Toejam has a sister who is an uninformed voter. He sent me this.

My sister, a definite “uninformed voter”, has a lifesaving tool in her car which is designed to cut through a seat belt if she gets trapped.

She keeps it in the trunk of her Camry.

Toejam sent me this one and will prolly trash her because she doesn’t have little boy nipples. (more…)

Congratulations John Boner! Way to go! Unconditional surrender to Barry Obola, Horrible Harry, and ex-Speaker Blinky for passing the Cromnibus bill in the House. And your rationalization? If we didn’t there would be a gummint shutdown and we would be blamed just like we were last time. Yep! Americans were so pissed off at you that they elected even more Republicans to the House and nine more Republicans to the Senate. Exactly why did they do that you spineless twerp? They wanted you to stop Obummercare. They want you to stop amnesty. So what did you and the Stupid Party do? You surrendered. Do you remember why you lost Congress in 2006? It’s because you want on a spending binge and you allowed the Dimocrats to run as fiscal conservatives. So you take Congress back and what do you do? You immediately go on a spending binge. Yeah. Vote Republican. That will solve everything. Here’s your award.

The Atlanta Hawks basketball team just hired a Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) officer. Naturally, she’s black. Does this mean that to value Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) the Hawks will have more white players on the team? Based on demographics, blacks are way over-represented on the team which certainly does not represent Diversity (All Hail Diversity!). More properly, she should be labeled racist witch hunt officer since her main job will be finding both overt and covert examples of racism from the white members of the Atlanta Hawks organization.

Remember Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) is just rebranded affirmative action and equal opportunity. Because those programs were shown to be government sanctioned racism and the rubes were wising up and getting tired of having incompetent people hired and promoted over them, they needed to come up with a solution for the problem. Rather than ending those programs, they were just renamed Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) and just like affirmative action and equal employment opportunity, benefited mostly blacks. Check out the person in charge of Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) at your company. I’ll be willing to bet that the person is black.

How much longer will it take for the rubes to wise up to the real meaning and purpose of Diversity (All Hail Diversity!)? What will they rename it then?

The socialist paradise of Venezuela is about to default on its debt.

Now fellow Latin American socialist paradise Venezuela is gearing up for a default of its own, as precipitously falling oil prices have decimated the country’s budget and will continue to pressure its currency reserves. Since mid-June, crude oil prices have declined by more than 30%, with West Texas Intermediate (the benchmark measure for North American oil) dipping to $60.55/barrel before ultimately settling at a 5-year low of $61.54/barrel on Wednesday.

And to add insult to injury, Venezuela actually has to import some oil because the crude oil that they pump is hard to refine and they don’t have the refineries to do so. Aren’t you chumps in Venezuela happy you elected that rat bastard commie Hugo Chavez? It’s a good thing he died so he couldn’t inflict even more damage on your nation. What was it Maggie Thatcher said about socialism? Eventually “you run out of other peoples’ money”.

What’s really amazing is that over and over again this scenario plays out where ever socialism is tried. We even have side by side comparisons like North and South Korea and before the demise of the Iron Curtain, East and West Germany. Zimbabwe? It went from the bread basket of Africa to a basket case that needs to import food. Venezuela? Oil rich but on the verge of collapse. Even with all of these glaring examples, we still have people who think socialism will work, yannow, people like Barry Soetoro, Thunder Rodent Thighs, and the rest of the Dimocrat Party. Thomas Sowell has a quote where he sez that socialism has such a record of failure that only an academic could think it would work or words to that effect. There are always suckers who fall for that “spread the wealth around” bullshit and vote for people who sell that snake oil to them.

But back to Venezuela.

How is it that the country with the largest proven oil reserves—more than 297 billion barrels—sports an economy in such shambles? There are many reasons, but a few stand out:

1) There is an over-dependence on oil, which has lead to little investment and development in other sectors of the economy. According to CNBC, oil accounts for 95% of Venezuela’s exports, and combined with gas, accounts for 25% of its GDP. (In comparison, oil accounts for just 0.9% of the U.S.’s GDP.) Venezuela imports almost 80% of its consumption, and 20% of that comes from the U.S.

