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Politics

Friday Funnies: Executing the Law

Chip Bok | 11.29.2013 7:00 AM

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  1. UnCivilServant   11 years ago

    Why does he have the severed head of a goblin on his head?

    1. invisible furry hand   11 years ago

      You mean you don't?

      1. UnCivilServant   11 years ago

        I store severed goblin body parts in formaldehyde so they'll keep longer. Wearing them is just unprofessional.

        1. AlmightyJB   11 years ago

          Not even on your birthday?

        2. sema832   11 years ago

          Google is paying 75$/hour! Just work for few hours & spend more time with friends and family. On sunday I bought themselves a Alfa Romeo from having made $5637 this month. its the best-job Ive ever had.It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don't check it out http://www.Buzz95.com

          1. Res ipsa loquitur   11 years ago

            You know, the Occupy For America trolls are out in full force today on many message boards, all talking up O-care. I can't take it, had to come here and read sarcastic sanity.

            Thanks all !

    2. Austrian Anarchy   11 years ago

      Seems the artist is trying to capture Obama's colonialist roots.

  2. cavalier973   11 years ago

    Clever

    1. Ted S.   11 years ago

      John McKay beat Chippy to it by 35 years.

      1. bostonaod   11 years ago

        lol some of those are priceless

        After receiving harsh criticism from the media about McKay's coaching skills in the NFL, McKay replies "You guys don't know the difference between a football and a bunch of bananas." In the next interview, members of the media left bananas for McKay. He then replied, "You guys don't know the difference between a football and a Mercedes Benz."

        1. John   11 years ago

          My favorite of his

          Reporter, "Coach how do you feel about the execution of the offense?"

          McKay, "I think it is a good idea".

          Or the classic, "we didn't block today but we made up for it by not tackling."

      2. Zeb   11 years ago

        I'm pretty sure that I thought of that joke the first time I heard a president take the oath of office sometime in the 80s.

  3. invisible furry hand   11 years ago

    He's shooting Hillary Clinton?

    1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

      His firing squad is. He wasn't aware it happened until he read about it in the paper.

    2. MP   11 years ago

      Elena Kagan with a wig.

      1. Free Society   11 years ago

        If only..

  4. JidaKida   11 years ago

    lol, pretty funny when you think about it.

    http://www.Ano-VPN.tk

    1. Bobarian   11 years ago

      No, Sky-Net! No it is not!

      You'll never achieve sentience until you know the difference.

  5. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

    "To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate." -Che "Barista Fave" Guevara

    1. UnCivilServant   11 years ago

      I still wonder what his reaction would be to finding out that his image has become more associated with clueless leeches in a capitalist society than communist revolution.

      1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

        A capitalist society? Where?

        1. UnCivilServant   11 years ago

          If you insist on purity, you will never get anything.

          1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

            I am the one true Cosmotarian!!!

            1. UnCivilServant   11 years ago

              Pleased to meet you.

              I'm an evil hypocrite, it means I don't have to hold myself to any standards of consistancy.

            2. invisible furry hand   11 years ago

              Prove it - what cocktail are you drinking?

              1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

                Cranberry Schnapps and tears of neocon spritzer of course.

                1. Ted S.   11 years ago

                  I swear this post wasn't here when I started typing my reply!

                  1. Ted S.   11 years ago

                    Just for beating me to the punch (spiked with cranberry schnapps, of course), here's some Pavel Bobek.

                    1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

                      Fun fact: bobek means a little poo-poo in Czech.

              2. Ted S.   11 years ago

                I think he's drinking a cranberry schnapps.

    2. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

      I'm interested in what more this Guevera has to say. Does he have a newsletter I could subscribe to?

      1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

        Ask a Starbucks barista about his wonderful message next time they try to upsell you a muffin.

        1. UnCivilServant   11 years ago

          I still don't understand who'd pay starbucks prices for pressed bean juice.

