November 18, 2009
Obama’s OFA announces “winner” [Darleen Click]

… of a video “contest” to produced the most smarmy, unthinking, schmaltzy ad EVAH. Using a bunch of little kids intoning “I deserve healthcare.”

How fun, Obama and the Left teaching little kids the joys of being pickpockets.

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  1. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 9:03 am #

    They deserve a president who understands that his role is to ensure those kids have a future. Kids get healthcare already (even the ones whose parents don’t have insurance). What they need is the ability to go to a decent school, get into college that is affordable and a value for the education, and get a job. Saddling them with entitlement obligations will not do that.

  2. Comment by Rougman on 11/18 @ 9:05 am #

    Ya, well I think you little twits deserve about $1 million each in national debt. Now go eat your dinner.

  3. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 9:06 am #

    But as noted in the threads below, all is possible for Dr. Utopia.

    H/T: SBP and HillBuzz

  4. Comment by BJTexs on 11/18 @ 9:09 am #

    Does anybody have any idea where that “8 Million children without health care” number came from, especially with the existence of SChip?

    Of course that’s just one more example of that party’s “policy by anecdote” program, only in this case the anecdotes were made up.

  5. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 9:11 am #

    Hey kiddies enjoy it while you can… The economy is going down again.

    Meanwhile, on the declining morals homefront:

    Did this mom go to ACORN for advice?

  6. Comment by Silver Whistle on 11/18 @ 10:06 am #

    Why do you have to hit me with those negative waves?

  7. Comment by Squid on 11/18 @ 10:14 am #

    I don’t think your characterization of the linked ad as a “winner” are fair, Darleen. That would imply that all the other efforts were “losers,” and in our Obamanation, such a thing just cannot be.

    Far better to say that everyone who participated is equally a winner, and that this ad is just a little more equally winning than the others.

  8. Comment by McGehee on 11/18 @ 10:14 am #

    a bunch of little kids intoning “I deserve healthcare.”

    Mmmmmmm, mmmmmmm, mmmmmmm.

  9. Comment by Squid on 11/18 @ 10:14 am #

    And as much as I hate to stifle debate, I’m pretty sure Rougman won the thread with comment #2.

  10. Comment by McGehee on 11/18 @ 10:15 am #

    That would imply that all the other efforts were “losers,” and in our Obamanation, such a thing just cannot be.

    That’s right. President Mmmmmmm, mmmmmmm, mmmmmmm is The One True Loser.

  11. Comment by Chris S. on 11/18 @ 10:24 am #

    I deserve health care, and a lifetime with an overwheming tax burden.
    I deserve health care, so grandma better “do what’s best for society”.

  12. Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/18 @ 10:33 am #

    Rougman nailed it.

    That little girl in the video…”Next year, I’ll need surgery”…

    Yeah, because you found out at 6 years old you already owe $287,000 in taxes. Guess that would give anybody a massive coronary.

    Now go slap your parents.

  13. Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/18 @ 11:03 am #

    Why do you have to hit me with those negative waves?

    What a great movie. I watched that with my boys a few months back and they loved it, too.

    And no, Johnny and Janey, you don’t deserve health care. Go tell mommy and daddy to get a job and pay for it yourselves. I’m not your slave.

  14. Comment by Spiny Norman on 11/18 @ 11:06 am #

    Does anybody have any idea where that “8 Million children without health care” number came from, especially with the existence of SChip?

    Since they haven’t signed up for a program they already qualify for, that’s just more proof we need a federal takeover of the whole system.

    /Squeaker Pelosi

  15. Comment by Carin on 11/18 @ 11:56 am #

    I can hardly wait until our healthcare works as smoothly and efficiently as … oh say, Michigan’s DNR.

    I’ve been waiting over 24 hours for a visit. Injured deer in my yard. Suffering. I can’t shoot it, because that’s poaching or something. If it dies, I can’t take it’s meat and have it processed because it doesn’t have a tag.

    Poor thing just sitting out there.

