Diversity

Speaking of birthdays, how does this sound:

One of Mrs Curmudgeon's co-workers had a birthday party friday. We were invited along with some of the woman's other friends from her work. We were to meet up for some dinner and cocktails, and celebrate her birthday.

Now here's where the diversity begins. There we are, at the filipino restaurant, eating chinese food, drinking american beer, listening to disco music, in between performances of karaoke.

Interesting I tell ya. Interesting.

Instant Asshole. Just Add Alcohol

Mel Gibson "Out of Control":

[...]
'I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested and said things I do not believe to be true and which are despicable,' Gibson said in a statement.

According to TMZ.com, Gibson called the arresting deputy a 'motherf---ker,' whom he was going to 'f--k' on account of 'he [Gibson] 'owns Malibu' and will spend all of his money to 'get even' with me [the deputy].'

Later, the Website reported, Gibson ranted about the 'f--king Jews,' who 'are responsible for all the wars in the world,' and asked the deputy, 'Are you a Jew?' (Gibson, who helped build a Catholic church in Malibu, is not.)
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Not that he wasn't a pompous, arrogant fuck to start with.
Typical of most Hollywood types anyway.

Little Willy Winkie

Thief stuffs frozen dinners down his pants :

CourtTV - Fri Jul 28, 3:55 PM ET

(Court TV) - A thief in Bedford, Texas, made a run for it after the manager at a local grocery store caught him with his pants (almost) down.
[...]

Okay, teevee dinners down the pants.
Brr.

From The 'Duh' Files - Again

Study: Sex crimes in prisons underreported : AP - Sun Jul 30, 9:28 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Fewer than three prisoners in every 1,000 report they were sexually abused or harassed, but that probably is not the whole story, a government study says.
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Uh, gee. Do ya' think?

Spam Subject of the Day

"huge brushlike"

Sounds rather...uncomfortable.

Happy Friggin' Birthday!!!

To me. :)

Global Warming, AlGore And All Thing (Junk) Scientific

So I was reading a post over on Og's blog, where he related a 'conversation' he had with an - go figger - Ejukator.
This dude evidently teaches some geology courses in community college, so he of course is more than qualified to be preaching on the imminent demise of Mother Earth via Eeeeevil SUV's and "Global Warming".

Ladies and gentlemen, I would now like you to meet GeoMan!

Okay, you're back. Good. We'll continue.

So, Og shoots off an email to GeoMan:

You have made a great point of explaining the scientific process, and yet you accept the shibboleth of global warming as dogma, when it clearly is not. Less than five hundred years of temperature measurement exist. Less than a hundred of that with any real level of calibration of the instrumentation. All of that measurement has taken place on or near land, with no data for the oceans, which cover a pretty large portion of the planet. No knowledge of the temperature variation can be given before that, except as reasonably educated wild ass guesses based on any number of factors. We don't know if the earth is warming or cooling beyond the last hundred or so years, and what is more important, we have NO idea if warming trends regularly cycle over the course of thosands of years and by how much. All that exist are guesses. Basing a theory of global warming on guesses is the worst kind of junk science. Pity, your site seemed to show such promise.

Which, I think are all very valid points. So what did Geotard have to say?:

All good points, but consider this: we are returning massive amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels. Will this have an impact? I say yes. What do you think?

To which Og asks - and this is classic:

Less carbon dioxide by far than magmatic gasses and other tectonic activity have in similar time periods. It's bunk. We cannot have any idea.

Does that mean we should just randomly go around doing everything we can to fuck up the planet? by no means. Every reasonable effort should be made to protect the environment- and by reasonable I mean regulations that allow people to live their lives (which includes motor vehicles, like it or not) and allows businesses to exist and profit.

The earth is ours. We can take care of it, and exist with it, and we can do so without fear mongering pseudoscientific garbage putting unnecessary restriction on people's lives.

