In my opinion, summer is generally the least photogenic time of year around here… too much brown, not enough green or white. Still, summer has its moments…
Jul 242012
Jul 242012
Any politician will eventually get any of a number of nicknames, from the respectful (“Honest Abe”) to the benignly humorous (“The Gipper”) to the nasty (“Tricky Dick”). The most important thing is that the nickname be memorable and witty, even if the nickname is mean and disrespectful. G.W. Bush, for instance, got called a *lot* of disrespectful things, most of which suffered from the Original Sin of being just plain unwitty. And while I didn’t agree with it, I had to admit that “Chimpy McBushHitler” was at least pretty funny.
With Obama, a lot of nicknames have gained traction in spite of a more or less complete lack of wit. Read enough on the formerly meaningful discussion/news aggregation right-wing site Free Republic, as well as the leftist-dominated Fark.com, and you’ll quickly see “Fartbongo” and “Obozo,” both of which have a taint of racism coupled with being just not that clever. But if you are looking for a nickname to use, here’s a more helpful resource:
The Pretty Darn Exhaustive Obama Nickname List
While the “blah” ones are there, there are also some really good clever ones for you to use:
The Wizard of Uhhs.
The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers
Bam-Bam
Barack Hussein Alinsky
Barackus Hubris Maximus
Chairman Zero
Kid Clueless
… and many more.
Jul 242012
The BBC goes out of its way to insult the entire nation of Israel by claiming that Israel has no capital. One op-ed writer writes a glittering response:
BBC, I’m the capital of your mom
Where we read: “@BBC, f*** you, a-holes. #suckit.”
Jul 242012
A tale of two reactions to Sideshow Bob going on a rampage in Aurora last week.
First, the citizens of Colorado:
Gun sales up since tragedy
Background checks to buy guns in Colorado went up 41% since the shooting.
And on the other end of the reaction scale, NYC’s duly elected Mayor Bloomberg went full retard:
“I don’t understand why police officers across this country don’t stand up collectively and say we’re going to go on strike, we’re not going to protect you unless you, the public, through your legislature, do what’s required to keep us safe.”
So the people of Colorado want to defend themselves, while the people of NYC – they elected Bloomberg, after all – want a fascist police state where the cops will permit crime to go unpunished in order to force unconstitutional changes onto society.
Jul 232012
The planned X-15A-3 was to be a stretched X-15 with delta wings and increased performance (up to Mach 8). As a result of the higher speeds, it would get pretty warm over most of the skin, requiring advanced high-temperature materials.
Jul 232012
Now THIS is how you explain science:
What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?
Definitely worth reading and sharing.
Jul 232012
It might not be quite who you thought it was.
Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
Hint: if a recent politician has recently tried to lead you to believe that the Internet is the result of government effort, devoid of private, capitalistic work… well, someone’s been lying to you.
Jul 232012
Huh.
Nearly two decades after gunman’s SF massacre, Dianne Feinstein’s renewed outrage over assault “weapons of war”
Feinstein is speaking out on assault weapons, calling for a national “conversation” about their dangers — though she admits that politically, any reforms are unlikely to happen.
“Weapons of war don’t belong on the streets,” she said Sunday.
OK. Well, then clearly she’s *not* talking about the sort of weapons used in the Batman Massacre, since none of them were assault weapons. For those who do not know, and do not wish to venture forth in continued ignorance, an “assault weapon” is required to have several features, one of which is a full-automatic mode. The AR-15 used in the massacre was semi-auto only, which means it is *NOT* an assault weapon. Actual assault weapons have been effectively banned for civilian ownership since the unConstitutional “National Firearms Act” of the 1930s. Since then, to own an actual assault weapon, a civilian must procure a Class 3 Federal Firearms License, with is expensive, a pain in the rear to get, and a pain in the rear to maintain (you give up your 4th Amendment rights when you get a Class 3 FFL). Nobody in their right mind would go to war with a semi-only version of a weapon that had a select fire model.
But you know what class of person *does* have actual weapons of war on the streets of America? The police. Many of whom have actual assault weapons in the trunks of their cruisers, in the form of an M-4 carbine or similar.
So, Ms. Feinstein must therefore be arguing that the solution to the problem of lone nutjobs is to take the cops guns away.There’s really no other *honest* way to interpret what she’s saying.
Jul 222012
Nobody can mangle the English language quite as badly as British people. In this case, apparently Scottish people on something that appears to be a British version of Jerry Springer:
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I can’t understand a word of it, but I’d bet a nickel that what we have here are the Scottish equivalent of the sort of uneducated human debris you’d see on Springer or Maury Povich or Montel Williams or Ed Schultz.
Jul 222012
Never let a crisis go to waste.