I didn’t notice the resemblance myself, but Hunter of Atomic Monkey Action Squad [High Praise!] did.

Then I saw them side-by-side:

Apparently a murderous communist thug iconic image wasn’t offensive enough, so Newsweek decided to mock Christianity, instead.

[High Praise! to Spacemonkey]

Sadly, this is not a parody. This is direct from Newsweek’s Tumblr page.

Ah, our favorite nwktumblr feature is back: the also-rans! These are the alternate versions of our ‘First Gay President’ Newsweek cover that were left on the cutting room floor.

Which one’s your favorite? Your tumblrs are really digging Oliver Munday’s #2, but also like the simplicity #6 (the quote over white) brings to the table.

This is MY favorite:

Why?

Because Obama refers to himself 5 times in one sentence, reminding us all yet again what a friggin’ narcissist the guy is.

And the collection as a whole serves to remind us that Newsweek is so drunken-frat-boy-at-a-toddler’s-birthday-party out-of-touch that they thought the “gaylo” cover they finally ran with was the cream of the crop.

[High Praise! to Les of Brick Moon]

Nice touch with the dog silhouettes.

I should probably mention that Les does this sort of work professionally (as well as voice-overs & animations), so if you’re in need of that sort of service (or know someone who is), go tap Les on the shoulder.

[Original DFMF cover]

[High Praise! to The Irritable Pundit]

You just know that Obama’s minions searched high & low for a real-life Julia before settling on a badly-drawn cartoon composite to represent America’s ultimate Ward of the State.

Who were those rejects? The Irritable Pundit offers their profiles:

The Real Julia

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I see #letsgoeat is trending right now.

Ya suppose it’s just retweets of dog recipes from @BarackObama?

NOTE: Still lots of room in next week’s lolterizt! round up. Please don’t make me pull my own weight around here! (See this post for the Uncaptioned pic).

This week, That One. Next week, terrorists. Submit for either at lolterizt@gmail.com

Meanwhile, pass ‘em around, spread the love, and if you make your own, don’t be shy about dropping a link to your pics in the comments. The more, the merrier.

NOTE TO READERS: Hovering your mouse over the picture activates closed captioning for the l33t-speak/txtmsg impaired.

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My favorites from the submissions using last edition’s uncaptioned picture:

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This week’s uncaptioned picture for you to play with:

More pictures of this event can be found here.

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Kris for being the only person besides me who’s ever listened to “Ruby” (and I’d forgotten Summa Nulla.)

What say you?

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PRODUCTION NOTES:
#1: When creating lolbama! pictures, please caption with either black or white text, as colors like red and yellow tend to blur badly when I compress the images.

#2: Standard image size for these posts is 350px wide by whatever high. If you can have your images 350px wide before you caption them, I won’t end up shrinking your captions into illegibility when I re-size the images.

MAKE YOUR OWN: The free lolbuilder from I Can Has Cheezburger.

STYLE NOTE: Short captions are usually better. Your goal is 10 words or less, with humor value tending to increase exponentially as the number of words approaches 1.

Send your submissions to lolterizt@gmail.com and – if they aren’t obscene (IMAO is a PG-13 site) and don’t suck too terribly bad – I’ll post them for you. Remember to include your name (and blog URL, if applicable) so I know who to thank.

[High Praise! to Son of Bob for the idea]

Frank’s Random Thought was so awesome, you should wear it. Or drink out of it. Or put it on your car. Or something. If you want.

Now available at the IMAO Store.

* Remember the section in my book where I compare Obama to every previous president? Well, Obama has decided to do that himself and has inserted himself in the official White House bio of previous presidents saying how he is continuing and improving upon their legacies. He only goes back to Coolidge, but I assume eventually he’ll add to all their bios showing how he is the culmination of all the presidents before him and thus the greatest president ever in the history of everything.

Totally ripping me off. I bet he’s already constructing his robot unicorn body.

* According to Obama, we don’t have to worry because “The question is not whether things will get better, they always do.” See things always get better, so we don’t have to worry. But if it’s inevitable that things get better, shouldn’t that go with a more Calvin Coolidge, leave things alone attitude? I mean, if it’s a foregone conclusion things will get better, no reason to panic and spend a trillion in useless stimulus, right?

* A new CBS/NYT poll of registered voters — not likely voters which always leans more Republican – has Romney leading 46 to 43. He’s even leading among women. This is almost apocalyptic for Obama.

Hey, what was that Obama said about how we don’t need to worry because things always get better…

* A new Obama ad calls Romney a “vampire” for what his firm did to jobs. But vampires are very popular these days; maybe that’s how Romney closed up the gender gap.

