Thought for the Day

I was reading a thread over at LGF when the thought occurred to me:

Islam is not submisssion.

Islam is in fact systematic and nihilistic agression against Humanity and all aspects of Human life.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Yes, I am a heartless bastard. So sue me.

-- Emperor Darth Misha I

Better to be a heartless son-of-a-bitch who harms no one then to be a bleeding heart compassionate person who thwarts justice or unleashes destruction upon the innocent.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

It's actually the thought of a fictional character in a short story that I'm in the process of writing:

We tell ourselves that we send out our warriors not to die but to fight and win, but the fact of the matter is that some of them will die.

-- Dennis Aella Sterling, Nineteenth Emperor of the Flag, Forty-forth Emperor of the Third Imperium.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Today in Pizzaland

So I walk into the Pizza Hut this morning and the shift manager had the local Radio Pravda Air America station on the radio. I asked him why and he said that he wanted something different on.

I said that difference can be nice but it shouldn't be toxic.
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Thirty-Seven Years Ago Today

Neil Armstrong went out for a walk.
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Quote of the Day

It is in the nature of Stalinism for its adherents to make a certain kind of lying – and not only to others but first of all to themselves – a fundamental part of their lives. It is always a mistake to assume that Stalinists do not know the truth about the political reality they espouse. If they don’t know the truth (or all of it) one day, they know it the next, and it makes absolutely no difference to them politically. For their loyalty is to something other than the truth. And no historical enormity is so great, no personal humiliation or betrayal so extreme, no crime so heinous that it cannot be assimilated into the ‘ideals’ that govern the Stalinist mind, which is impervious alike to documentary evidence and moral discrimination.

-– Hilton Kramer

That a leftist will speak or write a falsehood is as metaphysically certain as the rising of the Sun in the morning.

HT to David Horowitz
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Don't go There!

The bridge to Dimention Zed.

It does actually exist over Interstate Highway 94 in St. Paul.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

A Chinese company has bought the MG brandname and will build an assembly plant in Oklahoma.

Rule Britannia! Whatever!

Update at 1900 hrs CDT:

The London Times online article on this move.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Quote of the Day

”I have big teeth. I lisp. My eyes disappear when I smile. My voice is funny. I don’t sing like Judy Garland. I don’t dance like Cyd Charisse. But women identify with me. And while men desire Cyd Charisse, they’d take me home to meet mom.”

-- June Allyson

Rest in peace.
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And Now For Something Completely Different

Gillian Anderson has updated the photo archive on her website:

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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A Blast From The Past

Wretchard at The Belmont Club shows us an example of courage:

Jose Abad Santos was 56 years old in 1942, a vigorous age, and we meet him far from the capital of Manila "traveling somewhere around Carcar, Cebu, with his son, Jose Jr., Colonel Valeriano of the Philippine Constabulary, and some enlisted men". This incident is extremely suggestive. Rather than wait in Manila to meet and negotiate with the Japanese, the Chief Justice is encountered doing the rounds in uncaptured territory, "unaware that the enemy had landed in the vicinity". Given his military entourage; the fact his capture occurred before Wainright's final surrender in Corregidor, and Cebu's proximity to Mindanao I think probability is that Abad Santos was setting up resistance cells when he was surprised by the Japanese.

The Japanese must have understood this immediately. "For almost 20 days, he was subjected to grueling and mortifying inquisition. The exact nature of the investigation is still shrouded in secrecy." There is evidence that the Japanese were primarily interested in operational intelligence, rather than political cooperation, from Abad Santos. "Previously, however, he had been asked to contact General Roxas somewhere in Mindanao who up to that time had not yet surrendered. In all probability, the Japanese wanted him to induce General Roxas to surrender."

Probably the only thing that kept the Japanese from killing and torturing Abad Santos outright was his possible utility as a collaborationist figurehead. Abad Santos knew it and played the card immediately by identifying himself as the Chief Justice. It kept him alive for three weeks. Why then did the Japanese decide to shoot him on the day after Corregidor surrendered? The only answer I can come up with is that the Japanese had found other high ranking Filipinos willing to serve in their puppet government, who had probably waited until the final denouement before throwing in with Nippon. Once a set of collaborators had been found, Abad Santos's potential political utility was at and. He was simply an operational prisoner and doomed.

Meanwhile, the Democrats continue to show us continuing examples of their treasonous behavior.
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Quote of the Day

"Like the i-Pod pacemaker. It has a beat and you can dance to it."

-- Helix the Robot

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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This Is Cool

From The People's Cube!


We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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So Anyway...

The barking moonbats threw a tantrum at the White House today:

I have to say at this point that it is unfortunate that a Matrix-type technology does not exist at this time.

It would be really and truly neat if these barking moonbats could be plugged in and forced to experience what the world would really be like if their wish for our defeat had actually came true. Let them feel what it would be like to be a Dhimmi after the Muslim conquest of the planet or to experience total socialism from the slave's point of view.

This could also help to cut our energy imports a bit too.
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Thought for the Day

Various assholes around the world might not have as much faith in our weakness as a nation if we would just hang a traitor once in a while.
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For The Record

I am not related to the mayor of Berzerkely (deliberate spelling).

