Rebranding Gitmo

Fox News got bored and asked a bunch of marketing weenies whether they thought that Gitmo could be “rebranded” so that liberals wouldn’t reflexively scream “TORTURE!” every time they heard it’s name.

Sadly, the best yonder marketing weenies could come up with for a new name was “Offshore Holding Facility”.

Let’s see if we can do better:


* Waves & Waterboards

* Tribunal Town

* Club Splodey

* Misfired Martyrs Motel

* Cuban Clown College

* Korandemonium!

* Interrogation Island

* Jihadi Jamaica

* Allaholics Anonymous

* Viva la Incarceracion!


Any other suggestions?

Science Minute: Global Warming

There has been a lot of talk about global warming and climate change, but there are a lot of misconceptions as many people don’t understand the science involved.

First off, global warming is not caused by the sun. Heat can’t travel through a vacuum — that’s why thermoses are surrounded with a vacuum (in fact, an archeological dig in Egypt turned up a 3,000 year old thermos and the coffee inside was still hot). Instead, earth is warmed by the hot magma inside it. This of course leads to the question, “What happens if we anger the earth?” Well, it tries to cook us all to death through global warming. Thus we all need to work together to keep from angering the earth.

Next time you’re outside, hug the earth. Tell it you appreciate how it keeps you from floating off into space with its gravity. And try to refrain from jumping — it doesn’t like that. If we all work together, we can make the earth happy and save the climate.

Traffic Gold for Hot Air

Allahpundit has been running Hot Air himself this week and is constantly worried about traffic. Since he’s one of my favorite bloggers, I decided to give him suggestions on headlines that would bring in lots of traffic based on what usually gets tons of comments on Hot Air. Here’s what I came up with (and other people had suggestions too):

“Scientists have determined that Ida the monkey-lemur fossil believed we deserved 9/11.”

“Sarah Palin announces she is an atheist and a creationist.”

“Police officer on suspension for inexcessive taser use on Code Pink protester.”

“Christian Coalition strongly condemns the use of humping robots for celebratory purposes.”

“Allahpundit finally revealed in video of him being excessively tasered by police.”

“Scientists prove existence of God; conservatives become atheists out of distrust of science.”

“Scientists say they got evolution backwards; monkeys evolved from us and should be made our masters.”

“Video of lemur fossil being tasered by police proves evolution and that Palin is sinking the GOP.”

“Andrew Sullivan insinuates that Obama is Trig’s real father.”

“Lady Gaga admits she planned 9/11.”

“New rule: All articles submitted to scientific journals must start with ‘Take that, Christians!'”

“Obama spotted praying when he thought no one was looking; supporters feel betrayed.”

“Anonymous blogger Allahpundit revealed to be Sarah Palin.”

“Allahpundit: I’ve thought long and hard about and have decided to become a snake handling Christian.”

Capitalist Propaganda: Titles and Direct Links Added

Reader Tyo complained of being unable to view some of the embedded videos in the Capitalist Propaganda series, so I went back and added direct links.

I don’t know if the problem was on Tyo’s end or ours, but I do know that YouTube sometimes randomly disables embedding, so it never hurts to have direct links as a backup.

I also added the titles of the videos, so when Obb the Exalted orders them taken them down, you can search for them elsewhere.

Capitalist Propaganda: “What Makes Us Tick”

From 1952, a short from The New York Stock Exchange called “What Makes Us Tick“:


[YouTube direct link]

When they go through the segment on what it takes to issue stock, I almost busted out laughing, because I kept thinking about all those liberal yahoos in Washington yammering on and on about our “unregulated” markets.

The important thing to take from this video is that it requires a lot of people making a lot of agreements and taking a lot of risks to keep the financial markets working. However, it’s all voluntary, and everyone is free to pull out when they decide their interests are best served by putting their money elsewhere.

The unimportant thing to take from this is that once you marry a woman, she’ll turn into a chubby, bon-bon-gobbling layabout who’ll make you scrub the kitchen floor, so you should seek retribution by squirreling away part of your paycheck to invest in the stock market.

Random Thoughts

Cheney/Rumsfeld 2012! Explode liberals’ heads!

As for Gitmo closing, I guess we should be happy Obama is too incompetent to follow through on his reckless policies.

Just to be clear, Cheney is the new leader of the Republican Party right now, right?

You have to admit that Obama is the most powerful man in America other than Cheney.

I think Cheney’s power grows the more unpopular he gets, while if Obama ever lost his popularity, I doubt he’d still be even able to tie his shoes.

I’m so glad we still have Dick Cheney as acting vice president.

Dick Cheney shoots his friends in the face; what do you think he does to terrorists?

If Cheney has starred in Old Yeller, it would have ended with Cheney beating the dog to death while laughing.

Just for the record, I do think it’s disrespectful how Cheney keeps referring to the president as “that little bitch.”

I don’t know if Cheney is a real person or if he’s liberals’ fears of inadequacy on national defense given form.

My LGF login still works! What should I write? “I am mildly critical of you.”

Just watched Stargate pilot. I guess I better like it because there are 213 more episodes to go.

Though computers are beating humans at Chess and getting better at Go, they are still far behind human champions at Hungry Hungry Hippo.

If Obama didn’t misspeak and our Secretary of Defense really is William Gates, then we better be careful not to try anything new on the military or it could crash.