True pride

Man, I hate discovering a great blog only to find out it is dead. This surely was a great blog:

Dear Leader Comrade Generalissimo Kim Jong Il’s Songun politics are the lifeblood of the Korean people single mindedly united as one in harmonious steel-strong rock-hard heroic ranks of invincible mass-valour and undying loyalty for the Leader and a banner of perpetual victory over the cravenly cowardly criminal capitalist US imperialists, their satellites, henchmen, hirelings and servants.

As long as Dear Leader Comrade Generalissimo Kim Jong Il the brilliant statesman, political genius, prodigious humanist, intellectual giant, prolific songwriter, superb theorician, and invincible military commander leads the Juche-based man-centered Korean-style socialist perfect system freely chosen by the Korean people in single-minded profound respect and admiration for Dear Leader and his invincible Songun politics, the criminal capitalist crooked contrived consumerist US imperialists will never defeat, stifle, or browbeat the great invincible prosperous powerful Democratic People’s Republic of Korea into submission thanks to Dear Leader’s invincible Songun politics that are the lifeblood of the Korean people.

::tears of reverent awe:: It makes one ashamed of his own country, does it not? Where is our leadership? Where is our unity? Without a doubt this magnificent national hero of his land has approval ratings far far above the realm where Bush could ever dream of. Don’t get me started.

some serious heavy bigtime CYA

MSNBC: “Besides that, the feng shui is all wrong. Navy to alter swastika-shaped barracks after aerial photos highlight snafu”

omfg can u say smoking gun ppl this is all the evidence u need that iraq is a disaster and the so-calld ‘war on terror”s a lie and we have no plan to win the peach and we went in ofr oil$$$ nothing else which would mabey ok i guess if multi-laterilly with france and UN came along to share the loot iwht us but they didnt so i’ts immoral and all a plan to steal civil liberties from the poorest 1% of amerikkans to give the wealthiest 1% at expence of the environent which he STOLE–yes STOLE th e election to turn guantanaomo into the next vietnam (bu tnot the area were kerry servd in) atleast clinton only sex with waterbufalo not chsaed after larry on craigslist but bu$sh so much worse then clinton also Israel Zionists r nazi rasists too jus study history cause it alway repeat itself repeat itself Palestianis loosing thier freedoms thru govtwiretaping inocent crimanals wich rujmsfeld spyed on he said ”we know where they are” HE SAID THAT!! its on tape but faux news is owned by rupert murderoc dont show u wat bu$h si really doingteh plans hidden but t here is all there for anynoe 2 see repeat itself exposes the big righ-wing lie about sexual wmd fantsaies to repeat istelf turn us into no joke dudwe re turning into a crhisitian fundamentalish dictatorhsip before rv ery eyes!!!!!!!!!!

Cultural spotlight (your visit today is not in vain!)

“George W Bush. Great President, or Greatest President?”

  — Stephen Colbert to his guests (from time to time)

In my opinion Colbert is not being completely fair here. There may very well be a guest who would like to have the choice to answer “Greater President” because after all, the world is not black and white. There are shades of grey in between.

I bring this up to better introduce today’s topic (I think you’ll agree it leads in perfectly!), which is How To Make an Origami Hydralisk.

Few of my readers will have discovered axcho’s artful instructions, seeing as a google on the word ‘hydralisk’  brings up the site you were really looking for within the first five hits. Not looking beyond you would indeed be missing out.

While I’ve not yet had a chance to replicate myself thusly (a voice keeps telling me to “Spawn more Overlords!”), the Flash instructional is quite lucid, and based on the pictures I’m seeing the finished product looks smart.

Of course I am more handsome in real life. Also, the model could be improved by having an impaled origami marine dangling gruesomely from one of my claws, but you can’t have everything.

Thank you, axcho! Looking forward to seeing origami instructions for my big brother, Ultra.

Ahmadinejad speech excerpts

Catch all the good parts at IMAO.

“So glad to be here in Satan country with you today. Mrs. Ah, Ali K, and Nasrallah give their regards.”

Better slime selection

Forward Deployed observing the fraudulence of chickenhawk Petraeus:

If Moveon.org’s attempt to slime General Petraeus wasn’t bad enough, now the left’s desperation to slime him has reached even new lows with the Daily Kos claiming the general is wearing a fraudulent medal:

As Den of Hydralisks readers know, I’ve been calling for the destruction of this bad bad man for two months now. It’s not that I haven’t been given the proper credit that bugs me. Really, I could care less about the credit (which only I rightly deserve). It is the flawed thought process employed here by other well-meaning surrenderists that is slightly disturbing.

