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"TRIBAL WISDOM"

from Barking Moonbat:

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."

However, in government, civic and charitable groups, education, unions and corporate America more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:

1. Buying a stronger whip.

3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.

7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's performance.

11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

13. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position

FILM LEGEND

Russ Meyers is dead. Roger Ebert reports. Quotable:

He made one film after another, all of them involving unlikely plots, incongruous settings and abundantly voluptuous actresses. "Where do you find those women?" I asked him. "After they reach a certain bra size," he said, "they find me."

BELDAR

is having some photo caption fun and he's thrown the floor open for more. Here's mine:

"Al Gore inherits the wind."

YOU

just gotta see this.

"OPPRESSED"

Berkeley lefty demands his rights.

LILEKS

AT HIS BEST. Quotable:

Parenthood is the ability to look at a small plastic hairbrush the size of a quarter and know exactly which mass-produced copyrighted tribe it belongs to.

PAMELA ANDERSON

IN ORANGE COUNTY. This one is for Elliot Fladen.

(Regularly scheduled wall-to-wall "Kerry in Cambodia" coverage continues below. Just keep scrollin'. Good luck with your studies Elliot. Click "Enlarge" if you dare!)

HANS BLIX

TO MONITOR U.S. ELECTIONS.

"JUST ONCE

I'd like to see Hollywood make a film in which the International Red Cross and Amnesty International, backed by wealthy Sandinistas, conspire to spark a number of simultaneous school shootings by disgruntled, bullied geeks; and then use the anti-gun sentiment to convince the American public to repeal the Second Amendment, upon which time the Chinese invade the country." More.

IPOD'S

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. And don't forget to get one of these.

THE EMMY AWARD

nominations just out reveal a new hardline Leftywood ethic which has artistic standards going out the window, replaced by a 1930s Stalinist mentality which favors political values over actual creative merit. Seattle Times reporter Kay McFadden has the story:

"[The Emmy nominations] underscore the growing role of ideology in entertainment .. The recognition afforded ["The Reagans," "The West Wing" & "Angels in America"] is part and parcel of an election year in which the heavily pro-John Kerry entertainment community is launching a show-business assault on the administration of President George W. Bush .. "

MOVIES, TV, MUSIC

-- discussed. I don't usually visit blogs like that, but somehow this one sucked me in. Hat tip James Lileks.

And this says alot about blogging -- and the blogosphere.

We Won't Get Fooled Again.

"Michael Moore has been making some claims � mentioning me by name - which I believe distort the truth .. WGFA is not an unconditionally anti-war song, or a song for or against revolution. It actually questions the heart of democracy: we vote heartily for leaders who we subsequently always seem to find wanting. (WGFA is a song sung by a fictional character from my 1971 script called LIFEHOUSE. The character is someone who is frightened by the slick way in which truth can be twisted by clever politicians and revolutionaries alike) ..

I have nothing against Michael Moore personally .. but I greatly resent being bullied and slurred by him in interviews just because he didn�t get what he wanted from me. It seems to me that this aspect of his nature is not unlike that of the powerful and wilful man at the centre of his new documentary .. ".

MORE Pete Townshend -- Pete's Diary.

Fahrenheit 9/11 -- The Transcript, Part II.

Here it is.

Michael Moore -- another name for liar.

Newsweek has the goods.

Overheard at DailyPundit ..

"Ralph Nader says Michael Moore weighs three hundred pounds. I'd say that works only if Moore is two feet, three inches tall. My guess is he's closer to five hundred."

Posted by Bill Quick on June 29, 2004 05:33 AM

"The hot air probably offsets the weight calculation."

Posted by Patrick Chester on June 29, 2004 06:27 AM

The link -- with pictures -- is here.

Lefty movie critics

love Michael Moore & Fahrenheit 9/11.

Here Comes the Judge.

The Smoking Gun.

This is funny.

Straight Plan for the Gay Man.

The "pureheart" watermelon.

Well, I've had one and it's a terrific watermelon. My kids like them much better than the standard SoCal grocery store watermelon. The Dulcinea Pureheart� seedless watermelon is the smaller, sweeter, redder, tastier watermelon with the wafer-thin rind. And the ultra-thin rind really is remarkable. In SoCal you can get them at Vons (Safeway).

However, for the best watermelons in the world you still can't touch the famed Hermiston Oregon watermelon.

PrestoPundit blogs Art.

Justine's daughter does a painting for mom. As a professionally trained art critic* I pronounce it wonderful.

*U. of W.

The USS Jimmy Carter.

The attack sub striking fear into the hearts of our enemies. Hat tip The Pirate's Blog. Meanwhile

the USS Ronald Reagan steams for its new homeport in San Diego California.

Don't miss the photo.

KANSAS CITY -- "National Endowment For The Arts & Crafts Criticized For Funding Giant Macram� Penis".

Cultural Imperialism.

MAXIM goes to China.

Speak like a Queen.

Speak English more fluently than the queen.

Martha.

Sunday's Mike Ramirez.

