Just ask me
March 14th, 2009 by donsurberQuestion: Which male world leader is pretty in pink?
Operation Rush failed
March 14th, 2009 by donsurber
Politico: The Democratic administration will try something else to distract public attention from the Democratic administration.
The Spirit of 1943
March 14th, 2009 by donsurber
Donald Duck patriotically paid his taxes every quarter 66 years ago, while Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner slinked around 6 years ago.
Daily scoreboard
March 14th, 2009 by donsurber
Staying Bush on wolves
March 14th, 2009 by donsurber
Washington Post: “Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s decision to stick with a controversial Bush administration move that took gray wolves off the endangered species list in most of the northern Rockies …has alienated key Obama administration allies, including environmentalists and some lawmakers on Capitol Hill.”
3 a.m.
March 14th, 2009 by donsurber
Russia may set up air bases in Cuba and Venezuela. I guess that’s Vlad’s answer to that please-be-my-friend letter that President Obama sent.
54th day, 54th mistake
March 14th, 2009 by donsurber
Maybe embryonic stem cell research can cure the Signing-Without-Reading Disease.
Just ask me
March 13th, 2009 by donsurber
Question: What is today’s proof of global warming?
A name game
March 13th, 2009 by donsurber
AP: WASHINGTON – The Obama administration said Friday that it is abandoning one of President George W. Bush’s key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant. The Justice Department said in legal filings that it will no longer use the term to justify holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Daily scoreboard
March 13th, 2009 by donsurber
1. The New York Times reported: Cleveland State made the NCAA men’s basketball tournament for the first time in 23 years. The spirit of Mouse McFadden lives on.
Thanks
March 13th, 2009 by donsurberI think.
From Lucianne: “Your Friday Giggle: If you like this, it’s ours. If not it’s Don Surber’s.”
Ignoring Germany
March 13th, 2009 by donsurber
A New York Times editorial blames America’s gun lobby for 11 deaths in Alabama — but ignores 16 deaths in “gun free” Germany on the same day.
Recommended
March 13th, 2009 by donsurber
From Jazz: Excellent, excellent clip: “Matthews’ boorish behavior can’t suppress Fleisher’s cogent, well-spoken defenses. It’s a fun watch.”
Forced to go John Galt
March 13th, 2009 by donsurber
The British worry that a European Union work rule will force their doctors to work less, which will make their waiting lists grow longer.
Gay “marriage”
March 13th, 2009 by donsurber
As bad as regular marriage. A case in point.
Obama: Let’s charge vets for VA care of service related injuries
March 13th, 2009 by donsurber
Day 53. Mistake 53. And it is only 8 a.m.
Best comment today
March 13th, 2009 by donsurber
And no, it is not from the liberal who tried to drop an N-bomb.
Just ask me
March 12th, 2009 by donsurberQuestion: Did Barack Obama deliberately overstate the problems of the economy to get his hands on spending trillions?
South Korean ingrate
March 12th, 2009 by donsurber
A South Korean of all people should be the last person on Earth to complain about the United States commitment to the United Nations.
Daily scoreboard
March 12th, 2009 by donsurber
Andrew Koenig nailed it
March 12th, 2009 by donsurber
George Stephanopoulos of ABC News: Another day, another appointee won’t be going to the Treasury department.
2 questions
March 12th, 2009 by donsurber
Jake Tapper of ABC News takes the smile off the face of White House spokesbot Robert Gibbs.
52 days, 52 mistakes
March 12th, 2009 by donsurber
Let me count them up, in no particular order. Some are big. Some are small.
I had it Tuesday
March 12th, 2009 by donsurberFishbowl DC: “Pres. Obama Will Not Attend Annual Gridiron Dinner, First President Since Cleveland to Miss.”
On Tuesday. Just call me Fishbowl Poca.
Flattery, most sincere
March 12th, 2009 by donsurber
Meet Bill Maher’s new “writer” — or how plagiarism is not just for Joe Biden anymore. The story is here.
No, we voted for an Obama for failure
March 12th, 2009 by donsurber
The DNC picked the above sign to be its anti-Rush Limbaugh billboard, because as everyone knows President Obama cannot handle anything tougher than an overweight, hard-of-hearing old guy in Florida.
