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Monday morning pitying the fool

by | May 24, 2021 | Mondays | 12 comments

Monday is here as a blight upon us all, and that is of course unavoidable. Fortunately, the Great Mondaydact Browser Smasher is here to help us all lift our gloomy moods with red-pilled videos, much hilarity, and hot girls with (and without) guns.

The theme for this week involves another member of The A-Team, as suggested by our good friend, Dawn Pine, who clearly loves that old show every bit as much as I do. Apparently, last week was Mr. T‘s birthday, and as we all know, B. A. Baracus pities the foo’ who doesn’t celebrate such a momentous occasion, so here we are, doing just that.

Take it away, Dawn Pine:

Mr. T was born in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest son in a family with twelve children. His father, Nathaniel Tureaud, Sr., was a minister. Tureaud, with his four sisters and seven brothers, grew up in a three-room apartment in one of the city’s housing projects, the Robert Taylor Homes, in a poorly constructed building, in an area with high levels of environmental pollutants and the largest concentration of poverty in America. While growing up, Tureaud regularly witnessed murder, rape, and other crimes, but attributes his survival and later success to his will to do well and his mother’s love.

Tureaud attended Dunbar Vocational High School, where he played football, wrestled, and studied martial arts. While at Dunbar he became the city-wide wrestling champion two years in a row. He won a football scholarship to Prairie View A&M University, where he majored in mathematics, but was expelled after his first year. (I could not find out why.)

Deciding school was not for him, Tureaud became a military policeman in the U.S. Army. After his short stint in the military, Tureaud decided to try out for the Green Bay Packers, however, a debilitating knee injury kept him from making the team.

In the mid 70s, Tureaud returned to Chicago and found a job as a doorman. His days as a military policeman helped him gain a reputation as one of Chicago’s toughest, and most infamous, bouncers. Always the consummate showman, Tureaud adopted a Mohawk hairstyle inspired by a National Geographic photo of an African Mandikan warrior. He started sporting piles of gold jewelry, which he claimed to have taken from misbehaving customers. He also adopted the name Mr. T, claiming the new moniker would force customers to show him respect.

Mr. T’s position as a bouncer for one of Chicago’s hottest nightclubs frequently put him in contact with celebrities. His outrageous reputation and his famous connections earned Mr. T the new job of celebrity bodyguard. Charging more than $3,000 a night, Mr. T began protecting stars such as Steve McQueen, Diana Ross, and Muhammad Ali. The job lasted nearly ten years until a chance meeting with actor Sylvester Stallone in 1980 changed everything.

After spotting Mr. T on a televised bouncer competition, Stallone decided to cast the bodyguard in his film, Rocky III (1982). Mr. T played Clubber Lang, a boxer pitted against the film’s main character, Rocky Balboa. It was during the filming of this movie that Mr. T coined the catchphrase “I pity the fool!” The film became a blockbuster hit, grossing over $125 million at the box office. Audiences loved Mr. T’s over-the-top character, and his performance made him an overnight sensation.

Taking advantage of his newly found fame, Mr. T landed a starring role in another box-office hit, D.C. Cab (1983). He also premiered in his own cartoon series, Mister T, which featured Mr. T as the owner of a gym of young athletes who fought crime and solved mysteries. (I remember that show as a kid, it was hilarious).

In 1984, he released a music album entitled Mr. T’s Commandments that encouraged children to make good choices. He followed the success of this album with a motivational video and film soundtrack called “Be Somebody… or Be Somebody’s Fool!”, aimed at encouraging children to make responsible decisions.

A year later, Mr. T signed on to the new television drama, The A-Team, a show about four Vietnam vets framed for a crime they didn’t commit. Each week, the show’s characters helped innocent people while on the run from the military. Mr. T’s role as Sgt. Bosco “B.A.” Baracus relied mainly on the star’s unique off-screen personality. The show became another instant hit. (Moreover, as teammates and he himself claims โ€“ he did not audition and was the first hired star. The show was “his show”, even as we stated before โ€“ there was competition on the set.)