  16. Comment by Carin on 11/18 @ 11:58 am #

    If it dies, though, I can let it rot away right there.

    I even drove to a deer check-in station, where the nose picker there told me there was nothing he could do because he was too busy.

    [look around ... no one's there ...]

    Yea, ok. Thanks for nothing. Get back to your donut fella.

  17. Comment by cranky-d on 11/18 @ 12:00 pm #

    That sounds like progressive Utopia, Carin. I can hardly wait for the rest of the states to fall in line.

  18. Comment by happyfeet on 11/18 @ 12:03 pm #

    that’s terrible… be careful cause deers can be very dangerous… it was in a movie

  19. Comment by Colonel Buford Beauregard on 11/18 @ 12:03 pm #

    Indeed, these poor tots deserve the attentions of a qualified physician, just like my fellow plantation owners deserve the services of Negroes to pick that thar cotton. Rastus, fetch me another mint julep…less mint, more julep this time, boy!

  20. Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/18 @ 12:06 pm #

    Upstate new york I hit a deer. Cop just shot it.

    Without filling out the required Department of the Interior Four-Legged Fauna Dispatchment Authorization form DI-D581 and getting DoI approval? His life is over if Baracky’s henchment find this out.

  21. Comment by happyfeet on 11/18 @ 12:09 pm #

    I don’t understand about the cotton. Our little country is very lost and we’re floundering about in a most unseemly way I think.

  22. Comment by Carin on 11/18 @ 12:26 pm #

    Tried that, Meya. Cops never showed up.

    But, thanks for playing.

  23. Comment by sdferr on 11/18 @ 12:28 pm #

    What sort of injury/ies Carin and have you some idea how they came about?

  24. Comment by Carin on 11/18 @ 12:31 pm #

    It cannot stand up. I don’t know if it’s just a leg, or his back. It’s been there since the night before last. Just sits there.

    It’s getting a tad more glassy eyed today.

  25. Comment by sdferr on 11/18 @ 12:32 pm #

    So gunshot not visible to you is a possibility, huh?

  26. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 12:35 pm #

    Carin, there is no ASPCA around you? I see cops dealing with injured road deer all the time. They either shoot them or a vet tech comes and gives them the needle.

  27. Comment by Carin on 11/18 @ 12:47 pm #

    Nope, I don’t see any blood at all.

  28. Comment by Silver Whistle on 11/18 @ 12:54 pm #

    Shoot it in the head, Carin. It’s better than letting it suffer. Dear Leader would do the same for you.

  29. Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 12:55 pm #

    That is really crappy, Carin, and a good metaphor for what we can expect with BarckyCare.

  30. Comment by sdferr on 11/18 @ 12:59 pm #

    Baseball bat, much quieter.

  31. Comment by Carin on 11/18 @ 1:03 pm #

    Well, I’m sorry to say, Silver, I don’t have a gun.

    My hairdresser hunts. I talked to her this morning, and her husband is supposed to come and shoot it for me. He’s gonna take the meat.

    sigh.

    I really wanted some meat, if the thing is a goner anyway.

    My daughters are feeding it .Of course.

    I can see it munching on the apples right now. And drinking the water.

    Poor thing.

  32. Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 1:07 pm #

    I blame Barcky. And, Kyoto.

  33. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 1:14 pm #

    I am sorry you are going through that. I remember visiting my parents for Christmas and finding a half grown faun on Christmas Eve along the running path with two broken legs (and it was laying in a frozen puddle). I clubbed it head with a log. It got the job done.

    I did spare my kids the story of killing a baby deer on Christmas Eve.

  34. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 1:15 pm #

    He’s gonna take the meat.

    I am sure he will share some with you. Apple fed venison is good.

  35. Comment by Silver Whistle on 11/18 @ 1:16 pm #

    Well, Carin, Christmas is coming up, and if you’ve been a good girl, Santa might bring you one if you ask nicely. You never know when a crocked deer, brain eating zombie or scum sucking malcontent might show up on your lawn.

