Posted by
netfotoj on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:45:06 PM
Finally, some good news on our “pain at the
pump” crisis. On Monday, Bush Rescinds Offshore Oil Ban.
Today,
the price of oil drops $10 a barrel. Wow. Instant results as the market reacts
to half-a-loaf of good news? Who knows? But the bad news is, Drilling
Still Blocked by Congress.
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are digging in their heels and
saying “Not only no, but he!! no, we won’t drill!” The left has
been so deep in the pockets of the enviro-nazis and tree-huggers for the past
30 years that they can’t possibly allow any new oil to be drilled here in
the U.S., or offshore, or new refineries or new nuke power plants, and the list
goes on and on while the price at the pump keeps climbing higher and higher.
And speaking of enviro-nazis, have you heard the latest
crisis from the “Save the polar bears and whales!” crowd? Now
it’s Save
the Ferrets!
What the heck is a ferret? Some kind of big rat? Lordy,
we’re dying everytime we stop at the pump and they’re worried about
Saving
Ferrets?
In other important campaign news, have you noticed that
the new, improved Obama is seldom seen these days without a flag pin in his
lapel? Nobody has asked him lately about it, but I’m sure if someone did,
he would explain that he’s “always been for flag lapel pins”
even when he used to say that “flag pins have become
substitutes for true patriotism.”
Anyway, the
ever-helpful Campaign
Stops blog at the New York Times has come up with a few suggestions for a
new Obama lapel pin.
Daniel Young, a design
entrepreneur, designed a mirror-flag pin.
Actually, this one is quite appropriate for Obama. Sort of
an “insert any flag you like here” pin. Which is exactly what this
“multi-cultural” candidate is trying to sell, whatever you’ll
buy. Who needs “true patriotism” when you can offer them whatever
they want, just vote for me.
Heard any good jokes
about Obama on the late-night talk shows? No? Wonder why? You don’t
suppose it’s because they’re all Obama backers? Nah, couldn’t
be that. According to the New York Times, there’s been one joke so far,
just one. And it’s a pro-Obama
joke by Bill Maher.
“There’s been this question about whether he’s black
enough,” Mr. Maher said. “I have this joke: What does he have to
do? Dunk? He bowled a 37 — to me, that’s black enough.”
What a knee-slapper: Obama’s “black
enough” because he can’t bowl. Mary Katharine Ham’s HamNation
on Obama’s bowling was way funnier.
Jimmy
Kimmel, the host of the ABC late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel
Live,” said of Mr. Obama, “There’s a weird reverse racism
going on. You can’t joke about him because he’s half-white.
It’s silly. I think it’s more a problem because he’s so
polished, he doesn’t seem to have any flaws.”
That one’s so funny it’s hysterical. Captain
Bullsh!t “doesn’t seem to have any
flaws”!? What in the world is Jimmy Kimmel smoking these days?
Finally, The
Washington Post is still pontificating about The New Yorker magazine cover
that pokes satire at Mr. and Mrs. “No Flaws.”
“The prissy tone of dudgeon from the Obama campaign was a
relatively well-pitched political twofer: It distinguished them from the New
Yorker and its untouchable demographic (educated, literate, well-informed
people from New York or New York-ish enclaves) and it gave them a news cycle on
the high ground of victimization, defensively crouched against credulous souls
misreading the New Yorker in coal mines, truck stops and smoky saloons.”
Only one teensy little problem with that conclusion:
Nobody reads The New Yorker magazine in “coal mines, truck
stops and smoky saloons.”
Finally, Ace has the New Yorker magazine cover that just missed making the cut. Who says there's no good jokes about Obama?
