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Archive of entries posted on 30th April 2009
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Gradual Dazzle of Anywhere But Here has honored IMAO with the “Best Use of Red & Black Color Scheme in a Blog” Award.
I’m a late-comer to IMAO, so Frank gets all the credit on this one. Still, it begs the question – why DID Frank choose red & black?:
a) his sublimated checkerboard fetish
b) his love of obscure Blue Oyster Cult tunes
c) he’s a HUGE Stendhal fan. Then again, who isn’t?
d) his unhealthy obsession with self-balancing binary search trees that 10 years of therapy have still not quite cured.
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Worry Not About Popularity and Instead About Sanity
With the loss of Specter, the usual suspects are going on about how the Republicans need to be less right wing to be competitive. This is idiotic. The one things moderates never have is passion; you can’t have passion for an incoherent hodge podge of a political philosophy. So you can survive politically and maybe scrape by when you’re constantly compromising for expediency, but you’re never going to inspire anybody and make big things happen.
Who wants a political party that’s principles are just a reflection of however issues are currently polling? If our views on issues are correct, they’re worth fighting for no matter what polls says. Plus, if you want to move people, you have to have some real values and show people they’re important by sticking by them. How can we argue against crazy spending if we tolerate those who are for it in our own party? I think being less inclusive can be helpful if it makes us more coherent and principled.
Passion for ideals isn’t enough, though. Lots of people think they’re really right and stick by unpopular views no matter what. That’s why there’s one more thing that’s key: You have to be able to explain your views without coming off like a nut.
Look at Daily Kos. Lots of passion, but crazy views and crazy people who have no self-awareness of how insane they appear. A lot of Ron Paul people have some pretty intriguing views, but they also come off as kooks who only seem all the more kookier by not comprehending how crazy they sound. Good views are ultimately sane views that you can explain passionately by calmly. Plus, conservatives are supposed to be real people who work and have families; we know how to connect to people because we are people. That’s an advantage we have to exploit. Look at liberals reaction to the Tea Parties; they couldn’t even comprehend what it was about because they just don’t understand the average American like we do.
So, let’s get rid of the squishes, but let’s not go crazy. Passion and sanity are the keys to success.
Army Makes Progress In Armed Dinosaur Technology
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Army announced that they have successfully combined a dinosaur with a sniper rifle to create a self-defending flying sharpshooter.
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Dubbed the Airborne Reptile Sniper System (ARSS), this next-generation helicopter drone has a semi-automatic gun mounted on a self-stabilizing turret with built-in zoom camera, and fires 7 to 10 precisely aimed .338-caliber rounds per minute. It also has dozens of foot-long, razor-sharp fangs, giving it both offensive and defensive short-range terrorist-chomping capabilities.
The rifle – a modified RND Manufacturing Edge 2000 – is directed by using an adapted Xbox 360 controller, which plugs into a laptop so that the operator can see what the drone sees. The dinosaur head – a modified Cretaceous period Tyrannosaurus Rex – is controlled by a combination of hand gestures, praise, and Snausages.
Although designed mainly for urban combat and repelling Velociraptor attacks, Army officials hope that it may also be useful in fighting pirates and resolving the “where should we put the Gitmo detainees” problem.
What Really Happened with Air Force One
Just to be clear, we’re all in agreement what happened with Air Force One flying over New York, right? Obama was coked out of his mind and grabbed the controls of the plane and started dive bombing the city. To cover it up, his staff made this whole idiotic photo op story.
Anyway, Air Force One needs to get reinforced cockpit doors like the other passenger. That Obama is crazy!
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Why are people always trying tear down our heroes.