A cartoon of a picture is worth...

Michael Ramirez:

Totally unrealistic...

...because he rarely actually speaks with that kind of candor.

;-)

From the pen of Michael Ramirez:

Super MariObama

Brilliant!

Obama's energy policy

Michael Ramirez:

"I don't care. Obama is Awesome..."

One of the fantastic things about the internet is the way that individuals can make little bits of brilliance available to everyone else. Brilliance like this Libya vs. Iraq debate...



I laughed out loud a couple of times. To quote Homer Simpson, "it's funny 'cause it's true..."

Wisconsin senate seats

Michael Ramirez:

Big boots, little man

From the pen of the always brilliant Michael Ramirez comes an appropriate response to the Democrats attempt to 1) claim Ronald Reagan and 2) claim that Barack Obama is another Ronald Reagan.

(I'm not an editorial cartoonist, but it seems to me that there's also a Lloyd Bentsen/Dan Quayle joke somewhere in this situation, just waiting for someone to draw it...)

Spotted on facebook...

"Hundreds gather to protest Global Warming....."

(Original here...)

"We need..."

Have I mentioned before how brilliant Michael Ramirez is? I think I have...

Yeah, that sums up the SOTU pretty well...

Amusing snark...

James Taranto:

...[S]ix more states--Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Ohio, Wisconsin and Wyoming--joined the lawsuit in Florida federal court seeking to overturn ObamaCare. This brings the total number of state-government plaintiffs to 26, which is nearly half of the 57 states and a majority of the 50.

Self-Deception: The Sanity Rally just got...mind-blowing

More (unintentional) irony from the smugapalooza...



If you can't think of a better reason, wiping some of that smug away is surely an adequate reason to go to the polls and vote Republican today...

Is Obama A Keynesian? Rally For Sanity, 10/30/10

There's an old internet saying that "any spelling flame will contain at least one spelling error." It's not a new thought, really - Shakespeare spoke of "being hoist on one's own petard" and Jesus warned men not to "look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye." But it can sometimes be amusing to see people hold themselves up as exemplars and then fail to justify the esteem in which they hold themselves.

So, for a little background, there are a couple of things that people ought to know about.

• One is a fringe group called "birthers" who believe that Barack Obama was born in Kenya¹, making him Kenyan rather than American.
• Another is that John Maynard Keynes, the prominent 20th century British economist, was one of the prime movers of the theory that government ought to stimulate demand with deficit spending during down economic cycles, famously saying that "government should pay people to dig holes in the ground and then fill them up." The Obama stimulus plan was classic Keynesian economics.
• Oh yes, one more fact relevant to the video is that proposition 19 is an initiative petition on the California ballot to legalize marijuana.

That brings us to the Jon Stewart-Stephen Colbert "Rally for Sanity" this past weekend on the national mall. Termed by some as a "smugapalooza," it was a day for the self-proclaimed "intellectual elite" and "reality-based community" to stand out and tell the rest of us how much smarter they are.

But someone else was there with "Obama=Keynesian?" sign and a video camera. Hilarity ensued...



I admit it, I laughed out loud...


¹ - The existence of "birthers" is frequently blamed on Republicans or the Tea Parties, but the original birthers that started the story were Hillary Clinton supporters during the Democratic primary campaign.

"I've worked hard to earn that title..."

The always excellent Michael Ramirez:

It’s Time to Call Barbara Boxer Ma’am Again - By Kathryn Jean Lopez - The Corner - National Review Online

From the mind of David Zucker - It’s Time to Call Barbara Boxer Ma’am Again

Call Me Madam Joe from RightChange on Vimeo.

Brilliant!

The Selfless Wonk - disconnected from reality

He's taken more victory laps (and vacations) than necessary, from my point-of-view...

The Selfless Wonk

President Obama laments:


“I think that one of the challenges we had two years ago is that we had to move so fast. We were in such emergency mode that it was very difficult for us to spend a lot of time doing victory laps and advertising what we were doing because we were moving on to the next thing. I take some responsibility for that.

Hey, at least he's taking some responsibility for something.

Honestly, he sounds like Michael Scott on The Office, interviewing with David Wallace for the job in New York.

DW:  What are your greatest strengths as a manager?
MS:  Why don't I tell you what my greatest weaknesses are?  I work too hard, I care too much, and sometimes I can be too invested in my job.
DW:  OK...And your strengths?
MS:   Well, my weaknesses are actually strengths...

This photoshop (and I don't know who did it, else I'd attribute it) is over a year old, but as appropriate as ever...

So you want to go to law school...

I'm not a lawyer. I've never been to law school. But I get the feeling that there's a whole lot of truth in this (very funny) video...

Republicans Kind of ...

Mild language warning (but it's only the language that you see here in the link - good enough for broadcast television nowadays, but I don't care for it.) The article, however, is excellent...

Republicans Kind of Suck

So, we’re all agreed that a barking dog and a zombie apocalypse both suck. Everyone following so far?

Now let’s look at what led us to the political situation we’re in. During the second term of the Bush presidency people just got fed up with Republicans. They were idiots, they were no good at the whole fiscal conservatism thing (which is sort of the whole point of them), we had these wars that seemed to be going nowhere, and the economy was beginning to fail. They sucked, and people were sick and tired of them.

Thus people turned to the Democrats. And Obama.

...

So the Democrats sucked. But not just plain old, usual politician sucked, but epic levels of suck where it’s hard to find an analog in human history that conveys the same level of suckitude. It was sheer incompetence plus arrogance — and those things do not complement each other well. We’re talking sucking that distorts time and space like a black hole.

It’s Godzilla-smashing-through-a-city level of suck — but a really patronizing Godzilla who says you’re just too stupid and hateful to see all the buildings he’s saved or created as he smashes everything apart. Or, to use Obama’s favorite analogy, you have a car stuck in ditch, so you call the mechanic, but the only tool he brings with him is a sledgehammer. And then he smashes your car to pieces and charges you $100,000 for his service. Finally, he calls you racist for complaining. Obama and the Democrats have been so awful, it’s hard for the human brain to even comprehend.

Go ahead, read it all. It's amusing, despite being so true.

Green candidate wasn't going to win anyway...

...but this sure isn't going to help. This might be an even funnier typo than the "pubic schools" billboard or the McDonald's "anus burger" signboard. The name of the Green Party candidate in the Illinois gubernatorial race, Rich Whitney, has been misspelled on some of the voting machines.

The last name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney is misspelled as "Whitey" on electronic-voting machines in nearly two dozen wards -- about half in predominantly African-American areas -- and election officials said Wednesday the problem cannot be corrected by Election Day.

It will be interesting to see how many votes "Rich Whitey" gets in those "predominantly African-American" districts...

The essence of capitalism...

Find a need, and fill it!

How genetics works

How genetics works:




The right picture's worth a thousand words...