* Democrats insinuate that taxing the rich helps the economy, but they never explain how that would work. But I do in my new New York Post column using the Goose Face Punch Theory. I expect to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for this.
“See, that’s what our struggling country needs right now: the suffering of rich people. Seeing their sadness will get our country back to work, and we’ll have a new economy where all boats are lifted on a tide made of rich people’s tears.”
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* Republicans caved or something over the $40 tax cut so it will only be for two months for now instead of a whole year. That Obama was making a big deal of this is further evidence he’s much more interested in political maneuverings to get himself reelected than anything that might actually help the economy. And if you needed further proof of that, please punch yourself in the face.
* If you’re interested in Ron Paul, The New Republic has excerpts from his newsletter. Some fun, totally not crazy reading about minorities, gays, and where did AIDS really come from!
When is someone going to tell Willem Dafoe that his role in Spiderman is over and he can stop being a scary goblin now?
* Boise State won last night 56-24 over Arizona State. Not exactly an exciting match up, but that’s the BCS. It’s not about how well you play football, it’s about how profitable do they think the bowl will be.
The Senior class ends with a 50-3 record (quarterback Kellen Moore having played all 53). They never once trailed at halftime, and the three losses were two one point losses to TCU and an overtime loss to Nevada. Maybe they’ll get some more respect when they move to the Big East, but I won’t hold my breath.
* And I think I’m done for the year, dudes. I might have a column up over the next week to mention, but I won’t be back to regular blogging until it’s 2012 — the Presidential Election Year! Exciting!
So have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, ronin!
* Man, I am about done with politics for the year? How about you?
* Let’s just say it again because it can’t be emphasized enough: Ron Paul is an unelectable nut, and if you don’t understand that, you’re a crazy person. Do we really have to bring up the racist newsletters written in his name (racists and anti-Semites love Ron Paul and he seems quite keen not to discourage them… along with truthers)? CNN brought them up, and Ron Paul’s reaction? Run away!
And then there is that blame America first impulse that has no place in the Republican Party. For instance, his instinct was to proclaim Wikileaks traitor Bradley Manning as a hero.
And if you don’t understand that, you have no place in politics.
Still, I kind of hope he wins Iowa so we can’t once again make fun of how stupid and pointless these early primary states are.
* New poll actually shows Romney leading in Iowa, and he’s spent nearly no time there. The guy has good organization. I find I’m slowly starting to think to myself, “This Romney guy is actually pretty good.” It’s like the end of the book 1984. “I love Big Brother!” If you can’t change things, might as well take the bullet to the brain and embrace them.
* Newt Gingrich told a gay person that if your number one issue is gay marriage, he’s probably not the candidate for you. And this is news? Well, other outlets portrayed it as, “Newt tells gay people don’t vote for him!” I guess you don’t need basic comprehension to be a journalist (technically, I’m a journalist). Would have been nice for Newt to remind the guy that Obama is “against” gay marriage too… or at least too much of a pandering coward to pretend otherwise.
* North Korea is saying they got condolences from Jimmy Carter for the passing of Kim Jong Il, and Jimmy Carter has not said otherwise. I know it’s unprecedented, but can we deport an ex-president? He doesn’t even seem to like this country, so he might actually want that. Maybe Norway will take him; they did give him a peace prize.
* Complex molecules have been found on Pluto. This would be a really interesting discovery… if it were found on a planet. But since it was found on Pluto — that nothing rock floating somewhere — who cares?
“There are no stupid questions.” – someone who’s never watched a movie with my mom
* Tonight in the MAACO Bowl, 7th ranked Boise State (11-1) plays nothing ranked Arizona State (6-6) who fired their coach. Yay the BCS system and the awesome bowl match ups it produces! Boise State is moving their football program to the Big East (Idaho is East of some things) which is currently an automatic qualifier in the BCS, but that will probably be stripped soon. Well, half the fun of rooting for BSU is seeing them try but never get the respect they deserve. Underdogs!