  36. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 1:19 pm #

    Carin, at a minimum you should have a .22 rifle. They are cheap, the ammo is cheap, and your kids can go with you to the range to use it. From that you can work your way up to adequate home firepower.

  37. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 1:24 pm #

    Talking about clubbing deer, here are the boy girls getting all mean at Sarah Palin.

    The difference of course is these boy girls are doing it rhetorically, and Sarah Palin has actually dispatched large grazing animals. The only difference being the wild ones are usually smarter than their domestic cousins. So Palin is more than qualified to deal with these gals, and other boy girls like Sullivan and Charles Johnson.

    Ana Marie Cox claims Sarah Palin’s stardom is highest right now and it is all downhill from here. Funny, I thought it was highest right after her convention speech. Nevertheless, remember that prediction.

  38. Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 1:25 pm #

    That Silver Whistle is a good fellow.

  39. Comment by Silver Whistle on 11/18 @ 1:39 pm #

    I would hate to think of Carin at the mercy of any of those, JD. I would feel much better if I knew she had a proper handbag accessory.

  40. Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/18 @ 2:03 pm #

    Carin,

    #1) You should definitely own a gun.
    #2) Get the kids back from the deer.

    Cute and doe eyed or not, it ain’t Bambi. Deer are crazy when injured (pretty much crazy period).

    And ticks jump.

    The deer’s ticks can carry Lyme disease.

  41. Comment by JHo on 11/18 @ 2:09 pm #

    Palin is more than qualified to deal with these gals

    Palin typically does poorly when confronted and Palin is always being confronted. She’s a hopeless candidate for 2012 and the Dems know it. Of course, the power base knows it and that’s why well get these cartoons from both sides, neither of which assaults what needs assaulting.

    What Palin represents locally is not something Palin can deliver nationally, sadly. If she was real, she’d blow a hole through the Press without any of them really knowing it. So far, the reverse has happened time and again.

  42. Comment by Squid on 11/18 @ 2:13 pm #

    And if the kids get Lyme disease from deer ticks, they could wind up in a FedMed commercial for OFA.

    Full circle!

  43. Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/18 @ 2:20 pm #

    Well done Squid. Well done.

  44. Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 2:24 pm #

    You know what other animals are crazy? Squirrels. Bugfucknutz. In college, we thought it would be fun to lure a squirrel inside our apartment, and close the door behind it. Those little critters make some god-awful noises, and that maniac was running laps on the living room walls at slightly below the speed of sound.

  45. Comment by Squid on 11/18 @ 2:27 pm #

    When we lived in the fourplex in South Mpls, our neighbors had a squirrel living in their bedroom wall. The frequent scampering noises were bad enough, but things really took a turn for the worse when the little fucker chewed his way through the wallboard…

  46. Comment by BJTexs on 11/18 @ 2:29 pm #

    JHo #43: Pretty much my view of Ms. Sarah as well, but not quite as fatalistic.

    She will have to prove that when the spotlights are on and she’s faced with a slyly hostile reporter (male or female) she has to be able to dominate the discussion. Much of what she may accomplish in 2012 will be determined by what she accomplishes as endorser, fund raiser and campaigner in 2010. Given the chance to run her own house she’ll have no McCain staffer excuses (both real and contrived, I suspect) if she allows herself to be taken down or fails to accomplish great things.

    The positives are obvious: If she proves to be a “prince-maker” in multiple races and demonstrates a clear headed grasp of policy issues along with her honest and consistent approach on the important conservative values and doesn’t fall into the trap of being the “loud social con candidate” then she has a shot, especially if Huckabee and Romney end up being the leading lights (groan) of the run up to 2012.

    I really don’t know if she has it in her but it’ll be interesting to watch.

  47. Comment by sdferr on 11/18 @ 2:31 pm #

    Squirrels at least have the good sense not to crawl down the dryer vent hose toward the warmth, only to end-up being ground to pieces by and breaking the squirrel cage fan at the end of the line. Baby opossums, not so smart.

