Wednesday, February 07, 2007
In Grad School, They Can Overcome Cantabrigian Parochialism
Have I ever liked CNN's scare quotes so much?
Hockey and the Law
The legal drinking age in America is foolish. It should be reduced to 19. And I certainly don't wish for these hockey players to be dragged through the mud for an evening of foolery. However, there are consequences to every action. Bina originally hails from Grand Forks, and made many goals in front of many happy parents and city officials during his highschool days. It'll be interesting to see how the Good Old Boys of Grand Forks handle all of this. If UND decides to take action and suspend them, they hockey players will just go pro right away (the St. Louis Blues have been scouting Oshie for some time; Bina is a first round pick too). If they don't?... I'm guessing administration will use this symbolic event as a catalyst for the "greater drinking problem in Grand Forks and throughout the nation," and we can now open a discussion on underage drinking thanks to these brave jocks.
It'll be hilarious any way you slice it.
Let Sleeping Frogs Alone
I do believe in early afternoon cat naps from time to time (15 minutes to a half-hour). In the case of France, (35-hour work week and mega vacations) they might just consider banning work altogether. Why even go, Pepe?
Fargo is Over the Hemp
If in six months or so we see MFT flashing his bling-bling down the mean streets of Fargo, we'll know which "farmer" is behind all this
May I suggest 12 million boxes of human ash?
But then they would probably use it for cement to go towards their new Al-Douaf Haider Elimination of the Jews Quranic Studies Center
Bowden's latest Atlantic contribution
Let me know if any of you want me to send this to your e-mail in-box (you too, Pepe, as I can have JJ forward it). It's the same article where I pulled Arlyn dela Cruz's explanation of Abu Sayyaf's "attitude toward beheading."
jihadist beheading psychology 101...
Reporter Arlyn dela Cruz explains Abu Sayyaf's attitude toward beheading. Cute.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Nacht der langen Messer
Previously I tried to get some talk from you guys about the Republicans' chances for president. Here's Giuliani's problem; there are ideologically overpure elements on the Right that will prevent him from being Natiional dogcatcher. McCain likely has similar problems. Are we stuck with Hillary-Obama in '08? Gross. More. And more of AI's allies here.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Pulling Bill Gates' chain
I don't think the over 90 percent of the [population] who use Windows PCs think of themselves as dullards, or the kind of klutzes that somebody is trying to say they are.
Oh, no?
Oh, no?
How about Coanda??
Inside lay nothing less than all Britain's military secrets. There were blueprints and circuit diagrams for rockets, explosives, superchargers, gyroscopic gunsights, submarine detection devices, self-sealing fuel tanks, and even the germs of ideas that would lead to the jet engine and the atomic bomb.
Jet engine? C'mon, chaps, that had been discovered 31 years earlier. Get a grip.
Jet engine? C'mon, chaps, that had been discovered 31 years earlier. Get a grip.
A Soldier Free Paradise
So Anonymous was correct! Get rid of those murdering, raping, soldier boyz and Life is Good.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
freecounterpoint for Malthusians...
Are you FCP'ers familiar with Malthus? Hitchens frequently references the early 19th-century intellectual and socio-political thinker.
A short 02/11/1998 WSJ article regarding the late Julian Simon. Personally, I believe Malthus would be a bit disappointed to see where today's environmentalists have directed his treatise (An Essay on the Principle of Population). So it goes, so it goes.
In Their Own Words ,Here in Dying Yankland
This is a transcript of the video taped comments of the leader of the Islamic Society, UC-Irvine, after he had led the attempt to break up a speech by Daniel Pipes. Not that it can penetrate the Will to Know Nothing, See Nothing.
"I just want to say a few words, because I know a lot of people, before this program today, we had many ideas on how things should be done. And there was a lot of chatter going back and forth, and some people wanted to make bold statements, some people wanted to have a silent protest, [inaudible].
But at the end I just want to make one comment, that what we did by walking out of there, it really helps us be very very very powerful, and I want you guys all to go home and just realize, and that is everything, like Daniel Pipes is saying, everything for them is to boost their morale. This whole program was to boost their morale, make them feel as if Israel is there to stay. And that they're gonna ... he's trying to garner support for the state of Israel.
And by having a university campus, a bunch of students all walk out, this is trash, this is garbage ... it really defeats ... it deflates the morale of everyone in that room. So right now they're all pretty depressed in there. [Laughter.]
And they're gonna go out there and they're gonna think, they're gonna try to make people think they're powerful for a minute. But when they go home, they're gonna be like, crap. We're in the middle of America, we're in Irvine, a public [inaudible] ... and this whole campus hates our guts. [Laughter.]
They have no future. And it's just a matter of time before the state of Israel will be wiped off the face of the earth.
[Crowd: Takbir! Allahu akbar!]
Justice will be restored then. Those people who are there legitimately ... the people there will, will rule. There will be no injustice any more there.
