03.18.09
Posted in America, Bush Administration, Democrats, Election of 2008, Election of 2010, New Economy, Obama Administration, stupidity at 15:32 by Toby Petzold
President TelePrompTer’s got some nerve to say anything about AIG when he is second only to the even dirtier Senator Dodd on the list of politicians who took campaign money from that company:
AIG executives gave more than $630,000 during the 2008 political cycle even as the company was falling apart
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance reports, more than $120,000 of that money was donated after AIG received its first $85 billion in federal bailout funds in September. The company has since received a total of $170 billion in taxpayer cash to prevent its collapse.
Their generosity included more than $23,000 to Obama’s campaign.
Both Obama and Republican presidential candidate John McCain raked in much larger sums from AIG earlier in the year. Obama collected a total of $130,000 from AIG in 2008, while McCain accepted a total of $59,499.
These fucking dumbasses are corrupt to their very cores —and now they want to confiscate these ridiculous ”retention” bonuses that they signed off on?! How are you idiots going to do that? By trying to enact a bill of attainder against these losers (who, BTW, went mostly “unretained”)? Good luck with that! Try not to destroy several centuries of common law and contract law while you’re at it!
Miserable sacks of shit —the whole lot of them. And now they say that Freddie’s and Fannie’s executives are gonna get huge bonuses, too? For what? Destroying this country’s housing market? Good Christ!
Shit, meet fan.
Can’t wait for 2010.
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03.12.09
Posted in Bush Administration, Iraq at 18:16 by Toby Petzold
Paul Mirengoff at the Power Line writes:
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush has been sentenced to three years in prison. The sentence seems harsh to me (a fine might have been sufficient), but I’m the last person who would presume to judge a great Arab culture.
I agree that the sentence is too harsh, but it would also give George W. Bush an opportunity to make a public appeal to Iraqi clemency. I think that would be a wonderful gesture —and emblematic of Bush’s essential goodness of character.
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03.03.09
Posted in Bush Administration, Obama Administration at 21:53 by Toby Petzold
in my head:
DON’T BE A RACIST: JUST KEEP BLAMING BUSH!
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02.11.09
Posted in America, Bush Administration, History, moonbats, personal, stupidity at 21:12 by Toby Petzold
Remember that? Remember how well beloved by “the world” we were after the atrocities of 11 September 2001? I guess. But I also remember how “the world” felt about us before that day. It’s true. In certain places and in certain hearts, the United States was either a force for good or evil for this and/or for that reason. And in certain other places and in certain other hearts, some contrary attitude was held. So. It turns out that it’s always been that way and that to believe the “good will” of the “the world” is an actual thing or even a meaningful phrase worth quantifying as it regards us and our place in “the world” is to believe in crap and even worse.
I wept when they played our national anthem at the gates of Buckingham Palace a couple mornings after 11 September 2001, but it’s been a long time since I had any illusions about who Uncle Sam is to “the world.” He is whatever people want him to be. He is always right when they are in peril and he is always wrong when they think they can take advantage of him.
There never was anything to squander, friend. Not if the “good will” in question was only offered out of some sort of global pity for America the Wounded.
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10.23.08
Posted in America, Bush Administration, Democrats, Election of 2008, History, New Economy, stupidity at 17:35 by Toby Petzold
Remember a few years ago when Bush the Younger told us that we need to do something about Social Security and meant it —especially for younger people? Well, the usual Democratic hacks screamed bloody murder and insisted that nothing is wrong with Social Security and that it doesn’t need fixing.
So the effort failed. A major underpinning of American working (and retiring) life was declared untouchable and we all forgot about it.
But now we are watching enormous banks, insurers, and mortgage underwriters fail as they have not since the early 1930s, if even then. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Well, as nauseating liberal frauds like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd told us, those giants were too big to fail. That’s because they were the guarantors of greater home ownership amongst the various minority groups and the economic underclass. Thus, in the name of politics, the American Taxpayer was put on the hook for many hundreds of billions of dollars —and now he is hanging thereby.
You think you won’t see more destruction of other untouchable giants?
