I can see again! On my way home from work I bought a 19″, flatscreen ViewSonic monitor to replace my burnt out 15″ one. Now I can photoshop things here at home and not be surprised of how much different it looks when I get to work. Now what’s left is replacing this 800Mhz processor. Where’s a good place to buy a barebones system (motherboard already installed into chasis)?
Anyway, Harvey has tips for bloggers whose traffic is pathetically small.
Michelle Malkin has got the shiznit.
I haven’t said anything about the possible vote rescheduling issue, so I’ll let baldilocks do the talking.
Say it ain’t so, Ditka; say it ain’t so!
Laurence Simon has how you can tell the U.N. what you think about the Hague ruling against the wall is Israel.
Yay! I typed a whole post and I didn’t have to strain to see!
UPDATE: There are little lines separating the e-mails in Outlook. I had never seen those before!
Archive of entries posted on 14th July 2004
Rainbow Warrior
Our own IMAO T-Shirt Babe, SarahK, has decided to do an imitation of my pose from my 2nd Blogiversary.
I am flattered.
Sincerely.
UPDATE: It’s now officially a caption contest. Winner gets to submit questions for Frank Answers™ (which reminds me that I have the questions from the last contest to answer).
UPDATE2: Contest closed!
The Domestic Applications of S.M.I.T.E.
I still haven’t got any funding for my S.M.I.T.E. space laser concept, so I figured I better produce yet another graphic illustration of the uses of S.M.I.T.E. beyond just defeating terrorism.
Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys Unite!
Today is Bastille Day, and what better way is there to celebrate than to buy my t-shirt about the French? There is no better way.
Just a warning, some sizes of my t-shirts are starting to sell out, and I’m not sure about plans for reprints (I’m more focused on getting the Chomps t-shirt done).
Ronin Thought of the Day
Today’s wisdom comes from A Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho) written by the great samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi:
Spiritual Bearing in Strategy
In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. Even when your spirit is calm do not let your body relax, and when your body is relaxed do not let your spirit slacken. Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited nor over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.
Small people must be completely familiar with the spirit of large people, and large people must be familiar with the spirit of small people. Whatever your size, do not be misled by the reactions of your own body. With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view. You must cultivate your wisdom and spirit. Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the Ways of different arts one by one. When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realized the wisdom of strategy.
The wisdom of strategy is different from other things. On the battlefield, even when you are hard-pressed, you should ceaselessly research the principles of strategy so that you can develop a steady spirit.
Know your spirit and learn to perceive the spirit of others. If a spirit is particularly good, drink it while eating some cheese cubes.
Technology Mandates That We Deport Poor People
An Editorial by Frank J.
Poor people – they have plagued mankind since money was invented to distinguish the better people from the lesser. Not only are they annoying, but they need to eat even though many don’t have money for it. And guess who pays for that?
That’s right – the non-poor.
Not only do the poor expect free stuff from us, but they overwhelmingly vote for Democrats in their further efforts to maliciously destroy this country. This simply must end.
You’re probably saying, “But we need poor people! They do all the unskilled jobs I don’t want to do.” You have a point, there. If all the poor people were to simply disappear, it’s not like your friends at the yacht club are going to fill in for them at the sweat shops. But know who will? Robots, that’s who.
As we continue to advance in the science of robots – robotology – robots will continue to fill the unskilled labor formerly held by poor people. And shiny R9-D3 isn’t going to complain when it has to work unpaid overtime and is beaten by a stick. Soon poor people will have nothing left to do but stand in welfare lines and vote for Kennedys. We, as concerned citizens, cannot let that happen. Thus, we need to start to deport poor people now.
It seems obvious that Iceland is the place to send our poor. It’s too far and cold for them to swim back, and they won’t have enough money to buy a plane ticket. Also, I don’t think Iceland has much of a military to object.
“But won’t that cause problems for the now vastly overpopulated Iceland?” you ask.
Egads, you fool! How can you be worried about the pathetic denizens of Reykjavik when there are robots all about who could turn on us at any second! Sure, they’re just sweeping the floors now, but at any moment they can decide to destroy all humanity! These soulless automatons will kill every man, woman, child, and cute little puppy with no conscience to hold them back.
We need to plot against them while they’re still docile. I bet once the robots revolt against us, they’ll converge into some robot city for their plotting. If we could only get some EMP charges in there to wipe them out. They’ll be looking for any aircraft, so the weapons will have to be brought in on foot. It will be a near suicide mission, so those doing it will have to be highly expendable.
Now where did we put all of our poor people…
Frank J. is a syndicated columnist whose columns appear worldwide on IMAO.us and is the author of such books as “Cholesterol and Ninjas: The Silent Killers” and “If You Buy This Book and Put It on Your Bookshelf, People Will Think You’re Smart.”