The Wave

Bill Murray: Celebrity with a brain -and- a heart?

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:43:00 +0000

"Take care of yourself, try to help others."

"I think we ought to be personally responsible," he said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" Friday morning. "I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.

"I think we've sort of gotten used to someone looking out for us, and I don't think any other person is necessarily going to be counted on to look out for us."

Murray opined that many seen to forget the discipline early Americans needed to have just to survive.

"Occasionally, it seeps in that they came in wagons from Illinois to Oregon or whatever. That they came in wagons and the wheels broke."

He said this image leads to thoughts such as, " 'Gee, that must have been hard for those women to push that wagon up that mountain.'

"And that's what they had to do," he said. "There was no option but to do it yourself, to have your own responsibility."

Personal responsibility. Imagine.

Murray also had opinions about the current political campaigns and criticized both parties for their partisan bickering.

"They spend all their time just trying to destroy the other guy, not to work together, but to humble and humiliate the other so that they can't have success.

"It's not working to serve anyone anymore," he added. "I don't want to sound like a Rotarian, but if you're not some sort of common good, and you're only servic[ing] your sort of partisan alliance, you're part of what's destructive, you're destroying something."

Full story HERE.

As Bill O'Reilly might say: "Bill Murray, PATRIOT."

Again, WE'RE SHOCKED!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:13:00 +0000

Pelosi might have skirted House ethics rules on campaign solicitations...

Just when you think obama would want to avoid STUPENDOUS blunders...

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:31:00 +0000

[from Drudge and other reports]

Archbishop: Obama Needs To Stop 'Intruding Into Internal Life Of Church'...

Top Republican vows to end WH attack on 'religious freedom'...

Catholic nun pleads with Biden to 'fix' ruling...

RUBIO: 'We will do'...

Rubio: [...this is] "the first time" an administration has clashed with faiths over matters of conscience and said if the president doesn't change his mind on the issue, "we [Congress] will have to do it for him."

CHURCH LEADER: JAIL OVER OBAMACARE...

Obama struggles to stifle uproar...

Obama forms super PAC he once decried

Catholic League Poised To Go To War With Obama Over Mandatory Birth Control Payments

Catholic Leaders Blast White House’s Take On Contraception Debate Negotiations Time Frame

Senate GOP pushes to shield faith groups from contraception rule

And then you get this report which can only encourage libs and frustrate conservatives:

SHOCK POLL: 20% of Republicans leaning to Obama?

[WAVE comment] What a crazy world we live in...

But things are looking up...

JACK IN THE BOX unveils new bacon milkshake packing 1,081 calories...

In the interest of full disclosure and a keen nose for investigative fact-finding, The WAVE -will- check this out and report back to you! You know, like before Michelle ANTOINETTE tries to ban it, along with bread.

More bad news for Algore and the AGW (global warming) scammers/hoaxers

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:31:00 +0000

POLAR ICE CAPS MELTING LESS THAN THOUGHT...

STUDY: Himalayas, nearby peaks lost no ice in past 10 years...

Scientists 'stunned'...

UPDATE

'I Feel Duped'...

More folks on government teat

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:17:00 +0000

This will come as no surprise to anyone paying the least little bit of attention to the ongoing attempt by the obama administration to further socialize and create government dependence, but we're going to tell you anyway.

From Investors Business Daily (IBD) HERE:

The American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation.

The increase under Obama is the biggest two-year jump since Jimmy Carter was president, the data show.

The rise was driven mainly by increases in housing subsidies, an expansion in Medicaid and changes to the welfare system, along with a sharp rise in food stamps*, the study found.

"You can't get around the fact that policy decisions made over the past two years, on top of those made over the past several decades, are having a large effect on the pace of growth of the index," said William Beach, who authored the Heritage study.

*NPR, your friendly liberal media source, says this about Newt Gingrich and the "food stamp president" remark: Gingrich criticized Obama for the growth in food stamps, calling him "the best food stamp president in American history." He later said that "the fact is that more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history." We've rated that Half True because the number was headed upward before Obama became president.

