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We actually showed up the following day. Turns out 1 B.C. wasn’t a leap year, and GorT didn’t want to make two trips. Don’t expect a joke about the lack of room at the inns. Leave it to the government … Continue reading →
If he’s not, the White House press office better have a good excuse for releasing this photo: Via Ed Driscoll. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UPI) — A prominent Abraham Lincoln historian in New York says an activist who claims the 16th president was gay admitted to him the story was fabricated.…The Post said [Larry] Kramer, who also has claimed President … Continue reading →
Writes old hand Edward Djerejian: First, there was the overthrow of the shah of Iran by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Second, there was the takeover of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, by a group of Islamic extremists. And third, … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Confucius’s brother Li Bai writes: From the Washington Post today: After their release from Guantanamo, Shihri and Rubaish, both of whom trained and fought with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, were sent to a Saudi rehabilitation program that uses dialogue and art … Continue reading →
If the protesters shake off the yoke of theocracy and savagery, their success could herald the failure of political Islam way beyond Iran. At this turning point in history the West has no logical alternative but to unequivocally support the … Continue reading →
In the context of Nidal Hassan, we have previously discussed the Loser Factor in jihadi fanatics—and those willing to commit atrocities for a Cause to give their empty lives meaning. Turns out Abû-Flamingpântsî fits the profile there as well as … Continue reading →
Demand-side cost control? Ha. Via Big Government. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Well, if the good folks at Planet Iran are right, the mollahs are at least laying the groundwork for a, well, permanent vacation in sunny Russia. Here’s what they claim is a redacted document from the Iranian National Security Agency … Continue reading →
We have noted that your visits completely dropped off the map on the night of December the 18th. We presume you have been discovered and imprisoned. Strike Team Dragon has left Singapore on Gormogon 11. Protocol nineteen is in effect. … Continue reading →
Look, Confucius isn’t going to waste your time with a lot of “gee, Homeland Security sucks,” “how did the Dutch let this guy on the plane [without a passport?],” or maunderings about the lethality of the Obama Amateur Hour. They … Continue reading →
Political ownership of the war on terrorism now rests with the people of Pakistan. Says their prez. Well, he would, but still…Confucius says: the thought comforts not. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Well, it sure ain’t Mardi Gras. As we’ve noted hereabout, it’s very, very hard to know what’s actually going on in a closed society like Iran’s, but we can get an impressionistic idea with bootleg videos, blogging, and media outlets … Continue reading →
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcwashington.com/video. George Michael (1939–2009). Back in the 1980s, Washington’s WRC had the local newscast to watch, and Michael was one of the main reasons. The rest of the country knew his Sports Machine (with one … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →And to return to an unpleasant point, Confucius must mention again that, in our insular egotism, Americans of goodwill tend to assume everyone is as anti-racist as we are. When nothing of the sort is the case. Not least in … Continue reading →
They apparently took down Copenhagen singlehandedly (about which I’m not displeased); but as FotG David Frum notes: And not only wrecked the talks, but did so with a conscious display of disdain toward the West generally and President Obama personally. … Continue reading →
WACO (December 23, 2009)—Retired Army Col. Robert L. Howard, 70, who died Wednesday in Waco, was a Medal of Honor winner who at the time of his death was believed to be the most-decorated living American soldier. … Howard, who … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →In the face of such unrelenting grimness, A People’s History offers a certain consolation. “The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history,” writes Zinn. It uses wealth to “turn those in the 99 percent against … Continue reading →
That means, “I’m your man,” or “I’m game.” Just FYI. Why would that come to mind? Hmm… …Paramount just bought the spec to The Further Adventures of Doc Holliday says Vicenzo at FilmDrunk. The Gormogons are FedExing a treadmill and … Continue reading →
We’ve spent most of the past several years listening to liberals nattering away about how first Iraq and now Afghanistan is the new Vietnam. But finally, those making such arguments in the hope of undermining our efforts to resist the … Continue reading →