By the way: I live on the front lines, and not in an ivory tower. Stricter and more stringent regulations by the EPA and other state and local agencies have had the effect of driving smokestack industries to push their manufacturing elsewhere. Places like China. Where there are NO restrictions. The net effect has been this: Steel production, which will ALWAYS proceed, has gone from having 90% of it's emissions scrubbed and cleaned (in the USA) to having all it's emissions dumped directly into the atmosphere (china, eastern Europe). The primary source for this move has been the tightening of EPA restrictions, the secondary and tertiary being OSHA and Union pressure. So what has this done? taken the business from US industries who were making slow but reasonable efforts to reduce emissions, and handed jobs, business, cash flow to countries where human life is meaningless and where no restrictions on emissions exist.

At the end, the earth will deal with the effect of humans as it has dealt with the effect of every other species; it will carry on. With a planet obviously unchanged in any physical way by, say, the dinosaurs, who generated more carbon emissions than all the cars that ever drove on or off any road, it is not only ludicrous to think Humans can have lasting effects on the planet, it is immeasurable pomposity.

[emphasis mine]
To which he didn't hear anything for a couple of days, so he writes back:

So, are you researching for your response to my last email, or have you chosen to ignore it?

and got this response:

I'm choosing to ignore it - way too much negative energy for an overworked geologist during a hectic summer.

Okay, so in short, he gave up. He had no answer other than to ignore the question because of negative energy?

And here's the best part: On his web site, there's a section called "Ask GeoMan". Below that is a paragraph which reads:
"This is your chance to ask GeoMan any earth or space science question you want. Be warned, however: the "nature of nature" is such that I may not be able to come up with a reasonable answer! If I can't, I will be sure to tell you (as opposed to making up some bogus response)."

Yeah, that's the sort of people we have preparing the younger generation for "The Real World".
He couldn't come up with a reasonable answer, nor could he avoid making up a bogus response.

Reminds me of something I heard once:

Those who can - do.
Those who can't - teach.
Those who can't teach - teach college.

MmmmMMmMMFFfffFFF!!!

BWAH!
Lookit that scrawny little shit under there. She trying to smother him or is this just a pillow fight?




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They Actually Have To Be Told To Not Do This?

Emergency signs used to promote fish fries :

AP - Thu Jul 27, 8:20 PM ET

NEWPORT, Ind. - State homeland security officials have warned Vermillion County to stop using electronic emergency message boards to advertise fish fries, spaghetti dinners and other events.
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Who's brain fart was that? Advertisements on emergency signs?
Let's put a Domino's ad on the Amber Alert signs while we're at it.

What A Stud

Senator's father charged with lewd act :

Reuters - Thu Jul 27, 1:31 PM ET Avg. Rating: 5.0

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The 81-year-old father of Sen. Norm Coleman, has been cited for lewd and disorderly conduct after he was found engaged in a sex act with a 38-year-old woman while parked outside a Minnesota pizza parlor, police said on Thursday.
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Hey, the old bastard deserves to 'get off' on merit alone. He's out there banging a 38 year old and he's 81?
Here's a pat on the back from me you old coot!

From The "Get A Liffe" Department

Single city block hosts world's longest race :

Reuters - Tue Jul 25, 8:11 AM ET Sent 291 times

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The longest foot race in the world is 3,100 miles, long enough to stretch from New York to Los Angeles. Those who run it choose a different route: they circle one city block in Queens -- for two months straight.
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I can't even put into words the magnitude of stupidity involved here.
What a fucking waste of time.

Spam Subject of the Day

"Sent the bluebird, the Owaissa,"

...and the spam.

Quote Of The Day

From a comment over here:

Mom of Three said...

Eww...if Paris Hilton had as many dicks sticking out of her as have gone in, she'd look like a porcupine.

Bwah!

I May Be More Conservative Than Even I Thought I Was

Which - to some of you, may seem like a stretch, but nevertheless, I just may be.

I've seen a car commercial a couple times now that has somewhat taken me aback. I forget the brand, but that doesn't really matter as the message is what I was going to ramble on anyway.