Factcheck says: Gingrich goes too far to say Obama has put more on the rolls than other presidents. We asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition service for month-by-month figures going back to January 2001. And they show that under President George W. Bush the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million. Nothing before comes close to that.

And under Obama, the increase so far (story date Jan 18 2012) has been 14.2 million. To be exact, the program has so far grown by 444,574 fewer recipients during Obama’s time in office than during Bush’s.

The WAVE will comment that Bush was president for 8 years; obama has been in for 3. Do the math. Can't? Let us help.

Bush food stamp adds per year: 1,837,500

obama food stamp adds per year: 4,733,333

Get it now?

One picture = 1000 words

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:33:00 +0000

[Thanks to RKK]

No caption needed.

Fact-Checking the President: Truth... or Fiction.. or in-between???

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:02:00 +0000

Fact or Fiction Number 1 - The Booming Economy: Obama's Jobs Story

Fact or Fiction Number 2 - Obama's Plan for Foreclosures

Fact or Fiction Number 3 - The American Auto Industry is Back

Fact or Fiction Number 4 - Debt Serious: Obama's Plug for Students

Fact or Fiction Number 5 - The Rich, Their Secretaries and Taxes

Fact or Fiction Number 6 - Soaring Energy Production and Advances in Offshore Drilling

Fact or Fiction Number 7 - Overseas Tax Breaks

Fact or Fiction Number 8 - The Tax Man Is Hereth: Can Obama Tax the Rich to Save the Debt?

Fact or Fiction Number 9 - Manchurian Trade Rate: Who Took on China More?

Fact or Fiction Number 10 - A Milk Spill Was Equal To An Oil Spill In The Eyes of Federal Rules

Fact or Fiction Number 11 - It's Getting Hot in Here: Obama Repeats a Demand to Tone It Down

Fact or Fiction Number 12 - Can President Obama Stimulate the Stimulus and Use the War Funds to Pay Down the Debt and Build New Roads?

Interesting reading, but it's from ABC News, so bring your salt shaker.

State of the Union Address: "...insinuation of blame, proclaiming fantastic results, grandiose promises..." = BS

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:55:00 +0000

Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard: "...mostly the speech consisted of an effort to make a big deal out of not much.

"[in his speech] in Osawatomie, Kansas, in December, ... he didn’t pull his partisan punches. Last night, he did.

"The president called on Congress to pass the payroll tax cut “without delay.” He didn’t mention that House Republicans approved exactly that last year, only to be forced to go along with the Democratic Senate that extended the tax cut for two months. Both parties now agree on a full year’s cut. So relax, Mr. President.

"Obama urged passage of legislation to reduce energy waste by manufacturers that, he claimed, would save $100 billion over 10 years. But do manufacturers really need to be incentivized to save costs of that magnitude? Chances are, they’re already doing it.

"He came out strongly for a law against insider trading by members of Congress. A smaller problem would be hard to find. He’s for doubling the number of work-study jobs for college students. But does this really require presidential attention?

"Then there were the hardy perennials. The president said he’d sign an executive order cutting red tape that slows down construction projects. Red tape always takes a beating in State of the Unions. And he’s ordering federal agencies to eliminate regulations that don’t make sense. The problem is federal agencies think their regulations do make sense. Thus serious deregulation won’t happen.

"Presidents from George Washington’s time have given historically significant addresses. State of the Union speeches rarely qualify. Until the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, they didn’t deliver them. They were written. That’s a practice Obama should consider reviving."

Jim Geraghty in Morning Jolt (NRO): "I figure Obama might see a bump in his numbers from this speech, because he basically said he can deliver utopia in exchange for some tax hikes on millionaires."

Los Angeles TIMES: "Obama delivers a confrontational State of the Union address - Obama opened an election-year debate on the role of government that could be more intense than any in decades.

