Happy Friday.

I haven't got any news stories for you this morning; let's see what Vic comes up with. Instead, how 'bout a song I can't stop dancing to? The NSFW music video was insanely popular in Europe six years ago, where the Godless heathens used to show it on TV during the daytime with an even racier version on at night. Apparently, it completely missed the U.S.

Have a great weekend.

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I was listening to Carolla and he had this no-talent imbecile on.

Maher was plugging this show, starting at 10:30 eastern, 7:30 Pacific. He said he had to share his comedy with people, because he had put together such a "killer" set.

I'm watching clips now. They're hideous. Here's one joke: Kids today are so dumb they think Darwin was the husband on Bewitched.

Please stop applauding, you'll burst your own eardrums.

So, anyway, at 10:30, what Bill Maher considers "killer" material.

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Congratulations - Your Family Now Owns a House

Okay not a house so much as a house mortgage.

Oh and there is no house - just household national debt worthy of a house.

If it makes you feel any better, I guess you can always pretend that your imaginary Federal Debt house is a very nice vacation home that you just happen to never use. Here's mine:

My happy place is out back by the custom BBQ pit and the hot tub. Mmm hot tub.

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Or words to that effect.

Actually the poll says that half of Americans say Obama's first term has been a miserable failure.

But do the math. Transitive property. Whatever. Racist.

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"Stick that in your magic underwear," he squeals to Mitt "Muddle Mouth" Romney, ad he cleverly terms him.

Um, he's a "visual" columnist, or something? That's what it says. And yet he can't draw.

So I guess you have to give him a pass on the Word-Letters skill.

Earlier Charles M. Blow announced something like "Hey wingnuts, every time you score you're not looking to have a baby. It's called recreational sex. #dealwithit." I don't know exactly what he wrote now because he blocked me.

Anyway, I goofed on him for an hour (scan down to "recreational").

But now, all butthurt or whatever, he's going after people's religion, which is a shock to me, because I thought we weren't supposed to mention that Obama was a Muslim in Indonesia.

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It's from Leigh Scott, a contributor over at Breitbart's Big Hollywood.

It looks cute. It's a retelling of the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and the Witches of Oz. It's in limited release, and is only in a three theater tomorrow night, two in Kansas (appropriately enough), one in Kentucky. (Leawood, Olathe, and Louisville -- hit the link for particulars.)

He wrote to me:

It's a fun, family film starring Christopher Lloyd, Mia Sara, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Lance Henriksen Jeffrey Combs and a whole host of others. It's an homage to 80s fantasy/comedies like Ghostbusters and Gremlins or pretty much anything Spielberg produced between 1981 and 1987.

So it's got some name actors in it. It's also got some surprisingly big special effects.

If you see it, let me know how it is. (I didn't get a screener copy.)

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Posted by: Ace at 01:49 PM | Comments (55)
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Obama's policies make oil more expensive.

Republicans want to run against Obama's policies which make oil more expensive.

Obama is shocked -- nay, appalled -- that we'd sink so low as to mention his Miserable Failures.

At a campaign event in Coral Gables, Florida, President Obama says Republicans see rising gas prices as a “political opportunity” and they are “licking their chops.”

Obama didn’t stop there. “They greet bad news so enthusiastically,” he added.

“You pay more, they’re licking their chops. You can bet that since it’s an election year, they’re already dusting off their three-point plan for $2 gas. I’ll save you the suspense. Step one is to drill and step two is to drill and then step three is to keep drilling. "

Wow, you really are a genius, champ.

Dana Perrino thinks she remembers a time when the the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) routinely blamed the President for high gas prices.

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Ah well.

Would have been funny.

John EdwardsÂ’ former mistress Rielle Hunter has been declared the owner of the sex tape featuring herself and the ex-presidential candidate and the video will be destroyed, according to a report on Thursday.

The civil case between Hunter, who has a child with Edwards, and former campaign aide Andrew Young was settled on Thursday, ABC-11 WTVD reported. Hunter was deemed the owner of the sex tape and the court ordered Young to return the video.

