Leave it to the Decemberists to analogize the United Nations to high school:

Sure, they rip off Rushmore. But more things should rip off Rushmore.

Also of note, Mr. Deviant Monk showed me this video a few months ago. I think it’s worth a view as well. (Embedding was disabled, so you’ll have to click the link.)

Ok, so you know those catchy little commercials for FreeCreditReport.com? The one with the guy with a guitar singing about how some hacker stole his identity? There’s one that takes place in a pirate restaurant, and one that takes place at a Renaissance Fest. Yeah, you know the ones.

Well, apparently, they’re in big trouble with the law. They’re required by law to let users peek at their credit reports once annually, but they make people sign up for a $15/month service to access their free credit reports. They’ve been through several lawsuits about this, but they’re still advertising the site and pulling the bait and switch.

Well, the U.S. government decided that they had had enough, so they created their own free credit report website. This one really is free. So how do they get the word out about their new website? By creating a parody commercial and releasing it on the Web.

That’s right. That was put out by the U.S. government. Those are our tax dollars hard at work, and I have to say, I’m glad to have given patriotically to this commercial.

But wait! That FreeCreditReport.com commercial in the pirate restaurant was really catchy. Can we get a parody of that one too?

Yes. Yes, you can.

Little-known fact: Spiderman is a democrat.

(Click for larger version.) Yes, that’s Barack Obama. Yes, that’s from a real Spiderman comic that just came out. Presidents have appeared in Marvel comics before, but never before has one had a starring role.

Obama’s senate page used to have a picture of him posing in front of a Superman statue. Citizens rejoice: we have another geek in the White House.

This is all in reference to a letter to Christians published by Focus on the Family speculating what kind of hell-hole America will turn into should Barack Obama take office. The letter is on their website here:

http://focusfamaction.edgeboss.net/download/focusfamaction/pdfs/10-22-08_2012letter.pdf

You can also get to it from their Election Coverage section.

If you don’t want to read it, it includes a fictional letter written after four years under Obama. Here are some of the things it speculates will happen:

• Gays will receive bonuses for enlisting in the military
• Open displays of Christianity will be banned in schools
• Hardcore pornography will be aired on daytime network television
• Guns will be outlawed, which will dramatically increase inner-city crime
• Terrorists will carry out attacks on four U.S. cities
• Gas will cost $7 per gallon, and the Democrats will be happy about this increase
• Liberals will shut down conservative talk radio
• Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com will stop selling Christian books due to a campaign of vandalism and hacking attacks from the gays

Toward the end, the letter states that electing Obama was “a mistake that changed the course of history.”

I’m not even going to attempt to argue against this. I think it stands on its own well enough. There are two really sad things about this, though:

1. It gives sensible conservatives a really bad name
2. It will probably work, to a significant degree

You can tell Focus on the Family how you feel here. Just please, please, please don’t give them any encouragement in thinking that they’re suffering persecution for their faith.

Joe the Plumber was almost aborted before he never went to charter school. What do you think about that, Senator Obama?