Thai tranny hookers

Whoever's deciding what goes on the front page of FoxNews.com is obviously reading Ace. Latest NIH outrage: Thai tranny hookers. Yes, really.

The two-year project, made possible by a grant from the NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse, is also studying kathoey, the transgender prostitutes who are widely accepted in Thailand because of the "karmic idea in Buddhism," and who have especially high HIV infection rates, according to the study's abstract.

No math blah blah blah...


$2,600,000 for studying the mating behavior of drunken Chinese hookers
     400,000 for studying the mating behavior of gay Argentinian males
     357,000 for providing post-traumatic stress to New York
+   178,000 for studying Thai tranny hookers
 $3,535,000

$3,357,000 ÷ $7,500 = 471.3

$7,500 is the cost of providing one scholarship to one student in the DC Opportunity Fund that Obama nuked.

For the cost of terrifying NYC, plus the cost of asking gay South American men why they like to get drunk and screw random strangers, plus the cost of training Chinese pimps to keep their hos in line, plus the cost of studying Thai tranny hookers, 471 children in one of the worst school districts in America could have received a year of quality education.

Hell, Thai tranny hookers has only been mentioned 268 times at the Head Moron's.

Is anyone else of the opinion that the NIH was told, "You're getting THIS MUCH budget, you'd better be damned sure you spend it!"?

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Team Barry Must Feel That Deadlines Are Beneath Them

Apparently, the deadline for the various O-Ministration Agencies to submit reports and guidelines to Congress. Needless to say, the effort has been lacking to provide timely reports.

“Federal agencies say they’re on schedule to deliver the reports to Congress. But there’s no requirement to make them available to the public.”

Yeah. You'll see the Yeti engaging in a threeway with Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster before that happens.

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But aren't the hookers supposed to be drunk?

The National Institutes of Health is funding a $2.6 million dollar study to determine how to best encourage prostitutes to drink less on the job.

In China.

Yeah, no math blah blah blah...

 $2,600,000 for studying the mating behavior of drunken Chinese hookers
      400,000 for studying the mating behavior of gay Argentinian males
    +357,000 for providing post-traumatic stress to New York
 $3,357,000

$3,357,000 ÷ $7,500 = 447.6

$7,500 is the cost of providing one scholarship to one student in the DC Opportunity Fund that Obama nuked.

For the cost of terrifying NYC, plus the cost of asking gay South American men why they like to get drunk and screw random strangers, plus the cost of training Chinese pimps to keep their hos in line, 447 children in one of the worst school districts in America could have received a year of quality education.

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Well, He Did Grow Up In Scranton, Or Something

Is it just me, or is this puff piece about Pluggy Joe straining to find something positive to say about him, without mentioning what a fiucking imbecile he really is?

To me, this bit appears as though the WAPO is just straining to find something good to say about him.

Although Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is leading the search {for a SCOTUS Justice to replace the retiring David Souter}, which is being run through the White House counsel's office, Biden and the president have gone over lists of potential nominees, discussed the best ways to approach senators about a prospective pick, and talked about when it would be best to announce a choice.

For Biden, the consultative role is part of his expanding portfolio as Obama's all-purpose adviser, globe-trotting emissary and political handyman.

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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

"The millions of ad dollars the president is costing us could help us keep some of those people working."

Reap.  The.  Fucking.  Whirlwind.

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Under the bus with you!

Louis Caldera has resigned as director of the White House military office, for his approval of the plan to scare the living daylights out of all of New York City.

The article mentions that the cost of the flyover was $357,000.  Yes, you were told there would be no math on this blog...but...

$400,000 for studying the mating behavior of gay Argentinian males
+357,000 for providing post-traumatic stress to New York
$757,000

$757,000 ÷ $7,500 = 100.93

$7,500 is the cost of providing one scholarship to one student in the DC Opportunity Fund that Obama nuked.  For the cost of terrifying NYC, plus the cost of asking gay South American men why they like to get drunk and screw random strangers, 101 children in one of the worst school districts in America could have received a year of quality education.

