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2009 will probably go down as the Year of Stupid. Everywhere you look you see birthers, deathers, deniers, tea fetishists, and semi-literate amateur pundits screaming and frothing over their unsupported, repeatedly debunked line of argument. They are wrong. Dead wrong. Distractingly, even dangerously wrong. And since they will not, or more likely cannot, understand this fact they go on screaming and frothing in a fruitless quest for validation. They'll disrupt town hall meetings, Congressional addresses, and children's birthday parties to remind you, just in case you allowed yourself to forget for even a moment, of just how painfully stupid they...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's options for spurring job growth may be limited by out-of-control budget deficits, but he is warming to moves by his congressional allies for a jobs-boosting bill. Taking his defense of the economy on the road, the president scheduled appearances Friday in Pennsylvania to showcase innovative businesses following Thursday's White House jobs forum. That event combined cheerleading and brainstorming as Obama exhorted more than 100 CEOs, academics, small business and union leaders and local officials to focus on new ways to get businesses hiring again. At the forum, the president spoke favorably of an expanded program...

Bastard mooslems infected Islam in Action, a blog by Christopher Logan, with malware, forcing Blogger to shut it down. The muzzies also took over Christopher’s other site, christopherlogan.org, and it now re-directs to some fetid B.S. site about “Islam is peace.” Being charitable, as those who follow the religion of blowing people to pieces typically are, the bastards also killed his computer with their malware.

What Al Gore is thankful for this Thanksgiving. (Includes an incredible image of the Whoremeister selling carbon nonesense.)

“I hope they Mirandized this Ahmed Hashim Abed guy before they punched him.”—Rush Limbaugh On March 31, 2004, a small convoy guarded by four American civilian contractors was ambushed at Fallujah, Iraq, and the guards were killed. The bodies of the four Blackwater security guards were burnt, hacked, and two of the mutilated bodies were hung for display on a bridge over the Euphrates river. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that in ” a macabre and murderous town fete, locals cheered as one corpse was attached to a car tow rope and pulled triumphantly up and down the main road….”...

The Indian science journal Jonwar Chodu has just released the details on some fascinating research being conducted to replace the gasoline-powered automobile. Scientists working on the volcanic island of Krakatoa have been experimenting with a new type of car that is expected to completely replace the internal combustion engine by as early as 2013. They call it the “geo-thermal hydro-electric car.” How does it work? I’m glad you asked…

Iowahawk has a post over his way rounding up the headlines the MSM wished they could have run with about the moonbat jihadi murderer of 13 and shooter of 29 others last week at Ft. Hood. Naturally, in keeping with MSM tradition, reality imitated art this morning when the AP came out with this beauty: "Obama pressed into role of healer, inevitably" as the pResident was heading off to Ft. Hood today for the memorial honoring those killed and wounded. (It's my position that the best thing Zero could do for Ft. Hood, really, is to stay home, but the...

"4th Inf. Div. Reaches Out to Local Islamic Community Members During Mosque Visit" (May 2009) Sgt. Philip Klein 4th Inf. Div. PAO KILLEEN, Texas – Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, the commanding general of the 4th InfantryDivision, helped open the lines of communication when he visited a mosque at the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen community center, which is located in Killeen, May 7. The visit marks the Ironhorse Division’s inaugural effort to reach out to the sizeable Muslim community that resides in the greater central Texas region – Killeen, Temple and Austin– to foster dialogue, interaction and understanding between the...

But enough with the blind contributions to the Republican Party, and with the blind voting for establishment-backed candidates. That the establishment attempts to save face every time it loses, at it is doing now by supporting Hoffman two days before the election, should not blind anyone from the fact that only hours ago, it was throwing money at a genuine leftist while trashing Hoffman, and that in the coming months, it will be supporting a decidedly non-conservative Charlie Crist over a perfectly conservative and perfectly electable Marco Rubio in the Florida Republican Senate primary. Thus, until the Republican establishment truly...

