Best Post Title Ever

No, not the one above this sentence.

This one from Teri O’Brien [High Praise!]:

Barack Obama: My Voters are Idiots and I am Their King

Why Obamacare Is Like a Snowflake

[High Praise! to Theo Spark]


[YouTube direct link] (Viewer #239,970)

Metaphorically, this is how the free market works – creating a variety of results to meet changing conditions.

Under ObamaSnow, all snowflakes would be exactly the same size and shape, and every part of the country would be required to have a set amount of snowfall each year, whether they have snow-removal equipment or not.

But it’s only fair. Why should Wisconsin get big, fluffy, snow you can make snowmen out of while Florida only gets occasional flurries?

Like Obama once said, “when you spread the snow around, it’s good for everybody”.

Link of the Day: We Need to Have a National Conversation About Media Control

[High Praise! to The People’s Cube]

We need to have a national conversation about Media control

[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)]

Look! Obama’s Handing Out Free Money!

[High Praise! to Freedom Is Just Another Word]

This Is What a Gun-Free Zone Is Really Like

[High Praise! to The Right Planet]


[LiveLeak direct link]

The backstory on this video:

On October 16, 1991, Hennard drove his 1987 Ford Ranger pickup truck through the front window of a Luby’s Cafeteria at 1705 East Central Texas Expressway in Killeen, yelled “This is what Bell County has done to me!”, then opened fire on the restaurant’s patrons and staff with a Glock 17 pistol and later a Ruger P89. About 80 people were in the restaurant at the time. He stalked, shot, and killed 23 people and wounded another 20 before committing suicide. During the shooting, he approached Suzanna Gratia Hupp and her parents. Hupp had actually brought a handgun to the Luby’s Cafeteria that day, but had left it in her vehicle due to the laws in force at the time, forbidding citizens from carrying firearms. According to her later testimony in favor of Missouri’s HB-1720 bill[1] and in general, after she realized that her firearm was not in her purse, but “a hundred feet away in [her] car”, her father charged at Hennard in an attempt to subdue him, only to be gunned down; a short time later, her mother was also shot and killed. (Hupp later expressed regret for abiding by the law in question by leaving her firearm in her car, rather than keeping it on her person. One patron, Tommy Vaughn, threw himself through a plate-glass window to allow others to escape. Hennard allowed a mother and her four-year-old child to leave. He reloaded several times and still had ammunition remaining when he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head after being cornered and wounded by police.

Reacting to the massacre, in 1995 the Texas Legislature passed a shall-issue gun law allowing Texas citizens with the required permit to carry concealed weapons. The law had been campaigned for by Suzanna Hupp, who was present at the Luby’s massacre and both of whose parents were shot and killed. Hupp testified across the country in support of concealed-handgun laws, and was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1996. The law was signed by then-Governor George W. Bush and became part of a broad movement to allow U.S. citizens to easily obtain permits to carry concealed weapons.

lolbama! Part 116

Submit entries to 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.


From Arik:

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From Arik:

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

From Arik:

From AT:

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From Dodsfall:

From Katy:

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From Katy:

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From Tanstaafl44:

From me (Harvey):

From me (Harvey):


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


Unquestionably Arik for “Soupy Baby”.


PRODUCTION NOTES:
#1: When creating lolbama! 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.

IMAGE SOURCES: Lots of great Obama pics to be found at the White House Flickr page.

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.