Category — Culture Bashing (Roth)

First of all, I’d like to take this opportunity to ask the entire readership and authorship of “open letters” to end, once and for all, the writing of “open letters”.

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Dr. Zuhdi Jasser of AIFD (American Islamic Forum for Democracy) will appear on “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel at 630PM PST/930PM EST and replayed at 930PM PST/1230PM EST today.

From the AIFD email alert:

Dr. Jasser is scheduled to appear opposite Jehan Harney, Muslim film-maker to discuss the latest developments in the Ground Zero Islamic center controversy after recent comments made by Imam Faisal Rauf to Arabic media in Abu Dhabi. 

Polls indicate that Americans are generally against the building of a mosque at Ground Zero, but support the right of those to build it. This is typical of American generosity. But is it rational?

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Read this. Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project, currently holds the record in my mind as stating the greatest number of rational sentences in a row in any major media of recent memory. Very, very impressive. (Though the topic itself is scary and depressing.)

Another pseudo-concept will not die. If you follow The New York Times Technology section, you’ve been hearing so much about “net neutrality” that, by this point, you want to replace broadband lines everywhere with human centipedes of ISP executives, Internet content providers, and newspaper reporters. The loudest and most asinine apparently will win, so I figure that forcing them to talk into each other’s asses would be a big step up from talking out of their own.

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Sorry, I can’t post any updates to this website. I’m too busy laughing at the Obama administration again. Looks like yet another amateurish fuck-up.

The New York Times reports today: Spy Suspects Leave U.S. in Swap With Russia. This is officially the fastest thing Obama has done yet. Here are a few additional comments to what I said already:

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Clash lyrics notwithstanding, I note that Schwarzenegger urges calm following shooting trial.

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Obama’s latest scheme should be called a “sweep”, not a “swap”. The president (I again stick with a lowercase “p” in Obama’s case) is sweeping under the carpet any activity harmful to the security of the United States, in favor of “US-Russian relations”.

You know what we really need, Mr. president? A mosque near the Pentagon. Snap to it.

Some good links on current events:

• Calling Islam “Islam”. A rare instance of someone making a new, broad, and true statement about the war on terror Islam.
• The Insidious Ground Zero Mosque
• New NASA logos reflecting its new, forward-thinking agenda
• I must stay at a Steve Wynn property the next time I’m in Vegas. He speaks the impassioned truth.

What does this all mean? Maybe I ought to get into the burka business.

The best, current Objectivist content in any media comes from Leonard Peikoff. In one of his recent weekly podcasts, in which he gives answers to audience-submitted questions, he responds to the question of what, if anything, should be done about the proposed mosque near Ground Zero in New York City. His answer quickly set off a chain reaction among Objectivists of carefully worded, polite disagreements with, and adamant defenses of, Peikoff’s position. (Shockingly, not one person seems to agree with my proposal for a big, bronze pile of dead cops and firemen.)

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 I was reading an article about the disappointing opening (to investors) of the new Tom Cruise movie, Knight and Day. The author postulates, rather seriously, that Cruise’s fail-safe ability to create a blockbuster began to evaporate after his infamous couch-jumping incident on the Oprah Winfrey show. I’d like to point out something about this couch-jumping episode once and for all that really ought to be acknowledged.

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“Madame, I understand your daughter was one of the children who was playing inside the cannon when it went off. As the wife of a military hero, would you say your enthusiasm for the 21-gun salute has increased or decreased now that you’ve lost two family members to artillery accidents?”

If photographers were required to conduct interviews instead of gutlessly snapping photos and making a run for it, the above is more or less what we’d see.

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Evidently, Emperor Nero was hanging out in Antium (now Anzio), not actually playing a fiddle or even a lyre.

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I admit I feel a little like a bystander at the site of a burning building. A building with really cool, big-ass flames pouring out the windows. Sparks cascading to the ground. A crash of some internal beam or section of floor, causing even more spark and flame to shoot out a window, or burst out a door. A massive and ferocious red, yellow, and orange towering demon looking down at me while I smile and silently root for the fire to kick the rest of the house’s ass. Not so much because I’m anti-house as that I’m pro-fire.

