Operation Boundless Redemption Ceaseless Revenge

Europe can you keep it down we are photographing the universe

2008-07-27T16:18:20Z

http://www.nasaimages.org/

How easy is it to fool a post modernist?

2008-07-20T03:21:59Z

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

On the day of its publication, Sokal announced in another publication, Lingua Franca, that the article was a hoax, calling his paper "a pastiche of left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense", which was "structured around the silliest quotations I could find about mathematics and physics" made by postmodernist academics.

I don't post much anymore (avoiding wow with other games)

2008-07-19T04:50:05Z

(12:26:19 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: those people were gay
(12:26:28 AM) Jso: gay gay gay gay
(12:26:45 AM) Jso: yeah Im basically done with the entire concept of pve
(12:27:04 AM) Jso: I was just trying to get healing shit on my paladin, pretty much nothing dropped, so Im done
(12:28:20 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: done forever
(12:28:29 AM) Jso: until the next exp
(12:28:31 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: until five minutes later
(12:28:31 AM) Jso: >_<
(12:28:36 AM) Jso: RUUUUAH
(12:28:42 AM) Jso: well I certainly wont be raiding as ret
(12:28:52 AM) Jso: some people raid as ret or arms or whatever
(12:28:57 AM) Jso: they are total fucking catassers
(12:29:02 AM) Jso: thats what it takes
(12:29:17 AM) Jso: sacrifice your integrity just to play an autoattacknub spec
(12:31:41 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: we have integrity?
(12:31:52 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: in theory
(12:31:56 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: if we had any integrity
(12:32:05 AM) Jso: we do.................
(12:32:07 AM) Jso: DOT DOT DOR
(12:32:23 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: really? O_O
(12:32:55 AM) Jso: I do because I actually served a purpose in a raid besides autoshot afk
(12:33:07 AM) Jso: I CANT BE BOTHERED TO MISDIRECT IM ON THE PHONE
(12:33:19 AM) Jso: SURE YOU CAN HAVE SOME T5 WHEN WE BEAT THIS BOSS
(12:34:13 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: I'M SHOVELING GRUEL INTO MY BABY
(12:34:32 AM) Jso: technically not playing the game
(12:35:20 AM) Jso: more daily screenshots of warlocks
(12:38:13 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: WHEN I WAS 29 MY IMPOSSIBLY HIGH TOWER OF LONELINESS WAS CRUSHING ME AND NO PRINCES CAME TO SAVE ME
(12:39:15 AM) Jso: hHAHA
(12:39:17 AM) Jso: :(
(12:39:33 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: BUT WOW SAVED MY LIFE
(12:39:37 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: I LEVELED UP, KARLA
(12:39:45 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: I MET A MAN OVER THE INTERNET
(12:39:50 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: HE'S GOING TO PICK ME UP IN A VAN
(12:39:54 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: HE REALLY LOVES KNIVES
(12:40:01 AM) Jso: that final panel really needs like red demon eyes hiding in a shadow in the corner of the panel
(12:40:12 AM) Kered Worgsocks Bearplop: HE'S A HISPANIC MIDGET THAT REALLY LOVES KNIVES AND CUTTING MEAT

Get them when they are young so they can never unlearn it

2008-07-07T19:16:43Z

http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=8828

The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.

This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.

Potential hate crime! I don't like eating vegetables, so that means I hate vegans.

Warning that failing to pick children up on their racist attitudes could instil prejudice, the NCB adds that if children "reveal negative attitudes, the lack of censure may indicate to the child that there is nothing unacceptable about such attitudes".

Imagine all the other things children aren't learning as being unacceptable. They might not even know which party to vote for yet!

This is as much for my benefit as it is for everyone elses

2008-06-06T02:07:48Z

http://incompetech.com/gallimaufry/mstnames.html

Victimhood Hierarchy in a helpful card deck

2008-06-03T20:06:38Z

http://dicklist.blogspot.com/2006/07/tdl-gaming-world-series-of-victimhood.html

I think one will find that non-white muslims trump gays in the leftist pantheon.

