* They’re still arguing about the debt ceiling in D.C. One side wants to destroy the economy in every way possible (they want to raise taxes to suppress jobs — it’s obviously not to raise revenue, because as previous spending proved, the Democrats don’t care about revenue — and also spend, spend with no limit until we collapse under debt) and the other side would rather not destroy everything. Maybe there can be a compromise and we’ll come up with a plan that just knocks us down to a second world nation instead of completely destroying us.
It’s hard not to get a little depressed as the politicians — the dumbest, most useless people in this nation — claim more and more of all the nation’s wealth to fritter away on nothing, so here’s a picture of puppies to cheer us up:
They will starve to death in this economy.
* White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe said, “The average American does not view the economy through the prism of GDP or unemployment rates, or even monthly jobs numbers.” Yeah, they really have to be hoping that voters aren’t into objective measures when determining whether someone should be reelected. Hopefully everyone is like, “I bet Obama smells nice — like freshly cut grass on a golf course. Let’s reelect him.” But if people care about stuff happening to the country, not so good for him.
* Paul Ryan paid $350 for a bottle of wine at a dinner. This is really hypocritical because he paid for expensive wine with his own money while he’s trying to keep all Americans from being forced to pay for crappy entitlements. See… hypocritical.
Some have compared this to John Edwards’s infamous $400 haircut, but there are two main differences:
1. John Edwards used campaign funds to pay for it.
2. It was a haircut — a man paying $400 dollars FOR A HAIRCUT!
* There’s now a new country in Africa: South Sudan. There hasn’t been a great record for countries in Africa so far, but maybe South Sudan will be the first country there that isn’t… you know… awful. I know one way to make sure they get off on the right foot: Ban vuvuzelas.
* Atlantis took off Friday for the final shuttle flight ever. For the first time in decades, America is now incapable of getting people into space. If there is an asteroid headed to earth and we need to blow it up in an Armageddon type scenario, hopefully Russia is on top of that. Of course, Obama has set our path for the future: high-speed trains. Yep, going from space flight to trains. Along with our economy, our society is in complete retrograde. Next we’ll be living in huts and working on high-speed horse and buggy.
* Neat find from James Taranto (last item): Basically, social scientists found that conservatives do they same processing as liberals when thinking on an issue, but then do some additional processing to get to the conservative conclusion. They proved this by showing that if you strained a conservative so he wasn’t able to think, he’d come to the same conclusion as liberals. So basically, if a conservative can’t think, he ends up like a liberal… while I guess liberals just don’t think all the time. This doesn’t give us a solution, though, because we can’t force liberals to think, but since we’ve now made this an issue of science, we can lock liberals up in cages and inject them with stuff for further study… like a study on how the debt and economy will be effected if all liberals were locked up in cages and injected with stuff. Science!
* Wisdom of the Day: “‘Zookeeper belongs right up there with Zoolander!’ -someone alphabetizing DVDs at Blockbuster in a few months, and no one else” –Sean Thomason
* Thanks again to everyone who donated a dollar for IMAO’s 9th blogiversary. I want to tell you from the bottom of my heart: You are not thieves.
Backward into the Sun, Comrade Obama!
I wouldn’t be too distraught if we go back to steam locomotives. Afterall, they’re cool and they burn coal ripped violently from the bosom of Mother Earth. Go to hell, Mother Earth, choke to death on our pollution!
Where’d they get the hover-puppy? I want one!
There are deeper waters here, Frank J. Is it a coincidence that the termination of the shuttle program coincided with your proposal to Nuke the Moon? I think not, even though I think lots of other things. Without a space program, the moon will be deprived of a proper nuking. Plus, there is no way that nuking the moon is the path to improving Muslim self esteem. Q.E.D.
I watched as much as I could stand of Failsafe on Saturday. What a bunch of pantywaists. The movie was sorely lacking in General James Mattoon Scott. In other words, there was nary a pair of stones amongst the generals and president. The only shining light was Walter Matthau who wanted to use the rogue bomber (a Vindicator — who remembers them?) as an excuse to send the Soviets back to the dinosaur age.
