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Allrighty then! This one is for all you fantasy freaks out there. You know who you are. You're the ones still buying and reading the X-Men comics. Neos is your hero in Matrix. Yes, you.
Here's your chance to live your dreams.
X-Ray vision! Yep, I have a test model right here.
Hat tip to my friend Phil in TX.
How do you like your Clash of Cultures?
The headline here attracted my attention, but a snippet at the bottom of the article blew me away.
In Ethiopia, 70% of marriages occur from kidnapping the bride from her family. That's kidnap, as in Class A felony here. In this case, the putative groom and his two buddies then beat the 12 year-old girl senseless to (I'm guessing here) "improve her attitude" towards the groom.
That's when the pride of lions interfered with their plans, guarding the girl long enough for her family to catch up to her, whereupon the lions faded away into the bush.
...AND ETHIOPIA IS OUR ALLY???
W.T.F., OVER?
...and the role of the United Nations here is...what?
...and would it be genocide to "improve the attitude" of that entire nation with nuclear cleansing?
Operator Note: the Rant Machine is still running....
Senator Durbin thinks he has apologized for his cruel and intemperate official remarks last week. See article here.
His apology went something like this: "I've made a poor choice of words". That's not a mea culpa in my book.
THESE are intemperate remarks: Senator Durbin, you may take your phony apology and stuff it up your rosy RED (as in Communist) asshole. There is a poor choice involved, Senator, but the poor choice was on the part of Illinois voters who elected you."
No apologies.
End of rant.
/Rant machine, OFF
...ah, Roger, Rant Machine is ON. Rant switch LOCKED to ON.
I feel real bad for Master Gun Blogger and overall Curmudgeon Kim DuToit, who is starting up a new business enterprise, and was just given the brush-off by a potential investor who had read his blog and evidently didn't find it liberal enough to suit him.
Welcome to the World of PC, Kim. You've just been tagged as a reactionary, along with the rest of us rightys.
Kim posts what he calls "Skin Pics" on the weekends. His skin pics subjects are almost always clad in the type of attire that was OK for GIs to possess in WW2. In other words, they aren't real Skin (don't compare to my NSFW posts, for example).
Kim also felt that he had to tone down his rhetoric when he rants. Knowing that he is a master wordsmith, he can rant effectively without the earthiness that has characterized his wonderful rants to date, but that is small solace to one who has just realized that he must make a choice between ranting and bread on the table.
This is happening far too often on the Right hemisphere of the blogosphere, and what's more, I'll wager that few, if any, bloggers on the Left side have ever been told that their moonbat blogs are too offensive to suit an investor's taste.
I'm not Kim, but had I been in his shoes in Chicago the other day, I would have said to the investor, "I'm sorry you feel that way about liberty, Sir. I know that you came to meet me because you felt that my product sits astride the liberty-loving society that feels public school cannot educate their children properly. You must have felt that this product is a large step to boosting liberty, and yet you stand before me now trying to cow me with your idea of political correctness? You, sir, don't know me. If you did, you would not have even mentioned my weblog except to thank me for promoting liberty within it's pages. Here's your business card back, Sir, I won't have any need, ever, to refer to it again." Taxi! Airport, driver.
This is a crying shame. Especially coming on the heels of what happened to Joe Huffman and his Boomershoot! blog.
A black day, indeed.
Bosun, lower the Blag-Flag to half-staff.
Armageddon is a step closer today.
...and all the players are...(D)emocrats? (Apologies to the Bard of Avon)
From Acidman at Gut Rumbles, via Ravenwood's Universe and originally from the WaPo (of course).
The (D)onks held mock impeachment hearings in some hearing room in the Capitol. They were "impeaching" George Bush of course, because "he lied".
It's interesting how the event, which was apparently taped by C-Span (I'm really curious how the supposed "neutral" network introduced/will introduce this video), got so totally out of hand, with various lefty moonbats quickly shedding the pretense of decorum that was supposed to be played out.
It's even more interesting to me how Sen. Conyers (Moonbat, MI) could use a public facility for this game.
Is someone going to send him a bill for using the official hearing room?
Guess what? We didn't have to spend a fortune developing the anti-mortar system, or buy it from the French (which would be worse). We had it all along.
Anyone who has seen a Navy warship in the last 25 years has seen the ubiquitous little domed white cylinder with the nasty-looking 20mm Vulcan six-barrel cannon sticking out the side of it. That's a CIWS, or Close-In Weapons system, better known by swabbies as R2-D2, after the useful little robot in the Star Wars movies.
The remedy? Take a CIWS, hook it to mortar-detecting radar and Presto!, a military base is protected out to 1.7 miles, the useful range of 20mm cannon fire. Hook multiple R2-D2s up and you have better protection. The unit is set up to operate without human input, save for turning on the system, and it's distinct buzzing-ripping sound also serves as a warning that enemy mortar rounds are in the air and you'd better seek shelter, GI.
Hat tip to Defense Tech.
A motley mob held the annual Gay Pride Parade in downtown Portland on Saturday.
Only it isn't called the Gay Pride Parade anymore. They now just call it the "Pride Parade"
Since they removed the qualifier from the parade name, I guess that means I must widen my outlook a bit, which is OK. I feel more at ease criticizing it that way.
Having a wide-open name like "Pride Parade" opens up the queers organizers to a broader (yes, broader. Most of these broads are 1 1/2 axehandles wide and mo more than 2 1/2 axehandles tall) range of criticism.
Nope, not a parade.
Nope, no pride showing anywhere.
The United Nations is irrelevant to the United States' international political policy. I think we can all agree on that. If the United Nations miraculously ceased to exist, the main impact would be a land rush on Manhattan Island in New York.
The UN started out with noble goals - International security, development of democracies, etc, but has since gotten subverted into a socialist network that seeks to bleed money from it's wealthy members to give to it's less wealthy members to promote socialism, which it has decided is the optimal form of government.
Until I read the attached essay, I assumed that a sort of evolution had taken place within the UN that led it from guiding the development of democracy to pushing socialism down everyone's throats. I was wrong. According to the author of the essay, the subversion of the United Nations was a deliberate, well-planned act.
The essay is a must-read, and it is self-explanatory. It will take the average reader about 20 minutes. You couldn't spend a more educational 20 minutes if you tried, so have at it.
Actually, this goes into Humor comma Military comma Gut-Busting.
This is a funny-bone check to see just how military you are. Apologies to Jeff Foxworthy who invented this type of humor.
A sample:
You may be too Hooah if your first words after Grace at Thanksgiving are "Fix Bayonets".
More here. A tip of the garrison cap to SondraK at Knowledge is Power blog.
For those gun nutz with a sense of humor, and the GFWs as well, I offer "Cows with Guns", a fine parody of life.
