Back during the 2008 campaign, IMAO posted what has since become one of the most iconic photographs of the Obama administration:
While gadding about the internet, I discovered The People’s Cube did a caption contest on it back in the day. Figured you might be amused by the results, (although do tread lightly, as not all of the captions are necessarily in good taste.)
Meanwhile, feel free to caption it yourself in the comments.
A New York man set a new world record for the longest burp after drinking 2 gallons of soda.
Note to Mayor Bloomberg: Chill, dude. He drank it 16 ounces at a time.
Who needs a flying car when you have what’s basically a flying jet-ski?:
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Speaking of Father’s Day, I’ll be posting Fun Facts on that topic on Sunday. Be sure to stop by for that.
An Oregon woman who got a $2.1 million tax refund after filing a false claim was caught after a $200,000 spending spree.
Guess we know who’d replace Geithner in Obama’s second term.
[High Praise! to Keln]
Bonus points for working in a gratuitous Cookie Monster reference. I’m a sucker for muppets.
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From Brian Richards:
Can we all agree that The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is the weirdest of all the 007 movies?
NEW YORK CITY (AP) – In an unexpected show of defiance against New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on the sale of sugary drinks in quantities over 16 ounces, thousands of protesters dumped soda into New York Harbor today, leading to hundreds of arrests.
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Carrying signs with slogans such as “no limitation on my carbonation,” a throng of furious and mostly overweight demostrators gathered on the city’s docks to hurl the contents of half-gallon convenience-store cups into the Atlantic, carelessly threatening endangered fish with obesity and diabetes.
Mayor Bloomberg’s office was quick to issue a call for a show of reason and order from New York’s agitated and corpulent masses.
“We’re not taking away anybody’s right to do things,” Bloomberg said in defense of his draconian and poorly calculated cup-size restriction, “we’re simply forcing you to understand that you have to make the conscious decision to go from one cup to another cup. It’s not perfect, it’s not the only answer, it’s not the only cause of people being overweight – but we’ve got to do something. We have an obligation to warn you when things are not good for your health.”
Possibly harkening back to the original “Boston Tea Party” protest of 1773, many of the participants disguised themselves as Indians. Later investigation, however, showed that there were just a lot of 7-11 and Dunkin’ Donuts franchise owners present.
One pudgy protester said that, although he really hated to waste perfectly good soda, he felt compelled to express his displeasure at the Mayor’s plan through peaceful methods, although he did not rule out the possible use of more extreme measures in the future.
“We’re not taking away the Mayor’s right to pass laws,” he said, “we’re simply forcing him to understand that you have to make the conscious decision to screw with people’s freedom. This protest is not perfect, it’s not the only answer, it’s not the only way to battle nanny-state tyranny – but we’ve got to do something. We have an obligation to warn Mayor Bloomberg when he does things that are not good for his health.”
“If you know what I mean,” he added with a somber wink.
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UPDATE: Linked by Manhattan Libertarian Party
You can watch Sandra Fluke here be all Baghdad Bob about how great the jobs situation is for college graduates. So she’s using her independent womanhood to… be a completely mindless flack for the Democrats. And it works out great for them because they just pay her in condoms.
[High Praise! to scared dog – more Obama & Bo pics here]
Symbolically, I see Bo as the lapdog media, and the ball as any story that has nothing to do with the economy.
Alternatively, Bo is the Republicans in Congress, the ball the spending cuts Obama is offering (only if combined with tax increases, of course), and he’s going fake-throw and then hide it behind his back.
Coca-Cola will finally become available in Myanmar which I’m told is a country somewhere. That will leave only two countries left in the world where you can’t buy Coke: Cuba and North Korea. Man it must be horrible in those countries drinking nothing but Pepsi.
The EPA now wants ditches to be regulated as “navigable waterways.”
Oops! I just spilled my coffee. Is my desk a “protected wetland” now?
I think the only conclusion we can take from Obama’s latest speech is that the guy is incapable of learning. Maybe this is something we would have found out more easily if we had ever gotten to see his college record, but apparently no effort — no amount of screaming at him — can cause Obama to learn anything because after all of his complete failure to do anything with the economy he’s still talking up the exact same ideas — which are often not so much ideas as excuses.
Apparently, Obama is the only president in the history of the Republic to have not inherited a perfect economy from his predecessor and to have not had a super majority in Congress to get things passed. Because four years later, all he can talk about is the mess he inherited and how the Republicans won’t do everything he tells them. I think I remember some presidents having success after four years, so they must have had perfect conditions and a Congress that would rubber stamp all their ideas if they succeeded and super smart Obama didn’t.
Obama is a complete failure as president. This is not opinion; this is objective fact. A picture of him should be in the Wikipedia entry for “failed president.” He can’t lead and is completely useless by his own admission. To reelect him would be a complete mockery of the idea of democracy, but the whole point is not to be stuck with complete failures as leaders.
But maybe I’m being too harsh. I’m sure Obama can convince me of his competence. Maybe he can give another speech!
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UPDATE: Linked by Laura Curtis
I missed it. So in Obama’s new economic speech, didn’t he finally admit he doesn’t know what an economy is?
Hey! I know why unemployment is so high and the economy is depressed: Not enough teachers! #Genius
Tell me he brings up high speed rail again. I’m starting to get afraid he forgot about that idea.
All the job losses and skyrocketing debt aren’t great, but the important thing is the president didn’t learn any valuable lessons.
“I’m just going to play golf stay out of everyone’s way.” -economic speech from alternate universe Obama who did learn his lesson
Remember when the Democrats had the presidency, the House, and a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and fixed everything?
So is Obama’s second term going to be spent complaining about the mess he inherited from himself?
Poor Obama. If only we elected him after an awesome, super competent president, he’d be so great!
If I were president, I’d at least try and blame everything something original, like invisible space pirates.
Nah, I’d probably just blame the Jews like everyone else because I’m lazy.
My inauguration speech: “I’m going to go play video games. Come get me if another country is invading; otherwise, figure it out yourself.”
For Obama to win this election, he’ll need some sort of montage where he gets his act together.
So Joffery beheaded Dubya? Can’t say I’m surprised by his political leanings. Has he written a memoir yet?
Joffery does nothing but blame all his problems on the Targaryens.
I’m only in the second book. Maybe Joffery’s tired “behead everyone” plan works out in his second term.
Looks like it’s about the price of a Kindle Fire to get the glass repaired on my iPad.
I’d like to be a rich liberal and sip champagne and eat Kobe beef while fretting about the poor.
That reminds me: Whatever happened to that more progressive alternative to Obama from 2008, John Edwards?
From now on, are we to assume that any statement that Obama doesn’t say “This isn’t spin” after is spin?
I didn’t make it to Obama’s party at Sarah Jessica Parker’s house; did Obama figure out how to help the middle class there?
The worst thing about the Obama presidency is there is just nothing to make fun of. Buy my book.
If left wing political humor is much funnier than right wing political humor, then man do I pity the people following me.
Maybe we should all just stop doing political humor. Politics is serious, yo.
That reminds me: I always waned to find a video clip of what was a great example of clapper humor from South Park. It was Whoopi Goldberg on stage saying, “I hate Republicans. Republicans are stupid.” over and over to applause and laughter.
