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6/18/2012

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Filed under: General — JD @ 4:22 pm

[Guest post by JD]

Meggie Mac – Linked without comment

Algore managing millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars. What could go wrong?!

– JD

UPDATE: Teh Won has now played 100 rounds of golf in 3 1/2 years. It took Bush 8 years to play 24% of that total. I blame Bush.

51 Comments

  1. Choom

    Comment by JD (318f81) — 6/18/2012 @ 4:23 pm

  2. I support Meghan’s coward daddy’s pothead daughter’s right to choom like a banshee.

    I really do.

    Comment by happyfeet (a55ba0) — 6/18/2012 @ 4:28 pm

  3. In case any of you missed the Michael Ramirez political cartoon from yesterday go look for it online or in your newspaper. It was a thing of absolute beauty with the punchline of “It’s all George W. Bush’s fault”.

    Comment by elissa (8a0c30) — 6/18/2012 @ 4:41 pm

  4. The Meghan McCain link explains a lot.

    elissa — I hadn’t seen that Michael Ramirez cartoon. It is good. Thanks for the tip.

    Comment by DRJ (a83b8b) — 6/18/2012 @ 4:45 pm

  5. America, You Sexy Bitch

    In America, You Sexy Bitch, Meghan and Michael embark on a balls-out, cross-country tour starting in California, the heart of liberal America, and ending in the state of Connecticut, the home of blue-blood Wall Street billionaires.

    Along the way, they visit such cultural touchstones as Graceland and Branson, party in Las Vegas and New Orleans, pretend to be Mormon in Salt Lake City (only for a second), and go to a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan. They tour the nation’s capital; they fire semiautomatic weapons.

    But mostly Meghan McCain and Michael Ian Black talk to each other: about their differences, their similarities, and how American politics has gotten so divided.

    Heh.

    Comment by Dana (4eca6e) — 6/18/2012 @ 4:55 pm

  6. Sadly, I didn’t find Meghan nor Al Gore funny. If I was in the mood, I would find the article on how many of the carbon offset programs Al Gore fronted for were frauds.

    Comment by SPQR (26be8b) — 6/18/2012 @ 4:58 pm

  7. Well Gore is in on the scam, whereas Meghan is less so,

    Comment by narciso (494474) — 6/18/2012 @ 5:03 pm

  8. SPQR – that would make an excellent update. Hint hint

    Comment by JD (318f81) — 6/18/2012 @ 5:39 pm

  9. Dude, you are getting paid the big bucks.

    Comment by SPQR (26be8b) — 6/18/2012 @ 5:40 pm

  10. I am so tired of the whole legalization crowd trotting out that “Legalize it and tax the hell out of it and we’ll all be high and rich” canard. It shows an absolutely appalling lack of economic understanding. I don’t know what marijuana sells for nowadays, but let’s say it’s $100 per ounce. That pretty much establishes the market value for it, right, so it makes all the sense in the world for the government to sell it at roughly that price. If Phillip Morris took over the marijuana growing, processing, and distribution, could they do it profitably at a rate of $50 per ounce, with the government slapping an additional $50 tax on the product? If so, great. However, what would then prevent a private grower from selling his wares at a reduced price, say $75 per ounce? How much would it cost law enforcement to go around busting all of the nonlicensed growers? Would those costs be covered by the additional tax revenue?

    Also, once marijuana is legal, what obligation does society have to deal with the slacker stoner who wants to do nothing more than sit around all day in his mom’s basement getting high? Does ObamaCare have to pay for some attempt at rehabilitation for this guy? Does his slackerdom qualify as a disability under the ADA?

    And what kind of pot will the Feds legalize? Will they restrict it to the relatively mild varieties, or will the stronger variations be allowed too? I just find it hard to imagine that we can somehow do this and just make the illegal market in marijuana disappear.

    Comment by JVW (511e31) — 6/18/2012 @ 5:42 pm

  11. Sadly, I didn’t find Meghan nor Al Gore funny. If I was in the mood, I would find the article on how many of the carbon offset programs Al Gore fronted for were frauds.

    My favorite Algore carbon offset scam story is when they discovered that in order to plant the new trees to suck up all the carbon, the Brazilian government (with whom Algore had contracted) was pushing indigenous peoples off their native lands in the Amazon region to claim that land for the Algore tree forests.

    Comment by JVW (511e31) — 6/18/2012 @ 5:45 pm

  12. Obama bragged about pushing for the Joyce Foundation to invest in CCX during his tenure on its board, and that worked as well as Obama’s Solyndra “investments”.

