THERE IS WHAT ALL OVER THE LAWN?
There seems to be a problem with global warming.
NUCLEAR OR NUCULAR?
Remember how stupid Dan Quayle was because he couldn’t spell potato? It was an iconic episode in American politics. The media was relentless in demonstrating how the inability to spell a simple word was proof enough that Quayle lacked the gravitas to hold the office of Vice President. The truth behind the story was that Quayle was handed a list of spelling words prepared by the teacher with the word potato misspelled with an e at the end. As candidates are wont to do on the campaign trail, he didn’t pay to much attention to what was being said. However, the “gotcha” moment was to good to filter with the truth.
Remember how George W. Bush said “nucular” instead of nuclear? It was the clarion call for the attack media and entertainment leftists. “See!”, they shouted. “He can’t even pronounce the word correctly.” Careers were launched and saved by using the “mock Bush strategery”. (Will Ferrell is the funniest.)
Remember when Obama was making a speech before a bunch of people from the military and kept referring to a Navy Corpsman as a “corpse-man”? You don’t? Heck, it just happend a few days ago. Haven’t you seen it all over the media? Oh, that’s right. It wasn’t all over the media. In fact, I’ve only seen it reported in once place. Here at National Review Online. You would think that with Obama’s very election to the presidency dependent, in part, upon his silver-tounged oratory, that a misstatement of this magnitude would be big news. But of course, this is Obama and the media is not going to turn on Obama. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me to see Brian Williams start referring to the “corpse-man shipping out overseas to fight the war.” After all, if Obama said it, it must be so. Maybe he should issue an executive order changing the official pronunciation of the word.
In Texas, they have a saying. “Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.” When it comes to Obama the media is pissing bias and claiming that it’s raining objectivity.
ASTONISHING CREATURES
This planet is filled with astonishing creatures. Among them are a variety of unique bats.
For example here is an example of the sucker-footed fruit bat. This species has feet that act as suction cups to allow it to climb almost any surface.
This is a left-winged dingbat. It’s most astonishing feature is the up-turned elitist nose and lack of foresight.
NEW OBAMA JOKES
America needs ObamaCare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.
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Q: Have you heard about McDonald’s new Obama Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.
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Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?
A: A fund raiser.
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Q: What’s the difference between Obama’s cabinet and a penitentiary?
A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers and threats to society. The
other is for housing prisoners.
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Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and
it
started to sink, who would be saved?
A: America !
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Q: What’s the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?
A: Bo has papers
Punxsutawney Phil Hates Global Warming
In a stunning blow against Osama bin Ladin and Al Gore’s fight to hold the western world accountable for global warming, Punxsutawney Phil declared six more weeks of winter during his annual prognosticating festival this week. The ground hog who, to date, has been more accurate at weather forecasting than all of the climate scientists at East Anglia University, saw his shadow on the snow-covered Gobbler’s Knob. The prediction dealt yet another setback to the embattled climate change community.
The series of recent revelations about estimated data, incomplete evidence, false research and outright lies being used as the basis for the IPCC’s reporting on global warming has done only a little damage to the global warming cause. Even with record cold temperatures, snow blizzards causing event cancellations and Osama bin Ladin jumping on the global warming bandwagon, the march continues towards a world wide solution to find a way to tax people when the temperature goes up..
Then comes Punxsutawney Phil. What does his prediction reveal? LaughAtLiberals sat down with Phil for an exclusive interview.
LAL:Phil, first the obvious question. Your prediction was for 6 more weeks of winter. What makes you think winter will continue, especially in light of the facts presented by Al Gore in an Inconvenient Truth?
PHIL: Well first of all I saw my shadow. I’m not bragging, but I’ve been pretty accurate for the last 100 years. As for Al Gore’s movie, I didn’t see it so I can’t comment, but I did see G-force and those gerbil chicks are hot!
LAL:Well Phil, Inconvenient Truth used some questionable data to propose that the earth’s temperature has risen dramatically in the last century and that man is the cause of what will be a devastating climate change if we don’t do something to stop it.
