Thanks to all and sundry who have managed to drop by here once in a while over the years. But there's not a lot I want to talk about on the site these days, and not much incentive to keep this sorry excuse for a blog going any more.
Take care, all. And good bye.
Saturday, 22 Goodenuf 2009
Courtesy of our good friends at Sadly, No! comes this gem:
Remember, kids - this is what passes for a respected, respectable pollster, who always presents his polling and his poll results in a fair and balanced manner - as far as conservatives are concerned. For some strange reason, this has caused presentations of this nature to be off the infotainment menu at the Funny Farm as a general rule. Once in a while I review highlights (cough) such as this - but, since there's usually nothing new, and no connection to reality or even some sort of journamalism, involved with these sorts of investigative reportering by the conservative media, I generally find ways of avoiding them. This one is so bad - and not even a good interpretation of the drunken village idiot role to boot - that I couldn't help but point it out to you, so that the next time you hear about a fair and balanced poll from that objectively neutral pollster John Zeigler, you can remember this video.
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Fryday, 21 Goodenuf 2009
We're not worthy! This teabagging video is pointed out to us courtesy of the Daily Kos. Big time props to Sinfonian for having the balls to get up and do this in front of a very hostile audience:
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Thursday, 19 Goodenuf 2009
A Storm Is Gathering versus The Gathering Storm versus Gathering The Storm? Sadly, No!.
This post which is slightly less eloquent and a bit ruder, but equally as effective as this post in treating the subject at hand with the dignity that it deserves. Versus this post and its' noting the exquisite ironic beauty of these responses, and pointing to a couple of pieces of bloggy goodness that inspired me to mention it to you. Well played, all!
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Thursday, 5 Goodenuf 2009
So, I'm trying to cut costs here at the Funny Farm due to my severance pay expiring in a week and a half. One of those costs is for my cell phone (which happens to be my only phone, the number on my resume, and very helpful to me the way it is currently set up). I must be one of the few people in the greater North American area that finds it extremely useful to have one monthly fee while being able to call and receive calls anywhere in Canada or the continental US - because the plan that I am on (which provides this level of service) had to be grandfathered into by my cell phone provider (Cingular / AT&T), they no longer offer the plan to new customers, and, if I ever cancel the plan I will never be able to get a similar one from this company. It's costing me about $65 a month for this plan as it stands right now.
Well, after going online and looking at the rate plans listed on the internets (and finding none that would satisfy my requirements) I have made a few calls to the other major players in the cell phone game here in Michigan, and I gotta tell you that there definitely needs to be some improvement in some of the customer service departments I talked to. I am also very surprised to inform the studio audience that some of these customer service representatives were outstanding in the performance of their duties during my interactions with them.
First up: my current cell phone provider, Cingular / AT&T. The customer service rep was very courteous, understood what I was looking for after a few iterations of my explanation*. They took the text messaging fee off of my rates (I don't use it much; only one of my friends still sends me text messages even though I've asked him not to, and I would have kept it, except that the customer service rep that signed me up for the addition to my plan forgot to inform me that I would be paying a surcharge and a per message cost for any texting done outside of my local area). She was quite informative in that she told me that, if I were to cancel this rate plan, I would not be able to get a similar one with her company.
Next: Sprint / Nextel. After saying my piece, their customer service rep starts detailing the plans I already looked at on their website, telling me about the surcharges for using my cell phone in Canada. I listened to her non-answers to my question for about ten minutes, then asked to speak to her supervisor. I got another minute of grief from the customer service rep (while repeatedly informing her that I wanted to talk to her supervisor, and being repeatedly asked "but, why?") until her supervisor came on the line. I got about a minute into my complaint when the supervisor hung the phone up in my face. I didn't get any farther with the next customer service rep that picked up the phone when I called back.
Third on the hit list was Verizon. The customer service rep was very polite, responsive, and understood what I was looking for right away. Better yet, he told me that Verizon has a plan that will satisfy my needs! It costs the same as my current plan, and I'd have to buy a new phone and stay with Verizon for two years (pretty much standard fare in the world of cell phones), but at least I have an option here. Big time props to this customer service rep - he understands what is involved with his job, and he actually does it!
Finally (for now), the last of the big time cell providers - T-Mobile. The customer service rep was very polite, responsive, and understood what I was looking for right away. She was also quite user-friendly: she told me straight up (and right away) that T-Mobile does not offer that sort of service, and was civil in her interactions with me. Even though her copmlany is not able to provide me with the service I desire right now, I will most definitely consider using them in the future should my needs and their products intersect.
Now, I'm asking you, dear reader: do you have any knowledge of a cell phone company that can give me the service I'm looking for? One monthly rate, usually about 450 minutes of daytime (however they define it) service and about 1,000 minutes of nighttime / weekend service, and no additional charges for making or taking calls anywhere in the (continental) US and Canada? My current plan is charging me $59.99 (plus taxes, fees, etc. - even calling 911 costs extra on a cell phone these days!) per month, as would the Verizon plan that was outlined to me earlier today. I would prefer to continue to use my current cell phone (I have a Motorola Razr, and it was a real Palin to set my computers up so that they can talk to and recharge it**), and of course, for some strange reason, the cell phone companies all offer the same basic phones, but they modify them so that, for example, Verizon's user chip (the place where your customized preferences are kept) won't fit in an AT&T phone, and vice versa. Even if they're the same model of cell phone. We're still waiting for somebody to make an interface that would eliminate this kind of situation - and I have this funny feeling that we'll be waiting for that for quite some time.
So how has your day been so far?
* - Dear customer service rep: Does your company have a cell phone plan that would let me make / take calls anywhere in Canada and the United States without additional charges? If so, how much does it cost?
** - that is, unless you're willing to fork out and additional $35 or so for the Motorola Phone Tools software. Then it's a cinch.
If you're a cheap-a$$ bastich like me, though, you can go here and follow the instructions. It will take you some time, though, and it's a bit wonky (sometimes it does not work when I try to use it).
Late Breaking Update 1609 EDT: I just received my phone bill from AT&T today for the usual amount, without the pro-rated charge for the text messaging package - instead they charged me for the entire amount. Which is perfectly understandable, since their bill went out before today, and there would be no way that they could adjust the bill. So I called their customer service line, explained the situation, and asked the customer service rep what the adjusted amount of my bill would be, so that I could pay the correct amount when my bill comes due on the fifteenth.