Obamacare I like
March 12th, 2009 by donsurber
Did Michelle Obama undercut emergency room care for poor people at the University of Chicago?
Ignoring a war
March 12th, 2009 by donsurber
Andrew Malcolm: “As Mexico’s drug wars rage, Obama lowers U.S. drug czar’s job.”
Column
March 12th, 2009 by donsurberMy weekly column is up: “School officials gave West Side kids a real civics lesson.” Enjoy.
Just ask me
March 11th, 2009 by donsurberQuestion: What would Jesus earmark?
Answer: Nothing.
Mark 12:17 ”And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marveled at him.”
Meet your Cabinet
March 11th, 2009 by donsurber
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, which saw 26 students die in violent deaths last year — and just had its 26th this year.
Memo to Meghan
March 11th, 2009 by donsurber
It isn’t Ann Coulter’s job to save the Republican Party after John McCain led it to its biggest defeat in 16 years.
Daily scoreboard
March 11th, 2009 by donsurber
Layoffs
March 11th, 2009 by donsurber
Bloomberg News: “Sesame Street” Producer to Reduce Workforce by 20%. That’s 67 human beings.
Climate change
March 11th, 2009 by donsurber
Reset
March 11th, 2009 by donsurber
The official budget talking points: Liberals say it is a “transformational budget” that presses “the reset button on the last eight years.”
NC-17 tanning beds
March 11th, 2009 by donsurber
West Virginia may require parental permission to use a tanning bed.
The Vice Is Wrong
March 11th, 2009 by donsurber
Lawhawk: “Aldolfo Carrion, come on down. You’re the next contestant on the Obama nomination train wreck.”
Ron Paul
March 11th, 2009 by donsurber
Republican Congressman Dr. Ron Paul makes an interesting defense of earmarks.
New state laws (besides banning Barbie)
March 11th, 2009 by donsurber
From banning cell phones in cells to ending touch screen voting to regulating “violet acts,” the West Virginia Legislature has some interesting ideas.
“There is nobody there”
March 11th, 2009 by donsurber
Barack Obama is too busy posing for magazine covers to actually do the job to which he was elected.
Can it happen here?
March 11th, 2009 by donsurber
Bloomberg News: “China February Auto Sales Rise 25% After Tax Cuts.”
Leno on the Barbie
March 11th, 2009 by donsurber
The Tonight Show host takes a poke at West Virginia.
Just ask me
March 10th, 2009 by donsurberQuestion: If you were grading Barack Obama on his performance as president, what would he get?
Era of personal responsibility
March 10th, 2009 by donsurber
White House: Hey, don’t blame us for all the bombing in Baghdad after we gave everyone a timetable for our military to leave Iraq.
Marriage ban
March 10th, 2009 by donsurber
Proposition 8 opponents have decided that if homosexuals cannot marry one another legally, then nobody can get married — and so they want to ban the word “marriage” from California law.
Daily scoreboard
March 10th, 2009 by donsurber
Chutzpah Pelosi
March 10th, 2009 by donsurber
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco hates the military — but still demands that the U.S. Air Force cater to her every whim.
Snort, snort
March 10th, 2009 by donsurber
Liberal Margery Eagan: Nerds have taken over the White House.
Conservative Jules Crittenden: Nerds have taken over the White House.
Molly news
March 10th, 2009 by donsurber
Roll Call: Democratic Congressman Alan Mollohan’s foundation named in his late father’s honor collected free rent from a foundation that collected taxpayer money that was earmarked by you-know-who.
Viral of the day
March 10th, 2009 by donsurberThe hippie lectures the old man.
Too clever
March 10th, 2009 by donsurber
SNL 2009
March 10th, 2009 by donsurber
Live from D.C., it’s the “Shallow Naive Liberals” featuring I Won Obama, Tax Cheat Geithner and the Not Yet Ready For The Prime Minister Players.
Quote of the day
March 10th, 2009 by donsurber
It is from Barack Obama supporter Warren Buffett (who lost $23 billion for Berkshire Hathaway in 2008).
Rumor
March 10th, 2009 by donsurber
Will President Obama skip the annual Gridiron Club dinner in which presidents and politics are mocked?
