Mr. Galt Imagines A Bacon Tree

 

Above: Website of science-fiction author Jerry Pournelle

 

Above: “Space? I want to go to there!”

 


Cf. C. M. Kornbluth, The Marching Morons: “Dear Alma, I am fine and hope you are fine. It is a fine place here fine climate and easy living. The doctor told me today that I seem to be ten years younger. He thinks there is something in the air here keeps people young. We do not have much trouble with the greasers here they keep to theirselves it is just a question of us outnumbering them and staking out the best places for the Americans. In South Bay I know a nice little island that I have been saving for you and Sam with lots of blanket trees and ham bushes. Hoping to see you and Sam soon, your loving brother, Ed.”

Cf. An old one.

Cf. No, seriously, if the Gates Foundation decided to take mankind to space!? Are these people a bunch of fourteen-year-olds building an MPC/Fundimensions model kit of Moonbase Alpha and huffing up big snorking lungfuls of fumes from a bottle of Testors liquid model cement!? No, I mean are they?

 

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Are these people a bunch of fourteen-year-olds building an MPC/Fundimensions model kit of Moonbase Alpha and huffing up big snorking lungfuls of fumes from a bottle of Testors liquid model cement!? No, I mean are they?

Well, I think we all know the answer to that.

 
 

Once I built a robot,
Made it fuck;
Made it fuck all the time.
Once I built a robot,
Now it’s stuck;
Buddy, can you spare a can of WD40?”

 
GOP Talking Point
 

Rich people are the saviors of the human race. Lots and lots of money solves all our problems. If necessary we can build walls of greenbacks to keep the Muslim hordes out.

 
 

going into space requires only the energy derived from Microsoft stock.

 
 

Ah, Jerry Pournelle.

The spaceship in his co-written novel “The Mote in God’s Eye” was, according to him, designed by buying a really cool toy zeti-reticulan battle cruiser or somesuch and finding ways to fit engine rooms and toilets and docking bays into it. Artificial gravity was, of course, a given.

Maybe that’s how he sees the Gates Foundation doing it.

 
 

Is it safe?

 
 

Um, that was me.

 
 

If only I get rent a larger apartment in an alternate dimension which allows cats.

(You know those alternate dimension landlords sometimes…)

 
 

Cf. No, seriously, if the Gates Foundation decided to take mankind to space!?

The tough part is stacking them all up for transport.

 
 

Sorter Jerry:

Booo! feeding and educating people in Africa!

Yay! A spaceship for me!

 
 

“Yay! A spaceship for me!”

Have you seen me? I’ll need a Saturn V booster for my ass alone.

 
 

SHORTER, dammit! SHORTER

 
 

If the Microsoft space mission runs on Windows Vista, chances are excellent it will explode on the launching pad killing everyone aboard.

 
The Moderate Libertarian
 

What do you guys have against Reynolds?

 
Vista Command Module
 

“An operation is attempting to emergency abort the launch. Do you want to allow this?”

 
 

What do you guys have against Reynolds?

Nothing, I use it all the time when I need to wrap up stuff and throw it in the freezer or heat up something in the toaster oven.

 
 

“Microsoft Interplanetary Explorer has encountered an error and needs to close. Do you want to notify Microsoft?”

 
 

I was hoping for a somewhat apposite opportunity to mention this, from BoingBoing:

At an anti-gay marriage rally Tuesday in Raleigh, North Carolina, David Gibbs III, the Christian fundamentalist lawyer who fought to keep brain-damaged Terry Schiavo on life support in 2005, publicly expressed his deep-seated fear of machine love. From the News & Observer:

(Gibbs) told rally participants gay marriage would “open the door to unusual marriage in North Carolina.

“Why not polygamy, or three or four spouses?” Gibbs asked. “Maybe people will want to marry their pets or robots.”

This could be the beginning of another rift in the Republican coalition, if Glenn Reynolds hears about it.

 
Windows Vista Space Edition
 

KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

Standby for memory dump: done
Restarting…

 
 

“Microsoft Interplanetary Explorer has encountered an error and needs to close. Do you want to notify Microsoft?”

LOL

 
Johnny Coelacanth
 

What do you guys have against Reynolds?

Exhibit A: Glenn Reynolds on anti-war protesters –
“They’re not “anti-war.” They’re just on the other side.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4585579/#040323

 
 

Windows Vista Space Edition

My ass. Gates will try to make it run on WFW 3.1.

 
The Moderate Libertarian
 

The iStarShip would be overpriced, underpowered, and made of really shitty shiny white plastic.

 
 

The iStarShip would be overpriced, underpowered, and made of really shitty shiny white plastic.

As someone who spends a chunk of every day assisting students in a room filled on one side with Macintoshes and another with PCs, I have this to say to you sir:

AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

In the future, please warn us before attempting comedy. Thank you.

 
 

The iStarShip would be overpriced, underpowered, and made of really shitty shiny white plastic.

Yeah, but you’re talking about an Apple product. Microsoft is the subject of the conversation here, stay focused!

 
 

The iStarShip would be overpriced, underpowered, and made of really shitty shiny white plastic.

And the windows will scratch easily.

 
 

The iStarShip would be overpriced, underpowered, and made of really shitty shiny white plastic.

but it would look amazing and all the cool hip starship captains would have one

 
 

that’s why the iStarShip has leather case accessory options.

 
The Moderate Libertarian
 

Clearly, the solution is to have a Linux-based Starship.

 
Johnny Coelacanth
 

“Clearly, the solution is to have a Linux-based Starship.”

No thanks. I don’t want to have to recompile the kernel every time I open the airlock.

 
 

A Mote in God’s Eye political regime of the future: Benign Monarchy with nobles doing “service to us all” by calling the shots.

Problem is there’s always a Nero or Louis XIV to spoil the party!

 
 

Clearly, the solution is to have a Linux-based Starship.

Actually the solution is to have the smartest software engineers in the world write the fucking software themselves, and go over every last line of code with a fine toothed comb, lather rinse and repeat.

I’m sorry, that wasn’t funny. But then again no one has mentioned OpenBSD yet.

 
 

no one has mentioned OpenBSD yet.

Dear Lord, make this stop!

 
Johnny Coelacanth
 

“But then again no one has mentioned OpenBSD yet.”

I’m running a VMWare machine of PC-BSD on my Windows XP box, which is precisely backwards, I know.

 
 

But then again no one has mentioned OpenBSD yet.

We’re just not into mate-swapping in leather.

 
 

Clearly, the solution is to have a Linux-based Starship.

Its open-source architecture may prove vulnerable to Klingon attack. But given the GOP’s lack of tech smarts, Linux will indeed be a formidable defense system against partisan political assaults.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/03/ive_speculated_as_to_whether.php

 
 

Hey libs, notice how only white people ever made it to the moon? You know it’s true, you’re just too PC to admit it. Stupid libs.

 
 

Clearly, the solution is to have a Linux-based Starship.

to die alone in the depths of space because the chief engineer has asperger’s syndrome has long been the dream of man.

 
The Moderate Libertarian
 

“I”m sorry, that wasn’t funny. But then again no one has mentioned OpenBSD yet.”

How about OS/2?

 
 

Hey, us too!

 
 

My ass. Gates will try to make it run on WFW 3.1.

I fear he’s finally found a use for those Windows NT 3.51 discs he has in his basement.

 
 

I fear he’s finally found a use for those Windows NT 3.51 discs he has in his basement.

How about OS/2?

Speaking of which </smug>

 
 

Ok, they do realize that Bill Gates supports “Teh Gay” /scarequotes

Right?

I mean I know the wingnuts love crappy technology because it doesn’t have the taint of fag or commie on it like Apple and Linux, but they do get that Bill Gates these days is practically a flaming leftie since he left and Microsoft is a pretty cool place to work even if I’d be happy to never buy their products, yeah?

No, wait, on second thought, continue. This is priceless.

