Friday, 3 of September of 2010
Hey, have you heard that Obama and Nancy Pelosi have cost America more money in the last 19 months than the entire eight years of the Iraq war?
BigFurHat of iOwnTheWorld has expressed this sentiment visually with his wizardly photoshop skills.
I’m sure progressives will have no problem with this at all and the next time someone wants to use taxpayer funds to build an Evangelical church in Greenwich Village they’ll think it’s a swell idea…
(Reuters) – The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.
The Democratic comptroller’s spokesman, Scott Sieber, said Liu supported the project. The center has sparked an intense debate over U.S. religious freedoms and the sanctity of the Trade Center site, where nearly 3,000 perished in the September 11, 2001 attack.
“If it turns out to be financially feasible and if they can demonstrate an ability to pay off the bonds and comply with the laws concerning tax-exempt financing, we’d certainly consider it,” Sieber told Reuters.
I wonder what New York’s elected officials think about this idea…
Spokesmen for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor David Paterson and the Islamic center and were not immediately available.
Well that’s a surprise.
Read more at Memeorandum.
I am so fucking angry right now I can barely tpye…
If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond? As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would you call 911? Would you try to save him from dying? Of course you would.
But if that man was Rush Limbaugh, and you were Sarah Spitz, a producer for National Public Radio, that isn’t what you’d do at all.
In a post to the list-serv Journolist, an online meeting place for liberal journalists, Spitz wrote that she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” as Limbaugh writhed in torment.
In boasting that she would gleefully watch a man die in front of her eyes, Spitz seemed to shock even herself. “I never knew I had this much hate in me,” she wrote. “But he deserves it.”
Spitz’s hatred for Limbaugh seems intemperate, even imbalanced. On Journolist, where conservatives are regarded not as opponents but as enemies, it barely raised an eyebrow.
I don’t even need to ask how the MSM would react if Glenn Beck had openly wished for the death of Rachel Maddow because everyone knows it would be a front page story. Let alone the fact that liberal talk radio host Mike Malloy recently said that he hopes Glenn Beck commits suicide.
At least… AT LEAST, Mike Malloy’s show isn’t subsidized with public money. National PUBLIC Radio on the other hand is a different story.
Sarah Spitz of KCRW in Santa Monica, California needs to be introduced to another form of public funding – The unemployment line.
If you know someone who works for a city or a state, you’ve probably heard them say something like, “The pay isn’t great but I have really good benefits.”
I’m betting you’ve never heard the same person say, “I work for a very poor small town but I make a cool $800,000.”
Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over a report that the city’s manager earns an annual salary of almost $800,000.
An overflow crowd packed a City Council meeting in Bell, a mostly Hispanic city of 38,000 about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, to call for the resignation of Mayor Oscar Hernandez and other city officials. Residents left standing outside the chamber banged on the doors and shouted “fuera,” or “get out” in Spanish.
It was the first council meeting since the Los Angeles Times reported July 15 that Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo earns $787,637 — with annual 12 percent raises — and that Bell pays its police chief $457,000, more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck makes in a city of 3.8 million people. Bell council members earn almost $100,000 for part-time work.
$100,000 for part time work? I must have missed that listing in the help wanted ads on Craigslist the last time I was looking for a job.
Maybe I should be checking at the porn listings. Is there a section dedicated to gouging the public that I somehow overlooked?
More at Memeorandum.
Too bad you won’t be there even though, you know, you’re paying for it…
On Monday, the dignitaries hosted by President and Mrs. Obama will bring their regards from Broadway, not 10 Downing Street, while sharing talents that collectively have won them 11 Tony Awards.
The public is invited to watch — eventually — on “A Broadway Celebration,” which will be taped for broadcast Oct. 20 as an installment in the PBS series, “In Performance at the White House.”
The Tony-winning performers are actor-singers Nathan Lane (two Tonys), Audra McDonald (four Tonys), Idina Menzel, Tonya Pinkins and Karen Olivo (one each, for “Wicked,” “Jelly’s Last Jam” and “West Side Story,” respectively), and pianist Marvin Hamlisch, a Tony winner for his score to “A Chorus Line.” Working behind the scenes is Jerry Mitchell, Tony-winning choreographer (for the 2004 revival of “La Cage aux Folles”), who will guide 20 Washington, D.C., dance students in a segment from “Hairspray,” another show he choreographed.
Here’s my favorite part:
Presumably, critics who slammed the president and first lady last year for wasting taxpayer money when they flew to New York for dinner and a Broadway show (August Wilson’s drama “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”) won’t complain about Broadway coming to them.
Wrong.
In addition to being a great actress and a beautiful woman, I think Katie Holmes could do amazing things to (ahem) stimulate the economy.
See (a lot more) below the fold.
The American job market sure is great for sign makers lately. Especially for people who make signs touting the excellent job the Obama Administration did with the Stimulus Bill and unemployment.
ABC News reports:
As the midterm election season approaches, new road signs are popping up everywhere – millions of dollars worth of signs touting “The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and reminding passers-by that the program is “Putting America Back to Work.”
On the road leading to Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC there’s a 10′ x 11′ road sign touting a runway improvement project funded by the federal stimulus. The project cost nearly $15 million and has created 17 jobs, according to recovery.gov.
However, there’s another number that caught the eye of ABC News: $10,000. That’s how much money the Washington Airports Authority tells ABC News it spent to make and install the sign – a single sign – announcing that the project is “Funded by The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and is “Putting America Back to Work.” The money for the sign was taken out of the budget for the runway improvement project.
Obama has continued a number of policies from his predecessor, but now he even has a “Mission Accomplished” moment of his very own.
As reported by the Politico:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — President Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan.
“Yes, we did.”
And it doesn’t stop there. Republicans, an animated Obama argued Thursday, wouldn’t have.
They wouldn’t have set the economy back on track, he said during a fundraiser for Senate candidate Robin Carnahan, or passed a health care overhaul or financial regulatory reform. Giving the GOP control of Congress again — a possibility that Obama acknowledged — would usher in another era of a “you’re on your own philosophy,” he said.
In which alternate reality is the president currently residing? The economy is back on track? You could have fooled me.
Republicans wouldn’t have passed Obamacare? That’s a feature not a bug, Mr. President.
Your on your own philosophy? You mean like the people of Arizona who wish the federal government would do its job and secure their border?
If this is your idea of “yes we did” maybe you could do us a favor next time.
Don’t.
Maybe Chris Christie could share his common sense with the Democrats. They seem to be having some budget issues.
From the Journal Editorial Report this weekend:
Classy.
I guess Joe Biden wasn’t kidding when he said it’s “patriotic to pay more taxes.”
I have a feeling America’s founding fathers would disagree.