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Found this whilst perusing the site of the lovely & talented Malkin:

Now, that’s&#160 just Damn Good Stuff&#153.

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.

As y’all are probably aware, tonight at 2030 hours (a little military/police/fire lingo, there) we’re all supposed to turn all our lights off for one hour.&#160 Several cities, not the least of which is Dallas, are planning to participate.

But not this King & Tyrant&#153.

MERLIN:&#160 You’re not a king & tyrant anymore.

KORRIOTH:&#160 You’re not even a King & Tyrant&#153, either.

MERLIN:&#160 That’s what I said!

OZY MCCOOL:&#160 No, you said “king & tyrant”

K’HADIBAK’H:&#160 As in, just an ordinary king and an ordinary tyrant.

VENOMOUS:&#160 Guys…

T-BONE MCMANX:&#160 And as we all know, His Snarkiness is neither an ordinary king, nor an ordinary tyrant.

VENOMOUS:&#160 Guys…

SUPREME GENERAL RAYEGUN:&#160 He may be a particularly piss-poor king and a tyrant with pathetic delusions of godhood…

KORRIOTH:&#160 …but he’s no ordinary king & tyrant.

VENOMOUS:&#160 HEY!!!!!

ALL:&#160

VENOMOUS:&#160 I haven’t written the script to the next installment of “Death of the Pegasus” yet.&#160 Heads could&#160 roll, y’know.

ALL:&#160 Eeeeeeeep!

See what I gotta put up with around here?

Anyway, where were we?&#160 Ah, yes…

At 2030 hours tonight, every light in My Humble Abode™, every computer, every monitor, every kitchen appliance, every fan, the central heater (it is&#160 going to get down in the 30s here tonight), every gadget I currently have plugged in – if it pulls wattage in my house, it’s on and running tonight at that time.

Y’see, I haven’t forgotten my life’s work – pissing off the Left as much as I possibly can.&#160 And if I can tell the Greentards, symbolically or otherwise, to take Mommy Gaia and go shove her up all their swishy asses, I’m absolutely going to take the opportunity to do so.

And I hope to Cthulu some fucking tree-hugging faggot just tries&#160 to get in my face about it tonight.

Please, chickenshit Greenies.&#160 I fucking dare&#160 you.

(Hat tip Sweetness & Light.)

ITEM:&#160 Dingy Harry Reid the Imperial Socialist Congress’ Senate Mob Majority Leader, claims Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts lied to become a member of that auguest body.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that John Roberts misled the Senate during his confirmation hearings by pretending to be a moderate — and that the United States is now “stuck” with him as chief justice.

We’ll forget for a minute that there are&#160 worse fates that could possibly have befallen our country up to that point.&#160 Such as a Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg court, f’rinstance.

“Roberts didn’t tell us the truth. At least Alito told us who he was,” Reid said, referring to Samuel Alito, the second Supreme Court justice nominated by President George W. Bush. “But we’re stuck with those two young men, and we’ll try to change by having some moderates in the federal courts system as time goes on — I think that will happen.”

“Didn’t tell [you] the truth”, eh, O Dingy-assed needle-dick?

And who might you be again, Reid, you half-assed excuse-for-a-clusterfuck?&#160 Aren’t you the same honest, upstanding Congresscritter&#160 that engaged in what an East Coast paper called a “smarmy Las Vegas land deal in which [you] pocketed a cool $1.1 million for the sale of property [you] hadn’t personally owned for years”?&#160 And was subsequently caught “using campaign money to mete out Christmas bonuses for staffers at [your] tony Ritz-Carlton condo” and then lying about it being a “clerical error”?

And aren’t you the one who got caught lying out your skanky ass about threatening to not fully support our troops overseas?

On the tape above Reid says:

“There’s never been any suggestion that the military will not get everything they need.”

That is a complete lie.

Sen. Feingold’s website has the bill being discussed by the veteran with Reid.

