* One advantage of me running my own blog is that since no one is paying me to be a pundit, when Obama gives some “big speech”, I can just say, “I don’t feel like watching that,” and then not watch it. I assume most Americans felt the same way.
Anyway, sounds like he proposed a bunch of new spending and some tax cuts (I’ll take those), but are we really supposed to believe these are all big ideas that are finally going to create a bunch of jobs? If so, why wait until thirty months into his presidency to propose this when people have been hurting for jobs since day one? Is he just really slow to the uptake or he just didn’t care until now (“Shut up about jobs! I have a neato health care plan I want to force on you!”)?
Obama says all his spending will be paid for, but I don’t think anyone is left who would believe that now. No one thinks anymore that Obama even knows how to make numbers add up. He’s sort of guy we could give a dollar to and tell him to get one item from the dollar store and then he’d return with a new car and tell us, “Don’t worry; it’s paid for!”
* Actually, my radio was on an AM station for my couple minute drive home from work, so I caught just a few minutes of Obama’s speech inadvertently. All I heard was that it’s really important to keep taxes low on the middle class but we have to raise taxes on the wealthy for recovery. Really? How does that work? We’re going to take money away from the wealthy — people who have demonstrated they know how to responsibly handle money to create more jobs and wealth — and hand it over to the politicians in Washington who have shown they can fritter away hundreds of billions to no effect. And this helps us recover how? The left like to claim their pro-science, but their quite obvious anti-rudimentary logic with their obsession of taxing the rich while the economy is failing.
I’m not selfish. I’m in the middle class, and I rather not get a tax cut if it means raising taxes on the people who have created most of the jobs we have. At the encouragement of people like Obama, we’re becoming a nation of greedy poor people coveting the wealth of others, and it’s nothing but destructive.
* So hundreds of longshoremen stormed a port in Washington and held guards hostage and broke stuff. No one was arrested.
What?
This isn’t a third world country. Things like this shouldn’t happen here, especially unpunished. If there are so many dumb thugs together on one area that the police can’t deal with them, send in the military and shoot them. Peaceful protest in this country is great, but as soon as you become a violent mob intimidating people, you lose all rights and sympathy. That’s the way it should be in this country. We don’t want to be like Europe where people riot for days unabated because we’re too weak-willed to stand up for ourselves. People get this idea they have rights to everyone else’s stuff and can take and smash what they want, and then we end up with… a Democrat congress.
* Notice how the longshoremen violence is getting little coverage, but imagine if people identifying themselves as Tea Party members did anything similar? It would be the lead news story for weeks. Theoretical right-wing violence still gets much more press than actual left-wing violence.
That reminds me: Anyone introducing one of the Republican presidential candidates should refer to the Obama administration and say, “Let’s take those sons of bitches out!” as it’s now been established by Obama that’s okay speech.
* Maxine Waters is urging Obama to treat blacks like Iowans, to which Obama responded, “But I’m already extremely patronizing to them.”
* The more I think about this whole Social Security thing, the more I’m thinking I’m done with Romney. I mean, I guess I’ll support him if he’s the nominee, but it’s really hard to get behind someone who will defend the status quo on entitlements for political expediency. I mean, I don’t really expect much to happen if Perry is president, but at least there’s a chance he’ll do something. Romney just doesn’t seem to have any real conservative principles, though, and is just a politician trying to get elected. I’m sick of that. Really, out of the group, I want Herman Cain to be president as he’s the least politiciany, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.
* Wisdom of the Day: “Man, I bet Star Trek’s 45th anniversary and the NFL season opener falling on the same day is causing a lot of schedule conflicts for nobody.” –Sean Thomason
* Let’s once again see what a bounty of spam the Great Landlord has blessed us with!
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The other day, while I was at work, my sister stole my iphone and tested to see if it can survive a 25 foot drop, just so she can be a youtube sensation. My apple ipad is now destroyed and she has 83 views. I know this is completely off topic but I had to share it with someone!
So did your sister drop your iPhone on your iPad? Have you considered criminal charges against her? Or maybe getting her some mental help. She sounds kind of sociopathic.
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I guess while you were unconscious, some stole your ‘A’ key. Maybe it was that girl dropping the iPhones. I hope someone does something about that menace!