From al-Reuters (HT: The New Editor):

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The municipal council in the liberal California city of Berkeley plans to give voters a say on a measure calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush and U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, the mayor said on Wednesday.

A number of local governments across the United States have pressed resolutions urging impeachment, but the Berkeley city council's goal is to be the first to put the issue directly to voters, Mayor Tom Bates said in an interview.

"This is basically giving the people a chance to talk, to join the debate," Bates said. "The issues go way beyond impeaching the president. They go to safeguarding the Constitution. This administration has run roughshod over the Constitution."

Given that the goal of the hard left is to destroy the Constitution and with it the lives of several million American citizens I could only look upon this posture as an exercise in rank hypocrisy.

I should look up how many induhviduals (another deliberate spelling) there are on the Berzerkey city council. We'll need thirty feet of rope per neck to be stretched.

Berkeley resident Albert Sukoff said he was not surprised by the council's decision.

"I think they overextend themselves and get into things that aren't their business," said Sukoff. "Berkeley has always had a foreign policy, the national one notwithstanding."

There is a name for that sort of behavior, its called treason.
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Isn't This Stupid?

Sad News

Jim Baen has passed away.
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This Is Funny

How to really have fun in Paris.
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Yet another example of BDS

Rob at Say Anything points out the following:

You know what's funny? The same people who support a tax system that requires me to report every penny I earn every year as well as many of the places where I spend my money are suddenly up in arms over an intelligence program that tracks financial transactions in order to catch terrorists.

Just so we're clear, here's the liberal position:

• Tracking your money so that the government can get a "fair" share: good.


• Tracking your money to catch terrorists: baaaadddd.

Why this double standard? My guess is because it was Bush's idea, and they hate Bush.

Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Jonathan Wilde at Catallarchy wrote:

And if they’re simultaneously showing a lower-back tattoo… well, there’s no bigger turnoff. Except maybe smoking. Besides, tattoos lost their rebelliousness a long time ago. These days, they’re about as edgy as minivans.

Tatoos are not only visually ugly but they also strike me as a sign of a reversion to a less civilized mode of behavior.

Needless to say I find this to be a turn off.
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A Message

Certain enemies of Mankind are whining about the rightful actions of free people:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has begun filing complaints with the FBI about comments on this blog and others (not front page posts). I know this because I’ve spoken with two different agents recently about LGF comments that were reported to the FBI by CAIR.

Just thought you might like to know too. The Islamists are starting to go after the blogosphere, using the tools provided by our own society.

I have a message for CAIR and any other anti-human filth who wish to subjugate us:

FUCK YOU,
FUCK YOU,
FUCK YOU,

AND FUCK THE FLEA-RIDDEN ANIMAL THAT YOU RODE IN ON.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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A Link

Let's go for a ride with Helga!

(Do not do this at home.)
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Karl Marx Should Watch His Language

Doctor Walter Williams has dug up some interesting quotes from the uberparasit himself:

". . . it is now completely clear to me that he, as is proved by his cranial formation and his hair, descends from the Negroes from Egypt, assuming that his mother or grandmother had not interbred with a nigger. Now this union of Judaism and Germanism with a basic Negro substance must produce a peculiar product. The obtrusiveness of the fellow is also nigger-like."

My... how progressive!
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And Now...

Peter Collier and David Horowitz on the Party of Treason:

It is hard not to conclude that the Democrats want America to be defeated in Iraq and that it is not only their electoral opportunism but their worldview that demands it.

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Must Check This Out

Republican Root Beer.



Is it still being brewed?

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Paris In 1978

Do not do this at home.
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Thought for the Day

Someone who declares that hatred of evil is evil may not be an evil being himself, but that is certainly the way to bet.
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So Anyway...

... I go offline for the better part of two weeks and the Zarkman gets nailed by "Team Satan." (Not that I mind of course, being a former team member myself.)

I do note that Denial also appears to be a river in Hell.
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Announcement

I'm back.

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Logic and Liberals don't often mix...

Take a look at two responses to a post on my blog concerning Islamofacist terrorist Al-Zarqawi shuffling off this mortal coil by way of a pair of US 500 pound bombs.

The first response, predictably one of the standard leftist talking points:

I cheered this news; hope it means we can leave Iraq sooner instead of later.

The same poster later makes the following comment (again, right from the far left list of talking points):

...he was only responsible for about 6 percent of the attacks (defense department figures) and some other piece of shit will take his place soon

Which is it? Either Al-Zarqawi is a major terrorist bad-ass and his death with bring Islamofacist activity in Iraq to a much lower level, thus allowing a sooner withdrawal of US troops or he's minor player only "responsible for about 6 percent of the attacks."

You can't have it both ways and claim to be using rational thought.

The MSM/DNC view

Pretty much one in the same, as Hugh Hewitt points out, using MSM coverage of the death of Zarqawi as an example:

It isn't sad. It is predictable.