 
Knight in White Satin
 

I think we’d have more success asking Steve Jobs to “take Us into space”. I mean, who would want a Vista powered space ship? I mean, what person with a teaspoon of brains.

 
 

I pretty much ruled back in the day.

 
 

How about OS/2?

CP/M?

DEC?

GEM-TOS?

NeXt-Step?

Be-OS????

Stop me before I code again…

 
Knight in White Satin
 

What humanity needs is a shrink-ray. First you shrink the crew, then put them in a tiny space ship, maybe even one that looks like the Enterprise, and it would be easy to achieve escape velocity. Then, when they reach their destination, they could use the growth-ray. So easy.

 
 

I think we’d have more success asking Steve Jobs to “take Us into space”.

Only if Woz designs the hardware.

 
 

Then, when they reach their destination, they could use the growth-ray.

Should I go ahead and make the joke, or would someone else like to do it?

 
You Can't Put Lipstick On A Repig
 

I would prefer to see the ship run on Minix, the predecessor of Linux. It makes super-tiny kernels (8K) and is bulletprooof.

 
 

Only if Woz designs the hardware.

You might be onto something. I heard that lately he’s been dancing with the stars.

 
 

That photo of Michele from a couple of posts back is a good start on the shrink-ray at least.

 
Knight in White Satin
 

forked tongue: good one. Add Pammy and Coulter to the mix…a dash of Mean Jean…alternate universe, Here I Come!

 
 

Uh oh, Gav. You’ve been linky-dinkied by Mr. Black.

 
Peter Principle
 

“Are these people a bunch of fourteen-year-olds building an MPC/Fundimensions model kit of Moonbase Alpha and huffing up big snorking lungfuls of fumes from a bottle of Testors liquid model cement!? No, I mean are they?”

No they are not, because if they were they would be able to think more clearly and express themselves better.

 
 

With all this talk about Instapundit and various computer systems of dubious quality, I’m frankly surprised the Malfunctioning Glen Reynolds Robot hasn’t come up for discussion. Heh, indeed.

 
 

Was the Young Republicans meetup link just for fun?

 
 

Based on his website design, my guess is that ‘the future’ in Jerry’s novels looks something like 1997.

 
 

(minix) makes super-tiny kernels (8K) and is bulletprooof.

I’ve found that a bullet or two will crash any operating system, provided you aim them correctly.

 
 

A Mote in God’s Eye political regime of the future: Benign Monarchy with nobles doing “service to us all” by calling the shots.

Don’t even get me started on the Falkenberg’s Legion books.

 
Our Dead Selves
 

Website of science-fiction author Jerry Pournelle…

… hurts my head-thinky thing.

 
 

I’ve found that a bullet or two will crash any operating system, provided you aim them correctly.

Actually, it takes much less than that. Spilling Dr. Pepper onto the hard drive will do the trick. Not that I’d know anything about that. Not at all.

 
 

Was the Young Republicans meetup link just for fun?

Yeah, what’s up with that? I really wanted to check out Pournelle’s website, if for no other reason than the teeny tiny print up above is really fucking with my astigmatism.

 
 

…ahh, fixed now. Never mind.

 
 

A different sci-fi author, Christopher Anvil (I was just reading this at Baen Bks., & about to post it at Fire Megan McArdle, but it seems appropriate):

“Mr. Smith was checking over his company’s figures as I came in. He was beaming with good nature. He motioned me to sit down while he totaled up a column of figures, and murmured, ‘Sixty million two hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred seventy-two. That checks.’ He looked up, smiled broadly, and said, ‘What can I do for you, young fellow? You aren’t here to tell me your government has come out with an income tax, I hope.’ He looked worried, and said, ‘You aren’t, are you?’ ”

Moffis paused, and scanned the pages rapidly. “Here we are. This is the part I wanted. . . . Mr. Smith stated, ‘Our purpose, young fellow, is to press back the frontiers of poverty and the wilderness of despair. We can do this through sheer productiveness. Produce!—That’s the answer to the problem! Make, build, produce, build, and produce again! Pile it up! Poverty can’t stand up against it! That’s the way to do it! With our methods of production, we can turn out ten, a hundred, a thousand items while the hand-laborer is working on one. Ours may not be quite as good as his, at first, but that’s the next step. Produce, that’s the first step. Improve, that’s the second step. The more you make, the cheaper it gets to make it. Just let the forces of the market guide production into the right lines, and keep the producers unhampered, and the problem’s solved. Nobody can be poor when he’s got everything he needs. And he isn’t likely to be despairing, either. As the stuff piles up, the price on it gets cheaper. It’s bound to. Then everybody can afford it. This way, everybody gets rich. There’s only one thing—keep the government out of it. Once they start sucking the profit out, all the prices go up. And they aren’t subject to the laws of the market, either. They’ll push production into the wrong lines. Then they’ve got a special bag of tricks to keep away any depression. A depression, you know, is when all the mistakes add up, and the something-for-nothing crowd gets taught what the truth is. A little depression puts everyone on his toes, after he’s got fat and lazy from too much easy living. . . . So, you’ve got to keep the government out of it. And one other thing—you got to put some kind of limit on the number of college professors there are running around loose. You get a lot of funny things out of college professors. I don’t understand it, but that’s how it is.’ ”

Moffis put the report down, and Horsip frowned and massaged his chin.

Moffis said, “You see what I mean. He didn’t hold anything back.”

“But,” said Horsip, “what does it mean?”

Moffis nodded. “That’s it.”

Horsip said, “Let’s see that.”

Moffis handed it to him. Horsip sat back, scowling, and leafed through the report.

“It appears to me, Moffis, that Smith has already been through a lot of things we’ve never dreamed of.”

“Yes, but with Smith putting his solution to our problems into action, maybe now we will experience these things.”

“H’m. I wonder what a ‘depression’ is?”

“I don’t know, but I don’t like the sound of it. It may not bother Smith, but it doesn’t sound good to me.”

“Whoever made up this report should have had the sense to find out what the words he put in the report meant.”

“A lot of these reports don’t add up, even with explanations. Here, let’s have that one. . . . Now, here in back—here we are. ‘Depression: A state of acutely depressed business conditions. In a “depression,” there is no money. Except for the urgent necessities, the means of production are idle. Nearly everyone is filled with gloom and despair. The future looks dismal. People kill themselves from lack of hope. Objects worth large sums of money can be had cheaply by anyone with the money to buy them. But nobody has any money.’ ” Moffis looked up. “That’s a depression.”

Horsip said fervently, “It doesn’t sound good.”

“No,” said Moffis, “but how does the money disappear? Here, under ‘Boom,’ it says, ‘Exuberant state of the economy. Everyone has money. Prices are high, but no one hesitates to buy, as everyone expects conditions to be even better in the future.’ ”

Horsip shook his head. “This is as hard to figure out as an ‘installment loan contract.’ “

 
 

Yikes, that’s one ugly website. I mean, I’m too lazy to learn how to imbed links, but you would think a Famous Sci Fi Author would be bothered to figure it out, just for aesthetic purposes if nothing else.

If the Gates Foundation decided to take mankind to space they could permanently end problems caused by shortages of energy and mineral resources.

Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse, or something? Don’t we need to figure out the solution to energy shortages and lack of mineral resources before we start colonizing outer space? Or am I just being too reality-based?

 
 

Above: “Space? I want to go to there!”

I believe you owe Tina Fey’s daughter a royalty payment.

 
 

Explore outer space with me!!!!

 
 

The full paragraph from Vogue:

Bill and Melinda Gates live with their three children (two daughters, aged twelve and six, and a nine-year-old son) in an enormous mansion on the shores of Lake Washington that Gates began building long before he was even married. They are both deeply protective of their children’s privacy but do as much as possible, given the need for a certain amount of security, to ensure that they grow up normally. “It is essential to them that those kids have as regular a childhood as possible,” says Melinda’s brother Raymond French. “They go to parks, have playdates and sleep-overs. Melinda is fierce about this. There will be no bubble for them; these children will not turn out to be Paris Hilton.” Still, being a Microsoft child does carry unusual burdens. “There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household,” Gates tells me. “But iPods and iPhones are two things we don’t get for our kids.” Harsh, perhaps, but understandable. After all, it’s hard to walk around tethered to merchandise made by your father’s most famous competitor. Still, Gates acknowledges the inevitable lure of forbidden fruit. “Every now and then I look at my friends and say, ‘Ooh, I wouldn’t mind having that iPhone.’”

