Great "Reed the Viking" news everybody! I am the number THREE search result for "3D Porn Address!" I figured this out after seeing somebody from Turkey was led to my blog via that particular search item. I truly swell with pride that my readership includes imaginative people like him/her (let's be real, him). While on the topic of technology, here's an interesting take on surveillance camera's and their potential role in stopping attacks like the attempt on saturday in New York's Times Square. On the one hand, it all sounds pretty 1984 to me, but on the other, if they're going to do it anyway, they might as well do it cheaply and efficiently.
For those of you who haven't yet heard, the Times Square bombing attempt was orchestrated by right-wing, healthcare hating, tea party influenced radicals. Er, at least that's what Mayor Bloomberg would have you think. Keep it classy Mayor, keep it classy. Rather, keep the narrative and don't let facts get in the way. To date and to my knowledge, the tea party people haven't incited a single violent crime (if I'm mistaken, please let me know in the comments). On the other hand, radical leftists during May Day protests and immigration rallies actually HAVE gotten violent. I don't mean this as a defense of the tea party; rather I mean to denounce the rabid hypocrisy and double standard in the standard media narrative (yes, I say that at risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist). If it's from the right, dissent is dangerous and totalitarian, but if it's from the left, it's people exercising their rights, even when it actually IS violent... from 2000-2008, dissent was patriotic, remember? Now it's irresponsible and a threat to the republic blah blah blah...
We've got to keep the narrative though... remember the Fort Hood massacre? I certainly do, and it struck a chord with me considering that my brother, many of my friends, and I am in the military. The fact the one of our own could kill the people they work with everyday and who they swore to protect bothers me at a very fundamental level. As Patrick Poole puts it:
Rather than acknowledge the proliferation of jihadist ideology and the threat it poses to our U.S.-based troops, these officials describe the problem as random, and ultimately unknowable, “violent extremism” (the favored term of the Obama administration). Pretending that the threat is random and unknowable gives them license to do nothing. The fact is that the jihadist threat can be precisely defined, studied, and identified. It is the ability to understand the ever-evolving problem and the will to do something about it that is sorely lacking.
Really good article, read the whole thing.
Honestly, it's no wonder why people don't trust the government. First the SEC wankin' it on the job, and now we got state senators checkin' out bewbs in the chamber. Can't say I wouldn't do the same, but I ain't runnin' for state senate now am I? Why people don't trust the U.N.: Iran elected to UN's Women's Rights Commission. For real?
Great, albeit long, read via the always awesome Michael Totten. For those who don't know, he's a free-lance reporter who has embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq. He seems generally non-partisan with no agenda, but always be wary of bias (including reading my blog). The article, written by a friend and colleague of Totten's, is a bit hawky, but it makes a lotta bit of sense to me. Doesn't really tell me anything I don't know, but I really like the way he puts it, and it does make a lot of sense.
I leave y'all with the NYT reporting on Chinglish as they call it, Engrish as Engrish.com calls it. Hope they don't bring it to a high profile; I don't know how I'll amuse myself all day without the treasures found on Engrish.com. From the site:
I must admit that being able to read the Chinese and understand it sometimes makes it less funny to me because I know what they want to say and where they made their mistake... Good thing the chinese is illegible in this one ;).
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