Friday, January 30, 2009
not so deep thought
How exactly is the security of Isreal a concern of the United States? What vital interest is served by our support? Just sayin'.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
the party of do nothing
I hope the leaders of the rump republic party take Malkin's advice.
Since when did it become the Republican Party's top priority to "get things done"? It was as annoying a campaign platitude when John McCain adopted it as it is now coming from Obama's lips.(h/t instaputz)
Please fellas listen to her. She knows what she is taliking about, remeber it was her ilk that turned y'all into a five state party. So feel free to continue to follow the advice of morons and their corny ass followers. Watching the wingnuts eat themselves for the next couple of deceades is going to be fun.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
remix
Jay-Z My President is black Remix LIVE 1-18-09 from pleasedontstare.com on Vimeo.
Jay-Z gettin it done.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
bcs declares germany winner of WWII
A friend of mine posted this on the myspace and I thought it was hilarious and would like to share with ya'll.
After determining another year of championship game participants, the
BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS
declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.
"Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with
the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland and continuing on into
conference play with defeats of Poland, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
Belgium and the Netherlands. Their only losses came against the US and
Russia; however considering their entire body of work--including an
incredibly tough Strength of Schedule--our computers deemed them worthy
of the #1 ranking."
Questioned about the #4 ranking of the United States the BCS
commissioner stated "The US only had two major victories--Japan and
Germany. The computer models, unlike humans, aren't influenced by
head-to-head contests--they consider each contest to be only a single,
equally-weighted event."
German Chancellor Adolph Hitler said "Yes, we lost to the US; but we
defeated #2 ranked France in only 6 weeks." Herr Hitler has been
criticized for seeking dramatic victories to earn 'style points' to
enhance Germany's rankings. Hitler protested "Our contest with Poland
was in doubt until the final day and the conditions in Norway were
incredibly challenging and demanded the application of additional
forces."
The French ranking has also come under scrutiny. The BCS commented "
France had a single loss against Germany and following a preseason #1
ranking they only fell to #2."
Japan was ranked #3 with victories including Manchuria, Borneo and the
Philippines.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
they'll like us when we win
Good advice for Obama. The title says it all,"Obama should act like he won."
nobody could have predicted
That Al-Queda's war on modernity would lead to the Black Bubonic Plague. (It wouldn't be right to use the B-word on MLK day would it?) The microbes are on our side bitches! Be careful what you wish for when you hope to return to the 7th century. Suck on this terrorism!!!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Don't say I didn't warn you
Even the techies are smart enough to be afraid.
Blind optimists like to imagine AI popping into existence completely functional, reasonable, human-like, and ready to help out around the household, chatting up little Tommy just like any member of the family. If the first AIs are not like this, and are instead monomaniacal day traders, then they presume that such AIs will be kept in check until the day that Rosie the Robot Maid is online and ready to go. However, it needn’t be the case. Like the supercomputer in Colossus: the Forbin Project, the monomaniacal day trader might find itself thinking so far outside the box that it decides to take control of the entire stock exchange, or even the world economy, and manipulate it precisely to maximize its personal utility, meatbags be damned.
That's right meatbags, this is your robot future.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Thank you President Olmert
I guess that should be his title since he gets to decide what American foriegn policy is and how we should vote in the U.N.
In an unusually public rebuke, Prime MinisterEhud Olmert of Israel said Monday that Secretary of StateCondoleezza Rice had been forced to abstain from a United Nationsresolution on Gaza that she helped draft, after Mr. Olmert placed a phone call to President Bush.
“I said, ‘Get me President Bush on the phone,’ ” Mr. Olmert said in a speech in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, according to The Associated Press. “They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn’t care: ‘I need to talk to him now,’ ” Mr. Olmert continued. “He got off the podium and spoke to me.”
Imagine for a minute a Democratic President got out from behind a podium and take orders from the President of France. Me thinks the wingnuts would be losing there minds. But as John Cole says, "Crickets."
Monday, January 12, 2009
I am not aware of all internet traditions
Apparently the trio of Matt Yglesias, Ezra Kline, and Spencer Ackerman (all of whom I read but have been neglectful of adding Attackerman to the blogroll. This will be corrected.) have been dubbed the Juicebox Mafia by the pro Israeli blogosphere.
Of course they had the audacity to suggest that the current Isreali attack in Gaza was disproportional and perhaps ill-advised. Since they are Jewish they cannot be condemned as anti-semites, ( I will avoid this tag simply due to the fact that no one reads my blog) so they will be ridiculed by the Very Serious People as children who cannot possibly understand the world.
Because it is obvious to anyone watching that the only response to random, annoying, and potentially deadly rocket attacks is airstrikes that kill not only the intended target but also many innocents. because throughout history this strategy has worked. See The First Jewish-Roman War, which after a Jewish revolt Rome burned the Temple to the ground and enslaved many Jewish people. But they made a slight error and let Jewish people continue to reside in Judea. A mistake they rectified after the second rebellion which lead to the Diaspora, or expulsion of the Jewish people from Palestine. Obviously, in this analogy Rome is Israel and The Jewish people are the Palestinians.
Personally, I find this bit by a guest blogger, Eyal Press,on Ta-Nehisis's blog to be instructive.
Many years ago, the Israeli scholar Yehuda Elkana published an essay in which he noted that there were two lessons one could draw from the horrors he'd witnessed as a boy at Auschwitz. The first was "this must never happen again." The second was "this must never happen to us again." Of the two, wrote Elkana, a member of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace-International, a network of scholars committed to ending the occupation and promoting a just settlement of the conflict, "I have always held to the former and seen the latter as catastrophic."
Just to prove my non-anti-semite cred I will unveil my Mid-East Peace plan for all three of my faithful readers.
Step One- Allow people of Jewish ancestry move to the United States.
That about covers it.
Update: Couldn't they have called them the "Jewcebox Mafia?" Just wondering. Seems funnier.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
bcs non championship game
Rick Reilly take it away...
Some gifts people give are pointless: Styling mousse to Dick Vitale. An all-you-can-eat card to Kate Moss. The BCS Championship given to Oklahoma or Florida. It means nothing because the BCS has no credibility. Florida? Oklahoma? Who cares? Utah is the national champion.
Reilly blames the greed of the BCS conferences. But I think that the brothers at NOIS have the real answer.
Yes, Utah deserves to be National Champion.
No, greed and conspiracy to exclude non-BCS teams from the pot of gold is NOT why they aren't in the title game.
Clearly, the painstakingly obvious reason must have been beyond the sleepy eyed view of the lethargic minded Reilly.
Utah has a Negro QB.
And we will let Reilly take us out(celbratory background music)
Until all these people do the right thing, I'll be celebrating with the true national champions — the undefeated, untied Utah Utes. (Our new slogan: Utahk about a team!)
Lemonades for everybody!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
robots in schools... the end of the line for hoomans?
Yglesias sounds the horn. Eliot Spitzer wants to fund "robotics teams" in schools. Be afraid, be very afraid.
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