They certainly outrank wimmin, look for any serious feminist condemnation of endemic muslim rape in the west.

Given that race is not supposed to exist its reality is given credence by the hierarchy of victimhood. Non-whites always outrank whites, even when we are looking at rape, gay bashing, domestic abuse, child abuse and so on.

People to keep in mind

2008-05-26T21:34:03Z

http://patdollard.com/young-americans

Required viewing. I would say that during a war we should spend Memorial Day also keeping the living soldiers in mind. So far, these videos have made an excellent documentary, and I plan to watch all of them before tomorrow.

Memorial Day 2008

2008-05-26T18:39:02Z

http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=8584

On May 5, 1868, the Grand Army of the Republic established Memorial Day or Decoration Day as the national day to decorate the graves of the Civil War soldiers with flowers. Major General John A. Logan appointed May 30 as the day to be observed. Arlington National Cemetery had the first observance of the day on a grand scale. The place was appropriate as it already housed graves of over 20,000 Union dead and several hundred Confederate dead. Gen. and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant presided over the meeting and the center point of these Memorial Day ceremonies was the mourning-draped veranda of the Arlington mansion. Speeches were followed by a march of soldiers' children and orphans and members of the GAR through the cemetery strewing flowers on both Union and Confederate graves. They also recited prayers and sang hymns for the dead.

Yeah wow you are so welcome, myanmar

2008-05-11T16:34:19Z

http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=8487

Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.

Apparently it took a couple of days to print up the necessary labels to plaster all over the aid boxes from other countries.

"We have already seen regional commanders putting their names on the side of aid shipments from Asia, saying this was a gift from them and then distributing it in their region," said Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, which campaigns for human rights and democracy in the country.

"It is not going to areas where it is most in need," he said in London.

Remind me never to donate anything to a foreign country. Ever.

kyoto nations are polluting a surprising amount

2008-05-04T05:12:39Z

http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=8438

Maybe the real solution should be to economically cripple the rest of the world instead of America.

LAT correction about Guantanamo article is 1/4 of the whole article (and inhuman rights)

2008-04-08T09:30:26Z

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/hopeless_scribe.php

If you've worked around newspapers and magazines, you'll have a sense of just how stunningly wrong a story has to be for the publication to issue a correction of that length. If you haven't, trust me when I tell you that the only things that can possibly be right about the story is the spelling of the byline and the capitalization. Maybe.

A real newspaper would sack this "Caribbean Bureau Chief" with extreme prejudice. At the LA Times her "reporting" is probably grounds for promotion.

Here is also an article about the laughable UN Human Rights Council.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/04/041159.php

So what is the real body count in Iraq

2008-03-28T14:22:34Z

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200804/war-statistics

“Conflict epidemiology,” the study of war’s health effects, is by its nature an inexact science. War and anarchy are not friends to careful, by-the-book research. We have little idea how many people now live in Iraq; ascertaining the number who have died there is a tall order. And huge disparities in death estimates are not unique to the conflict in Iraq; cluster sampling, the best-regarded survey technique for use in war-torn places, has produced estimates in other conflict zones, such as Darfur, that vary by factors of three or more.

I think we can be pretty sure the answer is not "a million."

It's amazing what one can learn by reading

2008-03-25T12:31:37Z

http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/03/the-liberation.php

Fallujah was a minefield of IEDs, but Karmah was even worse.

“They hit a lot of IEDs out there,” he said. “One of the route clearance teams was reacting to one and got hit by a secondary. It took their Cougar, spun it over, and threw it so high in the air it flipped over the power lines before coming back down. Fortunately the men weren't hurt. The vehicle remained intact. The armor protected the Marines inside like it was supposed to. This was in the first week of September.”

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.asp

The New York Times seemed to be one the only major print medium to take this view of the event, however. Newsweek screened the same tape and reported: "Bush acts curious and polite, but hardly amazed." Michael Duffy of Time magazine called the whole thing "completely insignificant as a news event. It was prosaic, polite talk, and Bush is expert at that. If anything, he was bored." And Bob Graham of NCR, who demonstrated the scanner technology for President Bush, said, ''It's foolish to think the president doesn't know anything about grocery stores. He knew exactly what I was talking
about.''

