OBAMA, NORTH KOREA, IRAN, JOHN BOEHNER AND DAVID CAMERON ALL COMPETE IN WHO CAN SAY OR DO THE STUPIDEST THING POSSIBLE.

Hi and welcome to today's edition of the moron Olympics. This obstacle course is all set up and littered with bad ideas that our competitors are sure to trip over. On the joint Kenya/US team is Barack Obama, who in a spectacularly bad decision, has placed his shoes on wrong, his pants over his head and both feet in his mouth. Next to him is surly midget, Kim Jung Un, currently throwing a temper tantrum over the fact the finish line is so far away and his little legs won't make it that far. Iran has declared a fatwa over the whole thing while noting that Jews have ruined the game. John Boehner, in a pathetic attempt to outdo Obama, has removed all his clothes and is now freeballing it. And lastly David Cameron has made a statement that as he has been possessed by the ghost of Margret Thatcher he will sit this one out, which is odd as Thatcher isn't dead yet.

And they're off. Obama has a clean lead, side stepping issues like Abortion, Clean Energy and Global warming. Kim Jung Un is huffing and puffing next to him but appears to be running out of steam quick. Iran has fallen behind quick after tripping over the science vs religion hurdle, that has also stymied John Boehner, who has given up and is now rolling around naked in the mud. David Cameron is still sitting at the starting line, playing with a rock. It's Obama versus Un. They're neck and neck. Oh no, Obama takes a major hit when he fails to clear the Common Sense Policies hurdle, which Un has run underneath instead due to his tiny, tiny statute. It looks like Un might win. Obama is struggling to recover. But wait, Un has run head first into the I Will Nuke You Back to The Stone Age hurdle, allowing Obama to win by a nose.

It's been that kind of day. I fail to understand the level of damage that is being done and by the stupid people who support them. Let's start with Barack Obama's boneheaded, and I mean BONEHEADED, idea to put that fucking Chained CPI into his budget plan. First off, we can save Social Security by raising the payroll cap, as I have started on numerous occasions, not by cutting as Obama and the GOP keep trying. Second, all this plan did was piss off both sides of the aisle. John Boehner said he wouldn't even bring the plan to a vote as it contains tax increases. A majority of democrats said they wouldn't support it because of the cuts to Social Security. Here's a hint for anyone thinking of voting for this plan: Try it and see what happens. Any more austerity brought to this country will meet with an uprising. If you don't believe me, see how Europe is doing. And they don't have 300 million guns.

But it's basically a moot point as there is no chance of this passing. But to give you an idea how much worse things could be, John Boehner wants BIGGER cuts to entitlement programs. This in the face of the fact that a huge majority of 80-90% don't want any cuts to the program. This is a third rail for anyone dumb enough to keep harping on it. It was the single biggest reason Mitt Romney lost the election and the Republicans are still at it. Unbelievable. To show how "generous" rate increases for the Social Security have been here are the average rates for the last four years: 1.3%.  For two of those years the rate was zero. Yeah, seniors and the disabled are living high off the hog. And the rich want even more. Worse. Obama is all for it to. Thank God for Senators like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who have both pledged to kill any deal that has the Chained CPI index in it.

Meanwhile, everyone's favorite deranged dwarf, Kim Jong Un, has told all embassies to clear their personnel by April 10th, as they can't be responsible once the war starts. That's how they put it. Not if war starts, but when. To put this in perspective, this usually only happens when war IS inevitable. He has also moved more missiles to the coast, another ominous sign. All workers in the joint business zone are also being evacuated by the same date, a loss of at least $100 million dollars a year to the
impoverished country.



This has caused other countries to amp things up as well. Russia and China are calling for calm, which is hardly surprising as any war would happen in their backyard. David Cameron, the British PM, made an stunning claim that they should be prepared for North Korean missiles striking them, which borders on the insane as there is no data, credible or otherwise, that suggest they have that capacity. Hell, China would have a hard time reaching the UK and they have lots more money than North Korea.

No one has mentioned the fact that the recent round of sanction on North Korea, ones aimed at depriving the elites there access to high ticket items, may be behind all of this. If Un can't get Nike sneakers, Hollywood movies, fancy cars and yachts anymore, he may be throwing the grand daddy of all snit fits because of it. This man was raised as a god. He may actually think he is one. His grandfather and father all lived under harsher conditions than Un ever did. He may be spoiled rotten to the core.

Iran has thrown it's support behind North Korea which is a very bad sign. Six party talks collapsed again, after Iran did their usual dance that is just delaying the inevitable. North Korea is proving why rouge nations shouldn't have nukes and don't think for a second that Israel isn't watching all of this like a hawk. If Iran and North Korea combine for a joint surprise attack, that could start a world war, one with nuclear weapons. This news today sucks. Must be Friday.

The economic news is grim as the government lost 32,000 jobs last month, more and more people are not being counted as unemployed as the total number of out of work American over the age of 18 hit a record 90,000,000 today. Mind you at least half of those are disabled, elderly or in prison, but the numbers still show at least 23-28% of the general populace does not have a job. Worse, that number appears to be rising. Instead of jobs, all we hear about is what they want to cut. I know what I want to cut and it dangles between our politician's legs. Austerity must end. The other result might make North Korea look like a playground spat.