"So... the rainbow is God saying "'I won't kill everyone with another flood?'"

'"Colombiana" Trailer' - Zoe Saldana is a badass female Batman. With guns.

How to deal with everything. All the time. Forever and ever. Amen.

Boom. "Ron Paul: We didn't need a war in Afghanistan to get Bin Laden; now that we have, let's end that war."

Via The GOP Debate: Not Quite Live Blogged - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

"72 Virgins. As Promised..."

"They should have captured Bin Laden alive and made him..."

They should have captured Bin Laden alive and made him continually go through airport security for the rest of his life.        Favorite Retweet Reply
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"Some of you say that religion makes people happy..."

Via Dedroidify: Funnies

"...what I think when I hear priests quote statistics about molestation" - So. Much. This.

"I shot Bigfoot yesterday. I ate him and dumped the remains in the lake before I could prove it. Just take my word for it. Seriously." - Doug Stanhope

Truth/Perspective 101 - "Osama Won" Via Hit & Run: Reason Magazine.

Osama Won - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine:

"...Osama bin Laden’s motivation for the attacks that he planned in the 1990s, and then the September 11 attacks, was to draw the U.S. and the West into a prolonged war—an actual war in Afghanistan, and a broader global war with Islam.

Osama got both. And we gave him a prolonged war in Iraq to boot. By the end of Obama’s first term, we’ll probably top 6,000 dead U.S. troops in those two wars, along with hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans. The cost for both wars is also now well over $1 trillion.

We have also fundamentally altered who we are. A partial, off-the-top-of-my-head list of how we’ve changed since September 11...

We’ve sent terrorist suspects to “black sites” to be detained without trial and tortured.

We’ve turned terrorist suspects over to other regimes, knowing that they’d be tortured.

In those cases when our government later learned it got the wrong guy, federal officials not only refused to apologize or compensate him, they went to court to argue he should be barred from using our courts to seek justice, and that the details of his abduction, torture, and detainment should be kept secret.

We’ve abducted and imprisoned dozens, perhaps hundreds of men in Guantanamo who turned out to have been innocent. Again, the government felt no obligation to do right by them.

The government launched a multimillion dollar ad campaign implying that people who smoke marijuana are implicit in the murder of nearly 3,000 of their fellow citizens.

The government illegally spied and eavesdropped on thousands of American citizens.

Presidents from both of the two major political parties have claimed the power to detain suspected terrorists and hold them indefinitely without trial, based solely on the president’s designation of them as an “enemy combatant,” essentially making the president prosecutor, judge, and jury. (I’d also argue that the treatment of someone like Bradley Manning wouldn’t have been tolerated before September 11.)

The current president has also claimed the power to execute U.S. citizens, off the battlefield, without a trial, and to prevent anyone from knowing about it after the fact.

The Congress approved, the president signed, and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a broadly written law making it a crime to advocate for any organization the government deems sympathetic to terrorism. This includes challenging the “terrorist” designation in the first place.

Flying in America now means enduring a humiliating and hassling ritual that does little if anything to actually make flying any safer. Every time the government fails to catch an attempt at terrorism, it punishes the public for its failure by adding to the ritual.

American Muslims, a heartening story of success and assimilation, are now harassed and denigrated for merely trying to build houses of worship.

Without a warrant, the government can search and seize indefinitely the laptops and other personal electronic devices of anyone entering the country.

The Department of Homeland Security now gives terrorism-fighting grants for local police departments across the country to purchase military equipment, such as armored personnel carriers, which is then used against U.S. citizens, mostly to serve drug warrants..."

Twitter excels at the Osama commentary.

"Sorry it took so long to get you a copy of my birth certificate..."

Regardless of reality, that's just funny.

"How does our own cyberspatial technology relate to presence of this Neo-Platonic Ur-object?" - Terence McKenna

[Again, the man makes me wish I was smarter.]

Training.

Shadowboxing - Bas Rutten MMA Workout - boxing - 8x2m rounds
Hip thrusts/dislocates/pullaparts/hyperextensions
P90X D21 - Yoga - Tony Horton One-one-One 'Patience Hummingbird'

The week in food.

The Mrs has been out of town/upcountry since midweek, so much much on the creative cooking front.

  

As for my nutrition/staying on course, it was basically an abortion, as described here so no point in separating out the good from the bad, like I usually do...  so here's everything I scarfed this week [not the quantity, but the... substance?...  there's a better word, but I'm blanking.  For example - you see one beer and one liter of water.  I had many, of both.  That Ceres Stout is about the only beer I've found in Liberia I kinda like.  But I digress...]

Onwards...

Mmm... Jesus Burger.

Via Landover Baptist Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"The Landover Baptist Church is a fictional Baptist church based in the fictional town of Freehold, Iowa. The Landover Baptist web site and its associated Landoverbaptist.net Forum are a satire of fundamentalist Christianity and the Religious Right in the United States."

Training.

Weird/bad couple days diet and exercise-wise...  the Mrs is out of town/upcountry, which throws off my sleep, throws off my motivation, throws off my energy, throws off my food prep...  All just excuses, in the end.  But it was what it was.  So Wed-Fri missed wkouts and ate like crap.  Figured I'd make Wed my weekly free/cheat/rest day, but still leaves Thurs/Fri as screw ups/off the wagon.

So today back to it, and to "make up" for the missing wkouts, I did today's workout AND 2 more workouts that I missed earlier in the week.  So about 2.5-3 hours of PT.  Which ultimately, is probably counter-productive, overly catabolic, wrong-headed and unnecessary, but...

4/30 - P90X D20 - Kenpo X, Abs [x2], Shoulders & Arms, Legs & Back
4/29 - P90X D19 - Missed Wkout
4/28 - P90X D18 - Missed Wkout
4/27 - P90X D17 - Rest/Free/Off

Funny, where my early Catholic indoctrination rears its ugly head.  Despite leaving the craziest of the invisible sky-daddy mythology and his god warriors behind me - the urge to "punish" myself and do penance [of 3 hours of PT] for my "transgressions" [of missing workouts] was damn nigh overwhelming.  And if I hadn't done it today, it would have weighed heavily on my mind, I'm sure.

Hmmm...  I wonder what it's like to be psychologically healthy and not have been brainwashed by guilt, shame, fear and punishment from infancy?  Just like the question of how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop - the world may never know.

Awesome/Inspiring: Bodybuilding.com - Back From The Brink: Shaping Up Saved His Life

This.

The closest I've ever come to understanding economics - via hiphop music videos by rapping white guys.

Although, big picture, all economics is black magic fairytales, consensus delusions and circle jerks about what constitutes "value" and "worth" - I lean towards the more unpopular Hayek because Keynesian economics emphasizes a hubristic notion that we're somehow smart enough to know and account for all variables - and then control them to the intended outcomes desired by small groups of central planners.  One'd think that if we learned nothing from the fall of the USSR is that centrally planned economies are doomed.  [And yes, China is unsustainable as well.]

The only bit of wisdom I've managed to latch onto in my limited time on the planet is that no one ever knows as much as they think they do, and you can't control nearly as much as you think you can.

Regardless, these are really funny, well produced and entertaining...

The newly released "Round Two" sequel.

The original, from last year.

A very specific card. [I don't know that that's gonna be enough.]