In the end, all a person can really count on is his home and some pittance to pay the basics. My castle cannot be breached. If some new form of government is imposed upon me and this society in the months and years to come next, I will fight for what I have, but I will not depend on seeing anything at the end of my wage-earning life close to what I put into the Social Security system. It is all haywire and broken promises from here on in. Waste not, want not. Worship frugality and integrity and honesty. And eat at home.
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10.03.08
Posted in American Military, Big Media, Bush Administration, Democrats, Election of 2008, History, Iran, Islamofascism, Israel, Judenhass, Lebanon, Unexplained Mysteries, comedy, stupidity at 22:01 by Toby Petzold
Among the many bizarre and inexplicable things Joe Biden said in last night’s debate, I nominate his brief history of modern Lebanon as the shiningest example:
When we kicked — along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, “Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know — if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.”
Now what’s happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.
Has Biden gone mad? I ask this sincerely. Does he have some sort of organic brain disorder that would compel him to make such demonstrably untrue claims? Unbelievable. Read Michael J. Totten’s incredulous response:
What on Earth is he talking about? The United States and France may have kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon in an alternate universe, but nothing even remotely like that ever happened in this one.
Nobody – nobody – has ever kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon. Not the United States. Not France. Not Israel. And not the Lebanese. Nobody.
Joe Biden has literally no idea what he’s talking about.
Moreover, I have never once heard anything about Obama calling for NATO intervention in Lebanon. When did such a thing happen? When the Second Lebanon War broke out in the summer of 2006, was Obama really calling for NATO to keep the peace in Lebanon? Call me crazy, but I think that’s utter nonsense.
Needless to say, Big Media is far too busy fellating Obamachrist to question Biden’s hallucinatory account. Equally needless to add, although I must, is that such claims, had they been made by Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin, would have drawn derisive howls from such miserable fluffers as David Gergen and Anderson Cooper and the other Leftist craphounds at CNN. Did the anti-American reporter Michael Ware manage to raise an eyebrow at the news that we evicted Hizballah from Lebanon? Doubt it.
In a just world, Biden’s remarks would be regarded as even weirder than Gerald Ford’s claim in his 1976 debate with Carter that there was no Soviet domination of Poland.
But this isn’t a just world.
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09.15.08
Posted in America, Bush Administration, Election of 2008 at 22:26 by Toby Petzold
I still don’t understand why Obama doesn’t cite his chairmanship of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as executive experience. Is it not a good idea for him to bring it up these days? Thanks to Tom Maguire for the link to Doug Ross’ post about what Obama was saying on Chicago television back in 2000 when he first ran for Congress (emphases mine):
Interviewer: One of the criticisms that arises in connection with your candidacy is you simply haven’t been in the Senate very long, the State Senate. You have a limited track record in terms of time, what is your argument based on the one term that you’ve served so far? What makes you prepared for the Congress?
Obama: Well, I’m in my second term, but it’s true that certainly both Senator Trotter and Congressman Rush have been in elected office longer than I have. I can’t deny that. I would argue, though, that my experience previous to elected office equips me for the job. I have a background as an attorney, I’ve represented affordable housing organizations to build affordable housing, something that’s a major issue in the district.
I’ve chaired major philanthropic efforts in the city like the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, that gave fifty million dollars to prompt school reform efforts throughout the city.
Well, let’s hear more about it, Barry. You wanted to talk about your “chairmanship” of a board that included an unrepentant terrorist only eight years ago, but not now? Okay. There’s seven more weeks of this, though, so don’t think you can hide forever.
Oh, and I saw you a while ago on Bloomberg TV (natch) talking about how awful George W. Bush’s housing policies are and how awful it is that there weren’t more rules in place to keep credit tighter and keep these banks and mortgage corporations that are now folding on surer ground. But you can’t really mean any of that because you know full well that Bush was responding to the political need to get more Latinos and blacks invested in their own homes. He was committed to it. Were you in opposition? Horseshit. You don’t care about the hazards in mortgage lending because you were making money off of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. It’s all underwritten by the taxpayers, anyway, so whatever. If people can somehow make Uncle Sam the co-signer on their loans, why, that’s just great.
