Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Sunday Political Humor

Is this true?

Yes
 
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No
 
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Sometimes
 
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It's becoming more so.
 
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Sunday mornings are a time for coffee, French toast, and a little political humor.  What do you think of this cartoon?  Funny?  True?  If you can't read it by clicking on it to make it bigger, go here.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Online Dating Reality Check

Rating:★★★
Category:Other
If your gut has ever told you that an online dating site profile you’ve read was full of shit… you were most likely right. Women fudge their profiles big time, but you can stay one step ahead of them by knowing the truth behind what their profiles say.

“Occasional smoker” – If she could fit an entire pack of cigarettes in her mouth, light it on fire, and inhale until her lungs explode… she would. And she would then proceed to spend the rest of her non-smoking time yammering on about how she needs to quit smoking once and for all, and this time she means it!

“Occasional drinker” - She’s the one at parties that spends the first half of the night bent back with a funnel full of 140 proof whisky being tossed down her pie hole; and the second half with her fat and only friend holding her hair back while she projectile vomits into the host’s shower stall.

“I like to have fun” – Means she never has any fun, has no friends or hobbies, and hopes you’re going to introduce her to all of your fun friends and take her to all of your fun parties and events so she can finally have a life.

“I’m goal oriented” - She will tell you every day about her desperate desires for a better job, and complain that she is above her current job, but will never actually get a better job because she enjoys whining about her current pathetic state of affairs too much.

“Looking for a committed relationship” - She is severely insecure and will prove it to you by asking you about every single place you go, person you see and web site you visit, bar none. She would implant a GPS tracking device in your neck if she could… sleep tight!

“Body Size: Average” – The rolls of fat hanging out the sides of her shirt that are remarkably similar in appearance to when you pop open a new pack of unbaked Pillsbury bread sticks “are natural and you’re just going to have to accept them” (along with their ever increasing growth in size).

“Height: Prefer Not To Say”- She’s either troll short with those stumpy little legs swishing together as she walks trying to keep up with you; or so tall that unless you’re Shaq it would be like fucking a giraffe.

“I am career minded” - Every day she will fill you in on every microscopic, mind numbingly boring, blow by blow description of her monotonous low-paying job in such painstaking detail that you will be rummaging through the closets and drawers for something to hang yourself with.

“Likes to travel”- Everyone loves to travel. But when she says it, it means she enjoyed that trip to Disney Land Florida with her folks when she was twelve. She’ll then drone on about all the places she wants to go to, but never will. Like all inclusive trips to Cuba where she can discover her alcoholic binge drinking tendencies and rendezvous with strange men for unbridled promiscuous sex in your absence.

“He must be well off” - She doesn’t in fact make any money herself, but has spectacularly expensive taste and needs someone else to shovel an endless supply of cash her way so that she can explore the deepest and darkest corners of her consumerism fantasies without restraint.

“Sometimes I do drugs”- If you connected all the needle marks on that constellation of horrors on her arm, you could form a recreation of the Little Dipper! If you do meet her in person and she gives you a fantastic blow-job, you can thank her for her hours of practice on the glass pipe. But you won’t be thanking her for that weeping puss filled blister at the tip of your prick.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Season Premiere- Tom DeLay - Dancing With The Stars




It took me forever to find this video. Hopefully ABC won't put the kabash on it...

Former House Majority Leader Tom "The Hammer" DeLay made his Dancing with the Stars debut last night, and we have just one word: Yikes! I mean, just look at that outfit. Apparently the judges thought the same thing, putting DeLay in 4th place.

Friday, September 18, 2009

A Joke for Political Souls

Rating:★★★
Category:Other
A male patient is lying in bed in the hospital, wearing an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose, still heavily sedated from a difficult four hour, surgical procedure. A young student nurse appears to give him a partial sponge bath.

"Nurse", he mumbles, from behind the mask. "Are my testicles black?"

Embarrassed, the young nurse replies "I don't know, Sir. I'm only here to wash your upper body and feet."

He struggles to ask again, "Nurse, are my testicles black?"

Concerned that he may elevate his vitals from worry about his testicles, she overcomes her embarrassment and sheepishly pulls back the covers. She raises his gown, holds his penis in one hand and his testicles in the other, lifting and moving them around.

Then, she takes a close look and says, "There's nothing wrong with them, Sir !!"

The man pulls off his oxygen mask, smiles at her and says very slowly,

"Thank you very much. That was wonderful, but listen very, very closely......

