Showing posts with label snake oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snake oil. Show all posts

29 January 2021

Jon Stewart on GameStop

“This is bullshit,” Stewart wrote.

“The Redditors aren’t cheating, they’re joining a party Wall Street insiders have been enjoying for years. Don’t shut them down…maybe sue them for copyright infringement instead!!”

“We’ve learned nothing from 2008.”

I worked briefly for an international Bay St banking operation in the mid-nineties.  The guys in the trading room were absolute lizards... and proud of it. 

Nuff said.

18 January 2021

Don't you just hate...

...when that happens?
The president of a recently reactivated NAACP chapter in New York, Monroe County Legislator Ernest Flagler-Mitchell admitted over the weekend to sending a sexually explicit photograph of himself "intended for my wife to an individual I was working with."

The image of his genitals was sent to a 19-year-old woman who alleges the lawmaker sexually harassed her. 

The New York State NAACP did not return requests for comment as well. It was not clear if Flagler-Mitchell will stay on as president of the local chapter.

17 January 2021

That's 1.2 billion taxpayer dollars...

...straight down the identity politics toilet every year...insert alt text here
"Half the people I know who work at the CBC seem to be either replacing, or being replaced by, someone who’s on some kind of mental-health leave."

"No one even pretends that the place still exists to serve ordinary Canadians, so there is no longer any real metric for evaluating performance."

18 July 2019

And I looked, and behold...

...the Four Horsefaces of the Apocalypse...insert alt text hereWhy don't we tote up ALL the racist scorecards.

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RELATED: Dumber than dogshit

RELATED2: All in the family?

RELATED3: Black folk Inc.

RELATED4: The New Anti-Semitism

How do you like them now?

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LAST WORD: "Let them eat, well... you know"
"Gibson’s Bakery awarded over $6.5 million in attorney’s fees and expenses against Oberlin College."

13 August 2014

Journalism 101 - Exploiting Grief

Talk about burying the lede...
During a subsequent safety lap, Ward got out of his car and stood on the track, seemingly to confront Stewart about the collision — a move that’s not uncommon in local races.
What's newsworthy here is that running out onto an active racetrack in New York state is apparently a humdrum everyday occurance. Sort of like bullfighting... with speeding cars.

Oh yeah... every other article I've read says the deceased was 20 years old, but I guess making him a teenager somehow makes this more tragic. That and the fact that he "slept with a smile on his face."

Sorry, folks... despite the media furor labelling Tony Stewart a killer, this was a totally avoidable incident. Wake up and smell the manipulation.

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UPDATE: Finally... a voice of reason
“Is there a recorded radio interaction where he’s saying, ‘I’m gonna scare this kid’ or ‘I’m gonna do something’? That’s what you need,” lawyer Joe Tacopina told WFAN’s Marc Malusis and Sid Rosenberg on Monday. “Short of that, there’s no scenario where you’re going to be able to prove that he tried to scare this kid or hurt this kid or do anything.

“He’s doing what he’s supposed to be doing: he’s driving a car in circles on a track, going fast.”
Over and out.

07 November 2012

FROM THE COMMENTS:

you get the kind of government you deserve
"Surrounded by children that have voted to have "candy" for dinner for the next 4 years."
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AND MORE HERE:
"Mitt Romney and his family would have been the essence of exactly what this country needs. But what was Romney's recipe? Romney's recipe was the old standby: American route to success, hard work. That gets sneered at. I'm sorry. In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?"

"And say what you want, but Romney did offer a vision of traditional America. In his way, he put forth a great vision of traditional America, and it was rejected. It was rejected in favor of a guy who thinks that those who are working aren't doing enough to help those who aren't. And that resonated."

08 October 2012

Grappling with "authenticity"...

...I mean gawd forbid anyone actually uses the words "fraud" or "hypocrite"...grappling with authenticity, janie?It was only the other night that CBC National's bucket-o-punditry... including Andrew Coyne & Chantal Hebert... actually said... out loud... that the Annointed One's continuing habit of making one set of remarks to the English language media and another reciprocal set to their confreres in Quebec would possibly be enough to sink the recently refloated Good Ship Lollipop.

It's not like this is news to regular folk who try to keep current with national politics, but I never thought I'd hear a single Journo-Canadian mention the sainted Trudeau name sans-genuflection. I swear, I thought I heard Peter Mansbridge's rectum slam shut.

I guess we're all more accustomed to puff pieces like the Globe's Hanoi Jane Taber... about how poor little 40 year-old Justin is grappling with (and from whence he will, no doubt, emerge triumphant over)... his "authenticity" issues...
"Under 'my watch',” he said, "you will not hear a Liberal … saying one thing in one corner of the country and another thing in another corner of the country."
Hey... it gets better...
"Mr. Harper," he said, "is 'proof' that you can get elected, even to a majority, through the 'strategy of division, micro-targeting of envy and mistrust.'"
It's simply amazing that Ms. Taber can buy into Justin taking one of his largest acknowledged flaws and attempting to dump it on the Prime Minister.