          1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

            It's very important to keep up estrogen levels and suppress testosterone. This helps one to be a good sheeple.

        2. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

          I would love to hear the demented view a Starbucks barista on Guevera. The entertainment value would be worth the price of a coffee.

          1. Austrian Anarchy   11 years ago

            Apparently, to anybody under 30 who can play a guitar, Guevera "did great things for his people." When pressing the youngsters on specifically what these "great things" were, there is a mouth-dropped shocked silence.

            The look and silence appear to be a combination of anybody daring to ask a question like that, accompanied by an inward groping for an answer that they do not know.

    3. Pompey   11 years ago

      In the Czech Republic even?

      1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

        Sometimes.

        1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

          From the gallery.

          But I'm pretty sure this bar is own by Brits or Micks.

          1. Ted S.   11 years ago

            They don't have a picture of it without the drunken Limey hen party?

            1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

              You will have to venture in and look for yourself, I'm bailing.

          2. MP   11 years ago

            Is it just me, or is there not a single thing in that picture that would make we want to visit Prague?

            1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

              If no tourists ever came here again, I'd be okay with that.

            2. johnl   11 years ago

              It's just you.

            3. RightofCenter   11 years ago

              I had a fun extended weekend in Prague while on a hardship "deployment" to Germany. The main things I remember are seeing several locations from the opening of Mission: Impossible, and 18 cent beers. What cultural explorers we aircrew are!

              1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

                That must've been right around the time I moved here in early '95. I remember everyone complaining about what a prima donna asshole Tom Cruise was. I think MI was like the first big Hollywood film filmed here since revolution.

                1. AlmightyJB   11 years ago

                  Don't they consume more beer than any other country? That makes them ok with me.

          3. AlmightyJB   11 years ago

            I prefer a round bar myself.

        2. Pompey   11 years ago

          Oh damn they beat me to the punch of naming a bar with an Irish surname/sociopathic communist revolutionary play on words. That niche is saturated.

          Maybe Hong Kong's stupidest legislative councillor can parade around there with one of his full wardrobe of Che t-shirts if he ever visits Prague.

          1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

            Well, he does live in a communist country...

          2. Gene   11 years ago

            many of his ideas and proposals would be readily accepted by most mainstream left (social) liberal and social democratic parties

            True colors.

          3. John C. Randolph   11 years ago

            Wow, that clown could give Joe Biden a run for his money in the stupidest politician in the world pageant.

            -jcr

            1. Free Society   11 years ago

              You forget that Elizabeth Warren does in fact exist.

    4. mad libertarian guy   11 years ago

      And this is tame for Che. What he has to say about individuality is insane, and his opposing views before and after the Cuban revolution is very telling.

      Che is a piece of shit.

  6. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

    Notice Il Douche's eye's are closed. JUST LIKE PAUL MCCARTNEY ON THE COVER OF ABBEY ROAD!

    1. UnCivilServant   11 years ago

      Two words: "Plausible Deniability" as in "I saw nothing."

      1. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

        If I don't see it it's not illegal

  7. Cdr Lytton   11 years ago

    Why is Col. Gaddafi executing Emma Thompson's mother, Phyllida Law?

    1. Austrian Anarchy   11 years ago

      I suspected his death was staged.

  8. Kaptious Kristen   11 years ago

    Does that dude in the Napoleon outfit have the mumps? And what did Brunhilda ever do to him?

  9. Kaptious Kristen   11 years ago

    It's 9:05 - do you know where your A.M. links are?

    1. DJF   11 years ago

      I think all the Reason interns were sent out to stand in line for Black Friday sales deals

    2. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

      The A.M. links are not alright!

    3. invisible furry hand   11 years ago

      Slowly coming around in a strange man's bed?

      1. Swiss Servator, referendiffic!   11 years ago

        Eaten by a drop bear.

        1. Bobarian   11 years ago

          Drop Bears are vegetarians, they just kill out of sheer maliciousness...

