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July 30, 2008

You Will Travel Far, My Little Kal-Al

The Onion is awesome.

Photo taken from The Onion.

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

 

Former vice president Al Gore—who for the past three decades has unsuccessfully attempted to warn humanity of the coming destruction of our planet, only to be mocked and derided by the very people he has tried to save—launched his infant son into space Monday in the faint hope that his only child would reach the safety of another world.

Via The Corner

July 29, 2008

Lohan Doesn't Like Smelly Homeless Guy

Why? Because it is frickin funny!!

Scent of a Man Interrupts Lohan and Ronson

July 25, 2008

Something We've Seen Before

This looks familiar.

Hmmm....

 

Reader GK wonders if there is room for one more on images of what he referred to as the Saint Threesome: Marx, Engels and Lenin.

Though, he is glad that old masters of state propaganda were able to find employment.

 

July 22, 2008

T4: Terminator Salvation

Maybe I'm late to the party, but I just found out there is a fourth Terminator movie due out in May, 2009 called Terminator Salvation.

In the highly anticipated new installment of "The Terminator" film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

Bale has successfully resurrected the Batman franchise so I'm going to be cautiously optimistic about this one.  I think he is a great actor and hopefully he chose wisely in making this film.

July 18, 2008

Obama's Backdrops

Hot Air's Ed Morrissey comments on Charles Krauthammer's article, The Audacity of Vanity.  Krauthammer's point: Obama has done nothing to deserve that backdrop for his campaign.  Krauthammer writes, "It's as if a German pol took a campaign trip to America and demanded the Statue of Liberty as a venue for a campaign speech", and is on the money.

Morrissey adds Obama's now famous quote, "So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."  And calls this "the elitist opinion that God only exists for people when the State fails".

The two pieces above are a great lesson in the arrogance that is Obama.  Obama’s existence is defined by backdrops. Like that photo you take at an amusement park with fantastic things going on in the painted background. Interchangeable to suit his mood, yet when he steps away, he’s nothing.

Our Beautiful Planet

Earth, pictured from 31 million miles away.

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using the video to develop techniques to study alien worlds.

"Making a video of Earth from so far away helps the search for other life-bearing planets in the Universe by giving insights into how a distant, Earth-like alien world would appear to us," said University of Maryland astronomer Michael A’Hearn, principal investigator for the Deep Impact extended mission, called EPOXI.

I just hope this guy isn't taking a peek.

Where is Sam J. Jones when you need him?

July 16, 2008

Chico's Bail Bonds

Here's a quickie.  After reading this headline on Drudge, World's Greatest Dad' Arrested As Predator, I was reminded of The Smoking Gun's mug shot t-shirt gallery, which was also linked.  It is a wonderful trip through the world of regret.

I like how several of the photo subjects have bail bond shirts.  I can only guess that you get a free t-shirt when you use their services.

 

July 15, 2008

Be Back Soon!

Been terribly busy lately.  Hope to be back at it soon!

July 04, 2008

Independence Day

“I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding Generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by Solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.” - John Adams

Enjoy the day. God bless America.

 

July 03, 2008

Faceless People

File this under "weird".

Photo taken from Daily Mail Online.

With the blankest of blank expressions on their faces, these mysterious figures have been popping up in the most unlikely of places.

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Close inspection of the pictures rules out an alien invasion - small perforations around the eye areas of the masks allow the people beneath to see the world outside.

But nobody knows who the faceless figures, who often appear as motionless couples are, or why they are turning up at high profile events.

Theories include the possibilities that they are limelight-seeking pranksters, performance artists or that they are at the centre of a viral marketing campaign for an as-yet unknown product of forthcoming horror film.

Some speculate it is an ad campaign for Lotus as they have a domain set up called facelesspeople.com.

Clever.

 

July 02, 2008

Ain’t It The Truth?

Q: “You know what?    A: “What?”

Q: “The world is getting nuts.”  A: “Yeah … And you know what else?’

Q: “What?”  A: “ We be the nuts they getting!”

“B.C.” by Johnny Hart, May 26, 2001

 

Seven Years Later—The law of unintended consequences rears its ugly head!

H.I. V. and Aids Diagnoses Rise in Men Who Have Sex With Men

Diagnoses of H.I.V. and AIDS in men who have sex with men rose significantly from 2001 to 2006, while declining in other demographic groups, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. The increase in infection rates was especially high among males 13 to 24 with an annual increase of 12.4 percent, compared with 1.5 percent for men overall. The annual increase was higher still among young African-American men who have sex with men, nearly 15 percent. “It’s a grim report,” said Dr. Ronald Stall, an epidemiologist and professor of health at the University of Pittsburgh . “it means roughly speaking that about half of the American AIDS epidemic is occurring among a few percent of the adult population. And the terrible trends we’re seeing among white gay men are even amplified further among minority men.”

            By David Fuller, buried on page 14 of the New York Times, June 27, 2008

IT”S AN EPIDEMIC! BUT IT FEELS SO GOOD!

Q:  So? What do the “Nuts” of modern American media, politics and education say about the AIDS  epidemic?

A: “… in a taped interview Sunday morning on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called a ballot measure set to go before the state’s voters in November to again ban gay marriage “a waste of time.”

The Wall Street Journal, June 30, 2008; page A3

Celebrating Gay Pride And Its Albany Friend… The drag queen … introduced [ New York City ] Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn … she bellowed, “Let’s hear it for the governor of New York , David Patterson!

Few governors have made advancing gay rights as central to their policy making as Mr. Patterson ... “

 The New York Times, June 30, 2008; page B3..

In other words, they say, let’s mainstream homosexual sex by promoting it in our government, in schools, in the military, at the work place, at the church, and by encouraging homosexual marriage so that  teenagers and pre-teens  will grow up thinking that society agrees that  anal sex  is just another normal happy (gay) lifestyle they should experiment with… . until they get infected …. for the rest of their shortened  lives.   Meanwhile, the super elite brains say, let’s spend $billions on making anal sex safe … that’s more important than curing  cancer or TB or MS or … Autism ... or …heart disease … or …

Q: Does the intelligentsia find it tragic that the worst hit are the teenagers and young adults (13 to 24) who have most recently gone through our educational institutions? Are they being taught – How do you know that you don’t like it until you try it? So they tried it?

A:  Yeah … But we’ll keep the grim facts off  of  the newspapesr  front pages.  We need to recruit fresh boys … We’ll give a whole new meaning to “Don’t ask, Don’t tell.” We’ll demonize the anti-anal-sex folks by calling them homophobes …. The press will love us!  As if opposition to disease is wrong.

Q: By the way … Do you think David Fuller will get to keep his job if his NYT boss finds out that he printed the truth?

 

July 01, 2008

C-17 Globemaster III

I believe I saw one of those flying around Brooklyn Sunday afternoon.

It is a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and it was flying low in circles in the Lower New York Bay between 1:30 and 2:30pm.

 


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I don't know what it was doing but a huge thunderstorm was on its way in while the aircraft was circling.  Flying very low, it made about 7-10 passes then disappeared.  Pretty cool!