Nuke the News: Are We Back to Inevitability?
* There was another — yes, another! — debate last night. Luckily, I had to work late and completely missed the whole thing. Another advantage of gainful employment.
Anyway, I heard that there was a long discussion of moon bases during it. I don’t like moon bases. That could ruin my nuke the moon plans. People would say, “You can’t nuke the moon; there’s a moon base there.” And I wouldn’t know how to respond to that. So a moon base is a horrible idea.
Consensus on the debate seems to be that Newt blew his chance to regain any momentum. Intrade now has Romney back to having an over 90% chance of winning Florida, so we’re back to “Romney is inevitable and nothing can stop him!” mode. So let’s once again practice being Romney boosters.
Here’s my new attempt at a Romney slogan:
“Romney 2012: Much like the T-800 in Terminator 2, he’s been reprogrammed to be on our side.”
* Hey, Biden is adding accents to his routine. After the election and we’re all celebrating acknowledging that Romney is president, he and Obama should develop a vaudeville routine and travel the country. Obama would be the Abbot and Biden the Costello. Part of the routine would be Biden constantly accidentally saying racist things about Obama while Obama just tries to ignore it — basically what he does in his presidency now.
“Hey, Obama!”
* Yet another Democrat has accused Republicans of being terrorists. I know I’ve made this point before, but it’s worth saying again: Obviously conservatives aren’t terrorists because liberals still exist. There are many more conservatives than liberals, we have lots of guns, we have the majorities in the military, so we if we ever did decide to be terrorists and kill all the liberals, it would probably take about a weekend. But we don’t, because that would mean. Still, it would be nice for liberals to acknowledge every once in a while that the only reason they exist is because conservatives eschew violence against others just because they disagree with them. In fact, they should give us a cash reward for how nice we are. We should demand that.
* James Taranto found this silly article about “colorblind racism”. I didn’t actually read it as the Orwellian title tells you all you need to know. If you’re arguing than one can’t end racism unless we still focus on race, you’re actually not arguing against racism. What you’re arguing is that you still need it and don’t want it to end.
* Here’s a letter signed by sixteen scientists (Science!) that there is no compelling need for drastic measures against global warming. I like how at the beginning the letter points out the use of “incontrovertible” by those arguing for global warming. There is no incontrovertible in science (there is in Science! but not science); if something is incontrovertible, it’s gone from science to dogma. Part of the problem of the whole global warming craze is its damage to the idea of what science really is. The anti-science people are really the ones who prop science up as some unquestionable religion when that’s never what true science would claim to be.
So we need more education for people on how to tell “science” from “Science!”.
* Wisdom of the Day from Michael J. Nelson:
Barry White’s songs are less romantic if you imagine, with precise detail, Barry White making love.
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January 27th, 2012 at 12:06 pm
I’ll be thrilled to have President Romney just so we can stop being called “folks.” When Obama lumps us together as a bunch of folks, it makes me ill.
Okay, new plan (since we don’t want to be mean): We explain that President Newt’s moon base is to be named Fairtopia, where socia– ug, progressivism assures fairness to all (and 1/6 Earth gravity means all the cookies you can eat!). Get the libs up there and accidentally nuke it. Win!
January 27th, 2012 at 12:13 pm
“Barry White’s songs are less romantic if you imagine, with precise detail, Barry White making love.”
See ya lunch!
January 27th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Intrade can be manipulated by anyone with deep pockets.
Intrade can be bought. All it takes is money. Now who do we know with lots of money and wants to be President? Someone who is trying to make it common knowledge that he is the inevitable choice?
Trusting Intrade is like trusting a poll run by people who can be bought off and don’t have to produce any data.
January 27th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Waxman is a moron. The Canadians will produce their oil and will sell it to the Chinese if we don’t buy it…so nothing will change and “global warming™” will continue unabated. When Waxman leaves congress he should take up residence in the home for the useless..
January 27th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
“Yet another Democrat has accused Republicans of being terrorists.” — marxists are real scum aren’t they. I hope their parents are happy. Just look what they stuck us with.
If we strap a commie to every mexican, just for identification purposes of course, then we could develop the moon cannon and take care of most of the countries problems.
If we tell the marxists there is free stuff on the moon, will they go there prior to completing a base?
