The Magical Misery Tour

The one.  The only.
Magical Mystery Tour.

Just for the record, I'm not a huge Mitt Romney fan.  This being said, the man (or his staff), understands marketing and messaging. 

Just came across the following while eating lunch moments ago - come on THIS is funny...

Click here for the original link:  Magical Misery Tour Shirts

With sincere apologies to The Beatles...

Magical Misery Tour

Roll up, roll up for the magical misery tour, step right this way.
Roll up, roll up for the misery tour.
Roll up, roll up for the misery tour.
Roll up (AND) THAT'S AN INVITATION, roll up for the misery tour.
Roll up TO MAKE A RESERVATION, roll up for the misery tour.

The magical misery tour is waiting to take you away,
Waiting to take you away.

Roll up, roll up for the misery tour.
Roll up, roll up for the misery tour.
Roll up GOT EVERYTHING YOU NEED, roll up for the misery tour.
Roll up SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, roll up for the misery tour.

The magical misery tour is hoping to take you away,
Hoping to take you away.
A misery trip.
The magical misery tour.

Roll up, roll up for the misery tour.
Roll up (AND) THAT'S AN INVITATION, roll up for the misery tour.
Roll up TO MAKE A RESERVATION, roll up for the misery tour.

The magical misery tour is coming to take you away,
Coming to take you away.
The magical misery tour is dying to take you away,
Dying to take you away, take you today.

Go ahead, listen to the original, you know you want to.  It'll remind you of happier times.

Yeah, I'm ALL for that...



UPDATE:  Yeah, I guess it was only a matter of time...

Bonus Song!!! 

Obama Bus

Every day I get in the queue (Too much, Obama Bus)

To get on the bus that takes me away from you (Too much, Obama Bus)

I'm so cocky I just sit and smile (Too much, Obama Bus)

Martha's Vineyard is only another mile (Too much, Obama Bus)

Thank you, driver, for getting us here (Too much, Obama Bus)

You'll be a Transportation Czar, have no fear (Too much, Obama Bus)

I don't want to cause no fuss (Too much, Obama Bus)

But can those people there buy my Obama Bus? (Too much, Obama Bus)

Nooooooooo!

I don't care how much they pay (Too much, Obama Bus)

I wanna drive this bus to over voters each day (Too much, Obama Bus)

I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it ... (You can't have it!)

Thruppence and sixpence every day

Just to drive my spending 

Thruppence and sixpence each day

'Cause I drive my agenda every way

Obama Bus, Obama Bus, Obama Bus ...

I said, now I've got my Obama Bus (Too much, Obama Bus)

I said, now I've got my Obama Bus (Too much, Obama Bus)

I drive this country every way (Too much, Obama Bus)

Each time I go the same old way (Too much, Obama Bus)

I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it ...

Every day you'll see the dust (Too much, Obama Bus)

As I rob the country blind in my Obama Bus (Too much, Obama Bus)

Yeah, I'm a Racist -- Right, Got It...

Less than two years ago Janet Napolitano's Right Wing Extremist Risk Assessment made its way into the media (by accident). 

You remember it, right?  

In case you've forgotten, here's a refresher for you:  

"It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the report said.


Yes, if you believe in protecting our borders or even the 'un-born', you, and quite possibly I, can be defined as a "Right Wing Extremist" by the Department of Homeland Security. 

Super!

We've also learned many other interesting things about Racism over the past few years...

Take the following scientific TEST to see if you've become 'interesting' over the past three years!!!
(Please Check Y for Yes or N for No for each of the following statements!)

1. Y   N    Do you disagree with the President on ANYTHING? 
2. Y   N    Do you want to balance the Federal budget?
3. Y   N    Do you believe that TEA Party members are, by and large, Patriots?
4. Y   N    Do you think that Unemployment Checks are NOT the best way to create jobs
5. Y   N    Do you believe that 'One Half' of America subsidizing the 'Other Half' of America is a 'Bad Thing'?
6. Y   N    Do you believe that keeping generations of Americans on Welfare is 'almost like' slavery?
7. Y   N    Do you believe that the Constitution IS the foundation of our Freedoms as American Citizens?
8. Y   N    Do you find yourself clinging to your 'guns and religion'?
9. Y   N    Do you believe that MTV was better when it had MUSIC on it?
10. Y   N    Do you take offense when the President of the United States tells you that YOU need to 'Buy American' as he takes his Canadian-sourced buses on tour from the Midwest to Martha's Vineyard?

