So you knew about the final five, which we mocked here. But could you have predicted the winner?
You know, the inquisitively sarcastic sentence “Seriously?” is thrown around a lot these days, but … wow.
How did this happen? Let’s find out:
Dateline: Washington, DC. Super Secret Meeting of the Slogan Selecting Committee, division of League of American Memo Experts, an organ of the DNC dedicated to producing and controlling memos, propaganda, and the annual “Inclusive Non-Denominational Holiday Celebration and non-Christian Religious Awareness Day”, the most off-the-hook sensitivity outreach in all of late-December.
Background for transcript: The slogan “Americans didn’t vote for a Rush to failure” has just been nominated as overall winner.
Stan: .. Because his name is Rush! Right? And he said Fail that one time, remember?
Bob: That’s a great point, Stan.
Jen: Stan you’re so clever I never thought of that.
KosKid: brah! I thought it was like, from failblog.
Jen: What’s failblog?
KosKid: Wha … ? Dude, look at that slogan. It’s like … moving.
Jen: Yes, I’m quite touched by it as well. It speaks to me.
KosKid: No seriously dude, it’s like, coming right at me!
Bob: Are we sure we don’t want to go with the actual winners?
Group: No Bob!
Jen: Bob, we really can’t fit the eff word that many times on a sign for one thing. For another thing, I don’t even know who chimpy mcbushitler …
KosKid: CHIMPY! ha ha ha dude, look at that slogan. Did it just grow?
Jen: … chimpy even is. And the runner up doesn’t even make sense. Rush Lied, People Died? How did that get submitted 1200 times?
KosKid: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Jen: I know right?
KosKid: No I was just thinking about grape ape. Ha ha. He’s purple.
Stan: I say we go with Rush to failure. It’s funny. It’s up with there with “Are You Gellin” “Jefferton Alive” and “I Got Lance In My Pants” as slogans go. It’s funny!
Jen: You’re so right Stan. I wish I had your understanding of humor.
Stan: Well, I do watch the Jon Stewart.
KosKid: Dude, that’s not … that’s a news show man.
Stan: … no, I know.
Jen: Good point … err what’s your name?
KosKid: I go by my username. repugsaretehsuk37
Jen: Ok, it’s decided. We’ll put up a billboard in Rush’s hometown that says “Americans didn’t vote for a Rush to failure.” Because it’s super cool and funny and not lame.
Group: IN THE NAME OF OBAMA!
Jen: So .. anyone know where he lives?
KosKid: Seriously? I heard he has a castle? In Transylvania? Where him and Darth Cheney and Scumsfeld eat babies for breakfast and don’t recycle anything. That stuff happens man, Vis has foreseen it.
Stan: No, no, he lives in Rio Linda …
They had to cut the meeting short there. Everyone had Obama campaign rallies (yes, they still do those) to organize, taxes to hike, abortions to get to, and the press to control. The life of a Democrat is busy.
See also: Michelle Malkin and Don Surber.
UPDATE: Ed Morrissey has a response slogan here. Heh.
Still, I think we all know what the sign REALLY means to say:
- Caleb Howe
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Failblog
weave (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 11:34AM EST (link)Since it was mentioned, failblog.org is always good for a laugh! One of my fave sites.
failblog.org
It's true, Americans didn't vote for a Rush to failure...
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 11:41AM EST (link)…they voted for an Obama to failure!!!!!
Just Wow
MikeO Thursday, March 12th at 12:20PM EST (link)Americans didn’t vote for a Rush to failure. . .
But that’s what we GOT. GO figure.
(with your stylized “O” standing-in twice)
That's what I was thinking.
USNJIMRET (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 12:35PM EST (link)With The One having so many irons in the fire, with teams of people holding “sessions” on everything he can think of to stick the Governments nose into, it DOES seem like he is rushing around trying to do way to damn much all at once.
Some of which, all of which (?), is bound to become an epic fail.
Ah...so the wise guy response would be..
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 12:42PM EST (link)…but that’s not stopping Øbama
It's so easy to modify billboards
Beaglescout (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 4:03PM EST (link)Someone would definitely get up there and write something like “…but that’s what Obama is giving us” or what you said.
Present Obama, the zero we can believe in.
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
"A for Effort"
MikeO Thursday, March 12th at 1:49PM EST (link)It is politically incorrect to measure success by anything other than the amount of activity stirred-up.
