the IDIOT

watch the falsely labeled “libertarians” fawn and be teased over whether their cult leader will deign to aim for a position no man has a right to hold.

Ron Paul 2012?

Posted by Thomas Woods on March 6, 2010 08:53 AM

Here I figured out a way to ask this question that he couldn’t answer with “it’s too early to say….” [...]

“oh, ron — er, Dr. Paul… cutesy me once again, my lover. deny the core principle i aver. use my wealth to that end. let me man-crush you into history. i will cheer. i will shout your name. show us salvation via the state, as only you can.

[whisper] “bless the coming and going of him.”

does the rank silliness of situations like this never alarm the average blith?

[...] A lawyer for Corendon Airlines says the fake pilot had worked for the budget airline company for the last two years and had “expertly misled the company with his false papers”. At other airlines he had managed to pass tests with flying colours.

The lawyer called it pure luck that he had never flown alone and said the fake pilot will never pilot a Corendon Airlines flight again.

the sub headline: ‘A pilot has been arrested at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport for flying passenger planes for 13 years with a false licence.‘

guy must’ve really sucked at it to be caught in a mere 13-year period. he flies all that time without the official crime syndicate catching on, and the mouthpiece of the state (AKA “the fourth estate” ha!) labels him a “fake pilot”. children.

oh, that glorious wikipedia — quoted authoritatively by mushbrains over the world.

again i attempt to correct the stupid: if the wikipedia article you’re quoting as an authority is properly written, it will list its sources, and those sources (preferably stripped to their origin), at best, are what you should quote. original research is, with only extremely rare exception, prohibited by wikipedia policy.

me, writing the author of a post lew rockwell pointed to as a supposed refutation of helicopter bernanke:

"Even wikipedia".

absent referral to the direct source(s) that any properly written wikipedia article must have for any assertion (thereby bypassing wikipedia, except perhaps to say it's where you found your source), "wikipedia" is essentially a fancy way of saying "someone no one's ever heard of", while pretending it bears great weight.

then, in perspective, "Even [someone you've never heard of]" says blah blah? wow!

it marks you.

generally don’t care anymore what the “supreme court” says about jack, but will be paying attention to the increased mess they could launch “ruling” on this one, for it’s a blatant violation of both the commerce and ex post facto clauses of the slimy doc. Read the rest of this entry

a highly organized group of international terrorists, funded primarily by sympathizers in their host country, struck a group of minibuses, killing at least 27 civilians. the outcry from the sloozer “news” media? they should be more careful. Read the rest of this entry

despite the sick subject, i burst out laughing after reading this:

[...] Hunter’s son, Ken Hunter, said he’s alarmed by comments that called the pilot a hero.

“How can you call someone a hero who after he burns down his house, he gets into his plane … and flies it into a building to kill people?” Hunter told ABC.” “My dad Vernon did two tours of duty in Vietnam. My dad’s a hero.” [...]

requisite premise for such insanity: before destroying, get a “permit”. from who? the world’s biggest crime gang.

cavemen had more acuity.

chalk up as most useless internet trend from the last year: thwapping a non-programmatic “@” in front of the name of someone you’re talking to or about.

it’s unnecessary. it’s sheeplike. it’s stupid. use the person’s name. get your nose out of the herd’s ass.

death to the useless @ (useful on twitter and in email addresses, of course). and take “hat tip” to the dumpster on your way, with “form factor”, “price point”, wah, wahnk, blahnk, blah.

it’s already started, these loathsome goon-felchers:

The announcement of Paul’s win, a surprise victory unlikely to have a major impact on the 2012 presidential contest,

you can hear the vermin praying, “please, god. please make this disturbing fuck go away.”

this is the “objective” press, of course. fuck you all. you’re worthless, dying, and getting funnier daily. this assertion from a ron paul hater, BTW.

through complacency i stayed with bloglines (free service, so can’t bitch overmuch) for years, until this week. diagnosing what seemed to be a huge error in the feeds for this new, wordpress blog version, it ended up being bloglines only. sucks. spent too much time testing wordpress and various plugins, when they were apparently running smoothly.

so i bowed to the empire and signed up for reader (yet another google thing), while balancing that with basically leaving blogger and — however brief our association — feedburner (an unnecessary product if ever one, from my hack perspective). had never used google reader. it’s far better than the dormant bloglines.

google continues to emerge from its embryo form; embryo of baby skynet. voluntarists, watch your asses with these sanctimonious clowns. damned if i sign up for gmail.

yeah, it’s a triple–quad whammy of pop loserdom touting luciano pavarotti singing giacomo puccini’s Nessun dorma from Turandot, but sometimes… sometimes ya just gotta not let that get in the way. by god, what majestic life. sit back and give yourself a clear measly 4 minutes to take this in, horrible tech quality and all:

enjoyable.

via LvMI, in an article nearly tailor-made for my post on the subject, the boys at the onion do it in style:

[...] “It’s just an illusion,” a wide-eyed Bernanke added as he removed bills from his wallet and slowly spread them out before him. “Just look at it: Meaningless pieces of paper with numbers printed on them. Worthless.”
[...]
A few U.S. banks have remained open, though most teller windows are unmanned due to a lack of interest in transactions involving mere scraps of paper or, worse, decimal points and computer data signifying mere scraps of paper. [...]

so much fun to have databases integrated with this piddly site. moving to a new blog location left thousands of stale pages needing redirects to their new versions. years ago, using blogger, i would’ve used an offline database to create manual redirects, uploading thousands of replacement HTML files. but with wordpress (or any DB-based system controlled by user) those redirects simply became a local table, and i can get rid of the vast blogger folder structure while keeping unbroken whatever links go to the old blog — including when i linked to a post in another post, as in the first one linked below, with three links to old blog posts.

though complicated — because links sometimes deviated from a simple pattern — it was still a batch process except for roughly 200 records requiring manual cut and paste (in excel, data from which was easy as hell to import via phpMyAdmin).

here, test it out: Read the rest of this entry

Wanted: TSA Anal Examiners:

[...] And the tragic thing is that if the TSA put an ad in the New York Times or USA Today wanting to hire people to do anal exams, it would probably be flooded with applicants.