A new survey shows that 23% of small business owners have gone more than a year without pay.
I’m guessing Obama’s spin will be “They’re doing just fine – they’re still making the same as they did a year ago.”
Archive of entries posted on 18th June 2012
Surprise! Obama Obviously Didn’t Think This Through
If the President can suspend enforcement of laws by executive fiat, that means the next President can, too.
And if that next President is Romney…
10. Eradicate all restrictions on oil drilling on federal lands – order the Department of the Interior to cease enforcement activity preventing oil and gas exploration and drilling on federal lands.
9. Restrict distribution of food stamps to only the bottom 3 percent of U.S. citizens ranked by income – order the Agriculture Department to reduce distribution of food stamps to only legal citizens whose tax returns indicate that they are in the bottom 3 percent of wage-earners in the country.
8. Strip all minimum fuel efficiency standards for automakers – order the Department of Transportation to cease enforcement of all CAFE standards.
…and that’s just for starters. See Doug Ross for the rest.
Awesome Nail Gun Even Awesomer Than You Thought – Only Shoots Bullets
4of7 [High Praise!] sent me this picture and accompanying explanation, which he received via Million-Times-Forwarded-Email:
A must have in every home in America !
For everyone who would rather not have a gun in the house!
In view of the recent Supreme Court ruling, sales of this new product may skyrocket.
Washington thinks they are going to take away our guns, so check this out. I like it!
NAIL GUNS! AND, you don’t even have to REGISTER them or have LICENSES for them!
AND, you don’t have to worry about them being CONCEALED!
Just a LOT of good stuff to do with THIS!
Once in awhile something so totally cool comes out that even a guy who doesn’t normally know what he’d like for Father’s Day or Christmas would immediately ask for it:
Thank you, DeWalt!!!
New Nail Gun, made by DeWalt
It can drive a 16-D nail through a 2×4 at 200 yards.
This makes construction a breeze, you can sit in your lawn chair and build a fence.
Hundred round magazine.
Someone invades your home, just nail his ass!
Turns out this isn’t a nail gun. It’s a fully-functional M-16. The creator talks about how he went about making it, and also serves up more pictures at Toolmonger.com
The Obama Economic Plan in One Picture
[High Praise! to Scott via Rumbear Chronicles]
Little help here – who’s the guy on the far right? Can’t quite read his jersey.
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UPDATE: Linked by It’s About Liberty
Link of the Day: Can’t Tell if Liberal Screed or Right-Wing Parody
[High Praise! to raml]
It starts:
Several weeks ago the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security released a report – coordinated with the FBI – that examined the potential threats from right-wing extremist groups where it concerns domestic, homegrown terrorism.
The open and constant instigators of the sort of violence described in the report populate, like so many mutating viruses, talk radio and television and operate with complete impunity hiding, as they do, behind the guarantees of the First Amendment – guarantees that they, swine like Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, Boortz, et al, have no problem denying rational people.
It loses points for only having childish name-calling instead of actual jokes, but if someone had submitted this to me as a parody of typical spittle-spraying progressive invective, I’d probably still give it a good, solid B-
I’m rather amused by that “hiding behind the First Amendment” bit, though. The First Amendment is a shield against government reprisal. “Hiding behind” is what shields are for.
He probably cussed out Leonidas for not blocking that first volley of arrows with his chest, too.
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Wisdom of the Day: Not Knowing
10 Crazy, Desperate Plans to Get Obama Reelected
As Frank noted earlier today:
It’s kind of exciting to think of what crazy, desperate things Obama will do as we get closer to November.
Being a certified Moon-Nukin’ excitement-junkie, I can agree with Frank about the high thrill quotient on this activity:
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1) Televised addresses to the nation will feature an effeminate bandleader sidekick and a pause for a hilarious Top 10 List.
2) A $3 donation not only gets you a chance to have dinner with the President, you also get a free “Joe Biden’s Hilarious Uncensored Bloopers” DVD.
3) At the Daytona Coke Zero 400, NASCAR fans will be aghast as Obama’s #2012 car bursts into flame at the starting line, as Chevy Volts are wont to do.
4) During Rose Garden appearance, performs a series of MindFreaking illusions with Criss Angel. Ends up hospitalized after the “Cutting the Deficit in Half” trick goes tragically awry.
5) Briefly manages to keep up with the Kardashians, but eventually runs out of antibiotics.
6) Learns to play bongos, occupies White House.
7) Announces that Seal Team Six has tracked down, shot, and dumped into the sea the REAL killer of Nicole Brown Simpson.
8) After Obama misses a morning security briefing, an extended search of the West Wing turns up only a worn-down rock-hammer and a poster of Raquel Welch.
9) Blames Bush for authorizing “unilateral” invasion of Canada, issues formal apology, and announces the immediate withdrawal of all Wallendas.
10) Accompanied by his two robot pals, Obama begins sitting in the front row during every Romney appearance and riffing his way through Mitt’s speeches.
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Two predictions for the Democrat Convention: Obama will sing Al Green again, and Christina Aguilera will be the first to turn her chair around.
Don’t Scare the President
A reporter interrupted Obama Friday, and as a result, Obama ran crying for the press conference. It’s well known in the WH press that you never interrupt the president as he is very sensitive and easily scared. If you have a question that will challenge him, make sure to first let him finish speaking and then hug him and assure him he’s a good president before asking the question. Half the time, he will still curl up in a fetal position while crying, “I’m a good president! I’m a good president!” but occasionally you might get an answer. Probably not a smart one, though.
