America’s greatest threat

What’s the greatest threat facing America today?

Turkey.

Not the country, the bird. And not just the bird, but the dead bird.

The Department of Homeland Security tweeted on Monday how dangerous it can be to fry a turkey.

And, in case you thought that someone left their computer unlocked and somebody tweeted it as a joke, they also put up a blog post about it.

The Department of Homeland Security, that great arm of Big Brother, knows that Islamic terrorists aren’t so much of a threat. Sure, they want to kill us, but that’s our fault. Just ask Ron Paul.

After flirting with the idea that right wingers were a threat — not because of things they’ve done, but because there’s the possibility that some right-winger might do something… Left-wing violence was never an issue. Sure, they’ve been shooting Congresswomen and crashing planes into buildings and raping hippies, but that’s actual violence. The real threat has always been potential violence. Since the left has actual violence, and the right has potential violence, the right must be a bigger threat.

Until now.

As DHS has so kindly informed us, the real threat is dead turkeys. They’re evil. So evil, that after they’re dead and frozen, they’ll still try to burn down your house.

So, as we approach Thanksgiving, be thankful that we have a government department that wants to protect us from turkeys.

Now, if we can only find someone to protect us from the turkeys at DHS.

lolterizt! Part 145

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

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This week’s uncaptioned picture for you to play with:


Gotta go to Les for mentioning a book so obscure I couldn’t even find a reference link for it. I suspect he probably just made it up.


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: Brian of Snapped Shot‘s magnificent EvilFeed – the world’s best source for ripe-for-captioning terrorist 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.

Nuke the News: Bad Boy Mitt, Right Wing Violence, and Boo-ama

* I put up my interview with Michael Medved in which I argue that Obama is a demigod with angry callers. Don’t miss it.

* Some cracks are starting to appear in Romney’s perfect veneer. Ends up as a teenager, he tried a cigarette and tasted beer. Dude was crazy. What he didn’t do as a teenager, though, was create a giant new government health care program with unconstitutional mandates. No teenager is that irresponsible.

* Michael Moore likened the UC Davis pepper spraying incident to Tiananmen Square and vowed to eat a whole roast pig in solidarity. It is pretty similar as in Tiananmen Square students were protesting for democracy and were threatened with tanks. At UC Davis, students were protesting — whatever it is OWS is about — and were threatened with an eye irritant.

In defense of the police at UC Davis, though, peaceful protesters are a lot easier to hit accurately with that stuff.

* Frank Rich tried to link JFK’s assassin — a guy who defected to the Soviet Union — to the right wing. Maybe the easiest thing for the left to do is declare violence to always be a right wing act so anyone who is ever violent is by definition right wing. Then we can call Bill Ayers Obama’s right wing friend.

* I have a solution for the super committee’s failure: We take all the Congressmen who don’t want to cut spending, seal them in metal boxes, and throw those boxes in the ocean. Actually, I don’t know if that solves anything; it just seems like a really good idea.

* Michelle Obama was booed at a NASCAR race. No update yet on her proud of America status.

* Some Democrat pollsters are saying that Obama should step aside and let Hillary run for president. Few Democrats want to come out and say what they know in their hearts: Obama just isn’t very good at being president. Would Hillary be a better president? We can’t say for certain, but she is someone other than Obama so there’s at least a 90% chance she would be.

* Wisdom of the Day: “Whenever I address Frank at home now, he won’t answer unless I call him ‘Bestselling Author Frank J. Fleming, sir.’ So it’s quiet.” –SarahK

Nuke the News: The Supercommittee, the EU, OWS, and Other Useless Things

* Well, my book has done really well. It’s still number one for political humor which hopefully I can hold for a while. Also, it’s got 29 reviews so far, all five star. And as an extra bonus, I’ve finally learned to be entertaining on the radio thanks to the help of Michael Medved. Instead of trying to be me but funny — which just doesn’t work — I just be someone ridiculous (such as someone who think Obama is a demigod) and argue that seriously. Anyway, hopefully I can get audio from my Medved appearance to put up (I was on for most of his second hour) or one of my other radio appearance (completely forgot to mention I was on the 55 KRC Morning Show in Cincinnati this morning; hopefully some people caught that).

Also, Scott Ott (bless you, Scrappleface) reviewed my book. He also has a book out which is now $0.99 for a Kindle download. I wouldn’t mind it also getting ahead of Bill Maher in the political humor charts as long as it stayed behind mine.

* The supercommittee was a complete failure at coming up with an agreement on spending cuts. Anyone surprised by that? No hands?

And what were they trying to accomplish anyway? $1.2 trillion in cuts in ten years? Hasn’t the deficit been increasing by more than that per year? Even if the supercommittee was a rousing success, we’re still only letting up on the gas a little on that car heading towards the spending cliff. At some point, we have to think of bailing from that car. Try to roll when you hit the ground.

