Voting for a Representative in Idaho

I live in Idaho, which as you probably know is a very Republican state. Strangely enough, I now have a Democrat representative for my district — Walt Minnick — because apparently the previous Republican one was such a horrible screw up that he got voted out in the last election (while my district also went 60.69% for McCain). Now basically Minnick has been a DINO, voting with the Republicans on all the important legislation of the past two years. That’s behavior you want to reward, and the Tea Party in Idaho has endorsed him.

But in the end, he is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as speaker. Also, I recently got a chance to meet him and he sounded very much a Democrat in area of the Constitution, as while he was against Obamacare for fiscal reasons, he thought the Commerce Clause covered forcing everyone to buy health care and was against the state of Idaho challenging that in court think it was a waste of taxpayer money.

So, I dunno. Anyway, Walt Minnick’s likely opponent is Vaughn Ward (I just realized with all these hyped primary fights I keep hearing about, I have no idea when any actually primary votes are). He sounds pretty damn conservative (he recently got the Sarah Palin endorsement which probably flies pretty well here in Idaho), and he’s an Iraq War vet (I should mention, though, that Walt Minnick is a Vietnam vet). So Vaughn Ward seems like a good person to represent me in Congress, but what do you think?

Somehow, I don’t see all you guys telling me to vote for the Democrat, but I thought I’d ask.

Random Thoughts

Has any leftie columnist writing about overheated rhetoric and possible right-wing violence ever done so in an introspective way? For instance, has any said, “Here’s where we in the left went overboard in the past and the right needs to avoid that mistake.”?

Is it really inconceivable to the left that someone earning $40,000 a year would care if the rich are being unfairly taxed?

“Your rhetoric that is devastating us in the polls, you need to stop it before it causes violence.” Sound like a threat, actually.

In tough economic times, it’s nice to know we can still afford the luxury of someone whose job is to say “Hi” to us when we enter Walmart.

Can’t the left and right unite and agree to blame everything wrong in this country on fat kids?

After McCain is reelected, how long do you think it will be until he’s infuriating conservatives again? A week? A day? An hour?

“Previously on Lost: Actually, if you haven’t been watching all the episodes until now, don’t even bother.”

For Earth Day, I’m going to spend the entire day on Earth.

Insanity

Whether or not Einstein said it, it’s true that doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is a definition of insanity. Keep that in mind…

So many problems are created by government. Not that government is a bad thing; it’s not. But out-of-control government is a very bad thing.

The bailouts — first begun when Bush was president, but under the direction of a Democrat Congress — were something I opposed when they were proposed.

The bank failure was caused by government. And the bailout was government getting more involved.

Think about this: if you put a bunch of monkeys in a room and let them run loose, and they caused damage to the walls and furniture, would you then give those same monkeys hammers, nails, and paint, asking them to fix things?

No, you’d remove the monkeys and deal with the consequences. It might be a rough time for a bit, what with all the mess the monkeys made, in addition to all the collateral damage that will result. But that’s what you’d do.

Of course, it was your fault for putting the monkeys in charge to start with.

In case you missed it, them monkeys? Democrats. Keep that in mind in November.

And keep in mind that insanity quote.

lolbama! Part 38

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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This week’s uncaptioned picture for you to play with comes in two flavors (hat tip: Laurie):

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Submit on either or both.

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#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.

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Horrible Pun of the Day

I like coming up with horrible puns, but I don’t usually post them because they’re so horrible. I’m going to post one now, but here is your warning it is horrible. I don’t want you reading it and them complaining it’s awful and not funny because I already know that. It’s so bad, it may cause you to never find me funny again. We’re talking like a pun so horrible, it’s physically painful. So once again, if you choose to read the pun, don’t come crying to me because I’m giving you plenty of warning here. You did this to yourself.

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Lawbreaking Founding Fathers

Just when you like to have heroes like the Founding Fathers, you find out that George Washington has a library fine of $300,000. That’s right; he checked out a book and never returned it. He was all like, “I’m George Washington! I made this country! I do what I want! If you get in my face, I’ll shoot you like you’s British!” All the Founding Fathers were malcontents. Benjamin Franklin would jaywalk constantly. James Madison liked to litter. And Thomas Jefferson was into insane conspiracy theories.

Wait, I got Thomas Jefferson confused with Ron Paul; it’s easy to do.

