Archive | December, 2009
Surprise: ACORN Finds No Pattern of Illegal Activity at ACORN
You mean an internal audit of ACORN conducted by far left-wing ACORN stooges didn’t turn up a pattern of illegality at ACORN offices? I’m shocked, as I’m sure you are. I fully expected the audit to find a corrupt organization worthy of federal investigation. WASHINGTON — An internal investigation of the community-organizing group ACORN found [...]
Amazon Denies Reports of Physical Store Plans
7. December 2009
Disappointing news, actually. A physical Amazon.com store would be quite a positive step, even if the reports claimed the initial locations would be in the United Kingdom. They’d probably quite successful, too. A spokesman for the group said it had no plans to open physical stores after the Sunday Times reported the group was looking [...]
Good News: EPA To Declare Carbon Dioxide a Public Danger
7. December 2009
Yes, your exhalations are now officially considered a public danger by the federal government. The fact you continue to breathe is, according to the EPA, a bad thing. WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will early next week, possibly as soon as Monday, officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could [...]
Revealed: The Massive Carbon Footprint of the Copenhagen Meeting
7. December 2009
Fret not, my comrades. I’m sure they’ll purchase some carbon offsets from a company owned by Al Gore and all will be right in the world. As we know, buying a piece of paper mitigates the environmental damage caused by flying your private plane halfway across the world. Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and [...]
White House: Intelligence on Bin Laden? We Don’t Have That
6. December 2009
It’s actually a bit more complex of a situation than my title makes it sound. Maybe. Or not. You see, Robert Gates is now an Obama Administration official and as such his job is to protect the current administration. Even if that means attacking the previous administration he served in, or at least bringing it [...]
Flashback: Robert Byrd Not Too Happy About Working on Sunday
6. December 2009
How unhappy was the senior senator from West Virginia and former Klu Klux Klan member? He actually quoted the King James Bible on why no one should work on the Sabbath. Including the part about putting such violators to death. On the floor of Senate. The clip dates back to October 10, 2004. The Senate [...]
Democrats: Hey, How About Yet Another Tax on Investors?
6. December 2009
How moronic is this move? Even the Obama Administration is essentially saying, “Yeah…thanks, but no thanks.” And yet, very powerful Democrats in the U.S. Senate are pushing this measure. Because we all know nothing stimulates the economy like government taking even more money away from companies and investors. Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, Oregon Representative Peter [...]
NY Post: Bill Joel’s Daughter Attempted to Commit Suicide
6. December 2009
Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of singer Bill Joel and model Christie Brinkley, was rushed to the hospital this afternoon after attempting to commit suicide by drug overdose, the New York Post reports. A family spokesman says she’s now stable and conscious. A female called 911 just after noon today, telling the operator that Joel had [...]
Good News: White House Forgot It Told McChrystal to Defeat Taliban
5. December 2009
Back in October of this year, the Obama Administration held a war room meeting on Afghanistan. General Stanley McChrystal, the four-star general Obama himself appointed to lead the fight against the Taliban, was teleconferenced into the meeting from Kabul. He was asked to explain what he had been doing since receiving his orders in March. [...]
Video: Republican Senators Stress Need to Protect Medicare Benefits
5. December 2009
Republican Senators aren’t sitting by quietly as their Democratic counterparts gut $500 billion from Medicare, jeopardizing access to health services for millions of America’s seniors. Earlier this week the GOP introduced an amendment that would’ve restored the half-trillion to the Medicare program and ensured our parents and grandparents would’ve continued to receive the care they [...]
7. December 2009
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