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The Nose On Your Face&#160 has this great video to help you get through your Sunday.

Enjoy!

(Hat tip to Dan Riehl.)

(Hat tip to Denizen & fellow blogger David Hartung.)

It isn’t bad enough that Al-Obambi forced Chrysler into bankruptcy under its terms.&#160 It isn’t bad enough that hundreds of dealerships are being forced to close against their will.&#160 Not bad enough that thousands of people are having their jobs forcibly taken from them by B. HUSSEIN!!!&#160 Obambi.

If that hasn’t already pulled an RCOB&#153 over your eyes by now…then this will.

As part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Chrysler is terminating one-fourth of its franchises – but some say its catalog of doomed dealerships looks more like a hit list that specifically seeks to put Republican donors out of business.

[…]

President Obama has said the bankruptcy will give the company “a new lease on life,” after his administration spearheaded a plan requiring the company sell to Italian automaker Fiat. Chrysler’s stronger operations will be owned by Fiat, labor and the U.S. and Canadian governments. The sale could close as early as this Friday.

[…]

“The necessary steps have been taken to give one of America’s most storied automakers, Chrysler, a new lease on life,” Obama said. “This is not a sign of weakness.”

But WND reviewed the list of 789 closing franchises and databases of political donors and found that of dealership majority owners making contributions in the November 2008 election, less than 10 percent gifted to Democrats while 90 percent gave substantial sums to Republican candidates.

[…]

Many of the majority owners who donated to Republican campaigns last year also contributed additional thousands to George W. Bush’s presidential campaign in 2004 and to help elect GOP representatives.

Y’get that, Denizens?&#160 The retarded bastard fucks on the Left have squealed for nearly four decades about Nixon’s so-called “enemies list” – but Nixon had nothing on this son-of-a-crack-whore-bitch in the White House.

How much longer, Denizens?&#160 How much longer are we going to put up with this before we pick up the watering can?

LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar fell to a 2009 low on Friday as fears intensified that the United States could lose its triple-A rating, while renewed caution about the world economy and banks prompted Asian and European stocks to slip.

The dollar’s latest decline started when ratings agency Standard & Poor’s cut its ratings outlook on Britain to negative from stable, stoking fears other AAA-rated countries which are running huge debt levels could share a similar fate.

Moody’s Investor Service said on Thursday it was comfortable with its triple-A sovereign rating on the United States but that it was not guaranteed forever.

“The main issues are related to yesterday’s movement on fears that the U.S. might lose its triple-A rating,” said Roberto Mialich, FX strategist at Unicredit in Milan.

Boy, Obambi’s just bringin’&#160 that economy back, ain’t he?

Change you can believe in!!!!!&#160

Boy howdy, that Al-Obambi ecomony just keeps humming right along, doesn’t it?

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The Federal Reserve’s latest forecasts for the U.S. economy are gloomier than the ones released three months earlier, with an expectation for higher unemployment and a steeper drop in economic activity.

The Fed’s forecasts, released as part of the minutes from its April meeting, show that its staff now expects the unemployment rate to rise to between 9.2% and 9.6% this year. The central bank had forecast in January that the jobless rate would be in a range of 8.5% to 8.8%, but the unemployment rate topped that in April, hitting 8.9%.

The Fed also now expects the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation’s economic activity, to post a drop of between 1.3% and 2% this year. It had previously expected only a 0.5% to 1.3% decline.

All yours now, Ayatollah.&#160 You.&#160 Effin’.&#160 OWN.&#160 It.

Good luck.&#160

Another day, another Red Curtain O’ Blood&#153.

So lemme get this straight:&#160 Timmy-boy “Tuubo Tax-Cheat” Geithner not only thinks that Al-Obambi’s forcing-out of Rick Wagoner at GM head wasn’t unconstitutional – he’s got the hots to do it again.

Days after GM’s CEO Rick Wagoner was forced out by the Obama administration, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner left open the possibility that such moves could happen again.

In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, Geithner acknowledged the government has had to do “exceptional things” – citing AIG as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Yes.&#160 “Exceptional things”.&#160 Like illegally “firing” a corporate CEO using extortion to get a corporate CEO to quit a job with which Al-Obambi had no business or right to interfere in the first place.

