It's a "give and ye shall receive" moment.
I act like a silly fool, to ridicule a bunch of serious fools, and you get a kick out of it. In return, I get a kick out of your comments, both on this blog and on the big wide web (in particular, I see it's making the rounds [no shooty pun] on military, outdoor and gun owners' forums).
Lisez la suite...It's with great pleasure that I welcome a steady flow of new members' registrations, following without a doubt my first appearance in moving pictures on the Internet — proof that one can make many friends simply by acting stupid AND YET keeping one's clothes on.
A quick info/reminder:
- If you don't receive the activation email within 48 hours tops, drop me an email (see under the photo in the sidebar for the link) and tell me the username and email address you used to register, so that I can activate your account directly.
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Welcome. Have fun, even with your clothes on.
Granted, I don't think I'll look as sturdy as my man Putin over there when I reach his age, what with me not having the same history of
hyperactive thuggery on the payroll of one of History's worst tyrannies.
Still, I know one thing for certain: his blade is no longer than mine.
Yeah well, I didn't start the macho-macho-men p* contest, Mighty Vlad the Happy Camper did.
Incidentally, funny how the Dear Leader syndrome is alive and well in the Old World, huh? It seems that Europe's populace has only one thing in mind: marvel at their strongmen's pastime. I bet you can spot Prince Sarkozy on the same list as Vlad the Imposer: between his Maltese escapade on his billion Euros buddy's boat and his Amerikkan Klub sandwich with George-Adolph W. Hitler, I can tell you that the new French President of France's only notable achievements since his election were to show us how good he is at taking vacations.
And that's coming from the man who pledged to "put France back to work", mind you.
D'accord, peut-être que je n'aurai pas l'air aussi musculeux que mon poteau Putin là-haut quand j'aurai son âge, d'autant plus que je n'ai pas le même passé de
barbouze hyperactif à la solde d'une des pires tyrannies de l'Histoire.
N'importe comment, je sais au moins une chose : sa lame n'est pas plus longue que la mienne.
Ouais, ben c'est pas moi qu'a commencé le concours macho-macho-men, c'est Vlad le Campeur Joyeux.
A ce propos, marrant comme le syndrome du Chef est bien vivant dans le Vieux Monde, s'pas ? Apparemment, les peuplades d'Europe n'ont qu'une idée en tête: s'émerveiller devant les loisirs de leurs Hommes Forts. Je parie que vous remarquez le Prince Sarkozy sur la même liste que Vlad l'Embaumeur : entre son escapade Maltaise sur la barcasse de son copain qu'a des miyions et son Amerikkkan Klub sandwich avec George-Adolphe W. Hitler, je peux vous dire que les seuls succès notables du nouveau Président Français de la France depuis son élection ont été de nous montrer comment il prend bien des vacances.
Et ça, du gars qui a fait vœu de "remettre la France au travail", notez.
AFP doesn't know the basics. Plus the dissident frogman looking silly on the intarweb.
I definitely lost my ability to be bothered, shocked or amazed by the depth at which some of the greatest Western news agencies and media outlets are prepared to sink in their support to the enemies of their own civilization, last year almost to the day, when
Reuters and its stringers cast smoke on Lebanon, and produced some of
Hezbollywood's greatest blockbusters.
Now, this:
Tuesday August 14, 2007: An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City.
This latest disinformation hack from the
French news agency AFP (yeah, emphasis added) didn't come as a surprise, and didn't raise my blood pressure either — in fact, it sparked quite a stroke of frank amusement, as you can see in the good-natured and videotaped farce I've performed for the occasion, and edited for your viewing pleasure
(1).
I really can't believe, this time, that the AFP editors and minders who let this one go through the wire can be accused of dishonesty — and God knows I have no reason to give anybody in this joint [at the AFP even less than any other] the benefit of the doubt. I simply do not believe these people could release such a
screaming obvious mendacity to a worldwide audience, and hope they could get away with it.
I just can't see how this could be the result of anything else but
crass ignorance of one the most basic facts on firearms
(2). So basic that it doesn't even belong strictly to the allegedly technical field of ballistics, but is simply a question of
elementary vocabulary — that applies to both English and French, as the distinction between cartridge (cartouche) and bullet (balle) is identical in both languages.
