2008: Year In Pictures

Taking a look at the rest is more emotional than you might expect.

JibJab’s 2008 in Review

Text Messages Have Been Ripping You Off…And Making Your Hemoglobin Leak

From Gizmodo via NYT:

“Cost to telco: $0.00. Cost to customers: $0.20. Number of text messages sent per year (worldwide): 2.5 trillion. We’ll leave you to do the math. Suffice it to say that  printer ink market now looks like a bargain.”

And this news that Cellphones cause tumors, hemoglobin leaks, kidney stones, and heart disease.

On second thought…DON’T EVER CALL ME AGAIN!

Israeli researchers in the study found that regular cellphones users are a whopping 50 percent more likely than non-users to get brain tumors. Another Interphone study looking at the UK and Scandinavia found a 40 percent greater tumor risk in people who’ve used cellphones for over 10 years, though on the bright side, nothing scary for people who’ve used them for less than a decade.

During the study, scientists exposed samples of blood to varying degrees of microwave radiation (including levels well below those emitted by cellphones) for periods between ten to 60 hours. No matter how you cut it, the result was hemoglobin leakage (which just sounds nasty). Obviously, heart disease is the most serious condition of the two, but I can tell you from experience that you don’t want any part of a kidney stone either. Those things could make even Chuck Norris cry like a little girl.

PopSci’s assessment of the gravity of the situation is close to spot-on—definitive proof that cellphones cause cancer would probably be the along the same lines as discovering that tobacco causes cancer, but you know, huger, since almost everyone uses a cellphone, from pre-schoolers to grandmas. I guess it’s a good thing I rarely use my iPhone for talking. How would you react if cellphones definitely caused cancer? [Pop Sci]

So there you have it.

Farrakhan: “These Satanic Jews Have Taken Over BET”

One of Obama’s “neighbors,” the man who called the President-elect, “America’s blessing” is at it again with his virulent anti-Semitism.   Here’s the disgusting video at worldstarhiphop.com.  Apparently those satanic Jews even stole black folks’ “hair product companies.”

Since we all know we can’t discuss whether Obama likes Farrakhan, we’ll leave questions of, what Farrakhan sees in Obama, aside.

“But you gonna take Denzell… One of our BRIGHTEST stars… That you gave an OSCAR to… NOT FOR THE MOVIE MALCOLM X [Editor's Note: You mean that guy you helped kill?]… Not for the movie THE BONE COLLECTOR… Yoooooooouuuuuu gave him an Oscar for playing a corRUPted black policeman.  …You didn’t give Halle Berry an Oscar for her many wonderful roles… [Editor’s Note: ...such as?] But you gave her an Oscar for her nasty little role with a white man.”

JewTube To Show Depravity Of Palestinians. Will YouTube Censor As Usual?

From Newsbusters

In an obvious attempt to counter the typically anti-Israeli sentiment prevalent throughout the international media whenever Israel defends itself, the Israel Defense Forces launched its own YouTube channel Monday.

As most impartial Americans are aware, old and new media were used against Israel in 2006 to foment international criticism of its attacks on Lebanon not the least of which was a Reuters photographer caught doctoring pictures.

With this in mind, as reported by the Jerusalem Post Tuesday, the IDF plans on being much more proactive this time in making the international community completely aware of what’s really going on with Israel’s recent military response in the Gaza Strip (video example embedded right):

Atlas UPDATES: The answer is YES, THEY WILL CENSOR:

What good does it do to show the same Palestinian on 6 or 7 different gurneys and IDF videos of rocket launchers located on kindergarten playgrounds?

Over at Israel Matzav:

YouTube takes down IDF’s most popular videos

Yesterday, the IDF opened a YouTube account.

I just got an email indicating that because YouTube has removed the IDF’s most popular videos, the IDF spokesperson’s office has opened an account at LiveLeak instead.

Noah Pollak has more.

This was apparently too much for YouTube, which moments ago removed several videos from the IDF’s channel, including the most-watched video, which showed a group of Hamas goons being blown up in an air strike as they loaded Katyusha missiles onto a truck. The point of such footage, as if it needed to be said, is not to revel in violence — it is to show the legitimacy of Israeli self-defense.

The rank double-standard that YouTube has applied to Israel is disturbing. YouTube hosts all manner of similar footage — much of it far more gory than the grainy infrared images posted by the IDF — of U.S. air strikes. Why is YouTube capitulating to those who do not wish for Israel to be able to tell its side of the story?

Why am I not surprised?
In any event, LiveLeak is much more willing to post non-PC material, and I will try to do my part to get the word out.

