That's Usually Where I Find 'em Too

Hypocrisies Hidden in Plain Sight Dept.

an ever-expanding list

Abortionists Against the Death Penalty


Anti-Oil Bumper Stickers

And the corrollary that Bush's War for Oil in Iraq Caused Gas Prices to Spike

Blacks Who Say All Whites are Inherently Racist

Countries named "Democratic Republic of" Which Never Hold Elections

Christians Defending Themselves Against Aggression is another Imperialistic Crusade, Muslim Aggression is just another Anonymous Discotheque Bombing Borne of Justifiable Frustration at Christian Imperialistic Crusading


Darfur genocide: in its 5th year without UN or Amnesty International intervention


Drawing Mohammad with a Bomb in his Turban is an Understandable Capital Offense, Depicting Mary as a Streetwalker is Art So Deal With It

Flag Burning Out of a Sense of Patriotism

Gays with Stereotypical Impeccable Fashion Sense but Butt Breath


How she's not Black enough, not Smart enough, not Hot enough, nor even a Woman, really, because she's Conservative

How that "Question Authority" Bumper Sticker Advertises Adherence to Whatever the Alphabet News Channels, Politi-Pulp Mags, and Creaky Communist Professors Authorize as the Truth, Without Question

Islam: Religion of Peace

Liberals Who Distrust Government but Want More of It

Marxist College Professors Denouncing Capitalism while Collecting 6-figure Incomes

The National Organization for Women throwing down for the all-male Obama ticket

Progressives who brought you Prohibition, Anti-Tobacco Legislation, and the Continuing Tirade against Trans-fats Refusing to Punish Hard Drug Abuse and Hardcore Drug Dealers

Tree Huggers Hoping to Get Their Picture in the Newspaper

Union Reps driving Foreign Cars

From the Huh? Graphs Dept.

That Pretty Much Covers All of Us Dept.

From the Uh, Because He Told Me In Confidence Dept.

The Dinner Table [5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.

So my doctor has a story for me, about how his son married a gal from Albania, who'd gone to a christian international school there, a super gal. They get along great, she becomes a US citizen, they pump out two kids, go to church every Sunday, and she gets her medical degree.

The day after she's arrived at her American dream, after 15 years of marriage, she drops the bomb on him: she never loved him, she's out the door, she never was a christian, she was always a muslim, the koran gives her the green light to use anyone else who's an infidel to further her ends.

Here's my question, and it's a straightforward one: Since Obama isn't a pocket muslim, what is he? ... He's just another liberal secular humanist? He's an Obamaworshipper? You're so sure he's not out to send you infidels to some shallow grave somewhere. You better place your faith in something stronger than Hope, or your own psychological projections. These people play by different rules than the ones the Christians have laid down in this country.

Man Up.

Responsibility.
This short ended, I feel my heart beating with an anxious desperation in my chest. This is the type of emotional word picture that can change behavior, as the viewer is allowed to live the situation before one presents itself. Steel yourselves, would be heroes, your time for greatness approaches.

Goin' for the friggin Gold.

Honorable mention, UNICEF Photo of the Year.

Boys hang on a bar for five minutes as part of a training session at the Gymnastics Hall of the Shanghai University of Sports August 7, 2007. Students of the gymnastics class of Yangpu District Youth Sports School are all aged 5 to 9. China's future Olympic hopefuls train at one of the thousands of provincial sports schools around the country. Even though these athletes were too young to make the 2008 Beijing Games, they harbor dreams of winning Olympic gold in London 2012 or beyond.

BTW, Olympic rules state that gymnasts must be 16. Which means that the oldest of these boys should be just 13 enough to compete for China come Londontime.

All Star United's LaLa Land

The question isn't whether it's true. The question is it working for you?
Marshmallow skies and custardy pies and nothing's too hard to do.
They're five happy verses or so. They told me all I needed to know.
Ignore all the rest: Trials and tests, and threats to my comfort zone.

