* The nice thing about Obama is how he doesn’t embarrass us in front of other world leaders:
"I'm Barack Obama!"
Here’s a challenge for the left: Try find a photo of Bush in which he looks dumber than this.
* Troy Davis was executed yesterday for murdering a police officer who tried to stop him beating up a homeless man. This is a problem to some because lots of people who read news articles about him thought there was lots of doubt to his guilt (while those who actually sat through and ruled in his many many court trials apparently didn’t).
One problem of capital punishment is that it causes an odd segment of the population to laud and praise murderers while the victim is forgotten. You had people acting like Troy Davis was some spiritual guru, while even if you believe their story it just meant that Davis maybe didn’t murder Mark MacPhail and instead just stood around while his friend beat up and homeless man and killed the police officer (but of course, the multiple court reviews — including the Supreme Court — didn’t believe that).
These capital punishment controversies are always such tangled messes. Wish we didn’t have them. I guess easiest way to achieve that is for people to stop murdering so much.
* A white supremacist who murdered a black man by dragging him to death was also executed yesterday. Not a record protest turnout.
* Polls finally show a majority blame Obama for the U.S. economy. After a couple years and a few trillion, you do have to take a little ownership. But the good news for Obama is that if the economy takes off like a rocket, people will now praise him for it instead of just saying how great Bush was. And I’m sure his new proposal of $1.5 trillion in taxes will really get things moving.
* Rick Perry has been running on his job record, but a new report says that 80% percent of Texas’s new jobs went to immigrants — 40% to illegal immigrants. Well, that’s not great; our goal isn’t to help Mexico’s unemployment. Our goal is only to help Mexico’s drug cartels get guns.
* Ron Paul says he would consider putting Dennis Kucinich on his cabinet, so if you’re wondering what Ron Paul’s cabinet looks like in the alternate universe where he’s president and we all wear pants on our head, there you go.
Since this president thing isn’t going to work out in this universe where we wear pants on our legs, Ron Paul and Kucinich should consider getting together and forming a traveling roadshow where they sing and dance and do vaudeville and denounce overseas occupations. Sounds pretty entertaining. And I have a great tagline for it: “RON PAUL!”
* For some reason, Al Gore has announced that he knows the new iPhones are coming out in October. Is that what Gore is reduced to now? Trying to attach himself to the popularity of the iPhone? Poor Al Gore; I don’t think he has any friends.
* A study says that spoilers don’t ruin a story but actually enhance enjoyment. So I’ll help you with enjoying some movies:
Citizen Kane: Rosebud was his pet dog.
Planet of the Apes: The main character was dreaming the whole thing.
The Sixth Sense: Bruce Willis’s character was the one who murdered all those people.
The Usual Suspects: The police officer questioning everyone is Kaiser Soze.
The Empire Strikes Back: Darth Vader reveals it was Obi Wan who killed Luke’s father.
Soylent Green: Soylent Green contained corn syrup which just isn’t healthy.
* Wisdom of the Day: “Paraphrasing Mencken, liberalism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, is making more than a tenured professor.” –Jim Geraghty
* A bouncer was hired for an IHOP in East Villiage. You can look at the many flavors of syrup available, but NO TOUCHING!
Ah, hipsters.
Obama: “Hey! I can see my retirement from here!”
Are you sure Ron Paul didn’t say he would consider put Dennis Kucinich in his cabinet? ‘Cause he’d probably fit.
Frank, Romney is in the news again, this time claiming that Perry isn’t electable because he isn’t ‘moderate enough.’
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/09/ugh-romney-says-perry-is-unelectable-hes-not-moderate-enough/
By the fall of 2012 when all our economic fan blades are dripping with Obama crap, maybe people will realize that Romney is not a RINO but a “SIRC” : a “Socialist In Republican Clothing.”
I’m sick of all these phony articles propagating the MYTH that Ron Paul is unelectable.
The cumulative total of straw polls at this point has Ron Paul onthe lead by more than double the next republican candidates %. It doesn’t matter who that is because they’re all the same.
Ron Paul has more donations from the military than all other candidates combined.
Ron Paul won all the debates.
Just because the media says he’s “unelectable” doesn’t make it true. In corrupt regimes throughout the last century, media propaganda kept the public in the dark about reality too. Hitler, for example, used US propaganda techniques to keep the public under his thumb and to alter their view of reality.
Ron Paul can win, all people need to do is VOTE FOR HIM.
[Please tell me you’re a parody. -Ed.]
Jack Death,
Ron Paul won all of which debates? The ones between the voices in your crazy head?
The photo was just a misunderstanding. It was actually taken for a “Sure” deoderant commercial.
DamnCat – Dennis Kucinich wouldn’t fit in Paul’s cabinet. His tinfoil hat is too big.
