Archive of entries posted on 9th June 2009

Award!

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Marty of No Time For Recess has honored IMAO with the “This Blog Has Been Awarded The Bully In The Playground Award” Award.

I’m a little confused. Does Marty mean to suggest that IMAO goes stomping around, giving wedgies and Indian burns to all those weak, nerdy blogs with glasses & acne who think they’re so smart, then punching them and stealing their lunch money?

Or does he mean “Bully!” in the Teddy Roosevelt sense of the word, meaning that IMAO is the best thing to ever happen to the blogosphere?

Either way, he’s right.

FINE PRINT:

To join the exclusive club of blogs who honor IMAO and have your award featured on our sidebar with a link to your blog, make up a fancy award image honoring IMAO, blog about it, and drop a link in the comments.

Keep it PG-13, and if it doesn’t suck too terribly bad, your award will be duly noted in a post (Current estimated wait time – 3 Award posts), and placed in the sidebar with a link to your site.

As added incentive for people to honor IMAO with worthless, made-up awards, those who do so may proudly display this worthless, made-up Participant Ribbon:

If you don’t have a blog, then send your image to harvolson-at-gmail.com and include a link to one of your favorite IMAO posts.

For the Photoshop-impaired, here’s a guide to making mediocre fake pictures with Microsoft Paint

Or try the free lolbuilder from I Can Has Cheezburger.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Maximum sidebar image width is 190 pixels. Please make sure text is at least barely legible at that size.

Now get honoring!

Created or Saved

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I’ve been a bit skeptical on how Obama keeps saying he’s “created or saved” different numbers of jobs, but the media seems credulous so I guess “created or saved” is a perfectly find formulation. Thus we might as well apply the phrase to lots of different things.

* I decided not to be bloodthirsty against common nuisances today and created or saved three squirrels.

* By not going to McDonalds, I created or saved two cheeseburgers and a large fry.

* Deciding against serial killing, i created or saved upwards of 33 people (I’m very smart and would not be easily caught).

* By proper use of braking on the way to work, I created or saved twelve automobiles.

* If Sotomayor were a little more careful, she could have created or saved one ankle.

* Cheney’s waterboarding terrorists created or saved thousands of Americans.

* By being a good dog, Rowdi created or saved the cat food.

* In the beginning, God created or saved the heavens and the earth.

* I slowed down in the school zone, creating or saving three children.

* Batman created or saved one city.

* By controlling my anger, I created or saved your face.

If only Bush had thought of the phrase. Then when people kept throwing out numbers of how many civilians were killed in Iraq he could respond with the number of Iraqis he created or saved.

Petition

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Here’s an internet petition to free journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling as there’s nothing a Communist dictator fears than an internet petition. Kim Jong Il never would have sentenced these women to hard labor on made up charges if he knew it would be unpopular with people on the internets.

I wonder if Obama has signed?

lolterizt! Part 83

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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:

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

From Brian of Random Numbers:

From Chris:

From Michael:

From Mitch:

From Nathan:

From Rick of The Rabid Conservative:

From Shane of ShaneBlake.com:

From Steve:

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From Warren:

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.

Capitalist Propaganda: “Capitalism”

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From 1948, another educational short from Coronet, “Capitalism“:


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While addressing the question “what is Capitalism?, these kids never reach today’s “obvious” conclusion that it’s a system for cheating the poor, exploiting indigenous peoples, and oppressing minorities.

Which, if you read some of the reviews at the first link, is this production’s major flaw.

But the question isn’t “who is unhappy under Capitalism?”, it’s “what IS Capitalism?”. This film is a good example of using a simple, concrete situation to give meaning to more abstract terms. It’s how learning is done properly – leftist pap like “there are no rights or wrongs, just arguments for and against” notwithstanding.

Sure, these happy, healthy, well-groomed children argue over Captalism like they’re arguing over “what is Christmas?”.

“It’s presents!”
“It’s a tree!”
“It’s cookies!”
“It’s family!”
“It’s pretty colored lights!”
“It’s a month of Christmas specials on TV every night!”

But they should discuss it like that, because under Capitalism, EVERY day is Christmas.

Just ask anyone who’s come to America from a place that didn’t have it.

15 Hottest Conservative Women in the New Media

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John Hawkins has the winners of the fifteen hottest conservative women in the new media, and I was one of the judges. And just to let you know, don’t blame me for Mary Katharine Ham not making the list.

And isn’t the puppy blender’s wife like crazy hot compared to him? You usually only see that kind of disparity in beer commercials. He really must have made a pact with Satan.

No word on whether Hawkins will marry the winner.