    Comment by SPQR (26be8b) — 6/18/2012 @ 5:54 pm

  13. SPQR,

    This 2007 Newsbusters article looked into Gore’s financial benefits from green projects and climate change.

    Comment by DRJ (a83b8b) — 6/18/2012 @ 5:57 pm

  14. Jouyce foundation, wasn’t that where both Obama and Ayers served on the board.

    Comment by narciso (494474) — 6/18/2012 @ 6:00 pm

  15. Legalization…
    Next thing you know, there’ll be a tremendous market in Black-Market/counterfeit CHOOM-Tax Stamps; just as there is a smuggling/black-market in legal cigs from low tax states/indian reservations, to high tax states.
    Solution, can all the “sin taxes”, and just collect sales taxes on goods sold – the Gov’t has enough trouble enforcing the ins and outs of the sales-tax code without complicating it with the other garbage.
    But then, what would all the “Revenooers” do all day?

    Comment by AD-RtR/OS! (2bb434) — 6/18/2012 @ 6:02 pm

  16. “…what obligation does society have to deal with the slacker stoner who wants to do nothing more than sit around all day in his mom’s basement getting high?…”

    Bloomingberg will find a solution!

    Comment by AD-RtR/OS! (2bb434) — 6/18/2012 @ 6:04 pm

  17. Look at some of the great names involved in pushing CCX, funding it, and investing in it, as mentioned in this piece published in Forbes …

    Franklin Raines … Valerie Jarret … Barack Obama … Maurice Strong … Goldman Sachs …

    All with some really wonderful Google results …

    Comment by SPQR (26be8b) — 6/18/2012 @ 6:04 pm

  18. SPQR, what do all of those names have in common?

    There are those who have pled Guilty, and those who will.

    Comment by AD-RtR/OS! (2bb434) — 6/18/2012 @ 6:05 pm

  19. DRJ – I believe that the Generation Investment Management mentioned in your link is the same as the one being awarded public sector dollars in the above link.

    Can you imagine is this was Bush?!?!?!?!?!?!?

    Comment by JD (318f81) — 6/18/2012 @ 6:10 pm

  20. Here, JD, put this in your LOL post …

    Comment by SPQR (26be8b) — 6/18/2012 @ 6:19 pm

  21. Some things are beyond parody.

    Comment by JD (318f81) — 6/18/2012 @ 6:29 pm

  22. JVW,

    Does the govt have pay for rehab of drunks? Of course not. And rehab for potheads is… You quit smoking pot.

    But I’m against taxes, so I agree with you there.

    Comment by Ghost (6f9de7) — 6/18/2012 @ 6:37 pm

  23. The professor over at Legal Insurrection is announcing a new platform called College Insurrection, which will debut around the time school resumes in the fall. It will highlight, legitimize, and connect right leaning and libertarian students and their issues from campus to campus. Sounds like a great idea.

    Comment by elissa (8a0c30) — 6/18/2012 @ 6:47 pm

  24. “…what obligation does society have to deal with the slacker stoner who wants to do nothing more than sit around all day in his mom’s basement getting high?…”
    Bloomingberg will find a solution!
    Comment by AD-RtR/OS! — 6/18/2012 @ 6:04 pm

    Make them drink 64 oz sodas.

    I can understand one making an argument to legalize marijuana, and I can understand an argument for regulating huge sodas (I am not in favor of either)
    but to argue to regulate large sodas but approve marijuana at the same time sounds like an Onion news story.

    What’s next, getting rid of the age limit for buying tobacco but limiting the # of oz. of chocolate one can buy in a month?

    Comment by MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 6/18/2012 @ 6:53 pm

  25. Gee, think of all the fake weeds growing in the Potemkin village by Crawford, Texas, now that Obama hasn’t deigned to go whack them.
    Remember how Crawford was the soul and center of Bush’s many-many-many-and-more-than-that days away from the White House.
    Now, uh, not so much.

    Yer weak.

    Comment by Larry Reilly (8f149c) — 6/18/2012 @ 7:23 pm

  26. The problem with Meghan and Manbearpig, among others, is they never exhaled, hence causing cognitive difficulties,

    Comment by narciso (494474) — 6/18/2012 @ 7:39 pm

  27. “Teh Won has now played 100 rounds of golf in 3 1/2 years.”

    Better he’s on the golf course than in the Oval Office.

