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Weekend Update: Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With on Christmas - SNLMaybe everybody knew about this before, but I didn't. Somebody sent me a link to this SNL sketch from 9 years ago and it's sorta incredible. It's a note-perfect impersonation of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez before they even knew who she was. Enjoy it with her in mind, because they'll never make fun of her intentionally at this level of laughs. And they'll all be personally offended at all who notice the unintentional accuracy. (and that's just sposed to be septible?) I think Ben Shapiro had something to...

Washington Post "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler's latest "Zillion Lies" update on the president was headlined "President Trump made 8,158 false or misleading claims in his first two years." Nevertheless, leftists got extremely angry that Kessler would "obsess" over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mangling facts. Eric Alterman, who unintentionally wrote the Funniest Book of 2003 -- What Liberal Media? -- now complains that Kessler is obsessed in a romantic way with AOC. Er, when Kessler's written on her precisely once in 2019, and 12 times on Trump. The president is called out for 8,158 whoppers, and AOC is up, to what, three? (Salon...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., used a strange – and sexually charged – phrase to describe to The Washington Post her plan for implementing a progressive agenda. “... enjoy being exhausted for the next two years while we run train on the progressive agenda,” the newly minted congresswoman told the newspaper. The choice of words sent the Internet into a tizzy, as it has a well-known and highly disturbing connotation. According to the Urban Dictionary, to “run train” means “to gangbang” someone. The phrase was injected into more mainstream parlance in October, after a client of adult film industry lawyer Michael...

After eight years of Donald Trump, Americans will certainly be ready for some 'radical' change. Donald Trump's shocking victory in the 2016 presidential race caused liberals across the United States to question whether the country was indeed ready for a woman president. Since then, there has been much speculation about various female politicians and celebrities running for office, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Kamala Harris, Oprah, Michelle Obama, and others. There have even been rumours that Hillary Clinton might run again. I, however, don't see any of these women making it to the White House. I think the first female...

[PHOTO] NOT A DAY goes by where the USA CongressPerson, Ms. Alexandria, Ocasio-Cortez, is not given a spotlight. Or many spotlights. Or pedestals. She seems to be a constant center of adoring attention. She seems to always be spouting the complete idiocy of Socialism which is always presented as Brilliance. But, in reality, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is said to be uninformed, naive, and stupid. She is said to not have any idea how the world works or what the hell she’s talking about. Yet, she is always presented to us by Democrat pundits and spewing news readers as “a diamond” of...

Explanation: A curious robot almost completely straddles this rocky little planet. Of course, the planet is really Mars and the robot is the car-sized Curiosity Rover, posing over its recent drilling target in the Marias Pass area of lower Mount Sharp. The 92 images used to assemble the little planet projection, a digitally warped and stitched mosaic covering 360x180 degrees, were taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the Curiosity mission sol (martian day) 1065. That corresponds to 2015 August 5, three Earth years since Curiosity landed on the surface of the Red Planet. The composite selfie...

The 19-year-old man who wore a Gumby suit into a 7-Eleven store in San Diego says it was a joke and he never used the words "robbery" or "gun." "I never said any of those words," Jacob Kiss told KGTV (Channel 10). "...Those never came out of my mouth." Kiss turned himself in to San Diego police this week for questioning in the Labor Day incident. So did his friend, Jason Giramma, also 19, who admitted driving the supposed getaway car. The clerk at the store in the Rancho Penasquitos neighborhood told police that the Gumby-suit wearer threatened to pull...

A person dressed as Gumby walked into a Southern California convenience store, claiming to have a gun and demanding money, but costume trouble and a skeptical clerk thwarted the would-be robber. Gumby demanded money, but the store clerk thought it was a joke and ignored the life-size Claymation character, telling him he was cleaning up and didn’t have time to waste. "You don’t think this is a robbery? I have a gun," the costumed man said, fumbling inside his costume as if trying to retrieve a weapon. But the green-gloves seemed to get in the way, and rather than pull...

Man dressed as Gumby attempts to rob at a 7-Eleven in PenasquitosA man dressed as Gumby attempted to rob a Rancho Penasquitos 7-Eleven early Monday morning – however his efforts were snubbed because the clerk couldn’t take him seriously. The suspect told the clerk at the store on Carmel Mountain Rd. that he was robbing the store, San Diego Police Detective Gary Hassen said. The clerk, thinking the man was playing a prank, responded that he didn’t have time, and that he had to clean. Video surveillance shows the suspect fumbling in his pocket for a non-existent gun. After a...

The Shanghai World Expo 2010 opens in May According to the expo website, “The theme of Expo 2010 is ‘Better City, Better Life,’ representing the common wish of the whole humankind for a better living in future urban environments.” Or does it mean, “the common wish of world communists to control man’s environment?” “Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the upcoming World Expo will promote exchange and showcase the latest achievements of civilizations around the globe.” –that the Chinese can copy and steal? “The emblem, depicting the image of three people-you, me, him/her holding hands together, symbolizes the big family of...

