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

Friday, February 6, 2009

A Poem in Honor of the Stimulus Bill

SPENDULUS
(With apologies to the immortal memory of Percy Shelley)

I met a banker from a far off land
Who said: Two unfinished and doorless buildings of steel
Stand on K Street. Near them, on the Mall,
Half amended, a shatter'd bill lies, whose prose
And earmarks and grants to ACORN
Tell that its Peolsi drafter well the pork barrel knew
Which yet survive, stamp'd on this drunken government,
The talk radio that mock'd them and bloggers that fed.
And in section 1 this clause appears:
"My name is Spendulus, stimulus of stimuli:
Look on my appropriations, ye taxpayers, and despair!"
Nothing but lawsuits remain: round the Capitol
Of that colossal bill, penniless and bare,
The lone and stupendous deficit stretches far away (to China)

Friday, January 23, 2009

Friday, January 2, 2009

Happy New Year!

2008 explained in 3 minutes and 30 seconds!



(HT -- The Anchoress)

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

A little political humor

Now for some political humor.


Back during the Illinois primary, I said to my wife I would go vote and take my older son to preschool. My younger son though I said I was going to "the boat" and he wanted to come to. After voting, my older son got an "I voted" sticker and told everyone on the street while heading to preschool that "I Voted". It being Chicago, no one noted it was strange that a 4 year old voted.

A few days ago, walking around Times Square, a homeless guy was sitting there with an Obama poster saying "I am like Obama, I just want change"



I also saw a guy on the subway wearing this shirt:

Needless to say, I think I was the only one to get the joke (vie le Brooklyn resistance!).


Monday, October 27, 2008

Please rise

For the singing of our new national anthem!

Saturday, October 25, 2008

So, what if McCain pulls it off?

So, what happens if McCain pulls it off. Will all those always talking about moving to Canada finally do so?

The Canadian government has a program now to help those in need.

Friday, October 24, 2008

I AM BILL!!

Tired of hearing about Joe the Plumber? Well, I AM BILL! (HT: LGF)

Sunday, July 20, 2008

The New Yorker Cover

A lot has been written by now about the infamous New Yorker cover and I do not plan to repeat it. But the irony is that the cover was meant as satire of supposed right wing slurs on Obama has turned into a cause celeb among the left. The New Yorker is not National Review, it is a fairly liberal magazine which has a world view that sees little outside the confines of Manhattan (and allied enclaves) except ignorant farmers and barbarians. To claim that the New Yorker was out to slime Obama is laughable.

Satire is an important tool in any free society -- we must be able to lampoon our leaders, in a way reminding them that they are no better than us. In this way, satire fills the role that the in Roman days was filled by the servant whispering into the ear of a general receiving a triumph "Remember, you are mortal."

Is Obama to be immune from satire? Is satirizing Obama somehow racist, and if it is, is that thought in and of itself racist?

Does anyone on the left has a sense of humor?

And finally, while I expect to see more of it closer to November coming from the right side, most of the anti-Obama nastiness came from his own party, in the context of a very long and bloody primary fight.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

It is time for some campaigning!

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

DRILL DRILL DRILL!!!

Frank J has a program to solve the oil crunch that is almost as well thought out as T. Boone Pickens.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Why did the chicken cross the road? Updated for 2008!

I got this in the mail from a friend the other day -- it went around the Internet maybe 5 years ago, but now updated for 2008!

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

**BARACK OBAMA:***
**The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!**

**JOHN MC CAIN:**
**My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.**

**HILLARY CLINTON:**
**When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure -- right from Day One! -- that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.......** [ed: And to avoid sniper fire in Tuzla]


**DR. PHIL:**
**The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goes after the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his 'CURRENT' problems before adding 'NEW' problems.**

**OPRAH:**
**Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.**

**GEORGE W. BUSH:**
**We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.**

**COLIN POWELL.**
**Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road...**

**ANDERSON COOPER - CNN:**
**We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.**

**JOHN KERRY:**
**Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it!
It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.**

**NANCY GRACE - FOX NEWS.**
**That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.**

**PAT BUCHANAN:**
**To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.**

**MARTHA STEWART:***
**No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.**

**DR SEUSS:**
**Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.**

**ERNEST HEMINGWAY:**
**To die in the rain. Alone.**

**JERRY FALWELL:**
**Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side'. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.**

**GRANDPA:**
**In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road.
Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.**

**BARBARA WALTERS:**
**Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.**

**ARISTOTLE:**
**It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.**

**JOHN LENNON:**
**Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.**

**BILL GATES:**
**I have just released eChicken2007, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. Internet Explorer is an integral part of the Chicken. This new platform is much more stable and will never crash . . . reboot.**

**ALBERT EINSTEIN:**
**Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the
chicken?**

**BILL CLINTON:**
**I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of
chicken?**

**AL GORE:**
**I invented the chicken!**

**DICK CHENEY:**
**Where's my gun?**

**AL SHARPTON:**
**Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.***

**COLONEL SANDERS:**
*Did I miss one???*

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Happy May Day!

This is really cool



Granted, non-socialist that I am, I think this must be the soundtrack for Hell.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

A little humor for April 15th

"I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money." -- Arthur Godfrey

A nice list of tax related quotes can be found here

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

And for his next act, John McCain will . . .

Coming off of his successful European tour, John McCain did a spot on Letterman (HT Althouse)



McCain seems very relaxed right now. Thanks to the battle between Senators Obama and Clinton, he gets to sit back and play the statesman. Things will get tough again, but for now, he can make the jokes while the Clintons and Obama stick the knives in deeper.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

A rather unfortunate screenshot

I know it is getting ugly between Obama and HRC, but this is sad.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

This pretty much sums up the last 8 years and the coming election

"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." – PJ O'Rourke

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Bob Hope Explains Politics

Bob Hope explains everything.


Tuesday, February 12, 2008

And now for something completely different

Question: How many Obama supporters does it take to change a light bulb?

Answer: None, because when Obama becomes president, light bulbs will change themselves.

Welcome denizens of the Derb. This is my very first “Derbalanche” and I invite you to look around, and comment that I have no clue what I am talking about!

And a hello to friends of John in North Carolina!

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

The You Tube Debate Secret Transcript

It turns out that CNN heavily edited the You Tube debate. Here is the secret transcript of what really happened.