I might wonder, while watching in nervous excitement as the structure slowly crumbles: did someone leave an iron on? Has anyone, for Christ’s sake, started a petition against iron manufacturers? Have any of these clowns, maybe the guys in the yellow and black coats and hats, sued the landlord yet? And is it just me, or is that a set of oily pelican footprints leading out the back door?

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Today is the first day it occurred to me that there could conceivably come a day when I would consider moving to Europe, because the United States is too liberal.

This helped: The Phantom Recovery

Iran and Gaza Peace Convoys

It’s fortunate that the government of Iran consists of pussies. Another way of putting it is: the Iranians know how weak they are and that their power depends entirely on our (and other Western nations’) decision to leave them alone.

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E-tarded E-mail is back. If you are a follower of this website (did you know we’ve been around since 2000?), then you know E-Tarded E-mail is the email version of a crank call. (Back in the day, we spelled email “e-mail”, and I decided to keep that spelling for old-time’s sake.)

I don’t expect this particular e-tarded exchange to get very far, so I decided to go ahead and post it now. After hearing about the pseudo-concept of “regulatory science”, I decided to contact one of the country’s preeminent authorities on the subject, Dr. Alan Moghissi, President of the Institute for Regulatory Science and Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. The fact that he replied even once makes me feel quite satisfied. Further replies, should they arrive, will be posted here.

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Contrary to popular opinion, we have a hang-up here in America about “blaming the victim”. It’s a hang-up because the independentmindedness of the average American requires that the victim of a crime be given the utmost respect insomuchas a crime could never possibly be committed only due to a victim’s acquiescence to the requests of the perpetrator. I.e., criminals are guilty and victims are innocent. But, if I may inquire, what if the victim is a moron? [Read more →]

So, a blank census form has been sitting on my desk at work. I had the semi-intention to fill it out so brought it in. At first, I wasn’t going to send the goddamn thing back, but then I thought about it. It makes sense that the government take a count of its citizens. Not for the sake of doling out cash to the races and other pressure groups with the loudest and most annoying assholes speaking on their behalf, but for the basic reason of knowing how many individuals need their rights protected and where they reside. This realization didn’t get me to fill out the census form any faster. Which is why I was a little startled when our doorman called up to say a census worker was asking for us.

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Not that I want to give Bush points for anything, but I can’t help but notice that Obama’s response to the Louisiana oil spill is even slower than “Bush’s” response to Hurricane Katrina. I find this amusing. I know 10 billion conservative bloggers will be pointing this out, but I couldn’t help myself.

It’s occurred to me why Barack Obama loves terrorists. Not that he calls any of them by their first names with any frequency, but he does seem to appreciate the fact that “terrorists” are already floating around in the ether of the public mind. It’s such a vaguely defined concept that not only does it require no specific action, but it allows any action to be bullshitably linked (or if you have an antagonism to the split infinitive: to be linked bullshitably), in such a way that your mindless flailings can actually be described as constructive. “Mindless flailings”, however, doesn’t give Obama the discredit he deserves.

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For what it’s worth, I posted this in June, 2001 (in the middle of a rant about China secretly selling arms to Cuba). I note that the part about the United States not possessing cojones unfortunately still holds true.

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Will you be with me, if I should decide to get back into it? Let me know. It may make a difference. I can talk all day long. Whether I’m heard is another question.

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I believe we are now witnessing Barack Obama’s Pet Goat moment. In that spirit, let begin by telling a story.

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Is it time yet to call Obama’s presidency a complete disaster? And by “disaster”, I don’t mean in the sense of accomplishing stuff, which for Obama’s agenda would be a disaster, but rather in the sense of “complete display of incompetence and utter failure on his own terms”? I say, doggonit, there’s reason to hope.

