December 26, 2008 – 2:17 pm
On of Surrendies favorite things, when it comes to surrender, is when newspapers surrender to massive idiocy in pushing a political agenda. They can wrap it up in nice prose and “facts,” but, idiocy is still idiocy. Case in point: Lauren Stiller, New York Times: First Lady: A Job Worth A Paycheck First lady. First […]
December 19, 2008 – 8:35 am
So much surrender to choose from. Bailout-palooza. Dems in a froth over a change in Barry’s Iraq 16 month pullout plan. Dems in a froth over Barry wanting to shift troops to Afghanistan. Dems in a froth over Barry’s political appointments. And so much more. Yet, here we have a quiet surrender, from the New […]
December 18, 2008 – 3:09 pm
Will Webster’s be updating their entry for change to “doing things the same old way?” A second Emanuel is heading for the White House. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a prominent bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health–and the brother of incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel–will serve as a senior counselor at the White […]
December 18, 2008 – 10:07 am
Like, you know, totally, like, you know, cool! Consumers will be shielded from increases in interest rates on existing account balances on their credit cards under new rules being adopted by federal regulators. The changes will allow credit card companies to raise interest rates only on new credit cards and future purchases or advances, rather […]
December 16, 2008 – 8:56 am
Your snort worthy Op-Ed from the New York Times. After spending many, many, many paragraphs describing how bad the conflict between Rwanda and Congo has been, including a slight mention of the genocide in Rwanda (but no mention of how many – 850,000 – nor how the United Nations and Clinton looked the other way), […]
December 16, 2008 – 8:22 am
Well, this was ALMOST one of those Christmas hating stories, but, better yet, it’s a plain old hating on Christianity story involving the Nanny state and Muslims, though, to be honest, it wasn’t Muslims who asked for the cross to be banned JAIL bosses have sparked fury by banning a cross from their new chapel […]
December 12, 2008 – 7:46 am
A special treat this Friday, Surrendie has given way so that the Murtha Monkey can greet us! Murtha Maintains He Was Right to Say Marines ‘Killed Innocent Civilians in Cold Blood’ Although all of the charges have been dropped against all of the Marines – except for one – involved in the killing of Iraqi […]
December 11, 2008 – 8:14 am
The big question is, is this story really, really sad, or somewhat humorous, due to what was done? When Baby Jesus disappeared last year from a Nativity scene on the lawn of the Wellington, Fla., community center, village officials didn’t follow a star to locate him. A GPS device mounted inside the life-size ceramic figurine […]
December 8, 2008 – 8:29 am
Is there anything the climahysterics/enviroweenies won’t do to try and ruin, well, everything? Via Metropolis at Metrotown, which is a huge shopping area in Burnbay, British Columbia. 1. Take your own re-usable shopping bags with you when you do your Christmas shopping. Around 125,000 tonnes of plastic packaging are thrown away over Christmas. (this should […]
December 2, 2008 – 8:14 am
I guess this is what happens when tech support jobs go to people who are being paid a few dollars an hour, at the most INTELLIGENCE warnings of an Islamic terror attack on Mumbai were “lost in the system”, it was revealed yesterday. Nine days before terrorists arrived by boat to launch a three-day assault […]
