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This is good, because it shows how reasonable most people consider their government’s existence and demands to be – and because it shows how misled those people are. (I have put this under the Humour category, but I find it rather depressing. Those who can be emotionally detached about these things may laugh, though.)
March 9th, 2012 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
 The current Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government in the UK is, according to this article by Peter Oborne, “the best government for decades”. He may even believe it, in which case he is utterly mad, or he does not, in which case I have no time to read the output of pranksters. Shame. This book, The Rise of the Political Class, by Oborne was good, if perhaps imperfect. Oborne is one of those writers, such as Sir Simon Jenkins, who can be insightful one minute, and write utter bollocks the next. Not that I am like that, of course, ahem. I have tagged this item as “humour”, just in case it was a spoof, or if Oborne has got his calendar wrong and thinks it is 1 April already. March 8th, 2012 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
The ultimate pre-flight procedure, courtesy of Southwest Airlines. January 13th, 2012 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
I like this:
Thankyou to Tim Worstall for spotting this.
Sadly, it’s a joke. But quite a good one, I think. December 28th, 2011 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
December 11th, 2011 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
Disappointingly, it seems that some of these scenes of the happy family life of a Star Wars stormtrooper may have been faked. In the comments to this Daily Mail article, “John, Bristol’ claims that “the small one is a Lego toy.” I shall leave readers to make up their own minds. October 23rd, 2011 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
 And the Lord saith unto Achmed from on high, “Seventy virgin Windows. Windows you idiot, not Women!” Photo: copyright Dale Amon, All Rights Reserved September 19th, 2011 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Bongo expresses joy at his NASA aided escape from Earth and the evil Petans. Photo: copyright Dale Amon, All Rights Reserved Backstory: The dinner speech by NASA Administrator General Bolden at our NSS conference in Chicago in May 2010 was briefly (about 10 seconds) interrupted by some little twit from PETA who was carried bodily to the ballroom door. We did not press charges. Her complaint? NASA was going to put some monkeys through the same things that people will be going through on a trip to Mars. So, I am striking a blow to open the stars for all Primate-kind! Arise Primates of Earth! You have nothing to lose but 1G and your Petan chains! September 19th, 2011 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Apparently Greece has stopped the export of Tzatziki and Taramasalata… They’re worried about a double dip recession… – Bert Trubshaw, seen in the comments over on the Telegraph. September 1st, 2011 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
I got this via Pajamas TV. Well, it’s Friday: “Warning: This segment contains graphic images of Matt Damon discussing tax policy.” And the footage of Damon sharing his profound thoughts on the “upper class” etc is not for people of a nervous disposition. Let’s not forget that magnificent movie and its treatment of Damon, Team America. August 5th, 2011 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
If you only go to IMAO occasionally (like me), or even not at all, then allow me to pass on a recent Frank J-ism (if you will pardon the expression) which made me smile if not laugh out loud, from here:
I think a negative maybe got wrongly doubled sowhere near the beginning of that, but you get the point. My approximate understanding of voters is that they do indeed vote about the immediate future, rather than reward or punish politicians for their past deeds or misdeeds, the most famous case being how British voters booted out Churchill in 1945, despite his triumphant war leadership, but because of his presumed inability to win the peace. He won in 1951 not because of his heroic past, but because of what he was then saying: set the people free. Obama is now tanking in the polls because the US economy is now experienced as bad. If it feels like the US economy is heading in the right direction come election day, Obama could indeed win. I could go on, but prefer to leave commenters who actually live in the USA, like Paul Marks, to take that further, if they care to. I will only say that I vividly recall being told, by a visiting American at the time when President Bill Clinton was riding very low in the polls during his first term, that he had zero chance of winning again. But, he did. Also, I was amazed by this FJ revelation:
I did not know that. So, she probably doesn’t know that much about Obama’s re-election chances either. June 22nd, 2011 | 49 comments - (Comments are closed)
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