"Warning Congress that "I intend to fight obstruction with action," he painted a confrontational picture that stands in sharp contrast with the conciliatory approach taken by the last Democrat to seek a second term, Bill Clinton."

Jon Henke tweeted (@JonHenke): "[The State of the Union Address] is a President's New Year's Resolutions. Lots of promises, mostly abandoned a few weeks later."

What is the SOTUA all about? Matt Welch at reason.com sums it up pretty well:

"Why does every SOTU sound eerily familiar? Because presidents have been saying the same things for a half-century. We can be pretty sure Obama will talk about improving the economy, creating jobs for the 21st century, achieving energy independence, improving our schools, confronting America's enemies, championing the global cause of freedom, tackling long-term entitlements, and building bipartisan coalitions to rise above political bickering and do the people's work, at this hinge point in history.

That's because every State of the Union has contained all or most of these nostrums stretching back a half-century. In fact, starting with John F. Kennedy's address to a joint session of Congress in 1961, you could take one sentence from each SOTU since, in chronological order, and cobble together a speech that will likely resemble much of what you'll hear tonight. (see Welch's full prediction of what the SOTUA would contain, and then compare to what was actually delivered. Pretty accurate!)

For our part, we enjoyed some Big Bang Theory and Frasier re-runs. Rather than a SOTUA re-run.

Have a nice day!

EXTRA! EXTRA! WAVE predicts State of the Union Address!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:51:00 +0000

OK, not really -our- prediction. We're going to steal a line from a very smart guy, Larry Sabato.

His best? "...presidential bluffing with high stakes, but what choice does [he] have?"

Predictions from a bunch of "experts" HERE

Media hypocritcally censors FREEDOM OF SPEECH

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:12:00 +0000

Newt the Warrior lashes out at media again. And AGAIN, he's right.

From NYT, HERE:

Gingrich...on Tuesday morning threatened not participate in any future debates with audiences that have been instructed to be silent. ...[On] Monday...Brian Williams of NBC News asked the audience of about 500 people who assembled for a debate in Tampa to hold their applause until the commercial breaks.

In an interview with the morning show “Fox and Friends,” Mr. Gingrich said NBC’s rules amounted to stifling free speech. In what has become a standard line of attack for his anti-establishment campaign, Mr. Gingrich blamed the media for trying to silence a dissenting point of view.

“I think [Brian Williams] took them out of it because the media is terrified that the audience is going to side with the candidates against the media, which is what they’ve done in every debate.”

[WAVE comment]: And, we might add, the censorship imposed by NBC resulted in a debate that proved a good substitute for Sominex or a healthy does of tryptophan.

obama: "Abortions let our daughters fulfill their dreams"

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:45:00 +0000

We are at once so dumbfounded and outraged by this fool in the White House we can't even comment on the absurdities he is mouthing here:

Obama Defends Roe v. Wade As Way for ‘Our Daughters’ to Have Same Chance As Sons to ‘Fulfill Their Dreams’

From CNS News:

(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama says the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade is the chance to recognize the “fundamental constitutional right” to abortion and to “continue our efforts to ensure that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.”

November can't get here soon enough. It is getting so bad that the thought of impeaching him and throwing him out (for NUMEROUS valid reasons) and having Joe the Clown plagiarizing in the Oval Office just seems eminently preferable.

TSA gonna catch hellfire from Ron Paul. We'll pitch a little ourselves!

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:31:00 +0000

From Drudge:

TSA detains Sen. Rand Paul...

Refused patdown...

Standoff...

So what are your choices if you set off, OR IF A COMPUTER GLITCH SETS OFF an "anomaly detected" alert on a walk-through TSA security screening detector? Can you simply walk through again? You would think so, but NO! Apparently you must accept a full-body pat-down. You know, the kind they give to little 6-yr-old girls.

Sen, Rand Paul, son of the presidential candidate, REFUSED the patdown (God bless him!), and so we just have to wait for more updates.