  48. Comment by dicentra on 11/18 @ 2:32 pm #

    Carin:

    Grab a tire iron and brain the poor thing. One swift, well-aimed blow to the base of the skull should do it.

    Or two.

  49. Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 2:33 pm #

    Opossums are meya-grade estupido.

  50. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 2:33 pm #

    JHo, whether Palin runs or not is not even clear yet (I do not think she even wants to run). If she does run, she will have to get through a long set of primaries. I am enjoying the left tie itself in knots over Palin. And Palin probably benefits at this point in being underestimated anyway.

    I want to see some decent candidates throw their hands into the race. I do not want my choices to just be Sarah, Huck and Mitt.

  51. Comment by BJTexs on 11/18 @ 2:33 pm #

    I. Hate Squirrels.

    My family owned a cottage on West Island in Massachusetts. When I was about eight we drove down in the spring to open the place and do some cleaning. Damned stinking squirrel has fallen down the chimney and had been in the cottage for God knows how long. He had managed to chew up a significant portion of the house, including furniture, walls and, worse of all, most of the wooden panes in the windows. What a friggin’ mess.

    I’m sorry to hear about the deer, Carin.

  52. Comment by sdferr on 11/18 @ 2:34 pm #

    Think of the hurricane force winds they have to pass through to get there JD. I mean, that is some serious perseverance we’re talking about there.

  53. Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 2:34 pm #

    Have meya talk to the deer. She can suck the life right out of anything.

  54. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 2:36 pm #

    I drove a girlfriend home once and on the way there was a dead possum in the road and its mate standing over it. She started crying and said look, its mate is sad.

    At that point the other possum bit a large chunk of meat off the dead one, lifted its head back like a croc and wolfed the meat down.

    I turned to her and said, it looks really torn up over this.

    We broke up the next day.

  55. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 2:37 pm #

    Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 2:34 pm #

    Have meya talk to the deer. She can suck the life right out of anything

    I must admit, that is a damn fine comment.

  56. Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 2:37 pm #

    Sdferr – are you referring to the baby opossums, or meya?

  57. Comment by BJTexs on 11/18 @ 2:39 pm #

    I want to see some decent candidates throw their hands into the race. I do not want my choices to just be Sarah, Huck and Mitt.

    Palin might get my nod under those circumstances and my attitude as to whether or I’m pleased by that would be entirely dependent upon her growth. Both Huck and Romney are non-starters for me.

  58. Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 2:40 pm #

    Do you all remember that really funny Wacky Warning Label contest? That would not exist but for people like alphie and meya. And Caric.

  59. Comment by B Moe on 11/18 @ 2:41 pm #

    You know what other animals are crazy?

    In college, we thought it would be fun to lure a squirrel inside our apartment, and close the door behind it.

    Hmmmmmm.

  60. Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 2:43 pm #

    I was really talking about a squirrel, BMoe ;-)

    Happyfeet – what do you think about Fuckabee and the Skin Folds?

  61. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 2:49 pm #

    BJTexs, fair comment on Palin at #48. I know Sarah Palin wants to have a say in conservative politics, I just don’t get the feelling she really wants to run for President. Not this time anyway. But if she does, she needs to prove herself, one way or the other.

    I also want to see some decent conservative candidates throw their “hats” in the race. They need not cut their hands off. My bad.

  62. Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/18 @ 2:51 pm #

    …”look, it’s mate is sad”.

    “At that point the other possum bit a large chunk of meat off the dead one, lifted its head back like a croc and wolfed the meat down.”

    That was God giving you an omen Joe.

    Had you married her, that would likely have been a good description of your impending divorce.

  63. Comment by B Moe on 11/18 @ 2:51 pm #

    What Palin represents locally is not something Palin can deliver nationally, sadly. If she was real, she’d blow a hole through the Press without any of them really knowing it.

