Yes, April 14-15, 2012 is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. On that fateful night in 1912, the great White Star ocean liner struck an iceberg and sank, taking 1,517 crew and passengers down with her. Only 710 people survived the loss of the world′s greatest metaphor. So what better way to celebrate than to have a photo contest. The object of which is to fill in the blank with the most comical word or phrase. The big prize you are competing for is a $20 e-gift card from Amazon.com!
The set-up is simple. Since Barack Obama is the world′s most intelligent man ever born, the greatest at everything he tries, then it is only fitting that he become part of the Titanic folklore. You may recall how several weeks ago, in response to Newt Gingrich attacking the Obama administration on their failed energy policy and rising gasoline prices, Obama went on the defensive. He raised the issue of how all of our energy problems could be solved. ″If we could make more fuel out of algae, we′d be doing alright.″
This has sent my mind to working. What other things could Obama make from algae that would improve our lot in life? Just think of the possibilities! In my example above, Obama considers how much better off humanity would be if we could make more Democrat voters out of algae. Certainly this would be preferable to the usual Chicago method of having the dead vote two or three times!
So here is your big chance! You have been wanting a photo contest and now you have one. Post your suggestion to filling in the blank in the Comment Section. A winner will be chosen by me. Perhaps you intend to use this opportunity just to be purely funny? Or, you may, in keeping with our RMS Titanic 100th anniversary theme, come up with something useful from algae for the folks of the White Star ocean liner? Whatever the case, the winner will receive, via email, a $20 Amazon.com gift card. So join in the fun and post as many suggestions as you wish. You will have until 5pm EDT on Monday, April 16, to make your entries. I will then announce a winner on Tuesday morning, and which time I will need the winner′s email address. So good luck and happy posting!
April 14th, 2012 at 3:19 pm
The answer’s obvious.
If we could make more OF ME out of algae, we’d be doing alright!
April 14th, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Do you mean ME as in more of Obama or ME as in ‘Me’, the Far-Left Liberal poster here?
J/K! Great suggestion, FM! The bar is getting set mighty high right from the start!
April 14th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
I thought Newt was always the smartest man in the room.
Of course, the smartest man in the room rarely needs to tell others that he is, indeed, the smartest man in the room.
April 14th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
“If we could only make more . . .
liberal
swingersswimmersApril 15th, 2012 at 8:50 am
If biodiesel is something to be mocked, then why does it currently supply 3% of the world’s fuel for road transport, and why it is projected to supply a quarter of the world’s fuel for road transport by 2050?
Sounds to me like it’s time to start buying stock in algae farms.
I have no interest in your caption contest. The ship had already sank when Obama was elected. Bush took care of that.
April 15th, 2012 at 9:37 am
“I told you not to let Rush Limbaugh sit in the front of the boat”.
April 15th, 2012 at 10:27 am
“If biodiesel is something to be mocked, then why does it currently supply 3% of the world’s fuel for road transport, and why it is projected to supply a quarter of the world’s fuel for road transport by 2050?”
Well Kloless, it’s because liberals can’t let go of a bad idea so they will continue pouring money into it even though it’s heavily subsidized and actually costs more than gasoline.
The reason Billy Ray wants energy prices so high is because that’s the only way to make green energy competative and appear cost effective.
April 15th, 2012 at 10:36 am
BTW Kloless, doesn’t a prediction 38 years down the road just seem a little arbitrary to you?
Jimmy Carter said we’d be out of oil by the year 2000 and they keep finding more of the stuff.
Besides, I’m predicting the sun will burn out in 36 years. Take my word for it.
April 15th, 2012 at 10:40 am
Through several different programs ethanol is subsidized in the U.S. to the tune of $5 billion and, surprisingly to many observers, this is not a new phenomenon — hand-outs for the industry have been around for 30 years.
It was, however, the Bush Administration’s Energy Policy Act of 2005 that really kick-started the ethanol industry as we know it today. That act launched the Renewable Fuels Mandate, forcing state governments to blend billions of gallons of renewable fuel with gasoline by 2012 and giving ethanol producers a market for their product.
The mandate incentivized farmers to grow corn for ethanol, which no doubt was a factor in the run-up to record corn prices, leading to a knock-on effect on wider food prices as the cost of corn-based animal feed also rose.
April 15th, 2012 at 10:53 am
Thanks buzz, that was another side-effect I forgot to mention. Food prices!!
April 15th, 2012 at 11:12 am
‘ ATTENCION ! ATTENCION !
All Obama Administration Bull Dykes,
Take A Bow ‘
April 15th, 2012 at 11:13 am
Do you mean ME as in more of Obama or ME as in ‘Me’, the Far-Left Liberal poster here?
Yeah, cuz that makes total sense.
Only 710 people survived the loss of the world′s greatest metaphor.
“World’s greatest metaphor”! HA! That’s hilari– what’s that? Ohhhh… hey, Andy– you got ripped off by the Onion… in the 1990s.
It’s amazing how many media outlets are constantly quoting your wit and news without attribution, sometimes decades before you post it… they have some lack of standards.
April 15th, 2012 at 1:15 pm
“KLO” Bio contributes 3 %
Its simple you idiot.
If theres a market for something you take advantage by supplying it.
These car makers constantly being leaned on by the Fed to run on these stupid and heavily subsidized fuels is killing that market and all subsidiaries of it.
They havent even got that fckin Bolt figured out after selling only 5000 of them and now they have to start making cars that run on seaweed,switch grass or the methane that comes out of your ass-hole ?
And the blame goes to the right for inflation and job loss ?