Clokey first molded Gumby for a surreal student project at the University of Southern California called "Gumbasia." That led to his making shorts for the "Howdy Doody Show" and several series through the years. Art Clokey poses with a Gumby doll in 1995. (AP photo) LOS OSOS, Calif. - Gumby animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation became a pop culture phenomenon through countless satires, toys and revivals, has died at age 89. Caretaker Chrisanne Wollett Clokey says Clokey died Friday in Los Osos on California's Central Coast. Clokey first molded Gumby for a surreal student project at the University of...

Art Clokey, the creator of the whimsical clay figure Gumby, died in his sleep Friday at his home in Los Osos, Calif., after battling repeated bladder infections, his son Joseph said. He was 88. Clokey and his wife, Ruth, invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art had finished film school at USC. After a successful debut on "The Howdy Doody Show," Gumby soon became the star of its own hit television show, "The Adventures of Gumby," the first to use clay animation on television.

Dallas R. McKennon, the voice of Gumby, Archie and dozens of other animated characters, died Tuesday at the Willapa Harbor Care Center in Raymond. He had been living in the Raymond area for the past few years. McKennon, 89, moved to the area to be close to three of his daughters, who live in Pacific County. He provided extensive voiceover acting for nearly every major animation studio in Hollywood starting in the 1950s and continuing for the next 40 years. His daughter Barbara Porter of Raymond said McKennon was officially credited with more than 160 character voices, although he probably...

Dallas McKennon 1919-2009By dtemplar 07-14-2009, 11:26 PM Cartoon Brew reports that Dallas McKennon, the legendary voice of the claymation icon Gumby as well as the voice of Archie Andrews in the Archie cartoons for Filmation died today. He was 89. McKennon was a voice actor for several Disney films, including Lady & the Tramp, Mary Poppins, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmations, and Bedknobs & Broomsticks. He also voiced in Disneyland attractions such as Benjamin Franklin in EPCOT's American Adventure, and Zeke in the Country Bear Jamboree. He also played Cincinnatus in the live-action Daniel Boone series, and as a gas station...

PUMA Politics: Gumby’s Slide Into Oblivion Lo and Behold, It seems that the Democratic Party Leadership is realizing just how arrogant and juvenile Gumby is and are echoing what PUMAs were trying to tell the superdelegates before the convention. Barack Obama is in denial and is going to lose this election in November. It is not at all amazing to me that I read this article in the Telegraph UK, and it is not amazing to me that the Dems are having canaries about Bambi’s campaign style. What is amazing is that so many PUMAs and Just Say No...

In this war freedom should come first not after! In New Hampshire the Motto is Live free or Die! I don't need Bush spying on law abiding americans and taking our freedoms. Anyone who surrenders a square inch of freedom to the government in the name of saftey is a traitor and should be treated like one! Let the Bush Fashists all drop dead! Filthy Commys! LET FREEDOM RING!

CHECK OUT MY TWO ANIMATIONS OF POLITICAL HUMOR, OR IS IT MORE TRUE THAN NOT? Click on your choice of either / or animations: JOHN KERRY ANIMATION #1: 3-D Flip-flow anim of Gumby and Kerry http://fletchworks.com/3d_anims.htm JOHN KERRY ANIMATION #2: 3-D Red face anim of Kerry with Gumby http://fletchworks.com/3d_rendr.htm If Kerry ran for president, again, with gumby as his vice president he just might win this time ... only because of his running mate. I hope he does not find out just how he could actually win! Oh, well, he would never read anything on Free Republic, I hope.

SAN FRANCISCO - Five decades after Gumby first captured the nation's imagination, the little green guy and his chums are starring in a new art exhibit — the first in a series of events to mark the 50th anniversary of the television icon's creation and launch his comeback. "Gumby and Friends: The First 50 Years" attracted fans of all ages at Saturday's opening at the historic Lynn House Gallery in Antioch, about 45 miles northeast of San Francisco. Creator Art Clokey, now 83, signed Gumby figurines at the two-story exhibit, which featured photographs, toys and other memorabilia. "Gumby is an...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Five decades after Gumby first captured the nation's imagination, the little green guy and his chums are starring in a new art exhibit - the first in a series of events to mark the 50th anniversary of the television icon's creation and launch his comeback. "Gumby and Friends: The First 50 Years" attracted fans of all ages at Saturday's opening at the historic Lynn House Gallery in Antioch, about 45 miles northeast of San Francisco. Creator Art Clokey, now 83, signed Gumby figurines at the two-story exhibit, which featured photographs, toys and other memorabilia. "Gumby is...