The customer service rep came back on the line, and told me that my bill was still for the total amount on the bill, and that their company would be issuing me a credit for the reduced amount which would appear on my bill next month. Which is not what I was told earlier in the day. The bill I just received is for the service period of March 23rd - April 22nd, and I tried to explain to the service rep that I don't think it's fair that they should perform this type of billing shenanigans, and could he just please tell me what my new billing amount should be? This did not go over well, and I made absolutely no headway with the guy at all.
So I spoke the magic words "Can I please speak to your supervisor?", and, after another five minutes of arguing with the guy to please honor my request, and five minutes of being put on punitive hold, I was connected to a supervisor. Who then proceeded to give me the exact same song and dance about how they thought it was perfectly fine for me to give them some of my money to hang onto for over a month before they gave it back. I'm sorry, sir, but that's just the way things work around here.
It was then that I used the next tool in my arsenal, and asked the supervisor if they would still be trying to charge me for the entire period, and then credit me back on the next bill, if I were to cancel my account as of today. For some strange reason, I was immediately informed that my current bill would be adjusted, the supervisor gave me the adjusted bill amount, and everything was suddenly hunky dory.
And this is the treatment you should expect from AT&T's customer service division, should you try and do anything at all that is not strictly by the book. If you're a customer who always pays the bill on time. I'm not sure how this would have went if I was continually late in paying my phone bill...
Humpday, 4 Goodenuf 2009
...because, if I wasn't before, I most certainly would be getting out once I found out about this:
The Audacity of Poping, by Christopher Buckley
Brace yourselves for a tsunami of punditry this weekend, when the much-married Newt Gingrich is received into the Catholic Church. [snip] He and Mother Church—from whose tender embrace I myself have regrettably lapsed—will both be made out to be appalling hypocrites. Who among us should throw stones? But Mr. Gingrich's marital history is a matter of public record, and it is not tidy. He first married at age 19, to his 26-year-old former high-school geometry teacher and then, so the story goes, presented her with divorce terms after she was wheeled out of cancer surgery. Mrs. Gingrich #2 was dumped after her husband had carried on an extramarital affair with a fetching, blond congressional staffer named Callista Bisek, who went on to become the present Mrs. Gingrich #3. This Family Values paradigm was complicated by the fact that whilst Mr. Gingrich was filibustering Ms. Bisek over the Speaker's desk, he was simultaneously leading the impeachment charge against a naughty president of the United States. [snip] As for Mother Church, she'll come in for drubbing this weekend for seeming two-faced about the sanctity of marriage. As you know, divorce is still not allowed in the Catholic Church. But here insert a large "however"—she is liberal in the granting of annulments. Mrs. Gingrich #2 publicly ventilated her displeasure back in 2000 after she received a letter from the Archdiocese of Atlanta informing her that her marriage was being annulled—that is, rendered ex post facto invalid—on the grounds of "ligamen." She had been married previously, so in the eyes of the church her marriage to Mr. Gingrich simply did not take place. [snip] The stated reason for it is that he wishes to worship alongside his wife, who is described on her husband's Web site as "a devoted Catholic." To the extent her devotedness is assessed alongside her early relationship with the then-married Mr. Gingrich, it should be borne in mind that to be "devoted" is not the same as being "perfect": She is "a member of the choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington." She has sung for a pope. And, to judge from her photos of a Barry Manilow concert in Las Vegas—you can view the slideshow for yourself—is a capable amateur photographer. [snip] |
This kind of stuff is quite difficult for me to deal with - the rank hypocrisy of the catholic church in this case is amazing to me, and the rank hypocrisy of its' followers in staying with the church after it does things like this (among so many other recent examples), makes it somewhat difficult for me to deal with them in a civilized manner. This is also particularly difficult for me to deal with because the vast majority of those catholics that I personally interact with happen to be my relatives. To add another log to the fire here, my soon-to-be-married brother (with a Ph.D in bioengineering no less) has recently informed me that he does not think I (or anyone else who does not believe in some form of Invisible Sky Fairy) can have any morals because of our lack of faith (I believe the exact quote was "If you don't believe in God, you can't be a moral person"*).
If you can stomach it, go here and take a look at some other recent notables who decided to willfully ignore reason and reality in favor of the catholic flavor of superstitious nonsense.
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* - he is also firmly convinced that Hitler was an atheist. Almost as firmly convinced as I was that Hitler was a christian - specifically a catholic - until I did this bit of research. Now I'm not so sure he was truly a catholic (or a christian), but I'm even more convinced that he was not an atheist.
[Editors' Note: this entry has been cross-posted at the American Street]
Sunday, 2 Goodenuf 2009
Let's not even get into the many examples of religious insanity, Republican't lunacy, and media dementia that have happened since I last graced these pages. These are just questions regarding other situational difficulties that I have personally encountered in the past fortnight.
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To the fine (cough) folks at Zone Alarm a few questions:
1. Why do you have a popup window come up on my PC for 'critical updates' to Zone Alarm, when I have set Zone Alarm to not update automatically? This makes me suspect that your update manually option is not entirely completely manual, and that you're just another bunch of lying corpo-weasels pi$$ed that I'm not giving you enough money.
2. Why is that popup window not able to be closed unless you select one of the 'options' you have given me? There's a little 'x' on the top right hand corner of the window, but it doesn't work. Neither does going into the Task Manager to shut it down. The only way I have found to get rid of this crap (temporarily) is to reboot the frelling PC. Removing Zone Alarm from my PC, however, does do the trick - as long as I can use some extra tools to get rid of all the crap you leave behind on my system, even after I've asked that all of your crap be removed from my system.
3. Why is it that, when I go to the Zone Alarm site and try to email you about this, I cannot find anything on your site that lets me email you? I get a whole bunch of 'offers' from your company for various other products (that I have no interest in acquiring), no matter which link I click on your 'Customer' 'Support' page. And a little annoying popup that also won't go away unless I do something about it.
I have been very happy with your free Zone Alarm product - I think it does a great job in keeping out the crap - but you need to work on the whole customer service aspect of your business. When I am forced to deal with your update process, even after I've specifically requested that you leave me alone, that's a problem. Especially when the vast majority of these 'cricital' updates are nothing but requests for me to upgrade to the version that co$t$ money.
