Archive of entries posted on 6th June 2013

Obama Didn’t Pick Up This Phone

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[High Praise! to Western Hero]

To paraphrase Hilary Clinton who was obviously way off base on that phone thing…

“It’s 8 a.m. and your children are at school, but there’s a TV in the White House and it’s on. Something is happening in the world. Your vote will decide who watches that show. Whether it’s someone who already knows a couple of people, knows community activism. Someone tested and ready to watch in a dangerous world. It’s 8 a.m. and your children are at school. Who do you want watching that TV?”

Is it just me?
Or are the rest of you as annoyed as I am at the President acting clueless and repeatedly claiming, “I heard this on the news the same time you did”.

Link of the Day: Book Review: Military Thriller ‘Fifty Shades of Green’ Hits Bestseller Lists Worldwide

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[High Praise! to The Duffel Blog]

Book Review: Military Thriller ‘Fifty Shades of Green’ Hits Bestseller Lists Worldwide

[“Green Weenie” reference link for you civilians]

[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)]

Wisdom of the Day: Derp Sloths Sun Fascism Rice

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Obama Warned Us – Greatness

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Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we’re all in it together and everybody’s got a shot at opportunity.

BARACK OBAMA, speech, Aug. 7, 2006

“Except for those nutters trying to run non-profit Tea Party organizations.”

Obama Nominees Sorta Kinda Don’t Like the Jews

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So here’s video of Samantha Powers giggling about her oblique reference to the Jews controlling everything. Of course, there was Hagel going on about the Jewish lobby. What is about Obama nominees and sorts kinda not liking the Jews? I mean, they’re not outright, “Let’s get those Jews!” but more of a “It would be nice if those Jews weren’t in the way.”

But going by his picks, antisemitism is less important to Obama than just plain old dumb.

Straight Line of the Day: It’s June 6th. How Should You Commemorate the Anniversary of D-Day?

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Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.

It’s June 6th. How should you commemorate the anniversary of D-Day?

By the way, MY answer is “cruelly mock dictators“.

Also, you don’t actually have to be funny on this one. Serious thoughts of remembrance and honors to the participants are very welcome.

Intercepting the 3am Phone Call

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You ready for a new Obama scandal? Of course you are. We only have like… well, I lost count two scandal ago. But anyway… the Obama administration ordered Verizon to hand over all its call data!

So Obama is just mass spying on everyone — me included (of course, I can’t even remember the last time I used my phone to actually make a phone call). Is this like legal? I didn’t think it was, but I’m just, you know, a guy who read the Constitution.

But anyway, I’m sure Obama will claim to know absolutely nothing about this as he has the last twenty scandals. He’s just the president of the United States; it’s not like it’s his job to know what’s going on in government. He’s just stumbling around the White House all day more clueless than a Joe Biden.

Hey, remember when the left were totally freaking out that Bush could possibly get your library records (but never actually did). I wonder what they’ll think of Obama actually getting everyone’s phone record. So the change in “hope and change” is that everything they feared Bush was going to do has now changed into being okay.

Random Thoughts: Journalism, Handling Politicians, and the NSA

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Do I need to weigh in on this great “derp” debate?

Here’s a still relevant column I wrote on Susan Rice when she was being considered for Secretary of State.

Protect journalism, not journalists. No job title should give you special rights.

I can’t believe we still have archaic laws on the books that ban an unmanned drone from delivering pizzas.

Who is this influential and financially powerful group Obama nominees keep warning about?

Palestinians? More like FOE-estinians!

Who are your favorite Twitter follows for stealing jokes from?

I remember that Chris Rock routine about the difference between bureaucrats and the IRS, but I know better than to repeat it.

In a more perfect world, most of our politicians would be dragged off to prison in the middle of the night and never told why.

It would be disturbing if someone other than super-trustworthy Obama was mass spying on the American people.

Low level employees in Cincinnati have taken over the NSA! Someone alert Obama!

Obama promised change, and the difference between the 2008 Obama and what we have now was quite a change.

To keep defending Obama, at some point Democrats are going to start saying, “The only problem with Bush was he didn’t go far enough!”

This NSA scandal is so bad they’ll have to find someone who was going to retire next Friday and make him retire this Friday.

It’s not Obama’s job to know what the government is doing.