Shameless demagoguery, about as subtle as a sledgehammer.
Hat tip: Breitbart. Cross-posted at JWF.
July 27, 2011
July 18, 2011
Fresh Out of Ideas, Young People Take Up "Owling"
A young man "owling" at his [former] place of employment.
I must be getting old. Apparently, there is an "owling" craze taking place right under my nose, and here I am utterly oblivious to the whole thing.
The bizarre internet craze of ‘planking’ is set to lose its cult online status to the increasingly popular trend of ‘owling’.Hundreds of young people in America, Australia and now, Britain, have taken up the new ‘owling’ craze.
It consists of nothing more taxing than crouching on one's haunches and staring into the middle distance, like an owl.
Participants then take photos of themselves and post them on Facebook or on other social networking sites.
Extra kudos is earned for those who do it in unusual situations.
The trend is a development of the popular craze of ‘planking’ in which people would take pictures of themselves lying face down in strange locations.
However, in recent months ‘planking’ has become increasingly mainstream - and thus less popular on the trend-conscious internet.
Last month the celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay posted pictures of himself planking - a development that prompted trend-watchers to declare the craze ‘officially dead’.
‘Owling’ is believed to have started in Australia within the last few weeks.Indeed, it is so new that the Wikipedia entry for ‘owling’ describes the practice as being a term used in the Middle Ages to describe the ‘the smuggling of sheep or wool from England to another country’.
Despite its relative youth, the owling craze already has two popular Facebook groups dedicated to it, onto which more than 1,000 people are listed as members.
More pictures here.
Cross-posted at JWF.
June 30, 2011
June 29, 2011
Lurch: "I Would Have Made a Good President - Maybe Even a Great One."
Former presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) thinks he could have done a good job leading the country."I would have been a good president," he said Wednesday on Fox Business Network's "Imus in the Morning." "Maybe even a great one."
Kerry stopped short of agreeing with host Don Imus's assertion that a President Kerry would have been "better than the guy we have now."
Makes you wonder what Kerry's definition of "great" is.
Cross-posted at JWF.
June 22, 2011
Money For Nothing: CBO Reports That Stimulus Doubled the Debt
Not only has the so-called "stimulus" doubled the debt, but the country got jack-squat in return. Except, of course, consistently high unemployment, a real estate market in shambles, and gas and food prices through the roof. Yippee!
If you think the Dumbocrats have learned their lesson yet, you better think again.
Is it 2012 yet?
A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds that President Obama’s economic stimulus program helped nearly double U.S. debt.The 2011 Long-Term Budget Outlook, released Wednesday morning, reports that the “the combination of automatic budgetary responses” and Obama’s stimulus “had a profound impact on the federal budget.” According to CBO projections, before Obama’s stimulus became law, federal debt equaled 36 percent of GDP and was projected to decline slightly over the next few years. Instead, thanks in large part to the stimulus, debt reached 62 percent of GDP by 2010.
The wonderful news doesn't end there. Keep reading.
Cross-posted at JWF.
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