It’s a ready-made Drudge headline. In reference to the recent IRS scandal, Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer said, “The law is irrelevant“.
The utterance launched numerous tweets and re-tweets, and, predictably, a backlash against an out-of-context quote.
Let me charitably re-phrase what Pfeiffer was probably trying to say — That, regardless of the whether the IRS actions were technically illegal, they were definitely wrong, and the Obama administration will be working to rectify the problem.
That’s about as generous as I can be. But it’s still a problematic and revealing statement. The administration’s broad strategy is to direct the media away from inquiries about illegality. You know, because it almost certainly was illegal.
Says the Twat, denying linkage because A) Frum is a twat, B) said website’s derpy attempts to make you pay licensing for fair use, and C) fuck yo licensing, beyotch,
Open a small arms history book, Twat, odds are good you’ll see this curiosity,
The FP-45 Liberator…we cranked out a million of these in WWII with the idea being airdrop them into occupied Axis territory so resistance fighters could plug Fritz in the back of the head and take his Mauser. The US didn’t end up following through with using many of these, and most were destroyed after the war. The concept was revisited in Vietnam, with the Deer gun, but the CIA quickly ditched the idea after a limited run of 1000. 3d printed guns and components may mean in the future that occupied and oppressed peoples have the means to fight with such weapons, without relying on a foreign power supplying them. All the screeching about ZOMG THE GLOCK 7 METAL TECTERZ!!!! is a sideshow. Of course Frum probably knows that, which is why he’s a twat…
Oops. I can, perhaps, be forgiven for my confusion seeing as how a bunch of wealthy L.A.-area liberals got together last night to give an award to an undeserving, egomaniacal leftist hack:
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived at a Beverly Hills gala to much fanfare on Wednesday as she prepared to accept an award for her public service.
Local volunteers from a national organization called “Ready for Hillary 2016″ were organized outside the Beverly Wilshire hotel, where the Pacific Council on International Policy would be honoring the secretary.
The Council awarded Clinton with the inaugural Warren Christopher Public Service Award, named after the former secretary of state who served under her husband, former President Bill Clinton, from 1993 to 1996.
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The award in his name honors “the public service of others whose work reflects his distinctive leadership qualities,” according to the Pacific Council, which considers itself “the premier international affairs organization focused on policy issues of special resonance to the West Coast”, according to its website.
Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods were all unable to attend the gala for some reason.
You know, we could ask questions about whether any of the people involved in this ceremony had anything like “shame,” “decency,” or “honor” here, but at this point, what difference would it make?
Now, among certain people (teabagging racists and the like, mostly) this has caused a bit of a stir. Again, I’ll let Ms. Harris-Perry tell you about it:
The trolls have been really busy the past two weeks calling me disgusting, evil & communist. #MustBeDoingSomethingRight
— Melissa Harris-Perry (@MHarrisPerry) April 6, 2013
It’s nice to see that she’s not letting the critics get her down. That said, in spite of the fact that we should really be taking a hard look at notions of collective responsibility in this age of Shared Sacrifice™ there are some people who bitterly cling to their progeny even tighter than their guns or their religion. (See, again, racist teabaggers).
So I would like to propose that we start with something a tad less controversial. Namely, the bathroom. Specifically, her bathroom. Hear me out…
Melissa Harris-Perry has never invested as much in public restrooms as she should have because Melissa Harris-Perry has always had this notion that her bathroom belongs to her. She hasn’t had this collective notion that “This is our bathroom.” So, part of it is, she has to break through this notion that her bathroom belongs to her, or belongs to her family, and recognize that the bathroom belongs to the whole community. Once it’s the whole community’s responsibility, and not just the household’s, then she starts making better investments.
So there you go, Melissa. The ball is in your court. Oh, and we’re out of toilet paper, the crapper is clogged, the mirror is covered in graffiti, someone stole the taps from the sink, and there are a bunch of used condoms and needles in the corner.
Good news, hipsters: Your T-shirt is 32 percent more ironic!
