More Proof The Japanese are Utterly Mad....

An educational animated scat video for kids....which, given that Meryl pointed it out, will likely end up being blamed on the Jews.

....And Another Thing....

...that, like Grenadier, probably shouldn't have been made.


Hat tip: Matt Welch
Curse you Matt Welch!!!

From the Department of Painful Headlines....

Via Murdoc:

Womans Tailwind Takes Down Airliner

....which is exactly as bad as it sounds.

Moderation is Key.....

See kids?


Thanks to this handy reference chart, we can learn much about the importance of moderation.

Please note that despite this scholars brave words, it is obvious that even with catgirls, there is a point of diminishing returns.





Yeeesh!

So...What Could be Creepier than Tentacle Porn?

A while ago, I was perusing a comics discussion board when somebody posted a picture of Lum. It was spectacularly well rendered. Particularly impressive was how the artist captured the look of absolutely transcendental bliss on Lums face. A gorgeous, though, NSFW piece that would add considerably to the net joy of the universe if not for the fact that the cause of her rapture was.....

tentacles....

EWWWWWW!

Well, this naturally brought about impassioned flaming of the poster for putting tentacle smut in a SFW board (that had been about Legion of Superheroes anyway)...this jihad ended about 3 posts down when somebody posted something to the effect of...'Damn, that's a great piece. It's almost perfect, except that she's got that grin on her face that makes it plain she's enjoying herself and that is a total turn off'...

Well then...

That just puts things into perspective doesn't it.

Now I feel a bit of pitty for the souless shell that is the poster, but I'm more concerned that he's walking around free. That comment was creepier than The Ring and Blair Witch combined...yeeesh!


Here is Lum again....Tentacle free, the way God and Takahashi intended.

Weird...Freaky...Creepy Even

So....

Blogging from the cybercafe, I cut and pasted the URL for the hyperlink in the below post. What initially posted in the URL field was not a URL but this....

You are absolutely beautiful, we both are on here looking for the same thing. I am 25, in the navy, brn hair, brn eyes, 6ft, 190lbs. Take a look at my pic and if you like my pic let me know. If your interested I could either drive down to you, or we could meet at a hotel in the middle. If your interested, give me a call at 757-***-****.

I...I...Iyaiyaiyai....

I mean, besides the technical oddness of the way I stumbled across it (haunted computer no doubt) this is is just wrong on so many levels...

At the very least he could have asked her to meet him at a nice restaurant....or a theatre...or the beach.....but no.















Yeah ladies...heez a stud muffin.

( So the moral of this story is obviously that women with a thing for sailors should stick to Coasties)


Update: When it happened, I was curious about how it had happened so I asked one of the staff here about it.
This precipitated much mischief. I shan't elaborate.

The Department of Ewww....

Over at Pajamas Media I was scrolling through their news reports regards the war.

I came across this map.

Notice the country thats to the south of Lebanon....

Good Grief!

It might as well be Malabar.

WAAAUGH!!!!

This is the stuff of nightmares....


Kinda gives you vertigo....


The above is the result of unprotected browsing atChizumatic.

OH DEAR GOD!! MY EYES...!!!

THE PROTECTIVE GOGGLES....THEY DO NOTHING!!!

Half-Life of Privacy

Rambling Rebuilder put me on the mailing list of Mysterious Informant who, true to name, sent me these two disturbing links regards tech advances and privacy issues.

This is disturbinng to say the least, but some of the things that they are trying to fight, in particular identity theft, really are worse than loosing ones internet anonymity...at least at first glance. On the other hand,it is easy to see how anonymous bloggers to name just one example could really be hurt by this especially given the potential for abuse against whistle blowers. Still identity theft is a huge problem, I've had two friends all but cleaned out by it. I'm sympathetic to the efforts to stamp it out, but the loss of privacy is really disturbing at first glance. On the gripping hand however, how much anonymous interaction did we have even 15 years ago? The anonymous 'trolls' and thieves are as empowered by the anonymity of the web as we are when we hide behind silly handles like Brickmuppet. Tough call....

The spychips in merchandise are really disturbing on all levels and there seems to me no merit to them at all. Ban them! Hunt down their users and apply tar, feathers and run them out of town. This is frigging cyberpunk come to life! Hangin's too good fer 'em! Buurninns too good fer 'em! They need to be cut up into leeetle bitsy pieces and buried alive!!

ahem...

This needs a lot attention that it is not getting.