To the wonderful (cough) wait staff at Cici's Pizza in Madison Heights, Michigan: as I remarked to the wait staff who cleaned up my table and removed my food and drink while I went to the bathroom during my recent visit to your establishment, it is, generally speaking, a good idea to wait until your patrons have finished eating before kicking them out of your establishment, particularly when they are (until now) a loyal customer of your business.
I had just gotten a drink and another slice when the digestive system notified me that I needed to go - right now! - and take care of some business. Imagine my surprise, when I got back to the dining room, in finding four people sitting at my table (in the middle of an empty dining room, they have to sit at the table I was at) and my lunch cleared off. Praise Koresh I didn't leave any personal items at the table when I went to the can...
To those amazingly helpful (cough) people over at the Blue Care Network: thanks to your administrative incompetence, I have been unable to get some of the medications prescribed for me by my doctor. It's continually amazing to me that you can still try and make the case that the health care system in this country is not being run by corpo-weasels like you, when the co$t$ involved with your (and the other health care 'providers' I have had the displeasure of 'working' with over the years) health care 'coverage' have been the determining factor in whether I get medical treatment for some of the issues I have been dealing with (more and more) as time marches on. I am still waiting for you to approve one of my medications*, and I'm awfully glad that it only took you about two weeks to approve another of my meds (so I was only off it for those two weeks).
It was bad enough when you required me to lie about my health care provider (she's not in their list of approved doctors, but at least one other of the doctors in her office are, so Blue Care Network required me to tell them over the phone that the BCN doctor was my doctor. Yes, I am waiting for them to try and charge back all of my medical care because I lied to them - and, surprisingly, I have cut down on the doctor's visit, blood tests, etc. in the meantime). But when you then start delaying approval of my prescription refills (years after the original prescriptions were written) for medications that the doctors have told me I need to stay on for the rest of my life, that starts to become a problem.
While we're on the subject of health care, can anyone tell me why, if I am prescribed a medication that I need to take for the rest of my life, I am required to get it approved by the (specialist) doctor (read: higher doctor visit copays) over and over again (and the doctor needs to have some fairly expensive blood tests to determine if I still need to be taking it, even though he says I need to take it for the rest of my life), and I only have a finite amount of refills for the prescription? I have repeatedly run into the situation where the pharmacy tells me that I have no more refills on the medication I am supposed to be taking for the rest of my life - and, I don't know about you, but when the pharmacist tells me there's no more refills on those sort of meds, it sounds to me like the health care system would much rather just let me die than have to worry about writing a prescription with lifetime renewals.
* I take (among other things) something called metoprolol. I have been prescribed the extended release version of the medication (only take 1 pill once a day), and the regular version of the medication (take 2 pills half the strength of the current one twice a day) is on the generic prescription plan ($4 per 30 day supply / $10 per 90 day supply). Blue Care Network requires that my doctor approve the change in medication (from extended release capsules to the regular sort), and (how they can do this when they're not involved in the process I'm not sure) there have been communication problems between them, the pharmacy involved, and the doctor's office that have prevented me from getting the meds they tell me I need to survive.
Humpday, 20 Priming 2009
'Tis the season...
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Humpday, 6 Priming 2009
This sort of falls into the ultimate cosmic irony category - take a look at this video of a vile pigboy spewing anti-american bile at the annual gathering of the Reich wing wannabees:
...and ask yourself: could it be that the abomination that dared to mock somebody with Parkinson's disease is going to be suffering the fate of the one he so callously made fun of?
I'm also interested in what ever it is that's growing out of his left ear. What the heck is up with that? Does he need to be coached through reading the teleprompter?
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Tuesday, 5 Priming 2009
From our good friend* and fellow skeptic Pharyngula (Quick Note to the studio audience:
WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE
in having so much of this show up on our ideological radar over the last little while...)
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standard trollphylactic: I'm not saying that each and every person who believes in a deity (or deities) are mentally defective. I am saying that people who think that their beliefs should be considered as facts and have the force of law in our society (especially when not everyone believes the same thing) are mentally defective. Particularly when they're trying to enforce their will upon the internets...
Added SPECIAL save the independent cartoonist bonus:
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Friday, 1 Priming 2009
From our good friends at Comedy Central (Quick Note to the geeks in the studio audience: did you know that both Jason Jones and Samantha Bee are Canadians? And that they're married to each other? Well - now you know...)
Y'know, it would be a really good thing (IMHO) if there were some people, fairly high up in the hierarchy of some of the mainstream faiths, that would publicly condemn this sort of slanderous fearmongering by their fellow religious authorities. It would be even better* if somebody followed up on the barbarians out there whenever they overstep the legal bounds of free speech and call for violence to be committed upon our elected leaders.
Jeebus H. Koresh on a crutch, these people make me extremely nervous - as well as even more firmly convinced that religious insanity is going to be one of the more serious mental diseases that america faces in the upcoming years**...
* - especially considering, during the past eight years, that if you publicly expressed even the slightest doubt about anything having to do with the Republican't junta's blatant abuse of the governmental system, you were immediately branded an unamerican traitor and were subject to harassment, persecution, and (in some cases) legal prosecution. Now, mainstream newsweasels (even those not 'working' at the Faux Network) can call for violent overthrow of the american government without a problem.
What's that word again? Hyp-, hypo-, Republican't! Yeah, that's it...
** - standard trollphylactic: I'm not saying that each and every person who believes in a deity (or deities) are mentally defective. I am saying that people who think that their beliefs should be considered as facts and have the force of law in our society (especially when not everyone believes the same thing) are mentally defective.
When CNN and Faux Snooze treat crackpots who think Obama is the anti-Koresh or Hitler Reborn as if they have valid points to make, they are, in effect, saying that they think that these crackpots have reality-based reasons for their religious insanity.
I'm pretty sure that society as a whole would not be particularly pleased if I were to utilize the same sort of 'logic', and start acting upon it in the real world, based on my beliefs. Just sayin'...
Friday, 1 Priming 2009
Why, yes, I am a fan of Star Trek in most of its' various formats*. Why do you ask?
* - not all that into Star Trek - The Next Generation, and a few of the cheesier movies. But everything else (and the concepts involved, if not the execution of the media presentation, in TNG and the aforementioned movies) was top notch for the most part.
Thursday, 30 Shivring 2009
Apparently, the Invisible Cloud Being has decided (at least, somebody claiming yet again to know exactly what the Invisible Cloud Being has decided about something) that the Stimulus plan is the work of (cue church lady) Satan!
