It is shameful to question the Nobel Prize Committee’s choice of United States President Barack Obama for the International Peace Prize. During the nine plus months of his administration President Obama has:
--Not started a new war even though it is obvious that the American people are tired of Iraq and Afghanistan.
--Bartended for a Boston Police Officer and Harvard Professor.
--Addressed the world’s Muslims and secured peace and security for the state of Israel.
--Not fought publicly with his wife First Lady Michelle Obama and ended domestic violence not only in the present but retroactively back two generations erasing scars of abuse suffered by millions of women and former children.
--Looked good in suits.
--Given the United States Congress the opportunity to make fools of themselves.
--Stood up for a College Football Bowl Championship Playoffs.
--Domesticated Rahm Emanuel at least for now.
--Given Joe Biden a job.
--Given Hilary Clinton a job.
--Extended my unemployment benefits.
Don Arrup
Satire1
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
Health Care Reform-Hitler or Stalin
Radio Tyrants, Death Panels, Socialism National and Communist.
We have to cut down costs or the current growth of insurance companies profits will be unsustainable. . Don’t have to worry about the drug companies. A handshake behind closed doors. What are we fighting about? It’s over.
Public option? We have that now. Just wait a minute and two more families qualify for Medicaid.
Hey, we’re fat and broke and diabetic. Time to do nothing.
They’re fighting like kids in a schoolyard. Everybody wants change. Everybody promises change but you don’t have to change if you like your coverage. What would you rather have- higher taxes or higher premiums? You’ll get both, I promise you.
It will bankrupt the country. It’s bankrupting the country right now.
Its revenue neutral- like World War Two. How long do you have to stand and shit on this Earth before you realize that everything everything everything takes four times as long, terrifies at least half those involved, conjures setbacks, obstacles, tornadoes, typhoons, scandals, prosecutions and will cost at least ten times as much as the guys who couldn’t get laid in college and now are middle aged assure. Assure, you know, that’s the name of the best selling adult diaper. Or is that Depends?
The Republicans piss off and the Democrats shit pants. Your tax dollars at work.
Don Arrup
Satire1
We have to cut down costs or the current growth of insurance companies profits will be unsustainable. . Don’t have to worry about the drug companies. A handshake behind closed doors. What are we fighting about? It’s over.
Public option? We have that now. Just wait a minute and two more families qualify for Medicaid.
Hey, we’re fat and broke and diabetic. Time to do nothing.
They’re fighting like kids in a schoolyard. Everybody wants change. Everybody promises change but you don’t have to change if you like your coverage. What would you rather have- higher taxes or higher premiums? You’ll get both, I promise you.
It will bankrupt the country. It’s bankrupting the country right now.
Its revenue neutral- like World War Two. How long do you have to stand and shit on this Earth before you realize that everything everything everything takes four times as long, terrifies at least half those involved, conjures setbacks, obstacles, tornadoes, typhoons, scandals, prosecutions and will cost at least ten times as much as the guys who couldn’t get laid in college and now are middle aged assure. Assure, you know, that’s the name of the best selling adult diaper. Or is that Depends?
The Republicans piss off and the Democrats shit pants. Your tax dollars at work.
Don Arrup
Satire1
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Obama Offers Palin Seat On Death Panel
In a bi-partisan gesture President Obama publicly offered former Alaskan Governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Rah Rah Palin a seat on the proposed death panel- the headstone of his Health Care Reform plan.
“If Governor Palin is afraid we’ll throw her baby in the gas chamber to reduce health care costs I as a parent can understand that. There have been many nights when the First Lady and I stayed up till dawn trying to figure out just what exactly we would do if the government came and took our daughters. We know the insurance company will murder them if either of them develops an expensive condition. But that’s all of us.”
“If Governor Palin feels that she will have no say in the fate of her baby then I am extending a seat on the Death Panel where her vote will have equal weight with the other fifteen panel members of her region.”