So just keep on doing what we're doing. Our weapon, our jihad, our way of struggling in this country is with our tongues. We speak out, and we deflate their morale, and this is the best we can do right now. And our brothers and sisters on the other side of the world, they're handling business in their own way. May Allah give them strength ... [inaudible"
"I just want to say a few words, because I know a lot of people, before this program today, we had many ideas on how things should be done. And there was a lot of chatter going back and forth, and some people wanted to make bold statements, some people wanted to have a silent protest, [inaudible].
But at the end I just want to make one comment, that what we did by walking out of there, it really helps us be very very very powerful, and I want you guys all to go home and just realize, and that is everything, like Daniel Pipes is saying, everything for them is to boost their morale. This whole program was to boost their morale, make them feel as if Israel is there to stay. And that they're gonna ... he's trying to garner support for the state of Israel.
And by having a university campus, a bunch of students all walk out, this is trash, this is garbage ... it really defeats ... it deflates the morale of everyone in that room. So right now they're all pretty depressed in there. [Laughter.]
And they're gonna go out there and they're gonna think, they're gonna try to make people think they're powerful for a minute. But when they go home, they're gonna be like, crap. We're in the middle of America, we're in Irvine, a public [inaudible] ... and this whole campus hates our guts. [Laughter.]
They have no future. And it's just a matter of time before the state of Israel will be wiped off the face of the earth.
[Crowd: Takbir! Allahu akbar!]
Justice will be restored then. Those people who are there legitimately ... the people there will, will rule. There will be no injustice any more there.
So just keep on doing what we're doing. Our weapon, our jihad, our way of struggling in this country is with our tongues. We speak out, and we deflate their morale, and this is the best we can do right now. And our brothers and sisters on the other side of the world, they're handling business in their own way. May Allah give them strength ... [inaudible"
Saturday, February 03, 2007
It's Bush's Fault!
As I Have Been Saying for Years
Writing in "The Aids Pandemic", Dr Chin says: "These activists do not want to further stigmatise persons or population groups who have such high risk levels of HIV risk behaviours and who are already marginalised. "By refusing to accept the fact that HIV is very difficult to transmit sexually without the highest levels of sexual risk behaviours, Aids programmes have avoided labelling some populations as being more promiscuous than others. "It is a much more socially and politically correct public health message to say that sexual promiscuity exists in all populations and thus the risk of epidemic heterosexual HIV transmission to the general public, or to ordinary people can be prevented only by aggressive programmes directed at the general population, and especially to youth."
The Aids Pandemic: the collision of epidemiology with political correctness is published by Radcliffe Publishing at £27.50.
The Aids Pandemic: the collision of epidemiology with political correctness is published by Radcliffe Publishing at £27.50.
Friday, February 02, 2007
Uncle MFT...
Minor digression from the free abuse: yesterday, Feb. 1st, I received a voice message after getting out of all-afternoon meetings. My sister informed me that one of the newest contributions to Western Civilization was born that afternoon, about 12:35pm (pacific time). I was instantaneously bestowed the anticipated title of "Uncle." My niece is doin' great. That's all. Carry on.
~mft
~mft
While Anonymous Played as Sgt Schulz....
Jeremy was playing the Game with two eyes open.....Seeing Nothing, Knowing Nothing may be a way to go though life, but then you get exactly what that promises.
They Heard Ronaldo Was Coming?
Ever since the WC, it has been a speed-trip to Hell for Italia's Calciocistas
PepeLand is Number 2.
Funny, to hear the PepeChomskers Saddam was our Biatch. If so, the Eurowhoremongers sure weren't getting their money's worth.
"As for America supplying Saddam with weapons, the International Peace Research Institute of Stockholm analysed arms sales to Iraq from 1973 to 2002, and the results are very illuminating. Here’s who Saddam got his weapons from:
57% from the Soviet Union
13% from France
12% from China
7% from Czechoslovakia
4% from Poland
2% from Brazil
The United States and the United Kingdom each supplied less than one per cent. If you combine British and American arm sales to Iraq in the 30 years before the fall of Saddam, they add up to less than Brazil. Eighty-two per cent of Iraqi weaponry came from the Russo-Franco-Chinese peaceniks."
Bolivia meets Milano...
A satirical [Italian] television show caused an uproar last year when it tricked 50 parliamentarians into taking a drugs test and found 12 had smoked cannabis and four had used cocaine in the previous 36 hours.
Whoops.
Whoops.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Good Old Reliable Red Star
So they don't want you to know who is the rambunctious "Youth" who turns his car into a an instrument of "Kill, Kill, Die, Die" ???? But , it is a "Youth", a stinking raise his ass to fart at you know Who kind of "Youth". All you need to know.. Except you must be told that Mama loves him, and thinks he's "mentally ill". Sure, he is. Ill Like Atta. The Pattern of Youthful Follies is becoming predictable. The "mentally ill" should sue for a more imaginative screenwriter.
