[High Praise! to DamnCat]
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear Frank wrote this.
See also: the delicious fisking of this nonsense at Ace of Spades HQ.
Archive of entries posted on 22nd May 2012
The Perfect Metaphor: How Democrats Imagine a New Government Program Will Work
Democrats see a problem, and their immediate solution is a new government program, staffed by government bureaucrats, funded by taxpayer dollars. In their heads, they think that solving a delicate problem with a crude and powerful tool will result in something like this:
[YouTube direct link] (Viewer #1,760,952)
But after running for a year and coming in billions of dollars over budget, the reality is inevitably more like this:
It never works. It always fails. They’re always surprised. They never learn. And yet they never stop coming back for more.
Quote of the Day: Fred Thompson on the Federal Government
From Fred Thompson’s America:
“Most of the legislative mistakes I made were when I gave the federal government the benefit of the doubt as to what it could competently do.”
Link of the Day: Ironically, Union of Nations That Includes Germany Bungles Propaganda Video
Blog of the Nightfly summarizes perfectly:
It’s Europe, you see, that celebrates multicultural values and welcomes all.
Well, unless they’re in propaganda videos. There, the nice white lady is menaced by ethnic folks practicing the martial arts customs of their own cultures.
First, watch the video:
[YouTube direct link] (Viewer #360,083)
Now go read Nightfly’s analysis. It’s spot-on.
I Predict This Video Will Have a Million Hits By Friday
[High Praise! to Mike, via Ironic Surrealism]
Full disclosure: I don’t like Justin Bieber, and his style of music makes me break out in a rash.
I like this video, though, for the way it deftly takes on Obama’s collection of idiocies.
[YouTube direct link] (Viewer #5,825)
For reference, here are the lyrics to the original Bieber song.
lolterizt! Part 158
This week terrorists, next week That One. Submit for either at lolterizt@gmail.com
Meanwhile, pass ’em around, spread the love, and if you make your own, don’t be shy about dropping a link to your pics in the comments. The more, the merrier.
NOTE TO READERS: Hovering your mouse over the picture activates closed captioning for the l33t-speak/txtmsg impaired.
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From Hunter:
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From Kris:
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My favorites from the submissions using last edition’s uncaptioned picture:
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From T-Dog:
From me (Harvey):
Bonus link from Kris: Mohammed brand condoms (NSFW)
This week’s uncaptioned picture for you to play with:
I’m calling it a tie between Hunter picking out one riff from an entire MST3K episode, and Kris for recalling the Crazy Cal Worthington commercials.
What say you?
PRODUCTION NOTES:
#1: When creating lolterizt! pictures, please caption with either black or white text, as colors like red and yellow tend to blur badly when I compress the images.
#2: Standard image size for these posts is 350px wide by whatever high. If you can have your images 350px wide before you caption them, I won’t end up shrinking your captions into illegibility when I re-size the images.
MAKE YOUR OWN: The free lolbuilder from I Can Has Cheezburger.
STYLE NOTE: Short captions are usually better. Your goal is 10 words or less, with humor value tending to increase exponentially as the number of words approaches 1.
HAT TIP: Brian of Snapped Shot‘s magnificent EvilFeed – the world’s best source for ripe-for-captioning terrorist photos.
Send your submissions to lolterizt@gmail.com and – if they aren’t obscene (IMAO is a PG-13 site) and don’t suck too terribly bad – I’ll post them for you. Remember to include your name (and blog URL, if applicable) so I know who to thank.
Wisdom of the Day: Appeal to Authority
From Political Math:
If the entirety of your argument is “I’m a scientist” you’re not a very good one
Nuke the News: Can’t Defend Capitalism or Criticize the President
* This whole Cory Booker thing is pretty funny. All he does is say, “You know, maybe capitalism isn’t such a bad thing,” and Obama screams, “How dare he! Bring me his head!” and then Obama’s campaign forces hunted down Booker and made him confess his crimes on video.
There’s not a lot of wiggle room for viewpoints in the Democrat Party right now how Obama had done a horrible job on the economy and needs to keep this laser-like focus against Romney’s record in business. But does the attack even make much sense? Let’s say you buy their argument that Romney is a vulture capitalist, what does that mean he’ll do as president? Sell off all the country’s assets? The point is whether Romney was a good or evil businessman, he at least has some experience of how the economy works which is way more than Obama can claim. You can’t be worse than Obama on jobs even if you tried really hard.
* A teacher in North Carolina told her students that they can’t criticize the president. I hope that’s not true; now the unemployed will have even less to do all day.
* Colin Powell hasn’t decide yet whether he’s going to endorse Obama again. It doesn’t make me feel good that our military was once under the leadership of a man who couldn’t easily identify a useless twit as a useless twit, and he really should have at least made a strategic withdrawal from his support of Obama years ago. Still, if he wants back in the Republican Party, he better apologize to all of us. And buy us candy.
* Here’s a neuroscientist tearing apart the liberals’ recent pseudoscience on conservative versus liberal brains. Liberals are really insecure about how poorly their arguments fair in the public, so they’re constantly turning to “science” to prove they’re right which just shows their lack of understanding of the concept. Sorry, we’re not going to mix two chemicals in a beaker and see what color it changes to to solve any political arguments. That’s done through punching hippies.
* SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket that could be the first commercial craft to dock with the International Space Station. So perhaps we’re finally embarking on the commercialization of space. Some night soon, we’ll look up to skies and, instead of seeing stars, see lots of space billboards. Hey, it’s not going to be pretty if we finally want to get some movement in space exploration. But if we keep investing, we’ll finally get our ultra-libertarian Mars colony. Yeah, have fun dealing with your crushing debt alone, earthlings!
* A major DC comics character is going to come out of the closet. Every Aquaman comic to begin with Aquaman turning to the readers and yelling, “It’s not me! Stop asking!”
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UPDATE: Linked by I’m a Man! I’m 41!
Random Thoughts: Oh Yeah!
The great thing about working in New Jersey government is that on hot days the governor busts through the wall with a pitcher of Kool Aid.
Let’s all be really nice to Cory Booker so he might go, “Hey, I should in the party of the people who are nice to me.”
UPDATE: Linked by The View Through the Windshield.