I was doing my daily blog browsing and checked out Conservative Grapevine to find a link to a joke on The People's Cube (the link to the joke is here). I'm not going to post the joke: go read it there.
However, I found it amusing, and filled with much truth. Politics is definitely getting in the way of the war effort. For example, even though the surge is working, things are beginning to turn around in Iraq, and we are finally getting the Iraqi people to back us with less and less fear, we're still hearing calls from stupid politicians (some are Republicans even) more worried about their own image than the long term damage that a quick pull out from Iraq would cause. What a sad time for America...
Friday, August 24, 2007
The Insensitive Marine: A joke...sort of...
An ex-wife, fire, and a man's most prized possession...
The news article is here, but apparently this is a woman you don't want to piss off (emphasis mine)...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A woman set fire to her ex-husband's penis as he sat naked watching television and drinking vodka, Moscow police said Wednesday.
Asked if the man would make a full recovery, a police spokeswoman said it was "difficult to predict."
The attack climaxed three years of acrimonious enforced co-habitation. The couple divorced three years ago but continued to share a small flat, something common in Russia where property costs are very high.
"It was monstrously painful," the wounded ex-husband told Tvoi Den newspaper. "I was burning like a torch. I don't know what I did to deserve this."
Poor poor man...I hope he learned his lesson though. Sitting naked drinking a flammable substance is never a good idea. The last time I did that...well, never mind. Some things are better left unsaid. What makes it even more stupid was that he did it with his ex-wife in the room. Did it not occur to him that keeping a woman around who probably harbors some anger towards him while sitting naked drinking a flammable substance is just asking for trouble?
I don't know which woman is worst...Lorena Bobbit who likes to play with knives or this one with her fiery demands. Read More......
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Proof that reading books don't necessarily make one smarter...
So a recent poll found that liberals read about one more book a year than conservatives - or as the press spun it: liberals/moderates read more books than conservatives (hat tip: Newsbusters). Well, you can all read the link to discuss the bias in the poll, though more amusing is the media's reaction to it.
However, I think this just goes to show that one can read a lot and still hold on to certain ideas that are just plain silly. This is especially true if one reads books that only support one's own world view.
Anyway, in honor of this poll, and to procrastinate work, I thought I would educate the 2 people who might actually read this as to the...
Top 10 Books about Liberalism to be published in 2008 according to anonymous sources):
10. Democrats Guide to Foreign Policy: Why Testicular Fortitude is overrated
9. Surrender: Why we should adopt French military strategy in Iraq
8. How to love oneself even if the rest of America hates you more than they hated the Moron in the White House, by John Kerry
7. I'm a fatass and its all George W. Bush's fault, by Michael Moore
6. The Surge in Iraq: How success in War really means we've already lost, by Harry Reid
5. Taxes: How a bloated bureaucracy knows better than you how to spend your money
4. Adapting to Socialized Health Care: Learning to Trust Politicians with your Life
3. Climate Modeling For Dummies in 30 Days: Now you can make predictions about Global Warming Just like the Real Scientists! by Al Gore
2. A feminists guide to Peeing while Standing Up, by Hillary Clinton
And the number one book about liberalism to be written in 2008 is... (click "Read More")
1. Using the Media Effectively to Defeat Political and Military Opponents, co-written by Dan Rather and Osama Bin Laden
Monday, August 20, 2007
It's so wrong, but I just can't stop laughing...
I'm on a role with posting tonight. Check this one out thanks to IMAO. Here's a video that's a lot funnier than it should be...I'm still laughing.
Yea, I'm an insensitive bastard...but, come on, admit it! You laughed your ass off when you first saw it!
UPDATE:
I'm really an insensitive bastard because I think this one is almost as funny:
Hey, come on...you know it's at least a little funny.
Update 2: I guess YouTube didn't appreciate the first video and yanked it. Oh well...
Update 3: Again, thanks to IMAO, I got the first video working again!
Update 08/24: LOL...I'm still laughing at that first one...
First artificial "wet life" only 3-10 years away...
First, does anyone actually read this blog? If so, give me a clue as to who you are...
Now, scientists are pretty close to creating the first totally artificial life form since Hillary Clinton started running for president. Here's the article (and if the article from the link differs from this one, it must be because they changed it earlier to hide their evil conservative bias):
WASHINGTON --Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer.
Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life."
"It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it," said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. "We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways -- in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict."
"Creating [wet life] has the potential to shed new light on our place in the universe," Bedau said. "This will remove one of the few fundamental mysteries about creation in the universe and our role."
And several scientists believe man-made life forms will one day offer the potential for solving a variety of problems, from fighting diseases to locking up greenhouse gases to eating toxic waste, and most importantly: they will provide a necessary labor source for doing jobs that true Americans don't want to do.
Bedau figures there are three major hurdles to creating synthetic life:
-- A wall to keep bad wet-life out, allow good ones in, and the ability for them to multiply.
-- A system that controls the functions of the wet-life, enabling it to reproduce and mutate in response to environmental changes.
-- A metabolism that extracts raw materials from the environment and food, then changes it into something to sell very cheaply.
One of the leaders...... in the field, Jack Szostak at Harvard Medical School, predicts that within the next six months, scientists will report evidence that the first step -- creating a wall -- is "not a big problem." Scientists are using Mexicans in that effort.
Szostak is also optimistic about the next step -- getting the wet-life agree on a working system.
His idea is that once the wall is made, then Darwinian evolution could simply take over and wet-life will accept thier roles in society.
"We aren't smart enough to design things, we just let evolution do the hard work and then we figure out what happened," Szostak said.
Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could "run amok," but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem. One only has to look at the pre-civil war era through to the 1960s to see the best ways to prevent a take-over.
"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in this heat we've been experiencing," he said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."
(This version CORRECTS Bedau quote to "shed new light")
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