* Obama’s approval ratings hit new lows in Gallup and Rasmussen polls. It seems kind of gratuitous to point out a new low for him since his last new low was only a few days ago, except it’s just fun to point out when his popularity has sunk even further and say, “Haw! Haw!”
Obama campaigned on hope and change, but it kind of seems like all that hope people had in Obama during his campaign has pretty much disappeared. People still really want change, though — maybe even more so than before. Maybe a Republican can run on the change platform but combine it with something other than hope.
“Change and Hippie Punching”
* There was an earthquake in Virginia. Just a small one, though. I mean, when the earth starts rumbling there, you’d expect all of DC to be swallowed up into the earth, but it’s not God’s job to solve all our earthly problems.
Where was Obama during all this? On a golf course, of course. They told him about it immediately, to which he responded, “Shut up; I’m putting!”
* Pretty much everyone was happy the quake was minor… except for New York Times columnist Paul Krugman who wrote on Google+:
“People on twitter might be joking, but in all seriousness, we would see a bigger boost in spending and hence economic growth if the earthquake had done more damage.”
This is what’s called the “broken window fallacy” — a broken window stimulates the economy by giving work to the glass maker, so to really stimulate the economy you could send people around purposefully breaking windows. It’s pretty elementary how that’s a stupid theory, but apparently it’s beyond the understanding of a Nobel Prize-winning economist. It makes you wonder if that was the real Nobel Prize in Economics he won or if that’s just what they call the reward for successfully balancing your own checkbook while living in the mental ward.
It’s so dumb, I’m almost convinced it’s a hoax (and I notice Krugman’s Google+ profile has disappeared and here’s someone other than Krugman claiming he created it), but right after 9/11 he wrote about how that might stimulate the economy. Plus he recently blogged about how a space alien invasion would be an economic boon. With this and Friedman’s Chinese dictatorship love and Dowd’s… whatever in the world it is that she does, it’s like the New York Times set out to make a Mos Eisley Cantina of op-ed columnists.
* According to a Rasmussen poll, large majorities of Americans believe illegal aliens shouldn’t be allowed in public school, shouldn’t get free tuition for college, or be able to get a driver’s license. When explaining their reasoning, people said, “Because THEY’RE ILLEGAL ALIENS!”
This is one of those areas where the left likes to pretend there’s a big debate, but to the average person it’s like asking, “Should we lock up murderers?” — something they wouldn’t even think there was anything to debate about. Still, there are those who argue that Republicans need to take a softer line on this to appeal to Latino voters — since all Latinos are for breaking the law, as pro-amnesty Republicans seem to think — but my guess is if we give up on common sense for electoral gain, that will probably not work out for the best in the end.
* Even while Obama is on vacation, the debt is growing $2.95 million a minute. So that’s how successful Obama has been; the government can swell in size beyond belief even while he’s out golfing.
Here’s a new fun game: While Obama is giving speeches about the need for a “balanced approach” we can calculate exactly how much the debt grows while he does nothing but talk. A single “Let me be clear” costs $98,000.
* Wisdom of the Day: “Why does Facebook target me with ads for nude beaches in Toronto when I’ve lived my life in such a way as to avoid both nudity and Canada?” –Michael J. Nelson
* I mentioned I’m working on a novel before — and that still is my dream, to become a novelist — but a new writing project has come up, so the novel is on the back burner for now. I’m writing non-fiction — well, as non-fiction as my writing usually is — and this time I already have a publisher signed on. I’ll tell you more soon; be excited!
Please tell me you’re writing a biography of Calvin Coolidge.
The Idiot’s Guide to Hipping Punching?
Nuking the Moon for Dummies?
A Mexi-Cannon technical manual? (However, I still prefer Mexi-Pult, even though it’s more environmentally friendly)
I really don’t see how ignoring illegal immigration gets Latino votes. Most of the Latinos I work with (most of them are US citizens) think that we should enforce our borders and it is not fair to give someone legal residency in this country who came here illegally.
Coolidge! Coolidge! Coolidge! I’m getting excited. 🙂
Where can I pre-order your soon-to-be-published book?
Is it about tuna?
Answer the second question first.
“Still, there are those who argue that Republicans need to take a softer line on this to appeal to Latino voters — since all Latinos are for breaking the law, as pro-amnesty Republicans seem to think”
Yes, just like people who wait on long lines support those that cut to the front, or those that pay for cable TV support those that steal cable TV, or those that pay for items in a store support those that shoplift, or those that don’t drive drunk support those that do…how do “Republican leaders” come up with this stuff?
“A single “Let me be clear” costs $98,000.”
Yeah, but if he really were “clear” it might be worth the $98K. The problem is, he’s full of BS.
“Let me be BS.” would at least be honest.
Let me go on record as saying that I am against illegal immigration, even though my grandfather was a sailor from Norway who jumped ship in Brooklyn and just stayed here. Okay? (Yeah, my people are doggone snowbacks.)
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Hippie Punching wouldn’t hold you up from the novel long.
Page 1 – pictures of hippies
Page 2 – diagrams of punching technique
Page 3 – illustrations of images from first two pages combined
Besides, complete idiots don’t want to punch hippies — complete idiots ARE hippies!