How Obama Does Voter ID
Security at an Ohio campaign event for Obama insisted on checking the ID of every attendee, even though Obama himself opposes voter ID laws.
Typical Democrat – locks his doors and puts welcome mats under his neighbors’ windows.
Stirring Things Up with Illegal Immigration
Usually, Congress votes on something and then the president signs it and it becomes a law, but it ends up that’s too complicated and too hard for Obama so he’s just going to have directives issued that basically shape the law as he wanted. This might be subverting the Constitution a bit, but if the Constitution gets in the way of Obama’s reelection chances, then I guess Obama just doesn’t see any need for it.
Anyway, I guess we’re not enforcing immigration laws anymore because it’s just not a big deal. We might think it’s a big deal to control who is allowed in the country, but it’s also like really mean to do that or something. And children get hurt — and that’s our fault and not their law-breaking parents’. If you think borders are real and mean something, then you’re a racist. Also, cannons are probably racist.
I think one of the biggest problems with illegal immigration is the attitude the Democrats try to instill in illegals. Illegal immigrants are constantly indignant about it (“How dare you notice we broke federal law!”) when I think people would be more accepting if they were really apologetic. Think of what it would be like if you lived in a sucky country and the awesomest country ever was in walking distance? If illegals just framed it that way (“Your country is so great and ours suck so much, we just couldn’t help it! I couldn’t stand to watch another game of the inferior type of football!”), I think people would be less angry and we could work towards a solution. But Democrats need race conflicts to have any hope of keeping a majority, so they need to stir things up. And thus Obama’s new directive in an election year.
Again, why do we give these idiots in DC any power?
I Wish I Had Kids So I Could’ve Gotten This for Father’s Day
[via The Awesomer]
I already have a hat-mounted LED light so I can see what I’m doing when I’m working in gloomily-lit spaces, but the flaw always seems to be that whenever I touch the tool to the object that needs tooling, I can’t see a damn thing because the tool now casts a shadow at the point of contact.
Enter Craftsman Lighted Pliers:
Which gives me an idea to improve dinosaurs with rocket launchers:
Uvula-mounted LED for night-biting.
What Is Everyone So Worried About?
In my new PJ Media column, everyone seems so glum about the future, so I look into exactly what are we worried about if the worst comes to fruition.
And let’s say our first worst-case scenario has already happened, and we’re all now forest-dwelling savages. Then our nation could get hit with a nuclear bomb, and most of the country wouldn’t even notice. We’d just go along trying to kill deer with pointy sticks, as usual. So instead of these worst-case scenarios stacking, they kind of cancel each other out.
A number of negative comments to this one already. I’m just trying to get people to stay positive!
Brilliant! – THIS Is How to Take Obama to Task for His Security Leaks
[High Praise! to Freemon Sandlewould]
[YouTube direct link] (Viewer #11,919)
Note to SNL: if you need decent comedy writers, try Israel.
Random Thoughts: Random Amnesty
Did all other president inherit a perfect economy and had a compliant Congress, or is Obama’s situation not unique?
People would probably be less anti-illegal immigrant if they were just a bit more apologetic about it. “I’m really sorry, but my country really sucks and yours is awesome and in walking distance. Couldn’t resist.”
It’s kind of exciting to think of what crazy, desperate things Obama will do as we get closer to November.
Obama is really banking on African Americans wanting nothing out of him other than having a similar amount of melanin.
It’s really mean what Bush did to make the Obama presidency look so impotent and feckless.
So are we at the beginning of A New Hope where the Emperor dissolves the Senate? Building a Death Star would create jobs.
If Neil Munro was shouting out permission for Obama to be clear, then that was okay.
New strategy: Amnesty for illegals, say we no longer recognize any country’s border, drill for oil in the Middle East.
I think the American President should be shouted at constantly.
I get the feeling that Obama would not be able to remain calm and fight back if his plane was hijacked like in the movie Air Force One.
If the president doesn’t want to be shouted at, he shouldn’t make public appearances. Familiarity breeds contempt.
So what did Obama do when he was interrupted? Did he collapse onto his fainting couch?
I’m not comfortable with Romney having the amount of power Obama assumes he has.
Dallas has the solution for our problems. We just wake up, turn on TV to see Reagan as pres, and the last couple decades were all a dream.
The worst part was how Neil Munro kept shouting his question over and over even after the president was clearly in tears.
I had a pretty good childhood, though half of it was spent trapped down a well.
So exactly how excited are liberals for another four years of Obama blaming Republicans for not getting anything done?
Maybe Obama will have second thoughts about subverting the Constitution if it makes reporters loud and scary.
Anyway, I’m for civility. That why I carry a gun — the weapon of choice of civilized man.
I also wear pants — also needed for civility — and a bowler hat — which is optional.
So what are we doing now? Just deporting half the family?
If you don’t care about something, ignore it. Otherwise you’re not caring wrong.
Maybe it was because of all the negative hype, but I didn’t find the ending of Mass Effect 3
Real talk on Mass Effect: The gameplay was the boring stuff between the dialogue and cinema scenes. To me, the main action of Mass Effect were the dialogue choices. The 3rd person shooter stuff was all rather linear and inconsequential.
Will the new Lincoln movie inspire the GOP to add vampire hunting back to its platform?
I find Father’s Day intimidating. I look to my father, and I have a long way to go still.
Obama’s Ill-Conceived Cake Analogy
During a fundraiser in Baltimore, President Obama blamed his deficits on Republicans, saying “they baked all this stuff into the cake.”
Uh huh. Then Obama added 4 more layers, some frosting, and 2 groom-figurines on top.
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UPDATE: Linked by Darth Chipmunk