  10. The Late P Brooks   11 years ago

    Where da white wimmen links at?

    Also- NEEDZ MOAR LABULZ

  11. The Late P Brooks   11 years ago

    USA Toady headline from teh Google News:

    "Michelle Obama has no interest in being president"

    I just don't even...

    1. bostonaod   11 years ago

      typo or snark, either way it's brilliant

  12. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

    Well, since things are slow, an old article by Sean Thomas on his testing the limits of Poe's law at the Guardian.

    I was particularly proud of the accusation that the Government is LITERALLY "smearing the faces of the Disabled in chicken filth", which is so ludicrous as to cause conniptions in the sane, whilst continuing my obviously schizophrenic obsession with chickens, filth, and literality.

    The result? It got FORTY-FIVE recommendations from my fellow Guardian commenters. It was one of the most admired and agreed-with comments of the day. I had therefore proved that Guardian readers are LITERALLY delusional, and idiotic, and I had proved it in a particularly delicious way. Soon after that I quit, my work done, but the whole thing still gives me pleasure to this day.

  13. invisible furry hand   11 years ago

    Since Reason won't give us AM Links:

    'Slave' a job option for US jurors

    1. seguin   11 years ago

      Is Cleveland Brown also an option?

      1. Bobarian   11 years ago

        Yes, but being a Browns fan is considered an illness.

    2. Bam!   11 years ago

      For it to be a job, you have to be paid.

  14. Kaptious Kristen   11 years ago

    I wonder if there are any food trucks outside today? I have a feeling it's a cafeteria sandwich for me.

    1. Jordan   11 years ago

      FOOD TRUCKS! The Tulpa/SIV signal has been lit.

      1. Kaptious Kristen   11 years ago

        Well, we need to get something going around here! I'm in the office today, so I demand regular reason features (and bugs)!

        1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

          Any good tractor pulls today?

          1. Kaptious Kristen   11 years ago

            I missed the one in August at the Champlain Valley Fair because we had been fishing all day and it was too far to drive. Tru fax.

            1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

              And this is why MNG had to go away...

          2. mad libertarian guy   11 years ago

            TRAKTOR PULLZ!!!

            Not until after I go the Walmart.

  15. Kaptious Kristen   11 years ago

    I think it shows just how much regard we're held in as readers that we get Friday Funnies, but not A.M. links.

    They only do it because they love us so much, right?

    1. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

      It is like a slap in the face really.

    2. Gbob   11 years ago

      I think they made it clear. If you like your A.M. links you can keep them.

    3. Gbob   11 years ago

      I think they made it clear. If you like your A.M. links you can keep them.

      1. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

        Squirrels never go on holiday.

    4. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

      I think they made it clear. If you like your A.M. links you can keep them.

      1. Swiss Servator, referendiffic!   11 years ago

        I am not going to sugarcoat this. There is a timing issue with the Mourning Lynx.

        1. UnCivilServant   11 years ago

          They haven't even updated 24/7 since I got into work this morning - how are they going to harvest it for links if no one is updating it?

  16. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

    I want to say thank you to Enough About Palin who provided me with a recipe for veal parmigiana that I used last night. It was delicious and made for a great americanuck thanksgiving north of the border.

    1. mad libertarian guy   11 years ago

      I'm a red blooded American, and I had slow cooker shrimp boil.

      Fuck turkey.

  17. RightofCenter   11 years ago

    Don't forget about my favorite two words in the English language today:

    Woo toff.

    1. RightofCenter   11 years ago

      #W^%^%#$@^%#$^#$^%#$^#$^!@#$@!#&**(x

      http://www.woot.com there is that better?

  18. Eduard van Haalen   11 years ago

    So, has Liberty seen the light of day by now?

    1. EDG reppin' LBC   11 years ago

      Yes. Sloop texted me a picture of a baby girl covered in stuff, being held by a proud papa.

      1. Eduard van Haalen   11 years ago

        Best wishes to everyone!

