* 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.
I’m fine with DC reinventing all its hero characters. Just as long as they dramatically kill them all off by issue 5.
I thought you were joking about the Chinese anti-corruption official, but the police actually did rule it a suicide. Also ruled a suicide by the Chinese police: the guy shot twice the forehead, once in heart, 3 times in the chest, and 6 times in the back.
Also, Andre Carson is one of the biggest disgraces in Congress, and that’s really saying something. He got his congressional seat when his grandmother, who had it before him, died. While still a miserable excuse for a human being, she was not quite as disgraceful as her grandson. A friend of mine who lived in her district in Indy referred to her as “the queen of all welfare queens”.
Oh, and George Lucas is probably going to that special hell, usually reserved for child molesters and people who talk in the theater.
I clicked on the Mathew Fox link just to discover who the heck he was. Ironically, when the page opened the text in my browser tab was:
“Mathew Fox Alleged Ass”
Maybe the Chinese cops should be sent to Aruba for advanced training in the proper methods of covering up an obvious murder.
It’s not just Star Wars. There’s a war being waged on us all by Hollywood! Hollywood is trying to ruin all things cinematically fabulous. Yeah, Lucas is going after Star Wars, but there’s also the travesty that is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. 3 fan-freaking-tastic Indy movies, 20+ years to work with and they give us that nonsense?
There’s the remake of The Karate Kid with Jayden Smith, there’s the remake of Annie under way by Willow Smith, there’s the remake of Footloose coming out, there’s the remake of Dirty Dancing being done….
Sigh. If they remake Back to the Future I’m going to do some serious pouting.
AQUAMAN IS NOT TEH GHEY!@!!@!! But Prince Namor, he’s teh poof.
I was considering watching Obama’s new job plan, but I’ve already seen Brewster’s Millions.
When I saw the new Episode 1 of Star Wars I didn’t believe that the same people made it.
It’s horrible.
I think George Lucas had the real brains behind the original trilogy locked away in his basement. The dude finally died and George decided to give it a go himself.
If AquaMan isn’t teh Gay, he’s seen quite a few up close!!!
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
That’s why I’m rooting for an asteroid.
I actually find it disconcertingly helpful that they added the “noooooooo” because now it explains that the death is involuntary. Previously, I was under the mistaken impression that this was just a case of assisted suicide.
For the same reason we keep paying attention to that kook in Iran: he’s got nukes.
Darth was just giving his opinion on the news of another Obama prime time speech.
I gave up on comic books years ago because nearly all of the stories were recycled or took a leftie bend. I see they are still at it.
Andre Carson is really really trying hard for that coveted msnbc host spot.
Obama has bowed to the Boehner of Orange. What a loser.
“Can’t we possibly wait another day for Obama’s super important jobs speech?”
…and why on Earth is there going to be a joint session of congress called just to listen to an idiot read lies from a teleprompter?
Who will be the first superhero to get legally gay married? You know it’s coming – may have already happened for all I know.
Does Buttercup know about Chaz Bono? Never too early to let her know that she has “options”…
“That’s why I’m rooting for an asteroid.”
I have long said that the only way we are going to get change in Washington, DC is if a low-yield nuclear weapon were set off in the Capitol building. Everyone agrees that Congress sucks, but everyone keeps sending the same charlatans back to DC. I guess it is the electoral equivalent of NIMBY-syndrome.
I hadn’t thought of an asteroid. Not bad, since blame couldn’t be put on anyone (though Obama would blame Bush and the Left would blame the Tea Party, nobody with a functioning brain would fall for it).
Problem with the asteroid solution is that Washington would have a LOT of warning. (Ever seen Armageddon?? They had time to find AND train dudes to try to break up the asteroid.) Even the left would find time to hide from the asteroid.
The nuke option is better because it would be a total surprise! (“Hey! What’s th….? **BOOM!**)
Really, why do we keep paying attention to this guy?
Huh? What guy is that? I wasn’t paying attention!
I woud love if someone digitally imposed Obama’s head on Darth Vader and then changed Palpatine into George Soros.
So liberals shouldn’t get angry about it, because all it’s doing is reporting facts.
Actually, liberals seems to get the most angry when presented with real facts (not their version). Just try telling one that the US spends more on entitlements than it does on the military and watch what happens.
Mediaite is calling for Boehner to resign because of his “disrespect” for the president.
I got nothing to go with that. Or mebbe I don’t know where to start.
The change in Return of the Jedi would actually be awesome if what Vader shouted was “KHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!”
Laughs are on Obama now, though. His speech is now up against Thursday Night Football and NBC has already sold all the ad airtime so my guess is they won’t show a minute of it.
Does that iPhone app include all eight years?
Isn’t Buzz Aldrin allowed to punch idiot NASA administrators?
The Chinese official’s “suicide” reminds me of Lionel Twain’s demise in “Murder By Death” (stabbed about 11 times in the back, described by Alec Guiness’ character as a murdering of himself.) That’s one piece of art I didn’t expect to see imitated in life.
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