At first, they all laughed at what was called the world’s worst police sketch ever. Shown to the right, this is the actual sketch drawn by a police sketch artist in an unnamed Bolivian city. Really funny. Gormogons Spotlight On: … Continue reading →
Courtesy who else? The amazing Dr. Boli. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control … Continue reading →
Says Jules Crittenden. Great article. Grazie, Borepatch. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. gormogons.com
Continue reading →You read it here first. I know, contain your astonishment that libertarians aren’t out hanging census workers from trees: A U.S. Census worker found dead in a secluded Clay County cemetery killed himself but tried to make the death look … Continue reading →
And here’s the best tribute you’ll see all year. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. gormogons.com
Continue reading →Think you’re having a bad day? Not as bad as this guy’s. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. gormogons.com
Continue reading →Lawmakers in US, law enforcement in UK, looking at Hadley CRU issue. Fortunately, on our side of the Atlantic, it’s the GOP starting an investigation into the impact of the emails. Hooray—in addition to harming Copenhagen, this could also be … Continue reading →
President Obama announced today that we will be a surprise attack across Afghanistan next week. “I want to be very clear to our enemies…that we are really going to surprise them,” the President said on the 11th hole at Chantilly … Continue reading →
Lost Family of Three Found After Night In Forest. We celebrate their safe return from their routine expedition. Their little monkey friends did not make the journey. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, … Continue reading →
Regular readers here will not be surprised that The Day the Earth Stood Still is a popular Friday night popcorn throwing event here at the Castle. GorT even stars in it, and his knowledge of time travel allows us to … Continue reading →
One of the things we Gormogons are most proud of is that we aren’t all just griping and accusations. Sometimes, when someone does something sensible, we point it out. For example, President Obama seems to finally be making good on … Continue reading →
…that this is just a commercial, they got the idea from spending some time up at the field behind Castle Gormogon. h/t Borepatch GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from … Continue reading →
And the hits just keep on coming. The Japanese were, to say the least, unimpressed with President Obama’s supplicating bow. Want to know why protocol requires the President to offer a handshake in lieu of a bow? Subtleties, dammit. Instead … Continue reading →
Dallas News reports that Democratic candidate Tom Schieffer is dropping out of the governor’s race due to lack of support. His departure would leave humorist Kinky Friedman, hair-care magnate Farouk Shami, schoolteacher Felix Alvarado and rancher Hank Gilbert as announced … Continue reading →
Two items from the current issue of Scientific American caught the Czar’s attention this weekend. The second is Michael Shermer’s discussion of the conservative mind and the liberal mind. The first is here. UV psychologist Jonathan Haidt identified five universal … Continue reading →
Two items from the current issue of Scientific American caught the Czar’s attention this weekend. The first is Lawrence M. Krauss’s opinion piece that the Internet has given voice to no shortage of lunatic nonsense. The second is here. Krauss … Continue reading →
Once the Mandarin and GorT get the satellite uplinks working and we can start directly controlling TV programming, the Gormogons will have whole channels devoted to the BET issues program What Up With That? You will either be baffled and … Continue reading →
Robert Wright, in the New York Times, writes that conservative writers like Charles Krauthammer and Jonah Goldberg are right that the liberal media are trying to cover up Hasan’s crimes by dismissing them as a mere medical issue. An important … Continue reading →
Everything happens for a reason. Gormogon operatve MC—and quite frankly, if this guy keeps this excellent work up, he’s going to be in charge of a whole conspiracy division here at the Castle—sent the Czar an urgent message last night … Continue reading →
Welcome to Fantasy Island, or in Secretary Tim Geithner’s case, Fantasy Economy. Item the First: Geithner stated that the economy is “substantially stronger today than when the president took office” as determined by “any measure.” Item the Second: After this, … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s pretty sure this is how he’s going to die. Except ‘Puter’s wife won’t offer up the excuse that she left him to die because ‘Puter “was ready to go to heaven and see Jesus [Jeebus].” Mrs. ‘Puter would simply … Continue reading →
From today’s appropriately named Universe Today: Recently, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey put the finishing touches on a new collection of mapped images covering the entire land surface of the Earth. However, if you want the entire full-size version, … Continue reading →
The Gormogons are happy to provide you the following live video link of Harry Reid. Maybe he’s thinking about healthcare reform. Or his near-zero chances of re-election. Or the upcoming ‘Skins game this weekend. Perhaps he wants to eat string … Continue reading →
The Czar’s least-favorite game is connect-the-dots. Yet he plays so often. 1. Barack Obama becomes President of the US, to the delight of the morally derelict United Nations. 2. Jeremiah Wright, spiritual advisor to Barack Obama, confirms that he is … Continue reading →
As you know, terrorists involved with the planning or execution of the September 11, 2001, attacks are evidently heading to New York City for a criminal trial. The press has dubbed this the KSM Trial, after the self-confessed mastermind Khālid … Continue reading →