Very nice, Timmy Taxcheat.&#160 Very Mafia-like.&#160 Tony Soprano would be proud of youse.

Asshat.

When asked if he would leave open the option to pressure a bank CEO to resign, Geithner replied: “Of course.”

Shame I don’t own a bank.&#160 I’d love to see him try it with me.&#160 Somehow, I don’t think he’d like my response.

Geithner also skirted criticism that the Treasury Department still has no mechanism for tracking how banks have spent billions of dollars in TARP money, saying the doled out dollars were showing immediate results.

“Interest rates are now at historic lows … for mortgages,” he said. “Millions of Americans are now able to refinance and take advantage of those interest rates. That’s gonna reduce monthly payments very materially for millions of Americans.”

Oh, go fuck yourself, Timmy Taxcheat.&#160 You didn’t have shit to do with that, and both you and the Ayatollah damned well know it.&#160 Mortgage rates were on their way down long before your boy (yeah, I said “boy” – what of it?) even thought&#160 of winning stealing the election, so don’t even&#160 think about trying to take credit for that, assclown!

Geithner acknowledged the enormity of the crisis but said a unified effort would help reverse the financial downturn.

“We’re gonna have setbacks ahead,” he said.

Yes, I’d say pitchforks & torches definitely&#160 count as “setbacks”.

“And that’s why it’s so important that we’re moving together with the world to try to make sure we bring recovery back. And the world is with the president on this.”

Oh, sure you do, Timmy Taxcheat.&#160 China’s been criticizing the Ayatollah for his spending; Putin’s been warning you bastards not to go down the path of socialism, and Sarkozy is even threatening to walk out of the G-20 conference, and he&#160 agrees with you!

Try again, Taxcheat Boy.&#160 Use some reality this time, mkay?

In November 2004, I traded in my Ford F-150, which couldn’t get 20 mpg rolling downhill with a tailwind, for a 2005 Chevy Cavalier.

The Cavalier got better gas mileage – which proved to be a good move once gas started going up – but it was always a crapshoot as to whether or not I’d ever get where I was going in it.&#160 When it wasn’t refusing to start, it was trying to pretend it was an automatic (read: the clutch was going out).

So in 2006, I traded the Cav in on a 2007 Cobalt.&#160 Somewhat sturdier, a little better gas mileage, and decidedly faster, even with a four-banger.&#160 As cars go, it’s not bad.

It is the absolute, unequivocal, indisputable, bar none last&#160 General Motors car I will ever buy.

And it is thus because yesterday, the CEO General Motors caved in to the Al-Obambi Taliban and stepped down – in effect, allowing the Ayatollah Obambi to fire him.

President Obama asserted unprecedented government control over the auto industry Monday, rejecting turnaround plans from General Motors and Chrysler and raising the prospect of controlled bankruptcy for either ailing auto giant.

[…]

In an extraordinary move, the administration forced the departure of Rick Wagoner as CEO of General Motors over the weekend, and implicit in Obama’s remarks was that the government holds the ability to pull the plug on that company or Chrysler.

All this in return for more bailout money.&#160 They’ve already burned through the $17 billion they got last year, so now they have to go back to Washington with their collective hat in their collective hand.

Oope.&#160 Make that “go back again“.&#160 Seems Teh Ayatollah&#153 sneered at their first attempt.

The Obama administration has forced the longtime head of General Motors to resign and said yesterday that it would withhold additional federal aid to the auto industry unless the ailing companies undertake changes they so far have been unwilling or unable to make.

The administration effectively rejected as untenable the business plans that GM and Chrysler had submitted to restructure their companies, saying that neither had fulfilled the terms of the federal loans the companies received in December.

GM’s only viable alternative now is the one they should’ve undertaken in the first place, before wasting billions & billions of our tax dollars:&#160 File for bankruptcy, dissolve the union contracts that have them hamstrung and force the thugs back to the negotiating table.

But that won’t happen now, will it?&#160 No, the DC Taliban will take more of your money and more of my money, and give it to GM to prop up a failing business, and then put the fucking union thugs in control of the company.

