imaolanche!

thanks imao for the recent linkage:

to tantra
to miley

hunting dogs

and see related images

so sorry, this is the abuse room

you want the argument room next door...

three more questions

monday evening pointed to 76 questions to ask of any technology, which inspires a couple more questions:

• how much worse will things be when the government abuses it?
• when will everyone realize that technology is almost entirely neutral, and that any ethical considerations are created by the people who invent, manufacture, and use said technology?
• why do people still pay attention to french philosophers?

ventilation

dustbury corrects a conflation:

The conflation of "health care" and "health insurance."
It should be obvious that these are not the same thing and never can be; if anyone over the age of seven with an IQ above room temperature believes that they are, it has to be due to the ongoing bipartisan effort to suck as much money as possible out of the middle class for the alleged benefit of the poor and the ill-concealed benefit of the wealthy. My own insurance, which costs somewhere on the wrong side of $5,000 a year, makes it possible for my own doctor to collect $30 from me for an office visit and some minor lab work, followed by $47 from the insurance carrier, once he's filled out several tedious forms. You can't tell me he wouldn't be happier doing this for a flat $60; for one thing, he could probably afford to lose one or two staff members who do nothing but tedious forms, and for another, if you're not spending upwards of $417 a month for insurance, you can presumably pop for that extra thirty bucks yourself. And since my knees are giving me no small amount of grief at the moment, let's say I have to have both ACLs repaired. I can give these guys $13,600; or, I can run up a six-figure tab at the local "non-profit" (a legal term, not a financial one) hospital and be responsible for only twenty percent of it, which ultimately will cost me twice as much. Who benefits by this? Hint: not me.

ray stevens

in case you didn't know, that novelty singer is still not very p.c.

obama budget plan & god save arizona

is "tantra" the plural of "tantrum"?

here are some of the less profane items about president hussein found on iowahawk's twitter page:

Are you President of the US, or a 7 year old having a meltdown after not getting their allowance raised?

Please lecture us more about "overheated rhetoric," Poindexter.

You know who had awesome poll numbers? Every Detroit politician since 1960.

Difference between Obamacare and a time share condo sales pitch? Time share condo salesmen can't arrest you for not buying.

I hope the Obamacare website gets fixed soon, so I can laugh at more idiots discovering they actually have to pay for it.

10 PRINT HappyPeople.jpg
20 PRINT "What is your name?"
30 INPUT A
40 PRINT "Send $2500" A
50 GOTO 40
#KathleenSebeliusadvancedwebsitedesign

Let's hope the drones aren't programmed by the same people who wrote the Obamacare website

How many essential government employees does it take to put steel barricades around a light bulb?

See these orange cones? Every single one is the President's middle finger pointed at you.

So when does the White House scramble fighter jets to enforce no-fly zones over National Parks? Airline passengers might peek at them.

found via imao

twins!

Identical twins Bill the Cat and Miley Cyrus get back together to sing a duet to benefit the Cure Shameophobia Foundation.



"Reunited
And it sounds so bad.
Reunited
What a passing fad.
We twerk and we hiss, baby,
We both smell like fish.
Ain't nobody excited that we're
Reunited.
ACK PHBBTHBHHTTHHH!"

--

Update - overheard after the concert: "What's the difference between Bill the Cat and Miley Cyrus? Bill doesn't need autotune."

parasitocracy, too

failure of leadership indeed...

parasitocracy

read it all

Add a Word Ruin a Movie

so there's this new twitter meme, #AddaWordRuinaMovie. since i don't twit, here are my contributions - which are hopefully more arcane than the rest:

• Butterflies are Free Loaders
• Martin Lawrence of Arabia
• Time Magazine Bandits
• Gerald Ford Fairlane
• The Longest Day Bed
• 2001 A Parking Space Odyssey
• Children of the Corn Chips
• Dawn Detergent of the Dead
• Laundry Pod People
• Pink: Floyd The Barber's Wall
• Great Balls of Fire Ants
• Spies Don't Like Us
• Ugly Little Women
• Taco Bell, Book, and Candle
• Punky Brewster McCloud
• Enemy Mine Craft
• Less Than President Zero
• Swiss Cheese Family Robinson
• Not All Dogs Go To Heaven
• Jason Bateman and the Argonauts
• The Fresh Prince of Egypt
• The Fifth Element: Boron
• George Will of the Jungle
• Tom & Jerry Maguire
• The English Muffin Patient
• Total Cereal Recall
• Three Men and a Baby Hippo
• My Left Foot Itches
• Don't Say Anything...
• Obama's Idiocracy

