The Ten Most Evil Books In The World.
And I always thought that John Dewey was just another fucking socialist.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Monday, May 30, 2005
Sunday, May 29, 2005
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Thought for the Day
Never underestimate the ability of the committed liberal to willfully ignore the most obvious piece of verifiable evidence.
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Thursday, May 26, 2005
Are We Not Sith?
Emperor Darth Misha I has his own theory as to who the real good guys and evil bastards are in the Star Wars series.
We Are Sith, Part I
We Are Sith, Part II
Perhaps we should be...
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We Are Sith, Part I
We Are Sith, Part II
Perhaps we should be...
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Three-Year Old News
CANADIAN WARSHIP SEIZES TANKER IN... WAIT... CANADA HAS A WARSHIP?
Seriously, can they even afford to have a warship with all their welfare spending?
Too bad they aren't updating the SatireWire site anymore.
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Arabian Sea (SatireWire.com) — Canadian television reported Friday that a Canadian warship in the Arabian Sea had seized a tanker suspected of smuggling oil from Iraq, leading many to suspect that the report was a hoax.
"You're kidding, right? Canada has a warship?" asked U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "Like for war?
"Does Canada know?" he added.
Seriously, can they even afford to have a warship with all their welfare spending?
According to Canadian defense officials, the Vancouver is one of four frigates deployed in the region to assist in the U.S.-led Afghanistan conflict. The tanker was stopped, officials said, because its cargo of crude oil violated United Nations sanctions, which prohibit Iraq from selling oil unless in exchange for food and medicine.
The U.N. said the incident is already under investigation, and promised swift action against those found responsible for giving the Canadians guns. Initial findings indicate that the Vancouver crew may have been watching too many American television shows.
Too bad they aren't updating the SatireWire site anymore.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Leslie, you may turn out to be a Prophet yet...
Check out this article by Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder on the possible beatification of HRC.
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, I point you toward Leslie's story Homecoming.
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, I point you toward Leslie's story Homecoming.
Dammit!
I now regret not going to law school.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Someone Else's Thought For The Day
Orson Scott Card takes a look at Revenge of the Sith:
Granted, I can't say that I'm always happy with what I write.
Of course a good tale should carry some truths with it:
Of course, I cannot for the life of me figure out what possible good could be accomplished with an ideology that so obviously reduces productive human beings to the status of sub-sentient cattle at the very outset.
Perhaps we should consider ourselves fortunate that most modern liberals in America are happy with only empty posturing instead of actual results.
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He wanted to make his epic dream come to life on the screen, in all its majesty and power -- and humor, and love, and heroism, and sacrifice ...
He labored over the special effects to make it all seem real, and he succeeded. The dream of his childhood was there on the screen.
Too bad his inner child never learned how to write.
Granted, I can't say that I'm always happy with what I write.
Of course a good tale should carry some truths with it:
That people rarely embrace evil for its own sake, but rather because they think they can accomplish something good.
That once you cross certain moral lines, it becomes almost trivial to cross others.
Of course, I cannot for the life of me figure out what possible good could be accomplished with an ideology that so obviously reduces productive human beings to the status of sub-sentient cattle at the very outset.
Perhaps we should consider ourselves fortunate that most modern liberals in America are happy with only empty posturing instead of actual results.
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Monday, May 23, 2005
Monday Night Confession
I once actually paid money to see a Jane Fonda movie.
The movie was BARBARELLA. It was playing at the Uptown theatre, which at the time was a revival house*. I believed at the time that because it predated the trip to Hanoi that it would be ethically okay for me to see it.
What can I say? BARBARELLA sucked.
By some accounts, Jane Fonda movies still suck.
I'll just have to take their word for it.
* A practice that basically died as a result of the mass distribution of VCR's. Dammit! Some movies, such as 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, can only be truly appreciated when shown on the big theatre screen.
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The movie was BARBARELLA. It was playing at the Uptown theatre, which at the time was a revival house*. I believed at the time that because it predated the trip to Hanoi that it would be ethically okay for me to see it.
What can I say? BARBARELLA sucked.
By some accounts, Jane Fonda movies still suck.
I'll just have to take their word for it.
* A practice that basically died as a result of the mass distribution of VCR's. Dammit! Some movies, such as 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, can only be truly appreciated when shown on the big theatre screen.
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Quotes of the Day
Joel at Little Green Footballs puts something into perspective:
As long as the MP's at Abu Ghraib don't start playing the auditory works of Yoko Ono we should be okay.
And then on the same thread Goat Guy lays out the differences between how Muslims deal with the Koran and how Christians see the Bible:
Basically, I think of the Koran as merely the written record of the rantings and ravings of an illiterate paedophile-rapist, robber, and murderer.
But what do I know? I only read history as it actually happened.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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For all their talk about Abu Ghraib, it is obvious to me that the MSM knows very little history. Let's for example say for arguemnts sake that everything they allege to have happened at Abu Ghraib is true (I for one think that the Abu Ghraib story is exaggerated. Does that mean that the US mission is a bad one? In World War II, 96 American servicemen were executed, one was Eddie Slovik for desertion, and 95 were for the felonies of murder (firing squad) or rape (hanging). That some American soldiers committed rape and murder mean that we were on par with the S.S. and Gestapo and therefore that the American mission (Eisenhower referred to it as a "Crusade in Europe" in his book)was morally negated? Of course not!