For now, we would suggest that ANYONE who "triggers" the "anomaly alert" and is refused a second walk-through, and told they MUST submit to a full-body pat-down, say "HELL NO!"

The consequences are tyrannical, in our opinion. Just one more reason to drive rather than fly. (That and being scheduled on any model AIRBUS!)

Proof that obama is DELUSIONAL!

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:35:00 +0000

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If we had not read it with our own eyes, we would not have believed it.

The mainstream media (MSM), which except for FOX is absolutely in the tank for this occupier-in-chief, which is doing its best to destroy the GOP candidates one by one (see great cartoon below, courtesy CSM here), which refuses to drill and press him on the tough unanswered questions, which swoons like a lovestruck schoolgirl who has laid her eyes on the star quarterback, which leans so far to the left it amazes any mechanical/structural engineer how it fails to crash to the ground in a heap, this SAME mainstream media which follows obama around like a new puppy or a bunch of addle-brained groupies at a rock concert...

Guess who the messiah is now blaming for "...creating the image that he's aloof and disconnected from the rest of Washington"? You just have to read this for yourself:

"My suspicion is that this whole critique has to do with the fact that I don’t go to a lot of Washington parties and, as a consequence, the Washington press corps maybe just doesn’t feel like I’m in the mix enough with them, and they figure, well, if I’m not spending time with them, I must be cold and aloof," Obama said in an interview with Time Magazine released Thursday.

(Story link HERE)

How about going beyond aloof and disconnected with Washington? How about THE REST OF THE COUNTRY???

Elizabeth Scalia*, writing in the blog "The Anchoress", comments:

I’m not looking to cause any trouble here...but am I missing something in the class-war-income-inequality narratives?

I mean Obama and the Democrats keep making noises that approximate a tune that goes like this: “millionaires and billionaires are bad.”

Which...was not the case when John Kerry and John Edwards (not to mention Al Gore) were Democrat candidates.

What seems to be lost in this endlessly playing sing-along is the fact that President Obama and his wife are millionaires who have no problem enjoying $81 dollar American Wagyu steaks during an evening out.

[My] point is this: at what point can we reasonably expect the press...[to] open their eyes to the staggering cognitive dissonance that exists between the rhetoric that pours from them, and the way they actually live their lives?

[What] we’re looking at in the Obama class-war rhetoric so faithfully echoed in the press is the building of an incomplete (“cherry-picked” if you like) narrative intended to get people so worked up, resentful and emotion-driven by November ’12, they’ll fail to notice that that the encouragements and praises they hear for “keeping it real” in the OWS camps and on the welfare lines are all being called out to them from the swiftly-passing limousines of the endlessly privileged — the people who want us to believe that handing out unemployment benefits creates more jobs than actual, historic job-creators do, and whose lives will remain largely untouched by the effects of their ruinous policies.

Why pretend to bash the rich when you ARE the rich, when your party is top-heavy with the so-called “filthy rich” like Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Jon Corzine, and the denizens of Hollywood and High-Finance and oh, yes, Publishing, and New Media...? Why pretend there is an inherent evil in some people having more than others, or suggest that only government can be counted on to “help” people, when um, the people who “helped” you pull together nearly a billion dollars for your presidential campaign were, you know…rich?

Understand, I don’t want the Obama’s $81 steaks...But it seems to me that a president should not want to eat an $81 steak if he is disdainful of others who do so.

And if he is not disdainful, if he really believes that everyone should have the opportunity to land an $81 steak, does he really think that unemployment benefits, rather than jobs will deliver that steak to the masses?

*Benedictine Oblate and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos. She is a writer, speaker and a regularly-featured columnist at First Things and at The Catholic Answer

[WAVE comment]: Good news out of the lead story? At least he finally blamed something on someone other than GWB and the Republicans in Congress!

1/18/2012: Gingrich calls obama STUPID. And he's right. Keystone Pipeline issue.

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:36:00 +0000

UPDATED: Curiouser and curiouser: CAN obama win re-immaculation???