Two Americas

instapundit:

There are two Americas, all right. There's one that works -- where new and creative things happen, where mistakes are corrected, and where excellence is rewarded. Then there's Washington... One America can launch rockets. The other America can't even launch a website.

read it all

Government Shutdown Survival Guide

He's from IMAO and he's here to help.

into the woods

i am not a fan of musicals, but this performance at howard payne was great. i wonder if the movie version will live up to it...

down with the establishment!

greg gutfeld explains how to rebel:

How do you come out of the closet, as a rightie, without ruining your life?

The animus directed at one who leaves the fold explains the value of the journey out. Its struggle dictates the meaning. The slings and arrows one experiences means, quite simply, that you are onto something. For the anger toward your move is a sweaty reaction to courage that others (like the attackers) lack.

There is nothing more rebellious, truly, than turning right. There is nothing more daring than standing alone, facing the onslaught of a smirking media, and saying, "Here I am, I am not you." There is nothing edgier than saying to the edgy, "You lie. You are as edgy as a frisbee."

The colonial rebels were resisting the same thing. They didn't want to be overtaxed, controlled from afar, or have all aspects of their lives regulated. They were TRUE rebels, not fake Sean Penn champagne rebels. That's what the country was founded on, and that's what we're in danger of losing.

recursing

obamacare is train wrecks all the way down

update: imao has better metaphors

• It’s the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic.
• It’s a nuclear bomb that only wipes out hospitals and your savings.
• It’s a train crashing head on into another train and they’re on a bridge and all the train cars rain down onto an orphanage below.
• It’ll be like you’re trapped in a burning building, but instead of “Break Glass in Case of Fire” to get to the extinguisher it’s “Open Clamshell Packaging in Case of Fire.”
• It’s Gilbert Gottfried loudly narrating your life wherever you go.
• It’s New Coke, except it’s mandatory to drink and trying to obtain Classic Coke will get you arrested.
• It’s Miley Cyrus.

war is peace

ignorance is knowledge

based on an actual blog post

an adaptation of someone else's hopefully-fictitious story:

"When I was growing up, I kept getting into fights.

In third grade I fought a boy named Jerry, and he knocked out three of my teeth and broke my wrist.

In fifth grade Tim picked a fight with me. He threw me against some concrete steps and knocked me out; I woke up in the hospital four days later.

In eight grade I picked a fight with Ricky, and ended up with a couple of broken ribs.

In tenth grade I pushed Sam down a flight of stairs. He got up, pulled a knife, and chased me down. I needed eighteen stitches on my forearm and six down my right side.

After that, I decided that I'd rather be a lover than a fighter.

..

..

..

And that hasn't worked out too well either."

isms, in my opinion...

lileks slams the idiocy of modernism:

"(youth culture is) yammering infantile babblings that shoved all the marginalia into the center of our field of vision and demanded that we pretend it mattered just as much as the serious concerns of previous eras.

But modernism was youth culture. It had the same old predictable motivation: down with Daddy.

Every era rebels against the precepts of the previous iteration, but after the Romantics it was no longer a matter of stylistic variations. Heart over head. The inauthenticity of artifice, as if artifice isn’t an essential quality of creation. Movements like this begin well, handled by the capable hands of people who have skill and understand form, but the torch is always grabbed by those who are attracted to destruction more than creation. The French and Russian revolutions began with the convening of popular assemblies, but there are always those guys in the back, chewing their nails, one leg jackhammering up and down, waiting for the moment to use the tools of reason to level the old bad world and build utopia. They are consumed with the notion of sin, but it’s sundered from the old conceptions. No longer a matter of the individual and God. There is no true individual, only masses, There is no God; there is the state. The slate must be cleared. The fresh slates must be reserved for those who write what is helpful. The chalkmakers must be purged lest anyone outside the circle write something contrary.

The primary urge of the revolutionary and the modernist and the adolescent: impatience."

this one's a must-read-it-all piece.

not rhetorical

if progressives were really progressive, shouldn't they want to progress past their failed century-old dogma?