tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89931089519316337582024-03-12T22:22:04.372-05:00Hope n' Change CartoonsConservative webcomic that's anti-Obama and pro-funny! Fresh, original cartoons created by Stilton Jarlsberg, along with conservative commentary, links, and reader comments section.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1807125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-52063168434356529582017-03-18T11:47:00.000-05:002017-03-18T20:05:13.221-05:00History in the Unmaking!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Miss <i>Hope n' Change?</i> Then head over to the all-new <a href="http://www.stiltonsplace.com/" target="_blank">Stilton's Place!</a> Fresh cartoons and commentary every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from the <i>Hope n' Change</i> crew!<br />
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Wow- here we are. After 8 years of ups, downs, and the intense insanity of the Obama administration, we've finally reached the last day of <i>Hope n' Change Cartoons</i> (at least for the foreseeable future).<br />
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I'd <i>like</i> to say things that are grandiose and moving, but who the heck needs that kind of pressure? If Lincoln had known beforehand that generations of kids were going to have to memorize every jot and tittle of the Gettysburg Address, he probably would have gotten writer's block and a migraine.<br />
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Moreover, if you're reading this, odds are good that you've <i>already</i> heard my opinions on pretty much everything. You know where my heart is and why I reflexively twitch when I hear the word "Obamacare." You know that I love this country, love those who have fought and died for our freedoms, and hope passionately that our nation has a bright future ahead.<br />
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Of course, that's only going to happen if we <i>all</i> continue to work towards that goal. And I really mean "all" - people of different political beliefs, races, economic strata, and whatever passes for gender these days.<br />
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I'm worried about that, because Obama's primary legacy (well, other than the wild pendulum-swing Presidency of Donald Trump) is one of hatred and anger, with American pitted against American. We see it every day now with the Left literally going out of its mind, declaring folks like us to be hatemongers, Trump to be the new Hitler, and the (formerly) United States of America to be a vicious fascist state.<br />
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Most of these people aren't evil - they're decent folks who are frightened and who have been lied to, and demonizing them would only be playing into Obama's game. Unfortunately, these people will not be swayed by words or logic (let alone delightfully witty webcomics) but will eventually have to have their opinions changed by actual successes from the Trump administration. Successes so large and tangible that there can be no denying them. Which is the same standard we should <i>all</i> use to judge <i>every</i> Presidency.<br />
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But even <i>that</i> may not be enough to convince those few who take an ugly pride in cultivating closed minds, cutting off communications to those with whom they disagree, or who simply <i>lack the critical ability to process information anymore.</i> Today I saw a story saying that Facebook (where many people get their "news," God help us) has instituted new algorithms to make sure that<i> no more "fake news" ever appears on their list of breaking stories.</i><br />
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So what was at the top of their list of <i>non</i>-fake news today? This little gem...<br />
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The "person to blame" is Donald Trump (surprise!). But who the hell are these "scientists" and by what power of scientific precognition are they able to foretell "apocalypse" or reset the hands of the preposterously-named and entirely bogus "Doomsday Clock?!" Fake news doesn't get any faker than this - and it can come from the Left <i>or</i> the Right. We need to cultivate skepticism while trying not to lapse into cynicism. <br />
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Looking back at 8 years of <i>Hope n' Change</i>, I'm proud of the fact that the cartoons and commentaries hold up as accurate and truthful. I'm proud of the fact that my vigorous opposition to Obama and the progressive agenda was never based on blind hatred, but on disagreement with <i>actual policies and pronouncements.</i> I genuinely gave this president a chance...but it didn't take him long to show himself wholly unworthy of his high office.<br />
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<b>Some business items:</b><br />
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<b>• The <i>Hope n' Change</i> website isn't going anywhere. </b>It will be maintained so that you can visit anytime, sort of like going to DisneyWorld without needing to wait in lines!<br />
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• In the next week or two, I'll post a new welcoming page in which your hostess with the mostess, Busty Ross, will greet visitors and direct them to the easy to use "search" function that will let you time travel through thousands of <i>HnC</i> cartoons and posts about news stories as they developed over the years. If you've never played with this, you're missing a treat!<br />
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• In the near future, I'll probably make ebook collections of <i>Hope n' Change</i> available (perhaps each ebook representing a year). I've already found a service that can help me convert the content, and whatever I end up with will be offered as inexpensively as possible (maybe even free - I'm not really a red hot businessman).<br />
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<b>• <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HopeNChangeCartoons" target="_blank">The Hope n' Change Facebook page</a> will remain active</b>, and I'll probably post some new cartoons over there from time to time - albeit based on spontaneous impulse rather than an actual schedule.<br />
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• I can't emphasize enough that you should <b>put your contact information on my email list</b> (look at the top left column on this page). I'll never spam you, but I surely <i>will</i> have foolishness to contact you about from time to time as I discover new avenues of mischief-making.<br />
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• <a href="http://www.johnnyoptimism.com/" target="_blank">Johnny Optimism</a>, my other webcomic, will continue publishing every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Heck, I'll even lift the ban on political comments over there in case any of you want to post "Funny leprosy gag, Stilt. By the way, did you catch the total dick move by Schumer today?!" <br />
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• <b>I'm going to genuinely miss every one of you. </b>And I'm not going to expound on that right now because Clan MacGregor is genuinely foul scotch at the <i>best</i> of times, and its taste will not be improved by tears and snot. Probably.<br />
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• <b>I'll be back</b>. I don't yet know how, when, or in what form - but I have no more ability to restrain my creative impulses than a Tourette's patient has to stop shouting obscenities. In fact, my creative impulses may actually <i>be</i> a form of Tourette's. In which case, I'm hoping to get it named after me.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>AND ONE LAST THING...</b></u></span><br />
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Some of you have voiced concern that Lefty Lucy may fall on hard times considering that she'll be losing her internship here at the <i>Hope n' Change</i> office tower and has no demonstrable job skills. Happily, something has already opened up for her...<br />
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SOooo, that's it for now - though I'll meet you all for drinks and party hats in the comments section. It's genuinely been an honor and a privilege to be your host (not that I'm calling you parasites!) for the past 8 years. I made the jokes, but <i>you</i> made the community. And for that I will always be grateful. <i>-Stilton Jarlsberg</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Truth in advertising: my hair turned white during Obama's first year in office.</i></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com145tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-48348788081751050512017-01-25T00:01:00.000-06:002018-10-11T10:08:40.511-05:00Hope n' Change: A Dimly Remembered History<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Harp glissandos are more magical when you don't see who's playing them.</i></td></tr>
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As <i>Hope n' Change</i> wraps up 8 years of publication, it seems like a good time to take a nostalgic stroll down memory lane - the better to answer the question that is on so many lips: <i>"What the hell were you thinking?!"</i><br />
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As preamble, I'll say that for my entire adult life I've earned my living by writing comedy in various forms - for radio, television, print, and even film. Long before Obama was on the horizon, one of my favorite gigs was writing topical comedy punchlines every evening which would then be faxed to radio DJ's nationwide to use on their morning shows to prove they were spontaneous and witty.<br />
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Around the same time, to keep my writing skills in practice I started taking odd pieces of old black & white clipart and adding multiple goofy captions. I called those cartoons (never published anywhere) "Earwigs" as a tribute to the nightmarish insects which are alleged to crawl into people's ears, burrow into their brains, and cause madness. Because that's the sort of thing I find funny.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This is an Earwig cartoon. It may or may not be laying eggs in your brain.</i></td></tr>
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I liked playing with the clipart because, while I loved to doodle, I wasn't really a terrific cartoonist...<br />
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One of my favorite comic strips at the time (2008) was the wonderfully dark and demented <a href="http://www.redmeat.com/" target="_blank">"Red Meat" by Max Cannon</a>. His highly stylized, retro-look characters would change very little (if at all) from frame to frame, and the comedy all came from the writing.<br />
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To my delight, I discovered that the Red Meat website allowed users to try making their own comic strips by selecting the characters and giving them dialogue. Here are a few of my early efforts (none of which are any sicker than the <i>actual</i> comic strip):<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Yes, I could genuinely enjoy writing this kind of thing all day.</i></td></tr>
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That's when I had an epiphany (or maybe it was scotch): I could assemble my <i>own</i> cast of distinctive characters from properly licensed clipart and do a comic strip! With a little investigation, I discovered the program "<a href="http://plasq.com/apps/comiclife/macwin/" target="_blank">ComicLife</a>" which made it easy to drag and drop from a library of images and add word balloons.<br />
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But what should be my subject? On something of a lark (little knowing how much time I'd eventually devote to giving others the bird), I decided on "Hope n' Change" - inspired by the still fresh and singularly idiotic presidential victory of Barack Hussein Obama.<br />
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Seriously, the man won based on preposterously meaningless slogans like "Yes We Can," "Hope and Change," and "We are the ones we've been waiting for." He had no successful track record of legislation or management, and for those who bothered to read his autobiographies (which didn't include the news media), he had an exalted view of himself and a dim view of America.<br />
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With a complete lack of understanding how blogging works, I published the first cartoons under the <i>Hope n' Change</i> banner in January, 2009. Not every cartoon that week was political - although <i>this</i> one was...<br />
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My choice of retro artwork was more than just a nod to "Red Meat." It was intended to echo the unsubtle "black and white" campaign promises which Obama had made and the American people had fallen for. Additionally, I liked the contrast between the nostalgic "classic Americana" look and the radical social upheaval being pushed by the Democrats.<br />
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By February 2009, I'd (barely) figured out what I was doing and began a daily publication schedule. That's right, 7 times a week...<br />
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Actually, that daily schedule was pretty easy to maintain because I was publishing <i>just</i> the cartoon with maybe an occasional sentence or two to go with it. No editorials. No comments to read or respond to. And, uh, no readership.<br />
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The first real surge in online views came after the conservative blog site <a href="http://www.sondrakistan.com/" target="_blank">Sondrakistan</a> (called "SondraK" at the time) gave us a good review and suggested that their readers pay us a visit. From there, readership grew slowly but steadily thanks to word of mouth and a growing public awareness that, with Barack Obama in charge, we were in real trouble...<br />
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Over the course of a year I started adding more editorial content to go with the cartoons; I wanted to get the laugh, but also had more that I wanted to say. Moreover, Mrs. Jarlsberg (who is wise in all things) encouraged more editorializing because it made the strip more engaging for people - as did the addition of an open comments section.<br />
