Coming To a Craft Store Near You: Barack As Jesus

Our Obama Journey May Obama be Our Shepherd

Yes, be the first on your block to have this professionally framed fine art depiction of Barack Obama as Jesus Christ*, shepherd’s staff in hand and lamb in arms. Accompanying this high quality art piece is a wonderful message of uplift about “The Journey” to Obamahood we all share.

You’ll be proud as your friends and family see this wonderful piece of art adorning your walls and they too will want to believe that YES WE CAN sell them one of their very own.

And if you act now, we will send you an Obama prayer cloth made from underwear that The One himself once wore so generously donated to YOU, his flock. These segments of prayer cloth are soft as a baby’s bottom and you will be comforted by the fact that it once sat close to our savior. You can just feel the power of this prayer cloth emanating like rays of sunshine. Hold it as you pray, rub it on your cheek and know that blessings will be showered upon you by He that satteth in them who is now he that sitteth in the seat of power at long last. Praise HIM and may he be a lamp unto our feet… but one that is eco friendly.

And that’s not all: along with your high quality Obama iconography and prayer cloth, you’ll get a four leaf Obama naturally grown in a herbal garden in California along with a lucky Obama’s foot from creatures that willingly gave their lives for HIM so that YOU can can receive good luck.

Hurry, all this has been designed with YOU in mind but this is an emergency and we must ACT NOW! So ACT NOW before it’s TOO LATE!!! These O-products are sure to help YOU sit in rapt attention during Obama press conferences and YOU also will find serene patience bestowed upon YOU as YOU await HIS next email kindly informing YOU of the daily word HE wishes to enlighten YOU with.

ORDER NOW!

*Any allusions to past or lesser religious figures is purely coincidental. Besides, they never existed anyway, so spare us your extreme “religious” outrage.

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Note: This wall hanging was a real product for sale recently in a California craft store.

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On That Story of Chinese Mistress Driving Lover and 4 Rivals off a Cliff… A Fake Story

-By Warner Todd Huston

Remember that juicy story last week of the Chinese mistress that convinced her rivals and her lover to go for a drive? The mistress that then drove them all off a cliff in revenge for being dumped for one of the rivals by the lover?

Great story. It had pathos, humor, revenge and… apparently it never happened. The U.S. media picked this story up from the Chinese speaking media and ran with it last week but obviously didn’t do much by way of checking the accuracy of the tale. Turns out the Chinese “reporter” that wrote the story pulled a Jayson Blair — he made up the whole thing.

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Ireland’s Worst Driver FINALLY Caught

-By Warner Todd Huston

A Polish immigrant to Ireland has wracked up dozens of parking tickets and driving violations in nearly every county of the country. Police there have been trying to hunt him down for years, but every time they corner him he has left a different home address causing consternation and confusion for Irish police the country over.

Now, Police in Ireland have been looking hard for this Polish nerr-do-well, Mr. Prawo Jazdy, with an intensity that beggers description. And now we have the pleasure to announce that the constabulary of the Emerald Isle at last has found this cunning criminal. Or maybe they didn’t exactly find him as simply discover his true identity.
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Text Of Obama’s Letter to Iran Leaked

-By Warner Todd Huston

I was shocked to see the text of Obama’s letter to Iran leaked. But, I guess even The One has a few insiders that will leak things.

Dear Iran,

Yo, yo, yo waddup, fellas? It’s me, Hussein. You know, the guy that just became president of the USA?

Yeah, that one. So how’s it hangin’? (That wasn’t a gay joke, BTW)

I just wanted to remind you guys that I’m ready to talk to ya’all. That was a promise I made in the campaign and that one was no “takiyah” — and let me just say I love that “takiyah” thing. I use it a lot.

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Biden Leaves The Senate With A WHOPPER On His Lips

-By Warner Todd Huston

The gregarious and gracious Jake Tapper of ABC posted an amusing story of the rambling and rather pointless farewell speech Thursday that Joe “the mouf” Biden left on the Senate floor (you make the joke here). Tapper headlined his piece “Biden Yields the Floor (Literally).” The “literally” was just Tapper’s little jab because apparently Biden used the word nine times during his loquacious 5,659 word address to his Senate colleagues.

From Biden’s speech, Tapper relates one of Joe’s little … shall we say, “stories”? I say “stories” as in those same sort of unbelievable tall tales that your favorite uncle would always blurt out at family gatherings. You know, like the one where that wacky uncle claimed he was there when Tojo surrendered in Japan, or he was they guy that first taught Michael Jackson how to moon-walk, or he was really the guy that invented the Internet? Yeah, that kind of crazy uncle.