[emphasis of all kinds and editorial comment (see if you can tell the difference!) courtesy of the Funny Farm News Burro]
Open letter to all Americans
To Fellow Americans in The Faith, and the rest of you, well, you're Godless heathens, so you don't matter: Glory to God in the highest for the most wonderful creation He has given us. This is an open letter that will be direct to the point like the archer's arrow to its bull's eye - presuming, of course, that the archer is competent enough to hit the bull's eye every time. I would like to share with you some words on a subject that my deluded synapses seem to think is of great importance. This happens to deal with Satan's Stimulus Program that has been signed into federal law. Isn't it amazing how Satan himself personally claimed this stimulus package for his own? Funny, how the religiously insane seem to be making remarks of this nature these days, but were spectacularly silent about Satan's Tax Giveaways to The Rich... I must remind all Americans that this stimulus program is in violation of God's Law and Word because, of course, I am the ultimate expert and deciderer of what constitutes a violation of God's Law and Word. It is a sad event that the leaders in Washington who are supposed to work for us, the American people, have made themselves gods above the great God Jehovah by passing such a Satanic stimulus plan as opposed to those who presume to speak for (what they believe to be) the ultimate power in the multiverse. We can thank these leaders for condemning us all to Hell for their actions if you actually believe the pagan occult superstitionists about that sort of thing, and you believe that they know anything at all about what they cannot possibly know of. [snip] We must be very careful with our lives for now and draw closer to Him on High. Why do this? Because the religiously insane idiots want to control your life. Because the leaders in Washington are playing god, as opposed to the 'leaders' in the religious community who are pretending they know the mind of the Invisible Cloud Being. They have no right whatsoever to play god with our lives and this country - but, amazingly, the author of this screed thinks that he has every right to play God with your lives and this country. Pretending to be god in having all the answers with this stimulus program is an insult and blasphemy against God - almost as blasphemous as presuming to know the mind of a nonexistent deity and pretending to be God and having all the answers about life, the universe, and everything would be, if the unproven 'knowledge of these con artists was based on, you know, facts and stuff. He will not tolerate such degradation against the dignity of human life for long because I say so! [snip] Can America not see what Satan has done to it? Can America not see what Satan plans on doing to it? If not, just listen to crackpots like me for a while. I plead with each of you to open your eyes to the glory of God. I plead with you to throw open the window of your heart to listen to the quiet still voice of God. The salvation of mankind does not come from the welfare programs of the federal government, which, funnily enough, is not the goal of the welfare programs of the federal government, no matter how many times religiously insane idiots try and pretend it is. Salvation comes from the hand of God,some think, if you believe in that sort of thing. [snip] |
I plead with any and all viewing this page to open your eyes to the lies and hypocrisy of religiously insane idiots like this. I plead with you to use your rational faculties to understand the method behind the madness that is organized religion of any and all kinds (sorry, Paul...). I beg of you to treat the unbelievable hubris of anyone presuming to tell you that they know what a non-existent concept is demanding that each and every person of the face of the globe do at all times as the psychotic ramblings of a deluded sociopath. On the other hand, if someone tries to tell you what they think that non-existent being would say, think, or do about any sort of real world situation, then thank them kindly for their input and their opinion on the subject. That is quite different, as far as I'm concerned, as a situation where someone tries to tell you what the Invisible Sky Fairy is saying, thinking, or doing.
A big tip of the hat to scott over at World O Crap for bringing this to my attention.
Humpday, 29 Shivring 2009
Apparently, Josh Tickell's movie FUEL got enough interest over the weekend that its' run in the theaters has been extended due to demand:
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{Quick Note To Josh Tickell and the FUEL people*: if you want bloggers to promote your stuff, you should make your stuff easier to promote. I almost didn't post this - all I wanted to put up here was the text in the first box, but I'm not going to re-type the blurb just so's I can show it here. Next time, if this is all that's available to me, you'll get a couple of lines and a link instead of a nice prominent framed display on this page.)
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* - is it just me, or does Josh Tickell and the FUEL people sound like a cool band name?
Sunday, 27 Shivring 2009
It was only yesterday that intrepid Ohio Streeter Mark Adams showed all and sundry a link to the fabled lost city of Atlantis, and sent the Funny Farm Utility Research Kitchen into action. You see, the legends about Atlantis from where we come from usually mention a lost continent of Atlantis, not a city*.
And the picture that was pointed out from Google Earth in the article that Mark linked to is really easy to find and create yourself:
Click on any picture to see the larger original version in the Funny Farm Viddying Vault
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But, something looked a bit odd to me when I took a bit more of a look at the surrounding environs:
Fryday, 25 Shivring 2009
...a few years ago, before they put a stent on one of my arteries:
[emphasis of all kinds and [editorial comment courtesy of the Funny Farm News Burro]
Drugs can save hearts and cash
It's much cheaper and just as effective to treat some heart attacks with drugs instead of also trying to snake a stent into a clogged artery, scientists at Duke University report Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The findings could prompt significant savings for many of the estimated 1.2 million Americans who suffer heart attacks each year. Wire mesh stents open clogged arteries and can save lives when used within a few hours of a heart attack, but they're no more beneficial than clot-busting drugs alone if the attack occurred a day or so before the patient sought treatment. [snip] Though breakthroughs in new drugs, devices and surgeries have contributed to a longer life expectancy in the United States, they haven't come cheaply. Spending on health care in the United States tops $2 trillion a year and has risen nearly 10 percent annually since 1970. "We need to put more resources into research to know what works and doesn't work for same medical conditions," said Joel Miller, senior vice president for operations at the National Coalition on Health Care, a Washington health advocacy group. "Physicians and patients need better data, and this is a case in point." [snip] Dr. Deepak Pasi, a cardiologist with Carolina Cardiology Consultants, said the study's findings reinforce the need to treat patients individually based on their unique circumstances, rather than follow a universal menu. "There are several scenarios, and each is treated differently," he said. The bottom line, he said, is intervening early and appropriately. |
Nice to know this after the already implanted the frelling thing inside me. Here's hoping that they don't find out that the 'permanent' medications I'm on (which I'm searching for cheap prescription services for, what with being recently underemployed and all) are actually not so good for me to be on on a permanent basis before it's too late...
A big tip of the hat to my good friend Susie the Suburban Guerrilla for finding the link to the link to this story.
