Russian Style
This is about the coolest vidclip I've seen in a while- YouTube from 1918. The choice of music is utterly inspired.
via Brian at PeeveFarm
June 13, 2009
June 11, 2009
9000 years old
MMMMMMM, beer
My Hero
Robert Heinlein said it, and I grok: "Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me"
We're all going to die!
Why I no longer read Time Magazine.
via Insty
Silly promotion
May 28, 2009
Uuh, it, uh, speaks, uh, for.... itself
May 19, 2009
The sky at night
From this year's Texas Star Party-
Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.
Awesome. Via Gizmodo
May 12, 2009
Yikes
In the 80's this is what we thought the future was going to look like
The One, cont'd...
Hehe...
Obama is America's dreamy new blind date. Took her out to the classy restaurant. Told her she's beautiful. Oh, it's all candlelight and heaving bosoms at the moment.
I'll get back to you when he does a runner out the service entrance and sticks her with the bill.
Ms Peterson
If this doesn't make you cloud up and rain, you don't have a heart. I wish Mobile and Atlanta had chroniclers as good as Lileks...
May 10, 2009
The Interview With God
April 28, 2009
Jawjah's Stonehenge
Men today
An interesting post by Dr. Helen-
"I think depression in men goes largely unnoticed because men do not like to appear to be weak, even to the women & friends they trust. If, as a man, you find yourself feeling an overwhelming feeling of weakness, then the man you see in the bathroom mirror is a man drowning alone, because we see asking for help as admission of weakness."
"White middle aged males commit suicide the most ?
Gee, I wonder why ? Is it that they have lost their job/promotion to someone who is less qualified but has the correct gender/skin color? That they have few if any resources available to them ? That as a White Male, they are automatically the lowest on the Totem pole for help? When was the last time (if ever) you saw a blog or section for White males? Ever ? Bueller? Bueller?""Another interesting stat - middle aged white men who decide to commit suicide actually get the job done. Check stats on various groups that 'attempt' suicide but survive (take pills, call 911, pass out) and note who says 'AMF' and leaves us. Competence can be a curse."
Unemployment is a stone cold bitch.
April 27, 2009
April 23, 2009
The One should remember this
Tommy
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play.
I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,
But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls!
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside";
But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide,
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.
Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?"
But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll,
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll.
We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind",
But it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind,
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind.
You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!
Rudyard Kipling
Earth Day
As for Earth Day, I don't mind the planting-trees-and-picking-up-trash part - the kids did that last Saturday, which is good. Labor and sweat on behalf of a cleaner city. I put in eight trees last year, so I'm holding up my end. At least the arboreal part. But I'll have none of that YOUR FUTURE IS BLEAK stuff; I grew up with that, and it was a dark cloud hanging six inches over my head for most of my childhood. If it wasn't ecocatastrophe that would leave us all living underground or stuck in a small smelly apartment with Edward G. Robinson pedaling a bike for ten minutes of lights, it was nukes, or that "Late Great Planet Earth" stuff that really depressed me. I suppose some kids thought it would be keen to be around when God called the game on account of sin, but I thought it was a raw deal. Can I just have a life down here first ? What's the hurry? You have all the time in the world. You invented it.
I would give major body parts to be able to write with that much snark.
April 16, 2009
Sobering
It's tough to know where to begin. Which is pretty much the case with everything that's been happening since "The One" was sworn in in January. So many basic aspects of American life are being thrown under the wheels of the runaway left-wing train that focusing on any single abuse is automatically backpage trivia. Who could care when the economy is crashing and our new leader is busily remaking the world as well as the country?
Look here
I could be getting scared
Critters
Surely this is a hoax. Surely.
via Posthuman Blues
This was my life
ROFL it hurts 'cause it's true
Right Liz?
April 15, 2009
Businessman Burgled
I just love the headline and the whole concept of a dung-flinging catapult...
Cool picture of the day
from S. Weasel whom you all should be reading
[sigh]
April 14, 2009
Rodenator
Carl Spackler would be so proud
Thanks Gerard!
April 12, 2009
OMFG
Kids, are you seeing this?
If'n I was you pitchforks, ropes, and nearby trees would be in order. You make your own world of course.
Aquaplaning
Sometimes you just step back and let the other guy speak.
April 09, 2009
Automotive lust
2010 Nissan 370Z Roadster
Not that I'd sell my soul or anything
April 08, 2009
Oh LOLOLOL
More of teh funny, via Ace again-
Why Hamas couldn't shoot Stinger Missiles in Gaza
They tried.
Really. After Hamas successfully smuggled anti-aircraft Stinger missiles into Gaza, they were given the order by Hamas commanders to shoot down IAF Apache helicopters during the past IDF "Cast Lead" offensive.
Yet when they targeted the helicopters, said "Alla hu Akbar" and pulled the trigger, the Stinger just beeped and flashed an error message...
It gets better...
The US manufactured Stinger anti-aircraft rockets have built in sensors that prevent firing upon friendly aircraft...Apache helicopters included.
"We were disappointed by them, and they were found to have been useless," a Hamas source said.
The payoff-
Another Hamas source said gunners deployed Stinger along with heavy machine guns in attacks on Israeli helicopters during the war in the Gaza Strip. The source said one Stinger surface-to-air missile was launched, but the projectile veered off course and struck a Hamas gunner squad.
