6/30/11
It seems that being a colony wasn't so bad, after all
A majority of Jamaicans believe they would be better off if the British had never ceded control of the country , a poll reveals. If Obama wins four more years, how many Americans might begin to feel the same way?
Anvil Award: We have a Winner!
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Notice, too, how the LC's prediction that British-based, but US-focused, news sites would rapidly muscle their way into the US market, is becoming more evident by the day. British tabloids understand what most people really want -- news and comment that take a strong, populist viewpoint, plus gossipy entertainment -- and they give it to them.
Kerry: I would have been a good president
John Kerry was cornered into answering a question from Don Imus whether Kerry would have made a better president than Obama (the obvious answer: anybody would have) but he avoided that, saying instead: "I would have been a good President, maybe a great one." Fortunately, we will never have the chance to find out.
Blaming corporate jet tax breaks? That simply doesn't fly, Mr President
Increased corporate jet tax breaks came from the Obama stimulus, says Doug Powers at Michelle Malkin's blog. Now Obama turns around and denounces the recipients of his stimulus money as though it's their fault. Meanwhile the Campaigner-in-Chief jets around in a 747 for which he doesn't pay a cent.
6/29/11
What's really historic about Obama... Hint: It's not the color of his skin
There's no-one like Rush Limbaugh when he's on top of his game: “We Americans are not perfect but one thing we did that we will pay for for decades to come and our children and grandchildren will pay for, is the election of a man to the presidency who is historic in the sense of his ignorance, his stubbornness, his incompetence, and his contempt for the American system. That’s what’s historic about Barack Obama. Not the color of his skin."
Mr. President? Hello...hello...is anybody there?
A New York friend describes President Obama by quoting Gertrude Stein: " There is no there there."
6/28/11
Is this the most tasteless magazine cover ever?
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sensationalism like this.
(Hat tip: Mediaite).
When Reality Bites, Go on Strike
Denying reality is a union specialty. Greek unions are on a two-day general strike today and members are rioting in the streets of Athens once more as the threat looms of new austerity measures being rejected by the Greek Parliament. That would lead to 'economic suicide' according to the Governor of the Bank of Greece. Consequences would be an immediate exit from the Euro, a return to the drachma, a massive run on the banks as well as general economic chaos. Can a coup be far behind?
Meanwhile, Britain faces a union strike by 750,000 public sector workers on Thursday, over plans to reduce taxpayer subsidies of their unsustainable pension plans which already cost each UK household around 1000 Pounds ($1600) a year. Yet these self-centered leftists think they are owed it. As usual, it's all about them.
More British are coming! More British are Coming!
In the wake of the London Daily Mail's new US-centric website, comes news that the London-based
Guardian -- the Bible of British liberals -- is doing the same. The invention of the railways , enabled newspapers to be printed in London and distributed nationally in time to be on breafast tables throughout the country, British newspapers have been locked in mortal combat ever since. With the Internet, that competitiveness is gradually spreading beyond Britain's shores through the whole English-speaking world. I mostly disagree with The Guardian's editorial viewpoints, but I welcome the chance to learn what the other side is thinking . After all, I already know what I think. British newspapers tend to be to more openly partisan than those in the US, because the wide diversity of choice on every newsstand means that they don't feel as obliged to be as dispassionate as a one-town monopoly newspaper in the US. Circulation is king.
Guardian -- the Bible of British liberals -- is doing the same. The invention of the railways , enabled newspapers to be printed in London and distributed nationally in time to be on breafast tables throughout the country, British newspapers have been locked in mortal combat ever since. With the Internet, that competitiveness is gradually spreading beyond Britain's shores through the whole English-speaking world. I mostly disagree with The Guardian's editorial viewpoints, but I welcome the chance to learn what the other side is thinking . After all, I already know what I think. British newspapers tend to be to more openly partisan than those in the US, because the wide diversity of choice on every newsstand means that they don't feel as obliged to be as dispassionate as a one-town monopoly newspaper in the US. Circulation is king.
