"So, how's that going?"

That's the question Mark Steyn asks after this bit of snark:

In the Washington Post, E. J. Dionne tried to break it gently to us: “No occupant of the White House has ever been able to walk on water.”

Yeah, sure, no previous occupant of the White House has been able to walk on water—your Eisenhowers and Roosevelts, your Chester Arthurs and Grover Clevelands and whatnot. But Barack Obama didn’t run as just another of those squaresville losers. He was gonna heal the planet, and lower the oceans. So, even if he couldn’t walk on water, he should at least be able to paddle in it. “He is a community organizer like Jesus was,” said Susan Sarandon, “and now we’re a community and he can organize us.”

Needless to say, Steyn—like the rest of us—is not impressed. This really is going to be the Funniest End of Civilization evar.

Read the whole thing, and chuckle as you seethe.

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Great Moments In Urban Decay

Courtesy of York, PA.

"He just wants the drug dealers to go," she said. Police, she said, can't seem to do anything.

York City Police Capt. Wes Kahley said police became aware of the sign Tuesday evening. At that point, the homeowner had painted a similar message directly on his window.

"Through the evening, somebody put a brick through the window," Kahley said.

The city police log indicates Jeffrey Snyder reported a broken window at 32 S. Penn St. at 9:40 p.m. Tuesday. On Thursday, the windows were boarded up with the new message. No one answered the door.

Several neighbors declined to comment, saying they don't want any trouble.

York City Police Detective Andy Shaffer, who runs the city's vice unit, said police spent a lot of time in the first two blocks of South Penn Street last year.

Police executed more than 10 search warrants for illegal drugs and made at least 25 arrests in those blocks, he said. Recently, prostitution arrests were made nearby on Market Street.

Police know there is a problem, Shaffer said.

"We are still actively working it despite what the sign says," he said.

Kahley said the neighborhood will be covered by a patrol unit dedicated to the city's west end, which will start in March.

York Mayor John Brenner said if the property owner wants to talk, he'd listen.

"Putting up a sign like that, frankly, doesn't do anything to help the quality of life in the neighborhood," he said. Police will continue to do their best in the area, he said.

Kahley said there are better ways to vent frustration than to post a sign. Speak to police or go to city council, he said.

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The only thing we have to fear...

...is "cable chatter," apparently.



Well, and maybe flop sweat, too.

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Know why Democrats love raising taxes?

Because not a fucking one pays them.

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Comedy Gold: The Messiah laments people using religion to divide

Gee, it seems that there was someone he could have delivered that message to in the past 20 years.  I'm kinda blanking on the name.

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One More Reason To Oppose Spendulus

It appears as though the O-Media is counterattacking in an effort to save Spendulus.  Seeing the media unite in this matter makes me want to see the plan fail even more. That way, their tears and lashing out will be hilarious.

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A Random Thought On Polls

I have grown accustomed to The Deciders openly touting polls that support their leftist candidate/agenda/whatever, and spiking polls that do not support the same. It's part of how they operate, including recent polls trumpeting President Obama's "hipness", and 60% job approval.

Well, in the last few days, as Spendulus is losing traction, and Obama has had a string of major embarrassments over his cabinet picks and their taxes, you know what I haven't heard or seen?

That's right. Polls.

Gee, I wonder why.

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Awesome Vetting By Obama, Leon Panetta Edition

Looks like the putative head of the CIA received a ton of money in "consulting fees". Besides wondering if he paid his taxes, one should take a gander at who paid some of these fees.

Mr. Panetta received $56,000 from Merrill Lynch & Co. for two speeches and $28,000 for an Oct. 30, 2008 speech for Wachovia Corp. Both firms suffered big losses last year and were acquired by larger banks. The Wachovia honorarium was on Oct 30 of last year while the last Merrill Lynch honorarium was on Oct. 11, according to disclosure forms filed by Mr. Panetta in connection with his nomination. At the time, Bank of America had already agreed to a rescue of Merrill Lynch, while Wachovia had agreed to be acquired by Wells Fargo & Co.

Mr. Panetta also received a $28,000 honorarium from the Carlyle Group, which owns a number of companies that do business with the national security agencies of the U.S. government.

Mr. Panetta is set to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday about his nomination.

Mr. Panetta is a former Congressman from central California who served as White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton. A White House spokesman for Mr. Panetta didn't immediately respond to inquiries about the disclosures.

Mr. Panetta also reported receiving a $60,000 "Governmental Advisor Fee" from the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents the shipping industry. The group lobbies the federal government regarding terrorism laws that affect shipping. A spokesman for the association didn't respond to a request for comment.

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I Just Love It When The Deciders Are This Clueless

The Timeselect online venture was a raging failure for Executive Editor Bill Keller when he attempted to make people pay to see certain features of his paper online back a few years ago. I mean, outside of a few people, who would really want to pay to read the bilge The Newspaper Of Record promulgated?

