Abbott And Costello Do Unemployment

In a thread over at the Pirate’s Cove, a regular commenter by the name of “Trish Mac” posted this gem she says was forwarded to her by her brother-in-law. (She also said she wanted it to be shared.)
h/t Raised on Hoecakes

COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in the U.S.A.

ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It’s 7.8%.

COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?

ABBOTT: No, that’s 14.7%

COSTELLO: You just said 7.8%.

Happy Birthday Mr. Vice President

Wishing you a long and prosperous life. You give us so much to work with.

Now on to 2016!

Chicks Dig Environmentalist

I wonder if Al Gore will attend the wedding?

Charles Manson, the most notorious killer of the twentieth century, has found himself a lovely young lady who is super-excited to marry him. Rolling Stone has an in-depth feature on Manson coming out in their next issue and Wednesday they dropped the surprising news of Charlie’s engagement. Here he is sporting a new Miley Cyrus haircut with his bride-to-be:

The young woman is simply named Star, a name Manson gave her. Now 25, she started following Manson’s writing at 19 and moved to be near his prison in 2007. She was initially drawn to his pro-environmental writing, and has recently carved an X into her forehead in apparent solidarity with Charlie’s own swastika marking.

“I’ll tell you straight up, Charlie and I are going to get married,” she tells Rolling Stone. “When that will be, we don’t know. But I take it very seriously. Charlie is my husband. Charlie told me to tell you this,” she continues. “We haven’t told anybody about that.”

Charlie himself seems to be having cold feet. “Oh that,” he says he says of the pressure for marriage like a typical guy. “That’s a bunch of garbage. You know that, man. That’s trash. We’re just playing that for public consumption.”

What public consumption he means isn’t exactly clear, since the couple probably won’t be registering anywhere. At any rate, married or no, the probably won’t get any conjugal visits because as Star explains, “California lifers no longer get them.”

An Open Door America

by  Frosty Woodridge

In the past week, our U.S. Congress tabled the egregious mistake of amnesty bill S744 projected to render a free pass for 20 million illegal migrants and their families. It also raises legal immigration from 1.0 million annually to 2.0 million. For the moment, the American people stand a chance of not allowing an unending flood of humanity into the United States to drive our population to over 100 million added immigrants within four decades.

At the current rate of mass legal immigration of 1.0 million annually, we remain on course to add 100 million immigrants, their children and chain-migrated relatives by 2050—a scant 37 years from now. That’s enough people to duplicate the populations of our top 20 cities within the United States.

We would have to water, house, warm, transport, feed, work, educate and medicate 100 million more people. That fact alone should sober the most optimistic individuals in America. It should cause every single one of our 535 Congressional critters to stand back to “see” the enormous tragedy their actions portend for all Americans of every race, creed or color.

The “Gang of Eight” U.S. Senators who created the amnesty bill S744 will prove some of the dumbest, most unintelligent nincompoops ever to walk the halls of Congress for their sheer stupidity in formulating that bill.

Please realize that Congress continues to push to pass amnesty. They won’t enforce our laws, our president won’t enforce our laws; but they can’t wait to legalize lawbreakers and employers who hire those lawbreakers.

What lies below the surface of adding 100 million immigrants? We know that we face horrific energy depletion with that many added persons to our civilization. But most don’t posses a clue as to what lies beneath the waters of such a population-load on America.

Today is U.N. World Toilet Day

Have You Hugged a Toilet Lately?

True Blue Liars

Lincoln and Obama

"Seven score and 10 years ago, Abraham Lincoln delivered his sacred speech on the meaning of free government. Edward Everett, a former secretary of state and the principal speaker for the consecration of the Gettysburg cemetery, instantly recognized the power of the president's 272 words. ...

Barack Obama is not scheduled to be present at Gettysburg on Tuesday to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the address. Maybe he figured that the world would little note, nor long remember, what he said there. Maybe he thought the comparisons with the original were bound to be invidious, and rightly so.

If that's the case, it would be the beginning of wisdom for this presidency. Better late than never.

The president's no-show at Gettysburg suggests he might be trying to follow Old Abe's counsel in a fruitful way: 'Better to remain silent and be thought a fool,' the Great Emancipator is reported to have said, 'than to speak and to remove all doubt." - Bret Stephens, The Wall Street Journal