A r e - m y - t e s t - r e s u l t s - b a c k ? "

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Health Care Hyperbole




Okay, so the sarcasm on this one is a bit thick, but Mother Jones's anti-health care ad spoof is entertaining nonetheless. The spoof addresses some of the more outrageous claims by health care overhaul opponents, ones mostly found false by a CQ Politics health care fact check on claims by both sides of the debate. But hyperbole is a dish best served warm, kind of like your still-beating heart to a blood-thirsty Nancy Pelosi (you just gotta watch the clip to figure that one out).

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

You Might NOT Be A Libertarian, If....


I've gotten some pretty incisive hate-mail recently due to my stand on health-care.

One person pointed out that as I'm an atheist, I 'wasn't capable of understanding the "real America." '

Another was polite in her suggestion that I would be 'better suited in another country where my beliefs were more in keeping with the majority.'

Yet another told me that the First Amendment didn't apply; that America was a "Christian nation", and that if I didn't like it, I should 'get the hell out and leave the place to real Americans.'

However, the one that really got me was from a gal who'd been a longtime reader (until she fell in-company with the Birthers and other Fundiewhacks) who told me that because I supported national health-care, I couldn't possibly be a Libertarian.

Y'see - I registered as a member of the Libertarian Party in 1988.   I was a delegate to their convention here in Portland a few years back.   I've been a Libertarian since before it was cool - and I can tell you that a lot of people who are calling themselves Libertarians are one step removed from being National Socialists (that's "Nazi", for those of you who might not know.)

I know - I've explained this before - but I'll do it again, just so everyone here knows:   A Libertarian supports freedom and liberty; the responsible kind, which exists up to the point where those freedoms encroach on the freedoms of others.

I'm what's called a 'consequential Libertarian', if you're looking to split-hairs; I break with the 'classic' Libertarians who believe we could do without things like a national government, taxes, compulsory education, national defense, and things like that there.  

Those of us who are 'consequential' Libertarians believe that there are consequences for actions, both positive and negative - and that due to human nature being what it is, it's necessary to impose things like speed limits, ownership restrictions for firearms, and preventing twelve-year-olds from being able to go to the grocery-store and buy codeine.  

We don't, however, believe that it's necessary to tell responsible adults that they can't smoke marijuana.    We believe that the war on drugs is a joke, and has done nothing but increase the prison population (something, by the way, for which you and I pay, and pay dearly). 

We believe it's far cheaper to build an adequate education system at $12,000/student than to imprison the same person eighteen years later at $120,000/year.

We believe that it was a good idea, overall, to ban private ownership of machine-guns in the 1930's, what with organized crime using them to settle their differences.  

We believe that prohibition was the worst idea to come out of the depression-era (and that it contributed to a lot of that organized crime in the first place).

We don't see the logic in making multibillionaires out of people who turn around and thumb their noses at the rest of us - because with wealth comes responsibility for the common good; otherwise you don't have a country; you have a perverted sort of feudal-meritocracy where blind luck and cojones the size of basketballs rule over common sense and logic.

(What I just described, by the way, is where we're headed - in fact, we're well down the road toward that sort of thing; it's the sort of place that gave rise to armies which goose-step - but that's another topic, entirely).

True liberty involves responsibility for each other - but that seems to have failed the logic of the rightists in this country.


So, now that you know what we are - here's what we aren't:

1.    If you believe that the First Amendment guarantees that you can put the Ten Commandments on every courthouse in America, try every case by the Bible, and the phrase "Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion" applies to Buddhists, Atheists, Muslims, Wiccans, Native-Americans, Zoroastrians, and anyone else who isn't a Right-Wing Fundamentalist/Evangelical Christian - you're probably not a Libertarian.

2.     If you think Fox News really is 'fair and balanced' - you're probably not a Libertarian.

3.     If you believe that you should be entitled to keep everything you make without taxes or some other contribution to the common good, you'll make a great anarcho-capitalist - but you're not a Libertarian.

4.     If you believe you have an unalienable right to attend a Presidential town-hall meeting toting a loaded assault-rifle, there's a damn good chance you're a right-wing whackjob - but you're not a Libertarian.

5.     If you believe it's all right to pick a fight with someone outside a mosque and then cry 'freedom of speech!' when they call the police - there's a better-than-even chance you're a thug - but you're not a Libertarian.

6.     If you're a pastor, and call openly for the death of the President because he's "not an American", and "not a Christian" - then there are several classifications for you, some which ought to land you in the nuthatch or prison - but it's safe to say that you aren't now, nor have ever been, a Libertarian.

7.      If you think Chief Justice Roberts is a great man, you're probably a died-in-the-wool Bush Fundie - but you're definitely not a Libertarian.