Friday, 24 Shivring 2009
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Thursday, 23 Shivring 2009
There seems to be somewhat of a pattern here:
A neocon who has had problems dealing with a non-white non-conservative running the country was slain by his wife (he was also a serial spouse abuser - funny how that seems to go with the neocon mindset so often...) before he could try and get his dirty bomb together (and then presumably try to use it on the gubmint - not that he would have much of a chance of accomplishing this task, but the potential for lots of damage along the way is significant). Funny - it seems that the whole neocon conservative domestic terrorist angle has been slightly downplayed by the mainstream media on this story...
Everyone favorite neocon skank, Ann Coulter, has shown (amazingly, I know..) a superlative amount of hypocrisy while excusing the terrorists who are acting on her behalf, as far as David Neiwert (and most rational human beings) are concerned (when they are concerned with the antics of an anorexic fifty plus year old spinster who preaches traditional family values while simultaneously refusing to live by them herself).
Remember that person who shot up a unitarian church in Tennessee? It seems he wanted to make sure that everyone knew that he was engaging in deliberate acts of domestic terrorism, and using the writings of modern neocons and conservative talk radio as a primary source of inspiration and guidance. Funny thing though - you don't really hear all that much about this story outside of the liberal blogsphere...
It is also interesting to note that the notoriously corrupt sheriff Joe Arpaio is being federally investigated for his liberties in failing to follow the law while, you know, being an officer of the law and all. I wonder if footage of this hearing would be worthy of inclusion in his news TV show?
And, another funny thing about that shooting in Tennessee: when you do hear bloated elitist conservative gasbags bloviate about that particular conservative domestic terrorist, they trash anyone who points out that they inspired the guy and tell them to go Cheney themselves.
Finally (for this brief scribbling), we see one of the founding fathers of the Riech wing neoconservative movement spewing more incendiary bile and openly calling for liberals to be massacred. On the public airwaves. If there were a Fairness Doctrine (or even, seemingly these days, the ability to sue people for slander and libel when they make factually incorrect statements in public, or prosecute them for making public death threats), how would you ever think that this sort of diatribe would be defensible at all?
Mix in the ongoing depression that has been enhanced by Republican't fiscal policy (cough), the (when they get to come home at all) soldiers with record numbers of mental illness returning to civilian life, the ongoing Republican't Taliban Party's attempt to terrorize the current Democratic government and sabotage the legislative process, and the increasing problems due to climate change, and you've got us all living that ancient Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.
Is anybody else scared yet?
Humpday, 22 Shivring 2009
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Tuesday, 21 Shivring 2009
It appears that some of the recent site updates that I requested are finally processing. Some tweaking of the site may be hapenning in the near future. In the meantime, it appears that commenting is now a bit more user friendly (it was possible but not intuitively easy to comment with the frelled templates I have been using to date) and the color scheme has changed for the nonce. Or maybe it's just that my browser cache got flushed and now I'm seeing the changes that you, humble reader, have been seeing for a few weeks now.
What do you think?
[Update] It seems a simple thing like putting the sidebars on the left hand side of the page is so esoteric that I cannot find anything on teh google or the Movable Type 4 forum about it. I'm also wondering if there are any pixel restrictions on the column widths - I had my previous page's sidebar set for a column width of 200 pixels (and, while IE Carumba! has had problems making the column line up with all the icons that I want to be on the same line horizontally displaying that way, Firefox has handled everything just fine until this latest template update). Oh, and I'd prefer having two columns to three, but the default stylesheet I'm using is set to three columns, and I don't want to Cheney around with that for the rest of my day. I'm looking for input here, people - and not the kind with multiple links to unusual adult entertainment, either...
Tuesday, 21 Shivring 2009
[A Day Late And A Dollar Short post from the Funny Farm]
Wading through my email while finally getting around to the business of trying to become gainfully employed once more, I found this:
FROM: Josh Tickell, Director, FUEL
Founder, The Veggie Van Organization
Author, From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank
Dear Friend in the Green Community, There is an exceptionally important film that will release in Los Angeles next weekend - the 13th, 14th and 15th of February in two theaters - the AMC Broadway on 3rd Street in Santa Monica and the Sunset 5 Leammle in West Hollywood. The film is called FUEL - it is a powerful indictment of our fossil based political system and a clear vision for how to repair our broken economy with Sustainable Green Energy - not 5 years from now - but today! As President Obama attempts to pass a plan to reconstruct America, this film, which has in it the formula for solutions for our ailing communities - must be seen by citizens across the country- NOW. FUEL is not backed by a major distributor, and the film has been blocked, time and time again, from being seen in conventional ways. BUT it has a heart and soul that has moved audiences to TEARS and to ACTION - in every theater where it is screened. After test screenings in Texas and Oregon and Washington, audiences changed laws, enacted new policies, created community gardens, erected wind turbines and cleaned up dirty school buses. Made by over 1,000 people during the last 11 years, FUEL is a people's movie that speaks to the heart of what Americans everywhere are demanding - CHANGE. It is only with your help that FUEL will succeed next weekend in Los Angeles. In order to be considered a success and go to national theater screens, FUEL must to be seen by 2,000 people at each theater. While that number may sound small, getting 4,000 people to come out and vote for green, sustainable change with their dollars on a weekend is a challenge. In short, it will not happen without a groundswell of support - your support. Friends, I have spent the last 23 years of my life doing little else other than working for change in green energy. I began doing this because, living amongst the petrochemical industries in Louisiana, I saw members of my own family get sick and die from acute pollution related cancers. My own mother had 9 miscarriages. It has not been an easy road these past two decades fighting for green energy. But I have learned one thing that does make a difference - community. Using the power of community we can accomplish anything. Too long have we been slaves to the interests of big oil and big coal. The dirty politics that has resulted from a near monopolization of our energy - from the time of Rockefeller's Standard Oil - to the Southern Company and ExxonMobil of today - has threatened our democracy at every turn. Friends, these industries now threaten the very future of our nation. If left unchecked, they will suck the remaining little money from our national coffers, co-opting the presidents' new bill into a thinly veiled incentive for oil and coal (already $50 billion of appropriations is included for the oil and nuclear industries). Nothing sickens me more than these industries masquerading as 'green,' purposefully obfuscating the issues with their slick commercials and billboards. I will not stand by and let this nation, and a great leader, be taken over once again by dirty companies and dirty politicians. And that is exactly why I made FUEL and exactly why I need your help. Because I believe you don't want to stand by either. Many of you have written to me over the years asking what you can do to make a difference. Now is your opportunity. I need you to get every person you know out to the theaters next weekend. I mean everyone. FUEL plays to audiences rich and poor, young and old, Republican and Democrat. Its message isn't full of blame or shame - it's just straight and funny and it tells the story of how American people can take their country back. We need you - every single one of you. We need your help here in our office in Santa Monica on the phones. We need you to forward this email to everyone you know. I need you to be part of our street teams. If you think you can give 3 hours of your time, give 5. If you think you can give a day, give two. We need people to poster the town, to hand out postcards at health food stores, gymnasiums, colleges, parties, events and to answer phones, to drive around with magnets on your car - to do whatever it takes to get people into the theaters next weekend in Los Angeles. This country must hear the message of FUEL - that every person deserves clean food, clean water, clean air and clean energy - and we have the solutions - NOW. So I invite you, humbly, to join with me and the FUEL team - to volunteer with us during the next week - to bring as many Los Angeles residents to the movies for a very special experience - an experience I guarantee will change their lives and the lives of so many more. Here is how you sign up to help: send an email to streetteams@thefuelfilm.com with your name, email address and phone number or simply call us directly at 310-452-7731. For more information about FUEL, visit our web site at http://thefuelfilm.com And remember, your ticket to this movie is a VOTE for GREEN SUSTAINBLE CHANGE that will be heard across the nation and around the world. Humbly and in service of our planet, Josh Tickell |
Doofus that I am, I got this a week ago Friday and did not put this out here so the dozens that regularly come by could tell all their friends close enough to become one of the four thousand.
