A few days ago, I wrote about my sister and how she thought Lady GaGa was saying "Bon Jovi romance" in her song "Bad Romance." My older brother read the post, and when I called him, he told me that he too heard some misleading lyrics. He heard that song "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz and the song goes, "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes sayin' ayo, gotta let go." Well my bro heard "ayo, Galileo" and figured, he was throwing his hands up in the air at the celestial bodies and thanking Galileo for his groundbreaking work in astronomy. When he found out that's not what Taio was saying, he didn't like the song quite as much, but now, like with Bad Romance, whenever I hear that song, I always say "Galileo" instead of gotta let go. It's a way cooler song if you do that.
Important classified information finally declassified. Thankfully, there was no WikiLeaks in the 1940's so all that mass panic was averted. I wonder what other alien-related business they're hiding from us!
How to avoid jail-time for your crimes: Become a transsexual. You might think that's useless information, because in your mind, you're not a criminal but guess again. There are over 4500 federal laws on the books and you have to know them all, because as we all know, ignorance of the law is not an excuse... unless you're a police officer, that is. Radley Balko writes a compelling piece on the subject, and goes in further depth to show that even when you know the law and the police do not, which can result in wrongful detainment, there are no consequences for the offending officer. Even though it's like, his job to know and enforce the law.
Full-body scanners have been saving images taken at a court house in Orlando... shit, now everybody who works for the TSA is gonna see that I pack my undies :(... But on the otherhand, if the TSA was using scanners to catch this supposed terrizt, I will gladly let them look at my sock-enhanced junk. Hopefully this guy was just a drunk trying to get his nicotine fix on an airplane, but if it's another terror attempt, that'd make an awful lot since Obama took office. Are we getting lax, or are they hating us more? Obama, quick, go talk in Cairo, and this time, make sure to tell them how much they've contributed to math and science. It's a huge mission, NASA won't be able to do it all on it's own.
The Middle East is more complicated than people make it out to be, myself included. Freelance reporter Michael J. Totten is somebody I relatively trust on Middle East issues, and he's just come out with another excellent piece. It's very long, but well worth the read, particularly if you want to inform yourself on another side of the Israeli psyche that doesn't get reported in the international media, regardless of politics. He and his interviewee also draw their own distinction between legitimate criticism of Israel (and there is plenty to be had) and anti-semitism. I think you will find them to be very fair, and the bottom line is that any "criticism" of Israel that does not afford Israelis normal human decency can be safely regarded as anti-semitic. Some good quotes below:
Most Israelis are here because they fled from Muslim and European countries. They don’t feel that either of those blocs have the right to lecture them about anything. Why should a country where your parents were expelled or killed have the right to tell you how to conduct yourself in a war against people who are trying to kill you today? This is something hardly any non-Israelis understand. They don’t understand how galling we find this.
Israelis are often accused of being arrogant, but they find it extremely arrogant for Europeans and Arabs to lecture them about morals, especially during a war. What has Israel ever done that is as brutal as what Europe did to the Jews, or what Arabs routinely do to even each other during armed conflicts?
Much of what is regarded as criticism is actually an assault. It is intended to wound and cause pain. It is intended to demonize. The way, for example, some people off-handedly accuse Israel of genocide, as if this is not even in question. This, to me, is obviously intended to be as hurtful as possible. I can’t even begin to explain to you how offensive the Nazi comparison is. It’s like a person who raped and murdered your child stands up in court and says you did it. That’s what it feels like. It’s difficult to even respond because it’s so unthinkably cruel to say something like that. To compare us to our worst enemies, enemies who decimated us, our fathers, our grandfathers within living memory—it’s not just that this isn’t within the realm of rational discourse, it isn’t even in the realm of human decency.
The issue of human decency is a big one. It may be difficult to define, but whenever criticism crosses that line, that, to my mind, is where anti-Semitism begins. Anti-Semitism ultimately is a refusal to accord basic human decency to the Jewish people. It’s a refusal to relate to a certain group of people with the common human decency with which you would relate to anybody else.
I'm linking to the piece again right here because I think it's that good and hope that maybe some of you might read it. Maybe I think it's so good because Brilliant People Agree With Me. While Orin Kerr's post is certainly valid, I actually don't feel that my positions fall in lock-step with Michael J. Totten's. I think he's far more knowledgable than I, and I keep a very open mind when I read him. He's educated me on many matters, dispelling preconceived notions (particularly in the case of the Lebanese) and making me wiser for it.
The Future: L.A. Times reveals that public pensions may consume a third of the city's general fund in the distant future, around approximately the year 2015. Oh, shit, that's less than 5 years from now!
Black Tea Partiers have a message for the NAACP: We don't hate black people! Sure you don't, Uncle Toms... you're just like those Jews who worked for the Nazis!
Racist Tea Partiers Liberal radio hosts rain a shitstorm on President Obama using racial terms.
"I think that Barack Obama hates black people. He hates black people, because number one, he wants to be the only big shot black person... Somebody had to remind me that Valerie Jarrett was black, and uh what's his name, Eric Holder. But they're kind of, um, I don't know they're like his kind of black. They're number one physically not even so black.. They're not the kind of black people I like, they're like elitist yuppie black people..."
Yes, Lynn Samuels, I agree. President Obama is racist against black people. I think that comment might be even a little more ridiculous than when Glenn Beck said he doesn't like white people. Is there anybody this President does like, according to our retarded media? Glenn Beck proved he doesn't like crackas, and Lynn Samuels proved he doesn't like the colored folk. Conclusion: President Obama doesn't like people (and by the transitive property, President Obama does not like Soylent Green). I know who President Obama likes.
Bo, the half white, half black First Dog.
Obama likes Bo.
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