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I'll match my stare against the two of you any day--
 

 
Don't you DARE look away, Dadgammit.

This sounds like something Walter would do on Fringe:
 
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140704-i-bring-the-dead-back-to-life

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Thanks to my very important contacts, I've obtained the original draft of this speech:
 
"Dudes. Thanks for coming out. I know all you reporters for  major newspapers and websites had to skip your shifts at Starbucks to be here. It means a lot to me, that you, like, gave up a cool fifty and might not be able to make rent this month. I know you're burning up with anger and resentment at most everybody. Hey! I've seen your tweets!"
 
So. I know you're all, like, saying to yourselves, "Why am I even here? Social media is so, like, 2012." Plus also, "I bet if I were a woman/minority/trans, I'd have the last job at NEWSWEEK, and not that loser, Tamara." And I hear you, folks. I mean, the last time I logged on to Facebook was, like, LOL I don't remember, and it was full of whiny people then, too. Stop whining, is what I'm saying. You'd be awesomely rich, too, if you'd come up with a plan to DISRUPT ALL MEDIA like me."
 
"So, anyway, Facebook is way better than Twitter, 'cuz it's got more of those meemie things the kids love. Not as many as Snapchat, but they're working on it. We're working on that. That's totally an important part of Project HOLDING USER DECLINE RATES FOR 2015 BELOW 30%. More memes and LOLcats. That and spamming your email every five minutes. BING. Heh heh. No, tots seriously, don't bother looking at your phones. That's us, asking why you haven't been on Twitter lately. 
 
"Yeah, I know, it makes us look needy. But hey! We're needy for reals! I mean, the company is worth --just let me check my phone here-- a gazillion billion dollars right now by stock valuation. Still, someday, someone's going to ask us how, exactly, we plan to make enough money to justify a $50 stock valuation. To which my answer continues to be, uhm, I don't know, you tell me? Which is good enough for "venture capitalists," or, as I like to call them, "Morons with too much money," but not for "value investors." Or, as I like to call them, "Morons with too much money they got from their grandparents." 
 
"So, to summarise, I sold 10% of my stock six months ago. Do you know what 1% of 24 billion is? Here, let my get my phone. Holy crap, I am swimming in moron money. Like, I make more than a doctor just on interest if I hold my money in Treasuries! For doing nothing! And in America, it's taxed below 15%! So I was at, like, Twitter HQ the other day, and I'm like, I'm outta here! And everyone was, like, 'Oh no you don't. We know where your compound is.' And we decided to wait another six months or so, till everybody else had sold off, like, 1%, too.
 
"So we're going to hold on for six months. But how, you ask? Like this: 'How?' I'm hilarious. So our plan is that we're going to do something about those Gamergate arseholes. That's something you thin-skinned weenies care about, I hear. Ladies, amirite? Or, no, wait. Trolls. All the trolls. Gonna get rid of 'em. We have a plan. Which doesn't involve a compound on a lake in the Sierra Nevada you never heard of. For another six months." 

Worst thing Marvel ever did was to bring Bucky back. Bastiches.

Referring to it as an "Israeli newspaper" without mentioning its target demographic is irresponsible and misrepresents normative Israeli culture. This is a hareidi / ultra-orthodox newspaper and is extreme even by normative orthodox Jewish standards, let alone mainstream traditional or secular Israeli standards. The average Israeli newspaper has just as much skin on display as click-bait as any western newspaper. As someone who lived in Israeli for eight years, I see this, and I think "The Mad Mullah's in Bnei Brak edited out Merkel? Yeah, okay, but how is that Israeli?" The hareidim in Israel have created retro-European ghettos in Israel, insist on speaking Yiddish instead of Hebrew, overwhelming refuse to get jobs or serve in the army, only form political parties to extort public funds for their education and welfare programs, and routinely go on damned-fool modesty and anti-technology crusades (sometimes violently) in order to preserve the informal borders of their cultish tinpot urban cantons. This paper is published by people who hate mainstream Israeli culture and identity despite the paper being technically Israeli -- and that needs to be front and center when stories like this are referenced.

The same reason terrorists destroy anything -- symbolism. The WTC was a symbol of American capitalism and economic power, which al-Qaeda believed to be the primary motivation for the policies they considered wrong (such as supporting a Saudi regime they despised, or sending American troops to a country they believed should be off-limits to all non-Muslims so the Americans could stage Desert Storm).
 
They also chose the Pentagon as a political target for similar reasons -- it symbolizes American military power.
 
We will probably never know what they intended United Airlines Flight 93 (the one forced down by its own passengers and crew) to strike -- at the time the White House or Capitol were suspected, and I'm sure Osama Bin Laden would have relished the death or serious injury of President Bush. But there were several other targets available.
 
Although the American reaction was furious, with consequences we all know, it did enable al-Qaeda to use the belief that America was the enemy of all Islam to aid them in recruiting.

I've only seen The Big Bang Theory a couple of times--it seemed like all the humor was based on showing how stupid smart people can be.
 
I do watch AMC's Comic Book Men and TBS's King Of The Nerds--although when I posted about that show when it first premiered, no one here was interested.

"Best Christmas EVER!!!"

Hunh? No. No. If we consider Al Sharptonas an obnoxious, self-interested activist, then this line of thinking is taking us in a very bad direction. People who say things you disapprove of or disagree with are good for you. (At least to the point where slander and libel laws intervene; but that's why you have those laws.)
 
If we consider him as an activist--- Look, this whole thing with discrimination against, and oppression of, out groups (for example, Black Americans, Canadian Indians) is a real human problem that causes untold suffering and misery. Bringing attention to this problem  is not what creates it.
 
If we consider him a con artist and opportunist who gins up trouble where there is none to be had --Well, here we're running up on the whole slander and libel thing. There is some social damage being done there, but it's pretty trivial compared with, say, Glenn Beck (lost any money on gold, lately?) or, better example, Bernie Madoff. Putting salt in an open wound for a living is a bad thing, and I'm not defending Al Sharpton for it. But it's a good way of reminding everyone that the wound exists.

It was a good post that bore repeating.
 
Meanwhile, spoiled for size:
 
 
 

"Stay on target--stay on target--"

I forgot to mention, when my wife and daughter and I watched a recent episode of The Flash on Comcast's On Demand, they showed their message that the fast-forward was disabled.  My daughter said, "Can we pause for a moment and appreciate the irony that we can't fast forward during an episode of The Flash?"

Two new commissions of some public domain characters by Juan Paolo Manitata (aka Wansworld). First up is The Black Hood:
 

 
This one is The Phantom Archer:
 

 
Juan also has a holiday sale going, so if you're looking to get a character done (or a cover mock up, etc), he has some really good prices. Check it out here

I'll bite--Judo lessons?

12 Truths All Cat Owners Have Come To Accept--
 
http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/family/12-truths-all-cat-owners-have-come-to-accept/ss-BBeFQJa#image=14

I liked the 1990s series.  Green Hornet and Green Lantern too.
 
There! I said it! 

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