Bizarre. Not sure if it’s a Druid thing, or somehow related to the cartoon show “Kids Next Door”, where they rely on 2 by 4 technology.
Category: Weird
And the Winner in the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Category………
This is just whack. These guys are impersonating an officer because it’s convenient.
Your Republican morality at a glance: Laws for the but nor for me.
Romney aide’s bogus badges: Sources detail ‘illegal’ security tactic
By Casey Ross/ Exclusive
Boston Herald Reporter
Friday, July 20, 2007 – Updated: 12:21 PM ESTIn an apparent violation of the law, a controversial aide to ex-Gov. Mitt Romney created phony law enforcement badges that he and other staffers used on the campaign trail to strong-arm reporters, avoid paying tolls and trick security guards into giving them immediate access to campaign venues, sources told the Herald.
The bogus badges were part of the bizarre security tactics allegedly employed by Jay Garrity, the director of operations for Romney who is under investigation for impersonating a law enforcement officer in two states. Garrity is on a leave of absence from the campaign while the probe is ongoing.A campaign source said Garrity directed underlings on Romney’s presidential staff to use the badges at events nationwide to create an image of security and to ensure that the governor’s events went smoothly.
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It Isn’t Just Bush Who Will Be Getting it Up the Butt
It will be the whole country.
Cheney to be in charge during Bush colonoscopy.
Be Afraid, be very, very afraid.
What the Frack?
So, I’m at work today, and unbidden, the song Kiss Me Deadly by (quick Google….Ohhhh!!! the 1955 Mike Hammer Movie sounds like neat film noir) Lita Ford.
Not a song I like particularly, but songs I don’t like spring into my head unbidden all the time (quick, try to not have It’s a Small World going through your head).
I didn’t think much of it, and tried to occupy myself otherwise.
About 6 hours later, I’m driving home, and Colin “The most overrated man in America” Powell comes on NPR. Not wanting to listen to his self-serving, hypocritical bulls#$@, I changed to music.
There the song was, one that I had not thought about in 10 years.
Synchronicity, I guess.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Bar Fight Edition
Well, here’s something you don’t see every day. the Seattle Chief of police breaking up a fight outside a bar between two guys, one of whom was wearing an Eagle suit.
It appears that a man dressed as a beaver looked on.
My guess is that he was somehow involved. After all, this is neither the first, nor the last bar fight over some beaver.
I Want These Mutha F$#@ing Snakes Off My Mutha F$#@ing F-16!
It appears that a Dutch F-16 Pilot died as a result of a poisonous bite while flying at 32,000 feet.
As the old saying goes, “All skill is in vain when an angel pees down the barrel of your rifle”.
Bummer.
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Badgers!
British troops are being blamed for a plague of “honey badgers” melivora capensis in Basra.
“They are native to the region but rare in Iraq. They’re nocturnal carnivores with a fearsome reputation, but they don’t stalk humans and carry them back to their lair.”
The occupation of Iraq has just entered the twilight zone.
Points for Honesty?
I’m not sure if Daniel Ellis was being honest, or just thought he had a good way to get out of jury duty when he called himself a racist, homophobic liar.
Kind of a no win situation.
In either case, he spent some time cooling his heels in jail.
OOPS!!! I Did It Again
Remember themoron who went ballooning in his lawn chair?
He’s at it again. This time it was 193 miles, and he ignored flight regulations again.
Now They Want My Poop
Every workplace has it own quirks, where I am now, this is a fairly high volume of company spam email.
While one expects things like the occasional notice of a blood drive or a United Way Campaign, one gets 2-10 emails here a day that are sent to the whole place.
These are things like:
- Equipment that they want to give away for someone to take home.
- Equipment that they want to give to another lab.
- Petty cash status
- Sales pitches for the health club they have in the basement.
- Sales pitches for massages available through said health club.
- Requesting volunteers to provide samples for testing to validate processes.
This time, it’s gone a bit odd. They are offering $20.00 for a stool sample.
It’s just a very odd thing to see first thing Monday Morning.
In any case, they get nothing from me. I must protect my purity of essence.
That’s Not an Obituary, THIS is an Obituary
George W. Bush won’t get as positive an obituary.
Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.
