Phil Elmore's Blog, page 39
January 26, 2012
Technocracy: Why Liberals Hate Guns
My WND Technocracy column today is about a topic I've covered before. Something about Obama's sibilant, covetous, Marxist State of the Union message this week inspired me to touch on the subject again.
Obama, his sick and twisted BATF, his attorney general and, yes, even his hectoring wife, are tyrants who want you disarmed so they can better push you around.
Read the full column here in WND.
January 18, 2012
Technocracy: The 'Witches' of Upstate New York
My WND Technocracy column this week is about the bizarre case of a dozen high school girls in Upstate New York.
Genuine though it may be, the girls' sickness is perfectly suited to dramatic displays.
The girls are all suffering from physical symptoms characterized by facial tics, verbal outbursts, and other behaviors. Toxins, infection, and drug abuse have all been ruled out by both county and state health officials. Earlier this week, a couple of the girls and their parents went public, demanding "answers" and insinuating that health officials were lying about their condition. In response, a pediatric neurologist who has seen the girls has more or less admitted that he thinks they have "conversion disorder" (what we used to call "mass hysteria").
Read the full column here at WND.
January 11, 2012
Technocracy: We're Doomed! …And Other Left-Wing Tripe
My WND Technocracy column today compares the similarities between the Doomsday Clock and the Nobel Peace Prize.
Artful proclamations of doom accomplish little and obscure reality behind a veil of politics.
Both the clock and the prize are liberal gestures — exercises in symbolism over substance. I first read of the Doomsday Clock in the graphic novel Watchmen. The novel centers on a plot to kill thousands in order to unite mankind against a fictional alien enemy (before we nuke each other into oblivion).
The idea that today unnamed "scientists" are moving the hands of the Doomsday Clock back and forth around the five-minutes-to-midnight mark because society isn't doing enough to combat [man-made] global warming strikes me as ridiculous as Barack Obama winning the Peace Prize for getting elected.
Read the full column here in WND.
January 4, 2012
Technocracy: When Online Arrogance Comes Back to Bite
My WND Technocracy column this week is about the self-destruction of Paul Christoforo and Ocean Marketing.
"I wwebsite as on the internet" has become an Internet meme…
Christoforo earned instant Internet infamy — and became a meme — when he sent a nasty e-mail to a customer who then copied Penny Arcade on the exchange. From the beginning of the affair, Christoforo has been arrogant and obnoxious, offering what seem to me to be insincere apologies while making a host of lame excuses for his behavior. I have to think he has ruined himself, yet he continues to make apologies that simply don't ring true.
Read the full column here in WND. The site no longer uses "WorldNetDaily" and has switched to the "WND" moniker completely, instituting a new content management system.
December 28, 2011
Technocracy: Dishonorable lies and stolen valor
The topic of military fakes has always been one I take very seriously. I have a lot of respect for those who serve in the military — a choice that, because of my extremely poor eyesight, was never an option for me — and it offends me when people lie about or exaggerate their military service.
These are the tales told by fakes, frauds and fools, all of whom dishonor legitimate veterans by laying claim to those veterans' legacy of service.
There are multiple books on the market about military fakes. One great one is Stolen Valor. I had the privilege of interviewing co-author B.G. Burkett at one point and talking to him was extremely interesting. I also recommend the website POW Network, whose owners work very hard to "out" military pretenders and frauds.
Read the full column here at WorldNetDaily.
December 22, 2011
Technocracy: The Perception of Perfidy
My WND Technocracy column this week is about the debacle over Carrier IQ.
"Transparency" is a punch line in government because our politicians promise it while doing everything in their considerable powers to avoid it.
Carrier IQ is third-party diagnostic software used to transmit data about your phone and network usage to your carrier. Consumers are up in arms over possible security exploits in the software but, more significantly, they are upset that wireless carriers have been hiding this software on their phones. The companies involved are reacting to varying degrees of terror in the face of customer backlash.
Read the full column here at WorldNetDaily.
December 16, 2011
Twas the Night Before Duke Manfist Saved Christmas
The first twenty-two episodes of my action parody, Duke Manfist, have been collected into a single ebook! On January 5th, 2012, Duke Manfist: Bullets, Babes, and Bacon will be available for purchase from Amazon.com and BN.com. An enhanced version with some great artwork from Johnny Atomic will be available from The League and Apple's iBookstore.
That's not the end of the good news, however. Your Christmas gift from me is new episodes of Duke Manfist in the form a ten-episode serial called Twas the Night Before Duke Manfist Saved Christmas. The League will be releasing an episode a day until we reach the holiday, at which point Duke will have done everything he can to keep Christmas in the firm control of the forces of justice.
Duke's episodes are available on Scribd.
Duke Manfist Christmas, Episode 1