In 1985, at the height of his fame, Mr. T entered the world of professional wrestling. He became the tag-team partner of wrestling legend, Hulk Hogan, in WrestleMania I. Remaining with the WWE, Mr. T became a special “WWE boxer,” in light of his character in Rocky III. Around this time, he also began starring in his own show, T. and T., about a streetwise kid who became a city detective. The show lasted for three seasons. Hulkster even went on 2 episodes of The A-Team as himself.

In 1995 doctors diagnosed the actor with T-cell lymphoma, a form of cancer. While he recovered, Mr. T kept a low profile and limited his appearances to commercials.

As he regained his health, he began appearing again on the big screen. In 1999, he made a cameo in the children’s comedy, Inspector Gadget. He then made a series of appearances in 2001, including roles in Not Another Teen Movie, Judgment and The Proud Family. That same year, at the age of 49, Mr. T officially went into remission.

Mr. T returned to the small screen in 2006 with his own reality show, I Pity the Fool. In the series, Mr. T traveled from town-to-town giving advice, solving problems and teaching people about cooperation. The show lasted for six episodes. Mr. T has continued to appear in television commercials and, in 2009, he voiced the character of Officer Earl Devereaux in the animated movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Mr. T also stars in the home renovation show I Pity the Tool, which premiered on the DIY Network in 2015.

Mr. T is a born-again Christian. He gave up virtually all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He said, “As a Christian, when I saw other people lose their lives and lose their land and property…I felt that it would be a sin before God for me to continue wearing my gold. I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.”

Here are a bunch of great old videos starring the man himself:

Plenty more to come in the pics down below, keep reading.


His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, was of course correct about China and its leaders:


#BasedTucker is based:


Mark Dice gets serious for a bit and notes that, for all of its supposed “anti-establishment” credentials, Hollyweird actually works hand-in-glove with the Military-Industrial Complex to normalise otherwise horrible things:


The Male Brain has some good stuff to keep us all occupied on this miserable day. We start with a genuinely batshit insane woman who practiced for her own funeral:

Here is an intriguging video from The Daily Signal in which a former Cosmo writer admits that everything she wrote about sexual empowerment and feminism for 20 years at that rag were just plain old lies:

Been a while since we had some Ryan George vids:

The Honest Trailer and Pitch Meeting guys decided to do a crossover, which turns out to be decent, but the proposed movie probably isn’t one you want to watch:

Y’all remember those old Mac vs PC ads from about 15 years ago, or whenever it was? Here’s the one about viruses:

It’s sort of true, but what they don’t tell you is that Macs are highly susceptible to malware.

If you want an operating system that doesn’t tell you what to do with it and isn’t designed on absolutely retarded principles, just download and install Linux Mint.


Binkov’s Battlegrounds has some shocking, yet actually not that surprising, news about the F-22:


Remember that old video from ReThinking Tourism about what a realistic and genuine flight safety demonstration video might look like? Here it is, to refresh your memory:

The same mad genius behind that one, made a new one about airport security:

A lot of the content in that video confirms what Rafi Sela, former head of security at David Ben Gurion airport in Israel, said in a classic article from Cracked – y’know, back when that site was actually GOOD, i.e. pre-2014 or thereabouts, back when it wasn’t a woketard mess. As Mr. Sela correctly put it, the TSA couldn’t protect you from a 6-year-old with a water balloon, never mind actual Izzlamists.

The reality is that airport security is there to make you feel better, but doesn’t actually do a damned thing – at least, not the way that the USA does it. If you want to learn how to protect your country from jihadi jackasses, learn from the best – i.e. the Israelis, who have to prevent Muzzies from prematurely detonating all the time.


Dave from Blue Collar Logic has an interesting take on the divisions within modern-day Judaism:

And Jason weighs in on the whole Israeli-Palestinian conflict:

As I pointed out in my addendum to our friend Dawn Pine‘s recent guest post, the reality is that NO ONE GIVES A FLYING F**K about the Palestinians. They lost the war for their homeland generations ago and they are now only useful as political pawns, nothing more, for cynical Arab rulers looking for scapegoats on whom they can pin their own stupidity and incompetence.

That doesn’t absolve Israel of its most egregious failures with respect to the Palestinian Problem. But It also doesn’t make Israel an evil nation. It isn’t. It’s simply a nation that believes in being, y’know, A NATION.

