Dressing your pet for Halloween? Harmless fun?
2011/10/23 at 5:59 pm (stigmas)
Tags: halloween, pets in costume
Here’s where it leads. You tell me.
Where does the buck stop?
2011/08/20 at 6:48 pm (art, politics, stigmas)
Tags: Barack Obama, Barry Un-truman, random image, SCOAMF, Where the buck stops
Ask not for where the buck stops
I found this little gem over at Ace.
I miss Presidents who said stuff like “The Buck stops here”. Obama barely admits that he’s seen the Buck. Heck he won’t even say for sure if the Buck exists. But if it does exist, he’s sure someone else has the Buck. Again, if there is a Buck.
Ms. Magazine sez : “Math is Hard!”
2011/07/16 at 3:50 pm (economy, stigmas)
Tags: Barbienomics, bird calls, deficit hens, Deficits are a Grrrl’s Best Friend, Grrrl, Math class is tough, math is hard, Ms Magazine, Susan F. Feiner
Apparently “feminist economist”, Susan F. Feiner isn’t all that woried about unprecedented, out-of-control ballooning debt. Mostly ‘cuz :
We can just print money to pay it all off! Hooray! In her own words :
There is absolutely no bookkeeping, accounting or arithmetic possibility that the U.S. could “run out of money.” How could we? “We, the people” control the availability of dollars! And that means our government can, during a crisis of unemployment, spend what it wants to spend. Any other fiscal policy will cause more unnecessary pain and suffering.
Besides, this hedge fund manager guy, Barton Biggs, has a plan on which all that borrowed money could be spent. A Barton is a smart guy, and is probably like totally cute, so she takes on faith that that will be AwesomeCool.
For more, read “Math is hard” story @ their website. It’s main argument involved bird sounds. Seriously. Caw caw. See for yourself.
It’s simple to be a Dr Who fan…
2011/04/27 at 8:12 am (fun, stigmas)
Tags: Chris Balcombe, Dalleks, Dr Who, Kate Middleton, Mmmm.... sammiches, Wedding of the Century
Really, you’re only task is to make Dallek-shaped objects of variours kinds.
Take this guy, for example.
exterminate! exterminate! exterminate!
From digital spy :
Chris Balcombe, 51, has spent one week decorating his Dalek to tie in with the occasion. The Doctor’s nemesis has been painted red, blue and white and is covered with Union Jack flags and photos of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Furthermore, Chris attached a mechanical grip to the Dalek so it can hold trays of food and drinks.
Disturbing Cake of the Day
2011/04/25 at 6:42 pm (foodz, odd, stigmas)
Tags: Cake, George Lucas, Storm Trooper, Toilet, Two Ply Marzipan
Steven Crowder’s take on Wonkette Überswine, and similar
2011/04/22 at 11:38 pm (politics, stigmas)
Tags: Jack Stuef, stigma, stigmas, wonkette
Wonkette attacks child with Downs Syndrome
2011/04/22 at 11:28 pm (culture, stigmas)
Tags: Jack Stuef, Ken Layne, stigma, stigmas, Trig Palin, wonkette
“Searching for Major Tom” – The Shat’s Upcoming Album!
2011/04/17 at 12:28 pm (music, stigmas)
Tags: Searching For Major Tom, star trek, The Shat, William Shatner
The list of covers has been announced on William Shatner’s official website. The songs that seem to hold the most promise:
- She Blinded Me With Science originally by Thomas Dolby – Bootsy Collins is on as the guest bassist. Patrick Moraz (ex Yes and Moody Blues) is guesting on keyboards/synth.
- Twilight Zone originally by Golden Earring – Warren Haynes (Gov’t Mule/Allman Brothers) is on guest guitar.
- Space Cowboy originally by Steve Miller – Country artist Brad Paisley has added guitar and vocals.
- Bohemian Rhapsody originally by Queen – John Wetton from Asia has played bass and done a vocal.
- Iron Man originally by Black Sabbath – Zakk Wylde (ex Ozzy guitarist) played guitar and did a vocal on this track.
Nooooo! Disaster of Biblical Proportions!!!