If we have a Democratic White House and a Democratic Congress next January, there’s going to be a new socialism in this country. There’s going to be some lasting damage done to our economic credibility around the world.
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09.10.08
Posted in America, Bush Administration at 19:52 by Toby Petzold
Before liberals and other sorts of Bush-haters go too far off in their criticisms of this mortgage bailout business, they ought to remember that the President has long emphasized the social importance of more homeownership amongst black and Latino Americans. His policies may not have been as fiscally sound as they should have been, but they were plenty sound as it regards community-building in this country. Here in Texas, your house is your home is your castle. There’s a lot of stake a man’s got in his community if he owns property there, and that is something we should all want for as many of our neighbors as possible. Lets hope the current business cycle begins turning up and keeps more people in their houses and homes. Because people who work hard and spend wisely deserve a good and safe place to lay their heads.
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08.12.08
Posted in Big Media, Bush Administration, History, Iraq, Joe and Valerie, moonbats, stupidity, treason at 21:11 by Toby Petzold
Looks like the Joe and Valerie Wilson Show hit another dead end today:
WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday dismissed former CIA analyst Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney and several former Bush administration officials for disclosing her identity to the public.
The Court of Appeals in Washington dealt another setback to the former spy, who has said her career was destroyed when officials blew her cover in 2003 to retaliate against her husband, Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson.
But it was Joe and Valerie who destroyed her CIA career by exploiting the opportunity she got him through her employment to try to publicly undermine the President’s case for war against a legitimate enemy. They doubled down on their stupidity with their disloyal liberal crap —and it’s gotten them nothing but the good opinion of people whose judgement isn’t worth the third bar piss of the night. People like the lunatic Larry Johnson and the anti-car tosser Duncan Black.
Guess it’s off to Hef’s mansion now, eh?
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07.30.08
Posted in America, Bush Administration, Democrats, Earth, Election of 2008, Republicans, energy, moonbats, stupidity at 18:59 by Toby Petzold
The Speaker of the House announced today:
Americans know that thanks to the two oilmen in the White House, consumers are now paying $4 a gallon for gas. But what Americans should realize is that what the President is calling for is drilling as close as three miles off of America’s pristine beaches and in other protected areas.
The President has failed in his economic policy, and now he wants to say, “but for drilling in protected areas offshore, our economy would be thriving and the price of gas would be lower.” That hoax is unworthy of the serious debate we must have to relieve the pain of consumers at the pump and to promote energy independence.
How are Bush and Cheney responsible for the huge spike in the price of oil across the world? Could it be that the two most populous nations on Earth are seeing huge spikes in their own consumption of oil —and that this, above all else, is what’s driving these prices? It’s nothing but lunatic gibberish to blame these “oilmen” for the astonishing growth of China’s and India’s economies.
Were it not for the completely outmoded restrictions placed on domestic oil production and refining capacity by asshole Democrats, the United States would obviously be in a better position to adapt to the global increase in the price of oil —again clearly driven by the spike in Asia’s consumption.
Our country does not allow new oil refineries or new nuclear power plants to be built because of the anachronistic “concerns” of asshole Democrats. These restrictions weren’t an issue when we were paying a buck a gallon not too many years ago, but now? The lack of foresight on the part of environmentalists and their Gaiist fringe is now costing us all. Our economy is suffering not because we don’t have the resources, but because assholes and Edenists won’t permit their use.
Note that the same sacks of hippie shit who think themselves superior to Christians by virtue of Science are the ones who have no confidence in American drilling and refining technology. How much oil was spilled when Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Region? Not even enough to get Obama to Davos and back.
Why are the Democrats handing such a gift to the Republicans? I don’t know. But if Bush is smart, he’ll pull a Truman on these do-nothing liars this summer and make them reconvene the Congress to allow a vote on lifting these stupid restrictions. If there’s some Republicans in trouble who’d rather be back home campaigning, then let them make their case to their constituents from the floors of the House and Senate. They’ve got work to do and they can damned well do it from there.
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