The Man With No Regard For The Law

Forgetting the fact that he is ignoring about two dozen lawsuits that could be easily routed, it’s pretty clear one of Obama’s expertise is in the field of exploiting loopholes.

Here he is illegally disposing of the “typical white person,” 2 months after she died.

Think this might make national news if it was Bush?

United States Of Pop Music: Top 25 of 2008 Mashup

DJ Earworm put this video mashup together.  It’s pretty impressive.

thanks to Yepyep.com

Sarah Palin Repeats ‘You Know’ 142 Times In Interview

Now, she’s gonna be all over Saturday Night Live and get lambasted by every corporate media outlet.

Errr not.

In truth, it was Caroline Schlossberg Kennedy who in spite of these blunders, and no one knowing anything about her, garners at least the minimal respect of, not being labeled, “an idiot.”

It must be because she doesn’t have a Midwestern accent and she doesn’t moose hunt.

In related news; congratulations to Sarah Palin who recently graduated to GILF status with the arrival of her grandson.  Palin is the 2nd most admired woman in America behind Hillary Clinton in a new USA Today/Gallop Poll and her 2009 calendar is Amazon’s best selling office product.

As a side note, we’d like to tell everyone misogynist liberals to lay off Sarah Palin.  She didn’t put herself in the spotlight.  She was asked by a potential President for her service, and everyone knows she wasn’t a four year old girl living as a citizen in Jakarta when she decided the White House was her destiny (and not having a paper trail was the way to get there).

UPDATE: Palin was voted most desirable celebrity neighbor.

UPDATE: Video of Caroline Kennedy sounding like a moose-hunting, red state, bumbling idiot.

75% Of Pakistani Britons Are Married To Their First Cousins.

100% of the Muslim inbreds are protesting Israel’s siege against genocidal Hamas, and none of them protested the terror attacks in Mumbai.

Correlation?

Also, it was just released that many of the victims, including the Rabbi and his wife were sexually mutilated by the Islamo-barbarians.

Interesting, I’ve always said that Jews and Muslims were cousins.

Nice scarf, lady.  I heard they’re all the rage in chilly socialite circles.

Link here.

A Gas Tax We All Can Live With

Charles Krauthammer has some things in common with Obama’s Energy Secretary. He thinks gas should be more expensive.

Last June, he wrote a very insightful piece when gas prices hit 4$ a gallon, saying it was a natural breaking point that coerced Americans to make better choices ie. buying hybrids, driving less, etc.

Now, with the fall of gas prices that has America saving $1 Billion/day, he has amended his theory:

Today we are experiencing a unique moment. Oil prices are in a historic free fall from a peak of $147 a barrel to $39 today. In July, U.S. gasoline was selling for $4.11 a gallon. It now sells for $1.65. With $4 gas still fresh in our memories, the psychological impact of a tax that boosts the pump price to near $3 would be far less than at any point in decades. Indeed, an immediate $1 tax would still leave the price more than one-third below its July peak.

The rub, of course, is that this price drop is happening at a time of severe recession. Not only would the cash-strapped consumer rebel against a gas tax. The economic pitfalls would be enormous. At a time when overall consumer demand is shrinking, any tax would further drain the economy of disposable income, decreasing purchasing power just when consumer spending needs to be supported.

What to do? Something radically new. A net-zero gas tax. Not a freestanding gas tax but a swap that couples the tax with an equal payroll tax reduction. A two-part solution that yields the government no net increase in revenue and, more importantly–that is why this proposal is different from others–immediately renders the average gasoline consumer financially whole.

Here is how it works. The simultaneous enactment of two measures: A $1 increase in the federal gasoline tax–together with an immediate $14 a week reduction of the FICA tax. Indeed, that reduction in payroll tax should go into effect the preceding week, so that the upside of the swap (the cash from the payroll tax rebate) is in hand even before the downside (the tax) kicks in.

The math is simple. The average American buys roughly 14 gallons of gasoline a week. The $1 gas tax takes $14 out of his pocket. The reduction in payroll tax puts it right back. The average driver comes out even, and the government makes nothing on the transaction.The point of a high U.S. gas tax is to suppress domestic demand and thus suppress the world price. Low world prices are a huge blow to overseas producers, particularly ones with relatively large populations, nationalized industries that are increasingly inefficient, and budgetary obligations built on the expectation of a continuing energy bonanza. Countries such as Russia, Venezuela, and Iran.

