George Carlin tells it like it is.
Doorbell
Awesome “Powerline Prize” entry… short, sweet, and to the point:
How many good things can we count here?
Former Marine? Check. Concealed Carry License? Check. Weapon On-Hand? Check. Not allowing himself to be cowed like the sheeple modern society would have us all be? Check. This is the kind of guy you want to invite to your parties. The only problem I have with this story is that Jamal Rashad Hill is alive and has the possibility of being paroled. Oh, and what the hell were the other four men doing…?
Former Marine honored for thwarting ’09 robbery
Marine Sgt. Sean Barner and a friend were returning to a birthday party at a College Park, Ga., apartment after going outside to get some fresh air when they saw the attendees sitting silently in the living room.
Barner started to ask what was going on when he felt the muzzle of a gun on his back — two armed robbers had entered the home and were holding everyone hostage.
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Barner slipped out of the bedroom and his military experience kicked in — it was just like the urban assault training scenarios he went through in the Corps. He entered the living room, saw one of the robbers and began firing before the robber fled out the window.
He then kicked down the door to the bedroom, shouted for the women inside to get down and began firing at the second robber. In the firefight that followed, one of the women was wounded by bullets from the intruder’s weapon; the would-be rapist in the bedroom — 23-year-old Calvin Lavant — was killed.
Ensign Sean Barner, the world could use a lot more like you.
Turnaround
This woman is a joke. Sadly, there are far too many drones out there who will base their 2012 vote on blatant lies just like this.
How NOT to run a mailing list
Some time ago, I read an article about the Office of Naval Research collaborating on an online game to help develop strategies to use against the pirates currently operating off Somalia, etc. “Cool,” I thought, and added my email address to the page to be notified when the game was ready for users. Then I forgot all about it.
Lately, I’ve been getting spammed from a mailing list that I did not recognize, and as is the norm for poorly operated and maintained mailing lists, further spammed by morons hitting “reply to all” and requesting to “unsubscribe.” To add insult to mental injury, the spam from the list contained NO information regarding the game, other than to say, “Here’s a mailing list for suckers who provided us their email address but haven’t been selected to actually play the game.” Kind of a sick joke, but my dark side gets it.
None of the emails I’ve received contained instructions to unsubscribe. I assume that “feature” uses a specialized address to handle such functions; I recall one list I used years ago that appended -unsubscribe to the actual address. I guess it is my civic duty to crack this nut and… spam the list with the information. Heh.
A hundred or so ignorant “reply to all” messages later (thanks google, for merging them into blocks (‘threads’) instead of feeding them all to me in-duh-vidually!) and I decided to track down the original site in order to manage my subscriptions to this mailing list. No such luck. The system doesn’t recognize my email address as registered. So obviously it cannot be sending me email. But it is. Or am I imagining it all?
*sigh*
Recently, the DoD acknowledged that cyber attacks are acts of war.
The DoN can’t properly manage a mailing list.
We’re doomed.
BTW, if you want in on the spam fest, check out MMOWGLI (Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet)
If you can read this… the world didn’t end!
Good news! Unless you’re some moron who staked his hopes and dreams on being raptured up to heaven today… in that case, better luck on the next would-be prophet (profit?) you throw in with!
No pictures?
I assume we can’t release the pictures because the photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse being stuffed with raw bacon and fed to wild dogs might be insulting. The line of sailors pissing over the rail while they dragged the remains a bit to turn them into shark chum on the props might be insulting to some terrorist asshole. The visage of the pack of sharks tearing the rendered corpse to shreds and dragging it off into the deep is a sight that would undoubtedly cause sleepless nights to any children not already exposed to prime time television. Oh, and it might upset the sensitivities of some jihadi shithead or another.
But hey, at least we know he’s dead. Right?
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P.S. Thank you, George W. Bush; Thank you, United States Navy Seals; Thank you, Central Intelligence Agency; And thank you, to the thousands of unmentioned, unsung government employees and contractors who worked the last ten years to bring this mass murderer to justice.
The bigotry of low expectations
Came across this on The Jawa Report. I think that while their chosen money quote was a good one:
“There is one religion in the world that kills you when you disagree with them and they say ‘look, we are a religion of peace and if you disagree we’ll fucking cut your head off.” ~Bill Maher
Probably even more significant was Andrew Sullivan’s quote from President Bush regarding “the bigotry of low expectations“. The problem with acknowledging that the primitive muslims of the Middle East are prone to violent overreactions to the slightest offense is that you are forced to acknowledge that they’re less than human. When gay entertainers get eaten by their pet tigers, we understand that these morons were playing with their own lives all along. It’s not the tiger’s fault, it’s his nature and as a dumb animal he can’t help it. When islamist fundamentalist nutjobs attack everyone who doesn’t agree with them because they don’t agree with them, we cannot simply say “it’s their nature” and still believe they are human beings deserving of the same respect we give all civilized human beings. They’re either our equals, and we can expect them to act according to the standards of a civilized global society, or they’re animals and belong in cages (or should be put down humanely, like we would any rabid animal).
It just can’t be both. Remember that when our leaders blame the cartoons and burning korans, and don’t even mention the barbarians.
My Slave, My Infidel
If this doesn’t piss you off, you’re not human.
Makes one wonder: where is the hue and cry from the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Calypso Louis Farakhn, and every other race baiting social justice pandering professional victim out there decrying the state of life in these United States.