The great-great-grandson of Prince Otto, Germany’s Iron Chancellor and architect of the modern German state, the young von Bismarck showed early promise as a brilliant scholar, but led an exotic life of gilded aimlessness that attracted the attention of the gossip columns from the moment he arrived in Oxford in 1983 and hosted a dinner at which the severed heads of two pigs were placed at either end of the table.
When not clad in the lederhosen of his homeland, he cultivated an air of sophisticated complexity by appearing in women’s clothes, set off by lipstick and fishnet stockings. This aura of dangerous “glamour” charmed a large circle of friends and acquaintances drawn from the jeunesse dorée of the age; many of them knew him at Oxford, where he made friends such as Darius Guppy and Viscount Althorp and became an enthusiastic, rubber-clad member of the Piers Gaveston Society and the drink-fuelled Bullingdon and Loders clubs.
Perhaps unsurprisingly he managed only a Third in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
Von Bismarck’s university career ended in catastrophe in June 1986, when his friend Olivia Channon was found dead on his bed, the victim of a drink and drugs overdose. Von Bismarck admitted that his role in the affair had brought disgrace on the family name; five years later he told friends that there were still people who would not speak to his parents on account of it, and who told his mother that she had “a rotten son”.
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A Moooooving Experience
Sorry for the pun.
OK, not sorry for the pun.
Police hunt renegade cow sex youth
By Lester Haines
Published Friday 6th July 2007 08:29 GMTWarning: no IT angle North Yorkshire police are on a state of high alert after a youth was spotted coupling with an English longhorn cow at a specialist breeder’s farm in Skipwith, The Sun reports.
The lad was clocked at 4.30am, dressed only in black briefs, by a “shocked” passer-by who interruped proceedings by shouting at the nocturnal bovine botherer. A 999 call alerted the authorities, but when officers arrived at the scene, the perp had made good his escape.
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Maybe it’s a Yorkshire thing.
Danes tout flamethrower-packing robot ‘farmworker’ | The Register
This is not a farm impliment. It’s the non-nuclear alternative to neighborhood nuclear superiority.
Watch the vid, it’s funny as hell, and proof that Nesmith is a genius.
Danes tout flamethrower-packing robot ‘farmworker’
By Lewis Page
Published Thursday 5th July 2007 13:50 GMTDanish agro-boffins have developed a robot which appears at first sight to be a welcome diversion from the ongoing parade of deadly military slaughter machines.
“Hortibot“, brainchild of Scandinavian scientists led by Dr Rasmus Nyholm Jørgensen of Aarhus University, is supposedly a peaceful robot farmworker. It uses GPS to navigate itself around the fields, mowing, spraying, or doing other tiresome tasks while the human landowners fill in the subsidy forms.
Hortibot can even do the weeding, and not simply by spraying chemicals about. The Daily News of Ludington, Michigan, got the story when one of the Danish designers visited the States.
“Currently, the robot can identify approximately 25 different kinds of weeds,” according to the Michigan newshounds.
“Hortibot has a variety of weed-removing attachments and methods. It can manually pick weeds,” apparently.
This is good news indeed; at last, a faithful robot pal intended to toil away for the benefit of humanity rather than spying on people or eliminating them in an apocalyptic mechanised bloodbath.
But such foolish dreams of amity and between man and machine were swiftly unsettled. It seems that Hortibot also has other, more robust capabilities as well as its weed-picking apparatus. The agro-droid can also target its adversaries with “flames, or a laser”.
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“The labour problem will bring this in, when the government gets done with their immigration laws,” Schwass reportedly commented. He was no doubt referring to the US Border Patrol’s plan to install Eye-of-Sauron style scanner towers along the Mexican border in order to stand off the terrorists and huddled masses.
Ummmm….I Got Nothing Here.
This is too weird for me to comment on. I’m left speechless.
Chinese women crave Bill Gates’ spermGive me a baby, big fella
By Lester Haines → More by this author
Published Wednesday 4th July 2007 08:50 GMT
Mobile computing: Opportunities and risk – Free whitepaperThere’s some good news this morning for Bill Gates: if he ever finds himself fallen on hard times he can always make a few quid offloading his sperm on eager Chinese female recipients.
That’s if China’s Self magazine is to be believed, because the IT potentate secured second spot in a poll which asked 1,000 women from 15 cities whose precious bodily fluid they’d most like to accommodate for some hot baby-making action.
