Barack Obama is apparently ready to tell us his secret.

He sees dead people:

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

{CHORTLE}

Sorry. Couldn't help it.

It's worth noting that his gaffe is conveniently absent from the speech posted on his website. Those are just the prepared remarks, and who prepares to sound like an idiot?

Want to watch the clip? Here you go:



There is much liberal excuse-making for the gaffe, including the ever-popular 'he's just tired,' and a little tossing around of possible 'videoshopping.'

Wonder if a Republican would get the same latitude?

Doubt it.

On the good side, though, B-HO's vision of dead Heroes in the audience doesn't make him nearly as big a dumb@$$ as Jimmy Carter.

So he's got that going for him.

Predictably, though, the media's only focus this morning is Hillary's 'assassination' comment. Tasteless, maybe. But if the MSM hadn't dumped her for he-whose-middle-name-shall-not-be-mentioned, something tells me you wouldn't have heard about the remark at all.

Well, at least while this country is politically swirling around the bowl, we've got plenty to laugh at.

UPDATE:
Obama's got some issues with history, too - he recently told a story of his uncle liberating Auschwitz with U.S. forces. Problem is that the Soviets liberated Auschwitz.

I could allow for the fact that he just misstated the camp name...if he hadn't told the same story some time ago. Only this time, it was that the relative (who he alternately names as his uncle or his grandfather) heard the tales from the troops who had liberated Treblinka and Auschwitz, not that he'd been there.

And if you check out the link above in this update, you'll find out that Barack's mother was an only child. Apparently, his great-uncle was in the service, so maybe that's it. But that still doesn't fix the grandfather reference. And if his great-uncle and his grandfather are the same person, well, I just don't even want to go there.

Of course, there's also the possibility that he's just outright lying, and that next week, his great uncle will have - a la Dr.Evil's father - invented the question mark.

Somebody ought to get me some sort of flow chart to follow this one.


UPDATE #2: Obama has now apologized for his error. Seems the deal is that it's the great-uncle and Buchenwald.

Anyone for the great-grandfather's uncle and Buchenwitz?

Labels: B-HO, Barack Obama, humor, Jimmy Carter, Moonbats, politics

False Messiah:
And Jesus answered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you.For many will come in My name, saying, "I am the Christ," and will deceive many.

Hmmm...


Wars / Rumors of Wars:
And you will hear wars and rumors of wars.
See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will raise against nation, and Kingdom against kingdom.

OK, this is bad.


Natural Disasters:
And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.

This is worse.


Angelina Jolie:
"When I asked the troops if they wanted to go home as soon as possible, they said that they miss home but feel invested in Iraq," she wrote. "They have lost many friends and want to be a part of the humanitarian progress they now feel is possible."

Aw, crap. Truly, we are in the end times.


Seriously, when even hollywood-types say that things are working in Iraq, how good do you think they really are? And what happens to all that gain if we hand this country over to the Left in November?

Labels: Good News, humor, Iraq, Moonbats

It's rare that anything that includes the word 'torture' is funny, which makes this story all the more enjoyable. The latest accusations of 'torture' at Gitmo are downright hilarious.

What are they?

Waterboarding? Nope

Canings? Way off

Sleep deprivation? Electro-shock? Dogs? Nope, Nyet, Non.

So what is it that, thanks to Majid Khan, will be added to the list of reported instances of brutality?


Well, if you can believe it, the list includes the following:

- being forced to use unscented deodorant and shampoo

- having to play sports with a ball that did not bounce

- had his baby pictures taken away

- was not given a DVD player

- the people who cleaned his cell left marks on the walls.


Of course, that's not quite the image you get if you see the headline, A DETAINEE'S STATEMENT: Transcript alleges torture (AP)





Funniest news item of the day, though has to be the revelation that the French are officially the whiniest people on the planet:

The French have come top of a list of the world's most whining workers, beating British and Swedish employees when it comes to complaining, according to an international study on work attitudes.

The study places American workers fourth behind France, Britain, and Sweden.

Labels: Gitmo, humor, media coverage, terrorists

Kyoto's a complete travesty - basically robbery couched as environmentalism. Other methods are similarly flawed. But finally, we have a solution that I can get behind. Bet you didn't know that the U.S. military has been working to solve Global Warming - and other environmental issues - for several years now...

This past Earth Day, an advocacy group was very vocal about what they considered to be "the paramount environmental issue" - human population growth. And then there's the guy who says that humanity is a virus. Population control as a method of "saving" the Earth has been bandied about for quite a while.

Think about it - Chinese cooking fires are a major source of greenhouse gasses, and we all know how Americans are destroying the planet simply by driving SUVs. I mean, even Al Gore takes it seriously - he's put in a few of those energy-efficient light bulbs, for crying out loud! Sure, the President's got a house that heats itself geothermically, but Gore's changed his lightbulbs. If that doesn't tell you how serious this is....

And yet, in all of this global warming hullaballoo, all the flailing about for a solution, we have failed to acknowledge the significant effort our military has been putting forth...

I mean, how many terrorists and insurgents have we offed in Iraq? How many terrorists in Afghanistan?

Not only is the GWOT (or whatever political correctness will have it called) good for a free society - it's sound environmentalism!!

I am working on the t-shirts now....

Your U.S. military: Saving the planet, one dead terrorist at a time.

Labels: humor, opinion