Carlos Danger's Campagin Manager Calls it Quits

Fox News 

"New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner confirmed Sunday that his campaign manager had quit amid a week of scandal over revelations of his lewd online behavior. It was part of a rough day for Weiner as the scandal entered its second week in the news cycle. Weiner was blasted on the Sunday political talk-show circuit......"

Bob Schieffer of CBS' "Face the Nation"gives the best reason I have heard for Carlos to be denied his ambitions :

"The mayor of New York is not only the most powerful municipal post in America, but because New York is so big and is the media capital of the world, the mayor of New York occupies a bully pulpit, second in 'bullyishness' only to that of the White House."

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Carlos, you have more then proven yourself worthy of the title 'Perverted Scumbag Douche Nozzle Politician Par Excellence' that we always knew you were as a congressman. With tearful eyes you lied to your constituency and deceived your wife, and don't deserve a position of power like that of the Mayor of NY City. Throw in the towel........NO WAIT.......keep the towel on, we've seen enough already.  I suggest you take your scrawny pencil neck and little photogenic pee pee and go get an honest job for a change.....something worthy of your given integrity, like a cashier at a XXX movie theater......

Mammary McCain Lands New TV Show

Associated Press - Meghan McCain is getting her own show on a new TV network targeting the generation of Americans known as millennials.

 "Raising McCain" will debut on Pivot, a general entertainment network that launches Aug. 1. It's described as a documentary-talk series for viewers ages 15 to 34. McCain will star and serve as executive producer.

The 28-year-old author and blogger told the Television Critics Association on Friday that the show lets her "be crazy, be myself and talk about issues. I came to Pivot because I think there has to be some sort of middle ground between the Kardashians and C-SPAN," McCain said. "I want to give people information but not talk down to them. I am so excited. This is the best thing I've ever done."

 McCain said her 76-year-old father, Republican Sen. John McCain, has already seen a highlight reel of her show. "We have had conflicts many times. He did not love when I worked at MSNBC," she said. "He has really been a great champion of this show and believing that young people want more substance."

The younger McCain, who is also a Republican, calls her generation the most politically engaged.

"I believe in more than this country is being given in news and entertainment," she said.

Detroit vs. Houston: Laboratories for Liberalism, Conservatism

By Timothy Lee

Liberals incessantly claim fealty to “science,” while falsely caricaturing libertarians and conservatives as the ones stubbornly ideological and averse to real-world facts. Scientific method, however, involves objective observation and testing beliefs against results. In that vein, it is liberals who prove habitually impervious to facts and the disastrous real-world results of their philosophies.  

Take gun control as one recurring example. Liberals persist in their anti-Second Amendment crusade despite irrefutable data that America’s murder rate has been cut in half over the past three decades even while gun possession has reached record highs and firearms restrictions have drastically receded across America. Data proves that jurisdictions that relax gun restrictions become safer, whereas jurisdictions that tighten gun restrictions become more dangerous. According to Dr. John Lott, Jr., he has not encountered a single example either in the United States or abroad that contradicts that causal relationship. Not one.

As another example, liberals cling to anthropomorphic global warming hyperbole, even as worldwide temperatures have plateaued over the past two decades. According to their hypothesis, enormous increases in carbon output should have proportionately increased temperatures over that two-decade period. And now, the bankrupt city of Detroit provides the latest real-world laboratory application of liberals’ agenda. 

After all, if tasked with drawing up a policy wish list, liberals would include almost all of the practices that were implemented by Detroit over the past 50 years.

During that span, the city has exclusively elected Democrats as mayors, including the extremist and racially divisive Coleman Young for 20 years. It maintained the third-highest income tax in the nation, and just last year doubled its business tax. Liberals assert that labor unions boost prosperity and benefit workers, and Detroit has remained as hospitable to unions as any city in America. Its municipal employee force was approximately twice as large per capita as other large cities, and its leaders repeatedly agreed to lavish public employee retirement commitments.

According to liberals, those are precisely the things that should bring prosperity.

Instead of prosperity, however, those policies have pulverized Detroit into what we see today. Since 1950, when it was America’s manufacturing powerhouse after producing a huge portion of the arms that won World War II, its population has plummeted from 1.8 million to 700,000. Four out of every ten streetlights don’t even function, and in the past five years alone 70% of its parks have closed. Its crime rate is five times the national average, and its police force has been slashed by 40% in just the past ten years.