2011/04/14 at 4:46 pm (stigmas, weird news)
Tags: Apocalypse, Bill Murray, china, Disaster of Biblical Proportions, dogs and cats, Mass Hysteria, stigma
Zhou Yun, the cat’s owner, says she knew her furry friend was pregnant so she wasn’t surprised when she happened upon two kittens at the beginning of the month.
On closer inspection, however, she noticed that one of the babies was dead.
‘I then noticed the other kitten surprisingly looks like a dog,’ Zhou, who lives in Yangshan, in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, told reporters.
Zhou, who’s also the owner of a pet dog that likes to eat and sleep with its feline pal (hmm…), added: ‘Quite possibly the kitty is a mixed child’.
Review –
Hey! Someone still bothers to read Charles Johnson!
2011/04/11 at 5:36 pm (stigmas, weird news)
Tags: Charles Johnson, Little Green Footballs, The Diary of Daedalus
I stumbled on Diary of Daedalus while surfing. I guess someone is reading LGF on a regular basis, anyway. It became so tedious after the initial meltdown that I haven’t bothered much.
This is your Spock…
2011/04/04 at 2:00 pm (drinks, stigmas, television)
Tags: Kraken, Kraken Rum, spock, star trek
This is your Spock
This is your Spock on the Kraken
Wisconsin Unions Turn to Mob Tactics
2011/04/03 at 1:51 pm (politics, stigmas)
Tags: AFL-CIO, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, Scott Walker, sopranos, union goons, Wisconsin
Having lost their fight in the legislature, Wisconsin unions are now getting out the steel pipes for those who don’t step lively to their cause. A letter we’ve seen that was sent to businesses in southeastern Wisconsin shows that Big Labor’s latest strategy is to threaten small businesses with boycotts if they don’t publicly declare their support for government union monopoly power.
Dated March 28, 2011, the letter is addressed to “DEAR UNION GROVE AREA BUSINESS OWNER/MANAGER,” in Racine County. And it begins with this warm greeting: “It is unfortunate that you have chosen ‘not’ to support public workers rights in Wisconsin. In recent past weeks you have been offered a sign(s) by a public employee(s) who works in one of the state facilities in the Union Grove area. These signs simply said ‘This Business Supports Workers Rights,’ a simple, subtle and we feel non-controversial statement given the facts at this time.”
We doubt “subtle” is the word a business owner would use to describe this offer he is being told he can’t refuse.
The letter is signed by Jim Parrett, the “Field Rep.” for Council 24 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, which is the most powerful union in the AFL-CIO. The letter presents a litany of objections to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s changes to benefits and public union collective bargaining power, describing them as “things that make life working in a 24-7 facility tolerable.”
The missive concludes by noting that, “With that we’d ask that you reconsider taking a sign and stance to support public employees in this community. Failure to do so will leave us no choice but do [sic] a public boycott of your business. And sorry, neutral means ‘no’ to those who work for the largest employer in the area and are union members.”
So even businesses that stay neutral in the political battle are considered the enemy and will be punished. Charming stuff, and especially coming from a union that claims (wrongly) to be losing its constitutional rights. Free speech for others apparently isn’t all that important.
Read the rest, at the Wall Street Journal.
Censored by Facebook!
2011/02/02 at 1:29 am (stigmas, teh inturwebs)
Tags: Armstron and Getty, facebook, Gloria Allred, Gloria Allred's Cloven Hooves
OK, a fair cop, but society’s to blame.
Facebook message to yours truly
You find the oddest things on teh inturwebs
2011/01/31 at 8:12 pm (political correctness, politics, stigmas, teh inturwebs)
Tags: Barack Obama, coexist sticker, communist, muslim, Nazi, socialist
Like this image…
It kinda reminds me of this inanity :
… which of course, is about as sensible as :
Quote of the Day – Charles Sherrod
2010/07/26 at 8:39 am (politics, stigmas)
Tags: Charles Sherrod, obama media, quote of the day, Shirley Sherrod, stigma
“We Must Stop The White Man And His Uncle Toms From Stealing Our Elections”
An amusing review of WW II on the History Channel
2010/07/17 at 11:55 am (stigmas)
Tags: Dr Who, History Channel, World War II, WW II
I think the worst offender here is the History Channel and all their programs on the so-called “World War II”.
