Steven Crowder has an announcement and reads some hate mail.
BTW, I’m the large Mexican who wrote him.
Archive of entries posted on 28th May 2009
Capitalist Propaganda: “Your Safety First”
From 1956, a short from the Automobile Manufacturers of America called “Your Safety First“:
[Internet Archive direct link]
The setting is the “futuristic” year 2000, and there’s plenty of cute Jetson-esque predictions that aren’t even close, but eventually [at 4:31, if you want to skip ahead] it gets to the heart of the matter – a documentary on the historical development of the automobile.
I like this bit because it makes you really appreciate how hard the auto industry works to keep improving their product, year after year.
It also makes you wonder what cars would be like if serving the customer were their only goal, and they didn’t have to keep meeting insane & arbitrary government standards and regulations which only serve to add cost without providing benefits to the consumer.
The Unthinkable
Jonah Goldberg thought it would be an interesting plot for a novel would be the repercussion if there was a nuclear strike and a liberal president refused to retaliate. My guess on what would happen is that Obama would eventually find himself tied to a nuclear missile heading for the enemy.
I hope its basic policy that a nation can’t nuke us or an ally without totally getting nuked the crap out of it. That would be hugely bad precedent if an enemy could get away with a nuclear attack without the direst of consequences. I bet even Obama knows that. Which is why if he wants to stop a nuclear holocaust, he better grow a pair and start dealing harshly with Iran and North Korea now.
Inhuman
Jeffrey Goldberg in a post about Iran mentions a story I hadn’t heard before. In the Iran-Iraq war, Iran was completely outmatched, so it was Ayatollah Khomeini’s idea to send their children to the front lines to march across minefields and clear them. Is it really fair to classify people who come up with an implement ideas like this as human? That’s the sort of thing that make me want to take the “torture” techniques the liberals are always whining about, find something much worse, and do it to Iranian leaders with no expectations of getting any information.
Why doesn’t the media focus more on stories like this of who we’re dealing with? Is it afraid then we’d all be demanding blood, because, yeah, that’s pretty true.
Award!
Reader Mark has honored IMAO with the “Best Blog That Used To Have A Podcast Award” Award.
I’m constantly being asked (and by “constantly”, I mean “never”) “when are you guys gonna start podcasting again?”
To which I reply “never”.
Which usually elicits a plaintive, high-pitched “but WHYYYYYYY?”
For the same reason Awards! are JPG files, not MP3 files – efficiency.
We at IMAO respect and value our readers’ time. The average speech rate on a podcast is 200 words per minute. The average speech rate of a picture is 1000 words per second. This makes posting funny pictures 30,000% more efficient than talking about them, and leaves readers more time to spend admiring the awesomeness of Sarah Palin.
But all this podcast talk is just a distraction from the REAL question:
How come nobody leaves “First!” comments anymore?
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Obama vs. Obama
April 30th, 2009, during his 100th Day speech:
“a Recovery Act that has already saved or created over 150,000 jobs”
May 27th 2009, during his 100th day of the Recovery Act speech:
“the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has saved or created nearly 150,000 jobs”
[all emphasis mine]
So, in the last 4 weeks, not only has the Stimulus Package NOT created (or saved, which I can’t fathom how they’d calculate) one single new job, it now appears to be actively destroying jobs, since the number went from OVER to NEARLY 150,000.
Obama’s new Cyber Czar should mention to him that the days of Pravda are gone, and that the Internet Archives have replaced the Memory Hole.
Random Thoughts
If North Korea nukes someone all because I made fun of their Dongs, I’m sorta sorry.
Obama better put some really good music on the iPod he gives Kim Jong Il if he wants to diffuse this crisis.
It would be neat if instead of an invisibility cloak there was an invisibility snuggie because that’s the only way I’d wear one.
I just don’t like the way Sotomayor ends all her written opinions with “Take that, whitey!”
If terrorists had tails and we cut them off to see if they grow back, I bet liberals would yell at us. I hate liberals!
Dueling Headlines
AP:
Initial Jobless Claims Drop Unexpectedly
Fox Business:
Initial Jobless Claims Fall 13,000 As Expected
AP used analysts from the Labor Department, while Fox used a survey of economists taken by MarketWatch.
Private Sector wins again.
Leave Politics to Beauty Pageants
My new proposal at Pajamas Media.