If Romney is a vampire towards jobs, what’s Obama? A zombie plague?

* Governor Jerry Brown is calling for big cuts and big taxes to close up the nearly 16 billion California deficit. Unlike the federal government, a state government can’t go into debt so it makes it harder to hide the government’s complete and utter failure.

Isn’t there talk of how California will eventually break off the continent and sink into the sea? That does seem like its most economically viable option right now.

* The right is dominating the Twitters. It may have a silly name, but it’s yet another way to allow conservatives to easily get their voice out and thus they’re dominating it. The reason the right fall behind in the media is few want to make it a full time job, but give conservatives the option to commentate or make jokes in their spare time, and you’ll find a lot of talent. Al Gore invented the internet, and now his own creation is destroying the left.

* Diablo III is out today. Considering how hugely successful the previous one was, it’s strange they waited more than a decade for the sequel. One innovation is that you’ll now be able to trade fictional goods to other people for real money. Our economy in the real world is floundering, so maybe it will do better in a virtual world. There’s no Obama to mess things up in the world of Diablo. There are demons and stuff, but they don’t raise taxes.

Max Payne 3 is also out. I loved the previous games and never got tired of diving in slow motion while firing two guns, but I’ll wait on this one. I’ve paid $50 for new releases of video games since I was a kid, and that’s the most I’ll still pay now. Why is everything $60 now? Obama must have screwed up video game prices like he did gas. We need more drilling; I don’t know how that will help video game prices, but it won’t hurt.

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UPDATE: Linked at Commentary Magazine

If we could all just repeat to ourselves, “The rich getting richer doesn’t hurt me,” this country could do anything.

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UPDATE: Linked by Darth Chipmunk

Seanmahair [High Praise!] emails:

According to Newsweek, Obama’s an angel. So was Lucifer, the “Son of the Morning Star”. I see the resemblance.

By now you’ve seen the picture of Obama in Reno, giving a speech with only two people standing nearby (strangely, neither of them wearing prop white lab coats).

Mostly people are making fun of him for having a tiny audience, but they’re missing the real scandal here:

The “Obama” in the picture is clearly a muppet.

First, his “feet” are hidden by a blocking-screen that obviously serves to hide the muppeteers from the view of the audience. And to hide the fact that – like most muppets – “Obama” has no feet.

Second, you can clearly see the control rods the hidden muppeteers are using to move his arms.

Also, is it just a “coincidence” that the man on the right bears a striking resemblance to the “late” Jim Henson?

There are questions in need of answering here, which I’m betting the liberal toadies in the mainstream media haven’t the guts to ask.

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UPDATE: Linked at The Hostages

Ok, *I* missed it, until recently. Why didn’t anyone tell me Iowahawk was on the case?:

Julia’s Circle of Life

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RENO (AP) – During a campaign stop in Reno, Nevada, President Obama announced that from now on, the Secret Service would only hire sexless, elderly couples to protect the President. The move comes in response a recent scandal involving young, stud-muffinly, male Secret Service agents paying women for sex during a Presidential visit to Colombia.

Newly-hired Secret Service agents, their fleshly passions fully withered, focus on the President’s safety.

The latest hires, Fred and Ethel Mertz of Reno, Nevada, have been married for 45 years, and last engaged in an act of physical intimacy in 1990.

“Well,” said Fred, “the ol’ Johnson stopped working after the heart attack, and the doc says my ticker ain’t strong enough to handle the blue pills. But it’s been so long I don’t really miss it, anyway. But on the bright side, my complete lack of libido allows me to fully concentrate on protecting the Commander-in-Chief from wild-eyed crazies what mean to do him harm.”

“I’ll jump in front of the man to take a bullet, although it might take me a bit to get there. Too many years of too much pasta,” said Fred with a grin, affectionately rubbing his paunch.

“Honestly, I never much cared for bedroom antics anyway,” said Ethel, “and I was actually relieved when Fred stopped pestering me. I’ve got my knitting to keep me busy, and if anyone so much as looks at the President wrong, I’ll jab both needles straight into his peepers.”

“Assuming he doesn’t run away,” added Ethel thoughtfully. “My hip pains me some on damp days, and I’m not as spry as I used to be.”

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UPDATE: Linked by The Jawa Report

[YouTube direct link] (Viewer #281,564)

Sadly, just a parody of those HSUS heartstring-tugger commercials, but the video’s message can’t be emphasized enough:

If you love animals, give money to your local shelter, and NEVER even the thinnest of dimes to the Humane Society of the United States.

“PETA, with suits and deodorant.”