I'm Bored

Football's just not the same when none of the NFC east teams are playing. Neither my favorite team, the Giants, nor my second favorite team, whoever's playing the Cowboys, nor my third favorite, whoever's playing the Eagles, are playing.
The Falcons/49ers game looks like the best and I couldn't care less.
So here's some steampunk.

Something else that doesn't really thrill me, but that's a pretty cool mouse and I know some of the people who look at the pictures here like that stuff.
The USB thumb drive is pretty cool too.
Here's the guy's site. I think he's in Zagreb, Croatia.

Via SondraK

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So much for Obama's dreams of being undisputed princess of the world

I thought the election of President Ohmygawd was supposed to mean that the entire world would immediately fall in hopeychangey kissylove with America and wish nothing but good things for our country and our leadership...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is known for brash rhetoric in addressing the West, but in a speech Sunday he went a step further using a deeply offensive insult in response to U.S. statements that the military option against Iran is still on the table.

"May the undertaker bury you, your table and your body, which has soiled the world," he said using language in Iran reserved for hated enemies.

I prefer to believe that our interpreters are doing as good a job of understanding Ahmadinejad's meaning as our State Department has done with honoring the customs of other countries.  If we can't even hang a flag right-side-up, it would be unsurprising if we misinterpret something as complex as DIAF, which surely means "I wish nothing but success and good health upon your venerable leadership and your inspiring nation.

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Why We Fight

These people showed up on the National Mall on Saturday for Ed Schultz's rally...



Be sure to pay attention to what shows up on the right side of your screen at about 0:45, by the way. It's only there for a second.

(h/t)

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Four More Weeks

more...

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50 most stupid observations on movies

These fools have a list of the 50 most racist movies.

It's freaking hilarious. If it's on purpose it's genius, if not, well, they must take the short ISP to the Intertubes.
I've never seen the movie Bottle Rocket, but here's why it's racist.
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it's just that the movie is so violently white that you know something fucked up is going on somewhere.

I'm pretty sure I've read almost that exact quote from either Ace or Allah.
It just keeps getting funnier too.
Sadly, I think it's for real. Which does make it most hilarious with just a touch of endy (that someone would actually think this way).
Via iOwnTheWorld

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The wrong lesson

I'm sorry, but this smacks of utter P.C. bullshit:

[Rutgers University President Richard] McCormick's Friday letter said that "This tragedy and the events surrounding it have raised critical questions about the climate of our campuses. Students, parents, and alumni have expressed deep concern that our university, which prides itself on its rich diversity, is not fully welcoming and accepting of all students."

In case you've been hiding under a rock for the last week or so, this has to do with a couple of creeps broadcasting a Rutgers freshman named Tyler Clementi having sex online via a hidden camera, after which Clementi committed suicide by jumping off of a bridge.

This is both a tragedy and an outrage.

But what this is not is some sort of indictment of the "climate" at Rutgers. It's about Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, the amoral assholes who decided that it would be funny to invade someone's privacy in a stupid and cruel way.

This isn't something where university officials need to sit down with a certain group of people and talk about diversity. This is something where they should be talking to ALL of their students about obeying the law and acting within the bounds of common decency.

This shouldn't be viewed through the prism of sexual orientation. Or race. Or class. Or gender. Or religion. Or any other label. The fact of the matter is that an individual was robbed of his dignity by a couple of repulsive fucking assholes who belong in jail and who will hopefully carry their victim's death on their consciences forever.

Oh, and when Ravi and Wei hopefully get the book thrown at them, I hope it's a "teachable moment" about legal and decent conduct more than "diversity."

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Let them eat Hamburger Helper

Click here for something just, just un-fucking-believable [with my emphasis]...

According to the pool report, Obama thanked Phillips for the work he and his wife have done for Team Obama. Then the president mentioned that Phillips and Douglass have an opulent place in Italy and wondered why there had been no invitation to visit. "I'd appreciate a little break and some Tuscan sun," the president said, according to the pool report. "Some pasta. I can use it."

There...there are just no fucking words.

(By the way, in case anyone doubted that His Nibs uttered those words, Politico had the same quote.)

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What. The. Fuck?

Seriously, what the fuck? 

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Stony Curtis, we'll miss you

That was my first exposure to Tony Curtis and I liked him from that day on.

He was da man.
I loved him in Operation Petticoat. That was probably his best role, if not his best movie.
RIP Tony.
I hope you're having a foursome with Marylin Monroe, Rock Hudson and Doris Day wherever you are.

Update, I must have still had that previous vid on my clipboard, sorry.

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Presented without context

A woman in Australia was so enraged by her husband cheating on her that she believed setting fire to his penis would make him mend his ways.

Yeah, because nothing makes a guy say, "Hey, baby, I was wrong to have cheated on you. We should stay together forever," like setting his junk on fire.

Oh, and I should probably mention that there were also some other kind of serious consequences to her actions.

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15 Years Ago Tonight...

The most beautiful person in the world entered into my life. The beautiful young lass who fate and good fortune sent my way would eventually become my wife, the mother of the most precious gift ever bestowed upon me, my true companion down the sometimes crater filled road that is life, the one person I trust unfailingly, and all I need to visualize in my brain when I am backed up and need to offend Christine O'Donnell. 

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Just doing my part to bring us all together as one

Unity!  It's what's for breakfast.  Okay, fine, fine, I just wanted some more hotassery.  Bite me.



He's legal now.  Look, I'm taking as many of you in this handbasket with me as possible



And on the eighth day . . . .

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For Vinty

(disclaimer: I haven't even been paying enough attention to that race to edumacatedly choose a side)

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Okay I'm calling bullshit on this

In further King Shamir Shabazz news, he now claims that whites use black babies as alligator bait.