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Due to the extra work (cartoons are easy, wordification is hard), publication of <i>Hope n' Change</i> was cut to 5 days a week, then (in 2012 or so) 3 days a week.<br />
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The goal, however, always remained the same: to give conservatives a laugh and some hope that we could eventually get Barack Obama out of office and wrest control of Congress out of the filthy, spider-like hands of the Democrats. And by this time, the fight was getting serious...<br />
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Around this time, I started adding color to a number of the strips. It was a break from the classic look - but one I hoped would make the cartoons more appealing to a broader readership...<br />
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I had never intended to make an unpaid career out of <i>Hope n' Change</i>, but the cause seemed more important than ever. Not that I ever had any illusions about how much impact I was making with the blog's modest (but highly intelligent and <i>stunningly</i> attractive) number of readers. </div>
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Of course, there was always the hope that the site would magically go viral (Rush Limbaugh, would it have <i>killed</i> you to give me a shout out?) - but in times of need, real Americans pitch in and do what they can, big jobs or small. And if my job was to be the Rosie the Riveter of online conservative comic strips, I was happy to serve until the scourge of Barry's administration was finally over...</div>
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And the rest, as they say, is history - or at least, soon <i>will</i> be history as we prepare the transition from an active blog to a lovingly preserved archival site in which Obama and his dishonorable band of scoundrels will <i>always</i> be roasting on our eternal flame.</div>
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<b>On Friday, I'll be back with some closing remarks and personal thoughts on this long, crazy experience we've shared. See you then! <i>- Stilton</i></b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com61tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-6225709952019691802017-01-23T00:01:00.000-06:002017-01-23T00:01:01.681-06:00The Queef Heard Round The World<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>50 Shades of Who Gives a Damn.</i></td></tr>
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On the first full day of Donald Trump's administration, millions of women gathered in cities around the world to deliver the message, powerfully and unequivocally, that we <i>dodged a real bullet</i> by not electing a vagina-owner as President.<br />
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Oh sure, that wasn't the message they <i>meant</i> to send - but what the hell else is anyone (male or female) with more than a spoonful of brains supposed to think? The angry protesters donned "pussy hats" and vagina costumes to prove they're <i>not</i> just sex objects and should be taken seriously. Which, frankly, we find hard to do when a glowering woman has turned her face into a clitoris.<br />
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Purportedly, the massive marches were about women finally and firmly <i>demanding their rights</i>, including non-discrimination, protection from sexual assault, equal pay for equal work, access to abortion on demand, the right to vote, the right to go to school, the right to sit in the front of the bus, and the right to be served at Woolworth's lunch counters.<br />
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Of course, all of these things are <i>already mandated by law</i>, but attempts to inform the protesters of this were decried as blatantly sexist "man-splaining." And the real point isn't that women lack rights, but they <i>feel</i> like they lack rights...and feelings always outweigh facts among those high on estrogen.<br />
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Celebrity speakers were in abundance at the Washington march, with alleged-actress Ashley Judd proclaiming herself to be a "nasty girl" and babbling about Donald Trump's wet dreams (honest), and Madonna following up on her previous promise to <a href="http://www.maxim.com/women/madonna-makes-sexy-offer-clinton-2016-10" target="_blank">blow any man who voted for Hillary</a> with a new admission that she wants to <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/madonna-at-womens-march-i-have-thought-an-awful-lot-about-blowing-up-the-white-house-200716914.html" target="_blank">blow up the White House</a>. A sentiment which drew a standing ovulation from the enthusiastic crowd.<br />
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<b>Disclaimer time: <i>Hope n' Change</i> supports equal rights for women without reservation.</b> No woman should suffer from discrimination or actual sexual harassment. If a man "grabs her by the pussy" he should face criminal charges. If he <i>talks</i> about grabbing women by the pussy, even "just among the boys," he should be considered an asshole and pariah.<br />
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These are serious matters which, unfortunately, have now been trivialized by activists who failed to elect their chosen candidate and are now having a huge public hissy fit <i>simply because they can</i> in a country which already affords them the freedom and rights to do so.<br />
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To those women who filled the streets, <i>Hope n' Change</i> acknowledges that <i>you have been heard</i>.<br />
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But maybe next time, consider having something to say.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>BONUS: SECRET CERVIX PROJECTION</b></u></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-39713880202264346112017-01-20T00:01:00.000-06:002017-01-20T00:01:07.098-06:00A Barry Special Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Hope n' Change</i> can't blame our coffee drinking friends for indulging in a bit of nostalgia on this very special day - something we'll be doing more of here next week as we tie up loose ends.<br />
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But <i>today</i> is about celebration. Celebrating the inauguration of a new President, who brings promise of a more hopeful (albeit no less colorful) future. Celebrating what is almost certainly <i>the worst day of Hillary Clinton's life</i>...which we hope will translate into many godawful days for Bill Clinton during his remaining STD-ridden years.<br />
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But mostly we're celebrating the fact that Barack Hussein Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) is <i>no longer president, agitator-in-chief, and most prolific and profligate vacation-taker in the world.</i> He has been an almost unendurable blight and curse on our nation, and will no doubt <i>continue</i> to be - albeit (finally!) as a private citizen.<br />
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We'll have a lot more to say next Monday after we've had a chance to reflect on this incredible and long-awaited day. But for now, we'd like to express our sentiments in a way that words simply can't handle. Which is why <i>Hope n' Change</i> is proud to present...<br />
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Best wishes, hugs, and hearty handshakes to all <i>Hope n' Change</i> readers on this glorious occasion - and please join us in drinking a toast to a new day of <i>real</i> hope for change!<br />
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The cartoon above, created decades ago by Stilton's father, seems particularly apt at this volatile moment in time. On Friday, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as President of the United States with an historically low approval rating and rabid, foam-dribbling opposition from those on the Left.<br />
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Congressman John Lewis, among 40 or so other elected Democratic plantation owners, will be skipping the inauguration to protest John Podesta's inability to understand that "password" is not a secure password. Entertainers are running for cover rather than have their names (and careers, if any) forever associated with the Inaugural festivities. New York mayor Bill de Blasio will even spend Inauguration Day <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-de-blasio-trump-hotel-protest_us_587d3455e4b086022ca94365" target="_blank"><i>taking part in a protest</i> staged at Trump's NY City International Hotel</a>, linking arms with liberal chowderheads like Alec Baldwin and Michael <i>"Are you going to finish that pie?"</i> Moore.<br />
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And this is <i>all before Trump's first day in office.</i><br />
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In the past, Inauguration Day was a celebration of the American Way as much as the simple transfer of power to a new President. A time for people of all political persuasions to come together, however briefly, to give the new guy a chance. A honeymoon period which the Right has <i>always</i> granted the Left, even when unqualified radical community organizers with vaguely terrorist-sounding names are sworn into office solely on the basis of being "clean" and having <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/31/the-obligatory-david-brooks-really-impressed-with-obamas-pants-post/" target="_blank">perfectly creased pants</a>.<br />
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But not this time. It seems there are indelible battle lines drawn already and the <i>zeitgeist</i> is about to hit the fan with a loud and foul-smelling <i>splat</i>.<br />
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On Friday, <i>Hope n' Change</i> predicts we'll see the official kick-off of a four year (at least) culture war unlike anything which has come before. A clash not predicated on policies or even reality, but rather on ideology and blind emotion. The coasts versus flyover country, and the over-educated versus the overlooked. We would metaphorically suggest that it will be like previous manifestations of the Left on meth, only we're not at all sure that they weren't <i>already</i> on meth.<br />
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Editorially speaking, this would be the perfect spot for us to insert solemn words intended to heal our national rifts and call for unity, tolerance, and mutual understanding. But, and we can't emphasize this point strongly enough, <i>screw that</i>.<br />
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Whether they like it or not, it is these same strident Leftists who bear the responsibility for Donald Trump's election. For that reason alone, they should try to<i> just shut the hell up for a little while</i> and reflect on the fact that the "monster" to which they so stridently object is of their own creation.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>BREAKING NEWS: CUTTING SENTENCES</b></u></span><br />
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We'll admit we're a little confused. Obama has recently been telling us that our entire system of democracy has been undermined<i> </i>by the <i>theft of secrets which ended up on Wikileaks</i>. Which is why it's so puzzling that Barry has just commuted the 35-year espionage sentence of Private Bradley Manning (now "<i>Chelsea</i> Manning" through the politically popular miracle of gender reassignment) for the <i>theft of secrets which ended up on Wikileaks</i>.<br />
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Rather than struggle to ascertain the president's baffling reasoning in making this anti-security decision, <i>Hope n' Change</i> is instead going with Occam's Razor: we think he did it because he's an asshole.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-42112902924253433602017-01-16T00:01:00.000-06:002017-01-16T00:01:10.078-06:00Big Floppy Shoes to Fill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When we read that the nation's oldest and best known circus was going out of business, we simply assumed that it was another one of Donald Trump's metaphors for draining the Washington swamp.<br />
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But no, it's actually the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/left-run-final-days-circus-44789804" target="_blank">Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus</a> which is literally packing their tents after nearly a century and a half. Audiences have changed, with smartphone-tapping ADD kids preferring virtual entertainment to live performers.<br />
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Of course, there's still plenty of circus-style wackiness to enjoy in the run-up to Inauguration Day. Protesters are making plans to shut down Washington DC, performing artists are receiving death threats from the "tolerant Left" if they agree to appear for President-elect Trump, and press conferences are now best conducted by someone wielding a whip and chair. All we need is some calliope music and the smell of manure.<br />
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But come to think of it, we <i>already</i> have one of those things in abundance.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>BONUS: DREAM RESUMED</b></u></span><br />
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Martin Luther King Jr had a dream...which turned into an 8 year <i>nightmare</i> under Barack Obama. Virtually every socioeconomic metric for black Americans got worse under this president, while race relations plunged to new lows owing to the unending race-baiting and divisiveness of those on the Left.<br />