It’s a two-fer today! A Georgia high school teacher has been accused of ordering an assassination on a 16-year-old student whom he suspected was gay. The kid’s mom: “A teacher threatens to kill your child; that’s the most disturbing. It … Continue reading →
Hell hath no fury like a Union scorned. According to this article from WorldNetDaily the Service Employees International Union is threatening action against Allentown, PA, for allowing an Eagle Scout candidate to build a park trail for his Eagle Scout … Continue reading →
Women of America, you don’t need those pesky mammograms! Heck, odds are most of you will die of heart-disease anyway. Wait until you’re 50, at least, before getting that annual mammogram. That fact that early detection frequently increases your odds … Continue reading →
Well it was bad enough when corporations decided to ship manufacturing jobs overseas to take advantage of lower labor rates and benefit from lax environmental standards, but now according to this report from ABC news, we the tax payers get … Continue reading →
Why is Barney Frank, architect of the housing melt down and current financial crisis, still giving press conferences, when, in a just world, he should be stripped naked, locked up in a cargo container, and eating cold spam out of … Continue reading →
Notice that none of the major news outlets except CBS is covering that Doug Hoffman has “unconceded” the NY-23 election, now that a rash of late count votes has moved him well within striking distance of Owens? Wouldn’t that just … Continue reading →
The Czar likes this slightly goofy reporting. If all you read are headlines, you might think that Sarah Palin has no plan to run for President right now, but has not ruled out 2012. This is why it pays to … Continue reading →
The Czar wishes not to be an insensitive ass, but he is alas just as God made him. So, Mayor Daley… with your comprehensive handgun ban in the City of Chicago, how did your close friend and Chicago resident Michael … Continue reading →
Hah hah hah! Silly Sarah Palin! The Washington Post finds it necessary to mock Ms. Palin over her religious beliefs. Want to know what the WaPo finds so wacky? – She thanks God for her successes! Silly Sarah, this is … Continue reading →
…more free trade! One boggles. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. gormogons.com
Continue reading →Take a look at this photgraph. Study it for a second. Do you see power lines? Transformers? Pedestals? Step downs? Transmission lines? No, you don’t. But you’re going to pay to put them in. And they’ll all be green, green, … Continue reading →
Well, he actually came out and said it: President Obama supports a one-China government, in response to whether he believes Taiwan has sovereignty. Given a choice between a free, Democracy-loving Taiwan and brutal Communist Chinese oppression, the President has made … Continue reading →
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. gormogons.com
Continue reading →Let us see if we understand this: Quoted from Reuters, “Widening agreement that next month’s Copenhagen summit will likely fall short of a legally binding treaty runs the risk of a longer-term stalemate, which at worst could drag on like … Continue reading →
Jeepers, Geep, but you are not imaginging this. The Czar has not read the current mutation of the bill, but the original HR 3200 specifically mentioned that government minders could enter the home of any parents participating in the program … Continue reading →
This New York Times opinion piece is so bizarre that the Czar had to make sure the Volgi did not write it. Irony! Print is dying, but it is crap like this which killed it. Let us hope they did … Continue reading →
President Obama, addressing 500 Chinese students, announced that he is against censorship, and personally welcomes criticism. It strengthens democracy. Well, good to know. Game on, then. He can expect us here to continue strengthening democracy. Irony the First: The President … Continue reading →
Even though this trial seems like an ad for Bad Idea Jeans® (vide infra), this headline is money. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. gormogons.com
Continue reading →So if you wondered whether the President was lying when he said his healthcare reform concepts would not provide free medical services to illegal aliens, he evidently was telling the truth. Because they may be legalized according to a new … Continue reading →
Nidal Hasan has no feeling in his legs. The Czar would like to add that the unborn baby of PVT Francheska Velez does not either. Nor do 13 others who will never walk, or breathe, again. The media can pull … Continue reading →
Having the terrorists tried in the US as American citizens is going to backfire badly. The question remains whether it will merely backfire politically for the Obama administration, or whether actual American lives will be extinguished in the long run. … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s already introduced readers to the joy of modern, post Vatican II Catholic music, with an assist from the Baptists. As a result of that thread, ‘Puter wondered whether modern Christian art was equally poor. Wonder no more, dear reader. … Continue reading →
Final Fantasy… XIII? Is anyone else reminded of a notorious Simpsons joke about the false advertisting inherent in the film title Neverending Story? Wouldn’t Final Fantasy XIII make XII more lke Penultimate Fantasy? The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, … Continue reading →
Read the whole, glorious thing here. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. gormogons.com
Continue reading →Tip to the Bad Astronomer. Check this out. How small are things? Starting with a coffee bean, you can zoom down–at your own pace–to a carbon atom, seeing other neat things along the way. Requires Flash, but is totally worth … Continue reading →
