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Wheat & Weeds - Double-0-7, Meet 7 Double-0

And a bonus comic here.

But the first one is just hysterical.

There’s a reason Bob Hope is my all-time favourite actor.

LGF - Some Things Don’t Change

Matthew in Beirut - Backstroke of the West

i saw revenge of the sith last weekend at a local theater with my friend joe who was in town on business. it was much better than the first two movies and a fitting end (err.. middle) to the star wars saga.

the next day i was walking past my friendly dvd salesperson and decided to check out revenge of the sith. i was assured the quality was good and for 7rmb why not give it a shot.

aside from the counters on the top of the screen and a distorted perspective it was ok- not high quality but watchable. the captions were a hilarious surprise- a direct english translation of the chinese interpretation of what the script was saying. it varied from being somewhat close to the script to being ‘far far away’….

amazingly enough, the beginning scroll is mistranslated even though the words are right there on the screen.

Hilarity (and how!) ensues.

Curtsy: Zoë Brain. (I think 7 rmb is 86¢.)

Found in today’s Best of the Web:

Scott Randolph.net - Cindy sealed the deal.

I actually felt myself become a republican today. It was around 10am, when I read the latest update of the Cindy Sheehan saga in CNN.com. I then shot over to read some blogs about it, and perused the comments in some of them, which was nothing but a long series of petty (albeit entertaining) partisan bickering.

Then it happend. The good little democrat in me tied the little noose around his neck and jumped off the stool. He just couldn’t take it anymore.

If that isn’t just the most hilarious thing. I mean, the imagery! It continues in a more serious vein:

Take what? The whining. The constant whining by the extreme left about the reasons for war, the incompetence of this administration, and how we’ve all been lied to, and how we should pull out of Iraq immediately, because, gulp our soldiers were in danger.

Guess what folks….they signed up to join the Army, not the boy scouts. Anytime your orientation to a new job involves an automatic weapon, you should be smart enough to figure out there’s danger involved. I actually read some people’s comments about many of the soldiers over there being naive….they weren’t expecting to go to war, so, they should be allowed to go home. Wow.

Soldiers know, when they enlist, that it is entirely possible they will be shipped out and never come home. It’s part of the job. The fact that people still walk in to recruiters’ offices and sign that piece of paper make them heroes. To imply that they are simple kids who didn’t know what they were getting into, or even worse, that they died for no reason, or an immoral reason, does a horrible thing. It strips their sacrifice of the honor that it deserves. Even though those folks sitting out there in the Texas fields claim to honor and support the soldiers, they obviously have been blinded by their own selfishness as to the real way to support them.

Etc. I can’t help but think that most democrats are standing on that stool, looking at the three feet between their feet and the floor and wondering if it would really be so bad. I mean, when you have the past 60 years of the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, the idea-of-liberal-democracy movement behind you, and you get the emotional train-wreck of Cindy Sheehan in a ditch in the Texas plains spouting a bunch of rubbish about Israel and oil and that all those other thousands of grieving mothers aren’t the slightest bit as important as just she is… Well, I feel for them, that’s all.

Update (8.19): I noticed that too.

ninme pats herself on the back. smugly.

Black Five - National Airborne Day Part V - Airborne Media Salute

Hahaha

Oh, bless him.

A new t-shirt for the “Peanut Class” USS Jimmy Carter, “Starting Problems Then Waiting For the USS Ronald Reagan to Solve Them.”

Bubblehead, Jimmy Carter Defender to the finish, is not amused.

He also said something really funny about me at the end of that Defender link, and something quite hilarious about his gamer skills around the beginning of it. He’s a funny guy, that Bubblehead.

What, no wurst?!

Professor Bainbridge - This is just wrong in so many ways …

Is this what happens when you choose a German Holy Father?

I can’t wait till Wheat & Weeds gets back from her fishin’ trip…

The Policeman’s Blog - ANTI-TERROR E-MAILS

He just slays me.

Nothing warms the cockles of my heart more than when PETA does something stupid. Which it does often.

The New Haven Register - NEW HAVEN — A two-hour animal rights demonstration on the Green Monday sparked outrage instead of sympathy from the public.

“This is the most racist thing I’ve ever seen on the Green. How dare you,” roared Philip Goldson, 43, of New Haven at the protest organizers at Church and Chapel streets.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a national animal rights group, posted giant photographs of people, mostly black Americans, being tortured, sold and killed, next to photographs of animals, including cattle and sheep, being tortured, sold and killed.

“I think it is an apt comparison,” said Josh Warchol, 26, of Wallingford, president of the Southern Connecticut Vegetarian Society, which is aligned with PETA.

PETA officials said they had hoped to generate dialogue with the shocking photographs.

