Global warming is a hoax, global warming is a hoax, global warming is a glug, glug, glug, glug

15 comments April 5th, 2009

 

 Even if the water gets up to your neck, don’t ever forget that global warming is a hoax. It’s just a bunch of liberal crap.

 And whatever you do, don’t read things like THIS. They’ll only confuse you.

 (You’re going to click on the link anyway, aren’t you? Even after I warned you. I’ll bet you’re a tree-hugger, too.)

The truth about the Obamas’ iPod for the Queen

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 When Barack and Michelle Obama gifted Queen Elizabeth with a video iPod last week, the usual gang of muddleheads — most notably Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs — raised a fuss about the alleged inappropriateness of the gesture.

  A friend has sent me an audio clip of Dave Ross, a CBS Radio commentator, setting the record straight regarding the iPod, and mocking Hannity and Dobbs in the process. It’s very funny.

 Check it out here: http://www.daveross.com/otherfeatures/cbs_20090402_IPOD.MP3

Here’s why Iowa won’t soon overturn court ruling on same-sex marriages

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 Opponents of gay marriage already are organizing an effort to overturn the unanimous ruling by the Iowa State Supreme Court that nullified the prohibition of same-sex unions.

 But it’s not going to be easy to amend the Iowa State Constitution, as we see HERE. A referendum isn’t likely before 2012, and popular sentiment might well have shifted leftward by then, which has been the national trend in recent years.

Fair and balanced Fox News quotes Obama out of context, accuses him of anti-Americanism

22 comments April 5th, 2009

 

 When I heard President Obama’s speech in Strasbourg, France, the other day, I had a feeling in my bones that he would be misquoted by the pseudo-patriots in the right-wing media.

 Sure enough. Sean Hannity of Fox News has DONE JUST THAT.

 These people are so predictable, and their loyal followers are so gullible.

Barack Obama and the stock market

8 comments April 5th, 2009

 

 Funny thing about how we don’t hear much from our conservative friends these days to the effect that the stock market is a referendum on Barack Obama’s presidency.

 A little more than a month ago, the Obamaphobes on talk radio and CNBC and at the Wall Street Journal were telling us that the continued decline of the Dow Jones Industrial Average was a measure of America’s rejection of the new president’s march toward socialism.

 That was then, and this is now:

 On Friday, the Dow registered its greatest four-week gain, percentage-wise, since 1933.

 Friday also was exactly one month since Obama advised Americans that “buying stocks is a potentially good deal if you’ve got a long term perspective.” Since then, the Dow has gone up 19.2 percent.  The S&P and the Nasdaq have done even better, rising 23.2 percent and 25.3 percent, respectively.

 As the chart above will attest, the market began slipping late last spring with the deepening of the mortgage crisis. When the whole financial system suddenly seemed to be in danger in mid-September (see THIS), stocks plummeted and continued their decline for more than five months as the economy worsened.

 Then, roughly six weeks after Obama’s inauguration and after passage of his stimulus bill, the market turned around and began its steady climb. It’s also noteworthy that the Dow’s upward movement past the 8,000 mark on Friday came on the day after both houses of Congress approved Obama’s budget bill.

 While we’re at it, let’s take a look back at the performance of the Dow during the presidency of George W. Bush.

 From the day of Bush’s first inauguration through his last day in the White House,  the Dow went from 10,578 to 8,281, a decline of 22 percent in eight years. Actually, it was even worse, since those numbers are not adjusted for inflation.

 How’s that for a referendum on a presidency?