The good thing about Uncle Sammy quitting blogging (he hasn't made an official announcement or anything, but when was the last time he blogged? 2006?) is that now I'm free to turn SUPERBLOG!! into the Lovefest for Al it was always supposed to be.
Yes, Awesome Al Gore kind of looks like a big fat toad in the picture above. But a big fat wonderful toad. And remember, he would have been Big Fat President of the United States of Merrka right now if he hadn't fucked it all up.
Incidentally, who will win in November? Will it be Brilliant Barack Obama or Hillary "Flick the" Clinton? Or one of the Great Old Ones? I know who I'm voting for.
Popular question right now: Whatever happened to the Countdown to FUN? Is that still going on? Has the Fun already started or what?
Well, the answer is that it's been kinda on Pause but now I feel we can safely let Parallel Dimension President Al Gore inaugur the FUN!
REAL FUN GO!
Incidentally, remember that SUPERBLOG!! used to be rated NC-17? Now that we're FUN, we're totally just a soft R:
This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
* death (3x)
* fucking (2x)
* zombie (1x)
So bring your children under 17 to SUPERBLOG!! tomorrow for some fun FUN!
Sexy, brilliant Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Arnold Gore never claimed he "invented" the Internet. That's just a lie, invented (!) and perpetuated by ugly, stupid, smelly Republicans. Via the Urban Legends Reference Pages:
The "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Clearly, although Gore's phrasing was clumsy (and perhaps self-serving), he was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet (in the sense of having designed or implemented it), but that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development of the technology that we now know as the Internet. To claim that Gore was seriously trying to take credit for the "invention" of the Internet is, frankly, just silly political posturing that arose out of a close presidential campaign. Gore never used the word "invent," and the words "create" and "invent" have distinctly different meanings — the former is used in the sense of "to bring about" or "to bring into existence" while the latter is generally used to signify the first instance of someone's thinking up or implementing an idea. (To those who say the words "create" and "invent" mean exactly the same thing, we have to ask why, then, the media overwhelmingly and consistently cited Gore as having claimed he "invented" the Internet, even though he never used that word, and transcripts of what he actually said were readily available.)
Answer: Because it was all RNC spin.
And as for whether Al Gore did, in fact, take "the initiative in creating the Internet"? Well, yeah:
But as the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.
Remember: They* mocked and tortured Jesus, too!
*The Republicans.
Yeah, I know I linked to this image (which I think was done by Tim O'Neil) a couple of weeks ago, but I had to put it up to combat the ill effects of that last post.
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