Would that America could do the same…


Bill Whittle tilts at that same old silly windmill about selling cuckservative Kool-Aid to people sick and tired of the progressive bullshit:

The reason why conservatism continues to fail upwards is not because it has anything to offer. It simply isn’t as bad as progressivism. But that doesn’t mean that conservatism itself is much better. It isn’t. Conservatism doesn’t conserve anything, because it doesn’t stand FOR anything. It simply stands against things, and doesn’t do that very well either.


Paul Ramsey asks, quite reasonably, how and why Christian Zionism has made both the Left and the Right in America beholden to Israel:


PJW is unimpressed by the loonies within the Branch Covidian cult – though I warn you that if you watch the video clips that he’s assembled, spontaneous rage-vomiting and breaking shit against the nearest wall almost certainly will happen:


The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey explains how you can create a fake epidemic pretty much at will these days:

I really have a hard time concentrating whenever Dr. Bailey starts talking. The eyes… the accent… the looks… She’s a knockout, no question.

That being said – in last week’s video, she asserted that Dr. Stefan Lanka from Germany kept a 100,000 Euro reward in his pocket when he made a bet that no one could prove to him that an actual specific viral infection causes measles. That is NOT TRUE. Dr. Lanka initially lost the bet and was forced to pay by a German court. He appealed to the Supreme Court in Germany. That court ruled that Dr. Lanka had the right to accept whatever he, and he alone, considered proof, and took no position whatsoever on whether or not the measles virus actually exists.

This is a lot like a Flat-Earther stating that he’ll bet you $1M if you can prove to him that the Earth is round – and then refusing to accept any and all evidence on the grounds that it does not meet HIS STANDARDS. You could take that dude up on a space flight to low-Earth orbit and show him the Earth spinning slowly through space, and he’d STILL disbelieve you.

Draw your own conclusions from that, really. Dr. Bailey needs to own up to that mistake if she wants to be taken more seriously by her peers on the subject of virology.


Lord Razor of the Fist Clan takes on the new NYFC District Attorney’s blatantly political persecution of the God-Emperor:

The problem for T-Rump is that he very clearly did not support his own supporters on Jan. 6, and he did not do what he should have done on Jan. 20. So he cannot now reasonably expect his supporters to support him in return. And I write that as someone who thinks that he was the greatest President since Andrew Jackson.

I differ somewhat from OBADSDL(PBUH) Vox Day in my sympathies for the God-Emperor, because I have it on good authority that he was clearly betrayed by the military top brass, who refused to do their sworn duty and step in. But the fact remains that the God-Emperor did not declare martial law when he should have, and he did not play the part of Caesar when he needed to.

And now he is paying the price for his miscalculations.


The Dizzle has a thought-provoking video – for the first time in AGES – about the recent attack by pro-Palestinian Izzlamists on the home and family of an actual Islamic Mufti, a non-crazy one, called Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki, who actually talks a good deal of sense at least some of the time:

MALM is quite a character and he’s fun to listen to. I’ve checked out a few of his videos and he is of a more reformist bent within Islam. He understands that there are some massive historical and religious issues within Islam, and he is willing to try new ideas to deal with the inadequacies of Izzlamic doctrine and theology.

He’s even willing to go so far as to say that the Palestinians have lost the war against Israel and should now be resettled, with compensation from Israel, into Arab lands. And he’s right about that. The Israelis would almost certainly HAPPILY see off 5 million or so Arabs into Jordan or Egypt or Syria – the cost of doing so would be miniscule compared to the Forever War that they have been fighting against the Muzzies in their own backyard for 70-plus years.

The problem, of course, is that Islam cannot stand dissent. The Palestinians are useful political pawns, and anyone who disagrees with that must be silenced.

I feel sorry for MALM, I really do. But if he wants actual support and help – well, that’s what Jesus is for.


Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Al-Fadi from CIRA International continue to demolish the false edifice of Islam, this time by picking apart their much-ballyhooed “Constitution of Medina”, which was almost certainly a forgery:


Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined notes the serious Constitutional and Scriptural problems with the Equality Act:


China Uncensored points out that Chinese-made skyscapers are, well, Chinese-made:


America Uncovered tackles the issue of Critical Race Theory:


Jared Taylor from American Renaissance takes on the American Medical Association and their latest round of race-related idiocy:


Terrence Popp explains why he married his ex-wife, who did so much to ruin his life:

You might think that is a bit hyperbolic. Note that this is the same woman who killed his dog and called him a murderer and child-killer in court, while cheating on him repeatedly as he was recovering from a TBI.


Midnight’s Edge and their friend Kamran Pasha examine how and when the Devil Mouse’s chromedome CEO will force out Queen Karen Kennedy:


Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock has the sting in the tail for that story, though, because Brie Larson might just be cast as Mara Jade, which would be a DISASTER all around:


Gary from Nerdrotic is quite amused by the fact that all of the Devil Mouse’s pandering to the Orientals has utterly failed to impress them:


The Drinker does NOT want an ancient, creaky, mumbling Indiana Jones film in a woke era, and neither do the rest of us:


The next Venom movie actually looks like it might be qiute good – the first one was definitely a surprisingly good film:


Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and concerns a huge step forward in quantum computing:

In aย related but separate series of experiments, researchers also working with macroscopic drums (or oscillators) in a state of quantum entanglement have shown how it’s possible to measure the position and momentum of the two drumheads at the same time.

“In our work, the drumheads exhibit a collective quantum motion,”ย says physicist Laure Mercier de Lepinay, from Aalto University in Finland. “The drums vibrate in an opposite phase to each other, such that when one of them is in an end position of the vibration cycle, the other is in the opposite position at the same time.”

“In this situation, the quantum uncertainty of the drums’ motion is canceled if the two drums are treated as one quantum-mechanical entity.”

What makes this headline news is that it gets aroundย Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principleย โ€“ the idea that position and momentum can’t be perfectly measured at the same time. The principle states that recording either measurement will interfere with the other through a process calledย quantum back action.

As well as backing up the other study in demonstrating macroscopic quantum entanglement, this particular piece of research uses that entanglement to avoid quantum back action โ€“ essentially investigating the line between classical physics (where the Uncertainty Principle applies) and quantum physics (where it now doesn’t appear to).

One of the potential future applications of both sets of findings is in quantum networks โ€“ being able to manipulate and entangle objects on a macroscopic scale so that they can power next-generation communication networks.


Yourย long read of the week is also from The Male Brain, and is about how the Fake President insists on trying to enact failed Lightworker-era policies in the world’s largest sinkhole of blood and treasure:

The presidentโ€™s โ€œultimate goal,โ€ Malley wrote, was โ€œto help the [Middle East] find a more stable balance of power that would make it less dependent on direct U.S. interference or protection.โ€ That is a roundabout way of saying that Obama dreamed of a new Middle Eastern orderโ€”one that relies more on partnership with Iran.

And the dream lives on. In May 2020, six months after Malley penned hisย Foreign Affairsย essay, Jake Sullivan, writing as an adviser to Bidenโ€™s presidential campaign, co-authored his own article laying out a Middle East strategy. The goal, heย explained, is to be โ€œless ambitiousโ€ militarily, โ€œbut more ambitious in using U.S. leverage and diplomacy to press for a de-escalation in tensions and eventually a new modus vivendi among the key regional actors.โ€ If we substitute the word โ€œbalanceโ€ for โ€œmodus vivendi,โ€ and if we recognize that โ€œde-escalationโ€ and โ€œdiplomacyโ€ require cooperation with Iran, then Sullivanโ€™s vision is identical to Obamaโ€™s โ€œultimate goalโ€ as described by Malley. Sullivan emphasized that equivalence when he defined the objective of his plan as โ€œchanging the United Statesโ€™ role in a regional order it helped create.โ€

This project to create a new Middle Eastern order, which now spans two presidential administrations, deserves a name. The โ€œObama-Biden-Malley-Blinken-Sullivan initiativeโ€ is quite a mouthful. Instead, we hereby dub it โ€œthe Realignment.โ€ That it should fall to us, and at this late date, to name a project on which many talented people have been working for the better part of a decade is more than a little odd. Typically, presidents launch initiatives as grand as this one with a major address, and they further embroider their vision with dozens of smaller speeches and interviews. One searches in vain for Obamaโ€™s speech, โ€œA New Order in the Middle East.โ€

Obama, it seems clear, felt his project would advance best with stealth and misdirection, not aggressive salesmanship. Biden, while keeping Obamaโ€™s second-term foreign policy team nearly intact, is using the same playbook. He and his aides recognize that confusion about the โ€œultimate goalโ€ makes achieving it easier. Indeed, confusion is the Realignmentโ€™s best friend.