    I am not so sure JHo, you know how they say in football you can’t coach speed? Well you can’t coach Star Power in politics. It will be easier to teach her to handle the media than to teach Mitt to be charismatic.

  64. Comment by happyfeet on 11/18 @ 2:51 pm #

    Fuckabee and the Skin Folds were spoken of in Revelations I think. People need to get right with God.

  65. Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 2:57 pm #

    Thanks, happyfeet. I just spit Mountain Dew all over my windshield.

  66. Comment by BJTexs on 11/18 @ 3:03 pm #

    Ha hf:

    Rev 17:22-29

    “And I saw from the top of a great podium many folds of skin, for he was once large but was now less large. It was the visage of the Hucka-Hucka and his eyes showed avuncular charm. and, lo, he spoke with the wind of the TV preacher and many of the faithful fell under his spell. Yet I unrolled the Great Scroll of Tax Revenues and saw, written in scarlet ink, the vast numbers of shekels taken for Compassionate Conservatism. Many were those who howled and tore their hair and emptied their IRA’a to meet the smiling, demands of the Hucka-Hucka.”

  67. Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 11/18 @ 3:03 pm #

    JD: In college, we thought it would be fun to lure a squirrel inside our apartment, and close the door behind it.

    uncomfortable silence

    JD: Ah hah … ehh, quick someone pull my finger!

  68. Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 11/18 @ 3:06 pm #

    Colonel Buford Beauregard

    That has vintage alpuccino writen all over it.

  69. Comment by BJTexs on 11/18 @ 3:06 pm #

    So, um, JD, did you leave the squirrel any “nuts?”

  70. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 3:07 pm #

    Actually I was most offended when someone pointed out that Newsweek cropped out of that cover photograph the mother service star for Palin’s son serving in Iraq. That shows how biased and craven these bastards are. Anything to diminish Palin.

    Whatever Palin’s political future is unclear but the attacks on Palin are absolutely revealing of how the left swings. It is shows how they operate and how dishonest they really are.

  71. Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 11/18 @ 3:08 pm #

    Snowcone – shouldn’t you get back to solving murder mysteries with your imaginary twin?

  72. Comment by happyfeet on 11/18 @ 3:23 pm #

    has to repent brb

  73. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 3:26 pm #

    Snowcone, the words are superimposed over the star.

    Oh go get spatchcocked.

  74. Comment by happyfeet on 11/18 @ 3:27 pm #

    ok all repented. Mr. Instapundit links that Mr. Simon goofball who says something worth listening to…

    In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will markedly accelerate national health-care spending rather than restrain it. Likewise, nearly all agree that the legislation would do little or nothing to improve quality or change health-care’s dysfunctional delivery system… Ultimately, our capacity to innovate and develop new therapies would suffer most of all.

    that’s from the head of the med school from where no less than the dirty socialist Chicago street trash little president man himself went and got a law degree

  75. Comment by BJTexs on 11/18 @ 3:29 pm #

    Baghdad alphie: Where, exactly, is that service star … Hmmmmm?

  76. Comment by happyfeet on 11/18 @ 3:32 pm #

    oops link

  77. Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 11/18 @ 3:37 pm #

    Funny thing is when u google “Runners World Sarah Palin” – it takes you right to the layout done for the campaign last year. On it is an Editors note that Newsweek used this photo without permission. They had a one year embargo on the images. Hah!

    Jules Crittenden has it up.

    BTW – someone who runs in 20 below weather in pitch dark … badass. Snowcone, you would fare better taunting Mixed Martial Artists than Gov Palin is all I’m saying.

  78. Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/18 @ 3:38 pm #

    “Maybe Newsweek put out a special wingnut edition?’

    Makes sense. They can only get you and maybe four other dip shit progressives to read it as is.

    Keep going snowcone.

    I got a feeling that chicken is gonna be awfully sore this week.

  79. Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 4:07 pm #

    Lybd – Snotnose does not bugger chickens. It buggers goats. And it ain’t nearly big enough to make anything bigger than an ant sore.

