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Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why food is "out of reach" for these Ohioans?

They're clearly suffering severe economic hardship.

(HT: The Pirate.)

(HT: RD.)

Cowicide has managed to acquire top secret photos from the real Iranian missile test.

Sure, everyone is talking about this, but it's so hilarious I have to post the picture too, courtesy of LGF.

Iran photoshopped pictures of its recent missile launches to make it look like there were four missiles when there were actually only three. There's got to be a Viagra joke in here somewhere... can anyone find it?

I'm sure I saw this on Instapundit yesterday or something... who knows. Anyway, Barack Obama obviously doesn't know much history.

And, you know, let's take the example of Guantanamo. What we know is that, in previous terrorist attacks -- for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated.

And the fact that the administration has not tried to do that has created a situation where not only have we never actually put many of these folks on trial, but we have destroyed our credibility when it comes to rule of law all around the world, and given a huge boost to terrorist recruitment in countries that say, "Look, this is how the United States treats Muslims."

So that, I think, is an example of something that was unnecessary. We could have done the exact same thing, but done it in a way that was consistent with our laws.

As Confederate Yankee points out, the 1993 WTC bomber is still at-large.

It's quite simple: where is the 1993 World Trade Center bomb-builder? Is he in a U.S prison, as Obama claims? Not even close.

Though grossly neglected in the media, Abdul Rahman Yasin conducted the first attempted chemical weapons attack on U.S. soil by terrorists with the 1993 World Trade Center bomb. The bomb that detonated in the WTC garage in 1993 was built by Yasin to create smoke filled with sodium cyanide, which he hoped would rise through elevator shafts, ventilation ducts, and stairwells to suffocate 50,000 people.

Fortunately for those in the Trade Center that day, the bomb burned hotter than Yasin expected, and incinerated up the cyanide as it detonated instead of spreading it in toxic smoke.

Yasin fled the United States after the bombing to Iraq, and lived as Saddam Hussein's guest in Baghdad until the invasion. He is still free, and wanted by the FBI.

Once again, Barack Obama is dead wrong on the facts.

An Obama presidency would either be a disaster, or he's playing his Leftist supporters for dupes.

To the tune of "I Will Survive".

(HT: AG.)

The National Security Agency says Japanese is hard... so hard that you shouldn't even try to learn it.

(HT: Nick and Bernardo.)

101 computer programming quotes and 101 more. Those are "one-hundred and one", not "five".

It's funny that non-programmers tend to perceive programmers as cocky and arrogant, when in my experience a programmer's humility always increases with their skill. The best programmers I know are quick to admit their mistakes and trumpet their horrific learning experiences; they also tend to be some of the most cynical people I know, readily admitting to the inevitability of future catastrophic failures of their work product. Maybe it's my own vanity, but I think computer programming is probably among the hardest professions, along with being a general or a fascist dictator.

(HT: GeekPress and MetaFilter.)

It's just so easy I'm not sure if I should bother... Ted Turner's global warming prophesies.

If steps aren't taken to stem global warming, "We'll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow," Turner said during a wide-ranging, hour-long interview with PBS's Charlie Rose that aired Tuesday.

"Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals," said Turner, 69. "Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state — like Somalia or Sudan — and living conditions will be intolerable." ...

"We're too many people; that's why we have global warming," he said. "Too many people are using too much stuff."

I betcha Ted Turner uses more "stuff" in one day than I do all year. The guy spends money at a rate tens-of-thousands of times as fast as the average American, and yet has the nerve to lecture me about how much "stuff" I use? Anyway, fish-in-a-barrel etc.

"How Things Even Out", by Jack Handey.

Modern Mechanix has posted a great bit about a "Unique Bus of Future to Duplicate Speed of Railroads". You've got to see the picture.

RECENT developments in everything that moves has caused many flights of imagination. Thus the fancy conjures up a bus to keep pace with other transportation. The bus between New York and San Francisco will be equipped with airplanes for trips not on the regular schedule. For diversion, billiard rooms, swimming pool, dancing floor and a bridle path would be available. The pilot would be “enthroned” over his engines, with the radio above. Space for autos would be afforded by the deck.

There's no source given, so I assume it's recently made-up and not a real historical proposal.

From a forwarded email... the picture is funnier than the easily-inferred text.

Here's a slideshow that explains the subprime mortgage debacle using stick figures. I guess it's a little last-year, but still amusing.

(HT: My Money Blog.)

Ever wonder what happened after Mario fell into one of the pits?

(HT: RD.)

Why you shouldn't swallow gum.

I love the Japanese, but they are strange. On the fringe they seem to be stranger than Americans, even if our medians are very close.

419 Eater cons a Nigerian email scammer into copying a whole Harry Potter book by hand by promising him USD DOLLARS $100 (ONE HUNDRED) per page of handwriting sample. Brilliant. There are jpeg scans of the handwriting as well.

(HT: LM.)

Iowahawk has a nice take on the subprime mortgage bailout. It starts:

As many of you know, I am a longtime resident of Lakewood Mobile Home Court, a gated community on the outskirts of Coralville. When I first moved to Lakewood in 2000, I was attracted by its affordable rental rates and many amenities, such as ample streetside parking, easy access to I-80, and a quiet, low-surveillance wooded area in which to store my automobiles and train my beloved sport dogs. At the time it seemed an ideal neighborhood in which to raise the various children the Iowa courts have assigned me financial support. Here was a place they could run and play carefree, while I relaxed with a drink and conversation with friendly new neighbors like Kyle and Chuck.

After several years of living in the community, however, I began to notice a change. Trash and beer cans and dog waste mysteriously began to pile up. Formerly friendly neighbors became suspicious and wary, and I was saddened to realize they were locking their trailers while away at work. Worse yet, crime skyrocketed, in large part due to the gangs of unsupervised juveniles that roamed the streets and woods. As a concerned parent, with several children facing Iowa's draconian "three strikes" sentencing guidelines, I realized that I needed to get them out of this environment but I didn't know how. Like millions of Americans I dreamed of home ownership, but it remained elusive. Early Sunday mornings I would drive slowly through Majestic Oakewoods, the new luxury housing development on the other side of the woods, with my headlights off, wistfully thinking: "someday... someday."

Meanwhile, here's a bailout you may not have heard of: SUV Bailout To Keep America Humming.

(HT: Instapundit and My Money Blog.)

(HT: GeekPress.)

I just ordered a new advanced programming keyboard for work that should increase my productivity by 1000%. Later in the month, though, I'm going to have to revert to my pirate keyboard.