Where did the supposedly penniless graduate-student lunatic who shot up the movie theater get the money to buy all his guns and explosives?
From Uncle Sugar. Turns out he didn’t build that massacre by himself, as Obozo would say. The feds helped him, with $26,000 of our tax money, the only kind they have!
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I suppose we can’t expect Obozo to know better than to think his precious big feds invented the Internet since almost everyone else does. But would it be too much to ask a POTUS to do more research than clip newspaper and magazine articles? Looks like that’s about all that this one and his clown act of advisers does.
“If the government didn’t invent the Internet, who did? Vinton Cerf developed the TCP/IP protocol, the Internet’s backbone, and Tim Berners-Lee gets credit for hyperlinks. But full credit goes to the company where Mr. Taylor worked after leaving ARPA: Xerox. It was at the Xerox PARC labs in Silicon Valley in the 1970s that the Ethernet was developed to link different computer networks. Researchers there also developed the first personal computer (the Xerox Alto [above]) and the graphical user interface that still drives computer usage today.”
And, yep, even the mouse
Not that everyone agrees, of course. Really, it depends on how you interpret it. The government funded a lot of the early research. But all that did was lay the stepping stones. And it isn’t the same thing as inventing it.
Via the WSJ and Instapundit
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I’ve always thought something was wrong with Tony Robbins’ mouth. When he talks, it sounds like he has a mouth full of mush he’s just dying to spit out. Could be his muddled message. Unleash The Power Within. Heh.
So he got 21 people to voluntarily burn their bare feet trying to walk on 2,000-degree hot coals. Did he try the walk? I doubt it. He’s the leader of the sheep who pay him money to inspire them. He’s not a sheep himself.
He may have a mouth and a message full of mush but he ain’t stupid. They are.
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Eleven dead. Forty years ago. For whom a minute of silent memorial now is just too much. My, my, how the world has changed since 1972. From reflexive courage to quake-in-your-boots cowardice.
For those alleged champions of personal courage, the International Olympic Committee, certainly. Scared spitless of the Religion of Peace, as so many are these days while pretending only to be super-tolerant of a religious culture that is, in fact, tolerant of no one. Indeed, a Religion of War. A Religion of Hate.
Only Greek-Irish American sportscaster Bob Costas has the nerve, apparently, to lead an observation of this minute for the Israeli olympic team’s eleven who were slain in a Palestinian massacre forty years ago. Good for him. And on NBC, of all venues, whose news department has become thoroughly biased in recent years. We’ll see if the Mooselimbs try to kill him or someone else at NBC. I’d take that bet. Wouldn’t you?
As for the inevitable call for boycotting the Olympics, frankly, that won’t be a hardship for me. I never follow them anyway. Only things that ever have piqued my interest for more than, uh, one minute, are the ice-skating and ski-jumping and they’re not on this year. This is the summer version of the whoop-dee-do. *
What’s really needed is more than one minute of frankly admitting that a great many non-Muslims are scared to death of Islam. “To death” being the operative phrase. We’re in a war. A curious war that few except the aggressors even admit exists.
UPDATE: In this case, though, there’s something else going on as well. Especially considering there have been one-minute Olympic memorials before.
* I forgot beach volleyball, the laugher “sport” mainly noted for its female T&A. I will deny myself that as a boycott statement.
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The Colorado movie theater shootings have brought the usual liberal media cries for gun control. Hey, the theater already had a “no firearms” sign, though some might say that was only an invitation. When only the government has guns, all will be safe? As if.
How about banning movie theaters? Makes as much sense, maybe more. Awful places, movie theaters, sticky floors, and unwashed, overly-perfumed bodies all crammed together, side-by-side. Usually some fat person in the seat in front of you, making it hard to see. Bound to send any left-thinking neuroscience PhD candidate in search of his fifteen minutes of fame.
After all, we now have the Internet, with streaming video. Must we continue these bizarre public meetings with popcorn and Big Gulps (already righteously banned in New York City)? For that matter, why not ban neuroscience? All those big words and exam cram sessions obviously caused a breakdown here.
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What a doofus. Our socialist-in-chief keeps ringing in the anti-capitalist zingers while the economy continues south and Mittens keeps snapping them up for campaign use.
We really should re-elect Obozo for comic relief. Help the Repubs take the Congress back so they can spend four years investigating his three-ring clown act. Start by impeaching AG Holder and go from there.
If we can’t have a prosperous economy again (looks like it’s moved waaay north and what’s left may even get seriously worse with the big new taxes due to kick in on New Year’s), at least we can have a few laughs. Maybe even catch Obozo smoking dope in the White House, which you just know that he does.
Monica and Bill’s Oval Office trysts were just the Democrats’ warmup act. How ’bout those Egyptians, reportedly yelling “Monica!” at Hilarity as they threw shoes and tomatoes at her motorcade. They know a cuckold when they see one. Heh.
UPDATE: I love it when pols shoot themselves in the foot, especially when the dolt is Obozo. He blew his foot off. He’s gone in for surgery (I was quoted “out of context”) but it’s too late. Even small business folks are furious. Congratulations, you loser.
MORE: Turns out Obozo “didn’t build that” speech, either. He STOLE it from a Berkeley professor who advised the Occupy Wall Street movement. Figures.
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This ought to be illegal: raising presidential campaign money in foreign countries. Supposedly from Americans living abroad. Yeah, right.
Ought to be illegal, but apparently isn’t. Not even in Communist China. Utterly tasteless, though. But, then, it’s Obozo, so what can you expect? He President Pantywaist has no class.
UPDATE: For instance, he’s all for transparency. Long as it’s not his own.
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