BTW, don’t you love it when Frank reads his own blog?!
Don’t laugh at Jack Death. Ron Paul … excuse me, RONPAUL!!!1!!! … is electable. People elected Barack Obama, after all, so they’re liable to do some more crazy sh*t.
Well, I already knew Perry didn’t really give a commie’s butt for the rule of law in the area of immigration, and we all know that none of these other jokers give a commie’s butt for the rule of law, so what am I supposed to do? Not vote?
Bah. I hate this crap.
Too bad the info about Perry and illegals getting jobs didn’t come out before he went on Hannity last night. I’d have paid good money to hear the heinous spin that one would have gotten. I guess now that we’ve be Obama’ed we fixing to get Perry’ed.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
RON PAUL 11!!111 could work. BARAK OBAMA11!!1!!! worked. Kind of scary, And the results would be the same.
That picture with Obama makes me wish my nationality was from the Kingdom of Tonga. The ling of Tonga never did anyhing like that.
Ann Coulter, being a smarty pants lawyer and all that, wrote a column explaining the Troy Davis trial. ood read, and snarky, too.
IHOP wants to make sure no one uses too muh of the boysenberry.
Now hold on. Ron Paul does say some crazy stuff, but he’s also said stuff that I wish the others would come out with (such as, “I’m sick of the notion that just because conservatives don’t believe in handouts we don’t have any compassion” – paraphrasing). I’ll never vote for him because if he were a man of such conviction when it comes to his own views he’d go Libertarian and not Republican. That and sometimes he says stuff like ‘abolish the Dept of Education’ but doesn’t offer a solution to replace the ocassional good work that dept actually does. Also, I was very disappointed that when Wolf Blitzer posed that 30 year-old man without health insurance question, 1) Ron Paul didn’t point out he’d asked the same question of Christine O’Donnell and it’s time to come up with a new talking point and 2) Ron Paul didn’t say, “Hey Wolf, that’s why it’s called INSURANCE!”
Anyhow, say what you will about Ron Paul but I’ll take a dose of cooky over the sinking feeling I get in my stomach watching Perry (and yes, I originally drank the Perry-ier).
GO CAIN!
Bouncer at IHOP? Not a big deal. Back in my “Less Saved” days I was on the usher team. When needed I became the “Gospel Bouncer”. Miss those days.
The only ones saying Ron Paul is unelectable are the sane media pundits. All the insane ones back RONPAUL!!!!1!!!!
Obama was in that picture? Shoot I was looking for Waldo
I have to agree with Jack Death – with cabinet picks like Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul(!!!!11!!!) is a shoo-in for the Republican nomination!
Oh, hello Mr. Ron!
Oh, hello Mr. Dennis!
Why is it called “Ohio”, Mr. Ron?
I don’t know, Mr. Dennis.
It’s “Hi” in the middle and round on both ends! O-Hi-O!
(seltzer spray)
Hey! Where’s the movie with the dancing ron paul? I feel cheated.
“Ron Paul says he would consider putting Dennis Kucinich on his cabinet”
I thought Golum went with the mother ship.
algore, the disgrace in the white house, biden. meh.
“Ron Paul says he would consider putting Dennis Kucinich on his cabinet”
Is it really that hard to picture the two of them sitting in a room together fashioning hats out of tinfoil?
Obviously the size of the anti-death penalty (or lack thereof) demonstration depends on the race of the murderer…as well as that of the murdered.
Vote Fly, Marco! I give commie’s butts all the time. And I’ll take the rule of law or even the lint in your pockets [*] in exchange. When you think Fly, think cheap commie’s butts!
As for me, I was going to vote for Ronald Ernest Paul but this whole Kucinich thing has left a bad taste in my mouth. I thought Paul was principled but that decision seems willy nilly. Who wouldn’t Paul put in his cupboard? Obama is to bus as Paul is to cabinet.
I’m hearing good things about this Fly chap, though.
[* both pockets]
Something that leaves a bad taste in a Fly’s mouth must be really nasty!
Catfood
Tuna
The Empire Strikes Back: Darth Vader reveals it was Obi Wan who killed Luke’s father.
Y’know, it did kinda work out that way….
Fly, I’m voting for Marko – providing I don’t get moderated first. (Geesh, I try to be moderate and still get moderated for being apparently immoderate for reasons I don’t understand. Basil know’s I’ve tried to map out this crazy filter. Maybe it’s because the WordPress filter thinks I’m just a piece of spam. Do I sound like spam, Frank? Don’t answer that!!)