Well, I've got no time to find out what's real. I stick with what I happen to feel.
It feels grand when you're livin' in a lala land!

You can name a blessing yourself; stake a claim on power and wealth, and strong healthy teeth, a spot at the beach, and romance that's really swell.
All the saints and martyrs alike, well, they would have called a national strike -
Demanded less pain, more personal gain, if only they'd known their rights!

Well I take it very personally.
Yeah, I got to know what's in it for me.
Ain't it grand when you're livin in a lala land?

I've got my prayer cloth collection in a Jesus jar.
I've got the Holy Ghost ridin' in the back of my car.
Sometimes He gives a little tickle, I go "hardee har har"
Ain't it grand, when you're livin' in lala land.

My Jesus decal does quite the trick. Right above my dashboard I stick it: a good luck charm; it keeps me from harm, and saves me from speeding tickets.

Well I take it very personally.
Yeah, I got to know what's in it for me.
Ain't it grand when you're livin in a lala land?

It's All Relative.

All Star United's Wierdo

Elvis lives in Greece - has changed his name to Joe. The lunar lander filmed in Disney's Studio. God saved me, and I'm crazy? No! I'm a weirdo for knowin' what I know? I'm a weirdo? Whatever floats your boat... I'm a weirdo? I know I believe in You. Mikey died from little rocks that could go pop pop pop pop pop. The army hides what just put circles in your crop. Oh maybe and I'm crazy? No! I'm a weirdo for knowin' what I know? I'm a weirdo? And don't it get your goat? I'm a weirdo? I know I believe in You. We took a hit on the big bang. It screwed up the yin yang. If the truth is pig feed, then God is Siegfried and Roy - oh boy!

If Invading You is Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Right

There was no hard evidence that Iraq had those stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. There was not any evidence that Iraq was responsible for the attacks of September 11, or that Iraq had operational ties to the al Qaeda terrorists who carried them out. By launching a war based on faulty premises and bad intelligence, President Bush failed Wilson's test. - Barack Obama

We should have taken Saddam Hussein out to defend the Kurds, long before he shook hands with the Taliban. The real mistake is that we didn't stop him earlier. Anyone who thinks what Hitler did to the Jews was a crime should have no qualms about invading Iraq to depose Saddam. I think rescuing people groups from extermination is justified. I won't mention the rape rooms and tyrranical atrocities under his reign against the Iraqis. Or should I?
None of this is in answer to what the left has to say about Iraq, it's just common sense. Put out the fire while it's burning your neighbor's house, and you won't have to see your own go up in flames - that's only the selfish side of things. How about Put out the fire while it's burning your neighbor's house, because dammit, you would want him to do the same if it was your house on fire, wouldn't you?

No WMDs, right? Remind me why the UN had inspectors in the country drinking martinis in their hotels - oh yeah, ostensibly to enforce 17 UN pieces of paper on the subject. We all know Saddam had chems, he killed the abovementioned Kurds with them.
I was watching live TV during the initial attacks, and a reporter was filming next to a truckload of missile bodies. The longer-range versions that the UN had outlawed - I saw about 20 of them stacked up like firewood. Where were those missles going? Where did that footage go?

Saddam had no ties to terrorists. Oh-kie-day. Al-Qaeda terrorists. So they were Taliban terrorists, right? I saw this live too: Geraldo Rivera got kicked out of the theater for reporting/drawing a schematic in the dirt on the battle a thousand 101st Airborne troops were having as they encircled a terrorist training camp of 800 or 700 soon-to-be murderers. They put up a good fight, as they were well armed and organized, but the Airborne guys did their jobs better. I'm glad these not-al Qaeda terrorists didn't get a chance to complete their training and subsequently ease through the turnstiles at Disneyland.

If exporting terrorism or WMDs weren't the issue, if it's just that war is the wrong thing to do...