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:27:00 +0000

SO many confusing signs. Except THIS one:

Also from Rasmussen (LINK):

A generic Republican candidate now holds a five-point lead over President Obama in a hypothetical Election 2012 matchup for the week ending Sunday, Jan. 15.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters would support the generic Republican candidate if the presidential election were held today, while 42% would vote for Obama.

PLUS (link HERE): A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Republican in their district’s congressional race if the election were held today, while 38% would choose the Democrat instead.

UPDATES added:

Hollywood Moguls Stopping Obama Donations Because Of Piracy Stand... Developing...

Obama kills Keystone pipeline; Blames Republicans...

Says more jobs in jobless benefits...

GOP calls Hillary to testify...

House approves resolution opposing debt limit hike...

[WAVE]: ABC News seems to be happy to do the obama campaign's work for them, launching a series of stories designed to take down Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. Why not Perry and Santorum? Because neither of them stands a snowball's chance in hell of being the Republican nominee.

ABCNEWS: Romney parks wealth in tax haven...

Sent Millions to Mormon Church...

[WAVE]: And what can they do to derail Newt?

NEWT EX-WIFE UNLOADS

ABC DEBATES 'ETHICS' OF AIRING BEFORE PRIMARY...

Greta Van Susteren: 'I would hold it until after the polls close'...

[WAVE updated headlines from Drudge]:

GINGRICH DAUGHTERS: 'The failure of a marriage is terrible and emotional experience'...

Adviser: Marianne 'very bitter'...

[WAVE]: But WAIT!!! There's MORE!!! AP is reporting that "[ABC News] has interviewed Newt Gingrich's second wife and is likely to air the segment Thursday on "Nightline."

"That's two days before the South Carolina primary, where the Republican presidential candidate is trying to topple GOP front-runner Mitt Romney."

[WAVE]: With media giants like ABC News doing the bashing for him, why should obama worry about getting re-throned?

Herman Cain gets some traction and momentum, BLAM! Out of the woodwork come the little worms.

Rick Perry gets some traction and momentum, BLAM! Let's talk about that rock on your hunting ranch that has the N-word painted on it.

Let's press Romney on his financial records and tax returns and CAYMAN ISLANDS accounts.

But let's NEVER have anyone but the bloggers and sidestream media continually press obama about Rev. Wright's hate-filled venom delivered from a pulpit where obama and his family attended church for about 20 years (when Wiki is back online, look up "Jeremiah Wright controversy").

Let's not question obama's questionable citizenship (yes, we still have doubts, and even more firm doubts since we saw a photo of the birth record page. Funny how the lines on the paper did not show a curve where the paper bent to the spine of the book---are we the only ones to notice that???).

Let's not question why obama's college transcripts and other college work-product are not available.

Let's just let the MSM keep doing obama's work for him, trashing and bashing and smashing the VIABLE contenders against him.

This country's collective voter brains are turning to mush. What a disgrace.

On the MORE NEWS lighter side, we see this in today's morning collection of headlines from Drudge:

"sMALL qUAKE sHAKES dC rEgioN..."

We suspect it was Moochelle Antoinette, either slamming her fist down and demanding another personal jet vacay, or maybe just her tummy rumbling for more BBQ ribs...

Martin Luther King Sighs...

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:34:00 +0000

OK, a day late, but we just found this and felt it was too good to save until next year, when it may not be relevant. After January 20th, that is.

More great cartoons at hopenchangecartoons.blogspot.com by Stilton Jarlsberg

Abbott and Coastello on Unemployment - so they work for obama?

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:45:00 +0000

[thanks for the tip by JEK; courtesy of Tom Burnett, HERE]

US Dept of labor statistics as reported by Abbott and Costello

Costello: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.

Abbott: Good subject, terrible times, it's 9%.

Costello: That many people are out of work.

Abbott: No that's 17%.

Costello: You just said 9%.