Here's the scenario. Mom, Dad, the two kids are driving along in the car and eventually end up at the park. They have their picnic, play on the swings and asundry playground equipment, toss the frisbee around or whatever else it is they do at the park to spend their day, then they all jump back in the S.U.V. and head home.
The final scene shows Dad standing off the the side waving goodbye and thanking them for inviting him along.

Maybe it's just me, but that commercial seemed to take a giant leap from average conservative, parents-with-2.3-kids suburban family life; to a broken, visit-dad-on-weekends family seeming to be the norm.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-divorce, old-fashioned, ultra-conservative by any stretch. Hell, out of the five children my parents had, one is still married to his 'original' wife. The rest of us have all been divorced AT LEAST once.
And I firmly believe that us divorcees are better off by a hundred times, than if we would have stayed married because of tradition, it was the proper thing to do, because of "The Children®", or whatever.

I guess that commercial just seemed to take a bigger step toward progressiveism than I was quite prepared to take.



AND YOU DAMN KIDS BETTER GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!

Score One For The Good Guys

Wash. court upholds gay marriage ban :

AP - Wed Jul 26, 9:07 PM ET

OLYMPIA, Wash. - The Washington Supreme Court upheld the state's ban on gay marriage Wednesday, dealing the gay rights movement its second major defeat in less than a month in another liberal-leaning state that had been regarded as a promising battleground.
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I'm surprised that this liberal of a state didn't approve it, but that's fine. Maybe others will wise up.

Home Alone

Fri Jul 21, 12:06 PM ET

DEAR MARGO: I am a teenager and have a problem with my parents. My mom is 44, and my dad is 50. Recently, they've started going out and basically partying all the time.

My mom says she has raised kids for 30 years and she is done doing it. (There are six kids, and I'm not the youngest.) I feel like I am raising two teenagers. When I try to talk to them about it they say, 'Oh, you are just like your sister. You don't want us to have any fun. And besides, we never got to be teenagers.'

They have a 15- and a 13-year-old at home, so I don't think they are done raising kids -- and if they are, I'm ready to move out. I have a place to go, and I was just wondering, how do I get them to realize they aren't kids? -- TOO YOUNG FOR ALL THIS

DEAR TOO YOUNG...: So what's the problem? Do what other kids your age do and take advantage of the situation. Damn! You've a golden fucking opportunity there! You could party, get high, throw an orgy, whatever you want. Have your girlfriend over, maybe invite some friends and have a quiet game of strip poker or naked twister!

As for your younger siblings, feed them some mac and cheese, get them good and drunk, and they'll go to bed early. You won't even have to worry about them the rest of the night.

When I was your age, my parents were all uptight about me doing homework and shit, never letting me have any fun. I never had the chance like you do now. Get busy! You're a teen for gawd's sake. Act like one!

Loosely quoted of course.

I Don't Understand

Tour de France winner Landis tests positive:

18 minutes ago

LONDON (Reuters) - Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has tested positive for the male sex hormone testosterone, the U.S. rider's Phonak team said on Thursday.
[...]

Now let me get this straight. He is a guy, right? Why would he not test positive for testosterone?
Or did he have the big operation?

This Day in History - A Hero Is Born

Now this is noteworthy.

From historychannel.com:

1940 Bugs Bunny's debut

On this day in 1940, Bugs Bunny first appears on the silver screen in 'A Wild Hare.' The wisecracking rabbit had evolved through several earlier short films. As in many future installments of Bugs Bunny cartoons, 'A Wild Hare' featured Bugs as the would-be dinner for frustrated hunter Elmer Fudd.
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One of my all-time favorite cartoons.
Right up there with Marvin the Martian and The Roadrunner.

What are yours?

Good Gawd

Fucking blogger is being a bitch again today.
Google is like, a major pain in the dick.

Spam Subject of the Day

"Hi, paper mill"

Okay, where the hell did that come from?