Ladies and germs, I give you the comedic stylings of Barack Hussain Obama:
WASHINGTON — Pearls of wisdom from President Barack Obama: Few things in life are harder to find and more important to keep than love.
"Well, love and a birth certificate," he quipped at Saturday's black-tie White House Correspondents' Association dinner, poking fun at the birther movement, which questions whether the president was born in the United States.
"I happen to know that my approval ratings are still very high in the country of my birth," Obama joked.
The president then took aim at Jay Leno, the comedian headlining the dinner, saying the talk-show host was "the only person whose ratings fell more than mine."
Obama also cracked jokes about Vice President Joe Biden and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
But Republicans were the butt of many presidential punch lines...
Although his poll numbers are down, he said, he hears he's popular on Twitter and Facebook.
"Or as Sarah Palin calls it, the socialized media," he added...
Actually, I highly doubt that's what Palin would call it, even as a joke since, unlike ObamaCare, Facebook and Twitter are, you know, free.
I don't know who writes the propaganda for this Iranian news outlet, but I'd like to take a nano-second to salute his/her deft use of the English tongue. Yesterday, for instance, U.S. actions were characterized as "seamy"--a word redolent of decadence and the red light district. In a piece today, Canada is said to be "irked"--yes, "irked"--by Iran's appointment to the UN's women's "rights" body. As the scribbler points out, though, Canada's irkitude (irkiness?) is irrelevent since
Iran blames Western countries for most of the abuses and rights violations that happen around the world.
Also,
Canada's government is currently struggling with the parliament over documents that could implicate Canada in torture of Afghan detainees while in American custody.
Er, I'm pretty sure the "struggle," such as it is, is about Afghans torturing Afghans who had been handed over by Canada, but no matter. What's really crucial is that, according genocidaire-wannabe A-jad
freedom of expression and freedom of religion [are] integral parts of Iranian culture.
No wonder you're such a big hit with UN "rights" outfits, Mahmoud.
Update: Oh gawd--he's coming to the U.S. again (to attend a UN nuclear confab). Madness to the enth degree.
Someone (Buddhists? Wiccans? Seventh Day Adventists? Tea Partyers? Tim McVeigh Militia-types?) has parked a car bomb in New York's Times Square. Don't worry, though. It was one of those homemade devices, and so "amateurish" that it was easily defused.
Update: Here's how "amateurish" it was (from the NY Post):
Bomb Squad members then searched the SUV, which bore Connecticut license plates that were actually registered to a Ford F-150, and found two gasoline cans, three propane tanks, electrical wires, black powder, consumer grade fireworks and two clocks, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
"I think the intent was to cause a significant ball of fire," Kelly said.
Good thing no "professionals" were involved. The results might have been catastrophic.
Update: Great news! The NYT is reporting that federal officials are pretty sure this wasn't an act of "terrorism" :
The White House said President Obama had been briefed on the episode and had pledged federal assistance in the investigation.
A federal official said that domestic security officials had been informed that the event did not appear to be a terrorist threat. The official referred all requests for additional information to New York City police.
Quel relief! (Of course, these are the same officials who didn't want to rush to judgement when a chap wearing fundamentalist Islamic garb screamed "Allahu Akbar" while opening fire at an American military base.)
Update: Is there a South Park connection?
Update: The latest is that there is more than an outside chance that it may indeed be terrorism, but the city's mayor is baffled as to who could possibly be behind it:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that officials are treating the incident as a potential terrorist attack. The mayor said earlier Sunday, "We have no idea who did this or why" but said it's not surprising the city is a frequent target of terrorism.
Update: Oops! Did JaNap mess up and forget to use official ObamaAdmin lingo for a "terrorist attack"--i.e. a "man-caused disaster"?
Update: Further to the above update, here's JaNap quote from last year:
I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.
Yes, nuance and subtlety are most appreciated, except, of course, when car-bombers, who aren't attuned to such subtleties, bring "the politics of fear" to Times Square on a Saturday night. I'm reminded of that quote by George S. Kaufman, a once-famous wit of a bygone era. Kaufman, who'd enjoyed great success on the Great White Way, both with and sans frequent writing partner Moss Hart, noted re the risks of mounting a comedy on Broadway that: "Satire is what closes on Saturday night." Barring the unexpected, the quip might be updated as follows: "Jihad is what closes (Times Square) on Saturday night."