* 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.
* A poll shows that most Americans don’t think candidates from either party will do a good job as president. I think this is a step in the right direction. Usually in politics, we say one guy is great and the other guy is bad and the they’ll say their guy is great and our guy is bad. But can’t we compromise and agree they’re all awful? Treating all politicians with contempt is the first steps towards a smaller government, because when you hate and distrust them all, you realize how imperative it is to give them as little power as possible.
* Q. What do you call someone who thinks it’s a bad idea to sell guns to Mexican drug cartels? A. A racist.
I think it’s safe to say that racism has replaced patriotism as the most popular last refuge of a scoundrel. But really, what does Holder have left? This Fast & Furious thing is so awful to the point of being cartoonish. Unless he wants to do the right thing and resign in disgrace, what’s he got left other than to throw any charge he can think of out there? Certainly not dignity.
* New one from Biden: “Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.” They’re just sort of tyrannical, backwards, violent people we’ve been fighting for the last decade, but no one should take that as meaning we don’t like them and don’t want to be friends.
* Apparently a couple people have used these things called “neti pots” and died from brain eating amoebas. To which my reaction is: THAT’S A THING?!!
Yes, apparently there are brain eating amoebas (well, they’re not technically “amoebas”) that just sit around in bodies of water waiting to get in through your nose and eat your brain. And if that happens, there’s a 98% mortality rate. It just rarely happens (it needs to be heated water), but apparently a neti pot can help if you use tap water because lots of tap water has BRAIN EATING AMOEBAS!
Somewhere near you right now is a body of water with little amoebas resting in it saying, “Brains! Brains!” WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS?!
* Here’s a new one for my argument that atheism isn’t so much anti-religion as just itself an ill-defined and flighty religion. It’s from the New York Times arguing you can be good without God — and sure, you can do good things but the question is always “why” and once again I’m frustrated with how illogical the arguments are for that. She lists a number of moral judgments she says are “obviously true” but never expounds on why they’re obviously true — other than they feel really wrong. She doesn’t even attempt to make a logical argument. A lot of people feel homosexuality is wrong… so is that obviously immoral too or what sort of consensus do we need?
And what if you’re a sociopath and have no natural feelings of right or wrong — are you then not bound by morality? (this is something I explore in one of the novels I’m working on) To give it a more concrete case, let’s say you’re a sociopath who runs a country — like North Korea — and get a lot of benefit from the “obviously bad” things the author lists such as torture and slavery. Can you make a logical argument to this person not to be awful to people to his own benefit? Society sure didn’t stop Kim Jong Il, so I guess he had nothing to worry about.
The author of the piece objects to nihilist atheists because… I guess that just feels wrong again. But the nihilist seem to me more honest and more like they actually tried to logically think through their philosophy. To me, it seems clear the author believe in some sort of divinity to the drive to do good — that’s it’s not just some mindless directive from evolution — but for some reason she wants to leave her god ill-defined and unexamined and just uses lots of verbiage to dance around that fact.
* Apparently Harry Reid has been stealing ideas from Sunny:
Harry Reid, what a one man conviction of how awful our concept of government is in that we have people like him making decisions that actually affect other people.
* Wisdom of the Day: “It’s ‘New Year’s EVE,’ not ‘New Year’s STEVE.'” –Bill Corbett
* New Dark Knight trailer!
Looks like it gets political. Apparently Catwoman is a member of the Occupy movement. Ace has some commentary on what he considers the heavy-handed messaging in Nolan’s Batman films, to which I respond that Ace is a dumb stoopid and these movies are awesome. And if you’ve seen the Dark Knight, you have to agree I have the more reasoned argument.
* Kim Jong Il is dead… or so reports the North Korean media in the one time we’re inclined to believe them.