Just ask me
March 9th, 2009 by donsurberQuestion: Has Obama’s Popularity Peaked?
That mean old Rush
March 9th, 2009 by donsurber
Don’t cry, President Obama. 51% of the Democrats wanted President Bush to fail.
Coulter vs. NYT
March 9th, 2009 by donsurber
Ann Coulter: “I do not believe the point of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, for example, was to ‘Foster more bipartisanship’.”
Parody
March 9th, 2009 by donsurberJim Withem appropriately appropriates the Armour Hot Dog song to satirize the president and the radio personality.
Daily scoreboard: Evil 5, Good 4
March 9th, 2009 by donsurber
This is CNN
March 9th, 2009 by donsurber
A CNN correspondent in El Salvador decides to seek public office, as a candidate for a communist-front terrorist group that has gone legit.
Reader asks
March 9th, 2009 by donsurber
Rachel at Raw Story asked a question, that I shall answer.
Paterson strikes out
March 9th, 2009 by donsurber
New Yorkers want their Democratic governor to spare them the bowling tax.
Baseball odds
March 9th, 2009 by donsurber
The London bookies make EVIL the favorite to win the World Series this year.
Waa-bama
March 9th, 2009 by donsurber
President Obama: I am not a socialist.Laugh
March 9th, 2009 by donsurber
Dolly Parton and Queen Elizabeth go to heaven. Which one gets in?
Unstimulated
March 9th, 2009 by donsurber
Democratic Sen. John Kerry goes all Carrie Nation on the restaurants of New York by banning 421 companies from “hosting, sponsoring, or paying for conferences, holiday parties and entertainment events.”
Crisis surplus
March 9th, 2009 by donsurberChris Stirewalt: “Never waste a good crisis”? Then this administration has an embarrassment of riches. The column is here.
Reaction
March 9th, 2009 by donsurber
My column on Saturday on Rush Limbaugh drew the usual ill will from the left.
Warning of the day
March 9th, 2009 by donsurber
From Randy Fardal of the American Thinker. It is an excellent read.
Just ask me
March 8th, 2009 by donsurber
Question: How is that smart diplomacy by the Smartest Woman in the World and the Smartest Man Ever working out?
Headline of the day
March 8th, 2009 by donsurber
National Public Radio: “Nation’s Oldest Gay And Lesbian Bookstore Closes.”
Now, I believe it is the worst economy since the Great Depression of 1933.
Spitzerphrenic
March 8th, 2009 by donsurber
The guy who “brought down Wall Street” turns out to have major problems with women, as a high-priced hooker said he choked her during sex.
Daily scoreboard
March 8th, 2009 by donsurber
Home alone
March 8th, 2009 by donsurber
President Obama has appointed only 70 of 1,200 appointees he will need to run his administration. It’s official: The lights are on and no one is home.
Cornell
March 8th, 2009 by donsurberFirst, Ann Coulter smacked Keith Olbermann down, then Cuffy Meigs smacked him some more. The video.
eBay of the Day
March 8th, 2009 by donsurberVia pianogirl88, via RacerX: the bidding starts at £8.99.
Sun down
March 8th, 2009 by donsurber
I guess Rebekah Wade, editor of the London Sun, didn’t keep the chips and dip coming.
Willie’s world
March 8th, 2009 by donsurber
The pitch set me up.
Change. Hope. 43% hike in my electric bill
March 8th, 2009 by donsurber
Under President Obama, my 7-cent per kilowatt hour electricity will go up to 11 cents. Change? All the change you can spare — and then more.
pianogirl88
March 8th, 2009 by donsurberAt Lucianne, the discussion was on the New York Times’s interview aboard Air Force One with The Won. pianogirl88 with the Comment of the Day: “Amazing they could get the teleprompter set up on AF1 so he could do an interview!”
Britain is not amused
March 8th, 2009 by donsurber
The British believe President Obama snubbed British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The Obama side’s reaction is “He was overwhelmed.”
Heh
March 8th, 2009 by donsurber
Just ask me
March 7th, 2009 by donsurber
Question: Did actress Maria Conchita Alonso just put the smack down on Sean Penn for his support of communist dictator Hugo Chavez?
