Is Science! Just Pushing Us Around?

Has Science! become more authoritarian causing people to distrust it? Apparently in Science! reporting, there has been a sharp increase in the use of the phrase “Science! says we must”, and people are beginning to feel that Science! is just pushing them around. And here are some other phrases that have increased in recent years in Science! reporting:

* Science! says we must

* Science! tells us we should

* Science! requires

* Bow down before Science!

* The power of Science! compels you

* Blaspheme to Science! will be noted and punished

* Science! demands your obedience and loyalty

* Do you dare speak before almighty Science!

* Kneel before Science!

* Science! shall crush you

* Foolish mortal! How dare you question Science!

* You have angered Science! and will pay dearly for it

* Science! wants a sammich. Get it a sammich! Now!

* All Science! wants is a hug

Random Thoughts

Still getting birther e-mails. I can’t believe people are ignoring the 12-point buck standing in front of them to hunt snipe.

Ever notice in addresses from the Oval Office how Obama now has a tip jar on his desk? I don’t know if that’s appropriate.

If they do a movie about Charlie Rangel, Harvey Fierstein already has the voice down.

I like it when liberals have jobs because that’s the only way we can contort their statements to get them fired.

Writing a column on how to solve the issue of race. Decided it was time I finally did something about it. You’re welcome.

lolbama! Part 45

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:

That’s Obama with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

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.

Adventures in Babysitting

President Obama would like his daughters to eventually earn some money babysitting. It would be a good lesson for them to learn that it takes hard work to get money, but that would be the first step towards them rebelling against their father’s politics and joining a Tea Party. Still, I think a lot of people will jump at having Malia and Sasha babysit for them because they think that means the Secret Service will be there helping protect the kids. Yes, but they’re only tasked to protect the president’s daughters. If terrorists attack, they’ll toss your baby out to the terrorists as a distraction, saying, “Kill this baby instead!” Malia and Sasha would probably be against that — as any kid would — because I assume you don’t get paid in that situation. Terrorists ruin everything.

How to Stop Secrets from Leaking

With the leak of the tens of thousands of documents on Afghanistan, it kind of sounds like we have a problem in our government of people leaking secret documents. Here are some ideas to stop that:

* Cover random secret documents with Ebola virus. Then finding the leaker is as simple as seeing who is bleeding out his eyes.

* Have a guardian stand before our secret documents, making everyone answer three questions to prove whether he is worthy to see them.

* When the leaker brings the documents to the New York Times, then you grab him because you secretly shipped everyone there to Gitmo and replaced them with doubles (Paul Krugman is a goat in a suit).

* The cabinet we keep all the secret documents in: Put a lock on it.

* Stop handing out free secret documents at tours even though it gets the tourists really excited. Also, stop giving tours of secret document facilities.

* When the leaker is found, draw and quarter him and put each piece at one of the four corners of the earth as a warning to others. You may need air fresheners, because that could smell.

* Have a guy standing in the shadows smoking a cigarette watching everyone who learns government secrets.

* Never ever write anything secret down.

* For the people allowed access to secret documents, try to look for red flags in their backgrounds that show that they might not have the best interests of our country in mind, such as if they voted Democrat.

Random Thoughts

I hear Paul Krugman is a good economist, but I think he’d make an even better muppet.

I don’t think I’ve ever been as excited for Election Day as I am this year. Because I’ll have a baby daughter then.

The election results should be interesting too, but meh.

Breitbart’s Plan:
Phase 1: Embarrass White House and NAACP
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Slavery

Democrats are mad at Breitbart for wanting to bring back slavery because that was their original universal employment plan.

It should be noted, though, that only one of the two major political parties has always been against slavery.

I think it’s fair to say the members of the Journolist don’t understand all the ways it makes them look like moron, partisan hacks.

I am getting sick and tired of telling Lenny about the rabbits.

PROBLEM: Too few jobs.
FACT: Rich people create most jobs.
SOLUTION: Tax rich people!

