Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts

06 December 2008

Iowahawk In The UK

Dave Burge is back writing for Anorak. This time he tackles the topic of Gordon Brown's counter-terror policy--specifically, Brown's penchant for arresting those who "irritate" him.

Enjoy.
COUNTER-TERRORISM POLICE today rounded up hundreds of Britons suspected of membership in organizations described as “irritating” to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The exact number was not released, but police officials said that many more are expected, “depending on the Prime Minister’s mood this morning.”

“Our sole purpose is to keep citizens safe from the threat of international terrorism,” said Thomas Ayckroyd, a spokesman for the Home Office. “While these detainees may all be British citizens, they were clearly engaged in treasonous acts designed to destabilize Her Majesty’s government by embarrassing, irritating, or otherwise inconveniencing the Prime Minister.”

For a more serious take on the very serious erosion of democracy in the UK evidenced by Brown's arrest of Damian Green, Shadow Minister for Immigration, read Roger Kimball.

Shouldn't be irritating our violent immigrants now, should we?


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03 December 2008

Iowahawk: 'Apologetic Mumbai Killers: 'We Didn't Get The Memo About Obama''

As Iowahawk's story of sorrow points out, electing Barack Obama and bringing peace and love and brotherhood to the world doesn't work unless everyone knows Obama won.

(per usual, beware Iowahawk's colorful language)
MUMBAI - Ajmal Amir Kasab, the sole surviving member of the 10-man team of Pakistani gunmen that left hundreds dead or wounded after a bloody three day rampage in Mumbai, today blamed the mayhem on an "email mixup" that left him and his colleagues unaware that Barack Obama had won election as President of the United States.

"What? Oh bloody hell, now you tell me," said Kasab, as he was led away in handcuffs by Indian security forces.

Kasab, 21, apologized to Indian President Pratibha Patil, explaining that no one in his group had known about the recent U.S. election results.

"Boy, talk about having egg on the face," said a visibly embarrassed Kasab. "If we knew Bush was on his way out, obviously we would have called off the crazy random baby-shootings and martyrdom stuff, and signed on with the Peace Corps or Habitat for Humanity. At this point I guess all I can say is 'my bad.'"

Soon the moonbats won't have Bush to blame for the world's problems. Strike that. They'll be blaming him for everything for years to come. Oh, I get it now. Nevermind. That's why Iowahawk's satire is so smart. And funny.


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01 November 2008

Iowahawk: 'I Like The Cut Of Obama's Jib'

Is this just another crypto-erotic endorsement from a former conservative? Or a satirical take on Christopher (read: Benedict) Buckley's conversion to an Obamabot?

It's gotta be the latter, right? Or else I wouldn't post it on my blog.
When my late father T. Coddington Van Voorhees VI founded the iconoclastic conservative journal National Topsider in 1948, he famously declared that "Now is the time for all good conservative helmsmen to hoist the mizzen, pour the cocktails, and steer this damned schooner hard starboard." In the 60 years since he first uttered it after one-too-many Cosmopolitans at one of Pamela Harriman's notorious foreign policy black tie balls, father's pithy bon mot has served as a rallying cry for conservatives from Greenwich to Chevy Chase. Today, I say it's time for we conservatives to once again grab the rigging and set sail with the flotilla of the true conservative in this race: Barack Obama.

Trust me, I haven't taken this tack lightly. No Van Voorhees has supported an avowed socialist since great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandpapa Cragmont Van Voorhees lent Peter Minuet $24 and a sack of wampum to swing a subprime mortgage on Manhattan Island. Old dad himself often recounted how, as a lad, he would command the family chauffeur Carleton to drive the Duesenberg down to the Times Square Trans-Lux so he could hiss Roosevelt. But I've taken a good measure of this Obama fellow, and I must say I like the cut of the man's jib.

I'm a little sorry to see Chris go, he was funny. But oh well.

Onwards and upwards and so much the better without the dead, doubting weight.


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23 October 2008

Finally Someone Sends Up Barack Obama

Late night and SNL love to lampoon McCain & Palin (they loved to hit Hillary too), but rarely do they turn their sights on Barack Obama, Guitar Hero*. Even when they do, it's not with the same intensity or ferocity.

I'm not complaining about McCain's treatment by these outlets, I'm just pointing out that it hasn't been even-handed.

And it's a shame, because Obama provides a veritable treasure-trove of material for comedy writers. It has something to do with how seriously the leftists take themselves and the fact that The One Shall Not Be Ridiculed.

Watch and see what McCain's team was able to accomplish.

Part 1



Part 2



If you want, here's Obama's mostly lame attempt at humor.

*Over-the-top performance, no real skill or experience.

(from Mankiw, h/t Matt L.)


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15 October 2008

ACORN's 'Imaginary' Voters

Can you imagine if some conservative group had registered voters somewhere and a quarter of them turned out to be dead, Disney characters, or the Dallas Cowboys? We would not hear the end of it in the MSM and the rage (more than usual) among the nutroots would rock the very foundations of the internet, such as they are.

Meanwhile in the conservative blogosphere, we have the satirical responses of Iowhawk. Thank the powers that be for Iowahawk or I would not be able to keep my sanity, such as it is.
ST. LOUIS - Attorneys for the voting registration organizations ACORN and Project Vote filed an anti-discrimination voting rights suit in the U.S. Federal District court this morning, alleging the United States government is involved in "a widespread, systematic effort to disenfranchise Imaginary-Americans and deprive them of access to polls."

"Participation in our electoral process is a fundamental right, and the foundation of our democracy," said ASDF ASDFG, a spokesperson for the National Association for the Advancement of Imaginary People, one of the groups named as plaintiffs in the class action. "We will not be silent when government denies people access to the polls on the basis of color, or sex, or existential status."

The new suit was prompted by on a series of law enforcement raids of ACORN offices in 10 states over the past week, as well as a reported Justice Department investigation. Federal and state officials say they were acting on tips of fraudulent voter registration forms, after election officials reported a flood of unusual applications submitted by ACORN canvassers. In Las Vegas the Clarke County election commission reported thousands of registrations signed by the Dallas Cowboys, while in St. Louis officials discovered thousands of others signed by Power Rangers, Menudo, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In Cleveland, Ohio Republican officials complained to the Federal Election Commission after early-voting sites barred observers when thousands of Invisible-Ohioans arrived at the polls aboard hundreds of invisible ACORN buses. In Ida Grove, Iowa, Ida County Registrar Debby Ballard expressed concern when a convoy of Chicago ACORN semis submitted 4,000,000 provisional ballots, 17 seconds before a 5 pm deadline.

This is democracy: making sure everyone gets to vote (several times; in multiple locations; even if they're dead; even if they're felons; even if they're not legal residents; even if they're made up; so long as they are for Obama).

You know, this is the type of ballot-box stuffing that kept Saddam Hussein in power all those years (and keeps Hugo Chavez in power).


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08 October 2008

Brit Humor



Finally, after watching this, I understand the complex movement and machination of the markets.

(from Ace)


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