The President is en route to his madcap Asia tour. We wish him luck on his massive agenda. The President will have Air Force One land in Elmendorf AFB for a two-hour layover. He will be the first Democratic president … Continue reading →
Achtung, teleprompter typists. Maybe leave a blank line between paragraphs, eh? (And let this be a lesson to anyone who takes news readers seriously.) Via Warming Glow. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. gormogons.com
Continue reading →What a weird way to kill some time. Not that this is not valuable for its rich historical content, but it is weird to the Czar because he spent way more time here than he intended. The Czar first touched … Continue reading →
So Lou Dobbs is fed up with the horrific leftward tilt of CNN. He asked to be released from his contract in order to avoid reading the party line to the world, and CNN (happy to be rid of him) … Continue reading →
Say, did you know that there has been an official military skirmish between North Korea and South Korea? Did you know it is escalating? Clashes between the two countries are not uncommon, but there has been an uneasy cease fire … Continue reading →
The Czar believes he has identified a situation no one else has. Let us suppose that the public option takes hold of the Senate, and that there is a government takeover of healthcare. What happens to the lollipops handed to … Continue reading →
The Czar is cautious when it comes to the death penalty. He comes from Illinois, which has a moratorium on executions. Oh, you can be sentenced to death in Illinois, but your execution is on indefinite hold. This originates from … Continue reading →
Happy Birthday, USMC. Lest you think we forgot. Marines have a special place in the Gormogons’ hearts for all they do and all they have done. The Czar would like to bring up a battle even very few Marines remember: … Continue reading →
Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. gormogons.com
Continue reading →Today is the 34th anniversary of the loss of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. The iron ore pellet carrying freighter sank 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior. A terrible tragedy and a reminder that winter is … Continue reading →
Just like the stimulus package that sent a check to every American back in the W days only stimulated the Chinese economy (when everyone ran out to buy a flat screen TV) the current Obamanation stimulus is doing the same. … Continue reading →
Спасибо большое, Царь наш! The East Coast wing of the Gormogons also highly recommends the white sweet corn you can get fresh from Maryland’s Eastern Shore between June and October. Delectable, and you might not even need to add sugar. … Continue reading →
In an exclusive partnership with your local cable and satellite TV providers and the Gormogons, you can now select the Mandarin package for your viewing entertainment. This package includes such favorites as: Channel 127 – The WEIRD Network (Weapons in … Continue reading →
The Czar suspects it was a grease build up that caused the fire. The Czar killed the gas flow and used a fire extinguisher. After a thorough cleaning of the old grill, she worked a few more times and then … Continue reading →
Note to readers (and fellow Gormogrillers), be cautious of grilling large amounts of food where the grease builds up. Our kids’ school hosts a “homecoming” each fall centered around the intramural flag football league. It’s a good time with face … Continue reading →
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that the unemployment rate for October was 10.2 percent. The problem with this number according to Jerome Corsi at WorldNetDaily is that the Clinton administration changed the way that the Bureau calculates unemployment … Continue reading →
Confucius says: sorry I haven’t been around much of late, kids, but these sorcery wars ain’t gonna fight themselves. Plus, the Czar seems to be on the upswing of his cycle of madness, so he’ll be really good fun for … Continue reading →
The Czar has got his grill back! Not particularly well known: the Czar is a die-hard griller, who has done everything from Thai beef salads to South American pork tenderloin to Korean shrimp to bourbon-glazed chicken. And his corn is … Continue reading →
Wired asks a good question in light of the Fort Hood massacre: “What, Exactly, Is A ‘Cop-Killer’ Gun?” Even when the media go for defending firearms, they louse it up because they do not actually answer the question. There is … Continue reading →
England, who in the last decade has become something of a discount mega-whorehouse of bad, liberal ideas, prove that anybody can be smart enough to get the safety of nuclear power. So why can’t our government? Because it would reveal … Continue reading →
The Czar had an idea. He was going to ask each of the principal contributors here to write about their individual recollections of the Fall of the Wall in 1989, you know, for a 20-year retrospective. But he did not, … Continue reading →
Царь наш, Let me add that while the NINA sign is largely a self-pitying false memory, the nineteenth-century Irish in America were a wildly dysfunctional underclass, and your larger point about their leaders’ largely pulling them out of the mire … Continue reading →
Perhaps millions of words have been written about the Left’s attempts to keep black Americans chained to dependency on a welfare state. The Czar need not go into this here. If the reader is unfamiliar with the idea, we can … Continue reading →
The Czar tolerates A, E, I, O, U and marginally Y. About the latter, he is being mildly tolerant. As for the first five, he could not be more clear. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ … Continue reading →
