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Stay ignorant, my friends!

by Speranza ( 143 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Elections 2012, Humor, OOT at June 21st, 2012 - 10:00 pm

A spoof of the Dos Equis” beer “Stay thirsty, my friends” commercial.

Hat tip – Tammy Bruce

The Most Arrogant Man in the World

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143 Responses to “Stay ignorant, my friends!”
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  1. Speranza
    1 | June 21, 2012 10:10 pm

    It sure captures Obama’s arrogance.


  2. Speranza
    2 | June 21, 2012 10:12 pm

    Love the Dos Equis commercial.


  3. Speranza
    3 | June 21, 2012 10:12 pm

    White House spokeman Jay Carney sounds as if he studied under Baghdad Bob.


  4. Speranza
    4 | June 21, 2012 10:13 pm

    They are still running against W.


  5. Speranza
    5 | June 21, 2012 10:15 pm

    If Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden had ever married (say 35 -- 40 years ago) -- what sort of moron might they have produced?


  6. 6 | June 21, 2012 10:17 pm

    This is funny!


  7. 7 | June 21, 2012 10:21 pm

    Speranza wrote:

    If Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden had ever married (say 35 – 40 years ago) – what sort of moron might they have produced?

    Dennis Kucinich!


  8. buzzsawmonkey
    8 | June 21, 2012 10:22 pm

    We had a lot of fun with this over at C2 last night:

    “He needs a Teleprompter to speak to sixth graders. He is…the Most Arrogant Man in the World.”

    “He declared his nomination marked the moment when the oceans began to fall. He is…the Most Arrogant Man in the World.”

    Everybody was coming up with new lines. It was great!


  9. 9 | June 21, 2012 10:23 pm

    got my stitches out today! and going back to work Monday.

    funny, the obama campaign is running ads here. do they really think he has a chance to win Arizona?? haha


  10. 10 | June 21, 2012 10:28 pm

    @ Speranza:

    If they met 60 years ago, Charles Johnson would be the result.


  11. Speranza
    11 | June 21, 2012 10:30 pm

    Kirly wrote:

    Speranza wrote:

    If Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden had ever married (say 35 – 40 years ago) – what sort of moron might they have produced?

    Dennis Kucinich!

    Charles Johnson.


  12. Speranza
    12 | June 21, 2012 10:31 pm

    Rodan wrote:

    @ Speranza:
    If they met 60 years ago, Charles Johnson would be the result.

    I just wrote that without seening your reply. lol


  13. Speranza
    13 | June 21, 2012 10:31 pm

    Kirly wrote:

    funny, the obama campaign is running ads here. do they really think he has a chance to win Arizona?? haha

    I sure hope not.


  14. 14 | June 21, 2012 10:32 pm

    @ Speranza:

    He’s really a stupid man. What a waste.


  15. AZfederalist
    15 | June 21, 2012 10:34 pm

    Kirly wrote:

    funny, the obama campaign is running ads here. do they really think he has a chance to win Arizona?? haha

    Oh, that’s right, you live up in the sane part of the state. Unfortunately, down here in the stupid part, Obama will probably carry our area. Given that you outnumber us (at least the legal voters), hopefully your area of the state will carry the vote.


  16. eaglesoars
    16 | June 21, 2012 10:37 pm

    He’s also the dumbest man in the world.


  17. Speranza
    17 | June 21, 2012 10:37 pm

    Rodan wrote:

    @ Speranza:
    He’s really a stupid man. What a waste.

    He is an embittered stupid man.


  18. Speranza
    18 | June 21, 2012 10:38 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    He’s also the dumbest man in the world.

    A legend up Chwissy Matthews leg.


  19. 19 | June 21, 2012 10:39 pm

    That video would have been even funnier if they mashed Обама’s voice into saying “Stay Ignorant My Friends!” and that donk sound just reminded me of this:


  20. 20 | June 21, 2012 10:39 pm

    @ Speranza:

    He really is deranged and had a nervous breakdown. I am convinced he is clinically insane.


  21. 21 | June 21, 2012 10:40 pm

    @ AZfederalist:

    What about Flagstaff though?


  22. 22 | June 21, 2012 10:40 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    He’s also the dumbest man in the world.

    He thinks he is the state.


  23. Speranza
    23 | June 21, 2012 10:42 pm

    Rodan wrote:

    @ Speranza:
    He really is deranged and had a nervous breakdown. I am convinced he is clinically insane.

    I would not want any young girls to be around him. He is creepy.


  24. buzzsawmonkey
    24 | June 21, 2012 10:42 pm

    Speranza wrote:

    He is an embittered stupid man.

    Credentialed, not educated.


  25. 25 | June 21, 2012 10:43 pm

    Rodan wrote:

    @ Speranza:

    He really is deranged and had a nervous breakdown. I am convinced he is clinically insane.

    And the last President who was clinically f’d up? Woodrow Wilson.


  26. buzzsawmonkey
    26 | June 21, 2012 10:44 pm

    Rodan wrote:

    He thinks he is the state.

    The Sun King said, “L’etat, c’est moi!” Obama could not say that, for he speaks no foreign language—but Obama, whose “logo” has a sun incorporated into it, and who acts in all respects as though he believes himself to be royalty, clearly believes that he is the state.


  27. eaglesoars
    27 | June 21, 2012 10:44 pm

    Rodan wrote:

    He thinks he is the state.

