Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Just how important is coffee?

I call coffee my only vice. It is the one thing I have tried to survive without, and have managed poorly. Uh-oh, have I revealed more than I should?

Turns out, coffee is very, very important. Some guy stops the hero of our story and asks him for cash. Perhaps, our hero wanted the cash to buy some coffee. Anyway, the hapless assailant ends up stabbing the dude.

No problem, he just walks up to an apartment complex looking for someone to call 911. No one there to help him.

Again, no problem.

He uses a pay phone to call the ambulance.

Big Deal. What happened next is the most important thing.

He walked up to a store, calmly asked for some coffee and consumed it. That is the true mark of a hero. And, it sums up pretty well - coffee, my dear, is the most important thing in the world. If you have coffee, you can handle anything...even a big plate stuck in your chest...

The Story:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34516926/ns/local_news-detroit_mi/


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Sunday, December 13, 2009

I am deeply disappointed over the Indian Congress Government...

Prologue: It is the moral right (and obligation) of politicians to want to fast until death. Some would consider it to be more convenient if they die faster too, but that is altogether another thing...

On December 14, an elected Indian politician landed at a state capital to "fast unto death". Violating his right to do so, and the people's desire that he do so, the nefarious Congress Government arrested the politician, even though he belonged to their own party!

I find this absolutely appalling. We should give all of our politicians such chances to launch fasts. Heck, we should encourage them to do so!

The next time a politician shows up at your doorstep looking for votes, you should ask him considering the fact that he is shamelessly alive, why did he not choose a practically inoculate cause and try and die for it.

You should ask his party if it has a track record of trying to arrest and prevent any of it's rank and file from trying to leave us (in peace).

You should ask political parties what they have done to encourage more and more of their politicians to find causes and become passionate enough to try and kill themselves.

After all, what better sacrifice could one ask for, be it in the name of the country, the name of a state, it's bifurcation, or the fact that almost all politicians are summarily useless and will never be missed...?

Here is a link to the story that delineates what sad future lies for those of us who expect politicians to jump off cliffs:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Andhra-MP-Rajagopal-arrested-at-Hyderabad-airport/articleshow/5335339.cms


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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Bank of America or Scoundrels of America?

As per "blogosphere" norms, I am late with this post, but it is something worth posting, nevertheless. The whole point of bailing out these banks should have been to discipline them, and prevent them from stealing public money through "special fees", right?

Then how come every single one of them gets away with it? Why are they constantly allowed to increase interest rates (I know the law limiting credit card rates was passed but before it went into effect, they sent letters to many customers and increased their interest rates).

So, the government bailed the banks out and pushed taxpayers into the well..

Isn't that cute? Now, here is another YouTube video of the inner workings of "Bank" of America:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5E0WNO7e_Q&feature=player_embedded#watch-main-area


Next time your Congressman or Congresswoman (especially the Republican kind that don't want any kind of regulation) knocks on your door for votes, ask them about this video...

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Saturday, December 05, 2009

Los Angeles - where the church is truly separate from the state, and, of course ahead of it...

Thanks to the fine idiots from Utah, California turned from blue chip to dead wood in 2008 with Proposition 8. Now, California is NOT one of the states where people can simply marry without Jesus, Dad and their hoodlums breathing down their necks.

So from bragging about the Californication of America, we now have to worry about the Utahfornication of California.

Usually, when we lament about the church and state being joined at the hips, we talk about the church holding back the state.

Only, today, history was made in Los Angeles when a lesbian, the Rev. Canon Mary D. Glasspool became the Bishop.

So, we are once again proud to present sunny, weird, California, where at least one of the churches is practicing tolerance instead of funding garbage. One of our churches has separated from the state, and has actually moved on!

What does your church do? Hide pedophilism and theorizes that god hates gays and wants you to donate money to interfere in California's social life?

Proud of it?


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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

In this FOX News "mens-duh" puzzle, Republicans have a 193% chance of winning in 2012...

It has begun. It being the 2012 campaign. Looks like it has also ended quickly, because between Huckabee, Palin and Romney, they have a 193% chance of winning.

Before you go questioning things, you should visit a page that I have linked at the bottom of this post to make sure you painfully read through all this before going on to the actually interesting part..

The Omnistupid Fox News, in it's infinite GOP-dom, played a pie chart, showing that 60% of Republicans back Romney, 63% Huckabee and 70% Palin.

The Source?

Er, Opinions.

Hey, it's all there - a nice little pie chart, showing how much support each candidate has. Still confused? Well, time to vote republican, er, time to get an explanation.

In the traditional world of left leaning, tree climbing... , a pie chart ends up adding to a total of 100% and the individual components cannot have a percentage that forces the pie chart to add to a sum total greater than 100%.

Basic Math - A Liberal Conspiracy

Of course, Fox News is the only right news. All this pie chart brouhaha proves is that mathematics is another one of those bottom feeding liberal policies they teach in schools to try and pollute our children's minds.

Wait till someone hacks into a math professor's emails and proves that all math is, is a bunch of tricks.....

In reality, it proves that if you took the collective intelligence of everyone working for Rupert Murdoch, and expressed them as percentages, they will amount to less than a sum total of 100% - one brain.

And that, is where all the money and media power rests.

Enjoy:

http://www.vizworld.com/2009/11/dreadful-fox-news-2012-election-infographic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dreadful-fox-news-2012-election-infographic



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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

And in this week's "Aaaawww" then "Snap!" moment...

Thieving is not for the faint of heart, nor for the kind at heart. Our friendly, neighborhood burglar-man breaks into a house and starts stealing and "ransacking" stuff in his traditional manner of lore.