  80. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 4:27 pm #

    Best comment about the media frenzy over Sarah Palin (from Althouse):

    miller said…
    Seriously.

    They are simply frothing at the mouth. Spittle flying everywhere.

    This is one little woman from Alaska on a book tour. They treat her like she’s the Rosenbergs.

    (Well, except that they’d probably welcome with open arms the Rosenbergs.)

    11/18/09 4:18 PM

  81. Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 4:37 pm #

    Someone took the padlock off the cellar door again …

  82. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 4:49 pm #

    Snowcone, you have a man crush on a buffoon.

  83. Comment by Squid on 11/18 @ 4:58 pm #

    Why on earth would I taunt the Democrats best celebutard spokesmodel?

    Snowy, I’ll pay you a dollar to say that to her face. She’s on a book tour, so meeting up with her should be easy for you.

  84. Comment by Squid on 11/18 @ 5:01 pm #

    Cropped or covered, you have to admit that Newsweak continues to live up to their reputation for obscuring those parts of the story they don’t want you to know.

  85. Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/18 @ 5:03 pm #

    “Slightly obscured is not the same thing as “cropped.””

    True, very true.

    So by that subtlety…

    The Democrats will be slightly obscured in 2010.

    By 2012, they’ll be fucking cropped.

    Excellent!

  86. Comment by JHo on 11/18 @ 5:13 pm #

    She’s on a book tour, so meeting up with her should be easy for you.

    Shirley, you jest. snotty consumes checkout-stand literature with the reckless abandoned of one starved for news of the place called reality.

  87. Comment by JHo on 11/18 @ 5:14 pm #

    …although apparently I spell like I do…

  88. Comment by Kresh on 11/18 @ 5:29 pm #

    Snowcone, you would fare better taunting Mixed Martial Artists than Gov Palin is all I’m saying.

    Somehow, I’m thinking the MMA guys (and gals) would tea-bag the bejeezus out of ‘ol Snowy.

    Mind you, to him, that’s a bonus. *shrug*

  89. Comment by SBP on 11/18 @ 6:23 pm #

    I think every edition of Newsweak counts as a “special edition” these days.

  90. Comment by JHo on 11/18 @ 6:28 pm #

    Maybe the Martial Arts guys can roundhouse kick Palin’s approval ratings outta the death spiral it’s in:

    Who cares? You still looking for WingNut.com?

  91. Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/18 @ 6:50 pm #

    “Maybe the Martial Arts guys can roundhouse kick Palin’s approval ratings outta the death spiral it’s in”

    Elicited Response: 0

    Your plastic jesus is below 50 champ.

    46 say some (who you championed during the election).

    -14 shitcone.

    He’s negative -14.

    Buh-bye.

    We’ll sit here all quiet while you curl up in a dark corner, rock back & forth, hugging your knees, and mutter, “there is no spoon” over and over.

  92. Comment by sdferr on 11/18 @ 6:53 pm #

    Here they go after the wood. At Gibson Guitars no less. h/t Insty

  93. Comment by SBP on 11/18 @ 6:55 pm #

    What the hell does the Fish and Wildlife Service have to do with wood? Wouldn’t that be under the purview of the Forest Service?

  94. Comment by sdferr on 11/18 @ 7:01 pm #

    The scoop on the deal, SBP.

  95. Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/18 @ 7:12 pm #

    Wood-shmood.

    This is all an obama/ pelosi legal precedent setting end around to abolish the Constitution because it was written on processed & pressed pulp from a now highly endangered tree.

    The Tree of Liberty.

  96. Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/18 @ 7:12 pm #

    “Comment by Snowcone on 11/18 @ 6:26 pm #

    Maybe the Martial Arts guys can roundhouse kick Palin’s approval ratings outta the death spiral it’s in:”

    -14

    Eat it, snotspill.

  97. Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/18 @ 7:14 pm #

    “death spiral”

    Actually, that’s the best description yet of the O!bama maladministration.