Longing for the competitor’s gadgets is the path to the dark side.

I can’t figure out how this discussion of the Gates kids leads Pournelle to space colonization.

 
 

OB-GYN Kenobi said,
March 11, 2009 at 0:29

“Microsoft Interplanetary Explorer has encountered an error and needs to close. Do you want to notify Microsoft?”

Bouncing in chair laughing out loud, imagining the Star Ship Melinda w/ the controls set for the heart of the sun & the blue screen on every display on the ship.

 
 

A conversation with my daughter:

Kid: WAIT WAIT! You forgot dessert.
Dad: What are you talking about? There’s no dessert after breakfast.
Kid: But in SPACE there is.

 
 

You will be fed and there will be cake.

Killing you and giving you good advice aren’t mutually exclusive.

 
 

I’ve found that a bullet or two will crash any operating system, provided you aim them correctly.

Actually, it takes much less than that. Spilling Dr. Pepper onto the hard drive will do the trick. Not that I’d know anything about that. Not at all.

But the bullet option is so much more satisfying.

 
 

“Microsoft Interplanetary Explorer has encountered an error and needs to close. Do you want to notify Microsoft?”

From socket error to rocket error, that’s what I call progress. BSOD has never been so literal.

 
The Moderate Libertarian
 

Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse, or something? Don’t we need to figure out the solution to energy shortages and lack of mineral resources before we start colonizing outer space? Or am I just being too reality-based?

Space travel can spur innovation in those technologies, like it did in electronics.

 
 

Is anyone talking about this yet: We Surround them
Looks like a great time for snark.

 
 

“Nobody can be poor when he’s got everything he needs. And he isn’t likely to be despairing, either.”

I beg to differ.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

What do you guys have against Reynolds?

Is he the one the term “Glennocide” refers to?

If so, why do you have to ask?

 
The Moderate Libertarian
 

I bet Glenn Beck was more fun before he quit cocaine.

 
 

Is anyone talking about this yet: We Surround them

I like it better when it was called They Live

 
 

Is anyone talking about this yet: We Surround them

Oh god.

So, how do we show America what’s really behind the curtain? Below are nine simple principles. If you believe in at least seven of them, then we have something in common.

If you believe in six of them WE HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON.

I made a Glenn Beck video.

 
 

Actually seen on Pournelle’s site:

This page looks better if you set the default text to Georgia.

Sorry, Jerry, nothing short of knitting needles inserted forcefully into my eyes would do the trick.

 
 

We’d better get back, ’cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly wank at night… mostly.

 
 

I can’t figure out how this discussion of the Gates kids leads Pournelle to space colonization

In Pournelly’s world, only the wealthy can save us. Who better then the world’s richest man to lead us in a caravan of rainbows & ponies to Space (the final …)!!

Old bastard will be lucky to have his ashes shot into space. Assuming there’s anything as recognizable as ashes left.

 
MS Word Paperclip Thingy
 

You seem to be exploring outer space. Would you like help with that?

 
 

I would settle for the Gates Foundation just shooting our wingnuts into space.

Or the sun.

 
You Can't Put Lipstick On A Repig
 

Is anyone talking about this yet: We Surround them

The wingnuts and nutjobs have gotten positively treasonous, according to the standards they themselves set from 2001 to 2008, with respect to the conduct of Americans towards their government.

No one could have foreseen that!

 
 

I can’t figure out how this discussion of the Gates kids leads Pournelle to space colonization.

The challenge of keeping iPods out of their childrens’ hands is roughly equivalent to building a habitable mining operation on Mars?

 
 

I thought we had the coasts. That means we surround them unless they’re living in the oceans now.

 
 

Are you a 9-12’er?

 
Our Dead Selves
 

Wait! Is this just a metaphor for the rapture?

… No, it’s somehow even crazier.

 
 

Are you a 9-12?er?

That, leads me here…and GODDAMMIT THESE PEOPLE ARE IN MY BACK YARD.

The politics of this area sucks, I swear.

Well, that and snow.

 
You Can't Put Lipstick On A Repig
 

Here are Beck’s 12 points, with corrections to add what he really meant to say.

1. America is good. as long as it is killing innocent brown people

2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life. as long as I don’t have to swear on a Bible during my criminal trials

3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday. unless I am testifying in the aforementioned trial

4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government. until I want to dump my wife and get a new one like McCain, Rush, Newt, etc etc etc

5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it. unless I am outing a CIA agent for political gain

6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results. unless I am a crony of a Republican in office. Then I hit the lottery!

7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable. unless it is to fund wars that kill scary brown people

8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion. unless the authority figure is a Republican, in which case it is TREASON

9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me. unless they are Republicans.

I fixed them all for him.

 
 

These 12 principles spell out exactly why you should vote Republican:

Honesty
Reverence
Hope
Thrift
Humility
Charity
Sincerity
Moderation
Hard Work
Courage
Personal Responsibility
Friendship

 
 

Here are Beck’s 12 points

Those are the nine whatsits.

 
 

Are you a 9-12?er?

I usually only work three hours a day, but it tends to be 12-3.

 
 

Values, principles: how should a commie like me know what’s what?

 
 

Well, actually, “we” (& the Mexicans & Canucks) have “them” pretty much surrounded.

Gotta love the “Nine Principles” & the “12 Values,” & all the other crap.

Is every rabid weasel w/ a microphone or website striving to get their own “Strike Farce” going? Where “Strike Farce” means “list of suckers who backed a loser & can’t get into their heads that the election’s over, whose names we can sell to spammers, ’cause things is tight, damn that Obama.”

 
 

We already sent CP/M to the stars.

 
You Can't Put Lipstick On A Repig
 

Does anyone think the Beck Treason Group will get into a pissing match with the Teabag Treason Group? Maybe they can form militias and have a shootout to see who are the real “patriots”.

 
 

Jerry Pournelle:

Wealth is generally the answer to many problems, including over-population.

Snorghagen:
‘Desert after breakfast is generally the answer to many problems, including death rays.’

Gosh! I can make as much sense as a famed science fiction writer.

 
The Moderate Libertarian
 

‘Desert after breakfast for dinner is generally the answer to many problems, including death rays.’

FTFY.

 
 

Oh, sweet blood of CheeseWhiz. “9-12.” I get it.

No. Please. Make it stop.

 
 

Imagine the ship is exploding around you, and you have the oxygen mask clamped to you face with one hand while you frantically type in the keycode to reinstall with the other…

 
 

Sad.

The very first thing when I got my copy of “Byte Magazine” back in the late ’80s and very early ’90s was flip to the Chaos Manor column. Jerry provided the blueprint for fucking around with computers back when you HAD to fuck around with them to make them do what you wanted.

Remember painstakingly typing his assembler programs and running them thru Debug? You got an executable called a .com (you’ll have to trust me on this, youngsters. It meant “compiled”. It had to be shorter than 64K. And it was almost certainly written in a VERY low level language.) LONG before we ever heard of an internet domain. That did some cool stuff.

Whatever he has become, a great deal of what I have today I owe in at least a small part to the things I learned reading Pournelle every month. To be honest, I have no problem ripping him when he says stupid unsupportable Libertarian talking points, but I thought to be fair his very real contribution should be mentioned also.

Carry on…

mikey

 
 

Wealth is generally the answer to many problems, including over-population.

Once you buy all the people there aren’t any left. QED.

 
 

‘Desert after breakfast is generally the answer to many problems, including death rays.’

For me, a nap after breakfast works really well.

 
 

A nap after every meal is nature’s way.

