Saturday, July 28, 2012

Our Wacky World—7/28/2012

The will of Yaweh/Allah—the last refuge of a killer:
"Asked if he regretted getting out of the car that night or owning a gun, Zimmerman said no. Asked if he would do anything differently, Zimmerman said no a third time, and added that Trayvon’s death was 'God’s plan.'"
Crommunist

The bare face of ass. If it had been left up to "Bob" he would have shot himself.

Speaking of shooting people, we had some excitement at a midnight premiere of the latest Batman movie this week. Lots of hilarity ensued as various mentally-challenged feebs shouted over one another to win the coveted Most Fucked Argument/Excuse/Explanation/Completely Irrelevant Aside Award™. There have been many entrants but few have made the final cut. Here are two of the better ones:

America's pASStor

Couldn't get a date on that or any other night

And the MFAEECIA™ Award goes to world-class douche Mike Adams, Editor of NaturalNews.com:
"This is not your run-of-the-mill crime of passion. It was a carefully planned, heavily funded and technically advanced attack. Who might be behind all this? The FBI, of course, which has a long history of setting up and staging similar attacks, then stopping them right before they happen."
Natural News

I guess they forgot to stop this one. I'll bet you never expected an alternative health quack to be such a conspiracy theorist, huh?

Update: Mike gives us a double-dip with a follow-up post:
"Again, I'm not blaming the people there, I'm just bewildered that nobody fought back. It doesn't make sense. Unless, of course, the very fabric of American culture is now so passive and afraid that people have forgotten how to take action in the face of fear. 
"I think I speak for a great many concealed carry permit holders when I say that if I had been in that theater, I would have been emptying magazines in the direction of the threat (i.e. putting sights on target and repeatedly pulling the trigger). Like many concealed carry weapon holders, I would have turned that scene into what we sometimes jokingly call a 'two-way range.'"
Beautiful. It's almost as if he expects everyone to think exactly the way he does.

Meanwhile...
“This poll shows plain and simply how seriously out-of-step the leadership of the NRA is with its membership – and how, despite what previous polls say, there really is support for common sense gun laws in the U.S.”

But you can always lock up your guns, right? Well...
"Watch the video, in which a three year old is shown opening four different safes, three produced by Stack-On and one made by AMSEC."
"Depending on where the toilet is located, it can impact your health, your wealth, your standing in the community -- even your romance.  Because cleanliness is considered good luck in feng shui, it is important to keep this area clean"
Feng Shui Doctrine

"Mr Benhayon told The Sun-Herald he had no medical qualifications but stood by the effectiveness of his treatments, including 'esoteric breast massage' – administered only by women – and 'chakra-puncture'. His daughter, Natalie, 22, claims to be able to talk to women’s ovaries – for $70 an hour."
Sydney Morning Herald

"If Sarah Palin were black, her lack of intellectual curiosity, willful and cultivated ignorance, and lack of grace both written and spoken, would not be taken as 'folksy.' Instead, Palin would be viewed as unqualified for any public office."
We Are Respectable Negroes

"The BioAllergenix System is the culmination of 30 years of research in the allergy related field. The BioAllergenix System uses state-of-the-art technology in computerized biofeedback to screen for sensitivity to over 96,000 substances (allergens). This is accomplished using acupuncture points and electrodes to measure the body’s response to those substances. We can test for literally hundreds of substances at a time in just a few minutes. 
Treatment is accomplished by using a laser to stimulate acupuncture meridians and points. Through this process of neurological desensitization of the body's immune response, the patient's reactions are eliminated thereby desensitizing the patient to the allergen. Best of all, there are no needles, no shots, and no drugs!"
In other words, it's a crock of shit. If you watch the video on the company's site you'll notice that it lists a few more medical problems than the text on the page itself. Like autism. You got it, a blue laser cures autism.

