A funy/disturbing Indian ripoff of "Thriller" which would be funny/disturbing even without Buffalax’s "translation":
A Tribute To Buffalax
If you’re looking for a good laugh, almost anything posted by "Buffalax" on Youtube makes me giggle.
What he (she?) does: he takes songs from Bollywood movies and adds subtitles. Not subtitles of actual translations, but subtitles of what it appears they are singing.
Enjoy:
Memo To The City Of Long Beach, California
Today is Veteran’s Day. Which is to say, today is the day we specifically set aside to honor the veterans. Regardless of how one feels about the Iraq War, or the Vietnam War, or even war in general, we set aside today to honor those men and women who put their lives on the line in service to their country.
In theory and principle — and occasionally in practice — those uniformed men and women do what they do to protect our freedoms. They separate themselves from family and friends to serve their country. Many of them come back without limbs, or without the same sense of sanity that they left. Many of them don’t come back at all.
As such, we don’t provide a litmus test to veterans. We don’t say, "We’ll honor you on Veteran’s Day, but only if you vote for Political Candidate X". We don’t say, "We’ll honor you for your service to our country, but only if you fought in X, Y or Z conflicts." And we certainly don’t say, "We honor you only if you forego your First Amendment rights, part of the parcel of rights you fought to protect."
So when I read that anti-Iraq War veterans were banned from your Veteran’s Day parade, I was stunned. Let me say this quite simply: Veteran’s Day parades are to honor the veterans — all veterans. If you were holding a Pro-Iraq War Parade, that is one thing — but this isn’t that. And for you to think that Veteran’s Day is synonymous with being pro-Iraq, you are grossly mistaken.
UPDATE: That goes for you, too, Denver.
CORRECTION: The anti-Iraq vets were allowed to march in the Denver parade after all (albeit at the very end of it). It seems that those who served understand:
Air Force veteran Jim Hill said the groups should be allowed to march in the parade.
"They put in their time, they lost their buddies too, their friends," he said.
Yup.
Credit Debt
I’ve been hearing and reading a lot lately about consumer debt and overbearing debt collection practices. It’s a serious problem. And bankruptcy laws, which were once there to protect the consumer in trouble (with its concept of "debt forgiveness") have been slowly altered over the years to make it much more difficult for consumers to get themselves back on their feet. So, I’m sympathetic to the general problem.
But I must say, that a lion’s share of the problem is attributable to consumers themselves. I mean, it’s one thing to, say, have a catastrophe happen and deplete your life savings on medical bills. However, it’s entirely different when your shopping habits exceed your wallet size. It’s incredible to me how some people simply have not learned this.
….which is all by way of leading to this great SNL skit on the issue about a revolutionary way to avoid excessive debt:
Shorter Mike Adams
Shorter Mike Adams: "The greatest civil rights leader in America wasn’t Martin Luther King, but a guy who invented a gun that can kill shitloads of deer."
Bremer Freed
Arthur Bremer, the guy who attempted to assassin — but only paralyzed — then-racist (now dead) presidential candidate George Wallace back in 1972, had been released from prison:
Under the conditions of his release, Bremer must stay away from any local, state, federal or foreign elected officials and any current candidates.
…but he he is otherwise free to stalk and kill anyone else he wants.
It’s a sure sign that you’re old when you can remember the crime and be around when the criminal gets released.
Crackdown in Georgia
Youtube has the video as it happened:
JC Penney Catalogue From 1977
You really should read the whole post:
Here’s how to get your ass kicked pretty much anywhere:
I’ll bet these guys do ok with the ladies. If you look at that picture quickly, it looks like Mr. Bob "No-pants" Saget has his hand in the other guy’s pocket. In this case, he doesn’t, although you can tell just by looking at them that it’s happened – or if it hasn’t happened it will. Oh yes. It will. As soon as he puts down his color-coordinated coffee cup.
King Tut: Butt Ugly
Although King Tut’s tomb was discovered 85 years ago, they didn’t get around to unraveling the mummy and seeing the Boy King until a few days ago.
Dude had a serious overbite.
Here’s the link to the King Tut Exhibition’s webpage.
Pat Robertson Endorses Rudy Guiliani
Rudy is running on 9/11. And he recently received an endorsement from Pat Robertson.
Recall that on 9/13/01, Pat and his buddy Jerry were saying that America "deserved" to be attacked. Watch it:
James Dobson’s Family Research Council, a religious conservative group with whom I never agree, actually asks a good question:
In an interview with Election Central, a top official at the Family Research Council, one of the most prominent religious-conservative groups in the country, suggested that Rudy’s acceptance of Robertson’s endorsement should make one wonder whether Rudy agrees with Robertson’s interpretation of the event that killed nearly 3,000 of Rudy’s constitutents and now forms the basis of his campaign.