Carbie the Climate Clown, Emmett K. Bozo Distinguished Professor of Climate Pantomimology, University of East Anglia; EU Regional President, Union of Concerned Climate Scientists and Street Performers writes: These conclusions were not only endorsed by the scientific and clown communities, … Continue reading →
In other words, fighting back provokes the enemy but so does not fighting back. Who doesn’t know that? The answer is: a pacifist. And that, the pacifist implication of the Durbin argument, is the real absurdity. Like so many of … Continue reading →
He’s writing another letter, it seems, this time to Kim Jong-Il, the dictator of North Korea who’s likely an alcoholic, malignant narcissist. The Gormogons have obtained a draft copy. Don’t ask how, but I can say it has something to … Continue reading →
Not to step on the Czar’s (nine) toes, and freely conceding his vastly superior knowledge of and first-hand experience with impaling peasants au Ţepeş (or indeed, with his reverse mouth-first style known that’s made him famous from Muscovy to Kazan … Continue reading →
…he drives the Pontiac Vibe he leaves at his vacation house. Astutely spotted at Deadspin. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →They looked around all the deserted lots outside Tehran, just in case they might find his corpse.They had no success whatsoever. But then over a month later, he called home with a faint voice, saying that he had landed in … Continue reading →
If you’re a numerate, computer-literate, Climategate obsessive (cough cough czar cough), you’ll way, way dig Iowahawk’s walk through the methodology of the Hadley CRU’s spreadsheet. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Via the Anchoress. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Michael Steele (whom the Volgi once met and liked very much) has not done a stellar job at the RNC so far. The Volgi’s theory is that he’s a natural politician, not a party functionary, and the GOP basically gave … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Ok, we can admit it now. Cattle mutilations? That was Ghettoputer. He had his (typically incoherent) reasons. Something about lactose intolerance or not liking ice cream or the fact they all thought they were better ’n him. Whatever. Anyway, apparently … Continue reading →
How about one rescued from the streets of Byzantium (d/b/a İstanbul)? Come on, you know you want a puppy for Christmas. Give these guys a good home. Claire Berlinski uses her entertaining if questionable marketing skills for the puppies’ sake … Continue reading →
…Goldfarb drags me back in! Let’s just go to the money quote: “White House aides actually made them remove the F-22-said they would not allow POTUS to be pictured with the F-22 in any way, shape, or form.” While the … Continue reading →
The beginning of this report from Ed Driscoll (you’ll see him over there on the Album Blogorum) is really good at documenting the periodic climate panics of the last century. (The edits are a little jarring, be warned)Though the Robert … Continue reading →
Don’t believe the CBO ten-year number. It’s a fraud, because the Democrats have gamed the system to collect four years of taxes to credit against the number before they start spending. Here’s a graph with a realistic estimate of the … Continue reading →
Царь наш, your Volgi didn’t watch it, being consumed with analyzing the numerological-astrological-cosmological significance of a six-pointed Oriental fortress. However, what leaps out is the President’s implying that we’re going to try and be out of there in eighteen months … Continue reading →
So big the Chinese are making CGI simulations of different theories of his car accident. Don’t let people tell you being a celebrity is fun. Also, CGI Tiger apparently drives a pretty beat minivan instead of a (doubtless comped) 2009 … Continue reading →
…the Gormogons pester their Œcumenical Volgi thusly: The Czar: Write more about foreign policy, узкоглазный, or I will have you shipped to Semipalatinsk with the rest of the shirkers! GorT: Yesterday you will write less about foreign policy; tomorrow you … Continue reading →
Like this guy’s. Blog title from a cult of “Bones” villains (spelling doesn’t count). Val Kilmer–in his only award worthy performance–as Doc Holliday in the sidebar. Post art complimenting snark on a par with McGoo or Yours Egomaniacally. And, of … Continue reading →
Hysteria? Nonsense. Don’t forget, Царь наш, that we’ve already scientifically documented that Global Warming causes a whole lotta stuff. Via Jonah Goldberg. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Without wading into the philosophical weeds, Karl Popper’s famous principle that a theory, hypothesis, or principle is metaphysical, not scientific if it is not, in some way, falsifiable (i.e., testable), seems to apply here. Whether it’s a Kuhnian paradigm or … Continue reading →
…meet Mike Dukakis. Huckabee? Huckhasbeen. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →You’ll have flashbacks. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →…these crappy bootlegs back to the Castle. Oddly, we have two copies of this one, but upon inspection, the other one comes from Ghettoputer’s “special” collection, and the Gormogons aren’t about to risk prosecution in many countries (and civil suits … Continue reading →