The atrocities committed in North Korea on daily basis are a little too much for a humor blog to mention, and as Jonah Goldberg pointed out, I wonder what history will think of us for just standing around and letting it happen. All us non-barbaric people of the world could get together and do something… but it would be hard and people would die and there would be protests. You have two things you can focus on in life: To try and do good or to try and avoid evil. Right now, we’re kinda set in the latter. Trying to do good just causes problems, so better not try at all.
So some other insane sociopath is likely to take over North Korea, but these cults of personality always fade with each generation so who knows if he’ll keep it. And a military conflict is always a nice distraction for someone trying to hold power, so we have to watch for that.
Still, I’d like to think an evil dictator dying is a good thing. You can use all sorts of atrocities to bitterly cling to power for your short, measly life, but it all ends one day and it ends forever.
* Ron Paul is ahead in Iowa. The advantage of him winning that state is it would be as clear a statement as any of how irrelevant Iowa is and that we need to stop paying the Iowa caucus so much attention. Where do we even get these early primary states?
So, if it were between Obama and Ron Paul, who would you vote for? I’m leaning Obama there; he’s a known entity and can at least be bullied into doing what’s right. Ron Paul would just stand back while nukes are launched at us and say, “We had this coming for abandoning the gold standard!”
Anyway, expect the gloves to come off if Ron Paul wins Iowa. I don’t know what they’ll dredge up, though; other than the anti-Semitism, racist newsletters published under his name, trutherism, and “blame America first” foreign policy, the guy is pretty clean. Plus, he has some good ideas on the Fed.
* The House GOP aren’t cottoning to the payroll tax cut extension the Senate approved. The GOP won’t be satisfied until they get all their demands… plus more demands they haven’t even thought of yet. Expect Obama to look all resolute and then capitulate. The thing to remember about Obama is that he’s much more scared of you than you are of him. Much much more scared.
Of course, I haven’t been to a circus since I was five or even thought of going to one since then. They seem more of something one would go to for entertainment in the 1920s. Kids these days have things like Call of Duty video games to entertain them. If there are any exotic animals, they’ll be emptying an M-16 mag into it.
* “Osama Bin Laden, Moammar Qaddaffi, Kim Jong Il… 2012 is looking like a major rebuilding year for evil.” –Jim Geraghty
* BTW, if you’re looking for more Christmas gifts, you can send a gift Kindle book to people. It’s sent to their email, and then they can put it under any Kindle account they want (or just read it in the cloud reader if they don’t have a Kindle or a smart phone or an iPad or one of the many other things you can read Kindle books on). And I know a great book to gift…
* I have a new New York Post column and in it I argue we shouldn’t worry about a potential cellphone ban and just feel lucky we’re allowed to drive at all. I make a pretty good argument cars would not be approved for general use if they weren’t invented until today and are basically a grandfathered freedom of a different time.
“So you’re proposing that people speed around in tons of metal? You must mean only really smart, well-trained people?”
“No. Everyone. Even stupid people.”
“Won’t millions be killed?”
“Oh, no. Not that many. Just a little more than 40,000 a year.”
* So, another Republican debate last night — the last of the year. Newt Gingrich got beat up a lot (while having some good answers like his condemnation of Obama on delaying the Keystone pipeline) and the FOX News commentators did put Ron Paul’s full crazy and “blame America first” foreign policy ideas on full display for Iowa. The main thing, though, was that Romney did well. Really well. Like he had so many good sounding answers — including great attacks on Obama — that I wanted to forget how much I don’t like him. With Gingrich fading, we might want to think of embracing the inevitable and learning to be like Romney. He’s not so bad. He’s like shape-shifting robot, but if he’s on our side, that’s kinda cool.
So, I think we can like Romney if we try hard and just not think about a few things. And we also will need to be prepared for lots of talk about “magic underwear” in the general election.
* By the way, Mitt Romney has picked up the endorsement of Nikki Haley. There’s some talk of her being a VP nominee, and she would be a twofer — a woman and a minority. Of course, she’s not a popular minority like black or Hispanic — she a minority minority from a group that doesn’t have a large voting block.