"A mechanic has been arrested in Indore for reportedly keeping his wife’s genitals locked for four years. The incident only came to light when the victim tried to commit suicide yesterday and was rushed to hospital."
Indian Express

NDTV (video)

"UFO proponents and UFO skeptics all agree that the show is absurd, a travesty of 'UFO investigation' that makes everyone look bad. Indeed, some UFO proponents think that because the show is so bad, it must be a government plot  to embarass UFO researchers! Hard-core UFO proponent Robert Hastings quite appropriately says the show is 'investigation as farce.' He says that its 'entertainment-based formula may best be described as Blair Witch Project meets Inspector Clouseau. If the show’s producers are not secretly in cahoots with some intelligence agency to make legitimate UFO research look bad, by association, they have certainly achieved that outcome inadvertently.'"
Bad UFOs


Wait, he's filed a report from a another UFO laugh-fest:
"Jose Escamilla is well-known as the discoverer of flying 'rods,' originally called 'Roswell rods,' but known to most people as 'insects.' At this event, Escamilla was talking about his latest discoveries and film project, involving Moon conspiracies. Our moon, he explains, is not a grey-colored object as we have been led to believe. Our moon is a full color body, but NASA has only released black-and-white photos of it. However, an amateur astronomer in Texas named Bill Bryson has been able, using his telescope and a $68 Chinese-made camera, to reveal our moon in all its full-color glory."
Bad UFOs


"The City of Phoenix investigated neighbors’ repeated complaints and found numerous fire safety standards violations. Salman has repeatedly ignored opportunities to comply with fire safety standards. Whitehead responded: 'I don’t think God intended on us to obey unlawful ordinances. If so, He must be pleased with Hitler huh?'"
Turley's Blog

In another report it was stated that he had upwards of 80 people in his home. I wonder where they all parked?


So much for our chunk of the arctic:
"As Kerry and Lugar began their efforts in earnest, so too did far-right activists, who had irrational fears, based on little more than paranoia, that the measure would give the United Nations power over American laws. Fox News and other conservative media outlets soon began trumpeting the talking points, which were aggressively pushed by John Bolton and other extremists, that our 'sovereignty' was being put at risk by treaty backers, including the U.S. military. 
"Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice -- Republican Secretaries of State from Republican administrations -- wrote an op-ed, urging Senate ratification, but GOP senators were more inclined to listen to Dick Morris."
Rachel Maddow

"But some lawmakers don’t want coal miners or their families to feel like they aren’t loved.  As long as the miners keep it in the coal, don’t complain about safety, or bother the rest of us when the dust chokes out their lungs, we can pretend that everything is A-OK in coal country U.S.A. To show their appreciation, lawmakers have written to the U.S. Postal Service’s Citizen’s Stamp Advisory Committee asking for a postage stamp commemorating the American Coal Miner."
The Pump Handle

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Our Wacky World—7/17/2012

A Higgs boson walks into a Catholic church. The priest says "we don't allow Higgs bosons here." The Higgs boson asks "how do you have mass?"


Bryan "Douche" Fischer never fails to disappoint. I've written posts about him in the past but he spouts so much fucked up shit every week that I can't present them all to you for fear of desensitization to true evil. Fortunately, every couple of months he manages to top himself.  Ed Brayton has a "Bryan Fischer Award"—guess who it went to this week?
"Because after all, Obamacare is all about improving the health of the American people," the radio host explained. "We know that going to church is good for you, it's good for your health. So we are going to mandate that you go to church for your own health and we are going to tax the atheists who don't go to church."
Crooks & Liars

The sound of ass. Hell, going to church eliminates the need for health care. It cures herpes, hemorrhoids, homosexuality, hangnails and whooping cough (don't even bother to vaccinate your kids). If you have an attack of angina head for the nearest steeple.

Funny thing, though. I remember Dr. Gene Scott once saying that if you wanted to find Satan at work in America, just head for the nearest steeple. The next time I have explosive diarrhea I know where to go. And speaking of ass, sodomy is now OK if it's part of Jihad.

"If a poor defendant can’t immediately pay a fine imposed by a court, they are placed on probation and under the authority of a private company called Judicial Corrections Services. JCS then charges $35 a day, in addition to the original fine that they couldn’t pay. And then, when they predictably can’t pay even more than they couldn’t pay initially, they get to throw them in jail for violating their probation."
Dispatches From The Culture Wars

"The EasyDefense tag is treated with a bio-energetic process and sealed in an electro-magnetic shielded envelope. When opened and placed on your pet, it uses your pet's own inherent energy to send out frequencies that repel pests. The process operates with quantum mechanic's refined frequencies, and is somewhat similar to the basic principles of homeopathy."
In other words, it's an expensive piece of shit that does absolutely nothing except make you feel better.