There’s a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. At the end of a double rainbow are the millions of jobs saved or created by Obama.

Let’s Treat Our Politicians Properly

So Charles Rangel is super corrupt — which is a surprise to no one but it’s interesting that it looks like they’re actually going to do something about it now. Why do we let this stuff go on so long, though? Do we have trouble finding which politicians are corrupt? I’ll give you a hint on that: It’s pretty much all of them.

We send incompetent sociopaths to run things in Washington, and if they weren’t corrupt already they soon will be with their new power. So should we stop electing incompetent sociopaths. Well, that’s not really practical. Instead, let’s just assume they all are criminals already. We get everyone in Congress ankle bracelets and parole officers and monitor them 24/7. Frankly, if you’re an elected official, you shouldn’t have a single private conversation while serving; that’s a trade off for the job. As soon as we start treating all our politicians as criminals, we’ll be less disappointed in them.

The Emperor’s New Jobs

In Emperor Obama’s kingdom, there was a shortage of jobs. So Obama hired smart economists with degrees and stuff who sounded really super smart to get jobs. So they went to work making jobs, seizing all the assets of the land to spend on their schemes. Soon, the economists when to Obama and said, “We’ve saved and created many new jobs, but they’re completely invisible to dumb, racist teabaggers. So if you can’t see the jobs–”

“I can see the jobs!” Obama interrupted. “I’m smart! I can see millions of them!”

So Obama ran out to address his people. “I am happy to announce we’ve saved or created 3.6 million new jobs. That makes me the smartest emperor ever. And if it seems like we’ve only lost more jobs since I’ve went to work on the issue, that’s because the jobs are invisible to stupid people who are racist and stuff.”

A lone child then yelled out, “The Emperor has no jobs!” But no one could hear the child over everyone laughing at what a stupid dummy the Emperor was. And no one worried the Emperor would do anything to them because he was completely impotent.

THE END

Liberals and Racism

So Shirley Sherrod said Breitbart wants to take us back to the days of slavery, which seems like an odd charge to make — nuts as some might say. And Howard Dean said FOX News is “absolutely racist” for reporting on news that was made by Obama firing someone for being racist. Again, some people might find this confusing. You might think that racism involves judging other people on their race, but that’s a common mis-perception of dumb crackers. Here’s how liberals can tell if someone is racist:

* He doesn’t like taxes.

* He doesn’t like big government.

* He notices Obama’s incompetence.

* He doesn’t think liberals are super-duper smart.

You ever get the feeling that liberals don’t really care about racism and just like tossing the charge around because they think it can help them politically? If they thought charging the Tea Parties with being too nice to minorities could hurt Tea Parties politically, they’d make that charge instead. And if joining the KKK and lynching minorities could help them enact progressive policies, liberals would be all over that. It’s like how they are much harsher in their rhetoric towards conservatives who are minorities because they find those conservatives extra threatening (if a large portion of black break towards the Republicans, liberals are doomed). So does being meaner to someone because of his or her race (like how liberals are extra mean to Michelle Malkin) make liberals racist? Strictly speaking, I guess so, but the motivator isn’t race it’s just pure partisan politics — the same as any other action liberals do. Liberals are just happy to use racism when they think it benefits them politically and yell about imagined racism when they think that is beneficial.

In a more just world, liberals would no longer be able to charge racism because they’ve used up all their credibility on that issue. If they honestly thought someone was racism and wanted to call him on it, they’d have to ask a conservative to confirm the racism and give them permission to use that charge. Of course, if spotting racism wasn’t politically beneficial to liberals, they probably wouldn’t care about it.

Random Thoughts

Breitbart is the new William F. Buckley if every liberal is the new Gore Vidal.

Now that I have an iPad, anytime I use my big laptop I feel like a caveman.

I remember when charges of extremism and racism weren’t completely partisan in motivation. Or maybe I’m thinking of some fiction I read.

