In a battle between Keith Olbermann and a chipmunk, who would win?
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I’m thinking the chipmunk could take Olbermann. But I’m sure Olbermann could beat … well, something. Maybe a … no. He could beat … no.
Okay, I’m stumped. Who … or what … would lose a battle with Keith Olbermann?
Conservatives — okay, actually Republicans — are being painted as “The Party Of ‘No.'”
And, Republicans seem to want to respond to that charge.
Now, maybe it’s because I’m not a Republican (I’m not a member of any party — I am a conservative), but the tag doesn’t bother me.
Obama and his Congress have done lots of damage. And it needs to stop. So, I’m willing to embrace the “Party of ‘No'” moniker.
Look at it like this: You’re taking a trip. Someone else is driving. They’re doing a piss-poor job of driving. And they’re going in the wrong direction. At a high rate of speed.
What do you do?
Well, you don’t grab the steering wheel and suddenly turn it to the right. You stop the car. You remove the incompetent driver. You take the wheel (or get someone capable behind the wheel). Then you move in the right direction at the right speed.
That pretty much sums up what we need to do with the presidency and the Congress. Stop things. Put someone capable in charge. Then proceed.
We’re at the “stop” point of the strategy right now. So, yes, I’m all for stopping things. Stopping things cold.
And, until we have things stopped, and until we have the right people in charge, whatever Congress tries to do, I’m against it.
Embrace your inner Groucho!
Wiccapundit of Red State Witch presents: “What have the Republicans ever done for us?”
[with apologies to Monty Python]
Take a hippie-punch at fame by creating your own IMAO-worthy video at Xtranormal (“If you can type, you can make movies“). Send a link to harvolson-at-gmail.com and I’ll give it a look. If it isn’t obscene (IMAO is a PG-13 site) and it doesn’t suck too terribly bad, I’ll post it and let the readers throw roses and/or tomatoes at you.
There’s a lot there to work with. You have “mentally ill” in the same sentence as Biden but not describing him, another failure of White House security, and the odd idea of someone having an infatuation with Joe Biden. Well, here’s my attempt at a joke:
A mentally ill man got within feet of the Vice President Friday. Security knew something was awry since Biden was supposed to meet with Obama’s cabinet until next week.
Eh. I think that’s okay. Basically, I decided why go after Biden when I can go after Obama. And since many people think Obama’s cabinet and czars are some pretty nutty people, I just tried to get from “mentally ill” to “Obama’s associates” in the least clunky way possible. I could have gone with a joke about Biden being mentally ill, but that seems like the obvious joke here so I’d have to find a really oblique way of insinuating it or it wouldn’t be very funny. Does seem like there’s a joke in the infatuation with Joe Biden part, but haven’t thought of one yet. Oh, and since the whole thing happened in Canada, there’s probably some Canada or Winter Olympics joke angle too.
So let’s see what you can do with it.
Everybody seems to be coming up with manifestos these days, except they’re all long and boring and I haven’t read them because they’re long and I presumed they were boring. If we want to really get conservatism going, though, we need a nice short and to the point manifesto that’s memorably and everyone can get behind. So here’s my attempt at it:
THE IMAO MANIFESTO
If you touch my stuff, I’ll kill you.
Well, maybe that’s not so much a manifesto as just a statement — or a threat. Anyway, I think it will work well for conservatives. It kinda distills our attitudes on small government, nanny state regulation, and limited taxation into one, easy to remember sentence. Maybe instead we can call it the “Francis Will Never Lighten Up” Manifesto.
Not great start to USA curling, but you know as they say: “Each day the ice is made anew.”
I don’t know if they say that; I made that up.
So if I understood Lost correctly, the people on the island are really just cyborgs programmed with memories of the real people.
I think the first two days of curling was a failure of leadership. President Obama better get his act together.
Curling is like chess, but where each move in chess takes skill and teamwork. So like Wizard’s Chess.
Our enemies are going to stop calling us the “Great Satan” because a “Great” Satan would be much better at curling.
If a robot bites you, you become one
If a puppy bites you, you become one.
If the CEO of a Fortune 500 company bites you, you become one.
I expose the foolishness of a third part but explain why a fourth party just might work in my new column on Pajamas Media. Read it and be enthralled with my brilliance.
Everybody’s favorite nutbag, Keith Olbermann — who was fired from ESPN in 1997 for being a dick — wants to know
Where are the people of color at the Tea parties?
The fact that an NBC person is asking this asking this is, well, ridiculous. Michelle Malkin has pointed out for some time just how White NBC is.
However, suppose someone else — someone honest and with integrity — were to ask the question. How would I answer it?
Well, I could point out the Black man — identified as “an unidentified man” — at the Tea Party rally in Arizona who was carrying an AR-15. You may recall that NBC’s Contessa Brewer showed a close-up of his weapon, but not showing any skin (so you couldn’t tell he is Black), as she narrated: “there are questions about whether this has racial overtones….white people showing up with guns.”
Of course, there were Blacks present at the Tea Party in Columbus, GA on Independence Day. Blacks were in the crowd, as well as leading the protest.
But, that was in Georgia, where Blacks make up 30% of the population, as opposed to New York’s 17%.
Maybe I shouldn’t bother to get into such a discussion on how many Blacks are involved in the Tea Party protests. Maybe NBC shouldn’t be the Peacock Network, but instead, be called the Pea-brain Network.
