Wilson Fu

You can terrorize some Americans all of the time, but you cannot terrorize all Americans all of the time.

DIM MAK was wondering why Mr. Fu had not posted any pictures of the giant spider.  That prompted Mr. Fu to capture the spider when the spider revealed himself.  The giant spider is now imprisoned in a coffee can, awaiting photographic equipment to be used to record him in all his giant spider glory.

Previously Mr. Fu posted a quote that stated in part, “People are basically good. ”  Now Mr. Fu recognizes that flies in the face of Judeo-Christian expectations of humanity.  But let us fix any mix up by forcing a definition.  If you are not basically good, let’s define you as “not people.”  Then recognize that as “not people” you may be a rabid animal that needs to be put down for the good of society / civilization / humanity / whatever.

Cold hearted?  Perhaps, but one would not expect less from Mr. Fu.

In spite of all the Truther yammering and the rest of the commie tripe, for all the crap thrown around out there, there are some things to believe in:

“Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love… true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.” — Hub, in Secondhand Lions

Got that right.

Mr. Fu has long advocated an impeachment of President Bush as potentially tying up the dunderheads in Congress so they will not bother us.  The Anchoress makes a good case for impeachment in the face of the constant lies of the commies.

WO FIRES discovered a spider the size of Mr. Fu’s foot in the restroom here at the Office-in-the-Woods:

WO FIRES:  Mr. Fu, come look at this spider.

Mr. Fu:  That is one big spider.

WO FIRES:  He is on his way to becoming a tarantula.

Mr. Fu:  Maybe he wants to play mumbly-peg? <throws knife at spider>

WO FIRES:  I can’t believe you missed.

Mr. Fu:  Dang!  He’s got my knife!  <distracts spider with slice of roast beef, retrieves knife>

That is the largest spider Mr. Fu has ever seen in the wild.  Probably a 2.5 inch leg spread, not stretched out.

It is about time for a thoughtful post.  To paraphrase Dr. Johnson, I will keep it short so that it can be remembered.  W. Somerset Maugham once said, “The ability to quote is a servceable substitute for wit.”

Okay, perhaps he said it twice.

Instapundit points to a problem: Veganism means death! At least for infants and plants. One of my favorite t-shirts says:

“And how many plants had to die for your salad?”

Lileks is at it again.  Without proving his credentials for it, he continues to try to be funny in a blog.  He succeeds, but that should not distract you from the facts that Lileks is neither a standup comedian, has never had a sitcom, nor worked as a writer on Your Show of Shows.  At best he seems to have dropped out of college and spent the last two decades swindling newspapers out of their hard earned money posing as some sort of writer.

The review:

Lileks blogs about his life, then quickly jumps into the national debate on immigration (he probably touts his trips to Arizona as giving him status as a Subject Matter Expert [SME] on the subject).  He attempts to use humor to point out how ridiculous the whole bill is, a method stolen straight from Rush Limbaugh, and he mostly succeeds (again).   He then jumps into a critical review of a critic, Richard Schickel.  Lileks humorously criticizes Schickel’s criticism of what Schickel considers unqualified critics.  Lileks’ criticism shows two things, 1) he is probably too tuned into who critics are and what they do, and 2) he has a time machine, as he obviously stole my line of thought here and went back in time to blog about it (the writers of West Side Story had the same problem with Shakespeare, so I am in good company).

Lileks goes on to review the TV show 24 and convinces me to abandon my plans of investing in those DVDs of 24:

The problem is this: I don’t care. I’m tired of it all and I just want it over. I could take another 19 episodes of the Sopranos, in which all the plot points are stretched to the consistency of an individual filament of dental floss; fine with me, as long as the writing and direction and acting maintain the same exquisite quality. But this? It’s like an entire season of “Spock’s Brain.”

Gah!  And at this point I must admit that I chuckled out loud and questioningly repeated the words, “Walgreen’s house brand?”

The criticism of 24 by the un-credentialed critic Lileks continues:

The US gets nuked and half-nuked, and at the end of the day we not only fail to do squat, we fire everyone in the organization responsible for preventing three other nuclear blasts.

If that is not reality in writing, I do not know what is!  Sounds like the current Federal government right down to the soles of Sandy Berger’s unincarcerated feet.

All in all, for Lileks’ amateurish effort, I have to give him an A+.  He continues to display a boring uniform sameness in continuing to write well and humorously.

More from Steve:

It used to be that when you died, the worms were the first scavengers to get to the corpse. Now Hitchens beats them to it.