MSM has been trained by Democratic Party cues to view every development in the war through the lens of the political war on the Bush Adminsitration.

News is never "good," but "long overdue." Excellent political developments are mere flip-turns en route to another length of anti-Bush diatribe.

Here's the key analysis you won't here on MSM today: Had we not invaded Iraq, Zarqawi would not be dead today, but rather ensconced in some Baghdad safe house or larger encampment plotting more savagery. Had we not invaded Iraq, Saddam's decision menu today would be how much or little assistance to give Zarqawi, followed by the allocation of bribes to his various U.N. oil-for-food stooges, followed by succession planning with his mad-as-hatter sons.

HT to Ed Driscoll

Inside the mind of the Barking Moonbat...

I know it is a scary place, but James Lileks takes us there.

You're an enlightened world citizen. Your T-shirt says "9/11 was an inside job." You're pretty sure we're living in a fascist state, that President Bush taps the Dixie Chicks' phones, Christian abortion clinic bombers outnumber jihadis, and the war on "terror" is a distraction from the real threats: carbon emissions and Pat Robertson. Then you learn that 17 people were arrested in a terrorist bomb plot. How do you process the information? Let's take it step by step.

Gosh, that's horrible, you think. But no -- that's what they WANT you to feel. Recall the prime directive: Question Authority (unless he's a college professor). The plotters must have been impoverished olive farmers radicalized by the removal of Saddam Hussein. Why, if someone came in and toppled your president, you'd go to their country and ... well, you'd thank them. Unless they did it for the wrong reasons! Then you'd blow something up. Like an SUV dealership. At night. Anyway, you understand; you care a lot about Iraqis these days. You think about Iraq more than China, to be honest, but it's not as if you'll scrape off your "Free Tibet" bumper sticker -- unless it's to make room for "Free Darfur." Or "Hands Off Darfur," depending.

Wait a minute: The "terrorists" were Canadian? You can understand someone blowing up trains in Spain and London. They sent troops to an illegal war cooked up by neocons who want to kill brown people for Exxon and Jesus, or something. You can understand, reluctantly, blowing up teens in an Israeli pizza parlor, because the Jews took the West Bank from the sovereign, ancient nation of Palestine. (How can a liberal socialist country behave so poorly? The world is full of mysteries.) But Canada? Isn't Michael Moore from Canada? You can get medical marijuana from married gay doctors in Canada, and no one has guns. You console yourself: Maybe they were really planning to attack the U.S.
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You worry this will push Haditha off the front page. It's very important that everyone concentrate on the atrocities committed by U.S. troops every day. (It's such a relief not to have to pretend to support the troops anymore.) Anyway, nothing happened. Nothing blew up. If the suspects were planning something, they didn't do it, and this proves we can handle this as a law enforcement matter. Even though the police are racists.

Your head hurts.

You have a friend in Toronto. She's cool. It would kill her if these arrests were made possible by NSA eavesdropping.

Read the whole thing.

California Election News

In was a key race in the democrats plan to paint the Republicans as the "Party of Corruption", Republican Brian Bilbray defeated democrat Francine Busby.

This was a congressional race to replace former Rep. Cunningham, a Republican who is going to due time for taking bribes.

Voters in San Diego decided that they were not going to buy the DNC spin.
Perhaps they remembered that the democrats are just as, and probably more corrupt than the Republicans.

Responding the to spin machine...

The NY Times is back to running puff pieces on John Kerry, the absentee Senator from the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts. Blackfive points out that this attempt to fix Kerry's miliary record is in preparation for another run at the Presidency.

Thomas Lipscomb responds to the puff piece with common sense and actual facts.
Here are some highlights:

Kate Zernike's story on the front page of the Memorial Day Sunday New York Times, "Kerry Pressing Swift Boat Case Long After Loss," is an unfortunate reminder of the Times's embarrassingly poor coverage of Kerry in the face of the Swift Boat Veterans' for Truth charges in the 2004 election. Now as then, the Times acts as if the issues involved were between Kerry's latest representations of his record and the "unsubstantiated" charges of the Swift Boat group. The Times used the term "unsubstantiated" more than twenty times during its election coverage and continues to make no discernable effort to examine any of the charges in detail.

But there was plenty of evidence in the work of other news organizations that some of the charges, and the Kerry military records themselves, were worth examining seriously. I found numerous problems with Kerry's records on his website in my own reporting for the Chicago Sun-Times: a Silver Star with a V for valor listed that the Navy stated it had never awarded in the history of the US Navy, three separate medal citations with some heavy revisions in Kerry's favor signed by former Navy Secretary John Lehman who denied ever signing them, to name two.
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But the facts on this are already on the record and no matter what Kerry "researchers" may come up with they should be addressed by any reporter attempting a review of the dispute. Admiral Roy Hoffman may have been head of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, but he was also in command of all the Swift Boat operations in Vietnam, directly under the commander of all sea operations in Vietnam, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt.