Church vs. State. A three member 9th district panel ruled today that clergy-officiated marriages are unconstitutional, violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. In related news, President Bush was criticized as seeking to divide Americans when he suggested the ruling was unfounded in either the Constitution or American judicial tradition. More.

Steyn. Give Daffy his own movie.

Cash Family Won't Let "Ring of Fire" Be Used for Hemorrhoid Ad. True News .. .

Howard Dean picks up another big endorsement.

A NE Patriots fan sounds off -- In your face, Red-Staters! .. "Go back to your NASCAR, ya gap-toothed hillbillies! .. "

Get your bycicles, telefones, dimonds, mother of perl, cuttlery, and chandaleers at rock bottom prices.

What 20th Century Theorist are you? I'm the one with the beer bong -- and damn proud of it!

PrestPundit's Funny Bone Line of the Week: ""The president is committed to maintaining fiscal restraint." -- Chad Kolton, spokesman for the White House budget office. link.

A Small Victory is looking for captions. (Thanks to Xlrq for the, er, tip.)

"Seeking Harmony in a Final Return to the Land". Is it ScrappleFace or is it The NY Times.

Pumping Iron, the film which made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star, is now available again -- newly released on DVD with new material, including 2003 interviews with Schwarzenegger and the director George Butler.

I well remember sitting with the football team in Junior High watching the film -- for some reason the pot-smoking scene left no impression on me. We were just at the point where coaches and athletes had begun to appreciate the benefits of serious weight training. Even so, many of us kids were still a bit uncomfortable with the whole "body-building" thing. How things quickly things changed in the next half-dozen years. By the time I was in college more than a few of us where lifting -- not as a means of training for some other sports -- but as an end in itself. What most of us got out of it was a bit of recreation with buddies -- only a rare few trained enough to really turn the heads of females. Indeed, I was in better shape after a summer slinging a quarter side of beef 10 hours a day than I ever got lifting weights in a gym. There were simply too many good books to be read for that.

Charles Krauthammer gives a big thumbs up for "Master and Commander", the Russell Crowe seafaring epic -- including praise for the scene which gives American audiences "the particular satisfaction of seeing Anglo-Saxon cannonballs puncturing the [French] Tricolor."

I'm sold.

He was born Leslie Townes Hope on May 29, 1903, in Eltham, England .....

Mick Jagger, Jack Nicholson, Hugh Grant and Stephen Hawking enjoy an evening at Stringfellow's Cabaret of Angels. Stephen Hawking? Somewhere Richard Feynman must be smiling.

Arter a journal of 20,000 miles a flotila of rubber duckies sails for the Nova Scotia coastline, via the Pacific, Artic and Atlantic oceans. Money quote:

The ducks may still have traces of the name of the company that made them, The First Years, across their chests. A company spokesman said that the company was "surprised" at the durability of the product.

Right Wing News has a review of Terminator 3.

Coming soon: The Ronco Voice-A-Matic -- and available now -- GuitarPort:

.. an interface through which electric guitarists can plug their trusty Stratocaster or Les Paul into the USB port of their computer. As part of its software, it allows guitarists to download patches that are often excellent recreations of the tones used by Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and other guitar heroes.

Oh to be a kid again ..

Instapundit sightings from all over the world.

Thumbs up for Arnold -- Terminator 3 gets a Fresh Tomato.

Who needs the Onion?

Gephardt Issues Order Making Himself President (2003-06-23) -- Just a day after announcing that he would use executive orders to overturn Supreme Court decisions, Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-MO, announced today that he has appointed himself President of the United States, effective immediately ... President Gephardt has already issued an executive order making it illegal to "challenge the constitutionality of my reign as president."

Clarence Thomas Gets 'Super Vote' On Supreme Court (2003-06-23) -- In a little-noticed addendum to today's Supreme Court ruling allowing universities to use racial factors in some admissions, Justice Clarence Thomas has been granted "super vote" powers on the court.

In a rules change designed to compensate for the court's historical discrimination against blacks, Justice Thomas' vote will now be worth 1.5 votes ... Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the majority, said, "There's no way we can make up for the Dred Scott decision, but we all feel better now that Clarence gets extra credit for his vote."

When there's ScrappleFace

Greg Packer stood in line for eight hours before getting a chance to read PrestoPundit at a New York City cyber cafe.

PrestoPundit is "must reading" says Greg Packer, the New York Times go-to "man on the street". Packer is making his first appearance here, but this average joe has offered his punditry in literally dozens of news stories for the Times and others -- most recently in a feature NY Times story on Hillary Clinton's new book.

UPDATE: Announcing a "NAME THE CAPTION" contest. Just hit the "comments" button, and give your caption. The winner gets a weeks worth of promotion here on PrestoPundit for his or her favorite website. So what is Greg Packer up to?

UPDATE: Lots of good captions. I particularly like this one -- "Huh ? PRESTOpundit ?!? Where's the Instapundit line?"

YOU MEAN INSIDER TRADING IS ILLEGAL? Have a suggested caption? Enter it in the comments, below.

UPDATE: "I don't think I can do anything with this cell." -- a posted comment.