AoS gets the stamp of "scientific approval"!

...Neurophysiologist Katherine Rankin at the University of California, San Francisco, has also recently discovered that sarcasm, which is both positively funny and negatively nasty, plays an important part in human social interaction...

Next target: a Nobel Prize

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 01:31 PM | Comments (34)
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Actually, they phrase it in a carefully-limited way: No released terrorists, they say, have been proven to have attacked Americans, claiming that this refutes Scalia's claim, though Scalia actually said they had "returned to the battlefield," and did not specify the exact nationality of innocent civilians murdered by released terrorists. That allows them to ignore or pretend to not have noticed this Washington Post report of a former Gitmo detainee who just recently murdered innocent Iraqis in a Mosul suicide bombing.

If he didn't kill an American, that was purely happenstance; obviously he was not blowing random people up with the express intent of not killing Americans.

Even taking their deceptively limiting claim about "attacks on Americans" at face value (and I don't see why we should), there is that little problem of released detainees re-joining the Taliban to take part in "anti-coalition militant activity." In case the left hadn't noticed, America is part of the coalition in Afghanistan.

The worst part is that this dishonest report comes from Seton Hall law professors. I expect all sorts of dishonesty in politics, but professors, and especially law professors, are supposed to be concerned about perjured testimony.

Thanks to CJ.

Posted by: Ace at 12:26 PM | Comments (34)
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UPDATED: I haven't been hanging around much lately. I did not know that we were boycotting some unnamed organization. Link deleted. I'll leave this post up just because of the comments. Consider it an open thread, I guess.

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Go. Go look at this headline and read the article, too.

Please join us in the comments and help deliver a proper fisking, too. You will find lots and lots of glittering gems in this article. It's a dense eight-layer cake of Profound Retardosity, frosted with lots of whipped fluffy Crazy. You will take a deli number for your turn to abuse the writers.

Horatio Alger, twist in your grave.

The can-do, bootstrap approach embedded in the American psyche is under assault. Eroding it is a dour powerlessness that is chipping away at the country's sturdy conviction that destiny can be commanded with sheer courage and perseverance.

I'm howling with laughter, over heah. Oh my God, seriously, kiss my ass. Sorry, dear AOSHQ readers, but I can't contain my contempt, here, and you shouldn't either.

These sad fucking humps over at some unnamed news organization are slaying me with their phony little frowny-faces. 'Dour powerlessness,' indeed. Never mind that they've mischaracterized every issue they could get their hands on to make their point. "Wars without end?"

And see how they separated the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq from that against terrorism. Clever, clever, oooh.

Lefties refuse to understand the Iraq war in this context, but Afghanistan? Isn't that the permissible war, according to lefties? You stupid, pathetic, sniveling bitches. Most Americans are ashamed of people like you.

Consider that the wealth and infrastructure of the United States might be the reason that natural disasters don't kill more of us. We're not living in shacks made of flattened oil cans. On sand bars. And as my buddy Dave pointed out when he read this article, we use rebar in our concrete.

Furthermore, we actually give a shit about rescuing people. While you're reminiscing on Katrina, why don't you just imagine what would have happened if New Orleans was inside Myanmar and consider how absolutely superior this (and virtually any other Western) country is in the face of disaster, even when the local officials all have their thumbs up their asses.

You know what builds and maintains all this wealth and infrastructure? Not dour powerlessness, pinheads.

Have you....met any Americans lately?

PS to the unnamed news organization: RE "Polar Bears are adrift"

1.) Not true, and

2.) Nobody cares. Truth time: most people wouldn't give a shit about polar bears if they all died tomorrow. Unless it caused an explosion in the seal population, in which case we would simply kill more seals. Which might be difficult, because we humans really are killing an awful lot of seals.

Oh Hell what am I saying? That's unnamed news organization quitter-talk. I'm sure we could totally top ourselves in the wholesale slaughter of cute seals.

Posted by: LauraW at 12:15 PM | Comments (47)
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So we push back with "ok, let's take a look at Lithuania then."

The Russians are not amused.

Cuffy provides background on the negotiations and stuff, plus why Lithuania would work. He even added a map with some lines and arrows and stuff pointing from Tehran but I'm no rocket scientist so maybe somebody can explain it to me with flash cards or a coloring book.