If you answered "Yes" to ANY of the above, you are a Racist.   Additionally, if you want to defend our borders AND the un-born, you are categorically a: 

RIGHT WING EXTREMIST RACIST AMERICAN CITIZEN

Sorry, it's just the way it is. 

For almost three years I have been told that if I disagree with the President on anything, it's not HIS fault, it's because I have a problem with the President being '50%-Black'. 

Using this logic, if the President was 100% Black, I would disagree with him roughly, um, [taking off shoes for completion of higher-Math] I would disagree with him TWICE as much as I do today. 

Honestly folks, this is not a 'Spinal Tap' moment - I don't GO to Eleven... 

It would be physically impossible for me to more vigorously disagree with the President's legislative and economic actions during his first two years in office.  While presiding over a Democratic majority in the House and Senate, the President pretty much did what he wanted to do - he pushed his 'Fundamental Transformation of America' rhetoric, increased legislation of private-sector industries, shut down fuel exploration in the US, and bought the votes required for his 'landmark healthcare legislation' with OUR money.  To me, it's not a Black or White thing, it's a Right or Wrong thing.

But let me ask you this: 

If I opposed the President ONLY because of his RACE...  Would you call me a RACIST?

Yes, I believe you would - and rightly so. 

So extending my twisted logic a bit further: 

If Representative Maxine Waters -D, CA supported the President ONLY because of his RACE...  Would you call Maxine Waters a RACIST?



The following is excerpted from CBS News Online: 

Waters, speaking at a freewheeling forum at Detroit's Wayne County Community College, suggested members of the CBC don't pressure Mr. Obama because their constituents are proud to have an African-American president, adding that "if we go after the president too hard, you're going after us." "The Congressional Black Caucus loves the president, too," she went on to say. "We're supportive of the president, but we're getting tired. We're getting tired. And so, what we want to do is, we want to give the president every opportunity to show what he can do and what he's prepared to lead on. We want to give him every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don't know what the strategy is. We don't know why on this trip that he's in the United States now, he's not in any black community. We don't know that."

The unemployment rate for African-Americans as of July was 15.9 percent, and it's significantly higher in Detroit. Waters told her audience Tuesday that when you "unleash us and you tell us you're ready to have this conversation, we're ready to have the conversation."

After Waters told the audience members of congress will act "when you tell us it's all right" to have a conversation with the president about these issues, an audience-member yelled, "it's all right!" After she said she wanted to give the president "every opportunity" to show what his plan is, someone yelled, "how long?"

"When you let us know it is time to let go, we'll let go," Waters added.

Ignored in the above excerpt from CBS News, but caught in the video above, is the audience members shouts of, "Let it go!" in response to Maxine Waters' statement,  "When you let us know it is time to let go, we'll let go"

Ms. Waters, it's time to let go. 

Let go of the Racism.

Let go of the hesitation.

Let go of the partisanship.

Let go of the race-baiting.

Just let it go. 

As an elected Representative, Maxine Waters has the responsibility to faithfully represent the wishes of her district's citizens - regardless of Race, Color, or Creed. 

Why must politicians always break Americans into 'Hyphenated Groups'?  Is it for the benefit of Pollsters who tell are elected officials 'What they think'?

Consider the following group titles which have become mainstays of political discourse in our country...

MUSLIM-AMERICANS
CATHOLIC-AMERICANS
JEWISH-AMERICANS
NATIVE-AMERICANS
AFRICAN-AMERICANS
WHITE-AMERICANS
HISPANIC-AMERICANS
ITALIAN-AMERICANS
ASIAN-AMERICANS
IRISH-AMERICANS
WORKING-CLASS-AMERICANS
WORKING-POOR-AMERICANS
RETIRED-AMERICANS
ENTITLEMENT-CLASS-AMERICANS
RICHEST-AMERICANS
POOREST-AMERICANS
GAY-LESBIAN-TRANSGENDERED-AMERICANS

You do not unify a Nation by focusing on the differences of the people within it.  You must focus on the things which unite them. 

