DamnCat left this in the comments (High Praise!) and I didn’t want anyone to miss it.
Apparently when it comes to international relations, Obama only has one stinking metaphor:
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Afterwards, he figuratively walks the Danes out the Dalai Door by damning them with faint praise, so watch the whole thing.
[High Praise! to Travelwise42]
Some days I really miss the crazy antics of Iraq’s Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, a.k.a Baghdad Bob.
Why?
To quote Wikipedia:
He is best known for his grandiose and grossly unrealistic propaganda broadcasts prior to and during the war, extolling the invincibility of the Iraqi Army and the permanence of Saddam’s rule. His announcements were intended for an Iraqi domestic audience subject to Saddam’s cult of personality and total state censorship, and were met with widespread derision and amusement by Western nationals and others with access to up-to-date information from international media organizations.
In short, he was a hoot & a half.
For those similarly afflicted with nostalgia, The People’s Cube and the Obama administration have got you covered:
Carney Barker Bob: Hussein Obama’s Information Minister
It’s worth clicking over for the first picture alone, but it just gets better from there.
For reference, here are some of Bob’s most OMG-we’re-not-making-this-up quotes. [scroll down to “TREASURY OF DEATHLESS QUOTES”]
[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]
Celebrating once again – on its special day – the country that Americans only care about once a year because it’s a great excuse to get drunk.
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FUN FACTS ABOUT IRELAND
* Ireland is slightly larger than the state of West Virginia. However, in Ireland, impoverished mountain folk are known as “hillrileys”
* All Irish citizens are required by law to make a bizarre pilgrimmage to Dublin once a year, crawling on their bellies while balancing a full glass of Guinness on their head.
* The average life expectancy for men in Ireland is 75 years. At 76, the crystal in their hand starts flashing red. Carousel!
* 88% of the Irish are members of the Roman Catholic Church, making the Catholic population nearly as large as the Kennedys.
* Ireland’s #1 agricultural product is turnips, which the nation switched to after the country’s potato crop was devastated by a visiting Michael Moore on a french-fry binge.
* There are 36 airports in Ireland, all suitable for night-flight landings thanks to the plethora of neon “Jameson” bar signs lighting the runways.
* Catherine Kelly was the smallest Irish woman ever, only 34 inches tall. She died in 1785 in the electric chair after mudering 137 people while screaming “leprechaun jokes aren’t funny!”
* And before you ask, no, they never found her pot of gold, smartass.
* According to one rather obscure Irish legend, a ringing in your ears means a deceased friend stuck in Purgatory is ringing a bell to ask for you to pray for him. Or you’re an idiot who forgot to remove your bluetooth earpiece.
* Montgomery Street in Dublin was once the largest red light district in all of Europe, with over 1600 prostitutes plying their trade. Most of them insisted you should pronounce their name to rhyme with “book”.
* In the olden days, a pig was often allowed to live in the house with the family on an Irish farm. He was commonly referred to as “the gentleman who pays the rent.” Modern Irish immigrant families usually just called him “Teddy”.
* A single day of good weather that pops up in a long stretch of bad days is known in Ireland as a “pet day”, and is celebrated with binge-drinking, dancing, and raucous music. As are all other days containing weather.
* “Keening” is the Irish version of loud crying at wakes. It involves wailing and expressing endearments in Gaelic to the deceased. Although similar, it should not be confused with its more annoying cousin, “bagpiping.”
* Dublin was originally called “Dubh Linn,” which means “Black Pool”, although they had considered naming it “Marbh Linn” after the 5th and best Dirty Harry movie.
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
In my new column for PJ Media, I explain how Obama is helping us get a stronger economy.
People think that when the economy is suffering, you need to be nice to it and help it. Maybe hug it when it cries. Obama knows you have to resist that urge. When the economy comes to him broken and bloody, pleading for help, he says to it, “You think things are bad now?” Then he puts his foot on the economy’s throat and says, “Now let’s see you survive this!” And then he laughs at it maniacally to make it mad so it will fight back.
* Obama compared the GOP to the people who told Columbus the earth is flat. I.e., he’s now comparing the GOP to made up straw men of a different era. Actually, the people who told Columbus not to go were saying Columbus did his calculations wrong and the world was wider than he thought so there was no way he’d be able to sail to India. So the people against Columbus were the ones correctly questioning his math… which is a good analogy for the GOP versus Obama. But if Obama ignores the GOP, I doubt he’s going to do anything as good as accidentally discover a new continent. We might discover new numbers when our debt keeps increasing, though.
* Young Americans care less about the environment now. I guess after decades of saying the world is going to end in ten years, people eventually stop listening. It’s like those preachers who keep predicting the Apocalypse and then keep revising it. I mean, this environmental doomsday stuff was scary when I was a kid, but we’re all kind of wise to it by now.
Yay next generation! Now pull your pants up.
* It’s the Paul Ryan campaign video!
Well, I guess a preview for his budget plan. Man, wouldn’t it be nice to have someone like him in the presidential race we could actually get excited about. Then again, getting excited about politicians is just the path the heartbreak. Maybe it’s better to have someone like Romney who we’re extremely suspicious of from the beginning.
* Crowder has a new video! Well, a preview of his video coming out Monday about mixed martial arts and New York:
* And, because it’s Friday, here’s every face punch in Roadhouse.
Now there’s a movie that should get a new modern remake. With even more punching!
Obama’s favorite subject is science, but he’s not very good at history or math. Or science.
If your wife catches you with the Playboy with the Meghan McCain interview, don’t claim you were reading it for the articles.
I’m so glad my wife is a stay at home mom since that means she’ll be able to sign for my iPad delivery today.
So you could sell one share of Apple stock to buy a 32GB iPad.
We’re going to have problems with gas prices when our single largest supplier of oil is a country that hates and wants to destroy the us: Canada.
If you haven’t read The Hunger Games, you’d think a book about competitive Hungry Hungry Hippos wouldn’t be compelling, but it’s quite good.