    I’m not sure. I think he knows he’s a fraud. His thin skin testifies to that. He’s not comfortable in that skin. I think his high-handed response to Neil Munro’s interruption may indicate that he’s figured out people are on to him.


  28. 28 | June 21, 2012 10:45 pm

    @ Speranza:

    A Corpulent Aging Creep.


  29. buzzsawmonkey
    29 | June 21, 2012 10:45 pm

    Macker wrote:

    And the last President who was clinically f’d up? Woodrow Wilson.

    Hey, FDR was pretty f’d up too during his abortive last term.


  30. eaglesoars
    30 | June 21, 2012 10:46 pm

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    The Sun King said, “L’etat, c’est moi!”

    Yeah, but in Louis XIV’s case it was actually true.


  31. buzzsawmonkey
    31 | June 21, 2012 10:47 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Yeah, but in Louis XIV’s case it was actually true.

    From his portrait, the Sun King wore high heels.

    Obama gets high and surrounds himself with heels. The parallels are eerie.


  32. buzzsawmonkey
    32 | June 21, 2012 10:47 pm

    @ Speranza:

    Oops. I thought you were referring to Obama, not Sham Paine Charlie.


  33. 33 | June 21, 2012 10:48 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Did you read about all the banks downgraded.


  34. Speranza
    34 | June 21, 2012 10:50 pm

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    Speranza wrote:
    He is an embittered stupid man.

    Credentialed, not educated.

    A linker not a thinker.


  35. eaglesoars
    35 | June 21, 2012 10:51 pm

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:
    Yeah, but in Louis XIV’s case it was actually true.
    From his portrait, the Sun King wore high heels.
    Obama gets high and surrounds himself with heels. The parallels are eerie.

    heh. nice one.

    I love royal history. Just finished The Queen’s Lover, based on Axel Ferson’s memiors/letters. Turns out he really was Marie Antoinette’s lover. I have the very brief memoir of Louis XVI’s valet -- I think his name was Clercy? Title is “The Terror”. Incredibly sad.

    Just picked up A.N. Wilson’s The Elizabethans. Looking forward to it.


  36. Speranza
    36 | June 21, 2012 10:52 pm

    Macker wrote:

    And the last President who was clinically f’d up? Woodrow Wilson.

    Try Richard E. Nixon (yes I know it is Richard M. Nixon).


  37. 37 | June 21, 2012 10:53 pm

    @ buzzsawmonkey:

    The Sun King title fits him.


  38. buzzsawmonkey
    38 | June 21, 2012 10:55 pm

    Rodan wrote:

    The Sun King title fits him.

    Ah, but whose son is this Sun King?

    And, while he may never have chased after the youthful waiters of the Versailles on Calle Ocho in Miami, strange tales are told of the Versailles-on-the-Potomac that he has created…


  39. eaglesoars
    39 | June 21, 2012 10:55 pm

    Rodan wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    Did you read about all the banks downgraded.

    Not in detail -- I haven’t visited zerohedge today (Satellite box went blooey, AC is stressed and the dog is off her food) -- but I smell a rat.

    The downgrade means it will cost them more to borrow. Bernanke is simpering/whimpering about everything.

    Perfect setup for QE-3 -- so the Fed can loan to the banks at 0% interest.


  40. 40 | June 21, 2012 10:55 pm

    @ Speranza:

    Happy Warrior thinks Nixon was the best Republican president.


  41. 41 | June 21, 2012 10:56 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    That’s what I am thinking. That’s why the market went down. They want QE3.


  42. Speranza
    42 | June 21, 2012 10:59 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Just picked up A.N. Wilson’s The Elizabethans. Looking forward to it.

    A.N. Wilson is an Israel hater.


  43. eaglesoars
    43 | June 21, 2012 10:59 pm

    Rodan wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    That’s what I am thinking. That’s why the market went down. They want QE3.

    Maybe. Also, Germany posted a decline in manufacturing. I don’t know why that should be such a shock. Nobody has money to buy anything.


  44. eaglesoars
    44 | June 21, 2012 10:59 pm

    Speranza wrote:

    A.N. Wilson is an Israel hater.

    hunh. Did not know that. So, what should I know about this?


  45. buzzsawmonkey
    45 | June 21, 2012 11:00 pm

    Speranza wrote:

    A.N. Wilson is an Israel hater.

    Well, he’s British, right? The two go together like ham and cheese, or Muslim and suicide belt.


  46. buzzsawmonkey
    46 | June 21, 2012 11:01 pm

    ‘Nite, folks.


  47. eaglesoars
    47 | June 21, 2012 11:06 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Speranza wrote:
    A.N. Wilson is an Israel hater.
    hunh. Did not know that. So, what should I know about this?

    Never mind. Found it. Tons of it, actually.


  48. eaglesoars
    48 | June 21, 2012 11:07 pm

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    Speranza wrote:
    A.N. Wilson is an Israel hater.
    Well, he’s British, right? The two go together like ham and cheese, or Muslim and suicide belt.

    Ah c’mon. Balfour Declaration. Orde Wingate.


  49. Speranza
    49 | June 21, 2012 11:16 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    hunh. Did not know that. So, what should I know about this?

    Nothing really. He is a fine historian though like World War II historian Max Hastings -- another Brit with Israel issues.


  50. Speranza
    50 | June 21, 2012 11:18 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Ah c’mon. Balfour Declaration. Orde Wingate.

    Yeah and the Brits really kept their promise with the Balfour declaration didn’t they? Orde Wingate was transferred out of Palestine to Burma because he was pro Jewish.