Oct 30, 2009 — “Plant fossils give first real picture of earliest Neotropical rainforests,” announced a press release from University of Florida.  The fossils from Colombia show that “many of the dominant plant families existing in today’s Neotropical rainforests – including legumes, palms, avocado and banana – have maintained their ecological dominance despite major changes in South America’s climate and geological structure.” The team found 2,000 megafossil specimens from the Paleocene, said to be 58 million years old.  This is only 5 to 8 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs according to conventional dating.  “The new study provides...

A Sacramento Superior Court jury today awarded the survivors of Jennifer Lea Strange $16,577,118 as a result of her death nearly three years ago in a water-drinking contest conducted by a local radio station. In making the award, the seven-man, five-woman panel voted unanimously to find that Entercom Sacramento LLC, the local subsidiary of Entercom Communications Corp. of Philadelphia was negligent in putting on the contest that ultimately resulted in Strange's death.......Strange, 28, died Jan. 12, 2007, after participating in what KDND "The End" 107.9 promoted as its "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest that promised the popular Nintendo...

Yeah, you heard me, we need one more law… The “Stupid Law”... Example: Shepard Fairey: What do you say about blatant and ongoing plagiarism? " Oops, I pulled a Ward Churchill!"

Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal urged his party Tuesday to shift to offering health care solutions instead of just rejecting what [Alleged] President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are proposing. “I think now is the perfect time to pivot and to say, not only here’s what we’re against, and not only here’s how we’re going to contrast ourselves, but here’s what we’re for,” Jindal said in an interview with POLITICO. Jindal acknowledged that the Republican Party for years had been too slow to stake out positions on the health care debate “to our peril and the nation’s...

CANTON, N.C. (October 13, 2009)—The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a satanic influence. Among the authors whose books Grizzard plans to burn are well known ministers Rick Warren and Billy Graham because he says they have occasionally used Bibles other than the King James Version, which is the sole biblical source he considers infallible. According to the church’s Web site, members will also burn “Satan's music such as country, rap, rock, pop,...

With all this talk of racist marches on Washington and racist comments made during presidential speeches and racist outcry over the pResident’s policies, we really should look at the facts. We all know that the Democratic Party has a long history of racism its members want you to forget. Jimmy Carter’s rant to CNN yesterday is one way they try to pretend that we’re the racists. Here are a couple of joke quotes for fun -- followed by a slew of real quotes made by real racist Democrats.

With today the final day of the Legislature's session, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic legislative leaders are pushing hard for passage of a law that would require that 33 percent of the power used in California be from renewable energy sources by the end of 2020. The main sticking point is over a bizarre proposal that all this power be generated in-state, even though California is fully integrated into a regional grid that helps keep reliability up and costs down. Our concern is much broader, however. A strong case can be made that the state, the nation and the world...

GANJGAL, Afghanistan — We walked into a trap, a killing zone of relentless gunfire and rocket barrages from Afghan insurgents hidden in the mountainsides and in a fortress-like village where women and children were replenishing their ammunition...Dashing from boulder to boulder, diving into trenches and ducking behind stone walls as the insurgents maneuvered to outflank us, we waited more than an hour for U.S. helicopters to arrive, despite earlier assurances that air cover would be five minutes away... U.S. commanders, citing new rules to avoid civilian casualties, rejected repeated calls to unleash artillery rounds at attackers dug into the slopes...

Yes, they walk among us!!! If these are true, it is no wonder our country is in so much trouble. A DC airport ticket agent offers some examples of 'why' our country is in trouble! 1. I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman (Carol Shea-Porter) ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window. (On an airplane!) 2. I got a call from a Kansas Congressman's (Moore) staffer (Howard Bauleke), who wanted to go to Capetown. I started to explain the length of the flight and the passport information, and then...

