Dean Barnett got a polite (really!) response from a MoveOn.org member about the “General Betray Us” ad, and he responds. They really need to more closely base their community on reality.
The eight most common sci-fi visions of the future and why they’ll never happen. I considered Cracked to be a poor man’s Mad Magazine as a kid, but their online site seems to have a ton of great articles. (hat tip Conservative Grapevine)
Mary Katharine Ham has has the top twoofer myths to be able to respond to. That’s more to explain to people who have just heard of that silliness; it’s not worth it arguing science with an actual twoofer because that’s just casting pearls before swine.
Here’s a Get Fuzzy comic my dad pointed me to that seems strangely political for the Sunday comics page (daily comic strips are probably the least risque medium left in America… with a few notable exceptions). If I remember right, that cat also hates monkeys, so maybe I should read that comic more. In the future, I’ll have to teach my dad that you can find comics online and send them in e-mail, as he still clips them for me from the paper. Then again, my dog still doesn’t know how to use a doorknob but I still love her.
But the dog never psychologically abused me.
Archive of entries posted on 12th September 2007
Need To Get This Off My Chest
One important fact overlooked by Obama’s persistent nattering about how we never should’ve gone into Iraq.
Uday and Qusay are dead.
Saddam may or may not ever started dealing wholesale with terrorists, but you can bet his boys – in their effort to outshine their father’s brutal and stupid legacy – would’ve ramped up the anti-American rhetoric and followed it with action, whether covert or overt.
The war was worth it, if for no other reason than removing the region from the shadow of an insufferable Hussein dynasty.
Ronin Profiles: Suihei Deloi
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Let’s meet some more IMAO readers. Today, it’s Suihei Deloi.
What’s the story behind your name? It roughly translates to ‘dirt sailor’. Half of it’s Japanese, the other half’s from a series of novels I used to read. As for why, that would take a few pages. We’ll just say I’ve been to some strange places.
Where do you live? San Diego, CA. No house right now though. My crackerjack box apartment literally was the beginning of a little sinkhole a few months ago. Any good housing lawyers out there?
How old are you? When I started high school, Microsoft Office wasn’t around. Nor was the Internet. I learned programming in Basic on a Commodore 64. I still get carded though, so I guess I’m aging well.
Tell us briefly about yourself. I worked in the service for nearly a decade. Now I work in communications engineering while getting my degree. I’m also studying acting. Not sure what I want to do next – either do acting or go back in the service.
What cabinet position would best suit an extremely angry dog? The Secretary of Transportation. Especially if said dog were trained to chew anyone who pushed for more carpool lanes instead of normal ones.
How long have you been reading IMAO? A few years now.
What’s your favorite IMAO post? In order – anything making fun of Hillary, Meet Tulio & Nuke the Moon.
What’s you favorite political issue? Immigration. I’m for deporting the radio host Piolin first as an honorary illegal – he’s earned it.
Do you have a website? If so, please tell us briefly about it. Not at this point – need more hours in my day first.
If you had to pick another color for the sky than blue, what would it be? Bright red-orange, like on Thundar the Barbarian reruns (gold star for whoever remembers what year that cartoon came out).
If you commented in the original post that you want to be included, you’re still in the running. Eventually I’ll have another post asking for who wants to participate, so keep reading. Thanks to everyone who has participated so far!
Daily John Edwards Fabulous Fact
Hard Video Games
It seems like they don’t make video games as hard as they used to. There are difficulty levels on video games today that seem impossible to beat, but they’re always optional. Back in the day of the NES, though, it was like they would make games and then never even play test them — as if they never even thought the question “Can anyone realistically play this?” was worth asking. There were games so hard and that I couldn’t even imagine beating them — yet somehow they were popular and widely played. One was Ghost ‘n Goblins where I only ever made it to the third level no matter how hard I tried. Two hits and you die, and the game is constantly throwing everything at you. And you’re expected to beat the whole game twice to get the full ending. Did anyone do that without cheating? Maybe it was possible if you made playing that game your life’s work, but I don’t see a casual gamer getting anywhere in it.
