Overnight Open Thread

So Obama wants to make GM a centerpiece of his reelection campaign and the media once again misses the real story (SOP for the MSM in regard to Obama). The MSM focused on the increased sales year over year but really missed the boat on why that occurred. 36% of that increase was tied to fleet sales of which the U.S. Government (i.e. taxpayer) Was Responsible For 79% Of Those Purchases.

GM’s sales figures for last month were the best since 2008 , up 16% for the month of June. YIPPEE! Well, wait just a minute. It seems that those rosey sales figures are due primarily to a 79% increase in fleet sales to the U.S.government in June. That’s right. Our tax dollars are being used to pump up GM’s sales figures ahead of next month’s quarterly report so that Dear Leader can point to Government Motors as a huge success. The incestuous relationship between GM, the UAW and the Regime has never been more glaringly apparent. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. GM is unsustainable without government subsidies and will ultimately go bust again, taking billions of taxpayer dollars down with it.

Jordanian Debate

Holy cow! This IS a debate. A shoe gets thrown, a desk overturned and a gun gets drawn! Now as to what they were arguing over? I have no idea. Probably a goat or somethin'.

Z-World Detroit

I don't think they'll need much in the way of start up cash for this theme park. Just throw in some bath salts and you're off to the races. Rebuilding Detroit Through A Zombie Theme Park.

Kitteh Video

Sony Music

Oh-oh. I think there might be another use for this but it eludes me. Sony Patents Exercise Music System That Adjusts Music To Your 'Exercise' Tempo. Bow chicka wow wow.

Best of MST3K

Drone Future

Interesting read on the possible Emerging Drone Threat.

You walk into your shower and find a spider. You are not an arachnologist. You do,
however, know that any one of the four following options is possible:

a. The spider is real and harmless.

b. The spider is real and venomous.

c. Your next-door neighbor, who dislikes your noisy dog, has turned her personal surveillance spider (purchased from “Drones ‘R Us” for $49.95) loose and is monitoring it on her iPhone from her seat at a sports bar downtown. The pictures of you, undressed, are now being relayed on several screens during the break of an NFL game, to the mirth of the entire neighborhood.

d. Your business competitor has sent his drone assassin spider, which he purchased from a bankrupt military contractor, to take you out. Upon spotting you with its sensors, and before you have any time to weigh your options, the spider shoots an infinitesimal needle into a vein in your left leg and takes a blood sample. As you beat a retreat out of the shower, your blood sample is being run on your competitor’s smartphone for a DNA match. The match is made against a DNA sample of you that is already on file at EVER.com (Everything about Everybody), an international DNA database (with access available for $179.99). Once the match is confirmed (a matter of seconds), the assassin spider outruns you with incredible speed into your bedroom, pausing only long enough to dart another needle, this time containing a lethal dose of a synthetically produced, undetectable poison, into your bloodstream. Your assassin, who is on a summer vacation in Provence, then withdraws his spider under the crack of your bedroom door and out of the house and presses its self-destruct button. No trace of the spider or the poison it carried will ever be found by law enforcement authorities.

Water From Garden Hoses

Supposedly Drinking Water From A Garden Hose Is Now Dangerous.

Pop Quiz

Alright morons, who would you choose?

Christina Hendricks Shows What A Real Woman Looks Like...When Sat Next To Hollywood's Waif-Like Stars.

For The 'Ettes

A little somethin, somethin for you ladies. Top 10 Hottest Conservative Congressmen.

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