Stolen from Curmudgeonly & Skeptical.

Folks who know me alternate between calling me a 'Grumpy Old Bastard' and a 'Curmudgeon'.
Dammit! I am none of the above!
A.) Go to musicoutfitters.com.So, go ahead and read them until you get bored.
B.) Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function at the upper left and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year.
C.) Bold the songs you liked,strike throughthe ones you hated underline your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don’t remember (or don’t care about).
From CNN:
2004: The 10 most dangerous jobs by fatality rate are:
Rank | Occupation | Death rate/100,000 | Total deaths |
1 | Logging workers | 92.4 | 85 |
2 | Aircraft pilots | 92.4 | 109 |
3 | Fishers and fishing workers | 86.4 | 38 |
4 | Structural iron and steel workers | 47.0 | 31 |
5 | Refuse and recyclable material collectors | 43.2 | 35 |
6 | Farmers and ranchers | 37.5 | 307 |
7 | Roofers | 34.9 | 94 |
8 | Electrical power line installers/repairers | 30.0 | 36 |
9 | Driver/sales workers and truck drivers | 27.6 | 905 |
10 | Taxi drivers and chauffeurs | 24.2 | 67 |
Military Chaplain Charged in Sex Assaults:First priests and little boys, now a catholic chaplain?
By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer Tue Aug 30,11:36 PM ET
WASHINGTON - The Army is investigating a Roman Catholic military chaplain on multiple charges of forcible sodomy and assault.
Capt. Gregory Arflack was suspended both by the Army and his dioceses pending the results of the investigation.
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National Guard: Enough GIs for Storm Duty:Yup. The liberal media has already jumped on that shit like Michael Moore-on jumping on a large stuffed-crust Pizza Hut pizza with everything, double sausage and extra cheese if you don't mind too, please.
"Some 6,000 National Guard personnel in Louisiana and Mississippi who would be available to help deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are in Iraq, highlighting the changing role of America's part-time soldiers."
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"That travel by modification scraggly"How stupid are they to think a subject like this will entice anyone?
Che's family plans to fight use of famed photoThe guy was an asshole, but for some reason, people with no clue proudly wear his picture on their T-shirt, buy a poster, whatever.
HAVANA (Reuters) - With his picture on rock band posters, baseball caps and women's lingerie, Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara is firmly entrenched in the capitalist consumer society that he died fighting to overturn.
The image of the Argentine-born guerrilla gazing sternly into the distance, long-hair tucked into a beret with a single star, has been an enduring 20th century pop icon.
"her try be panicky exclusively"Afraid I can't come up with anything for this one either.
London Zoo unveiled a new exhibition -- eight humans prowling around wearing little more than fig leaves to cover their modesty.What a bunch of idiots.The 'Human Zoo' is intended to show the basic nature of human beings as they frolick throughout the August bank holiday weekend.
19TH AMENDMENT ADOPTEDThen it went to hell...
August 26, 1920
The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution by proclamation of Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
'We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," he said on his "The 700 Club" television program.'Now he's saying that by "take him out", he didn't mean have him assasinated.
"And find it brilliantine dodder"brilliantine dodder - Is that some sort of precious gem?
Hired lawyers because little Betty didn't make the cut? Christ. What fuckheads.High Schools Address the Cruelest Cut
"Olsson, a sophomore, wanted desperately to make the junior varsity, but he also wanted justification for a long list of sacrifices. His family had rearranged a trip to Sweden so he could participate in a preparatory soccer camp; he'd crawled out of bed at 5:30 a.m. for two weeks of camp and tryouts and forced down Raisin Bran; he'd sweated off five pounds and pulled his hamstring.
Finally, a coach walked by holding a list, and Olsson followed him into the high school. He walked back out two minutes later, his hands shoved deep into his pockets and his eyes locked on the ground.
'It felt,' he said later, 'like a punch in the stomach.'
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For the first time this season, Severna Park Athletic Director Wayne Mook required his coaches to record running times and player evaluation grades, then hand in that paperwork to him. It is an arduous process that many coaches find tiresome, but Mook instituted it for a reason: After a player was cut from the girls' lacrosse team last spring, the family hired lawyers to meet with the school."
From Yahoo! News:What happened, a flat tire?
"The U.S. Coast Guard searched on Monday for 31 Cubans migrants missing at sea for almost a week after their boat capsized between Cuba and Florida."
Saddam says he'd sacrifice his life for Arab cause - Yahoo! News:I would love to be able to sell tickets to the line of people who would like to take a shot at him.
