Sing along with Kim Jong Il! [link dead, see below]

(Seriously.)

The North Korean song of National Defense given the Mitch Miller treatment.  Truly odd. 

Makes me worry about them both more and less, simultaneously.

First noticed via Boing Boing, which is truly wonderful every day.

UPDATE: The North Koreans seem to be blocking access to the site now, but you can still get there by visiting http://www.korea-dpr.com/ — be sure to be terribly impressed by the giant hydroelectric plant in the logo — then clicking the flag to enter, then clicking on “Friendship,” and then clicking on the KFA Star.

I do not, however, recommend actually joining or supporting the KFA, unless you’re the sort of person who thinks large hydroelectric plants administered by police states really ought to be something to sing about.

Sing along with Kim Jong Il! [link dead, see below]

(Seriously.)

The North Korean song of National Defense given the Mitch Miller treatment.  Truly odd. 

Makes me worry about them both more and less, simultaneously.

First noticed via Boing Boing, which is truly wonderful every day.

UPDATE: The North Koreans seem to be blocking access to the site now, but you can still get there by visiting http://www.korea-dpr.com/ — be sure to be terribly impressed by the giant hydroelectric plant in the logo — then clicking the flag to enter, then clicking on “Friendship,” and then clicking on the KFA Star.

I do not, however, recommend actually joining or supporting the KFA, unless you’re the sort of person who thinks large hydroelectric plants administered by police states really ought to be something to sing about.

This pudu seems to think that the way to accomplish your goals in life is to get right up in people’s faces.

Maybe some Democrats could learn a thing or two from pudus.

By an almost 2-to-1 margin.

This
idea is not only impractical, discriminatory, and thuddingly empty, but also completely ignorant of — not to mention disrespectful to — this nation’s history.

At
the time of the revolution, for example, viele Amerikaner kamen aus Deutschland,
also war Deutsch fast unsere nationale Sprache.  But it would have
been stupid and short-sighted to make German the official language, as anyone can see in retrospect.

The idea that a language unifies or defines a culture is based on a bizarrely narrow, uninformed, and misplaced sense of what makes a culture worth having.  And America’s culture is profoundly defined and shaped for the better by people who came here speaking — and continued to speak for generations — languages from all over the world.  And you don’t even need to speak someone’s language to communicate or understand.  Interpersonal communication is perhaps 90% non-verbal.

You can even hear tone of voice just in reading, sometimes even through languages whose words you can barely parse.

Les mots Thomas Jefferson ont choisi d’encadrer
la d

Now that I’ve seen these two new TV ads,
and realized that they really will influence the thinking of millions
of drooling idiots, I have decided to take a position on global warming
which is every bit as clear-headed:

Multinational oil companies, despite the claims of Al Gore and his legion of activists and liberal media types, simply do not exist.

Oh,
sure, you hear all the time about “thousands” of “leading scientists”
from “all over the world” who have concluded that oil companies are not
only “real,” but the result of human activity.

But common sense (defined as what I
personally want to believe) tells us this simply isn’t true.  And
frankly, I’m tired of extremists using junk science and emotional
appeals to push a political agenda, particularly one that might make me
wonder if I am responsible for my own impact on the world.

And even if multinational oil companies really do exist, does that mean they’re the direct result of human activity?  Of course not.

It’s
a well-documented fact that oil companies have spontaneously increased
and decreased in number throughout our planet’s history, dating back to
the dinosaurs (as the Sinclair
logo so aptly demonstrates).  This is an entirely natural occurence. 
For alarmists to claim that the historically-recent surge in the
existence of mulitnational oil companies is somehow related to human activity defies logic, reason, and of course my common
sense.

Besides, industrial civilization, because humans exist in nature, is itself entirely natural.  Therefore, even if multinational oil companies were produced by human activity, they would be entirely natural, and therefore good for the environment.

But let’s not forget (in precisely the manner in which
climate change discussions are usually held) that the historical record
is entirely hypothetical, and secondary (even if contradictory) to the
main premise, which is:

Multinational companies simply do not exist.  Therefore, Al Gore is a self-promoting scoundrel.

That is all.  Please continue to breathe carbon dioxide in massive quantities.  This is entirely natural.