 
 

RUSH: Jim Cramer, poor guy, his head’s about to explode out there, the CNBC reporter. He continues to be appalled by the Drive-By Media, when they’re simply acting the way the Drive-Bys always act without fail. Now, Jim Cramer is experiencing what I have been talking about and dealing with for two decades, and he doesn’t understand it. He was an Obama supporter. He is a liberal Democrat. But I want say, “Welcome to the club, Jim.” Because you’re finding out what it’s like to run afoul of your own guys. Now, his laments are part of a piece that he has written at his website, MainStreet. And, Jim — he might be out there, he’ll certainly hear about this, because I certainly mean this as assistance. I’m trying to help Mr. Cramer here.

“Suddenly,” he writes, “I find myself in the center of a firestorm over Obama’s economic policies, taking enfilading fire from the ‘liberal’ media (from serious columnist Frank Rich to entertainer Jon Stewart) while being defended by Rush Limbaugh, the standard-bearer for the Republicans. I’m uncomfortable being in the crosshairs of columnists and comedians I enjoy, and I find the embrace of Rush Limbaugh most certainly strange if not antithetical to many of my viewpoints.” Now, Jim, maybe since you’re so smart, it should have dawned on you over the years just how many undeserving people do get in the crosshairs of people like this. This isn’t new. You are by no means the first. For some of us, Jim, this is part of the day, this is part of our careers: to be in the crosshairs of the White House on down through its PR media. You’re uncomfortable being in the crosshairs of columnists and comedians you enjoy? And you find the friendly embrace of Rush Limbaugh most certainly strange? Just trying to help here, buddy, because you’re right about what you’re saying, and that’s why you’re being taken down. Jim, it’s also because you’re being effective, just like Santelli was effective. They’re trying to take you down, Jim, because you’re effective about this, and you’re on television, and you are influencing the way people think.

He says: “Take Frank Rich and Jon Stewart. Both seize on the urban legend that I recommended Bear Stearns the week before it collapsed, even though I was saying that I thought it could be worthless as soon as the following week. I did tell an emailer that his deposit in his account at Bear Stearns was safe, but through a clever sound bite, Stewart, and subsequently Rich — neither of whom have bothered to listen to the context of the pulled quote — pass off the notion of account safety as an out-and-out buy recommendation. The absurdity astounds me.” Jim! Shazam, Jim, you find out personally that your liberal media buddies take sound bites out of context? Really? Who knew, Jim? Jim, this is what happens on a daily basis to people on my side of the aisle. Now that you find yourself on our side of the aisle, in that you question whether Obama’s policies are gonna light a fire under the private sector, you’re getting the same treatment. This has been part-and-parcel of people like me’s career and day for 20 years.

And then he writes this: “It is funny how the right is certainly very civil as my old friends and new allies as of last week, Fred Barnes and Sean Hannity, don’t hold my left wing social view against me when they talk about my criticism of the president! I always love anyone from Fox on the team because they are fierce in their defense with much less gratuitous slamming.” Now, wait a minute, Jim. See, I thought those of us on the right were always the mean-spirited ones, and you’re finding out it’s your buddies on the left who are the mean-spirited ones and you’re finding out that people don’t hold all of your views against you when they agree with a couple or three of them. See, Jim, we’re talking about the country here, and that’s why you’re welcomed by people on our side because we generally fear for the kind of country we’ve known. We fear for what it’s going to become. We fear a total transformation from a country based on individual liberty and capitalism and free markets to Central Planning, control of outcomes, and general expansion of the welfare state, all for the purposes of expanding the power of a particular political party, and in this case President Barack Obama.

So there’s no strange fact that we welcome anybody to our side on this who agrees with us in our thinking, and who cares whatever else you believe about things. Those things come into play down the track, but we’ve got priorities here now. And then he closes by saying: “But if it stays ad hominem,” meaning the attacks, “we will all be betrayed and the train wreck will become inevitable.” Count on it to stay ad hominem, Jim. See, you’ve never noticed it because it’s not ever been directed at you, but this is how Democrat White Houses and Democrat media deal with their enemies. They demonize them, they villainize them, they never discuss the merits of their issues, Jim. They never talk about substance, it’s always discredit the image, the reputation of whoever is an effective, in their minds, critic. You have joined the club of effective critics, so you’re not to be engaged and debated. You are to be cleared away; you are to be disreputed, disrespected; you are to be impugned, and your reputation is subject to assault and attack, which is happening now. The more you keep it up, the more the assaults will continue on your reputation and the effort to demonize you and distance you from the people who you’ve always thought were your friends. I gotta take a quick time-out. Rush Limbaugh, the little commentary there aimed at Jim Cramer, trying to help him understand what has happened to him and why, why it will continue if he remains to be effective, and why it’s not so bad to have us as friends. We all want the same thing. We want to save America.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

Remember painstakingly typing his assembler programs and running them thru Debug?

Only a couple of times – I was more into the toy computers like the C-64, though I did do assembly hacking on them plenty (still do 8-bit assembly as a hobby). I did have buddies who typed his stuff in pretty religiously, and I totally remember .com files. Heh. How “dot com” has changed!

That was Pournelle’s high point, IMO.

 
 

Oh look, 10,000 words by Rush Limbaugh defending Jim Cramer. That really changes my mind about the guy. He must have credibility after all. I’m sorry I doubted his economic genius.

 
Limbaugh on Cramer
 

“Get in mah belly!”

 
 

I donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and was a strong supporter of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.

 
 

Thanks for the money, Jim. you’re still a douchebag.

 
 

The point being that every one of these stock-predicting dipshits is as wrong as every one of those pundits, about everything. And should be in the cross-hairs of the drive-by media.

Way to mix your metaphors, fatboy.

 
 

I dunno, Bouffant.

If you were doing a Drive-By, and you, say, used a telescopic sight, then your target would be in the crosshairs during a Drive-By.

Oh, never mind. It’s still crap…

mikey

 
 

if the Gates Foundation decided to take mankind to space they could permanently end problems caused by shortages of energy and mineral resources.

How much should “We the People” charge the Gates Foundation for access to all that scientific and engineering research? Is NASA supposed to hand out for free?
Or does Jerry mean the Gates’ should start from scratch? If they have to start from scratch they are going to need a lot more money then they have now. It’s not 1969 anymore.

Here is my idea on how to raise interest in getting ‘private enterprise’ to the moon. Divide the Moon into 1000 square mile sections, then sell half those sections with all exploitation rights for a penny an acre, with the provision the buyer must occupy the property. Then give away the other half to the Gates Foundation to dole out as they see fit.

Sure, there is that matter of ‘who owns the Moon’, but if history is any kind of guide, that is a trivial fucking problem.

 
Some Random Idiot
 

As the MS-Ship approaches the speed of light how will that effect the download speed of Ver 1.73 Patch Update? I’m pretty sure I’m going to need that to take care of the deceleration bug.

 
 

I donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and was a strong supporter of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.

And on your advice millions of people donated millions of dollars to fraudulent hucksters. Maybe you have a future in political debate, but I’d say your goose is cooked as far as the financial world goes.

Sorry Jim.

 
 

If micro soft built a spaceship it’d mostly be used to viewing porn and sending Spam emails to other planets about some kid with cancer who wants a million get-well cards and some rightwing outrage of the day, President Obama eating kittens or some such.

oh, and cat pics. We’d be sending lots of cat pics to Mars…

 
 

Simba B said,
Are you a 9-12?er?
“That, leads me here…”

I went there and looked up the people for the Twin Cites Metro area. It’s about 150 or so… out of 3.1 million. And they all want to meet at crappy local bars. The only thing that going to get “surrounded” on Friday is a few pounds of greasy fries and shitty beer.

 
Leon Trotsky, Exile-in-Mexico
 

Why do these trolls always think pretending to be some dingus is going to do something? I don’t answer to some jackass named Cramer. I don’t even answer to Cosmo Kramer.