A Modest Challenge for Non-Parisians
The below is a challenge problem from John Derbyshire. For any who have to contend with Pinyin, ya know it's as Russia Friendly as it is English Phobic...hope that helps
"I think by now we are all pretty well used to seeing the names of Chinese people and places written using the pinyin system for transcribing the sounds of Mandarin, right? You know, “Beijing” for “Peking,” “Deng Xiaoping” for “Teng Hsiao-p’ing,” and so on.
Well, for reasons having nothing to do with NRO I’ve been spending some time looking up Western writers in Chinese encyclopedias. Every writer has his or her name transcribed into Chinese characters, chosen to approximate the proper pronunciation of the name. Those characters can in turn be written out in pinyin.
O.K., here are 30 Western writers:
(1) Camus. (2) D.H. Lawrence. (3) Bunyan. (4) Trollope. (5) Pushkin. (6) Edgar Allen Poe. (7) Donne. (8) Rousseau. (9) Yeats. (10) Cervantes. (11) George Bernard Shaw. (12) Wells. (13) Dante. (14) Chaucer. (15) Dostoyevsky. (16) Kipling. (17) Goethe. (18) Kafka. (19) Dos Passos. (20) James. (21) Fitzgerald. (22) Keats. (23) Aristophanes. (24) Gogol. (25) Hardy. (26) Charlotte Brontë. (27) Johnson. (28) Thackeray. (29) Flaubert. (30) Shelley.
Now here, in a different order, are the pinyin transcriptions of their Chinese names.
(a) Guogeli. (b) Xiaobona. (c) Alisituofen. (d) Saiwantisi. (e) Zhanmeisi. (f) Gede. (g) Danding. (h) Yuehansheng. (i) Puxijin. (j) Qiaosou. (k) Duosi-Pasuosi. (l) Jiamiao. (m) Tangen. (n) Tuosituoyefusiji. (o) Yezhi. (p) Fuloubai. (q) Feicijielade. (r) Xialuoti-Bolangte. (s) Jici. (t) Kafuka. (u) Sakelei. (v) Jibulin. (w) Ailun-Po. (x) Xuelai. (y) Teluoluopu. (z) Hadai. (aa) Lusuo. (bb) Banyang. (cc) Weiersi. (dd) Laolunsi.
Your task is to match off the second list with the first. You have five minutes to do this, starting… now."
"I think by now we are all pretty well used to seeing the names of Chinese people and places written using the pinyin system for transcribing the sounds of Mandarin, right? You know, “Beijing” for “Peking,” “Deng Xiaoping” for “Teng Hsiao-p’ing,” and so on.
Well, for reasons having nothing to do with NRO I’ve been spending some time looking up Western writers in Chinese encyclopedias. Every writer has his or her name transcribed into Chinese characters, chosen to approximate the proper pronunciation of the name. Those characters can in turn be written out in pinyin.
O.K., here are 30 Western writers:
(1) Camus. (2) D.H. Lawrence. (3) Bunyan. (4) Trollope. (5) Pushkin. (6) Edgar Allen Poe. (7) Donne. (8) Rousseau. (9) Yeats. (10) Cervantes. (11) George Bernard Shaw. (12) Wells. (13) Dante. (14) Chaucer. (15) Dostoyevsky. (16) Kipling. (17) Goethe. (18) Kafka. (19) Dos Passos. (20) James. (21) Fitzgerald. (22) Keats. (23) Aristophanes. (24) Gogol. (25) Hardy. (26) Charlotte Brontë. (27) Johnson. (28) Thackeray. (29) Flaubert. (30) Shelley.
Now here, in a different order, are the pinyin transcriptions of their Chinese names.
(a) Guogeli. (b) Xiaobona. (c) Alisituofen. (d) Saiwantisi. (e) Zhanmeisi. (f) Gede. (g) Danding. (h) Yuehansheng. (i) Puxijin. (j) Qiaosou. (k) Duosi-Pasuosi. (l) Jiamiao. (m) Tangen. (n) Tuosituoyefusiji. (o) Yezhi. (p) Fuloubai. (q) Feicijielade. (r) Xialuoti-Bolangte. (s) Jici. (t) Kafuka. (u) Sakelei. (v) Jibulin. (w) Ailun-Po. (x) Xuelai. (y) Teluoluopu. (z) Hadai. (aa) Lusuo. (bb) Banyang. (cc) Weiersi. (dd) Laolunsi.
Your task is to match off the second list with the first. You have five minutes to do this, starting… now."
Jacques channels JJ & Pepe
“I would say that what is dangerous about this situation is not the fact of having a nuclear bomb,” he said. “Having one or perhaps a second bomb a little later, well, that’s not very dangerous."
Don't worry, be happy. It's just a Molotov cocktail.
Don't worry, be happy. It's just a Molotov cocktail.
Berlusconi in the Doghouse
It would be trite to put up a picture of Yespica or Carfagna, wouldn't it?
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