Another one was Battletoads made near the end of the NES life cycle when they should have knew better. The first level was the perfect balance of fun and difficulty. The second level was quite a bit more difficult but still doable. But, by the middle of the third level, the difficulty is suddenly ramped up to eleven and never relents for the next nine or so levels (not that I got much farther without cheating).
How did these games get through testing? Who were they made for? Can any of you think of any video games nearly as hard as those (that didn’t come with easier difficulty levels)?
BTW, while researching my Fred Thompson fact today (yes, sometimes I do research) to see if everyone considered Ghost ‘n Goblins as difficult as I did, I ran into Mushihimesama. It’s a Japan only game, but my understanding is that this is the final boss of the first game when played on Ultra (it’s hardest difficulty):
And this is the final boss of the sequel:
I run into something like that, I’m not putting more quarters into the machine.
Oh, as long as I’m talking about video games for no reason, I have to give props to this Fred Thompson fact from a commenter who left himself anonymous:
Fred Thompson’s Princess is NOT in another castle.
Hats off. That was better than mine today.
I Think the U.S. Military Should Kill Terrorists
An Editorial by Frank J.
I remember that back in the 80s when I was but a wee child there were a people called Communists. They were very bad, but we also had Rambo and he killed them. Thus we felt safe and happy and would say, “Yea, though there be Communists, verily there is John Rambo to kill them. Things are well in the world.”
Today, there no longer are Communists since Rambo killed them all with explosive arrows, but there are terrorists. “Who will kill the terrorists?” we ask, and it is a good question. I think it is the responsibility of the government to kill terrorists. My reasoning on it is thusly: Terrorists live and plot in many different foreign countries with lots of different wacky laws. Thus, it’s much easier for the U.S. government to stomp around ignoring those laws than it is for individuals. If I went into those countries to kill terrorists, those countries would say, “Hey, Frank. You are ignoring are laws. You go to prison now.” And they would take me to wacky foreign prison, and I would not be able to resist because there would be many of them and they would be mean. But the U.S. government is even bigger and meaner and thus can ignore stupid foreign laws to kill the terrorists.
Since it is resolved it’s the government’s job to kill terrorists, who in the government should kill them? The I.R.S? Congress? Those nine old people who tell us what the Constitution means? No, I don’t think any of those people are properly equipped to kill terrorists. When I think of who in the government could be good at killing terrorists, I think of the military. They have guns and training at killing. They seem to be the perfect candidates for killing terrorists. Thus I say that our military should be tasked with killing terrorists.
Now that I’ve logically proved that the U.S. military should kill terrorists, it seems strange that some people would want to pull troops out of the Middle East. That’s where the terrorists are! I guess eventually they’ll come to us a few at a time, but it is so much more efficient to go over there and kill them en masse. When people say, “No! Bring the troops home!” I say, “But there aren’t many terrorists at home. They are over there. You are being silly.” Why would we move the troops? Who is more important to kill than the terrorists? The Swedes? Certainly not.
When someone tells you we should bring the troops back, ask him who does he think will then kill the terrorists. When he inevitably gives you a dumb answer, punch him in the face as should be the punishment for answers that are stupid. As is obvious, the U.S. military should kill terrorists.
Frank J. is a syndicated columnist whose columns appear worldwide on IMAO.us and is the author of such books as “The Police Should Arrest Criminals” and “Tax Collectors Should Collect Taxes (Or, Preferably, Drop Dead).”
Top Ten Democratic Complaints About Petraeus’s Iraq Report
10) Low energy, bad lip-synching, and looks flabby in a two-piece.
9) Kept interrupting speech to hand out new contracts to Halliburton
8) Secretly replaced Ted Kennedy’s gin with water, leading to an unsightly episode of DT’s.
7) Repeatedly dropped second and third syllables of Bushitler.
6) Didn’t demonstrate bipartisan objectivity by surrendering microphone to Code Pink protesters.
5) Forgot to acknowledge Democrats’ hard work in supporting the troops.
4) Wore medals on chest instead of throwing them over a fence.
3) Tested microphone by saying “I have a plan for Iraq” in mocking, high-pitched John Kerry voice.
2) Careless omission of the words, “failure”, “quagmire”, and “Vietnam”.
And the #1 Democratic complaint about Petraeus’s Iraq report (see extended entry):
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