Obama’s policies will make the future a Kobayashi Maru – completely unwinnable!
When you win the future, don’t go spending it all in one epoch.
Go, Dog! Go! was my favorite book as a little kid. Just got it delivered from Amazon and read it to Buttercup. You know how you remember some things fondly but they’re a disappointed when you see them again as an adult? Not the case with Go, Dog! Go!
What’s the chance in Fringe that one day Walter will have a delusion of giant floating text telling him where he is?
You are dead on about “Go, Dog! Go!”
Right up there with “Green Eggs and Ham”!
Can’t wait to have grandkids to read them both to!
Obama is the Kobayashi of competitive hotdog, cheating. I guess Maru means ‘without buns’.
Go, Dog! Go! was also my favorite. A considerably more exciting story than that crap Seuss wrote about a damn cat.
Good idea. I will follow. I also plan on reading passages from Marine!: The Life of Chesty Puller and Keegan’s The Mask of Command to any kids of mine.
Winning The Future or as Sarah Palin said last night W.T.F.! Now that’s POTUS material right there!
Don’t forget: Kirk actually beat the Kobayashi Maru by “cheating” (reprogramming the simulation so as to gain an advantage). In short, he rigged the system–which is exactly what you’ll have to do to “beat” O-Bama-Lama-Ding-Dong’s “future”. Of course, The One retains the right to choose winners and losers.
I am hesitant to like any book or IP too much from my childhood knowing that hollywood will almost certain either A turn it into obnoxious stupid shite or turn it into a ham handed preachy gender bending eco fascist anti-conservative which if it it was aimed at any other group of people it would be censored as phobic and inciting violence. (and thats only the trailer) I find some peace knowing I have cut of all avenues of giving them anymore money. side note hollywood would collapse overnight without conservative money. There is not nearly enough leftists to prop up their business model.
Children books I liked was the story of Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo and his little brother, Chang.
http://www.amazon.com/Tikki-Tembo-Arlene-Mosel/dp/0805006621
I better STTOS reference would be “Menagerie” I think with us as Capt. Pike and Berry as the big headed, throbbing vein, smart guys.
We’re encased in a big steel box (debt) with no freedom, the people in charge only expect us to answer yes or no so they frame the questions in that manner, the thing we love most (America) was seriously injured in a horrendous crash (60’s and PC/Prograssive politics) and was put back together by a group of people who didn’t really know what the hell they were doing (Democrats) and in the end when we think it’s all beer and skittles it turns out be be a complete illusion foisted upon us by the big headed, throbbing vein, smart guys…who go on doing the same thing while not knowing what they’re really doing.
Completely unrelated to this post, be definitely relevant to a precious one:
Top Ten Reasons to Support Herman Cain for President.
Outraged at the supposed need to explain the Kobayashi Maru analogy. Who do you think we are?
Same thing goes for the book “Everyone Poops”.
I don’t remember the books of my youth, so I’ll have to introduce my grandson to the great sport of baseball. Unfortunately he lives in Chicago so the chances to take him to a game will be few and far in between. At least they have 2 teams in that city, so I’m hoping he gets interested. I plan to make sure my son takes him to games as soon as he’s old enough.
I don’t expect him to be a Yankee fan like I am, but if I can get him to become a fan of any baseball team I’ll be very happy.
#9 – Well stated. You’d have to be a real homo not to know that one! As for Obama, I don’t think he can operate a GUI by himself! I think he probably thinks those pretty little thingys on his computer screen are cool but he has to have someone show him how the mouse works. I’ll bet he he’s found the “cup holder” handy, however!
I hate to throw a damper on the parade but how do we know that GOD is done punishing America? I mean just look at the people who worship thee Obama Lama as if he is a ‘supreme being’. I personally know people who have prayed to him!
The Liberals even blessed doorways in which thee exalted Obama Lama was to pass through with Holy Oil. They had ceremonies to praise his holiness. Now if anyone or any group is deserving of God’s judgment its these people.
