But I Thought Obama Loved Dictators For Life

 Look at what is going on in the land of "Yellow Cake".

The White House says it’s worried about Niger President Mamadou Tandja’s decision to dissolve his nation’s top court in an apparent effort to extend power.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement Wednesday that the United States is concerned about Tandja’s attempt to hold onto his office despite term limits. Gibbs says the actions undermine the African nation’s progress toward good governance.

"Good governance"? Yeah, good luck with that, pal, especially coming from a product of the ACORN/Chicago School of politics.

Anyway, I bet this Niger guy must not have paid enough in campaign contributions to Obama, so he has to go. I mean, two dictators (Iran and Honduras) were good enough for Obama to defend, so what did this guy do that was so wrong?

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Showing Mr. Mays the highest honor

Which one of you morons was protesting the death of Billy Mays by disrobing on a US Airways flight?

Update: bumping for awesomeness.  Now we have photos.

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New unemployment chart from geoff at IB

Well, here it be, unemployment went up a tenth of a percent.  When I saw the new numbers, my first thought was back in my old college macroeconomics class and taking the "discouraged worker" percentage into account when reading unemployment numbers, because they aren't included, because they're no longer actively searching for employment.  Looks like geoff may be thinking the same thing.

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Deep Down, Part Of Me Wants To Have This Story Associated With My Obituary

"Found dead after a booze-filled hooker romp."

The pair were found in a hotel room on Monday in Mexico City, not far from the famous Arena Mexico wrestling venue.

They were identified as brothers Alberto and Alejandro Jiménez, who were known in the ring as La Parkita and Espectrito Jr.

Reports say the wrestlers, both aged 35, picked up two prostitutes and took them to a hotel room but, hours later, the women left alone.

When a hotel worker went to clean the room they discovered the bodies of the wrestlers laying in the beds.

And the midgetry involved in the story makes it one of the greatest stories ever.

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There, I fixed it

The men here will either be screaming in horror or oohing and aahing at this site.

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Budget still stalled out in Harrisburg

State employees are now not being paid.  Basically, we're projected to run a $3 billion dollar shortfall already, and Fast Eddie Rendell and the Democrats want to spend yet more money (the state already spends way too fucking much) and raise taxes (they're already high in PA).  The GOP has the Senate, and they're refusing to have anything to do with raising taxes.  They know that if they don't hold firm against the Democrats, they'll be replaced by people who will.  So it ought to be interesting to see what happens.  I should note, Fast Eddie has never gotten the budget out on time.

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A visit to Bizarro World

What would it look like if St. Andrew of the Blessed Heart-Ache was actually the Conservative that we're so often told he is? Well, I changed a few key words, and...

My view is that people do not change that much and their history is often a guide to who they are, and I observed Obama very closely - after initially liking him - and that's my judgment. I'm very fallible and I may be wrong so I urge Dish readers to seek other views and interpretations. But here's the point I'd make now: If Obama had himself shifted the narrative since the election, if he had gone back to the Senate to do his job diligently, and made an effort to master domestic and foreign policy issues, and run for a second term on his record, rather than preening about in [insert fawning media outlet here] and picking fights with Rush Limbaugh and setting up Organizing For America and on and on, then I think many of us would have been prepared to look again. He was hopelessly unready in 2008 - but he's young and could evolve and grow. Everything we see - from the international family citizenship issues and poverty scandals to the staged controversies - suggest a regression, not an evolution. He is who he is, hence the solidity of his support and opposition.

Yeah. The true conservative voice. Again, yeah.

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I Found More Video Of The Beatdown John Ziegler Gave To Mike Allen Of Politico

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RACIST!!!!

In an article from the UK titled "Down the Mississippi," some ignorant Americans bring up "Obama's Muslim background":

"They would listen to him a lot more openly because they don’t think of him as a pure Westernised person. It is a big deal. They can relate to that part of him, the middle name of Hussein, him being brought up in an Asian country.”

You're not supposed to mention that, you knuckledragging redneck troglody—oh, wait...

I guess it's okay to mention his middle name and his experiences under certain circumstances, but not others.

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Shocka! Guess Who Is Funding a Bunch Of The Pro-Obamacare Commercials?

Yup.

What a shock, right?

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John Ziegler pwns Mike Allen of Politico

Good lord this is brutal, Ziegler takes Mike Allen completely apart.  We need about 10,000 John Zieglers, the left and media would be reduced to nothing within months.

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My six-year-old lies better than the Iranian government

First they tried to float the possibility that Neda Agha-Soltan was murdered by CIA operatives, now the Iranian government is claiming her death was staged by protesters.

But, according to Iran's Press TV, police chief Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqadam declared Wednesday that the shooting was a "prearranged scenario" — a "premeditated act of murder" that could not have been committed by Iranian police.

Because, of course, Iranian police could never murder anyone.

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The Bailout/Stimulus/Hopeandchange Money Is Tackling The Major Issues

Especially in the eyes of Treacher.

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You Mean Some Bailout Money Is Being Directed To Politicians' Private Businesses?

I know. Color me shocked.