A UBS analysis estimates that Iran and Venezuela need $90 oil to balance their budgets. And at $70, according to Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin, Russia goes into deficit. It is now draining the reserves built up during the fat years. At current oil prices, Russia will soon become a debtor nation. The World Bank’s lead economist for Russia, Zeljko Bogetic, said on December 19 that at $30 a barrel, “financing constraint would become so sharp that it’s possible even to envisage Russia’s return from a creditor to international organizations to [that of] a borrower.” This will be a far humbler Russia than the one that invaded Georgia, built a nuclear reactor in Iran, threatens Poland and the Czech Republic, and is reestablishing naval bases in such former Soviet satellites as Syria.

The Russian navy just made calls in Nicaragua and Cuba. It has conducted joint exercises with Venezuela in an open challenge to America. These are, as yet, not serious threats. But with a stronger Russia and Venezuela, they could be. The projection of power is very expensive, as Americans very well know. Oil at $39 would simply starve Russia and Venezuela of the means to sustain this adventurism.

Similarly Iran, which is already under sanctions, already suffering high inflation, already the subject of popular discontent over corruption and economic mismanagement. All this was cushioned by high oil prices. They allowed the Islamic republic to act like the regional superpower, giving military and financial support to Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, “special groups” and Sadrist militias in Iraq, and various other terrorists. And, of course, oil revenues permit the continued large-scale operation of Iran’s nuclear weapons development program.

And finally there is the environmental effect. If anthropogenic global warming is real, a reduction in driving and increase in fuel-efficiency is an unvarnished good. If anthropogenic global warming is as yet unproved, as I happen to believe, then the reduction in CO2 pumped into the atmosphere is a reasonable bet in conditions of uncertainty.

With recent news that Americans are saving 1billion dollars a day due to low gas prices, it’s hard to understand why anyone would want to raise gas prices just for the sake of it. But, that’s exactly how it’s being proposed by liberals in Obama’s Cabinet, the “progressives” who wish to slow economies and thus, are anti-progress.

It takes a rational conservative brain to combine the “good intentions” of a liberal plan with sound logic to make sure it doesn’t backfire and hurt Americans.

I believe that’s what Mr. Krauthammer has just done.

Which Came First; Childish Thinking Or Liberal Thinking?

Yesterday, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette commenced a new series that will continue through inauguration day.  Throughout the month, readers will be indulged with hope as they read child-like children’s suggestions to the President-elect.

Now, when OutOfTheBlu was a youngster, he was a bit of a Marxist; thinking he could work at a Ferrari factory while his friends worked as  mansion builders and other friends cooked baseball-shaped, filet mignons.  Then, we could all share for free and really live it up!  So, while we’re certainly not surprised at the overwhelmingly liberal themes of the letters, we are concerned that the usual naive (see liberal) nature of children is being used by educators as an incubating device for the Democrats.

Unfortunately, the letters are so deranged and so smothered in liberalism, it begs the question of who is teaching who.  Fix up the grammar and vocabulary, and these 10 year-olds sound exactly like Ivy League professors.

Hey, all we ever really needed to know, we learned in kindergarten!

Here’s an up close look at tomorrow’s adorable Marxist, fascist liberals.

Dear President-Elect Obama,

I am a fifth-grade student at Liberty Elementary School. I am writing to you for a school project. These are some things I think you should do while you’re in office.

My family discusses alternative energy a lot. I think you need to look into it, such as solar panels and wind power. We need to get them at lower, less expensive prices so more people will be willing to buy it. We should also get more organizations that sell alternative energy. It would be nice to get totally electric automobiles, but that can’t happen quickly so you could start with having a law that cars, trucks and other things like that have to have a certain miles per gallon.

Another thing I think is very important is to get out of the war in Irack. Many lives would be saved and it would show that the government cares for its people. Families would be happy to be together again and they would thank you and the rest of the government. There would be a lot more money going to other things such as alternative energy, schooling and libraries.

The last thing I encourage you to do is put more money into schools. There is one school I go to on Fridays. The work there is more challenging and interesting. I think school should be fun for everyone, not just the advanced kids. These are the things I thought of to raise grades and make kids not despise school days.

You could put people into level groups. The high- and medium-graded people would work together, and the low and rest of the medium people would work together. One of my teachers told me there was research about group teaching and kids learned most this way. The medium-level kids brought their grade up to an advanced grade and the low-level kids brought their grade up to a medium level.

Teachers should be able to improvise more. They could make it more interesting. If it is interesting kids will want to go to school, not dread it. It will also make them pay closer attention.