    Comment by Dave Surls (46b08c) — 6/18/2012 @ 7:40 pm

  28. Remember how Crawford was the soul and center of Bush’s many-many-many-and-more-than-that days away from the White House.

    If you really think the only place the President can conduct his business is in the White House, then you are an even bigger fool than everyone here has said.

    How much business is Obama getting done out on the golf course?

    How many vacations has Obama been on?

    Comment by Chuck Bartowski (e1fdd9) — 6/18/2012 @ 8:34 pm

  29. Now, uh, not so much.

    Citation needed.

    My understanding is that Bush spent a lot of time there before he was president and also after.

    Comment by Dustin (330eed) — 6/18/2012 @ 8:55 pm

  30. Larry Reilly, proud member of the MFM and JournoLister drops by to scream BBBBBBUUUUUSSSSSHHHHHH !!!!!! I blame Bush.

    Comment by JD (318f81) — 6/18/2012 @ 8:56 pm

  31. Larry Reilly has the Obama campaign theme down pat. Blame Bush.

    Comment by SPQR (26be8b) — 6/18/2012 @ 8:58 pm

  32. Gee, think of all the fake weeds growing in the Potemkin village by Crawford, Texas

    If you knew anything about the area surrounding Crawford, you’d understand there are plenty of weeds and scrub brush that a feller could dig up. No need to plant fake ones.

    You are one thoroughly ignorant s.o.b.

    Comment by Chuck Bartowski (e1fdd9) — 6/18/2012 @ 9:24 pm

  33. How about the House that Rezko built, it’s like the Adams family mansion,

    Comment by narciso (494474) — 6/18/2012 @ 9:43 pm

  34. I just wish I could play golf as much as the President because I really like to play golf.

    I have to work for a living, though.

    I tell you what, though, if I promise to solve all the world’s problems through my amazing rhetoric and cool demeanor, then everyone could vote for me to be President and it could be a win-win.

    I can say that the rich are the problem, then enjoy their dinners and money for my re-election. Then I could promise to kill the coal and oil industries while lamenting the death of the middle-class.

    I can promise to close Guantanamo and order a drone strike to kill Al-Queda operatives. I can nationalize health care and let medical operatives and insurance interests denounce life-saving tests.

    Then, I can get up all in the face of some dumb semi-journalists from some dumb Web-based news outlets just to show how important I am.

    Then, I get to play a sweet 18.

    Vote for Ag80. I can do everything the big O does at half the price. I might even go to a prayer breakfast if the price is right.

    You can’t lose. Ag80 for President.

    It really, really can’t be worse.

    Thank you for your support. I’ll see you at the tee (For a modest, tax-deductible donation. You can’t go wrong).

    Comment by Ag80 (b2c81f) — 6/18/2012 @ 9:44 pm

  35. Roger Clemens acquitted of all charges.

    Eric Holder requests a mulligan.

    Comment by Icy (85cd5d) — 6/18/2012 @ 9:45 pm

  36. They hired Algore to handle their pension funds? Must be that big LOCK BOX he has. Remember?

    Comment by Patricia (e1d89d) — 6/18/2012 @ 10:01 pm

  37. _____________________________________________

    Algore managing millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars. What could go wrong?!

    I recall the Spanish government, when still under the rule of liberals/socialists not too long ago, followed the typical green-earth pathway of throwing big bucks from the government to alternative-energy businesses.

    A researcher at a major university in Spain did a study on such a strategy, determined it was very ineffective and wasteful, and warned other countries from following in their path. This conclusion came out a few years ago, before the mess of Solyndra occurred.

    Believe it or not — or mea culpa — I do recall slightly musing that perhaps what happened in Spain wouldn’t happen in the US, because we, by comparison, were a bigger, more sophisticated country. So we therefore could — just possibly might — have a different, better experience than the Spaniards did.

    I admit that such a notion was due to a small liberal whisper in the back of my mind, and I shouldn’t have given it even one nanosecond of consideration.

    Comment by Mark (2992b3) — 6/18/2012 @ 10:40 pm

  38. Mark, and the end result was that for every “green” job the Spanish created, 2.2 real jobs were destroyed in other industries. Yet we still proceeded with Solyndra, etal. The logic, as always, is that Socialism works but those dopey foreigners just did it wrong.
    We iz Murricans and smart…

    Comment by Gazzer (de5d05) — 6/18/2012 @ 10:46 pm

  39. Obama is giving golf a bad name. You know he cheats, you know his favorite club is the foot wedge. I doubt he reads the rules of golf.