Friend of the Gormogons Claire Berlinski writes: After the Second World War, the United Kingdom’s newly elected Labour government resolved to build of Britain a New Jerusalem. It nationalized the commanding heights of the economy and inaugurated the cradle-to-grave welfare … Continue reading →
“He keeps calling the junction boxes ‘bunions’ and icing them down. I’m beginning to have my doubts.” Or so might we be entitled to think when the government keeps telling us they’re creating (“or,” they add hilariously, “saving”) jobs and … Continue reading →
Says Jules Crittenden. Great article. Grazie, Borepatch. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →You read it here first. I know, contain your astonishment that libertarians aren’t out hanging census workers from trees: A U.S. Census worker found dead in a secluded Clay County cemetery killed himself but tried to make the death look … Continue reading →
And here’s the best tribute you’ll see all year. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →LONDON — Nuclear power — long considered environmentally hazardous — is emerging as perhaps the world’s most unlikely weapon against climate change, with the backing of even some green activists who once campaigned against it. Says the WaPo. Considered by … Continue reading →
Think you’re having a bad day? Not as bad as this guy’s. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
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Continue reading →Reuel Gerecht on Hasan, the FBI, the Muslim world, and foreign policy. (Gerecht is a former CIA agent who worked on Iran. He knows this stuff much more deeply than your average “expert,” even if he’s occasionally a tad biased … Continue reading →
Are you kidding me? A German company has built a .50 BMG “pistol.” It apparently weighs as much as a B.A.R. This is not a joke. 正 H. 名! Once again, the Gormogons’ operational security has been breached. The .50 … Continue reading →
Once the Mandarin and GorT get the satellite uplinks working and we can start directly controlling TV programming, the Gormogons will have whole channels devoted to the BET issues program What Up With That? You will either be baffled and … Continue reading →
The Czar is correct in pointing to Bob Wright’s fatuity. Wright errs profoundly in pointing to U.S. foreign policy as the malign demiurge that made Nidal Hasan a murderer. His argument is a textbook example of the fallacy of foreign-policy … Continue reading →
A drug that can prolong the lives of patients with advanced liver cancer has been rejected for use in the NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said the cost of … Continue reading →
…more free trade! One boggles. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
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Continue reading →Even though this trial seems like an ad for Bad Idea Jeans® (vide infra), this headline is money. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Read the whole, glorious thing here. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Achtung, teleprompter typists. Maybe leave a blank line between paragraphs, eh? (And let this be a lesson to anyone who takes news readers seriously.) Via Warming Glow. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Спасибо большое, Царь наш! The East Coast wing of the Gormogons also highly recommends the white sweet corn you can get fresh from Maryland’s Eastern Shore between June and October. Delectable, and you might not even need to add sugar. … Continue reading →
Confucius says: sorry I haven’t been around much of late, kids, but these sorcery wars ain’t gonna fight themselves. Plus, the Czar seems to be on the upswing of his cycle of madness, so he’ll be really good fun for … Continue reading →
Царь наш, Let me add that while the NINA sign is largely a self-pitying false memory, the nineteenth-century Irish in America were a wildly dysfunctional underclass, and your larger point about their leaders’ largely pulling them out of the mire … Continue reading →
Zombification—or the reanimation of the dead—is something we Gormogons don’t like to talk about in public. The raising of the dead as mindless slaves to unleash upon the terrified living is a profoundly unsettling topic. And our patents are still … Continue reading →
Dear Czar, The collapse of Blair’s support in the EU that you gleefully document has less to do with a diminishing of the Social Democrat/Christian Democrat welfare-state consensus, I suspect, and more to do with this allegation. If there’s anything … Continue reading →
But apparently dumber ’n a box o’ rocks. Watch Jesse’s face. Just awesome. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →…and defend Rush Limbaugh The Age of Barack is bringing folks together…in some very surprising ways. Incidentally, for you kids who’ve grown up recently and have only heard the slur “house Negro,” just know that it’s a polite circumlocution for … Continue reading →
