Click here and click the big blue button to start.

The rules:

The father can not stay with any of the daughters without their mother's presence

The mother can not stay with any of the sons without their father's presence

The thief (striped shirt) can not stay with any family member if the Policeman is not there

Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft

To start click on the big blue circle on the right.

To move the people click on them. To move the raft click on the pole on the opposite side of the river.

Thanks to KCTrio.

I'm having trouble with it myself. I know the old one with the fox, the chicken, and the farmer, but this has more moving parts and it's got me frustrated.

Posted by: Ace at 10:04 PM | Comments (21)
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Yes, what this stupid woman said was anti-American new Socialist cant and all, and that's really arrogant -- and stupid -- to do when you're running a company that serves the general public, but...

Is it just me, or is anyone else finding their capacity to be outraged by the endless venom and stupidity of the left to be a bit spent?

I think they're beginning to wear me down. There's just been so much of it -- Hitler, fictitious terrorists, "neocons/theocons," an end to the Republic, etc. -- I really just think I don't give a shit anymore.

Which may be a good sign. If this sort of leftist vitriol can't even move me to anger, I'm not sure it can move a moderate to support the left's agenda (or dysgenda, or whatever you want to call the lack of an agenda).

Posted by: Ace at 01:03 PM | Comments (52)
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I actually think this has been out for quite some time, and hell, you can get it through 777film.com anyhow. Still, I like it.

The coolest thing to me is that George Clooney was supposed to play Reed Richards, and he totally sucks. Instead, they saved money by casting the almost-unknown-but-about-to-break-out Ioan Gruffuld (or however you spell it), from the Horation Hornblower movies and King Arthur (playing Lancelot).

Cheaper and better than Clooney. Nice.

Yeah, I know... Jessica Alba, Jessica Alba. Just doesn't really do it for me. Neither does Alyssa Milano. No fire there or something. They both just look like a lot of pretty but bland girls I knew in high school.

Well, not "knew," per se. Saw in homeroom. Stalked a little. Maybe strangled a pet and then pinned a bloody valentine to the animal's body reading "LOVE ME OR THIS COULD BE YOU." You know-- romantic stuff, like John Cusack with the In Your Eyes tape playing.

Posted by: Ace at 12:55 PM | Comments (17)
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Been a while since there was an official one.

Now, the competition aspect is limited. I'm not going to do one of those big awards posts. I've run dry on them, pretty much. But I will announce the top ten or top twenty slams, in approximate order of effectiveness.

Slams can be in haiku or prose format. Both will be rewarded. Haikus don't have to be strict, but they have to be approximately haiku-ish. (I know I violate that rule; I'll be better with my haikus.)

Ammunition can be found here, where many people quite retardedly coughed up embarassing information about themselves. If you want to slam someone, search for their name at the post and see what juicy tidbits come up.

People who want to slam others, but who haven't coughed up anything embarassing, really ought to re-visit that post and add something dorky or weird about themselves, just to keep it fair. I'm not sure if stealth flamers will be eligible for making the winner's circle... well, maybe you can make it, but your flame had better be really good. Like George and Donald Trump, I don't like people "flying under the radar."

I'd start out with a search on "VonKreedon" or "Compos Mentis," but that's just me.

Okay, now there's a lot of dirt to work with. As Simon Cowell says, it's time to really elevate your performance and show you have what it takes to be an American Flame-Warrior.

Posted by: Ace at 09:33 AM | Comments (198)
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This is widely believed by anyone who hasn't actually bothered to check the record, which of course the j-school geniuses at ABC News did not.

It was the Democrats, of course, who filibustered the CRA.

ABC News has now silently corrected its error. They've rewritten the story without acknowleging their rather spectacular gaffe.

As has been frequently observed, the MSM praises itself for its ostensibly "prompt and thorough" corrections, but the corrections they tend to admit are a blown middle initial, incorrect years of serving in Congress, etc.

When they blow something that really exposes their ignorance or partisan bias, they may correct (sometimes), but they do so stealthily without admitting the mistake. Sometimes they "row-back" a story -- publishing a subsequent story which corrects unacknowleged errors in a prior report -- and sometimes, as ABC News now seems to prefer, they simply do a quick rewrite.

But remember: You can trust them more than you can trust an amateur.

Or, in my case, a desperate loner with nothing left to lose.

Posted by: Ace at 08:57 AM | Comments (15)
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So calculates Chris Matthews, based on his conversations with Senators, if you believe him, which I don't particularly, but there you go.

Matthews suggests that all these eleventh-hour compromises are primarily geared to providing the Democrats with a face-saving Peace With Honor that will avoid the acrimony and tumult of actually doing the dirty deed.

A bit of an effort at comity is good, but if we really do have the votes, Frist had better not sell out anything important in the interests of gaining the goodwill of liberals, which of course he never will actually gain.