Abbott: 9% unemployed.

Costello: Right 9% out of work.

Abbott: No that's 17%.

Costello: Okay so it's 17% unemployed?

Abbott: No that's 9%.

Costello: Wait a minute, is it 9% or 17%?

Abbott: 9% are unemployed. 17% are out of work.

Costello: If you're out of work you are unemployed.

Abbott: No you can't count the out-of-work as the unemployed. You have to look for work to be unemployed.

Costello: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!

Abbott: No, you miss the point.

Costello: What point?

Abbott: Some one who doesn't look for work can't be counted with those who look for work, it wouldn't be fair.

Costello: To who?

Abbott: The Unemployed.

Costello: But they are all out of work.

Abbott: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work ... those who are out of work stopped looking. They gave up, and if you give up you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.

Costello: So if you're off the unemployment role, that would count as less unemployment?

Abbott: Unemployment would go down, Absolutely!

Costello: The unemployment just goes down because you don't look for work?

Abbott: Absolutely it goes down that's how you get 9%, otherwise it would be 17%. You don't want to read about 17% unemployment do ya?

Costello: That would be frightening.

Abbott: Absolutely.

Costello: Wait, I got a question for you, that means that they're two ways to bring down the unemployment number?

Abbott: Two ways is correct.

Costello: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?

Abbott: Correct.

Costello: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?

Abbott: Bingo.

Costello: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to just stop looking for work.

Abbott: Now you're thinking like an economist.

PROOF that the USA is FULL of R-A-C-I-S-T-S!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:28:00 +0000

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You can't make this stuff up.

A bank which opened its doors for business today (Jan 16, MLK Day) was picketed by about a dozen demonstrators in Burlington, Maine, and accused of being racist.

The marchers briefly gathered in front of the bank, then tried to enter. Moments after the group arrived, Patrick Brown, director of the Burlington Multicultural Resource Center, said he would hand leaflets to bank tellers protesting the bank’s hours Monday. The leaflet read: “Dear TD Bank, you are defying the King holiday. Shame, Shame, Shame. This is a racist act. Shame, Shame, Shame."

What a bunch of loons. By their reasoning, any business staying open on MLK Day would be racist? Maybe not. But what about just BANKS? You know, where so many welfare and entitlement checks get cashed. Gotta be against the law, right?

Not hardly.

From Wiki:

Although the day is a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is usually not observed by small private companies except for banks. Some large corporations close their operations (more so than on Veterans Day or Columbus Day, which are also federal holidays, but less so than on holidays such as Memorial Day or Labor Day when virtually all corporations are closed), but small shops, restaurants, and grocery stores tend to remain open. Overall, in 2006, 31% of employers are giving employees the day off, with 35% of large employers over 1,000 giving time off and 29% of smaller employers giving time off. The observance is most popular amongst nonprofit organizations and least popular among factories and manufacturers. The reasons for this have varied, ranging from the recent addition of the holiday (each year more businesses are closed than the year before) to its occurrence just two weeks after the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, when many businesses are closed for part of or sometimes all of the week. Additionally, some schools and places of higher education are closed for classes; others remain open but may hold seminars or celebrations of Dr. King's message.

As for the sincere and conscientious gentleman leading the demonstrators, we offer this quote from Dr. King himself:

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Another funny from cousin Big Tony

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:38:00 +0000

Because we refuse to be serious on this "solemn" day...

To help save the economy, the Government will announce next month that the Immigration Department will start deporting seniors (instead of illegals) in order to lower Social Security and Medicare costs.

Older people are easier to catch and will not remember how to get back home.

I started to cry when I thought of you.

Then it dawned on me ... oh, crap ...

I'll see you on the bus!

Obama Generation becoming the DEBT GENERATION???

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:45:00 +0000

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[Thanks to RKK]

Young people may have swallowed the Kool-Aid, but some of them are regurgitating and speaking up using their own thoughts.

Makes sense to us, either URINE or you're OUT!