Linkageย is good for you:

And some more fromย Dawn Pine:


Whoever said that The Neo-Tsar has no sense of humour, has plainly never heard him tell a joke:


History lessons of the week:


Your Great Man of the Week is, of course, Mr. T:


Let’s watch Mint Blitz bork the HALO 4 game engine now:

And here are some sweet HALO memes:


Wazzocks gonna wazzock:


Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:


Comedy hour:


Pics, guns, girls, starting with some more great Mr. T memes from The Male Brain, along with his captions:

Yes, please
I believe him
Kids don’t always know what is good for them.
Probably not a saint, but it’s a nice pic
Never thought about it that way…
Second that
Yeah, I had a feeling you wouldn’t
Now I’m curious – what WOULD happen?!?!
No comment

Holy shit, that is an epic way to start the day. All that is missing is a plate of scrambled eggs and a side of sauteed mushrooms with baked beans on top.

I mean, the facts do speak for themselves, y’know…

Ayup.

Absolutely damned right. If you are a socialist or POC an you don’t like the America that White people created through their own hard work and sacrifice, then, GET. THE. F**K. OUT. Plenty of shitholes around the world would welcome you with open arms – and then impale you simply for disagreeing with the local High Muckety-Muck.

Headlines of the week indicate that anyone who had “Mutant Cicada-Dismembering Fungus” in the Doomsday Apocalypse Sweepstakes for May 2021, just won big:

Your “Leif Eriksson Called and Wants His Legacy Back” moment of the week:

Your “Only Took 20 Years” moment of the week:

I’m so old, I can actually remember using Internet Exploder as an actual web browser…

Your “Farting Around” moment of the week:

Your “That’s Because He’s Related to Them” moment of the week:

Your “Anarchy in the USA” moment fo the week:

I can actually relate to this next one quite well:

Yes, I have done that, and yes, it was WEIRD.

Your… ah hell, I’m not even gonna TRY with this one:

Your “Sausage Fest” moment of the week:

Here’s your stupid question of the week:

Yep, I need a vacation, BADLY.

Ah, now I understand why my American friends call them “Trash Pandas”.

God bless Crush!

Yeah, seriously, where ARE the has browns?!?! NO self-respecting Texan would eat brekkie without at least a plate of grits!


Your Dog of the Week is the


Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:

And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:

Seriously. DO. NOT. VISIT. AUSTRALIA. EVERYTHING THERE WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYEBALLS FOR JUJUBEES.


Gym beast time:


Dom Mazetti from BroScienceLife is FINALLY back with one of his hilarious gym comedy videos – or rather, he WAS, back in March, and after all of these years, he’s still every bit as brilliant as ever:


Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:

Getting kicked by Buakaw is probably a lot like smashing into a tree. It only ends quickly and violently.


Jesus loves knockouts:


Shufflin’ keeps things groovin’:


#StrengthThroughSteel

NEW POWERWOLF ALBUM IN 2021!!!!!!!

Maybe this year isn’t so horrible after all. We’ve got another SABATON album coming out this year too, actually.

That’s an epic album, by the way.

One of my favourite bands ever, FALCONER, released a new album last year, and I’m only NOW listening to it:


And here we are, finally, with the obligatory Monday Instathot. Her name is Noam Ifergan, age 25, of indeterminate nationality. I say that because, depending on whom you ask, she was born in Italy, the Netherlands, or Israel. Judging by the captions that she writes on her photos, she is in fact Italian. But her name is QUITE Jewish – as are her *ahem* looks. Both of them, ifyaknowhatimeanrite.