War's a bad thing. But there are worse. Doing nothing is worse, when injustice is being done. Peace is worse, if "peace" is the liberal version where you're letting the bad guys rape/kill/pillage/enslave/do whatever they want, as long as we're not involved by trying to defend the oppressed ones. Korea was no mistake. Vietnam was no mistake - the only mistake was playing politics instead of winning there and ensuring the freedom for S. Vietnam. We rescued Kuwait - that was no mistake. A few million people in Iraq don't think what we've done was a failure or a mistake.

From the Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions Dept.

Hey, Here's a Really Funny Political Joke That I Just Made Up

Obama: Knock, knock.

Middle Class White Male: Who's there?

Obama: Obama.

Middle Class White Male: Obama who?

Obama: Obama Barack-knock Joke.

Middle Class White Male: I don't get it.

Obama: That's because you're a racist and clinging to your guns and religion.

Middle Class White Male: ... I have to get that doorbell fixed.

Obama: They didn't have doorbells in Pakistan when I was there.

Middle Class White Male: Can you get off my porch now? I have to go back to watching Fox news.

Just When You Thought it Was Safe to Tune into TBN Again Dept.

Marketing for Satan.

Oh yeah, here's my response to the call for Satan's Logo ... the challenge of how would Satan and his minions sell their brand if it was a literal mark containing the number 666?

Design Rationale was:
- "666" has to be in the logo.
- A brand name has to be developed. (Think "Zoloft", "Viagra" or "Crestor.")
- Must use "Red". (Satan owns this color. Sorry "Target" and "Coke.")
- Spend no more then 30 minutes on it. (Have work to do.)
- Approach it like a corporate client.
- No cliches. (Think "Devil Horns" and "Trident.")

Here were Von Glitschka's originals (So, Von, you would show the devil just two options?):


My 15 minute try:
And some other fun ones that followed after:





There was some futzing with God-logos, but nobody nailed anything.

Dumb as a Post.

Experiencing continuous growth as it has acquired many organizations in more than a decade, Norway Post launched a new identity that is now part of a bigger family of brands under the new parent company, Bring. A press release has all the information necessary about the set-up of the new company, along with plenty of numbers that establish the importance and relevance of Norway Post and its different branches.

There is something really off about this redesign. Sure, it feels more corporate and like a multimillion enterprise, but there is something about postal service logos that call for a more traditional approach. The old logo featured the Crown of Norway (one of only three logos allowed to use it), a post horn — Norwegian postage stamps since the nineteenth century have featured the advanced sounding arrival mechanism — and a very European sans serif— which may look like Gill Sans, but I think it's Edward Johnston's precursor for the London Underground — that gave the Posten a formal, trustworthy aesthetic.

In contrast, the new logo carries no meaning and, while in five or ten years time it will surely become ubiquitous and recognized, it doesn't stand for anything. This is a very similar case to UPS, where the company was more about its logistics superpowers than the thrill of receiving a package — resulting in a more abstract logo, devoid of meaning. Way to lead by example.

Anyway, to spite those who pinch off design without breaking new characteristic ground, and for those of us who remember the Norge Repairman, here's one implementation of the new logo. Now we know why they removed the horn.

I'm not Waffling, I'm Tilting.

"...one of many skirts. you've gone to the dark side. I hope at least you got an eyeful." - Ridgemaster

GC1EVZ0.
Yeah, I was there at Tilted Kilt and thought, "I can find this without the GPS." And I did find it, since I looked under the WORST POSSIBLE skirt in which to locate a cache at this location. When you go there for a beer, you'll see.

Anyway, I've given up on trying to encourage others to place good caches - I'll just find what's there and try to place good ones. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't keep him from taking a whizz in the river while he's there.

I found a few on my drive up to the 49'ers game over the weekend - worse and worse. It's not just Bako, it's just geocaching in general. We'd have hoped to keep Kern County a cut above in cache quality, but like the air quality here, whenever someone farts in Stockton, we get to smell it. The epidemic is here, the only way to fight it is to stay well yourself. Think healthy, place healthy. Find sick.