Bill Clinton To Pull Out of Presidential Race

(TAMPA) — After a crushing defeat in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, the Democrat who campaigned most vigorously, coming into the state with the strongest organization and the best name recognition, now ponders whether to stay in the race through Super Tuesday.

Associates of former President Bill Clinton privately tell reporters they would not be surprised if he announced, as early as this week, that he’s dropping his White House bid.

“He’s not getting the kind of traction he expected,” said one unnamed Clinton campaign insider. “I guess people just aren’t ready for the kind of change Bill Clinton represents.”

Officially, the campaign still says he’s “in it for the long haul, and in it to win,” but off the record many acknowledge that he lost momentum “shortly after he opened his mouth.”

If the former president does drop out, experts believe the most likely beneficiary would be New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. — as reported by satirist Scott Ott / ScrappleFace

Polish Divorce

A Polish man moved to the USA and married an
American girl. Although his English was far from
perfect, they got along very well until one day he
rushed into a lawyer’s office and asked him if he could
arrange a divorce for him. The lawyer said that getting
a divorce would depend on the circumstances, and asked
him the following questions:

L: Have you any grounds?
P: Yes, an acre and half and nice little home.

L: No, I mean what is the foundation of this case?
P: It made of concrete.

L: I don’t think you understand. Does either of you
have a real grudge?
P: No, we have carport, and not need one.

L: I mean. What are your relations like?
P: All my relations still in Poland

L: Is there any infidelity in your marriage?
P: We have hi-fidelity stereo and good DVD player.

L: Does your wife beat you up?
P: No, I always up before her.

L: Is your wife a nagger?
P: No, she white.
L: Why do you want this divorce?
P: She going to kill me.

L: What makes you think that?
P: I got proof.

L: What kind of proof?
P: She going to poison me. She buy a bottle at
drugstore and put on shelf in bathroom. I can read,
and it say: Polish Remover!

For Whom The Bell Tolls

John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called “pullets”, and ten roosters, whose job it was to fertilize the eggs.

The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn’t perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out his efficiency reports simply by listening to the bells.

The farmer’s favorite rooster was old Butch, a very fine specimen he was, too. But on this particular morning John noticed old Butch’s bell hadn’t rung at all! J ohn went t o investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. But to Farmer John’s amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn’t ring. He’d sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one. John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result…The judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.

Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making: who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren’t paying attention.

Vote carefully…the bells are not always audible!

Head On for the Economy

This is one of the funniest animated political cartoons Mark Fiore has come up with yet. Topic? What else, The Economy Stupid !!! Flows rather well with yesterday’s Top 3 Political Cartoons of the Week ! The cartoon captures just about every sin that has contributed to the insane consumer bubble in the U.S.

Click on the graphic below to take you to Mark Fiore’s animation. It’s a hoot!!

Yep… let’s spend our way into more debt as a solution.  Create more false sense of consumer prosperity.  Much of what I am hearing is a solution where the U.S. consumer continues to contribute to what I like to call the house of “credit” cards approach being used by the world’s banking institutions. More banking ponzi schemes to prop up their other failed schemes of the past will not be a solution. Easy credit without accountability is the root cause of the crisis in confidence and unfortunately it can end very badly for the global economy as a whole.

Bailouts of banks that made POOR LENDING DECISIONS to people and companies that were bad credit risks is exactly the WRONG thing to be doing.  Short term candy will not fix the underlying issues with easy credit.  It simply reinforces bad behaviours and encourages even more ponzi schemes when that money starts flowing into the system. Enough for tonight…

Just for laughs, in case you wanted to know something about the real product in the parody… Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia…  This could stand on it’s own merits as a comedy act along with many of our politicians…

Chemical analysis has shown that the product consists almost entirely of wax. The two ingredients listed as “active”, white bryony (a type of vine) and potassium dichromate (a known carcinogen), are diluted to 1 ppt and 1 ppm respectively.[9] This amount of dilution is so great that the product has been described as a placebo. Each 0.2-ounce stick contains a “12X” concentration of white bryony. That means that the whole stick contains 1 part of ingredient in 1 trillion parts of wax - equivalent to 5.670 picograms of ingredient.[citation needed]

Seymour Diamond, director of the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago and the inpatient headache unit at St. Joseph Hospital, has been quoted as saying “I see nothing in this product that has any validity whatsoever.”[10] Consumer Reports states that no clinical-trial data involving HeadOn have been presented, and that “any apparent efficacy may be the result of the placebo effect.”[11] —- Original Source

Top 3 Political Cartoons Of The Week

Here’s our picks for the top 3 political cartoons of the week. This week’s theme is the “economy stupid” !!

Looks like all that fast and easy credit of the last decade is coming back to pay it’s respects. What was it again that they called that era before the Great Depression of the 1930’s? The “Roaring Twenties”?Does anyone see history repeating itself? Sobering.

The Clinton Pattern

2008 Projected A Good Year For Iraqi Economy

Here is a story you won’t see either the MSM or the Democrats putting in front of the general voter population in the U.S. any time soon. It seems that Iraq is forcasted by both the International Monetary Fund and the U.N. to experience significant economic growth in 2008. Here is their explanation for why.

Iraqi oil workers

The IMF sees 7% growth in 2008 and a similar rise next year, and says oil revenues from buoyant exports should be up by 200,000 barrels a day.

The UN envoy to Iraq welcomed dialogs between the Sunni and Shia communities and praised the government’s work.

But analysts warn much depends on rapid progress in the next six to 12 months.

The change in the political mood is largely down to the passing of a law on Saturday, enabling some members of the Baath Party of Saddam Hussain to re-enter the military and bureaucracy, our correspondent says.

They were barred from public service by one of the first acts of the US-run Coalition Provisional Administration.

The law reversing that expulsion, combined with the sharp fall in violence in much of Iraq, has led to greater optimism. — [Hat Tip: BBC]

The U.N. is no supporter of the U.S. or the Bush administration, but even they can’t ignore the fact that the war in Iraq has become mostly a mop up operation. The government there is beginning to form some internal alliances within the splintered political parties and with the possibility of a future with economic prosperity, that may be exactly what is needed.

The real hero appears to be General Petraeus, but let’s NOT FORGET that it was John McCain that called for more troops on the ground LONG BEFORE the “Surge” and criticized Rumsfeld’s handling of the war.

New Clinton Campaign Bumper Sticker

We had to share this with you because frankly it was just too much to pass up!! Just imagine these flooding the U.S. highway system all summer if she beats Obama. Hillary’s head would explode! A stroke of genius regardless of what side of the aisle you are on…

Consider this an addendum to the previous post We give a hat tip to Milkof Malfeasence over at LGF. Outstanding…  Digg for no other reason than the entertainment value

Top 3 Monica Lewinsky Cartoons Revisted

A quick trip down “MemoryLane” with the Clintons and Monica…  lest we forget. Especially on the heals of the Clinton campaign dirty tricks regarding some drug use incident of Obama’s past…  this coming from the man who “didn’t inhale” and likes to speak about fairy tales !!  We are not Obama supporters but we are sure getting a good laugh out of the Democratic Campaign.

We thought we would throw in one extra we found on the web from their college days… back when Obama was still a twinkle in his parent’s eyes… and John McCain was being tortured in Vietnam serving his country.

Makes for a great Christmas Card photo don’t you think?

Speaking of Fairy Tales