The settlement says the tape must be destroyed within 30 days.

I get the feeling that John Edwards would look at the camera even more than Paris Hilton.

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But I'll get to that amnesty I promised you in my next five years.

I just had to keep a more important promise to a more important constituency first -- the Mighty Sequoias, the Humble Periwinkles.

But once I get done keeping my promises to birds and deer-mice, I swear I'll get to you (sneer) humans.

In an interview with Univision, a seemingly confident Obama said heÂ’ll have more time to work on hot-button issues like immigration in his next term.

“Well, first of all … my presidency is not over,” Obama, who just a few months ago described himself as an underdog in the presidential race, said in a telephone interview.

“I’ve got another five years coming up. We’re going to get this done,” he said. …

“I would have only broken my promise if I hadn’t tried,” he said. “But ultimately, I’m one man. You know, we live in a democracy. We don’t live in a monarchy. I’m not the king. I’m the president. And so, I can only implement those laws that are passed through Congress.”

Captain Ed notes that Obama had 60 senators plus the house in his first two years but, doggonit!!!, he just couldn't get to mass amnesty then.

He's only one man, you know.

I'm Only One Man

These oceans ain't gonna lower themselves.

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Algae.

President Obama admitted today that he does not have a "silver bullet" solution for skyrocketing gas prices, but he proposed alternative energy sources such as "a plant-like substance, algae" as a way of cutting dependence on oil by 17 percent.

"WeÂ’re making new investments in the development of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel thatÂ’s actually made from a plant-like substance, algae -- you've got a bunch of algae out here," Obama said at the University of Miami today. "If we can figure out how to make energy out of that, we'll be doing alright. Believe it or not, we could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in America."

The Department of Energy (DOE) currently spends about $85 million on 30 research projects "to develop algal biofuels," according to the White House, which announced that Obama is committing another $14 million to the idea.

Yeah. And Solyndra was going to cut office power consumption by 93.4%.

In the future, we'll probably have laser power for aircraft. All aircraft must expend a considerable amount of fuel just to loft the mass of the fuel they carry to 10,000 feet. It's weird, but rockets, for example, expend something like 90% of their fuel just to lift the other 10% of their fuel.

So what if you had your fuel source on the ground, and beamed that power via a laser, which agitated a Flux Capacitor on an aircraft (you know, I'm not an engineer)? Then there would be no fuel wasted lifting the fuel up to 20,000 feet. The fuel would be on the ground. Weightless, as far as the aircraft knows. The aircraft would only carry enough fuel for an emergency landing.

Anyway, this is fun to talk about. It's also 40 years off.

Right now, we need oil. Oil is what the world runs on. Not lasers, and not fusion, and not fucking algae, for the love of God.

There will always be some technological innovations and occasionally a paradigm-shifting breakthrough, a watershed.

But your policy cannot be built up on the premise "And then a miracle happens," and further you certainly cannot schedule it to happen bureaucratically.

In 20 years no one will be talking about oil, maybe. Maybe we'll all have pebble-bed reactors in our homes, creating unlimited energy for pennies a week.

In which case we will also not be talking about God's Green Fuel, Algae.

And Obama is the man to figure this stuff out for us? The guy couldn't even submit a legal paper for publication when employed, supposedly, as a Constitutional professor at law school.

Even within the specialty field he was trained for, he had no insights, and did no hard work.

But sure, maybe he really can see 30 years into the future as regards.... Algal fuels.

This man has virtually no connection to the hard world we live in, of payrolls, work, hard choices, and trade-offs.

He lives in a fantasyland of algae and miracles. He is functionally a child. Things will happen because he wants them to happen. He wants the cookie, ergo the cookie jar will spontaneously generate a cookie.

"Algae"

It's what the hip kids are calling pot.

What a Bargain: Algae fuel will certainly affect the price of fuel.

It's 33 bucks per gallon.

via @slublog

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