A very special video from Steven Crowder. That place looks worse that Baghdad after sustained bombing.

It’s the kind of place that’s spooky in the day and you expect to be overrun with vampires and mutants at night.

IMAO hasn’t received an award in a while, but now we got a special one from the president himself:

We haven’t done as much for the blogosphere as Obama has for America, but we’ll accept the rating.

(thanks to Joel Hoekstra)

Looks like the health care bill is going to pass. It will be yet another bloated program anchoring down our country until it eventually succumbs and sinks. Personally, I don’t think it will happen in my lifetime, but whenever there is another liberty-based revolution, I hope they look back on us and learn from our mistakes.

Anyway, it’s all probably inevitable. Freedom is scary and complicated, and the future is heading towards things being simpler and user-friendly — like an iPhone. Freedom is more like Linux command line. Someone will stare it and go, “What do I do with this?”

And you’ll excitedly say, “Whatever you want!”

And they’ll stare at it some more and say, “I can’t do anything with this.” Then they’ll head back to what they know: Windows Vista. It works simply for most things most of the time. Sometimes it fails horribly and there’s nothing you can do. And it’s large and bloated — but again, nothing you can do about that. And now Windows has added some large new feature set that slows down everything and messes up lots of your existing programs and it will automatically download so, once again, there is nothing you can do about it.

Man, I hate big government and Windows Vista.

So, anyway, once Obamacare passes, Republicans can campaign to repeal it, but I don’t know how realistic that would be. They probably couldn’t really do it until we have a Republican president, and then too many people might be dependent on the program for that to be politically feasible. So it’s just more of America slouching towards collapse. It’s kinda like how eventually Windows will become so bloated it will eventually be unusable for even the simplest of functions. You can try and uninstall some of the programs, but that will just mess up other things dependent on them. You have to format and start over.

Anyway, not there yet, but we’ll know it when we get there. Hope we saved the original install disks.

That Phantom Menace review made me think how there have been a lot of movies lately that are really long, have tons of effects on screen, and no story anyone can follow or really cares to. Of course, there was the Star Wars prequels (did that whole trilogy make any sense?), the Matrix sequels (no one had any idea what was going on there other than that lots of stuff was happening), the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels (again, tons and tons of crap on screen, not quite sure why I was supposed to care), the Transformers movies (those Transformer designs were so complex, they could be standing still and you wouldn’t know what’s going on), and the King Kong remake (the original was an hour and forty minutes, but for the remake someone thought that story needed three hours so lots of weird crap could attack everybody). I haven’t seen Avatar, but I kind of expect the same problem given how simple the story looks yet its two hours and forty minutes and filled with special effects.

The thing is, I think I thought I enjoyed most of these movies the first time I watched them, but now thinking about them and trying to remember what happened in them gives me a headache. In the end, I was about as drawn into their stories as I was for a fireworks display — one that went on for three hours. I don’t want to sound like an old fogey, but please slow it down, Hollywood. Simpler stories, less stuff happening on screen. And shorter!

And please have more like Iron Man were terrorists get flung around like rag dolls. Thank you.