Let’s start with the bad guys. Battalions of stormtroopers dressed in all black, check. Secret police, check. Determination to brutally kill everyone who doesn’t look like them, check. Leader with a tiny villain mustache and a tendency to go into apopleptic rage when he doesn’t get his way, check. All this from a country that was ordinary, believable, and dare I say it sometimes even sympathetic in previous seasons.
I wouldn’t even mind the lack of originality if they weren’t so heavy-handed about it. Apparently we’re supposed to believe that in the middle of the war the Germans attacked their allies the Russians, starting an unwinnable conflict on two fronts, just to show how sneaky and untrustworthy they could be? And that they diverted all their resources to use in making ever bigger and scarier death camps, even in the middle of a huge war? Real people just aren’t that evil. And that’s not even counting the part where as soon as the plot requires it, they instantly forget about all the racism nonsense and become best buddies with the definitely non-Aryan Japanese.
Not that the good guys are much better. Their leader, Churchill, appeared in a grand total of one episode before, where he was a bumbling general who suffered an embarrassing defeat to the Ottomans of all people in the Battle of Gallipoli. Now, all of a sudden, he’s not only Prime Minister, he’s not only a brilliant military commander, he’s not only the greatest orator of the twentieth century who can convince the British to keep going against all odds, he’s also a natural wit who is able to pull out hilarious one-liners practically on demand. I know he’s supposed to be the hero, but it’s not realistic unless you keep the guy at least vaguely human.
So it’s pretty standard “shining amazing good guys who can do no wrong” versus “evil legions of darkness bent on torture and genocide” stuff, totally ignoring the nuances and realities of politics. The actual strategy of the war is barely any better. Just to give one example, in the Battle of the Bulge, a vastly larger force of Germans surround a small Allied battalion and demand they surrender or be killed. The Allied general sends back a single-word reply: “Nuts!”. The Germans attack, and, miraculously, the tiny Allied force holds them off long enough for reinforcements to arrive and turn the tide of battle. Whoever wrote this episode obviously had never been within a thousand miles of an actual military.
Actually, it seems they’ve become The Bigfoot Channel more than the Hitler Channel these days.
Guinea Pig Festival?! Forget Gilroy!
2010/04/10 at 3:47 pm (foodz, stigmas)
Tags: Churin peru, cuy
Who needs a garlic festival when you can attend a cuy festival? Forget the culinary stigma involved; this little guy might well be very tasty –
‘Sides, apparently, his death spared him of a life pf shame, dressed like a jackass –
(From the Guinea Pig Festival in Churin,Peru.)
Comedy Gold – citizen asks direct question, Obama answers with 17-minute brain dump
2010/04/03 at 1:10 pm (politics, stigmas)
Tags: Barack Hussein Obama, Bloviation, Bloviobama
Always fond of lists, Obama ticked off his approach to health care — twice. “Number one is that we are the only — we have been, up until last week, the only advanced country that allows 50 million of its citizens to not have any health insurance,” he said.
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Toward the end of a question-and-answer session with workers at an advanced battery technology manufacturer, a woman named Doris stood to ask the president whether it was a “wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care” package.
“We are overtaxed as it is,” Doris said bluntly.
Obama started out feisty. “Well, let’s talk about that, because this is an area where there’s been just a whole lot of misinformation, and I’m going to have to work hard over the next several months to clean up a lot of the misapprehensions that people have,” the president said.
He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze. His discursive answer — more than 2,500 words long — wandered from topic to topic, including commentary on the deficit, pay-as-you-go rules passed by Congress, Congressional Budget Office reports on Medicare waste, COBRA coverage, the Recovery Act and Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (he referred to this last item by its inside-the-Beltway name, “F-Map”). He talked about the notion of eliminating foreign aid (not worth it, he said). He invoked Warren Buffett, earmarks and the payroll tax that funds Medicare (referring to it, in fluent Washington lingo, as “FICA”).
Gadsden, revised.
2010/03/21 at 11:08 pm (american history, politics, stigmas)
Tags: Barack Hussein Gracchi, Barack Hussein Obama, deserved stigma, Gadsden flag, shame, stigma
Or, “That’s IT!”
This is the first election year in my life where I’ve understood it as being about punishing politicians. It hasn’t had to be. Now, it does.
Update – origin of this flag is … here?
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