Travelwise42 said he’s been seeing the Danish video mocking Obama’s lack of metaphorical skills continuing to pop up all over the place.
So have I.
Just out of curiosity, I checked the play stats on YouTube: it’s up to 217,060 views now.
It was at 7,870 when you guys saw it here 9 days ago.
Keep spreading the word, because it deserves to hit a million.
[High Praise! to blarg]
Yes, Obama seems to be the worst thing that’s ever happened to this country, but the real question is whether he’s popular.
Only one way to find out.
Compare him to 10 other things using the “What Does the Internet Think?” meter.
Turns out the closest thing to Obama’s depth of unpopularity is “colonscopy,” and even that leaves a 14-point gap.
Go discover the other 9 things Obama is worse than.
A little video NASA made – finally, a COOL waste of taxpayer dollars!
It’s an animated representation of how the moon has changed over the last 4.5 billion years.
It starts a little slow (literally like watching lava dry), but around the 50 second mark, they start simulating very large meteor impacts, and big red mushroom clouds start going up all over the place.
As someone who’s shared Frank’s dream of nuking the moon for almost 10 years, I find this image very satisfying.
[YouTube direct link] (Viewer #1,716,006)
[High Praise! to Veeshir of DoublePlusUndead]
Color my mind boggled by this [CAUTION adult language at link]:
Veeshir got this from Obama For America’s [aka the official Obama 2012 campaign’s] Tumblr page
Which site also boggles by the fact that it contains some of the most egregious pro-Obama propaganda you will ever see in your life. I promise you will not believe your eyes, or the fact that they are serious.
But they are.
Looking at that stuff just made my brain make that cliched sound effect of a needle being dragged across a record followed by stunned silence.
Anyway, in the same post, Veeshir also has a picture he found at Weasel Times of the above poster… modified… to be more accurate.
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Queen Botoxia had this to say on the 2nd anniversary of Obamacare:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday evening that the 2010 healthcare law, which prompted complaints from conservatives that Democrats far exceeded their constitutional authority, actually helps people meet the goal outlined in the Declaration of Independence, which promotes mankind’s rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Speaking on the House floor, Pelosi called on her colleagues to remember “what our founders put forth in our founding documents, which is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And that is exactly what the Affordable Care Act helps to guarantee.”
Well, Nance, as long as we’re plucking random phrases from the D of I and hotgluing them to Obamacare, here’s a few more choice nuggets from the document you so obviously revere that might be more appropriately attached to this President and his sundry legislations:
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* whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it
* a long train of abuses and usurpations
* a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism
* repeated injuries and usurpations
* the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States
* refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
* forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance
* utterly neglected to attend
* the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures
* his invasions on the rights of the people
* exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without
* obstructed the Administration of Justice
* sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance
* subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution
* abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments
* works of death, desolation, and tyranny
* Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation
* excited domestic insurrections amongst us
* Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury
* deaf to the voice of justice
* A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
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Huh…
I guess Nancy was right about the Declaration of Independence applying, just not which parts.
* Has Rick Santorum gone off the deep end? He’s sort of suggested that Obama is preferable to Romney:
“You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who’s just going to be a little different than the person in there. If you’re going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch-A-Sketch candidate of the future.”
I blame the Etch-A-Sketch. It’s just ruining campaigns left and right. Maybe it’s made with lead or something.
Anyway, trying to ride the Etch-A-Sketch to victory is about the only option left for Santorum and Newt, but let’s be realistic about our chances here and not say things we can’t take back. We can already see the ads if Romney is the nominee: “Santorum says votes for Obama!” Of course, considering how freaked out some Dems are about Santorum, maybe that will scare them into staying home.
Ooh, this could all be some Rovian strategy. He’s still out there, you know, and plotting. And I bet he owns stock in Etch-A-Sketch.
* Don’t worry about oil prices, because Obama is riding to the rescue with… half a pipeline. Yes, Obama is fast-tracking part of the Keystone pipeline… even though it didn’t really need this approval. And what can you do with a partial pipeline? Absolutely nothing. But that’s Obama’s genius compromise between the vast majority who wants the Keystone pipeline and the fringe minority environmentalist against it: a useless half pipeline. From our useless half-man president. Of course, that leads to the perfect Halloween costume for Obama: half a horse costume. You know which half.
* You know that half billion lost on Solyndra? Obama wants to assure us it was not his program “per se”. Despite him appearing with Solyndra and championing them, he’s trying to claim he wasn’t involved in that giant waste of our money, putting blame on Congress… I guess for stupidly listening to Obama and approving money going to Solyndra. Anyway, there’s Obama’s energy plan: a half-billion in a defunct solar panel maker plus half an oil pipeline. Throw in some broken windmills and maybe part of a track for a high speed train and we’re…
So is there some way I can invest and make money off of the skyrocketing price of oil?
* Joe Biden is going to Florida to start scaring seniors about Medicare, because what other argument do they have left for the Obama presidency. This could work out well, though, because maybe when when Biden is seen wandering around some nursing home doing his usual incoherent babbling, they’ll just keep him there.