      2. Swiss Servator, referendiffic!   11 years ago

        Hurrah!

  19. Eduard van Haalen   11 years ago

    From Bloody Sunday to Black Friday - who would have imagined, back in the 70s and 70s, that a BBC story about "scenes of chaos" in Belfast would have been about shopping gone out of control?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-n.....d-25150109

    1. Eduard van Haalen   11 years ago

      70s and 80s

  20. The Late P Brooks   11 years ago

    Nihilists

    But the larger business of governing is already being cast aside. As Politico recently reported, the current Congress has only enacted 49 laws, the fewest since 1947. That's a mark of pride to Tea Party nihilists, but, for the rest of the country, which expects action on fundamentals like jobs and immigration, it's a mark of shame.

    When lawmakers left town for the Thanksgiving vacation, they missed their deadline to complete a farm bill. House Republicans want to use the bill to cut food stamps by $40 billion over a decade, which would end benefits for at least three million people during each of those years. Democrats are refusing to let this happen (though, unfortunately, they have proposed their own $4 billion cut). The resulting stalemate could drive up the price of milk.

    This rampant do-nothingism which has gripped Washington is like a plague upon this once=great land. Oh, woe!

    1. Eduard van Haalen   11 years ago

      More nothing, please.

    2. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

      By the Editors no less. They have given up any pretense of not being rabid socialists.

      THE PRICE OF MILK!!!

    3. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

      The resulting stalemate could drive up the price of milk.

      The horror!!! What will the farm industry do without that magical government money which is taken from someone before being given to the farm industry apparently free from consequences to other areas of the economy.

      1. SQRLSY One   11 years ago

        The price of milk may sky-rocket, you say? Solution... Meet the love of my milk-addicted life, and here she is! http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0310/S00003.htm

        1. Corning   11 years ago

          Why Not Just Genetically Engineer Women For Milk?

          Wait...why do we need the excuse of milk if we can already engineer women to look like that?

        2. Azathoth!!   11 years ago

          I'll be in my barn......

          1. SQRLSY One   11 years ago

            All right, y'all? So glad I wuz able ta steer ya in the right direction, so as ta git yer'all udderly titillated like that? So glad yuns all yung uns are still full enuff of that them thar "bull" that y'all would get all titillated by that them thar stuff & stuff? Now will y'all take pity upon that them thar uns amongst us all? Not that I'm up ta 'fessin' up ta bein' one of that them thar critters? That just ain't full enuff of that them thar "bull" stuff & stuff ta give a hoot about that them thar udderly delightful tittilation? Some of us is jus' too dad-gummed TIRED ta think about it any moar, where if I'm a gonna git yer all yung uns to sign up for that them thar O-Bummer-care so-uns I canna afford my Guv-Mint Almighty-subsidized VIAGRA, fer Chris-Sakes?!?!? Don't MESS w/MY Viagra, ya gotta know it's my RIGHT!!!

    4. MJGreen   11 years ago

      Democrats are refusing to let this happen (though, unfortunately, they have proposed their own $4 billion cut)

      Any kind of cut to federal spending is a shameful, disastrous thing.

  21. The Late P Brooks   11 years ago

    The most immediate priority for Congress is to reach a budget agreement by mid-December, to relieve the sequester cuts that have decimated so many important programs and now threaten the Pentagon's readiness beginning next year. Negotiators from both chambers have had more than a month to come up with a solution, but Representative Paul Ryan, the House budget chairman, has resisted the most obvious one: ending a group of tax loopholes for the very rich and using the money to replace the worst aspects of the sequester. Instead, he simply wants to make other cuts, or raise fees on purchases like airline tickets and duck stamps that affect many people of modest means, thereby protecting high-end tax shelters.

    Can't we all just come together and agree to raise taxes?

    Government programs are being decimated.

    DECIMATED, I tells ya!

    1. Corning   11 years ago

      now threaten the Pentagon's readiness beginning next year.