It might still not be too late - you could contact either of the AMC Broadway on 3rd Street in Santa Monica or the Sunset 5 Laemmle in West Hollywood and reserve your tickets for the show today.
Sorry, Josh, that I wasn't pro-active enough on this particular issue to post this in a timely manner. If anyone can tell me how things went with this film screening, or has any sort of review based on a viewing of the film, please feel free to share it with me and I will do my best to make sure that it sees the light of day within these pages.
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Thursday, 16 Shivring 2009
I think this video speaks for itself:
Thanks to Ampersand over at Alas, A Blog for finding (someone who found) this (and letting me find it now).
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Tuesday, 7 Shivring 2009
Your Humble Narrator has been busily trying to proof and publish the previous note, so he didn't get a chance to watch his beloved Habs play the Boston Bruins on the Ceeb until just a couple of minutes ago.
When I did finally turn to tube on and started watching the game, within thirty seconds Robert Lang scored the first goal of the game.
You know, I haven't really mentioned this kind of thing (turning on a game to watch one team score within the first minute of game time that I'm watching. Trollphylactic: this does not include basketball games or any other sport that involves a lot of frequent scoring) the first few hundred times it has happened within recent memory. Just like I haven't really mentioned the 2 - 3 streetlights that have gone out each week for the last twenty years as I drive under them.
'Cause I really don't know what to make of weird crap like that.
Tuesday, 7 Shivring 2009
Your Pale Ale is most wondrous fine! I just finished the last bottle of a six pack that I got in early July last year* in Oklahoma, and it was still full-flavored, crisp, and nicely robust as befits the pale ale** style of beer.
Now, if only Happy Face Breweries*** can produce something of similar quality, the beer box will be able to be replenished more frequently - as the beer box, amazingly, seems to need to be replenished more frequently...
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* - I still have one bottle of the Ellie's Brown Ale mentioned in this post left and chilling in the fridge. Hopefully it will have aged as gracefully as the Boulevard Pale Ale...
** - it fits the sub-category of american pale ales quite nicely.
*** - I may not have mentioned (recently) that I've been homebrewing beer and mead since 1985 off and on as the time vs. money equation has made it more or less feasible. This is one of those recalculations I've been talking about, people...
Saturday, 5 Shivring 2009
Ten years ago tomorrow, I will have been gainfully employed by the SearsMart Corporation (actually, it's officially known as the Sears Holding Corporation). This has been, by orders of magnitude, the longest I have been employed by one company during my working career*. The job is pretty much everything you could hope for if you're a pushing fifty computer nerd without much desire for doing the management dance, but still would like oodles of ca$h to make pretty little screens so users can perform all the things necessary to keep a business up and running**.
Plus I am able to be creative in my job, have input into the overall system design plan in addition to the ability to design individual pieces of it, and the work environment is pleasant and relatively easy-going (for example, being five / ten / whatever minutes late for your scheduled starting time is no problem, as long as you stay late to make up the time, my fellow peons are for the most part personable and pleasant, and I've been wearing jeans and a golf shirt to work for at least eight of those ten years***).
So it is with great sorrow and considerable angst that I have to inform you all that, as of this morning, I have been told that my services are no longer required by my employer.As you may well imagine (if you aren't living through it yourself right now), there are a number of things that I will need to do that were not on the menu a few hours ago, and a number of things that I probably would be well advised to re-think and rework the calculations on. I've already been on the phone with the mortgage holder (who also happens to be my bank) to discuss getting a reduced rate so that I can make the payments even when if I have to spend the next few months on unenjoyment. Apparently, somebody being proactive and anticipating preventative measures has caused somewhat of a problem with their standard procedures. Especially when the bank is right-sizing their staff at the current time, causing some company functions to change departments and some people to have to learn additional new job functions to perform, and Your Humble Narrator to spend lots of time listening to elevator music while on hold waiting for everyone to figure out who's going to pick up the hot potato. They're calling me back again when they can track down the proper employee and get them to discuss the situation with me. [Update 5PM Eastern: no call back. Guess I'll have a bit of time to spend in dealing with the situation. Maybe I'll head down to their offices in person on Monday and see if that helps them expedite the process. Anybody want a 1300 foot ranch style house with a full, currently unfinished basement, a beautiful deck, and a two car attached garage in northern Pontiac? No reasonable offer refused!]
So off we go down the rabbit hole. I have a number of things that I'd like to discuss with you, dear reader, and it seems like a lot more time to discuss them with you (although I also seem to remember from previous bouts of survival mode living that's not necessarily true). Stay tuned to this channel for further updates.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got some serious drinking to do...
[Editors' Note: this entry has been cross-posted at the American Street]
* - this, of course, does not count the twelve plus years of indentured servitude being raised on a farm during my childhood years...