In comparison, the thriving city of Houston provides a real-world laboratory for conservative principles. It maintains a regulatory light touch and low taxes, refusing to raise tax rates during the post-recession budget shortfall. “I’d argue we may be the most libertarian city in America,” says Houston Strategies blogger Tory Gattis. “Live and let live, strong property rights, not much corruption, small-business culture.” Unsurprisingly, Houston has prospered. As summarized by The Wall Street Journal in its interview of Mayor Annise Parker: 

“For the calendar year ending in February, it saw the fastest pace of job growth (4.5%) among the country’s 20 largest metropolitan areas. (With a population of 2.1 million, it’s the fourth-largest U.S. city.) In 2011, the last year such data are available, Houston had the fastest-growing large metropolitan economy, at 3.7%. Add to that a cost of living that is 7.8% below the U.S. average – New York is 53.4% above the average – and you can see the attraction for waves of new arrivals. Houston costs run a third less than the average in the 29 largest metro areas. Adjusting for lower costs, Houston has the highest per-capita income of any city in the nation.”  

Confronted with these facts, liberals might scapegoat the domestic auto industry’s decline for Detroit’s ills and attribute Houston’s prosperity to the oil industry. But that doesn’t withstand scrutiny. Pittsburgh witnessed a similar decline in the steel industry, yet it and other Midwestern cities prosper relative to Detroit. Moreover, auto manufacturing itself thrives in more business-friendly Sun Belt states. Note also that Ford Motor Company refused the big-government federal bailout and as a result is today more valuable than General Motors and Chrysler combined in terms of market and estimated values. As for Houston, the energy sector has actually decreased from 90% of its economy just 20 years ago to half today. So that doesn’t explain its prosperity.

If liberalism worked, then Detroit and Houston would be reversed. Instead, Detroit has unraveled over the past 50 years into a morass of dysfunction, crime, blight and bankruptcy while Houston has prospered.

The two cities serve as laboratories of policy, and the results should be clear to liberals as well as conservatives. Finally accepting that reality can mean fewer future Detroits, and more Houstons.

I’m Barack Obama, and I’m Angry to be Here

White House Dossier

"I wonder if, when you just get to the center of Obama, what you find is an angry guy.

It pops up in so many ways – ways we haven’t seen with previous presidents since . . . well, since you know who. Nixon.

It doesn’t take a German psychoanalyst to know that someone like Obama, whose father abandoned him and whose mother was gone for years at a time, might have something to be upset about. It shouldn’t be too surprising that this man, who presented himself as the King of Cool and the Apostle of Hope in 2008, is really not all that nice.

But it’s amazing how enduring the goodly images Obama created for himself are. You’d think the former senator from Illinois sprouted up out of a cornfield instead of the putrid muck of Chicago politics.

Obama reveals himself all the time in his treatment of opponents, whether offering them backhanded compliments for their “sincere” belief in greed and fleecing others, or campaigning against them as “enemies” in need of punishment for wanting to place immigrants in Gulags, keep the masses from getting a proper education, let patients die in the waiting room because they can’t make the co-pay, and so forth.

In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen the anger press through the surface into sharp relief.........."    

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U.S.Postal Service to Issue Weiner Stamps

A Special Limited Edition
Carlos Danger Stamp
to be issued to collectors 

MFNS - The U.S. Postal Service today announced it will be issuing a new series of commemorative postage stamps featuring the controversial Anthony Weiner “selfies” – the naughty pictures the former congressman took of himself and tweeted to admirers around the country. The stamps will be the first featured issuing of the post office's “American Scandals” series.

“We’ve been working really hard to come of with innovative ways to increase our revenue,” said a USPS spokesperson, “and we believe this stamp series will be hugely popular with postal customers of every age".  Elliot Spitzer, General Petraeus and Bill & Hillary Clinton will be among the first featured on upcoming stamps, along with several former postal employees.

“These are ‘Forever Stamps,’ explained the spokesperson. “Despite whatever the postal rate is in the future, you can stick your commemorative Weiner to an envelope and send it anywhere in the U.S.A.”

“Americans didn’t invent sleaze,” he added, “but these stamps are testament that we do it better than anyone.”

Muslim Man Gets Facial Surgery After Horse He Tried Having Sex with Kicks Him in the Head......

"When it comes to sex it seems Muslim men seem to live by the saying of any port in a storm and have no boundaries where they get it regardless of whether its morally or legally right.To their warped minds anything is fair game, consensual or by force, of legal age or under age, dead or alive,human or animal......."

"Turns out a North African muslim immigrant in Almeria, Spain was feeling a bit frisky thought he would rape a horse. Having already been disturbed twice before by the farmer he must of hoped it was 3rd time lucky......"

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