It sucks--it really does--for dhimmi Jews, whom the Koran derides as the lowest of the low, to have their own itty-bitty entity over which they are sovereign. And if you don't believe me, follow this, the Canadian Islamic Congress link du semain to see how intolerable Jewish sovereignty is to Palestinians.
It's just not fair I tell you for Jews to have this much land!
Mark Steyn updates us on his, ahem, difference of opinon with Ceej chief Bernie Farber. In case you aren't up to speed on topic, here's the condensed version: Steyn assumed that a piece that appeared on the Ceej website without attribution and sans linkage to the original article had been penned by Farber, and quoted in his Maclean's column. Farber, mustering his highest dudgeon, demanded a retraction and an apology. What he got was a printed "clarification" and his "gotcha" letter published in the magazine. Whereupon Steyn flambéed Farber (an appropriate fate for a Jewish book-burner) in his latest Maclean's column, an epic smackdown.
Steyn notes that Farber is still waiting for an "apology" from him. But if you've been following the debate on free speech in this country, and the part that Canada's most prominent Jewish organization continues to play in squelching that most crucial freedom, supposedly for the "psychological well-being" of Canadian Jewry, it may seem to you, as it does to me, the Jew's the one who should be apologizing--and then doing his utmost to undo the damage that state censorship and the wretched "human rights" reign of "virtue" has wrought.
Since that's about as likely to occur as Salman Hossain being clapped in irons and led away to account for his Zionhass, I've taken the liberty of imagining a tuneful non-apology: music by Elton John, words adapted by moi:
What did I go and do to make you mock me?
What did I go and do to make you "mean"?
Why go and snipe at Dick, my proxy,
A hero stalking 'Nazis' still unseen?
What do I do to buff my image
Now that I've been made to look absurd?
What do I do to halt the scrimmage
Since sorry's not my customary word?
It's bad, so bad
It's an act of desperation.
I'll sign a letter; flip the bird.
It's bad, so bad.
No way we'll talk it over.
Oh, it seems for me
That sorry seems to be the dumbest word...
You bow. You scrape. You bend over backwards. Heck, you well-nigh prostrate yourself like a defeated little dhimmi. And what do you get? A spit in the eye and a slap on the face:
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he has 'documented evidence' that Washington and Israel are linked to leading terrorist organizations in the world.
“We have documents that prove [Washington] is the root of world terrorism. It has been aiding and abetting extremist groups over the past years,” said President Ahmadinejad in a Saturday ceremony marking World Labor Day.
He added the commotion caused by the US in some parts of the world shows in fact that US officials are up to no good in that exact location and should be held responsible.
“Washington is the only country to have used the atomic bomb in military conflict. They even admit themselves that they resorted to using [nuclear weapons] during the war they waged on Iraq,” he added.
Ahmadinejad said despite its seamy past, the United States continues to threaten world nations with its nuclear weapons.
He was referring to the newly-crafted Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), under which the Obama administration promises not to use atomic arms against states that do not possess nuclear warheads, with the exception of Iran.
I guess Obama's "nuclear" posture (and posturing) isn't nearly supine enough for the lit'ler Hitler's liking.
I hear that Salman Hossain, late of both the University of Toronto and York U (two august institutions that partake in the Israeli Apartheid Week hate fete), may have skipped the country. If that's so, authorities must be breathing an immense sigh of relief. Hossain's decamp means they won't have to keep coming up with lame excuses for why they failed to charge him, a Muslim Jew-hater, with posting hateful messages on a hateful website--a "hate crime" in Canada.
By way of comparision, here's how authorities dealt with a non-Muslim Jew-hater who had a hateful website.
Update: Here's the other non-Muslim Jew-hater who was punished for posting hate on the Internet.
This letter appears in the National Post:
Do you think that the proud Canadian, Mark Steyn, could be persuaded to return from the wilds of New Hampshire and take the reins as governor-general? Much as I admire William Tiberius Shatner, and would not be opposed to his appointment, a Governor-General Steyn would provide a younger, more energetic and accurate representation of current Canadian majority's values.
We really don't need yet another pseudo-intellectual nonentity appointed solely for politically correct reasons.
Michael N.W. Baigel, Toronto
Steyn return to Pierre's Trudeaupia so he can spend the next few years jetting off to fetid backwaters? Something tells me he'd rather pass a kidney stone or twelve.
