Best newsish fakery you’ll read that’s not written by me:
“Media Votes to Expel Rod Blagojevich from Democrat Party”
Nice one, Rev. Right.
Archive of entries posted on 30th January 2009
Congratulations Michael Steele!
Getting what you voted for
With the President ordering the closing of Guantanamo Bay, the question arises: what to do with the prisoners there?
Of course, there are some on the left that think they need to be released. This, despite ongoing reports of former detainees returning to terrorism.
However, let’s assume that the administration recognizes that the bad guys are bad guys and need to be kept locked up somewhere.
Some states are saying they don’t want them. And I agree. I don’t want my state housing them.
But, then again, my state voted for McCain.
I have a solution that ought to make everybody happy: Spread the Guantanamo Bay prisoners around among the states that voted for Obama. I mean, after all, he campaigned on the promise to close Gitmo. So it’s not like they didn’t know he’d do it, right?
Well, it was okay with them if he did. So much so that they voted him into office.
I’m for having those responsible for putting Obama into office having to put up with the consequences.
Here’s the plan: There are, by one count, 245 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. 28 states and the District of Columbia awarded 365 Electoral Votes to Obama.
Spread them out accordingly.
For each Electoral Vote for Obama, a state gets just over 2/3 (0.671) of a prisoner. Here’s the breakdown:
| State | Electoral Votes | Guantanamo Bay prisoners |
| California | 55 | 36 |
| Colorado | 9 | 6 |
| Connecticut | 7 | 5 |
| Delaware | 3 | 2 |
| D.C. | 3 | 2 |
| Florida | 27 | 18 |
| Hawaii | 4 | 3 |
| Illinois | 21 | 14 |
| Indiana | 11 | 7 |
| Iowa | 7 | 5 |
| Maine | 4 | 3 |
| Maryland | 10 | 7 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | 8 |
| Michigan | 17 | 11 |
| Minnesota | 10 | 7 |
| Nebraska | 1 | 1 |
| Nevada | 5 | 3 |
| New Hampshire | 4 | 3 |
| New Jersey | 15 | 10 |
| New Mexico | 5 | 3 |
| New York | 31 | 21 |
| North Carolina | 15 | 10 |
| Ohio | 20 | 13 |
| Oregon | 7 | 5 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | 14 |
| Rhode Island | 4 | 3 |
| Vermont | 3 | 2 |
| Virginia | 13 | 9 |
| Washington | 11 | 7 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | 7 |
| 365 | 245 |
This could solve all kinds of problems.
Question
Celebrity Windfall Profits Tax
Here’s an awesome idea from a blogger at Big Hollywood: Windfall profits tax on celebrities. Hollywood should be all for that ’cause they want to help people and stuff. I say cut off actor salaries at like $100,000; that’s plenty of money for something that’s really more of a calling that an outright job. It is kinda silly that the people who pretend to do important things earn more money than the people who actually do important things; that’s just stupid capitalism messing up fairness. We should save the large salaries for people who kill evil foreigners.
And software engineers; that’s important too. I don’t know why they don’t do more movies about those people.
Jobs for Journalists
Here’s an interesting post on what journalists do after they lose their job. I always assumed they just found a hole somewhere to die in, but apparently a lot of them get other jobs. I don’t know what a former journalist is qualified for, though. I mean, that aren’t really a lot of jobs for dimwitted, partisan hacks. There are college professors, but there are already so many useless liberals vying for those cushy jobs. I guess a former journalist can be that guy who rips your ticket when you go to the movies. They could also probably stand by the side of a road and wave a sign for some business. Any other ideas?
The New Single Party Bipartisanship Is Here
It’s easy to make fun of Obama, but sometimes you have to admire his skilled unipartisanship. It’s pretty hard to make a bill so bad that you can’t even get one squish Republican to vote for it. Well, at least when the economy improves (as always happens when the government spends larges sums of tax money) the Democrats can take all the credit.
Ancient Proverbs
Why read IMAO when can you just read Iowahawk.