PHIL: Oh yeah, that was the one with Dennis Quaid in it with the kids in the library. Yeah, it was kind of stupid if you ask me. Look, everybody in the world knows that the sun has the most impact on our climate, followed by natural forces such as volcanoes, the oceans, plants and animals. What man can do to effect world wide climate is so far down the list, its kind of arrogant to assume that you humans can change the climate that dramatically, let alone fix it.
LAL: Well what about those who point to recent data showing that the temperature is rising?
PHIL: Well, actually, it’s not.
LAL: Well what if it is?
PHIL: Yeah, but it’s not.
LAL: Well lets just pretend it is.
PHIL: You mean like those scientist at East Anglia University?
LAL: Yes, I mean No. What I’m saying is, if the temperatures here on earth were warming wouldn’t that be a bad thing?
PHIL: Not really. Look. The earth has gone through these warming and cooling cycles before. I remember I ate a science book once that had a whole chapter
devoted to the Little Ice Age. Hello. Temps change. Nothing you can do about it and in fact, it may have a positive impact, allowing for longer growing seasons, more tillable soil, the spread of plant life.
LAL: So what you’re saying is that man-made global warming is a hoax?
PHIL: No. What I’m saying is there is absolutely no evidence at all that man is the sole cause of recent changes in temperature. There is also absolutely no evidence that there is anything that man can do to have any kind of an impact on changing it.
LAL: So we should just do nothing?
PHIL: No. There is nothing wrong with building things and using things that are more environmentally friendly. That’s a good idea and groundhogs like me appreciate it. But this idea of taxing people and business and countries for the carbon they produce sounds like a scam to me. I mean, I eat grass and clover. Do I need to borrow some carbon credits?
LAL: Good point, thanks Phil.
Happy Birthday Emory
I wanted to wish a happy birthday to my long time friend Emory Rowland. The reason I’m doing it here is that without Emory, Laugh at Liberals would not be. It was his effort, all those years ago, that launched our first Laugh At Liberals site and he has continued to play a key roll in it’s growth and development.
More important than that, though, is my long connection with Emory. I am 46 years old and I have known Emory since I was 15. I still hold a close place for him in my heart. We played in our first band together. It was just a high school band, but we were pretty good! I lived with Emory for a few weeks right after graduation then moved away from the small town where we met. We have only seen each other in person a few times since then, but we have always talked and remained close via phone and internet.
Emory has an amazing mind, a warped sense of humor and a huge heart. I am proud to call him my friend. Emory has always provided me with a reference point in my life. As you grow older it is good to have those people and places that focus your mind on who you are and where you’ve been. Knowing Emory and having him in my life, even it is only an email or a phone call now and then, gives me a sense of self. He’s part of my roots.
Happy Birthday Emory.
Love, Buck
Apple iPad: Could be a Game Changer.
I’ve been following the stories about the Apple iPad and with the release announcment now official I wanted to take a few minutes to comment on this technology and how it might effect the future.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE OFFICIAL APPLE IPAD WEB SITE
I am a real fan of Apple technology. I use a Mac every day and use it exclusively for web development, graphic design and video production. Mac has always been on the creative cutting edge. When the iPhone and subsequently the iTouch were released, I couldn’t help but think then that Apple’s next step would be a highly portable, but more functional unit that was similiar, but better than what those products offered. They have done exactly that with iPad.
I am convinced that the Apple iPad is the next step in the evolution of computer/human interface concepts. Cell phone technology has been improving rapidly, but let’s face it, the physical limitations that cell phone size presents to operator interface and data storage limits not only the audience for that technology, but how far it can be advanced. The Apple iPad has solved that problem by creating a book size device, with very intuitive interace, that anyone can use. I don’t text much on cell phones. My fingers are to big. My vision is to poor and for my types of usage, it just doesn’t quite hit the mark. My mom uses here cell phone just for calls for the same reasons. The Apple iPad’s size is probably it’s best asset. Small enough to be portable but big enough to usable, iPad will bring a lot of people “into the fold” when it comes to using this kind of technology.