 
 

I used to work on an IT staff (many, many moons ago, can you say OS/2??) You’d be surprised what people can spill on and in a computer. My fav was a can of peaches. Canned peach juice, now THAT’LL slow down you typing!

 
 

Oh dear, another Sci-Fi writer contributing to the bugfuck crazy wank fiend stereotype about Sci-Fi writers.

 
 

Just for the record, “…take mankind to space [and we] could permanently end problems caused by shortages of energy and mineral resources.” is a statement I agree with. There is a really BIG Solar System out there and with just a little more practice it would be wide open to us.

 
 

Plus a cute robot could lead us home one day.

 
 

mikey said,

March 11, 2009 at 2:14

Remember painstakingly typing his assembler programs and running them thru Debug?

Yes. What they got to run on that 64K was nothing short of fantastic. I burned many man-years on Lode Runner.

 
 

My lady friend killed her first laptop with matzoh ball soup. And it wasn’t even Passover.

 
 

My lady friend killed her first laptop with matzoh ball soup.

Did they catch her?

 
 

Can’t the Gates build a stairway to – now, now – space out of their riches, one dollar bill at a time? I read once how thick such a stack would be, and it seems to me it would easily reach the moon.

And imagine how eco-friendly it would be, not having to use those nasty rockets!

 
 

You know what I think the “solution to overpopulation” is?

Death.

Personally, I like the plague option. Almost completely democratic, Darwinian, and wonderful in the context such as my own that the world would be a lot better place without 4 or 5,000,000,000 people.

Sadly, No! We’ll probably take the incremental approach via world war.

 
 

Personally, I like the plague option.

One of the problems there is that you need enough people alive to operate currently running nuclear plants. Otherwise cute bunnies will die.

 
 

Just for the record, “…take mankind to space [and we] could permanently end problems caused by shortages of energy and mineral resources.” is a statement I agree with.

Harvesting minerals from asteroids and planets will have to get cheaper than doing it here on Earth before it can happen.

 
 

the world would be a lot better place without 4 or 5,000,000,000 people.

Provided none of them are you, of course.

 
 

Can’t the Gates build a stairway to – now, now – space out of their riches, one dollar bill at a time?

If we convert it all to Pennies we could get to Mars.

 
 

Pournelle and Niven, wrote a book about space mining and such which was very interesting and had some really good stuff in it. Sicence speculation, really. As a 17 year old it made me think a bit about how we do things on earth. So I have a soft spot for him.
His politics suck big time, however, and one of the least edifying bits of film I have ever seen was him and Niven exulting about how America won the Cold War.
It’s not my reality.
Rush transcripts straight from the vomitorium are also kinda yuck.
And I’ll have a bacon sammidge with extra cheese.

 
bird-brained stupid snarky wingnut
 

Hey, didja hear? 10 worthless, redneck, Cancer-vative Christianist radicals met their demise in Alabama at the hands of a progressive who decided to put into action the hate being spewed by you libruls.

YAAYYY PROGGIES! Aintcha happy that wuff-less Alabamians have been pulled from the gene pool?

 
 

bird-brained stupid snarky wingnut said,

Whoa, you’re analsyis is elegant as it is brilliant. I’m definitely taking notes, because I need a deep and profound topic for my show tomorrow. Ace work. Stop selling yourself short, Snarky.

 
 

Did they catch her?

No, and that piece of shit HP had it coming.

 
 

There is a really BIG Solar System out there and with just a little more practice it would be wide open to us.

No way dude. The minute we start mining comets the aliens will swoop in from beyond the Oort Cloud and kick our asses.

Besides, the fuckers who own the mines on Terra can barely be arsed to provide adequate safety for workers. Imagine what would happen to the poor schmucks on Mars.

 
 

Harvesting minerals from asteroids and planets will have to get cheaper than doing it here on Earth before it can happen.

I am thinking more about Asteroids than Planets. A manned mission to Mars is a waste of money in my opinion. I agree that it will have to get a great deal cheaper or some kind of profit will have to ‘guaranteed’ before ‘private enterprise’ will invest. That is why I think it is important for Mankind in the guise of their “Governments” to make the investment. It benefits all of humanity. Private Enterprise will do what it has always done, follow after the state sponsored exploration and figure out how to make a buck or two.

 
 

Another white Christian American male goes on a murderous shooting spree, which just makes me fear liberals and Muslims even more.

 
Leon Trotsky, Exile-in-Mexico
 

I agree that the world would be better off without 4 people!

I mean, depending on who those four are. But I know for a fact that four people are specifically responsible for the world being shit.

“The Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothschilds, and Colonel Sanders before he went tits-up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee beady eyes! And that smug look on his face, “Oh, you’re gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!””

 
 

So yet another white Christian American male goes on a murderous gun rampage, which only makes me fear liberals, Muslims, brown folks and gun-control regulations even more.

 
 

bird-brained stupid snarky wingnut

You fucking moron.

 
Another kiwi's new best stupid wingnut friend
 

Awwww, how sweet.

DONCHA JEST LUV THE SMELL OF DEAD WINGNUTZ IN TEH MORNIN’?

 
 

It’s interesting. Cruising around the various news sites, only Fox News doesn’t have the Alabama gunman as their top story. In fact, they barely mention him at all, consigning the story to below-the-fold status under “Latest stories”.

Not sure what the cable channels are covering.

 
just another dumb-as-rocks winger
 

So yet another white Christian Progressive American male goes on a murderous gun rampage,

There, fixed it for ya.

 
just another dumb-as-rocks winger
 

Me, check Drudge.

 
 

Hey Heartland, I’m a liberal brown person who happens to have impeccable aim, and I live in the supposed “heartland”. What’s a girl to do, eh?

 
 

If we laid down a sewer pipe to one of the moons of Jupiter we could handily dispose of our undesirable effluvia.

 
retarded wingnut possessing unmitigated stupidity
 

The gunman was an ardent Obama supporter. Because I said he was.

His victims were all cancervative Redumblicans. News like this makes you leftards get a thrill up your leg, don’t it?

 
 

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck. This thread too? I’m going to bed.

 
retarded wingnut possessing unmitigated stupidity
 

“Hey Heartland, I’m a liberal brown person who happens to have impeccable aim, and I live in the supposed “heartland”. What’s a girl to do, eh?

Start shooting wingnutz. You know you want to.

 
retarded wingnut possessing unmitigated stupidity
 

Simba B said,

I’m going to bed.

HAHA. I WIN.

 
 

Limbaugh on Cramer said,

Well, there’s my nightmare fuel for tonight.

 
puzzled non-moron
 

Simba B said,

I’m going to bed.

HAHA. I WIN.

Yes, yes indeed you do win. And all of your little friends win, too.

 
 

The Gates Foundation should buy NASA and a pony.

 
 

OK, I’m willing to register. Honestly. Please. These fuckheads have ruined this thread.

 
 

I am very concerned that this shooter in Alabama may soon have his 2nd amendment rights violated. We need to organize a rapid teabagging.

 
 

‘ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE’
Maybe that Jupiter pipeline might need some finessing in terms of resource consent.

 
 

No, I’m OK with succumbing to the new plague. It’s just that I have a good family history of being relatively resistant to most bugs. I’ve a bit of a background in medical stuff, and you don’t have any idea of how much your genes matter until you’ve read medical records for a living.

Plus, I’m OK with dying, since as those of us in the reality-based world get that it will happen anyway. Most likely.

 
 

His victims were all cancervative Redumblicans. News like this makes you leftards get a thrill up your leg, don’t it?

Someone had to say it, and I’m glad you did, fine sir. Keep speaking truth to power, as I do on my radio show every weekday.

 
 

Forget it, g.

It’s a suicide pact.

And nobody knows how to opt out.

Sadly is doomed because they figured out they could kill it.

And by shooting back we contribute to its death.

The game is rigged, and our proprietors don’t have the gear to make it right…

mikey

 
Leon Trotsky, Exile-in-Mexico
 

Enh, you get used to being dead after a while, John. Me and Khrushchev set up a shuffleboard court!