  98. Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/18 @ 7:15 pm #

    O!’s new motto:

    “Making You Miss Jimmy Carter Since 2009!”

  99. Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/18 @ 7:20 pm #

    Another e-mail circular:

    “As the CFO of this business that employees 140 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama will be our next President, and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.

    To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Clients will have to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8% but since we cannot increase our fees right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we will have to lay off six of our employees instead. This has really been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I didn’t know how to choose who will have to go.

    So, this is what I did. I strolled through our parking lot and found 6 Obama bumper stickers on our employees’ cars and have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. I can’t think of a more fair way to approach this problem. These folks wanted change; I gave it to them.

    If you have a better idea, let me know.

    Sincerely,
    The Boss”

  100. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 7:24 pm #

    Burning Down the Tent!

  101. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 7:25 pm #

    Musical interlude of course!

  102. Comment by JHo on 11/18 @ 7:28 pm #

    Darleen, are you going to blog the wood bill? I see your comments on one of those threads. This is huge.

  103. Comment by cranky-d on 11/18 @ 7:36 pm #

    Palin is a private citizen. Obama is president of the United States. Whose popularity is relevant again?

  104. Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/18 @ 7:39 pm #

    “Darleen, are you going to blog the wood bill?”

    If so, suggested post title: “Wood Peckers”

  105. Comment by sdferr on 11/18 @ 7:44 pm #

    Each of the original 13 states had a Liberty Tree. One of them stood on the campus of the college I attended in Maryland, an enormous old Tulip Poplar. It finally succumbed in 1999 and some of it has become guitars.

  106. Comment by Carin on 11/18 @ 8:02 pm #

    Ok, deed is done. Wasn’t here when it happened, which is good, because I still think it is kinda sad.

    Poor deer.

  107. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 8:10 pm #

    Fill in your favorite lunatic.

  108. Comment by Joe on 11/18 @ 8:12 pm #

    Carin, I am sorry for your loss. If you friend gives you some venison back, don’t tell the kids until after they have finished dinner. Bon Appetit!

  109. Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/18 @ 8:13 pm #

    “Poor deer.”

    Cute and all, I know. But a 240 pound hoofed rat just the same.

    If it was healthy it would have just eaten all the flowers in your yard, pooped, and run off.

    Recline in the knowledge that, left to her devices, nature would have been much crueler to the deer (Gaia’s a fucking bitch!), and make sure your friend’s husband brings you the back strap and some summer sausage.

    Good eatin’.

  110. Comment by JD on 11/18 @ 8:25 pm #

    To paraphrase happyfeet, Mother Nature is not your friend, and even when you think she is being kind, rest assured she is plotting.

  111. Comment by Pablo on 11/18 @ 8:49 pm #

    Maybe the Martial Arts guys can roundhouse kick Palin’s approval ratings outta the death spiral it’s in:”

    #`1 On top of Stephen King and Dan Brown. Which, good for them.

    You can eat that too, snotty.

  112. Comment by Pablo on 11/18 @ 8:54 pm #

    My favorite deer story happened just a couple of years ago. My brother had a pop-up trailer he was modifying out in his backyard. I happened to be there when he went to fetch something from under it and freaked out the doe that was chilling out under it. She came flying out like a lightning bolt and ran him right the hell over. She flat kicked his ass and left in a hurry. One of the funniest things ever, complete with a black eye.

  113. Comment by SBP on 11/18 @ 9:14 pm #

    This deer-related 911 call is a hoax but funny as hell nonetheless.

  114. Comment by bastiches on 11/18 @ 9:15 pm #

    Enabling Snotcone’s psychosis has never the better part of this blog. Whoever was deleting her comments in the prior thread should continue to do so indefinitely.

  115. Comment by SBP on 11/18 @ 9:17 pm #

    #98 Great, further confirmation that we are now slaves.

    The only thing that remains is to decide what to do about it.

