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Archive of entries posted on 7th June 2019
You Kids These Days and Your Fancy New Technology
Now in development: a device capable of transforming human brainwave activity into the ability to control a computer.
Yeah, I already have one of those. It’s called a keyboard.
Such Predicaments, I Must Forge Ahead
[YouTube direct link] (Viewer #233,844)
[The uploaders added a weird coda on this. Bail at 6:14 when it says “The End”]
While I was being interviewed by Ed Morrissey, he mentioned “Existential Blues”, and he was tickled pink that I knew off the top of my head that it was by Tom “T-Bone” Stankus – like anyone could forget THAT name.
Anyway I wanted to share it with you guys, because it’s a very fun little song. But there’s a problem.
In the original version – the one that I knew and loved and grew up with – the chorus contains one brief line of a song from Man of La Mancha, which in 1985, was considered enough of a copyright violation to force the removal of said line from the song. Which is just stupid. And irritating, because the song doesn’t sound right to my ears without it. Fortunately, the uncut version is available on YouTube.
UNfortunately, looking at the video – a clip from Man of La Mancha – ruins the fun of the song.
But, embedded above is the CUT version of the song, with perfectly timed and chosen visuals. But it’s missing that one line, and sounds wrong in my ears.
So, if you’ve never heard the song in your life, or if you’ve only heard it after 1985, play the embedded video.
If you’re an pre-1985 fan, click the “uncut version” link above. Just don’t look.
Link of the Day: Why Do Leftists Hate Black Self-Made Millionaires? They Must, Because I Don’t Hear Them Talk About This Guy
[High Praise! to Ammo.com]
S.B. Fuller: The Forgotten History of a Legendary Black American Entrepreneur
[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)]
Trump Truths: Powerfuller
Democrats don’t realize that if they ever impeached President Trump, all it would do is give him the ability to whisper campaign advice into Mike Pence’s ear from the spirit world using the Force.
Proof ‘n’ Demagoguin’ (Song Parody)
(To the tune of “Puff, The Magic Dragon,” by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow)
♫
Proof, for all their draggin’
Eluded D.C.
And politics one atom missed:
A speck called honesty.
Liberal wacky papers
Loved that Russia stuff
And bought the lies
In thin disguise
And could not get enough.
The papers, for all their braggin’
Live by deceit
The few folks who bought them missed
That thing called honesty.
It inevitably unraveled
Ahab had no whale;
Lackeys kept a lookout for
The next gigantic tale.
Troubled kingpins & print hacks
Who bowed to Clinton’s name
Pirated chips and covered their tracks
When time to put up came.
Oh.
Proof, the holy grail was
Ever out of reach
Infuriating all the libs
Who wanted to impeach.
Drag-ons live forever
And so do liberal ploys;
But canned ringers and canary singers
Make way for other noise.
One Grey Lady happened
To tally up the score:
And its puff-piece journalism
Ceased that “maybe” roar.
Heads were bent in conference
The people had not been tricked:
Truth, to them, seemed suddenly
Like something cherry-picked.
Without their life-long influence
The press could not be persuade;
And they, with all their affluence,
Had debts that could not be paid.
Oh, proof, that magic talisman
In spite of D.C.
Is established in our legal code
In a thing called honesty.
♫
A Dirty Lie. That Tree Is Still Poor
Democrats Push for ‘Gun New Deal’ to Try to Bring Dangerously High Firearm Ownership Down to 1791 Levels
“It’s either the GND or we make you buy carbine offsets.”
Current Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden explained the origins of the idea.
“I was hanging out on the Dem2020 Facebook page, as I so often do,” said Biden, “reading about how the Green New Deal got skunked in the Senate, like 57 to nothing. I’ve seen the Generals lose to the Globetrotters by a smaller margin. But then it hit me – the Green New Deal is about saving the planet by reducing… temperature things or whatever… because they’re just too high right now. But there was a time – I think before America was invented – that they were at a safe level, and we’re just trying to get back to that. So then it hit me – why not do that for guns, too?”