ANYhoo (to steal a Tapperism), Joe gave us all the following “story” for posterity:

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Today’s Podcast: Accountants Demand Bailout

-By Warner Todd Huston

I have been doing podcasts for a while, now, and from here on in they will appear here when posted at TalkShoe. I am finally getting around to being a bit more proactive in alerting you all to the podcasts.

This one is a reading of my satire posted several days ago, Accountants Seek Bailout.

Feel free to visit the Publius Forum TalkShoe page to see my past podcasts. New podcasts appear monthly, or whenever the mood strikes me to do one.

Accountants Seek Bailout

-By Warner Todd Huston

Washington- In this current economic climate, bailouts for industries in the private sector are quickly becoming the chief form of reform and stability. From newspapers to the financial sector to the auto industry, Congress is infusing life saving money into the bloodstream of the country’s economy.

But one sector is finding itself over burdened at an alarming rate. Critics say that much more strain will find the CPA’s and accountants of America buckle and something needs to be done before it’s too late.

Milton Nebish, president of the B.A.N.A.L., the recently combined accountants unions the Bureau of Accountancy and the National Accountants League, is urging Congress to pass SB069, the so called Accountant’s Relief bill, when Congress gets back in session this year.

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ABC News Shocker: The ‘All Time Dumb Quotes’ Are All From Republicans

-By Warner Todd Huston

Looks like ABC News is starting out 2009 with a partisan bang. On its main page, ABC News is hosting a slide show featuring what it is calling the “All Time Dumb Quotes.” Now, these are not all strictly political dumb quotes, to be sure. They also have the empty headed Christina Aguilera, that sharp as a tack Jessica Simpson and other denizens of the Hollywood Mensa club among the 16 featured quotes — and some of them are doozies, too. But, there are six political quotes five by Republicans and one by Tina Fey making fun of a Republican (Palin, naturally), yet there are no “All Time Dumb Quotes” from any Democrats. Not a one. Apparently ABC doesn’t think there’s ever been a dumb Democrat?

Even more absurdly, all these “dumb quotes” are from the last year or so. Apparently, ABC also is not aware of anything “dumb” that was ever said before contemporary history. Yet, even as all these supposedly “All Time Dumb Quotes” are recent, they have one quote…. just one… from farther back in time than just recently. And guess who it’s from? Amazingly, the ONLY “All Time Dumb Quote” ABC can find from before the year 2008 is a 1988 quote by… drum roll please… Dan Quayle!

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Lefty-dupe Calls Palin Goof

-By Warner Todd Huston

In the Chicago Sun-Times’ Top Year-ends from its bottom rear-end today, columnist Richard Roeper picked Governor Sarah Palin as his top GOOF for 2008… yet got owned himself by awarding her his dubious distinction based on at least one lie and a few dubious assumptions.

Roeper, a man that clearly imagines himself the living embodiment of the lead character on Seinfeld, lapsed into the most supreme case of hyperbolic overload in his description of why he thinks Sarah Palin is a GOOF (a self-fashioned acronym standing for Greatly Overhyped and Overexposed Fool).

Of course Roeper starts with the canard of Palin supposedly not knowing what the “Bush Doctrine” is. The problem with this claim is that there really IS no such concrete thing as the “Bush doctrine.” As Charles Krauthammer so cogently revealed, Bush has had several different versions of it himself, so no one really knows what the “Bush doctrine” is. It has changed so much that there really is no way to say there is a single such doctrine.

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Tough Guy John ‘François’ Kerry Wants ‘Hot Pursuit’ of Pirates

-By Warner Todd Huston

It’s like handing a sheriff’s badge to Don Knotts. Like entering Gary Coleman in a Mr. Universe contest. Like expecting Michael Moore not to lie. In today’s laugher, the Associated Press is presenting John ‘François’ Kerry as a tough guy out to bring the law to the new Barbary pirates.

Seriously. Stop laughing.

The AP sternly informs us that, “As a young Navy swift boat commander in Vietnam, Senator John F. Kerry was no stranger to the perils of hot pursuit in combat.”

I am SURE them thar pi-rates is a shakin’ in their boots. The tough guy is after ’em!