The Environmental Protection Agency is expected in the next few weeks to declare that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are pollutants, a move that would require the federal government to regulate them -- even without legislation.

Arianna Huffington was on Olbermann lecturing the president on why he should give up his quest for bi-partisanship over healthcare and why Harry Reid should organize a senate censure of Charles Grassley the Republican who along with Olympia Snowe and another Republican whose name I forget represent the red team in the gang of six. (If only…!) Arianna’s reason? According to Arianna, Grassley has received more than $2 million from the drug companies over the last six years making him a pawn of the evil “interests” who don’t care about the People.

Ron Paul and Peter Schiff pegged it. David Walker, former Comptroller General, pegged it. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, international oligarchs (like Soros and satanists higher up hiding in the shadows) and others who are ready to devour the U.S. pegged it (which is why they paid for Obama to be elected). Stooges with narcissistic personality disorders like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, George Bush, Federal Reservists, Fannie Mae bonus-boys, Insane Islamists, Narco-elites and a whole barrelful of shills, idiots, and moral zeros either don't get it or use it for their own power. We have not been alert to live...

Former Congresscritter and now Secretary of Transportation Ray the hood – er – that’s LaHood popped up on TV the other day defending the “Cash for Clunkers” scam being run by his department. The talking head reporterette asked him what benefits a program designed to destroy otherwise functioning and serviceable vehicles was providing the nation. Like the Democrat statist he is, he responded that it was giving a serious boost to what remains of the U.S. auto industry, keeps those union auto workers, dealerships, mechanics, salesmen, scrap dealers, etc. employed and generally preventing the economy from going as deeply into...

I’m a democrat. You owe me. I’m a democrat. I have my own pile of money, but I want yours, too, including the four pennies you have rattling around in the bottom of that peanut butter jar you frugal idiot’s like to use as a change holder. Give it up! You owe me. I’m a democrat. I just say I like the public school system. My kids go to private schools so that your kids can go to public schools and learn how to be good little democrats like me. When my kids grow up and become better members of...

Gates Gate and Barack the Magic Racist, or how two racist liberals deflect attention away from thievery. What the state run media has failed to tell you is that Henry Louis Gates Jr. was in trouble with the law long before the Columbia Police were called to his house, over a burglar, which turned out to be Mr. Gates. The police officer did not stereotype Henry Gates Jr., Mr. Gates Jr. stereotyped the police, and liberals should be ashamed. And, why is it that B. Hussein Obama knows so many crooked people? Henry Louis Gates Jr., the man invited to...

That’s a funny way to say “we’re still in a deep recession.” When the third round of layoffs went through my little company three weeks ago, the first thing I thought was, “Wow. That Obama, he’s really rescued the economy.” Yeah, you rescued the economy, Obugger. That's why unclaimed dead bodies are stacking up in the Los Angeles County morgue because their relatives have so much money they’re just letting the government have the honor of footing the bill for the burials. That's why you need a federal toilet paper tax so you can pay for all those extra flushes...

With an organizational chart like this, I wonder just how they'll find the time to bestow health care to little ole us. Probably long after they're sipping Dom Perignon from the good crystal, on our dime. Get your copy here.

Stupidity Bites HARD: Dodd and FrankThe Market Ticker Saturday, July 11. 2009 Posted by Karl Denninger in Regulatory at 14:15 These two are the "banking regulatory chiefs" in Congress of course; Dodd in the Senate and Frank in the House. Both have steadfastly stood beside the banks through this crisis, especially the really-big banks that have given millions of dollars in campaign contributions. The same banks that lobbied hard to "reform" bankruptcy so you cannot file Chapter 7 any more when you go bankrupt and stick lenders with the bad lending decisions they made of their own free will. That...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's push for quick action by Congress on climate change legislation suffered a setback on Thursday when the U.S. Senate committee leading the drive delayed work on the bill until September. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer said her self-imposed deadline of early August for finishing writing a bill to combat global warming has been put off until after Congress returns from a recess that ends in early September.