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Suckers!

Be sure to watch this until the end...

Um, what did you think was gonna happen? Elections have consequences, apparently. Oops. But it sure was "historic" and all that.

I'm sorry that the people involved here got fooled, and this is a disgrace, but, well, you might just have to live with it. I mean, someone paid the piper (the teachers' unions, here) and the piper damn sure got to pick the tune.

Buyer's remorse sure is a fucking bitch, huh?

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Does he even listen to himself?

Tech companies don't seem too happy about proposals Obama made today that would crack down on tax breaks they enjoy for doing business overseas. And he sounded completely incoherent in laying out those proposals:

Obama, echoing statements he made in last year's campaign, said he is attempting to overhaul a tax system that he described as "full of corporate loopholes" and excessive rewards for U.S. companies that create jobs in other countries.

"One of the strengths of our economy is the global reach of our businesses. And I want to see our companies remain the most competitive in the world," Obama told a White House audience on Monday.

But he cited a 2004 study that found U.S. multinationals paid $16 billion in taxes on $700 billion of foreign earnings. He added: "The way we make our businesses competitive is not to reward American companies operating overseas with a roughly 2 percent tax rate on foreign profits, a rate that costs taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year."

Okay, first of all, who the fuck are you to be talking about things that supposedly "cost taxpayers" billions of dollars per year? You've rammed the most massive spending in the country's history down our throats. George W. Bush looks like a budget hawk compared to you, and that's saying something. And besides, this doesn't "cost taxpayers" anything. It deprives big government assholes like you of money that you'd doubtlessly waste on building dogparks and/or funnel to your buddies at ACORN.

Secondly, how do you ensure that "our companies remain the most competitive in the world" by taxing them more? Oh, right, you're going to squeeze every last buck out of them in order to fund your agenda. Then, when they can't make a profit anymore, you become majority shareholder.

Smartest. President. EVAR. Yeah.

Oh, and all you Silicon Valley liberals who backed this guy can reap the fucking whirlwind. Good job.

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ACORN's in a little trouble

Some moron posted this in the comments at Moron HQ. I'd love to directly credit it to the comments, but it signed its name as ???????.

Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto filed charges Monday alleging the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now had policies requiring employees in Las Vegas to sign up 20 new voters per day or be fired.

Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller and Masto say that's voter registration fraud, and it violates state law banning quotas for registering new voters.

ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson in New York blames rogue former employees for the allegations.

May I be the first to say, "AW HELLS YEAH!!!!!1!eleventyone!"

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Give the man a break!

I mean, in the interest of fairness, he hasn't even had 100 days of executive experience.  I mean, ever, in his entire life.  So, there's that. 

Also, he kind of deserves some credit for sticking with the job for this long without declaring that he wants to run for Pope or something.  Yeah.

Besides, mistakes are why pencils have erasers and we have do-over elections.

Oh, wait...

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O, RLY?

Carol E. Lee of Politico quotes a White House official who says that Obama's smiling handshake with Hugo didn't really mean anything:

Said Deputy White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest of the handshake: “It was good manners, and it was friendly. But it doesn’t signify a significant change or a dramatic change in the relationship between our two countries.”

Elsewhere on Politico...

Hugo Chavez said today that he expects to soon send an ambassador back to Washington. The United States expelled Venezuela's ambassador in September after Chavez, in solidarity with President Evo Morales of Bolivia, expelled the U.S. ambassadors from their countries.

I tend to believe an American official a tad more than Chavez, but we'll see.

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You mean reaching out to dictators doesn't mean they'll automatically love us?

Apparently, making nice with totalitarian dicks like Fidel Castro doesn't immediately result in such dicks becoming warm and fuzzy toward us.  Who could have possibly seen that coming?  And how will Iran and North Korea—two countries with whom we're engaged in much more serious negotiations, I might add—look at this?