** - also little things(cough) like system maintenance, fixing messes when things screw up, backups / storage maintenance, and all of the paperwork involved therein. For starters.
*** - upcoming family nuptials, and the need for presentable formal clothes to wear to the event, have now risen considerably in my list of priorities.
Fryday, 4 Shivring 2009
I am privileged to receive, almost daily, some emails from my some of my friends with some jokes in them. I'd like to share a couple of those emails with the studio audience. My apologies in advance if the cliched, mysogynist, deficiency-mocking nature of some of this humor is offensive to anyone.
The first one I'd like to present to you is largely about the suffering endemic to the human condition known as marriage:
And then the fight started
My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels. And then the fight started. ---- My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. And then the fight started. ---- When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive... And then the fight started. ---- I rear-ended a car this morning. So, there we were alongside the road and slowly the other driver got out of his car. And then the fight started. ---- My wife and I are watching "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" while we were in bed. And then the fight started.. ---- I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first. And then the fight started. ---- A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, 'I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.' And then the fight started. |
The second one was from the same friend (actually, his sister in BC sent them to him and he shared them with me), and I found it particularly amusing for two reasons:
1. I work in the retail sector (for the time being*), and this is not only a real problem, but letters like this have existed in the real world; and
2. A couple of my friends (including one who worked for the same retailer at one point**) used to engage in this sort of behavior for exactly the same reasons that are detailed within this story.
Banned From Wal-mart
This is why women should not take men shopping against their will. After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to Wal-Mart. Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out. Equally unfortunately, my wife is like most women - she loved to browse. Yesterday my dear wife received the following letter from the local Wal-Mart. Dear Mrs. Samsel, Over the past six months, your husband has been causing quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerate this behavior and have been forced to ban both of you from the store. Our complaints against Mr. Samsel are listed below and are documented by our video Surveillance cameras. 1. June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's carts when they weren't looking. 2 . July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute Intervals. 3. July 7: Made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the women's restroom. 4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official voice, "Code 3 in Housewares. Get on it right away." 5. August 4: Went to the Service Desk and tried to put a bag of M&M's on layaway. 6. August 14: Moved a "CAUTION - WET FLOOR" sign to a carpeted area. 7. August 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told other shoppers he'd Invite them in if they would bring pillows and blankets from the bedding department. 8. August 23: When a clerk asked if they could help him he began crying and screamed, "Why can't you people just leave me alone?" 9. September 4: Looked right into the security camera and used it as a mirror while he picked his nose. 10. September 10: While handling guns in the hunting department, he asked the clerk where the antidepressants were. 11. October 3: Darted around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the " Mission Impossible" theme. 12. October 6: In the auto department, he practiced his "Madonna look" by using different sizes of funnels. 13. October 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed through, yelled "PICK ME! PICK ME!" 14. October 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumed a fetal Position and screamed "OH NO! IT'S THOSE VOICES AGAIN!" And last, But not least .. 15. October 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile, then yelled very loudly, "Hey! There's no toilet paper in here!" Regards, Tom Richards |
Many thanks to my good friend Stu in beautiful downtown St. Thomas, Ontariario for the musings from some fellow Stand Up Philosophers***.
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* - you know, I remember people saying that there was a time when employers and employees were both loyal to a single corporation, and could trust that (as long as they were performing a useful function for the company) they would be employed for their working lifetime. I wonder what that was like?
** - yes, I'm looking at you, Klufter...
*** - the term Stand Up Philosopher is also, besides its' colorful definition in the Urban Dictionary, synonymous with the term Comedian, here at the Funny Farm...
Humpday, 24 Premise 2009
Well, it's been a long fortnight-plus since I scribbled on these pages. In between holiday visitations and a lingering cough that turned out to be a sinus infection that needed some (thankfully effective) antibiotics*, I managed to awaken an ancient hunger that has invaded my life once more...
You see, dear reader, back in the early days of the internets, when all was bulletin chat boards and usenet groups, I was thoroughly convinced that there was no way that they could Cheney up the best computer platform of the time - The Commodore Amiga. I had a 500, knew lots and lots of people with 1000's and a few with 2000's. I even remember someone with a 3000 and that machine was years ahead of the competition. Too bad Commodore was so poorly managed that they went under shortly thereafter.
But, in between, there was a wonderful world of classic computer games that have largely vanished from the face of the earth. They were built largely on the DOS, and AmigaDOS, and ports from one to the other, platforms. Some of them have been ported up to later versions of the WinDoze family of operating systems, but some have taken longer than others. In fact, on my holiday journeys I managed to help my good friend Stu install one of his all time favorite games, Panzer General, on his PC.
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One of my early favorites was Pirates! - you sailed around the Caribbean, captured ships, sacked towns, and generally caused directed mayhem for the four major European powers in the game (the Spanish, Dutch, French, and English) in order to gain gold, titles, and fame. On the way, you search for lost cities, long lost relatives, and the guy who took those long lost relatives into captivity. You could also ferry immigrants, work the trade differentials between cities, and find a wife amongst the governors' daughters. A very open ended game that you could while away the hours at without even noticing the time drifting by.
Having come late to the Xbox world (the PS controls Cheney up my hands, Nintendo's okay (yes, I have a Wii) but I also have had problems with some of my favorite games on the Wii), I was also late to find out that they had a version of Pirates! - so late that I had to scrounge around to find a (used) copy of the game in a game store in Kitchener, Ontario. Praise His Noodly Appendage that it works on the 360.
I was also recently handed a package containing a (slightly glitchy at times) copy of the updated version of Pirates! for the PC that was put together sometime in 2005. Very nice graphics and updates to the complexity of the game have been added compared to what my fading memories of the early game (and the version for the XBox) remember from the days of the Amiga, and I have recently gone through the PC game for the first time.
Which brings me back to one of the reasons behind the lack of bloggy goodness around here - I've been busy sailing the Spanish Main (which became the Dutch Main by the time I got done and married the young lady from Curacao), and on one crew's voyage they sacked and took over San Juan, Santo Domingo, Santiago, Havana, Vera Cruz, and Panama (I think I turned one of them French or English, but the rest were Dutch by the end of the voyage).