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<i>Hope n' Change</i> likes what Donald Trump has had to say about finally breaking the Democrat's merciless death grip on inner cities and improving opportunities for black citizens. We'll be watching closely to see if, unlike the loathsome man he is following into office, Trump's promises actually prove to be more than words.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>BONUS TWO: INAUGURAL BALL GAME</b></u></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>We were tempted to call this the John Wilkes Dunking Booth, but it would be wrong - that's for sure.</i></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-89140289672552858652017-01-13T00:01:00.000-06:002017-01-13T00:01:14.425-06:00Shaken Reporters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Okay, Trump isn't <i>really</i> going to be pee-boarding anyone (darn it), but just because a story isn't true is no reason not to report it. At least, in 2017 that seems to be the prevailing journalistic philosophy after a number of news outlets, with varying degrees of enthusiasm and hyperbole, published reports that the Russians were ready to blackmail Donald Trump with secret videos of the billionaire in a Moscow hotel room, paying prostitutes to perform a "golden showers" scenario (peeing) on a bed once used by Barack and Michelle Obama.<br />
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The only problem is that there's<i> no evidence whatsoever that this ever happened</i>. None. It's complete and utter claptrap, and less believable than the rumor that the Russians have video of the night the <i>Obamas</i> used that hotel room and someone ended up getting a "dirty Sanchez." (If you don't know the term, for the love of all that's holy <i>don't look it up</i>. Let's just say it's a sexual act invented by liberals who really, <i>really</i> deserve to be turned into pillars of salt.)<br />
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At a press conference on Wednesday, Trump quickly dismissed the preposterous tale - and subsequently refused to take questions from a CNN reporter because that organization was one of the purveyors of this "fake news." Score one for The Donald!<br />
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The so-called "Trump Blackmail" dossier has apparently been kicking around for months, with many people in government and media aware of its existence, but unable to do anything with it since <i>none of the accusations held up to scrutiny</i>. Which is frequently the case when a story is complete and utter bullcrap.<br />
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Still, the fictitious scandal developed a life of its own behind closed doors. If we're getting the story right (which seems quaint, doesn't it?), the dossier found its way into the hands of John McCain who was <i>so stunned by the scatological accusations</i> that he spat out the acorns he'd been storing in his cheeks for winter.<br />
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McCain then gave the report to FBI Director (and unindicted Hillary co-conspirator) James Comey, who - instead of burning the report and suggesting that McCain check into a 12-step program - apparently slipped the information to perennial lunatic Harry Reid, who <i>demanded</i> the allegations be made public to derail Trump's run to the White House. This is, of course, the <i>same</i> Harry Reid who gleefully boasts about lying his ass off regarding Mitt Romney's taxes as an act of political sabotage.<br />
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(And on a side note, Harry, a<i>bsolutely no one</i> believes your story of getting your face battered and bruised by an exercise rubber band gone rogue. Rather, we strongly suspect that person or persons unknown<i> beat the living tar out of you</i>, then disappeared into the shadows before we could offer to buy them several rounds of drinks.)<br />
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Passed around as indiscriminately as Bill Clinton's DNA, the report eventually found it's way to the NBC-affiliated "news" website <i>Buzzfeed</i> (so named because <i>Buttfeed</i> was apparently already taken) which printed every scurrilous word online - kicking off a massive "me too" campaign of other alleged news organization linking to the story without even pretending to fact-check.<br />
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As alleged actress Meryl Streep said only days ago, "<a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-golden-globes-2017-live-watch-all-of-meryl-streep-s-1483932724-htmlstory.html" target="_blank">Disrespect invites disrespect</a>" and "when the powerful use their positions to bully, we all lose. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage."<br />
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So far, the real outrages seem to be <i>generated</i> by a press which has deserted anything remotely like principle.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-902792182952804602017-01-11T00:01:00.000-06:002017-01-11T00:01:08.906-06:00The Thing That Wouldn't Leave<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The party's over. America has yawned theatrically, made a show of looking at our watch, gathered up the empty glasses and snack bowls, put them into the sink to soak, and started talking <i>very pointedly</i> about how early we have to get up tomorrow to put in a full day's work. Hint, hint.<br />
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But Barack Obama, who has been partying in our house for 8 years, isn't picking up on our subtle message that he should just <i>get the hell out already</i>. Which is why he went to Chicago yesterday to deliver <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/01/10/what-time-is-obama-farewell-speech/96372452/" target="_blank">his long-awaited farewell address</a>. And we're talking <i>very</i> long-awaited; personally, we've been awaiting for this skeevy socialist race-baiter to say farewell <i>ever since his inauguration.</i><br />
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Not that we <i>watched</i> his actual speech, of course. Everything about him - his haughtily uplifted chin, sneering arrogance, monomaniacal self-absorption, and lecturing tone of voice - sickens us and raises our blood pressure to dangerous levels. And we're not about to risk an aneurysm with only days to go.<br />
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But according to pre-speech comments from Valerie <i>"I heart Iran"</i> Jarrett, "It's not a victory lap speech. His intention is to motivate people to want to get involved and <i>fight for their democracy</i>."<br />
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Coming from someone else, we'd take that as metaphor - but we're pretty sure that Valerie and Barry mean <i>real</i> fighting of the type they've encouraged in the past, with rioting, looting, molotov cocktails, and shrieking lunatics attacking police vehicles.<br />
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According to Josh Earnest (which is a phrase that <i>Hope n' Change</i> is really looking forward to never writing again), the crux of Barry's speech will be on "what the president believes is necessary for us to <i>confront the challenges that lie ahead</i>." <br />
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Great. So Obama's advice is going to be "fighting" and "confrontation" to hamper the efforts of the newly-elected President as he tries to restore prosperity and genuine hope to America in the aftermath of a two-term disaster.<br />
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But what else would we expect from a man whose every action has been intended to leave the country in worse shape than he found it? A goal which, sadly, is likely to stand as his one actual accomplishment.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>BONUS: STREEP TEASE</b></u></span><br />
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Speaking of "Oh, STFU"...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Now we know what Al Jolson would have looked like in color.</i></td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-80079510733748275182017-01-09T00:01:00.000-06:002017-01-09T07:43:42.014-06:00Intelligence Testy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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There are two related stories to discuss today, both on the subject of Intelligence. A word which, needless to say when referring to Washington, refers to "spying" instead of anything remotely like "smartness" or "proper brain function."<br />
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Specifically, President-elect Donald Trump has made it clear that he doesn't consider US intelligence agencies to be 100% reliable, especially when it comes to their consensus accusation that Vladimir Putin interfered with our election by disguising himself with a pair of Groucho glasses, then driving a schoolbus filled with Cossacks to various polling places in key electoral states.<br />
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But before <i>Hope n' Change</i> dives into the details of the "Russian hacking" story, let's look at Barack Obama's recent claim of advising Trump - strictly as a professional courtesy - that as President he should <i>always trust the US intelligence community</i>.<br />
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"There are going to be times," the miserable stain on the Oval Office said, "where the only way you can make a good
decision is <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/01/08/obama-says-he-advised-trump-trust-us-intelligence-community/96313244/" target="_blank">if you have confidence that the process is working</a>, and the people that you put in charge are giving you their very
best assessments."<br />
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<i>Really</i>, Barry? Is that how you've conducted <i>your</i> presidency? Not according to the <i>Hope n' Change</i> vault...<br />
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Let's review a few fun facts. As president, B. Hussein <i>skipped the majority of his intelligence briefings</i> including the one immediately following the debacle in Benghazi. Barry also had nothing but foreign policy failures, and repeatedly placed the blame on his intelligence agencies.<br />
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So why should Trump - or the rest of us - invest our trust in the intelligence agencies who failed to see the rise of Isis? Who missed nuclear weapons development by Iran during our negotiations? Who were unable to connect the dots preceding Putin's many successful aggressions - as well as those of China and North Korea.<br />
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These are the intelligence agencies whose keen insights helped bring about nightmare scenarios in Syria, Libya, and pretty much every <i>other</i> country which has mosques. Intelligence agencies which failed to flag September 11th as a potentially <i>meaningful</i> day for terrorists to attack in Benghazi.<br />
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Intelligence agencies which, at least according to the administration, found it "no big deal" that Hillary (as freaking <i>Secretary of State</i>) put all of our national secrets on an unguarded personal server just so she could dodge future Freedom of Information Act demands to see documents rightfully belonging to the American people.<br />
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All of which brings us back to the "Election hacking" story. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/06/us/politics/document-russia-hacking-report-intelligence-agencies.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0" target="_blank">The intelligence agencies have now offered up their (ahem) <i>official</i> report</a> on this alleged election-changing, super-sophisticated act of cyber terror, and have found that (cue the shower-stabbing music from "Psycho") <i>Vladimir Putin personally ordered a monumental campaign to undermine our election and put his personal buddy, Donald Trump, into office!</i><br />
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But there's one little problem. While the declassified report is happy to draw this apocalyptic conclusion, it offers <i>virtually no proof</i>. We're asked to accept this poppycock on sheer trust, which would be a lot easier if the Obama administration and intelligence agencies had even an iota of credibility anymore.<br />
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But let's look at a couple of important things the report says that we <i>can</i> agree with: there was no hacking or interference with any voting or vote-tallying machines, and the intelligence agencies do not assert that the alleged Russian campaign had <i>any</i> influence on voters or the election. Wow.<br />
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It is also noteworthy that the intelligence agencies were able to draw such detailed conclusions considering <i>the DNC failed to cooperate with the investigation</i>, and wouldn't grant the FBI access to their computers. And interestingly, the report fails to note that the sensitive emails eventually released by Wikileaks (again, without direct evidence of Russian involvement) weren't even obtained by "hacking," but rather by a simple "phishing" email sent to John Podesta, in which he revealed that his password (and the key to all of the DNC's documents) was..."password."<br />
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The report also states that Putin's evil plan to overthrow our election involved schemes like having Russian newscasts criticize Hillary Clinton more than Donald Trump. Which apparently made a huge impact on the many voters whose primary source of information was Russian newscasts.<br />
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We could go on and on (and already have!) but our point is this: thanks to the Obama administration our intelligence agencies no longer have a whit of credibility, nor does their preposterously politicized "Russian hacking" report.<br />
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Considering 8 years of wall-to-wall failures, it's not surprising that Americans have decided to turn their backs on alleged "Intelligence" in favor of Donald Trump's promise of common sense.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-15752182418656967932017-01-06T00:01:00.000-06:002017-01-06T00:01:01.978-06:00It Takes a Sociopathic Village<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Barack Obama has announced that he will be making a farewell address to the citizens of Chicago next week, in part to "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/us/politics/obama-chicago-farewell-speech.html" target="_blank">celebrate the way you've changed this country</a>." We can't think of a better location, considering some of those "changes" include 762 murders in 2016, and the recent <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/05/4-in-custody-after-group-beats-disabled-man-on-facebook-live-while-shouting-anti-trump-profanities-chicago-police-say/?utm_term=.7eb9d567c5fa" target="_blank">abduction and torture (with live Facebook streaming)</a> of a mentally challenged white man by four black thugs, who used their time in the online spotlight laughing and spouting obscenities directed at Donald Trump and white people.<br />