* Wisdom of the Day from PoliticalMath:
I can’t wait for the HBO John Edwards movie. Suggested title: “Dame Change”
A good response if someone calls Romney an Etch-a-Sketch is to say, “No, I’m a Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robot!” and then start punching people.
Romney doesn’t seem that tough, but I bet his robot punch would hurt.
I’ve established Buttercup can say the syllable “ter”, but she still mocks me by saying water as “wa-wa.”
Guess IMAO’s movin’ on up. I Own the World threw us a link.
This is pretty cool, since IOtW is one of those sites that I keep seing getting hat tips everywhere.
It’s also home to quotable quotes such as:
Wind and other alternate energy is essentially no more than a rounding error.
and, on a Bloomberg Businessweek story about McDonald’s new CEO (which article was accompanied by a photo):
Some first-class snark right there.
[High Praise! to Jimmy]
Just when I was saying how hard it is to find an entire site full of delights, Jimmy makes me a liar by sending in a link to The Looking Spoon
Something new every day, although not always strictly PG-13.
I kinda like this one:
Root around over there. Plenty more to enjoy.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Emotions continue to run high after Jon McNaughton, a controversial artist who often mixes religion and politics in his work, released a new painting depicting President Obama reading the Constitution.
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Entitled “One Nation Under Law”, the portrait shows the President thoughtfully contemplating the wisdom of the limits the Founders placed on the powers of his office.
Jerry Saltz, an art critic for New York Magazine, Saltz said that the painting contained “bad academic derivative realism,” calling it “typical propaganda art, drop-dead obvious in message” and describing it as “close to the hate images produced in the Jim Crow era.”
Obama campaign adviser David Axelod called it “degrading and racist.”
“This painting suggests that the President is subservient,” said Axelrod, “and must not act without written permission. It’s just another example of the extreme right-wing wagging a finger in the face of this country’s first African-American President, warning him not to get too ‘uppity.’ It’s saying that a black man should know his place, and that he’s subject to the rules of white men who owned slaves. It should have been titled ‘Uncle Tom Gets a Whipping'”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it was “just an extension of the deranged birther accusations.”
“Here we have a President,” groused Reid, “holding what appears to be a poorly-reproduced short-form copy of the Constitution, instead of the original long-form document. Not the least bit subtle, is it? It’s the sort of blatant misrepresentation we’ve come to expect from these extremists.”
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz said she was “mortified and offended” at the message the image sends.
“There should always be limits on power,” said Schultz, “and if the pen is mightier than the sword, then the paintbrush is an assault rifle, just like the ones banned by the Second Amendment. Coercive power like that needs to be tightly controlled with checks and balances.”
* ETCH-A-SKETCH!!!!
So a Romney spokesman refers to the Romney campaign as an Etch-a-Sketch that will be reset come the general, and it’s pretty much the biggest thing ever. People have been saying for a while that Romney has no principles, and now one of his own spokesman has come up with the perfect metaphor.
BTW, if you’re in a need of a spokesman and are on a budget, I’m guessing Eric Fehrnstrom will be pretty cheap in the near future.
Now, generally what was stated is common knowledge — you run one campaign in the primary and another in the general. The only problem is it’s seems like Romney has already been running a general election campaign in the primary with no hard right positions… but his general election campaign is going to be even squishier? Maybe a better metaphor for Romney then would be the blobfish.
And I would like to go on record as saying the Etch-a-Sketch sucks. It’s really hard to draw with. I never got why it was popular. The only thing I liked about it was the shaking, but as for shaking, many other things are more fun like bags of cats.
* You love gas prices lately? Thank Energy Secretary Steven Chu who takes all the credit, giving himself an A on controlling gas prices.
So do you think the Obama administration has any idea what’s going on? Best I can figure, they spend most of the day stoned out of their mind and watching Family Guy reruns. That’s the absolute best explanation I can come up with for their behavior.
* Apparently many Marines don’t like President Obama. Whaaaat?! My world has been turned topsy turvy. Why wouldn’t Marines love a useless, condescending twit? We all love him; what’s wrong with them?
* John Hawkins of Right Wing News list both SarahK and I as top follows on Twitter. I know there are a few people left who aren’t on Twitter, but you should consider following me and my wife if you like humor and witty observations throughout the day. If you don’t like that, continue reading this blog which I’m trying to make as devoid of humor possible (except Harvey keeps getting in the way).
* Wisdom of the Day from MJ:
Guns don’t kill people, the shark-launching catapult you build during the 3-day waiting period to acquire your gun does.
Someone should set up a fact checker checker that rates the truthfulness of media fact checkers.
Movie pitch: Etch-a-Sketch Man – Man gets complete amnesia and has to start his life over any time he’s shaken. Not sure who I’d cast as the lead for that. Who’s the modern day equivalent of Jim Carrey?
BREAKING: Romney spokesman backtracking; says Romney is more like the Wooly Willy toy where you give the guy a magnet beard.
