This Needed to Be Said

(Submitted by jw via The Conservative Post [High Praise!])

In addition to political humor and satire (and the occasional bit of nerdism or geekery), something else that we like to bring you at IMAO are things that are said so well that they make you want to drop to one knee and remove your hat because you know you are in the presence of a soul inspired to radiance.

This is one of those things.


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Link of the Day: The Fleet Comes In, and a Plea

[High Praise! to Springeraz of Nuking Politics]

The American Ship of State

Also, he puts forth the following plea for assistance, because he’s bumping up against the limits of what the Cheezburger.com photo-captioning app can do:

Note to Readers……I have a lot of fun doing this, but I want to take my graphics to the next level, and I’m asking if anybody knows any tricks that would let me get the kind of effects I see around the ‘net…

A good example is the kind of ‘cartoons’ you can see at DougRoss@Journal.com. If you have any suggestions, please drop them in the comments, and in exchange I’ll get Harvey at IMAO to come to your house and shovel snow.

Addendum to that promise: only applicable if your house is within 20 degrees of the equator.

[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: Poverty Portrait Bond MSNBC

John Kerry’s 2014 New Year Resolutions

My man in State has come through again.  Now he got Kerry’s 2014 New Year Resolutions, and they are about what you would expect.

  • Develop an immunity to iocane powder in case I am challenged to a contest of wits by a Sicilian diplomat
  • Try not to start a land war in Asia
  • Beat Assad at the knockout game
  • Finally have a sex scandal.  Why does no one want to have a sex scandal with me?
  • Find that Rorschach guy and force him to stop making perverted ink drawings of my mother with George Bush and a donkey
  • Find a way to get that residual Hillary smell out of my office
  • Discretely find out which state I am supposed to be the secretary of
  • Figure out how to block Putin from my facebook page.  I think he is fb-stalking me
  • Figure out how to remove those facebook links I accidentally made to NORAD, NSA surveillance, the nuclear launch codes and healthcare.gov
  • Discretely find a tutor so I can get my IQ test scores above 80
  • More botox
  • Overcome my addiction to bath salts, and in the meantime, hire some younger, more tender interns
  • Armed with White-out, find a way past security and ‘amend’ the Constitution so I rather than Biden am next in line
  • Challenge Obama to a contest of wits

Random Thoughts: Marijuana, Theory of Law, and Intellectuals

Good thing Lieutenant Yar was on the Enterprise and not a pirate ship since it would have been confusing to tell if she was being called.

Oh, guess it wasn’t a good thing since she was killed after just 22 episodes.

So how long are we go to call the over a century-old failed ideas of tax & spend and expanding government “progressive”?

After a certain amount of time, you should at least change the name from “unemployment” to “welfare.”

My calculus on the marijuana legalization question is that it’s not something I’m willing to shoot people over.

Isn’t that the gold standard for laws? “Am I willing to shoot someone over this?” There is an implied violent threat with every law.

That’s why so much of the left today are psychopaths; they’ll point a gun at you over a plastic bag or a large soda.

I’m the country’s foremost public intellectual.

I was a private intellectual for awhile, but I got outed.

Prediction: George R.R. Martin eventually publishes the 6th book, but never the 7th. Still more satisfying than ending to Lost.

We’re just going to have to persevere until 2017 when Joe Biden become president and fixes everything.

The vast majority of people extremely certain about global warming don’t understand the science either.

PRO TIP: Instead of pleading “not guilty,” juries are much more impressed if you plead “double not guilty!”

If the government really has a way to shut down all the internet, we should have a holiday where they do that once a year.

The best evidence that Obama is racist is that he thought Joe Biden was smart for a white person.

First, they ban guns.
Second, they ban speech.
Third, they close down the skate park.
Fourth, ???
Fifth, profit.

WW1 didn’t seem like it was one of the fun wars.