* Obama wants to assure us that we’re not in danger of another recession… but if things do stall, it’s because people disagreed with him and didn’t do what he told them. Other presidents — also known as better presidents — somehow dealt with congresses that disagreed with them and got things done. Obama had huge majorities in the Senate and the House and somehow still struggled at everything, and now that he’s lost that his only idea to try and make things happen is constant whining. How do you make an argument that this guy is not a horrible leader? Does the first step involve drilling a hole in your own head?
* Apparently, Obama has been avoiding black communities on his bus tour. Why would he need to talk to black people and assure them everything will be all right? They only have like twice the unemployment of everyone else.
Of course, it’s obvious why he isn’t visiting black people. This tour is to convince people to vote for Obama in 2012, but he doesn’t need to do that for blacks. They have to vote for Obama because they’re black. They have no choice in the matter. If you’re black, you vote for the Democrat. So Obama can just ignore them his whole presidency and then come election time have some advocacy group claim the Republican is going to burn crosses to scare them into voting as they’re supposed to. Is this news to black people? Hasn’t this agreement been going on for decades?
* Obama has reached a new low on his handling the economy — only 26% approve. And you gotta kinda wonder what in the world it is those 26% are approving of. Maybe some people don’t like economies and want them destroyed.
But don’t worry: Obama has a new jobs plan. Aren’t we excited. All his other plans were complete and utter failures, but this time he’s sure to get it right! Apparently, we won’t get the plan until he comes back from his next vacation. Which leads to my job plan: Obama does nothing but vacation for the rest of his presidency. By now, it’s pretty obvious that most useful thing he’s capable of doing is staying out of the way.
Actually, he hasn’t proved he’s capable of that.
* I’ve never watched Stephen Colbert’s show; I’ve seen glimpses of his shtick, but I’ve never understood if he’s supposed to be a parody of a conservative or a parody of what liberals who know FOX News is evil but never watched it think a conservative is like. Whatever he is, he’s a thief:
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* I always thought the illusion with the cylinder casting a shadow on a checkerboard was the best I’ve ever seen. Usually when I’m told what the illusion is in an image, I can squint and see the trick. Not with this one; I need to actually manipulate it in photoshop to actually see that the two squares are the same color. Anyway, here’s the same illusion in video form. It looks like a special effect but it isn’t:
See, basically your brain automatically compensates for the shadow so you can perceive the checker pattern (because if you perceived the two squares as the same color you wouldn’t see a check board and miss the pattern). Your brain is doing all this background processing all the time to help you understand what your’re seeing, but it never gets any credit or even a thank you. It just gets yelled at when it gets tricked by an artificial illusion. Poor brain.
* Wisdom of the Day: “For fans of The Notebook, ‘Hobo with a Shotgun’ is now on Netflix Instant.” –Michael Deppisch
* I like this: A California college student is asking liberal students in favor of wealth redistribution whether they would favor having their GPA redistributed to the less fortunate. One even responded, “If I do give GPA points to students that don’t deserve it, it isn’t fair, I work for what I have.” See, the conservative instinct is in everyone. You just have to figure the right way to wake it.
Wow, copyright infringement. You did copyright “Nuke the Moon!” right?
Well, at least Taranto acknowledges you in the Best of the Web from yesterday’s WSJ.
Sue him and get Captain America’s Shield back from that poser. What a d-bag he is.
Seriously, this infuriates me all out of proportion. I’m not even joking, I wish you could sue him and shut his POS show down.
I’ve decided that Frank is a spy. For whom I don’t know but I have taken all of his “links” and have discoved this encrypted message.
we’re not in danger of another recession…been avoiding black communities on his bus tour…only 26% approve…a new jobs plan…cylinder casting a shadow on a checkerboard was the best I’ve ever seen…-Michael Deppisch…whether they would favor having their GPA redistributed to the less fortunate.
once I decipher it then the poo will hit the fan. Don’t make any sudden moves Frank or should I say Comrad Fleming. Yeah it’s a slow day at the church, how did you guess?
Good news, only 26% of Americans are liberal.
What could be more flattering than having your ideas and concepts stolen, plagiarized or infringed upon?
To quote “Ma Finkle”, “Stephen Colbert should die of gonnorhea and rot in hell!”
“This tour is to convince people to vote for Obama in 2012, but he doesn’t need to do that for blacks. They have to vote for Obama because they’re black.”
Well, some people are trying to pretend that black voters aren’t racist and won’t just vote for the black guy. But, they will always vote for the black guy…no matter how awful he is.
But…But…But…I thought Obama was 1/2 White? So are all the Blacks voting for 50% whitey? No wonder the Congressional Black Caucus is mad! Pretty soon they will be calling Obama an Oreo and all of that kind of fun stuff…
Bad news….26% of Americans are really, really, stupid. Really.
Frnak, dude! that square stuff just freaked me the right out!! I’m done man, just done! ya know man!!
Even more good news!!! The percenatages translate into: Half of the 26% of stupid marxist people are female marxists, and 50% of them are homosexual, then only a little over 71/2% of women are ugly, smelly, straight hippies. Therefore you will probably not meet one where real Americans hang out!!
Only 26%? Huh. I say we move em all to California….better yet Nevada that way they won’t import any more idiots.
