Saturday, June 30, 2018

Saturday Snickers

This week Steven Hayward has some funny stuff in his Week in Pictures feature for Power Line. Much deals with the Justice Kennedy retirement. Some favorites described:

A still of Alec Guiness as Obi Wan, the Jedi master, from Star Wars, looking bemused. It is captioned:
I felt a great disturbance in the force
As if a million snowflakes all melted at once.

Photo of a bemused looking Justice Kennedy, captioned:
Hawaiian judge rules
Kennedy retiring unconstitutional
Photo of attorney Gloria Allred, holding a petition, captioned:
Breaking news:
Gloria Allred will be holding a press conference
detailing sexual assault allegations made
by her client, a Chicago woman, against President Trump’s
Supreme Court nominee, whoever that eventually is.
Publicity still of Batman and Robin in the Batmobile, with Photoshopped™ faces of Trump and Pence respectively. Pence speaks:
He can’t talk right now ...
He’s busy winning.
Photo of the G-7 summit with Merkel giving Macron an agitated look as Trump walks out of the frame, captioned:
The look you get when you realize
the person paying the tab is leaving the restaurant.
Photo of three uniformed Border Patrol agent women, all Hispanics, posing proudly beside a vehicle, captioned:
52% of Border Patrol agents are Hispanic
but by all means continue with your Nazi narrative.
Photo of a not-young Henry Fonda, posing with children Peter and Jane. His voice balloon says:
 America, I want to apologize for raising stupid kids.
A four photo cluster, in the first President Trumps says:
We are going to make a Space Corps!!
The second photo shows Patrick Stewart from Star Trek: the Next Generation and his crew, captioned:
What we hope it will be
The third shows Imperial Stormtroopers from Star Wars, captioned:
What we fear it will be
And the fourth shows Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet from Space Balls, captioned:
What it really will be