Stephen Hawking says human survival depends on space exploration. Which got me thinking: Know what’s not deeply in debt? Mars. We can go live there.

* Nancy Pelosi says she’s going to do for child care what she did for health care. What’s it with liberals and threatening children.

“There’s only so many slots for government child care Timmy; I guess you’ll have to make your case to the death panel. We call it the ‘Happy Clown Panel’, but let’s be frank about what it is. So make a good case for yourself.”

* Business leaders could face jail time in Europe for claiming that water cures dehydration. I guess Science! hasn’t concluded that in a double blind study, so, you know, jail if you say it. And really, maybe this whole “all life needs water to live” urban legend was just cooked up by Aquafina.

Or maybe Europe is just too dumb to live. Hey, you can lead the EU to water, but you can’t make them conclude it’s necessary to drink after a multi-year study.

* The other day, Michael Moore wrote this on Twitter:

“What would you like to see Occupy Wall Street accomplish? Tweet your ideas!”

So here are some of my ideas:

– Self-awareness.
– A drum sphere.
– Replace electronic voting with twinkles/down twinkles.
– Fry and eat a chupacabra.
– Make 60s hippies look reasonable in comparison.
– Develop an exit strategy.
– Tar and feather the fattest member of the 1%.
– Learn to ask this question before starting a movement.

* Wisdom of the Day: “If OWS’ fabled ‘revolution’ ever comes, we have guns and they have bongos. I like our odds.” –Jon G.

* It’s more bad lipreading, this time with Ron Paul. Listen to him sound the sanest he’s ever been:

Random Thoughts

My book has dropped out of the Amazon top 100. I’m back to being a loser nobody like you.

Nancy Pelosi is going to do for child care what she did for health care? We’re going to have child death panels now?

Why is one of the Game of Thrones books ahead of me in Humor? How funny is that series?

Game of Thrones always sounded like a ripoff of musical chairs to me.

I liked that the one caller to the Michael Medved Show thought I had improv background. I am not quick witted at all; I’m a writer, not an actor.

They should do a crossover between Arrested Development and Community and then cancel it.

If my arm is ever ripped off in an accident, I hope I’m able to gather my wits enough to say, “And that is why you always leave a note!”

Just finally got to listen to my Medved appearance. First time I’ve listened back to a radio appearance and didn’t find it cringe inducing.

Well, that was fun. I guess the key to a good radio appearance is to pretend to really really love Obama.

On other radio appearances, I tried to be myself, but it ends up I’m really boring.

I’m just so happy to actually be funny on the radio. I guess I found my thing: pretend liberal.

I’ve been the number one political humor book on Amazon since Wednesday. Hopefully I can keep it up. (TWSS)

Some people actually looked at the Obama administration and decided its failure was due to lack of obnoxious hippies?

Don’t know how the algorithm works, but my book is now the 18th results returned if you search for Obama on Amazon. It’s the 4th results if you search in Kindle books for Amazon. And on Barnes and Noble, it’s the first result, just before “Dreams from My Father”.

DEFINITIVE book on Obama.

Chimps are 99% the same as Hitler.

When I go back to work, I hope my coworkers know to treat me more reverently now that I’m a best selling author.

“Best selling author” is a vague enough term that I can call myself that, right?

If I keep my Amazon ranking high for long enough, they’ll send me a special hat so people on the street will know I’m a best selling author. It looks a bit like those graduation hats.

Who’s gonna lose, Week 12

As the 2011 college football season winds to a close, teams are jockeying for position to wind up in the top two in the BCS. Emphasis on the B and the S.

Until the powers that be admit that a playoff system is the way to go, college football fans are stuck with the current nonsense.

Supporters of the BCS maintain that the best two teams always end up playing anyway, but that’s not true. Fully half of the teams that have played in the big game since the 1998 season would have been mighty lucky to have survived a playoff bracket, and part of being a champion is stepping up when it counts.

Twelve weeks into the season, it’s time for us to step up and let you know who’s gonna lose this week. No “gimme” games this week. Okay, maybe a couple. But we are altering the format slightly. Still picking games from my state (Georgia), Harvey’s state (Wisconsin), and Frank’s state (Iowa, Idaho, one of them states out there). Still picking matchups between Top 25 teams. And, instead of only-game-on matchups, we’ll look at the teams in the BCS hunt.

If you don’t care for college football, you got an alternative: the new Twilight movie is out and you and the rest of the girls and Nancy Boys can go watch it. The men and the really cool chicks will be watching college football.
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What Frank Is Up To

I’m going to be on the Michael Medved Show today. I was told between 4pm and 5pm ET. I don’t know if that means I’m on the whole hour, which would be trouble since the entirety of my knowledge plus padding is only gets you about twenty minutes.

