[High Praise! to Irritable Pundit]
“So, in just one day we had approximately 17 times as much coverage of a political traffic jam in New Jersey, as we did of Obama’s use of the IRS as a political weapon for six long months”
Archive of entries posted on 14th January 2014
At Least It Didn’t Happen During Halftime At the SuperBowl
(Submitted by DamnCat [High Praise!])
Per DamnCat:
Some background: Justin Kraemer was a local TV news anchor in Wichita, Kansas about to start a new job in Colorado. About 1 month ago he mistakenly dropped an f-bomb on a live mic.
So Justin got fired from the Wichita gig and the Colorado station, unsurprisingly, decided not to pick him up. Now he’s unemployed in Wichita – but he hasn’t lost his sense of humor.
Since I work in the broadcast entertainment industry myself and have, on more than one occasion, mistakenly engendered the wrath of the powers-that-be, I am not without sympathy. Plus, the video is entertaining, so I’m doing my part to spread the word:
[YouTube direct link] (Viewer #13,426)
You Can Keep THIS Doctor
A New York woman faces animal cruelty charges after police say the woman neutered a dog and a kitten for friends who didn’t want to pay veterinarians for the surgery.
And under Obamacare, you’ll be lucky if you can still find a doctor this qualified.
Despite the Rumors, It’s Not a Sequel to “Mars Attacks”
[High Praise! to Springeraz of Nuking Politics]
Looks like someone’s having a LOT of fun with his new image-manipulation software.
Link of the Day: July 2013 and Kevin Koastie and an appeal to Basil
[High Praise! to 4of7 of Little Worlds]
By the way, you’ll never finish reading that post. And yes, you have to click the link to have that explained.
[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)]
Hey! My Watch Is Blinking Red!
An entrepreneur is selling a watch that’s programmed to count down the seconds until the wearer’s death.
One to be included – pre-programmed – with every Obamacare enrollment. Lifeclock! Lastday! Carousel! Renew!
Obama Warned Us – What’s Important
A middle class that’s back on its feet, an economy that lifts everybody up, an America that’s ascendant in the world — that’s more important than winning an election.
BARACK OBAMA, remarks to GOP House Issues Conference, Jan. 29, 2010
“Until you win the election, then you don’t have to fiddle with stupid stuff like that and can get back to your REAL agenda.”
Straight Line of the Day: A New Study Shows Mobile Phones Are 18 Times Dirtier Than Public Bathrooms, but Even Dirtier Than Phones..
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
A new study shows mobile phones are 18 times dirtier than public bathrooms, but even dirtier than phones…
Third World iPhone
I saw a report in The Times of India’s business section that iPhones sales in that country are slow, and Apple is looking to improve sales by bringing back the iPhone 4.
In case you forgot, or just didn’t know to begin with, the current iPhone, the iPhone 5s, is the 7th generation of the iPhone. That makes the 4th generation iPhone 4 really old in the smartphone world.
But, in poorer locations, you’re less likely to have people buying a $649 smartphone — that’s the price of an iPhone 5s without a carrier subsidy. In Third World countries like India, Apple doesn’t sell a lot of their higher-priced phones. So what are they going to do? Well, I told you already: they’re bringing back the iPhone 4. Pay attention.
Only…
There’s an aspect of the story missing. Guess where else you can buy an iPhone 4? Walmart. Really.
The iPhone 4 is one of the phones you can get as part of their Straight Talk no-contract service.
Which means India just got downgraded to Walmart status. Is it any wonder other countries hate us?
Nothing About the Carbon Footprint, Either
According to Guinness World Records, Dubai shattered the world record for the largest ever pyrotechnic display on New Year’s Eve with a show involving more than half a million fireworks.
Amazingly, not a peep from Obama about how they didn’t build that.