Nancy said that they’d have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it, and today we find out that includes higher premiums for a lot of people:
A new study finds that insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
What does that mean for you?
It could increase premiums for at least some Americans.
If you are uninsured, or you buy your policy directly from an insurance company, you should pay attention.
Wait a minute, how is this possible? I thought Obamacare was all about “bending the cost curve down.” This kind of sounds like the opposite of that to me. What the hell could possibly make premiums go up under this wonderful, totes for realsies awesome law?
The study says claims costs will go up largely because sicker people will join the insurance pool. That’s because the law forbids insurers from turning down those with pre-existing medical problems, effective Jan. 1. Everyone gets sick sooner or later, but sicker people also use more health care services.
“Claims cost is the most important driver of health care premiums,” said Kristi Bohn, an actuary who worked on the study. Spending on sicker people and other high-cost groups will overwhelm an influx of younger, healthier people into the program, said the report.
Oh, riiiiiight. It’s that pesky supply and demand stuff that all the cool kids were apparently snoozing through in high school economics class.
While some states will see medical claims costs per person decline, the report concluded that the overwhelming majority will see double-digit increases in their individual health insurance markets, where people purchase coverage directly from insurers.
The differences are big. By 2017, the estimated increase would be 62 percent for California, about 80 percent for Ohio, more than 20 percent for Florida and 67 percent for Maryland. Much of the reason for the higher claims costs is that sicker people are expected to join the pool, the report said.
It should be pointed out that this study was put out by the Society of Actuaries. These are the dull, gray people who look at Real Melvin stuff like risk tables to determine that all of the interesting things that you do like smoking, skydiving, or having diabetes tends to have a bunch of bummer consequences in the real world, such as prolonged hospital stays, death, and–as a result of those things–higher insurance premiums.
In other words, maybe they should have consulted these people instead of the Skittle-shitting unicorns when crafting legislation that would have some serious impacts on millions of people.
Speaking of unicorns:
The Obama administration challenged the design of the study, saying it focused only on one piece of the puzzle and ignored cost relief strategies in the law, such as tax credits to help people afford premiums and special payments to insurers who attract an outsize share of the sick.
Because that money just magically comes out of nowhere. Problem solved.
A January study by the American Petroleum Institute listed California’s gas taxes as second highest in the nation behind New York. After the July 1 tax increase, however, the 70.1 cents average tax per gallon will lead the nation.
Prices for regular gas in California are already among the highest in the nation. On Wednesday, the average price for a regular gallon of gas was $4.238, up from $3.69 a month ago. California’s prices are second only to Hawaii, the Auto Club reported.
This is basically happening because the Democrat-controlled legislature decided back in 2010 that they wanted to get their grubby little hands on money normally used for road projects, so they lowered the sales tax on gas but boosted the excise tax. How does this all work? Well, if this were a horror movie, you would be screaming at the screen because the characters were about to do something incredibly foolish that would get them all brutally murdered…
An excise tax is a tax on an individual product purchased, not based on the price. The publicly elected Board of Equalization must set the rate each year by March 1 so that the state generates the same amount of tax revenue it would have had it remained under the previous sales-tax system.
Dun Dun DHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!
Taxable sales of gasoline in California have fallen from 15.9 billion gallons in fiscal year 2006 to 14.6 billion gallons in fiscal year 2012.
Yeah, you read that right. Nobody can afford to buy a product, so the brain trust that runs the state has set up the system so that taxes on that product have to go up. Cue the “Real Men of Genius” theme song.
The rest of you can go ahead and laugh, but you should probably bear in mind that this is likely a chilling glimpse of things to come in a country full of people stupid enough to re-elect Barack Obama.
.net address by the time Obama’s team took notice.
Bovard has routed his new site to the homepage of the National Rifle Association.
As LC Sir Crunchy says, “Bwahahahahahahhahahahahahaha”.
The endy part is that Obama is going after the guy. Of course.