"I announced I wasn’t a conservative anymore — and the proverbial crap hit the fan. Since then, I have been treated by the political right with all the maturity of schoolyard bullies. The Daily Caller, for instance, wrote three articles about my shift, topping it off with an opinion piece in which they stated that I deserved criticism because I wear “thick-rimmed glasses” and I like Ludwig Wittgenstein. Why don’t they just call me “four-eyes”? These are not adults leveling serious criticism; these are scorned right-wingers showing all the maturity of a little boy. No wonder I fit in so well when I was 13."
Salon

A former police officer and FBI official who retired due to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder claims she saw angels when she first responded to the Pennsylvania crash of hijacked Flight 93 during the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “The angels started appearing on the perimeter of the crash site....They were dressed as if they were in warrior garb like a Roman centurion, and there were so many of them, you couldn’t see their faces.”
Dispatches From The Culture Wars

"Arrested and jailed three times, Bosque, 48, has been fired at least six times. Now under suspension pending yet another investigation into misconduct, Bosque stays home and collects his $60,000-a-year paycheck for doing nothing. 
"Before he was ever hired in Opa-locka 19 years ago, Bosque, whose nickname is GB, was tossed out of the police academy twice and fired from two police departments. Each time he has faced trouble he has been reinstated with back pay. He boldly brags about his ability to work a law enforcement system that allows bad cops to keep their certification even in the face of criminal charges."
Miami Herald

"Despite not making it through two weeks at the academy, Barnes stands to collect a total of at least $1.2 million from the city’s police pension fund. He can keep collecting his annual disability payment — which now stands at $46,343 and which will increase as the salary for an entry-level patrolman goes up — until he reaches mandatory retirement at age 63. Then, he can retire with a full police pension — based on all of his years as a disabled officer."
Sun-Times

"The fact that the government spent $5 billion on a camouflage design that actually made its soldiers more visible — and then took eight years to correct the problem — has also left people in the camouflage industry incensed. The total cost comes from the Army itself and includes the price of developing the pattern and producing it for the entire service branch."
The Daily

"It is a culture that awards mere mortals royalty status. It is a culture that has grabbed hold of our youth and wrung some of that youth out of them. It is a culture that winks at a supposed 20-hour weekly work 'limit' imposed by the NCAA that we all know is a joke.... It is a culture that tacitly supports academic fraud and 'clustering,' the practice of guiding athletes to easy classes that produce the least friction against their athletic lives. It is a culture that allowed five Ohio State football players to participate in a bowl game in the middle of a major infractions case primarily because the school argued in favor of it."
Turley's Blog

"There were more than a few shaking hands and pale faces in the audience at the final keynote, and neither the VP of channels Jon Roskill nor COO Kevin Turner could manage to get more than a smattering of applause or whoops from the audience...despite both giving fiery speeches... 
"So one has to wonder what Microsoft thought it was doing when it booked infamous 'quantum healer' Deepak Chopra to spend 20 minutes at the end of the keynote explaining how people must concentrate their emotions on avoiding conflict and raising global happiness."
The Register

Started out with Bryan Fischer and ended with Deepak Chopra. My work here is done. Sorry about the lack of pictures.

Friday, July 6, 2012

Our Wacky World—7/6/2012

Andy Griffith died. I will forever remember him in this movie. Too bad he was a flaming communist.