Know Thy Enemy: Volcanoes 2.0

With volcanoes in the news lately, I thought I’d do a Know Thy Enemy on them. Then I found out I already did one. Well, Science! has advanced a lot since then and numerous more facts are known about volcanoes, so I had my crack research team come up with an even more comprehensive list of what we know about volcanoes:

FUN FACTS ABOUT VOLCANOES

* Volcanoes erupt when, deep within the earth, deposits of baking soda mix with deposits of vinegar.

* Volcanoes are like mountains… but with a gooey center!

* What a volcano kills most people with is its lava… or is it its smoke. Well, whatever it is, just stay the hell away from whatever comes out of a volcano.

* Iceland names their volcanoes by repeatedly smashing their palm into a keyboard.

* Where lava comes from is deep within the earth. If you dig a lot, after getting through the dirt, you’ll hit hot magma. And then China.

* If you dig a hole that flows magma into China, the Chinese will get angry. Stupid Commies.

* Scientists say that global warming can cause volcanoes. If you think that’s idiotic, Science! has also proved that global warming causes idiotic scientific arguments, so bad Science! is even more proof of global warming, stupids!

* Many islands have volcanoes. This is much more dramatic because then you can’t just drive away from the slowly moving magma.

* Volcanoes can easily shut down air travel any time they want, which is why most volcanoes are on the “No Fly” list.

* I’d hope on a normal day, though, they still wouldn’t let someone named Eyjafjallajökull on a plane.

* To stop a volcano, throw a virgin in it. Sluts only make it angrier.

* Volcanoes can contribute to mass extinction events, so if you see lots of animals around you dying and can’t figure out why, the killer is probably either a volcano or a butler.

* A volcanic explosion puts a huge amount of pollution into the air, making it comparable to Al Gore.

* If the volcano you see is hollowed out, look out for evil geniuses.

* If you see a lava flow coming towards you, jump! Maybe it will cool to regular harmless rock before you hit the ground.

* Childhood obesity is another cause of volcanic eruptions. I’m not sure how, but I just really hate fat kids and I’m pretty sure volcanoes do to.

* Extremely large volcanoes capable of causing mass extinction events are called “supervolcaoes”. Volcanoes capable of climbing walls and sensing danger are called “spider-volcanoes”.

* The reason things get so hot within the earth is because the earth is spinning. To demonstrate this effect, spin around really fast and then take your temperature.

* In a fight between a volcano and Aquaman, the exact results of the fight wouldn’t be known until ten thousand years later when Aquaman’s remains are unearthed from the rock.

* If you think you see an erupting volcano, call the police. Someone should know about it.

* A volcano can explode with far more power than a nuclear bomb, and yet the earth refuses to take part in disarmament talks.

* Whatever you do, don’t let your kids play on a volcano’s edge unless it has railing.

* The Roman god most closely associated with volcanoes is Vulcan, god of logic and bowl haircuts.

* The site of Yellowstone National Park was once a giant volcano. If that ever goes off again, expect park services to ask for more money. They’re always looking for an excuse to ask for more money.

Idea So Obama Can Not Raise Taxes

With the rising deficits, it’s pretty inevitable that Obama will eventually pass some huge tax hikes. Still, he promised not to raise them, and at least five or six people believed that promise. So I have an idea so Obama can get more money without raising taxes.

Here’s what Obama needs to do: Hire a bunch of professional thieves to break into people’s houses and bank accounts and steal their money. I looked it up, and theft is technically not a tax. Obama can help out the thieves by passing a “Let’s All Keep Our Doors Unlocked” policy, plus with all those fundraising letters he sends out, he probably already has a ton of people’s credit card numbers. So Obama should be able to steal plenty of money.

Yes, people will be angry from all the theft, but Obama can just use that to help pass whatever his pet legislation is. Like how he used the jobs crisis to pass health care reform for some reason, he can be like, “I know what can stop all this theft: Cap & Trade!”

Wow, I could be like a really good Democrat if I wanted to.

Random Thoughts

Liberal Prayer: “Lord, please – PLEASE – let my opponents be racially motivated.”

Dude, Iceland needs to get its land under control. It can’t be exploding all the time like that.

In that bar where they found the iPhone they should also check around for Fermat’s elegant proof to his last theorem.

I heard that Iceland found a magic monkey’s paw and wished on it that the world would pay them more attention.

Iceland has government run health care, and it’s exploding. Just thought I’d mention that.

I’m sick and tired of the racism in the conservative movement, so I’m going to be a liberal. Know what we need? More taxes!

No, wait, I really hate taxes. I’m going to be a racist again.