And I, and a few million other Americans, will have purchased our last Government Motors vehicle.

Enjoy it while it lasts, GM.&#160 Welcome your new socialist overlords – and say goodbye to your customers.

UPDATE:&#160 Oh, by the way, did I mention the…uh…the direct effect Obambi’s takeover of GM had on stocks?

U.S. stocks dropped Monday amid uncertainty about the struggling U.S. auto industry and other concerns about the economy.

[…]

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 254.16 points down, to 7,522.22. The S&P 500-stock Index closed 28.41 points down, to 787.53. The NASDAQ lost 43.40 points, closing at 1,501.80.

President Obama on Monday morning rejected Chrysler and General Motors restructuring plans, which resulted in fears of bankruptcy.

You can set your clocks by it.&#160 When Jugears McHopenchange shuts his ugly piehole, the Dow rises.&#160 When the Ayatollah (or one of his lackeys – Timmy-boy Geithner, call your office)…

MERLIN:&#160 He can’t.

VENOMOUS:&#160 Why not?

KORRIOTH:&#160 No one there to answer.&#160 Jackass still doesn’t have any staff.

VENOMOUS:&#160 Hm.&#160 Point.

Anyway, when one of ’em says or does something – bammo.

Maybe they’ll learn.&#160 Eventually.&#160 OneOfTheseDays&#153.&#160 Maybe.

But I doubt it.

If I were an employee of AIG – one that had earned a multi-million-dollar bonus for which I’d negotiated a contract, that is – I think I might have this to tell both AIG and the Imperial Socialist Congress:

Dear AIG – and not-so-dear Imperial Socialist Fuckwits in what used to be an honorable deliberative body known as Congress:

Unlike a lot of you pissweasels, I actually work&#160 for my living.&#160 Moreover, as a person living in a heretofore capitalist society, I – meaning, my skills & talents, my experience my efforts are all worth whatever the market is willing to pay for me/them.+

This includes, but is not limited to, base salary, incentives of all sorts and whatever bonuses (bonusii?) I can fairly negotiate with whatever company has me in its employ at any given time.

The bonus I received from AIG was given to me as part of AIG’s contractural obligation to me – I know very damned few of you pussies up there in DC have ever even heard&#160 of a contract, much less been a part of one, but work with me here, mkay? – and it was a bonus that I negotiated with AIG in good faith&#160 for either doing what I was hired to do or for not taking my ass and bolting to the competition once the initial contract was up.&#160 In other words, you bastards, that money is mine, it was legally earned, fair & square, and I resent the hell out of any leftist dickbreath that dares to even suggest&#160 that it wasn’t.

In fact, it was one of your own, Senator-ette Chrissy Dodd-ering-Idiot (Communist-Connecticut), who had the idea to put my bonus in the damned stimulus package to begin with!

Now here comes the Imperial Socialist Congress gonna tax mll the money I earlned fairly & squarely.

And what kind of representation do I get for my confiscatory and Draconian taxation?&#160 Not very damned much – a lot of squabbling and finger-pointing, but not a helluva lotta leadership.&#160 Then again, that’s pretty much been the case since the Demoscum regained control back in 2004, isn’t it?&#160 And I note that no one really wants to talk about the $630,000 in campaign contributions, part of which went to the selfsame Chrissy Dodd-ering-Idiot and his White House henchman, B. HUSSEIN!!!&#160 Obambi, have they?&#160 Not to mention the nearly $60,000 given to the RINO John-boy McLame, huh?

So go ahead and try to take my hard-earned money, asslicks.&#160 See how many tax shelters I can find, how many money-losing businesses I can invest in, etc, in order to keep from having to pay you one red fuckin’ cent&#160 of that money.

Or perhaps how many attorneys I can pay to sue your asses into obliviion.&#160 Whether I have a case or not – it’ll be worth it just to see your skanky asses squirm, just for once.

Not to mention how many guns & how much ammo that bonus money will buy.&#160 If you know what I mean.

Sincerly,

A pissed-off AIG’er

It’s beginning.&#160 Little by little, people are beginning to wake up to the fact that the Ayatollah is not&#160 the Messiah&#153.

