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How Batman is Like Bush (VIDEO)

July 28th, 2008 at 08:11 by Site Administrator

I’m sure you all read the opinion piece last week by Andrew Klavan in the Wall Street Journal about what Bush and Batman have in common, especially when it comes to the new movie, The Dark Knight.

From Klavan’s piece:

Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past.

And like W, Batman understands that there is no moral equivalence between a free society — in which people sometimes make the wrong choices — and a criminal sect bent on destruction. The former must be cherished even in its moments of folly; the latter must be hounded to the gates of Hell.

Andrew Klavan appeared on Glenn Beck tonight and the two discussed the comparison. You can view the excellent interview here.

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Bailing Out the Losers & Government Leeches

July 28th, 2008 at 07:20 by MsUnderestimated

We have prime example #1 here in Georgia of why the government bailouts of mortgage behemoths Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the individual losers who are facing foreclosure. Why the hell are we forking over taxpayer dollars to prop up government entities who could not control themselves, or pathetic social losers who not only buy/borrow above their means, but continue to want to suck at the government teat to bail their sorry asses out? I for one am sick of this entitlement shit. I work hard for my money, and I spend within my means. To hell with those of you who can’t or just refuse to do so.

Case in point: There’s a sorry-ass family here in the Atlanta area who was the once-in-a-lifetime beneficiary of the grandest of benevolent gifts anyone could receive; a mortgage-free home, plus $100,00 in cash by the builders. How did they get their new home? Why, they were “winners” on an episode of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”

You see, Milton and Patricia Harper (the new homeowners) didn’t have the sense enough to count their blessings, hire someone to help with their finances and get on with their lives. Nooooo! They had to take their free home, apply for a first mortgage loan for the value of $450,000 to try to start a new business, but alas… the business didn’t work out. So what do they do? Here’s the report from the local WSB-TV story:

Lake City mayor Willie Oswalt was among the 1,800 volunteers helping “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” build the Harper’s new home 3 ½ years ago. Beazer Homes of Atlanta was the main sponsor. The mayor said he is baffled.

“Beazer gave them $100,000 cash, paid their mortgage off and they still can’t make it,” said Oswalt.

Harper told Channel 2 they invested the loan proceeds in a construction business and the business hasn’t been good. She didn’t say how much of the money is left.

“What’s going to happen is instead of keep paying my mortgage, I’m going to take my money and not pay my mortgage because I’m being harassed,” said Harper.”

Do what? Harassed by who, you loser? You’re going to keep the money but not pay your mortgage? F**K you, and I don’t want MY tax dollars paying to bail your sorry asses out! One of the thousands of low-lifes who say “can’t pay? so what.. here’s the keys.” No wonder this country is in the mess that it is in. Not only did these douchebags look a gift-horse in the mouth, they shot him in the knee caps and put him to sleep.

Here’s another piece from The Real Estate Bloggers:

Talk about screwing up a good thing.

Extreme Makeover and Beezer Homes builds you a luxury home, gives you 100,000 dollars, paid off your mortgage, and you lose the home to foreclosure in 3 and a half years.

How the hell does that happen?

Well, it does when you do good things for people with no sense at all. To be honest these people disgust me. Hundreds donated their time and energy to get them out of a bad situation. The goodness of their neighbors was spit upon today and whatever consequences comes to this family they deserve.

Someone direct the Harpers to their local tattoo artist to get a big “L” stamped on their foreheads. Screw these scum-sucking leeches.

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Nanny Pelosi On The View Today (VIDEO)

July 28th, 2008 at 06:44 by MsUnderestimated

Check below for update.

~~I was going to take some~~ ~~time to transcribe some of this drivel, but I thought I’d just let my readers listen/watch for themselves~~. Nanny-state Pelosi is not worth wasting my time on. I think she overstates the success of Obama’s magical mystery tour. Watch for the exchange between her and Elizabeth, though. Oh, and Nancy won’t acknowledge the surge was a success either.

And particularly, watch for Whoopi’s expressions; especially when Joy “Blowhard” Behar asks why Pelosi didn’t go for impeachment proceedings against the President. Pelosi actually says there is no verifiable crime they could find. Watch Behar as her boxers get in a bunch over that one!

Watch the video here.

***UPDATE***

h/t to Justin McCarthy at Newsbusters. He’s got a great piece about this, and he also provided relevant transcript:

ELISABETH HASSELBECK: When Katie Couric was interview him [Obama] he still didn’t admit in clear terms that the surge was a success, the surge that he indeed did oppose, and we would be in a different situation had he been making the decisions there. Do you still feel that same way that the surge was not a success?

HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: We had this conversation before Elisabeth. The surge’s purpose was to have a military time frame where there would be military security to enable the government of Iraq to make the political changes necessary for reconciliation. I said it before when I was here and I’ll say it again: Even with all of the time that has elapsed, they still have not done that.

HASSELBECK: The sectarian violence is down, the civilian deaths are down. I think we need to acknowledge-

PELOSI: The security has, has been improved, but the purpose of the surge was to pass the laws to bring the reconciliation, so we can bring our troops home safely soon honorably and responsibly. And that has not happened. Now the government of Iraq is saying “we want you to go home.” So maybe the time has come for us to sit down with them and figure that out.

[...]

JOY BEHAR: You’ve ruled against impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney. And now Kucinich is trying to pass that. Why do you, why do you insist on not impeaching these people so that the world and America can really see the crimes that they’ve committed?

[applause]

PELOSI: Well, I think that it- I think it was important- When I became speaker- and by the way, a very important position, president, vice president, speaker of the House- I saw it as my responsibility to try to bring a much divided country together to the extent that we could. I thought that impeachment would be divisive for the country. In terms of what we wanted to set out to do, we wanted to raise the minimum wage, give the biggest increase in veterans benefits to veterans in 77 year history, the veteran- pass research in stem cell- the stem cell research, all of that. This week we’re going to pass equal pay for equal work. It has been a long time in coming [applause], pay equity. We’re going to pass legislation for product safety, for toys that children put in them. There’s an agenda that you have to get done, that you have to try to do it in a bipartisan way. The president has to sign it. If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story.

BEHAR: Can they still do it after he is out?

BARBARA WALTERS: When, when we first- when I interviewed you last year, you had just begun, and you were going to clean up the mess, remember?

PELOSI: We did.

WALTERS: You, you look around this country, 75 percent of the country, forget George Bush, thinks that Congress is doing a lousy job.

HASSELBECK: I think it’s 91 percent now.

PELOSI: Well, I don’t disagree with that because largely it’s predicated on ending the war in Iraq. That’s the main question, and we were not successful. In our House of Representatives, I’m very proud of our members because they voted overwhelmingly over and over again to bring the war to an end, to bring the troops home safely and soon, send it to the Senate, and it hits a dead end. But in terms of that particular standard, I would say I disapprove as well. But we do, we passed some of the things I just mentioned, the energy bill. We worked in a bipartisan way, and ovation, agenda, we have to create jobs, expand health care, protect the American people, and educate our children. And you can’t do that if you’re trying to impeach the president at the same time, unless you have the goods that this president committed these crimes.

BEHAR: They did it to Clinton.

PELOSI: But they didn’t have the goods and it was wrong, and it was wrong, and it was wrong when they did that. Not that I- I have total disagreement with president on the war, the reason why we went in, which was based on a false premise. But that’s a different story than saying “can we try to get something accomplished for people,” have concerns about the economy and the rest.

Thanks, Justin.

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