* Have a great weekend, everyone! I’m going to be traveling on business Monday through Thursday next week, so I may or may not be blogging. Who knows? You’ll have to tune in to find out!
Ohmigosh! There are brussels about? FRANK! Why oh why did you not warn us?
Brussels scare aside, I’m with you on Romney. Not only does he refuse to take on the tough issues, but also he is determined to play the fear card against Perry. Says, Romney, “Problems? Problems? What problems? I see no problems here.”
“I want Herman Cain to be president as he’s the least politiciany…”
Ah hah!!
CAIN! CAIN! CAIN! CAIN!
Okay, I’m done. (An astonishingly challenging bless you great post, Frank!)
Did anyone notice that Barry did not ask Congress to look at, read, review, skim, or even glance at his new bill – just pass it… right away? What is hiding in this thing that he doesnt want known until after it is passed?
When someone wants you to rush through something and sign without reading, you should be alarmed. Isnt that the first rule of any contract? When you got your home loan, did you just flip to the back and sign or did you go page by page and make sure that what you intend to spend is what is listed in the agreement?
That’s because there is no “bill” yet, Bantha. It’s vaporware.
Unions rioting, call in the Pinkerton Guards. Except let’s give them full auto ARs this time, or maybe some L.A.W. tubes, no wait, M2’s. Let’s see what 500 union thugs do against 100 M2’s.
Maxine Waters is urging Obama to treat blacks like Iowans, to which Obama responded, “But I’m already extremely patronizing to them.”
If Obama treated black Americans the way that he treats Iowans, black Americans would be rioting. We Iowans will settle for voting for whoever is opponent is in 2012 (unlike what Iowans did in 2008; people are ANGRY here, but, being Iowans, still very nice)
@Bantha,
“Did anyone notice that Barry did not ask Congress to look at, read, review, skim, or even glance at his new bill – just pass it”
Did anyone notice that there’s no bill to look at, read, review, skim, glance at…or pass?
Almost every word out of that man’s mouth was a platitude. blah blah superconductors blah blah alternative energy blah blah DON’T USE THE OIL WE HAVE blah blah Same Liberal claptrap we’ve heard for 50 effing years. The folks who were watching the speech (I was playing checkers nearby) were kind enough to let me yell at the TV when he said something stupid. I told them the truth: I would have had a brain hemorrhage if I allowed him to talk without my yelling back at him.
“I have the bill right here in my pocket. I’ve been working on it for weeks. Here, I’ll show you…uhh….ummm…maybe it’s in my other suit. Or maybe Bo the dog ate it…yeah, I’ll bet that’s what happened – he’s always eating stuff. Anyway, I remember what was in it so just give me $450 billion and I’ll fix this unemployment thing.”
Barack Obama
Wait! I remember where I put that bill, I hid it in Sandy Berger’s socks…Barack Obama
The Great Landlord has unleashed the brussels upon us. AAIIEEE !!!!!
I want to see the Longshoreman try those shenanigans in Perry’s Texas. There would be a few less Longshoreman.
Did obama make a speech? Darn, and I wasted my time watching the NFL’s opening game.
so the idea is to pass a bill before it exists… then they will just fill in the various blanks when they get to them. The classic, “We won’t know whats in it until its passed” line – if i remember correctly, that didnt work out so well last time it was used.
Sounds like a scene from The Mask, when Jim Carrey’s character goes to the auto shop to pick up his car after an oil change and they give him a laundry list of things “wrong” with his car. Then they give him the invoice to sign, he looks at it and says, “There’s no price.” to which the crook auto dude replies, “There will be.”
No, Alan, he did not make a speech. Be blathered*.
(*Based on various video clips I’ve seen.)
Hey…what’s with the Iowan’s reference? I’m an Iowan! I think I’m insulted or something and should thereby seek grievance. It’s ok, though. I’m thinking that at some point in the post season, if things work out just right the Iowa Hawkeyes will have the pleasure of playing the little guys from Boise!!! Oh, the humanity! It will be a PAIN clinic as Boise players are either killed or slaughtered on every play!!! Iowa will be accused of thuggary and such but nobody will want to ever play them again! It will be awesome!!!