Oh, don’t tell me you’re above affirmative action in picking candidates. We’re not pushing out the best man for the job in favor of a minority or a woman as there is no best man for the job — they’re all politicians.
* Christopher Hitchens has died. He was a great and quite cantankerous writer. He was also a famous atheist and will now find have found out whether he was wrong or… nothing.
* Wisdom of the Day: “Finally told my parents they’re gay!” –Megan Amram
* This morning I started work on my next book for HarperCollins. Thanks to the sales of Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything, I was asked to write another book. This one will be on my solutions for all the problems facing America. Hopefully it will start a movement when it comes out with me as leader.
It’s like people were drunk with the idea of a fun Newt Gingrich nomination and now they’ve began to sober up and say, “Maybe this isn’t the smartest idea.” Gingrich is like an unstable substance that’s bound to explode, and the only question is where. We’d like him to blow up our enemies, but he’s just as likely to explode in our faces.
So that leaves Romney, the perennial second choice. The thing is, when people’s first choice flames out, they don’t move Romney up, they just find another first choice. But maybe people are out of alternate first choices now.
* I’ve head some rumblings about Jeb Bush jumping in the race. That would be last minute, but Republicans are looking for a hero to swoop in and save them and I don’t think they’re too picky about who. When the situation is really dire, you feel lucky if even Aquaman shows up to help.
* MSNBC accused Romney of using a KKK slogan. Except he never really used it (and I haven’t actually seen proof it was a KKK slogan). Here’s the man bites dog angle to the story: MSNBC actually apologized. Is it really a good idea for MSNBC to now apologize for mindless Republican bashing? That will cause their channel to be half-Republican bashing and half-apologies.
* And Romney isn’t getting much help from FOX News either. Here is a graphic from FOX News of the Republican candidates, and they used Obama’s picture for Romney. A subtle commentary? Who knows. Maybe next time they could replace Ron Paul’s picture with Jack Kevorkian’s.
* Obama and the Democrats have dropped the demand for raising taxes on the wealthy. They really wanted that because… I’m not sure. They never seemed to care before at having a deficit, and they can’t even make an argument how higher taxes would help the economy. It’s just kind of a suicidal devotion to class warfare. I would like to not have to care about Democrats driving a car off a cliff, but we’re always trapped in the back seat.
* Obama is trying to collect your email address. He’s asked the few dimwits who still listen to him to turn in emails of Republicans so he can then pester them or something. And maybe also he’ll want Republicans’ favorite blogs so he can troll in the comments. Isn’t it really enough he’s destroying the economy; does he really have to personally annoy each and every one of us too? Someone needs to get the guy a hobby. What’s something even stupid, useless people can do?
Remember his whole, “My stimulus will keep unemployment from going above 8%!” Yep, no idea what he was talking about. Is he going to claim he understand things now? Does he have any actions to prove that? No, just more spending proposals… the same as when he claims he was clueless.
We should really just give the guy a bright red ball to play with until we get the next president.
* Canada has pulled out of the Kyoto Treaty. I thought they were supposed to be our moral superiors? But now that we have a European country leaving the Kyoto Treaty, maybe we can give up on this carbon nonsense for a little while as we work on economic recovery.
And if baby polar bears die because of it, that will only make me all the happier.
* Time Magazine has named protesters the Person of the Year. I guess it’s for the Muslim protests that have been toppling governments and the Occupy movement’s weak, dimwitted imitation of those movements (“I’m going camp out here in front of this bank until… something…”).
It’s sort of a cop out, though, when Time magazine doesn’t name an actual person as the person of the year. Who do you think was the person of the year?
Who was it that made Angry Birds?
