The Good...the Bad...and Three Branches

For your Sunday amusement:

Both stolen from Knowledge is Power.

The African Signing Guy

Flash news.  It seems that the African Signing Guy has a new gig.  He's been hired to translate Obamacare speeches for The One.  Here's his first effort in this new role.



Nicely done.

H/T to @RyanLGustafson via Ace of Spades HQ.

Fill in the blank

 Tomorrow we may go to multiple choice.

The problem with this kind of humor is that it comes very close to the truth about Obama's public statements.  (Sidebar thought -- it's tough to use the words "truth" and "Obama's public statements" in the same sentence).  Yesterday it was your health plan.  Or your doctor.  Which of these will be the next thing that Obama will seek to control and destroy.

In a hundred years, history may just record how mass hysteria/hypnosis caused America to select such an enemy to be our own elected leader.  That is, if this Republic lasts that long.

From Legal Insurrection - Branco Cartoon – For Keeps Sake

Monday Afternoon Humor

Stolen from various spots on the Interwebs, a combination of graphic humor and commentary.

Saturday Funnies

Culled from the Powerline weekly collection:

And, for some good news in all this mess:

Al Sharpton and Holder

Yes, this is parody.  But damned good parody, because it actually sounds like what Revered Al might say.  It's best read aloud - add in your own Sharpton dialect for maximum effect.  It's a bit long, so be sure to follow the jump by clicking the "Read More".  From The Daily Rash, via I Own the World.


Al Sharpton Grills Attorney General Eric Holder on MSNBC

WASHINGTON – Last night on MSNBC, news anchor Reverend Al Sharpton grilled Attorney General Eric Holder on everything from Fast and Furious to racism. Following is a transcript of that interview:

AL SHARPTON:  Welcome Mr. Secretary General of Defense. It’s a pleasure to sponsor you on my show.
ERIC HOLDER:  Thank you. It’s a pleasure being here.
AL SHARPTON:  I’m going to start off the show by saying two words and I want to get your response.
ERIC HOLDER: Sure.
AL SHARPTON:  Racism.
ERIC HOLDER:  (Looks confused)
AL SHARPTON:  Now, what does your judicated mind think when you hear those words?
ERIC HOLDER:  Uh, that we still have work to do fighting for civil rights?
AL SHARPTON:  Don’t those words define the biased white interlopers who’ve chosen to scrapegoat you, a premature African American man of power?
ERIC HOLDER:  Uh, yes, I am aware that my skin color may play a roll in the ceaseless attacks from the right side of the aisle.
AL SHARPTON:  Not just that Secretary Holder, but isn’t it true that President Obama is provocated from the aisle by the same Jim Crow fronts that would be clarified as abomable in a more just world?
ERIC HOLDER:  As you know Reverend Sharpton, I think the United States is a nation of cowards when it comes to race.
AL SHARPTON:  Not only cowards Secretary General, but isn’t the nation also a composite heap of partisan divide that threatens the very fabric of African American detrimentation?
ERIC HOLDER:  Well, uh, we do still have a lot of work to do.
AL SHARPTON:  And that leads me to my next question, General. With the issues of the Fast and Frisky gun profanities, isn’t it in the best interest of the country that the president intercept on your behalf to restrain matters of secrets in the attorney client prophecy?
ERIC HOLDER:  Uh, there is no question that certain information pertaining to Fast and Furious is privileged and should not be made public until after the election.

Environmentalism

I think I have found a reason why I might have to become an environmentalist.  Save the planet!!

Hey...it's Obama that drove me to drink!!

Stolen from The Feral Irishman.

Headline of the Day

Stolen from I Own the World.

I have long wondered....how many of these types of headlines are intentionally funny and how many are just the product of not thinking??

In any case, I had a good chuckle.

Elizabeth Warren....the Musical

From a group called the Republican Party Animals comes this gem.  Pay close attention to the lyrics, especially when a "familiar" political face appears on the screen.  You may have to replay it to catch it all, but worth it, especially the shots at Clinton and Weiner.