This weekend we are playing Iowa State for the worst new trophy that has ever been invented. The new CyHawk trophy is an abomination! When the Hawkeye’s win, they are going to shove it up the Cyclones mascot’s ass and say “keep it’…
Of coooourse this bill is paid for. Just like the healthcare bill.
Wait, what? Frank’s out of town? And my football team is playing the … wait for it … Gamecocks?!?
Hope Frank doesn’t check his blog this weekend!
If Obamacare taught us anything it is that Obama is an idea man — he doesn’t do what some people might call “particulars” or what others might call “reality”. He leaves the actual writing of legislation to Congress because that is in fact their job. And it be they who mess up his great ideas like “free health care for everyone!” and now “free jobs for everyone!”. If only Obama were still a Senator, he could help them with the writing. But he’s not. So he can’t.
Gamecocks FTW!
“Gamecöcks” – in other words, chickens. How can you play football with a mascot like that?
Basil, you’re making this up.
“Our
Gamecöckschickens got the crap kicked out of ’em.”“We’re gonna make
Gamecöckchicken manure out of you guys!”“They’re running around like
Gamecöckschickens with their heads cut off!”Wait… Okay, I Binged it. Apparently I’m football-challenged living on the Left Coast where there are still Indians living in tepee’s and stuff (like no roads, no electricity and endless forests…)
But another thing: half of all gamecöcks die in the ring, right? This is not good football imagery…
But for your sake, Basil, I hope Georgia murders the
bastardsfoul birds.“Notice how the longshoremen violence is getting little coverage, but imagine if people identifying themselves as Tea Party members did anything similar? It would be the lead news story for weeks. Theoretical right-wing violence still gets much more press than actual left-wing violence.”
This is the first I’ve heard of it. Of course, I was in the Great Black-Out of Twenty-Eleven, which was caused by, um, something, but was definitely NOT due to a terrorist attack, and the fact that your mind even WENT there when every air conditioner in every house, condo, apartment, hovel and dog house in California, Mexico and Arizona was going full blast at the time the overloaded power grid went AWOL, means that THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON.
>The new CyHawk trophy is an abomination! (ussjimmycarter)<
It is my understanding that the Committee responsible for that wretched example of 1950s Communist-progagandist-style "art" has withdrawn in disgrace, and that the trophy this year will likely be some cheap piece of plastic from Farmer Bob's Super-Classy Awards Trophy and U-Frame-It Emporium, until a "worthy" successor to the old CyHawk award, which was a pretty grim piece of work itself, can be agreed upon. Iowahawk (PBOH!)has graciously offered a vintage corn sheller from his dad's collection of antique farming implements, with the slight quibble that said dad hasn't actually agreed to part with the thing. http://iowahawk.typepad.com/ Still, a rusted chunk of metal that has been hanging around barns for a the better part of a century seems infinitely preferable than the Ode to the Glory of the People's Land Labor that the Committee had pulled out from somewhere near its large intestine. (OK, that particular image doesn't really work with a committee.) One bright citizen of Iowa suggested that the Committee' trophy was just fine, so long as it was the LOSER of the game who had to display it. Sounds about right to me.
I’m not sure Georgia is capable of murdering a corpse.
@ MarkoMancuso:
Quite honestly, USC is a better team than UGA. The Bulldogs might have more raw talent, but it’s raw. The Gamecocks’ coach is vastly superior, and their talent isn’t raw; it’s ready.
Gonna be a long season for the Dawgs.
“Astonishingly challenging bless you” needs to be the next IMAO T-shirt. Get on it.
GameCocks? Do they run on the field with their wieners hanging out? And is a GameCock considered a “stiffy” by the rest of us? So if one of the players doesn’t or can’t get it up, he doesn’t have on his GameCock? That’s what the school mascot is right? And the mascot is a giant Penis that runs up and down the sideline? Awesome!!!
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Since Frank is gone for a few days and teh funny goes where he goes I guess we’ll just have to amuse ourselves. Now, now don’t go there, thank you.
Anyway I came across this interesting piece of information just this morning. If it’s false all to the good, if it’s true somebody should really be paying attention. Remember as you read it, the original site and it’s Google cache has been “scrubbed”. Gov. Perry’s got a lot of ‘splaining to do either way.
No…FrankJ has left us alone? Tell me it isn’t true! Well, at least we know that Obama is on the job and not playing golf!
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