Wanting to keep your property is racist.
Dang almost forgot, RONA PAUL1111!!!!111
January 27th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
“Oh, Darling, I … I can’t get enough of your love, Babe. Girl, I don’t know, I don’t know why … I can’t get enough of your love, Babe.”
If you listen to that and think of Barry White doing it, instead of remembering … pleasant times … you’re doing it wrong. And, by “it” I mean that, too.
January 27th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Frank is going to make me beg or do the moderation dance isn’t he! Dang.
January 27th, 2012 at 12:42 pm
If the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech today, with that line about judging his children by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin, he would be booed off the platform and roundly condemned as an Uncle Tom, Oreo, House N!gga tool of the Tea Party. The color of their skin gives them their victim status, and ignoring it deprives them of the affirmative action that is their birthright.
January 27th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Nuking the moon should be the first step to any moon base construction. It’s called “preparing the site”.
And if Moonbase Gingrich starts generating that “Space: 1999″ vibe, then nuking will be required.
January 27th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Do as you’re told and submit to Romney! In the end, you will have no choice.
January 27th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
I have figured out how to accomplish your goal of moon-nuking and get Iran to do it.
JEWISH MOON COLONY!!!
Only, just build a big Synagogue on the moon and put Jewish mannequins up there but don’t tell Ahmidenijad they aren’t real.
Viola! Lunar mushroom clouds!
January 27th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
“Yet another Democrat has accused Republicans of being terrorists.”
It’s just Henry Waxman. Ever since he and his kind were exposed on that Twilight Zone episode, he’s been very, very bitter.
January 27th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
* Wisdom of the Day from Michael J. Nelson:
“Barry White’s songs are less romantic if you imagine, with precise detail, Barry White making love.”
Not according to Barry.
January 27th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
I can’t get enough of urethane.
January 27th, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Romney 2012: 1) Elect Me, 2) ?, 3) America’s Greatness Restored
January 27th, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Frank J. says:
I tire of Intrade. I’m starting Burmatrade. I’ll predict all kinds of stuff. Just ask me.
Frank J. also says:
I got as far as the bit that explains how conservatives are racists because they view the world from a color blind perspective. It’s kinda like fuzzy math because I’m fuzzy about it.
Mxymaster says:
Wow. You’ve hit on something, Mxymaster. To get enough regular exercise on the moon, we’d each need to maintain 6 times our current mass just to get enough normal exercise. Planet Donut! Let out that seam in my spacesuit and count me in.
Just as the first Pilgrims suffered horribly to colonize America, so to must we sacrifice to colonize the Moon. We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they involve eating lots of tasty pastries.
January 27th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
If anyone protests your nuking the moon after their is a base on its surface, you simply reply, “That’s no moon. It’s a space station.”, and nuke away.
January 27th, 2012 at 6:57 pm
#14 marco – me too. In fact I once dated Poly.
January 27th, 2012 at 7:52 pm
FrankJ:
Stop deluding yourself. Obama will mop the floor with Romney in November and secure another four year term.
The only question is whether he can hold the Senate and take back the House.
That is the reason to nominate Romney. Not that he will win. But he might help you lose less.
Best Regards,
Monkey Faced Liberal
P.S. Your infatuation with Newt did not last long. How can you possibly question the judgement of Fred “My trophy wife really wants to be first lady, so I guess I will run for president” Thompson?
January 27th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
FrankJ:
Sorry FrankJ. I should know better than expect you to stop deluding yourself.
After all, you believe 17 crank “scientists” when they say that global warming is some sort of global scientific conspiracy, but think the National Academy of Scientists, American Geophysical Union, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Meteorological Society and 97% of climate scientists are all either lying or incompetent when they state that climate change is occurring.
Hope you enjoy your little fantasy world. And sorry if it is not as cool as Skyrim.
Best Regards,
Monkey Faced Liberal
January 27th, 2012 at 9:49 pm
Thanks, MFL, for providing more substance than Obama’s SOTU.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:12 pm
And that’s why it’s SO important that Romney be the GOP nominee, isn’t it? Because NPR and the Hysterical Channel have their documentaries on the scary Mormon church all lined up for the next ten months, and everything is SO in place to terrify us of Romney and his mystery underwear. Be a shame to waste all that work, huh?