This is where the real shocker lies: for even if we assume that they could be honest and unbiased, if these Great Professionals™ who make their trade and pride of reporting on worldwide crises — that are bound to involve, more often than not, individual weaponry of various make and caliber — can't even tell the difference between
a bullet and a cartridge, can you just imagine what else — and how much — they ignore?
We can live with a dishonest press — as long as we know it — but
ignorance from those who pretend to
inform us?
Continue reading...J'ai totalement perdu ma capacité à être choqué ou impressionné par les profondeurs auxquelles certaines des plus grandes agences de presse et media occidentaux sont prêts à sombrer dans leur soutien aux ennemis de leur propre civilisation, l'année dernière quasiment jour pour jour, lorsque
Reuters et ses correspondants ont enfumé le Liban , et produit certains des
grands titres d'Hezbollywood.
Et maintenant, ça :
Mardi 14 août 2007 : Une vieillarde irakienne montre deux balles et déclare qu'elles ont touché sa maison à la suite d'un raid matinal des forces de la coalition dans la banlieue de Bagdad majoritairement Shiite, Sadr City.
Ce dernier coup bas de désinformation de l'agence
française AFP (ouais, souligné par mes soins) ne me surprends pas, et ne risque pas plus de faire monter ma pression sanguine — en fait, cela déclenche plutôt un franc accès d'hilarité, ainsi que vous pouvez le voir dans la videofarce
festive et bon enfant que j'ai réalisé pour l'occasion et édité pour votre amusement
(1).
Je ne peux vraiment pas croire, en l'occurrence, que les éditeurs de l'AFP qui en ont autorisé la diffusion puissent être accusés de duplicité — Et Dieu sait pourtant que je n'ai aucune raison d'accorder le bénéfice du doute à quiconque dans ce genre de tôle [à l'AFP encore moins que dans aucune autre]. Impossible d'admettre cependant que ces individus puissent diffuser un tel
mensonge d'une évidence criante vers une audience internationale, en pensant pouvoir passer au travers des gouttes.
Je ne vois pas comment ceci pourrait être le résultat d'autre chose que d'une
ignorance crasse de l'un des principes les plus fondamentaux des armes à feu
(2). Tellement fondamental, que cela n'appartient même pas strictement au champ prétendument technique de la balistique mais relève simplement du
vocabulaire le plus élémentaire — qui s'applique tant à l'Anglais qu'au Français, puisque la distinction entre cartouche (cartridge) et balle (bullet) est identique dans les deux langues.
C'est là où est le véritable outrage : car même en admettant qu'ils puissent être honnêtes et objectifs, si ces Grands Professionnels™ qui font leur ouvrage et leur fierté d'informer sur les crises internationales — vouées à impliquer, plus que jamais, de l'armement individuel de marque et de calibre variés — ne sont même pas capable de discerner la différence entre
une balle et une cartouche, pouvez-vous seulement imaginer ce qu'ils peuvent ignorer d'autre, et l'étendue de ladite ignorance ?
On peut faire avec une presse malhonnête — pour autant qu'on le sache — mais de l'ignorance de la part de ceux qui prétendent nous informer ?
Lisez la suite...Briefly, and since I'm told the subject of
Che Mouse on a Shirt was raised here:
This is probably one of the longest standing issues of this blog, and it's been a thorn in my side for years now. I've always meant to sustain this site (and fill a war chest to expand it) by mean of selling some of my stuff, rather than beg my readers to tip in, or clutter the pages with (somewhat) related ads — I know for a fact that my Mi-Che Mouse spoof can interest many potential customers; and I want to see this on tee-shirts probably more than you do.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to work out a satisfying agreement to have these produced — up until now
(1).
This is one of my most pressing (if not "the most pressing") priorities regarding the dissident frogman — and I can already say it's finally coming along together: following rather extensive discussions with the ever helpful guys at Gorilla Guerilla Inc., we've solved the production and shipping issues, and only have a few administrative questions to arrange.
Bottom line: the official dissident frogman's Che Guevara with Mickey Mouse ears tee-shirt is (at very long last) coming.
That, and possibly a few other counter-counter-culture vilenesses of my own design...
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