Daily scoreboard
March 7th, 2009 by donsurber
1. President Obama said Americans a chance to “discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis.”
Pass the popcorn again
March 7th, 2009 by donsurber
CBS News reported that Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used profanity to chew out Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid over the $410 billion omnibus (not to be confused with the $787 billion stimulus or the $700 billion TARP, which cost $850 billion).
Obama bear market
March 7th, 2009 by donsurber
From Bloomberg News: “More than $1.6 trillion was erased from U.S. equities since Jan. 20 as mounting bank losses and rising unemployment convinced investors the recession is getting worse. The president is in danger of breaking a pattern in which the Dow rallied 9.8 percent on average in the 12 months after a Democrat captured the White House, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.”
Chump change
March 7th, 2009 by donsurber
The Obama-endorsing Chicago Tribune to President Obama: Americans “don’t want to feel like chumps. …they’re watching who gets rescued and why. They’re watching who goes to jail and who skips.”
Short comment
March 7th, 2009 by donsurber
European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering to Hillary Clinton: “What you said mostly could have been said by a European.”
It was.
Jesus and the Democrat
March 7th, 2009 by donsurber
Today’s viral e-mail that’s making the rounds. It’s cute.
Limbaugh said what Obama will not say
March 7th, 2009 by donsurber
My column in the Saturday Gazette-Mail is up. I wonder how Gazette readers will react to quotes from what Limbaugh actually said.
Just ask me
March 6th, 2009 by donsurberQuestion: I want to blow up a building but I am too chicken to become a suicide bomber. Uncle Donny, can you help?
Answer: Of course. I have the perfect building that you can blow up legally.
For a price.
Obama’s Miers
March 6th, 2009 by donsurber
President Obama appointed someone to head the Treasury Department who cannot figure out Turbo Tax. Seven weeks later, the stupidity of all this is coming home to roost.
Daily scoreboard
March 6th, 2009 by donsurber
Photo of the day
March 6th, 2009 by donsurber“The Era of Personal Responsibility is Here!”
Who said this?
March 6th, 2009 by donsurber
“Barack’s name ain’t Jesus. Barack ain’t gonna improve your child’s reading score. There are things we’ve got to do on our own.”
25 new jobs
March 6th, 2009 by donsurber
President Obama takes credit for Columbus hiring 25 police officers — on a day when the government announced 651,000 jobs were lost.
Backlash Obama
March 6th, 2009 by donsurber
The LA Times reported: Fox News ratings are up 29% in February. Glenn Beck’s 5 p.m. show draws numbers bigger than any show at any time on CNN or MSNBC.
651,000 jobless
March 6th, 2009 by donsurber
Barack Obama is the first president to preside over a net job loss in his presidency since Herbert Hoover.
23rd Psalm, 2009
March 6th, 2009 by donsurber
Comment du jour — shamelessly stolen from the main Charleston Daily Mail Web site.
The cellphone homeless
March 6th, 2009 by donsurber
Andrew Malcolm: “If this unidentified meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cellphone?”
Just ask me
March 5th, 2009 by donsurberQuestion: Why does President Obama hate Britain?
Answer: It all goes back to his childhood…
Don’s plan
March 5th, 2009 by donsurber
Keep the $5 billion in earmarks, lose the rest of the bill and save $405 billion.
Dr. Obama
March 5th, 2009 by donsurber
Obamacare is in action in Britain. The London Daily Mail: “Thousands of patients with terminal cancer were dealt a blow last night after a decision was made to deny them life prolonging drugs.”
Daily scoreboard
March 5th, 2009 by donsurber
Surprise
March 5th, 2009 by donsurber
Larry Kudlow: The recovery may have already begun — without the stimulus.
It’s academic
March 5th, 2009 by donsurber
Bill Ayers and Ward Churchill will host a rally for academic freedom at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Republicans were right
March 5th, 2009 by donsurber
After endorsing him, the Chicago Tribune discovers to its shock that Barack Obama is… a big spender.
Line of the day
March 5th, 2009 by donsurberGlenn Reynolds: “Oh, yeah, and the Chas Freeman thing, too. It’s hard to keep track of all the appointment debacles.”
