to my copies of Brett Favre’s retirement speeches.
I’m trying to get my mind around what a RON PAUL! presidency would actually look like. I imagine that instead of sitting in the oval office all day he’d sit on the white house porch like and ornery old man lecturing his staff about the Fed and the Gold Standard while vetoing every bill they bring to him. If any press came around he’d grab an old crack-barrel shotgun and chase after them yelling; “Get off my lawn!” It might not be bad at all.
“Murder” is such a harsh and judgmental term. I prefer “choice”.
That right there is some funny stuff.
Can’t we leave behind new Jersey too?
One of the main differences between the Norway terrorist attack and other islam inspired attacks? Christians will not dance in the street, they will not make excuses for this murderer nor will they cast blame at anyone besides the perpetrator himself. Christians don’t approve, condone or countinance the slaughter of innocents. (and yes I can hear all the anti-Christians, anti-religionists saying “yeah you don’t now”. That’s right we learn from our mistakes and institute change. )
Compare that with Muslim behavior. Change is evil, women are evil, the west is evil, having good food and proper medical care and education is evil. I don’t know. I’m just not sure how one buys into that, unless they’re male. Unrighteous dominion is alway palatable to those who walk with evil.
Don’t they have archery at Norwegian summer camps?
I suppose it’s too much to ask that even one person on that island would have access to a gun, but they could have plugged the nut job with an arrow easily enough.
Or axes. The Norwegians were once really into axes, unless all those old Viking movies were lying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wcD8RW6Leo&feature=related (The Vikings, 1958)
Nordic appearing white extremist terrorist is liberal Islamic apologist’s dream come true…Headline, NY Times.
When did we become such wussies? If a guy walked into a camp and started shooting the place up, you can bet that John Wayne or Clint Eastwood would have stalked the guy, taken his gun from him, rammed it up his ass and fired! Now everyone just flees in terror! Flee everyone, Flee screaming like little bitches while you wet your pants!
Someone walks into a gathering where I’m at firing off a gun, I guarantee that I’m not laying down on the floor to be shot! I’m fighting back somehow! I’ll stick a match in the guys shoe and light it. That’s always good for a laugh to start with!
I don’t get why the news uses default as the main bad outcome if the debt ceiling isn’t raised. Think about it: they’re saying the government needs more loans to pay off other loans. That’s an idiotic plan that will result in certain doom.
I blame drama for that. Drama is evil and ruins everything.
I think you have confused murder with time travel. For example, if someone bumped off Obama, we’d just have to deal with Biden (though there is empirical evidence that Biden might stay too toasted to matter), but if you travelled back to when Obama was peddling drugs and turned him in, well, that’s real change.