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Oh, how I love the easy ones

Oh, THANK you, Obama for your wonderful ham-handedness. In case you missed it in the comments, here is the new Forward logo in white on black and here it is black on white. Traced from the video, so it’s pretty close. These are probably big enough to roll your own t-shirts and bumper stickers, but I can supply other sizes or formats (including .psd) should anyone require.

Hm. It just occurred to me — “forward” is another way to say “stay the same.” A neat bookend to the “change” slogan of 2008, no?

Speaking of stupid, Obama could have had days of positive coverage on the anniversary of the bin Laden raid, without a peep of partisan dissent — if only he could’ve played it like a grownup. But no, he had to go and imply that Romney wouldn’t be man enough to, um, return a phone call. Handing Romney a personally autographed permission slip to utter the bestest one-liner of the political season:

Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.

Grossly unfair to Jimmy Carter, but it was wicked funny. Also, fuck it — Jimmy Carter.

Errors not so funny: is it a good idea to observe the anniversary of OBL’s death in Afghanistan? Even the Afghanis inclined to approve of us and disapprove of him can’t be filled with joy at the killing of a co-religionist. People take these things personally. And the Talibunnies must be fucking furious.

I admit, I’m lost in the regional/sectarian nuances of the Ummah, but this strikes me as a gesture that makes lives in danger more endangered.

Comments


Comment from Nina
Time: May 1, 2012, 10:51 pm

Yeah, that was a good line by Romney, not normally a guy to make me yuk it up.

So how’s that drought treating you and the Badger, Stoaty? My daughter says she’s close to drowning there in Kingston upon Hull. She’s been blowing up her water wings just in case it droughts a little more.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 1, 2012, 11:05 pm

Oh, standing pools in the fields, lambs drowning in the ditches – the usual. They aren’t lifting the hosepipe ban, though.

Happily, though, they’ve been hilariously wrong with the forecasts this week. The days have been glorious, sunny, warm and clear. The rains have rained at night.

Here’s the thing English people keep under their silly hats — when the weather is nice here, it is sublime. And it’s nice here a LOT more often than you’d think.


Comment from sandman says nothing to see here
Time: May 1, 2012, 11:34 pm

Ummah is the term used to describe the who;le of the Muslim world community. So, when a guy named Abdul hikes up his manBurqa® and goes to town on whatever has the bad fortune to fall asleep on his side of the sand dune.

Used in a sentence:”Ummah get me some o” dat camel”

word


Comment from Davem123
Time: May 2, 2012, 12:11 am

Words fail me. Has there ever been a greater convergence of arrogance and ignorance?


Comment from sandman says nothing to see here
Time: May 2, 2012, 12:14 am

😛


Comment from Feynmangroupie
Time: May 2, 2012, 1:18 am

That article made me nauseous.

“the President always planned to spend today [the one-year anniversary of bin Laden’s death] with the troops,” a senior official told reporters on a call. “What better way to spend it than by thanking those who made it happen?”

There is nothing deployed troops love more than standing at attention, and listening to speeches!!! RAH RAH RAH!!! Who needs self-love when you have masturbation personified walking amongst you? Even better is the cloying non-praise!

“That could’ve only happened because each and everyone of you in your own way were doing your jobs.”

Because you’re all special little flowers, and I just know you’ll vote for the most awesome of all the special flowers that exist.


Comment from Mike James
Time: May 2, 2012, 1:55 am

“I admit, I’m lost in the regional/sectarian nuances of the Ummah, but this strikes me as a gesture that makes lives in danger more endangered.”

It’s an end zone celebration. We all pretty much saw it coming. Pity some civic-minded sort on the JCS couldn’t have contacted an escort service in Kabul for the SS protective detail.


Comment from Subotai Bahadur
Time: May 2, 2012, 2:11 am

SWeasel, that ain’t the half of it. Even if they were not Wahabists or followers of Bin Laden, he was whacked by Infidels. That requires a counter-whacking. And if that moment should come, guess which people are going to be expected to sacrifice themselves to protect the worthless skin of the National Command Authority? The very same ones whose sacrifices he routinely trashes and who he is now using as a campaign commercial to make himself look … well, like an American president. It is enough to make me lapse into Chinese obscenities.