Polling data show that Mr. Obama’s approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama’s net presidential approval rating — which is calculated by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove from the number who strongly approve — is just six, his lowest rating to date.

Overall, Rasmussen Reports shows a 56%-43% approval, with a third strongly disapproving of the president’s performance. This is a substantial degree of polarization so early in the administration. Mr. Obama has lost virtually all of his Republican support and a good part of his Independent support, and the trend is decidedly negative.

And never mind that the Dow had its best week since last November.&#160 Although this story details Obambi talking out his ass today, he did the same thing yesterday – and at the time, the dow dropped to 70 down from previous day’s close.

The simple fact of the matter is that every time the Ayatollah Obambi opens his skanky piehole, the economy slides.&#160 One wonders if he’s sufficiently intelligent to eventually put two and two together.

Personally, I doubt it.&#160 And more & more, other Americans are beginning to doubt it, too.

Um, ‘scuse me for saying so – but wasn’t that $25 billion or so of our tax dollars supposed to help put the kibosh on – oh, I dunno – this???

General Motors auditors have looked at the company’s dismal sales and its crushing debt and sky-high costs and said that the current factors “raise substantial doubt about [GM’s] ability to continue as a going concern.”

It may be hard to imagine a more grim report: Despite already cutting thousands of jobs, pledging to eliminate three brands and receiving more than $13 billion in government loans, GM — one of the Big Three U.S. automakers — is still on the brink.

Hmmm.&#160 I definitely seem to remember that if they didn’t get that money RIGHT FUCKIN’ NOW!!!!!,&#160 that was a-gonna be it for ol’ GM.&#160 Yessirreebob&#153, they wuz a-gonna take their marbles ‘n go home, they wuz, ayup.

The company is seeking nearly $17 billion more in government aid to keep running. But today’s 402-page annual report said that even an influx of government cash may not be enough to keep GM in business.

So, basically, we’ve blown roughly $25 billion to the auto companies, and it hasn’t helped one.&#160 Motherfucking.&#160 Bit.&#160 Do I have that about right?

Oh, BTW, anyone notice that Al-Obambi’s Down Jones took yet another nosedive into territory not seen in 12 years?

Nice going, Demoscum.&#160 Dat dere’s summa dat Hopenchange&#153, it is, ayup.&#160

Y’know, one of these days the Ayatollah B. HUSSEIN!!!&#160 Obambi’s finally gonna get it through his thick-assed Shit-cago thug head that every time he opens his piehole, the US economy gets just a little bit sicker.

Or maybe that’s his goal.

Whatever, he’s doing a bang-up job.&#160 At destroying the economy, that is.

That Tree of Liberty’s pretty parched by now, I’d think.

Yes, you might call this a bit of flogging of the room-temperature equine.

That’s fine.&#160 Bush got no less from the libtards, didn’t he?

Dow’s down to 7100 now.

Wall Street’s really responding to Al-Obambi’s handling of the economy, isn’t it?

Boy howdy, how ’bout that Al-Obambi economy, hm?

The Dow took yet another beating Thursday.&#160 Not quite the 300-point bath of Tuesday, but still a significant near-90-point drop.

Significant because it dropped the Dow below 7500 – the lowest level since the bottoming out of the last bear market six-and-a-half years ago, a year after 9/11.

The move below that level dashed hopes that the doldrums of November would mark the ending point of a long slump in the market, which is now nearly halfway below the peak levels reached in October 2007.

The market’s inability to rally also signals that investors see no immediate end for the recession, which is already 14 months old and one of the most severe in decades. Investors also haven’t been impressed with two major economic initiatives from the Obama administration this week, an economic stimulus package and a mortgage relief plan.

“It is definitely, definitely a blow to psychology,” said Quincy Krosby, chief investment strategist at The Hartford. “There is more pessimism in the market as to when the economy is going to pick up steam.”

But…but…but…but I thought the coronation of THE MESSIAH!!!&#160 was supposed to bring HOPE AND CHAYYYYYNNNNNNNGGEE-UHHHH!!!&#160 to us poor, derelict, destitute Americans!!!&#160 The seas&#160 were going to part, the LIGHT&#160 was going to shine down and we were all going to bask in UNFATHOMABLE, ORGASMIC ECSTASY!!!!!