The scanner being a "plastic turkey" level myth. I wonder if the plastic turkey one is also on snopes.

Something America does well

2008-03-10T20:28:09Z

http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/7821-Major-Brian-Shul-I-loved-that-jet.html

After several agonizingly long seconds, we made the turn and blasted toward the Mediterranean. 'You might want to pull it back,' Walter suggested. It was then that I noticed I still had the throttles full forward. The plane was flying a mile every 1.6 seconds, well above our Mach 3.2 limit. It was the fastest we would ever fly. I pulled the throttles to idle just south of Sicily, but we still overran the refueling tanker awaiting us over Gibraltar.

Sounds like fun.

One day, high above Arizona, we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. 'Ninety knots,' ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. 'One-twenty on the ground,' was the reply. To our surprise, a navy F-18 came over the radio with a ground speed check. I knew exactly what he was doing. Of course, he had a ground speed indicator in his cockpit, but he wanted to let all the bug-smashers in the valley know what real speed was 'Dusty 52, we show you at 525 on the ground,' ATC responded. The situation was too ripe. I heard the click of Walter's mike button in the rear seat. In his most innocent voice, Walter startled the controller by asking for a ground speed check from 81,000 feet, clearly above controlled airspace. In a cool, professional voice, the controller replied, 'Aspen 20, I show you at 1,742 knots on the ground.' We did not hear another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.

Teachers union against teaching

2008-03-02T06:10:40Z

Hey it's Drew Carey.

http://reason.tv/video/show/60.html

Frank Wells has also had it with Locke High. When he became principal he says gangs ruled the campus. He tried to turn things around but ran into a “brick wall” of resistance from the school district and teachers union.

Locke seemed destined to languish in high crime and low test scores until Wells, Reyes, and many reform-minded teachers joined with a maverick named Steve Barr in an attempt to break free from the status quo. Their battle is just one example of the charter school education revolt that’s erupting across the nation.

It's a video file. Get a load of the union's propaganda against actually educating students as "snake oil."

Robber barons in western countries amirite

2008-02-26T12:17:48Z

http://instapundit.com/archives2/015777.php

The provision of health services in poor countries is a huge problem that the international community should worry about. But not by declaring medical personnel the property of the state, and their migration therefore a form of thievery. There's been a lot of talk recently about the right of entry for poor people, but even more important is the right of exit. There's a reason that places which require their citizens to get permission to migrate are generally dreadful places to live.

Update Reader Douglas writes:

In the early "naughties" I thought it ironic that Alan Milburn as health secretary was hiring recruiting companies to bring medical staff from all over the world to the UK, and Clare Short as international development secretary was funding programs to encourage them to stay in their home countries. My tax dollars at work!

WTG!!!!!!!!!!

Scientific study in the sense that it is the opposite of that

2008-01-22T13:34:40Z

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/01/019601.php

If you published a similarly anecdotal and unfounded piece about black people and murder, the NYT would call you a racist.

A few other sites noticed this also.

Andrew Olmsted gets the last word

2008-01-06T13:29:03Z

http://andrewolmsted.com/archives/2008/01/final_post.html

This is an entry I would have preferred not to have published, but there are limits to what we can control in life, and apparently I have passed one of those limits. And so, like G'Kar, I must say here what I would much prefer to say in person. I want to thank hilzoy for putting it up for me. It's not easy asking anyone to do something for you in the event of your death, and it is a testament to her quality that she didn't hesitate to accept the charge. As with many bloggers, I have a disgustingly large ego, and so I just couldn't bear the thought of not being able to have the last word if the need arose.

One of his pages is a long list of quotations and writings which he hopes can explain why he signed up for this mission.