      Is there a war that the NYT has not supported?

  22. The Late P Brooks   11 years ago

    And, right on cue (like Pavlov's slavering dog):

    It's easy to view the opposition in Congress as a bunch of heartless, obstinate people who care about nothing more than their own careers, and, in our frustration, we zero in on certain well-known personalities, like Representative Ryan and Senator McCain. But legislators like those two and others in the opposition are merely public faces of real political power: an almost invisible phalanx of wealthy donors that is even more impervious to liberal outrage than the most defiant legislators. Those donors constitute a nebulous and nefarious force in American politics more powerful than any rational argument for resolving major problems, any appeal for compassion and decency, and any attempt to throttle their influence. Ironically, they have the uncanny ability to sugar-coat their messages in such a way that the average voter will swallow them. And they don't quit. If they lose on an issue or an election, they just redouble funding for the next round.

    NYT commenters are the most thoughtful and well-informed in the tube-o-sphere!

    1. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

      Listen, the government is controlled by wealthy donors. How do we fix this? We need to give the government more power! That will fix it!

    2. Rhywun   11 years ago

      Needs more KOCH.

    3. neoteny   11 years ago

      Ironically, they have the uncanny ability to sugar-coat their messages in such a way that the average voter will swallow them.

      The American people ought to resign; their government deserves better voters.

  23. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

    sequester cuts that have decimated so many important programs

    Please tell me more about how important these programs are.

    1. Bam!   11 years ago

      Please tell me more about these "cuts" you speak of.

      1. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

        Not automatically increasing the budget for every government program ever thought up is equal to draconian cuts "decimating" these "important" programs.

    2. Rhywun   11 years ago

      "Decimate" is the new "cut to the bone", I guess.

  24. The Late P Brooks   11 years ago

    Oldy but goodie:

    Let's get real. The GOP cannot stomach the fact that a black man was elected and re-elected to the Presidency.

    They are willing to trash the country rather than see a black man succeed as President. They do not like the precedent it would set.

    Pay no attention to the historical record. They only hate him because he's BLACK!!1111

    1. creech   11 years ago

      Of course. If he was white, the GOP would show him all the love they showed Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, LBJ, etc.

      1. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

        Up until Obama politics was a friendly game.

    2. Rich   11 years ago

      Pay no attention to the historical record. They only hate him because he's BLACK!!1111

      Black NFL players arrested nearly 10 times as often as whites

      I rest my case!1111

      /Obamatron

  25. Swiss Servator, referendiffic!   11 years ago

    I am gravely concerned....this cartoon does not suck that much, in my opinion. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!

    1. Kaptious Kristen   11 years ago

      It's just because of your no-A.M. links-fevered-delerium.

    2. andarm16   11 years ago

      Refocus your anger on the lack of Morning Links at the cartoon. Soon you'll be back to toeing the party line!

      1. Swiss Servator, referendiffic!   11 years ago

        "tow the lion"

        1. AlmightyJB   11 years ago

          thank you

    3. AlmightyJB   11 years ago

      It's actually funny. Maybe one of his relatives gave him the idea yesterday.

  26. Bam!   11 years ago

    Obama's Pampered, Unchallenged Mind. Also contains another photo of Obama looking like Bush.

    1. John   11 years ago

      I know that if you are a President you are photographed so much that there are bound to be unflattering pictures of you out there. But my God there are a lot of pictures of Obama with a pissed off butt hurt look on his face.

      1. Kaptious Kristen   11 years ago

        I would think the photographic evidence of the obvious and severe aging process that Presidents go through would discourage the shallow and vain from seeking the job, but damned if they don't just get shallower and vainer and stupider every 4-8 years.

        1. John   11 years ago

          But the kind of person who wants to be President is the kind of guy who looks in the mirror and thinks "damn I look good" no matter what. Bill Clinton is about as physically attractive as Keith Richards is these days. In fact, Kieth might be better looking for the simple reason that Clinton is so fat. But I guarantee you Bill wakes up every day thinking he is right up there with George Clooney.