Manners are not what they used to be I suppose.  The whole atheism thing just strikes me as funny anyway.  But I guess if you throw crap on a Christian it is more newsworthy than an atheist with crap on them, less in keeping with people’s preconceived notions of Christians.

The case for Jimmy Carter.

Steve over at Hog On Ice went to see Christopher Hitchens at a local synagogue and comments, among others:

It’s a funny world we live in. Believing in a God you have never seen makes you close-minded and hateful, but being sure that God does not exist and exhibiting coarse, overt hostility to religion proves your mind is open and you love all humanity.

Hmmm, the irony of him being named Christopher.  Perhaps he should consider changing it?

The Astute Bloggers link to an interesting article on global warming:

Water vapour was responsible for 95 per cent of the greenhouse effect, an effect which was vital to keep the world warm, he explained.

“If we didn’t have the greenhouse effect the planet would be at minus 18 deg C but because we do have the greenhouse effect it is plus 15 deg C, all the time.”

The other greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide, and various others including CFCs, contributed only five per cent of the effect, carbon dioxide being by far the greatest contributor at 3.6 per cent.

However, carbon dioxide as a result of man’s activities was only 3.2 per cent of that, hence only 0.12 per cent of the greenhouse gases in total. Human-related methane, nitrogen dioxide and CFCs etc made similarly minuscule contributions to the effect: 0.066, 0.047 and 0.046 per cent respectively.

“That ought to be the end of the argument, there and then,” he said.

Heh, if you consider the heat capacity of water, and look at the relative proportions of water to cardon dioxide, it is pretty easy to see that the human contribution of increased carbon dioxide has a negligible effect on global warming.

Fred on the immigration bill:

We should scrap this bill and the whole debate until we can convince the American people that we have secured the borders or at least have made great headway.

Peggy opines on Fred:

While the other candidates bang away earnestly in a frozen format, Thompson continues to sneak up from the creek and steal their underwear–boxers, briefs and temple garments.

He is running a great campaign. It’s just not a declared campaign. It’s a guerrilla campaign whose informality is meant to obscure his intent. It has been going on for months and is aimed at the major pleasure zones of the Republican brain. In a series of pointed columns, commentaries and podcasts, Mr. Thompson has been talking about things conservatives actually talk about.

The wonderous Fred Thompson replies to Michael Moore’s debate challenge.  More reason why Fred should be President.

Oleg Atbashian finishes his two part article on the lessons Boris Yeltsin has for America.  Quoting from the article would do it an injustice.  Just read it.

Kinko’s Homeland Security!

Made glorious summer by this son of Butka.  Oleg Atbashian writes of the lessons for America offered by Boris Yeltsin:

They may believe their protest leads to more freedom – but freedom can’t be increased by abusing and disparaging it. Objectively, they diminish freedom by providing hope and moral support to dictators, helping tyrants to brainwash their populations, and knocking the ground from under the feet of real fighters for freedom. That makes them a tool in the hands of a reactionary totalitarian ideology. As if supporting communist dictatorships were not enough, “progressive” rallies now also feature slogans backing the Iranian regime that imprisons and tortures its own dissidents.

It is continuously amazing how the Leftists imagine mass murder, gulags, and dictators within the United States, and fail to recognize the all too real mass murder, gulags, and dictators in the rest of the world.  They seem to rail against Nazis well enough, but the natures of the Stalins, Maos, Pol Pots, and Castros of the world are invisible to them.  Is it that they fail to perceive that the Nazis were just as left of center as they are?

Great line posted by SemiPundit in a comment on an article about newspapers failing:

The business is indeed information.

As my Dad once told me, a man goes into a hardware store to buy a drill. He really doesn’t want the drill; he only wants a hole.

Posted by: SemiPundit at May 9, 2007 01:29 PM  

But as S.M. Stirling said in the Draka series, “To desire the end is to desire the means.”

Infidels are Cool – Oh boy are we!

Leibowitz’s Canticle – Interesting, but not the guy from the book.  I don’t even think his wife is named Emma.

The Flying Space Monkey Chronicles – Were there monkeys?  Terrible space monkeys?  He is an old link that I am finally getting back to reading.  He also hangs with Frank J. at:

IMAO – Home of Frank J. and the delightful Fred Thompson facts….

Hatless in Hattiesburg – Only a short drive away from where GRAND FU BAH grew up.  But in his day it took a bit on horseback.  Though eventually the Model T cut down on the transit time.

MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy – a local gal who may be a shadow government like Mr. Fu.

Bill’s Bites – You better bet he can learn some new tricks.

The Lasso of Truth – Conservative in Canada?  Maybe it’s a trend.