  51. 51 | June 21, 2012 11:18 pm

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    Well, he’s British, right? The two [British and Antisemitism] go together like ham and cheese, or Muslim and suicide belt.

    In-house Brit here, checking in. Couldn’t agree more. Here is another reactionary British antisemite.

    Okay, that was a cheap shot. But . . .

    Yes, our upper class twits have a Jew problem. I saw it first hand when I went to school with them. I do not, however, see this pathology as natural to the British psyche. Antisemitism has always been something that has been forced upon the British people from above -- nowadays through the BBC. (It was always kings who threw the Jews out of England -- where commoners engaged in pogroms, that was over in the Continent.)

    The English Defence League and, these days, even the British National Party (creepy cult that it is) have been working hard to keep antisemitism out of their ranks. That’s because they represent the average Briton (for better or worse). They know that the British and the Jews are minorities in this world.

    We share more in common than is let on. (*Leaving aside that I am mixed myself.)


  52. Speranza
    52 | June 21, 2012 11:19 pm

    @ Zimriel:

    I was under the impression that the BNP leader was a real Jew hater.


  53. Speranza
    53 | June 21, 2012 11:21 pm

    @ Zimriel:
    Disraeli’s father converted him to Christianity because he knew that as a Jew his future prospects in politics was limited.


  54. Speranza
    54 | June 21, 2012 11:22 pm

    Rodan wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    That’s what I am thinking. That’s why the market went down. They want QE3.

    It went down big time today.


  55. Speranza
    55 | June 21, 2012 11:23 pm

    Rodan wrote:

    @ Speranza:
    Happy Warrior thinks Nixon was the best Republican president.

    So does Bunk.


  56. Speranza
    56 | June 21, 2012 11:24 pm

    The French had three Jewish Prime Ministers.


  57. 57 | June 21, 2012 11:24 pm

    Speranza, he’s let a lot of that scum in there over the years; but he hasn’t been antisemitic himself for many years now. Hence “these days”. I still don’t have to like them, but I have to give them credit where it is due.


  58. eaglesoars
    58 | June 21, 2012 11:27 pm

    Speranza wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:
    Ah c’mon. Balfour Declaration. Orde Wingate.
    Yeah and the Brits really kept their promise with the Balfour declaration didn’t they? Orde Wingate was transferred out of Palestine to Burma because he was pro Jewish.

    No, nor to Poland. And Wingate wasn’t just pro-Jew. The man FOUGHT.

    My Dad flew with a Wingate (RAF) who he said came from a deeply regligious Christian family that were Zionists. Years later I found out about Orde. Must have been a brother.


  59. Speranza
    59 | June 21, 2012 11:27 pm

    @ Zimriel:
    Well if you say so -- I do not follow the BNP that closely.


  60. 60 | June 21, 2012 11:29 pm

    As for Disraeli, Speranza: the issue that Buzz raised wasn’t anti-judaism, it was anti-semitism. Disraeli (and my parent) being raised a Christian “freed” him (and me) of being a Jew by religion. But he was still a Jew by race. So that’s what I addressed in my comment.


  61. Speranza
    61 | June 21, 2012 11:31 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    My Dad flew with a Wingate (RAF) who he said came from a deeply regligious Christian family that were Zionists. Years later I found out about Orde. Must have been a brother.

    Orde Wingate was the leader of the Chindits.
    General William Slim of the 14th Army in the Burma theater (actually he was part of the Indian Army) was in my opinion the outstanding British commander of WWII. The best soldiers of the French and British armies in the two World Wars seem to have come from the colonial armies. Montgomery was a blow hard (in my opinion).


  62. Speranza
    62 | June 21, 2012 11:32 pm

    Zimriel wrote:

    As for Disraeli, Speranza: the issue that Buzz raised wasn’t anti-judaism, it was anti-semitism. Disraeli (and my parent) being raised a Christian “freed” him (and me) of being a Jew by religion. But he was still a Jew by race. So that’s what I addressed in my comment.

    Jew by race v. Jew by religion -- seems to be splitting hairs. Disraeli was Queen Victoria’s favorite Prime Minister. It seems that him and Gladstone were perpetually the alternating Prime Ministers (once in a while it was Lord Salisbury).


  63. 63 | June 21, 2012 11:40 pm

    I also think here that when I see Brits being called out as antisemitic by nature, that is like seeing Jews being called out as [insert stereotype here] by nature.

    And anyway it’s not true. Everyone knows we’re anti-French by nature


  64. eaglesoars
    64 | June 21, 2012 11:41 pm

    Speranza wrote:

    General William Slim of the 14th Army in the Burma theater (actually he was part of the Indian Army) was in my opinion the outstanding British commander of WWII.

    Never heard of him. Not surprising, I know next to nothing about that area of history.

    Funny story -- the reason Dad remembered this man he called Wingate -- theBrits were bitching that Dad was able to buy all the Scotch in the officer’s canteen. Wingate put them down. “He flies with us, he fights with us. He drinks whatever he wants.”

    The Brits had problems w/Americans. Understandable, I guess, but it wasn’t all sweetness and light.


  65. eaglesoars
    65 | June 21, 2012 11:42 pm

    Zimriel wrote:

    And anyway it’s not true. Everyone knows we’re anti-French by nature

    So when Hollande announced his new tax program and Cameron told all the French millionaires they would be welcomed in England, you guys just cheered, right?


