Archive of entries posted on 18th February 2011

Obama’s New Fifty-Seven States Moment

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Yes, it’s Lincoln’s Intercontinental Railroad:

“Listen, Abraham Lincoln helped to build the interstate… intercontinental railroad in the middle of the Civil War”.

Jump to 56 seconds before the end (timer counts down):



[IrishCentral direct link]

1) The TRANSCONTINENTAL railroad was completed in 1869, 4 years after both the War and Lincoln ended

2) It was done by private companies. To haul freight. For profit.

6 second audio clip here:

[audio:http://www.imao.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Obama-Intercontinental-Railroad.mp3]

Ya know, I thought it odd that TMJ4, who did the interview, deliberately chose not to make the video embeddable. Guess they were afraid Obama’s idiocy would go viral.

Welcome to the internet, TMJ4.

UPDATE: Oh God… it’s not even the first time he’s said it.

UPDATE 2: And at a commencement address at University of Michigan in May of 2010…

Question of the Day

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So Kos tweeted this:

Dear Tea Baggers, It’s our turn now.

What a weird little guy. Still, one has to wonder what he thinks it’s his turn to do. The liberals have already done their big special attack in a previous turn (which required having the presidency and majorities in the House and Senate and 100 mana), and that was the useless stimulus and Obamacare which might be found unconstitutional. Of course, I’m guessing Kos’s plan for his turn is to whine impotently, and in that case his turn never really ended.

So what do you think it’s Kos turn to do?

What Two Years of the Stimulus Have Accomplished

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Did you know it’s been two years since Obama’s stimulus has passed? It was supposed to keep unemployment from going over 8%. It did not do that. Still, the Obama administration has touted a number of accomplishments of the stimulus:

* Kept pedophiles unemployed and unable to afford vans.
* Has caused no harm whatsoever to unicorns.
* Reduced carbon emission by eliminating the need to drive to and from work each day.
* Allowed Obama to gain his inheritance by fulfilling condition of his uncle’s will to spend a trillion dollars while gaining no assets.
* Demotivated terrorists from destroying America since that now seems less impressive.
* Has kept pirate attacks to a minimum.
* According to quantum physicists, has created or saved 80 billion jobs in alternate universes.
* Successfully eliminated one possibility from things that might work to help the economy.
* Will help ensure our future children get taught about a thing called “debt”.
* Got the Republicans a majority in the House.

“Run Away!”

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So Walker, Wisconsin Governor, is trying to take on the teachers unions and cut the budget, and what was the Democrats’ response? They fled the state — just ran away. The left’s tactics have gotten increasingly odd as they get less and less popular, and now when confronted with state budget problems they’ve settled on running and hiding. Strangely, Walker has sent the police to find them, but I don’t get why. I guess they’re needed to finalize the bill, but there has to be some way around that. It’s just when you hear the Democrat legislators have fled your state, it’s really odd that your first response would be, “How do I get them back?” The smarter response is, “Can we nationalize this?” We need to find what laws will get Democrats to flee from all the other states and what will cause Obama to leave the White House and run and hide. And if these chase away the Democrats bills are passed in every state, eventually the Democrats will have no option but to flee to Canada — and they’ll probably be much happier there. We certainly will be. And you know what happens when all Democrats flee to Canada? That’s right: We’ve won the future.

Random Thoughts

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Ever know anyone whose working hours were actually 9 to 5?

With a name like Walker, you need to put your state and job after your name. “Walker, Wisconsin Governor.”

I don’t if it sounds cool for my name. “Fleming, Idaho Engineer.” Eh, somewhat cool.

When we’ve tied up Obama and put him on a high speed rail leaving DC, we’ve won the future.

Death by SyFy

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The sun has launched an attack on the earth.

A solar flare was emitted Tuesday, and it’s heading this way.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) said the possible effects from the geomagnetic storm include power grid fluctuations, impact on satellite operations, effects on migratory animals and the visibility of auroras in places like New York, Idaho, Michigan and Maine.

Yes, it’s hitting any moment now.

It may have already hit. But, I don’t think it has, since life on earth hasn’t burned up and the continents haven’t turned into pools of molten rock.

And, did you notice that one of the places impacted would be Idaho? Frank J. lives near there, I think. And the CME could affect his blogging. I don’t know if it’ll make it better or worse, but I don’t like change, so whatever happens, I won’t like it.

But, let’s look at the bigger picture. This solar attack is like the plot out of a bad direct-to-video movie that airs on the SyFy Channel or something. Which means that we need to be on the lookout for other SyFy-based threats. Like Meteors, Mega Piranha, Mega Pythons, Gatoroids, Tiffany, and Debbie Gibson.

We also need to ask why. Why is the sun attacking us?

I think it’s pissed that humans are trying to take credit for global warming, when it’s the sun that causes the earth to warm up and cool down. The sun has sat there, 93-million miles away, watching us. And it’s tired of Al Gore giving credit to humans for its work.

I think we need to take all the “global warming/climate change/whatever it’s called next” crowd and put them in a rocket and shoot them off into space. Not like some B Ark plot, but to distract the CMEs. It’ll see the rocket ship full of screaming environmentalists and direct its attention that way.

Al Gore could end up saving the earth after all.

Even then, we won’t be completely safe. There’s still the threat of Tiffany vs Debbie Gibson.

Here’s your apology

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Iraq wants an apology. And some cash, according to a Reuters report:

Iraq’s capital wants the United States to apologize and pay $1 billion for the damage done to the city … since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

See? I’m not making this up.

Will Obama do that? I think there’s a chance he might. He’s apologized for everything else. And he’s spending money like … well, I was going to say “a drunken sailor” but I’d rather give my checkbook to a drunken sailor than to Obama. And you would too.

Anyway, what with Obama’s track record for foolishly spending money and foolishly apologizing for the U.S., I’m thinking he might.

But, I got a better idea.

Let’s put things back like they were.

Let’s dig up Hussein (the former Iraqi president, not the current U.S. one) and bring his whole crew back and give them the keys to the government.

And gas some Kurds while we’re at it. Throw some folks into some huge industrial shredders. Set up some rape houses. Make some people disappear in the middle of the night…

I’m sure we could do a few things so that they’d forget that Hussein had ever been toppled.

Or, maybe we should give him our Hussein. Saddam’s being dead and all might put a damper on his leadership style. Sure, Barack doesn’t have the experience — even after two years in the White House, he’s still unqualified to be president of this country — but I think they ought to give him a chance.

Of course, they’d end up demanding an apology for us inflicting Obama on them. And that would be a legitimate complaint. But, I wouldn’t apologize for that.

Not until the idiots that elected Obama here send me an apology. And some cash.