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When white lunatic Dylann Roof murdered nine black members of a South Carolina church, <a href="http://hopenchangecartoons.blogspot.com/2015/06/barrying-dead.html" target="_blank">Barack Obama made clear his belief</a> that <i>nobody acts alone</i> (even if they think they do), and larger sociological connections - and corrections - must be made. <br />
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While that point can and should be debated (Obama himself denies his own "logic" every time a Muslim carries out an act of terror), it <i>can't</i> be debated that, even worse than a lone psychopath, there is something sicker and more inherently dangerous about a <i>group</i> of hate-filled people who joyfully torture another human <i>and broadcast it to their friends</i>. That's symptomatic of a <i>culture</i> of sociopathy, malignant and metastasizing.<br />
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While it's easy and appropriate to lay some of the blame on media celebration of thugs, ho's, and the gangster life, we believe the larger share of guilt belongs to generations of Democrat policy makers - Obama most decidedly included - who have destroyed black families, the educational system, and the nation's inner cities in order to provide an unending source of enslaved voters who must rely on government entitlements for survival.<br />
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Add to this the Obama administration's 8 year history of stoking racial fires, showing antagonism towards police, and their active encouragement of rioting in black communities as an appropriate and "understandable" response to acts of imagined racism. <br />
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All of this has created a sickness in the soul of too many black Americans that is as representative of Obama's "legacy" as anything could possibly be. If the man had an ounce of honesty or integrity, he wouldn't be traveling to Chicago to boast of his "accomplishments" - he'd be going there to apologize.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>BONUS: A WORD ABOUT THE "RUSSIAN HACKING" INTELLIGENCE HEARINGS</b></u></span><br />
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Bullshit.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>HOPE AND CHANGING...</b></u></span><br />
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We'll be talking more about this in the near future, but just to give everyone time to adjust to the idea (including ourselves), we're officially announcing that <i>Hope n' Change Cartoons</i> will be turning out the lights here on or slightly after the day Obama leaves office.<br />
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<i>Hope n' Change</i> has existed with a specific purpose in mind: to comment on the many disasters associated with the Obama administration and the culture of liberalism, and to address those issues with enough humor to boost morale for those on the Right who've been fighting back. That job has been completed and we've got the empty scotch bottles to prove it.<br />
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Mind you, we don't expect the world of politics to get any less ugly and ridiculous now - far from it. These are going to be tumultuous times and no political satirist is going to run out of raw material while Donald Trump is in office and Obama is heckling from the front row. <br />
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But we're looking forward to finding <i>new</i> projects to work on, both personal and professional. A lot has been "back burnered" in the past 8 years, and we're not getting any younger (although oddly, we <i>are</i> getting more distinguished looking). We plan to do more things which are creative, fun and funny - and don't come with rigid (albeit self-assigned) deadlines throughout the week. <br />
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A few additional points:<br />
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• We intend to keep up an easy-to-find public profile. <br />
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• This site will remain intact and we'll do whatever is necessary to keep it visible. There's a lot of history here! <br />
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• Our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HopeNChangeCartoons" target="_blank"><i>Hope n' Change </i>Facebook page</a> will continue, although whether new cartoons get posted over there will be purely a matter of whether or not our graphics Tourette's syndrome kicks in.<br />
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• <i>Johnny Optimism</i> will continue as usual. Sick kids and life's unfairness never get old!<br />
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• If you're on our mailing list, we're going to maintain the database so when we create another blog, write a book, or just want to stage a huge reunion party at some centrally located bar, we'll be able to reach you. If you're NOT on the mailing list, then <a href="http://bit.ly/2hW1gRO" target="_blank"><b>add your information here</b></a> before the end of the month. It's free, there's no spam, and future historians will list you among the pantheon of heroes.<br />
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There's a lot more that needs to be said, but we'll save that for another day. For now, just know how sincerely appreciated you are - and let's continue business as usual while enjoying the countdown to Barack Obama's final day in office!<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com90tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-56420687727939360542017-01-04T00:01:00.000-06:002017-01-04T00:01:06.201-06:002016 - The Year in Rebuke (Part Two)<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>JULY</b></span><br />
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With the political world holding its breath in anticipation, <i>Hope n' Change</i> finally endorses a Presidential candidate...<br />
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While lacking the enthusiasm evinced by many Trump supporters, <i>Hope n' Change</i> opines that "Donald Trump is potentially a <i>yuuuuge</i> disrupter at a time when our political system needs huge disruption. Our nation would be far more likely to survive his possible policy failures than even a single term of Hillary Clinton's toxic policy successes." <br />
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This belief is immediately confirmed when yet <i>another</i> federal agency is revealed to have been corrupted by proximity to the Clinton Machine...<br />
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After laundry-listing the many, many ways that Hillary had lied, evaded, and thoroughly compromised national security with her secret email server, FBI Director James Comey decides that no charges should be pressed because:<br />
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A) He is apparently a complete political whore<br />
B) His family was being held at gunpoint<br />
C) He believes that women (bless their hearts) are just <i>too darn stupid</i> to understand computers, national security, and laws<br />
D) Hillary made a pact with Satan which involves fellating lepers in Hell for all eternity<br />
E) All of the above. Which, frankly, we're pretty sure is the right answer.<br />
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Energized by this undeserved "Get Out of Jail Free" card, Hillary immediately seizes on <i>new ways</i> to make voters hate her...<br />
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Following a black sniper's assassination of five Dallas police officers who were providing security for a <i>"Black Lives Matter"</i> protest, Hillary bravely declares that the actual problem is that <i>white people need to do a better job of listening</i> and, bizarrely, that Wall Street needs greater transparency. Based on her strong statement, an increasing number of voters begin to suspect she's using narcotics.<br />
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Meanwhile, GOP heads explode when Senator Ted Cruz appears at the Republican National Convention and speaks passionately about the need to defend freedom and the Constitution, but <i>fails to endorse Trump by name</i> for reasons no one can explain...<br />
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But July isn't done with us yet. Following a series of scandals revealing sabotage against the Bernie Sanders campaign, the DNC meets to celebrate democracy by anointing a candidate selected by unelected "superdelegates"...<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>AUGUST</b></span><br />
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With the wind at her back, which is helpful in keeping her upright, Hillary starts fleshing out what revolutionary policies she hopes to bring to the presidency other than the ability to pee while sitting down...<br />
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But concerns grow about the candidate's health as she is increasingly seen struggling with simple tasks like speaking without coughing up a lung, getting both eyes to point in the same direction, or telling the truth...<br />
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But undaunted and pumped full of amphetamines and opioids, Hillary throws herself into intense preparation for the upcoming Presidential debates...<br />
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And speaking of sex escapades (which is pretty much synonymous with speaking about the Clintons) another one rears its...uh...head when Anthony Weiner, the oft-disgraced husband of Hillary's right hand woman Huma Abedin, is discovered to be emailing bonergrams to an under-aged girl...<br />
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Saying "enough is enough," Huma gives up on Weiner (not that there's anything wrong with that) and prepares to face new challenges in...<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>SEPTEMBER</b></span><br />
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When asked to answer yet more questions about her <i>totally illegal scheme</i> to evade the Freedom of Information Act and, as an unexpected bonus, give away all of our nation's secrets, Hillary is struck - apparently forcefully - with a brilliant idea...<br />
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Yes, the woman who wants to be President of the United States claims to have such substantial brain damage that she can't remember <i>anything</i> which happened while she was engaged in criminal activity. Which is to say her entire adult life.<br />
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Shortly thereafter, Clinton speaks to an adoring throng of hired enthusiasts at an LGBT fundraiser and makes a statement which convinces even hardened skeptics that she has gangrenous grey matter...<br />
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"To be grossly generalistic," she grossly cackled, "you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call <i>the basket of deplorables.</i> The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic— you name it!"<br />
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Surprisingly, at least to Democrats, it turns out that many Americans don't appreciate being mocked, disparaged, and slandered by corrupt elites. Which is why it's (ahem) <i>fortunate</i> for Clinton that the public is soon distracted by a terrorist bomb blast...<br />
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29 people are hurt (and thankfully none killed) when a bomb is detonated in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York. Chelsea Clinton swears "it's just a coincidence" and "I'm working on an alibi."<br />
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Hoping to get her media narrative back on track, Hillary Clinton puts avuncular socialist Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail to say that he no longer despises everything Hillary stands for, and that he's come to the life-changing (and possibly life-saving) realization that she is the most honest, refreshing, and ethical politician ever born...<br />
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In fairness to Bernie, maybe he was just trying on his "shameless whore" costume to make ready for...<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>OCTOBER</b></span><br />
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Suddenly, the campaign is rocked by a series of well-coordinated (if loosely fact-checked) attacks on Donald Trump's finances...<br />
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The NY Times goes "front page crazy" with a story screaming that over the past few years, Donald Trump <i>may have paid all the federal income tax he legally owed</i> - which possibly, and only possibly, equaled "none." Not only is "Man Pays Correct Amount of Taxes" not a scandal, it's not even <i>interesting</i>.<br />
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What <i>is</i> interesting is that the story was written based on <i>illegally obtained information which was leaked to the public</i>. Democratic spokespeople offer high praise for the publication of illegally leaked documents, then report a weird feeling "like a crow just stepped on my grave."<br />
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In a shocking revelation that even offends serial rapist Bill Clinton,
an old audiotape reveals that Donald Trump once used the word "pussy" in
a conversation which did not involve cats. Even worse, a (very small)
parade of women come forward, dabbing tears, to share tortured memories
of being "kissed without permission" by Donald Trump, who used only Tic