  66. Speranza
    66 | June 21, 2012 11:42 pm

    Zimriel wrote:

    I also think here that when I see Brits being called out as antisemitic by nature, that is like seeing Jews being called out as [insert stereotype here] by nature.
    And anyway it’s not true. Everyone knows we’re anti-French by nature

    You’re just tea drinkers and porridge eaters by nature.


  67. Speranza
    67 | June 21, 2012 11:44 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    So when Hollande announced his new tax program and Cameron told all the French millionaires they would be welcomed in England, you guys just cheered, right?

    Britain should be happy to receive them. Hollande the left-wing ideologue does not know (or refuses to recognize or acknowledge the fact) that millionaires can either move themselves or move their money to other countries.


  68. eaglesoars
    68 | June 21, 2012 11:46 pm

    @ Speranza:

    I just finished Keith Richards autobiography “Life”. They left Britain when the effective tax rate for their income level was to be leveled at -- get this -- 98%


  69. Speranza
    69 | June 21, 2012 11:48 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Never heard of him. Not surprising, I know next to nothing about that area of history.

    You should read about him, he was the outstanding British commander of World War II. The 14th Army beat the shit out of the Japanese in 1944 at Kohima and Imphal (in India).


  70. Speranza
    70 | June 21, 2012 11:48 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ Speranza:
    I just finished Keith Richards autobiography “Life”. They left Britain when the effective tax rate for their income level was to be leveled at – get this – 98%

    Hey the Rolling Stones left the country for that reason.


  71. eaglesoars
    71 | June 21, 2012 11:53 pm

    Speranza wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:
    @ Speranza:
    I just finished Keith Richards autobiography “Life”. They left Britain when the effective tax rate for their income level was to be leveled at – get this – 98%
    Hey the Rolling Stones left the country for that reason.

    As did the Beatles -- a whole slew of them -- Switzerland made out like a bandit.

    Ok, sleepy. nite all.


  72. mfhorn
    72 | June 21, 2012 11:55 pm

    @ Rodan:

    I’m very happy to be banking at a smaller, local bank.


  73. 73 | June 22, 2012 12:02 am

    Kirly wrote:

    Speranza wrote:

    If Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden had ever married (say 35 – 40 years ago) – what sort of moron might they have produced?

    Dennis Kucinich!

    He would be light years ahead of anything they produced.


  74. mfhorn
    74 | June 22, 2012 12:18 am

    Obama/Biden

    TweedleDumb/TweedleDumber


  75. 75 | June 22, 2012 12:34 am

    mfhorn wrote:

    Obama/Biden
    TweedleDumb/TweedleDumber

    Shouldn’t that be TweedleEvil and Tweedledumberthanabcketofsnot?


  76. AZfederalist
    76 | June 22, 2012 12:49 am

    @ doriangrey:

    Yeah, I think that pretty much nails it. Not sure that Jugears is all that dumb with his “ahhs”, “uhhs”, “ummms”, “let me be clear”, and “some say…” so much as self-censoring while he tries to figure out a way to make a statement without overtly betraying his communist ideology. When you hear that interview he did with NPR years ago, there was no stuttering when he talked about the Constitution being a document of “negative liberties” and the Warren Court not addressing “redistributive justice”. It’s hard to tell how much is lack of intelligence vs. not wanting to betray his real motives.

    However, he is definitely incompetent.


  77. 77 | June 22, 2012 1:21 am

    AZfederalist wrote:

    However, he is definitely incompetent.

    I don’t even think he is incompetent, I believe everything he is doing is on, and has a purpose. I think that Barack Obama is a genuine believer in Marxism, that he genuinely believes that it is a superior political and economic system and that he honestly believes that what he is doing is in America’s best interests. That is what truly makes him dangerous. Barack Obama is exactly the kind of individual that CS Lewis was talking about when he wrote this.

    “Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”


  78. lobo91
    78 | June 22, 2012 1:31 am

    @ AZfederalist:

    When you hear that interview he did with NPR years ago, there was no stuttering when he talked about the Constitution being a document of “negative liberties” and the Warren Court not addressing “redistributive justice”.

    That probably came right out of one of his lectures from when he taught in Chicago, so it was well-rehearsed.


  79. AZfederalist
    79 | June 22, 2012 1:34 am

    lobo91 wrote:

    so it was well-rehearsed.

    That could also be the case. It was in the days before the teleprompter, so he probably had to memorize his lines. The answers in that interview were definitely closer to his core beliefs, so it was easier to express.


  80. lobo91
    80 | June 22, 2012 1:40 am

    @ AZfederalist:

    Too bad his core beliefs have so little grounding in reality.


  81. 81 | June 22, 2012 5:20 am

    Good morning everyone. My 365 Project continues…


  82. 82 | June 22, 2012 5:32 am

    doriangrey wrote:

    Shouldn’t that be TweedleEvil and Tweedledumberthanabcketofsnot?

    Thank you for ruining my breakfast which I haven’t even consumed yet! 8)


  83. Speranza
    83 | June 22, 2012 5:39 am

    AZfederalist wrote:

    When you hear that interview he did with NPR years ago, there was no stuttering when he talked about the Constitution being a document of “negative liberties” and the Warren Court not addressing “redistributive justice”.

    He learned from his Harvard professors well.


  84. Guggi
    84 | June 22, 2012 5:49 am

    Europe is in deep sh*t:

    Merkel now turned around and promotes now “more political and fiscal integration” while the national debt in Gemany (compared to the GDP) is higher (85%) than in Spain. Butthey borrow Spain again Euro 100 Billions to bail out the banks which doesn’t make any sense b’cause Spains national debt rises and the country has to cut even more an public spending and raise taxes.

