tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86574616916892251922012-02-26T23:04:01.195-05:00CURRENT EVENTS SPICED WITH HUMORHugh Vaughan-Williamshttps://profiles.google.com/104533136699597612669noreply@blogger.comBlogger13681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8657461691689225192.post-114310928521827162012-02-26T18:58:00.001-05:002012-02-26T22:39:00.764-05:00

"I'm an Obamophobe. That must  mean you're a Romnophobe"

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Doug Ross has an ugly employment chart that "President Obama and the Democrats don't want you to see." You can see it here.

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You be the judge: This is disturbing on so many levels. Clearly this Pennsylvania judge should have recused himself. Or is this an intimation of looming  Sharia law in our future? More here. [Thanks BJS]

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Dear Diary: Those Afghans sure are hard to please. The local  US commander has apologized,  even I --  the fourth greatest president in the history of the United States --- have apologized and now the Deputy Acting Assistant Defense Secretary has  also apologized. (How many people does Panetta have in that office, anyway? He's supposed be cutting back.) It's enough to give anybody heartburn,

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Doug Ross takes a hatchet to an AP report on the American "democracy advocates" detained in Egypt. AP's spin, he says,  is leaving the agency with  as much credibility with Americans as Pravda had in the Soviet Krushchev era. More here.

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Ophobia:  morbid fear of O, often triggered in conservatives by the mere thought of him spending another four years with his feet on Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. A neologism coined on this blog.

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[The Augusta Chronicle]

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Keith Koffler examines Obama's speech San Francisco and finds a deeply flawed vision for America. Read it all.

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Oikophobia, or why the liberal elite hate Americans. James Taranto at the WSJ is in top form.  Read it all.

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 Dear Diary: It's been a difficult day (aren't most of them?)  I have apologized to Karzai because  I feel one should always be nice to rude people and they will be nice in return. But the  Afghans aren't responding. How many times do  have to apologize politely to get those  mobs off the streets?   I wanted to ask  Assad courteously to stop killing civilians in Syria,  but meanwhile Hillary has

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"Of course we need to drill. You liberals think cars can  run on nothing but algae and a unicorn fart." [Alagram]

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John Hinderaker at Powerline carries a powerful rebuke to Obama over his refusal to accelerate domestic  oil supplies. Read it all.

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 In a Piers Morgan interview on CNN, Newt was in top form, ripping into Obama for his repeated one-sided  apologies to Muslims. See it all here.

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[The Augusta Chronicle]

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 The US  has warned Syria's neighbors of  peril from Syrian stockpiles of  nerve gas and offered help in coping with  a WMD attack. More here.

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Warren Buffet is a financial genius, but even better for his portfolio -- and worse for ours -- he is also a political  genius. [Thanks BJS]

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Dear Diary: With Michelle and the girls skiing at at Aspen, I've got a chance catch up with my daily diary  for the  benefit of  eminent historians who will one day use its  priceless insights to reveal the  genius of The Greatest President in the History of the United States. That  would make a great title for the best-selling autobiography  l  intend to write after leaving office,  to keep

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" Man Bites Car" Sadly, ABC News didn't just leave it at that.  Remember, schmucks: Less is More.

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Comedian Bill Maher, winner of our Dung Beetle Award yesterday for a tasteless joke  linking Mitt Romney and  gay sex, is donating $1 million to Obama's SuperPAC. This is disturbing on so many levels. Comedians have lots of latitude in poking fun at politicians, as they should have. Jay Leno generally balances jokes about left and right. Potty-mouthed Chelsea Handler  who constantly refers to

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[Montreal Gazette]

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Via Granny Jan and Jihad Kitty:

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 Jammie Wearing Fools has an instant cure for porn addiction. Sinead O'Connor apparently wants to pose naked for Playboy.  Quick, pass the eye bleach.

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The US, Britain,  France, Italy  and other NATO  members are preparing to  intervene in Syria to stop the massacre of civilians, according to Debkafile.

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[The Augusta Chronicle]

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After President Obama's apology to Afghanistan's President Karzai for inappropriate disposal of Korans, Sarah Palin has posted on her Facebook page that it is now time for Afghanistan to apologize for the subsequent killing of two US soldiers. Read it  here.

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"Here's some more bad taste, Bill" The Academy of Dung Beetles' Award is being rolled towards comedian Bill Maher  for a 'joke' suggesting   that Mitt Romney paid a homeless man for gay sex. 

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President Obama  has attacked  GOP  policy on oil, insisting that Americans are not fooled  by "bumper sticker" slogans. Except for "Hope and Change," I guess. More here.