Beyond her name and nationality, though, I haven’t the first clue who she is or what she does. But she doesn’t look half bad in a bikini, I’ll say that for sure. She reminds me of that old Sophia Loren quote – “Everything you see here, I owe to spaghetti”.

(If you’ve never seen Sophia Loren in her heyday… here you go. The Eyeties don’t make ’em quite like that anymore – but this girl comes pretty darn close.)

All right, boys, off to work with you. Those show trials and kangaroo courts aren’t going to fund themselves, after all.

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12 Comments

    • Didact

      That’s going straight in the next week’s compilation for sure.

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  1. Robert W

    Re Mr. T:
    I did not realize 3 things and life is better now:
    1. They had TV shows making celebrities out of bouncers in the 70’s. What a great reality TV concept for the low-brow crowd.
    2. Stallone found him and had the showmanship to put him on screen in Rocky III beating the crap out of people. It wasn’t a hustle to just give Rocky a punching bag, it played a big part in making Mr.T an enduring star. Nice work.
    3. This guy is an unapologetic Christian. Ya did good sir, and I expect you pity the fool who trades his soul to gain the world.

    Re Cosmo Writer video: That is a powerful testimony.
    A. I was a professional propaganda writer for 20 years. I even have the how-to manual on it.
    B. That wrecked my life and I helped destroy many women’s lives.
    C. I thought His church was horrible until I met some and read them seriously.
    D. God Forgive me and please help me undo the damage

    Good video and God bless her for having the courage to repent and re-work.

    Re Alien psy-ops from the DoD:
    There’s something in the zeitgeist around the extra-terrestrial phenomenon. I have been skeptical of the whole community for years. Audible posted ‘Unacknowledged’ by Stephen Greer for free this past year and I listened to the book. The evidence and documentation he has is compelling and genuinely provides the strongest introduction for the deep state cabal to take over management on the USA, starting with J Edgar Hoover and the quasi-judicial (read, criminal) National Reconnaissance Office under Truman in the ’40s.
    Then the last 2% of the book the author is describing his ability to host seances with the different ET’s living on earth and I felt my eyes rolling around again.

    Enter what is a really fun fictional book by a Biblical Scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser. He’s worth reading/listening to by anyone who wants to read the scripture in the context of its original authors, and he is a very effective communicator of the academic Christian developments into the regular church people. He also likes SciFi and paranormal, and his book The Facade is a roller-coaster thriller of a black ops FedGov interdisciplinary program to determine how to publicly disclose ET activity to the public…with a biblical scholar in the mix. I tore through it in about 2 days, it is intellectually gripping and the action isn’t bad either. It doesn’t tip its hand quickly so I won’t either.

    With your current living arrangements, do you have the opportunity to own and drive a vehicle or is it all public transports? One of the great joys in my life is the simple act of being able to drive to work, but I realize that’s not the case for most urban folks.

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    • Didact

      Yeah, Mr. T is just an all-around legend.

      Thereโ€™s something in the zeitgeist around the extra-terrestrial phenomenon. I have been skeptical of the whole community for years.

      I am also pretty sceptical of the whole thing. I’m not saying aliens cannot possibly exist, but I do wonder why any species advanced enough to achieve rapid interstellar flight would bother with a bunch of hairless near-apes inhabiting a very average world around a very average star that is more interested in the gigantiferous ass of Kim Kardashian than in colonising worlds and bending the laws of physics.

      The fact that this whole “Da TROOF is out there!!!” stuff is suddenly making such a big comeback, right when the whole Kung Flu scamdemic is receding, the whorenalists and presstitutes are belatedly coming around to the reality that the Chinese probably created that abomination, the narrative around the Not-Election continues unravelling, and people are finally waking up in America and the UK to fight back against the tide of cultural Marxism that has threatened us for so long, strikes me as odd, to say the least.

      There’s that old saying about how once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action – and four times is a puckering feeling in the rectum. We’re up to strike FIVE already.

      Enter what is a really fun fictional book by a Biblical Scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser.

      I do like his work a lot. I referenced it extensively in my podcast from Sunday.

      With your current living arrangements, do you have the opportunity to own and drive a vehicle or is it all public transports?