    There are only 4 (!) countries paying into the EMS (Germany, Netherlands, Finland and Luxembourg (!)) but the German constitutional court has already asked the German president not to sign the bill. If they come to the conclusion that the bill doesn’t go along with the German constition the constition has to be re-written and a nation wide referendum to be held. This i9s very dangerous b’cause the Germans are fed up with this and don’t want to pay for the PIGS anymore.

    Other countries like the Scandinavians which would be now ready to attend the Euro, will say “thanks, but no, thanks” b’cause they have just worked hard to balance their budgets and don’t want to be in the mess again.

    France isn’t much better off than Italy or Spain but I doubt that France is ready to give up her political and fiscal autonomy.

    About nearly Euro 750 Billions have been transfered from the PIGS-states to the City of London while Germany will have to raise the taxes for the middle class (business and employees) and cut off public spending even more.

    There is no solution for this mess.


  85. Guggi
    85 | June 22, 2012 5:57 am

    It’s a pity that snork isn’t around any longer he would have enjoyed this article:

    Doubts cast over consumer benefits of smart meters

    The European Commission has asked member states to present before September their cost-benefit analyses on the deployment of smart meters that could lead to 80% of consumers being equipped with intelligent metering systems by 2020. But a recent study casts doubts over their cost-effectiveness and the benefits they bring to consumers.


  86. Speranza
    86 | June 22, 2012 5:58 am

    Guggi wrote:

    It’s a pity that snork isn’t around any longer he would have enjoyed this article:

    He would rather obsess on Charles Johnson all day at DoD. Too bad because he used to have interesting threads.


  87. Guggi
    87 | June 22, 2012 6:07 am

    Speranza wrote:

    He would rather obsess on Charles Johnson all day at DoD. Too bad because he used to have interesting threads.

    Didn’t he have a thread at PJM about smart meters ?


  88. 89 | June 22, 2012 6:22 am

    @ Speranza:

    He would rather obsess on Charles Johnson all day…

    Lot of that going on here…


  89. Guggi
    90 | June 22, 2012 6:30 am

    Mike C. wrote:

    Lot of that going on here…

    It was much worse before DoD.


  90. Speranza
    91 | June 22, 2012 6:35 am

    Mike C. wrote:

    @ Speranza:
    He would rather obsess on Charles Johnson all day…

    Lot of that going on here…

    In all fairness,he is a huge target.


  91. Speranza
    92 | June 22, 2012 6:36 am

    Actually if the conservative blogosphere completely ignored him (Charles Johnson) for two months, he would probably completely disappear into the oblivion that he so richly deserves.


  92. Speranza
    93 | June 22, 2012 6:40 am

    DoD is like the dive bar guilty pleasure that you do not advertise about patronizing to your respectable friends but you usually have a lot of fun at.


  93. 94 | June 22, 2012 6:50 am

    @ Guggi:

    I’ve been only an occasional visior to Europe but from my perspective, the EU was destined to be a tragic, almost comical blunder of continental proportions from the beginning.


  94. Guggi
    95 | June 22, 2012 6:52 am

    MacDuff wrote:

    @ Guggi:
    I’ve been only an occasional visior to Europe but from my perspective, the EU was destined to be a tragic, almost comical blunder of continental proportions from the beginning.

    It was a failure since the Treaty of Rome.


  95. 96 | June 22, 2012 6:56 am

    Speranza wrote:

    Actually if the conservative blogosphere completely ignored him (Charles Johnson) for two months, he would probably completely disappear into the oblivion that he so richly deserves.

    I went through the bitter, angry phase but I just don’t care enough to muster any emotion toward him or his posters. There’s already a chunk of my life I’ll never get back and I’ll not give him more.


  96. Guggi
    97 | June 22, 2012 7:08 am

    Brussels braced for energy liberalisation backlash

    Brussels grandees claimed that the liberalisation of Europe’s energy sector would take the edge off electricity bills but as the EU prepares to evaluate the policy three years on, unease about its benefit for consumers shows no sign of abating.


  97. Bumr50
    98 | June 22, 2012 7:09 am

    Desperation: Obama Surrogate Calls to Make Voting Mandatory

    Mandatory gun ownership too right?

    //


  98. 99 | June 22, 2012 7:10 am

    18 people were killed in a gun battle near Kabul.

    Damn! It’s getting to be like Chicago!


  99. Guggi
    100 | June 22, 2012 7:22 am

    MacDuff wrote:

    18 people were killed in a gun battle near Kabul.
    Damn! It’s getting to be like Chicago!

    Has the big Zero already called for more regulation on gun ownership in Afghanistan ? //////


  100. 101 | June 22, 2012 7:38 am

    Guggi wrote:

    Has the big Zero already called for more regulation on gun ownership in Afghanistan ? //////

    I’m thinking an American city-style buyback program like “Goats for Guns” /


  101. Guggi
    102 | June 22, 2012 7:44 am

    MacDuff wrote:

    I’m thinking an American city-style buyback program like “Goats for Guns” /

    :-)


  102. Guggi
    103 | June 22, 2012 7:53 am

    Europe Concedes Defeat: Developing Nations Reject Green Agenda

    Nick Clegg, Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister, has admitted that the Rio+20 deal is “disappointing.” He blamed China and other developing countries that have huge reserves of coal and want to continue using fossil fuels to grow, for failing to back plans for the green economy. “The political significance of Rio is that the G77 nations are antagonistic to our European ideas on the green economy,” said Mr Clegg. He said Europe can no longer take the lead in such international negotiations because power is shifting “from West to East”.