In the end, we are all just 'AMERICANS'.

Almost fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. told America of his dream, it included, in part, the following: 

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." 

All these years later - we still don't get it.

Bottom-line:  Being opposed to someone because of their race is Racism.  Supporting someone only because of their race, in the end, comes to the same. 

    

Drafting Hillary

"Who? Me???"

You know times are tough for President Obama when a bunch of Liberals are sitting around with Bill Maher contemplate the age-old questions:

a.) What would have happened if only Hillary had won?, and,

b.) Would we be better off than we are today???”

(HINT: ROCKET SCIENTISTS prefer Hillary -- I’m NOT making this up!)

A laugh riot caught live from Bill’s underground bunker. Although, you probably didn’t catch it then because Bill Maher’s ratings are just ‘lower than mine’.

Which is odd, because, I’m not even on TV...



Now I know why people like to ‘eye-ball’ the aftermath of car wrecks. 

Why? Because, “It’s so dang interesting to see someone else's misfortunes and BOY am I happy it’s not me over there… Hey, is THAT an arm?!?! Honey! Honey! I think I see that guy's spleen!!! Cool!!!  Hand me your iPhone!!!”

Enjoy the show as the loyal opposition (on the Left) continue to 'Eat each other alive'.

Drive safely folks!

Oh, and President Obama, you might want to have someone 'test your food for you' in the future. 

Hillary doesn't look happy, and if Hillary's not happy, NOBODY's happy...

Yikes! If looks could kill...

Your MoosWeek In Review!

Bossie's starting to look a 'bit ragged' as the
2011 Recovery Summer wanders aimlessly onward

As we close the books on another week of exciting news headlines, Bossie and I take a look back at last week in Review (or, if you're a purist, in 'ReMoo'). 

Ah, what a week it was!  Packed with Birthday wishes, NEW highs, NEW lows, and even a heaping helping of Carter-era Malaise!  Yeah baby, the 70's were groovy man! 

Dig it! 

Here come the moos, here come the moos, better get ready cause here come the moos...

Monday, August 1, 2011:  HAIR OF THE DOG: Just Another Sunday-- Dems Scare Seniors & Make up Facts about the Budget & Economy


Can't share any additional thoughts here, I'm greasing up the wheels of our 'Official National Debt Reduction Wheel Chair' and cruising the streets of Upstate New York for Seniors, the handicapped, and, in general, people who don't look like me (luckily for you, this is 'just about everybody'). Then I'm taking them all to a really big cliff while music plays in the background and tossing them one by one...

Tuesday, August 2, 2011:  Russia`s Post issues stamps to mark Obama`s 50th birthday

Yes, President Barack Obama, having reached his 50th Birthday has his very own stamp in circulation... 

Cash Value:  50 Kopeks!

In Russia.

Congratulations Comrade Obama!!! 

Perhaps you can do for Russia what you have done for US?!?! 

After all, even ONE SuperPower is 'one too many SuperPowers'...

Right, Birthday Boy?

Yeah, that's what I thought.  Sorry I missed your $36,000 a head birthday bash in Chicago - I was at home with my family.  I didn't have a spare $36,000 to listen to you drone on about what a great job you're doing.  I can sit at home and listen to you do this nightly from my $4 per day Time Warner Cable investment.

I'll keep that extra $35,996 for my kids' college fund - thanks. 



Wednesday, August 3, 2011:  U.S. eats up most of debt limit in one day

President Obama presides at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. In the background from left are Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the president, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. In the foreground from left are, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. (Associated Press)

The Washington Times was nice enough to report that the Obama Administration has yet again presided over ANOTHER milestone in GREAT AMERICAN HISTORY (please read the preceding very LOUDLY to yourself to give it the respect it deserves)... 

From the article linked above:  U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday — the largest one-day bump in history — as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this week’s debt-limit increase deal.

The debt subject to the statutory limit shot way past the old cap of $14.294 trillion to hit $14.532 trillion on Tuesday, according to the latest the Treasury Department figures, which are released on the next business day.