"The Stinger was drawn by the heat of our guns rather than the engines of the Israeli helicopters," the source said. "At that point, we stopped using this weapon."
My day has been officially made. Dumbshits shot their own damn selves. With our stolen missles.
YJCMTSU
Who whoulda thunkit?
A small aside from Ace. Nothing to see here folks, just move along.
April 07, 2009
Geez, maybe they're innocent
...OK, of course they aren't. They are mercenaries after all.
Biggest story you've never heard.
Facial hair
I represent this statement
My Theme Song
God love him, I miss him so
April 02, 2009
March 30, 2009
Good Times, good times
Possibly the strangest. blogpost. ever.
Farts and chimney fires and unicorn horn. I'm just sayin'...
He laughed, he cried
Mt. Redoubt
Very cool link. Be sure to watch the time-lapse video.
Redoubt Eruption March 27 2009 from Bretwood Higman on Vimeo.
Wagoner gone
Let me apologize in advance to my children, it seems my generation is determined to give up on the great experiment in Government that was the United States of America- pre The One.
March 29, 2009
A little popcorn
Watch it in HQ if you have the bandwidth...
Go here for a bigger view
March 24, 2009
Yikes
China's central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund.
In an essay posted on the People's Bank of China's website, Zhou Xiaochuan, the central bank's governor, said the goal would be to create a reserve currency "that is disconnected from individual nations and is able to remain stable in the long run, thus removing the inherent deficiencies caused by using credit-based national currencies".
Analysts said the proposal was an indication of Beijing's fears that actions being taken to save the domestic US economy would have a negative impact on China.
"This is a clear sign that China, as the largest holder of US dollar financial assets, is concerned about the potential inflationary risk of the US Federal Reserve printing money," said Qu Hongbin, chief China economist for HSBC.
Although Mr Zhou did not mention the US dollar, the essay gave a pointed critique of the current dollar-dominated monetary system.
Hope all you folk that voted for Hopiness and Changitude are happy with what you got; our children will be paying for it all their lives.
March 22, 2009
Foreboding
I want to say Brits are more cynical about government, but certainly Yanks can be plenty cynical. I am plenty cynical. But Brits somehow seem to expect their government to let them down. They accept tyranny, perfidy or incompetence as what government does the moment you look away. Whereas the American attitude seems to be, "we bled real blood to put you bastards in office because you said you were different."
And yet British politics is fundamentally miles less corrupt than the American kind.
I am tempted to say British resentment feels likelier to boil over into violence. And yet, the British public has already absorbed insult after terrible insult without demur. I am puzzled by that. I think a lot of Brits are puzzled by that, too.
The British. Famously unflappable, right up until they become howling savages.
It's hard to look at things honestly and not think we're doomed.
A thought
And regardless, this certainly explains, once again, why these guys are so comfortable with high taxes — they don't pay 'em anyway. A government of the tax cheats, for the tax cheats and, especially, by the tax cheats.
Power to the People
LoL, viz my earlier entry- I'm coming back out of my shell. A thought
These are challenging times for us, true. And large parts of America continue to feel stuck and confused. But they are waking up. You need to look down and across to understand the real strength of America - not up. That's especially so as the current administration seems incapable and un- or ill-prepared to offer much genuine leadership at all. But that's okay.
It has always been the people as a whole and a force that has made America great in our rather inconvenient history, not the leaders who have and will eventually emerge as convenient bookmarkers so that scholars can write new History books one day.
The phrase "Power to the People" has existed as little more than a Leftist chant for decades in America. That does not mean it contains no truth. And the truth of a strong and capable America that has always overcome its obstacles is there - in its people. You only have to look around, eventually shake yourself from your stupor to join it and jump on the bandwagon if you want to make it real.
And even if you don't, it remains a bit of still clumsy American History being written that will eventually sweep you up. The American Spirit, not our leaders, has a way of doing that throughout our history. And it's about to do it, again.
Have hope folks- right now it sucks but I have faith in us as a nation- look here and here.
As always, kudos to Insty.
Anybody noticed I've been staying strictly away from politics? Anybody, Bueller?...
I'm sick to death of it and absolutely frightened by what is happening today. Arm yourselves and be ready- the stormtroopers are coming.
w00t!
New NIN! New tour! Gotta find a way to get to Tampa...
March 20, 2009
BSG finale
Just finished watching Battlestar Galactica's penultimate episode- wow!
Still here by god
Well, Heaven wouldn't have me and Hell is afraid I'll take over, so everything went fine. Can't type much because it is slightly painful. Thanks for your prayers and well-wishes.
March 19, 2009
While I'm still here
I'm having my ICD replaced tomorrow- supposedly minor surgery but there is a chance of death, so I'll send this out to anyone that cares.
I love you too and if the worst happens I'll be waiting on the other side with bawdy tales to tell, lies, and the usual bullshit you have all come to expect from me. As you get older these things start to seem bigger and the consequences larger. I don't expect tomorrow will be a lot of fun, but hey, this weekend is Bristol with a cool Legends race Saturday night. What could be better?
Either I go out with a flash or business as usual. I will or will not keep you posted.
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