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has said in a letter he would sacrifice himself for Arab nationalism and to end foreign occupation.
Future perfect: how to be a 'real' man againCV? Someone is going to have to tell me what that means. Nevertheless, let's take a closer look here.
Women rule says Michael Buerk, and feminism is triumphant at home, at work, even in TV ads. The woman who coined the word 'metrosexual' explains how men can reclaim their masculinity, and we publish an extract from her new book
WHO’D be one of you, eh chaps? Let’s be honest, your CV these days is hardly enviable.
Ultimately men will learn that their future is not about control as it has been in the past, it is about co- operation.
Outperformed by girls at school, emasculated by women at home and at work, shockingly dislocated from your emotions and the hapless joke figure in endless TV commercials and sitcoms whose message is that females rule and men are fools.Outperformed by girls at school? Sure. There were a couple girls that kicked my ass at the brainpower stuff sometimes. Other times, I kicked theirs.
Well wise up, because apparently it’s time to say enough is enough; the ridicule of men must stop. The pendulum of power has swung too far into the female corner and you must stand up and assert your right to masculinity. Stop apologising for it, be comfortable with it, but while you’re at it try to embrace a few female traits such as compromise, communication and learning to multitask.Reverse feminism all of a sudden?
It is called M-ness and it is The Future of Men — at least according to one particular woman who has written a book with just this title. Marian Salzman, with her co- authors Ira Matathia and Ann O’Reilly, is the American trendspotter who coined the term “meterosexual” to describe a certain breed of straight, sensitive, modern men who see nothing wrong with exfoliating and going to see a weepy film. Now she has come up with another concept to which all males must apparently subscribe if they wish to reclaim “their space, their sense of worth and even themselves”.So another idiot, who has nothing better to do than think she 'knows' men, needs to come up with another tag after 'Metrosexual': M-ness. Kack.
Indeed, she believes the revolution is already under way and that this is the “dawning of the Age of M-ness”.
[...]Oh really? Women want 'real men' back?
It is not just men who are fed up with male-bashing. Research shows that women, too, want men to assert themselves as confident, vital, masculine partners. They want “real” men back. But because we will never return to 1950s patriarchy — the genie cannot be put back in the bottle, thank God — men must redefine masculinity to accommodate who they are today. They must find, says Salzman, their own personal version of manliness.
“What has happened to men over the past 30 or so years is that they have moved from defining the world . . . to having their world defined by women,” says Salzman, 45. “Men have been the butt of the joke for too long. TV is the snapshot of our everyday lives . . . there are men making jokes about men, women making jokes about men but not men making jokes about women because that would be politically incorrect.Way too true. Can't have this sexism. Especially in the workplace. You'll get fired.
Michael Buerk, the veteran BBC newsreader, echoes these sentiments in the current issue of the Radio Times. He asserts that life is now lived according to women’s rules, that traditional male traits of “reticence, stoicism and single-mindedness” have been marginalised, that men have been reduced to little more than “sperm donors”.Gawddammit! There we go with teevee again! Teevee is NOT reality! It is a business. A big one at that.
The TV programme Queer Eye for the Straight Guy emblemises the problem.
“It is basically saying that no straight man knows how to dress himself,” says Salzman. “So at the top you have women and the next most refined individual after that is a gay man — and at the bottom of the pecking order you have a straight man.
“What needs to happen is that the genders need to move closer together, not necessarily to be like each other but to respect each other . . . not be threatened by each other and achieve proper mutuality.
M-ness (also known as my-ness) is defined thus: a masculinity that defines the best of traditional manliness (strength, honour, character) with positive traits traditionally associated with females (nurturance, communicativeness, co-operation). A lifestyle that emphasises higher-quality emotional and physical pleasures, male pleasures, that come from knowing oneself and one’s potential.The dumb shit goes on to talk about how Bill Clinton got points for apologizing and being sensitive, and how and Arnold Schwarzenegger married a democrat, blah blah blah. All that shit. We skip that part.
Salzman’s point is that you can have M-ness whether you are a happily married house-husband or a 45-year-old serial dater, a physician or a soccer coach. You must do whatever makes you happy, gives you self-respect and makes you feel whole while respecting the other gender’s right to the same. But you must be multidimensional. You must love your family, have male friends to whom you are not afraid to show affection, have one or two hobbies.Typical euphorical liberal bullshit. We must not be afraid to show emotion. We can all live hapily together. Hug a tree and sing Kumba-ya. Whatever.
