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January 14, 2006
"Homeless Millionaire"He's a direct descendant of one of America's wealthiest families, but Alexis du Pont de Bie Sr. says he's now "literally destitute and homeless" - at least by du Pont standards. He grew up in a house with 20 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms, set on a 260-acre estate in Delaware, but now he sleeps on the sofas of kindhearted friends. Finally! The sort of homeless person with breeing and class that I, as a Republican, can feel sorry for. A lesson should be learned from Mr. DuPont by other homeless so-called "people." Thanks to Digital Brownshirt, who also notes that police have determined that a flashlight-shaped bomb was, in fact, a flashlight. Bad Timing + Bad Taste = Bad Karma Update: Maybe it's not the best time for that "homeless so-called 'people'" joke. posted by Ace at 05:46 PM
CommentsSomeone set us up the bomb! Posted by: See-Dubya on January 14, 2006 06:03 PM
What's with the du ponts? If they are not killing people they are whining. And how come a trust of 2.7 mil only gives you a 3k a month allowance? Posted by: shawn on January 14, 2006 06:17 PM
It's funny how the Lefties always accuse us of being motivated by fear and paranoia. These jerks find a flashlight in a Strabuck's bathroom and immediatley scream Bomb! Pussies. Posted by: Bart on January 14, 2006 06:22 PM
O.T.: I love all the anti-Bush ads on your blog. Great marketing by Google. Posted by: shawn on January 14, 2006 06:43 PM
Don't I know it. They say there's "nothing they can do." I've suggested that advertisers simply note the political leanings of their ads, and then we get to veto certain ads. It's just a huge waste of ad space and I'm probably going to be cancelling Google ads because of it. I'm not cluttering up my site with all these ads to make $1.50 a fucking day. Posted by: ace on January 14, 2006 06:45 PM
No, it's quite all right. City commisioner Carlton Moore has determined these were attacks against "people of color." Since Dupont is no doubt white, feel free to mock him and others of his hue as homeless scum. Posted by: Donnah on January 14, 2006 06:46 PM
what conservatives are going to click on an anti-Bush ad, for crying out loud? It's a waste of my space and their money. Well, not really their money, since they're paying fucking ten cents per useless ad. Posted by: ace on January 14, 2006 06:47 PM
Ft. Lauderdale was fun until the '90's. Posted by: Bart on January 14, 2006 06:54 PM
Wow, two responses. The ads are creepy but no more so than most posters. Anyway, if they are paying you, what can you do except take their money? It just seems it might be more profitable to them if they advertised something people might want. All they are doing is making me hate the jerks that run google more than I already do. Posted by: shawn on January 14, 2006 06:55 PM
Oh my gosh, can you imagine trying to live on only $3000 a month!!! That would only cover a 3 bedroom house in the suburbs, plus utilities, food, parochial school for two kids and the payment on a mid-priced sedan! This is a terrible tragedy. Maybe we should have a relief concert. Really. Not that I, as a Republican, would be willing to live in those kind of conditions myself, mind you. But one could, if one really tried. Posted by: Laura C on January 14, 2006 07:01 PM
I'm not cluttering up my site with all these ads to make $1.50 a fucking day. Hey, don't knock it. That's half the cost of a bottle of Val-U-Rite Vodka. Posted by: Michael on January 14, 2006 07:02 PM
Let's see... 2.7 mil x 1.3% interest / 12 month = 3000/month allowance So how does he "only" get 3000 per month? WTF? You could put that $$$ in just a regular savings account and get a better reutrn than 3K per month. Seams to me like he should have gotten a better accountant a long friggin time ago. Posted by: Madfish Willie on January 14, 2006 07:04 PM
I blame the ads on our bad language. Google's computer god cyborg mind has probably noticed a correlation between profanity and leftism. Posted by: sandy burger on January 14, 2006 07:09 PM
This word reutrn that I keep using... I do not think it means what I think it means! Posted by: Madfish Willie on January 14, 2006 07:11 PM
Sandy, I've considered that. I think I might have to add some hidden words at the bottom of the page like "Bush greatest president ever" and "Bill frist greatest" and "conservatives rule" or something so the Google bots begin to comprehend this is a conservative site. The other thing that might throw the 'bots is sarcasm. I say "it's all Bush's fault a lot," and so do you guys, so the bots might have something where they look for Bush and "Fault" within two or three words of each other to determine if it's a lefty site. Posted by: ace on January 14, 2006 07:16 PM