Tacs for breath control.<br />
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Unfortunately for Hillary, none of this is as interesting as Wikileaks' release of thousands of documents detailing the corruption of the Clinton Foundation, Hillary's "pay for play" use of the State Department to solicit bribes, and the overall sleaziness of everyone in the Democratic party.<br />
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Suddenly finding <i>illegally obtained information which was leaked to the public</i> abhorrent, the media and the White House blame Russian hackers because it sounds better than "our own idiocy." Joe Biden warns of draconian counter measures...<br />
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In the midst of all this, early voting begins, with record numbers of voters flooding to the polls to decide which of the <i>two least popular candidates in American history</i> will win...<br />
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But wait! With Halloween in the air, James Comey doesn't need to dress up as a ghost to scare the sheet out of Hillary - he simply <i>reopens her "thing that wouldn't die" email espionage case</i> only days before the election.<br />
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Hilariously, it turns out that in the course of investigating Anthony
Weiner's underage sexting activities, the FBI has discovered <i>thousands of Hillary's State Department emails on his personal laptop</i>...as well as on his laptop computer.<br />
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And so the stage is set for...<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>NOVEMBER</b></span><br />
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Following a hostage video in which James Comey, bruised and bound, says that <i>nothing suspicious other than Top Secret documents</i> was found on Weiner's "spank bank" computer, Election Day arrives at last.<br />
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Left-leaning media political pundits sport Cheshire Cat grins, and Hillary Clinton's team pops champagne corks as the poll results start to come in.<br />
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Soon <i>after</i> which the grins fade, the champagne goes flat, and (according to trustworthy sources on the Left) Armageddon arrives...<br />
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<b>Trump wins</b> to the shock and disbelieving horror of liberals everywhere...<br />
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Apparently unaware of how the American voting system works, those on the Left are further devastated by the realization that while Hillary won the popular vote, it's <i>only the critical electoral college vote that decides the Presidency...</i><br />
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While many anti-Americans take the news of Trump's victory badly, perhaps the most <i>convincing</i> display of grief comes from Fidel Castro who actually goes to the trouble of dropping dead...<br />
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Which at long last brings us to...<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>DECEMBER</b></span><br />
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In the weeks following the election, it becomes clear that American voters were sick of being denigrated, disrespected, and lied to by their own government. Tired of seeing their health insurance costs skyrocket while their benefits plummeted. And unwilling to accept a stagnant economy which seemingly offered jobs only to hedge fund managers and fry cooks.<br />
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Granted, not <i>everyone</i> saw the election results in the same way...<br />
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When his analysis is roundly laughed at, Barack Obama goes back to his default position of claiming that the election was somehow "hacked" by evil Russians who, inexplicably, <i>liked</i> the idea of Donald Trump having a nuclear arsenal.<br />
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The soon-to-be ex-president declares the alleged hacking to be a grave and immediate existential threat to our nation, then takes swift action by boarding Air Force One for another extended, multi-million dollar vacation in Hawaii...<br />
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Back on the mainland, the electoral college finally meets to officially cast their votes. And once again, a dazed and broken Hillary has to settle for second place...<br />
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With only days left in the year, Americans finally breathe a sigh of relief - confident that they can enjoy the holidays without any vacationing presidents suddenly launching a vicious sneak attack on one of our closest allies. They are, of course, wrong...<br />
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With assistance (and likely direction) from the Obama administration, the U.N. passes a resolution condemning Israel, eroding that nation's legitimacy and chances for eventual peace. It is a transparently petty and vindictive act from a petty and vindictive president bent on burning the world down if he can't be in charge.<br />
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In the final days of his wretched administration, he also admits floods of refugees and illegals into the country, grants early release to a record number of felons, and puts thousands of new regulations in place to hamper the American economy under Donald Trump.<br />
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Which is why the stroke of midnight on December 31st has <i>never been sweeter</i>...<br />
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Happy New Year from Stilton Jarlsberg and <i>Hope n' Change Cartoons...</i>which, after 8 long years, <i>finally</i> has actual hope for change.<br />
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If we had to sum up 2016 in a single word, it would be...<i>unprintable</i>. Seriously, we'd be working hard to come up with the vilest, most appalling, utterly disgusting and likely illegal word in our rich, albeit genuinely filthy vocabulary - and even <i>then</i> we'd fail to do justice to this rotten collection of months.<br />
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Fortunately, we don't <i>have</i> to sum things up in a single word. We have this entire page to work with, so let's dive straight into...<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>JANUARY</b></span><br />
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The year hits the ground running (like an abscessed boil) when the Post Office releases a "Forever" stamp commemorating the Muslim festival <i>Eid al-Adha</i>, which honors the willingness of Ibrahim to slit his son's throat after being "triple dog dared" by Allah. As part of the festival, modern Muslims are still expected to sacrifice their best farm animal...assuming they have the financial ability to first buy it an orange jumpsuit and get it to pose for a Youtube video.<br />
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And speaking of people associated with Youtube videos, Hillary Clinton stays busy denying that she <i>ever</i> had classified documents on her private email server. An assertion which, like <i>everything else Hillary has ever said</i>, turns out to be wildly untrue.<br />
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Of course, not all newsworthy events were domestic. Or even <i>comprehensible</i>...<br />
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John <i>"You Rang?"</i> Kerry comes out with the least encouraging pronouncement imaginable about the throat-cutting, suicide-bombing, allegedly non-Islamic murderers of ISIS, ISIL, Daesh, or whatever the hell <i>other</i> name the administration thinks likely to be unrecognized by Democratic voters.<br />
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Specifically, Kerry further downgrades our nation's goal from "destroying, degrading, or disrupting" the maniacal killers to merely "denting" them. His goal apparently being to make Hillary look like only the <i>second</i> worst Secretary of State ever, just in time for...<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>FEBRUARY</b></span><br />
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Early in the Democratic debate process, Martin O'Malley shocks everyone by announcing that he'd dropped out of the race - which was the first time anyone knew he'd been <i>in</i> the race.<br />
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Following Hillary Clinton's discovery in Iowa that she is less popular among young females than a yeast infection, Hillary asks herself what <i>vivacious, high-powered celebrity superstar </i>could help her reel in youthful female votes in New Hampsire, and she comes up with...<br />
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Oddly, threats of eternal damnation don't save Hillary from a landslide loss to Bernie Sanders, causing Hillary to break out the <i>really</i> big gun...<br />
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But just as things get really bleak for Hillary, the entire political landscape is changed by an unexpected death...<br />
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Beloved conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia suddenly dies in bed with a pillow on his head. A local judge pronounces the death due to natural causes without seeing the body or ordering an autopsy, because Obamacare doesn't cover those things.<br />
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In the following days, Obama decides to skip Scalia's funeral owing to an absolutely unavoidable scheduling conflict involving a critical tee time...<br />
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The country will not see such a blatantly petty snub again until, well, a few days <i>later</i> in...<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>MARCH</b></span><br />
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"If I didn't attend a funeral for a sitting Supreme Court Justice," the president may well have said, "I sure as hell won't be wasting my time going to one for some first lady. There's <i>nothing</i> less important than a first lady!"<br />
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In his place, the president appropriately sends...the first lady.<br />
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And speaking of skipping commitments, seemingly unstoppable primary candidate Donald Trump has a few clearly expressed ideas on the subject...<br />
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But of course, there's more than just an election going on. Barack Obama is still holding the reins and shaping <i>critical foreign policy</i>. Which is how we ended up with...<br />
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In his never-ending quest to build a legacy, the president tries to normalize relations with the oppressive communist dictatorship of Cuba in hopes of increasing the number of investment opportunities for his wealthy donors, and decreasing the number of Cuban immigrants whose children might grow up to become conservative GOP presidential candidates.<br />
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But only days later, the world is again shocked by a brutal act of terrorism - this time in a Brussels airport. Despite his busy travel schedule, Obama immediately swings into action...<br />
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Rather than doing diddly-squat about the carnage in Brussels, Obama attends a baseball game with new BFF Raul Castro, then jets off to Argentina where he performes a <i>pelvis-grinding tango at a state dinner</i> to prove his masculinity to ISIS.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>APRIL</b></span><br />
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To help shore up support from women who just can't seem to understand the whole complicated "birds & bees" thing, Hillary declares that <i>"unborn persons" have no rights</i> - making it perfectly acceptable to take viable children in the final days (or hours) of gestation and turn them into chop suey. An observation that Bernie Sanders quickly echoes, while admitting that it's put him off Chinese take-out for awhile.<br />
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But life and death issues soon take a backseat to a far more <i>important</i> crisis in America...<br />
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The country becomes so embroiled in the issue that it becomes necessary for Barack Obama to remind the nation who <i>truly</i> suffers from discrimination in our wretched country...<br />
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The tone deaf president assembles a group of allegedly popular rappers (including Nicki Minaj, Busta Rhymes, J. Cole, Wale, DJ Khaled, and others we couldn't possibly pick out of a police line-up) to help with his "Brother's Keeper" initiative which is designed to encourage young black men to avoid incarceration for undocumented acts of wealth redistribution.<br />
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Unfortunately, during the president's remarks, rapper Rick Ross's <i>court-ordered ankle bracelet goes off.</i> It turns out that the man selected by Mr. Obama to serve as an exemplary racial role model is required to wear the device until his trial date for <i>aggravated assault and battery, pistol-whipping, and kidnapping.</i><br />
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Were the other dignitaries at the summit nonplussed? Based on their actual pictures below, we're guessing not...<br />
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Meanwhile, as the primaries wear on, people finally start realizing that Trump <i>might actually become the GOP nominee...</i><br />
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By the way, in case you don't know, the cartoon above is a tribute to "Forbidden Planet," which is the <i>best sci-fi movie ever made</i>. If you've never seen it, get your hands on it and watch it NOW while the rest of us move on to...</div>
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By a significant margin, Hoosiers go to the polls to declare that they find Trump to be the candidate who is outstanding in the field. And trust us, Indiana folk (like us!) <i>love</i> jokes about fields. But feeling distinctly <i>un</i>-loved, Cruz says "enough" and drops out of the race, practically guaranteeing Trump's nomination.</div>