  103. 104 | June 22, 2012 7:53 am

    Bumr50 wrote:

    Desperation: Obama Surrogate Calls to Make Voting Mandatory

    Hmm. Mandatory voting, it seems, would require a master record being checked against some sort of ID so as to ensure that you have satisfied your obligation. They’ve already mad it clear that IDs are racist. It’s not only fascism, it’s sloppy, poorly thought-out fascism at that!


  104. 105 | June 22, 2012 8:04 am

    Guggi wrote:

    Europe Concedes Defeat: Developing Nations Reject Green Agenda

    Nick Clegg, Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister, has admitted that the Rio+20 deal is “disappointing.” He blamed China and other developing countries that have huge reserves of coal and want to continue using fossil fuels to grow, for failing to back plans for the green economy. “The political significance of Rio is that the G77 nations are antagonistic to our European ideas on the green economy,” said Mr Clegg. He said Europe can no longer take the lead in such international negotiations because power is shifting “from West to East”.

    Sparkly unicorns are a bit foreign to Chinese culture, perhaps sparkly dragons would have been more warmly received in Beijing. :D


  105. 107 | June 22, 2012 8:05 am

    @ MacDuff:
    Sloppy, poorly thought out fascism is what modern “Liberalism “is all about.


  106. 108 | June 22, 2012 8:07 am

    Guggi wrote:

    Climate science has transformed itself from a research backwater a few decades ago into one of the greatest public-good scientific cash cows ever devised. The livelihood of most climate scientists is now dependent on government grants. It is not a situation conducive to sceptical outlook and balanced advice.

    Green jobs!


  107. lobo91
    109 | June 22, 2012 8:08 am

    @ Guggi:

    But a recent study casts doubts over their cost-effectiveness and the benefits they bring to consumers.

    Smart meters were never intended to provide any benefit to consumers.

    They’re intended to enable bureaucrats to control consumers’ use of electricity.


  108. Guggi
    110 | June 22, 2012 8:10 am

    @ MacDuff:

    :-) :-) :-)

    China has stopped her windpower-programm. They only finish what is under construction but no more new windpower.


  109. lobo91
    111 | June 22, 2012 8:14 am

    Guggi wrote:

    @ MacDuff:

    China has stopped her windpower-programm. They only finish what is under construction but no more new windpower.

    There’s a reason the Chinese have been around for thousands of years…


  110. 112 | June 22, 2012 8:16 am

    Iron Fist wrote:

    @ MacDuff:
    Sloppy, poorly thought out fascism is what modern “Liberalism “is all about.

    That’s pretty profound for this time of day, Fist! Bully!!


  111. Guggi
    113 | June 22, 2012 8:21 am

    Environmentalism is Fascism

    The Harper government’s confrontation with the opposition parties over Bill C-38 was the parliamentary manifestation of an epic clash between two titanic constituencies. In one camp are resource extraction entrepreneurs seeking less fettered access to the treasures of Western and Northern Canada. They look to Asia for investors and customers. The rival camp are rentiers from Central and Atlantic Canada who are economically and ideologically aligned with their counterparts in Western Europe and the US Northeast. They want to preserve the wealth within their realm. They favour neo-corporatist and quasi-autarkist.


  112. eaglesoars
    114 | June 22, 2012 8:22 am

    Good morning! This is a drive-by but I thought you might find this interesting. I can’t provide a link cuz the Financial Times is behind a paywall. It’s about something called ‘brand-jacking’, a euphimism for lying.

    An online ad by Shell Oil Company says “if they didn’t deserve it, they wouldn’t be endangered. Survival of the fittest!” -- showing a polar bear swimming w/ the company logo on the ad.

    Except it was a fake ad. Guess who was behind it.

    Greenpeace
    Yes Lab
    Occupy Wall St

    They also released fake press releases, etc.

    If you manage to find a dead tree version of the FT, the article is on pg 10 at the bottom “How Shell was hijacked by a new style of cyberprotest”.


  113. Guggi
    115 | June 22, 2012 8:22 am

    @ lobo91:
    @ lobo91:

    Yup and yup :-)


  114. 116 | June 22, 2012 8:24 am

    Guggi wrote:

    Environmentalism is Fascism

    The Harper government’s confrontation with the opposition parties over Bill C-38 was the parliamentary manifestation of an epic clash between two titanic constituencies. In one camp are resource extraction entrepreneurs seeking less fettered access to the treasures of Western and Northern Canada. They look to Asia for investors and customers. The rival camp are rentiers from Central and Atlantic Canada who are economically and ideologically aligned with their counterparts in Western Europe and the US Northeast. They want to preserve the wealth within their realm. They favour neo-corporatist and quasi-autarkist.

    For years, Rush Limbaugh has been calling environmentalists “Watermelons” -- green on the outside, red on the inside.


  115. lobo91
    117 | June 22, 2012 8:25 am

    @ Guggi:

    Although the Chinese have done some stupid stuff lately, too, like building cities that have nobody living in them.

    I suppose that’s one way to create jobs…


  116. lobo91
    118 | June 22, 2012 8:27 am

    On an unrelated note, iTunes is seriously pissing me off.