Like husband, like wife
March 5th, 2009 by donsurber
Times of London: While President Obama was snubbing British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Mrs. Obama was snubbing Mrs. Brown.
Photo of the day
March 5th, 2009 by donsurberSeveral hundred attend global warming protest.
Forget mortgages, bail out the 401(k)s
March 5th, 2009 by donsurberSome of us paid 19.5 percent interest in the ’80s recession.
Just ask me
March 4th, 2009 by donsurber
Question: How is that cap-and-trade tax being received in the blue states?
Octo-Mom gone wild
March 4th, 2009 by donsurber
She wants to sell the videotape of her giving birth to 8 kids. And TMZ has the 911 tapes of how she takes care of the kids after they are born.
Heroine
March 4th, 2009 by donsurber
Purse snatcher Ricky Lee Sample, 47, picked on the wrong 65-year-old grandmother.
Daily scoreboard
March 4th, 2009 by donsurberPresident rebuked
March 4th, 2009 by donsurber
CNN: Poll shows that few Americans think that President Obama’s mortgage bailout plan is fair.
Reid it and weep
March 4th, 2009 by donsurber
The Las Vegas Review-Journal speaks up for capitalism. That could be bad news for Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid.
Under the (double-decker) bus
March 4th, 2009 by donsurber
President Obama’s unpresidential dismissal of our dearest ally, England, did not go unnoticed in London.
Why they fear Rush
March 4th, 2009 by donsurber
Beneath David Plouffe’s broadside against Rush Limbaugh Republicans is a little hard truth about the fickleness of voters.
No class
March 4th, 2009 by donsurber
Paul Begala: “Rush is the bloated face and drug-addled voice of the Republican Party.”
Top 10 House races
March 4th, 2009 by donsurber
The Hill: Republican prospects in Congress are looking up for 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Plausible Hillarity
March 4th, 2009 by donsurberJules Crittenden has the 10 rules of foreign policy to guide our rookie president.
Just ask me
March 3rd, 2009 by donsurber
Question: Is Fidel Castro holding up the $410 billion spend-like-a-drunken-congressman-with-a-stolen-credit-card legislation?
Answer: As a matter of fact, he may.
Starbucks becomes Starcents
March 3rd, 2009 by donsurber
Ed Driscoll: A share of Starbucks was worth 15 lattes on Dec. 1. On Friday, a share was worth 2 lattes. And guess what? It is not just a recession that is making Starbucks stock tank.
The war on Barbie
March 3rd, 2009 by donsurber
The West Virginia Legislature will weigh whether the state should ban Barbie and similar dolls “that promote or influence girls to place an undue importance on physical beauty to the detriment of their intellectual and emotional development.”
Daily scoreboard
March 3rd, 2009 by donsurber
Mr. Television
March 3rd, 2009 by donsurber
Rush Limbaugh drew 3.15 million viewers to Fox News and CNN in the middle of a Saturday afternoon — twice what Keith Olbermann gets in prime time.
2,000 times as profitable
March 3rd, 2009 by donsurber
The London Telegraph: Cocaine dealers are switching to peddling counterfeit Viagra.
Double-dipping earmarks
March 3rd, 2009 by donsurber
ACORN could get $1 billion from the “stimulus” and another $3.9 billion from the omnibus.
The unhappiest town in the whole U.S.A.
March 3rd, 2009 by donsurber
Business Week declares Portland, Oregon, to be the most depressing city in the nation as it ranks No. 1 in use of anti-depressants, No. 4 in divorce, and has 222 cloudy days a year.
Bush vs. Obama
March 3rd, 2009 by donsurberBernie Madoff, D-NY
March 3rd, 2009 by donsurber
Over the years, the $50 billion swindler and his wife have donated at least $300,000 to Democrats and Democratic Party causes.
Fool of the day
March 3rd, 2009 by donsurber
Republican Sen. Kit Bond Missouri is a pork fiend who undercuts the party’s efforts to stop the madness.
Hillary: Israel should help erect its gallows in Gaza
March 3rd, 2009 by donsurberInstead of demanding the states that sponsor to provide humanitarian relief, the Obama administration wants the targets of that terrorism to pay.