6/27/11
Dear L.C....Our Question Corner
Dear Puzzled: It's Simple. He can't delegate all that hopey-changey-stuff to an aide. They're all at Andrews Air Force Base playing golf with him --L.C.
Survey: "Sex workers" more trusted than journalists, say Aussies
"Sex workers" are more trusted by Australians than journalists, according to a magazine survey. That's not surprising when many Aussie leftie journalists are so dedicated to their PC agenda that they won't call a prostitute a prostitute.
Winner! Lunatic lefties of the day
A clear winner among Lunatic Lefties today: At a school in Stockholm called 'Egalia,' Swedes are trying to abolish gender by eliminating gender "stereotypes" ... girls play with boys' toys and vice versa.. They call kids 'friends' instead of 'him' and 'her'. All this on the taxpayer's Kroner. What these experimenters think will happen when these kids finally enter the real world, they have not disclosed. Oh well.... you know what they say: 'Boys will be boys,' or, rather, 'Girls will be boys'. Well, at least they can now all get married in New York.
Amazement as Obama Keeps Promise
Image by cukuskumir via FlickrYes He Can. President Obama has actually kept a promise, according to the Daily Caller . It was to arrange for a teenager who lost her father on 9/11 to meet with teen idol Justin Bieber (right).
6/26/11
FITZ N' STARTZ for Today...
" Would you like to sin with
Huma Abedin on a tiger skin?
Or would you prefer to err with her
A Sense of Huma
The New York Daily News has several photographs of former Congressman Anthony Weiner and and wife Huma Abedin, licking ice cream while walking on Fifth Avenue today. From the photographs there's not much indication of how the two of them are getting along in the wake of Weinergate. But in one shot, they are holding hands while he carries her bag.
6/25/11
Dimwit Alert!
Gawker has these tales of wuckfits indulging in retail therapy without stopping at the checkout.
Happy Birthday D.G.
The DaleyGator turns three today. The L.C. likes the D.G . and thinks you may, too. Why not pay them a birthday visit here..?
Woman uses burqa to cheat breath test
A reminder that liberal absurdities are not confined to the northern hemisphere, is this column by Miranda Devine in Australia's Daily Telegraph. Strewth!
6/24/11
Liberals 'make a lobotomized amoeba seem intelligent'
There's nothing more enjoyable than a skilled rant. James Delingpole of London's Daily Telegraph takes aim at U.S. liberals and the TV person, Chris Matthews. They make a lobotomized amoeba seem intelligent, complains Delingpole. Here's a link to one account of the Matthews "debate" that lit Delingpole's fuse. (In case you were wondering, that's an unlobotomized amoeba on the left)
Children's names: creative or just tacky?
A constant irritation to the L.C. are "creative" names for children. How would you like to go through life being called "Apostrophe" and, I kid you not, "Clamydia" Here are more particularly amazing examples. Poor, unfortunate kids.
6/23/11
Dear L.C....Our Advice Corner
Dear LC : I have a colleague who is already trying to influence the rest of us to vote Obama in 2012. It's driving me crazy. How can I stop her without making an enemy? -- Angry Republican Dear AR: Buy an anti-Obama bumper sticker. (example: How do you like that 'change' now, dumb-ass?) Next time she tries to win you over, agree to think about it, give her some reassuring pats on the back, while sticking the bumper sticker to her rear. She'll only discover it after wondering why everyone is smirking at her. No link to you. Job done.
Why Sarah Palin trademarked her name
Another Black Conservative has an interesting theory on SP's trademarking of her name: that it's not just for commercial reasons. The real purpose, speculates ABC, is most ingenious and -- as usual -- she's way ahead of her detractors.
6/22/11
It's going to be NoBama in 2012
George W. Bush' s former adviser Karl Rove argues that the 2012 election is already lost for President Obama..
Uuuh! Wimbledon women scolded for grunting
Image via WikipediaGrunting by women players is getting so loud that it's spoiling the world's premier tennis championship, says Wimbledon chief.