How about Condi in '08? Would that fool the bots? Posted by: shawn on January 14, 2006 07:18 PM
Ace, it's your duty to take the left's Google money. Posted by: See-Dub on January 14, 2006 07:19 PM
You could put some Meta tags in your head section and get a little more control over what the bots return. Posted by: Madfish Willie on January 14, 2006 07:20 PM
See-Dub, Nah. Those ads aren't effective, and so I don't get paid any money for them. It's better for me to have effective ads on the site. The lefty advertisers are just costing me money. Every ineffective ad displaces a potentially effective one. Even something random like "Camera accessories" would get more hits that "George Bush Torture Videos!" Posted by: ace on January 14, 2006 07:23 PM
Use the filter, Luke. Posted by: Donnah on January 14, 2006 07:27 PM
Umm, if we click on them do they have to pay you more? Cause that could be fun and I wouldn't mind that kind of transfer...as long as I don't have to buy anything. Posted by: See-Dubya on January 14, 2006 07:31 PM
See-Dubya: I think they pay per click through - but you cannot encourage your readers to click through as that would voilate the terms of agreement. However, I try to make it a point to click through at least once a week - open in new tab, let it stay open for a while, read the rest of the site, then close the tab. Posted by: Madfish Willie on January 14, 2006 07:35 PM
Time for all us commenters to band together and help Ace out. Simply add a prototypical conservative thought on all your comments for the Google web crawlers. When the 'good' ads start appearing, click through on some of them. Government is never the solution, its the problem. George Bush is the greatest president ever. Posted by: BrewFan on January 14, 2006 07:36 PM
"Umm, if we click on them do they have to pay you more? Cause that could be fun and I wouldn't mind that kind of transfer...as long as I don't have to buy anything."
Posted by: Amish clicks for a better world on January 14, 2006 07:42 PM
Brewfan: Your suggestion, though well meaning, wouldn't work. The spiders and bots check the URL for the index page on this blog. The comments are added to the internal database and are called up by code to display in the popup windows. The best thing for Ace is to include some Meta tags or Keywords or whatever the fuck they are called together with everyone just clicking through on both sets of ads. [If I'm wrong about the bots, someone please correct me.] Posted by: Madfish Willie on January 14, 2006 07:52 PM
I'll click on a couple dozen ads per day if it's transfering money from lefties to righties. Posted by: digitalbrownshirt on January 14, 2006 07:53 PM
One of those goes to the Center for American progress; therefore it represents a transfer of money from George Soros to Ace of Spades. You know what this means. I'm starting a blog. Posted by: See-Dubya on January 14, 2006 07:55 PM
I really like the one that's pushing Al Gore in '08. Posted by: digitalbrownshirt on January 14, 2006 07:58 PM
Speaking of flashlight-shaped things, ladies and gentlemen, the Fleshlight! http://fleshlight.blog-city.com/ Content warning... Posted by: Scotian on January 14, 2006 07:59 PM
I don't think it is safe to assume that there are very many conservative Google ads to be had, anyway. I'd guess that Google's political ads are a cesspit of crappy, unsellable BDS gear because supply far outstrips demand in the market. Posted by: Sortelli on January 14, 2006 08:07 PM
I'm just starting to do retirement planning at age 32, and 3,000 a month is kind of like a rosy projection for unearned income from investments and pension at age 62 for me. Posted by: Moonbat_One on January 14, 2006 08:14 PM
He's 62 and still has a trust fund that he can't tap? WTF? Is he so stupid that his family won't just give him the money and let him run with it? Seriously, how long would it take him to run through $2.7 mil compared to how long he has left on this mortal coil? Posted by: wiserbud on January 14, 2006 08:27 PM
Oh, that poor baby. As a graduate student, I get less than $2000/month, and that's before Uncle Sam get's his piece of it (btw, what politician in the 80's thought it would be a good idea to tax college students? they need to be drawn and quartered). I have zero sympathy for him. Sleeping on friends' couches? Buy a freaking apartment and get a job you lazy, good for nothing freak! Posted by: Hal on January 15, 2006 02:07 AM
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What? Skeleton of the most famous Musketeer, D'Artagnan, possibly discovered in Dutch church closet.