Sorry about not having much news commentary this week, but all this stuff distracts and the radio interviews make me super nervous. I’ll get back to it next week — though Thanksgiving is that week so not the whole week.

Anyway, here’s Crowder with Occupy Wall Street’s greatest hits if you want something to do:

UPDATE: The Michael Medved show was a ton of fun. He had me play it straight — like my book is serious — and argue Obama’s greatness with callers. Hopefully I can get some audio from it to put up later because I think it turned out pretty funny. Thanks again to Medved for having me on his show!

Random Thoughts

For having a top 100 book, SarahK is taking me to see the Twilight movie tomorrow. If I make top ten, I get to stay home.

So what was the big OWS thing yesterday? Did they finally figure out what their movement is about?

It looks like I’m going to be on the Michael Medved Show today.

Man, I thought I was done with nerve-racking radio interviews, but because I’m so awesome I have a bunch more scheduled.

It would be kind of funny if Obama was replaced by the one time Emmanuel Goldstein to the left, Newt Gingrich.

Watching your Amazon ranking is stressful. I suddenly dropped seven places and now I’m freaking out. That’s it, Frank, you hit the high point of your life and now it’s over!

Don’t tell me to calm down when there is a red down arrow next to my book!

Everyone hates hippies. If you don’t hate hippies, you are one. And I hate you.

Why did Medved put me down for a whole hour tomorrow? You take the entirety of my knowledge, plus padding, and you have 20 minutes tops.

I’m sorry I ever made fun of your teleprompter, Obama. Someone just give me one and tell me what to say when I’m in front of an audience.

BTW, if you need more funny after my book, read the webcomics Axe Cop and Bearmageddon. If you’re awesome, you’ll love them.

The Definitive Review of “Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything”

Head over to PJ Media for what is the definitive review of my book, “Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything”. It’s probably hard to be objective about someone as awesome as me, but I did my best.

Sorry for not having as much regular news commentary this week, but I’m sorta on vacation. Plus, I’m a little distracted with my book. I was just happy when it made the top 1000 Kindle books on Amazon; I didn’t think it would actually make the top 100 books, be the number one political humor book, and be competitive for the top humor book. Thanks so much for buying my book; I hope you’re all enjoying it.

Random Thoughts

I think it’s safe to say I’ve written the definitive book on Obama. It certainly beats the ones he’s written.

I just checked; my book ranks well ahead of The Audacity of Hope.

Having a top 100 Kindle book pretty much means I’m the greatest writer in all of human history.

I’m a little stunned right now. I thought my book would do pretty well, but I didn’t expect it to actually be competing with the big guys.

Anyway, I hope everyone is really enjoying it. I really wanted it to be a tight, fun read with no boring filler.

Nuke the News: I Still Want You to Buy My Book, And Other Things

* New New York Post column! This one is on the absolute worst example of the wealthiest 1%: Uncle Sam.

If you want a good example of income inequality, compare him to your average billionaire.

* They finally broke up the Occupy Wall Street Obamaville in Zuccotti Park. They can still stay, but no more setting up tents and camping. So now they’ll have to live like regular homeless people instead of the fanciest 1% of homeless.

* Someone took at shot at the White House. Ends up he’s a crazy person, which makes sense as you’d have to be pretty crazy to think shooting the president helps things. If someone shot the president, wouldn’t that be the absolute worst thing ever to conservatives? I mean, I guess it would be pretty bad to Obama too, but it would be horrible for conservatives. As long as the guy had once visited FOXNews.com on his computer, they’d paint him as a right-winger and then the media would all be like, “See! Republicans couldn’t stand a black president being so awesome!” And, feeling so bad about Obama, we wouldn’t be in the mood to strike back. It would be awful. So don’t shoot the president!

* Obama told a bunch of CEOs that they’re “lazy”. Isn’t it awful how we’re always disappointing Obama? Unemployment would be 4% and the economy skyrocketing if we were all just better Americans who worked as hard as him. Maybe it’s unfair to keep him as president just so he can keep being disappointed in us.

* “Let’s have a seance this afternoon and ask al-Awlaki if he would’ve preferred waterboarding. I’m pretty sure I know the answer.” –Dennis Miller

* BTW, I still want you to buy my book. Have you bought it? Have you read it? Have you written a great review of it at Amazon or Barnes & Noble? If not, do so now! It is your duty, ronin! I’ve gotten close, but I still haven’t beaten Bill Maher’s book to become the number one political humor book on Amazon. I guess then I could set my sites on beating Kelly from the Office’s book and being the number one humor book, but, come on, she’s Kelly from the Office; that would just be insanely ambitious.