“The number of people on SSDI now exceeds the entire population of Greece. The aging of the population has nothing to do with the increase. In 1968 there were 51 workers for every person on disability. Today there are 13 workers for every person on disability.
Well, I got 1.
Can you spot the #IDF soldiers in this photo? (Hint: there are 9!) twitter.com/IDFSpokesperso…
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) May 9, 2013
So, maybe Maclean’s was right.
Dem. Senator calls abortionists criminal.
So, they all murder women and snip the necks of living babies?
During the speech, Boxer said the problems at the Gosnell abortion clinic were really no different than problems at any other medical clinic. The comment earned her quick condemnation on Twitter from pro-life advocates.
You know, that probably isn’t the message the vagina warriors really want to put forth.
The perpetually aggrieved
“Is it the police’s fault that people threw smoke bombs on the metro?” Duchesneau told a news conference. He was once chief of the Montreal police force.
“Is it the police’s fault that people threw bags of bricks on the tracks to stop the metro? Is it the police’s fault that people wanted to take over the (Montreal Formula 1) Grand Prix?”
It’s that bad
Donna Laframboise of No Frakking Consensus sums up the contents of a news report (based, she notes, on “a press release and a brochure”) published in UK newspaper The Independent under the headline “The Acid Ocean: Arctic’s soaring CO2 leaves fish and hunters gasping for life”:
“Let’s dial 911. People are worried about potential implications. Bad things could happen – a report suggests.”
That’s not caricature. Those italicized buzzwords are an apt characterization/summation of not just the report in question, but a lot of other reporting that gets passed off as “news.”
Reader Tips
I’m a boy, I’m a boy, but if I say I am, I get it. ♫
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Disembodied voice says “buh-bye” to Israeli academics
Physicist Stephen Hawking throws ‘er into reverse:
“I have received a number of e-mails from Palestinian academics. They are unanimous that I should respect the boycott. In view of this, I must withdraw from the conference. Had I attended I would have stated my opinion that the policy of the present Israeli government is likely to lead to disaster.”
h/t maz2
The “Progressive” Playbook on Display
Conservative talk show host, Dennis Prager, recently wrote a column arguing why free breakfasts provided to students were not necessary. It’s well worth a read.
Soon after, a far left zealot named Rebecca Schoenkopf wrote an article of her own in response to Prager. What’s interesting though is that Schoenkopf doesn’t really argue the points that Prager made. Instead she just mocks him. Then a plethora of comments from the Radical Left cesspool were added. Once again, none of them really argue against Prager but really just personally attack him. Such is the level of discourse in America in 2013.
#Benghazi hearings
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and HOW DARE YOU TEND TO THE MEMORIAL!
h/t, Shawn
Camping with progressives
A fifth-grader in Cupertino, California was suspended and threatened with expulsion for bringing a small Swiss Army knife on a school-sponsored, science-oriented camping trip (to Marin Headlands)….Braden’s particular model contains a can opener, tweezers, a toothpick, a nail file, a tiny pair of scissors and a small blade.
*facepalm*
“They called me,” explained Tony Bandermann, Braden’s father. “They said, ‘You have to come and get him. He has a weapon.‘”
Reader Tips
Frank’s Wild Years are all behind him.
Things are pretty quiet now.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
A Revolutionary Plan
More ruses than honesty, more ballots than voters:
Something is happening in Colorado, and you better pay attention. Colorado Democrats, with the active help of some Republican county election clerks interested in shirking work, have devised a revolutionary plan to remake future Colorado elections.
The plan is simple: ballots are automatically mailed out to every single person on the voter rolls. Ballots are even mailed to people listed as “inactive” voters at their last known address. Ballots are then voted and returned by mail.
No more polling places. No more voters actually demonstrating an interest in participating in an election. The government will decide that for them, and scatter millions of paper ballots into the U.S. mail.
Hey, it’s not like people are going to just walk up on election night and hand you all the votes you need. Sometimes you gotta be proactive and put those votes out there.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll miss the forest.
“Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods — all are now more frequent and more intense. We can choose to believe that superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence,” President Obama said in his State of the Union address. “Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science — and act before it’s too late.”
The Country’s In The Very Best Of Hands
I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea or as I call him “Kim”, to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.
— Dennis Rodman (@dennisrodman) May 7, 2013
Oops
What 1980’s faux-pas do you not want your company associated with?
New Coke™.
Anyone familiar with the Gnome 3 fiasco in the Linux world predicted exactly what has happened to Windows 8.
And look, a similar result:
In March 2013, GNOME 3.8 was released, which includes a new “Classic mode” that restores a number of features such as an application menu, a places menu and a window switcher along the bottom of the screen, as extensions to the Shell.
Whoever thinks that the open source world just copies the big software developers really doesn’t follow the open source world. The difference is that open source can afford to make mistakes.
H/t, @DRUDGE_REPORT
Oh, Shiny Pony!
You know what. I wear this. I wear this all summer.
You know what else? I’m not running for leadership of 33M people and an economy that is leading the world.
Amateur hour 8 Years
“I firmly believe that the reason it took us so long to get the FBI to Benghazi is because of those Sunday talk shows.”
And the former cabinet holder wants to be president? Not bloody likely.
You want to know why it matters, Mrs. Clinton? “What difference it makes?” I’ll tell you. People who trusted you to fulfill your oath, as they were, died because you didn’t hold up your end of the bargain.
My bad
“German euro founder calls for ‘catastrophic’ currency to be broken up.”