FAIL
Remember that "drug bust gone bad" a few years back? (yeah, I know, there have been so many). The "informant" speaks:
"Now in the living room, the TV reporter was saying how a 92-year-old woman had died in the incident, and people were suggesting that the police had shot her. Two and two came together in White’s mind. They did it, he suddenly knew. They messed up. They killed that old lady. Now his heart pounded as the implications became clear. And they want me to cover for them."
Dispatches From The Culture Wars


Heard about the "Fast & Furious" scandal? No, you haven't—until now:
"Nobody disputes that suspected straw purchasers under surveillance by the ATF repeatedly bought guns that eventually fell into criminal hands. Issa and others charge that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to walk as an operational tactic. But five law-enforcement agents directly involved in Fast and Furious tell Fortune that the ATF had no such tactic. They insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. Just the opposite: They say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws, which stymied them at every turn. 
"Indeed, a six-month Fortune investigation reveals that the public case alleging that Voth and his colleagues walked guns is replete with distortions, errors, partial truths, and even some outright lies."
Fortune

It's long. Read it. This is the best indictment of the gun lobby yet.


So much for the famous National Geographic Society:
"A team of trained investigators sets out to uncover the truth about UFOs. But they’re not just looking for more stories on extraterrestrial activity—they want answers. Risking it all, this team of scientists and UFO researchers investigate and dissect some of the most mysterious sightings on the planet to unearth stunning new evidence. The data they collect on these adventures paints an entirely new picture of what we know about these strange lights in the sky."
Bad UFOs

And people raised their eyebrows because Henry Rollins hosted a show? At least that one was honest. And what the fuck is a "Skeliever"? Some sort of weasel?

FAIL
The president of the country’s best-known Christian ministry dedicated to helping people repress same-sex attraction through prayer is trying to distance the group from the idea that gay people’s sexual orientation can be permanently changed or “cured.” “I do not believe that cure is a word that is applicable to really any struggle, homosexuality included..." For someone to put out a shingle and say, ‘I can cure homosexuality’ — that to me is as bizarre as someone saying they can cure any other common temptation or struggle that anyone faces on Planet Earth.”
Dispatches From The Culture Wars


Just a couple of tourists in Tokyo:
"...I decided I’d just do a few artful shots of the electric blowjob machine and the chains hanging from the walls but then I was all 'Hang on. I need someone to take a picture of me on the pony' and Victor was very grumpy about it so I threatened to call the bellboy to help me and so he huffed noisily and did it but quite angrily and that’s when I noticed the giant mirrored wall in the dungeon, which didn’t seem to fit the rest of the brick-and-mortar look of the place and that’s when I realized that it was probably a two-way mirror and that the room next door to us was probably the voyeur room and that those poor people were clearly going to be very disappointed."
Eden Fantasys

"If a tooth develops decay and another doesn't, this isn't just a case of poor nutrition and bad bushing. Your teeth reflect your physical as well as your emotional conditions. If you look after your teeth well and yet a tooth starts to decay, there could be an emotional issue needing to be resolved."
Dr. Elmar Jung

Be sure to play around with the interactive tooth chart. I'm missing several teeth. Does that mean my pancreas doesn't function any more? A couple are chipped—is that because of psoriasis?

Toothache My Eye
"... A Tampa rape victim can sue the Hillsborough County Sheriff for allowing a jail guard to refuse to give her a prescribed emergency contraception pill because it was against the guard's religious beliefs"
Courthouse News

"The woman claims that the Rev. Thomas Euteneuer, then president of Front Royal-based Human Life International Inc., made her repeatedly take off her clothes and then caressed and kissed her — saying that he was 'blowing the Holy Spirit' into her. She said it gradually dawned on her that this was not your standard exorcism."
Turley's Blog

"Well, friends, after four days of not eating and three days of laxative misuse, my body called it quits. I found myself lightheaded, distracted, and in pain (though less pain) even after I stopped using the horrible blue pills I have come to hate. I now harbor suspicions of those who claim they have done this “cleanse” for five or ten or forty days, especially if they are taking the laxatives as they go."
JREF


Bill Gates tries his hand at education reform by using M$ as a model:
...“stack ranking”—a program that forces every unit to declare a certain percentage of employees as top performers, good performers, average, and poor—effectively crippled Microsoft’s ability to innovate. “Every current and former Microsoft employee I interviewed—every one—cited stack ranking as the most destructive process inside of Microsoft, something that drove out untold numbers of employees”
Crooks & Liars

It's long been a joke that any hardware made by M$ has to have Windoze running on it. They bought WebTV, which ran great with Linux, and turned it into crapware by forcing it to run Windows. True Story. But wait, it gets better—read the linked article.