Any tasking for insertions of special operations troops across borders by sea, whether Seals, CIA, Army Special Forces or Vietnamese troops like CIDG had to come through his command. Hoffman stated he was never asked to handle missions for the CIA. "They had their own teams for that. And none of my Coastal Commands ever inserted any troops of this kind into Cambodia. We had some operations we ran north that I am not at liberty to discuss."
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Tedd Peck, accompanied Kerry's PCF 44 on his PCF 57 from Cam Ranh down to their new assignment at An Thoi where they arrived on December 8, 1968. Peck served there with Kerry until he was wounded and med-evaced out on January 29, 1969. Douglas Brinkley states that "Kerry liked Peck." So what does Peck have to say about secret missions out of An Thoi to Cambodia? "There never was one. And I never saw a Navy Seal at An Thoi the whole time I served there with Kerry"

What does it take to wake up a good reporter that there are some issues here besides one junior lieutenant's latest assertions on the basis, once again, of totally undisclosed records? It isn't simply a matter of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "lies." The facts recited by Kerry make no military sense, fly in direct opposition to authoritative testimony, and are yet to be backed by any records anyone has seen. And Kerry keeps changing his story.
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Zernike makes much of the support of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "backed by Republican donors and consultants," which indeed it was. But she shows no interest in who is backing "the Patriot Project" challenging the Swift Vets claims "formed by Kerry supporters" since February 2005 that is the occasion for her story.
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In any case, it is time for some tough reporting to evaluate the Kerry's claims as listed in Zernike's article. I will be following up with several other key incidents which appear to be widely at variance with these claims. These will include what appears to be the current state of the evidence about the "skimmer" operation Kerry has decided to put in play again and the greatest newspaper coverup in modern history.

Thought for the Day

During the Clinton administration the established media treated patriotism as treason. Now during the Bush administration treason is now treated as being patriotic.

Think of it as doublethink in action.
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And Then...

Right after I parked out at the airport yesterday for a spot of lunch, a F-5E in aggressor squadron colors did a take-off on full afterburners right in front of me.

Wow.
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Fake Socialist anti-war video update

Ace has a link to liar Jessie MacBeths MySpace page with MacBeth's "discharge paper" and points out how it is most likely a forgery.

Once again, he displays his complete cluelessness by failing to even concoct a passable forgery. He fails to include key entries which should be present were he actually a Ranger.

His forgery says he's "Ranger qualifiyd" (sic). This kid is so stupid he gives you morons a bad name. He's doing a forgery, and he can't even be bothered to look up the correct spelling of "qualified."

Q&O has the truth:

He was a boot-camp washout, and spent exactly one month and thirteen days in basic training before being kicked out for failure to adapt.

Read the whole thing.

Bush hatred still going strong amoung the leftists.

Celestial Junk has a good posting on the subject. Here are some highlights:

I’ve often said on these pages that Bush-hate has reached the level of a mental illness. I was reminded of it a while back while sharing drinks with a group of successful business people. It was a post trade-show relax session, and the bubbly had loosened some tongues.

“That Bush is real scary… did you see him the other day in the news?” Betty stated.

“Yeh!” replied Ted, “I don’t know how they could’ve voted him!”

“My son says that Bush would invade Canada if he could… it’s our oil they want… he even looks like a dictator… the way he walks!” Betty continued to murmurs of agreement all around, “and, did you see his face… no wonder they call him Chimp; he looks like a monkey… I can’t stand that man!”

I sat there and held my tongue… I’ve learned long ago to pick my battles, and this one, with alcohol fueling the debate, would have been a dead-ender. But, I did take a careful summary of who approved of the remarks, and most did. A few like me had that, “these people are too dumb to even bother with,” look on their faces, and one or two effectively changed the topic.

My point for sharing this with you is to demonstrate how pathologic Bush-hatred has become.

He goes on to quote a Pasadena Star article that "makes a strong argument that Bush-hate has now gone far enough to actually endanger American national security."

Would newspapers in the midst of World War II have printed the fact that the United States had broken German and Japanese codes, enabling the enemy to secure its communications? Or revealed how and where Nazi spies were being interrogated? Nowadays, newspapers win Pulitzer Prizes for such disclosures. In Congress and in much of the media, the immediate reaction to news that the National Security Agency was intercepting international terrorist communications was not to say, "Good work - and how can we help?" Rather, it was to scream about a "domestic spying" scandal, as though Richard Nixon were back in the White House and tapping the telephone of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.

Charles Krauthammer has a column on Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS)

The democrats plan for dealing with illegal aliens

Ok,so it's more of a plan to deal with the Republicans. It seems that the democrat long term plan for illegals is to get them voting as soon as possible so the leftists can continue to raise taxes and drive forward a socialist welfare state.

In Other News

I had an accident with my pickup truck on Friday night and was just discharged from the hospital today.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

READ THIS!

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So Anyway

While driving to Mom's house for the weekend I saw that MI:3 was already showing at a second run/weekends-only theatre in Staples, Minnesota.

Is this desperate or what?
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

A letter from Morpheus:

You have a choice, Mahmoud: the red pill or the blue pill. You take the red pill - and you wake up and learn to live in the 21st century as a decent, productive human being and an equal partner to other decent, productive human beings. It will be hard at first but you can do it. You take the blue pill - and you go back to your Koranic pipe dream, only this time don't count on life support from the West. Try fending for yourself with the Koran against the forces of nature. We're pulling the plug.