But, just like John ‘François’ Kerry always does, there is “nuance” in his seeming braggadocio. (my bold)

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The 99 Most Memorable, Interesting and Outrageous Political Quotes of 2008

-By David Huntwork

The year 2008 was politically the most exciting and unusual in a generation. It hosted a long, divisive and drama filled campaign season that featured the rapid rise and fall of Rudy Guiliani, Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee, the unlikely rise of John McCain and Barack Obama, and the eventual bitter defeat of Hillary Clinton. It brought us an unusually long and brutal primary with emotional charges of racism and sexism, the rise of the Superdelegate, and the explosion of Sarah Palin upon the national stage. All of this was followed by a rough and tumble presidential campaign whose outcome may have never been truly in doubt but was still a never ending soap opera of charges, counter charges, personal attacks, character assassinations, rumors, smears and the occasional, unexpected surprise.

2008 also also brought us a huge spike in gas prices, more political scandals, a mortgage and credit industry in a state of panic and a sitting president who was almost completely politically powerless in the face of such challenges. Rarely does such an alignment of events occur in a single year and the resulting deluge of memorable political quotes is a goldmine for the blogger, columnist, political junkie, and all those who follow current events. Without further ado I present to you my selection of the 99 most memorable, interesting, and outrageous political quotes of 2008.
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Merry Christmas humor…

A little humor before the day begins…

1. For Our Liberal, Citizens of the World Friends:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes For an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low- stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.

We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2009, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great or, on the other hand, that hate America and all it stands for. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms.

This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher.

This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.

If you find offense in any of the greeting you have found herein, please do realize that it is because we are ignorant, racist and hateful, even though we don’t want to be. We are by birth because we are white. We cannot help it. So, if this greeting upset you, please feel free to know that everything America stands for is evil and we disavow it all. You are right. We are horrible. Worst ever. Worst in history.

Please, please, please don’t be offended. I’d rather die than offend you.

2. For Our American Conservative Friends:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Christmas Letter from Ebenezer

-By Vince Johnson

I had to pay thirty-nine cents “Postage Due” in order to get it. Here it is, word for word:

Dear Vince:

If you tell the world the whole truth about me, you will have a scoop like the New York Times and the Washington Post dream about. My name is Ebenezer Scrooge and most people think I’m a fictional character in a Christmas story dreamed up by Charles Dickens back in 1843. According to the story, I was a miserly, penny pinching grump. That part is true. It is also true that I was mean and stingy with my employee, Bob Cratchit, who had a crippled son named Tiny Tim.

For some strange reason, Mr. Dickens decided that I changed from my natural mean spirited ways into a kindly and benevolent soul. This transformation supposedly happened when the ghost of Jacob Marley appeared in one of my dreams. Jacob was my partner who died in 1836. He was just as miserly as me and according to the story he came back to warn me to change my ways or suffer greatly in the afterlife.
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I was Going to Say the Snow Kept me from the Blog, But…

-by Warner Todd Huston

Up to 6 inches of snow and ice in Chicago, today. My son is off school because of the junk. So, I thought I’d call in “sick” to the blog today. But then I realized that my Internet connection is right in my den, so travel conditions from the bedroom happen to be less treacherous than I had thought. So, I guess the blogging continues… (do I hear moaning out there!? Now STOP that!)

Sympathy Vote: Supporting a Terminally Stupid Man for Toledo’s Mayor

-By Warner Todd Huston

Toledo’s mayor isn’t officially mentally challenged, of course. But he is a silly, bitter, idiot of a man… not to insult the word “man.” Back on December 8, good ol’ Carty “the Fink” Finkbeiner announced a grave concern that he had about the outrage by Toledo radio station WSPD. The station, caught red handed trying to inform the city of the work of a group that had formed to get the Finkster recalled, was violating the Federal Communication Commission’s rules by their focus on the flay-the-fink movement, the Mayor sonorously intoned.

Of course, Fiklegroaner has been after WSPD for a while now indulging in a years-long feud. This time WSPD, 1370 on your Toledo AM dial, came in for the Fink’s scolding for its supposed “vicious, one-sided diatribes” unleashed over the last three years. Now, as an aside, it is interesting that Carty would claim to know much about a “one-sided” anything seeing as how he has run as a candidate for just about every party in Toledo. Finkboner can’t be counted on much to see any “one side” of anything, unless it his his side. He’s at one time been a Republican, an Independent and a Democrat and rumor has it he’s next going to take a stab at asking the Klingon Party if he might take their nomination next time he runs for office.

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