Well, actually most all of those that ruled on Davis’s appeals rejected them on technical grounds and not the ‘facts’ of the case. One DID hear the facts, but ruled that seven out of the nine eyewitnesses recanting wasn’t significate enough(!?!) to have effected the outcome…
Doesn’t appear that many people felt the white supremacist not guilty…
People have short term memories. Besides, some people that will vote in the coming election were just coming out of Junior High back when Bush was President. The Blame Bush thing could only work so long…
80% of new jobs may well have gone to immigrants in Texas, but Texas is full of immigrants and at least in Texas there were new jobs to get…
That Ron Paul would put Kucinich on his cabinet should shock no one. If he were to declare Al Gore to be his running mate would only raise one of my eyebrows…
Watch for a new app from Gore for your iPhone coming soon… (Say, he didn’t invent that too did he? I’ve alway had the feeling that Steve Jobs was fronting for someone…)
For some reason none of those spoilers rings a bell. But that could be because I didn’t see them in the first place. No harm no foul… Besides, you could be lying for all I know.
I’m stealing that Wisdom of the day quote…
What’s the best way to put “Bouncer at an IHOP” on a credit app? Franchise Security Manager perhaps?
I don’t know which was worse, Obama bowing to foreign leaders, or him backhanding them during photo ops. Maybe he should stick with golf. Not sure when Dennis Kucinich became a shelf nic nac. Ron Paul must have a very large cabinet.
I’d be willing to bet that Al Gore lacks the basic skills to even operate an i-phone. I did hear that internet thingy he invented is starting to catch on though.
Isn’t tuna made from spam? Or is that just ron paul’s campaign? Neither of them are electable.
They need a bouncer at an IHOP? Is there a bacon shortage no one is telling me about?
Quoth Uncle Billy Sherman, Jimmy: “If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.”
Jimmy – If your comment isn’t moderated, it’s not worth a warm bucket of spit! Hey, did anyone notice that Obama is a tool?
You mean like the one you collected from Hillary’s chew spittle? I think my moderated comment was worth at least a warm bucket of spam, however.
Marko, you’ve been very quiet. Don’t do that again.
DEBATE SPOILER:Tonight , by applauding wildly in favor of Lyme disease and/or
the Iranian nuclear program,
Ron Paul’s supporters will embarass the GOP.
Lucky for me, Marko’s not running, Jimmy, but he seems like a stand up guy who might give a commie’s butt for the presidency. So, I’ll give you two. And a half. That’s 5 cheeks total.
That’s true, DamnCat. To put it in terms you’d understand, Ernie Paul’s decision lies somewhere between the taste of your butt and commie butt.
It is a wonder I don’t get moderated.
DEBATE SPOILER: At the end, Huntsman announces his quest for the
Democrat nomination.
Hey Al, the State called 34 witnesses in the Davis trial not 9. Only 2 of the “recantations” recanted anything of value and Davis’s own lawyers refused to call these 2 witnesses. All this information is readily available in Ann Coulter’s article this week.
DEBATE QUESTION: Who is Gary Johnson? Why is he there? And, when will he leave?
Gary Johnson was the first guy to officially announce his run for the Republican nomination.
He lifted his line about his neighbors dog producing more ‘shovel ready jobs’ than Obama from something Rush said on his radio show today, but it Did get a good laugh.
Shame about McCotter dropping out of the race.
Like Pawlenty, he immediately endorsed Romney, so that means Romney is the preferred candidate of losers?
The trick question at the end of the debate – Which other candidate would you pick as your VP? – was very revealing.
Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain got the most votes for VP, which means the other candidates secretly think they’re probably more qualified to be president than they are.
Gingrich/Cain or Cain/Gingrich 2012! (they can hammer out the details later)
Frank: You left out some famous spoilers: Old Yeller saves Timmy from the well.
When Harry Met Sally – Sally is a robot from the future (“I’ll have what she’s having- an oil change and a lube job!”)
Braveheart – William Wallace founds first “Blue Man Group”.
and Moby Dick – Captain Ahab sends Twitter pictures of the object of his obsession…
It seems to me the “left” wouldn’t have too awful much trouble finding dumb-looking photos of Dubya.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1080&bih=545&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=george+bush+dumb
Of course you’d have to ask Jon Stewart if you want an expert’s opinion.
Reagan would be harder, Lincoln would b really really hard.
I’m working on my memoirs, Jimmy.
Note: No, I’m not.
Terry, they called nine EYEWITNESSES (every trail has multipals of witnesses, some for no other reason than to say the victim was who the victim was and some to say the cause of death and such. Most witnesses are called to establish the significance of other witnesses. That’s the nature of a trial). Out of those nine eyewitnesses seven recanted.
Why is it the handle Jack Death causes the person using to go into complete and total mental melt down? I remember a guy using the handle Jack Death on a site called Newsvine…same sort of mental disfunction.