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Thought For The Day...

If Neil Young actually cared about anything other than separate moonbats from their money, he would become citizen of the country he has lived in for decades and vote.
If he cared about truth and honesty, his CDs would have a disclaimer pointing that he is a citizen of Canada.

Grrrrr...

Still having a bitch of a time getting to sleep.

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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

The Left is angry with us.

How dare we not submit to their will and help them pretend that they are Superior Beings(TM)!

As if we didn't have something better to do.
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Link of the Day

Top 11 Ways Rochester is Preparing for Patrick Kennedy’s Rehab Stint At the Mayo Clinic.
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Thought for the Day

If I was riding in the back seat of a Cadillac convertable with Ann-Margaret wrapped around me I would grin like an idiot too.

(It was a scene in a Ken Russell film.)
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Still At It

Still having a bitch of a time gettng to sleep.
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Problem

I'm having very severe difficulty getting any amount of sleep.

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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Jeff Jacoby on current fashion:

"Communist chic?" The blood of 100 million victims cries out from the ground. To wear the symbols of their killers is no fashion statement, but the ultimate in bad taste.

It also makes target identification much easier for us when the revolution comes.
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Something I Found

This is interesting.
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And Now...

A message from Laika the Space Dog!
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Remember This

There are those who still seek to establish a Communist state in America (with themselves holding the whip, of course) even though Communism has been proven to be toxic to human life.

Let us remember the victims of Communism and work to prevent any further destruction of lives and civilization.
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So Anyway

The last weekend sucked.

Dana is back from her sojurn in the Seattle area. This of course has nothing to do with my weekend sucking.



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Continuing the Thought

Thought for the Day

Now with photos!


Patricia Quinn in the white teddy during the Night, Night number in SHOCK TREATMENT:

Thought for the Day

You cannot argue or negotiate with your self-anointed master, all you can do with it is to kill it.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Bilious Young Fogey has some things to say about V FOR VENDETTA, last of which was:

The crowning evil about this movie is its valorisation of terrorism. The film is French-Maoist in its arrogant, elitist espousal of the frisson of the act of violence. It is fitting that the last scene is of a new uniformed army, the followers of V, watching the destruction of the Houses of Parliament.

This film is decadent and offensive.

HT: Tim Blair.

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Thought for the Day

There was a time when I was a young lad that I wanted to take up the profession of journalism. I ultimately decided not to pursue that line of work.

For the most part I don't regret that decision.

Really, I don't regret that decision at all.
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Today in Pizzaland

I saw a rainbow on one of my delivery runs.
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Musing

Heaven is where the door to the Nuclear Club is guarded by an American.

Hell is where the door to the Nuclear Club is guarded by a Frenchman.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

In 1913, Ambrose Bierce disappeared and was never seen by anyone again.

Lucky bastard.

-- R.K. Milholland.

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So Anyway

While I was doing my nightly cross country drive I was pulled over by a member of the North St. Paul police. During the conversation he mentioned that there were guys coming up from Minneapolis to a house of ill repute, and that said house was under surveillance.

I of course would never pay for that sort of thing.

My ego is very strict that way.
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Bad Vibes

Katheryn Jean Lopez at NRO's The Corner writes:

It was April 14 and Good Friday when John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in 1865.

Which may explain part of the animosity between Republicans and the theatre/cinema crowd.
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Meanwhile in the Total Perspective Vortex

Professor R.J. Rummel puts things into perspective:

What is astonishing is that this "currency" of death by Marxism is not thousands or even hundreds of thousands, but millions of deaths. This is almost incomprehensible – it is as though the whole population of the American New England and Middle Atlantic States, or California and Texas, had been wiped out. And that around 35 million people escaped Marxist countries as refugees was an unequaled vote against Marxist utopian pretensions. Its equivalent would be everyone fleeing California, emptying it of all human beings.

And someone once called me a zombie because I wouldn't waste time on marxist propaganda.
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AUGH!!!!

I just blew a third alternator on my truck.
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Quote of the Day

I'm allergic to freight locomotives, they're always running into you.

-- L. Ron Hubbard

Um... okay.
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Um...Okay...

Here we see a honest used car salesman. Perhap he's a bit too honest.

WARNING, THIS VIDEO IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR A FAMILY ENVIRONMENT!

We not return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Think Of It As Idiocy In Action

Mary Mapes still doesn't get it:

In Mapes’ alternative reality, everybody but her is to blame. From money-grubbing network executives to misogynistic scape-goaters to conservative witch-hunters it’s Mary versus the world.

Mapes still refuses to own up to developing and running a story that was factually errant and for which she failed to conduct due diligence in authenticating. As to whether her judgment was clouded because of her antithesis toward President Bush – well, we won’t even bother going there because it ultimately is beside the point and we all know the answer.

Without credibility a reporter is simply another source of noise to be tuned out.

