Homestar Watch - Day 38

Still no sign of the Homestar Runner.

NYTimes' Treason

Once again, the New York Times has willfully and intentionally compromised the national security of the United States and endangered the lives of U.S. soldiers. Here, one American hero responds.

Global Warming Hysteria: Part VIII

James Lileks was in good form this morning re: ABC's nationwide call for anecedotes and evidence of global warming. A hefty excerpt:

ABC news has asked viewers to send in evidence of global warming. How is it affecting your life? ABC news wants to hear from you. This is like Life magazine asking readers in 1952 to describe the communists under their beds. Bald? Slavic? Ruddy? Drunken? Well, I can help. Naked hairless blistered ocelots prowl my yard; mutated day-bats flutter around the eaves, and the other day a polar bear got up on two legs and pushed around a fume-belching two-stroke-engine lawn mower as some sort of ironic protest. Although it may have been the neighbor mowing the lawn with his shirt off. Also, water levels are down around Jasperwood. The top tank on the Oak Island Water Feature is down an inch every morning, and while I might suspect the repair crew managed to puncture the new liner while replacing the stones, I suspect methane emissions are to blame. To do my part I will cork the dog’s hinder, since today he finished processing a bratwurst that fell on the floor, and my stars. Fire in the hole, indeed. Even the dog got that expression Curious George had when he broke the bottle of ether.

I am not susceptible to disaster scenarios. I do not believe we have ten years to prevent the inevitable collapse of civilization. As long as I can remember I have been fed end-times scenarios – death by ice, death by fire, death by famine, death by smothering from heaps of clambering humans scrabbling for purchase on an overpopulated world, death by full-scale nuclear exchange, death by unstoppable global AIDS, death by a two-degree rise in temperatures, death by radon, death by alar, death by inadvertent Audi acceleration, death by juju. Doesn’t mean we won’t die of juju. But somehow we survive. The only thing I take away is a vague wistful wonder what it would be like to live in an era when things were generally so bad that the futurists spent their time assuring us it would be better. Say what you will about the past, but at least they had a future. All I’ve ever had, according to the experts, is a grim narrow window of heedless ignorance bliss followed by a dystopian irradiated world characterized by scarcity, mutation, and quite possibly intelligent chimps. You have no future. Oh, and don’t smoke!

Bah.

I’m a stupid optimist. Either the vehicle that takes me to the boneyard will get six miles per gallon of processed dinosaur, or it will run for ninety days on a milliliter of Sea-Monkey urine. Either way, all in all, we’ll make it.

Let Them Finish the Job

Why We Fight

About five paragrphs down in an ABC News story about casualties in Iraq, we find this:

"Elsewhere, a suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt blew himself up in a home for the elderly in the southern city of Basra, killing two people and wounding three."

That's right. A home for the elderly was the latest target for the jihadis.

And so many -- in Congress, in Hollywood, in Academia, in elite newsrooms -- want to reward and embolden these murderous psychopaths by pulling out of Iraq. Murtha, Kerry and the Dixie Chicks say "cut and run."

The overwhelming majority of our guys and gals actually putting their lives on the line over there simply want to be allowed to do the job. They know it's winnable. They know they're winning. And hopefully they know the vast majority of us are behind them.

Beautiful are the Condiments

An online museum of condiment packaging? But of course! The section on Soy Sauce is not to be missed.

What America's Newest News Channel Thinks About Americans

The BBC is bringing a 24 hour news channel to the colonies. Before you watch it, have a look at what a former BBC News correspondent reveals about his former associates.

Excerpt:

"...the BBC thinks that, while the vast majority of Americans are morons who are perfectly content to swallow right-wing rubbish from their political and media masters, there is an educated and sophisticated elite on the coasts that feels somehow its worldview is underrepresented by the current giants of the mainstream media in the US."

And: "...It believes Palestinians are the innocent persecuted victims of violence and imperialism (a recent Jerusalem correspondent memorably confessed to weeping openly when she caught sight of Yassir Arafat's coffin at his funeral in Ramallah) and that the murder of innocent Israeli citizens is on a moral par as victims of war with the killing of Palestinian terrorists by Israeli forces.

It scoffs at religious belief (the last head of its vast religious affairs department was an agnostic), but it holds the doctrine that man--made global warming is true with the passion of any enraptured spiritualist awaiting Judgment Day."

{Hat tip?Cliff May at NRO}