As long as the MP's at Abu Ghraib don't start playing the auditory works of Yoko Ono we should be okay.
And then on the same thread Goat Guy lays out the differences between how Muslims deal with the Koran and how Christians see the Bible:
This is one of so many "things" that I have come to appreciate about modern Christianity. It does not venerate a book. But it does The Word. Strictly, it doesn't venerate a building, but the Temple in the Heart. It doesn't propose a spreadsheet of cans, can'ts, of do-this-and-it-negates-that crap. It demands only that one take responsibility for their actions, that they think of others, that they try as hard as possible to retire the primitive notions of 'honor', and 'vindication', of collective judgement and retribution. Nothing - nothing! - is authorized as action the believer must take to countenance the besmirched honor of the God of the Word. Nothing.
And that is something that separates us from the Muslims - in the biggest way. We simply put do not have (either Judaisim or Christianity) a sense of object-honor. Its all philosophy. And it is brilliantly non-judgemental, so long as the follower of the faith tries to improve.
Basically, I think of the Koran as merely the written record of the rantings and ravings of an illiterate paedophile-rapist, robber, and murderer.
But what do I know? I only read history as it actually happened.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Sunday, May 22, 2005
Hmmm...
My landlady said the she has played the Zero Wing Raspsody about fifty times today.
I'm sure that Beelzebub has set a devil aside for me for introducing the landlady to ZWR.
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I'm sure that Beelzebub has set a devil aside for me for introducing the landlady to ZWR.
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Saturday, May 21, 2005
So Anyway
I saw Revenge of the Sith.
What can I say, Anakin Skywalker is a shmuck.
Of course there are some who wish to see this film as an indictment of the present government. Particularily with this quote:
Of course, apart from a National Socialist rally at Nuremburg, you can't beat a Soviet Communist Party congress for thunderous applause. Especially back in Comrade Stalin's day.
There will of course be thunderous applause when Comrade Hillary receives the nomination at the next Democratic National Convention. And I don't doubt that there will be thunderous applause should Comrade Hillary actually be elected.
And I simply can't imagine there not being thunderous applause when the long knives finally come out and the opponents of socialism, such as Mark and myself, are lined up along a ditch and shot.
But what do I know? I only read history as it actually happened.
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What can I say, Anakin Skywalker is a shmuck.
Of course there are some who wish to see this film as an indictment of the present government. Particularily with this quote:
This is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
-- Senator Padme Amidala
Of course, apart from a National Socialist rally at Nuremburg, you can't beat a Soviet Communist Party congress for thunderous applause. Especially back in Comrade Stalin's day.
There will of course be thunderous applause when Comrade Hillary receives the nomination at the next Democratic National Convention. And I don't doubt that there will be thunderous applause should Comrade Hillary actually be elected.
And I simply can't imagine there not being thunderous applause when the long knives finally come out and the opponents of socialism, such as Mark and myself, are lined up along a ditch and shot.
But what do I know? I only read history as it actually happened.
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Friday, May 20, 2005
Hardly surprising...
The left gets it backwards. Law Professor Ann Althouse points out that Constitutional framers considered requiring a supermajority vote in the Senate to reject the President's judicial nominees.
A Plan...
I've read a number of positive reviews of SW3: Revenge of the Sith, and the local weather channel is predicting a sunny day tomorrow. I the pizza business good weather means sucky business, which means I should get off work early tomorrow. I will probably see Episode Three at the Mall of America 14 tommorow night.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Quote of the Day
Walid Phares in Frontpage Magazine on the NEWSPEAK NEWSWEEK riots:
Read the whole thing here.
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One element lost in all the coverage of the jihadist-inspired riots is the rioters' utter hypocrisy. Their concerns for the Muslim holy book did not manifest when they burned mosques to the ground in Pakistan over the past few months. Nor did they launch demonstrations after they destroyed mosques in Iraq throughout the year. There were certainly hundreds of Korans burned into ashes. (It didn't hurt that the owners of these mosques were Shi'ites.) A couple of decades earlier, Hafez Assad's brutal brigades leveled off the mosques of the city of Hama. Thousands of Korans were destroyed (along with 20,000 Sunnis). Yet, the Arab and Islamic world didn't raise a ruckus. The selective outrage over the destroyed Korans is not theological but political. It is only when the Islamists want to wage a jihad for their holy book that infractions begin to make any difference to them. When Arab militias raids black Muslim villages in Darfur, and destroy them, along with their holy books, that is acceptable, but one sentence in an article published in a U.S. magazine deserves a whole holy war? Who are we kidding here?
Read the whole thing here.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Another Quote
From Frontpage Magazine:
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Che excelled in one thing: mass murder of defenseless men. He was a Stalinist to the core, a plodding bureaucrat and a calm, cold-blooded – but again, never in actual battle – killer.
-- Humberto Fontova, Author of Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant.
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