Any further questions?
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Meanwhile...Across The Ocean

A good working knowledge of the German language* may be a good thing when travelling in France:

Driver ploughs into Paris protesters


TEN STUDENT protesters were injured yesterday after a Paris motorist, angry that they had blocked a road, drove his car into them.

The driver only escaped following police intervention after his car was overturned and he was dragged out by the demonstrators.

The incident near the Sorbonne University laid bare some of the frustration surrounding the government's new plan for getting more young people working and the opposition of students and unions to the scheme.

On Paris's Left Bank, protesters disrupted traffic by picnicking on a busy boulevard. They were heading away when a frustrated motorist tried to burst through the crowd.

Several dozen youths turned the car over, tried to kick out its windows and began dragging the driver out before police and onlookers intervened.

*Hey, it worked in 1940!

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Think Of It As Idiocy In Action

These young gang-bangers are certainly not graduates of the Benning School for Boys:

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three gang members tried to ambush a suspected rival but ended up killing one of their own, police said.

The incident occurred Wednesday evening when Carlos Cortez, 18, Marcus King, 16, and a 16-year-old boy saw a light colored SUV they thought belonged to a rival gang, Los Angeles police Lt. Paul Vernon said. Cortez placed himself on the opposite side of the street from the other two and fired several shots at the vehicle when it passed by a second time, he said.

Cortez's shots struck King in the stomach and he died later that night at a local hospital, Vernon said.

Definately a nominee for a Darwin Award.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Apparently the local socialist rag, the Minneapolis STAR-TRIBUNE, has chosen to downplay the seriousness of a certain recent assault on a police officer.

Corey Miltimore has wondered how the STAR-TRIBUNE would have reported certain other events in history:

It got me to thinking what headlines the current Star Tribune editors would have chosen had they applied the same standards to various historical events. Here are some that came to mind:

• October 24, 1929 – “Stocks dip”
• September 1, 1939 – “Germany expresses frustration with Poland”
• December 7, 1941 – “Japanese visit Honolulu”
• November 22, 1963 – “President Kennedy takes ill in Dallas”
• July 16, 1969 – “Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins take trip”

I won't even bother to cruise through the STAR-TRIBUNE's website let alone actually buy a copy anymore.
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Thought for the Day

Cynthia McKinney, a member of the House of Representatives from the party of treason, is whining about being touched inappropriately after she deliberately violated the security regulations at the U.S. Capitol building.

What would be an appropriate manner of touching? A whack on the head with a four-cell maglight?
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Weirdness for Today

Princess Diana showed up in a dream last night. She hasn't done that in a long time.

The current issue of PEOPLE magazine, which I haven't read, is featuring a story about how the government investigation into Diana's death is still not closed.

Would it be too simple to say that a bunch of folks, including agencies of government at both the national and municipal level, were being really and truly stupid? Of course expecting the French government, particularly with its institutional obsession with methodological differentiation from Anglo-Saxon states like the United States and the United Kingdom, to do anything with a reasonable degree of efficiency is like expecting a large rock to shatter simply by screaming the killing word at it.

Of course if Diana were still around at the age of 44, she would still be far more interesting than the urban uberskanks that usually defile the cover of PEOPLE magazine.

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Hooray!!!!

The First Church of Xenu is open for business!

Praise "Bob" Hail Xenu!

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In Other News

A bunch of traitors whine about a scheduled non-nuclear explosive test:

Plans for a Pentagon-led experiment that involves detonating 700 tons of explosives in the desert drew criticism from state leaders and a disarmament activist.

The explosion scheduled for June 2 at the Nevada Test Site is part of an effort to design a weapon that can penetrate solid rock formations in which a country might store nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction.

"I am concerned that tests of this magnitude have been planned without providing Nevadans with any information about the possible impact on their health or safety," said Demcratic Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid in a statement Thursday.

Never mind that the test detonation of 700 tons of conventional explosives has already been cleared with the state government.

Disarmament activist Pete Litster said tests at the site violate international law. Litster, executive director of the Shundahai Network, said the site belongs to the Western Shoshone Indian tribe.

No. The test site belongs to the United States Government.

Not that this or any other fact of reality would ever cross the self-mangled remnant of the mind of a willing servant of the enemies of Mankind.

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UPDATE AT 1040 HRS CST:

May I also say that a test detonation of 700 tons of conventional explosives would also be pretty damned cool?

Of course I will.

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So Anyway

I stopped over at The People's Progressive Truth Generator and got this message:

Leslie Bates, you are a hateful caveman because you think that property has to be earned!

So, how is your day going?
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Think Of It As Idiocy In Action

The NEW YORK TIMES, a corporation, complains about the evils of capitalism:

Apparently some folks believe that its evil for a private firm to fire those employees who are no longer needed, but that its perfectly right for the communist state to kill someone it doesn't have any use for.

Surreal, isn't it?
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Question

The British Royal Navy buys its torpedoes from a firm that is named for Marconi, the Italian who invented the Radio, and the Italian Navy buys its torpedoes from a firm that is named for Whitehead, the Englishman who invented the self-propelled torpedo.

