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Found this at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler.

God bless Marines.

This is why we won the Revolutionary War. Shenanigans like this. This time we had 1440 plus a couple handfuls of bottle rockets. Then we placed 600 Saturn Missile Batteries next to it, and attached 5 mortars.


We, uhh, ran out of bottle rockets. Next year, we need 12 gross.

And of course, the after effects.



This is another place I'm not allowed to come back to.

Courtesy of House of Eratosthenes. Please note that some language may not be appropriate for small children or Baptists.

On the whole, I think this was more informative than the alphabet soup news.

A quick primer on modern economics:

Hat Tip: The Anchoress

Last night marked my Third Annual New Year's Eve Rocket Battery. In order to top last year's array, I got my self a bigger camp grill. I started off by lacing safety fuse across the top of the grill. There is over 65 feet of fusing on that thing. Then we began sticking bottle rockets on the launch platform.


Here is the finished array. Not as many add ons as last year, but more bottle rockets, some 1300.


But of course, what you want to see is the launch. So here it is:

The laser comes courtesy of some friends up on the building next door. I was hit with a few bottle rockets, some of which decided to explode when they hit me. Still have all my fingers. Here is the after math.


Since we've upgraded from cardboard, there were no fires to put out this year. I guess if we want to go bigger, I'll have to get another grill.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

From the Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

Hat tip to Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

Kari Jobe, who is apparently a famous and talented singer, was at our church this weekend. And the whole time, I couldn't help thinking, "Why is Kari Jobe wearing a lumpy gray pillowcase?"

I occasionally see cute or pretty or otherwise attractive women wearing these things. But it seems tailor made to be ugly. It is a shapeless bag of cloth that completely obscures a woman's figure. You can't tell if she is fat, skinny, or beautifully curved. Though you almost never see it on fat women.

What's the message here? That you're so hot you can dress ugly? Except that it looks like some expensive designer job. A designer potato sack is still a potato sack, though you could get more use out of an actual potato sack. Why this faux ugly is fashionable is beyond me. Maybe in all the vitriol this post will cause someone will let slip an actual answer.

I found a link to a clip on Big Hollywood today (which I can no longer find) that was from ABC's new series V. It was a segment from an interview with one of the aliens that was a heavy handed piece on selling journalistic integrity to gain access. Yeah, that's right, ABC sent a dangerous political message by making Morena Baccarin cut her hair.

One of the tragic features of modern life is the number of women who think it's acceptable to cur their hair short.

Women look better with long hair. This is a basic fact of feminine beauty. Here we get a direct comparison of the same woman with long hair and with short hair. Look at the two pictures. Baccarin can make short hair work, but she is far prettier with longer hair.

And here the difference is striking enough that I think I can see what is going on. She simply looks more boyish with short hair. Her femininity is diminished by her hair style. We men are attracted to women, not 12 year old boys in drag. Ladies, dressing and styling yourself to hide your womanliness makes you less attractive.

Some of you are pretty enough to get away with it, as is Baccarin, but here we can clearly see that long hair is much better.

Found on Instapundit:

How can Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize on the same day he's becoming the first POTUS to bomb the Moon?

Mataconis

Obviously the Nobel organization believes in peace through superior firepower. After all, they once gave it to a genocidal Palestinian warlord...

With video! I found this on Viral Footage (hat tip to Linkiest).

You know, the view on vampires actually is actually a pretty good indicator of society's health. Stoker portrayed the vampire as a savage beast that had to be destroyed in order to save the innocent, whereas Meyer shows the vampire as a pillar of strength in a dangerous and meaningless world. The question for us is whether we ought to stab the monster so it can't hurt anybody, or cling to the monster and hope it hurts someone else.

"Use protection." Heh

Over at Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, I find my favorite photo from the Washington, DC Tea Party:


Silly boy, don't you know it's racist to point out that they always call you racist no matter what you do?

Over at the Instapundit, we have a close runner up, with the only good czars in America:

...or is this what everyone else's life is like?

Cracked, by way of Linkiest

I found this at the Other McCain today. It comes originally from Shannon at Chicago Boyz.

The left doesn't actually have a developed system of thought regarding the economy. They can't actually explain why the real world political process will systematically make better decisions than the free-market. Instead, they simply point to any reversals in the real economy, regardless of cause, and then assert that in their imaginations, leftist politicians could have done better.

It's hard to argue against people's imaginations. You end up with a discussion much like two D&D geeks arguing over whether a dwarf with a +10 axe could take an elf with a vorpal sword.

I agree with McCain and Shannon. The dwarf wins.

Hot chicks. With lightsabers. Need I say more?

Hat Tip: House of Eratosthenes

It's a Recession when your neighbor loses his job. It's a Depression when you lose your job. It's a Recovery when Obama loses his job.

Hat Tip: Burt Prelutsky at Big Hollywood

Hat Tip: House of Eratosthenes