Archive of entries posted on 31st March 2009

Obama’s secret plan to balance the budget

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Those of us on the right have criticized the president for his using of the current financial situation to further his socialist ideology.

Sure, this whole mess began falling apart after the Democrats took over Congress back in 2006.

And the seeds were planted by Dodd, Frank, Clinton and the other Democrats when they pressured banks to make risky loans.

And George Soros is enjoying the crisis.

And, of course, the president is spending your and my money like a drunken sailor.

And no way to pay for it. Except raising our taxes.

Or so those of us on the right thought.

Turns out, though, that it seems that Obama has a large source of income for the treasury.

“What is it?” you ask.

Simple. He’s going to have all his cabinet pay their taxes. We ought to be able to bail out all his cronies, pay for everything he’s proposing, and still have a budget surplus.

Turns out Obama is a genius after all, huh?

Blog Marriage

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Ann Althouse is getting married to a blog commenter, and the feminists at Panadagon and the usually rational and carefully thought-out Andrew Sullivan thought this marked a good occasion to ridicule of her.

I got married to a blog commenter, and it worked out horribly. All she does is nag me all the time. Plus, I’ve gotten to the point where I reflexively apologize anytime I hear a loud noise, like a car backfiring. It’s weird. But maybe things will work out better for Ann. So I wish her the best and want her to know not to let the mutants get her down. The best revenge is to live well (actually, it’s to strand someone on a barren planet like Kahn did to Captain Kirk, but that’s infeasible for most people and it didn’t even work out that well for Kahn).

FOX Nation

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So FOX News has this new FOX Nation website in which I guess they’re trying to take over the conservative blogosphere. Basically, it looks like you can just comment on any news story. I like IMAO’s system better where you can comment on any news story we decide to let you comment on.

Anyway, my default attitude is to be suspicious of anything new that hasn’t linked to me. It could become the right-wing version of the Huffington Post, filled with conspiracy theorists and malcontents. Probably better to stick with more mainstream thought like IMAO.

Discussion question for today: How large a dinosaur with rocket launchers would it take to destroy the sun?

lolterizt! Part 78

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This week terrorists, next week That One. 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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From Peregrine John:

My favorites from the submissions using last edition’s uncaptioned picture:
From Rick of The Rabid Conservative

From Finn:

From jedijson:

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From Nicole:

From Rick of The Rabid Conservative:

Also from Rick of The Rabid Conservative:

From Sean:

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

PRODUCTION NOTES:
#1: When creating lolterizt! 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.

HAT TIP: Snapped Shot for handy links to ripe-for-captioning photos.

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.