Generate dialogue, eh? Poor Larry Summers.

“We realize these images are hurtful. It’s hard for me to imagine the hurt the animals go through. We should be treating animals according to their own best interests, not to the best interests of people,” said Dawn Carr, PETA’s director of special projects.

PETA wants people to stop eating animals, stop using them for clothing, stop forcing animals to entertain people (as in a circus) and stop animal experimentation.

Carr said she doesn’t want animals sold or treated as property either.

The controversial display, which is on a national tour, is intended to drive home PETA’s point.

However, critics said the organization’s demonstration backfired.

One man demanded that the NAACP get involved immediately. Five minutes later, Scot X. Esdaile, president of the state and Greater New Haven chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, arrived at the scene, surveyed the photos and blasted the organizers.

“Once again, black people are being pimped. You used us. You have used us enough,” Esdaile said. “Take it down immediately.”

“I am a black man! I can’t compare the suffering of these black human beings to the suffering of this cow,” said Michael Perkins, 47, of New Haven. He stood in front of a photo of butchered livestock hung next to the photo of two lynched black men dangling before a white mob.

“You can’t compare me to a freaking cow,” shouted John Darryl Thompson, 46, of New Haven, inches from Carr’s face. “We don’t care about PETA. You are playing a dangerous game.”

I love especially how the (mostly black) men who were so (righteously) insulted by this were real people, and locals, while the PETA people seemed to be a bunch of tortured yoots who just felt so much for the animals but probably hadn’t actually spent much time in the real world in their lives.

I knew a Yale vegan, btw. She always said “Oh I couldn’t care less about the cows. Pfff.” She was an environmental vegan. So refreshing.

LGF - Daily Kos Bandwidth Thieves

Joe Sherlock discovered that a Daily Kos “diary” singing the praises of Keith Olbermann was using an image from his car blog The View from My Windshield—and committing the ultimate internet faux pas of “hotlinking” to the picture, stealing bandwidth from Joe’s site.

Of course, when someone commits this sin, the offended party has options available. Go see the result now at Daily Kos before they wake up: Daily Kos: Tonight! Everyone Watches Keith.

I took a picture incase it gets changed back. Will upload if needs be. I, btw, have hotlinking blocked.

An unexpected choice for the Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day, you say? Ah, but it has its charm, its audacity, its wit. Plus, it’s funny as hell.

The Sunday Times - It’s almost treason, by George, by ROD LIDDLE

After describing some of Gorgeous George’s more ridiculously grandiloquent speeches:

One assumes that he is speaking how he thinks Arab people speak and it has turned out like a sort of Ba’athist equivalent of Peter Sellers doing Goodness Gracious Me. But I’ve been up and down the Edgware Road in London and I haven’t heard Arabs speak like that. Meanwhile, most of Galloway’s constituents at home are Bangladeshi — and they don’t speak like that.

The only people I have heard using such language are on those dodgy videos on Al-Jazeera of bearded troglodyte Al-Qaeda recusants: in other words, Galloway is apeing the language not of Arabs but of the hardcore lunatics. Perhaps he has confused the two. He has become so caught up in his war against the war against terror that he has come to identify entirely with the terrorists and he assumes that everyone in a headdress feels the same way.

As you might imagine, most of the attention has focused on Galloway’s description of the suicide bombers, the people killing our troops, as “martyrs” — something that he has since denied. Liam Fox described Galloway as “sad, twisted and irrelevant”. But you wonder how far Galloway’s patent loathing of the British state now extends to all of its subjects as well. He can’t actually wish British soldiers — or crusaders, as he has helpfully called them — to be killed, can he? Or does he see himself heroically holed up in a cave in a pair of flip-flops wearing a green bandanna and clutching a metaphoric Kalashnikov? If that’s the case, George, go to it.

Even for someone who agreed with you about the war in Iraq and the deception perpetrated by our government to prepare us all for it — the latest stuff feels suspiciously close to treason. It is hard to know whether we should laugh at Galloway or hang him.

Hah! In The Sunday Times, no less!

So the Russian minisub seems to be alright:

the stupid shall be punished - AS-28 On The Surface!

Update 2159 06 Aug: Now that we have confirmation from an American source that all crewmembers are alive, our thoughts turn towards the next vital issue: whether the damn Brits are going to let us live this one down. I can hear it now: “Blimey, you blokes could have done the job if your planes were a little faster, eh? Off for a nice spot of tea now…”

Hilarious!

(And no, I’m not just trying to be nice. Why on earth would I be trying to be nice?)

It’s a Dream Vacation. Palm trees, sand, sun, and something cold to drink.

Curtsies: CDR Salamander. N totally SFW.