      Sadly, no, at the moment I’m stuck with my own two feet and the public transport system around here – which is not bad, actually. But I know what you mean about the joys of driving. America is a wonderful country to drive through, at least as long as you live in a state with decent roads (i.e. not New York or New Jersey). I really loved driving while I was there – was a great way to relax and unwind during the weekends.

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  2. Matt FreeMatt

    BTW: Mr T is a three time cancer survivor and former Army MP.
    He pities you. I heard a story about him cutting a tree down with a chainsaw after his neighbors complained about the leaves.
    He doesnt fuck around but he will miss a flight so he can talk to fans. Quasi reliable source said that he would always stop to hug a kid who recognized him but he hates jive ass mofos enough to kick ass.

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    • Didact

      Quasi reliable source said that he would always stop to hug a kid who recognized him but he hates jive ass mofos enough to kick ass.

      Yeah, he basically has (or had) this huge over-the-top persona, but he’s actually just a big teddy bear with a heart of gold.

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  3. Dire Badger

    I am looking forward to Monday’s Benedict.

    I met the guy at SLCC #1, and he thinks that new Starbuck is hella funny. Went specifically to meet him and Sorbo, was worth it.

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      • Tom Tap

        UFOs definitely exist. People I trust with my life have seen them on multiple occasions. Some of them were clearly human test vehicles. Some of them appeared to violate physics.

        I don’t know about any little green men but something is going on.

        The fact that the government and media have lock-step admitted to their existence stinks to high heaven.

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  4. MrUNIVAC

    Off-topic, but some pretty big HALO news this week. Apparently 343i finally got around to fixing the broken “original graphics” in Halo: CE:

    https://www.retrorgb.com/halo-combat-evolved-classic-graphics-in-mcc-gets-fixed.html

    Looks like I can finally retire my OG XBOX. I like Anniversary as a “Star Wars Special Edition” take on the game, but IMHO the remastered graphics are WAY too busy. Plus, the original just has a charm to it that IMHO hasn’t aged poorly like a lot of other games from that era.

    Noodle is a goofball, but he covers it pretty well in this video:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyeCb99cb2Q

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    • Didact

      Yes, I saw the news release and am anticipating a gigaF**Kton of patches to download the next time I boot up my WinDOZE partition to slaughter my way through the Covenant. (Which I’m rather hoping will be this weekend, actually.) This is very good news.

      I am not in the camp that hates H:CEA because of its graphics. I like the lighting and the improved weapons sounds – it captures the power and the beauty of the original game, but Saber Interactive tried to do something with that remaster that the technology 10 years ago probably didn’t support very well. They basically tried to create a separate graphics layer on top of an existing game and then synchronised the two, and that generally didn’t work too well the first time they tried it. I think they did a much better job the second time around with H2A.

      The big bugbear that I have with H:CEA’s graphics is indeed the cutscenes. The animations there are just BAD – much worse than they should have been, given that Microsoft released HALO Wars with fully rendered mo-cap cutscenes two years prior. Given that HW was a second-tier attempt and something of a lazy cash grab (that actually turned out to be pretty decent in the end), it’s inexcusable that Microsoft messed up the remaster of their mainstay killer app so badly.

      If they ever do an H3 Anniversary edition (I rather hope they do not), then they’d damned well better overhaul all of the graphics for the cutscenes FIRST, and THEN worry about the in-game graphics (which were and are GREAT).

      All of that said… I am really looking forward to HALO Infinite. Everything that I’m seeing about it indicates that 343i and Microsoft have taken fan concern seriously about the graphics and sound design, and now that they’ve ditched Brian Reed’s idiotic influence over the storyline, we should see some good results.

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  5. Jim S

    The first time I saw Mr. T was in the summer of 1980, on a TV show I believe called Games People Play. I believe Mike Adamle and Bryant Gumbel (he’s a POS for many things) hosted it. Mr. T won the competition that night, I believe it was called the Toughest Bouncer. The last event of that evening’s contest was to get through a prop door and ring a bell at the end. Mr. T blew through the door, destroying it, and rung the bell, kind of in one motion. I remember thinking this guy was one tough dude to do that feat. Later on, that POS Gumbel badmouthed Mr. T, wishing he had never had Mr. T on that show.

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