The last way I thought of to help raise grades is having a few periods in each day when medium and advanced kids go to a different class. Then the teachers can focus on kids who take a little more time to really learn the lesson well, and not be distracted by the kids who finish their work quickly. At the same time, the other kids can be doing more challenging work so they are learning, rather than doing the same repetitive things over and over again.

I hope, even though I am just a child, you consider what I have said. It may prove helpful to you in the future.

Maya Lapp, age 10

Dear President-Elect Barack Obama,

This letter is to give you some ideas about what you can do to help our country’s economy. One thing you can do is try to stop the Iraq war. It would be a good idea to stop the war because a lot of money goes into the war, which means taxes have a 95 percent chance of going up.

Besides that, we are losing lots of people in the war, which means that a lot of children are being left behind without a parent. Also, a lot of young adults are being killed in the war.

One more thing that can help to improve our economy is to prepare children for the future by improving the school system and its technology.

Thank you very much for your time.

Sincerely,
Maria Vaccarello, age 10

Dear President-Elect Barack Obama,

Here are two major problems in the U.S. that you can try to fix.

The first one is pollution. A lot of animals are dying because of pollution. Fish are dying from garbage being dumped into their habitat. People are dumping barrels of toxins into the oceans and many sea animals are losing food.

Another problem in the U.S. is global warming. In the future, all the land will be flooded with water because the icebergs are melting and the sea level is rising.

Anna Devinney, age 10

Thanks to Newsbusters.org

5 Hateful Lies About Bush

Myth 1: The last eight years were awful for most Americans economically and President Bush’s deregulatory policies caused the current financial crisis.

Myth 2: President Bush’s tax cuts only benefited the wealthy and were paid for by sacrificing investments in health care and education.

Myth 3: The President’s “go it alone” foreign policy ruined America’s standing in the world.

Myth 4: The war in Iraq caused us to “take our eye off the ball” in Afghanistan and with al Qaeda.

Myth 5: This Administration has been bad for the environment and ignored the problem of global warming.

For a solid debunking of these liberal lies that have been promulgated in nearly every newspaper, movie, and nearly every classroom in America, check this out.

UPDATE: Today, quite randomly, the NYT lavishly praised Bush’s health care initiatives. Good thing they didn’t say anything about it over the past few years.  Unreal.

Although the number of uninsured and the cost of coverage have ballooned under his watch, President Bush leaves office with a health care legacy in bricks and mortar: he has doubled federal financing for community health centers, enabling the creation or expansion of 1,297 clinics in medically underserved areas….

As governor of Texas, Mr. Bush came to admire the missionary zeal and cost-efficiency of the not-for-profit community health centers, which qualify for federal operating grants by being located in designated underserved areas and treating patients regardless of their ability to pay. He pledged support for the program while campaigning for president in 2000 on a platform of “compassionate conservatism.”

In Mr. Bush’s first year in office, he proposed to open or expand 1,200 clinics over five years (mission accomplished) and to double the number of patients served (the increase has ended up closer to 60 percent). With the health centers now serving more than 16 million patients at 7,354 sites, the expansion has been the largest since the program’s origins in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s war on poverty, federal officials said.

“My Humps, My Humps, My Lovely…CAMEL Humps?!”

Camels will be fluttering their long eyelashes and swaying their giant humps in the Al Dhafrah Festival to celebrate Bedouin culture. As much as $40 million (AED) and 143 trucks will be given away.

Thousands of camels from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other countries have entered the beauty contest, where camels are assessed on strict criteria including the curvature of their ears, the size of their nose relative to the rest of the face and the fullness of hump.

Elsewhere in the Arab world:

The First Ever Christmas Celebration In Baghdad

Weird, we’ve heard Hussein (Saddam), was a peaceful secular type!  Why would this be the first Christmas there?

While most of the corporate media ignored it, CNN touted the first Christmas celebration in Baghdad like they were the ones who provided it.  Moments later, they likely called American soldiers “war criminals,” and berated Bush and General “Betray-us” for their childish dreams of, “spreading of Democracy and peace to the Arab world.”

Interior Ministry spokesman Major-General Abdul Karim Khalaf, greeted CNN reporters with a big smile. “All Iraqis are Christian today!” he says.

The Christmas celebration has tables loaded with cookies and cakes. Families fill plates and chat in the warm winter sun. Santa balloons hang from trees. An artist uses oil paint to create a portrait of Jesus.