    I should’ve known better than to buy an Apple product…


  117. Guggi
    119 | June 22, 2012 8:28 am

    How Shell was hijacked in ad hoax

    High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e15688dc-ba56-11e1-84dc-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1yWZo7mc0

    “If they didn’t deserve it, they wouldn’t be endangered. Survival of the fittest!” proclaims an advertisement showing a polar bear swimming in pristine blue water with the famous red and yellow logo for oil company Shell.

    Shell had nothing to do with the ad, one of more than 7,000 hoax ads circulating online. It is part of a web campaign jointly orchestrated by environmental group Greenpeace, activist organisation Yes Lab and members of the Occupy Wall Street movement to rally against Shell’s Arctic drilling programme. The campaign included a fake video, a fake press release and a fake website. Greenpeace said the entire campaign cost about $50,000.

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    The digital assault is a new type of internet campaigning. Rather than staging a protest, activist groups hijack brands and harness social media to derail a company’s image. “We’re only beginning to understand how much social media can change our society,” says James Turner of Greenpeace USA. “Taking advertising out of corporations’ hands and putting it into normal people’s hands has changed the way people see brands forever.”

    Shell says the campaign will not distract its preparations “to safely and responsibly explore our Alaska leases in the months to come”.

    The digital protest against Shell’s plans to explore drilling off Alaska’s coast had been in the works for about six months. Earlier in the year, Shell had obtained a legal injunction against Greenpeace that prevented its members from coming within 1km of Shell drilling vessels. That demanded “creative thinking” for a protest, Mr Turner says.

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    With Shell estimated to spend $4bn on its campaign to drill in the Arctic, Greenpeace organisers thought they could derail the effort by attacking Shell’s marketing and trying to reframe people’s perceptions of the company, Mr Turner says.

    On June 7, the activists posted a one-minute video depicting a hoax launch party to celebrate Shell’s Arctic drilling, in which a model oil rig malfunctions and squirts black liquid at an elderly woman. The video has registered more than 785,000 views and more than 1,600 comments, according to research group Visible Measures.

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    Within hours, Shell denied it was connected to the video. However, the activist group did not stop. Yes Lab sent journalists a press release that appeared to have come from Shell, declaring that the oil company was “considering legal action” after the fictitious campaign. It appeared to be legitimate, sent from alerts@shell.com and including a falsified quote from the company’s spokesman.

    The hoax release also warned journalists of a “counterfeit website” at ArcticReady.com that encouraged consumers to make their own ads with Shell’s actual logo and “Let’s go” slogan.

    Several news outlets covered the false report, then later corrected it. Days later, consumers continued to post user-created ads to social media, thinking Shell was behind a social marketing campaign gone wrong.

    (…)

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    Meanwhile, organisations such as Greenpeace could face a backlash of their own if they continue to rely on campaigns based on false information. “If we can’t use facts then we have a harder time having a discourse,” says Andrew Gilman, chief executive of crisis communications group CommCore Consulting. “But if it is war, and all is fair in love and war, then keep doing this.”


  118. 120 | June 22, 2012 8:29 am

    lobo91 wrote:

    @ Guggi:

    Although the Chinese have done some stupid stuff lately, too, like building cities that have nobody living in them.

    I suppose that’s one way to create jobs…

    Around here, “stimulus” money has been used to narrow driving lanes in order to make oversized bicycle lanes that, you guessed it, are rarely used.


  119. Guggi
    121 | June 22, 2012 8:29 am

    Sorry for the posting above, , I messed it up :-(


  120. 122 | June 22, 2012 8:30 am

    @ Guggi:
    Yeah all the leftists and eco-facists are really frothing at the mouths here in Canada. I may have to find a doctor just in case I need a rabies shot. :D


  121. Guggi
    123 | June 22, 2012 8:34 am

    lobo91 wrote:

    On an unrelated note, iTunes is seriously pissing me off.
    I should’ve known better than to buy an Apple product…

    Apple only works for Apple devotees. :-P


  122. lobo91
    124 | June 22, 2012 8:36 am

    Guggi wrote:

    lobo91 wrote:

    On an unrelated note, iTunes is seriously pissing me off.
    I should’ve known better than to buy an Apple product…

    Apple only works for Apple devotees.

    They should really put that on the label…


  123. 125 | June 22, 2012 8:37 am

    @ PaladinPhil:
    With your socialized medicine you’ll probably have to wait six months after you’ve been bitten to get your shot. Rabies will wait, if you are a peon.


  124. 126 | June 22, 2012 8:44 am

    Last night on “The Five”, Gutfeld quoted a stat that said “138,000 elderly patients were euthanized by the National Health Service in Great Britain”. Alas, he didn’t say from where that stat came, but he’s not given to making stuff up…..like Obama or Holder.


  125. 127 | June 22, 2012 8:49 am

    MacDuff wrote:

    Last night on “The Five”, Gutfeld quoted a stat that said “138,000 elderly patients were euthanized by the National Health Service in Great Britain”. Alas, he didn’t say from where that stat came, but he’s not given to making stuff up…..like Obama or Holder.

    Here’s a link. And it’s 130,000 NOT 138,000….I feel so much better!


  126. Guggi
    128 | June 22, 2012 8:50 am

    PaladinPhil wrote:

    @ Guggi:
    Yeah all the leftists and eco-facists are really frothing at the mouths here in Canada. I may have to find a doctor just in case I need a rabies shot.

    The same here and the executive director of GreenPeace has claimed “he would die for the agenda if necessary”. GreenPeace is like WWF a mafia-organisation and now they have called for a war.