And then you have the rise of a Pagan Prophet within the Libertarian Tea movement that intends to seize control of the Republican Party. They plan to destroy all the RINO’s when in fact they are the “Real Republicans in Name Only”. Fox News Channel promotes the preaching of UN-biblical Pagan heresies and calls it News.
Has there ever been a more sinful evil generation of Americans?
I think not. The punishment of America is just beginning.
Baseball? Are you trying to make your grandson sleep more than the average kid, Infidel?
That’s easy Carpenter…God won’t be done punishing America until at least 2012.
“Go, Dog! Go!”
My feelings exactly. Though I usually throw in some expletives.
“Go, Dog! Go! was my favorite book as a little kid. Just got it delivered from Amazon and read it to Buttercup. You know how you remember some things fondly but they’re a disappointed [sic] when you see them again as an adult? Not the case with Go, Dog! Go!”
“A Fly Went By,” by Mike McClintock. I pestered everyone to read it to me until I had it memorized, and since nearly every word has just one syllable and can be easily matched to a printed word, I learned to “read” it all by myself. I can still recite it by memory.
Also, if you want to impress the Missus with what a sensitive guy you are, you cannot do better than “Love You Forever.” Unless you are a sociopath, you will cry buckets. Damn, I’m tearing up just thinking about it. (Seriously, I never read this one aloud to my kid because it ALWAYS made me cry and it scares kid when their parents cry.)
I’m still trying to wrap my mind around wishing for a Sputnik moment. No future involving Obama could in any conceivable way be considered a win.
Go Dog Go? The best children’s book, and I can say this because I was a child once, is Red Light, Green Light. When at green lights, I still yell, as I learned in kindergarten: GREEN LIGHT GO!!! I do this because some people have never read — nor shouted along with — this masterpiece. Or if they did read it, they didn’t get the plot.
Runaway Bunny is also good, but you can skip it and go right onto Commando Bunny. Spoiler alert: The old woman is whispering “hush” because she’s just about to kick the door in so she can toss a flash bang.
Randy Jackson wrote an autobiography back when you were a kid? But, back then his only success was being the big out-of-place black bass player for Journey.
Those cars they drove in Go, dog! Go! were major cool. Who needs windshields, and since dogs don’t have thumbs, you know they didn’t/couldn’t hassle with operating seat belts.
Not the case with Go, Dog! Go!
I do not like your hat.
“Baseball? Are you trying to make your grandson sleep more than the average kid, Infidel?”
Well, at least it’s not soccer or golf. Those would put me in a comma.
Do you like my hat?
I do not like that hat.
Good day. Good Day!
Every day the same. “Go Dog Go” or the God book.(Made by God so I must be special). I want to mix them up and have “Do, God, Do!” and “Made by Dog.”
It would by like a pretty good Kids in the Hall sketch.
“I like that Party hat!”
Go dog go is one of the best. I have it practically memorized.
Also beloved:
Hippos go berserk
Chewy Louie
Officer Buckle and Gloria
the pajama book
God doesn’t have to punish America. We do it to ourselves. That’s what personal responsibility is all about. We elect moron, we lack integrity, we make mistakes, we (for those of us who this applies to, sin- no offense intended) But why am I bothering to respond. I promised myself I wouldn’t. I repent and will try to do better. Sign.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. When one’s mind is a steel trap, no amount of WD 40 is going to clean out a lifetime of rust and gunk.
I always like Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss: seems more appropriate than ever somehow.
“But, as Yertle, the Turtle King, lifted his hand
And started to order and give the command,
That plain little turtle below in the stack,
That plain little turtle whose name was just Mack,
Decided he’d taken enough. And he had.
And that plain little lad got a little bit mad.
And that plain little Mack did a plain little thing.
He burped!
And his burp shook the throne of the king!
And Yertle the Turtle, the king of the trees,
The king of the air and the birds and the bees,
The king of a house and a cow and a mule…
Well, that was the end of the Turtle King’s rule!
For Yertle, the King of all Sala-ma-Sond,
Fell off his high throne and fell Plunk! in the pond!
And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he,
Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see.
And the turtles, of course… all the turtles are free
As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”