I wonder if Paul Harvey knows about this?
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Useful Information

The Church of Scamitology teaches us how to overcome the barriers to money laundering.

Of course I just leave cash in my poockets when I do the laundry. It works for me.
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And Now...

A word from The Guru:

It is a continual annoyance to see the press is unable to separate the pistol from its cartridge. I suppose it is unreasonable to expect a journalist to know very much about his subject, but it does seem that any time a reporter works into a technical field (such as, for instance, skiing, self-propelled vehicles or smallarms), he might be expected to look into the subject.

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So Anyway

Apparently William Shatner turned 75 today.

Out of curiosity I bought a copy of his latest CD, HAS BEEN. (Almost wrote "album" which would indicate how old I am.)

I started playing the first track on the CD after it arrived and one of the co-owners of the house that I was living in came storming downstairs, apparently upset that I was subjecting her to the sound of Shatner's voice. Well, Shatner does have that reputation.

On my PC's hard drive I tend to separate MP3 files either according to the originating artist or according to an applicable concept, such as Comedy, Celtic Modern, or masturbation (three songs in that one).

I decided to play my MP3 of COMMON PEOPLE and discovered that instead of classifying William Shatner as an artist I had instead pegged him as a concept.

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A Disturbance.

I just had a dream where I saw several multistage solid fuel rockets being launched to west of me.

Minuteman III ICBM's from silos in the Dakotas?

Please pardon me if I seem to be a bit freaked out at the moment.
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Playing With Photoshop.

I can't sleep and I'm being a naughty boy.



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In Other News

A message from the creators of SOUTH PARK:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!

-Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu

Where do I join? What?

I also just saw the trailer for the third season of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.


Really guys, surrender is never an option.

I'm not sure if I want to resume cable or satellite TV service.
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Once Again It's Friday

Vasko Kohlmayer at The American Thinker has some thoughts on what I call the Mental Inversion Syndrome or what he calls The Chomsky Paradox:

I would hereby like to coin the term “Chomsky Paradox.” The Chomsky Paradox is a singular phenomenon which takes place in the brain of a western leftist when he looks at an oppressed people and thinks they are free.

I am aware that it is nearly impossible to conceive how anyone could see the world in this way, but apparently there are such people and Mr. Chomsky is one of them. Long, indeed, is the stretch from un-free to free as the two are diametrical opposites. Logic, reason and language fail us when we try to understand the thought process which led Mr. Chomsky to arrive at his conclusion, but now we at least have a term by which to call it.

As someone who lived under communism I can tell Mr. Chomsky that oppressed is in fact not free. I am also eternally grateful that not all Americans belabor under the sway of the Chomsky Paradox. If they did, there would have been no Cold War and no Ronald Reagan. There also would have been no freedom for the hundreds of millions liberated from the yoke of communist tyranny by the United States.

If we follow Mr. Chomsky's alleged logic to its ultimate conclusion we must see that the most free man in the world is someone falling face first into a ditch after receiving a ballistic lobotomy from a marxist thug.

In reality Chomsky and those who treat him as an authority are a hazard to themselves and to Humanity in general.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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On Visiting Red States

Wicked Thoughts on what to do when visiting states in the American Midwest, this also applies to Minnesota and Wisconsin:

If You Come to the Midwest, Know This:

Because of misunderstandings that frequently develop when Easterners and Californians cross into states such as Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, the Tourism Councils in those states have adopted a new policy. In an effort to help outsiders understand the rural Midwesterner's mind, the following list will be handed to each person as they enter the states.

1. That slope-shouldered farm body did more work before breakfast than you do all week at the gym.

2. It's called a "gravel road". No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Navigator. I have a four wheel drive because I need it. Drive it or get it out of the way.

3. We all started hunting and fishing when we were seven years old. Yeah, we shot Bambi, we got over it.

4. Any references to "corn fed" when talking about our women will get you whipped...by our women.

5. Go ahead and bring your $600 Orvis Fly Rod. Don't cry to us when a flathead breaks it off at the handle. We have a name for those little 13 inch trout you fish for - "bait".

6. Pull your pants up. You look like an Idiot.

7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of mallards are making their final approach, we will shoot it. You might hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time.

8. That's right, whiskey is only two bucks. We can buy a fifth for what you paid in the airport for one drink.

9. No, there's no "Vegetarian Special" on the menu. Order steak. Order it rare. Or, you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the two pounds of ham and turkey. Yeah, we have sweet tea. It comes in a glass with two packets of sugar and a long spoon.

10. You bring Coke into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served over ice.

11. So, you have a sixty thousand dollar car. We're real impressed. We have quarter of a million dollar combines that we use four weeks a year.

12. Let's get it straight. We have one stop light in town. We stop when it's red. We may even stop when it's yellow.

13. Our women hunt, fish, and drive trucks - because they want to. So, you're a feminist. Isn't that cute.

14. Yeah, we eat catfish, carp too - and turtle. Your really want sushi and caviar? It's available at the bait shop.

15. They are pigs. That's what they smell like. Get over it. Don't like it? Interstate 69 goes two ways. State Road 24 goes the other two. Pick one and use it accordingly.