* The National Transportation Safety Board has requested that drivers be banned from using cellphones. If we want to make driving safer, why don’t we just ban teenagers from having cars? I certainly don’t see the need for teenagers to go anywhere, and would rather they stay home. I also would rather those Occupy people not drive. How about no car until you show you’re responsible enough to hold down a job?
Come on; he keeps saying he wants to make jobs, and there are jobs right there in the pipeline. Tons of them. He’s just too afraid of environmentalists whining. Well, here’s another job idea: Stuffing environmentalists in metal crates and throwing them in the sea.
Eh, it would probably be cheapest to pay illegal Mexicans to do that.
* Here’s an NBC news panel discussing how our country and its democracy is just a stumbling block in the way of Obama’s greatness. Didn’t I write a column on that…
* Oh, I forgot how I promised HIGH PRAISE to who had a good news quip. Well, I give it to myself for having to read them. None of them were very good. Try harder next time. I really need to start doing some humor seminars to teach people to be clever like me. How much do you think you’d pay for that? A thousand? Ten thousand? It would be worth a hundred thousand.
* Harry Reid said “Millionaire job creators are like unicorns. They are impossible to find and don’t exist.” Yes, new wisdom from the guy who once said taxes are voluntary.
Do you get the idea that Democrats understand how jobs are created about as well as a four-year-old understands where babies come from?
* In more news of Democrats dealing well with reality, Debbie Wasserman Schultz went on FOX News to deny that unemployment went up under Obama’s presidency. We should make a deal with the Democrats: They can be undisputed dictators of the world they live in as long as the right gets to be in charge of reality.
* Sometimes it seem like we on the right are losing, but we’re winning in more ways than we sometimes realize. A while ago I showed a graph of opinion on whether handguns should be legal that showed a continuous uptick over the past fifty years, and now Gallup has a graph on opinions about big government since 1965. You may notice a pattern there too.
“We’ve looked into the eyes of the American people, and we nothing but despair. There’s not a trace of hope left; no one even imagines a better future. So things are really looking up for Obama’s reelection.”
* Some people are thinking Chicago should secede and form its own state. Not Chicago, though — other people in Illinois. Never thought of secession as a way to sort of cut out a cancer, but if you have all the problems in your state congregated into one city, it’s an idea. If this idea catches on, we could have a lot more livable states along with isolated forbidden zones.
* Wisdom of the Day: “N Korea warns of ‘unexpected consequences’ if Christmas lights displayed near DMZ. Like what? Kim Jong Il’s heart growing three sizes?” –Fred Thompson
* Bad lip-reading of Rick Perry’s controversial ad:
* There was another Republican debate Saturday. I didn’t watch it.
* Still, I feel like I should say something about it. Apparently Romney went after Newt for calling the Palestinians an “invented people”. Oh yeah, that’s how you make traction in a Republican primary: defend the Palestinians. That’s almost a Huntsman level move.
* Obama was on 60 Minutes making the case for his reelection. Here’s what he said.
“You’re all aware of how petty and petulant I am. Well think of how I’ll be from November 7th, 2012, until January 20th, 2013, if I know the American people voted me out of office. Think of all the destruction I can do in that time period. Really, you’re going to tell me I’m fired but leave me in office for months with access to nukes? Just think about that for a second. Not a good idea.”
It’s a pretty good argument.
* Some people are starting to wonder if with Occupy Wall Street whether it’s going to be 1968 for the Democrat National Convention all over again. Democrats need to learn: Never encourage hippies, even if you think there is a short term gain. As soon as you see a hippie, you punch a hippie. Otherwise they spread like mold and spoil everything.
* Occupy is blocking ports today. Yay, interrupting business! So is the Occupy movement’s complaint that they don’t have jobs or that other people have them?
Of course, they’re doing this all to inconvenience the “1 percent” while causing lower class people to lose a day’s wage. People just never figure out that you can’t inconvenience the rich without decimating the poor. But I guess it’s for “fairness”.