I’m guessing that puppies don’t cheer up DamnCat.
Sure, they’re saying that conservatives think more than liberals, but the smell wafting from their doublespeak is the assumption that thinking is immoral!
Obama’s Science! guy Chu concludes that puppies float when their tails are invisible
Racist Frank! both dogs are white. Shouldn’t there be three dogs of differing color or breed. There goes your federal funding
What movie isn’t sorely lacking in General James Mattoon Scott?
@ Son of Bob
Puppys are OK in their proper place.
BTW: Their proper place is under the couch hiding from me.
“…we can lock liberals up in cages and inject them with stuff for further study…”
Then we can say, “Oh, I’m sorry. Does that hurt? Then get your damn government out of my wallet and I won’t do it again.”
No puppy has ever hidden from a cat. I can say this for two good reasons:
1. The statement uttered by The Damned Cursed Cat is fundamentally ridiculous to sheer human instinct!
2. I do not “toy” dogs as dogs.
I’ve never paid $350.00 for a bottle of wine but I did once pay $250.00 for a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue Label Scotch. Yes there is such a thing and it was very good. I have paid up to $24.00 for a bottle of wine….once. No doubt South Sudan will be another basket case nation with it’s hand permanently extended to the rest of the world for loans and aid…sortta like how we’re becoming.
So basically, if a conservative can’t think, he ends up like a liberal… while I guess liberals just don’t think all the time.
Racist.
Our Siamese cat used to let our Siberian Husky engulf its little head in his jaws. And, they used to sleep together. But the Siberian was never afraid of any cat. The cat, however, while tough, knew to completely avoid certain dogs that didn’t buy-in to the cat psychology thing. Lesson: train (or obtain) a dog with zero fear of cats and there will be complete peace.
“You got paws kitty, and while they hurt if you hit my nose, I’m going to bite you in half right now – and you know it.” Only kind of dog to have.
I love watching my wiener dogs chase the cats around the living room.
Except Laddie, our big tom cat, he wrestles them to the ground and pins them, and Toppy, who just scratches the h*ll out of them when they get too close.
But the other cats run, so the dogs chase them.
They’re wired that way, I guess.
(Lord, if my wife brings home another stray cat, I’m going to start setting traps!)
That picture of the weeds looks like my back yard.
I’m waiting for a break in the heat wave before mowing the lawn.
(At least the front yard – I tell the lawn gestapo that I’m trying to preserve the bio-diversity of the planet, but they’re not buying it.)
You don’t need a space shuttle to nuke the moon, any big old rocket will do… the kind the Russians have… ah, nuts!
Frank sent me a very nice thank you email for donating to the Hats for Buttercup fund.
I’ll treasure it always.
(Right next to the ‘payment for monthly utilities received’ folder.)
The study on liberals and conservatives seems similar to this talk that was out a couple of years ago: http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html
The obvious conclusion is that liberals are mentally and morally deficient, and completely unnecessary.
Chestertonrocks – Send your Wiener dog over. My 40 pound Rag Doll, Winston is ready to rumble! He works out his massive claws every morning on the biggest scratching post made and then sits and marvels at them thinking about Wiener Dogs! His teeth are nice and sharp also! I think he can bite a Wiener Dog in two with one bite!
Ok, so where’s Mr. Wonderful Bantha_Fodder? See Frank J. dedicates a whole section to him by using his suggestion for a name and now the guy can’t be bothered to show up! Nice!
South Sudan? All this time to think of a cool name for their country, and that’s the best they could do? South Sudan sounds like the name of a suburb of Philly. Personally, I think that Northern Equatorial Whopperland has a nice ring to it.
#17 – ussjimmycarter,
OK, my wiener dog, Jimmy’s Siberian Husky, and MarcoMancuso’s German Shepard against my Laddie, your Winston and DamnCat in a steel cage tag team match!