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In response to the dread threat hypothetically presented by mosquito-borne Zika virus, Barack Obama requests $2 billion to prevent the blood-sucking parasites coming across our southern border from wreaking destruction. The $2 billion will be used to put the young mosquitoes in good schools, settle their families in middle class neighborhoods, and give the grown mosquitoes some walking around money until they can find permanent blood-sucking jobs in government.<br />
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Donald Trump "seals the deal" when his delegate count pushes over the magic number of 1,237 with multiple states left to go to further pad his margin of victory. The people have spoken - and they're using very short (frequently 4-letter) words as they storm into...<br />
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Because Donald Trump's blunt candor is generating so many news stories, Barack Obama jumps back into the erudition spotlight with a<i> devastatingly brutal dissection</i> of contemporaneous political rhetoric and offers wise analytical advice...<br />
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Of course, there's no "okey-doke" going on in the Democratic primaries. Everything is honest, legit, and above board...<br />
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Bernie Sanders grows peevish when the Associated Press declares Hillary to be the overall winner of Democratic primaries which haven't happened yet. It's almost like a conspiracy of some sort is working against him - but that's crazy, right?<br />
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Terror returns to the United States in the form of an ISIS-inspired lunatic who kills and wounds over 100 people at a Gay nightclub in Orlando, before being sent straight to Hell by a policeman's bullet.<br />
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Authorities struggle to discern the killer's motives, having nothing to go on other than his <i>actual 911 phone call</i> in which he swears allegiance to ISIS, and shouts"Allahu Akbar" during his death-dealing spree.<br />
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Such a vile act is obviously unacceptable to the Obama administration, and they move quickly to let future terrorists know what they'll be up against...<br />
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Frankly, all of these events are getting so overwhelming that <i>Hope n' Change</i> needs a little time off - so we play hooky for a week, confident that it will be a slow period for news.<br />
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We are, of course, dead wrong...<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-44534161967186047462016-12-30T00:01:00.000-06:002016-12-30T05:48:05.935-06:00Rushing Roulette<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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After repeatedly having his ass handed to him by Vladimir Putin for the past 8 years, Barack Obama decided yesterday that it was "now or never" to finally take strong action against Russia..<i>. whether Russia had done anything wrong or not</i>.<br />
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Which is why, in reaction to the so-called "election hacking," Obama ordered 35 Russian diplomats (described by the White House as "intelligence agents") out of the country, closed a couple of domestic Russian facilities (described by the White House as "intelligence agencies"), and promised to unleash a cyber counterattack (described by the computer literate as "fat chance").<br />
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Unfortunately, <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/312049-obama-under-pressure-to-prove-russian-interference-in-election" target="_blank">despite requests from the Senate and House Intelligence Committees</a>, Barry has failed to produce <i>any</i> compelling evidence that Russia was behind the Wikileaks document releases which revealed to American voters that the Democratic party, from Hillary on down, is populated by sleazy, bribe-mongering crooks, lunatics, and sex addicts. In fact, it's highly questionable whether <i>any</i> final intelligence analysis will even hit Obama's desk before he leaves office - making the timing of his saber-rattling highly suspect if not downright dangerous.<br />
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Mind you, <i>Hope n' Change</i> isn't suggesting that Russia <i>didn't</i> hack into the email servers of Hillary, Leon Panetta, and the DNC. Of <i>course</i> they did; the cyber-porch lights were left on, the cyber-front door was wide open, and there was a big cyber-sign on the porch saying "please don't steal anything while we're not home." <br />
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The secret keepers were, in the laughable words of James Comey, "extremely careless." Meaning neither Russia nor anyone else had to be extremely clever to steal documents.<br />
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But all of that being said, no evidence has been presented that it was <i>Russia</i> who gave damning but 100% truthful documents to Wikileaks. It could have been a mischievous high school kid or, our personal belief, a Democratic insider who wanted to save our nation from Hillary.<br />
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Which is why it's disconcerting that Obama, while still vacationing in Hawaii, has prematurely chosen retaliatory action against the <i>only</i> suspect who has a huge nuclear arsenal and pretty much no sense of humor.<br />
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Perhaps, before the big ball drops in Times Square on New Year's Eve, he just wants everyone (especially Historians) to think that after 8 simpering years in office his <i>own</i> balls have finally dropped. <br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>AND ONE MORE THING...</b></u></span><br />
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Drink up, drive safely, and join us Monday for <i><b>"2016 - the year in review!"</b></i><br />
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Although Barack Obama has only days left in office, he's doing his best to make every one of them count...in the worst possible ways. As a case in point, witness his <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-parting-betrayal-of-israel-1482795616" target="_blank">almost unbelievable betrayal of Israel</a> by failing to prevent the passage of a U.N. resolution which will do grave damage to our (ahem) <i>former</i> ally for years to come.<br />
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Even worse, Israel claims to have evidence that <a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/12/27/israels-ambassador-to-the-u-s-claims-to-have-proof-that-america-was-behind-controversial-un-resolution-but-hell-only-share-it-with-donald-trump/" target="_blank">the Obama administration actually helped draft</a> this sneak attack on Israel - clearly missing any moral insight from the recent visit of Japan's prime minister to Pearl Harbor.<br />
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Also in his busy, busy schedule, the president has been releasing prisoners from jail faster than Henry Ford churned out model-T's, recently setting a new record by <a href="http://www.lagniappemobile.com/obama-sets-single-day-clemency-record/" target="_blank">granting 231 pardons in a single day</a> - which is perhaps only a warm-up for setting <i>more</i> felons free in the coming weeks. But at least he's not dumping dangerous prisoners from Guantanamo on the world, right? Wrong! He's taking steps to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/20/politics/obama-guantanamo-detainee-transfer/" target="_blank">transfer up to 18 more detainees</a> before Trump takes office (only 4.5 of whom will return to battlefield mayhem and active terrorism, according to the government's own statistics).<br />
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But wait - there's more! To help assure that US relations with Russia are as bad as possible on his way out, Obama is about to announce <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-white-house-is-scrambling-for-a-way-to-punish-russian-hackers-via-sanctions/2016/12/27/0eee2fdc-c58f-11e6-85b5-76616a33048d_story.html?utm_term=.d7bc69b9451f" target="_blank">plans to "punish" Russia</a> for their alleged (yet entirely unsubstantiated) role in telling voters the truth about Hillary Clinton, thereby upsetting our precious national system of basing elections on catchphrases, lies, and genitalia. The president's retaliatory arsenal is said to include various harsh sanctions and "cyber-operations," including forcing Russians to use the Healthcare.gov website to get medical treatment.<br />
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Besides all of this active sabotage of the incoming Trump administration, Barry is also spending the waning days of his presidency ingesting large quantities of hallucinogens (perhaps with buddies from his Hawaiian "choom gang"). How else to explain his recent declaration that, had be been allowed to run again,<a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/27/507057772/obama-says-he-would-have-won-a-third-term-had-he-run" target="_blank"> he would have won a third term</a> by beating Donald Trump.<br />
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Not because of any actual <i>accomplishments</i>, of course, but because "in conversations that I've had with people around the country - even some people who <i>disagreed</i> with me - they would say, 'The
vision, the direction that you point towards is the right one.'"<br />
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That direction, by the way, remains unchanged after 8 years...although we're still unsure if it points to Mecca or Hell.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-47990184368788897622016-12-23T00:05:00.001-06:002016-12-23T21:37:24.050-06:00Merry Christmas to All<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We don't need to elaborate much on the cartoon above - after 8 years, you already know the kind of people who <i>Hope n' Change</i> thinks deserve a permanent place on Santa's "really, <i>really</i> naughty" list.<br />
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So
let's just move on to wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! We're
going to take just a few days off to enjoy family, friends, and this
wonderful season, and <b>we'll return on Wednesday the 28th</b> with new ruminations on whatever insanity occurs between now and then.<br />
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Please know that we're not exaggerating when we say we consider you to be an important part of the big <i>Hope n' Change</i>
family. Your comments, camaraderie, wisdom and humor are gifts we enjoy
all year long and we're sincerely thankful. Have a great holiday, and
see you back here soon!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-57728516673206675052016-12-21T00:01:00.000-06:002018-10-26T09:32:34.197-05:00College Education<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8na2MxgpeKZroX_pnpxCaoBv0AmnYOyWbWXoiFO4rxXYCW_2g0JkUdQVuYhNNVEef8MdGllSjOfUUA7B_Klm11uXS8u81LCohyphenhyphenqwB93Gpesa2bsdQfBryOzTQrf8T1EI5wPZZ7NAx6dQ/s1600/Poplar+Vote+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="obama, obama jokes, political, humor, cartoon, conservative, hope n' change, hope and change, stilton jarlsberg, electoral college, trump, hillary, loretta swit" border="0" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8na2MxgpeKZroX_pnpxCaoBv0AmnYOyWbWXoiFO4rxXYCW_2g0JkUdQVuYhNNVEef8MdGllSjOfUUA7B_Klm11uXS8u81LCohyphenhyphenqwB93Gpesa2bsdQfBryOzTQrf8T1EI5wPZZ7NAx6dQ/s640/Poplar+Vote+1.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Run, forest, run!</i></td></tr>
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Hillary Clinton, who was desperately pushing a "free college education" pledge to win votes from the young and simple-minded, got her <i>own</i> college education Monday for the low, low cost of only $1.2 <i>billion</i> in campaign spending. Because Monday was when the members of the electoral college finally voted to officially make Donald Trump the winner of the 2016 Presidential election.<br />
<br />
While Hillary still has ongoing grudges (and perhaps assassination contracts) against Vladimir Putin, Anthony Weiner, and schizophrenic FBI director James Comey for her loss on November 8th, the former first lady is blaming one and <i>only</i> one person for her massive electoral college loss: former actress (and recognizable human) Loretta Swit...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>At the plastic surgeon's she went full retread. You should NEVER go full retread.</i></td></tr>
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Swit was one of a handful of alleged celebrities who appeared in a last-gasp ad which encouraged electoral college voters to cast their ballots for somone - <i>anyone</i> - other than the man who actually won the Presidential election. Clearly, no minds were changed...although we imagine the electors will continue to have screaming nightmares for the rest of their lives.<br />
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And so, <i>Hope n' Change</i> is emitting a small (but cautious) sigh of relief as it appears that the election results will really stick, and Hillary will be forced to spend the rest of her days out in that poplar forest foraging for grubs, berries, and nonexistent Foundation donors while muttering obscenities in the snow.<br />
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As Tiny Tim would say, "God bless us, every one!"<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-28289942778113633922016-12-19T00:01:00.000-06:002016-12-19T12:26:58.617-06:00Alleged Home for the Holidays<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6vrxbP08RZRitmyavOX1aWy1O-QEMx3ZeSk175FJBZgulQC5fXW_ZLi8Agzqiq27fts_2FamNTY0vCqHHCi7N7_BcYqz8TF9t-CUfx3k65k45qNdhfB0XznmHbpw6Oh-nDPg-iF_Ny0/s1600/Haappy+Holidaays+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="obama, obama jokes, political, humor, cartoon, conservative, hope n' change, hope and change, stilton jarlsberg, christmas, vacation, hawaii" border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6vrxbP08RZRitmyavOX1aWy1O-QEMx3ZeSk175FJBZgulQC5fXW_ZLi8Agzqiq27fts_2FamNTY0vCqHHCi7N7_BcYqz8TF9t-CUfx3k65k45qNdhfB0XznmHbpw6Oh-nDPg-iF_Ny0/s640/Haappy+Holidaays+1.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Because "Mele Kalikimaka" is so difficult to pronounce</i></td></tr>