8.     If you actually value a political leader who goes to war because "god told him to" - you're batshit-crazy, but you are definitely not a Libertarian.

9.     If you think Roe vs. Wade was a bad idea -- I might agree with you; the Supremes should likely never have even taken the case (it's not a Federal issue) -- but if you believe that a woman's body isn't her own, and that medical procedures should be banned because 'god doesn't like them', and 'Jesus isn't happy with it' - -then you've got a solid grip on your relationship with your imaginary-friends - but you're not a Libertarian.

10.     If you think that taxes are for huge armies and police forces to 'deal' with everyone who Doesn't Think Like You - then you're not a Libertarian.

11.     If you're in favor of bailouts, as long as they reinforce the status quo (and help your Uncle Cletus replace his 1989 Ford F-150) - you definitely have no grasp of economics, and you're definitely not a Libertarian.

12.     If you think printing up $5,000,000,000,000 in brand new $1 bills is a great way to get the economy working again, there's a damn good chance you failed eighth-grade math - and you're not a Libertarian.

13.     If you think taking citizens of other countries to government-run torture camps and waterboarding them is a great way to 'preserve our way of life' - it's a lead-pipe-cinch you haven't a clue what America is about - and you're definitely not a Libertarian.

14.     If you're in love with the idea of the death-penalty - regardless of the fact that it's unevenly applied to persons-of-color, the mentally-disadvantaged and the poor -- then you're no doubt a heartless and cruel moron - but you're not a Libertarian.

15.     If you think going to war with nations which have or had no beef with us is a great idea - then you have no sense of justice in the world - and you're not a Libertarian.

Lastly -- if you think that allowing the likes of Bush, Cheney, and their minions to run about free, spouting their lies and apologetics without answering for their crimes is a great idea - then here's some good news:   You probably take company with about half the country.   You have a lot of friends.   You're probably aching for the day that someone kills that black-assed son-of-a-bitch Leninist/usurper in the White House -

- but you're no American.   And you're definitely not a Libertarian.



(A shout-out is due to Swaggie, who suggested the link and the idea.)



Tuesday, August 25, 2009

White House Reveals Obama is Bipolar, Has Entered Depressive Phase

The Onion News Network has a story that might put today's somewhat contradictory financial news (the reappointment of Ben Bernanke as Fed chairman and the announcement of a projected 2-trillion dollar increase to the 10-year deficit) into perspective: President Obama is bipolar and has entered his depressive phase.

"After a three-year period of extreme productivity and positivity, (the president) has now entered a deep depression," said a White House spokesman.

When asked a press conference about the recent deficit projections, a despondent Obama reportedly gripped his forehead and said, "Why would you ask that?"



White House Reveals Obama Is Bipolar, Has Entered Depressive Phase

Monday, August 24, 2009

Arlen Specter Trades Town Halls for Comedy House




Arlen Specter has been in the midst of controversy for much of the year, having famously switched parties back in April and, most recently, been on the receiving end of angry constituents at a health care town hall.

Which would make one think that the Pennsylvania Democrat would want to stay out of the limelight during his down time. No chance. Specter, a huge fan of stand up comedy, recently took to the stage at the Pittsburgh Improv for a charity event.

Much of the routine was actually pretty innocuous, poking fun at deceased or retired politicians such as Strom Thurmond and Trent Lott. He did, however, get in a little jab at Sarah Palin.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Tom 'The Hammer' DeLay To Compete on 'Dancing With the Stars'

Tom DeLay, the man famous for twisting arms as a former House majority leader, will now be trying not to step on anyone's toes as a contestant on the upcoming season of "Dancing With the Stars."

During more than 20 years in office representing the Houston suburbs, DeLay's strong-arm tactics earned the nickname "The Hammer" (as well as an indictment from a Texas grand jury). Now "The Hammer" (wonder how MC Hammer, a pretty good dancer in his own right, feels about this encroachment on his guys-named-Hammer-who-can-dance territory) will compete against 15 other "celebrities" for dancing's lamest accolade.

How did DWTS nab DeLay? "I know it will sound stupid, we just asked him," DWTS executive producer Conrad Green told Entertainment Weekly.

Watch the video clip from Good Morning America below to find out who DeLay's main dance-off competition will be.



Saturday, August 15, 2009

Death Panels, Guns, & Health Care Town Hall Yell Meetings




The folks at Red State Update suggest spending a day with the spouse and kids at the nearest health care town hall meeting, because as Dunlap says, it's "not just grown-ups who enjoy freedom." Enjoy Capri Suns, cookies, and if your little one is lucky, their very own Swastika.