Well, I'll tell you. We can score another win for "Smart Diplomacy."  After all, it will be of great comfort when one of our cities goes up in a mushroom cloud when we can at least look back and unite as a nation, knowing that we made overtures toward the world's most oppressive regimes, counting on President Obama's charm to keep us liked by foreign diplomats.

Yeah.

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Wasn't "Sheriff Joe" Biden Supposed To Watch Over The Porkulus?

If so, he makes Barney Fife look competent.

You might think that two high-ranking elected officials would have ways to learn such things, but the fact is, they don't. At the moment, the best tools Cantor and Thune have are Google and the Lexis-Nexis newspaper database.

"Right now we have very little access to information as to what the agencies are up to, prior to the money actually being spent," Cantor says. "Agencies will give you information in very broad terms, without many specifics."

That's where local news reports, dug up on the Internet, come in. When a city or county official learns that he will receive a pile of federal money, he usually tells the nearby newspaper or TV station. "Local news has been by far the best source of information so far," one GOP aide told me. "If you want to know how a local government is going to spend the money, Google around, Lexis-Nexis a bit."

Such searches led the Cantor-Thune group to the Binghamton, New York Press & News-Bulletin for a glimpse into how HUD is spending that $1.5 billion in the Homeless Prevention Fund. In early March, the paper reported that the small town of Union, New York would receive $578,661 from the Fund, even though "Union did not request the money and does not currently have homeless programs in place in the town to administer such funds."

An article in the Altoona Mirror reported that the small central Pennsylvania town was going to receive $819,000 from the Fund even though Altoona officials "may not have enough of a homelessness problem to use it." And a Google search turned up a report from WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania saying the city would receive $855,478 from the Fund, but does not know what to do with it.

The Cantor-Thune team is also keeping a close eye on a website, Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps.gov) on which the government lists jobs that will be funded by the stimulus. This week they found an opportunity for art conservation for the Army. Like many others, it might be a perfectly legitimate task, but it has little or nothing to do with economic stimulus.

All that Googling leads to a question. Shouldn't Congress, which has to make critical decisions on how to spend the taxpayers' money, have a better way of knowing where that money is going? After all, the Obama administration promised that its new website, Recovery.gov, would detail everything taxpayers wanted to know about the stimulus expenditures.

It hasn't. "We have been pressing the administration from the get-go to put everything online so that we can achieve a level of transparency and come clean to the taxpayers," Cantor told me. "But that kind of transparency and accountability are just not in place." The Obama administration admits that Recovery.gov has not had a smooth start, but promises better performance in the future.

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Obama's Fault: Fealty

For all the bullshit about how close Bush was with the Saudis, this bullshit never happened.

 

I know this isn't a proper facecock but we all know his head is up there somewhere.

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Lightning Bolt + Airplane=Soiled Underwear

Holy Shit!

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Somehow, I missed this

Fuck you, Barry. This is a fucking disgrace. Fuck you.

(h/t)

{doubleplusundead} Let's juxtapose that with this,

I don't even feel it necessary to point out the differences between these two presidents.

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It's getting better all the time

Everything was going to be so much better. Once the cowboy Booooosh was gone, we were going to be bestest friends with the people of "Old Europe" again, right? No more disagreements, huh? Yeah, maybe not so much...

Washington has long supported EU membership for Turkey, a prickly yet strategic U.S. ally. Mr. Obama said Sunday at an EU-U.S. summit in Prague that pushing forward with membership would "ensure we continue to anchor Turkey firmly in Europe."

But coming just a day after Turkey forced a series of concessions from fellow members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization before accepting their choice of a Dane to head the alliance, Mr. Obama's appeal drew a sharp response from French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

"I have been working hand in hand with President Obama, but when it comes to the European Union it's up to member states of the European Union to decide" on membership, Mr. Sarkozy told French television from Prague. "I have always been opposed to this entry, and I remain opposed."