Board members at an Otaki Catholic primary school have resigned after five- and six-year-olds were made to pick up used condoms from the playground. Four St Peter Chanel board members resigned and walked out of a board meeting last week, saying they had no confidence in the principal, board chairwoman or school management, The Dominion Post reported. Concerns have been also raised about a steady decrease in the school roll and falling numeracy and literacy standards. Kath Doyle resigned after her six-year-old grandson and four other children were forced to pick up used condoms without protective gloves during a playground...

We feel your pain, my British friends. We're not there yet, but we're right behind you. Sadly, your feckless leader appears to be more of an assclown than ours...for a brief second or two. Loony Obugger Clown is learning, and he's catching on fast!

As if the coronation of the ultimate liberal, Obugger, as president wasn't enough, The Founders must surely have turned over in their graves now, just before the 233rd anniversary of their "domestic terrorism," to quote the odious Janet Napolitano. So, in their honor, let's take a look at the real Sen. Al Franken, D (for D@#$head)-Minn., through a montage of some of the best and brightest moments of his moonbat life. I hope you're happy, Minnesota.

WASHINGTON -- Aiming to keep the focus on creating out-of-control bureaucracy, President Barack Obama put a plug in for administration efforts to make pencil-pushing more overwhelming while using less energy. "I know pencil-pushing may not seem sexy, but this simple action holds enormous promise because 97 percent of our future economy in America depends on having the most efficient bureaucratic tools as we take over more businesses and create more government offices," the president said, standing alongside Energy Secretary Steven Chu at the White House.

The Obama administration plans to kill a controversial Bush administration spy satellite program at the Department of Homeland Security, according to officials familiar with the decision. The program came under fire from its inception two years ago. Democratic lawmakers said it would lead to domestic spying. The program would have provided federal, state and local officials with extensive access to spy-satellite imagery — but no eavesdropping capabilities— to assist with emergency response and other domestic-security needs, such as identifying where ports or border areas are vulnerable to terrorism.

If this is our future, maybe we should just give it all to Obugger and kill ourselves now (be sure to watch this video of a teenager reacting to Adam Lambert losing American Idol ALL THE WAY THROUGH)....

The situation’s become pretty hairy. I think they may be coming unglued. The president’s always talking about wearing one of Phil Spector’s old shock wigs and seeing if anyone recognizes him. Geithner’s been running around marveling about how cool it is that America now has the historical distinction of employing more czars than the Russian Empire. TOTUS, meanwhile, stands over in the corner blasting FAIL! FAIL! FAIL! across his screen every 5 minutes. I’ve been thinking of tucking a tube of mace under my collar. I may have to start dumping Patrón in my water bowl soon. I’m convinced they...

When the president talks to AllahAre the conversations about his middle name?Does he ask to rape our taxpayers' rightsAnd send poor kids’ Daddies to the unemployment line?And enact junk-science policies like cap and tradeWhen the president talks to Allah?

An East Bay triple-murder suspect left his cell phone behind at the scene of a Pinole burglary and then called it to get it back, unaware that a police officer was on the other end, authorities said today. Anthony Ramirez, 23, never got his phone. Instead, he is in jail, charged with killing a man in Emeryville and suspected of two other homicides in Contra Costa County, Pinole police Sgt. Matthew Messier said.

The business world is crawling with affable, industrious, intelligent people with nothing to distinguish them from ten thousand other affable, industrious and intelligent people, but who very much would like to be rich. Except by winning the equivalent of a lottery or marrying up, their chances of becoming rich are quite poor. They joint a fraternity at college to make contacts, and went to business school to network. They have no friends, only contacts, as their entire social life from freshman year onward has been a struggle to get to know people who might help them. They live in silent...