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:45:00 +0000

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Delightful share from cousin Big Tony:

I have a job.

I work, they pay me.

I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit.

In order to get that paycheck, in my case, I am required to pass a random urine test (with which I have no problem).

What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test.

So, here is my question: Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them?

Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet.
I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their BUTT ---- doing drugs while I work.

Can you imagine how much money each state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check?

I guess we could call the program "URINE OR YOU'RE OUT"!

Obama: ‘Everything that we fought for is now at stake in this election’

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:02:00 +0000

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Is the chosen one feeling the pressure, seeing the handwriting on the wall, greedy for more cash to fund his upcoming retirement?

Who knows?

Obama told 500 cheering fans Wednesday, “Everything that we fought for is now at stake in this election.”

He repeated the message at more intimate gatherings in private homes in Lake View and Kenwood.

“If you’re willing to work even harder in this election than you did in the last election, I promise you, change will come.” (Full story HERE)

WAVE comment: To which we reply, yes, by God, it will. Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Start packing your bags.

Note to Michelle "Jet Thief" O: The truth hurts, does it?

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:44:00 +0000

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From Drudge:

Michelle Obama: Tired of 'angry black woman' stereotype...

An image 'people have tried to paint of me'...

Denies tensions with husband's aides...

Romney: "The President has run out of ideas. Now, he's running out of excuses."

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:03:00 +0000

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...this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, "It could be worse." Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? [We] know it must be better.

[Remember] when Barack Obama came to New Hampshire four years ago...

He promised to bring people together.

He promised to change the broken system in Washington.

He promised to improve our nation.

[Lofty] promises made by a hopeful candidate. Today, we are faced with the disappointing record of a failed President. The last three years have held a lot of change, but they haven’t offered much hope.

This country...has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy.

President Obama wants to “fundamentally transform” America. We want to restore America to the founding principles that made this country great.

He wants to turn America into a European-style entitlement society. We want to ensure that we remain a free and prosperous land of opportunity.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America.

This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

He is making the federal government bigger, burdensome, and bloated. I will make it simpler, smaller, and smarter.

He raised the national debt. I will cut, cap, and balance the budget.

He enacted job-killing regulations; I’ll eliminate them.

He lost our AAA credit rating; I’ll restore it.

He passed Obamacare; I’ll repeal it.

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.

Very true, and very good. But will it be good enough to oust obama? Or is it just more lofty promises made by a hopeful candidate???

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Math problems includes slaves and slave beatings and picking cotton for questions. WTH?

noreply@blogger.com (Me) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:09:00 +0000

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Well, come ON, it was in GEORGIA! (Our parents would roll in their graves. Or wherever.)

From abcNews HERE

‘If Fred Got Two Beatings Per Day…’ Homework Asks

Third graders in in Gwinnett County, Ga., were given math homework Wednesday that asked questions about slavery and beatings.

Christopher Braxton told ABC News affiliate WSB-TV in Atlanta that he couldn’t believe the assignment his 8-year-old son brought home from of Beaver Ridge Elementary school in Norcross.

“It kind of blew me away,” Braxton said. “Do you see what I see? Do you really see what I see? He’s not answering this question.”

The question read, “Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?”

Another math problem read, “If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?”

Another question asked how many baskets of cotton Frederick filled.

“I was furious at that point,” Braxton said.

“This outrages me because it just lets me know that there’s still racists,” said Stephanie Jones, whose child is a student at the school.

“Something like that shouldn’t be imbedded into a kid of the third, fourth, fifth, any grade,” parent Terrance Barnett told WSB-TV. “I’m having to explain to my 8-year-old why slavery or slaves or beatings are in a math problem. That hurts.”

“In this one, the teachers were trying to do a cross-curricular activity,” Gwinnett County school district spokeswoman Sloan Roach said.

Roach said the teachers were attempting to incorporate social studies into math problems.

“We understand that there are concerns about these questions, and we agree that these questions were not appropriate,” she said.

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