* I’m back! Yay! Praise the Great Landlord!
* So I guess there’s been some sort of debt deal. There’s dispute over whether it could possibly lead to more taxes or will just be spending cuts, but the important thing is that liberals seem outraged. Obama wanted to spend more money, and everyone was supposed to be like, “We’ll just get out of your way and let you spend as much money as you want.” Instead, everyone was like, “You insane idiots, stop spending so much money!” Such basic common sense confused and enraged liberals. Yeah, we’re not going to get much in the way of real cuts and our debt is just going to keep going up, but how much were we going to achieve while Obama is president? The important thing is getting things moving in the right direction. Let’s see what happens next time the debt ceiling comes up… especially if we have a Republican president.
* This whole thing just further emphasized how useless Obama is, but once again I need to point out there was no reason to think he’d be anything but. In his previous job — mediocre legislator — he literally did nothing you couldn’t train a dog to do. Just voted yes or no on stuff, and that was it — nothing else of note. And before you say, “He gave speeches; a dog couldn’t do that,” I would mention that you could have a dog stand in front of a teleprompter and bark for ten minutes, and it would say just as much of substance as any speech Obama has ever given.
Anyway, the point is let’s have some better standards for the president in the future. Let’s make sure he was at least assistant to the manager at a real company or something.
* The movie Cowboys and Aliens was number one over the weekend, and it also seems like a good description of the two sides in this country now. You have cowboys — independent people who don’t need a giant government — and aliens — people who don’t live on this world and think you can spend and spend forever without consequence. If only we could defeat them by throwing water on them like those stupid aliens in Signs.
* SarahK and I have been following that Dave Ramsey plan to get our finances in order. Basically, you first attack your debt, then get an emergency fund, and then handle retirement, college savings, and paying off the house. While the latter part probably doesn’t apply to government, the first few steps do seem like what we should be working towards for the country. We need to get aggressive about our debt, first trimming down the government as much as possible so we’re spending less than we take in and can finally hit that long term debt. When the debt is handled, we save up a couple trillion in an emergency fund — that way we could have a new war or something and not go back into debt. When we have no debt and a emergency fund saved up, then the federal government can just refund any left over money. Of course, the plan only works well if you can really cut your budget down and keep it down. Might have to exile liberals to Antarctica to insure that — which is yet another expense. I guess you could consider it an investment.
* There was a survey done of which countries like the U.S. the most, and Japan and Kenya both have a higher favorable rating of America than Americans do. I guess it’s because they don’t have hippies to deal with. Interesting, France loves America only a little less than Americans do even though we all like hate France. World’s gone topsy turvy, people.
* A survey says that people who use Internet Explorer have below average IQs. Makes sense; I can’t think of any reason you’d use IE other than that you’re too dumb to know how to install another browser. When we got a new computer to connect to our TV as an entertainment center, I tried using IE briefly, but after five seconds with it I got so frustrated that I went to download Chrome. If you like big, bloated pieces of software that are really slow, Microsoft has you covered, but smart people don’t like that.
* I got the 3DS back when it first came out even though there weren’t really any games for it. Months later… there still aren’t really very many worthwhile games for it. And now Nintendo has announced a $80 (32%) price reduction
* I had mentioned before I’m reading The Hunger Games
* My congressman Raul Labrador was on Meet the Press on Sunday and everyone thinks he did pretty awesome representing the Tea Party side of things. His opponent tried to do racist attacks on him in the 2010 election, implying since Labrador was Hispanic he’d let illegal immigrant crack dealers into our state, but the Democrat incumbent still lost handily because he had one big problem: He was a Democrat. In Idaho. In 2010.
Bad idea.
* Wisdom of the Day: “The tea party didn’t hold America hostage, it gave DC an intervention.” –Jeremy
I saw Cowboys an Aliens this weekend. What a dissapointment. It’s just as stupid and preachy and clichéd as Avatar was.
Actually the Tea Party didn’t hold America hostage, it gave DC a much needed enema. There, fixed it for you.
Interestingly, France loves America only a little less than Americans do even though we all like hate France. World’s gone topsy turvy, people.
