Know Your Enemy — Laugh At Their Skills

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A video over at Focus.de (auf Deutsch) on North Korea shows some behind the scenes propaganda from the North Korean army found on YouTube evidently.

You don’t need to know German to get the gist of the video.

Go have a watch then laugh and laugh.

  • poor stance
  • horrific trigger and muzzle control
  • teacup grips
  • painfully inaccurate aim

No, North Korea’s military is not a threat to anyone other than perhaps themselves.

What I did find interesting was a clip of the women’s obstacle course: those girls look like they scaled the obstacles much more efficiently and gracefully than the men.

Schools Are the Problem — A BIG Problem

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Yes, they really do dumb-down absolutely everyone — seems to validate the suspicions I’ve had for decades. Go read.

Update–
Oh, and there’s the quote of the day (from three days ago) spotted at Kevin’s (originally from here):

Something has gone terribly wrong with the modern world, and public education is at the heart of the problem.

Duh.

I’ve been dealing with public schools in one form or another for better than three decades. I’ve watched from different perspectives over those years — quite helplessly, it feels — as both a victim of and then as a parent of victims of the schools — as the caliber of education has plummeted and the products those educators’ efforts has become less capable of simple independence.

The solution? Get the hell away from public schools. Private schools aren’t much better. Take the responsibility for and make the time to educate your children yourselves.

Your kids will be doomed if you don’t.

High Tech From the Past

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Over at Pissed’s, a technological blast from the past: an old Popular Science newsreel describing the process needed to create a single Popeye the Sailor cartoon episode.

What I find most fascinating is the incredible level of effort that went in to creation of one eight minute cartoon. The number of people, specialized equipment, space — amazing.

And now, single, dedicated person with a suitable skillset and a Mac can do the same thing from the comfort of an easy chair in their own living room.