Faux Newser Glenn Beck continues his awesome on-air nervous breakdown in this clip, which we have improved somewhat and in which Glenn explains the horrifying present-day implications of the reverse side of a coin that has been out of circulation for fifty-nine years.
In an upcoming episode, Glenn will unpack for his gullible viewers the terrifying significance of the pyramid on the back of the one dollar bill which, no doubt, proves that there are sleeper cells of jihadists in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Camels too.
We’ve visited with Eric Odom before. Odom is the bald popinjay whose surname sounds like a Biblical city where everybody was turned to salt for masturbating. More to the point, he’s a character who’s catapulting the Republican party, ready or not, into today’s Internet tomorrowland of online websites, of the www.facebook.com and the other one, the Tweeter where you chirp at people.
About half of what Odom does is to conceptualize social-networking projects on the very brink of the bleeding cusp of three years ago, name them something like Yibble, Tweeg, or Blop, and leave them abandoned all over the web like attempted real-estate coups, or actually more like someone changed their mind about a box of fish sticks and stashed it in the Goya aisle.
Above: Impressive reverse Astroturf as citizen, coincidentally Odom, addresses the Republican Economic Recovery Working Group
These days, the other half is the grassroots tea parties of recent note, in which furiously angry ordinary citizens are taking a stand for America and shouting ‘no more’ to impediments to the policy aims of the wealthy. For indeed and at last, America has had enough of what it has been having, and demands a society stripped of barriers to don’t-look-back, straight-to-the-big-time success like the success America is planning to achieve with the plumbing business it’s planning to buy with some money when it gets some, with the plumbing license it’s going to get. Message: OMG we are so incredibly against taxes we could just freaking go berserk and chase taxes with an axe, back and forth across the screen in silhouette, until we have a histrionic comedy heart attack and are loaded by stretcher into a comedy ambulance, which speeds offscreen with taxes perched on its roof, waving.
What many don’t realize is that the tea parties are being organized with no professional help from at least a dozen right-wing astroturf foundations at all, leaving hardly a single foundation more than a dozen to provide requested and/or unrequested assistance in ways that are confidential for the protection of liberty. Odom is right of the middle of this, or trying to appear as though he is.
And he must be listening to a lot of FLAC on his stuPod lately, because he has created what could be the least effective phony-nonpartisan post in the history of not fooling people. Read the rest of this entry »
While the MSM flounders about telling us about a shooting rampage at a Binghamton, N.Y. immigration center that left 13 dead including the gunman, Debbie Schlussel scoops the world on the REAL story …
SOME OF THE MURDERED PEOPLE MAY HAVE BEEN GAMING THE SYSTEM!!!!
As Schlussel reports, ‘it looks like most of those who were at the American Civic Association at the time of the rampage didn’t speak English. And yet, most were there to take the citizenship test.’ Further:
Yes, some of the people were there in an English class, but how many who couldn’t speak English were among those taking the citizenship test?
Probably more than you’d think.
Pending the almost-certain-to-emerge revelation by Pam Atlas that this horrific crime somehow involves Islam, Schlussel takes the early lead in tearing the lid off the truly important facts in this awful story.
Readers of my ABCNews column or Wall Street Journal opinion pieces will remember that I’ve regularly listed four things that needed to be done to improve the U.S. economy. Now the first one has fallen: mark-to-market accounting.
All very nice, but how about we ignore the bean-counters altogether? We can call it ‘mark-to-whatever-the-fuck-you-like accounting’. So Bank of America, for example, could write on its balance sheet that its current holdings consist of ’50 gazillion bushels of hyperwealth’. AIG Financial Products could value its Escheresque maze of derivatives at ‘more than enough to cover everything plus infinity so shut the hell up, Krugman’.
That still leaves three to go: 1) Make Sarbanes-Oxley voluntary; 2) Abandon options expensing as unrealistic; and 3) Leave the capital gains tax alone. We’ve now seen what an improvement of just one of those can do. Adoption of all four will bring us back to prosperity.