“We need to move to a place where each gender can co-exist mutually and happily,” says Salzman. “There is no society that we can learn from on this — we have never had that kind of equality.”
1921 Gene Roddenberry bornOh. And Charlie's Angels ended today in 1981 too.
TV producer Gene Roddenberry, best known as the creator of Star Trek, is born in El Paso, Texas. His family moved to Los Angeles when Roddenberry was a toddler, and his father became a police officer. Roddenberry also studied criminal justice at Los Angeles City College but became a pilot instead through the Civilian Pilot Training Program. During World War II, Roddenberry flew bombing missions in the South Pacific with the U.S. Army Air Corps. Shot down during a raid, he survived and won a medal. A second crash, when he was working as a Pan Am pilot after the war, killed 14 people and convinced Roddenberry to give up flying.
Instead, Roddenberry became a police officer like his father. But before long, he discovered that living the police life paid less than writing about it for TV, so he began writing scripts for Dragnet and other police TV dramas. In 1963, he produced a short-lived NBC show, The Lieutenant, about life in the U.S. Marines.
A lifelong science-fiction fan, Roddenberry wanted to try his hand making a sci-fi TV program. He convinced superstar Lucille Ball to fund a pilot. Although the first pilot was rejected, a second take was picked up, and Star Trek premiered in 1966.
Although the show ran for only three years and never placed better than No. 52 in the ratings, Roddenberry's sci-fi series became a cult classic and spawned four television series and nine movies.
Roddenberry died on October 24, 1991, and was one of the first people to be 'buried' in space.
"The older I get, the better I used to be"Ain't it the truth.
[...]Do yourself a favor and go read the whole thing.
Imagine if you had told someone in Jan 2003 the following:"By August 2005, not only will the regime have been removed from power and its leaders be on trial, but Iraq will have held successful elections and be on the verge of approving a new constitution. Fewer than 2,000 American soldiers will have been killed by hostile fire, and resistance will be light, scattered and very unpopular among Iraqis."You'd have been called delusionally optimistic. Now that situation is cause for despair. Of course, it doesn’t help we have certain Americans producing the same kind of anti-American propaganda the Tojo regime and the Nazis used to produce to demoralize Americans. And of course the institutions that produced the pro-American World War II propaganda (you know, the cute patriotic little toons of Mickey Mouse beating up Hitler, etc) were a terrible danger to our freedom (those warmongering fascist bastard cartoonists) and are now very defunct, because we’re much too enlightened for that kind of jingoism these days.
The good news for Iraqis is that Bush will be in office for 3 more years, and he’s not going to give an inch even if his approval rating drops to single digits. By then the Iraqis should have the situation pretty well under control, or at least as under control as it’s ever going to get.
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"Of spell by cancel treadmill"Well, since I never use a treadmill,I don't have to worry about being cancelled.
Smoking restriction approved 08/11/05I know, this is old news. But it just keeps getting stupider and stupider.
"Smokers beware: Puffing within 25 feet of the door of a publicly used building, a park or in other public spaces could cost you $500 or a year in prison."
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"You can smoke -- with limitations. You can drink -- with limitations. You just can't go wild," said Councilwoman Lorri Burgess...
Madonna discharged from hospital after fall from horse:This begs for a different headline: "Madonna Falls From High Horse"
US pop diva Madonna was discharged from hospital where she had been treated for injuries suffered in a horse riding accident in southwest England, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Va. Laptop Sale Turns Into a Stampede:Ya' know - Come on people. A four year old laptop, used, and you rush in like Michael Moore-on after that last slice of pizza, willing to stomp the hell out of anyone in your way, or get the shit stomped out of yourself? Reality check here.
A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line.
'This is total, total chaos,' said Latoya Jones, 19, who lost one of her flip-flops in the ordeal and later limped around on the sizzling blacktop with one foot bare.
An estimated 5,500 people turned out at the Richmond International Raceway in hopes of getting their hands on one of the 4-year-old Apple iBooks. The Henrico County school system was selling 1,000 of the computers to county residents. New iBooks cost between $999 and $1,299.
Exactly. And personally, I'm embarrased for the stupid bitch. One of these days, she'll wake up and realize she isn't everything in this world, and her son died doing exactly what he should have been doing."My only question is... why is this lunatic woman getting the publicity she's receiving? It couldn't be left-wing media, could it? We know from listening to Al Franken that no such thing exists.
I wasn't alive at the time, but I heard my parents speak of it many times. During WWII, a lot of boys from Harlan County, Kentucky, enlisted in the military and went off to fight the Germans or the Japanese. Back then, there was one road in and one road out of Harlan.