I've gotta say, that is an accusation that I never saw coming.  Kudos to the voices in his head for creativity. 

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An in-depth response

First, everyone go look at the post below this. I'll wait. I know it's going to take awhile. Back? Good.

Here is my in-depth response to this article at the Village Voice.

Fuck.  And.  You.  Listen, you utterly ignorant piece of shit motherfuckers, it is not insane to hold conservative views.  It's not.  Also?  Fuck you for being utterly fucking racist jackwipes.  There is no such thing as  "white" brain or a "black" brain or any other fucking color (other than, you know, gray) to describe a mind.  Fuck you for perpetuating the vile and loathsome concept of racial group think.

Fuck you.  I hope that bedbugs infest your offices for the rest of time. 

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Wednesdays are hard...

So I bear good news for Alex.  This might actually make me start watching CSI again.

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He "laughed"

"Look, as president, I swore to uphold the Constitution, and part of that Constitution is a free press," Obama laughed, in response to a question from Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner about whether or not Fox News was "a good institution for America and for democracy."

Okay, this is kind of not healthy for a few reasons.

Let's substitute "Obama" with "Nixon" and "Fox News" with "The New York Times." And, then, how about we wonder about liberals and the MFM (I know, I know) would react to a president being asked a question like that?

Sure, a president would laugh when confronted about a press outlet that was critical of him, but the way in which the question was posed and answered was disturbing.

I mean, here, you have the publisher of one part of the media sincerely asking about whether or not a competing (and there's no doubt here—victorious) competitor is good for democracy, and you've got the guy who we count on the most to uphold the Constitution yucking it up a little, not the least because he shares the interviewers' same prejudices.

Chimpy McBu$hitler laughing about ANY of our civil liberties being infringed upon in the slightest would be a major issue. Barry H. O'Fabulous? Not so much, apparently.

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Fun with net neutrality

Was asked to comment on net neutrality, so I'll go ahead and do that, I promise this won't turn into a twenty part series on the LOST treaty, but I'll offer some thoughts. 

I tend to be leery of net neutrality simply because I'm real squeamish when it comes to allowing government to dictate what private industry can and can't do in conducting their business.  The last thing I want is the government overseeing the intarwebz, especially the idjit brigade that runs the FCC.  Now, I don't have any issue with ISPs imposing net neutrality on themselves as internal company policy, I think that's commendable, and I'd be supportive of ISPs and services that did that.  Google and Verizon have sort of been laying out a compromise of sorts to try and address net neutrality...I think this is a good and healthy thing, if it's something they do internally as part of a trade agreement type deal, not as some screwball Congress/corporate lawmaking venture that turns into a giant bureaucratic clusterfuck that leaves us poorer and less free.

Beyond that, I'm just not seeing signs of ISPs squashing content they don't like on much of a regular basis, if anything, the content on the intarwebs continues to grow rapidly.  I also think that as soon as an ISP got too power-hungry or Nannyified, they'd see huge losses in customers, it'd be like a cable provider going, 'uh, hey, yeah, we're gonna take away 2/3rds of your channels because these are channels we don't like...cool?'  Not cool, you'd go find another cable provider or look at alternatives.  People are used to doing whatever the fuck they want on the intarwebs, and God help the poor bastard that says NO.  People were never used to having whatever they wanted available when they wanted with TV and radio, the regulations were largely there from the beginning.  It just won't go well for them to get heavy-handed with controlling content, there'd be an instant, vicious backlash.  FAIL gets one of two things on the intarwebs, copious amounts of hate or brutal mockery...ask AOL.

I really do like Reason TV's segment on net neutrality, I think it's worth a watch,

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Ok. Now I Am Angry

I was going to ignore the latest claim by the loony left that the "right" was inciting violence, since it has become so hackneyed and so untrue, especially as the lefties are the ones who have been the violent ones this cycle, that it really didn't bear mention. I was going to ignore the lefty claims because the "scoreboard" chant come November will be satisfaction enough. And I was going to ignore the lefty lies because I had better things to do.

I was going to ignore the claims. That was, until this:



Victory is no longer acceptable. Vaporfuck them and their careers into oblivion and the abyss of fuckitude with a rancid fuckradish so deep their assholes will make a Caesar Salad blush with envy. These fuckers need to get nuked from orbit and never allowed anywhere near the reins of power ever again.

Yes, I am now pissed off. These fuckers have claimed for far too fucking long that those of us on the other side of the aisle were the violent ones, despite evidence to the contrary. These fuckers have been the ones beating up and assaulting our people at gatherings and their offices for far to fucking long. And these fuckers have been disenfranchising us by having our votes negated by rampant voter fraud for far too fucking long. And it will stop now.

These fucking fuckshrooms fucking think they are fucking above the law and can do whatever the fuck they fucking feel like. Well, fuck them. Fuck them with a dozen dung beetles looking for paydirt. Fusticfuck their arrogance with the flying fuckzeppelin of the franchise. And hysopfuck their sense of entitlement with low grade anal sludge. Vote these fuckers out. Vote these fuckers away from office. Run up such a margin that they learn they cannot get away with what they are doing. And fuckbeat them and their careers so far into the ground, the caskets of the people they are still registering to vote will tell them to get the fuck out of the way.

Yes, November is coming. November is coming so hard and fast, you lefties will think it was your lover's strap on dislodging in your asscanal. So fuck you, lefties. You have now pissed me off. You have now given me motivation. And you have now provided me with the mental ammunition I need to stay focused for the next five weeks. So fill your fucking hands, you fucking fuckbitches. Because retribution is awaiting you.

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