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.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Our Wacky World—6/15/2012

"The movement of the [rats] is tracked on a laptop, which uses an icon-based interface specially designed for people who may have little experience with computers. It maps out potential land mines, will produce a map for the site's clearance, and identify safe routes through the area."
The Register


Get ready for the latest date on the Cosmic Calendar:
"This Date was the Mystery in this Parable for ages past, and has been now unlocked. ‘The Mystery Unlocked’ brings the good news announcing the Day, 24th July 2012 of His Return (as revealed and documented in this book, to this servant of God), of the of the WEDDING INVITATION Date, when the faithful Bride of Christ only, will be ‘Raptured / Gathered up’ at Christ Coming, into the Banquet which God holds for His Son – Jesus."
The Mystery Unlocked

"A Texas family says they are getting strength from an image of Jesus they found in the mold growing inside the shower of their home."

"...the symptoms of 'hysteria'—a catch-all diagnosis for a slew of vexing lady problems that dates back a couple millennia—included fainting, anxiety, sleeplessness, irritability, nervousness and 'a tendency to cause trouble for others.' ...since at least the second century, a good orgasm, or rather 'hysterial paroxysm,' was considered a suitable treatment—at least when practiced by a medical professional. Check out our illustrated history of hysteria—and the early sex toys used to treat it—from the time of Hippocrates to today."
Mother Jones


In other medical news, there's a new miracle treatment that consists of giving industrial bleach enemas. To children. But now the practitioners of this dubious regimen have taken umbrage with...the word "bleach". One of them has started a petition demanding that their critics stop using the word "bleach". And it appears to be working as they now have 47 52 out of the 100,000 signatures they're asking for.

I guess it all depends on your definition of "working". Someone should start a petition for that.


"On Monday, the FEC alleged that [former Senator Larry] Craig used campaign donations from supporters as his own personal piggy bank to to try to reverse his plea. The commission said he paid $139,952 to the Washington, D.C. law firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan and another $77,032 to the Minneapolis firm of Kelly & Jacobson."
TPM

"Believing he was handling an unloaded gun, an 18-year-old accidentally shot himself in the head during a webcam chat early Wednesday when the person on the other end of the conversation challenged the teen's manhood"


Richard Feynman vs. Cold War bureaucracy:
"Despite the FBI’s surreptitious surveillance, Feynman had actually alerted the State Department first thing upon receiving the invitation, hoping to receive guidance and indicating that he would be happy to help serve the United States’ propaganda interests abroad, or to simply decline the invitation outright. The letter was immediately forwarded to J. Edgar Hoover, the then-director of the FBI. 
Ce ne sont pas les diagrammes Feynman
"Appearing incapable of making an independent decision to Feynman’s travels, the State Department waited two months to hear back from the FBI, which provided a brief summary of Feynman’s history and merely stated that it 'is not to be construed as a clearance or a nonclearance of the individual involved.' The declassified documents portray the FBI’s tacit monitoring and restraint in taking any direct actions against Richard Feynman."
Muck Rock

"The votes are in and it is unanimous: Barack Obama will win re-election to the U.S. presidency in November, according to five astrologers who offered predictions at their convention on Tuesday."
Reuters


You heard about the white supremacist who killed 77 people in Norway, right? His defense is...that he did it:
"Following objections from lawyers for survivors and family members of Breivik's victims, defence lawyer Geir Lippestad insisted the testimony was necessary to show that his client was sane. 'Our aim is not to argue in favour of a political opinion but to show that the way the accused views the world is shared by others' 
"Breivik, 33, is intent on proving his sanity to ensure that his ideology -- described as a crusade against multiculturalism and a pending 'Muslim invasion' of Norway and Europe -- not be written off as the rantings of a lunatic."
France24

I need to change that to "narcissistic white supremacist".

My plug is working just fine