Feynmangroupie

…when you have masturbation personified walking amongst you …

With all due respect, I think you missed a word. Should read, I believe:

“when you have impotent masturbation personified walking amongst you”

SWeasel, thanks for the image. Consider it stolen with intent to cause confusion and rage to the enemy.

Subotai Bahadur


Comment from Oceania
Time: May 2, 2012, 2:49 am

Radiation.
You Americans do not ever realize that radiation turned this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYHuJayozus


Comment from Oceania
Time: May 2, 2012, 2:49 am

to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsKO_r76kfQ


Comment from SCOTTtheBADGER
Time: May 2, 2012, 3:02 am

Nice illustration, Madame Weasel! Around 90% of the photos of TITANIC are really of her sister, OLYMPIC, who lived 26 years longer than her younger sister. Your photo is, indeed, of TITANIC, with her enclosed A Deck Promenade. WELL DONE, THAT WEASEL!

Judging by the photo taken the day after my a rescue ship, of a berg with a stripe of red paint at the waterline, you even have the right berg. You are a resourcefull and sagatious mustilied, indeed!


Comment from Feynmangroupie
Time: May 2, 2012, 3:08 am

Subotai,

That dude is positively priapic when it comes to the self-love, and I am speaking euphemistically and metaphorically. The hard-on he has for himself is epic. He never tires of politically and verbally fondling himself.


Comment from Feynmangroupie
Time: May 2, 2012, 3:17 am

Stoaty can you turn that image into an animation of the boat, from first person perspective, moving toward a change-colored iceberg? Maybe the occasional figure flinging itself off the side? Cuz that would be positively hypnotic, and the Dems would probably assume that it was the sun or something equally hopeful.

I don’t know if my mood can get any more forward.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 2, 2012, 9:32 am

I knew it! I *knew* there’d be a Titanic geek among my readers.

I was going to go with lemming imagery, but then I thought about drawing hundreds of the little buggers and lost my nerve.


Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: May 2, 2012, 12:37 pm

OK. Off to Guanzhou tomorrow to tour a few sweat shops, and then home to the people’s republic of Eugene.

Dinner tonight was alligator, the prawns that ate Philiadelphia, and various molluscs, (of which I cannot partake due to a sensitivity) and urchin roe in a savory egg custard.

Anaconda and most of the other behemoths of the water were on the menu, but I’m only one guy.

We had a Pure Land Nun in tow, so there were veggies, rice, tofu and mushrooms as well.

One more night of feasting and boozing, and then brown rice and distilled water for a while.

Sweas, I hope you don’t mind me unloading here. My own blog is blocked, and I just have to tell somebody!


Comment from Elphaba
Time: May 2, 2012, 1:47 pm

You are spot on about POTUS’s speech making things more dangerous in Afghanistan. Check it out: http://twitchy.com/2012/05/01/kabul-embassy-in-trouble-just-hours-after-obama-speech/


Comment from nightfly
Time: May 2, 2012, 2:11 pm

With respect, I have to offer a clarification. Spiking the football is, indeed, classless, and especially when you’re trailing by nineteen touchdowns like President Kotite here. But this is worse – this is more akin to Terrell Owens sprinting to the star at the 50-yard line in Dallas.

Vote Teague 2012.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 2, 2012, 2:20 pm

I think it’s awesome, Bob. If I’d known about your trip ahead of time, I’d happily have set you up with a guest blogging gig or something.


Comment from yippee mcskittles bear mcsandman
Time: May 2, 2012, 4:37 pm

Nice illustration, Madame Weasel! Around 90% of the photos of TITANIC are really of her sister, OLYMPIC, who lived 26 years longer than her younger sister. Your photo is, indeed, of TITANIC, with her enclosed A Deck Promenade. WELL DONE, THAT WEASEL!

