How to Divide a Country (Metaphorically Speaking)


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Pick a topic that will separate one ideological group from another.

Soak it in volatile rhetoric.

Turn up the heat on it until the story catches fire in the media.

“Solve” the issue by quickly passing a bad law to “cool people off”.

Watch the nation fracture.

Target Market

A California state senator is pushing a bill that would require people to purchase a permit to buy ammunition.

I’m sure the state will reap a windfall in fees from all the law-abiding muggers out there.

Link of the Day: Good News! The Left Is Parodyable Again

[High Praise! to Real Clear Markets via Nuking Politics]

Federal Judge Rules Food Stamp Recipients Can Unionize

[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)]

lolbama! Part 150

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 Kris:

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From Smilin’ Jack:

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

From Arik:

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From Hatless in Hattiesburg:

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


Kris for knowing the works of Scotland’s only poet.


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.

Herpetologically Speaking

Angry over the NSA scandal, director Oliver Stone called President Obama a “snake”.

Seems unfair to snakes, since they don’t actually SPEAK with their forked tongues.

Good Luck to Chelsea Clinton Manning on Her New Life

[High Praise! to The Looking Spoon]