 
Johnny Coelacanth
 

“Sadly is doomed because they figured out they could kill it.”

QQ

 
 

It’s just that I have a good family history of being relatively resistant to most bugs. I’ve a bit of a background in medical stuff, and you don’t have any idea of how much your genes matter until you’ve read medical records for a living.

I have to wonder if I also don’t have good genes. My partner has been sick with an awful flu bug that seems to be making the rounds (my boss at work is out with it now too, a coworker missed most of last week,&c.), and he gets colds every year this time of year, and I have not had a serious bug for what seems like an eternity.

 
 

I have to wonder if I also don’t have good genes. My partner has been sick with an awful flu bug that seems to be making the rounds (my boss at work is out with it now too, a coworker missed most of last week,&c.), and he gets colds every year this time of year, and I have not had a serious bug for what seems like an eternity.

Every time I go to the doctor (not as often as my partner would like), he says “and how are your parents?” [90 and 93]. Man, I hope they hang in there.

 
 

Depends on the bug, Simba B. Neither of us know for sure, but I suspect our odds are better than most. But that doesn’t mean jack-all squat depending on the new bug.

In any case, the bug won’t care about our politics!

 
 

Enh, you get used to being dead after a while,

as long as you have a steady supply of brains.

Unfortunately, the trolls around here don’t make it. I’ve had to resort to ordering deliverypersons food.

“Send More Paramedics!” Also.

 
 

Simba B is just begging for it. Not even a kinneh horeh to ward me off.

Expect boils tonight, fever tomorrow.

 
 

Being dead is like being alive but longer.

 
 

Being dead is like being alive but longer.

and stinkier.

 
 

Enh, you get used to being dead after a while, John. Me and Khrushchev set up a shuffleboard court!

Watch out. Dead Khrushchev is a Moonie.

 
 

Being dead is like being alive but longer.

…and cheaper.

 
 

Israel should systematically exterminate all of the palestinians. They are all terrorists, from the Hamas leaders to the lowly taxi drivers and cops on the street. None of them have anything but hatred for Israel and the Jewish people.

I for one would not shead a tear if the palestinians were wiped out. They are not even a nation, the whole idea of an independent palestinian state is a red herring divised by the Arab governments to destroy Israel. The so-called palestinians are merely Egyptians and Jordanians who followed the Arab armies during their invasion of Israel in 1948 and have since never left.

The Arab governments have been using this red herring as a double edged sword since 1948 in order to gain Arab support for their continued wars of aggression against Israel.

 
 

Dead Khrushchev is a Moonie.

Wow!

 
 

Being dead is like being alive but longer.

and stinkier.

And dead people generally perform poorly when doing wind sprints.

 
 

Lord Harry, Pam Geller called. She wants her shtick back, right now.

Also her implants.

 
 

But we excel at “quiet time.”

 
Knight in White Satin
 

“Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse, or something? Don’t we need to figure out the solution to energy shortages and lack of mineral resources before we start colonizing outer space? Or am I just being too reality-based?”

NOT if you have a shrink-ray! A shrink-ray would solve ALL our problems. Just imagine…people could LIVE in their iPods.

 
 

Here’s what happens when Western Nations allow mohammedan scum to immigrate to their country.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203876/posts

The mohammedans should be immediately deported for their treason.

 
 

What is that with the dead folks sitting around not talking and such? This is why they get marginalized, not the stinkyness issue.

 
 

After gramps died I at last understood the aphorism “Dead men tell no tales.” And I smiled.

 
 

Lord Harry, Pam Geller’s lawyers called. They’re serious.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

 
 

…well, I understand “Dead men tell no tales”, but what the hell is an aphorism.

 
 

I like to dress up as Pam Geller, and my breasts are much bigger.

 
 

SomeNYGuy, Lord Harry called. He’s not serious.

Be silent. Be very silent.

 
 

what the hell is an aphorism.

It’s like an ooferism but less funny.

 
Scared Republicans
 

I am SO SCARED of Muslims that I pee in my pants on a regular basis.

In fact, I don’t even wear panties anymore. I just wear Depends.

 
 

So his virulent hate speech is supposed to be funny? Pardon my lack of sophistication.

 
 

In fact, I don’t even wear panties anymore. I just wear Depends.

I’m glad you opened up and shared, Scared. Believe me, it’s not easy, but it’s a good first step to healing. The second step being of course impeaching the Muslim in the White House, followed by the third being installing a true conservative president who will start another war against the brown people.

 
Scared Republicans
 

I am also frightened to death about ghey marriage, brown people in political office (hint hint), feminists, women in general, book larnin’, and anything that smacks of East Coast elitism (unless Rush tells me that the elites are OK with him)

My Depends bill is, like, $500 a month!

 
Comedian Rush Limbaugh
 

So his virulent hate speech is supposed to be funny? Pardon my lack of sophistication.

You indeed lack the sophistication to appreciate Lord’s humor, just like you lack the sophistication to worship the giant wart on my tush. Or is that my face? I don’t know, it’s all too confusing.

 
 

the third being installing a true conservative president who will start another war against the brown people

Why bother? It’s just barely an Ivy League school.

 
 

So his virulent hate speech is supposed to be funny? Pardon my lack of sophistication.

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Troll

 
Deadeye Dick Cheney
 

you lack the sophistication to worship the giant wart on my tush.

Dedicated draft dodgers everywhere worship the giant wart on your tush, Rush. I know I do.

I didn’t have it so easy; the fourth (or maybe it was the fifth) time, I even had to resort to impregnating my repulsive wife.

 
 

Wart, Comedian Rush Limbaugh, you obvious imposter!???

It was a cyst, dammit, and cysts got millions out of serving!

 
Concerned Liberal
 

We liberals could learn a lot from our Conservative brethren if only we would let them speak. Scared Republican, would you please tell me where I can get some good deals on Depends?

 
 

Why bother? It’s just barely an Ivy League school

Listen, you latte sipping elitist Volvo driver, we take no one for granted in our quest to rid academia of…ermm…academic people. That way the young impressionable ones among us right thinking conservatives can go through their college years just like the rest of their lives–living in an echo chamber where their beliefs are not challenged.

 
Leon Trotsky, Exile-in-Mexico
 

Besides, it’s not like they’re targeting Cornell.

 
 

The fact is, I am in hte majority in USA: patriotic freedom loving citizen who works hard. Lazy libs and there poverty pimp enablers like Obsama are trash. Follow my Tweets.

 
Deadeye Dick Cheney
 

It was a cyst, dammit, and cysts got millions out of serving!

They even made a movie about it. “Cyster Act.” Whoopie Goldberg played a lovable, wise-cracking taint.

 
 

Killfile is like an automatic toilet. I loves it.

 
 

Killfile is like an automatic toilet.

Toilet? Is that a word?

 
 

How come you never see the headline

Gun Nut Stops Mass Murderer Before Anyone Is Actually Hurt

?

or even

Gun Nut Prevents Further Loss of Life After Shooting Spree Breaks Out

?

instead we get

Violent Gun Nuts Say Nutty Gun Violence Can Be Prevented With More Guns, More Nuts and More Violence

why

?

 
 

O ne

B ig

A ss

M istake

A merica!

 
Charlotte the Psychotherapist
 

Toilet? Is that a word?

I was wondering the same thing about “dirigible.”

Send in my next porpoise.

 
 

How come you never see the headline

Gun Nut Stops Mass Murderer Before Anyone Is Actually Hurt

Possibly because that would be a slightly inflammatory headline. You’d do better to wait for:

Bernard Goldberg Reader and Sean Hannity Listener Kills Lots of People Dead, Explicitly Cites His Inspiration, But We Somehow Neglect to Tell You About It

Although I’m not holding my breath for that one either.

 
 

How come you never see the headline

Gun Nut Stops Mass Murderer Before Anyone Is Actually Hurt

?

or even

Gun Nut Prevents Further Loss of Life After Shooting Spree Breaks Out

?

