* I’ve always thought Obama was a useless idiot starting all the way back to the 2008 campaign and have thought pretty much everything he’s done as president has been a misstep, and yet somehow he still keeps slipping under my expectations. So Obama wants to give a big speech about his new jobs program before Congress during primetime when we’re already well aware he has nothing useful to say based on his last couple dozen speeches. That’s dumb enough, but he decides to put the speech up against a Republican primary debate and has his press secretary act all ignorant about it. It’s so dumb and petty and way beneath the president — I even would have assumed it was beneath Obama.
But little orange Boehner stood up to Obama and he backed down and moved the speech from next Wednesday to Thursday. Can’t we possibly wait another day for Obama’s super important jobs speech? And if it’s so important, why not just tell us about it now and get working on it this week?
Really, why do we keep paying attention to this guy?
* And for those getting tired of Obama, there’s now an iPhone app to help out. It counts down the time left in Obama’s presidency while also displaying the unemployment rate, current gas prices, housing values, the national debt, and Obama’s current approval ratings. So liberals shouldn’t get angry about it, because all it’s doing is reporting facts.
And it’s not the only right-wing app. I mean, everyone is well aware that the Angry Birds game — with it’s enraged birds smashing pigs — is supposed to represent the Tea Parties, right?
* In news even worse than what Obama is doing to our country, look what George Lucas just did to the end of Return of the Jedi for the Blu-ray edition:
Yes, George Lucas took one of the most mocked scenes in the entire series — Vader’s loud “Noooooo!” at the end of Revenge of the Sith — and decided we need more of that ruining the few good scenes left in the movie. The claim that George Lucas is trying to improve the old movies is just unbelievable. Occam’s Razor is that Lucas hates all Star Wars fans and would like to personally rape and murder all of us, but since he can’t practically do that, he’s doing the next best thing and slowly destroying these movies bit by bit in front of us in a methodical, torturous process. One day, they’ll have been so changed for so long we’ll show the movies to our children and not even be able to remember why we liked them in the first place. All good memories of Star Wars must be destroyed; that’s George Lucas’s mission.
* Now that the shuttle program has ended, do you wonder what NASA officials are up to? They’re getting arrested protesting us getting cheaper oil. How the space agency has fallen. If Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin knew this was the future of NASA, they probably would have just stayed on the moon and started a Heinleinian libertarian society.
* So Representative Andre Carson is standing by his remarks that tea partiers want to lynch minorities. Some people look at the hatred of the past and are horrified, and I guess other look at it and said, “Wow! Bigotry sure is useful politically! I wonder if I can apply it to other things than just race.”
People like Carson should not be allowed to mingle with normal, civilized people; he’s just a mindless idiot who throws out race-baiting because he’s too dumb to have any actual arguments. He should be shunned to the kiddie table along with the KKK. Moron bigots like him shouldn’t be a part of the adult discussion and instead should have to sit in the corner and rant alone to themselves. Is that really too much to ask?
* An anti-corruption official in China was found dead from eleven stab wounds. Police ruled it a suicide. Nothing to see here.
Now the leaders of the Chinese government — there’s some people I wouldn’t mind seeing hanging from a tree.
* Actor Matthew Fox was charged with assault for hitting a woman multiple times while under the influence of alcohol. Maybe Fox didn’t mean to do it; maybe he was having a weird flashback.
* Wisdom of the Day: “When I was little, I called pita bread ‘Peter bread.’ I think this is why my parents got divorced.” –Rob Delaney
* Starting yesterday (Wednesday is new comic book day as everyone knows), DC Comics has rebooted all their series. Every series is going to issue one (including Detective Comics and Action Comics, both of which I believe made it past 900 issues), and the past history for all the characters is wiped out so new readers can jump in and not get overwhelmed with decades of backstory. And I think there will be some big changes to, such as Superman is now gay and Aquaman no longer is. Just rumors.
Wish we could do a Washington DC reboot like this. All past history is wiped out and the government has to start over with the spending levels it first started with George Washington was president. Reboots are popular these days; we should try selling that.