Indeed, so sought-after is Bill’s magic water that he beat Becks and Brad Pitt into fifth and tenth places, respectively. The ideal sperm donor was not, however, George Clooney or Larry Ellison, but Hong Kong entertainer Andy Lau.
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Under Achiever, and Proud of It
I just want to say that Matt Groening is a bloody genius.
7-Elevens turn into ‘Simpsons’ Kwik-E-Marts
DALLAS, Texas (AP)– Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of “The Simpsons” fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art.Those stores and most of the 6,000-plus other 7-Elevens in North America will sell items that until now existed only on television: Buzz Cola, KrustyO’s cereal and Squishees, the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees.
It’s all part of a campaign to hype the July 27 opening of “The Simpsons Movie,” the big-screen debut for the long-running television cartoon, which loves to lampoon 7-Eleven as a store that sells all kinds of unhealthy snacks and is run by a man with a thick Indian accent.
For 20th Century Fox Film Corp. and Homer’s creators at Gracie Films, the stunt is a cheap way to call attention to their movie, since 7-Eleven is bearing all the costs, which executives of the retail chain put at somewhere in the single millions.
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Bambi, Don’t Bogart that Joint!
In related news, 12 deer have been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a Quik-E-Mart and stealing 3200 ice cream sammiches. Authorities followed the path of discarded wrappers to catch the alleged thieves.
‘Unusually frisky’ deer blow lid on marijuana plantation
By Lester Haines
Published Monday 2nd July 2007 13:35 GMTItalian police busted two would-be marijuana cultivators after “unusually frisky” deer alerted the authorities as to the presence of their mountaintop dope plantation, UPI reports.
Locals in Trento began telling tales of the abnormally high-spirited animals, while forest rangers began to wonder why the normally shy and straight-laced cervine population was letting it all hang out by day and “making great leaps on the mountainside”.
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Rubber Ducky, You’re the one.
Cool.
Thousands of rubber ducks to land on British shores after 15 year journey
Thousands of rubber ducks to land on British shores after 15 year journey
By BEN CLERKIN – More by this author » Last updated at 22:00pm on 27th June 2007Comments Comments (9)
They were toys destined only to bob up and down in nothing bigger than a child’s bath – but so far they have floated halfway around the world.The armada of 29,000 plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs broke free from a cargo ship 15 years ago.
Since then they have travelled 17,000 miles, floating over the site where the Titanic sank, landing in Hawaii and even spending years frozen in an Arctic ice pack.
And now they are heading straight for Britain. At some point this summer they are expected to be spotted on beaches in South-West England.
While the ducks are undoubtedly a loss to the bath-time fun of thousands of children, their adventures at sea have proved an innvaluable aid to science”
The toys have helped researchers to chart the great ocean currents because when they are spotted bobbing on the waves they are much more likely to be reported to the authorities than the floats which scientists normally use.
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Amazing LEGO Aircraft Carrier
For the Record, I’ve Never Been THIS Drunk
Damn, that’s the 2nd drunkest that I’ve ever heard of.
Man mistakes straw bale for stricken woman, gives it CPR
By Daniel Brownstein
A Hilton Head Island man confused bales of pine straw with a dead woman, and tried to resuscitate them early Tuesday morning, according to a sheriff’s report.
The 39-year-old called deputies to the parking lot of Hilton Head Cabanas, 32 South Forest Beach Drive, at 1:49 a.m., saying he had just tried to perform CPR on a dead woman, according to the sheriff’s report.
They arrived to find him talking to a large bale of pine straw.
When asked where the woman was, he pointed to the straw, the report stated.
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You’ve GOT to Be Kidding Me!!!!
6 Months late on this breaking story, but at least he’s not singing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
Shatner Sells Kidney Stone
Star Trek star William Shatner sold a kidney stone to an online casino for $25,000 to benefit charity, the Reuters news service reported.Shatner, who played Capt. James T. Kirk, sold the stone to GoldenPalace.com, and proceeds of the sale will go to Habitat for Humanity.
Shatner told Reuters that it wasn’t easy parting with a kidney stone, even if it had already left his body. He also said he would never sell unless he had visitation rights. “When I was contacted about selling my kidney stone to GoldenPalace.com for an original price of $15,000, I turned it down, knowing that my tunics from Star Trek have commanded more than $100,000,” Shatner said, adding that he countered by offering to sell the ring-sized stone for $25,000.
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