The Apple ipad is about 10\
The newspaper business is dying. The internet and cable TV are killing it. It’s probably better to say that the newspaper business is having to convert into the content development business and the internet advertising business. People who still subscribe to a daily newspaper for home or office delivery, read it over breakfast, or after dinner in the easy chair, maybe on a break at work or in the train station during a commute, but millions of people have abandoned the historic interface between humans and the newspapers we read to access news and information easily and instantly via the internet and cable news. Now comes the iPad. It’s portability makes the breakfast table, the easy chair and even the morning commute a great place to read the newspaper again. However, instead dropping a quarter in a newspaper stand, you just touch your iPad link to your favorite newspaper.
The iPad is green technology too. Think of how many trees can be saved because instead of printing books or newspapers, you can just download them onto your iPad. Think of the savings in manufacturing.
It has long been the stuff of science fiction and science fact that computers would become easier to use. Instead of you having to get smarter to use the computer, which is the way it used to be, the computer is now getting smarter so it is easier for you to use. The Apple iPad is leading a giant leap forward in towards easier interface and more daily usage of technology by everyone.
HE SHO DO SPEAK GOOD, DON’T HE?
In as resounding smackdown to those who said Harry Reid is a racist, President Obama used his state of the union address to speak in a very “non-dialecty” kind of way, thus exonerating Reid’s unsavory comments regarding Obama’s skin color and speaking skills made earlier this month.
Now to the speech.
There can be no discounting Obama’s oratorical abilities. He can deliver a speech and while it was delivered well, I felt it was pretty uninspiring, at least until his closing remarks. The content of the speech, however, was the same argument we’ve been hearing for the last year. It was Bush’s fault, but government can fix it. He talked mightly of his faith in the resilience, tenacity and decency of the American people but offered little in the way of spelling out how his administration would get out of their way and let them rebuild the nation.
JOBS
He devoted most of his speech to jobs. It’s about time, but let’s take a look at some of what he said. At one point he said that there were roughly 2 million jobs now that would not have been here had it not been for the stimulus. He even mentioned 300,000 teachers and 200,000 firefighters and policemen as I recall. Well we already know this unprovable statement is somewhat in doubt and as for the teachers, policemen and firefighters, last time I checked it was your local taxes that paid those bills.
He talked about helping small business through various incentives, but then took it back when saying that taxes on “those who make over $250,000″ would be going up. A real jobs bill, which Obama called for, is what his administration and this congress should have been focusing on for the past 6 months. Instead, Obama and the Democrats were busy cutting deals and having secret meetings and 1:00am votes on health care reform.
HEALTH CARE
I hope the Republican party was inspired by Obama’s challenge to bring him a better idea. It’s time for the Republican party to issue its own health care reform plan in a format that people can understand and comprehend. Most sober thinking conservatives are all for reforming health care, but doing it in a common sense way, incrementally fixing components and testing new ideas. ObamaCare is pieced together mess. For example, a key component of paying for ObamaCare is using nearly a half billion dollars of “money that is going to waste and fraud” in the medicare system. Here’s an idea. Why not identify and eliminate the waste and fraud first? That should be a plank in the Republican health care platform, one that will help demonstrate how silly a proposition this has been all along. Here are some other ideas, Obama. How about tort reform? When an OB/GYN has to come up with $150,000 in just one year, just to pay malpractice insurance premiums, no wonder it costs so much to have a baby. That’s about $12,000 per month, $400 per day just for malpractice insurance because a lawsuit could cost $20 or $30 or even $100,000,000. How requiring all insurers to offer common sense plans for a variety of pocketbooks, in exchange for opening up competition for all insurers in every state. How about letting insurance premiums be tax deductable? What about working with states to strengthen existing public health clinics and offering incentives to doctors, nurses and hospitals to participate? There are a lot of great, conservative ideas out there that can make our health care system better. As a side note, I find it laughable that of the millions of people this health care overhaul is supposed to help, a huge percentage of them don’t really want to spend money on health-care because they just don’t need it.
THE SUPREME BACKHAND
It was rude to admonish the supreme court justices for their decision. It was also hypocritical for Obama, of all people, to bemoan the influence of special interest money in elections. This from the same guy agreed to take public funding, which would limit contributions, but changed his mind when the money started rolling in from….wait for it….
special interest, lobbyists and foreign countries. Politicians have balls. It was nice to see Justice Alito mouth the words “not true” right back at Obama. Good for him.