Ya just have to love some of this... jessiejessup Just because I quote Thoreau doesn't mean I am gonna move to the woods so why does matter Sotomayor quoted a socialist 30 years ago?? SiobhansONgin Yeah um f@#K you if you don't like Sonia Sotomayor.....reblip that someone! ♫ http://blip.fm/~74s93 osochic And the J.Lo comparisons have begun :-\ ... "Judge Sotomayor is the new JLo. Justice for Law & Order" - man on the news

The US State Department said Sunday that the future status of Jerusalem would be determined through peace negotiations, after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's declaration Thursday that the capital would "never again be partitioned and divided."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supporters of nuclear power in the United States failed to win new breaks for the industry when a U.S. congressional panel on Wednesday voted down an amendment to a controversial climate change bill. Waxman argued that the bill was not discriminating against nuclear power, but that nuclear was not renewable energy because it requires uranium, a limited resource. Also, he said the renewable standard was aimed at promoting new power sources and technology. Republicans have blasted the legislation, warning that it could drastically curb the United States' economic growth by making U.S. companies less competitive internationally with...

I'm a liar. You're a liar. He's a liar. She's a liar. Wouldn't you like to be a liar too.

Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to evade responsibility for her role in approving the use of waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques took another hit today in the Washington Post — and this time the fire comes from her side of the aisle. Pete Hoekstra upped the ante as well, demanding the release of precise minutes of Congressional briefings, and Leon Panetta has promised to make them available, at least to Capitol Hill:

Michael Savage is banned from the UK. That is not important, the reason why is compelling ... "I think it's important that people understand the sorts of values and sorts of standards that we have here, the fact that it's a privilege to come and the sort of things that mean you won't be welcome in this country," Ms Smith told GMTV. "Coming to this country is a privilege. If you can't live by the rules that we live by, the standards and the values that we live by, we should exclude you from this country and, what's more, now...

Three well-dressed men crowd into a darkened room. At first they are somewhat disoriented, the drapes blocking all incoming light from the windows. Slowly their eyes adjust to the glow of a small halogen lamp at the back of the room, casting shadows backwards against the drapes. The men make out the silhouettes of what appear to be flags mounted on floor-standing poles to the either side of a great wooden desk. Between the poles, behind the desk, a man sits, smoking a cigar. They cannot see his eyes, but they can feel his stare… and the accompanying waves of...

In this video, taken shortly after breakfast this morning, and before his second six pack of the day, Vice President Joe "Asshat" Biden, our nation's newest health expert, contributed his mindless nonsense to the hysteria over "swine flu":

Freddie Mac(FRE Quote) is temporarily bringing back its former chief executive as it deals with the apparent suicide of its acting chief financial officer. More on FRECramer's Take on Headline StocksPhoto Gallery: Freddie Mac CFO Found DeadFreddie Mac CFO Found DeadUS Foreclosures Up 24 Pct In 1QFannie Mae CEO Allison to Head TARP: ReportCramer: Bargain Basement AssetsGeithner: We May Oust Bank CEOsFannie and Freddie Planned Bonuses: ReportCramer: Bargain Basement AssetsFannie, Freddie May Aid Mortgage Banks Market Activity David Moffett, the former government-appointed CEO who resigned in March, will return as a consultant to interim CEO John Koskinen. He will help...

It’s only fitting that today, just two days after Earth Day (and Lenin's birthday), when former Vice President Al Gore testified before Congress in hearings on a “climate change” bill shamelessly purporting to curb greenhouses gasses but really disguising (that is, to most American sheeple) “cap and trade” taxation of your energy consumption, we should remember who lives in a glass house. Or rather, a big-honkin’ carbon-spewing global-warming behemoth from which only Mr. Whore can toss erroneous truths while ignoring his own. This is not a new story, but it’s an important one, and needs retelling…again…again…again.

Image of Bo and b. Hussein, Bo swimming, the president walking on water.

A 69-year-old man has been arrested and accused of taking inappropriate photos of women at SeaWorld