In the middle of the park there’s an art exhibit, the creation of 11- and 12-year-olds: six displays, each about three feet wide, constructed of cardboard and Styrofoam, filled with tiny dolls dressed like ordinary people, along with model soldiers and police. They look like model movie sets depicting everyday life in Baghdad.

Afnan, 12 years old, shows me her model called “Arresting the Terrorists.”

“These are the terrorists,” she tells me. “They were trying to blow up the school.” In the middle of the street a dead “terrorist” sprawls on the asphalt, his bloody arm torn from his body by an explosion. Afnan tells me she used red nail polish to paint the blood. A little plastic dog stands nearby. “What is he doing?” I ask. “He looks for terrorists and searches for weapons and explosives,” Afnan says.

Her mother, the children’s art teacher, Raja, shows me another child’s display called “Baghdad Today.”

“This is a wedding,” Raja explains. “Despite the terrorism, our celebrations still go ahead. This is a park, families enjoying time. And this is a market where people go shopping without fear of bombings. This is a mosque where people can pray with no fear.”

In the middle is a black mound that looks like a body bag. Policemen and Interior Ministry forces surround it. “This is terrorism,” she tells me. “We killed it and destroyed it, and our lives went back to normal.”

Amazing.

UPDATE: Iraq has made Christmas a national holiday.  Next thing you know they’ll be pissing off liberals with their Christian religiosity.  Lord knows they don’t care about any other religion’s offenses.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Even though we personally don’t celebrate Christmas, we recognize the integral part Christianity has played in this great nation and, absolutely love the holiday spirit.  We wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas.  May all of you and your families be blessed!

PS. Don’t let the liberal scientists ruin your day with their stupid warnings about Christmas lights and the environment…or the ones that say Christmas feasts lead to “climate change.”

When Mexican Beauty Queens Get Caught Ridin’ Dirty

Get this girl on reality TV right now.  Matter of fact, get her Obama’s Senate seat.

One of the most caliente Mexicans we’ve ever seen, Laura(?) Zuniga, got a little too gangsterish in a Mexican smuggler’s truck that was caught with two AR-15 assault rifles, 38 specials, 9mm handguns, nine magazines, 633 cartridges and $53,300 in U.S. currency.

Zuniga told police that she was planning on traveling to Bolivia and Colombia to go shopping.

Um, earth to Senorita Zuniga!!!  Shopping in Bolivia?  Like, that’s what Minneapolis and the Mall of America is for! Ok, mami?

Holla’!

And in case Miss Zuniga is out there; Um, la tierra a Zúñiga Señorita! Ir de compras en Bolivia? Como, que es lo que es de Minneapolis y el Mall de America es para! Bueno, mami poco sucio?

Grita’!

Hanukkah Post Of The Day. Rudolph’s Cousin, Buckstein.

Sorry for the belated address!

Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish readers!

Offensive Holiday Post Of The Day

There, now it can be in your head all day too.

“Lipstick Effect” Reaffirms Pouty Economic Times

From the UK Telegraph

The theory assumes that, in a crisis or when consumer trust in the economy is low, people will buy goods that have less impact on their available funds. Women buy lipstick and men spend money on items like gadgets rather than new cars.  After the 9/11 attacks on the US sales of lipstick doubled.  Recent sales figures from some of the world’s big cosmetic companies – L’Oréal, Beiersdorf and Shiseido – bear out the theory. In the first half of the year L’Oréal sales were up 5.3 per cent.  The theory was first identified in the Great Depression. Between 1929 and 1933 industrial production in the US halved but sales of cosmetics rose.

Wii Would Like To…Stay Out Of The Hospital?

From Foxnews.com

“British doctors are warning people this holiday season to be careful while playing Wii.  Up to 10 devastatingly unathletic idiots people a week end up in hospitals after managing to injure themselves while playing.

“There has been a 100 percent increase in patients complaining of Wii-itis,” Dr. Dev Mukerjee of Broomfield Hospital, Essex, told The Sun newspaper.

“It’s possible Wii-itis may lead to rheumatism or arthritis later in life. Patients often have inflamation of the shoulder or wrist,” said Dr. Mukerjee.

Another common injury is dubbed Wii-knee, blamed on the bending of the knee from the Wii-Fit game. This involves a special platform and a series of movements ranging from yoga to strength-training moves.

In extreme cases, the kneecap can be dislocated or pop out of joint.

Doctors treat Wii-knee with cortisone injections, icing, and anti-inflammatory painkillers. Treatment can last for three months.

So, what to do?  As with any exercise program, doctors advise stretching exercises before play.”

In related news, England’s universal health care has been rationing its services and turning away the old and obese.