Does this sort of disingenuous claptrap actually work? Would Canadians actually elect a man whose resume peaks out at "substitute" teacher?

Look around, folks... we're a nation of sheeple who embrace Breathe-Rite nasal strips and the medical wisdom of the McGyver-like Dr. Ho.

Pay attention people. Remember what happened the last time the Liberals held a coronation.

17 March 2011

Yeah, Lloyd... I can almost smell the science

An aging media butterfly twitches its wings in the CTV studio... and morons all across Ontario rush out to purchase iodine tablets...dim bulbpushing buttonsThe first words outta this guy's mouth every night oughta be... "Once upon a time..."

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RELATED: I'm a professional journalist...

...I'm here to save you...
-- NEW YORK TIMES -- A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.
Oh, man... "a radioactive plume"... and it's "churning across the Pacific" right at us... but wait, hang on a sec, a couple of graphs later...
On Sunday, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it expected that "no harmful levels of radioactivity" would travel from Japan to the United States "given the thousands of miles between the two countries."
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LAST WORD: Apparently, it's a no-fact zone
"Yeah. Exactly. So shut up with the panic already."

16 January 2011

26 March 2010

-- POINT --

"I'm a little horrified at the fact that we have people that believe in some of the extremes that she believes in ... I felt like I wasn't even in Canada anymore."
-- COUNTERPOINT --
"Being surrounded by hundreds of masked women with names like "Hana Kadi" makes me feel EXACTLY the same way!"
Yeah, Hana... let's talk "extremes".

25 January 2010

Another CTV Moonbat Moment

Here's some more of that carefully scripted nonsense that passes for news these days... when they're not screaming about Stephen Harper barbequing babies...
"the beloved mittens held so dear by so many..."
The big deal here is that, apparently, someone is counterfeiting Olympic geegaws.

Damn, Sandie... do I have to let go of my media-manufactured prorogue outrage... and shift it over to these "beloved mittens"?

And what's the deal with personally thanking the reporter for bringing us each story.

Is this something we're actually supposed to be grateful for? Isn't reporting on these earth-shaking events what these people get paid to do?

I don't get it.

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RELATED: Red mittens, my hairy ass...

Where is CTV on the ongoing aboriginal suicide?
Inuit infants die at well over three times the rate of other Canadian babies, according to a massive new study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Of course... the leftosphere is all too eager to blame this on racist Canadian society. Apparently, it's all about "inflicted" poverty.

Funny though... there's no money to feed the kids, but enough money for some things...
"Inuit mothers and pregnant women have high smoking and drinking rates."
Oh crap... I guess we're not really allowed to say that, are we?

08 December 2009

Who actually falls for this stuff?

I mean... besides Dawg and Elizabeth May?
-- COPENHAGEN -- The first impression one receives of the summit is the sheer hypocrisy of it.

Here are green campaigners who damn the rest of us for the size of our “carbon footprints” and challenge us each to reduce our carbon output by one tonne per year.

Yet they themselves are flying in using a squadron of private jets, hiring a fleet of limousines and gorging themselves on expensive food flown in from around the world.
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RELATED: Ask an opportunistic aristocrat

I'm guessin' Count Iggy's King Midas touch is gonna leave the left groaning.

Yeah, Mikey... you go girl... because you've got so much credibility left after all those other stupid "scandal of the day" stunts.

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10 November 2009

Devaluing the currency...

...of "right and wrong"...
-- BOSTON -- The driver of Boston subway train that came to a screeching halt just before hitting a woman who had fallen onto the tracks has been hailed as a hero.
Okay... don't get me wrong here... I'm really, really happy the train operator didn't turn this poor woman into applesauce with his hundred ton cuisinart. But is he really a hero? Conversely... if he hadn't been able to stop in time... would that have made him a coward?

You want heroes? How about the Canadian sapper who was killed recently, after walking up to an IED and attempting to defuse it? How about every Canadian soldier who wakes up every day and goes out on patrol... despite knowing what waits on the other side of that wire?

See, the thing is... part of this guy's job description is not running over people. I know that because... before I discovered the wonderful world of computers... I drove subway trains for a number of years.

This guy may be a competent train jockey... but he's no hero.

And every time some dumbass reporter says something like this... they're spitting on the the reputation and the memory of some very special people.

And they should stop it. Now.

You want brave? You want an actual Canadian hero? Try Tarek Fatah. This guy's got bigger balls than Kathy Shaidle.
"Who will rise to challenge this cancer of segregation seeping into the conscience of Muslim youth? The same clerics who sit at inter-faith and multiculturalism conferences and breakfasts with politicians are the very people who endorse the anti-Jew and anti-Christian message coming from their Saudi masters."