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[International Herald Tribune]

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[Cagle Cartoons]

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 This comes from a friend in Australia, who found it online, origin unknown:  "The Royal Navy is proud of its new fleet of Type 45 destroyers. Having initially named the first two ships HMS Daring and HMS Dauntless, the Naming Committee has, after intensive pressure from Brussels, renamed them HMS Cautious and HMS Prudence. The next five ships are to be named HMS Empathy, HMS Circumspect, HMS

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"In every corner of the Obama administration, the radical green machinery is hard at work — destroying jobs, shredding truth and sacrificing our economic well-being at the altar of environmentalism."  Michelle Malkin is  in fine form. Read it all.

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Beginning this month, some Greeks will have to pay for the privilege of having a job. Zero Hedge has more.

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US special forces are now operating in four African countries in their conflict with the Lord's Resistance Army, AP reports.

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[The Augusta Chronicle]

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[Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri]

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White House National Security advisor Tom Donilon's  three days of high-level talks in Israel ended on Sunday after he failed to extract a pledge from  the Israelis not to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. According to Debkafile,  Obama has invited Netanyahu  to meet him at the White House on March 5  hoping that personal contact might do the trick.  Personally I think this is pure political

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Thanks to I Own the World for this  video report  of the incident that earned today's Dung Beetle Award

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The Academy of Dung Beetles' political correctness  subcommittee has been busy. Their infamous Ball of  Camel Dung for Politically Correct Idiocy, is being rolled towards another school  principal, this time in Chicago, for suspending a teacher  who mentioned the 'n'-word during a lesson in which he was explaining the negative effects of racism [see video report above].

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[Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com]

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Via Granny Jan and Jihad Kitty [link in Blogroll]

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The Academy of Dung Beetles'  political correctness subcommittee has  instituted a new award for PC idiocy. The first "Dungie"  for political correctness is being rolled towards the principal of a  British school who accused a 7-year-old boy of ''racism" for innocently asking  another boy, who had dark skin, if he came from Africa. More here

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Dear Cabby: I'm worried about the Michigan primary. Folks are saying that, if I don't win, the GOP will look for another candidate. And people keep talking about the dog I put on the roof of the family car a couple decades ago. What should I do? --Mitt R. Dear Mitt: Is there a dog in the box you put on  da roof of my cab? Why didn't you bring da pooch inside? You gotta problem widdat?  This

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Comforting news for all of you struggling to make ends meet:  Michelle Obama  and daughters are  spending President's Day weekend skiing at Aspen, Colorado, accompanied by a Secret Service entourage. " I'm surprised she's here so soon after Hawaii," said ski-lift  assistant Gary Oxford, "but  it's great for business."  [h/t White House Dossier] 

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Now it has emerged that a second  child's  homemade lunch, a cheese-and-salami sandwich with apple juice was disqualified by North Carolina school officials. So a second Award from the Academy of  Dung Beetles is being rolled towards those food police. More here.

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[Cagle Cartoons]

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[via The Looking Spoon]

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[Cagle Cartoons]

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The Academy of Dung Beetles' Award is being rolled towards the DEA for disrupting  the supply of  raw materials for making Adderall, demonstrating once again what a poor job government does when it intervenes in the free marketplace. More here.

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Jonathan Karl on an ABC News blog quotes an unnamed prominent GOP senator saying that, if Romney can't hold Michigan, the GOP will have to persuade a new candidate to run for President. Who is that likely to be?  "Jeb Bush," said the senator. Read it all.

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 Obama managed to refer to  himself five times in a two paragraph statement today:  " Leaders of both parties have done the right thing for our families and for our economy by reaching an agreement that will prevent a tax hike on 160 million working Americans. I urge Congress to pass this agreement so that the payroll tax cut we put in place last year will not expire at the end of this month.

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[The Augusta Chronicle]

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 Israelis are preparing for  a catastrophic war  that could expose them to biological, chemical and 'dirty' bomb attacks, as they  ask: Will the West come to our aid?

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 The Obama Campaign's  secret Project Narwhal could change elections for ever. Read it all [Thanks BJS]

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Of all the dangerous things Obama has done as President, none is more perilous than his unilateral reduction of our nuclear weapons arsenal  at a time when others are increasing theirs. Read more 

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[via Aftermath]

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 Paul Ryan has earned the admiration of many highly-respected conservatives today for his damning indictment of  Barack Obama's fraudulent budget. Read the whole thing. [Thanks BJS]

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It's pretty easy to read between the lines of this clip from Fox News

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[The Washington Examiner]

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[via Sad Hill News]

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[The Augusta Chronicle]

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[via The Looking Spoon]

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An old friend  in Ireland points out that Barack is leading by a syllable against Mitt, Rick, Newt and Ron. For 2012 perhaps "Brack," or "Rack" might make the electorate more comfortable with him. Or not.

