Archive of entries posted on 3rd September 2013
How Average Americans REALLY Feel About Obamacare (Metaphorically Speaking)
(Submitted by Springeraz of Nuking Politics via The Other McCain [High Praise!])
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I also have this same reaction every time I have to listen to an Obama speech.
Mostly because – unlike Uhura – I can filter out the distortion.
How Can I Get a Fair Trial if the Jury Is Irish?
The California legislature passed a law allowing non-US citizens to serve on juries.
I have no problem with that – as long as they’re not juries in the US.
Bacon Car!
[High Praise! to jw]
2014 Ford “Bacon-Wrapped” Fiesta
Bacon’s popularity has skyrocketed in recent years, transcending its humble breakfast table beginnings to become the Johnny Cash of cured meats. So it’s only fitting that for International Bacon Day, Ford is offering driver’s a chance to let the world know how they roll by serving up a “Bacon-Wrapped” Fiesta. The exclusive vinyl wraps produced by Ford Custom Graphics for the 2014 Fiesta range from racing strips — er, stripes — and a “side of bacon” around the rear wheels, all the way up to a deluxe bacon wrap consisting of 10 rashers of mouth-watering bacon for $3347 plus installation.
Now I *would* give High Praise! to Popular Mechanics, except they did that annoying thing where you have to click 10 times to see all the pictures in this article on bacon-related products. You can sort of avoid that by clicking on “View Thumbnails” below the picture.
Link of the Day: Satire – When You Have the Most Powerful Military in the World, Everything Looks Like an Aspirin Factory
[High Praise! to Gang Aft Agley]
When you have the most powerful military in the world, everything looks like an aspirin factory
[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: Horse Legroom Iraq Secretary Chip Deus Chess Throw Freeman Beat
I'm thinking maybe, just possibly, the Arab world does not regard Barack Obama as the strong horse.
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) August 30, 2013
Bruce Willis is checking into a flight & is asked if he requires extra legroom. Bruce says no & anxiously looks around for 3-legged people
— Fred Delicious (@Fred_Delicious) August 30, 2013
Syria is nothing like Iraq. For one thing, In Iraq, we had England on our side.
— CC:Indecision (@indecision) August 30, 2013
If only we could get some insight from the person who was the Secretary of State for the last four years. Alas, not possible.
— RB (@RBPundit) August 30, 2013
1. Seal lips together with a chip clip. 2. Point frantically at mouth until stranger removes clip. 3. Spit out dozens of chips.
— Matt Roller (@rolldiggity) August 30, 2013
A fun thing to do during a boring play is to leap up in your seat with a Super Soaker full of paint and shout "DEUS EX MACHINAAAAAAAA!"
— Julieanne Smolinski (@BoobsRadley) August 31, 2013
Obama is playing chess. Assad is playing laugh at the guy playing chess.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 1, 2013
"I trust that guy about as far as I can throw him." -The Incredible Hulk, about a guy he trusts a lot
— Guy Endore-Kaiser (@GuyEndoreKaiser) September 1, 2013
I hope I look as good as Morgan Freeman when I'm 75 and black
— Eli Braden (@EliBraden) September 1, 2013
Name your kid Beat so if you drop him you can make a hilarious joke to ease the tension.
— noog (@noogscorner) September 1, 2013
This Is Gonna Hurt You a Lot More Than It’s Gonna Hurt Me
In Texas, an acupuncture patient called 911 after his doctor went home for the day, leaving him on the table with needles stuck in him.
This remind anyone else of Congress sticking us with Obamacare and exempting themselves?
Obama Warned Us – Government
Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who’s willing to work.
BARACK OBAMA, DNC speech, Aug. 28, 2008
“It ‘should’, but you can count on me to make sure it doesn’t.”
Sunny on NSA, Syria, and the Fast Food Strike
You’ve Been Judged!
Anonymiss of Nuking Politics picked her favorite punchlines to “Samsung is releasing a new “smartwatch”. Its most interesting feature…”
Click here to see if you made the cut.
If you did, you should probably email Keln about becoming a guest blogger there.
If you didn’t, Anonymiss has got another straight line for you to practice on.
Keep trying. No one likes a quitter.
Straight Line of the Day: John Kerry Said the Evidence for Climate Change Is “Irrefutable”. Also Irrefutable…
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
John Kerry said the evidence for climate change is “irrefutable”. Also irrefutable…
How to Do a Show of Force in Syria
So what’s going on here? Obama is going to ask Congress for approval on attacking Syria? When has he ever cared before about following the Constitution when he can just do a power grab?
Well, the idea of us getting in a war with Syria is really unpopular, and he has no international backing. At the same time, he’s been talking about a “red line” if chemical weapons are used so he’ll look like a little twit if he does nothing. So the guy needs an out. That’s why all of sudden he’s like holding up this document and saying, “See, it says here in the Constitution I need Congress to authorize a war.”