Riffing off DirecTV

The Other McCain relays on a comment made at the WSJ blog.  If you like the DirecTV ads featuring the "chain of events" theme, read this in that style.  (And for another takeoff, see this OC post with a funny video).

When you vote for Obama based on “Hope and Change” you get suckered.
When you get suckered you cry in front of your girlfriend during acceptance speeches.
When you cry in front of your girlfriend during acceptance speeches, she questions your manhood.
When your girlfriend questions your manhood she has doubts.
When she has doubts, she leaves you.
When she leaves you, you question why you voted for Obama.
When you question why you voted for Obama, you surround yourself with other delusional people with degrees in theatre who voted for Obama.
When you surround yourself with other delusional people with degrees in theatre who voted for Obama, you crap in the streets, destroy property, and live in your parents basement.
When you crap in the streets, destroy property and live in your parents basement, you lash out.
When you lash out, you ignore facts and reason.
When you ignore facts and reason, you blame others for your failures.
When you blame others for your failures, you post stupid comments on chat forums.
When you post stupid comments on chat forums your ex-girlfriend reads them.
When your ex-girlfriend reads them she thinks “I am glad I matured and dumped that loser”.
Don’t get suckered again — switch to Mitt Romney.

A Message?

From Iain Murray comes this analysis of a news item:

Hollande’s Plane Struck by Lightning on Way to Germany

Yes, seriously.

There will be some who view this as a divine warning. Others will joke that it has something to do with Zeus and the Greek crisis.

As for me, I think it is the first strike by The Avengers on European socialism. The Mighty Thor led the way. Up next, The Hulk, who will smash France’s economy.

 If only that could be true.

Sunday funnies

As a kid, I fought my brother for first dibs on the "funnies" every Sunday morning.  Since he didn't have much interest in the rest of the paper, I soon realized that if I gave him the comics section, I could have the rest of the paper to myself. (BTW, my parents waited until evening to read the paper).  And I wouldn't have the pressure to finish the comics quickly and hand them over.

I still relish a good cartoon or comic strip.  Especially political ones.  Michael Ramirez of  Investors Business Daily is, in my opinion, the best one out there.  I didn't think anyone could take the spot in my heart that Jeff MacNelly had, but Ramirez has done so.   For example:

The blog Flopping Aces has a regular Sunday feature where they compile great funnies from the prior week into one huge post.  Give it a look.

Sometimes, a great strip can be found in unusual places.  Greg Mankiw writes a great blog on economics; he had this Frank & Ernest strip posted up.

Layers of management

A little humor for diversion on a Sunday.

Stolen from Simply Because It Is.

The "E" word

From House of Eratosthenes comes this reminder.  Use of the "E" word should generate a Pavlovian response that triggers these realizations:

If an alien from another planet, fully capable of understanding our language, competent in logic and common sense but entirely unfamiliar with our modern culture, were forced to live with us for about a week or so…I’m sure he’d come to the conclusion that this word we use, “environment,” has something to do with diminished expectations and/or lowered standards.

Companies who talk about protecting the environment, charge a goddamn fortune and their products & services don’t do anything.

Politicians who talk about the environment, just raise our taxes and make everything more expensive.

Scientists who talk about the environment, don’t even practice science.

And the everyday-everywhere-everyman who talks about the environment, is just a smug foppish snot who likes to feel superior to everybody else, doesn’t do shit, knows even less.

Yes, the pattern is becoming clearer by the year…in fact, by the week. You hear the word “environment” and the next thing you see is going to be someone wriggling out of being held to any standard. For anything.

And then examples to strengthen that reinforcement:

If a car is good for the environment, it won’t take you where you want to or need to go (this is the primary function of the thing we call a “car”). If you drive it and get in any kind of accident at all, you’ll be deader than Princess Di before you can say “Princess of Wales.”