Dumas picked four names of real musketeers out of a history book, D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos. So there was an actual D'Artagnan, though he made most of the story up. (Or, you know, all of it.)* Charles de Batz de Castelmore, known as d'Artagnan, the famous musketeer of Kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV, spent his life in the service of the French crown. A lot of Dumas's stories are based on bits of real history. The plot of the >Three Musketeers, about trying to recover lost diamonds from the queen's necklace, was cribbed from the then-almost-contemporaneous Affair of the Queen's Necklace. And the Man in the Iron Mask is based on real accounts of a prisoner forced to wear a mask (though I think it was a velvet mask). * Oh, I should mention, Dumas says all this, about finding the names in an old book, in the prologue to his novel. But authors lie a lot. They frequently present fictions as based on historic fact. The twist is, he was actually telling the truth here. At least about these four musketeers having actually existed and served under Louis XIV. Fun fact: You know the beginning of A Fistful of Dollars where the local gunslingers make fun of Clint Eastwood's donkey and Eastwood demands they apologize to the donkey? That's lifted from The Three Musketeers. Rochefort mocks D'Artagnan's old, brokedown farm horse and D'Artagnan is incensed.
A commenter asked which should be read first, The Hobbit of LOTR?
Easy, no question -- read The Hobbit first. It's actually the start of the story and comes first chronologically. It sets up some major characters and major pieces in play in LOTR. Also, the Hobbit is Beginner-Friendly, which LOTR isn't. The Hobbit really is a delightful book, and a fast read. It's chatty, it's casual, it's exciting, and it's funny. In that dry cheeky British humor way. I love that the narrator is constantly making little asides and commentary, like he's just sitting next to you telling you this story as it occurs to him. LOTR is a very long story. Fifteen hundred pages or so. The Hobbit is relatively short and very punchy and easy to read. If you don't like The Hobbit, you can skip out on LOTR. If you do like it, you'll be primed to read LOTR. Oh, I should say: The Hobbit is written as if it's for children, but one of those smart children's stories that are also for adults. Don't worry, there's also real fighting and violence and horror in it, too. LOTR is written for adults. (It's said that Tolkien wrote both for his children, but LOTR was written 17 years later, when his children were adults.) Some might not like The Hobbit due to its sometimes frivolous tone. Me, I love it. I find it constantly amusing. Both are really good but there is a starkly different tone to both. LOTR is epic, grand, and serious, about a world war, The Hobbit is light and breezy, and about a heist. Though a heist that culminates in a war for the spoils.
The Hobbit Challenge: Read two more chapters. I didn't have much time. Bilbo got the ring.
I noticed a continuity problem. Maybe. Now, as of the time of The Hobbit, it was unknown that this magic ring was in fact a Ring of Power, and it was doubly unknown that it was the Ring of Power, the Master Ring that controlled the others. But the narrator -- who we will learn in LOTR was none of than Bilbo himself, who wrote the book as "There and Back Again" -- says this about Gollum's ring: "But who knows how Gollum had come by that present [the Ring], ages ago in the old days when such rings were still at large in the world? Perhaps even the Master who ruled them could not have said." In another passage, the ring is identified as a "ring of power." I don't know, I always thought there was a distinction between mere magic rings and the Rings of Power created by Sauron. But this suggests that Bilbo knew this was a ring of power created by Sauron. Now I don't remember when Bilbo wrote the Hobbit. In the movie, he shows Frodo the book in Rivendell, and I guess he wrote it after he left the Shire. I guess he might have added in the part about the ring being a ring of power created by "the Master" after Gandalf appraised him of his research into the ring. I never noticed this before. I know Tolkien re-wrote this chapter while he was writing LOTR to make the ring important from the start. And also to make Gollum more sinister and evil, and also to remove the part where Gollum actually offers Bilbo the ring as a "present" -- Bilbo had already found it on his own, but Gollum was wiling to give it away, which obviously is not something the rewritten Gollum would ever do. But I had no memory of the ring being suggested to be The Ring so early in the tale.
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Oh, I forgot to mention this quote from Pete Hegseth, reported by Roger Kimball: "We are sharing the ocean with the Iranian Navy. We're giving them the bottom half."
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Tomorrow is March 25th, "Tolkien Reading Day," because March 25th is the day when the Ring is destroyed in the book. I think I'm going to start the Hobbit tomorrow and read all four books this time.
The only bad part of the trilogy are the Frodo/Sam chapters in The Two Towers. They're repetitive, slow, and mostly about the weather and terrain. But most everything else is good. Weirdly, the Frodo-Sam chapters in Return of the King are exciting and action-packed and among the best in the trilogy. (Though the chapters with everyone else in Return of the King get pretty slow again. Mostly people talking about marching towards war, and then marching towards war.)
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US decimation of Iran's ICBM forces is due to Space Force's instant detection of launches -- and the launchers' hiding places -- and rapid counter-attack via missiles
AI is doing a lot of the work in analyzing images to find the exact hiding place of the launchers. Counter-strikes are now coming in four hours after a launch, whereas previously it might have taken days for humans to go over the imagery and data.
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