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The left-leaning media is still hyperventilating about Russian interference with our election, going so far in some cases as to <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/keith-olbermann-trump-voters-have-guaranteed-themselves-slavery-defeat-and-economic-disaster/" target="_blank">declare that we are no longer a free country</a> and that Vladimir "Nice Pecs" Putin has successfully pulled off a massive <i>coup d'etat. </i>Apparently, his evil goal is to destroy us from within by facilitating the appointment of brain surgeons to cabinet positions.<br />
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All of which would seem considerably more like a terrifying existential crisis if Barack Obama cared enough to have skipped his annual <a href="http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/34081124/obama-spends-first-day-of-hawaii-vacation-playing-golf" target="_blank">bajillion-dollar Christmas getaway to the five-star environs of Hawaii</a>. But there he is again, thousands of miles from the Oval Office - golfing, gnawing shave ice, eschewing any traditional symbols of Christmas or Christianity entirely, and (understandably) avoiding contact with family members as much as possible...<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP8QYlgtHj303VMDB2RHHu5I8d5r7F3-vWgBuU5QwXTulbkOpPN6T8GFOFyFcOimp-WFEeElzQVJdVf3Yu9YIlk6ucQXVXk7FD7SEg0NgNIntLWeI9Z_xTMyoB-aQyBJOeJgf4Tcxu2tM/s1600/Michelle+Surfs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP8QYlgtHj303VMDB2RHHu5I8d5r7F3-vWgBuU5QwXTulbkOpPN6T8GFOFyFcOimp-WFEeElzQVJdVf3Yu9YIlk6ucQXVXk7FD7SEg0NgNIntLWeI9Z_xTMyoB-aQyBJOeJgf4Tcxu2tM/s640/Michelle+Surfs.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>It's all the more impressive considering her deep sense of hopelessness.</i></td></tr>
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Frankly, we're so sick of the first family and their wretched excesses that we pulled these cartoons out of the vault and can't really work up any enthusiasm about coming up with fresh ways to disparage them today. We're tired, we detest them, and we just want them <i>gone</i>.<br />
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Not that it's a bad start having them on Oahu. Which, by wild coincidence, is what we'll be shouting when they're escorted (hopefully forcefully) out of the White House on January 20th.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>BONUS: A RANDOM HOLIDAY THOUGHT...</b></u></span><br />
...to help us fill out the page at least a little more.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDb4pyFrbyidR8zvY8MD0aLF2TVWXU6RRFCNFwKnwFRFO3FKKzZAXZA210ZwlHkNCDjjdsUnK6qgWYEFhRLErRjDa1WQRUCCIM86suCCWK828G-1xZ6E2YaU9vhFUeiXHgBW4-abhd7QY/s1600/15493672_10154204226342379_7540833244367098809_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDb4pyFrbyidR8zvY8MD0aLF2TVWXU6RRFCNFwKnwFRFO3FKKzZAXZA210ZwlHkNCDjjdsUnK6qgWYEFhRLErRjDa1WQRUCCIM86suCCWK828G-1xZ6E2YaU9vhFUeiXHgBW4-abhd7QY/s400/15493672_10154204226342379_7540833244367098809_o.jpg" width="392" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Seriously, why isn't PETA all over this?!</i></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>ADDITIONAL BONUS: YEP, IT'S MONDAY</b></u></span><br />
Unlike sunny, expensive Oahu, it got darned cold in north Texas last night...and we've discovered that the pipes have frozen in one of the bathrooms. We've now got a heat lamp on the exterior wall, and a battery of space heaters and hair dryers blowing on the interior pipes (the area with the actual blockage can't be reached directly).<br />
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There is also a real sense of suspense, wondering if - at any moment - our bathroom faucet will simply return to normal operations...or we'll discover that a ruptured pipe is filling the walls of our home with water just in time for a randomly selected plumber to earn enough money for all of his Christmas shopping. <i>And</i> a Hawaiian vacation.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>SO STILTON, HOW'S YOUR OBAMACARE DOING?</b></u></span><br />
Thank you for asking. Healthcare.gov <i>finally </i>conceded my imaginary earning status for 2017 so that I could select another crappy, overpriced HMO plan - which I did.<br />
<br />
And I assume all of that went smoothly, because last week I received six - count 'em - <i>six</i> new ID cards from Blue Cross. Three for me, and three for Mrs. Jarlsberg who <i>isn't on the policy anymore</i>. Then on Saturday, I received two <i>more</i> ID's, both of which are in my name but showing different policy numbers. So there's at least some chance that I now have 8 insurance policies.<br />
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None of which stopped Healthcare.gov from sending me daily reminders that I was <i>not</i> insured and needed to hurry to beat the cutoff deadline. Which they've now extended since the website (for the umpteenth time) <i>failed to keep up with the traffic</i>. <br />
<br />
They've also let me know that I can pay my multiple insurance policies by giving them my banking information and letting their crack computers siphon money whenever they feel like it. I'd sooner hand over my information to a Nigerian prince who wants to share his fortune.<br /><br />(Noon Update: I swear on all that's Holy that I just got two <i>more</i> ID cards in today's mail.)<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>TRIPLE BONUS: MULLIGAN'S ISLAND</b></u></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Not, of course, that there's anything wrong with that.</i></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-5966429709770503622016-12-16T00:01:00.000-06:002016-12-16T06:55:48.665-06:00Irony Man<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This is SO much funnier when you substitute the correct word for "bleeping"...</i></td></tr>
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The Left is still pushing the story that the integrity of our recent election was fatally compromised by leaked information which, according to unnamed and unsubstantiated intelligence agency sources <i>who are leaking information</i> (if not made up entirely) came from Russia.<br />
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We've already editorialized on this nonsense, but found that a new low was reached when White House spokesweasel Josh Earnest declared (not joshing, but earnestly) that "It's just a fact that <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/15/politics/white-house-trump-russia-earnest/" target="_blank">(Trump) was encouraging Russia to hack his opponent</a> (to) help his campaign." <br />
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Well, <i>no</i> - it's a fact that Trump made a very obvious <i>joke</i> about Russia finding the 30,000 emails that Hillary was hiding from investigators. But when this obvious truth was pointed out to Earnest, he glowered, "I don't think anybody at the White House thinks it's funny that an
adversary of the United States engaged in <i>malicious cyberactivity to
destabilize our democracy. </i>That's not a joke. Nobody at
the White House thought it was a joke. Nobody in the intelligence
community thought it was a joke."<br />
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In other words, nobody in the White House or intelligence community would know a joke if it bit them in the ass. Which this one actually has.<br />
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Still, the preposterous hubbub is giving some Leftists hope that Monday's vote by the electoral college might still overturn the will of the people...<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_dG6FfyB5qv1P46d6ZMogMv6JItON5Iw_JoUX96hHZjQfxTimNfuSoDGsJq4EU4dzOGjA3uywcLGZM77A7oH1bxY_O_mtAqVomZR92E0G7gBEucz8zemxxmpOey7xFyiCLq4GTe7i2_E/s1600/Electorcution+1.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_dG6FfyB5qv1P46d6ZMogMv6JItON5Iw_JoUX96hHZjQfxTimNfuSoDGsJq4EU4dzOGjA3uywcLGZM77A7oH1bxY_O_mtAqVomZR92E0G7gBEucz8zemxxmpOey7xFyiCLq4GTe7i2_E/s640/Electorcution+1.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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We think it's almost impossible that there will be a last-minute upset in the electoral college, but we admit we'll breathe easier when the voting is finally done, and Donald Trump's win is validated. Or is that <i>Vlad</i>-idated...?<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>BONUS: GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST</b></u></span><br />
From the yuletide vault in 2012...<br />
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And don't forget...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>You probably think this was just an excuse to bring back Busty again. And you're right.</i></td></tr>
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Our exclusive <i>Hope n' Change</i> Christmas music collection from Manhole Steamrising is still free for you to download and/or share with anyone you want! Just click on this link: <a href="http://bit.ly/2hpIDcs">http://bit.ly/2hpIDcs</a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-75994895977419653522016-12-14T00:01:00.000-06:002016-12-14T00:01:06.547-06:00Circumstances Beyond Our Control<b>Readers- </b>Believe it or not, it actually takes a modicum of focused thought to do each post on <i>Hope n' Change</i>, and that simply proved impossible today owing to a personal situation which has now been successfully resolved. But rather than leave you in the lurch (as we like to say to John Kerry), here are some cartoons from the vaults which still have something to say about current (and sadly recurrent) stories.<br />
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Regarding the wave of accusations about "fake news," <i>Hope n' Change</i> thinks we all know how the game is <i>really</i> played...<br />
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And <i>Brian Williams</i> is leading the charge against "fake news?" <i>Really...?!</i><br />
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Meanwhile, as yet another parting gift from the outgoing president, Barack Obama has declared that our nation is <i>still suffering from the effects of slavery.</i> And he makes an interesting point, since by almost every available metric, things have gotten much worse for black Americans...<i>over the last 8 years</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Okay, things haven't gotten worse for EVERY black family...</i></td></tr>
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Ever the whining grievance-monger, Obama has never been shy about bemoaning "the blood of slaves" which courses through the veins of his privileged wife and daughters. But it was only in 2012 that a lone researcher surmised that there <i>might</i> be a scintilla of slave's blood in Obama. Inherited from his <i>white mother's side</i> rather than from Barack senior...<br />
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Meanwhile, Barry is criticizing Donald Trump for missing some daily intelligence briefings (a criticism which we find valid, by the way), and saying that a president is "flying blind" without those briefings. But why in the name of Beelzebub's blast furnace didn't anyone say that to <i>Obama</i> for the last 8 years?!<br />
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Some reports say that Barry skipped as many as <i>two thirds</i> of his intelligence briefings, including the one <i>the morning after the Benghazi debacle</i>. Instead of attending the briefing, he flew to Las Vegas for a fundraiser at which he compared the "sacrifices" of Democratic fundraisers to the sacrifices of four still-warm murdered Americans. The miserable rat bastard.<br />
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Okay, Happy Hour is officially on...which means it's time for us to take time off. Hopefully everything will be back to normal here (or as close as it ever gets) on Friday! <i> </i><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-70693518622373217062016-12-12T00:05:00.000-06:002016-12-12T00:05:01.395-06:00Russian to Judgement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Barack Obama has ordered <a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/369829-obama-full-review-hacks/">a "full review" of cyber-chicanery</a>
associated with the 2016 elections, under the belief that Russia may
have tampered with our sacred voting process by somehow having created a
<i>30 year history of corruption by Hillary Clinton and everyone she's ever been in contact with</i>.<br />
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Where
do we even begin? The CIA - no doubt under orders and perhaps the
threat of waterboarding - has issued a strong but factually vague
statement that people who <i>may</i> have connections to people who <i>may</i> be Russian <i>may</i>
have provided Wikileaks with vast amounts of hacked information about
Hillary's decades-long history of sleazy deals and ineptitude, which <i>may</i> have influenced the election because (unlike <i>most</i> information given to voters) <i>it was all true.</i><br />
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The accusations
would be more plausible if the CIA, FBI, and DOJ weren't so thoroughly
compromised by their own political cover-ups and scandals at this point. As their main mission is now the protection of undeserving Democratic asses, we're not exactly impressed with anything they're saying now.<br />
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And
just how "meta" is the accusation that Russia tried to corrupt our
election process by releasing proof (and plenty of it) that Hillary and
the DNC had <i>already</i> corrupted the election process? Who's the actual criminal here, and who's simply a witness?<br />
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<i>Hope n' Change </i>actually
thinks it pretty unlikely that Russia had anything to do with the
release of damning information about Hillary and her cohorts in crime.