Every time a government car came down the road, people watched anxiously from their windows to see where it was going to stop to deliver the message that nobody wanted to hear. It was always a house with a star in the window.
The mother wept, and people came over to deliver food and offer any help she might need. The minister came by to pray for her and ease her pain as best he could.
But NOBODY stood in a fucking ditch and blamed Franklin Roosevelt for "killing" her son. And if anybody HAD done such a thing, nobody would have paid any attention, or they would have dragged them off and shot 'em.
That woman didn't have the only son ever killed in a war. She's just got a really big mouth."
You lost your son, now you've lost your husband.Husband of 'Peace Mom' Files for Divorce
The husband of Cindy Sheehan, the mother camped outside
President Bush's Texas ranch to protest the death of a son in the
Iraq war, has filed for divorce, according to court documents.
Patrick Sheehan filed the divorce petition Friday in Solano County court, northeast of San Francisco. His lawyer did not immediately return a call seeking comment Monday.
1977 Elvis Presley diesWell, like him or not. I'll give him this - he is a legend.
Elvis Presley is found dead at Graceland, his mansion in Memphis. While congestive heart failure was cited as the official cause of death, drug abuse was suspected as a contributing factor.
France nabs gun-toting pensionerWhat's a frenchman doing with a gun? Do they even know how to use one other than to tie a white flag on the end?
An 81-year-old Frenchman has been given a one-year suspended jail sentence for firing a hunting rifle at helicopters dropping water on a forest blaze.
David Thiel opened fire on 21 July when the low-flying helicopters disturbed his afternoon nap near Grasse in the south of France, court sources said.
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The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 5)The soldiers in Iraq don't have that luxury, but nevertheless...
-- a message from Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
Today started at 4am when the rain started blowing into my tent and my head and my feet started getting soaked then thunder and lightening came over my tent. I was really frightened for my life, so I abandoned ship and went into Crawford.
By the time we made our way through the floods and got into Crawford, I had a fever, sore throat, and bad headache. So I was made to rest and not have any interviews until noon.Bummer. She had to take it easy and not exploit herself for a while.
We had a little bit of trouble with locals today.Again, like our soldiers.
We are beginning to feel a little unwelcome here. One lady almost ran over a television crew.I hope she has better aim next time.
She screamed at us that the neighbors are really mad ...so we moved down the road to our closest neighbor who is very sweet. Her husband is a medic who just got home from Iraq.I hope she pays attention to this guy a little.
Again, I did tons of interviews. It looks like I will be on the cover of People Magazine. Time Magazine, Vanity Fair and Oprah's magazine will be interviewing me also.Cough...attention whore...cough.
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As for Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin, Matt Drudge, etc...nothing you can say can hurt me or make me stop what we are doing. We are working for peace with justice. We are using peaceful means and the truth to do it.Truth? You can't handle the truth!!! (Yes, I stole that line.)
I guess the truth frightens people. It frightens them so much, they have to resort to telling lies to rebut my arguments.Unlike Michael Moore-on.
They are despicable human beings and not even worth our concern. Bill O'Reilly had the nerve to invite me on his show again today.Oh, so you'll only appear for hand-picked interviews. Heaven forbid you have an interview with someone who may contradict you. So fucking typical I can't fucking stand it!!
Thanks for your anger mixed with empathy. Her pain is something I avoided commenting on since learning of hypocrisy, yet her prior words reverberate.
And, I believe that the proverbial “long run” the most important. I trust she will eventually recognize that she is in a stage of anger. And, that others are using her to place her on another, more crass, stage that she will regret being in the front of.
Or not, because losing my son is more than I can imagine to imagine.
Well put.
She is being exploited by these self-serving assholes and I don't think she even realizes it.
The only reason she has their support is so they can continue to point out how many things Bush is doing wrong.
What if there was some protesting going on about how many people were slaughtered in Iraq or how many are currently being beaten, starved to death or otherwisemistreated in North Korea.
Say protesters were pointing out how we should be executing those tyrant leaders. There would be no teevee coverage, no fat bastards making "documentaries", and no magazines wanting interviews.
Kaaaack! Spit!
Get off my fucking grass you god damn kids!!!
"You allure the beautiful and sexual woman as if by magic!"Yup. Always have!
I could only add a couple "fuckhead" 's in there somewhere.Q: Why did grieving Mom Cindy Sheehan cross the road?