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A  defining characteristic  of compelling speakers is their energy,  shown by  hand gestures, and the way they often  bounce on their toes when driving home key points. You can see this in the clip of Nigel Farage in the post  below and you can see it with Sarah Palin in this CPAC barnstormer.

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I  am a huge fan of Nigel Farage, an elected British Member of the European Parliament who is a fiery speaker and scourge of  Eurocrats. Here he is castigating them on  their role in  the  growing Greek catastrophe. Go Nigel!

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"Quick, eat your cupcake.  Michelle's food police  are coming to inspect your lunch" [Drawing: Alastair Graham]

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Iran proclaimed advances in nuclear know-how Wednesday, including new centrifuges able to enrich uranium much faster, a move that may hasten  confrontation with the West, Reuters reports.  Read it all.

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Greece won't see a cent of the Great Bailout and default is inevitable, says Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph. [Thanks: BJS]

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Bad Blue, which grows better by the week, has a fascinating piece on Kathleen Sibelius, and a lack of Obamacare exchanges. Read it here

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A former electric car enthusiast says we should  kill the electric car. Here's why

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 [The Augusta Chronicle]

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"Report this, AP" The Academy of Dung Beetles' Award is being rolled towards a dozen people who used the Westminster Dog Show to protest that 29 years ago Mitt Romney is supposed to have transported a dog in a travelling kennel strapped to the roof of his car. Co-winner of the Award is Associated Press for giving them prominent coverage.  

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This is where the nanny statists are taking us.  Obama's America...

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[Deng Coy Miel, Singapore]

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[David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star]

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Obama sends a private note  telling  an unemployed man  that it will likely  take another two years for the economy to recover fully. The man promptly labels  him 'a lying SOB' and  sells the note to raise much-needed cash. Ouch.

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[Olle Johanssen, Sweden]

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[Luojie, The China Daily]

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Michelle says it's her husband's job to plan Valentine's Day. I guess she'll be getting a bank loan  to go shopping that's so huge, it will only finally be paid off by Sasha and Malia's  children.

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[CagleCartoons.com]

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The Mayor of a Greek town visited a Spanish town. When he saw the mansion belonging to the Spanish mayor he wondered how he could afford such an extravagant house. The Spaniard said; "You see that bridge over there? The EU gave us a grant for a four-lane bridge, but by building a single lane bridge with traffic lights at either end this house could be built." The following year the Spaniard

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[via The Other McCain]

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[Cagle Cartoons.com]

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"Climate change"  is so yesterday. Now it's extreme, as in ice-extreme Coke. Tim Blair of the Daily Telegraph in Australia explains.

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blog.ushanka.us

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[Daryl Cagle, MSNBC]

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Chris Wysocki, who has been  following closely the  Obamacare contraceptive debacle  explains why Obama's "compromise" is no compromise at all. It seems to an outside observer like me that Obama doesn't comprehend that a Church can't negotiate doctrine like a lawyer seeking a plea deal.

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[Taylor Jones: Cagle Cartoons]

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From Granny Jan and Jihad Kitty:

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Sarah Palin pours enormous energy into her speeches and excites a crowd in a way that very few others  politicians can.  Her speech closing the Conservative Political Action Conference was superbly paced  and exactly the foot-stomping, energetic call to action that activists needed to go out in the field and fight  with passion in the run-up to November. 

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Newt Gingrich made an impressive speech at CPAC with concrete promises and deadlines, should he win the nomination. Here it is: 

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 [The Augusta Chronicle]

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Economist Scott Grannis: "...it is with great concern and sadness that I see a creeping Peronism happening in the U.S. economy under President Obama. Consider this latest headline: "Obama to Announce Contraception Rule ‘Accommodation’ for Religious Organizations." What business does our president have telling organizations and insurance companies how they should run their business, what kinds of

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Andrew Breitbart feeds red meat to CPAC, and reveals that he has video from Obama's college days which he will release at an opportune moment.

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"If you aren’t creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren’t listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up." Michelle Malkin has a fascinating post on the sinister origins of Planned Parenthood. Read it all.

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[Scranton Times-Tribune]

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Chris Wysocki has delivered  a thunderous response to Obama's religious powergrab. If you are non-Catholic like me, there's real insight to be had. Read it all.

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Marco Rubio is a already a  political tropical storm and before long the Florida senator could become  a political  hurricane.  He told CPAC: "Unlike any leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other. The basic argument he is making to our nation is that the reason why some of us are worse off than we used to be is because

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