* Iran is still taunting us with their captured drone. It’s so heartbreaking; it’s like holding a dog hostage and abusing it. It just doesn’t understand what’s happening to it.
There are fears that the Iranians may be able to reverse engineer the drone. There was some of the same fears when the Palestinians captured a drone, but they were unable to replicate the design using rocks and twigs.
* Oh no. I made fun of the Palestinians. I bet my Republicans readers will leave me.
* Scientists think they’re close to finding the Higgs boson. When they find it, worst case is the world will be destroyed in a black hole. But it’s worth the risk because if we aren’t destroyed and find the Higgs boson… something. I’m not really sure what. Maybe we all get free ice cream.
Oh, we get a better understanding of the relation of matter and energy. Oh, that’s ::yawn:: that’s super. Will this in any way lead to dinosaurs with rocket launchers on them? No?
Useless scientists…
* Wisdom of the Day: “Rick Perry says he’s not ashamed to admit he’s Christian. He credits all his success to the Father, Son, and the uh…there’s a third one.” –MancowMuller
* Here’s another video from The House of Sunny:
So Obama doesn’t seem to think free markets work and that’s why he has to intervene — even though he has about as much business knowledge as he does humility? I thought the Constitution was supposed to keep people like him from messing with our stuff and our businesses; whatever happened to that?
* Hitting a wall this morning. Just can’t think of anything I feel like commenting on. I haven’t said anything about Corzine and Blago, but hugely corrupt Democrats just seems like old hat. So what do you guys feel like commenting on? Pick a news item and say something witty about it in the comments. Person who has the best line wins…
…wait for it…
HIGH PRAISE!
Keep it pithy.
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* Here’s a new video from Crowder. I cannot understand a word he says:
* Wisdom of the Day: “First George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, about the failure of Soviet ideology, then he wrote Animal House, about his rowdy college days.” –Michael Kupperman
Dude. He’s almost won the IMAO endorsement right there.
Think about it: The ‘stache unleashed on all the world. Countries will fear us again. Almost as much as if we had space lasers.
Though I still want America to have space lasers. Promise that we’ll build space lasers to fry our enemies from space, Newt, and you’ll get the IMAO endorsement.
* In Obama news, Obama is still president and he’s not very good at it. I really think we have to do something about it, but I hear we’re not planning to until next year.
* Hey, what do you call it when a guy shoots up a military base while screaming, “Allahu Akbar!”? Answer: Workplace violence. And I guess 9/11 was some sort of inter-office dispute. Know what I really like about this administration? How they take murderous Islamists seriously.
* Memos show that ATF officials were planning to use Fast & Furious — where they sold gun to Mexican drug cartels — as an argument for more gun control. It certainly does help one make a good argument that the federal government shouldn’t be allowed access to guns.
* Johnny Hawkins of Right Wing News has a survey of right-leaning bloggers on the Republican primary. I’m one of the two people who voted for Huntsman as his first choice. I don’t know why I did that. I guess I felt like being whimsical. This primary has been kind of weird: I kind of like all our candidates, but at the same time I kind of really don’t like all of them.
* Rick Perry’s favorite blog: Hot Gas. If only we could get him to name drop the LMBO blog and it’s “Blow Up Mars” initiative.
* Wisdom of the Day: “If no one ever mocks you for being a Christian, you’re doing it wrong.” –Joe Carter
* You know the myth about the Mythbusters show being safe to surrounding neighborhoods? Myth busted. Along with a house.
By the way, Mythbusters is one of the favorite conservative shows. I thought they were anti-science? I guess the right don’t like science where you just have to trust what someone is theorizing but instead like science that can actually be demonstrated. And explosions.
* So Obama gave this big populist speech yesterday, which got me thinking: How can Obama give a populist speech when he is so unpopular? Wouldn’t a populist speech be something like, “I really suck; I should be thrown out of office.”?