  127. citizen_q
    129 | June 22, 2012 8:55 am

    lobo91 wrote:

    Guggi wrote:

    lobo91 wrote:
    On an unrelated note, iTunes is seriously pissing me off.
    I should’ve known better than to buy an Apple product…
    Apple only works for Apple devotees.
    They should really put that on the label…

    OTOH, if you have an andriod based product google gets to data mine much if not all of your use of it. As an example, I have to go through loops to not have reminders put in my calander synce to my gmail account, you pretty much have to have a gmail account. I essentially have to break enough stuff that the app updates won’t won’t work. I end up putting in nonsensical names for events. Which ticks me off. I am paying for this, so I don’t see the need for them to make a buck, or something more sinister.

    There may be a better way, but I have a life and don’t have all the time in the world.

    Take your pick Apple vs. google.

    BTW, the 50 something page apple agreement they keep changing is problematic as well. South Park even did a show about, because who has time to read and understand everything in it?


  128. citizen_q
    130 | June 22, 2012 8:57 am

    @ MacDuff:
    Kudos to you for the strength to suffer bob beckel. You are a better man than I.

    I know the article, it was from the Daily Mail. I posted it to a thread a couple of days ago. Found the story on Drudge.


  129. lobo91
    131 | June 22, 2012 8:58 am

    @ citizen_q:

    All I’m trying to do is download podcasts of Mark Levin’s show to my iPod to listen to while making the 75 mile drive to work.


  130. 132 | June 22, 2012 9:00 am

    @ MacDuff:
    East Germany (DDR) used to have mandatory voting. The reality was that you voted for ‘approval’ of the candidate selected by the Volkskammer.

    Voting was also used to correct any residency discrepancies that came up. Movement (residency) was tightly controlled. Your ID better have been correct!


  131. citizen_q
    133 | June 22, 2012 9:02 am

    @ lobo91:
    Sorry, the business practices of Apple and Google, anger me. Especially privacy issues.

    Something that should be simple and is within the capabilities of the device you pay for often is not.


  132. 134 | June 22, 2012 9:03 am

    citizen_q wrote:

    Kudos to you for the strength to suffer bob beckel. You are a better man than I.

    Aw, he’s more clownish than annoying. Besides, Gutfeld makes it all worth it.


  133. 135 | June 22, 2012 9:08 am

    @ Guggi:
    Greenpeace is definitely not the organization it used to be. I like how one of the original founders has not only broken away from them, but also slams them for their current tactics.


  134. 136 | June 22, 2012 9:10 am

    Peter wrote:

    East Germany (DDR) used to have mandatory voting. The reality was that you voted for ‘approval’ of the candidate selected by the Volkskammer.

    Voting was also used to correct any residency discrepancies that came up. Movement (residency) was tightly controlled. Your ID better have been correct!

    East Germany, eh? Now there’s a ringing endorsement, we need to be more like them!

    It’s disturbingly entertaining when these people’s not-so-well-concealed little fascists suddenly take over their bodies and spouts this stuff. Actually, it’s more disturbing than entertaining.

    Thanks for the background!


  135. darkwords
    137 | June 22, 2012 9:13 am

    Is there any conservative action in this country that doesn’t suppress the black vote. I had to enter a Fed building yesterday and a state or national ID was required to enter the building. Seems like a disenfranchised voter would not be allowed entry. not be allowed to fly anywhere. Not be allowed to get a loan anywhere. Not be allowed to rent an apartment. Not allowed credit. Where do such animals exist? and why do they want to vote?


  136. citizen_q
    138 | June 22, 2012 9:14 am

    @ MacDuff:
    You are much more mellow than I. I have a difficult time maintaining composure eat time Beckel opens his yap.

    I usually just turn to something I have DVR’ed, and wait until 6pm. Though I am finding Juan Williams approaching Beckel in intolerability.


  137. citizen_q
    139 | June 22, 2012 9:17 am

    @ darkwords:
    Or fly, or buy antihistemines at that drug store, or spray paint at Home Depot……

    What’s the worse joke, this voter suppression meme, or the fact that we lack a MSM that won’t laugh people who make such specious claims out of the room?


  138. 140 | June 22, 2012 9:18 am

    @ Peter:
    That is exactly the kind of society that the Left wants to create in the United States. There are very sinister urges behind their somewhat clueless rantings.


  139. 141 | June 22, 2012 9:23 am

    darkwords wrote:

    Is there any conservative action in this country that doesn’t suppress the black vote. I had to enter a Fed building yesterday and a state or national ID was required to enter the building. Seems like a disenfranchised voter would not be allowed entry. not be allowed to fly anywhere. Not be allowed to get a loan anywhere. Not be allowed to rent an apartment. Not allowed credit. Where do such animals exist? and why do they want to vote?

    As black people don’t fly, enter Federal buildings or rent hotel rooms because of their lack of ID, the whole point of electing Obama (and the appointment of Holder) was to see how black people would react if allowed to enter Federal buildings and fly to foreign countries.

    Obama and Holder were, admittedly a small sampling, but based exclusively on them, the experiment has yielded troubling results.


  140. 142 | June 22, 2012 10:01 am

    citizen_q wrote:

    You are much more mellow than I. I have a difficult time maintaining composure eat time Beckel opens his yap.

    Mellow? I’ve not yet been accused of that, but I guess we all have our moments! :)


  141. 143 | June 22, 2012 10:02 am

    @ MacDuff:

    I would assume that a sarc tag is, ya know, implied….


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