Probably for the same reason you’ll never see headlines like:

Rightwing blogs enable commenting, and furthermore choose not to censor liberal comments.

Both are pure fiction, in the former case a fantasy of the winguts firearm worshippers*, in the latter case no liberal will hold their breath until it becomes reality.

*Not to be confused with sane, responsible gun owners.

 
 

Adrian said,
March 11, 2009 at 5:52

How come you never see the headline

Gun Nut Stops Mass Murderer Before Anyone Is Actually Hurt

For the same reason you never see the headline SHARK BITES LAWYER or WARMONGERING WINGNUT ENLISTS TO FIGHT MUSLIM THREAT.

Professional courtesy.

 
 

How about OS/2?

OS/2 WARP, clearly.

 
 

Fuck the trolls. You know, back in the 1970s I lived in a group house that was open to anyone who needed a place to crash. We helped a lot of people, but we also had to put up with a lot of annoying assholes.

After a while, the assholes outnumbered the people who were cool. After another while, the assholes were the only people in the house. We all left.

Can we please do something about it? How about a doorbell, so someone at least has to fucking introduce themselves to get in?

 
 

How about a doorbell, so someone at least has to fucking introduce themselves to get in?

“Candygram!”

 
An Alien Overlord Concerned About Local Property Values
 

Don’t even think about it.

If so much as one lousy ark-ship gets through your orbiting halo of trash & makes it out here, you can tell brontosaurus we said hi.

 
 

I can’t figure out how this discussion of the Gates kids leads Pournelle to space colonization.

All roads lead to Rome Trantor.

 
 

All the thinkers in this cosmos! I, Marx, have met God. I have found that He is the Parent of humankind. I have felt the greatness of God’s love. I clearly convey to you who God is. He is the Parent of humankind. Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who is on the Earth, brought this fact to light. The Divine Principle and Unification Thought express the original standards that open the way to salvation, so you must read them. I ask this of you seriously. I clearly say that I apologize for my past to God and True Parents and love them and am proud of them.

 
 

I would like to buy a ticket for Trantor but I am cleaning the toilet. It is from the Latin Toi meaning “Place to put” and let meaning fucking morons.

 
 

So Karl: what does God think of Watchmen? Has he seen it yet? Is it cool?

 
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
 

I just love a big wedding.

 
Leon Trotsky, Exile-in-Mexico
 

I speak to Rosa Luxembourg personally and she thinks Rev. Moon is a filthy exploitative cunt. Not many people knew this about her, but Rosa had a mouth on her that could strip the souls off longshoremen.

 
 

Watchmen? Feh. This was the only good part (very, how do you americans say, not safe for werk?):

http://fleshbot.com/5166592/malin-akerman-sheds-her-latex-in-watchmen

 
Rosa Luxembourg
 

Rosa had a mouth on her that could strip the souls off longshoremen.

You show me a better way to get a Grand Duchy named after you.

You fucking cunt.

 
 

Communist Party members! God exists. God exists as the harmonized union of femininity and masculinity, and when He appears to us, He appears in a masculine manner. I, Luxemburg, have completely understood this through studying the Unification Principle and Unification Thought. I now understand with certainty that God has always existed as the Parent of all humankind.

While on Earth, I dedicated my life to the actualization of a biased ideology. The revolution I pursued during my life was not so much a Communist revolution as it was a revolution for the liberation of human beings. Here in the spirit world, however, I have clearly understood that the ideology to bring true human liberation is the Unification Principle. In the Unification Principle I have found a new vision that humanity can strive for. The Messiah of humanity, the True Parent, has become manifest on Earth, and he is working arduously to cut off Communism and other erroneous ideologies. This person is none other than Reverend Sun Myung Moon. He is the savior who gives new leadership to humanity with a philosophy of peace that is centered on God. I will now attend God and dedicate my heart and soul to following the teachings of Reverend Sun Myung Moon. God is the Parent of humanity. I will live my life shouting out that the time has come for humanity to live in one bond of brotherhood and sisterhood based on Godism.

 
The Washington Times
 

Reverend Sun Myung Moon Johnson is right!

 
Concerned Liberal
 

So Karl: what does God think of Watchmen? Has he seen it yet? Is it cool?

He’s jealous of Dr. Manhattan’s huge blue ballsack.

 
 

The Moonies have started converting people after death? Who the fuck do they think they are — Mormons?

 
 

Toilet? Is that a word?
It is a French diminutive, meaning “small labour”, and you pronounce it “Twa-ley”, to rhyme with ‘sachet’ and ‘cachet’.
And helmet and bucket.
This is usually the point where my language skills break down.

 
 

Wealth is generally the answer to many problems, including over-population.
True, that. In the country of the over-populated, the wealthy man can buy citizenship somewhere else.

 
Leon Trotsky, Exile-in-Mexico
 

In the kingdom of the blind, the wealthy man doesn’t know if he has ones or hundreds.

 
 

God, I did wrong. I truly lived wrong. I, in the position of a sinner, have been given a new life. I, the cruel Stalin, learned the love of human beings through Your love and the four great saints. I learned the right way of living of human beings through Unification Principle and ideology; and I learned why my past life was wrong. I can’t dare to ask for Your forgiveness, but I will give my best effortto establish God’s Kingdom as a child of God.

And Reverend Moon, True Parent, I will promise, because you gave me a new life, which I greatly thank you for, absolute obedience and absolute submission. I, Stalin pray, representing the 120 others.

 
 

I, Stalin pray, representing the 120 others.

Aww, he’s a sweet old guy after all!

 
 

The Moonies have started converting people after death?
You obviously haven’t heard of the post-mortem mass wedding ceremonies.
I was going to mention “Cadaver Marriage”, but that probably is the name of a band already.

 
 

The Moonies have started converting people after death?

It’s bad. It’s real bad. Those bastards got to William Howard Taft, and he was one tough mofo.

 
 

/ starts band to use fantastic name first

 
Concerned Liberal
 

Is the Moonie troll a new subspecies? Never seen that before.

 
 

On a tangental note, I want to thank S,N! for the name of my ‘rock band’ fake plastic/real friends band – “Supply Side Suicide” which I took from a comment here more than a year ago.

Bonus: my solo side project is “The Downturns”

Supply SIde Suicide featuring The Downturns. Thanks to S,N! regular commenters.

 
 

Is the Moonie troll a new subspecies?

Spirit world, pal, spirit world. Trolls are earthly.

 
 

It’s bad. It’s real bad. Those bastards got to William Howard Taft, and he was one tough mofo.

Holy shit. That is some creepy stuff.

I expect to see a searing expose of this in the Weekly Standard any day now.

 
 

Rush is cracking under the strain. I listened to him today, and his voice was at least an octave higher, and his rant was choppy. He’s losing it, what with people now looking into his actual listener numbers.

Le jig eez up, Rushbo!

 
 

In the country of the deaf, you could start a punk band and no-one would notice.

 
An Alien Overlord Concerned About Local Property Values
 

Don’t even think about coming out here until ( / unless ) you get your shit together on your homeworld. And I mean REALLY together.

If so much as one single lousy ark-ship gets past your halo of orbiting trash without the approval of the Regional Galactic Strata Counsel, you’ll be joining brontosaurus in MY kill-file.

Primates.
Sheesh.

 
Jehovah, Lord of Hosts
 

I have specially sent Rev. Sun Myung Moon, my beloved son, and the True Parent, as the Messiah to all humanity, so believe in him and unite based on his teachings. If you do so, you will feel, deep down in your hearts, that I am your parent and your Father even though you cannot see or touch me.

Nah, just fucking with you. The Messiah is still Creflo A. Dollar.

 
 

Deceased Moonie Dwight David Eisenhower writes from the Spirit World:
Now, even if it is in this place, the presidents of the United States are resolved, centering on the ideology of True Parents, to actively take part in the movement for the settlement of world peace. If you look at our solemn and resolved faces you will receive comfort. Please forgive me for daring to write this letter to you.