Judging by the photo taken the day after my a rescue ship, of a berg with a stripe of red paint at the waterline, you even have the right berg. You are a resourcefull and sagatious mustilied, indeed.

Swease, you have two Titanic *Geeks* in your audience. I was a fan of the White Star Line before anyone ever made a Leo Dicrappacino movie about it.

Briefly:

There were originally three sisters: Titanic, Brittanic, and Olympic. The Titanic ate an ice cube, Britannic was taken custody of by the UK gubmint and sank during 1916 in WW1, and Olympic was hit by a torpedo, and rammed and sank a German sub for their trouble. She was damaged but not sunk.
The tough old gal was decommissioned after the White Star Line was merged with its competitor, Cunard Line, and that was around ’34 or ’35. Scrapped in ’36 or ’37.

Cunard Lines had Mauritania, Lusitania, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria and the like.

The more romantic line for me was The White Star and its tragic fate. But the more successful, in all truth, was Cunard, which survived until 2005 and is now part of Princess Lines, I think.

The HQ of each is in Liverpool, with Cunard being the more grandiose, or garish if you like, and quite close to one another. The London offices of White Star, the building at least, Oceanic House, are off Trafalgar Square.

The naming of ships for royalty was a Cunard quirk. White Star ended nearly every ship name with “-ic”, for some reason.

I love old shiite like this. Stuff you find pics of on Shorpy.

I’m a sentimental old curmudgeon.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 2, 2012, 5:05 pm

Oh, the afternoons I’ve lost to Shorpy!


Comment from Mike James
Time: May 2, 2012, 5:31 pm

Sorry, forgot the two links in the spam filter thing. Me stupid.


Comment from Feynmangroupie
Time: May 2, 2012, 5:47 pm

Mr. Mulroy,

Must you toy with us with mere words? Where are the photos? The only image that comes to mind, when I read your description of dinner, is the feasting scene from Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom.

I hope you plan on giving lots more details on your blog upon your return.

Stoaty, make him share!


Comment from sandman says : I friggin miss Earl already…
Time: May 2, 2012, 8:08 pm

Yeah, Stoaty:

I have some odd fixation on the first half of the 20th Century. I just think people, for the most part had a better work and personal ethic. I mean people were still turds and what have you but not to the point that it would become its own industry, like now.

I sometimes go through Shorpy looking for iconic images to draw, modify, or even air brush themes, like that. Plenty of silly stuff over there. I particularly like the many Civil War photos.

I especially like that there are no Jacksons or Sharptons or amoral Kardashians slithering about looking to hook-up with the sleaziest thing not related to them by blood.

I guess in some ways, I am not a big fam our current day and time.

Oh, this just in; Barky is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable dog-eating football spiking man-lover.

you may now return to your bloggings, thank you kindly.

Mis-management.


Comment from SCOTTtheBADGER
Time: May 3, 2012, 2:04 am

I am a daily Shorpy visitor, as well. Such a wonderful site!


Comment from Noelegy
Time: May 7, 2012, 8:53 pm

Count me among the Geeks Titanica. I got ridiculously interested in the event a couple of years before the Cameron movie came out (and thus have read yea books on the subject) and while I could take or leave the fictional Jack-and-Rose romance, I thought the parts they didn’t make up were just fine.


Comment from RightWingNutter
Time: May 11, 2012, 6:36 pm

I love stretching metaphors. In this case, if the Titanic had actually continued “Forward” and smashed straight on into the ‘burg, it would have probably survived. However, the helmsman sent it hard to port (Left!) and as a consequence ripped half the side open, making its sinking inevitable.

Send this guy back to the White House for another four and we’re all sunk.


Comment from Sporadic Small Arms Fire
Time: December 7, 2012, 4:52 pm

I wonder if this flick would make a good companion disc to the blueray edition of Cameron’s unwieldy money-barge.

http://y2u.be/VfPtDvm3a_s

What do you think, Sandman, Noelegy?
M P letters on the stern (if indeed present there) ought to settle the debate?

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