Turkey has started membership talks with the EU, but the process has been partially frozen because of opposition from members including France, Germany and Cyprus.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, otherwise effusive about Mr. Obama's performance in Prague on Sunday, also said coolly that there were "different opinions" on how to strengthen the relationship between Turkey, a nation of 70 million, and the EU. "We're still talking about that," she said.

I thought Obama needed only to wink and smile at any given world leader and His will would be done. And, yet, here we are, with members of the EU pointing out that he's meddling in their affairs. And they seem none too happy about it.

Why, it's almost as if Barack Obama is just an ordinary politician. Oh, and then there's this:

At a NATO summit that finished on Saturday, European leaders commited some 5,000 new troops to go to Afghanistan, but the pledge fell well short of the contribution the U.S. sought.

Super. Hope. Change. Well, not so much of the latter.

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Score another one for "Smart Diplomacy"

There's this, and then, there's this.

Yeah, it's nice that the Norks like us a little better than they did when we stopped referring to them as a member of the remarkably-un-nuanced "Axis of Evil" but...

...um, I couldn't come up with an upside to our new diplomatic approach, which seems to be something along the lines of "Let's roll over and hope for the best."

Those of you who live in Hawaii might want to move, by the way.

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Smoke 'em if you got 'em

If you're a smoker like me (yeah, yeah, I know...it's a filthy habit) you might want to run out and stock up before the new massive and punitive tobacco tax increase wonderful expansion of health care For The Children!!!11one!!1!â„¢ takes effect on Wednesday.

Now, let us pause for a moment and think about how this tax hike makes any goddamn sense.  Sure, it's supposed to pay for government programs while, at the same time, discouraging people from buying the products that are already heavily taxed to pay for those very same government programs.  Uh-huh.  If you think that's in any way rational or a good idea, go ahead and punch yourself in the dick.  Or buy an economics textbook, maybe.

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Why Don't We Yell That Obama Is Ambivalent About The Spread Of AIDS And Kill Jobs?

I mean, having the Government start buying and distributing Chinese made rubbers to poor nations most at risk of catching the disease is at best foolish, and at worst potentially disastrous.

Not only that, but the jobs The Messiah keeps claiming to want to protect are threatened by this deal.

In this case, Chinese condoms.

That’s the dilemma for the folks at the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has distributed an estimated 10 billion U.S.-made AIDS-preventing condoms in poor countries around the world.

But not anymore.

In a move expected to cost 300 American jobs, the government is switching to cheaper off-shore condoms, including some made in China.

The switch comes despite implied assurances over the years that the agency would continue to buy American whenever possible.

“Of course, we considered how many U.S. jobs would be affected by this move,” said a USAID official who spoke on the condition that he would not be named. But he said the reasons for the change included lower prices (2 cents versus more than 5 cents for U.S.-made condoms) and the fact that Congress dropped “buy American language” in a recent appropriations bill.

Besides, he said, the sole U.S. supplier — an Alabama company called Alatech — had previous delivery problems under the program.

It’s clear that Alatech’s problems over the years, which apparently have been resolved, may have driven U.S. officials to seek much less expensive foreign-made condoms in the first place.

But that’s cold comfort to Fannie Thomas, who has been making AIDS-preventing condoms in southeastern Alabama for nearly 40 years in the small town of Eufaula.

“We pay taxes down here, too, and with all this stimulus money going to save jobs, it seems to me like they (the U.S. government) should share this contract so they can save jobs here in America,” Thomas said.

Thomas and others at the Alatech plant said there aren’t many alternatives for them if it closes down, which is a likely result of the contracting switch.

In fact, the government is close to accepting condoms from two offshore companies: Unidus Corp., which makes condoms in South Korea, and Qingdao Double Butterfly Group, which makes them in China.

Condoms from those companies will likely carry the USAID logo — two hands shaking over red and white bunting

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