Obama’s state of the union address was nothing more than an attempt by Obama to pull himself out of the fray that is brewing in the 2010 election season. He blamed Bush for the problems and congress and banks and insurance companies and so on, and so on. The problem with the speech tonight was Obama has lost trust and he showed no signs of trying to earn it back….but he sho do speak good don’t he?
WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU: The Boston Tea Party All Over Again
The more I think about it, the more I am shocked and amazed at what Scott Brown, Senator Scot Brown, did in Massachusetts. It has been called a miracle, but I don’t that is fair to Scott Brown or the people who voted for him. No, what happened in Massachusetts is the beginning of a revolution, a revolution of the people of this country against tyranny of the elected class.
When a group of Massachusetts colonists, in December of 1773, dumped a shipload of tea into Boston Harbor, they did so to, once again, tell the British government that they were tired of being taxed and they were tired of being told what to do. That iconic act was another stepping stone towards the American Revolution. I think the people of Massachusetts have done it again. When you think about what Scott Brown did, objectively, you cannot dismiss the grass roots nature of his victory and the message it sends.
Consider the following.
1. Scott Brown had, until this election, only run and won for the Senate seat in the state legislature from his small district. Martha Coakley had been elected to statewide office, Attorney General, twice.
2. Scott Brown ran as a Republican in a state where only 12% of the register voters are Republicans. He won 53% of the vote.
3. Brown spent a little over a half million dollars, Coakley, over four times that amount.
4. Massachusetts hasn’t elected a Republican Senator in over 30 years.
5. Coakley was running to fill the seat of Teddy Kennedy. The Kennedy family had endorsed her.
6. Massachusetts has voted overwhelmingly Democrat in nearly every election in recent history.
In other words, Coakley had everything going her way and, under normal circumstances, should have won easily. That’s the problem with revolutions. They sneak up on the powerful when they least expect it.
There are two things driving this grass roots revolution. The first is people are fed up with the growing reach and power of the federal government. People, by their very nature, seek freedom. To be sure, some things need to be regulated, but to live is to want to live freely and our federal government has grown into a giant, freedom-supressing, machine. The second thing is a growing disdain for the elected class. People are tired of being told how to live and what to do by people who a.) have never been there and done that themselves and, b.) create separate rules for them to live by. Obama would be wise to recognize that all policy issues and government actions can be measured against these two gauges. Health care reform, as it is being presented by the Democrats, is an offensive, overreaching encroachment of federal government into private life. That’s how most people feel. Period. It is also a ham handed smack down by the elected class of the people who gave them power. Fortunately for Republicans, this is a Democrat led initiative.
Exit polling showed, overwhelmingly, that people voted for Barack Obama because they wanted a new direction for the economy, for jobs. Only 5% said they wanted health care reform on the massive scale that Obama has delivered. Just like those colonist all those years ago who said they were fed up of being told what tea they had to buy and that they would have to pay a tax on it too! It eventually led to revolution. There is only so much people can take.
What form this revolution will take is still a mystery. A smackdown of Democrats and a windfall for Republicans? The emergence of a third party? A tax-payer revolt? Civil unrest? Civil war? Who knows, but whatever direction this revolution takes, rest assured, it is underway. What Scott Brown did was give a voice to the same kind of people threw those crates of tea into the harbor. His election in Massachusetts was the Boston Tea Party all over again.
A DEMOCRAT THUG IN MASSACHUSETTS
You really need to see this video. A Weekly Standard reporter was following Massachusetts senatorial candidate Martha Coakley, Democrat, after a press conference and firing questions in her direction. As the video here shows, the reporter, John McCormack was shoved by a man and knocked over. After “helping him up”, the man then does his best to interfere and intimidate McCormack away from Coakley.
As it turns out the guy doing the shoving is Michael Meehan a well connected national level Democratic campaign consultant. Even though Meehan has apologized and said he was just trying to help McCormack up, you can clearly see in this video that Meehan pushed the guy, then acted like a complete jackass.
I guess Fox is not the only conservative news organization that gets bullied around by the Democrats.