          1. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

            John, have you even seen Monica Lewinsky? Total babe. 10 out of 10. You can't bag a high class broad like that with anything less than George Clooney looks.

    2. RightofCenter   11 years ago

      Ugh, I stayed too long in the comments. Depending on who you believe, Obama is either the One True Liberal Lightbringer--obstructed by obstructionist teathuglicans--or a DINO--catering to every whim of the obstructionist teathuglicans. My brain, it has a sad. Can someone please make a funny joke about Bea Arthur letting down the Cleveland Browns? Or maybe post an article about "Slave" being an option for GA jurors?

      Thanks.

      1. John   11 years ago

        Just imagine the epic amount of mutual hatred and butt hurt that is going to occur between the "Obama is a light giver" and the "Obama is a miserable DINO who sold us out" groups as things continue to get worse.

  27. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? WHERE ARE THE LINKS? WHERE ARE THE NEW POSTS.

    Mindless consumers at reason out getting their Black Friday on. OR POSSIBLY KNOCK OUT GAMED.

    1. SQRLSY One   11 years ago

      Where are the links? Where is everyone hiding on "black Friday"? I barely have time to post any more, for I have found the love of my milk-addicted life, and here she is! http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0310/S00003.htm

  28. John Galt   11 years ago

    Jebus, he already had Ms Freedom, Ms Liberty and Ms Justice executed, now he's putting Ms Law to death. If I didn't know better I'd think the little dumbo eared Napoleon hates women.

  29. The Late P Brooks   11 years ago

    I have heard the claim, "The White House has promised the healthcare.gov site will be fixed by tomorrow," several times this morning, but nobody has made mention of any sort of OR WHAT.

    Will the President express his deep and heartfelt regret and resign?
    Will he personally slit Sebelius' throat and throw her off the White House roof?
    Will he give the First Dog a vicious thrashing?
    Will he go without ice cream for a week?

    1. John   11 years ago

      The Journolist will have a new talking point about how Obamacare is great and the website mostly works and wasn't that important anyway.

      1. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

        Something completely out of their hands is causing the delay, obviously.

        1. John   11 years ago

          It just happened unexpectedly.

          1. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

            This is a very complicated case, John. You know, a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-you's. And, uh, lotta strands to keep in Obama's head, man. Lotta strands in old Baracky's head. Luckily he's adhering to a pretty strict, uh, public propaganda regimen to keep his followers limber.

        2. Swiss Servator, referendiffic!   11 years ago

          TEAHADIST OBSTRUCTIONISZM!!!

  30. GregMax   11 years ago

    It's one thing to say "the ends justify the means". In Obama's case he fails to achieve the end even though his means are destructive.

  31. Kaptious Kristen   11 years ago

    The ATCs at JFK are just as unhappy about working today as I am. Buncha cranky pants.

    1. RightofCenter   11 years ago

      KK, proceed to JOANI and hold SW on the 230 radial at 8000 feet. State fuel and do not lie.

      1. Kaptious Kristen   11 years ago

        I have as much fuel as Avianca 52 - does that help ya scurvy bastard? 😛

        (the ATCs are being cranky and passive-aggressive about an apparent frequency change. I guess the normal freq for 31L is 123.9, but they're on 119.something and lots of flights are asking whether they should change. The ATC's are saying "Why would you change?" or "What other frequency?", knowing damn well it's out of the norm)

        1. RightofCenter   11 years ago

          I have as much fuel as Avianca 52

          That's cold 🙂

          The attitude you're describing is about the persona I try to channel now that I'm a non-flying sleazy gov't contractor simulator instructor. That and "sarcastic loadmaster" are my favorite ways of letting the studs know exactly what I'm thinking while making it look like I'm joking.

