Obama Tells Tax-Burdened Plumber the Plan is to ‘Spread the Wealth Around’

Asstard

You have to love any post that refers to ”asstards."

MPS’ Obscene Fringe Benefits

It’s about the kids.

Please stop telling me that MPS is underfunded.  You sound ridiculous. 

Obama Proposes to Make Economy Worse

My goodness, these are stupid proposals.

Democrat Barack Obama proposed more immediate steps Monday to heal the nation’s ailing economy including a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures…

What will that do, exactly?  People who can’t afford their homes are not likely to be able to afford them any better in three months.  They are being foreclosed on because they can’t pay their mortgage.  All this will do is allow people to live for free in a house that they can’t afford for 90 days, then all of those houses will be foreclosed on and put on the market to create even more of a housing glut thus driving down home prices even further. 

...at some banks and a two-year tax break for businesses that create new jobs…

He also called for a $3,000 tax credit for each additional full-time job a business creates. That means a business that adds five jobs would get a $15,000 break. That would end after 2010 and would cost $40 billion, the campaign estimates.

Um, OK.  If a company can’t afford to create a new job now, how will offering them $3k in tax credits help them?  It’s not nearly enough to justify the expense of adding a full time job.  All this will do is had cash out to companies that are already creating jobs.  It’s great for those companies, but does nothing to help the economy.

With the economic turmoil weighing down his Republican presidential rival, Obama also proposed allowing people to withdraw up to $10,000 from their retirement accounts without any penalty this year and next.

Isn’t this precisely what we should NOT do?  First off, Americans should be saving for their retirement - now more than ever.  We should encourage people to save, not encourage them to spend beyond their means.  Second, where does Obama think that the money in those retirement accounts is?  It’s in the stock market!  Can you imagine the negative impact on the markets if 100 million people cash out $10k of their investments?  It will further depress the market. 

Obama’s plans are economically naive.  It wouldn’t be a problem except for the fact that he might be our next president. 

Feeling Vicious Today?

This should help.

Thanks, Beth.

Thomas Sowell Takes Obama to Task On His Record

Newsflash: Obama is a bona fide liberal. 

Obama has had more than two dozen of his own earmarks in the past fiscal year, and he knows the Senate well enough to know that, if he voted against the bridge to nowhere, his own earmarks might get nowhere.

Those earmarks, incidentally, included a million dollars of the taxpayers’ money for a facility where his wife works at the University of Chicago. Her salary rose by nearly $200,000 when her husband became a United States Senator-- no doubt a shrewd investment by the university that paid off.

When a highly publicized bridge collapse in Minnesota in 2007 led Senator Tom Coburn to propose taking money from federal spending on bicycle paths and use it for maintaining and repairing bridges instead, Senator Obama voted against it. The kind of people who vote for him want bike paths.

Moreover, the very idea of taking money from one thing to use for something with a higher priority-- something that we all have to do in our own personal lives-- is foreign to the liberal big spenders in Washington.

When they want more money for some purpose, they simply raise the tax rates. They don’t cut spending somewhere else.

The idea that Barack Obama is somehow different from other liberal-left politicians can only be based on his rhetoric, because his actual track record shows him to differ only in being further left than most liberals and at least as opportunistic.

McCain Plans to Whip Obama

Seriously? 

In an effort to energize supporters at his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va., John McCain on Sunday may have also whipped up a little controversy with a remark that he’d “whip” Barack Obama’s “you know what” at the next debate.

The presidential candidates are meeting Wednesday in their final televised debate before the Nov. 4 election.

But McCain’s pledge—coming after two days of racial grievances aired by McCain’s camp over a comparison made by Rep. John Lewis of McCain to the late Gov. George Wallace—has sent shivers down the spines of some Republicans who find the racially charged verb may be used against the candidate.

The phrase “whip your butt” or “I’m going to whip your butt” has been a part of the lexicon for what.... two centuries?  And now it’s suddenly racist when talking about DEBATING a biracial presidential candidate?

Please.  The Obama outrage machine is officially in overdrive. 

Federal Government Might Partially Nationalize Banking System

This headline should scare the crap out of you.

Bush administration weighs plan for government to take temporary ownership stakes in banks

Yes, it is what it looks like.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said an administration proposal to inject federal money directly into certain banks, in effect partially nationalizing the banking system, “is gaining steam.”

Blazing Saddles Showing Prompts Racism Charge

This guy ever hear of satire?

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has apologized to a black student who during a class last year was shown a clip of the movie “Blazing Saddles” that features racial epithets.

During a seminar for working professionals, an instructor showed a scene of the 1974 comedy in which blacks are shown working on a railroad, according to a complaint filed by the student. Whites call the workers racial epithets and an overseer orders them to sing like slaves.

The student complained and the school’s Office of Equity and Diversity, which investigates racial discrimination, got involved. That prompted an apology in March from the Department of Professional Development and Applied Studies, which offered the course.

Obama Invites ACORN to Set The Agenda

Hat tip Wizbang.

Grab Life By the…

Hmmm…

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Golden Gun Stolen

I love how they tell the thief how they plan to catch him/her. 

The £80,000 golden gun used in the 1974 James Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun has been stolen from studios in Hertfordshire.

The gun was noticed to be missing from Elstree Studios on Friday. It was made for the film starring Sir Roger Moore and Christopher Lee.

Lee played Scaramanga, hired to kill Bond for $1m with the gun made from a pen, a cigarette case and a lighter.

The studios hope the golden gun will be offered to a memorabilia dealer.

It is then hoped the thief will be able to be traced via the dealer.

OK, folks… this is a great time for all of us to tell each other what our favorite Bond movie is.  I think mine is You Only Live Twice.  You?  Note: anyone who says Moonraker will be slowly dipped into a shark pool while I take my final steps to world domination.

“They have guns and weapons—how can we resist?”

What a shame.

Demolition teams wielding axes and machetes this week smashed up popular beach bars, one still bearing a sign saying “Paradise,” as part of an improvement scheme to develop tourism in Sierra’s Leone’s capital Freetown.

Truckloads of soldiers and armed police stood guard and pushed back journalists as demolition workers reduced illegal bars to rubble along a five-km (three-mile) stretch of Lumley Beach in the West African state’s seaside capital on Wednesday.

“They have destroyed our lives,” waiter Papa Yansanhe, 28, told Reuters in front of the ruins of the Paradise Beach Bar.

“Now I have nothing, no job, and against these vigilantes, soldiers and police I can’t do anything. They have guns and weapons—how can we resist?”

Of course, the reason that people don’t want to visit Sierra Leone is not the beach bars… it’s the roving bands of lethal thugs. 

Dems Looking at $150 Billion Bailout

For the love of all that is Holy, will you PLEASE STOP TRYING TO BAIL US OUT!?!?

After consulting with Barack Obama, Democratic leaders are likely to call Congress back to work after the election in hopes of passing legislation that would include extended jobless benefits, money for food stamps and possibly a tax rebate, officials said Saturday.

The bill’s total cost could reach $150 billion, these officials said.

Pretty soon, we’re just going to have to send all of our money to Washington so that the government can afford all of these bailouts