Judging by outcomes is just not fair.
...or, "So what's up with the rush to failure, Obama?" nt
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 12:45PM EST (link)Warner Todd Hudson: Dems Push Another Fake 'Fair' Bill That Will Kill Online Science Research Publishing
Xasteius (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 11:46AM EST (link)Link here.
This really ticks me off because I have used such services as osti.gov to freely download papers for my research rather than going to a science journal and paying $37 for a 12 page paper. Granted, my advisor has said that the university will pay for it, but I don’t want to wait for reimbursement (and being a graduate student in a recession, the pennies add up).
Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.
I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.
The government will no longer subsidize piracy?
Next93 (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 10:48PM EST (link)I guess I’m missing something. If the paper in question was published in a journal, doesn’t the journal have the copyright, which means they literally have a right to be paid for copies?
If the government web site is providing you with the downloads without paying the publishers, then they’re engaged in theft from the journal owners. If they’re paying the fee for you, then they’re subsidizing your research without any kind of oversight.
I agree that $37 is steep, and I also see the benefit to society to make scientific information available, but I just don’t but the idea that this is something the government shold be doing.
Seems to me that this was a givernment boondogle that should have been closed.
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.
Intellectual property law is strangling scientific progress
Beaglescout (Diary) Friday, March 13th at 12:02AM EST (link)Science depends on the sharing of information. It is no mistake that the greatest progress in computing these days is happening in open systems. And the greatest tragedy in science is the copyrighting of genetic sequences, which means technology based on them will not reach wide circulation for at least a hundred years, maybe longer depending on how long the US copyright laws keep kowtowing to the national “need” to protect Mickey Mouse from copying.
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
No, those are research papers done by scientists in national labs
Xasteius (Diary) Friday, March 13th at 12:08AM EST (link)This stuff is cleared for public us; it’s not piracy
Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.
I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.
The journals charge you for research papers originating in the government that you can obtain legally from the government for no cost! nt
Xasteius (Diary) Friday, March 13th at 12:14AM EST (link)Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.
I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.
Work by government agencies are in the public domain by law
civil truth (Diary) Friday, March 13th at 1:29AM EST (link)This make sense because the taxpayers are funding it.
What this bill apparently would do is to give what is rightly in the public domains to private groups who would charge us for what we’ve already paid for.
As I wrote before, this is theft of public property for the benefit of these journals, for who knows what political payback.
http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/03/11/dems-push-another-fake-fair-bill-that-will-kill-online-science-research-publishing/#comment-3764
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
Go buy a nautical chart sometime.
Achance (Diary) Friday, March 13th at 4:09AM EST (link)Just in case I have some sort of electrical or electronic catastophe, I have paper charts for everything within 100 miles or so of Juneau. I’m almost $200 poorer! Everything on that chart was done at public expense by NOAA, the USCG, and the Navy. The outfit I bought them from is heavily subsidized by both the State and federal governments. I don’t mind paying for some ink and paper, but that seems a bit stiff! Then, to be legal if you’re licensed you have to go to the USCG Notices to Mariners every week and update the chart and keep a log of all the updates you do.
The cartography for my GPS chartplotter is based on the same charts. $200 will buy you all the charts from Dixon Entrance to Cape Yakutage, all of Southeast Alaska and the Inside Passage. $200 seems to be the magic number! You can subscribe to an update service for $50 or so a year; they send you a new memory card and you send your old one back. If you don’t send your old one back, you get hit for another $200.
Interestingly, access to the government’s horrendously expensive GPS system is free although they reserve the right to degrade it or turn it off altogether without a “by your leave.” Alaska Airlines and the FAA prototyped the GPS landing system for civilian airliners here – with a lot of appropriation help from the evil Sen. Stevens. GPS here is so accurate that I can literally put my boat at the face of my slip without ever looking up from the chartplotter screen. I’ve done it just to be sure; just had my wife keep a sea watch and drove in strictly on the GPS.
In Vino Veritas
Aeronautical charts are worse
Next93 (Diary) Friday, March 13th at 12:27PM EST (link)According to the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs), you’re supposed to replace your aeronautical charts every 18 months. I think approach plates for IFR operations are even more often.
Problem is, someone has to pay for the printing of those charts, and they’re high-precision multicolor offset prints, which means a lot of setup time. Those costs are amortized across a pretty small pool of consumers, and to make it worth the printer’s time, the margins need to be pretty high.