LOL. Hilarious. Made my day. 😀
An intervention? Or an enema, zzyzx? More like a squirt in the face. The colon-wrenching Oh-My-God is yet to come.
– I switched to FireFox. No wonder I feel so alive.
– When I ask my German Shepherd to “speak”, she does so with authority and gusto. The new Reagan?
Hey, have we tried throwing water on liberals? Maybe if we use water from the Love Canal…….
You’re back? That implies you actually stopped posting when you left. Don’t try to pretend you’re not all co-dependent on us.
For real, I’m protesting this Carolynp. She’s confusing the jimmycarter, and he’s already a little loopy. We don’t want to make it worse! He might start running around screaming, “RON PAUL!!!!!!!!eleventy!!!!!!!!!”
The cat has been gone for a couple days… Marko, what did you do?
Congrats on doing the Dave Ramsey plan. I have been working on it myself. I need to get my wife on the same plan instead of the ask me for money plan. I suspect shes a democrat.
I don’t know if the fed would ever have the discipline to do it. I say we go back to a confederacy. Let the states compete for the best system. I for one would live in one of the balanced budget low taxes states but feel free to live in whatever state you wish.
Here ya go Marco……[After throwing water on her, Dorothy watches Nancy Pelosi melt]
Nancy Pelosi: You cursed brat! Look what you’ve done! I’m melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful liberalness? Oooooh, look out! I’m going! Oooooh! Ooooooh. [scene from the MGM classic The Wizard of Washington DC]
“In his previous job — mediocre legislator — he literally did nothing you couldn’t train a dog to do. Just voted yes or no on stuff, and that was it”
Actually, that proved too tough for him so he just voted “present.”
Carolyn,
I fed him to the locusts.
Japan loves America more than any other country, including America. We nuked Japan. Coincidence? I think not. Obviously, once a country realizes we couldn’t care less what they think of us they start worrying about what we think of them. So they start pretending to love us so that we don’t nuke them (or nuke them for a 3rd time in the case of Japan). The obvious thing to do is to start nuking more countries. France is an obvious choice because we hate them and blowing up Cannes might push them over the line of loving us more than we do. South Sudan is the next obvious target, might as well start them off right.
You do realize that those numbers would be higher, but the people in those countries who really love the US have already moved here.
I propose that after Republicans win the Senate in 2012, that we furlough everyone in the Federal Government except for our military and law enforcement until a true reduction of entitlements is passed, Obamacare is repealed and the budget is balanced. If we make it until then, that is.
Has Frank been gone? Huh? Hadn’t noticed! Of course being one of the lowest of the low on this blog, never having even sniffed “high praise” how would I know the difference. I wonder when Bantha_FeelmylipsonFrank’sass will return. I’ll bet it’s soon!
And another shot from our prego! Nice! It’s been a long morning for the little trooper…sigh…
Just when you thought it was safe… http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/04/hillary-clinton-obama-john-phillips.html
zzyzx…I’M BLIND YOU BASTARD!!! Although, we have a secret weapon here at IMAO. Jimmy is a secret love slave that Hillary has used again and again and again and again and then tossed aside. If she does run, I’m certain that Jimmy will once again heed the call and take one (or several hundred) for the team and keep Hillary “happy”. Yes, Jimmy she will be wearing a strap-on, but hey it’s for your country!!!
“Interesting, France loves America only a little less than Americans do even though we all like hate France. World’s gone topsy turvy, people.”
Frank you miss the obvious dude. The French all say they love us even though the hatred is really mutual because they know it will P!$$ us off. The French are sneaky that way.