Take comfort – the dead Presidents are on the march!

 
An Alien Overlord Concerned About Local Property Values
 

Don’t even THINK of bringing your stinky meat out here.

If so much as one single lousy ark-ship makes it past your orbiting halo of space-trash, your rinky-dink species will be keeping brontosaurus company in MY kill-file.

Fuckin’ monkeys.

 
 

In the country of the toilet, you should always have an umbrella handy.

Karl Marx. Stop that moony shit, get out into the countryside and raise the serfs or serf the raisins!
Rosa Luxembourg wash your mouth out young lady and keep away from sure long men.

 
 

Rush is cracking under the strain. I listened to him today, and his voice was at least an octave higher, and his rant was choppy. He’s losing it, what with people now looking into his actual listener numbers.

Sounds like somebody’s jonesing hard for another ride on the ol’ Oxycontin Express.

Talent on loan from K-Tel … & now they want it all back.

 
 

Jerry forgot about the stobor.

 
 

Rosa had a mouth on her that could strip the souls off longshoremen.
You show me a better way to get a Grand Duchy named after you.

From the existence of San Marino, I deduce that St. Marino is the patron saint of profanity.* Apparently he could swear like a stonemason.

Then there was Gordon Q. Andorra, whose language was so unrelentingly blasphemous and inventively obscene that his oeuvre was once the subject of a special issue of Maledicta.

* In addition to watching over bachelors, deacons, and falsely-accused people.

 
 

Maledicta! the things you Aucklanders get up to. Lawks a mercy.

 
 

Take comfort – the dead Presidents are on the march!

The only dead presidents I want to see are the ones in mybillfold, niggaz. I’m out for dead fuckin’ presidents to represent me.

 
 

If the Gates Foundation decided to take mankind to space they could permanently end problems … including over-population

I guess that’s because you can’t breathe up there.

 
nationalplumbingcodehandbook
 

Oh, I get it. Jerry Pournelle doesn’t love America because he’s not running an Obsession ad. That’s harsh. Pournelle has a nice sense of graphic style and that ad would throw off the whole design. Besides, Pournelle isn’t always descriptive, sometimes he’s inspirational:

 
 

Okay, okay, I got firefox and the greasemonkey… and it was good.

 
word "frontal lobe damage" yeti
 

That Testors stuff really did the trick back in the 70s. Is it still around?

It would explain a lot; I once glued the tires to the tops of the wings of a P-47 under the influence of Testors.

It would explain a lot about the subprime mortgage crisis. And the invasion of Iraq. And the response to Katrina. And the Justice Department firings. And the shredding of Article 4. And … and …

Aw fuckit. Hand that little metal squeeze-tube and a paper bag over

(hnnnnnfff!)

 
 

I kind of miss the good old days when Pournelle was predicting the immanent conquest of space by private enterprise.
The Great Gazoogle offers me a choice of “Results 1 – 10 of about 184 for aerospike pournelle. (0.66 seconds)”; or
“Results 1 – 10 of about 211 for “mass driver” pournelle. (0.32 seconds)”; or
“Results 1 – 10 of about 111 for “rail gun” pournelle. (0.24 seconds)”

Those good old days started about the time of O’Neill colonies and the L-5 Society, but they must be over now if his hopes are now pinned on a philanthropic foundation rather than on transcendent technology. Perhaps he was mugged by alliteration reality.

 
 

You’d be surprised what people can spill on and in a computer. My fav was a can of peaches. Canned peach juice, now THAT’LL slow down you typing!

My wife is a serial computer killer, all with the same m.o., Chardonnay. You wouldn’t’ believe it, but a glass of Cloudy Oak will fuck your Dell/Toshiba/Acer laptop up. In the same vain, red wine doesn’t seem to be as serious a problem.

 
 

Most trolls believe that they are, in fact, funny. Anyone who does not agree with them is obviously either: overly sensitive, has no life, no sense of humor, or is a combination of two or all of these. In many instances, one can see where troll has in fact messed up but is too wrapped in his own little laugh to notice how much of a douche they have really been. These trolls are the most easy to identify, as they often stop leaving comments when it is obvious even to a monkey with a brain tumor that they have fucked it up, or when you see a comment that begins with telling the owner of the site/picture/story/etc that they suck for no good reason. To be absolutely sure, look for the word “lulz” anywhere in their comments, or YHBT at the end of the comments.

 
 

God, it sickens me having to pretend to give a shit about all the covetous, hook-nosed subhumans in Israel just to further my masters’ political agenda. Don’t ever say we trolls don’t have to make sacrifices.

 
 

So did the rampaging muslim hordes overrun western civilization while I was asleep?

 
 

Twice! But then they had to go and pray.

 
 

After gramps died I at last understood the aphorism “Dead men tell no tales.” And I smiled.

Each night, Father fills me with dread
When he sits at the foot of my bed
I don’t mind that he speaks
In gibbers and squeaks
But for seventeen years, he’s been dead.

 
 

I used to read Pournelle’s column on computers in Infoworld. Then I sat down the table from him at an awards banquette. He got drunk and started doing a Donald Duck imitation. I have been unable to take him seriously since.

 
 

I once killed a PC in Reno just to watch it die.

It was kind of cool actually, it turned all blue and stuff…

 
 

Isn’t there some kind of corollary to Godwin’s Law about mentions of OpenBSD? If not, then there should be.

 
 

Isn’t there some kind of corollary to Godwin’s Law about mentions of OpenBSD?

Yeah, but that’s on a different website.

 
The Goddamn Batman Lost A Little Bit Of His Soul When Pournelle Battened On Larry Niven Like A Chupacabra With Aviator-Frame Glasses
 

Are these people a bunch of fourteen-year-olds building an MPC/Fundimensions model kit of Moonbase Alpha and huffing up big snorking lungfuls of fumes from a bottle of Testors liquid model cement!? No, I mean are they?

That is the distilled essence of Pournelle, yes. And if you could, in fact, distill the essence of Jerry Pournelle and shoot it into space–straight at the sun, say–the world would indeed be a better place. I’m pretty sure that the shambling shade of Gene Roddenberry wouldn’t mind if they bumped his and his wife’s ashes to the next rocket to make room.

 
Peter Principle
 

Clearly, the solution is to have a Linux-based Starship.

Hmmm, this thing says we’re going to fall into the sun in 30 seconds. Better consult the hyperdrive users group . . .

 
 

Late to the party so apologies if this has been covered already.

Mickeysoft’s new ad campaign – does it make sense to anyone? What I’m talking about is their tag line, “Windows – for a world without walls.” Or something like that. Well what the fuck is a window for if you don’t have a wall? How can you even have a window without a wall?

Also, I believe mentioniing OpenBSD has been deprecated. in favor of NetBSD.

 
Rush's connection
 

Man, just when the heat was finally dying down, the fat fuck goes and draws all this attention to hisself.

I told him: That’s it, man. Go get your shit somewhere else.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Microsoft spaceship?

Get real, loosers, it’s the Gates foundation!

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Pournelle and Limbaugh are collaborating on a book, The Cyst on God’s Ass.

Sorry about the double post.

 
A Different Jake H.
 

PeeJ,

Dude, I work for Microsoft and I can’t figure that one out. You’d think that people from Seattle would understand the importance of walls to keeping the roof over your head and the rain out.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

Get real, loosers, it’s the Gates foundation!

I thought it was a foundation from this fuckknuckle. They’d make a spaceship that flew around beating up black people and being hysterical about drugs.

 
 

The Goddamn Batman Lost A Little Bit Of His Soul When Pournelle Battened On Larry Niven Like A Chupacabra With Aviator-Frame Glasses

This is the best thing ever.

 
 

I thought it was a foundation from this fuckknuckle.

LAPD: We treat you like a King.

 
 

I think he’s absolutely right. The Gates’ should send 1/3 of humanity to space.

We’ll tell them the mutant space goat is coming.

But this time, we keep the telephone santizers.

 
 

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