And what’s Obama doing complaining about how unfair things are after he’s been the one who has been in charge for the past three years? It’s like Obama’s rhetoric is stuck in a ditch and the Republicans are just sitting on the sidelines drinking Slurpees.
Yes, new tech does obsolete some jobs, but it also creates many more jobs around the tech… or it would if you didn’t have an idiot in charge constantly poisoning the economy.
* I have to be careful, though; the RNC is warning people not to attack Obama too much. He may be the most horrible president in my lifetime (and I was born under the Carter administration), but that’s no reason to hurt his feelings. In fact, I think we should all come together and make the nicest, grandest participation trophy ever to give Obama when he leaves office. You sure tried hard, champ, and it was hilarious to watch.
* John Huntsman is now acting more agnostic about global warming. It’s like in the past few weeks he’s suddenly realized he’s in a Republican primary. I hear a lot people say how smart Huntsman is supposed to be, but he seems a little slow on the uptake.
* The U.S. is now going to use foreign aid to promote gay rights. So are they going to tell Saudi Arabia to be nicer to gays, or are they only going to make that ultimatum to countries that need food?
How about a general edict that countries shouldn’t murder their own citizens? Or is that too imperialist?
* Wisdom of the Day: “‘This isn’t about class warfare’ is what politicians say to you before they give you something to bite down on to handle the pain.” –Jonah Goldberg
* The .xxx domains are now available. I haven’t checked yet whether is an IMAO.xxx; I’m sort of afraid to. I wasn’t quick enough to snatch up IMAO.com when the Korean handle manufacturer dropped it, so maybe I should be on the ball this time and get IMAO.xxx before someone else does. We don’t need things so pure and innocent as nuking the moon and dinosaurs with rocket launchers on them be soiled by smut.
I have a new column at PJ Media. Is Obama a great president and we’re just a lousy country?
“It’s not really that radical a question. I mean, look at him: He’s a bright, Harvard-educated man who’s not only been to other countries but has actually lived in them — he knows cultures and viewpoints beyond the narrow ones we have here. And he surrounds himself with the greatest minds on earth. And who are we, compared to him? We’re a bunch of slobs, really. Kind of ignorant. Maybe a little racist. And we surround ourselves with bowls of flavored corn chips. But the country’s problems are supposed to be his fault? Does that make sense?”
* Obama is going on a nice long vacation to Hawaii. All that being useless and a failure is apparently very tiring and he needs a break.
Most Americans can’t afford a vacation to Hawaii right now, but we can even less afford Obama not taking a vacation because all he does is meddle and ruin things when he’s on the job. Everyone in Hawaii be nice to him; convince him to stay there.
* Ron Paul says he’s “the flavor of the decade”. I don’t know exactly what ice cream flavor that would be, but it would certainly have lots of nuts in it.
* Apparently there is some Supreme Court case where a guy went up and touched Dick Cheney and the Secret Service arrested him. Shouldn’t that guy just feel super lucky he didn’t get a shotgun to the face and not press this any further. Know what? I hear Cheney has his own private Gitmo where he waterboards hippies. Or maybe just forces them to take baths. They probably don’t know the difference.
* Apparently there’s lot of pedophiles in Hollywood. This doesn’t seem as bad as the Catholic Church scandal, though, because you kind of expect to find it in Hollywood. When people hear about pedophiles in a church, that’s an outrage. When people hear about pedophiles in Hollywood, it’s more of a shrug and, “Yeah, I can see that.” Remember: This is a place that keeps having Michael Bay make Transformer movies. There’s nothing too depraved for them.
* The puppy blender has a great idea: Make colleges cosign student loans. Right now, the government guarantees loans so colleges don’t have to worry about selling a worthless product (and can keep raising prices for it as its value goes down). But if colleges are on the hook for the money, they won’t be able to churn out a bunch of unskilled grads like you see in the Occupy movement without going bankrupt. Boom, man, that will be some fiscal reality landing on college campuses. College campuses have always tried to be a sanctuary from reality, but it’s high time we break that up.