Or, to put it another way:
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains, corps volunteer for SOX
And little streams of leveraged debt come a-trickling down the rocks
There ain’t no limits on short-selling, no taxes on the rich
I’m a’ gonna stay where you hedge all day
Where they hung the sap that invented GAAP
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
The current depression will continue for the rest of this decade and most of the next. There will be bright spots, rays of sunshine peeking thru the dark clouds, but don’t mistake them for a clearing of the weather. The Usurpers policies will make things better until the work projects are done. Then things will get really bad, since there won’t be enough capital left for more make work projects and the first batch were not revenue producing. So EVERYBODY will be broke. I expect that to come around late spring of ‘10. Misery index will be pushing 25 by then and the mid term elections will look grim for the demonrats. That is when the Usurper will declare a national emergency and suspend the Constitution. He has 90 days of that before Congress has to vote on an extension. How do you think they will vote when faced with the prospect of getting thrown out of office?
That is when the slower members of the right and the center finally figure out that they have lost their democracy to a Usurper. Then the troubles will start. Civil War by the spring of ‘11.
BTW, this is basically the same scenario the Bolsheviks used. Help start a civil war and then after the other parties have done all the heavy lifting, step in and take over.
The law – which some lawmakers say was never debated in parliament – is intended to regulate family life inside Afghanistan’s Shiite community, […] One of the most controversial articles stipulates […] “As long as the husband is not traveling, he has the right to have sexual intercourse with his wife every fourth night,” […] “Unless the wife is ill or has any kind of illness that intercourse could aggravate, the wife is bound to give a positive response to the sexual desires of her husband.”
Guess it could be worse — the wife might have been required to travel to her husband’s location to have herself get raped. [Emphasis added, rape in original.]
A commenter I assume to be Gary Schmitt, the former executive director and current senior fellow at the Project for the New American Century, writes to take me to task for my characterization of the organization, saying that PNAC contributed no staff or board members to the Bush Administration. Schmitt is right…
But only in the most technical sense: right in fact, wrong in spirit. Schmitt’s weasel maneuver is of course typical of the sociopaths of PNAC who’d very much like it if everyone forgets just what their horrible little group is responsible for. So they deny, deny, deny — and for good measure imply that they are victims or scapegoats. Poor, poor pitiful PNACers, persecuted by liberals who subscribe to a fantastic (and no doubt anti-Semitic) conspiracy theory which holds that a clique of moral monsters, who had been pushing for years for violently expanding the American Empire, took advantage of 9/11 to effect exactly that end, through their influence in government and the media. So crazy it’s true!
PNACers and their admirers insist that it was nothing more than a harmless little group of scholars. Just ask Bill Kristol:
Colbert: Speaking of thinking alike, you were a member, or are a member of the New Project for the American Century, correct?
Kristol: I am.
Colbert: Were or am, am?
Kristol: Were and am.
Colbert: How’s that project coming?
Kristol: well. it’s..(stammering)
Colbert: How’s the New American Century, looks good to me?
Kristol: Ahh–I think…hehe yea–I’m speechless..
Colbert: Really?
Kristol: Yea…we’ve sort of…the Project for the New American Century is just a few people..
PNAC is the acronym for the “Project for the New American Century”–a three person think tank in Washington DC that fills a large place in the imaginations of America’s left-wing.
Frum isn’t always so nice when the subject comes up. Meanwhile, David Brooks insists these people “don’t actually have much contact with one another.” Right. And for good measure, here’s Sean Hannity, Jonathan Adler, and Rod Dreher with their own version of the same bullschmitt.
Hey, did’jever notice how the success of the socialist so-called ‘global warming’ plot to intentionally bankrupt America is due to America’s rising terror of two million Islamofascist fundamentalist jihadi psychopathic killing machines supported actively or tacitly by the several hundred million Muslims that we’re in a civilizational death struggle, uh, with?
