http://brain-terminal.com/ The full feed of Brain-Terminal.com posts and Twitter links - Edited by Evan Coyne Maloney Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:20:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Apparently, proper punctuation is not a pre-requisite for socialist signmaking http://twitpic.com/16m4uw Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:26:38 +0000 "The video thus displays both Obama's moral vanity as well as his blatant hypocrisy." http://feeds.powerlineblog.com/~r/powerlineblog/livefeed/~3/AIzpy2d7jk8/025730.php Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:13:25 +0000 If you haven’t reached a leftwing conclusion, you don't have sufficiently complex and nuanced thinking, you peasant. http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2010/02/i-dont-deserve-this-shabby-treatment-.html Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:33:38 +0000 The video at the bottom of this blog post is a parody, ...right? http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/01/surprise-nyt-now-covering-lefty-coffee-party/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:27:08 +0000 Health Care Summit Backfires? Obama drops to 43%, his lowest approval rating as president http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:43:34 +0000 CNN: 56% say size of federal government "poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens" http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/26/cnn-poll-majority-says-government-a-threat-to-citizens-rights/ Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:30:19 +0000 Socialized Medicine: Canadian government leader explains why he came to U.S. for heart surgery http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h0QC7bditrEb3wYz_6_b-gsGGDxA Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:26:40 +0000 Large majority of Republicans want to end Don't Ask/Don't Tell, allowing gays to serve openly in the military http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/22/cnn-poll-69-support-letting-gays-serve-openly-in-military-including-62-of-republicans/ Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:04:36 +0000 How political correctness and multiculturalism led to the death of 13 U.S. soldiers http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/02/22/ft_hood_suspect_was_army_dilemma/?page=full Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:55:58 +0000 "The story of Section 1706 is a curious one." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/opinion/21shulman.html Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:42:09 +0000 Video: The robot that can solve a Rubik's cube in less than 12 seconds http://singularityhub.com/2010/02/17/lego-robot-solves-any-rubiks-cube-in-less-than-12-seconds-video/ Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:05:08 +0000 "It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon" http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=521652 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:42:18 +0000 Nine Justice Department appointees defended terrorist detainees before joining President Obama's administration http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Holder-admits-nine-Obama-Dept-of-Justice-officials-worked-for-terrorist-detainees-offers-no-details-84799487.html Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:01:47 +0000 That's okay, because political correctness demands that we don't use them on you anyway http://www.freep.com/article/20100211/NEWS05/100211044/1318/Airport-body-scanners-violate-Islamic-law-Muslims-say Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:54:43 +0000 Captain America's new mission: Defeat the angry racist mob of anti-government teabaggers! http://www.redstate.com/mailloux/2010/02/03/tea-party-activists-beware-captain-america-is-onto-you/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:27:25 +0000 In one year, the people have gone from enlightened to dense, gullible, and undeserving of their chance at salvation http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTJkMTZiZTQ0MTY3YmIyNjMxN2RlY2IzNDRhYjJlNGE= Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:15:17 +0000 Who cares if trouser bombs end up on planes, as long as you're the nation's leader in recycling ceiling tiles http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/press_room/2009/ceiling_tiles.shtml Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:32:10 +0000 80% of the $2 billion "stimulus" set aside for wind power ended up going to foreign firms http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=520923 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:51:54 +0000 As relayed by Stephen Bainbridge: One day shortly after the Second World War ended, Winston Churchill and Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee encountered one another at the urinal trough in the House of Common’s men’s washroom. Attlee arrived first. When Churchill arrived, he stood as far away from him as possible. Attlee said, “Feeling [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/31/winston-churchill-quote-of-the-day Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:22:11 +0000 The Photo of the Day, via Don Surber: Photo credit: Robert Philabaum http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/28/bargain-bin-hope-and-change Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:35:17 +0000 The New York Times is on the receiving end of a very good point: To the Editor: In “The Court’s Blow to Democracy” (editorial, Jan. 22), you strenuously disagree with the proposition that “corporations are just like people and entitled to the same First Amendment rights.” Every day, The New York Times Company exercises its First Amendment right [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/25/letter-of-the-day Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:40:44 +0000 Two weeks ago, I wrote, “Democrats losing Ted Kennedy’s seat would be a massive political earthquake.” Well, yesterday, the once-unthinkable