By Next Year, It Will Be Cheaper To Eat Your iPad...

...than, you know, actual food.

Speaking in Queens, New York Fed President William Dudly tries to calm the natives by telling them how good they actually have it:

"Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful," he said. "You have to look at the prices of all things."

But cynical and world weary New Yorkers are....well, they're cynical and world-weary first, Democrats second:

Reuters reports that this "prompted guffaws and widespread murmuring from the audience," with someone quipping, "I can't eat an iPad." Another attendee asked, "When was the last time, sir, that you went grocery shopping?"

Glenn Reynolds posts at the Tatler:

As an aside, though, note that the places where prices are dropping, like consumer electronics, are the least regulated sectors, while the places where prices are skyrocketing, like food and energy, are among the most heavily regulated. Is there a lesson here?

Yes, but not one that they’ll take.

Expect the government to try to regulate iPads next. In the meantime, the rest of us will have to continue to find the few remaining unregulated portions of the American economy...and figure out how to cook them.

C'mon..."Blackberry au gratin" doesn't sound all that bad, does it?

Khloe Kardashian: Conservative!

Finally, a more cerebral reason to love a Kardashian...

While skimming thru Stacy McCain's archives, I found this tweet he posted from Khloe K.




Any girl who tweets the words of a self-made millionaire and Tea Partier extraordinaire like Herman Cain deserves props for her obviously higher level of intelligence and advanced critical thought processes. Unlike most of the idiots that parades in front of the cameras...

Additionally, well, I'd have to say Khloe Kardashian leans a little to the plus-size. And as regular readers of this blog know, well...I think that's a fine, fine way for a women to look, no matter what kind of hate crimes against certain-sized women the media commits on a daily basis.


So let's celebrate Kurvey Khloe, and her sexy smarts:

And while we are at it....isn't this as good a time as any to celebrate Rule 5?

UPDATE 6-7-11:

Via The Other McCain, we see Khloe's....nipple. God bless FOX News:

Hateful Rhetoric: Joe Biden Leads With His Mouth

The unions, despite their ever-growing hostility and death threats, have not killed anybody. Yet. Despite the fact that most police departments have given them a wink and a turned head when the situation looks to turn ugly.

But how long will cooler heads prevail, when the Vice President of the United States is using rhetoric like this on a conference call - essentially a dog-whistle for the unions, in a pitch that clearly suggests that physical intimidation and assault is not only acceptable, but mandatory:

"You guys built the middle class," said Biden in a virtual town hall conversation hosted by the AFL-CIO. "I would just emphasize what Hilda [Solis] said and say it slightly different: We don't see the value of collective bargaining, we see the absolute positive necessity of collective bargaining. Let's get something straight: The only people who have the capacity -- organizational capacity and muscle -- to keep, as they say, the barbarians from the gate, is organized labor. And make no mistake about it, the guys on the other team get it. They know if they cripple labor, the gate is open, man. The gate is wide open. And we know that too."

The e-mail announcement for the call went out to labor activists, including members of the growing advocacy group Working America, and it pitched the call as a conversation with 100,000 supporters about "Republican assaults on collective bargaining in at least a dozen states." AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis joined Biden on the call, where listeners were also allowed to ask questions (although Biden had to leave before that portion).

Dopey Joe does at least have the honesty to admit to the unions - like a well-paid whore to her dominant, demanding client - that's he's their bitch, their slut, and he'll do anything (or allow them to do anything)they ask, as long as they keep paying him to do so:

"I've got to state the obvious," he said. "There's an old expression: 'You go home with them that brung you to the dance.' You guys all brought me to the dance 36 years ago in Delaware as a United States senator. You've been with me, and I've stayed with you."

"Hey, baby - for a few bucks I will pass any legislation you want. And I mean any..."

When the violence and class war that the Democrats have been stoking does erupt - and it will, but closer to the 2012 election, in an attempt to intimidate the electorate, Chavez-style - will Joe Biden accept the blame?

Perhaps the better question is whether the media will even assign him the blame? Or perhaps even a better question is, will he accept the credit for the forthcoming union violence from a media that has encouraged them to "push back hard"...

UPDATE: Well, how do you expect people to react, when the Vice President is telling folks that Republicans are just like rapists? Takes one to know one, Dopey Joe...