Almost all cars that are the road or being sold will be around for about 10-15 years and will need fuels or blends that are specifically for that car and meet that states standards.
Build the damn pipeline,while simultaneously b!tchslaping Iran for being the biggest contribution to every problem we have here and abroad while taking over the Straight of Hormuz and their oil which very little of is sold in America.
There is a system, it works, its worked before only if it isnt molested by all these ill willed b@stards.
By the time most of our gas guzzlers are falling apart we should be able to come up with a fuel thats viable and flexible to the needs of the market at that time.
Also, lets not forget, all this intriguing bullsht always happens right before an election.
3% what a fckin joke
April 16th, 2012 at 9:25 am
Filling in the blank:
* lifeboats
* fuel
* forward speed
* deck chairs
* voters — or votes
April 16th, 2012 at 9:37 am
The Urkel Party is forever imposing more and more central planning, socialist-style economic policies (and industry ones, re: Gov’t Motors) and whenever the “unintended consequences” blow up back out of the septic tank (a keyword news release tip-off is often “unexpectedly”) they adopt a deer-in-the-headlights, innocent expression and whine, “Did *I* do *that*?”
Then Attention Deficit Disorder kicks in once again and they’re off chasing the next shiny pixie-dust-fed-unicorn-fart-powered green(back) energy plaything.
There motto seems to be: befuddled.we.much
April 16th, 2012 at 9:38 am
stoopyd phengurr taipoh “There motto…” => “Their motto…”
April 16th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Well, that’s it folks!
The contest is over. I have already decided on two winners. FlyingMonkey and Chris in N.Va shall be rewarded for their efforts and each shall receive a $20 e-gift card from Amazon.com.
It was a tough call. Both gave the two most obvious answers to the challenge. FM with his “ME”, since Barack Obama would naturally think that more of him would be a good thing. Chris in N.Va provided the response that I considered the most logical for this particular instance, that more “lifeboats” made from algae would be something Obama would advocate, had he been president in 1912.
So Congratulations to them both and we’ll try this again soon.
Andy Zarowny
April 16th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Of course, if Obama were president in 1912, he would have to blame somebody else other than George W. Bush for the Titanic sinking, now wouldn’t he?
April 16th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
“t was, however, the Bush Administration’s Energy Policy Act of 2005 that really kick-started the ethanol industry as we know it today. ”
Bullsht, it (gasohol) as it was called then was Carters little baby launched by fear mongering and basically, not knowin wtf he was talking about.
Subsidies were getting handed out to farmers of which most were illegal and discontinued by Reagan.
Simultaneously Ford and Chevy/GM were pressured by Carters to manufacturer “Pintos” and Vegas. Anyone ever see one of them on the road lately ?
You wont, except for some museum. They were total crap. That whole era is a blueprint for the sht we being done all over again today.
You cant fckin give away a Chevy Volt.
The countrys been thru this sht once before and doesnt forget.
But, as usual, some moonbat thinks he can can convince us all that it could work, only that Carter was going about it the wrong way.(same thing with the ” New Deal”.
This government will no doubt fck this country dry to satisfy their own egos and agendas.
Bad stupid frickin move causing embargo’s and lines we’d sit all only to find out we’d have to come back the day after next, like some Ukranian village rationing its potatoes while top tier officials grab whats not tied down and move to New Zealand.
This clusterfck budget will never be fixed when they’re telling you 30 years from now…
…Thirty Years ? Who the hell do they think they’re talking too ?
They dont care. All their kids have annuities and they’ll be dead or in the Kaymans
These guys cant
April 17th, 2012 at 3:40 am
Hey Chris,
Please let me know if I have a correct email address for you, either by replying to the test I sent or just say “YES” here. I just sent FlyingMonkey his $20 prize.
April 17th, 2012 at 3:44 am
Don’t forget the AMC Pacer, Micky. Another gift from Jimmy Carter and his gas mileage regulations. Originally, the Pacer was meant to be a front-wheel drive vehicle, to get more gas mileage. But GM failed to come through with a trans-axle system, so the Pacer, or Pisser as we like to call them in Duh-troit, was just another lame rear-wheel drive hatchback.
April 17th, 2012 at 9:25 am
Last time I saw a Pacer was in “Waynes World”. The only thing that could help that car was if Tia Carrera was sitting in the passenger seat.
Hey Andy, you gonna do piece about Karzai blaming America and Nato for the recent attacks ?
Afghans wanted us out, right ?
Said they were able to self manage, right ?
Barry giving advanced warning to all radicals the exact date we’d leave wasnt too smooth a move either
I’m tellin ya man.
Seriously, I’m going fckin ballistic knowing thousands of Americans all died for nothing.
In the restaurant business you have an expediter that takes the order from the waiter and calls it out to the broiler man.
When the broiler man completes the order he hands it to the expediter so hes sure the waiter is taking the right food to the right table or send it back to the broiler man if its wrong somehow.
This system prevents communication break downs between the kitchen and the dining room, the waiters never talk to the kitchen and the kitchen never talks to the waiters.
This prevents communication from going into anarchy to which invites only more helter skelter
Theres no expediter now and all 12 waiters and 6 cooks are talking back and over other arguing..
We were the expediter, making sure Afghanistan was the way it should of been after we left.
A bad order slip through and now some guy allergic to seafood is having a seizure in the dining room
April 17th, 2012 at 12:13 pm
How can Obama be an expediter? He could not even be a good waiter! Keep him out of the kitchen, too, or that pea soup may have more than just peas.
April 20th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
In fact no matter if someone doesn’t understand afterward its up to other users that they will help, so here it occurs.