Archive of entries posted on 17th June 2013

Bacon Jam!

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[High Praise! to Jeff and ThinkGeek.com]

Spreadable bacon?

Oh yes.

If you’ve ever been eating brunch and your slice of crispy bacon had a delicious run-in with the maple syrup from your waffle, you need to stop reading and just click BUY NOW. This is your condiment. The condiment to end all other condiments. On those mornings when you have time for toast but not enough to fry up some bacon, Bacon Jam will come to your rescue.

Bacon Jam is made with love by Kay, a woman who knows her jams, jellies, and bacon. It’s a combination of bacon, onion, garlic, honey, maple syrup, coffee, and spices. Sweet and savory, Bacon Jam is delicious on toast, muffins, biscuits, even waffles. We’ll warn you, though, once you’ve had a taste of Bacon Jam, you won’t go back to mere fruity jams. You’ll be ruined saved for life.

Promoted Comment: Maybe We Can Give These Vets a Little Love?

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In the comments to this post, OhioRiver [High Praise!] mentioned something that – surprisingly – I haven’t even heard about on Fox:

There are 2 veterans (65 yr. old Vietnam vet & a Gulf War I) who are carrying the American flag from San Diego, each step of the way, to D.C.

www.WalkDaddyWalk.us

True grit to see our veterans once again defending our flag & us. Of course the mainstream media won’t give them any coverage, but someone needs to pick up this story of the 2 veterans. They do need help to pay for their walk so I support them.

If they were two illegal immigrants, you can bet your boots the media would be all over this.

Obama Warned Us – Guns

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I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer’s lobby. But I also believe that when a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels someone disrespected him, we have a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge that there’s a hole in his heart, one that government programs alone may not be able to repair.

BARACK OBAMA, The Audacity of Hope

“But most importantly, we need to make sure that no one in that inner city crowd that was fired into has a gun of their own to put an actual hole in that gangbanger’s heart. Safety first!”

One White Privilege Is Getting to Lecture About White Privilege

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Friend of IMAO Mike Z. Williamson has a take on SF author’s John Scalzi’s post from a while back about “White Privilege” which I guess Scalzi is thinking of revisiting. Anyway, I read the essay back in the day, I remember being struck by how pointless it was beyond its ability to gin up controversy. The point of the essay was basically “People are born with different advantages” which is an extremely vanilla point hardly worth much text, but Scalzi wrapped the point in a lecture on “white privilege” to make it seem like he was saying something important and controversial. Of course, no one disputes that people are born with different advantages for a variety of reason; the important question is then what do you do (which Scalzi didn’t address). Unfortunately, for a lot of people, the answer if you aren’t born with the advantages you want, you whine about it — which is about a dis-empowering approach as possible. The assumption is you have to wait for others to change before you can get anywhere — and history shows you’ll be waiting a very long time for that.

Anyway, Williamson points out the odd racism in Scalzi’s essay, such as the assumption that only white people would object to what he was saying. In fact, there is almost kind of an odd white supremacy to these lectures by white people on race. It comes from the same attitude that makes the plot of movie like Avatar — minorities are superior to white people, but an enlightened white person who understands the value of minorities is the most superior of all. And I think that illustrates of the problems with racism: We’re so focused on the racism of the past that we completely miss the new ones that arise today to the point we can’t even correctly identify racists.

Anyway, if the “Stuff White People Like” site was still around, “Lecturing About White Privilege” would certainly be an item there.

Why Does the Government Hate Us?

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I have a new PJ Media column which says that conservatives need to ask themselves an important question: Why does the government hate us?

You have to remember that the bureaucrats in government are a fiercely tribal people who base all their beliefs on an extreme ideology of government power. How did we think they’d react when we threatened to tear down all they know over some concept they’ve never even heard of — math? Did we think they’d really welcome us as liberators when we tossed them all out into the private sector — a scary world that demands things they can’t even understand, like productivity? No, of course not. Instead they did what seems logical to them: Fight against the invaders threatening them while rallying behind their supreme religious figure, President Obama.

Read. Enjoy. Discuss.

Random Thoughts: Jack Bauer, Steam, and Frank J. 2016

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“Jack Bauer, we don’t need dinosaurs like you torturing people. We’re now civilized and blow people up with drones.” -new season of 24

Not sure my son (1 month) is aware of my existence beyond that I do not provide food.

Seriously, I’ll totally run for president in 2016 if you want me to. That jobs pays like 400k.

My promise as president will be to play video games all day and let you solve your own damn problems unless a country invades or something.

And even if a country invades, I expect you to at least make a Red Dawn type effort before whining to the feds to help out.

Frank J. 2016: “Stop acting like you have actual problems, you whiners.”

Frank J. 2016: “Unless you’re starving, I don’t care about your stupid ‘problem.’ And if you are starving, I still don’t care.”

“I mean, really, squirrels figure out how not to starve all by themselves. I think you can do it.”

Frank J. 2016: “What this country needs is an old-fashioned hippie punching.”

Frank J. 2016: “If it’s a real problem, you shouldn’t trust the government to solve it.”

Frank J. 2016: “My running mate will be fire. It will be his job to determine which federal agencies need to go.”

Frank J. 2016: “Don’t whine to me in headbutt range.”

Frank J. 2016: “We’ll just leave each other alone and we’ll get along just fine.”

Frank J. 2016: “Whether you live or die, I get paid the same.”

Day one as president, I’m going to set D.C. on fire. Then I head to Camp David and that will be the last you hear of me for the term.

Frank J. 2016: “The only time you’ll see me on TV is if someone is getting nuked.”

Frank J. 2016: “Compassionate conservatism means I’ll try not to laugh while you suffer from your own stupidity.”

“Stop whining.” -my campaign slogan and the entire text of my State of the Union speeches

Man of Steel is rotten on Rotten Tomatoes, but Superman Returns was fresh so critics apparently don’t know what a good Superman movie is.

Lesson from Jeb Bush: No matter how much of an amnesty shill a Republican is, the left will still jump on any chance to brand you a racist.

“Get off my field of skulls!” -Arnold Schwarzenegger as old man Terminator in Terminator 5

Schwarzenegger is actually a strangely easy name to spell correctly.

Gun control ad that might work: “If more stringent background checks are passed, Michael Bloomberg will be publicly punched in the junk.”

They say men and women are equal, but men have a much better record of not getting themselves oppressed by the opposite sex.

Bought Witcher 2 because it was on sale and heard so many raves. Don’t know when I’ll have time for all these Steam games.

But they’re just so cheap. $8, $5, $2.50 is so little to spend on a great game I’ll never have time to play.

I’m trying to be more disciplined only playing games when they are fun. If it’s not fun, I don’t beat at just move on to next game.

I’m also drowning in unplayed games from those Humble Bundles (of which I activated all the games on Steam).

A PC rig (I have a gaming laptop) is way more expensive than a console, but you make up for it in game savings.

Remember when we used to drink water from the tap like a bunch of filthy savages?

Toes are not that important to the human body, SO WHY DO THEY HURT SO MUCH WHEN THEY’RE HIT?!