"I will not disgrace the soldier's arms, nor abandon the comrade who stands at my side; but whether alone or with many, I will fight to defend things sacred and profane. I will hand down my country not lessened, but larger and better than I have received it."

Ancient Athenian Oath

The Kyoto treaty creates greenhouse gas

2007-12-19T20:44:20Z

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/12/kyoto_schmyoto.html

* Emissions worldwide increased 18.0%.
* Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1%.
* Emissions from non-signers increased 10.0%.
* Emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%

Ok, I thought that was pretty funny.

Stories about the war can have a large audience and be entertaining

2007-12-10T17:31:37Z

http://instapundit.com/archives2/012711.php

Did you know that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for the video market has moved 3 million copies -

That as Amazon shows it runs about $50 a copy - that' s a 'box office' of 150 million.

And it's about the current war against terror.

Genuinly dishonest

2007-11-29T11:27:00Z

http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/11/hollywoods_phony_antiwar_the_s.php

This problem is particularly true for Hollywood because the evils of Islamofascism – notably extreme misogyny and homophobia – are justifiably big no-nos to people in the Industry. In fact, they are close to the biggest no-nos of all for them in their daily lives. Who is worse than a sexist pig? Only a violent, murderous sexist pig who wants to take over the world. It then becomes a complex balancing act indeed to make a movie that ignores or downplays this in order to criticize the US as the larger villain. No one has been able to come close to pulling off this balancing act in a film. In fact, it may well be impossible because it is fundamentally dishonest.

So the filmmaker is reduced to the idea that our problem is that we are fighting these obvious (and largely unspoken) evils in the wrong way. But there is no easy way to fight anything. Or even to not fight it. Otherwise we would be living in a perfect world. So the idea itself is not even possible, yielding yet another level of fakery. No wonder these films seem inauthentic.

"the greatest source of media "bias" is not design but ignorance"

2007-11-18T04:49:59Z

http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2007/11/dissecting-medi.html

He does a good job pointing out how Eric Alterman is totally wrong, but I might argue with that one sentence.

I invite Alterman to read, as he plainly hasn't, the study of this dispiriting affair by another of my correspondents, Robert P. Newman, Enola Gay and the Court of History, 2004. Professor Newman took the trouble to examine the entire museum archive about the controversy. He concluded that (p. 133), in the dispute between the museum and protesting veterans' groups, the museum had "offered not facts, but a fraudulent account of Japan's willingness to surrender. In any unbiased historiographic evaluation, the veterans win hands down."

I don't think Alterman wants to read that. If he had to admit he was wrong about Japan's unwillingness to surrender before the atomic bombs were dropped, he would have to admit he was wrong about the other things (whatever the hell point he was trying to make). That is pretty much his design, willful ignorance in the face of facts.

Subversive pro-war Boy Scout donations

2007-11-16T00:06:02Z

http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2007/11/boy-scouts-troo.html

The boxes were set up inside the 33 polling stations around the city to collect donations for soldiers serving overseas in the war in Iraq.

Marsha Weinerman, executive director of the city’s Election Commission, said the boxes were removed after a resident complained to commission workers about their implied “pro-war” message.

When you think about it, even being inside a polling station isn't exactly pro-war. Unless you are a socialist douchebag.

The left does not deserve one single vote.

Anti-war movies are shitty movies

2007-11-10T22:16:26Z

http://bidinotto.journalspace.com/?entryid=627

In these films, there is no controversy: They all take a side, and that side is that America is wrong, and its soldiers a bunch of rapists, torturers, and murderers.

I've been playing COD4.

How is this an example of global warming?

2007-11-09T11:54:44Z

http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=7228

The comments area says what I don't feel like typing myself:

Actually, I read This latest glimpse of Yellowstone’s unsettled nature offers a reminder that human-driven climate change is taking place on a planet that isn’t an inert bystander. to acknowledge the fact that climate change takes place even without human intervention. Although how anyone could claim magma levels could change because of human intervention escapes me. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has made that claim.

Followed by:

It’s all the oil we’ve pumped out of the ground.

Duh!

Always look for the double pander.

Haha?