April 2, 2007

Washington D.C. -­ U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today that they are introducing legislation that will effectively end the current military mission in Iraq and begin the redeployment of U.S. forces. The bill requires the President to begin safely redeploying U.S. troops from Iraq 120 days from enactment, as required by the emergency supplemental spending bill the Senate passed last week. The bill ends funding for the war, with three narrow exceptions, effective March 31, 2008.

And you have the balls to accuse a damn good Chief Justice of lying?&#160 Keeping in mind, of course, that President Bush promised to nominate a strict constructionist to the bench, and that’s exactly what he did?

Fuck you, O Dingy One, you lying little crapweasel.

Most of our Men (and Women) In Blue&#153 are honorable folk who want nothing more than to serve the public at large.&#160 They’re salt of the earth people who’d give you the shirts of their backs if they thought it would help.&#160 (And some of my family have served, so I know whereof I speak.)

Then we have assholes like Robert Powell.

During the traffic stop, caught on the officer’s in-car camera, Powell berated the driver, 26-year-old NFL running back Ryan Moats, and threatened him with arrest for running a traffic light.

“I can screw you over,” said Powell, 25. “I’d rather not do that.”

There’s a helluva analogy I could make here, if I didn’t think I’d have a SWAT team busting down my door shortly thereafter – so I’d rather not do that.

Moats’ mother-in-law, Jonetta Collinsworth, was struggling at 45 with breast cancer that had spread throughout her body. Family members rushed to her bedside from as far away as California.

On March 17, the Moatses had gone to their Frisco home to get some rest. Around midnight, they received word that they needed to hurry back to the hospital if they wanted to see Collinsworth before she died.

The couple, along with Collinsworth’s father and an aunt, jumped into the SUV and headed back toward the hospital. They exited the Dallas North Tollway, just down the street from the hospital.

Moats turned on his hazard lights. He stopped at a red light, where, he said, the only nearby motorist signaled for him to go ahead. He went through.

Powell, watching traffic from a hidden spot, flipped on his lights and sirens. In less than a minute, he caught up to the SUV and followed for about 20 more seconds as Moats found a parking spot outside the emergency room.

Now, most&#160 of Dallas’ Finest&#153 would have, upon learning of the situation, allowed the family to proceed, and dealt with any incurred infractions later.&#160 And of that subset of Dallas officers, an overwhelming majority would have let a minor thing like running a light pass – particularly in light of the mitigating circumstances.

Not widdle Nazi Bobbi, though.

Tamishia, 27, was the first out. Powell drew his gun and yelled at her to get back in.

“Get in there!” he yelled. “Let me see your hands!”

“My mom is dying,” she explained to him.

Powell was undeterred.

“I saw in his eyes that he really did not care,” Tamishia Moats said. “Honestly, I don’t think I cared that he had a gun pointed at me. My train of thought is that I’m going to see my mom in the hospital before she dies.”

Tamishia Moats and her great-aunt ignored the officer and headed into the hospital.

“It was almost like a movie,” she said, “It felt like we had robbed a bank or something.”

Ryan Moats, who stayed behind with the father of the dying woman, said Powell also pointed his gun at him. He said he put his hands on the car because he was afraid that he might get shot.

That probably would have given widdle Bobbi a widdle ol’ stiffie, y’know?

But that’s not the hell of it, though, Denizens.&#160 This fuckface still&#160 doesn’t think he did anything wrong!

Powell was hired in January 2006. Assistant Chief Floyd Simpson said Powell told police officials that he believed that he was doing his job.

Oh?&#160 So his job involves making an already shitty day for someone, about as bad as things can normally get during an average day, just that much worse?&#160 And then just claim that he was just “doing his job”?

Now, the top of the above-linked article has Dallas police chief David Kunkle apologizing for Officer Powertrip Powell’s actions.&#160 Somehow, it rings a little hollow RightAboutNow&#153, y’know?

On the Dallas Police Department’s web page, they promise&#160 us that

The men and women of the Dallas Police Department will work with the citizens of Dallas to provide the highest level of quality, professional service that the City of Dallas deserves.