And that's where I may very well be the next time you see the mass rewrite of the past eight years, the sudden 180 degree turn of all the Republican'ts within and without the conservative media as they suddenly become concerned with fiscal prudence (with money they no longer control) and legal, moral, and ethical limits to the executive branch of the United States federal government, who should be bound by the rule of law once again (now that it's no longer a Republican't who is the head of the executive branch of the United States federal government). We've done this dance before - and this time, there's a sleekly malicious tint to the Republican'ts, some of whom appear to be interested in the scorched earth strategery. I hope Obama understands and has found an effective counter to a lot of this churlish behavior. But I don't - other than to build my little cocoon, keep my head above water, and peek around once in a while and determine if there's a need to circle the wagons.
So far, so good. Now, if you'll excuse me, there's some plunderin' I be a gettin' to. Arrrr!
* - yes, Mary, you were right - I did need to go to a doctor to take care of this one.
Fryday, 6 Premise 2009
I have two ideas for (IMHO) interesting studies that would generate data on the level of hypocrisy currently in existance in those who profess to be christians, as well as those who still are Republican'ts:
1. It is with great anger (but little surprise) that I read about Republican'ts distributing a disk that features a song called Barack the Magic Negro. Way to show your true colors, Republican'ts! I wonder if my Republican't cousins have gotten their copy yet, and if it's in heavy rotation in their home.
So, I'm wondering if anyone would like to record this little ditty with me, start distributing it to the same Republican'ts who were excited to get their copy of Songs Slamming Democratic Politicians, and watch and report on the resulting avalanche of hypocrisy that would eminate from Republican't pie holes. It would be even better if I could find a full CD's worth of song parodies - so far, other than this, I have a song called Next Plane To Gitmo of my own to contribute.
Bush The Drunken Cokehead
Bush, the drunken cokehead Little Turd Blossom Rove Bush, the drunken cokehead Together they would travel Bush, the drunken cokehead Bush's failures live forever One clear day it happened His head was filled with nonsense Without his life-long shill Bush, the drunken cokehead |
I think it would be an interesting experiment.
I would also like to take this time and ask any artists who might be interested in helping out with such a project to email me. How much interest there is in doing this will be directly proportional to how long it takes and whether it gets done or not...
2. It was with equally great anger, and equivalent levels of surprise, that I read about the christian who sent an email wondering if Obama is the anti-christ. But I was doing some wondering of my own: what if the members of the town council of the town that the emailer is mayor of, received emails asking them if their mayor is the antichrist?
I wonder if Danny Funderburk, David Hudspeth, April Beachem, Brown simpson Jr., Chantay Bouler, Wayne Hunter, Andy Merriman, Ken Kerber, Jeff Helms, Judge Peter Lenzi, Davy Broom, and Paul Mitchell would be happy to hear that their town is being run by the antichrist? If any of you ask them and find out what they think about this, I would be interested in finding out how the conversation went...
Fryday, Xmas Day 2008
This holiday season, I found a new game to play (that I know my Bud in St. Thomas will enjoy*), which might even rise to the level of a scientific hypothesis, if not a theory. One of my brothers and I found** that the word fcuking can be inserted into the title of any Christmas song. Some examples I'd like to share with you:
O Little Town of Fcuking Bethlehem
Away In A Fcuking Manger
Fcuking Sleigh Ride or Sleigh Fcuking Ride
Frosty the Fcuking Snowman
Sometimes you can even find a way to insert the word into the song lyrics without frelling things up too much. Try it, you'll like it!
* - when we were both deejays in Toronto in the eighties, one of our favorite sayings, after we got home, got the gear unpacked, and started to unwind from our gigs, was Merry fcuking Christmas. The other was Ho ho fcuking ho.
** - as many have found before us, and many will find at some point in their lives...
Tuesday, 27 Conclusion 2008
There has been quite a bit of un-festive Christmas coal being put into america's stocking from the Putsch junta this week, and a couple of lumps (for good measure) from Obama to all of us liberal types:
Crooks and Liars (as well as a host of others) have pointed out the story emerging now about crackers who were hunting blacks (no - really, they were literally hunting down black people to shoot) while the Illegally Installed Drunken Cokeheaded Deserter was off playing the gee-tar and having birthday cake with McSenile in the wake of the Katrina clusterCheney;.
Drinky McDumbA$$ has just told anti-choice medical care workers they can now legally shame women for using birth control* if that's what their religiously insane beliefs tell them they should be doing (thanks to Rh Reality Check for finding this story and putting it out there for public consumption);
We've recently found out that one of the rich Republican't elitists has stolen enough money to fund a small country. No word yet on whether they'll actually be trying to get any of that money back, or even if there will be any sort of criminal charges brought in this case;
After weeks of faux concern by the current cabal about the failing american automotive industry, the Texas Souffle and his band of merry thieves in the White House appear to have decidered to throw them under the bus;
For some reason, the Republican't cabal running this coutnry into the ground United States government has been unable to account for the
700 billion dollars in federal bailout money that needed to be provided by Congress right away (no time to put oversight and accountability into the equation - besides, when have any Republican'ts ever been less than completely honest, aboveboard, and trustworthy?);
Some religiously insane racist Republican't bastiches killed someone because they (mistakenly) thought he was gay. He (and his brother) are both Hispanic, too - so you should expect a$$clowns like Oh!Really? tell us all that they deserved it. Funny how we've been hearing about the supposed violent backlash against the Prop Haters by teh gayz in the mainstream media quite a bit, but news reports on things like this that are available for public consumption seem to be somewhat harder to find;
And, finally, a couple of stories that might tickle your funny bone a bit:
Some awesome video goodness from our favorite Rude Pundit (personal disclosure - I kinda sorta knew Lizz Winstead way back when she was a regular ordinary wannabe journamalist (even before she was a veejay on MuchMusic in the early days of its' existence (along with CNN News talking head John (don't call me JD) Roberts)
A seasonal (cough) story, full of flavor - one might even say quite spicy (cough cough) (courtesy of our favorite Suburban Guerilla - Iowa city uses garlic salt to melt snow and ice.
The spotty blogging you have come to expect from the Funny Farm is not altogether all my fault (a newer version of Movable Type has been installed by my service provider, and I'm fumbling around trying to figure out how to do the things I have been doing around here), but will probably be continuing until at least the New Year. Happy Holly Days, everybody!
* - apparently, the United States government has a problem with keeping things in a static place in the Federal Register, so that people can actually take a look at them. Funny, how the Republican't iceholes in charge of the executive branch of the federal government seem to want to hide controversial decisions like this from public view when they feel they might be getting criticized for it...
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