If a shampoo is good for the environment, you may as well wash your hair with the wastewater from your dishwasher.

If a baby’s diaper is good for the environment, you may as well shove cotton balls up the baby’s ass.

If a light bulb is good for the environment, it won’t light the room.

If you stay in the hotel and the hotel is trying to protect the environment, it means the maid doesn’t do anything.

And…toilets that are good for the environment. Let’s not even inspect that in any kind of sordid detail.

If beer is good for the environment, it won’t get you drunk.

If drain cleaner is good for the environment, it won’t clear the clog in your drain.

If paint thinner is good for the environment it won’t thin the paint.

If you have friends & family who invite you to an environmentally-conscientious Thanksgiving dinner, there’s no turkey involved.

If swimming pool shock treatment is good for the environment, you’re wasting your time using it.

An environmentally considerate vacuum cleaner — it won’t even start to clean your carpet. And forget about sucking up that bowling ball.

How true, how true.

Lighter moments for Wednesday

Many folks say "It's not like the old days".  Pick a subject and you can usually use that phrase.  Via a pointer at NRO, we have this story from the old days of space exploration.

Despite their (entirely deserved) hero status, astronauts are just everyday people like you and me. They put their space suits on one leg at a time, and have to fill out U.S. Customs and Immigration forms when returning from the moon. In what is perhaps the best application of bureaucracy to date, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins declared all their moon rocks and moon dust when they arrived in Hawaii after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. It was a joke, though the astronauts did spend three weeks in isolation after their return over fears they might have brought lunar germs back with them.

However, Reddit tells us that this wouldn’t be the only tongue-in-cheek moment for the space program. After the dramatic events during the Apollo 13 mission, Rockwell received an invoice from Northrop Grumman. It seems that since the Grumman-made lunar module was responsible for bringing the crippled, Rockwell-built command module back to Earth, it was only fair that Rockwell pay for the tow. Great moments in American history, folks

Find the whole story at this Geekosystem link.  And click THIS LINK for a clear transcription of the details in the invoice.

Behar, Beckel and The Five

A fun clip from The Five:




Gutfeld throws out a save, and Beckel gets the escape. One of my favorite shows, along with Red Eye.

One good zinger from the WHCD

John Hinderaker at Powerline has negative thoughts on the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Events like last night’s always leave me feeling in need of a shower. Partly it is because there some truth to Kimmel’s joke, after noting that the room was full of politicians, members of the media and celebrities, that “Everything that is wrong with America is here in this room.” Partly is is due to the sense that everyone involved in the event is pretending. The politicians pretend to engage in self-deprecation that shows they don’t take themselves too seriously. The comics pretend that they are just trying to be funny, lampooning politicians impartially in search of laughs. But, even though some of the lines are indeed funny, the premise of the event is fundamentally false. In fact, politicians, comedians and even the celebrities present are pursuing an agenda that is both self-aggrandizing and political. That is why, I think, such events always leave me feeling unclean.

I have to agree to some degree.  It's just another form of the usual logrolling.   But there was one other good line from Kimmel that had to skewer both Obama and the media.

“Even some of your Democrats think you’re a pushover Mr. President,” said Kimmel. “They would like to see you stick to your guns and if you don’t have any guns, they would like to see you ask Eric Holder to get some for you.”

You see, the elephant in the room is Fast and Furious.  Eventually, this will all come out, to devastating effect on Obama.  The MSM is busy ignoring it, knowing how bad it could be for The One.  At least Kimmel knows. 

Sunday Morning Humor

A couple of funny pictures for your enjoyment:

Sunny Saturday

Actually, it's a bit overcast, but here is Sunny with some thoughts on taxes.  And compulsion.

Going to the dogs

Romney may have left his on the roof, but Obama.....well, you know the rest.

But did you know how Hitler felt when he found out??



Thanks for John Hinderaker at Powerline for the video (which seems unavailable through their site).