A: To catch Michael Moore a chicken, so that the slovenly propagandist could deep fry the thing in pancake batter and lard, then eat it with a pound of potato salad and a tray of buttered Hawaiian-styled sweet rolls. The fat, opportunistic bastard.*
Runaway Bride Mows Lawn As Part of ServiceCoupla thoughts here:
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - Instead of cutting out of town, runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks is cutting lawns.
Wearing an orange community service vest and a baseball cap with the slogan 'Life is good,' Wilbanks did part of her court-ordered community service Tuesday for lying to police after she ran off days before her wedding.
1969 The Manson cult strikes the rich and famous
Five people are killed in film director Roman Polanski's home in Hollywood, California, including Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, by a members of a cult. Less than two days later, they struck again, killing Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in their home. At both scenes, the killers scrawled messages in blood on the walls. The city of Los Angeles was in a state of panic until the leader of the cult, Charles Manson, was identified and arrested.
Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a young soldier killed in Iraq in 2004, protested outside the Bush ranch with a group of protesters demanding to speak to President Bush.Go there and read the rest, but here's a spoiler:
Supported by more than 50 shouting demonstrators, Cindy Sheehan, 48, told reporters, 'I want to ask George Bush: Why did my son die?'Why did her son die? She honestly claims not to know why her son was killed in Iraq?
"If you want to know why your son is dead, look in the mirror. He is dead because you raised him right, in spite of your behavior now."
Americans didn't flock to Canada after Bush winGASP!!! What? Surely you jest.
Canadians can put away those extra welcome mats -- it seems Americans unhappy about the result of last November's presidential election have decided to stay at home after all.
In the days after President Bush won a second term, the number of U.S. citizens visiting Canada's main immigration Web site shot up sixfold, prompting speculation that unhappy Democrats would flock north.
But official statistics show the number of Americans actually applying to live permanently in Canada fell in the six months after the election.
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Toby Condliffe, who heads the Canadian chapter of Democrats Abroad, did have an explanation of sorts.Yup. That's it. Cold temps and no hockey.
"I can only assume the Americans who checked out the Web site subsequently checked out our winter temperatures and further took note that the National Hockey League was being locked out and had second thoughts," he told Reuters.
What happened to those celebrities who had said they'd flee the country? The London Times' Jack Malvern attempted to track them down a few days after Bush's inauguration on 20 January 2001. Alec Baldwin was sticking to his previous denial:Yeah, with a quickness.Alec [Baldwin] was busy denying everything. "My wife never heard of Focus magazine and never talked to them," he told the New York Daily News on August 19. Then, on August 20: "Kim [Basinger] did indeed speak to a Focus magazine . . . but my wife and I never said unequivocally that we would leave the country if Bush won. Never."Robert Altman, who had since re-interpreted his previous remarks, was disinclined to offer further comment:Second up the gangplank was the film director Robert Altman, the man behind such films as Short Cuts and The Player. "If George Bush gets elected President, I will move back to France," he told reporters at the Cannes film festival. "He's not a very smart man. He's been put up by his father and a bunch of cronies." Despite the fact that this statement was caught on film, Altman later denied making it. He meant to say, he said, that he would move to Paris, Texas, "because the state would be better off if [Bush] is out of it".When contacted for this article, Altman was no longer inclined to discuss the matter. "Isn't this all getting a little silly?" he asked.
And Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder was disappointed with the election results, but apparently not disappointed enough to make good on his boast:So far Eddie [Vedder] has only got as far as Hawaii, where, his spokesman explains, he is commiserating by "catching a wave". "He won't be leaving the US but he is extremely disappointed," says Matt Reynolds of Epic RecordsPierre Salinger, at least, reportedly stuck to his guns:In fact, the only person who has made good on his promise is Pierre Salinger, former press secretary to President Kennedy, who is moving to France.
1 Dead, 1 Missing in Ky. Mining Accident:As I mentioned before, I used to be a coal miner. I'm glad I was able to get out of it.
A roof collapse at a Kentucky coal mine killed one miner Thursday, and rescue crews spent most of the day digging through a wall of rocks in search of another miner who was presumed dead.
There has been no communication, no visible evidence that this miner is alive, said Holly McCoy-Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Office of Mine Safety and Licensing.
A section of mine roof 20 feet wide, 20 feet long and 11 feet high collapsed on the workers late Wednesday, said Paris Charles, executive director of the Kentucky Office of Mine Safety and Licensing. The miners were part of a crew of about eight men who were performing retreat mining — a dangerous process of removing coal pillars that support the roof.