As they say in the aviation world:
Question: “What is the force that keeps airplanes in the sky?”
Answer: “Money.”
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.
That same force is what keeps boats afloat. nt
Achance (Diary) Friday, March 13th at 12:31PM EST (link)In Vino Veritas
This would be funny
AHALgal Thursday, March 12th at 12:30PM EST (link)if it wasn’t so darn true.
Join the RedState Strike Force
Pathetically true.
Steph C (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 12:40PM EST (link)Which just makes it sad. Obama is doing his job well as chief community organizer. When he’s done using Limbaugh as a target, he’ll need another one. If he doesn’t keep his herd whipped up into a seething froth of anger, he’ll lose them and he knows it. Nobody thinks coherently when they’re angry.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics
At least we can take comfort that employment has picked up
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 1:04PM EST (link)in the bus roadkill profession.
Does anyone know about HR 875 ?
mom2oneson (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 12:31PM EST (link)Moms on the internet are concerned they won’t be able to garden or buy produce at the farmers market. Would you post if you know about it?
I just read about it Mom
barry915barry (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 12:58PM EST (link)It actually has 40 sponsors/co-sponsors (all dems). It is in committee. I would like to think that even the Dems are not stupid enough to try and pass this as written. Where do they come up with this stuff. The main sponsor has a husband who works for Monsanto apparently. It is all about requiring pesticides, etc.
HR 875
Xasteius (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 1:00PM EST (link)Link to actual bill and Campaign for Liberty’s summary.
Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.
I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.
HR 875 no longer found
ehosterman (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 1:16PM EST (link)on that search.
So can I tell my girlfriends
mom2oneson (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 1:35PM EST (link)they have nothing to worry about?
Thank you for youer help! ! ! ! ! ! !
No, I was just saying that I couldn't find the Bill on the link listed.
ehosterman (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 1:45PM EST (link)I did find it here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.875.IH:
Is there like a bill change subscribe to feature anywhere?
mom2oneson (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 3:35PM EST (link)So if anything changes or gets voted it will get sent to my inbox?
I still can’t see it, just the senate 425 version.
For some reason, the Thomas Links don't Open
ehosterman (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 7:46PM EST (link)Here is a link to a pdf of the bill.
www.nutfruit.org/UserFiles/Image/pdf/reg10_feb09.pdf
thank you (nt)
mom2oneson (Diary) Friday, March 13th at 1:57AM EST (link)Thanks ehosterman nt
Xasteius (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 4:28PM EST (link)Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.
I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.
I'll stop listeing to Rush when BHO stops listening to Ayres
NickDeringer (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 12:59PM EST (link)Catchy…
NickDeringer
I'll stop listening to Rush when he no longer is broadcasting. NT
USNJIMRET (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 1:17PM EST (link)My Favorite:
smitch61 Thursday, March 12th at 1:13PM EST (link)I saw this on a blog and thought it was perfect for the billboard.
“Your safer driving home with me, than you are with Teddy Kennedy”
Takes me back to the 70's
Next93 (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 10:54PM EST (link)Back int he 70′s there were a number of groups soliciting in virtually every airport in the country (ok, not in the St. Lawrence County Airport in Massena, NY, but just about every other airport). One of those groups wanted expanded federal funding for fusion energy research (I never really understood why they needed my spare change to do this). They had a poster that read “Nuclear power is safer than Ted Kennedy’s car!”
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.
nice rhyme -nt-
Beaglescout (Diary) Friday, March 13th at 12:04AM EST (link).
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
The REAL Democraptic Message
izoneguy (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 1:31PM EST (link)The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
LOL (nt)
mom2oneson (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 1:32PM EST (link)heh, nice -nt
Caleb Howe (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 1:51PM EST (link)Caleb Howe (formerly known as absentee)
5555555!!!!! -nt
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 2:14PM EST (link)Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Some people have e-mailed me
gekster (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 3:04PM EST (link)about why they havn’t seen me on RedState for the last two weeks.
I gave myself a one month ban on blogging for behavior unbecoming a gekster.
I feel I lost the reason why I came here in the first place, wich was basically for political discussion, and I hope to find it again.
be back on 4-2
please no replies. thanks
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved
What?
speciallist (Diary) Thursday, March 12th at 3:35PM EST (link)you really need to elaborate…so we know what you’re talking about
I have an idea what you mean, but I’m not quite sure
please explain
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