    Comment by mg (44de53) — 6/19/2012 @ 12:56 am

  40. It took Bush 8 years to play 24% of that total. I blame Bush.

    Well, DUH…

    Clearly he needed to get out and play more golf. If he had, he wouldn’t have had time to start that eeeeeevil War for Oyl in Irak.

    Comment by Smock Puppet, 10th Dan Snark Master and CRIS Diagnostic Expert (8e2a3d) — 6/19/2012 @ 1:06 am

  41. I admit that such a notion was due to a small liberal whisper in the back of my mind, and I shouldn’t have given it even one nanosecond of consideration.

    To paraphrase George Costanza:
    “Your little liberal is an idiot”.

    This, of course, is pretty much tautological, since all liberals are idiots.

    Comment by Smock Puppet, 10th Dan Snark Master and CRIS Diagnostic Expert (8e2a3d) — 6/19/2012 @ 1:09 am

  42. Michael Moore, who lambasted George W. Bush for golfing during critical times will now express his feelings on Barack “Has spent 8 to 10 times MORE time on the golf course than Bush ever did” Obama. Mr. Moore:

    . . . . .

    Mr. Moore?

    . . . . . [crickets chirp]

    Mr. Moore, do you have a comment about how often the president goes golfing, while the nation continues to suffer economically?

    . . . . . [crickets stop chirping]

    Mr. Moore, did you just eat those crickets?

    [*crunch* *crackle* *slurp*]

    Mr. Moore!

    Comment by Icy (85cd5d) — 6/19/2012 @ 1:34 am

  43. The president has scored a quadruple bogey in 3 1/2 years.
    Impeach the beast. Or start smoking Jack Herer.

    Comment by mg (44de53) — 6/19/2012 @ 2:26 am

  44. Icy

    Moore’s not responding right now because he’s busy with his latest expose:

    “Why are theater seats getting smaller”

    Comment by EricPWJohnson (e83e82) — 6/19/2012 @ 4:30 am

  45. The fix is in. Via MM and HotAir, John Effin Kerry will play Rummy in debate rehearsals.

    Makes sense, filthy rich, MAsshole, good hair, aristocratic, disconnected, airhead.

    I don’t give Shape-shifter much credit but half-wit kleptocrat metrosexual fabulist cipher he is not.

    Was Biden busy?

    Comment by gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 6/19/2012 @ 4:57 am

  46. How is it that politicians seem to get wealthier as more of the economy is subjected to political decision-making?

    And less is subjected to competition.

    Comment by Amphipolis (d3e04f) — 6/19/2012 @ 7:00 am

  47. Teh Won has now played 100 rounds of golf in 3 1/2 years. It took Bush 8 years to play 24% of that total.

    See, everyone knows that Pres Bush was “slow”.

    Maybe his love of golf is why the one is so enthusiastic about “green” jobs.

    Comment by MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 6/19/2012 @ 7:02 am

  48. Teh Won has now played 100 rounds of golf in 3 1/2 years. It took Bush 8 years to play 24% of that total. I blame Bush.

    Bush quit playing golf only two and half years into his term because of Gulf War II.
    Bush: I Quit Golf Over Iraq War

    Bush’s last round of golf as president dates back to October 13, 2003, according to meticulous records kept by CBS news.

    He decided to quit after the August 19, 2003 bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad by terrorists, which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello.

    Of course, Obama was probably already over par on October 13, 2011.

    Comment by Sammy Finkelman (cd2969) — 6/19/2012 @ 9:13 am

  49. From the Meghan article:
    This is not the first time that Meghan McCain has taken a stance at odds with her more conservative father.

    Ha! Hahahahaha! Hahahahahahahahahahahaaaahhhaaahhaha!

    Comment by Ghost (6f9de7) — 6/19/2012 @ 10:06 am

  50. her more conservative father wets his pants over ephedra – douchebag had a lot of time to think of stuff he wanted to ban and boy he made the most of it

    Comment by happyfeet (a55ba0) — 6/19/2012 @ 10:58 am

  51. Gore has no qualifications to be anyone’s investment adviser. He never studied business and never ran a business unless you call the global warming scam a business. This retirement fund is in trouble but since most of the state employees vote democrat, they are getting what they deserve.

    Comment by dunce (15d7dc) — 6/19/2012 @ 7:56 pm

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