August 4th, 2011 by John Feehery
An interesting story caught my eye in the New York Times today, about the rise of a radical right-wing group in, of all places, Sweden.
Swedes are concerned that they are losing their national character because of the high influx of immigrants from Muslim countries. The Times noted the resentments of one typical Swedish family:
“Michael Ahlgren, who lost his job as a security guard for the Red Cross just before Christmas, wears a tattoo of the Swedish flag on his shoulder and voted for the Sweden Democrats, a nationalist party that shocked the country by winning nearly a quarter of the votes for the city council here in 2006. He and his wife are outspoken in their resentment: the government spends money on refugees, they say, but their daughters’ school lunches have barely any vegetables and, to accommodate Muslim religious practice, no longer offer pork sausages.”
The lack of vegetables doesn’t seem like that much of a big concern. The pork sausages? Now, that is a reason to get mad.
This is not just Swedish problem. It has spread to the United States. Read more...
Tags: America, bacon, Chicago Public Schools, Christian, Conservatives, Economy, Government, immigrants, Iowa, Jewish, Koran, Muslim, New York Times, pig farms, pork, Red Cross, Republicans, Sweden, Torah
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May 5th, 2011 by John Feehery
America loves conspiracy theories. Franklin Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened. The CIA killed Jack Kennedy. George Bush blew up the Twin Towers. The Trilateral Commission runs the world. Elvis has not left the building. Jim Morrison is still alive.
Our current President is particularly good at spawning conspiracy theories. He is a Muslim. He hates America. He is a racist. He worked with Bill Ayers to overthrow America. He wasn’t born here. He never actually went to college. He is the Manchurian candidate. He is actually a space alien.
Conspiracy theories are fun for the whole family. It gives a purpose to all things. It means that somebody has a plan somewhere.
There are a number of good conspiracy theories that will come out of this Osama Bin Laden assassination. First, of course, is that he is still alive. No matter if those photos are released or if they are not released, some percentage of the population will believe that Mr. Bin Laden is still alive.
Another conspiracy theory is that Bin Laden has been dead for months and that the President finally revealed this today because he wants an excuse to pull our troops out of Afghanistan and to prop up his popularity ratings. Read more...
Tags: CIA, Conspiracy Theory, Franklin Roosevelt, George Bush, govenment, Jack Kennedy, Muslim, Osama Bin Laden, Pearl Harbor, President Obama
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March 21st, 2011 by John Feehery
Responding to pressure from bird watchers and French President Nicholas Sarkozy, President Obama announced today his plans to impose a “fly zone” to help stop the slaughter of millions of birds by their long-time arch enemy, cats.
Pentagon experts are scratching their heads, trying to figure out exactly how this “fly-zone” (or a no-cat zone, as insiders are calling it) will be created.
The New York Times reported today, in an article titled Tweety Was Right: Cats Are a Bird’s No. 1 Enemy, that birds are getting wiped out by cats across the country, according to new study. “A new study in The Journal of Ornithology on the mortality of baby gray catbirds in the Washington suburbs found that cats were the No. 1 killer in the area, by a large margin. Nearly 80 percent of the birds were killed by predators, and cats were responsible for 47 percent of those deaths, according to the researchers, from the Smithsonian Institution and Towson University in Maryland. Death rates were particularly high in neighborhoods with large cat populations.”
In Paris, Sarkozy told reporters: “We must do sometheeng about zee leeetle birds. Les chats est tres mal. Zey must be stopped.” Read more...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Cat Lover’s Association, Darin Schroeder, Hillary Clinton, New York Times, no cats, Pentagon, Smithsonian Institution, Towson University
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October 28th, 2010 by John Feehery
President Obama on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart recently.
President Obama makes a bad straight man.
He was a complete bore on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as he pontificated on how great his administration’s accomplishments have been and how he knew all along that this was going to be a tough election for Democrats.
Mr. Obama’s appearance on The Daily Show reminds one of John McCain’s appearance on Saturday Night Live the weekend before the Presidential election two years ago. Except McCain was very funny.
Barack Obama is not funny. Or at least he wasn’t in the time that I saw him on Stewart’s show. After about ten minutes, I had to turn the show off. BORING!
It is an open question whether the President’s appearance on The Daily Show was crossing a line, mixing the worlds of comedy and politics.
Stewart’s show is usually pretty funny. He skewers the right (because he is a man of the left), but he skewers liberal politicians too.
The reason? Because politicians make great targets for humor.
Court Jesters were the first comics to make fun of the political class. And they were the only ones who could get away with making a meal out of the Royal Class. Read more...
Tags: Barack Obama, comedian, Comedy Central, Democrats, election, Jon Stewart, Obama, Politics, The Daily Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the millenials
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June 30th, 2010 by John Feehery
The Washington Post today reports on the breaking news that the FBI has broken up a Russian spy ring in the U.S.:
“Details that emerged Tuesday about the alleged spies’ lives added to the mystery of a network that prosecutors say extended from Manhattan to Seattle and the heart of the Washington area. Though utterly unremarkable to their neighbors, the suspects allegedly buried stashes of money and wrote messages in invisible ink as they sought to collect tidbits about U.S. policy and secrets. On closer inspection, there seemed to be hints that something was going on. The suspect known as Anna Chapman, who operated an online real estate company in New York, revealed on her Facebook page that she was educated in Moscow and belonged to an organization of Russian-speaking professionals. Another suspect, adjunct college professor Juan Lazaro, was recorded on an FBI wiretap describing his childhood to the woman who lived as his wife.”
What the Post didn’t report and what can now be revealed for the first time is that the Russians not only had this passive intelligence-gathering program. It also had a program that was intended to actively undermine American democracy. We at the JMU news network have uncorroborated evidence of these spies: Read more...
Tags: Bernie Madoff, FBI, Glenn Beck, google, Lady Gaga, Ronald McDonald, russia, Russian spies, Steve Jobs, Tom Cruise
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June 21st, 2010 by John Feehery
Once upon a midterm dreary, while Nancy pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten bills
While she nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one not gently rapping, rapping at the chamber’s floor
‘Tis some visitor, the Speaker muttered, tapping at the chamber floor
Only this, and nothing more.”
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying career wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly she wished the morrow; – vainly she sought to borrow
From her colleagues surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Majority -
For the rare and stunning setback whom the voters hit with a two by four -
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each blue curtain
Thrilled them – filled them with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of her heart, she stood repeating,
“‘Tis some lame duck entreating entrance at my chamber door -
Some late lame duck entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more.” Read more...
Tags: Cap and Trade, Congress, Edgar Allan Poe, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker, The Raven, VAT Tax, Washington
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An interesting story caught my eye in the New York Times today, about the rise of a radical right-wing group in, of all places, Sweden.
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