The Czar received this. It is indeed well worth reading; especially the parts that compliment the Czar. I am the wife of MC, one of your “operatives.” I enjoy your website as much as he does; in fact, I’m the … Continue reading →
The Czar thinks we can safely say that Rep. Barney Frank is among the more legally challenged of politicians (a) still in office and (b) not behind bars. Now, a 2007 story has come to light in which Barney Frank … Continue reading →
The Czar is going to get into trouble on this one, but the facts must be made clear. Any discussions of MAJ Nidal Malik Hasan suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are a total crock. Worse, discussions that he suffered … Continue reading →
The Czar spotted someone using this Cicero quote in response to the President: Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Are you not the Volgi? Allow the Czar to flex his Latin … Continue reading →
Several hundred years ago, The New York Times had a science and health section that actually provided some pretty good information. Today, as the paper becomes the official whoopie cushion of the liberals, this too has gone bye-bye. Or perhaps, … Continue reading →
The Gormogons extend their deepest sympathies to the families of the shooting victims, and a sincere hope for the speedy recovery of those wounded in the attack. So far, the media has been playing this one very carefully, to their … Continue reading →
For example, the Czar learned that the Haitian word for zombie is zonbi, which is something he did not know before. Haitian is one of the 86 languages the Czar does not speak, so his first word in Haitian is … Continue reading →
Zombification—or the reanimation of the dead—is something we Gormogons don’t like to talk about in public. The raising of the dead as mindless slaves to unleash upon the terrified living is a profoundly unsettling topic. And our patents are still … Continue reading →
Obama to Native Americans: “You will not be forgotten.” Obama To Rest of Americans: “Who the hell are you?” The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the … Continue reading →
The Czar notices that when Scozzafava dropped out of the 23rd District race in New York only to endorse a Democrat, the media was climbing up the walls with news that the GOP was dividing! A break up! No doubt … Continue reading →
Thirty years ago, a major event in world history occurred with repercussions that continually hammer us today, every day; it should be remembered with the arrival of the Soviet Union, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and the … Continue reading →
It’s time to be honest America. The Czar is not talking about you, or you, or even you; the Czar is talking to the entire country here. Americans are brutally honest when it comes down to it, and well, it’s … Continue reading →
Barely making any news today anywhere is a small story about a group of people who gathered together today in Chicago’s Grant Park to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Obama’s election. Feel free to click on that story if you … Continue reading →
Well, lookit that. 1. Congress is beginning to review the cap and trade legislation promoted earlier this year. 2. Critics are pretty well convinced the legislation would deeply hurt the US economy, and punish the consumer with higher taxes based … Continue reading →
Well as if you couldn’t see this coming, the GAO announced today it is unlikely that taxpayers will fully recoup the $80 billion invested in GM and Chrysler. According to the report, for the government to recover our money, GM … Continue reading →
Contrary to the fondest wishes of many liberal pundits, Doug Hoffman’s unforeseen success in New York’s 23rd congressional district is not a sign of an impending Republican party meltdown. It’s this simple. The Republican voters in New York did not … Continue reading →
Dear Czar, The collapse of Blair’s support in the EU that you gleefully document has less to do with a diminishing of the Social Democrat/Christian Democrat welfare-state consensus, I suspect, and more to do with this allegation. If there’s anything … Continue reading →
President Obama celebrated the 45th consecutive end of the recession today in a White House celebration marked by libations and trays of imported cheeses. “This marks another great day for our country,” he said. “Although we inherited some problems, we … Continue reading →
Fox News has a rather sensational story in which Rush Limbaugh lambasts President Obama. In the story, which reads more like an opinion piece in awkard third person (the Czar finds editorial use of the third person a poor writing … Continue reading →
Or we will be forced to send ‘Puter over to do it for you. And things will be broken. Including your will. Right Geep? The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The … Continue reading →
Imagine walking up to a scary castle, inhabited by a nine-foot-tall robot from the future, who wants nothing more than to open your skull to install chunks of technology into your brain. And then, behind the robot, is a mad … Continue reading →
Nice job, marketing department, letting this guy speak: “Sports cars have to be red, but we wanted a new red. So we came up with shoujyouhi red, the traditional red color of a Japanese monkey’s ass.” —Tetsuya Tada, chief engineer … Continue reading →
The Czar has been keeping an eye on things for a while. If he were an idiot, he might be inclined to think that: —The stimulus package has saved 650 trillion jobs, simply because the White House says so. —The … Continue reading →
Item the First: The Czar notes the following text: “Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex.” Evidently, a threesome between ‘Puter and two women, … Continue reading →
And just a few days ago the Czar was describing how wiggly ferret Tony Blair was most likely going to be named the President of Europe. And greasy flounder Gordon Brown completely endorsed Blair as the best possible candidate! Within … Continue reading →