Indignance at the wearing of a false badge implies that a genuine one would be a thing worth respecting. What message are we sending about our uniformed battalion of baby-butchers when we complain so? What should really make us furious about Petraeus is not that he wears a fake medal, but that he should be in possession of any medal at all when there are plenty of good fences to be found everywhere.

GIBSON: When you threw, how far do you think they went?

KERRY: Probably thirty or forty feet. When I stood at that fence, I wanted to make my stance clear, my message understood. I was in Vietnam.

GIBSON: How bout 3-4 feet off the bounce.

KERRY: Absolutely not.

GIBSON: Did you forget I was there? That was the lamest throw I have ever laid eyes on. You barely cleared…

KERRY: I am not sure why you would say that Charlie, I have quite the manly arm.

GIBSON: I distinctly recall you executing more of a light toss, or a flip.

KERRY: This is ridiculous; a reporter of the “Boston Globe” was there, dozens of photographers were there. I clearly threw those medals over in a manly maneuver.

GIBSON: Medals?

KERRY: I did not say medals.

Oh yes you did, soldier, and you should be damn proud of it!!

Protest against free speech!

Surveying the important work my fellow activists are accomplishing is inspiring indeed, and there is no question that we are making a profound difference. We’ve protested against nearly everything that moves, including such wrongs in the world as Bush, the electing of Bush, Republicans, the right wing, capitalism, prisons, the police, rule of law, democracy, progress itself, the American army in Iraq, the American army, America, Americans, armies, Israel, Jews, Jewish religious symbols, the former existence of the World Trade Center, heterosexuality, Bush’s plan, Bush’s poodle, Bush’s cat, Bush’s haircut, and so on. (work-unsafe examples of each of the above can be found here)

But we must bear in mind that all the efforts of nihilism could come to nothing were we to leave out one critical thing.

Those brave patriots who protest against military recruitment and schools everywhere which prohibit the military from opening their mouths anywhere in earshot of a potential young goose-stepper are on to this one thing, I believe. As were those astute Oaklanders who fitly recognized the word ‘marriage’ to be hate speech. As was that teacher last year who encouraged her students to destroy an anti-abortion display. As are all of us who continually call for the clamping of clamorous conservative voices on talk radio.

These were all steps in the right direction, to be sure, but have we gone far enough? Is there more we could be doing?

As Henry David Jefferson once said, “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of the tree of liberty to one who is hacking at the root.” Do you get where I’m going with this?

The Boobah Zone

The Boobah Zone

Net stress-reliever or net stress-aggravator? You be the judge.

Got nothing to do in DC on the weekend?

Hey, you do now.

September 22nd 2007	Demo/Protest/Rally/Vigil
Time	1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Title	Protest at White House Every Saturday
	Washington DC
Location	White House, North Side, 1600 Penn Ave
Speaker	you, us, and thousands of tourists
Phone Contact	202-352-4276
Topic / Issue	Fascism & Imperialism
Sponsor	yellowcakewalk.net and friends
We are not an organization, but part of the international movement to end the war and bring justice to the Bush Cabal and their minions. We’ve been out there every single Saturday since April 2005

  

Not in DC?  No problem, you can join the fun wherever you are. We’re everywhere, and we don’t turn anyone away. Nope, nobody.

We also recommend you become a member of Impeachspace where you can “Meet new friends. Share ideas. Impeach Cheney and Bush!“

When making new friends, impeachment is an excellent way to break the ice!

Beauty is an average

Sara Goudarzi of LiveScience reporting on a new study:

While eyes are the vehicles for receiving visual images, the brain decides how attractive those images are. Attractiveness appears to be related to how easy you can wrap your brain around a face.

“A stimulus beomces attractive if it falls into the average of what you’ve seen and is therefore simple for your brain to process,” said study author Piotr Winkielman, of the University of California, San Diego. “In our experiments, we show that we can make an arbitrary pattern likeable just by preparing the mind to recognize it quickly.”

Neat. These guys have simultaenously discovered why on earth anybody has ever bought a minimalist art painting, why provincial homely-looking married couples really do think their spouse is the peachiest thing, and why nearly everybody listens to the very crappiest music they can find.

A sci-fi great

I don’t have time to blog this week so if you’re looking for something stimulating to read that you will not find anywhere else, I have just the thing.

The Great Assembly made waves in the literary world when it was first released in 2005. It is the critically acclaimed short story that tells a deep and profound message about love, and about life. Readers come away having learned something new about their own humanity. It was written by a friend of hydralisk’s with some help from hydralisk. (I came upstairs with a glass of water every hour, and I found a couple spelling mistakes, I think) Enjoy!