Not to mention that Venezuela nationalized not only it’s oil business but other businesses as well. Ask people in the old USSR how that worked out.

2) Venezuela gives away almost half of its oil. CNBC reports that about 1.2 million barrels of Venezuela’s average 2.6 million barrel-per-day production go to Cuba for free and to its own citizens at heavily-subsidized prices. According to Bloomberg’s Pain at the Pump chart, the average cost of a gallon of gas in Venezuela is $0.04.

Yeah. Let’s send oil to Cuba to prop up another socialist paradise. We rat bastard commies like to stick together.

3) The windfalls from the days of high oil prices were squandered. Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro, leaders of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, siphoned PVDSA’s earnings into social programs and their own political campaigns. Recently, Maduro spoke of making budget cuts to high-level officials’ salaries and “luxury” spending, but went on to say, “[W]e will never cut one bolivar [the Venezuelan currency] of what we spend on education, food, housing… on our people.” Maduro has also vowed to increase oil’s prices back to $100/barrel, which is “where they should be.”

Good luck with that you rat bastard commie. The free market determines where the price should be. It’s that old Law of Supply and Demand that you rat bastard commies keep trying to circumvent. That’s another problem with you rat bastard commies. You have no concept of basic economics.

There’s more but it just chronicles how “successful” socialist policies have been in the socialist paradise of Venezuela.

Guess who else is getting screwed over by low oil prices? Russia. And not only oil prices but natural gas prices as well. Due to fracking, which Obunlger and the Dimocrats oppose, prolly ’cause they hate America (in Obunlger’s case that’s true. Imagine, having a president who hates his own country.), we are awash in natural gas. We have enough to export and sell to the Euroweenies thus enabling them to flip Putin the bird and buy from us. Hey Vlad, how are you gonna support your military adventures with the dropping energy prices? By the end of the decade, the United States will be the world’s largest producer of both oil and natural gas in spite of everything Oblunder and the Dimocrats have done to keep production down. Just imagine where we would be if Jug Husserin Ears Downgrade and the Dimocrat Party were on our side instead of the side of our enemies with their “smart” diplomacy and Thunder Rodent Thighs’ stupid Recharge Button?

Update: The actual Sowell quote about Socialism that I was too lazy to look up.

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it”

From majeot in the comments.

House Republicans voted to continue funding the gummint. Obungler’s amnesty? Funded. Obummercare? Funded. Aren’t you glad you voted for Republicans? They’re gonna fix everything right? Way to go Boner!

Nope. It ain’t Obummercare. It’s race relations. Remember, this was the guy who said he was gonna unite us on race. He was gonna be the “post racial” president. He lied. From the very first, he has divided us on race starting with the “police acted stupidly” remark about the Gates’ incident. Then, we had the “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon” bullshit. He couldn’t bother to send anyone to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral but he sent three people to St. Michael of Swisher Sweets’ funeral. He has welcomed noted RWPP Al Tawana Brawley Crown Heights Riots Freddie’s Fashion Mart Arson Sharpton to the White House many times. Eric My People Holder couldn’t be bothered to prosecute the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation in Philadelphia but is more than willing to lead a lynch mob against Darren Wilson. Obola carries around a deck of race cards and his wife, who hates white people, is prolly even more racist than he is. White people voted for him twice to prove they weren’t racist. It didn’t help. Both he and his wife carry chips on their shoulders the size of two by fours.

He actually thinks he has improved race relatioons. He’s wrong.

President Obama has repeatedly insisted in recent days that race relations are improving during his tenure, but a new poll shows the American people aren’t convinced.

Just 1 in 5 Americans surveyed in a CBS News poll released Wednesday said they think race relations are improving in the U.S., while 36 percent says they’re getting worse. The percentage saying race relations are good has dropped 10 points since spring and is at its lowest point since the Clinton administration.

You remember him? He was the first black president.

That decline has undoubtedly been fueled by the recent controversy over grand jury decisions to not indict white police officers in Staten Island and Ferguson, Mo., after the killing of unarmed black men. The decisions sparked mass protests across the country.