The British are coming! The British are coming!
Image via WikipediaThe British are plotting to recolonize America -- this time via news-sites on the Web. The London Daily Mail already outpulls Huffpost. Fierce nationwide competition made British newspaper publishers the most competitive and ruthless in the world. Potential competitors in the US, you've been warned.
Typo of the Day
Dykes are blamed for Indian floods. Aha! So lesbians were behind it. Who knew?
(Hat tip: Mark Steyn)
(Hat tip: Mark Steyn)
6/21/11
Weiner's staff... er.. team... asks for a camera
There's pathos at Congress as Weiner's staff empty their offices. Gawker reports that staffers want to know if anyone can lend them a camera.
A Tweet from BO
Chris Wysocki at Wyblog has the interesting news that President Obama intends to use Twitter in the run-up to the 2012 General Election. The Laughing Conservative looks forward to seeing how Obama explains his Obamacare proposals within the 140 character limit of a Tweet. "Socialized medicine" perhaps? That's just 18 characters.
The Yellow Light of Texas is the only one for me
Texas has been clever enough to skirt Federally-mandated change from instant-on incandescent light bulbs with their pleasant, slightly yellow light, to the corpse-like pallor of mercury-toxic compact fluorescents. Local legislation ensures that, if incandescents are made and used in Texas, they can still be sold and used within in that State. There are some shrewd brains under those 10 gallon hats. Who knew? More from Hot Air here
Arresting Proposals from the Food Police
Oatmeal, wheatbread, yoghurt, you name it, they don't want your kids to eat it.. Human Events reports on Big Government plans to make the nutritional choices for your kids that you alone should be making.
6/20/11
Opening The Conservatory
Two talented bloggers have combined forces, with others, at The Conservatory. Bookmark them, or find them in our blog roll
Blame it on Busch
Latest Joke We Heard:
From an nearby room, a woman hears her husband say: "I love you"
She asks: "Is that you, or the beer talking?"
He answers: "It's me. I'm talking to the beer."
6/19/11
Obummer Stickers
6/18/11
Hold..er.. Delay the Front page!
The New York Post, famous for its pithy front page headlines has had a ball field day with the Weiner affair, as the Enterprise Blog points out explains (is there no end to the double meanings?)
6/17/11
An Unbeatable Ticket for 2012
The Looking Spoon has an... er... larger version of this outstanding comedic bumper sticker.
What's a "green" steak? You don't want to know...
'"It's Not Easy, Being Green,"
sang Kermit. His creators didn't know how prophetic that would be. Now see where being "green" is taking us. Warning: You probably don't want to know.
6/16/11
Weiner Wants Out
Image via WikipediaThe New York Times website has just published a report claiming that Anthony Weiner has told friends that he will resign later today.(Update: he did) The New York Post says he is already looking for a job. The Laughing Conservative can confidently predict that suggestions that he open a hot-dog stand will not be welcome.
San Francisco floats goldfish ban
The capital city of the loony left is mulling a ban on goldfish, tropical fish and guppies. The LC is aware, from eating in many fine Chinese restaurants, that goldfish are an essential part of Feng Shui. Banning their sale would arguably discriminate against SF's sizable Chinese-American community.The LC predicts that, if this paradox threatens a psychic meltdown among thousands of Bay City moonbats, the fish ban will not become law.
(Hat Tip: Memeorandum)
6/15/11
Our Money at Work
Gumbo has this fascinating account of tax money frittered away and benefits received by our oh-so- parsimonious leaders.
So the Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop....
The end of global "warming" ? Cool!
Image via WikipediaTwo fascinating links have just arrived from a New York friend and former Lunar Excursion Module (left) engineer. Read this and then this.
Viewed alone these are interesting enough. But taken together they suggest a future hasty retreat by those scientifically illiterate global "warmists" and their destructive "green" agenda. Often they are not even tree-huggers, but socialists hiding behind a Green disguise to further their anti-free-enterprise agenda.