Mheh.&#160 Welcome to Real World 101, B. HUSSEIN&#160 Obambi.&#160 Lot easier to talk&#160 about it than it is to actually do&#160 it, ain’t it?&#160

Thomas Sowell said it best in his column today:

Nothing in the amateurish way the current administration has begun suggests that they have mastered even the mechanics of governing, much less the complexities of the huge national problems looming ahead, at home and abroad.

In the final analysis, Denizens, that’s all these sorry pukes really are – amateurs.&#160 And it’s like we conservatives tried to warn everyone before the election – we couldn’t afford to have these incompetents undergo on-the-job training.&#160 Now we’re seeing the results of our collective (socialist pun not necessarily intended, but it fits) shortsightedness.&#160 With far worse to come.

Protect the powder, guys.&#160 I get the feeling it’s going to be needed sooner rather than later.

Al-Obambi signed the Porkulus bill earlier today. Get ready for the floor to drop out from under us all…..

UPDATE: Looks like the stock market clued in pretty damn fast. The DOW closed down THREE HUNDRED POINTS today, closing at a new low not seen in nearly a decade. Which was when boys and girls???? Can you say “Kaiser Wilhelm Von Slickmeister” and the previous reigning administration of deceit and lies???? I knew you could.

Talk about a lie….the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” as we all know is just a swindler’s way of saying “tax and spend”, which we all know is the modus operandi of the Demonscum since FDR. Not only that, but by signing the bill, Al-Obambi has broken YET ANOTHER campaign promise (certainly won’t be the last you can bet). Need further information on just how BAD this pork is and the lies, check out some of these tidbits from this article by Joseph Farah:

“When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as the president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what’s in it before I sign it,” he said. His campaign called the idea the “sunshine before signing promise.”

…exactly one business day after the approval of the bill, Obama has signaled he will sign it.

You might want to sit down for this…….

* Before this bill is signed, actual federal obligations are already $65.5 trillion – exceeding the gross domestic product of the entire world.

* The Obama administration economic stimulus package is going to force the Treasury to borrow approximately $2.5 trillion in 2009 and another $4 trillion in 2010, with the result of increasing the current $10 trillion national debt by 65 percent in just two years. If the Obama administration increases the national debt by 65 percent every two years, the debt will be $16.5 trillion in 2010 and $27.225 trillion by 2012, the year of the next presidential election.

* If you had gone into business on the day Jesus was born, and your business lost a million dollars a day, 365 days a year, it would take you until October 2737 to lose $1 trillion.

* $1 trillion dollars divided by 300 million Americans comes out to $3,333 per person.

* One trillion $1 bills stacked one on top of the other would reach nearly 68,000 miles into the sky, about a third of the way from the Earth to the moon.

* Earth’s home galaxy, the Milky Way, is estimated to contain about 200 billion stars. So, if each star cost $1, $1 trillion would buy five Milky Way galaxies full of stars.

If you’re not sick yet, you will be once this payable starts going for your wallet.

Methinks it’s time to start the secession petitions folks. I for one certainly want off this donktard bus….cause it “fo’ shure” ain’t goin’ in the right direction…..

Obligatory RCOB in 5…4….3………..

That the number of jobless people EACH MONTH there are going to be here in the US if “Teh One’s” Porkulus bill isn’t passed. So sayeth the oh-so wise and intelligent Nancy Piglousy.

Here’s the link to the video from Drudge. {just too darn lazy today to embed it here}

Glenn Beck has his take on this. Rush is on vacation this week, but I would imagine given that the guest host is Mark Steyn, he’ll have a spot on this as well.

If the Demoscum were smart (which we know is debatable even on a good day) they’d can this “talking head”. But in the mean time, we all get ANOTHER good laugh at her screw-up.

ThatIsAll&#153

Monday, Texas Instruments announced that it was laying off some 1,800 people – part of 50,000 layoffs worldwide.

As I told a 7-11 clerk yesterday, “Behold the Al-Obambi economy!&#160 Couldn’t happen to a nicer excuse-for-a-president”.