Incidentally, moron-blogger Cuffster has joined up with a bunch of other retards over at doubleplusundead (the commenter formerly known as Sinistar). I don't know what this all means yet but I'm sure it's bad.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 05:43 AM | Comments (32)
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Since LauraW has decided to abdicate her responsibility, guess I have to take over this sad and stupid task to give those of you with court-monitored ankle bracelets (such as LauraW) something to do on this first night of summer.

Feel free to toss up the most hideous music videos you can find as well, just like last week. And under no circumstances are you allowed to comment on the gheyness of others. I simply wonÂ’t stand for that in this family-friendly blog. YouÂ’ve been warned, dick-smokers and cock-holsters.

So just get it out of yerÂ’ systems. ItÂ’s not like thereÂ’s gonnaÂ’ be a BSG discussion thread by Gabe tonight.

Might as well keep using the Human Torch picÂ…what, you want a photo of a candle in the wind?

UPDATE: For any of you sub-morons who are still posting comments on the old blog site, please come into the light. The new site is:

here

Comments from the old site import and push those on the new one down the list, which really irritates XBradTC, who then starts e-mailing me pictures of his (really small) junk in protest. While those pics are really cute and disturbing, let's all try to get with the program. Win one for the team!

(XBrad, could you send a couple more shots from other angles...not quite getting the full picture, IYKWIM)

Posted by: Open Blog at 08:27 PM | Comments (60)
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No, really.

I sure do wish I was as smart as some of these lefties and thus able to secure a steady gig blogging for a big magazine.

Yglesias took the day off from splitting atoms... with his mind to weigh in on economics:

And if we made gasoline more expensive through, say, higher gas taxes or a carbon tax then not only would we secure the public health, congestion, and environmental benefits of expensive gas but the government would have a good source of revenue with which to mitigate some of the consumer pain.

I like that last bit especially-- if only we could tax gas to an even higher price, why, we'd have more money with which to send people rebates to ease the burden of paying for higher gas! We'd have the benefits, you see, of having both high gas prices and low gas prices at the same time!

But hit the link for more. The Democrats have a big problem here -- while they pose and preen as Heroes of the Working Man, in fact the actual leadership/power-base consists of nothing but effete urban queerbaits like Yglesias who would sell out the "working man" for some extra foam in his latte.

And the hard-hats and the soft-heads have a disagreement here that simply cannot be compromised or finessed away: the working man doesn't like high gas prices, but the soft-handed dipshitterati loves high gas prices, and in fact wants them even higher. (As Obama himself admitted not too long ago.)

We'll see if they're able to square that circle.

Pretty much American politics has come down to B9 vs. sneering space-pederast Dr. Smith.

Posted by: Ace at 05:53 PM | Comments (80)
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For reallies. A Logo You Can Believe In (TM).

Slublog's not letting that level of presumptuousness pass:

Though I don't see why Obama doesn't just stick with his old presidential logo:

Again, thanks to Slublog.

Illegal? Nah. There's a statute against using the "likeness" of the presidential seal in advertising, but I take "likeness" to mean "facsimilie." That is, using the actual seal.

It's the difference between obviously-fake parody "dollar bills" and counterfeit dollar bills. The former are legal, because they don't actually look like real dollar bills. A bit like them, sure, but not really like them. The latter are illegal because they look like the real thing.

Obama's seal is obviously patterned after the seal, but it also can't be mistaken for it. So it's not a "likeness" of the seal as "likeness" is intended to mean. Likeness illegal, resemblance legal. And the Obama seal, while as offensively messianiac and hyped up as everything else about this jug-eared jackass, is merely a resemblance of the presidential seal.

Posted by: Ace at 02:45 PM | Comments (180)
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No joke. I mean, I'm not joking. He was. I think. But he did say it:

Story here.

I guess he's a fan of Idiocracy.

Posted by: Ace at 02:14 PM | Comments (29)
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Relax, it's just Newsweek.

Trust me: McCain will only lose by 6-8 points, tops.

Posted by: Ace at 01:57 PM | Comments (34)
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This latest video should be a dynamite recruitment tool, proudly featuring, as it does, heroic video of Islamist retards attempting to hit a Humvee with a grenade, missing, and then running away shouting Alluhu Akbar.

God may be great. You know what else is great? Not throwing like a girl.

The military convoy rolls on in the background, apparently not even having noticed they were actually attacked at all.

Maybe that should be their angle here: We're such Ninjas for Allah we attack without the enemy even realizing we've attacked!

Posted by: Ace at 01:43 PM | Comments (18)
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