* So there’s a big congressional fight over this measly payroll tax cut. I like tax cuts, but considering the straights we’re in, this a big useless thing to be spending a lot of time on. If you needed further proof that Obama is an unserious person, it’s that he’s trying to draw the line on this — a two month extension of piddling. It probably does help with some job creation by reducing cost per employee, but come on: After all these years, this is the best Obama has right now? I feel like we’re scrounging around for table scraps. And why doesn’t Obama want to pass the House bill that would extend it for the whole year? Because it would force him to build the Keystone pipeline and ::gasp:: create more jobs.
Obama is absolutely useless. Why aren’t the Republicans constantly chanting that fact?
* Obama says he is the fourth most accomplished president. The presidents ahead of him by his estimation? Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and President Logan from 24.
* Obama has had a bounce in the polls recently which people think comes from the economic news of unemployment falling. Of course, that’s happened because people have given up hope of finding jobs and have stopped looking for work thus removing themselves from the unemployment statistic. So Obama used to like hope, but despair works better for him these days.
* Who is the most charitable nation? The U.S.! And it’s not just on account of us being richest as lots of other rich nations didn’t make the list. Of course, there’s lots of people who want to end charity by taking the money we could be giving and having the government distribute it. In really socialist nations, people don’t know charity because helping others is supposed to be the government’s job so we don’t have to worry about it. No wonder then two of the least charitable nations — China and Russia — are Communist and former Communist.
* About a third of the world identifies as Christian. The Romans had experience with a lot of religious movements, but they found most of them blew over when the leader was killed. Christianity… not so much.
* Here’s the trailer for the new Rainbow Six game. You may notice something topical about the politics of the terrorists:
It almost seems like they’re supposed to be Occupy Wall Street, but then again they’re middle-aged and not a bunch of college kids, they’re wearing suits, seem to have a knack for organization, and are racially diverse.
Still, I’m holding out hopes for a level where you shotgun hippies.
Maybe the gamemakers are going to sell an add on where the suited teritz become grungy, hairy, smelly hippies. It will come with a “scratch ‘n sniff” card for a more realistic experience.
“Obama says he is the fourth most accomplished president.”
Well, in fairness, he only knows the names of three other US presidents. However, he can name most of the 57 states.
Obama can name most of the 57 states? I doubt it.
“Um, California. Uh, New York. Jesusland. Washington D.C. Uh, where was I born? Oh yeah, Hawaii. I think that’s most of them.”
Ernie Loco:
What about Florida State, Boise State, Fresno State, Oklahoma State, Ohio State, Michigan State, Deluded State, State of Confusion, the State Bar, the State Capitol, Fugue State…
He’s heard of some of them, I’m sure.
“Obama says he is the fourth most accomplished president.”
This is how he figures it:
1: Fidel Castro
2: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
3: Hugo Chavez
4: Barack Hussein Obama
What? You didn’t thinks a sophisticated man of the world like Obama would only measure himself merely against American presidents diid you?
Nope. Can’t be OWS in the R6 game. No ‘twinkles’.
Also, they have guns and explosives.
I’m not ready to discuss any of this until this issue of walnuts is settled!!!11!! We finally have a serious issue here worth discussing and I’m not going anywhere until we handle it. And I might add, I’m also making Christmas fudge today… with walnuts. If you don’t like walnuts, well, you know who you are.
Walnuts? Some people have an irrational fear of clowns, spiders, or congress. Mine goes back to mowing my aunt’s lawn and having to venture under the huge tall walnut tree that lurked in the back. It KNEW when I was there and would rain quarter-pound nodules of whistling death down upon me whenever I came near. Walnut trees make great furniture, not great food.
Charitable giving measures are skewed against the US. Generally, the rankings ignore personal contributions and/or contributions to religious organizations. When these are factored in, no country comes close to the rate of US giving, and by comparison, Europeans give at a shameful rate.
Arthur Brooks’ _Who_Really_Cares_ has the full score. (review at Real Clear Politics) We give much more than any other country. We give several times more per capita than most European nations. Plus, we volunteer more at the same rates.
Who gives the most in the US? Well, that would be Christians in general and Conservative Christians the most. Red states rank highest. Who gives the least as a cohort? Conservative atheists. Volunteer-ism runs the same way, and this applies even to activities such as giving blood. Might I stir the “does atheism preclude a moral foundation debate”?