16. The "Opener" refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday. You can get breakfast at the church.

17. So every person in every pickup waves. It's called being friendly. Understand the concept?

18. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don't hit in the water hazards. It spooks the fish.

19. That Officer, be it Conservation Officer, sheriff deputy, city police, or highway patrol that just pulled you over for driving like an idiot - his name is "Sir".

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Murray at Silent Running said:

2,049 years ago one man thought lots of power wasn’t enough and went for total power. Some of his closest friends didn’t go for the plan and did a drive by on his ass.

After that it got messy.

Power corrupts, absolute power attracts attention.

Adverse attention at that.

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It's Monday!

There was a power outage while I was sleeping and it still blowing and snowing outside.

The doggy fence between the back door and my truck is just caked over with snow.

And I would not be surprised if both Minneapolis and Saint Paul schools were both closed for the day. This will of course mean that there will be a surge in orders for delivered pizza on a day when street conditions are too dangerous for anything other than emergency travel.

What can I say, many people are simply stupid.
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Announcement

Off to Mom's for the weekend.

Back on Sunday Night.
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It's Friday!

Feh!

I'm also really getting more than a bit tired of seeing lefties trying to show us how intellectually and morally superior they are to us mere humans when in fact they simply do not possess a decent fraction of a clue.

The bumper sticker is one of their usual weapons of choice in efforts at posturing. The stupidity of President Bush, and by extension those who voted for him, is the usual message.

Here's a question. Who is dumber, the fighter pilot with a MBA from Harvard, or the bozoid who feels that the fighter pilot with a MBA from Harvard is an idiot?

I practically answered my own question in asking it.

If I were to stoop to posturing with a bumper sticker it would read: PROSECUTE TRAITORS NOW!

While suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome is in itself not treasonous, it does appear to be a precursor to treasonous behavior.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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This Is Cool

A reminder of total coolness brought to us by Ed Driscoll:

Let's flashback even further to about 1966. Compare the apathy and arrogance of today's celebrities with this photo of Stewart, a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve, at about age 58, looking like God in a flight suit, walking away from a B-52F, after a mission over North Vietnam.

I have no idea how many flights Stewart made over Nam--but even if it was just one for this photo-op, think of what he had to go through: the 5000 mile flight from Los Angeles to at least Guam, where most of the B-52s flew out of during the Vietnam war, the risk of getting shot out of the sky by crack North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gunners and killed or captured, plus the timeout from his career, when by the 1960s, he was earning at a minimum, in the very high six-figures per movie. I'm sure that when the call came, if Stewart or his handlers quietly said, "err, no thanks", the Air Force wouldn't have pressed the issue. But, just as he did in WWII, Stewart served his country.

(Les is picking his jaw off the floor right now. He'll be back after the reattachment procedure is completed.)
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Meanwhile...On The Left Coast

Barbara Streisand redefines the standard for idiocy.

Barbra Streisand has launched a new spelling error-ridden dispatch on the Internet -- a dispatch that mocks President Bush for being a "C student!"

In her February 28th, 2006 essay, Streisand flubs 11 words, a personal record.

I would bet that Ms. Streisand simply dictated her rant to a product of the California public schools. But then the actual purpose of the public school systems since the time of John Dewey has been indoctrination in the dogma of Socialism. Thus it is no surprise that skills that are useful for living in the real world are given a lower priority.

I will confess that English was my worst subject in school but I do routinely use a spell checker and I do care when I find a mistake in one of my own rants. Usually this is a skipped or misplaced word. (I just caught and corrected one in the previous sentence.)

Of course the posturing of mentally and morally deficient individuals can be quite amusing as long as it is temporally brief. I once tried to view a stolen (by a friend from a local neo-nazi) copy of TRIUMPH OF THE WILL and that four hour cinematic spectacle of moral posturing had literally put me to sleep.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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A Reminder

It's nine more days until The Patchouli Putsch.

Please have your gas masks ready. They are going to raise a stink for sure.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

James Ozark on the leading moral black hole* of the Twentieth Century:

On this day (March 5th), in 1953, the globe released its collective breath, as the Bringer of Light finally claimed his own ... Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili may you rot in hell.

*According to Jerry Pournelle, Russians apparently prefer to use the term "frozen stars" for this kind of astronomical phenomena as that the literal translation of the term "black hole" is used as a label for a particular bit of human anatomy.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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And Now...

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN in thirty seconds.

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And Now For Something Completely Different

Wicked Thoughts on aircraft landings:

After a real crusher of a landing in Sydney, the flight attendant came on with, "Ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until Capt.Crash and the crew have brought the aircraft to a screeching halt against the gate. And, once the tire smoke has cleared and the warning bells are silenced, we'll open the door and you can pick your way through the wreckage to the terminal."

I've made some rather hard landings while taking flying lessons. In one case actually taking some very visible chunks out of the tires. ("Oh, you guys better replace those tires...")

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A Reminder

PILLAGE THEN BURN!

And can we get an "Arrrrr"?

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