I wonder, if the folks at iCann don’t let Obama thug them and the guy wins, will some Chicago thugs poison his dog or will they shoot it? (too wordy, but it was two links)
Via Say Uncle, we see that some guy took Biden’s advice with predictable results. He fired warning shots at armed intruders, he got arrested. At least he was smarter than Biden, he only shot inside his own house, Biden’s way makes it likely you’ll shoot an innocent person.
This is an RCOB moment. The black kid who was shot in Florida had gone to buy, as we all know from each and every news article, skittles and iced tea (such an innocent boy, just getting candy and tea)
Only it wasn’t ‘tea” it was watermelon cocktail, which, when mixed with skittles and cough syrup is a new concoction called “lean” that gives you a PCP like high.
This guy notices that Trayvon Martin’s facebook page talks about that particular concoction, but of course, our fine Minitrue betters were too busy trying pin a crime on the Hispanic guy with the caucasian name to do any journalism.
Not all that important, I just felt like rewarding the NY Post for getting the word “cannibal” in the headline. They live for that shit.
NY is really going to see exactly how far and fast they can push their subjects. Bloomberg himself can’t ban 2 liters in stores or supermarkets so he wants all of NY to ban sodas of more than 16 ozs from everywhere.
Keep in mind we’re trying to save the lives of these kids, particularly kids…The state should do exactly the same thing in stores.”
Cuomo said something about how he’s maybe onboard.
Is there a mechanism for counties to secede from a state and do you have to be contiguous to be the same state? Cuz I can see a bunch of NY counties trying to join NH.
The Taliban sent four suicide bombers to attack Afghan security services in the capital of Kabul and in the nearby provinces of Nangarhar and Logar today.
If you like War on (Some) Terror news, the Long War Journal is a place to check out.
Everybody has this link, but keep checking it out, the list of companies telling NY to fuck off keeps getting longer, Midway joined it. Good for them.
Forget where I saw this, but some guy wanted to have a romantic proposal of marriage. He went to great lengths but fucked up in one area, he went to Mexico. Result? He was arrested and hauled off with the ring ending up in the ocean and other indignities. It has a happy ending, but act II, scene I is pretty fucked up.
In, Hey! That’s Our Bit news, the Clinton News Network (CNN) is acting all upset that some Obama folks are going to work for MSNBC. High-fucking-larious.
A couple of “You fucking guys rock” deals for the big finish.
I’m sure I’ll be corrected on this, but a buddy of mine, who loves Sigs (thanks to firing my 2340) told me Sig has radically increased their production to get as many scary black rifles out as quickly as possible and also has a weirdly large muzzle break on the end of some of their rifles (I think like this one).
So my buddy was telling his buddy (They’re both engineers (EE) and two of the most meticulous and knowledgeable guys you’ll ever meet) that he hated the new muzzle breaks.
Hhis buddy said that they were built so that if you pay your tax stamp those are the baffles for your silencer, you just have to slide a sleeve on.
Fucking awesome, I so hope it’s true.
Now I love my 06 Mustang GT, I still sometimes just stare at it 7 years later, and I intend to be buried in it or pried out of it, but if I had a spare $70k floating around, I might be tempted by the newest Mustang convertible.
As we all know, Government Motors came out with their “throwback” Camaro and Chrysler (who’ve made shit since 1973) came out with their Challengers and Chargers and everybody made their cars with more HP than the Mustang.
So Mustang reintroduced the 5.0 with about 400hp and 380 ft-lb of torque, then GM and Chrysler upped theirs.
So Ford figured “up yours” and the new 2014 Ford Mustang GT Shelby convertible has 662 HP and 631 ft-lb of torque.
That’s fucking bad ass. I think it’s muscle-car-ese for “I got ya hemi right here“.
Rep. Hans Hunt voices the feelings that soooo many people in red states have who have seen leftists escape the socialist utopias they’ve built and try and build another in their backyard. Seriously, go back to California, New Jersey and New York. Spot fucking on, Hans!
Eh, couldn’t see the funny today. Sorry, just not feeling it. I’ll get it again.
I was starting to despair that my post about the revolution killed my Teh Funny (I make me laugh much more than any of you), but I did write “Al Tapdancing Gore!”