happened, and the deep blue state of Massachusetts elected its first Republican senator since 1972. Today, politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle will be spinning, assigning blame, and taking credit. Here’s my not-at-all-scientific breakdown [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/20/assessing-the-massachusetts-senate-race Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:35:50 +0000 Another tale from the annals of government competence: Someone is getting called for jury duty...but it’s no human. A family is trying to figure out how their pet cat was summonsed for jury duty. [...] [The cat’s] owners, Guy and Anna Esposito, think they may know the source of the mix up: [the cat] really is a member of [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/11/a-furry-jury-of-your-peers Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:18:59 +0000 CBS News reports: Less than a month after major Nidal Hasan allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon’s top intelligence officer sent the White House a report detailing an earlier failure to connect the dots. It reads like a dress rehearsal for the Detroit bomber case, reports CBS News chief national security correspondent [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/01/08/why-wars-shouldnt-be-fought-in-court Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:22:50 +0000 My documentary film Indoctrinate U—which analyzes the attacks on free speech and free thought on politically correct college campuses—will be shown on the Documentary Channel two more times in the coming weeks. The first airing will be Thursday, December 10th at 2:50PM (Eastern). The second showing is on Friday, December 18th at 5:00PM (Eastern). The Documentary Channel is [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/12/05/indoctrinate-u-on-tv-two-more-times Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:15:35 +0000 Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto noticed something interesting about the priorities of the Associated Press: An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We’d like to compare this dispatch to the AP’s dispatch earlier this week “fact checking” Sarah Palin’s new book. Here goes: Number of [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/11/20/press-priorities Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:16:49 +0000 As a bit of a typography geek, I laughed at myself for having noticed many of the things mentioned in this New York Times article. (The sloppy spacing of the word “lean” on that subway sign has always annoyed me.) I posted a link to the Times piece on my Facebook page, and it ignited a [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/11/17/font-memories Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:56:03 +0000 Yesterday, two states held elections for governor. Last year, both states voted to elect President Obama. Now, a year after The Ascension of The One, in both states, Republican gubernatorial candidates won handily. In Virginia, Republican candidate Bob McDonnell beat Democrat Creigh Deeds by more than 17%.* This in a recently-trending-Democrat state that Obama carried by [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/11/04/2009-elections-had-nothing-to-do-with-obama Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:40 +0000 From an e-mail that’s been circulating recently, the Joke of the Day: Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama go to heaven. God addresses Gore first. “Al, what do you believe in?” Gore replies: “Well, I believe that I won that election, but that it was your will that I did not serve. And I’ve come to understand [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/11/02/gore-clinton-and-obama-in-heaven Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:33:58 +0000 According to the NAACP, white politicians should not be permitted to represent majority-black voting populations: Leaders of the Maryland NAACP, worried that a Baltimore mayor’s criminal conviction could result in the appointment of a white or Republican leader who may not fully represent the majority black and Democratic city, are asking state lawmakers to strip the [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/10/16/a-perfect-example-of-politically-correct-bigotry Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:03:46 +0000 Months before Barack Obama formally accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, the name “Obama” was already being stamped on or sewn into objects of every type, and these objects could be purchased just about anywhere you happened to be standing. Keychains, buttons, hats, t-shirts were all readily available. I saw Obama skateboards and heard rumors of Obama bongs. Eventually, companies usually seen selling things like pewter gnomes and porcelain kittens got into the game, hawking commemorative coins and Obama dinner plates on late-night cable shows. http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/10/13/the-rise-and-fall-of-obamamarketing Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:22:22 +0000 Daniel Okrent, the former public editor of the New York Times, recently made some interesting comments on his old employer and the media in general. Some highlights: [T]here is a shortage of conservatives working in the news media — or, I should say, an imbalance between liberals and conservatives. The last survey I saw was on [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/30/former-new-york-times-editor-discusses-media-bias Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:51:00 +0000 Americans are aware that many reporters actively promote their own political agendas: Results from a national Sacred Heart University survey released today reveal that many news consumers believe the media played a significant role in electing President Barack Obama and that the media continue to promote his presidency. [...] “A large majority, 89.3 percent, suggested the national [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/28/americans-wise-to-the-news-medias-game Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:50:43 +0000 Jon Stewart is pretty funny going after the media in this clip: Best quote: [W]here were the real reporters on this story? You know what investigative media, see me on camera three: Where the hell were you? [...] You’re telling me that two kids from the cast of “High School Musical III” can break this story with a [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/19/jon-stewart-kicks-medias-ass-on-acorn-scandal Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:14:31 +0000 Remembering September 11th, 2001 in video: ...and text. http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/11/remember Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:43:33 +0000 The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has placed Bucknell University on their Red Alert list, which names the schools that are the “worst offenders against liberty”: Institutions on the Red Alert list are unrepentant offenders against basic rights that are guaranteed either by the U.S. Constitution or the schools themselves, and they have policies and/or [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/10/ray-bucknell-my-alma-mater-in-worst-offenders-against-liberty-list Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:19:08 +0000 You may have heard about the uproar over President Obama’s desire to address the nation’s schoolchildren. Although the White House has not yet released the text of the speech, many people wondered whether the speech would be pushing Obama’s policy goals. The idea that the speech would be political in nature is not something that people [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/09/04/inartful-wording-or-lame-excuse Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:56:53 +0000 In honor of the care and compassion shown by Senator Ted Kennedy throughout his life, liberals and their enablers in the media have been proposing changing the name of President Obama’s healthcare reform plan. So, instead of referring to it informally as “ObamaCare,” it may become known as “KennedyCare.” In order to help President Obama use [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/08/31/kennedycare-t-shirts Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:24:03 +0000 The Documentary Channel will be showing Indoctrinate U several more times over the coming weeks. Here’s the schedule (all times shown are Eastern U.S.): Tuesday, September 1st at 5:00 PM Tuesday, September 15th at 2:30 PM Monday, September 28th at 11:30 PM Wednesday, September 30th at 3:30 AM Friday, October 2nd at 8:00 PM and again at 11:00 PM The Documentary [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/08/27/indoctrinate-u-coming-back-to-tv Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:10:15 +0000 Only a government could be this stupid while simultaneously being this reckless with other people’s money: A paedophile with a 30-year history of abusing children is being prescribed Viagra on the [National Health Service] — and there is nothing the authorities can do to stop him. Roger Martin, 71, merely has to visit his GP to [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/08/23/government-healthcare-viagra-for-pedophiles Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:32:12 +0000 Not too long ago, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets with signs comparing our president to Adolf Hitler, painting him as "the world's biggest terrorist," even calling outright for his killing. Here in New York City, posters of a cartoon George W. Bush replete with simulated bullet holes began springing up around town. It was a time when Democratic politicians complained loudly whenever they felt their patriotism was being impugned. In those days, bumper stickers reminded us that "Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism" and Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, declared that disruptive protests were "very American and very important." Now that protests are directed against a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress, Nancy Pelosi thinks such disruptions are "un-American." During the Bush era, the media looked the other way at the extremist element in the protest movement; the large number of protest signs bearing swastikas and mathematical formulae like "Bush=Hitler" just didn't interest them. But it did interest me, and because the media didn't want to report it, I did some reporting of my own. The videos I posted online inadvertently launched me on a second career as a documentary filmmaker. I recently dug through my old footage and found many examples of the same kind of inflammatory speech that the media and the Democratic Party--forgive the redundancy--now decry. What follows are just a few examples. http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/08/20/hitler-comparisons Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:46:12 +0000 Last week, I called the office of Jerrold Nadler, my congressman, to see if he would be holding any constituent meetings on health care. Today, I got a recorded call from Congressman Nadler inviting me to participate in a “live telephone town hall” at 8PM this evening. The call came in at 7:35PM. Of course, this timing [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/08/17/its-almost-like-they-dont-want-to-hear-from-voters Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:33:17 +0000 During the last few centuries, a number of Muslims have followed the belief that Islam bans images of their prophet Mohammed. This was one of the excuses for the worldwide orgy of riots and killings that followed the publication of the infamous Mohammed cartoons. The New York Times recalls the scene: [W]hen the 12 caricatures were first [...] http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/08/13/yale-university-enforcing-sharia-law Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:48:46 +0000