Nice little piece of buck-passing on Obama’s part, mentioning during his weekly address that Republicans “haven’t lifted a finger” toward job creation.
Yeah, unlike that one finger Obama keeps lifting.
Archive of entries posted on 19th June 2012
The Wisconsin Elections in One Picture
[High Praise! to Grandpa John]
For some reason, this picture just makes me giggle like a lunatic.
By the way, that T-shirt is the official AFL-CIO anti-Walker logo.
About Obama’s “On Paper” Remark
Obama gave a little immigration speech and said that illegal immigrants are American in every way except “on paper.”
So… America has a balanced budget, too?
Metaphor of the Day: Cris Cillizza Blames Entire Universe for Obama’s Failure
As Frank mentioned, Cris Cillizza expanded brain-boggling, not-his-fault, liberal-spin, Obama-apologetics into entirely new dimensions by asking:
“Is it possible for a president — any president — to succeed in the modern world of politics?”
Cris… buddy… this is what you look like to people living in the real world:
Link of the Day: 10 Gloriously Horrible Obama Dog-Eating Puns
I’ll probably never stop being amused by this topic.
Should’ve left that sentence out of your book, Barack.
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Wisdom of the Day: Green Investing
From DrewM:
Obama keeps saying sure some of their investments have failed but that’s to be expected. Then why aren’t they touting any that are working?
lolbama! Part 91
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Raving Lunatic for not only watching “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” but actually remembering the episode with Gary Coleman.
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There’s Never a Smart Time to Have Kids
So a feminist writes in the New York Times how we have to think more before we breed and lamenting how too many people end up with kids because they don’t have enough abortions and stuff. But then I look to places where birth control has really taken root in Europe and Japan and they’re below replacement rates on births and their countries are starting to die because of it. The whole point of being parents is putting someone else ahead of your own needs, but birth control is all about looking at your needs first before having kids. It seems like a great idea to wait until you’re ready to have children, but there is no such things as a magical point when people are ready. And thus families are waiting longer to have children and having less — or just looking at them as this avoidable inconvenience to one’s lifestyle — and that’s how a society dies out. Maybe when to have children is just one of those things man’s just not smart enough to figure out.
This Is Just Me Being Cruel to Time Magazine
Why Do We Assume Rich People Are Fascinated By Everyday Things?
Romney was apparently amazed by a Wawa. I don’t know what a Wawa is, but apparently I’m supposed to find everything about it pretty normal and laugh at Romney for finding it interesting at all. It looks like the left is trying to make this like the apocryphal H. W. Bush being amazed by a supermarket scanner incident, but I never really got that stereotype of a rich person being amazed by everyday things. Shouldn’t the stereotype be that a rich person finds things we consider amazing to be uninteresting because, being so rich, they already have way cooler stuff. “You silly hoi polloi find the new iPad interesting? How droll. That technology is nothing compared to the robot butler I have who disintegrates poor people with its laser eyes if they get too close to my house.” Come on. Romney has an elevator for his cars; like he actually find any of our everyday conveniences interesting.
Some Perspective on Obama’s 100th Round of Golf
President Obama managed to get in his 100th round of golf over the weekend.
Personally, the only thing I want my President to do 100 times is kill Al Qaeda’s #1. By the time #101 got to be in charge, we’d basically be fighting Current TV.
If Obama Is Failing, It Must Be the Country’s Fault
Chris Cillizza is wondering if the reason Obama isn’t so popular is because the country is just plain broken. Like Obama would have been an awesome president decades ago, but now the media is too mean and there are blogs and stuff and it’s not that Obama can’t succeed, it’s that no one can. Best of the Web found stuff similar to this written about Carter in 1980. If a liberal is failing in the presidency, then obviously the presidency must just be broken. What other possible explanation could there be? Obama had a majority in the House and a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, and things didn’t turn out super awesome. The only explanation is that the country failed its politicians some how. Something in this country must have changed. Kids are fatter, so maybe that’s it. It’s childhood obesity. Obama would have been the best president ever but kids are just too fat for that to happen.
Liberals would be a lot less stressed out if they just recognized the fact that Obama is an inept failure and that him being voted out of office is just the natural flow of democracy — you don’t reelect failures. Then they wouldn’t have to twist themselves in knots trying to square the circle of Obama being super awesome yet things going so poorly. Relax, dudes; he sucks, move on.
Remember WAY Back When Obama Had Only Blown $2 Trillion? Good Times… Good Times
[High Praise! to 4of7]
In the comments, 4of7 left a link to this fairly decent parody of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “16 Tons”.
[YouTube direct link] (Viewer #42,471)
It was written after Obama had only been in office for 8 months, and the only thing he’d screwed up by that point was to blow $2 trillion on a stimulus that would never work.
And I found myself looking back on those days of innocence with nostalgia.
If only we’d known how bad things would get…
Random Thoughts: Lying to Congress
The new Microsoft tablet will be an iPad killer. But after brutally killing the iPad, it won’t be able to live with itself. Murder suicide!
HER: “I’m going to get Buttercup training pants. They’re like underwear, but thicker.”
ME: “I thought they were pants with wheels.”
I don’t “like” my own stuff; seems incestuous.
The same person commented twice in two different threads on how I wasted his time. If that’s not funny, I don’t know what is.
It is possible I don’t know what’s funny.
Just once, I’d like someone to end a negative comment to my column with, “Good day, sir!”
SUPREME COURT JUST TELL US ABOUT OBAMACARE WE DONT CARE ABOUT THE OTHERS!!!
Right now, all those justices know the Obamacare decision and are just laughing at us.
The modern version of the telephone game is hastily typing an email on a smartphone and sending whatever autocorrect comes up with.
I know it’s going to be cheesy, but I’m excited for a Taken sequel. Now there was a Father’s Day movie.
If Obama can’t succeed, then the only explanation I can think of is that the country is forever broken.
Some people need to stop taking themselves so seriously. As Mark Twain said, “Why so serious?”
If it looks like the president is doing an inept job, it might just be because he’s inept.
I can tell if Buttercup has done something bad because her hands will be over her eyes. Good try at invisibility, but that doesn’t work.
Clemens lied, something something.
It must have been scary when Clemens lied to Congress. They’re like those aliens from Galaxy Quest who didn’t even know that was possible.
I asked Clemens if he was ever going to lie again, and he said, “No.” Wait a second…
I hope to one day be so rich that with rounding I’ll be part of the 0%.
“I work from 9 to 5, and then I go home. Don’t get the idea I’m in this for anything other than the paycheck.” -me as president
“My ancestors put a man on the moon,” I thought as I ate a taco that’s shell was made from Doritos.
Remember in Demolition Man where Taco Bell was the only restaurant in the future? We laughed, but that was before the Locos Tacos.
You can’t talk behind anyone’s back anymore.
“Burn it and destroy any record of it existing!” -first person the bagpipe was demonstrated to
If corporations aren’t people, then who was it my fist connected with I thought I was punching Bank of America?