“Though not all the details of these panels has been ironed out between the 846 different Health Care Reform bills under consideration it is my understanding that most of them seek to model the historically successful Star Chamber of the Grand Inquisition and the Final Solution Committee of the Third Reich’s SS.”
“And they will be uniquely American Death Panels reflecting our community values of fairness and compassion. There will be no consideration given to the victim’s race, religion or gender. Only the viability of treatment and whether the victim is someone most of us would like to sleep with will be considered. The poor and disadvantaged will get an immediate pass to gas chambers through Medicaid with the federal government footing the cremation as well. I think that’s only fair.”
Don Arrup
Satire1
“If Governor Palin is afraid we’ll throw her baby in the gas chamber to reduce health care costs I as a parent can understand that. There have been many nights when the First Lady and I stayed up till dawn trying to figure out just what exactly we would do if the government came and took our daughters. We know the insurance company will murder them if either of them develops an expensive condition. But that’s all of us.”
“If Governor Palin feels that she will have no say in the fate of her baby then I am extending a seat on the Death Panel where her vote will have equal weight with the other fifteen panel members of her region.”
“Though not all the details of these panels has been ironed out between the 846 different Health Care Reform bills under consideration it is my understanding that most of them seek to model the historically successful Star Chamber of the Grand Inquisition and the Final Solution Committee of the Third Reich’s SS.”
“And they will be uniquely American Death Panels reflecting our community values of fairness and compassion. There will be no consideration given to the victim’s race, religion or gender. Only the viability of treatment and whether the victim is someone most of us would like to sleep with will be considered. The poor and disadvantaged will get an immediate pass to gas chambers through Medicaid with the federal government footing the cremation as well. I think that’s only fair.”
Don Arrup
Satire1
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Where's Obama?
Rumors, riots, demonstrations and spontaneous marches took place across the nation as the American public turned on their television sets Thursday night and President Obama was not lecturing the nation on the need to be calm.
“He wasn’t on Today or Oprah or whoever does the Tonight Show. Where is Obama? Do we still have a President?”
“They couldn’t have impeached him since yesterday. I thought it must be a conspiracy.”
“Obama’s been turning grey so quickly I thought maybe Michelle made him quit.”
“I think he made himself sick trying to push Health Care reform through.”
As Obama’s absence from the airways continued into Friday afternoon panic began to grip the nation. Commentators offered little solace with half hearted speculations that President Obama might be holed up in the Oval Office actually executing his duties as chief executive officer of the United States.
“I didn’t vote for him to be doing that same old crap. I voted for him to be on TV telling the country every night that The Man for once isn’t a white guy.”
“Maybe he’s on vacation. Does he have a ranch like the last one?”
“At least when he was overseas we knew where he was. Like that African country that fights Star Trek.”
“I never knew what he was talking about but I knew he was talking to me.”
Don Arrup
Satire1
“He wasn’t on Today or Oprah or whoever does the Tonight Show. Where is Obama? Do we still have a President?”
“They couldn’t have impeached him since yesterday. I thought it must be a conspiracy.”
“Obama’s been turning grey so quickly I thought maybe Michelle made him quit.”
“I think he made himself sick trying to push Health Care reform through.”
As Obama’s absence from the airways continued into Friday afternoon panic began to grip the nation. Commentators offered little solace with half hearted speculations that President Obama might be holed up in the Oval Office actually executing his duties as chief executive officer of the United States.
“I didn’t vote for him to be doing that same old crap. I voted for him to be on TV telling the country every night that The Man for once isn’t a white guy.”
“Maybe he’s on vacation. Does he have a ranch like the last one?”
“At least when he was overseas we knew where he was. Like that African country that fights Star Trek.”
“I never knew what he was talking about but I knew he was talking to me.”