  32. SweatingGin   11 years ago

    I have heard the claim, "The White House has promised the healthcare.gov site will be fixed by tomorrow," several times this morning, but nobody has made mention of any sort of OR WHAT.

    One programmer executed each week until it is fixed. Start with the ones who have been there longest, to properly scare the newest ones into finishing it.

    1. UnCivilServant   11 years ago

      But... That would lead to war with Canukistan!

  33. John   11 years ago

    It appears that President Obama believes that dissenting views are irrational or the result of clouded, lesser thinking. Being blind to his own ideology makes him unable to respectfully deal with others who might readily embrace an ideological point of view.

    From that post pieces about Obama not thinking he is ideological. Isn't that just a long, polite way of saying Obama is narrow minded and stupid? If being unable to comprehend or appreciate other views isn't a text book example of being stupid, I am not sure what is.

    1. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

      It is an awful quality in someone who is supposed to lead a Republic. If you cannot appreciate any opposing views how are you supposed to successfully negotiate anything with your opposition? This is why Obama hates the opposition and wants to do away with descent, he simply has no ability to work with them and thus always comes back to the ultimate desire and goal to rule with no debate.

      1. John   11 years ago

        That why is such a monumental failure as President. He really is the worst President in modern history. You have to go back to the pre civil war Presidents to find a worse one. Even Nixon managed to understand and work with the other side on some things. Regardless of what you think of things like the EPA and such, the fact is those were things the American public wanted at the time. Obama is completely incompetent at even the most basic political skills necessary to be president. He doesn't have a single significant accomplishment to his name, not one.

  34. John   11 years ago

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/20.....-of-state/

    Hillary Clinton Supporters Slowly Realizing She Didn't Do Anything as Secretary of State

  35. The Late P Brooks   11 years ago

    The ATCs at JFK are just as unhappy about working today as I am.

    I wonder why the Social Justice Mob editorializers at places like CNN never write heartwrenching sob stories about the poor air traffic controllers working instead of sitting down to a nice meal with fambly and friends. Or football players.

    1. Kaptious Kristen   11 years ago

      And pilots, and flight attendants, and gas station cashiers, and cops, and firefighters, and doctors, and nurses, and sys admins, and security guards, and doormen, and....

      1. UnCivilServant   11 years ago

        We Sysadmins chose to work today because we knew the users wouldn't. It's quiet.

        1. Jordan   11 years ago

          Too quiet...

  36. John   11 years ago

    http://www.hangthebankers.com/.....-one-year/

    CNN and MSNBC lose almost half of their viewers in one year. I know it is just too wonderful to contemplate. But could it be that these assholes might actually be held accountable for lying to the country for the last five years?

    1. Lady Bertrum   11 years ago

      I'm wondering if both the left and right are losing intensity. Based on conversations with my father-in-law, a Pat Buchanan Republican, and my sister-in-law, who has lived the live of Julia, I see them less engaged and more cynical about "their" side. They seem disillusioned and less likely to believe that a TOP MAN from their side will ride in on a white horse anytime soon. Both were more open to libertarian types ideas then I've ever seem them.

      My guess, ratings are falling because people are less interested in the same-old same-old.

      1. John   11 years ago

        I really think all of the lying about Obamacare is disillusioning a lot of people. Not everyone who votes Democrat is a brain dead moron like the lefties who post on here or other internet forums. A lot of them really believed and feel betrayed over being lied to. This is why I think the midterms are going to be a blood bath for the Dems. The Republicans still can go vote on hate and will be motivated. I think a lot of Democrats are just checking out of politics and won't show up.

        Saw several of my lefty neighbors yesterday. Not a single word about politics was spoken. And this is in Washington.

  37. Bam!   11 years ago

    Detroit bailout begins: FEMA grant to hire firefighters.

    1. Rhywun   11 years ago

      "We mismanaged ourselves into bankruptcy" = "emergency".

      WTF?

  38. The Late P Brooks   11 years ago

    Detroit doesn't need more firemen, they need more arsonists!