Is gun control pretty much dead in this country? I guess it will finally be buried when California flips to right to carry.

By the time Obama ends don’t ask don’t tell, it will be a moot point since the military will be all robots. Well, it might help C3PO openly serve.

80% of the Country Has a Problem with the President Being Black

A new poll shows that nearly 80% of the country has little faith in the federal government, and nearly half says the government negatively affects their lives.

Why would this be? I can give you one answer: the head of federal government is black.

It’s the only explanation that makes sense. Right now the federals government is doing everything it can to help the economy and is about to give everyone free health care, thus logically everyone should love the government right now. Except, the president it black, so people are turning against it.

But a little over a year ago, the country elected a black president, so it wasn’t racist then. So what’s changed? Again, the change is that Barack Obama is president.

Conclusion: Barack Obama is spreading racist hate!

STOP SPREADING RACIST HATE BARACK OBAMA!!!!

Plan for Iran

So, apparently President Obama has no plan to deal with Iran if it succeeds in getting nuclear weapons. I guess that leaves it to me to come up with one.

FRANK J.’S PLAN FOR A NUCLEAR IRAN

So if Iran gets nuclear weapons, first thing we do is congratulate them.

Yeah, they won’t expect them.

We’ll be like, “Good going, Iran; you’re now a nuclear power. That puts you in a very exclusive club, and guess what that comes with? A secret decoder ring!”

And Ahmadinejad will be like, “Gimme gimme gimme!”

So we’ll give him the decoder ring and leave him be. The next day, he gets sent a secret message THAT ONLY NUCLEAR POWERS CAN DECODE! He’ll be so excited and grab his decoder ring to figure it out… except the ring is more complicated than he thought, and he has to put all his top scientists on the job and it takes them hours. Finally, he’ll decode the message and be like, “I don’t want to buy Ovaltine. Anywho, time to nuke the joos!”

So Ahmadinejad will hit the button to launch his nuclear missile, but it will just fall over and out of the warhead will come angry badgers who start biting everyone they can see as badgers don’t like being crammed into a warhead. See, while they were all distracted decoding their message, we snuck in and replaced their warhead. They won’t know that, though, and will probably just blame things on angering the Muslim god Ganesh or something.

Nuclear problem solved! Someone give me a million dollars.

Remember When We Used to Bash Bill Clinton?

Bill Clinton is talking again; probably not a good idea. He’s just trying to subtly warn people if they don’t quietly accept the Democrats’ agenda, then they’ll cause an Oklahoma bombing type incident.

If Bill Clinton cares about his legacy, he really should just lie low. The best he can hope for is that he’ll get a short section in the history books and people will just say, “I guess the economy did well while he was president,” and don’t look any closer. But while Clinton was trying to tie Republicans to domestic terrorism for political gain, he did nothing during his eight years about the real threat out there and left that for another administration to deal with. Seeing how the economic boom of the 90’s was pretty fleeting too, the only thing Bill Clinton was good for was helping his own short term political gain. Even his own party was in shambles when he left office.

You can say a lot of bad things about Barack Obama, but in pure sliminess I don’t think he’ll ever beat Bill Clinton. It’s easy to forget that, though, so if Clinton just wises up and be quiet, he can get his little footnote in the history books without all the negative commentary. Oh, and his impeachment asterisks.

Random Thoughts

“No” is too active; I’d rather be the party of “meh.”

“I got this great idea for government that can end poverty and make us a utopia!”
“Meh.”

Eyjafjallajokull is a glacier? Thought someone just fell asleep on his keyboard.

If your language comes up with a spelling like “Eyjafjallajokull”, you need to admit you have a problem. No excuse for that.

If you can’t understand how anyone could disagree with you and lots of people do, that’s good evidence you’re stupid.

Do you think the internet will be around thousands of years from now? Like will you be able to spelunk through it for ancient websites? “It’s hamsters dancing… this must have meant something to primitive websurfers.”

The Boise State University’s blue turf is made by fertilizing the grass with ground up smurfs. Groundskeeper Gargamel does a good job.

Tea Parties are just part of the inevitable political pendulum, but the left seem to want to exacerbate it into something much more.

My dog is horrible at knock knock jokes because her normal response to a knock at the door is to bark all crazy.

It would be hard for much political violence to arise with all the media outlets we have these days. Everyone has a voice.

Australia has notorious gangland killers? Do they ride kangaroos and throw boomerangs?

Though the Australian version of a knife may beat what we call a knife, I bet we beat them on notorious gangland killers.