Don Arrup
Satire1
Saturday, July 18, 2009
You Judge
Satire1’s favorite excerpts from the Judge Sotomayor’s Senate Confirmation Hearings:
Sen. Hitler
“In a speech to mongrel Affirmative Action communists you were quoted as saying that you hoped that ‘an older Latina woman’ would make a wiser decision than a white man. It’s a common conceit among all groups, since everyone is a minority of one form or another that their group’s suffering is unique and gives them a special insight not available to outsiders. So my question to you is this. Do you think that I by virtue of my race have a smaller penis than the average Latino man?”
Soto
“ Penis size is not a factor that I generally take into account when judging a case.
Sen. Hitler
“Let’s be honest, Maria, you can feel my probe right now. Do I feel like someone you would like to date if you were single?”
Soto
“I think you would have a better time with Justice Roberts.”
Sen. Marx
“I’ve noted in your biography, Judge, that you grew up in government owned housing in the Bronx borough of New York City. You were nourished by the federal government’s food stamp program and clothed by welfare checks. You attended New York City public schools where you were taught that your state was your father and the city your mother and that the federal government alone is god. Having reaped the bounty of our socialist paradise you attended Princeton and Yale Law School on scholarship and attained as fine an education as the world offers. So would you explain to me, Judge, in your own personal opinion why your borough alone among the five is preceded by ‘the’ and do you think that I might simply refer to it as Bronx and not the Bronx?”
Soto
“You do and I will be needing the services of your proctologist to retrieve my gavel.”
Sen. Gun
“Judge, the second amendment of the Constitution states that ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.’ Now, in your legal opinion, don’t you think that the founding fathers also intended that the people had the right to keep their legs as well and that their legs should not be infringed upon?
Soto
“Though I am not a social historian my understanding of the time in which the Constitution was written local laws forbade bare legs in public.”
Sen. Gun
“Judge, why is Militia capitalized and the people written in lower case?”
Soto
“As I used to tell my classes at Columbia Law Militia here refers to what we would today call a gang. Gangs of that era raped women who worked outside their homes; hunted down escaped slaves and bondsmen; murdered debtors and bill collectors; suppressed free speech and generally maintained what was then considered civil society. Their reference is capitalized in deference to their close proximity to the chambers in which the Constitution was voted on.”
Sen. Dove
“Your Honor, do you believe that torture can be exempted from the Constitution’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment if the tortured is a candidate for lifelong tenure on the United States Supreme Court?
Soto
“The separation of powers delineated in the Constitution puts the floor of both the House of Representatives and the Senate beyond the reach of the courts. Thus the history of canings, shootings and murders in which the legislative representatives of the people are a law or lawlessness unto themselves.”
Sen. Hawk
“Do you, Judge, believe there are activist judges?
Soto
“I take the fifth.”
Sen. Hawk
“Amendment or rum?”
Soto
“Both.”
Sen. Bun
“Judge, is there any mention of marriage, abortion, stem cells, second hand smoke, greenhouse gases, healthcare, bailouts, the Internet or your shoes in the Constitution?”
Soto
“ A properly tailored robe hides a judge’s feet. Neither the plaintive nor the defendant knows if the judge is in fact wearing shoes at all. Justice is not blind but blindfolded and there is a difference between being sightless and voluntarily surrendering sight temporarily for the purpose of an ideal. But the blindfold that Justice wears is of necessity loose so that our personified virtue can see where she is stepping. Justice is not interested in our face but I suspect that since she is a female deity or ideal that she is deeply fascinated by our footwear or lack thereof. I am here in Washington to provide the members of this committee with every opportunity to posture, grandstand, pontificate and show off for the cameras. I have been grilled over senseless abstractions posing as legal questions, particular phrases I used in hour long lectures delivered over a decade ago, the effect my television viewing choices in childhood had on my subsequent legal career and whether I put out on the first date. If confirmed I will be the third woman to serve on the nation’s highest court and I chose to refer to my judicial robe as a moo moo in the company of friends. Thank you, Senators.”