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) was the next Democrat candidate to catch Gun New Deal fever.
“It’s so brilliant in its simplicity,” Booker observed. “Republicans and their gun nut accomplices are always blathering on and on about how the Constitution MEANS something, and the Founders WANTED everyone to have guns. Well, if that’s true, I think we have to look at the logical conclusion. Even if the Founders wanted each and every person in early America to have a gun, that’s still only about 4 million guns. Today, there’s about 400 million guns in America. The only way to preserve this country for the future is to get it back down to the safe, sustainable level of weaponry that our Founders intended.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) agreed that the Gun New Deal is just the sort of simple, common-sense restriction on guns that America so desperately needs.
“When I became a Senator,” said Warren, “I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Not what the anti-American NRA says is the Constitution. If Americans are going to bear arms, there’s no other possible way to interpret our precious founding document than to assume it meant only the arms of the type and quantity existent at the time. Glocks and AR-15s and semi-revolver magazine clips hadn’t been invented yet, which means they’ve simply got to go, and once we get the guns down to 4 million flintmuskets or less, our country will finally be safe from dangerous gun owners and their talk about ‘tyranny’ and ‘despotism’. Which there hasn’t been any of that since 1791, anyway, and there’s no reason to think we need more guns now than we had then to protect us from it. If it existed. Which it doesn’t.”
In a later press conference, Warren denied a viral internet rumor that the 1023/1024 of her genetic material that wasn’t Cherokee came from King George the Third.
“Stuff and nonsense,” objected Warren. “Now give up your guns, or I’ll tax your tea.”
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Straight Line of the Day: Elizabeth Warren Just Made a New Campaign Promise…
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Elizabeth Warren just made a new campaign promise…
Harvey In His Own Words
Harvey was one of the guests on Ed Morrissey’s show on HotAir yesterday. They talked about IMAO, if you can believe that. And you can.
They sounded like two guys that never met that were old friends. Listen, and you’ll see what I mean.
Harvey’s part starts at the 1:00:17 mark, and goes nearly to the end of the show. But the other guests are good too. Listen to the whole thing if you can, but do make a point to give Harvey a listen. I enjoyed it.
The Illustrated Boyd: Choose Carefully
Ask IMAO Anything: Answers #15
You should be happy. All your questions are being answered. Before long, you’ll know as much as we do.
Most of the questions you left last time were answered by others, including:
- Jim
- walruskkkch
- Happy Fun Ball
- DamnCat
- tankdemon
- Oppo
Bacon to you all!
Now, the rest of the questions that weren’t answered, we’re now going to answer.
tankdemon: Mary Ann, Ginger, or Nutmeg?
Mary Ann AND Ginger. But not Meg. She’s a nut.
Harvey: Couldn’t this all be solved by people formatting their answers as questions?
Yes, but imagine the Jeopardy you’d be in.
Wait. That’s it? Two questions? Only two questions that were not answered?
There were some questions that I saw in other posts that referred to this feature. There were indications that they didn’t want to post a question here, but wanted to ask a question.
“Hey, I want to ask a question, but I don’t want to ask a question in the place where you ask questions.” Or something like that. No, I don’t understand that either. Perhaps some clarification might be in order? Oh, well. Those may or may not have been answered. Probably not.
If you have a question, you can Ask IMAO Anything by:
1. Leaving a question in the comments. Either someone will answer it in the comments (click “Reply to comment” so it shows up under the question) or I’ll answer it next time.
2. Or by emailing your question to Ask.IMAO.Anything@gmail.com. Those go directly to me and I’ll answer them next time.
Ask away. Or better, ask here. We got your answers right here.
Incoming!
Headline in an Israeli newspaper: Iran is ‘six months away from an atomic bomb’
Huh. Producing or receiving?