When you add up all that has transpired in the last few months you can only come to one conclusion. The Obama team and the Democratic leadership currently in power are thugs of the first order. If a legitimate news organization dares to question them, they are attacked, shutout of the news process and even shoved around. They line their pockets with your tax dollars while the nations economy withers on the vine. When Nancy Pelosi, at a press conference, said Obama lied in his campaign about televising the Health Care debates, then had the audacity to say it has been the most open process in history…that was a jaw dropping lie….and she smoothed right through it like a hot knife through butter.
Wake up people. This Democrat thug in Massachusetts is showing you who these people really are. The foxes are in the hen-house, and they’re not even bothering to dress up like chickens anymore!
Amos, Andy & Harry Reid
What Harry Reid said was not that bad. We all know that. He said Obama was articulate, he is. He said he was light skinned, he is. He said he didn’t speak with a Negro dialect unless he wanted to, weird, but essentially true, I guess. So it’s not what Reid said that has all us conservatives huffing and puffing. It’s the fact that he’s getting a pass is what really pisses us off. (Insert the obligitory statement here.) IF A REPUBLICAN WOULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING LIKE THAT….
That is old news. Everybody knows that racist liberals, or racist statements, excuse me, insensitive statements made by liberals get a free pass from the media and other liberals. The same game has been playing out over and over again. Now it’s time for Republicans and conservatives to come up with a new response strategy and here it is. Instead of playing the “gotcha” game and responding with outrage when some racist comment is made by the likes of Harry Reid, we should embrace it. Take the ball and run with it.
For example. When Harry Reid said Obama was articulate, Michael Steele should have held a press conference and said and said “Harry Reid was right! Obama sho’nuff do be articulate. He be a bad mamma-jamma wit the articulation.” When Harry Reid said Obama was light skinned. The Republican caucus should have gone on Fox News and presented Obama with a gift basket with some Coppertone and free passes to the Congressional Tanning Salon. And as far as that Negro dialect goes, the next amendment introduced to the Health Care bill should be written in Ebonics. “Whereas we be poppin’ a cap foshizzle in the publizzle option, be it recognized henceforth that we should bounce to reconciliation with some chronic….Boiiiiii”
I know it probably won’t happen so for the time being we’ll have to try and stick to the rules of the game, which are as follows.
1.If you are a conservative you are racist.
2.If you are a liberal you are a friend to all minorities.
3.If you are a conservative and say something remotely insensitive, it is a racist remark made by a closet racist and you should not only apologize but resign.
4.If you are a liberal and say something remotely insensitive, well, that’s okay. We know what’s in your heart. Just call Al Sharpton and watch some Amos and Andy reruns.
LYING LIBERALS…SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW!
When I saw the headline on Drudge “Count The Lies…” referring to Obama promising to televise the Healtcare debate….I laughed out loud. Lies from Obama…so what else is new. I actually blew snot out of my nose when Pelosi said “a lot of things were promised during the election.” Basically she was saying of course we lied, you idiot, that’s what we do when we’re trying to get elected. But the best laugh of all was when she said this healthcare debate was a completely open process. Now that’s funny.
You sit there and listen to these things that are said and wonder how in the world these people think anybody will believe them or even take them seriously when the lies are just so blatant. The they get away with it is a willing support media backs them up so the echo chamber repeats the lie enough that it becomes truth. (See Global Warming)
The entire gameplan behind this healthcare is and has always been, get something passed. It doesn’t matter what. If you have to lie, hide it, buy people off, whatever you have to do, just get something passed. One of the little hidden gems about this entire healthcare package that is now heading into conference is that several components of it contain provisions for a super majority or a 3/4 vote to be repealed. There is some question as to whether or not that is even constitutional, but it is in there none the less, as protection against public backlash. Just get it passed and it won’t matter what happens in the next election or the one after that.
That was the plan, even way back when when Obama was saying over and over again…”this is going to be televised on C-Span.” No it wasn’t. He knew it then and he knows it now. You can’t show the hotdog being made and then expect people to eat it.
So liberals have been caught lying once again. This time they’re lying to open the door to the brave new socialistic world of which they dream. The longest journey has to start with just one step…and healthcare is it. It always has been. So what else is new?