That made me laugh.
Now, on to the links. Hopefully I’ll make me laugh tomorrow.
I love the NY Post, they cover the Giants and are relatively conservative and their headlines are the best. Here they’re trying to interview Alec Baldwin and discovering something his daughter could have told them, he’s not a nice person.
I mostly like the racial slurs. If he had been, say, an actor who was big in a sitcom but who hadn’t done anything in the decade since, he’d be out of work and shunned by all right-thinking people, but this man is the Voice Of A Generation (of nitwits), so like a football player getting away with murder, Alec will win the Super Bowl in his last game.
Or something.
I love this link, I think I saw it at Ace’s, Jenifer Rubin is, apparently, the token conservative at the Wash Post. I’ve read her stuff before without realizing that. In that link she’s noting that Hagel is a nitwit whose very nomination makes the US look stupider. I’m not linking for her commentary, it’s fairly inane, but the part that I love the most about this: the comments. Damn, lefties are some Jew-hating sons of bitches.
When the Voices of Reason chime in, it can be a hoot.
I don’t think Obama had any intention of doing this: But let’s suppose for argument’s sake that Obama wanted to prove Hagel’s hypothesis about how the Israel lobby intimidates lawmakers. Could he have possibly done a better job than to get the Hagel filibuster fiasco in motion?
That’s one of the more sane people.
You see, Hagel isn’t an incompetent, booger-eating moh-ron and thus, the filibuster isn’t about keeping idjits from being in charge of the most powerful force of arms this violent ball of mud has ever seen, he’s a victim of the Jooooooooooooooooos!
And yet, Jews vote Democratic in droves. I will never figure that one out. Maybe it’s from back when the country clubs were generally Republican hang-outs and they wouldn’t let Jews in.
Now this one is interesting. A Russian lawmaker was found in a barrel of cement (don’t they have harbors in Russia? He can sleep with the caviar. Geez).
Now, first thing I thought was “uh-oh, he pissed off Tsar PutinI and that’s the cause of the cement overcoat, but that’s not it. Apparently he owed another lawmaker money.
First, I have to wonder if we can get some of our congresscritters to copy that.
But second, I checked, the guy was actually in Putin’s party. I wonder what’s going to happen, are they going to go to the mattresses in Russia? That’s what mob families do when they go to war.
I have to say, I’m disappointed in Rand Paul for this.
You know he really wanted that last words to be “he’s lying”, but he controlled himself and said, “flat out wrong”.
Too bad, there needs to be some threshold where you just call a lying sack of shit the lying sack of shit he is, and Obama claiming he reduced the deficit by $2 trillion accuses me of being stupid by its very utterance. But then, I think Bill Clinton passed that threshold when he said, “I didn’t inhale.”
I don’t know what to think of the Examiner, I see stories there, but are they just Po-lying-itico in conservative clothing? I don’t like sensationalists and liars.
But if this one is true, it’s a sensational story about people who lied to the nation (and to me, but I pointed and laughed at least).
This is a great quote, I hope it’s accurate
“Senator Murray is working on a budget right now and we hope we can get that done,” Reed said on CNN, referring to Senate Budget Committee chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash. “But we need time. So the sequestration will prevent — preempt us from getting a budget done and other factors.”
Get it? They can’t get the budget done because of all the problems that arose from not having a budget.
Geez, it’s a good thing Obama and the Dems lost the advantage in the budget ‘debate’, otherwise they’d be saying they can’t pass a budget without tax incre…… wait, who won that again?
So the Dems claim they’ll do a budget if the GOP will raise taxes. My prediction on that? Higher taxes, no budget.
In that sense, like Beyoncé lip-synching the National Anthem at the inauguration, the State of the Union embodies the decay of America’s political institutions into a simulacrum of responsible government
Yup, and not a good simulacrum. It’s like those crude mud ones they used to have before Taiwan.
I could quote it, but that would just be cruel, I’ll summarize.
No matter what happens it’s proof that global worming is real. If their predictions don’t come true? That’s even more proof that global worming is real.