You’ll understand if, just for this one night, I call bullshit.

Pardon me, guys.&#160 I can’t say anything more.&#160 There’s an RCOB covering my eyes at the moment.&#160

God, if we only had a conservative who had the balls to say this to the Ayatollah Obambi.

Here, here.

Uh…they did?

President Barack Obama’s army of canvassers fanned out across the nation over the weekend to drum up support for his $3.55 trillion budget, but they had no noticeable impact on members of Congress, who on Monday said they were largely unaware of the effort.

That would make about 290,000,000 of us, Dogface.

Gee, you’d think that the Al-Obambi goon squad would make more of a splash than that.&#160 If this is the best they can do, then the Ayatollah’s BrownShirts&#153 aren’t going to be that terribly hard to handle, y’know?&#160

“News to me,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, a House Budget Committee member, of the canvassing. Later, his staff said that his office had heard from about 100 voters.

The president’s lieutenants tried to open a new front in the “Obama revolution,” the grassroots mobilization that propelled the once little-known Illinois senator to the White House last year. David Plouffe, who ran Obama’s campaign, now runs “Organizing for America” out of the Democratic National Committee. It uses the same Web-based tactics that won the presidency to mobilize public opinion behind Obama’s initiatives in a bid to redefine “business as usual” in Washington.

Well, given that there are more than just a few fidgety Texans with itchy fingers (IYKWIM), and Jugears McHopenchange wasn’t all that popular around these parts anyway, I can see why the Goonies&#153 might have been a little…”hesitant”…to make waves down this way.

I mean, I was out quite a bit this past weekend, and I saw nary a one.&#160

I guess what they say is true about hell having no fury and all that.

Gubernatorial candidate Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Gov. Rick Perry should be looking for ways to accept $550 million in unemployment fund stimulus money but without committing the state to future federal mandates.

Which sounds to me like proof positive that ol’ Kay Bitchy didn’t read the stimulus bill before creaming her panties to go sign off on it, either.&#160 The Al-Obambi excuse-for-a-government has been very clear in emphasizing that there were going to be strings attached with just such an acceptance.&#160 How it could be spent, where it could be spent, when, etc.

But I guess Kay Bimbo-y was too busy being the fuckin’ Breck Girl&#153&#160 to worry about that.

She told reporters at a Texas Daily Newspaper Association meeting Monday there may be a way to do that. She said Perry should be looking at every avenue to keep employers from facing higher unemployment taxes next year.

Yeah, well here’s an idea, Kay Bint-y:&#160 Howzabout cutting taxes so employers can, you know, PUT PEOPLE BACK TO WORK AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT, HUH?!?!?!&#160 I dunno, seems to me that if the citizenry at large is, y’know, actually working, employers aren’t having to worry so much about paying to have these guys sit on their asses.&#160 Y’think?

One wonders how the hell Kay Bitchy’s managed to stay in the Senate all these years, given how atrophied that fecal grey matter between her ears is.

Denizens, y’wanna know the difference between B. HUSSEIN!!!&#160 Obambi and those who participate in the Special Olympics?

The Special Olympians are far more intelligent.

[SCENE:&#160 On the bridge of Pegasus.&#160 When last we left Our Intrepid Heroes&#153, Chief Engineer Lt. Commander Ozymandias McCool had just announced an imminent warp core breach.&#160 Admiral Darth Venomous immediately ordered all hands to escape pods.]

VENOMOUS:&#160 Shit!&#160 RED ALERT!!!&#160 All hands to escape pods!!&#160 ABANDON SHIP!!!

[Pegasus’&#160 bridge begins to clear as personnel scurry for the pods.]

VENOMOUS:&#160 Captain, see to the safety of all hands!&#160 Move your ass!

KORRIOTH:&#160 Yes, Admiral.&#160 [He hurries aft.]

VENOMOUS (to speaker):&#160 McCool, can you give us any more time?&#160 Slow down the rate of decay in the matter/anti-matter chamber?