“The Earth Moved”
So right off the bat, you know this entry isn’t about Janet Napolitano’s sex life.
HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
(My apologies to everyone for talking about Janet Napolitano and sex together)
first I thought making such a big deal over a small earthquake was a little lame, but then I remembered that they’re not really used to having earthquakes in Kenya.
I can help with research for your book! Coolidge was born in the back of his father’s store. A bit later on, his father swore him in as president in the family house. His father could do this because he was not only Cal’s father, but he was also a justice of the peace. After Coolidge was president, he said:
“We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.”
With that, he returned to Plymouth, Vermont where he was buried near the family home.
I might be able to help more, but I was running late for the next campsite, so I only had time to read the historic marker.
Krugman is Zorg from Fifth Element:
Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Now take this empty glass. Here it is: peaceful, serene, boring. But if it is destroyed…
[Pushes the glass off the table. It shatter on the floor, and several small machines come out to clean it up]
Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people, who will be able to feed their children tonight, so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain of life. You see, father, by causing a little destruction, I am in fact encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business.
Just took a troll stroll over at the liberal sites. They are blaming the quake on some G. W. Bush oil co.’s fracking. They really are blaming Bush for the earthquake. This kind of stupidity is what is now running the country. We are in big trouble. Coolidge / Reagan 2012
Thanks Carolyn! I just threw up a little in my mouth! Actually a lot!!!
Here’s a new fun game: While Obama is giving speeches about the need for a “balanced approach” we can calculate exactly how much the debt grows while he does nothing but talk. A single “Let me be clear” costs $98,000.
I tried playing I to one of the idiot’s speeches. That is where you take a shot every time he says “I”, I almost got alcohol poisoning. If cat plays “I” with tuna, the cost of sushi will triple.
“I’m writing non-fiction — well, as non-fiction as my writing usually is.”
Things Frank might be writing about:
* New show material for Bill Nye, The Science! Guy.
* Campaign speeches for RON PAUL! (You’d be forgiven, Frank, because the man could use a little wit…)
* A compendium of humor for Rick Perry so no one will “get him.” (“Nuke the moon? Have you heard of that? What’s he talking about? Why would we want to nuke the moon? Does anyone else want to nuke the moon? Are we nuking the moon before the Russians and Chinese because they want to do it, too? Is there a nuke the moon gap?? The guy’s nuts.”)
* A new parent guide called “Why you shouldn’t feed tuna to your child when the cat is around. (And other really useful parenting tips!)”
* A new parent guide called “Why you shouldn’t feed
tunayour child to yourchildcat whenthe cattuna is around. (And other really useful parenting tips!)” -fixed it for meJust think of the economic stim we’d get if somebody put Krugman out of our misery. I mean, even not counting all the parties.
I saw all the excitement last night about dumb Krugman saying something really dumb (the bar is quite extended with that space aliens thing). Like some of the more measured folk, it didn’t make sense to waste a whole bunch of humor energy (what I call “humorgy”) on something that couldn’t be verified. My rule of thumb: if I’m going to
mockmercilessly ridiculeok ok, mock someone for doing something, they should have at least have actually done it. So yeah, I fact-check my wisecracks. Anyway, it seemed like the Nobel Economics super-genius really stepped in it, but it was just the lesser-known fallacy of a Broken Windbag.President Obama has just confirmed that the DC earthquake occurred on a rare and obscure fault-line, apparently known as “Bush’s Fault”. Obama also announced that the Secret Service and Maxine Waters continues an investigation of the quake’s suspicious ties to the Tea Party. Conservatives however believe it was caused by the founding fathers rolling over in their graves!”
Obama’s approval ratings hit new lows in Gallup and Rasmussen polls.
If his approval ratings get any lower, they, like Obama (and Keith Olbermann and Maureen Dowd and . . . .), will have to reach up just to touch bottom.
Good news about the publisher, Frank. See, you’re not getting any less funny, you’re just getting fatter. 🙂
Wasn’t Krugman an economic adviser for Enron for a while? That would explain how he got his Nobel and the job at the Times.
(* According to a Rasmussen poll, large majorities of Americans believe illegal aliens shouldn’t be allowed in public school, shouldn’t get free tuition for college, or be able to get a driver’s license. When explaining their reasoning, people said, “Because THEY’RE ILLEGAL ALIENS!”
This is one of those areas where the left likes to pretend there’s a big debate, but to the average person it’s like asking, “Should we lock up murderers?” — something they wouldn’t even think there was anything to debate about. Still, there are those who argue that Republicans need to take a softer line on this to appeal to Latino voters — since all Latinos are for breaking the law, as pro-amnesty Republicans seem to think — but my guess is if we give up on common sense for electoral gain, that will probably not work out for the best in the end.)
I don’t think you give the Democrats enough credit on the immigration issue. They have figured out that if we let enough illegals into our welfare state that the system will collapse. Life will get very difficult as the jobs and the welfare dry up. Then when the good ol’ US of A is plunged into a civil war like the one currently being fought in Mexico, all the illegals will pack up and move to Canada.
Prety frikkin clever if you ask me. And they get the benefit of solving the “immigration” problem while looking like the good guys.
New Immigration Policy:
Welcome to America!
Now learn our language and obey our laws!