Weiner: the trouser snake strikes again
The Weiner story just won't go away: The Congressman won't quit voluntarily, which only prolongs the media circus and delays the inevitable. Now Gawker is displaying this hilarious visual pun .
6/14/11
A budding curmudgeon confesses
Weiner's wiener doll
OK, Weiner jokes are getting a little limp. But this made me laugh all over again.
Know your enemies: join them!
This shows how valuable it can be to register with "progressive" sites like MoveOn.org . Conservatives often instinctively avoid them. They shouldn't. The resulting emails give priceless insights and alerts. I discovered this after registering with Obama's 1998 campaign site.
Rule1: Know thine enemy.
Rule1: Know thine enemy.
Rule 2: See Rule 1
Incandescent With Rage
Image via Wikipedia
6/13/11
Another lesbian emerges from the wrong closet
First a Syrian lesbian who was not a lesbian, not Syrian nor even a woman. Now a prominent lesbian blogger reveals that she's not a lesbian, not a woman, but Bill Graber, a married military man and construction worker, who has has been writing the lesbian blog LezGetReal for three years under the name "Paula Brooks". He said he did it "with the best of intentions." The LC recalls that was exactly what the lesbian-who-was-not-Syrian--or-even-a-woman said, after being outed. Perhaps Anthony Weiner should try saying he acted with the "best of intentions." Heaven knows, he's tried everything else. Wait a second...: You don't suppose that he...
The LC is going to bed, where he can dream happily that all's still Right with the world..
The LC is going to bed, where he can dream happily that all's still Right with the world..
Actual Saudi Mall Dress Regulations...
This comes from the friend of a diplomat friend of The LC in Saudi Arabia
where it's displayed
in a mall.
Women's Clothing Regulations in Islam (sic)
Rule 1: To be full body covered
Rule 2: Should not be attractive in it's style
Rule 3: Should not be perfumed
Rule 4: Should be non transparent and to be thick
Rule 5: Should be loose and not body tide
Rule 6: Non men stylish
Rule 7: Should not be fancy
The LC asks: Snooki, is that you under there?
The LC asks: Snooki, is that you under there?
Syrian lesbian neither lesbian nor Syrian
The author of a blog supposedly by a lesbian in Damascus, is a 40-year-old American student from Georgia studying in Scotland, says the London Daily Mail.
The LC sees the Che Guevara T-shirt as the definitive mark of a loony-left loser who's well past his use-by date (a student aged 40? "Sheesh!"-- to use a Palinism.)
The LC sees the Che Guevara T-shirt as the definitive mark of a loony-left loser who's well past his use-by date (a student aged 40? "Sheesh!"-- to use a Palinism.)
US in Afghanistan for decades?
Just after The LC posted the sarcastic item "More wars, please" (below), came this. The LC hopes the wish isn't actually being granted. Read more at Positively Right.
Not Always Right
This is not about Right-wingers occasionally being wrong (as if...) But a funny blog about crazy customers.
(Hat tip: Gumbo)
(Hat tip: Gumbo)
More wars, please
Question: Why did Americans elect Obama?
Answer: Because we wanted more wars
Next Question.
Steve Chapman conjectures at Reason.com .
(Hat tip: Instapundit)
Answer: Because we wanted more wars
Next Question.
Steve Chapman conjectures at Reason.com .
(Hat tip: Instapundit)
Empty trash. Buy milk. Make history.
How humble household lists are unlocking the secrets of History.
The Viagra Award Goes to...
Now Weiner Week has ended, we can present The Viagra Award for Outstanding Weiner joke. It goes to... National Public Radio:
"Congressman Weiner said the photo leak was a prank, he’s a victim, the picture could be taken out of context. In what possible context would you take this picture? Maybe he meant to send it to his doctor, with the message, "Okay, it's been four hours, time to get you involved."-- from NPR's "Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me!"
Fighting words
Image via WikipediaAmerican military officers in Afghanistan sometimes refer to the official NATO command — called the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, as “I Saw Americans Fighting.”
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