Now meet his mother: Yes, that’s a Soviet uniform. You think your family has issues. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Is just something I like to say. But this piece should give you some good ammo next time some boho bozo starts blathering on about sustainable urbanism, or whatever they’re calling it this week: In fact, lack of ethnic diversity … Continue reading →
Lookit. Click to embiggen. Via Big Government. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Click the “play” button. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Keep watching the skies for Orbital Mind-Control Lasers. (Also, don’t do ether, kids.) Via FilmDrunk. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Царь наш, Confucius’s brother Li Bai (whom you met here) once commented that at least one volume of his autobiography would likely bear the title Alcohol Was Involved. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →“Prince can’t believe she’s going out with Lestat, either.” Lileks. Source (much bigger, better image). Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →More genius here. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →An amazing story. Everyone should read it and marvel what one man can do to improve the lives (and deaths) of thousands of people. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →MS: Well, I think in naked political terms, I said this a few weeks ago, Hugh, that I think this, if you’re on the political left, this is the fastest way to a permanent left of center political culture. You … Continue reading →
John Noonan writes: The AFP is reporting that despite pulling the ground based mid-course interceptor from Europe, the Russians remain unhappy with Noble Laureate Obama’s missile defense plans. Ivan is, of course, playing the classic Russian game here — push … Continue reading →
Well, not quite. The Volgi’s had a death in the family, so will be out of pocket for a bit. In the meantime, don’t forget that Zbig Brzezinski (on whom see the Czar below) was most recently in the news … Continue reading →
Georgia contributed to the problem, but even Europeans dependent on Russian natural gas have to admit ’twas the Bear. EVEN BEFORE the shooting ended, Russia’s invasion of Georgia last year prompted an international debate about who bore responsibility for the … Continue reading →
Why did the guy who called it start laughing uncontrollably at how ridiculous the situation was? Why did anyone even notice? Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →In 2000, the average Federal civilian wage was 33 percent more than the average private industry wage. By 2008, that gap was 59 percent. Reports John Lott. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →No idea who these guys are, but this is really good. Any billionaires out there want to do a media buy and put this stuff on radio and TV? GorT, is this one of your side projects you’re funding with … Continue reading →
The Czar wrote “The Czar wishes not to micturate in your Volgi’s cornflakes, but the amazing ability to predict a homerun on a 3-1 count for a particular batter to a particular spot is not always impossible if you have … Continue reading →
Here’s a hymn sent in by Gormogon operatrix Jenny. It raises the question: must we revive the Inquisition to deal with the OCP? Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Confucius says: Chicago was never a shoo-in. The Southern Hemisphere has only had one Olympics, and that was in a country full of white people. The IOC really wants to establish its cred as a “global” player, so when Brazil … Continue reading →
At the risk of being vaporized by GorT on his way to lacrossoccer practice, the Œc. Vol. will post this jaw-dropping baseball clip. Confucius says: It’s so good, I’m even leaving the MSNBC package around it: Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask … Continue reading →
Quoth the Duke of Wellington when Harriette Wilson, the famous Regency courtesan, informed him she’d be publishing her memoirs exposing him as one of her patrons. A good reply to any blackmailer. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that … Continue reading →
For those of you who might not be able to tell your Guinea fish from Guinea fowl, the Czar’s report is from the country Guinea, sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to further distinguish it from its neighbor Guinea-Bissau which is that little … Continue reading →
That’s just over a hundred million pennies. That’s 10⁸. 100,000,000. Three hundred tons of pennies. Two blue-whale’s-weight worth. And you know, if you had a hundred million pennies, you wouldn’t have enough for a pair for the eyes of each … Continue reading →
Note to readers: As GorT knows, but didn’t mention, the German political spectrum is much narrower than the American. Even the “conservative” CDU/CSU has historically favored an expansive welfare state of the type embraced mostly by Democrats in the U.S. … Continue reading →
Царь наш, don’t forget that the environmental lobby has a thirty-year history of anti-nuclear activism. A lot of this is irrational Three Mile Island hangover and atomic-bomb craziness, but there’s also an influential minority of environmentalists who don’t want cheap … Continue reading →