OZY MCCOOL (over speaker):&#160 I’m trying, m’liege, but I need the computer for that, and it’s in the process of frying, too!&#160 All my control displays down here have locked up tight, and three of them have turned solid blue and started spouting gibberish!

VENOMOUS (mostly to himself):&#160 Blue screen?&#160 What the fuck…???&#160 [1.76 seconds later, the light bulb goes off in His Rudeness’ head.&#160 His eyes grow wide as he realizes what it has to be.]&#160 Pipe it up here, Ozy, now!

OZY MCCOOL:&#160 But, Admiral—

VENOMOUS:&#160 Now, Commander!!!!!

[The chief engineer obliges, most fearfully.]

VENOMOUS:&#160 Holy fuckin’ shit!!!&#160 Shut it down, McCool!&#160 Shut the motherfucking computer down immediately!!!!!

OZY MCCOOL:&#160 But Admiral, what about—

VENOMOUS:&#160 NOW, Lieutenant!!!

[McCool is too terrified by the Admiral’s desperate tone to even notice that he’s just been demoted.&#160 He runs to his personal console and begins pounding buttons.

The response is what you’ve probably figured out it would be – which is to say, nothing.]

OZY MCCOOL:&#160 No response, Admiral!&#160 She won’t shut down and the breach could happen any second!

VENOMOUS:&#160 I don’t care what it takes, McCool!&#160 Destroy it with a phaser if you have to, but get that fucking computer down!!!

UNKNOWN VOICE (over speaker): 90 seconds to breach, Commander!

VENOMOUS (to himself):&#160 Dammit, dammit, dammit…!!!&#160 [He sprints off the bridge, headed towards Engineering.]

(To be continued…)

Got some minor technical difficulties over here, but they’re almost fixed.

In the meantime, Denizens, your homework assignment is to read this.

Be back shortly.&#160 ThatIsAll&#153.

We have an economy swirling down the drain, an excuse-for-a-Cabinet full of fuckin’ tax cheats, a pisspot excuse-for-an-Attorney General threatening to release terrorists into our general population (when he’s not practicing his projection skills by calling us “cowards”), allies who no longer have all that much respect for us, thanks to who the 52’ers put in office…and what does the Ayatollah Obambi focus on?

Why, the NCAA brackets, of course.&#160 Duh.&#160 (/snark)

What leadership&#160

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

Memo to Chuckles Grass-is-ass-ley (RINO-IA):

You first, assclown.

And take Dingy Harry, San Fran Nan Pig-lousi, Chrissy Dodd-eringIdiot and Barney Fag Bonnie Fwank with you.

Fuckwit.

This was the post, about Obambi’s 52 mistakes in 52 days.

Let me count them up, in no particular order. Some are big. Some are small.

This was the pissy little comment left by the cowardly little libtard.

Wow.

All of you wingers are making a nice pile of pretty stones to heave at the United States’ new leadership.

I hate to do it but I guess someone has to tell you that if you want to start a fire then you need to get some wood ! That and figure out who among you has the ability to actually strike a match.

*-_ ROFLMAO _-*

Start a collection and maybe one of you can figure out how to buy a clue.

And this&#160 was the ensuing smacketh downeth of the libtard.

It’s called a sense of humor, PatD, something that you and your leftwing cohorts won’t recognize if it bit you on the nose. I know you people are partial to burning effigies and such, despite the “global warming” implications, but then logic is never a strong liberal suit. For us, laughter and derision is preferred over defecating on the streets and stepping on American flags, which you and your friends are truly experts on.

And you can put us down as much you’d like, but it won’t change the fact that your sainted leader is a wagyu-eating, thermostat-raising, teleprompter-reading, dvd-giving, non-stop-campaigning, terrorist-befriending, dictator-kissing, stuttering, leadership-impaired, history illiterate president on training wheels.

I’d buy you a clue, but Obama already has all my money.

Oh, SNAP.