From where I stand, not only is Obama not getting stuff done, he’s bungling everything he touches and looking like a complete fucking buffoon at the same time. He’s like a clown juggling live jellyfish. And nothing could make me happier.

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Let’s see. The lone bomber tried to take down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 at approximately 11:10 AM EST. That would make it 6:10 AM HST (Hawaiian Standard Time). Given that Obama’s daughters are aged 11 and 8, I’m going to go out on a limb and assume they were already yapping about opening up their presents. (If Obama were your father, you’d be yapping, too.) Whatever Barbie car Sasha got this year, I can tell you it sure as fuck wasn’t an American car. A remote-controlled Bentley is what I’m thinking, and not some $78.99 model, either.

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When I think of Christmases of lore, I think of sugarplums dancing, reindeer laughing, wise men passing, and a barn full of farm animals made sweeter by the very first Christmas gift of all, not frankincense or myrrh, but the blessed diaper of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Indeed, thank those wise men for their gifts. I can’t see cinnamon and nutmeg, or even a can of pine tree-scented bathroom deodorant, doing the trick on the world’s first Christmas morning. This Kid’s Dad is omnipotent. Do you really think you’re capable of producing a worse smelling load?

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Let’s see, half the world is collapsing around me, and the thing that incites me to write is some inconsequential worm who bashes Ayn Rand.

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Hey, Obama. Just thinking about my morning commute.

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 Worth watching.

Here’s a measure of just how screwed up our culture and political systems are. The Republican’s secret weapon in the Sonia Sotomayor hearings is a firefighter named Frank Ricci. Frank Ricci, according to recent accusations, is a firefighter who will enter your burning house, see a sign that says “Kids’ room this way”, and then have to elblow his buddy to find out what the hell the words mean. [Read more →]

It’s 3:00 AM, Madam Secretary and Mr. President. What are you going to do about it?

We can’t let Earth Day become just another human fad. Like the Spanish Inquisition or the Holocaust.

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Outrage. That’s the only word to describe what I’m feeling right now. As of yet, President Obama has only announced plans to temporarily reverse his historic ban on human reproductive cloning for the purpose of implanting fetuses in each of his daughters, hatching two sets of Adolf Hitler octuplets, and allowing all sixteen Hitler youths to sodomize him publicly one at a time and in groups smack dab in the middle of Wrigley Field. Everybody knows Barack Obama is a White Sox fan. And what are the female Hitlers going to do? (For God’s sake, Mr. President, don’t ban aluminum bats just yet. For the sake of the children.)

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Unfortunately, it’s not an hour of silence. But from 8:30 until 9:30 on March 28, you can hope that environmentalists will keep their fucking mouths shut and consider the possibility of refraining from ever again using any energy for any purpose.

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As the economy shows signs of improvement (this week; who knows about next), one senator has already taken my suggestion to “save the newspapers”. Actually, Senator Cardin, I meant that as an ominous threat, I wasn’t actually trying to give you ideas.

When the federal government offers to help, be very afraid.

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Another company took the bait. Not that anyone had a problem with that. The problem was that top management was able to get some of the cheese out of the trap.

“I, Barack Husein Obama, am outraged by this behavior!” he says, his beautifully chiseled face turned upward in the direction of AIG executives, as if Michelangelo himself had discovered a way to turn a block of marble into a frozen, three-dimensional snapshot of monotony. You’ll have to excuse him if he looks like he’s not breathing. He’s “choked up with anger”.

Don’t you know, silly AIG mouse, that when the federal government serves you stolen cheese on a silver mousetrap, you’re supposed to eat it head-first?

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This is just classic. Teenage girls who take naked photos of themselves now face child porn charges. In this Greensburg, PA case, charges against three 14- and 15-year-old girls include “manufacturing” and “disseminating” child porn, and two 16- and 17-year-old boys (lucky enough to receive the photos) have been charged with possession. By now, I’m sure the boys have learned their lesson: delete after wanking.

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