Not One Dime If You Don't Turn The Keys Update: Captain's Quarters links to a campaign to call Republican senators and let them know, politely but firmly, that you will not be donating in this cycle unless they go through with the "Byrd Option."

I wouldn't quite hold them to executing the Byrd Option, necessarily, if they could secure a compromise that gave us 90% of what we wanted. We can be generous and give back 10%, just to get the liberal media off our backs.

Still-- let them know you're serious about this issue.

Thanks for that tip to the National Journal's still-unlinkable Blogometer.

Posted by: Ace at 08:49 AM | Comments (7)
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Ohhh, snap!:

The journalistic establishment is circling the wagons, of course. Journalists usually blame themselves last and forgive themselves first. They are taking special umbrage at the White House's indignation about Newsweek's iniquity and insisting that this is the pot calling the kettle anti-Muslim. It is certainly true that the Bush administration, at Guantánamo and at Abu Ghraib, is responsible for a good deal of anti-Americanism in the Muslim world (see Noah Feldman, "Ugly Americans," page 23). The Bush administration is not perfectly qualified to give lessons in transparency. But, if Scott McClellan should not be allowed to hide behind Michael Isikoff, neither should Michael Isikoff be allowed to hide behind Scott McClellan. The subject this week is not the misdeeds of government. The subject this week is the misdeeds of journalism. No wonder many editors and editorialists want to change the subject.

"We feel badly": With those insultingly wan words, Whitaker thinks that he has wrapped things up. All of Newsweek's penitential protestations notwithstanding, what emerges from this episode is the image of a profession that is complacent, self-righteous, and hopelessly in love with itself. Is this a terrible generalization? Well, there are 17 people who lost their lives because of the state of journalistic practice at a U.S. magazine. When American journalists do not think of themselves as heroes, they think of themselves as victims; but here they are neither. They are--I mean Isikoff and his editors--simply scavengers.

Little background: Marty Peretz was a partisan (and I don't mean that in a bad way) centrist-liberal Democrat and one of Al Gore's biggest boosters throught the eighties, nineties, and the years that come after the nineties that still don't have a good name (I call them the "nils," but no one else will follow my lead, and damnit, the decade is almost over already).

Since 9/11 he has had a full on conversion. I doubt he identifies himself as a Republican or conservative yet, but I've seen the pattern, having lived through it myself.

Having just watched the brilliant Barcelona, I'm reminded of the main character's theory on sales. There is a moment in a potential sale requiring positive affirmation on the part of the would-be buyer, as he decides whether he really is a "green-carpet kind of guy." At this point a good salesman executes Maneuver X, removing himself from the equation as much as possible, to allow the potential buyer to make that step himself without any external pressure.

So I'm not saying anything here.

I'm just suggesting to Mr. Peretz that green carpet might look pretty damn sweet in the billiards room.

Posted by: Ace at 08:45 AM | Comments (13)
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Okay, another bleg. Do I ever stop?

No. I don't stop. I started this blog to 1) rant and 2) whine for favors and money, and damnit, you gotta dance with the girl that brung ya.

So, here's the deal.

Never in my life did I imagine I had a shot at actually passing Andrew Sullivan in traffic. He used to get huge traffic (or "yoooge," as Donald Trump might say), somewhere around 80,000-90,000+ unique visitors a day.

He's down to 41,000 and change.

Now, my paltry 6,200 per day isn't really close to that... and I've been stuck in this range for a while.

But... where it was once unthinkable, it's now, um, thinkable. If I could just double my audience, and Sullivan could continue to hemorrhage traffic...

So, hey, if you find a funny link here, email it to a friend and tell them they should check in periodically.

This isn't about me. Well, of course it is. That thing I just said about this not being about me? Total f'n' lie. Not sure why I even tried to slip that weak shit past you.

But it's also about humilitating this Shrill Shill. You want him filled with heart-ache and in dispair? Let an admitted moron and hack pass him in traffic.

Make a boy's dream come true. Help me drive the final nail in this Shrieking Violet's coffin.

I want this more than I wanted Kim Richards and Justine Bateman combined. I'm that serious.

Posted by: Ace at 08:28 AM | Comments (12)
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The liberal government survives a tie no-confidence vote only due to the defection of an opportunistic auto-parts empress.

Yeah, I know it's Canada. But, believe it or not, it's interesting.

Posted by: Ace at 07:58 AM | Comments (9)
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No lie, this is Triumph's immortal moment, and maybe the funniest thing ever shown on Conan O'Brien. (Mildly Not Safe For Work, maybe, if you work for the Moral Majority or something.)

Yes, it's old. I've seen it a dozen times. And it just keeps getting funnier.

Thanks to Lapsed Leftist for finding a working link.

On Second Thought... Triumph's immortal moment was actually telling Simon Cowell, a guest on the show, that he had a better title for "American Idol." Triumph suggested the title, "British HOMO."

But this is Triumph's best long-form moment.

Posted by: Ace at 07:39 AM | Comments (16)
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