After all, if they <i>had</i> hacked all this dirt (not to mention every Top Secret hosted on her email server) wouldn't they want Hillary to <i>win</i> so that they'd <i>own an American President because of all the blackmail potential?</i><br />
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That's
why we think it far more likely that the source of the hacked material
was an individual patriot from the Democratic party or a domestic
intelligence agency who saw this as the only way to save America from a
corrupt, shrieking, money-grubbing, two-faced, brain-damaged harpy with a
gift for screwing up every policy issue she's ever touched.<br />
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Obama's
highly publicized demand for a report on computer espionage is supposed
to be rushed to his Oval Office desk (no doubt to be left between his fingernail
clippings and scuff marks from the heels of his shoes), but the results
<a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/369829-obama-full-review-hacks/">may never be made public</a>.
Which is hardly surprising, considering that the actual purpose of
Obama's call for an investigation is simply to delegitimize the upcoming
Presidency of Donald Trump.<br />
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In other words, a hostile government really <i>is</i> trying to subvert the will of American voters. It just happens to be the government currently in Washington.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-83489016317033336712016-12-09T00:01:00.000-06:002016-12-09T00:01:06.239-06:00A Moment of Silence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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No jokes or politics today. I just found out that my friend and neighbor of 25 years passed away a few hours ago, quite suddenly, from complications of fast-moving Alzheimer's disease.<br />
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He was a good guy (and like the rest of us, not a perfect guy) who worked hard his entire life, had a wife and family, achieved a degree of success which transcended his upbringing and education, and who poured me a nicely-spiked glass of eggnog every year at Christmas time while our wives wrinkled their noses and said "how can you guys <i>drink</i> that stuff?!"<br />
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He took pleasure in keeping his home and lawn immaculate, loved to engage in long conversations when we met at the mailbox, and he proudly wore his patriotism on his sleeve.<br />
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I can't help thinking of the juxtaposition of my friend dying the same day as John Glenn. One was an astronaut who soared the heavens, and the other was an American of the kind who defines the bedrock of our nation.<br />
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I'll miss them both.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-74595401384474642032016-12-07T00:01:00.000-06:002016-12-07T08:02:39.490-06:002020 Visions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Even though Donald Trump hasn't even been inaugurated yet, Joe Biden has already stepped forward to offer himself as a possible opponent in the 2020 Presidential race. When asked by alleged reporters, the soon-to-be-former Veep declared "I am going to run for President in 2020. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/joe-biden-2020-presidential-race-im-committing-run/story?id=44005843" target="_blank">What the hell, man, anyway.</a>"<br />
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Granted, he hasn't <i>officially</i> thrown his hat into the ring, but that's because it's his <i>winter</i> hat and he has problems unfastening the chin strap while wearing the mittens buttoned to his coat sleeves. And a friend of ours posited how much fun it would be if Joe had a match-up against General James Mattis, who could run as "Mad Dog 2020," thus endearing himself to generations of partiers who have a history with fortified wine.<br />
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Biden would, of course, bring a <i>lot</i> to such a contest. For one thing, he's a wacky old white guy with a disturbingly unnatural hairline, which was certainly popular in <i>this</i> election cycle. Additionally, he's pretty much the last major Democrat standing; Bernie will be in a soundproofed socialist rest home within four years (perhaps sharing a room with Castro's ashes), and in that same time frame we expect to find Hillary's well-pickled liver floating in a glass jar at the Smithsonian.<br />
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Still, all of this is actually <i>good</i> news according to Democrats like Nancy Pelosi...<br />
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The newly re-elected House Minority Leader and Botox spokesperson disagreed with reporters who found it odd that, in a time when voters clearly want change, Democratic House members decided to dust off an archeological relic like Nancy to guide them .<br />
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"<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/12/04/nancy-pelosi-i-dont-think-democrats-want-a-new-direction/" target="_blank">I don't think people want a new direction</a>," Nancy said through clenched teeth while compulsively blinking her tarantula-leg eyelashes. Really? Democrats were swooning over Bernie Sanders and the country actually <i>voted in Donald Trump</i> because they wanted to "stay the course" set by Obama and Pelosi? Seriously, this woman is on some kind of world class drugs. Not that we're ruling out senile dementia.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>DEC 7th, 2016: ANOTHER DAY OF INFAMY</b></u></span><br />
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The few remaining survivors of that horrible day 75 years ago now have the odd distinction of being attacked <i>twice</i> at Pearl Harbor...once by the Japanese, and once by the Obama administration.<br />
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Yes, we understand the symbolic importance of showing Japan and the United States united on this historic anniversary - but it could so easily have been presented to the public <i>without</i> accusing those aging heroes who <i>fought, bled, and saw their friends and shipmates blown to pieces, drowned, or burned alive</i> of "personal bitterness" if they haven't just "moved on" and made their peace with the horror of the sneak attack.<br />
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This appalling statement makes it clear that, in the mind of this administration, this anniversary is not about those who fought or died at Pearl Harbor, but rather about <i>one more fatuous photo-op with a foreign figurehead</i> for the sole benefit of the <i>second</i> greatest American tragedy to originate in Hawaii: Barack Hussein Obama.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993108951931633758.post-85622208808788355112016-12-05T00:01:00.000-06:002016-12-05T00:01:10.108-06:00What Are You Waiting Fir?!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>And he probably said where to put them.</i></td></tr>
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Here at <i>Hope n' Change</i>, we find that we're filled with radiant happiness each time Barack Obama does <i>anything</i> as president for the last time. It's a delightful reminder that his days in office - and our days of misery - are <i>literally</i> numbered.<br />
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To that end, we're happy to announce the addition of our new countdown clock which you can find in the top left column of this blog. We fretted briefly over whether it was unseemly and disrespectful to headline the clock as showing "time till the screen door hits Obama's ass," but after further introspection we realized that everything <i>else</i> we might have said would be considerably <i>more</i> unseemly and disrespectful.<br />
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Seriously, our constipated nation is waiting anxiously for its electoral enema to kick in so we can be rid of this guy. In fact, it now strikes us that we'd like to be at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue the day Barry makes his final goodbyes, so that we could then <i>blast the sound of a flushing toilet</i> through powerful amplifiers. Perhaps we should start a Kickstarter campaign...<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>BONUS: TWEET REVENGE</b></u></span><br />
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We almost (but not quite!) wish that Trump <i>would</i> fire off a few tweets like the one above, just to coax more screams and lamentations from those on the Left. Because we're getting <i>so</i> much enjoyment out of their ongoing suffering.<br />
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Then again, he doesn't actually need to toy with the Leftists because they're <i>already losing their minds over his excellent cabinet pics.</i> A Secretary of Defense who understands military might, wants to avoid war when possible, and values the lives and commitment of our troops? Horrors! A Secretary of Education who actually puts quality education (especially in our inner cities) ahead of protecting teachers unions? Madness!<br />
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If there's a connecting theme to Trump's picks to date, it's that he's eschewing the ivory tower academics who <i>claim</i> to be experts in their fields, and instead choosing people who have actually demonstrated significant <i>accomplishment</i> in those fields.<br />
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It really <i>is</i> beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.<br />
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In an unintentionally hilarious interview with <i>Rolling Stone</i> ragazine (spelling intentional), Barack Obama asserted that the reason Democrats got pulverized in the recent election is because "Fox News (is playing) in <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/obama-fox-news-hurt-democrats/2016/11/29/id/761220/" target="_blank">every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country</a>."<br />
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While demonstrably not true, <i>Hope n' Change</i> doesn't doubt that the insufferable dimwit-in-chief actually <i>believes</i> his fantasy because it protects him from taking personal responsibility for an historic electoral trouncing.<br />
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In Barry's mind, overstuffed white people would sit silent and transfixed at the local Cracker Barrel restaurant, sucking syrup out of their pancakes rather than chewing noisily, all the better to hear the Right Reverend Sean Hannity accuse Hillary Clinton of being a Martian. Or perhaps he imagines eerily quiet Happy Hours during which patrons sat on bar stools in hypnotic trances while the gospel of hate was preached by Bret Baier, Britt Hume, and other bomb-throwing radical conservatives.<br />
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Barry <i>did</i> concede that the Democrat party had a problem with messaging and getting the word out to voters - but we have to disagree. We think their message came through loud and clear: that under Obama, what <i>used</i> to be a part-time job is now considered a career. That a stagnant economy which benefits only the rich and well-connected is the new norm. That laws are only for little people to obey.<br />
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We got the message that the Left considers ordinary Americans (also called "a basket of Deplorables") to be racists, misogynists, xenophobes, homophobes, ignoramuses, gun nuts, religious fanatics, and potential terrorists.<br />
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We got the message that a boy who believes he's a girl has more rights than all of the <i>actual</i> girls in a school shower. We got the message that inner city schools should never be improved, and that loans for uselessly self-indulgent college degrees need never be paid back.<br />
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We got the message that there is no gestational time limit on killing the unborn, up to and including the moment of birth. We got the message that illegal aliens have a "right" to jobs and benefits that legal citizens lack. And we got the message that as bad as things were under Obama, they were about to get<i> a whole lot worse under Hillary</i>.<br />
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And then we voted.<br />
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Which is why Barack Obama's actual legacy may only turn out to be a few soon-forgotten interviews in yellowing issues of Rolling Stone.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>BONUS: DECEMBER ALREADY?!</b></u></span><br />
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Lots of you may be putting up Christmas decorations this weekend, which is why we're giving you a <b>FREE no-strings-attached downloadable album of relaxing instrumental Christmas music!</b><br />
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It's the "<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?ix217c2oc7miw24" target="_blank">Manhole Steamrising Complete Christmas Collection</a>," consisting of 15 soothing tracks of Christmas favorites, <i>two</i> of which are
"Adeste Fidelis" and are done (as Basil Fawlty would say on gourmet
night) "in two <i>extremely</i> different ways." <br />
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It's all perfectly legal, and you're free to share the music and/or the link with as many people as you like. In fact, we <i>encourage</i> you to share! Please! Tis the season!<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?ix217c2oc7miw24"> Just click this link to get your download started.</a><br />
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You'll end up with a ZIP file which, when double-clicked, will open up into a folder with your 15 songs in MP3 format. No spam, no viruses, no hassles whatsoever. Although if you downloaded the album when we offered it last year, you may experience some holiday <i>deja vu</i> while listening.<br />
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If you'd like to sample the music (or just enjoy it without downloading), we've also put the album on Youtube. Just click below to play!<br />
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