Archive for August 4th, 2008

Another Day of Popularity

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Just look at this chart:

83 views today... 15 more views than yesterday, hehehe.

Gaffes

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Do you know what a "gaffe" is? I didn't until just a couple of months ago... I mean, I kinda knew what the intention of the word meant, but I didn't know it was a REAL word. Turns out that it is. It's a "clumsy social error" or a "blatant mistake or misjudgment". In the world of politics, you see the two definitions a whole lot. Especially lately... Good ol' Democrats.

I found a website today... Barack Obama Gaffes. Obviously, it catalogs nearly every single gaffe that Obama has said. These aren't the light things either. We're talking about saying things like his father served in World War II. That he visited 57 states. That he thinks that if everyone pumped up their tires, that we'd save as much money on gas than if we drilled for our own oil. You know... Big, juicy, laughable things like that. (Sadly, I don't see the gaffe where he claimed 10,000 died in that tornado in Kansas... In case you were wondering, only 12 died. He seems to have a problem with numbers, don't you think?) Seriously! Go to the site and check it out if you don't believe me. There are sources and everything. Of course, every mainstream media reporter and democrat leader runs to his defense and tries to make excuses for why he says these things. Don't they realize that when they do this, he drags the rest of them down with him? It would go far easier on the Democrat Party's public image if they just accepted the fact that their candidate is a nut.

People make fun of President Bush for mispronouncing "nuclear" and saying "the internets" and little things like that, yet they completely turn their head when Obama says something like "I won the Michigan primary" when he wasn't even on the ballot. There's a TINY difference between saying "noo-cue-ler power" and "I've been to 57 states". I mean, I can (sort of) excuse when a candidate is running all over the country and gives the wrong names of the city they're in... I'll gladly ignore those. They're on the site, but I really don't mind those. But who in ANY form of their right mind would ever say the United States has 57 states? Especially when THEY are an American? That's a little more concerning than spelling potato the wrong way. Heck, he doesn't even know the history of his own family, from the looks of some of these things. His parents got together after he was born? His father served in WW2? Both are lies, plain and simple, and I repeat: Each gaffe has sources to accompany it, and sometimes even videos so you can watch them in action... Priceless.

But go ahead and believe the New York Times:

Senator Barack Obama is a man of few rhetorical stumbles...

And they keep telling me that the mainstream media isn't biased. Amazing.

Here We Go Again

Monday, August 4th, 2008

My uncanny ability to pick out voices has once again presented me with another pleasant surprise... I was watching an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Season 1, Episode 26: The Neutral Zone. The Enterprise manages to run into a Romulan Warbird and established a video channel with the commander:

Does the guy on the left look familiar to you? Probably not... But his voice made me go: "No way!"

Does THIS guy on the left look familiar to you? None other than the Cardassian Dukat himself.

That's right. The Romulan on the left in the first picture is the same actor. Watching Star Trek backwards from Voyager has been nothing short of amazing... There are SO MANY people who've been in more than one series that it's insane. I even noticed that one of the very first Ferengi that Star Trek ever saw was the same actor who played Quark on Deep Space Nine, as well. It's too crazy... If I were watching Star Trek in the proper chronological order, I would probably forget that I'd seen the actors before they became popular recurring characters. It makes early Star Trek far easier to digest, heh.