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  117. Comment by maggie katzen on 11/19 @ 12:19 am #

    but to get back on topic. I guffawed when I saw the title of the “winner” and then it got even better when I found out it was all children. Could they be any more cliche? WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!??

  118. Comment by Silver Whistle on 11/19 @ 1:47 am #

    Cute and all, I know. But a 240 pound hoofed rat just the same.

    Too true, Lamontyoubigdummy. Ventilate the ungulates, it’s the only way. And then have fondue with the tenderloin. Nothing better.

  119. Comment by Pablo on 11/19 @ 7:07 am #

    Check this shit out.

    CNN: “What have you accomplished?”

    The One Minus 14: “Well, A couple of key things. Number One, I think that we’ve restored America’s standing in the world, and that’s confirmed by polls”

    Unfriggingbelievable.

  120. Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 11/19 @ 7:14 am #

    If God did not intend for us to butcher Bambi, He would not have made him delicious.

  121. Comment by JD on 11/19 @ 8:12 am #

    CNN: “What have you accomplished?”

    The One Minus 14: “Well, A couple of key things. Number One, I think that we’ve restored America’s standing in the world, and that’s confirmed by polls”

    We are being “led” by an idiot.

  122. Comment by Squid on 11/19 @ 8:41 am #

    Who’d have guessed that Hope and Change were just re-brandings of Scylla and Charybdis?

  123. Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/19 @ 9:23 am #

    America’s standing is improved? How, by him crawling on his hands and knees?

  124. Comment by sdferr on 11/19 @ 9:38 am #

    I don’t know how I could do the interview job guys like Henry, Garrett or Tapper do without blurting out at some point “That’s a lie and you’re a fucking liar!” Kudos to them though for their self-control, eh? Or not.

  125. Comment by sdferr on 11/19 @ 10:00 am #

    A side issue?:

    GARRETT: David Obey said yesterday that erroneous estimates from the Administration on the job creating power of the stimulus bill — and I’m quoting now — are outrageous and the administration owes itself, the Congress and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct these ludicrous mistakes. Your reaction?

    OBAMA: Look I understand David Obey’s frustration — I think that we made a decision very early on, on the biggest stimulus package in history. And, every economic model that we looked at at the time said that if you start economic growth, that unemployment will cap out at a certain rate. Now, there is no doubt that unemployment’s been worse than any of the economic models that occurred at the time.

    GARRETT: But his criticism isn’t about the job creating part, it’s just about what you have said about the job creating. Have there been mistakes and do they need to be corrected?

    OBAMA: Look, I think this is an inexact science. We’re talking about a multi-trillion dollar economy that went through the worst economic crisis since 1933. The first measure of success of the economic recovery is: did we pull ourselves back from the brink? We did. [Well, technically, Hank Paulson's intervention with TARP did that, not you Mr President. - sdferr] Have we gotten economic growth going again? We have.

    The question now is: can we make sure we’re accelerating job growth? That’s my number one job. Nobody’s been more disappointed than I have to see how high the unemployment rate has gotten. And, I spend every waking hour, when I’m talking to my economic team, about how we are going to put people back to work.

    GARRETT: So this is a side issue? The estimate thing?

    OBAMA: This is a side issue.

    GARRETT: Got it.

    [emphasis added]

    The issue is, if economy isn’t a science (and it isn’t), then men like Obama have no business mucking about in it. Multi-trillion dollar economies are far too complex to have idiots like Obama deciding how they should run.

  126. Comment by Mark A. Flacy on 11/19 @ 10:40 am #

    And, I spend every waking hour, when I’m talking to my economic team, about how we are going to put people back to work.

    I wonder what he talks to them about when he’s asleep.

  127. Comment by geoffb on 11/19 @ 10:43 am #

    Harvard and Columbia graduates need to file a class action suit soon to get out in front of the destruction taking place in the value of the degrees they worked and paid for.

  128. Comment by JD on 11/19 @ 11:10 am #

    Shorter Barcky – Whether or not we are honest or accurate is a side issue to Teh Narrative.

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