For months, I had a liberal relative who hounded me to see Avatar. “Have you seen it yet? It’s so BYOOTIFULandLetsMeExpressMyLatentHatredForTheMilitary.” No, I haven’t seen it. If I wanted to see something beautiful, I’d download a screen saver that shows me caribou in pristine ANWR
ducking rifle rounds shot out of helicopters. I don’t need to subject myself to 162 minutes of anti-US propaganda disguised as eye candy. Needless to say, me and this relative don’t see eye-to-eye.Well, now that I’ve seen Captain America, it’s time to turn the tables. I get to corner my dear relative and give him a reverse-Avatar. Hey Uncle, have you seen the kick-ass pro-America film? The military is portrayed not as a bunch of ruthless mercenaries who break the rules and torture people because they’re too stupid to think for themselves! You can cheer for America, uncle, because the bad guys are Hitler’s Nazis, so you can’t really root for them, right? (right?) So by default, you can be pro-America. (Knowing him, he’ll poll his friends and do a “global test,” strike a balanced approach and cheer for the UN.)
And the hero isn’t even pro-war. Captain America is a pacifist who’s main weapon is a shield which throws at people like a buzzsaw
and which he never utilizes to its full decapitating powers. Asked if he wants to kill Nazis, he says, “Nah, I just want to stop bullies.” See? Even a wimpy pacifist liberal can cheer for a shield-wielding guy who can’t even agree to “Let’s make some Krauts sour” at the height of WW2.Cheer for the US in a white-hat/black-hat flick with lots of ‘splosions? Rarer than a batch of stupidly-named unobtainium. Then again, far as I can tell, this represents a turning point, with a Democrat back in the White House using drones to drop bombs on defenseless Arabs, and Hollywood finally is rediscovering the art of the pro-America feel-good movie. (Inglourious Basterds was a Nazi-killing toe dipping into the water but the mercenaries were kind of dumb, and that made them money, so why not go all-out). This follows up a series of flicks during the Bush presidency whose zenith/nadir was Redacted, which was something about how our military eats the brains of babies. All I know is it was Mark Cuban who put up the money, a sin for which I never forgave him, that is until his Dallas Mavericks shut up the annoying LeBron James and his cocky colleagues in Heat.
So, just as I can tolerate Mark Cuban again, Hollywood is tolerating blue again. Not Avatar blue but blue as in jingoistic red-white-and-blue heck-Yeah! flag-waving with films like Captain America. However, just like FDR Depression flicks, these films try to make America feel good about itself while paying $32 for a 3D “you don’t suck” movie. Then again, $32 buys a lot of Black Label, so maybe you can feel good about yourself and never leave home while watching Day After Tomorrow with Rifftrax.
who’s = whose
Whose who’s?
who’s on first…
I didn’t see Avatar. Made the hubs go with a friend instead. Then he got it from Netflix and made me watch it. At least it was cheaper than the 3D version at the theater, because it sucked. You didn’t miss a thing Razor. 😛
I thought who was on second…
What’s on second. I don’t know (Third Base!)
UssJimmy, I have decided you and I will be the other version of Marko and Cat. Of course, this all started because I realized that “carter” was the only word I could get to rhyme with “farter”. So really, you were an inadvertent victim of my crappy rhyminess. I thought I saw you today on 66 in Virginia – there was a guy with a bumper sticker that said “Fred 08”.
Several hundred? Pffft.
Ussjimmycarter : CarolynthePregnant WORKS FOR ME!!!
Dave Ramsey for Treasury Secretary!
Interestingly, France loves America only a little less than Americans do even though we all like hate France. World’s gone topsy turvy, people.
Actually, no. I forget the [citation needed] but there was an earlier poll in which they checked worldwide to see which country hated France the most.
The result turned out to be France. We were well behind them in France-hating.
#16 – zzyzx,
Good article. I liked the Hillary buttons. But they didn’t use my favorite, “Hillary 2012 – I told you he’d screw it up!”, although that “I told you so” one was close. Then I spotted a link to a previous article by the same writer at the bottom of the page.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/03/sarah-palin-2012-john-phillips.html
I suspect he was trying to be flippant, but it made good sense to me! Run, Sarah, Run!
Who’s on second? Then who’s on first?
Who’s on first? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-gpwYvxBfA
CarolynthePregnant – I agree to your proposal. I don’t have to be like a total Frank J butt kisser like those two do I? I’m still fighting “The Man”!!! I have a slight problem with authority…
I thought obama said he was assistant manager!
Dwight would be way more qualified – even beet farmer beats community organizer.
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