That increase puts the government already remarkably close to the new debt limit of $14.694, which means one day’s new borrowing ate up 60 percent of the $400 billion in space Congress granted the president this week.
Knowing that the day was a 'Record-Breaker' - how did the President react to the news?

We now rejoin the above article, already in progress for the 'Rest of the Story'...  

"The fight was so bruising that President Obama on Wednesday took his debt team out to celebrate by buying them hamburgers at Good Stuff Eatery, a well-known burger joint on Capitol Hill. The White House said it was a reward for their “nonstop” work over the past few months."

"Grease - It's What for Dinner" at the Good Stuff Eatery!
Michelle Obama says, "You can't have any - none of you!"

The meal's conclusion was delayed for twenty-minutes after Mitch McConnell's arteries hardened and collapsed.  Moments later he passed out face-down in the final course of the nutritionally robust meal -- a delectable selection of Ice Cream Sundaes (with sprinkles) wrapped in bacon and deep-fried in lard, served with cigarettes and Whiskey.  

Onlookers, shocked that Mr. McConnell recovered from his arterial overload, were heard to say, "Dang, that was a close.  Quick, someone hand him a sausage burrito - that ought to put him down." 

President Obama left the meeting suddenly, having been called back to the White House by his wife, Michelle.  She, apparently was NOT amused with the President's Healthy Meal Choices for the celebration. 


Thursday, August 4, 2011:  Chevy Volt Sales Plummet as the Electric Car Market Slumps

Yes, the 230 MPG is a lie...

Yes, hard as it is to believe, an American-made Hybrid vehicle whose selling price is 'about the same' as Mercedes-Benz C350 (see photo)

is not selling so well.  Yes, in spite of the Federal Government's involvement in manipulating the Free Market, people are staying away from the Volt 'in droves'.  Since its introduction in late 2010, an estimated 2,029 Volts have been sold nationwide. 

These incredible sales results come after "President Obama vowed in his 2011 State of the Union Address to "break our dependence on oil" and "become the first country to have one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015."

The U.S. government has invested $2.4 billion in research and development to improve EV batteries and another $300 million in grants for communities that are reducing petroleum use — not to mention, hundreds of millions of dollars in consumer subsidies."



Interestingly enough, the high-mileage Hyundai Elantra sold 2,059 units in April, 2011.  The difference here, of course, is that the above sales figure of 2,059 vehicles is stated in DAYS.  The cost-effective high-mileage Elantra sold 61,873 vehciles in April, 2011.  The Elantra number is just slightly ahead of the robust Volt's monthly sales volume of almost 180 vehicles per month.

In the Marketplace of ideas, dollars vote.  Volt vs. Elantra, Hyundai wins big.  And [shock!] with no government dollars involved...


Thursday, August 3, 2011:  Dow’s losing streak now in ninth day

Flashback - February 22, 1978

The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch online reported today that the Dow Jones has fallen for the past nine days in a row.  The last time it did this was under the watchful guidance of President James Carter.

When contacted for a comment, President Carter said, "As President Obama begins my Seventh Year in the White House, I'm proud that he continues to bolster the legacy which I left behind.  He makes ME look good.  I never thought it possible - but I'm no longer the worst President in US History..."


Friday, August 5, 2011:  Food stamp use rises to record 45.8 million

15% of All Americans now rely on Food Stamps
(Another Obama Record)

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Nearly 15% of the U.S. population relied on food stamps in May, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

The number of Americans using the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) -- more commonly referred to as food stamps -- shot to an all-time high of 45.8 million in May, the USDA reported.

That's up 12% from a year ago, and 34% higher than two years ago.

Yet another Milestone for the Obama - Biden Administration!
Really, there's nothing more I can add - it's getting late.

I'm gonna go upstairs and hug my dog and pet my wife, or, um, never mind.

I sure do hope that you get a chance to enjoy the remainder of 2011's Recovery Summer!

Hey, perhaps you can play golf with your friends? 

Sure, that sounds like an excellent idea!!!

'Clubbing' the Economy Daily...
Team Obama - Biden
Winning!