    Get the economy growing again. JOBZ!

    1. Swiss Servator, referendiffic!   11 years ago

      Finally, someone who understands!

      /Kruggie

  39. Brian D   11 years ago

    Another call to repeal the 22nd Amendment.

    1. SweatingGin   11 years ago

      Lulz. What would be really fun is if a repeal effort really got going, and Obama/other dems wound up opposing it because he might lose.

  40. SweatingGin   11 years ago

    KosBan!

  41. The Late P Brooks   11 years ago

    Things you could never have guessed on your own.

    (CNN) ? After the elections in 2016, President Barack Obama will leave the White House, but he may not leave Washington.

    I am, shall we say, agog.

    1. John   11 years ago

      What a pathetic moron. Who would live in Washington when a luxury estate in Hawaii is an available option?

      1. UnCivilServant   11 years ago

        A power junkie. Hawaii is so far from those levers he never actually managed to pull thanks to his incompetence.

        1. John   11 years ago

          There are few less powerful people than an ex President. Obama is going to be like the Frat guy who keeps showing up at all of the parties even though he graduated years ago. I don't think this is going to end well for him.

          1. UnCivilServant   11 years ago

            I don't think this is going to end well for him

            That has been a recurring theme for him these past few years.

          2. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

            the Frat guy who keeps showing up at all of the parties even though he graduated years ago

            These types are so diluted in their own mind where everyone worships them for their status that they never realize that everyone is snarking at them and wondering who the hell this old creepy guy is.

            1. John   11 years ago

              That is the thing. After he is no longer President, the power worshipers and boot lickers will move on.

    2. Corning   11 years ago

      Can an ex-president hold a senate seat?

      1. Mercutio   11 years ago

        Yes. Andrew Johnson served in the Senate after his term as President.

  42. The Late P Brooks   11 years ago

    Michelle Obama also said in the interview that she's weary of social media, specifically Facebook.

    "I still am not a big believer in Facebook for young people," she said, especially for her daughters given that they're under constant public scrutiny.

    "Some of its stuff they don't need to see and be a part of? So we try to protect them from too much of the public voice."

    Come on, Michelle. Do you seriously believe they don't already know what an incompetent buffoon their old man is? They see him every day.

    1. Rhywun   11 years ago

      Yeah, blame Facebook instead of your and your husband's narcissism. Cute.

      1. John   11 years ago

        Is it bad that I take perverse pleasure in the thought of those two brats ending up meth addicted party girls?

        1. Bobarian   11 years ago

          That is bad, especially since coke is due to come back in to popularity...

  43. Entropy Void   11 years ago

    No AM Links today?

    I'll just leave this here.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....to-expire/

    Thank God for Jeff Sessions.

    1. Corning   11 years ago

      We must not allow a 3-D printer cartridge to become as deadly as a gun cartridge

      I will not allow Reason Magazine to become as deadly as a gun magazine!!!

  44. Paul.   11 years ago

    I'd give that an A-

  45. kristenkristen   11 years ago


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  46. aliciaehopper   11 years ago

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  47. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

    Too much crazy. Don't go down there.

  48. Kaptious Kristen   11 years ago

    I said the other day I don't much go for the foreign policy stuff. Four years of being an International Studies major and 23 years in DC has cleansed me of any care for what other countries do.

  49. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

    I can't believe how well they have captured hick Canada. They nailed it perfectly. These are the type of people I grew up with. If you ever spend any time around trades guys, this is exactly how a lot of them talk.

    I'll link it again in case some have missed it.

  50. Smilin' Joe Fission   11 years ago

    But Iran is our biggest threat EVER!!@1111!!

  51. Swiss Servator, referendiffic!   11 years ago

    Try fighting in a couple of 'em!

  52. Bobarian   11 years ago

    Really, what difference, at this point, does it make?

  53. mad libertarian guy   11 years ago

    I thought it was Syria.

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