Applied Indifference

Berkeley Breathed alerts his readers that the 8/26 and 9/2 Opus strips won’t be appearing in many papers.  Because Steve’s nutty girlfriend Lola Granola is going through phases of trying out different religions.  And she’s picked, you guessed it, the ROP(MA).

Of course, we get the standard excuses about not wanting to offend. But the money quote (concerning the 8/19 strip) tells us all we need to hear:

As far as whether the Post and the Post Writers Group syndicate treated content about conservative Christians differently than it did content about conservative Muslims, it certainly could be taken that way.

“It appears on the surface to be a double standard,” Burford said, “but at the same time, the climate of the world probably informs their decision with how to go forward with it.”

Translation: “Well, the Christians won’t try to blow us up.”

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Two morons siphoning gas at night. Hell, it’s dark in this shed, why don’t you light a match?

The entirely predictable outcome ensues.

I thought only cartoon characters were stupid enough to pull this stunt.

(h/t lileks at buzz.mn)

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That is all.

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AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming). Or, as I prefer to call it, The Single Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on Mankind, is bullshit.

Either that, or the people who like to blame everything on AGW are full of shit.

Take hurricanes. After Katrina had her way with the gulf coast (Hey Gulfport - we haven’t forgotten you here at Applied Indifference), we were told by every green moron with a mouth that we should get used to this kind of destruction, because global warming was going to make hurricanes more frequent and more intense.

Accordingly, the National Hurricane Center predicted a slobberknocker of a season for 2006 - one that never materialized. Failing that, they did the same for 2007. So far, it’s failed to impress. Second week of August, no hurricanes, no landfalls, THREE (that’s one more than two) named storms. Ironically, that’s the same position in the alphabet (they added one after the season was over last year) as 2006 for this time. We’re more in line with 1997 than with 2005 this year.

So, all you AGW fanatics, I’ve got a deal for ya. If we fail to have another spectacular hurricane season, will you please shut the fuck up about global warming causing hurricanes?

Of course, we could take your connection of hurricanes and AGW (MIT scientists notwithstanding) and say that it’s proof that global warming is just another attempt by the socialists to get everyone to voluntarily destroy their way of life, but that wouldn’t be fair would it? Nah, we’ll just wait for the sunspot cycle to recede and watch the temperature drop ever so slightly.

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when you pull up to the drive-thru on a motorcycle.

Hey, it’s a motorized vehicle, ain’t it?

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No, I don’t know any more than you. I just have a random thought that popped into my head. Looking at the failure, and listening to what some people on scene have reported to hear and feel, there were only two words that came into my mind.

Tacoma Narrows.

And looking at it and listening to an engineer on TV now, there’s another two words.

Mianus River.

If it was structural, that second one is more apropos.

My condolences to anyone who lost a loved one in the collapse.

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Barack Obama (D-Mars) said that as commander in chief he would remove troops from Iraq and putting them “on the right battlefield in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (source here)

He said this in an attempt to deflect the charge from Hillary! that he’s naive about foreign policy. What he doesn’t realize is that he just proved her point for her.

Because it’s a really good idea to invade a country with a 20 million man army and nuclear weapons with two brigades.

Either this man is terribly uninformed about the world, he’s got no ability to predict the consequences of his proposals, or he’s blisteringly stupid.   No matter which is true, he’s shown that he is completely unsuitable to be the leader of this nation.

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