January 27th, 2012 at 10:12 pm
#11 – Clemsnman,
that would defeat the intent behind Franks plan to Nuke the Moon.
Everyone already knows that Ahmadinnerjacket is crazy enough to nuke the moon, the purpose is to convince the world that the USA is crazy enough to do it, thus ensuring World Peace.
MFL,
“No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.”
― G.K. Chesterton
January 27th, 2012 at 11:34 pm
PS:
“Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.”
― G.K. Chesterton
January 28th, 2012 at 12:13 am
Newt kinda hinted that he would like to make a moon base because it would be good for low gravity sex. The image of low gravity Newt having a “sexy time” on the moon has got to be worse than Barry White.
Btw we used to call Berry White “the Walrus of Love”.
January 28th, 2012 at 12:48 am
Rush Limbaugh had a funny image of Gingrich as the Man-in-the-Moon on his website the other day.
Basil!
January 28th, 2012 at 1:46 am
Frank, Maybe Amos and Andy instead of Abbott and Costello, that way they can use their dialects.
January 28th, 2012 at 2:16 am
Yeah, that list of 16 poopy-pants-shills-for-big-oil-crank-case “scientists” reads like a guest speaker roster for a Flat Earth Society convention.
LIke that uber-right-wing Claude Allègre who’s member of the…French…Socialist…Party….
Well, there’s Richard Lindzen, atmospheric physicist and professor of Meteorology at MIT. Right. He’s probably never published a single peer-reviewed paper in his…life…what? More than…200…papers and books?
Anyway, your grandkids will be cursing you, demanding to know why Grandpa didn’t do a thing when faced with the imminent, devastating drunken clownfish crisis.
“Sorry, kids, Gramps was too busy poking fun at the person who, ironically, would be remembered as truly the greatest president in the history of everything. Now, hurry up — finish your eco-friendly groat cakes and put on your union-made nitro vests. Those retro-capitalist infidels won’t blow themselves up, you know. Last one done is a racist! All hail the Gori!”
January 28th, 2012 at 5:07 am
Newt may have found the weak spot in my libertarian loyalty. If there is something I have a bigger boner for than freedom, it’s cool space crap.
January 28th, 2012 at 5:08 am
Which explains why I have to change underwear everytime I watch Firefly.
January 28th, 2012 at 5:32 am
Scooter…I get the boner part, but do you have a racing stripe in your shorts? Your name suggests that you may?
January 28th, 2012 at 5:53 am
Clothes are for chumps.
January 28th, 2012 at 11:15 am
plutocracy
[ploo-tok-ruh-see]
plu·toc·ra·cy
/pluˈtɒkrəsi/ [ploo-tok-ruh-see]
noun, plural -cies.
1. The rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
2. A government or state in which the wealthy class rules.
3. A class or group ruling, or exercising power or influence, by virtue of its wealth.
4. A state or country ruled by people like Mitt Romney.
Origin:
1645–55; Greek ploutokratía, equivalent to ploûto ( s ) wealth + -kratia -cracy
Okay, I added a little bit in there.
January 28th, 2012 at 11:21 am
Did anyone actually read that article on colorblind racism? Wow! What a bunch of drivel. So, if Newt saying that people should get jobs is “residual racism” and shouldn’t be tolerated, then what was Robert Byrd’s Klan recruiting? Oh, that was okay, it was just to get elected. Yeah.
January 28th, 2012 at 11:51 am
Les:
Richard Lindzen is a professor at MIT? Wow. That is a great university, filled with a lot of very, very smart people dedicated to science.
I wonder whether they think global warming is a problem?
Oh yeah. They do. http://globalchange.mit.edu/pubs/abstract.php?publication_id=990
But really, why believe what Sokolov, A.P., P.H. Stone, C.E. Forest, R.G. Prinn, M.C. Sarofim, M. Webster, S. Paltsev, C.A. Schlosser, D. Kicklighter, S. Dutkiewicz, J. Reilly, C. Wang, B. Felzer, J. Melillo, and H.D. Jacoby thinks, if it conflicts with your beliefs and you can still find one guy at the MIT, who charges oil and coal interests $2,500 a day for consulting, to agree with you?
After all, it is rationalizations like that which make fantasy land so much fun!