"The time has come to call a spade a spade. The question is, are there any Canadians willing to fight this hate … or are they too worried about being accused of Islamophobia?"
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RELATED: Let's also not forget Irshad Manji

Of course, she had to install bulletproof windows at her Toronto home... and eventually flee to the United States... but it hasn't stopped her from speaking out...
Admittedly, this is uncomfortable for millions of Canadians to hear. So uncomfortable that, on arresting the Toronto 17, police didn't once refer to “Islam” or “Muslims” during a press briefing. At a second presser, police boasted about avoiding the words “Islam” and “Muslims.” They characterized their omission as an exercise in sensitivity. I considered it an exercise in denial about the role of religion in the alleged plot.

Later, when I raised my concern at an RCMP conference on communication, assorted staff and members of the force confided that their lawyers prevented them from mentioning the offending words.
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10 August 2009

You be the Judge

Is he a devil......or an angel...Spin, spin, spin.

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RELATED: What was actually said...
"This is not the fault of the government of Mexico. Let me be very clear about this. This is a problem with Canadian refugee law, which encourages bogus claims," said Mr. Harper.

"And Parliament should be seized with this issue, and I hope our Parliament will take advantage of the attention that's been brought on this issue to deal with this problem."
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14 July 2009

More smoke and mirrors...

C'mon folks... who's zoomin' who?
Since the visa requirement for Czech nationals was lifted in 2007, nearly 3,000 refugee claims have been filed.

In 2006, there were five.
Don't miss the part where Toronto immigration lawyer Max Berger implies that new visa measures put the federal government on the side of the Nazis.

Good grief.

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17 March 2009

2009 Political Chutzpah Awards

"And this year, ironically... the much coveted 'Wilbur' statuette goes to 'Peak Pork'."
And in the ever popular "Political Correctness" category...
"Thought experiment: Try to come up with a terrorist group the Dawg wouldn’t have time for."
Comment by Black Mamba — March 16, 2009 @ 4:52 pm
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LAST WORD: Burning down the Dawghouse...
"Yeah, and we should have handed over the Pickton investigation to Davie Street hookers."

"Or, speaking of Gacy, put off digging up the dude's basement until cops could consult with the Runaway Teenage Boy Community(tm)."
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13 March 2009

Hope, Change and...

...puh-tay-toe, puh-tah-toe...
Retired army Lt.-Col. Stephen Abraham, a former Guantanamo official who has become critical of the legal process, said it's a change in nothing but semantics.

"There's absolutely no change in the definition," Abraham said in a telephone interview. "To say this is a kinder, more benevolent sense of justice, is absolutely false."
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RELATED: Speaking of semantics...
"And when Iggy said that his Liberal Senators acted “with dispatch” after learning that they would be responsible for Canadians losing EI benefits, did he mean that some of them ‘dispatched’ themselves right out of the building?"
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27 February 2009

24 February 2009

President McDreamy goes to Defcon 2

Oh my gawd... he's pullin' out the big gun.
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
Who's on deck... Celine Dion?
And...
I think you forget that Clooney played a CIA agent in Syrianna, a soldier in Three Kings, and a colonel in Peacemaker, of course his advice is important.

He is far more knowledgeable than most in the new Whitehouse.
You sure won't get any argument from me.

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RELATED: It must be "a liberal thing"
"Indeed. Over here at PMO we're still reeling from the Liberal "coup" of paying a newswire company to put a picture up in Times Square."

"The best we could do on short notice is line up the UN Sec Gen, business leaders, and five media interviews in NYC."

"Must. Work. Harder. To. Keep. Up. With. Genius. Ignatieff."
(via blue like you)

18 February 2009

The 15 minute man

Leave it to the Mother Corp. to showcase Michael Ignatieff claiming that he can set things right in Afghanistan... simply by whispering sweet nothings in President McDreamy's perfect cockleshell ear.

And you've just gotta wonder what nonsense the Igster would have had on his "wish list"... if the infamous Coalition of the Swilling hadn't died a horrible ignoble death. Can't you just hear Taliban Jack demanding that Omar Khadr replace Hamid Karzai?

What Ignatieff doesn't choose to admit here is that his 15 minutes is simply a diplomatic courtesy, political theatre if you will... extended to a man who doesn't have a car... never mind a passing acquaintance with the driver's seat.

The reality here is... I've spent more time than this... just takin' a crap.

But hey, pal... it's more than enough time for you and "The One" to go over your resume.

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Oh, my gawd...

...he doesn't just LOOK like a smarmy Vulcan... he talks like one too!
“Nothing is personal in politics, because politics is theater. It is part of the job to pretend to have emotions that you do not actually feel.”
Hey Liblogs... where is your god now?

(via blue like you)