Turns out there was a baby in the house. While he decided to warm up a bottle and feed the crying baby (makes thou wonderest what the hell the parents were doing while all this went on), some equally handsomely employed person watched the surveillance video on a newscast?!!

What the devil was a newscast doing, showing a surveillance video?

Don't ask. This has now gone past the Marishka Hargitay, Jennifer Love Hewitt Territory into the Twilight Zone.

Why did the burglar decide to feed the baby? Was it compassion? Or a way to keep the burglary free of purple haze?

Why do people in Indiana get surveillance videos as newscasts?

Oh well....like I said, "Aaaawww" and "Snap!"

For the article: Click Here

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Poisoned at Harvard

This falls out of the realm of "funny" news items.

I was a little surprised to read on the NPR website yesterday, about a few folks being poisoned by coffee laced with Sodium Azide, a toxic chemical used in bio-lab work. What was intriguing was that this news item appeared in NPR and NPR only.

I was telling a friend as to how intriguing this was. Later, I found out that there was an attempt by Harvard to keep this under wrap for whatever reason.

Anyway, Slate and others are now taking it mainstream:

http://slatest.slate.com/id/2233658/?wpisrc=newsletter

I am betting this is one of those animal-loving terrorist groups at work...

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

What your useless article on what your car says about you, says about you....

Writing has become so easy. You can take anything, however unrealistic, useless or off the mark and publish it.

Today morning, a stellar example landed on my laptop via Forbes.com. Apparently, the car you drive says a lot about you..

Remember the crap from the '60s (or the East Coast) when people believed in such nonsense?

Well, it's on it's way back because someone at forbes.com (the Fox TV of the internet?) has too much time and nothing sensible to write.

I will link the article at the bottom and you can laugh at this creepy nonsense yourself, but people should be buying cars for what they are - functional tools of transportation.

Apparently owning a Ford Taurus would group me among people who do not have a college degree or skills to surf the interwebs - the collection of tubes through which electricities flows and forbes.commode is able to send it's trash my way.

Yeah, right. I have 3 college degrees, an array of Professional certifications and that's only because I stopped collecting degrees. And, with equally too much time on my hands, mesa always surfs the websites.

Owning a Honda makes you practical?

How?

Unless you work for Honda, the company, or own stock in it, why the heck would it be any better than owning, say a Buick or a Toyota Corolla?

Mind you though, it is not just the genius who wrote the article that got it all wrong:

Anyone watch the Subaru ads on TV lately?

It says the Subaru is for people who don't wash their cars from being unclean or stupid, or simply because they like other men who own Subarus. A new one popped up where the guy who owns the Subaru is a complete idiot who simply goes around looking for things he misplaces.

Positive impact indeed. I wonder if advertising is the right industry for me. Then I too can siphon tons of cash from organizations and portray their products in a poor light. And as long as there are fools that read ignominious articles and buy crap...

Stereotyping People

First, we differentiate people on their skin color. Then on their height. Then on their cankles. And then there was the "study" that talked about the "member" size of Indians (yeah, right, small is good...look we have what 1.1 billion Indians?).

Stupidity comes in several shades. And some people just egg this along.

Imagine this, someone drives up to you on a Chevy truck. You immediately decide he is stupid and you treat him thus.

What does that make you? Homo sapiens disgustus?

Stop judging people until you get to know them. It is impossible not to judge people. Pragmatically, it is necessary to judge people. However, the underlying mechanism is very, very important.

So should I have judged this Forbes writer?

Click Here to find out about how to use cars to judge people...

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Monday, October 19, 2009

In this week's "what the": Maybe he thought it was a "bear cooler"?

A 125 pound bear is not formidable, right?

Yeah, maybe, but if he walks into a store and climbs into a "beer cooler", you are formidable-ed....

Hmm, what I wonder is, if this is one of those bears who didn't graduate high school.. he thought he was a "beer" or that the thing he climbed into was a "bear cooler".

To understand this mystery, go to:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/64674327.html

And a "slide show" from the store's camera:
http://www.jsonline.com/multimedia/photos/64678767.html?index=1


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Friday, October 16, 2009

This week's discrimination chronicles: Don't give your fat inter-racial kid that Barbie doll...it will affect her body self-image

Pre-Script: If you don't get sarcasm and cynicism, the following is not for you

Barbie ('s ankle) is fat...

I didn't say that...it is the French guy who thinks Barbie has fat ankles did.

And those fat ankles are called "cankles". It is not everyday that I add to my vocabulary. Heck, I am happy if it happens once a week (or was that weak?). The last time I added to my vocabulary was when someone said "Don't be disrespecting me now."

For those of you who did not get the last sentence and it's apparent error - God is shining shame on you (this copied from a crazy nut job I saw judging a dance contest with unemployable high-school dropouts contorting themselves on those fleeting moments when I was flipping through MTV). "Disrespecting" as a verb is at least as of now, not really relished in formal English.

Screw the English.

But wait, we digress, screw z French.

There is some French guy who is redesigning the Barbie doll. Talk about the jobs going to other countries...(I wonder where they are designing the new GI Joe! My wonder is mostly academic, mind you!)

And this fool decided that Barbie's ankles are a little too fat for his taste. And he is redesigning the doll to have, I am guessing "appropriate" ankles.

This genius is making Gov. Corzine (of the Christie threw his weight around fame) of New Jersey look like the tooth fairy.

Like I said, just don't get your fat kid the Barbie doll. Get her a computer instead. Let the French raise bulimic women....

Click here for that story

And yeah, and tell her she can't get a marriage license if she wants to marry a black man in Louisiana.

Here is that story

Shut up and listen to him. Think of what will happened to those half-race kids these couples would raise! He has a lot of "black" friends who come in from the plantations and he buys them beer...

Welcome to the 21st century where we have solved America's racist problems....!


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