And arson and looting egged on by the professional racists and race-baiters.
Remember St. Michael’s father screaming, “Burn this bitch down!”? Who cares that many of the businesses burned and looted were owned by blacks? They didn’t get their way so they were gonna throw childish tantrums and burn down businesses owned by their fellow blacks. St. Michael’s stepfather should be arrested and tried for inciting a riot.

Overall, 45 percent describes race relations are generally good, while 43 percent says they are bad. But a majority — 54 percent — of black respondents says race relations are bad.

Of course they are. The only people who should be allowed to kill blacks are other blacks. Black lives only matter when whites are killing them, even if they are doing it in self-defense like George Zimmerman and Darren Wilson.

Let me just add that I remember the race riots of the 60’s. What is going on today reminds me of that. Obumbler, Holder, and the Dimocrats have taken three local stories. St. Trayvon of Skittles, St. Michael of Swisher Sweets, and St. Eric of Smoothies, and, with the help of the LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party nationalized them and blown them way out of proportion. None of these three were innocent peopole. St. Trayvon was serving a suspension from school for suspicion of burglary and was staying with his father’s girlfriend 200 miles away from home because his mother could not handle him. St. Michael of Swisher Sweets was not a “gentle giant”. He was a thug with a criminal record and he had just robbed a convenience store. St. Eric of Smoothies was also a career criminal.

We have a major network, NBC, that has given a show to one of the most despicable men in America, Al Tawana Brawley Crown Heights Riots Freddie’s Fashion Mart Arson Sharpton. That pretty much shows how far they have sunk in regards to ethics in journalism. I cannot think of words to adequately describe this worthless waste of oxygen. Ron probably could. That this guy is taken as a serious civil rights leader shows the moral depravity of that movement today. He makes Jesse Hymietown Jackson look good by comparison.

I am amazed at how far race relations have sunk in this country. The only time I can compare it to is the 60’s. It’s like Oblunder, Holder, Sharpton, and the Dimocrats want to foment a race war. I cannot think of anything they would do differently if they were.

The fact that Oblamebush thinks race relations have improved in the last six years shows just how out of touch and delusional this man is. I shudder to think how much worse race relations will be by the time he leaves office.

I saw this story in this morning’s Atlanta Urinal and Constipation and was gonna do a post on it but Don Surber beat me to it and said pretty much the same thing I would, i.e use a teleconference format instead of releasing tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, not to mention all of the hot air that’s gonna be spewed by these rat bastard commies living it up on other peoples’ money.

All this event is is one giant boondoggle akin to congresscritters junkets around the world. As Don often sez, “I’ll start treating this as a crisis when the people talking about it start acting like it’s a crisis.” Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW in just one of his mansions uses more energy in one month than a family of four uses in a year. AGW is one giant scam. This conference is just one more example of how little these people actually care about global warming climate change. What is amazing is how many people have fallen for this bullshit and continue to believe it. *Cough* Robin Palm *Cough* I’m waiting for him to tell us the record snow in Buffalo and Erie was due to global warming just like last year’s Polar Vortex was caused by warm air at the North Pole.

Cam Newton finished yet another drive with a turnover.

Cam Newton was involved in an accident Tuesday when his truck overturned on a bridge. He is being held in a hospital overnight for observation after suffering two transverse process fractures in his lower back.

I stole that joke from Pete Davis on the Kimmer Show.

I hope they’re giving him some good drugs. I know how much pain is involved when you fracture some vertebra. He is expected to make a full recovery.

AlphaDelta sent me this one.

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And I would like to walk again. Looks like we’ll both be disappointed. Why do you think you deserve $15 an hour? Do you have any marketable skills? Did you get a decent degree? What? Your gender studies degree is useless? Whoda thunk it? A lot of these jobs that you would like to be paid $15 an hour for will, in the future, be done by robots. They don’t bitch. They don’t get sick. They don’t need days off. They won’t be rude to customers. They won’t go on strike. So go ahead price yourself out of the market you booger eatin’ moh-ron. Then you can live on the beach waiting for handouts or maybe in a van down by the river like Matt Foley.

What a maroon!