Why redistribute GPA? Why stop there? Maybe I should just show up at Harvard and demand a degree without going through the application process or even attending all the classes. After all, I’m just managing academia in a way students aren’t willing. I just want a good job and good connections and a good life. Give me a Harvard degree, or you’re a racist fascist!
CarolynthePregnant – Harvard isn’t enough! You have to be invited to join Skull and Bones!!! Then you are in with the political “bigs”! I’m not sure if women are invited, but after you dump the kid, you need to get all dolled up and knock on the door and say “Hi, I’m here to join!”. Be all perky and stuff, they will like that… Let us know how it goes and if we don’t hear from you again…we will know!!!
More good news, Obama has stopped deportation of illegals!!! Yay! That should mean like gazillions of new jobs, no?
And you gotta kinda wonder what in the world it is those 26% are approving of.
My guess would be their welfare check…and their free food, free rent, free health care, free phones, free cable etc etc etc and the fact that they don’t ever have to do…anything. The war on poverty is over, poverty won.
That whole end of the world in 2012 thing looks to be right on schedule.
I wonder what “Hoya” means in Chinese. Apparently it’s not anything good. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/6873726/georgetown-hoyas-chinese-professional-team-game-ends-brawl
Colbertt is I believe a liberal, which in Latin actually means thief, liar and pervert, so I would say “good guess”. If you used a Harry Potter spell and said “Accio thief, liar and pervert” magic would bring you a liberal.
The 26% number really is not all that shocking, they simply represent the portion of the population either working for the federal government + the portion of the population that thinks Paul Krugman is sane.
20% of people will believe anything; that Obama is Muslim, that Elvis is alive, that aliens are among us. Heck, even 20% of dentists have doubts about Trident. So of the 26% that approve of Obamanomics we only need to worry about that extra 6%. 1% is in jail and the remaining 5% are civilian government union employees, mystery solved.
Would someone who understands politics please explain to me why Rep. Thaddeus McCotter is never mentioned anywhere and could not participate in the Iowa debate? I like him and yes, I understand usually governors win presidential races, but still how come he does not get covered and particularly why was he not at the debate? Please explain, as I know some people here would know. Thank you !
“Obama wants to assure us that we’re not in danger of another recession”
…because, we’re currently in a depression and he has no intention of allowing the economy to improve enough to be considered merely a recession.
@island girl – The Iowa debate was for candidates that entered the Iowa Straw Poll. The Straw Poll is a fundraising event where the candidates pay to participate. McCotter chose not to participate. Most debates going forward will only accept candidates with 3% or more support in the polls as debates with a dozen candidates are largely seen as a waste of time. McCotter is polling under 1% and is therefore unlikely to get invited to any debates. Only serious candidates get press time and McCotter is not seen as a serious candidate. He has little support in the polls, extremely low name recognition, next to no grass roots organization, little funding and no big name endorsements. He also voted for the Employee Free Choice Act (an anti-business bill which makes it easier to form unions by ending secret ballots in favor of “card check”).
“This tour is to convince people to vote for Obama in 2012,”
This ties in perfectly with the shadow square illusion trick and also explains why he’s not visiting black communities.
That one only looks black when he’s standing around lily white people.
If he hung out with real black people they’d all see he’s at best a ‘quarteroon’.
This also explains why he’s never visited his brother in that hut in Kenya.
He should get a couple of albinos to follow him around, then he’d look darker than Dolomite.
@ Island Girl, no one really understands politics. Most of us pretend we do until the politicians or government do something so out of control, so out of left (pun intended) field, so patently irresponsible and so dreadfully stupid that we have to admit once again that we don’t understand them. Then it’s back to the races again. Literally.
I’m waiting for Obama’s super sweet Job’s program! It’s going to be so awesomely awesome that we are all going to be walking around with gobs of $’s in our pockets and we will each be wearing plenty of Bling…guarnteed!!! I’m looking forward to wearing my jeans half way down my a$$ crack so that my undershorts show and them I’m going to get some huge diamond studs for my ears and a really monster bling gold chain around my neck. Then I’m going to wear my hat on sideways and walk around and grab my unit all day. It’s going to be sweet!!! Just call me The Big J!
@Yosoff – Thank You ! You explained beautifully to me the reasons McCotter was not at the Iowa debate plus the added information about him voting for the Employee Free Choice Act and it’s purpose. I really appreciate your answer. 🙂
Quote of the day-“There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.” – Will Rogers.
There’s no trick to being a humourist when you have Anthony Weiner working for you.
Sometimes when I want an easy target, I really miss that guy.
I got your visual phenomena right here: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html
A somewhat related issue is that when it takes the U. S. Postal Service THREE WHOLE DAYS to deliver a letter from one side of my town to the other, a distance of less than 10 miles, you KNOW that U.S. Postal workers are underworked and overpaid and that nobody is more deserving to be unemployed. (And I have the Certified Mail receipts to prove it.) Hell, they’re not working now anyway, and they’re getting paid for it. So what difference would it make if we fired those lazy creeps? Seriously.
They desere to be ridiculed. At all levels, they are lazy, sloppy, careless, incompetent, incredibly stupid and they’re virtually useless. Sut down the damned USPS, and get UPS or FedEx to deliver our mail. Please?????????
Oops, that should have been shut down the USPS, not sut down. Sorry ’bout that.