So, what is Bill Keller trying to do? That's right! He wants to take another drink from the stadium urinal of failure. Only this time, he wants to chug a whole case of FAIL.

New York Times Co. may charge for access to its flagship newspaper’s Web site less than two years after terminating an earlier online-subscription service.

The company is studying whether to start charging for all or some of the content on nytimes.com, as well as other options, Executive Editor Bill Keller said ..... Most of the site is free.

“A lively, deadly serious discussion continues within the Times about ways to get consumers to pay for what we make,” he said. “Really good information, often extracted from reluctant sources, truth-tested, organized and explained -- that stuff wants to be paid for.”

The third-largest U.S. newspaper publisher, which posted a 48 percent decline in fourth-quarter profit, is cutting jobs and selling assets as advertising and circulation dwindle. .....

In 2007, the newspaper scrapped an online-subscription service called Times Select that generated about $10 million in revenue annually. The service limited the number of readers available to advertisers, said Keller.

“The lesson of that experiment, however, was not that readers won’t pay for content,” he said, pointing out that News Corp.’s Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times have paid- subscription Web sites.

Yup. Keep drinking the FAIL.  

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Random Stupidity

Source

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Call This "Good News/Bad News"

Good news? The NY Times chronicles the revolving door between the media and Team Unicorn.

But this year the accusation has a new twist: In some notable cases it has become true, with several prominent journalists now on the payrolls of Mr. Obama and the Democratic Congressional leadership.

 An unusual number of journalists from prominent, mainstream organizations started new government jobs in January, providing new kindling to the debate over whether Mr. Obama is receiving unusually favorable treatment in the news media.

The bad news? The Deciders ignore the real reason why (media bias), and instead retreat to the tired old mantra:

Administration officials report they have had discussions with other print journalists looking for work as their news organizations begin to shed jobs. 

... 

Mr. Frantz, who left The Los Angeles Times as it was changing owners in 2007, said he was ready for a career change. But he acknowledged, "If the newspaper industry were more robust, I would hope to still be managing editor of The Los Angeles Times."

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Gee...

...maybe failing to pay your taxes is serious after all.

Can we nominate a cabinet full of embarrassing fuckups?  Yes We Can!

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It's called BDS

Our Post-Partisan Presidentâ„¢ speaks about the state of things in Washington:

“Listen, it’s only been ten days,” the president said. “People have to recognize that it’s going to take some time for trust to be built, not only between Democrats and Republicans, but between Congress and the White House; between the House and the Senate. We’ve had a dysfunctional political system for a while now.”

I've got to say that I agree with you there, Mister President. After all, we've just been through eight years of people on your side of the aisle calling the president a liar, a fascist, a criminal, and/or an idiot. But as soon as those unicorns start showing up, I'm sure we'll all be able to put that unpleasantness behind us.

Yeah.

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Human Rights Watch embraces Hopenchange

From noon on January 20, 2001 to 11:59am on January 20, 2009 rendition was a deplorable abuse of human rights. 

It's pretty cool now, though. 

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More Media Failure Goodness

You know that liberals have no clue on how to run a radio station when an "All Obama, All The Time" Radio Format, in DC, fails.

Program Director Greg Tantum says he thought the station could work because of enthusiasm over Obama, but that ratings collapsed to a level that could not be measured after the election. But ratings nearly doubled, he says, at...conservative station, WTNT, which features Laura Ingraham and Bill Bennett. Tantum said he will move Schultz to WTNT to give him another shot.

No wonder the left wants to revive the Fairness Doctrine.

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Messiah-in-Chief: "Oh hey, about those successful Iraqi provisional elections..."

Obama finally commented on the Iraqi elections.  You know, the ones that would never have happened if he'd had his way.  You'll never guess who gets all the credit and which group of people he neglected to thank. 

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Kos: Let's Try Satire!

Since the left's leading "satirist" is busy cozying up to race baiting preachers, I guess the Kosfather believes he needs to fill the gap to attack Rush Limbaugh.

His solution? Copying Jon Stewart!

Recall that the one time when Limbaugh faced a little dip in his popularity, and the Democrats unexpectedly averted losing more seats in 1996, and 1998, came after Al Franken's book "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot" had gained significant public attention.

...So, the only way to take Rush Limbaugh down, is to "Tina Fey" him, or "Al Franken" him, relentlessly to the point where he becomes universally just a huge punch line so big, that even the GOP cannot be seen with him, or hold him up anymore as a figure of any credibility.

...The key here though, is that the satire has to be mainstream enough to reach a lot of people and go well beyond simply preaching to the choir.  The "Tina Fey-Palin" dynamic provides the model for how political destiny can be dramatically altered, and how to fight back against the next bamboozling by the GOP.

Your Ideas?

Why is it I feel this won't go well?

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