Sen. Daniel K. Inouye’s staff contacted federal regulators last fall to ask about the bailout application of an ailing Hawaii bank that he had helped to establish and where he has invested the bulk of his personal wealth.

The bank, Central Pacific Financial, was an unlikely candidate for a program designed by the Treasury Department to bolster healthy banks. The firm’s losses were depleting its capital reserves. Its primary regulator, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., already had decided that it didn’t meet the criteria for receiving a favorable recommendation and had forwarded the application to a council that reviewed marginal cases, according to agency documents.

Two weeks after the inquiry from Inouye’s office, Central Pacific announced that the Treasury would inject $135 million.

Most Ethical Congress Ever.

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Wal-Mart Makes A Deal With The Devil

They're going to back Obamacare.  Their letter was signed by the head of the SEIU.  Malkin says it's a desperate ploy to get the unions off of their backs, maybe, but there's something deeper happening that people aren't seeing.

One thing I think people need to realize is that the big retail stores and chain restaurants are under a lot of pressure right now, and I don't think most folks are aware of it.  You may have noticed a slight increase in prices when you go shopping or buying food out.  Part of that is the shitty economy, but it also represents inflation.  But not all of the inflation.  Retailers and food chains are hiding the true level of inflation and increased costs of goods from their consumers, because the last thing any retailer or fast food joint wants to do is raise prices on their customers, and they'll do damn near anything to keep it from happening.

Well, where's that money coming from?  They're cutting costs and scaling back projects where they can and trying to be innovative and efficient, but where many of them are making up the bulk of this shortfall is by squeezing every penny they can out of their employees' wages and salaries.

Some of the retail chains and restaurants have gutted their stores' staffing and available work hours so that they have just enough of a skeleton crew working there to keep the store from completely going to hell.  Some are also cutting benefits (what little there usually is in retail), and cutting full time people to part time (at least on the books, if not on actual hours), so that the company doesn't have to pay for the benefits full time employees get. 

And you're thinking, so fucking what, deal with it, service monkies, now go get me my burger/TV!  That works, to a point, except you have millions and millions of employees who already have miserable, thankless jobs that pay for shit during the good times, who are now trying to do the work of 1^1/2-3 people now because of the cutbacks in staffing and hours, and on top of this are doing all this while their benefits and sometimes their hours and pay are getting gutted by the corporation, so that you can keep buying stuff at dirt cheap prices. 

Again, you're thinking, so what?  Go back to the top of the post, and read it again.  What are they trying to do?  Get the unions off their backs?  To an extent.  But what is really happening is that these big food service and retail stores are growing more and more afraid that their huge workforce is going to grow tired of being worked more while getting squeezed on their benefits, hours and pay, and go union.

Can you imagine what kind of disaster it would be, not only for retail and restaurant, but for America at large if the bulk of retail and/or chain restaurant employees flipped to union?  You think your service sucks now?  Just wait till union work ethic becomes part of retail and fast food work culture.  You think your vente cappucino from Starbucks and your iPod from Target are too fucking expensive now?  Wait till you're paying union wages on top of that.  You're going to learn about expensive.  And don't think the unionization would stop there.  Retail and fast food are where people start their work life, don't think they won't bring the unions with them as they move to different fields. 

It would be a complete revival of the unions in America, and a huge coup for the left.  I know for a fact that companies are panicked about this, because I know many of them are sitting employees down and making them watch corporate training videos, warning them about unions and the Employee Free Choice Act.  They're seriously afraid of it happening, and they should be.  So should you.  You can only hide the inflation that's happening for so long.  At some point corporations are going to have to be up front with the public about what is going on with the economy. 

As you can see, the left is in a very "Heads, we win, tails, you lose" position here.  From the chain retailer/restaurant's view, Obamacare is the lesser of two evils.  Particularly for Wal-Mart, given that they're the biggest of the lot, and probably because they have pharmacies and have some limited medical type operations (like basic optometry facilities), they may be able to cut some deals for themselves, and be in a better position to lobby their way out of some of the more painful provisions. 

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Owieowieowie

Don't try this at home, kids.

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Was Sarah Palin responsible for the 9/11 attacks?

Everyone's favorite hysterical man-bitch delves further down the Trig-truther rabbit hole (prompted by the Vanity Fair hit piece, which I'm not going to link any more readily than St. Andi's insane ramblings), which hopefully leads to a padded cell:

It remains true that no one in the MSM will investigate the details of this truly bizarre story - and MSM journalists instead have devoted their efforts to demonizing any journalist who tries.

Indeed. Why won't anyone investigate TEH TRUE STORY? WHERE WAS SARAH'S VAGINGO ON THAT DAY?!!! WHY WON'T THE MEDIA COVER THE BUGS CRAWLING OUT OF MY EYE SOCKETS??? WILL NOBODY ELSE LISTEN TO THE BRAVE CONSERVATIVE VOICES IN MY HEAD???

Well, maybe it's because you're out of your mind.

Oh, and keep calling her "the Wasilla whack-job," Mister Heart-Ache. As if you're particularly credible sane at this point. Yeah.

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