Technically, it never actually closed, but we did some housekeeping and made it a lot easier to browse designs by putting all the popular stuff on the front page instead of burying it in categories.
Mother’s Day is coming up, and what woman wouldn’t want a “My biggest regret in life is that I’ve never killed a Communist with my bare hands” shotglass? Guaranteed not to wilt like a bunch of stupid flowers.
Anyway, if you don’t want to buy anything, that’s fine. We just want you to be aware that the store exists, and we’ll remind you of that from time to time.
By the way, if you’ve got any particular requests for products or designs, give a holler. We’ll see what we can do.
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NOTE TO READERS: Hovering your mouse over the picture activates closed captioning for the l33t-speak/txtmsg impaired.
My favorites from the submissions using last edition’s uncaptioned picture:
From Arik:
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This week’s uncaptioned picture for you to play with:
In case you’ve forgotten him – since the media has completely ignored him for over a year – that’s Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner on the left.
Travelwise 42 for recalling Michelle’s idiocy, which most people had forgotten in the excitement over Barack’s dog-eating episode.
What say you?
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* So Obama’s new slogan is “Forward”. It’s kind of odd. If you’re in a car which brakes have been cut and are careening out of control, I guess you can describe that as moving “forward”, but that’s probably not most people’s choice. They’ll be like, “We have to stop this thing!” and Obama is like, “No, I want to see this through.” And everyone is like, “But we’re headed for a brick wall.” And Obama is like, “But I have a very good feeling about it; great things are going to happen when we reach it.”
Or maybe “Forward” is just a reminder of what to do with his mail in 2013.
* So Obama is “spiking the football” on Osama bin Laden. He has this ad out praising himself for making a decision 98% of people would have made. “When I saw the stove was hot, I made the bold decision not to put my face on it.” And then he’s trying to claim Romney wouldn’t make that decision because only Obama when presented with the choice, “Should we go ahead and get bin Laden?” was bold enough to say, “Yeah, I guess so.”
Obama will get some mileage out of taking down bin Laden… but only if he doesn’t overplay it. But he can’t help but overplay it because it’s all he has. That’s it. He has no other accomplishment to mention on the campaign trail — and I don’t count Obamacare or the “stimulus” because everyone hates those. The only thing is for him to say, “I killed Osama! So elect me so I can once again… um… er… I killed Osama.”
* Some Navy SEALs are upset about Obama’s victory lap about bin Laden when all he did was not get in their way while they risked their lives. As we learned from John Kerry, there’s a big risk in Democrats acting all tough on military stuff since they’re the sissy party and everyone knows it. And at least John Kerry was actually in the military; all Obama did was not interfere too much with what Bush had already got in motion. The more Obama talks about it, the more people are going to think, “So all Obama did before office was attack what our military was doing and now it’s the one thing he wants credit for?”
Also, if he’s still claiming that the economy is still Bush’s fault — despite Obama doing tons of stuff about it — aren’t the military successes also Bush’s fault — especially since Obama has done many less changes there?
* In the argument of who is better for dogs — super important for this election year — Mitt Romney once saved a dog’s life. For Obama, saving a dog involves using Tupperware.
* Wind farms may cause global warming. So what do we do? Do we make fun of the idea of global warming? Or do we accept global warming so we can make fun of wind farms? I think I’ll just point and laugh, “Haw haw!”
* Sunny has a new video in which she explores Tea Party racism:
“Forward”: Because “Yes We Can” was way too specific.
* The squeaky wheel gets the Wikipedia page. I noticed that if you put “Frank J. Fleming” into google, the first suggestion was “Frank J. Fleming wiki” which means people are trying to look me up on Wikipedia but I didn’t exist there. So I thought I’d just mention that on teh Twitters, and now I have a page. And it’s been up a couple days now so I guess Wikipedia has officially deemed me as “notable.” That’s right; I’m on my way up. Next step: fame and fortune.
Forward: What we’ll have to do in 2013 with White House mail addressed to Obama.
Those clowns in congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.
So Obama is going to move us “Forward” and Romney will take us backwards to when unemployment and gas prices were low.
How many trillions more in debt Forward are we talking?
Obama not only killed bin Laden, he fried and ate his dog. Romney wouldn’t do that.
Pro Tip: When talking about Osama and Obama in the same sentence, use “bin Laden” to avoid embarrassing (but hilarious) typos.
Weird telling my 3-year-old niece about men being on the moon as this long long ago thing we can’t do now.
“Yeah, back before your dad was born, we did this cool futuristic thing.”
Telling a kid of putting a man on the moon makes me think of living in a post-apocalyptic world, talking about how great things were in the long long ago.