* Did you know Boise has an Occupy movement? I live here, and I didn’t know. Probably not that big.
“1% of the people eat 40% of the delicious potatoes!”
* Wisdom of the Day: “‘First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then you are ahead of Romney.’ – Gandhi on GOP primaries.” –pourmecoffee
* Johnny Hawkins of Right Wing News has endorsed Newt Gingrich in the primary. So is Gingrich really the conservative, Tea Party choice now? I had already written him off because of him being extremely unhelpful about the Paul Ryan plan, but he does have a lot of accomplishments (which is unusual for a legislator). We often get candidates who talk conservative and then act left-leaning, so maybe Gingrich is the opposite as he has a number of dumb statements but plenty of conservative actions.
Do you think IMAO should do an endorsement? Or should we retain an air of neutrality? I don’t want people not trusting IMAO.
* I was on the Teri O’Brien show Sunday. You can listen to it here. I’m on about forty minutes in.
* So there was another debate-ish thing Saturday night, a forum hosted by Huckabee where he talked individually with all the candidates. Only caught a little of it (I was watching football like a proper American), but nothing really stuck out. I did like Ron Paul’s answer on how terrorism can be prevented by states having individual laws against violence. What a genius thinker. You know he’ll protect us.
* Huntsman wasn’t at the forum. Apparently, he’s focused just on New Hampshire and said that wouldn’t have helped him there, but you have to wonder about someone so far behind in the polls not looking to get more exposure. And the thing is, I think Huntsman sort of has a shot now. There’s only one other not-Romney left, Newt Gingrich (Ron Paul doesn’t because he’s a nut), and people are already getting a little worried about Newt because we just know he’s going to flame out at some point in a spectacular fashion. He’s a ticking time bomb, people; a bunch of arrogance packed tightly together and waiting to explode. So anyway, I think people are ready to take a look at Huntsman (who does have a great resume), and he did do reasonably well in the last debate. If he can just work on not coming off as a jerk or an awkward alien being trying to emulate the human concept of humor, he might get some consideration. Then it will be between him and Romney for who is the better Mormon candidate. Won’t that be fun.
* BTW, I saw that someone on IMAO was Ron Paul baiting. This will not stand. I will look into the incident.
* So Cain has suspended his campaign. I just want to shake my head. I had so much hope for him, but that’s why you don’t rely on hope in a presidential campaign. Well, we’ll never look at the number “999” the same way again.
* There’s some talk Cain may endorse Newt Gingrich. Newt would probably have a bit to gain from that. His goal from now until the primary election is to sound smart and not implode. And then if he wins the nomination, even more he’ll need to keep himself from imploding until after November 2012. After that, he can crazy away for all I care. He’d have earned it.
* I’m getting tired of the “personal appeals” at the top of every Wikipedia page. Just put a couple ads on the site; you’d make way more than you’d ever would from donations. Youc could even try to work the ads into the articles so they’d be unobtrusive.
“The chupacabra is a legendary cryptid, and thus not a real animal… certainly not as real as the savings you can get from GEICO on car insurance.”
* Wisdom of the Day: “‘Thor’ begins with Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings as astrophysicists. Then the action shifts to Asgard for a more realistic turn.” –Joshua Treviño
* Well, with an 11-1 record, Boise State has finished the season ranked 7th, and get to play… 6-6 Arizona State in The Nothing Worthless Bowl (in Las Vegas!). Why did much worse teams get the at large bids to be in the BCS bowls? Because they have lots of fans who travel well, the BCS explained. Sounds good as long as we’re not pretending the BCS has anything to do with a team’s ability to play football. I just sustain myself with the belief that someday, in some reality, the people behind the BCS will answer for their crimes.
Anyway, we get to see LSU and Alabama play again, and I say if it goes another four quarters with no touchdowns, it should be recorded as a loss for both teams.