In this time of high unemployment and many threats abroad, our biggest problem is imaginary racism.

Shorter Obama: “Can you get that jar from the high shelf? I can’t reach it.”

So apparently Sherrod hasn’t learned a single lesson about baseless charges of racism. You can charge Breitbart with being an irresponsible political hack, but to say he want to bring the country back to the time of slavery you have to be a loony toon.

Sherrod: “I want him to show me how he’s not a racist.” How do you do that?

It would be nice if we had a blood test so you could get a certificate showing you’re not a racist.

Still, moronic conversations about race are leagues better than how things used to be forty years ago.

Wait, I forgot that forty only gets us back to the 70s now. Let’s say fifty.

Remember when Bush showed up to the State of the Union address dressed up like Aquaman because someone told him it was a costume party? I miss him. Good times.

Exception handling! It’s like 50% of programming is for 5% of use cases.

Still haven’t finished watching the first season of Mad Men through Netflix. It’s… well made.

IMAO Podcast Reruns (7-11-05)

Episode 7, from 7-11-05 is now available.

* Pre-introduction: SarahK the CPA
* Introduction & sponsors
* The IMAO crew goes to Iraq (Part 1)
* Harvey: Fun Facts About Connecticut (Part 1)
* PSA: Driver Safety
* Harvey: Fun Facts About Connecticut (Part 2)
* SarahK: She Blonded Me with Science
* “World of Knowledge” w/ host Frank J: Ninjas
* Frank Discourse (Roundtable): Terrorism (root causes, group therapy as a solution), Are we in the End of Times?, the Dave Matthews concert, Greg Gutfield, How to pimp the blog on Rush Limbaugh’s show, Frank & Sarah’s wedding
* Frank: Conclusion, listener emails
* The IMAO crew goes to Iraq (Part 2)

DISCLAIMER: I offer no guarantees as to the quality of the audio or of the material. Listen at your own risk.

Enjoy the show.

In the Mail

Our own Wacky Hermit sent us little elf baby booties from her Curious Workmanship company. SarahK about died when she saw them and I’m sure they’ll be cute on Princess Buttercup this Christmas.

Also, I got the book Whiny Little Bitch: The Excuse-Filled Presidency of Barack Obama (also available on Kindle). It looks like a funny read, and on the back it even says, “100 jobs were created or saved by publishing this book” so you have that too.

Captain Hippie

For those worried the Captain America in the new movie is going to be some flag-waver, have no fear! It’s going to be set during WWII, and the last thing we want is some American fighting Nazis while being all patriotic about it.

Part of this change, of course, is that Hollywood is full of liberal douches (who, in a better world, we would deport to make room for more illegal Mexicans), but part of it is also for international sales where American patriotism is thought to be bad. But in the rest of the world are they going to like that by fighting Nazis Captain America will be helping Jews? Maybe to really appeal to the rest of the world, Captain America can get a message from the future making his main mission to stop the creation of Israel.

It’s like the people who used to be the villains in movies that existed only to be blown up and shot are now the audience Hollywood is trying to appeal to. Poor Captain America. Maybe Hollywood can do the merciful thing and kill him again.

Who Is Left Watching Olbermann?

I was wondering who actually watches Keith Olbermann anymore. Don’t even most liberals find him to be a joke now?

Yep.

The elites at the Journolists (elites including those who comically threaten to put people through plate glass windows) can’t even stand him and find him incredibly pompous (though I have to say it’s wrong for them to compare Olbermann to Hannity and O’Reilly since they actually have people who disagree with them on their shows and don’t shrink away form that like a vampire from sunlight). So who are these liberals dumb enough to still take Olbermann seriously? I imagine his average viewer is some guy jumping up and down excitedly while screeching, “No likee booosh!!!” and wetting his pants. And laughing about how stupid Sarah Palin and “rethuglicans” while trying to get his tongue unstuck from the DVD player.

I hate to break the news to you, but I don’t think we’re going to have Olbermann to kick around very much longer.