The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
Quote of the Day
Last night the Democrats’ Nixon, Bill Clinton, was slathered in ovations as he lauded the “achievement” of Barrack Obama before leaving the podium to the rocking strains of “Addicted to Love.” It could have been worse if Clinton had chosen the bumper music and selected Jimi Hendrix and “Are You Experienced?” – Gerard Van Der Leun, The Democrats’ “Forgotten Man”: Happy 100th Birthday, Lyndon
Quote of the Day
It looks like Jackson Pollock threw up on the walls. – Tam, commenting on the effects of multiple Simunitions hits on the interior walls of the shoot house.
Runner up for QotD is this one, posted by SayUncle.
UPDATE: Here’s a shot of one of Pollock’s lesser efforts:
I’m gonna be on TV! Can’t wear my Proud Member of the Triangle of Death t-shirt. Or my 72 Virgins Dating Service t-shirt. Or my Achmed the Dead Terrorist t-shirt. Probably shouldn’t wear my Some Days it’s Not Even Worth Chewing Through the Restraints t-shirt, but I am wearing that one on the plane tomorrow. We’re going to a steakhouse Thursday night, so I’d love to wear my Meat is Murder shirt, but there’ll be no time for me to change even if my flight(s) are not delayed.
I will, however, be taking my Heller Kitty shirt, and my Celebrate Diversity shirt. I expect to pick up a couple of new ones while I’m out of town this weekend, too!
When the “Meat is Murder” shirt arrived, my wife asked me, “Do you own any shirts that won’t offend someone?” I replied, “Where’s the fun in that?”
The Big “O”
At first, Rick Husong was stunned by the overwhelming wave of negative and sometimes crude reactions to his bid revealed in Whispers last week to build a pro-Sen. Barack Obama movement around a hand salute dubbed the Big-O. Among the hundreds of comments posted on the Whispers site were those comparing it to a gang gesture, a Nazi salute, or worse. “This is how Sieg Heil got started. And, no I’m not saying Obama is Hitler. I just think people should be careful about slipping into a personality cult for a charismatic leader,” wrote Jake of Tennessee. Husong tells me that he was pretty depressed by the reaction to his idea and free design offered on the website of Loyalty Inc., his California creative company. That is until he heard of a fan walking on Venice Beach wearing a T-shirt displaying the artwork. In fact, despite the tsunami of criticism, the artwork has been downloaded 7,700 times and his site has been hit 214,000 times since the first Whisper went live. “I would call that a raving success,” he says, adding that he plans to make his Big-O the “peace sign of our generation.”
He also E-mailed me last night to say that the hits on the artwork have inspired him to push even harder to build a movement around the hand signal.
Well, we know what it inspired on my part.
But the actual image in question is this one:
Here’s the take of the one outspoken Obama supporter in my office:
I have to say I am a little frightened by this. My first thoughts as I saw this were, “Great, all we need is an elephant to stroke and we are set!” Then I remembered that the GOP is represented by the elephant… talk about the irony.
You don’t say.
As Glenn Reynolds noted, Mr. Husong has forgotten the First Rule of Holes.
UPDATE: Robb weighs in with a “hand salute” suggestion of his own.
Calling all Photochop Experts
OK, we’ve got the Exxon sign, and the campaign posters, but now we’ve got the Obama Salute.
I have to admit to a dirty mind, because when I saw that, my first thought echoed the third comment to that post:
wipe the comments all you want…it’s still goatse.
So, here’s a challenge. Can you take the hands from this image:
and the Obama symbol:
and make a goatse image?
I have not the photochop-fu necessary to do it myself.
UPDATE: Jed goes above and beyond, but for my purposes, Regolith WINS! The left sidebar has been updated.
I LOL’d!
Glenn Reynolds links to a piece stating that “Obama has received more campaign cash than McCain has from the employees of some of the biggest oil companies — Exxon, Chevron and BP.”
That’s not what made me laugh. This graphic is:
OMG that’s classic!
New Hampshire has a high rate of firearms possession, which is why it has a low crime rate. You don’t have to own a gun, and there are plenty of sissy arms-are-for-hugging granola-crunchers who don’t. But they benefit from the fact that their crazy stump-toothed knuckle-dragging neighbors do. If you want to burgle a home in the Granite State, you’d have to be awfully certain it was the one-in-a-hundred we-are-the-world panty-waists’s pad and not some plaid-clad gun nut who’ll blow your head off before you lay a hand on his seventy-dollar TV. A North Country non-gun owner might tire of all the Second Amendment kooks with the gun racks in the pickups and move somewhere where everyone is, at least officially, a non-gun owner just like him: Washington, D.C., say, or London. And suddenly he finds that, in a wholly disarmed society, his house requires burglar alarms and window locks and a security camera. – Mark Steyn, America Alone
Interestingly, a search of “New Hampshire” in Clayton Cramer’s Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog garnered no hits.
The Sad Truth
Tam has the wicked snark again:
The Second Amendment Foundation’s 2008 Gun Rights Policy Conference is running with the motto “Elect Freedom!” this year.
Unfortunately, I’m not sure Freedom got enough signatures to be on the ballot in most states this time ’round.
Ouch!
Ramirez was First!
I really need to read Michael Ramirez’s political cartoons daily. He got the Obama Berlin speech joke out first, like last Tuesday:
NEWSFLASH! Obama’s Berlin Speech Leaked!
A pseudonymous media insider going by the name of Red Pepper has secured a page from the speech presumptive Democrat Presidential nominee Barack Unqualified Obama wants to make before the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. So far only one sentence of the text has been released to the New Media, a line that hearkens back to John F. Kennedy’s emotional and inspiring speech given there in 1963. Some 45 years later, Senator Obama’s voice will echo with power as he delivers these words:
“Ich bin ein beginner!”