“Maybe ‘Etch-a-Sketch’ wasn’t the right term. What I’m trying to say is that Romney is a formless lump of clay that can easily be remolded.”
BREAKING: Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom has been shaken to death.
He really was talking about the campaign, not Romney, but Romney as an Etch-a-Sketch is funny and apropos.
Draw Something is fun. More fun than an Etch-a-Sketch.
If you want to play me on Draw Something, I think you can look me up by my blog email.
Great Minds, etc.
So I ripped on the stupid Obama flag, hoping to get fact-checked by Snopes.
Well, next best thing:
Weekly World News went down a similar road:
WHITE HOUSE UNVEILS NEW AMERICAN FLAG
Guess I’m doing something right.
Although I have to admit jealousy to lines like this:
The Administration feels that President Obama’s face immediately makes a person think of the best parts of America: equality, fairness and respect. “President Obama’s face is more unifying than 50 stars,” an aide to a Democratic operative said. “Out of many, one.”
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I’m sure you saw Michelle Obama’s appearance on David Letterman’s show. After all, it’s mandatory under Obamacare.
However, if you’re now a felon fleeing justice, I’ll recap a few of the highlights so you can squeak by with “reasonable doubt” during your trial:
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* Her embarrasingly effusive praise for Frank J.’s “brilliant scholarly research” on her husband.
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* The awkward silence after she joked that “America’s not ready for a white First Lady.”
* Her admission that she and Oprah are actually the same person.
* That whole “being carried onto the stage by shirtless Secret Service agents” thing.
* When she snuck out halfway through the interview because of an uncontrollable urge to shop at Target.
* Those clips of her in the Green Room, throttling interns while screaming “where the f@#$ are my tamales?”
* CBS “bleeping” her every time she mentioned Malia’s name.
* Plopping unladylike into the guest chair and accidentally giving everyone a “Paris Hilton” shot.
* Dave’s puzzled look after she told him “I loved your work on The Electric Company.”
* Personally, I think Paul Shaffer was out of line, asking her about “her sister B’Etor” like that.
* So… was Dave making fun of her by climbing on his desk and doing the “Dougie,” or was there just a lot of extra vodka in his coffee cup that night?
* Hollering “where my sluts at?” and tossing free contraceptives into the audience.
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Even though I don’t really like Michelle as either a First Lady or a human being, I have to admit that I was quite impressed by her flawless rendition of Tom Leherer’s “The Elements”.
* Mitt Romney won the primary in Illinois by a decent margin and should get most of the delegates. So are we much closer to this primary finally being over? I don’t know. And yes, I am actively rooting for Romney because I just so want this primary over, and the other options aren’t good enough to justify drawing this thing out.
I honestly expected Santorum to burn out sooner like every other temporary front runner, but he keeps surprising people. He’s not going to surprise people by winning the primary, though, which is why this is all getting rather pointless.
I just want to focus on how bad Obama is? Can’t we do that soon, please?
* And now I’m moving to the phase where I try to convince myself Romney isn’t that bad. I remember doing that with McCain. It was hard.
But anyway, him telling off a whiny college student looking for free handouts is pretty nice. It would be better if he followed it up with a hippie punch.
And Obama is the candidate if you want free stuff.
TAX PAYER: “I don’t like how the deficit is over a trillions dollars.”
OBAMA: “Oh, well… have some free condoms!”
* Paul Ryan plans to take away even more free stuff with his new budget. Democrats are going to scream about it, but of course what they aren’t going to do is propose a budget of their own. You can’t run up trillion dollar deficits if you’re actually trying to stick to a budget.
And the Democrats are going to say Paul Ryan is going to end Medicare as we know it. But the Democrats are trying to completely destroy it by doing nothing when we’re headed for disaster.
Anyway, don’t know if anything useful will happen, but at least someone is trying.
* Jim Geraghty (who I like to call “Googity” because I always have to Google how to spell his name) made a good point in his Morning Jolt newsletter yesterday (which I can’t link so I’ll link Best of the Web which mentions it) about how we have to approach the attacks on Obama. If everyone is like, “He wants to destroy America!” most voters will just roll their eyes; he’s obviously not considered that extreme by most people since he was elected president. But the attack of him being naive and in over his head is much more acceptable (and also let’s those who voted for him last time save a little face). So Obama isn’t some bad guy; he’s just someone who didn’t understand he’d get his head stuck inside that bucket.
* Wisdom of the Day from Mancow Muller:
NJ was ranked as one of the 5 best states at fighting corruption. Jersey got the rank after govt officials gave researchers a huge bribe.
* In the new movie, Michael Bay is making the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aliens. Yes, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And while he’s at it, why doesn’t he make them middle aged. And samurais. And snakes.
One thing will be for certain though with Michael Bay on board: Whether the turtles be aliens or mutants, there will be incomprehensible CGI and lots of explosions.
Anyway, let’s just mark down the fact that Michael Bay is still making movies as another one of the failures of the Obama presidency.