And everyone is like, “That’s not the Constitution. That’s the Magna Carta.”
And Obama is like. “Oh… well, they’re basically the same thing — just old, faded documents. So anyway; up to Congress now and it’s tee time.”
So, the point is how do we get Syria to listen to us about not using chemical weapons and slaughtering people? We have enough nukes to wipe any country off the map, but no one cares because they know we won’t use them. It’s like if the Empire had the Death Star but never blew up Alderaan and the Emperor was for decades going, “You better do as we say, or we’ll destroy your planet!” without ever actually firing the super laser. Eventually everyone is like, “Whatever, wrinkles. And what’s with the hoodie? We’re you really affected that much by what happened to Trayvon?”
So, what we need is a show of force to let Syria know we’re Syria-ous. Here’s some ideas:
* Let’s write a letter to Syria saying we’re really, really serious about them not using chemical weapons. And let’s underline “serious” in the letter for extra emphasis. Maybe we could also write the word in all caps, but we don’t want to look like a nut.
* Let’s have a big conference in Syria with a bunch of booths set up on America’s various weapons. That way, Syria’s government officials can look at the technical details of their potential doom. “Here’s a pamphlet on our bombs. Just imagine what it would do to your house. Actually, you don’t have to imagine; the explosive payload of it is well documented.”
* Have our best in Hollywood do a series on YouTube showing what it would look like if we attacked Syria. With the best special effect available, it will really look like Syria is already being bombed. Maybe it can be released to theaters and put in 3D too if that will help with the propaganda. Oh, but make sure Hollywood knows this time to not have the American soldiers be the bad guys. Plus, if you have the CGI budget, can we attack Syria with dinosaurs with rocket launchers on them? And you better somehow fit a love story in this to keep it interesting. Also, so it’s not racially offensive, let’s replace the Syrian bad guys with white Europeans.
* Have Obama go on TV and hold up a kitten and say, “This is Syria.” Then he can shake the kitten really hard. You don’t want to be that kitten!
* Threaten to overthrow the Syrian government and make the new Syrian president Ben Affleck.
* Say we want to have a meeting with Syrian officials. But the diplomats we send are… Chuck Norris and Mr. T! BAM! POW! They’ll be picking teeth out of the walls from that meeting. And if Syria keeps it up, the next diplomats we send will be the entire cast of the next Expendables movie!
* This almost goes without saying, but nuke the moon. The Syrians will be like, “If the Americans can nuke the moon, think of how much easier it will be to nuke us who is much closer!” There’s nothing nuking the moon can’t solve — unless your problem is too much radiation on the moon.
So, there you go. But no matter what we do with Syria, the point is we should have fun doing it.
Or maybe the point is to discourage the use of chemical weapons.
Eh, I don’t know what the point is. Why are we maybe getting in another war again when the last couple were supposed to be so horrible?
Random Thoughts: Syria and Lara Croft
Obama doesn’t have enough political capital to argue for a war. He doesn’t even have enough to get himself a free coffee refill at Starbucks.
It would really help us programmers if when you count, you start with zero. Thanks. Oh, and please get rid of daylight savings.
Movie pitch: Story of the American revolution, but as a scifi, kung fu action flick.
Daughter was watching me play Candy Crush so I had to tell her that chocolate is bad which is hard to explain to a child.
Ooh! Just realized for a current problem, I’ll need to use a pathfinding algorithm. Never done one of those before.
So does the superhero Green Arrow have left turn powers?
“Small British woman is repeatedly stabbed, shot, and beaten; massacres hundreds.” -my impression of the new Tomb Raider game so far
Like how you can see Lara Croft is wearing 2 tank tops; if you’re doing inhuman feats that would kill most people, better double tank top it
I’ve learned from Tomb Raider and Far Cry 3 that it only takes minutes to go from shock of first killing someone to slaughtering armies.
“It’s not just murder.” lowers helmet’s reflective visor “It’s space murder.” -CSI: Space
Wait; the Syria resolution just says, “I want to blow up brown people.” Come on, dude.
Well, that’s new at least. Since I’ve been a Boise State fan, I’ve never seen them get completely trounced.
“Go ahead; make my day.”
punk goes for gun; Dirty Harry pumps round after round into him while smiling gleefully
“Yay! Best day evar!”
So is anyone waiting for me to weigh in on Syria?
Why don’t we just do a show of force in Syria. We’ll set up a bunch of booths there each about the bombs we could possibly use on them.
I want video cameras on politicians at all time. We know we can’t trust them, so that’s just common sense.
How about you not put a bunch of unskippable stuff at the beginning of the DVD that makes me want to pirate for the sake of convenience.
This Guy Is What’s Wrong With the Economy
In Chicago, a homeless man built a cinderblock hut for himself on the site of a failed condo development.
Liberals are outraged because he didn’t have a union guy do it for him.