Why do I Feel Unclean?

Publius Pundit reports on the recent legal troubles of Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean Junta leader who ascended to power via a coup cumulating in the assassination or suicide of his President, Salvadore Allende with some assistance from the US CIA. Pinochet ruled about 16 years thereafter stabilizing, privatizing and generally fixing the economy of Chile while killing a bit over 3,000 members of the opposition (this included euro-leftists who went to Chile to assist in the Allende revolution). He held elections and when he lost he stepped down in 1990.

Pinochet is a source of intense hatred for the left, but despite getting up the hackles of idiotic Che' fans, Pinochets rule was undeniably a dark time, especially in the '70s.

Still, and it sickens me to say it, there is something about the indignation of the left towards Pinochet that doesn't sit well with me.

Allende was taking his country on an express train to disaster, and the Maoist elements of his coalition were not nice. One need only look north to the Shining Path to see what sort of monsters the South American leftist insurgencies produce. When the coup happened the cultural revolution was still taking place in China and throughout the 1970s the fruits of leftist revolutions in Viet-Nam and Cambodia certainly did not reassure one about the wisdom of turning a country over to these loons.

Pinochet was ruthless in his putdown of the leftists and we quite rightly are horrified by this. On his orders something like 3000 people died in a civil war (Perspective: we should have been so lucky). He pursued those who helped the communists out of his country and killed them as far afield as Mexico.


I think that it is telling though that Pinochet is such a buggaboo for the left. His death count was in the low thousands while those aforementioned regimes and others philosophically close to his opposition approached or exceeded death counts in the millions. His privatization of Chiles social security system was astoundingly successful and, most atypically, HE STEPPED DOWN!!

This last would seem to be a behavior we would want to encourage with dictators. Certainly Idi Amin being allowed to bail saved the lives that would have been lost in a last stand. I fear that the sort of posturing this represents may make it far harder to deal with future or current tyrants.

I have no love for dictators on the left or the right, but I wonder,if Pinochets sucesses are more the issue than his crimes.

I also wonder, with the clairvoyance provided by 20/20 hindsight, if 3,000 Khmer Rouge killed would have been an atrocity....or if 1500 of those latter day Robspierres and 1500 innocent "collateral damage" would be an atrocity....if the million plus victims had not been reduced to walls of skulls?

I think it might be. If a time traveler went back to 1974 and thwarted that nightmare, the left would howl at the prospect of being thwarted and demand justice. To point out what whackjobs they were would get little traction without the skulls to point to. Ton Doc Thang, the president of Viet-Nam after the defeat of the south was responsible for orders of magnitude more deaths than this Andean asshole, yet there is nary a peep about him from those who are so eager to see this one hang.

It frequently bugs me when the Left uses the ubiquitous "....but" when condeming Saddam, the 9-11 attacks, or Palistenian terror...and yet....I find myself reaching for that very uncouth "but" in this case. Leftits killed between 85 and 130 million people from 1919-1989. Pinochet may well have kept that number from being a million or more higher......MAY have..... oy! We can't know. We can be very upset about what he did, but how do we know what he stopped?

I've been up too long.

The future is an unlit passage with many doors. Sometimes the choices are all varying degrees of bad. It is important that the less-bad doors be opened when that happens, and that one has the courage to open that door before the far less desirable door opens itself.

And pondering this is why I feel unclean today.......



update: Links work now

THIS if just effing creepy......

Via Drudge.....

A remote control for people!

"I felt a mysterious, irresistable urge to walk to the right whenever the researcher turned the stick to the right. I was convinced_mistakenly_that this was the only way to maintain my ballance."

Ghaaaaaaa!!

This has all SORTS of creepy implications.

(and what do you know? It really IS because of computer gaming.)

I Feel Unclean

Of no real significance, but one of those little things that should not be a surprise at all but really caught me off guard....in a sick/funny sort of way.





OK, so some "munchausen" told me there is an alternate ending to LaPucelle Tactics. The surprisingly addictive little tactics game you see represented in these cute, innocent, little pictures here.

Well I went net surfing to check this out.....It does not appear to be true.

However, I did find out that there is a huge supply (and presumably a demand for) LaPucelle 'Pr0n'.

Not that Prier isn't cute..... but that's just WRONG!

"shudder"

Modern technology has facillitated making me feel both dirty and old.....


UPDATE:
You know....Prier really IS hot in a few of these...
(Did I think that or did I blog that?)