Don Arrup
Satire1
Sen. Hitler
“In a speech to mongrel Affirmative Action communists you were quoted as saying that you hoped that ‘an older Latina woman’ would make a wiser decision than a white man. It’s a common conceit among all groups, since everyone is a minority of one form or another that their group’s suffering is unique and gives them a special insight not available to outsiders. So my question to you is this. Do you think that I by virtue of my race have a smaller penis than the average Latino man?”
Soto
“ Penis size is not a factor that I generally take into account when judging a case.
Sen. Hitler
“Let’s be honest, Maria, you can feel my probe right now. Do I feel like someone you would like to date if you were single?”
Soto
“I think you would have a better time with Justice Roberts.”
Sen. Marx
“I’ve noted in your biography, Judge, that you grew up in government owned housing in the Bronx borough of New York City. You were nourished by the federal government’s food stamp program and clothed by welfare checks. You attended New York City public schools where you were taught that your state was your father and the city your mother and that the federal government alone is god. Having reaped the bounty of our socialist paradise you attended Princeton and Yale Law School on scholarship and attained as fine an education as the world offers. So would you explain to me, Judge, in your own personal opinion why your borough alone among the five is preceded by ‘the’ and do you think that I might simply refer to it as Bronx and not the Bronx?”
Soto
“You do and I will be needing the services of your proctologist to retrieve my gavel.”
Sen. Gun
“Judge, the second amendment of the Constitution states that ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.’ Now, in your legal opinion, don’t you think that the founding fathers also intended that the people had the right to keep their legs as well and that their legs should not be infringed upon?
Soto
“Though I am not a social historian my understanding of the time in which the Constitution was written local laws forbade bare legs in public.”
Sen. Gun
“Judge, why is Militia capitalized and the people written in lower case?”
Soto
“As I used to tell my classes at Columbia Law Militia here refers to what we would today call a gang. Gangs of that era raped women who worked outside their homes; hunted down escaped slaves and bondsmen; murdered debtors and bill collectors; suppressed free speech and generally maintained what was then considered civil society. Their reference is capitalized in deference to their close proximity to the chambers in which the Constitution was voted on.”
Sen. Dove
“Your Honor, do you believe that torture can be exempted from the Constitution’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment if the tortured is a candidate for lifelong tenure on the United States Supreme Court?
Soto
“The separation of powers delineated in the Constitution puts the floor of both the House of Representatives and the Senate beyond the reach of the courts. Thus the history of canings, shootings and murders in which the legislative representatives of the people are a law or lawlessness unto themselves.”
Sen. Hawk
“Do you, Judge, believe there are activist judges?
Soto
“I take the fifth.”
Sen. Hawk
“Amendment or rum?”
Soto
“Both.”
Sen. Bun
“Judge, is there any mention of marriage, abortion, stem cells, second hand smoke, greenhouse gases, healthcare, bailouts, the Internet or your shoes in the Constitution?”
Soto
“ A properly tailored robe hides a judge’s feet. Neither the plaintive nor the defendant knows if the judge is in fact wearing shoes at all. Justice is not blind but blindfolded and there is a difference between being sightless and voluntarily surrendering sight temporarily for the purpose of an ideal. But the blindfold that Justice wears is of necessity loose so that our personified virtue can see where she is stepping. Justice is not interested in our face but I suspect that since she is a female deity or ideal that she is deeply fascinated by our footwear or lack thereof. I am here in Washington to provide the members of this committee with every opportunity to posture, grandstand, pontificate and show off for the cameras. I have been grilled over senseless abstractions posing as legal questions, particular phrases I used in hour long lectures delivered over a decade ago, the effect my television viewing choices in childhood had on my subsequent legal career and whether I put out on the first date. If confirmed I will be the third woman to serve on the nation’s highest court and I chose to refer to my judicial robe as a moo moo in the company of friends. Thank you, Senators.”
Don Arrup
Satire1
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