Best Regards,
Monkey Faced Liberal
January 28th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Basil might be interested in this one:
Year end statistics on airport pat-down screening from the Atlanta
Airport TSA office
Terrorist Plots Discovered 0
Transvestites 133
Hernias 1,485
Hemorrhoid Cases 3,172
Incontinence 6,418
Enlarged Prostates 8,249
Breast Implants 59,350
Natural Blondes 3
(Posted over at GrouchyOldCripple.com.)
January 29th, 2012 at 7:25 am
I have been duly corrected. The only reason any person could disregard mountains of what are presented as absolutely incontrovertible data would be because they are either unintelligent, irrational, or are benefited by interests that are contrary to fact — or some permutation thereof.
Resume emergency mode, and be sure to base all of your actions on the recommendations of the wise heralds of man-made cataclysm, because they know more than you, and they couldn’t possibly have any incentive to deceive the populace. True, all of their prescriptions do seem to demand enormous public “investments” and government enforcement, but that’s how nearly all worthwhile advances have come about. Don’t tell me you want to risk going to h-e double hockey sticks on a rocket sled!
After all, history has demonstrated that the consensus of any intelligent collective grounded in logic has virtually always been correct regarding even the most basic tenets of biology, astronomy, physics, etc. Certainly, with all the technology and shared data currently at our disposal, how could anyone but the most ignorant disagree with the conclusions of the vast majority of scientists concerning climate projections for the coming century? I mean, you must be living in fantasy land if you think that an apparent increase of one degree Celsius in the Earth’s average temperature over the past century can be largely accounted for by anything other than gases produced by human activity, or that a catastrophic feedback loop is not imminent.
And if you disagree with me, then you, sir, are a denier!
January 29th, 2012 at 12:37 pm
“Yet another Democrat has accused Republicans of being terrorists” Anyone surprised? Ad hominem attacks are pretty much par for the course for the liberal intelligentsia. We had a particuarly fitting example this week from a high profile Democratic judge who decided to trot out the old “C” word … http://bit.ly/qVdDUt
January 29th, 2012 at 6:57 pm
Crabby I don’t know if I’ve told you this before or not, but I think you’re all sorts of fabulous. Post 8 is partly why.
January 29th, 2012 at 10:11 pm
@Les: Said well, and said in the tradition of IMAO.
January 29th, 2012 at 10:34 pm
A gem from the article referenced by Les:
“Scientific consensus is not by itself a scientific argument.” (See Wikipedia)
Ergo, those who cite scientific consensus as evidence are unscientific.
No longer will I hold up my hand and shout “Science!” at climate faddists (be they of the warming or cooling variety). Now, I will hold my hands over my ears and shout “Anti-Science! Anti-Science! Be Gone!”
January 29th, 2012 at 10:41 pm
Please moderate my comment please.
But only if you feel so inclined. Given that I posted it on Sunday night, I spose that I may be the only one who reads it regardless of its moderation status. Besides, I’m feeling a bit of discrimination here. Les used 3 links, and apparently he did not get moderated. I used 2 links, including one of his, and I got moderated.
I suspect that the rumors of an IMAO Poster Watch List (IPWL) are true. I wear it as a badge of honor that I was placed on the List.
January 29th, 2012 at 11:01 pm
Mine got delayederated for a while too, Burma. Worth it, if someone appreciated, thanks.
January 30th, 2012 at 8:54 am
O.K., I’m back, but only because I’ll be off for most of the day, and there are two stories that bear targeting for nukes (both stories from Drudge):
1) Michelle spends $50,000 at a lingerie store. This story parodies itself in so many ways, but don’t forget the photo. Those vein-bulging biceps of hers are scary.
B) We have video of the never elusive hippie protester being tased. “Tase ‘em all and let the hospital sort them out,” says I.
Weighing the moderation potential of my use of the word “l*ng*r** in a post, I am, Burmashave.
January 31st, 2012 at 2:16 am
Bravo Les!
A multi-media tour-de-force!
January 31st, 2012 at 6:17 am
So who is Moochelle banging? Or is who is Barry banging? Someone is banging someone to cause a $50,000 trip to a sexy underwear store! Let’s get to the bottom of this. No pictures, PLEASE!!!