By the way, I’d include an Amazon link for the book (an excellent quick read for conservatives), but then Frank J. would put me in the penalty box for using too many links. Google books has parts of the book.
I get to shoot OWS hippies in their suits gifted by Men’s Wearhouse?! Sign me up!
Historians will look back on the Obama administration and say…
“Obama’s greatest accomplishment was unquestionably his techno-style cover of Waylon Jennings’ I’ve Always Been Crazy. While immensely popular, the song did, however, render him completely, hopelessly unable to compete anywhere south of Richmond, VA. Texas also cited the song in their Declaration of Reasons for Secession.”
@Jimmy: Walnuts!!1!!! Also, hazelnuts if you are dealing with Belgian, Swiss or Austrian chocolates.
@Crabby: yes, Yes, YES! And pecans!!!11!! Mmmmmm. Pecan pie….
For all of you who don’t like walnuts, get your hands off my walnuts!
I draw the line at fruitcake, however. Unless it’s made with real brandied fruit fermented for at least 30 days in my giant antique crock and made with various nuts and also baked pumkin.
My mouth is now watering….
First the Batman movie and now this. It seems that in the absence of having enough guts to have the villains be jihadi’s Hollywood has decided that the next most hated group is…..leftists. Good call Hollywood. I guess it is getting increasingly more difficult to come up with plausible ways for Eastern European racist gangs to threaten the World (much less the U.S) so why not American Leftists who basically nobody likes anyway?
If the Rainbow Six people want to sell a couple million extra units they’ll have a level like the MOH zombie level except instead of zombies it’ll be hippies (intellectually not much difference I suppose) and instead of having a variety of weapons you’ll be armed only with a shotgun and a pocketful of joints you can throw to distract the hippies and give you time to regroup (this is known as the Cartman strategy).
You gotta admit he’s pretty inept when compared to President Josiah Bartlet.
Walnuts? They ain’t tuna – but they’re not as bad as ronpaulnuts.
@Marko: His critics doubted that Obama could take on the majesty and cryptic rhythm of Jennings’ song; however, only a man oblivious to his own limitations could succeed in an arena in which Carter had failed.
Can you imagine someone trying to invent the gun today? There would be like howling on Capital Hill and it would be outlawed forthwith by Big Sis!!! Gunpowder? No way, Hosay!!! Is that the correct Mexican spelling? I no Abla!!!
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Man all this talk today about hippie punching video games, hippie shooting games, and actual hippie punching makes this a great day to be me.
#3 — Hawaii’s not a U.S. state. It’s in Asia! D’oh!
Hat tip to ‘Kicker’ at Human Events, The EPA is Dreaming of a Black-out Christmas:
“I suggest we start that any county voting Democrat in the 2010 election be taken off the electric grid, and allowed to supply their own green energy. We’ll start on the East and West coasts, and work inward until we have taken enough Democrats off the grid to equal the 60 gigawatts of usage that the Obama EPA is going to be shutting down.
We will “sell” electricity if absolutely necessary, but it will be at a rate sufficiently high to make up for the revenues lost at all levels by the shutdown of the coal fired plants, the coal mines that would, as a consequence, be shut down,, and, of course, the additional social costs resulting from the large numbers of workers who would now be without jobs. We;’ll also give them the resulting cost savings promised by the EPA to offset the cost of any electricity they have to purchase from the rest of the country.
I think it only fair that, since Democrats have so strongly supported the President and Administration who will be responsible, that they be allowed to directly experience the consequences of their election.”
correction Christianity’s leader isn’t he dead He still lives
Think of the electricity we could save if we built like a couple hundred million crosses and lined the streets with them and then put Christians on them and lit them on Fire! Merry Christmas everyone! Oops…Happy Holidays for those of you whom I have offended with the Merry Christmas. Maybe we should go to Merry Mas? Would that like work for all the morons in the US? I don’t think the Creator of The Universe would be none too happy but who is He compared to us humans? We are all smart and sciencey and stuff!!! What does he know? We are looking for Higgs Boson!!! Oh, he made Higgs Boson? So?
Merry Christmas!
Ronald Reagan Christmas Address, 12/23/81
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU0tuah-x7M