"9/11 is what Rudy’s campaign is fundamentally based on," Charmaine Yoest, a vice president at Family Research Council Action, told us. "This does beg the question — does Rudy agree with Robertson’s comments about 9/11?"
Well, Rudy? The ball’s in your court….
Stars And Writers Of “The Office” Explain The Writers’ Strike
Sounds like they have a legitimate beef:
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UPDATE: Another video explains the strike…
Children’s Toys Laced With “Date Rape” Drug
Well, that can’t be a good thing:
U.S. safety officials have recalled about 4.2 million Chinese-made Aqua Dots bead toys that contain a chemical that has caused some children to vomit and become comatose after swallowing them.
Scientists have found the popular toy’s coating contains a chemical that, once metabolized, converts into the toxic "date rape" drug GHB, or gamma-hydroxy butyrate, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission spokesman Scott Wolfson told CNN.
"GHB is this drug that in low doses actually causes euphoria," said Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent. "In higher doses, it can cause people to go into a coma. It can cause seizures. It can cause something known as hypotonia, where all your muscles just become very flaccid.
"And it can cause people to become amnestic, meaning they forget everything that’s about to happen to them, which is why it became a date-rape drug," Gupta said.
"So this is nasty stuff, and it appears that the chemical is actually converting into it in the body."
At some point, someone has to ask how these chemicals get into toys in the first place. I mean, lead, I understand. It’s a component of paint. But GHB?
Don’t Pay Attention To Politics? Don’t Know Who You Favor?
The Smartselect website will ask you a series of questions relating to your views on various issues, as well as how strongly you feel about that issue (for example, you may be opposed to gun control, but you don’t care about that issue as strongly as you do, say, the Iraq War issue).
It then matches your positions with those of the candidates, both Republican and Democrat (even including the satire candidate, Steven Colbert).
Not surprisingly, I’m an Obama man, although I’m somewhat surprised that John Edwards scored comparatively low for me.
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1. | Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%) |
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2. | Barack Obama (89%)Information link |
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3. | Joseph Biden (85%)Information link |
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4. | Alan Augustson (campaign suspended) (84%)Information link |
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5. | Hillary Clinton (83%)Information link |
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6. | Wesley Clark (not running, endorsed Clinton) (83%)Information link |
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7. | Dennis Kucinich (82%)Information link |
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8. | Al Gore (not announced) (81%)Information link |
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9. | Christopher Dodd (78%)Information link |
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10. | Bill Richardson (76%)Information link |
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11. | John Edwards (76%)Information link |
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12. | Michael Bloomberg (says he will not run) (74%)Information link |
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13. | Mike Gravel (62%)Information link |
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14. | Ron Paul (52%)Information link |
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15. | Kent McManigal (campaign suspended) (48%)Information link |
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16. | Elaine Brown (44%)Information link |
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17. | Mike Huckabee (37%)Information link |
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18. | John McCain (36%)Information link |
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19. | Tommy Thompson (withdrawn, endorsed Giuliani) (32%)Information link |
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20. | Rudolph Giuliani (31%)Information link |
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21. | Newt Gingrich (says he will not run) (26%)Information link |
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22. | Chuck Hagel (not running) (25%)Information link |
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23. | Mitt Romney (24%)Information link |
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24. | Alan Keyes (24%)Information link |
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25. | Sam Brownback (withdrawn, endorsed McCain) (21%)Information link |
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26. | Fred Thompson (20%)Information link |
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27. | Tom Tancredo (15%)Information link |
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28. | Jim Gilmore (withdrawn) (9%)Information link |
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29. | Stephen Colbert (campaign ended) (8%)Information link |
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30. | Duncan Hunter (8%)Information link |
Have at it….
The Golden Wingnut Award
Over at The Washington Monthly, A-list blogger Kevin Drum has been holding tallying the votes for the Golden Wingnut Award, an award he just made up for the wingnuttiest blog post ever.
The winner by a substantial margin was John Hinderaker of The Corner for his July 28, 2005 masterpiece containing these words of unforgettable wingnuttery:
It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile….
Other nominees and the final vote tally are as follows:
By the way, there are legitimate blog awards going on right now. Even if you don’t want to vote, the nominee lists are good for finding blogs in areas that interest you.
RELATED: They may be on strike, but that doesn’t stop Hollywood writers from blogging about the strike.