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Adventures of a Basic Force For Good in Our TimeTM
Okay, so maybe I wasn't a charter member of the bunch. But let me try and make up for it...
This is a call to arms for anyone who has seen the Fahrenheit 9-11 movie. By way of the Suburban Geurrilla, we find that the game's afoot!
Mail your "Farenheit 9/11" ticket stub to the White House, with a note that says "I saw what you did last summer." |
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Adventures of a Basic Force For Good in Our TimeTM...
Well,... Barry has been posting a few pictures from time to time:
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But he has been silent since last year. Not any more. We hope that Monday's post is a harbinger of things to come, and want to let Barry know that we miss his routine hammering of the vile PigBoy. Have you seen Fahrenheit 9-11 yet, Barry? If so, what did you think?
Did the U.S. hand sovereignty over to Iraqi puppet show Iraqi government in name only to avoid having Bremer declare martial law?
... and I happened to listen to her show this afternoon, I feel like I must take Randi Rhodes to task for a few things:
- I have repeatedly tried calling Randi, only to be hung up on by (one of?) Randi's phone screener(s). I was even trying to plug my fellow bloggers over at Sadly, No! (basically because there was a blog entry that Randi was asking to look at on the air, and I wanted to tell her about it...) once, and got the information to that level, but of course it went no further. I tell ya, don't even think about talking to the stars until you can convince the gatekeeper to let you through.
- She just made mention of my fellow Wild-Eyed Coalition member Don Waller. Don is a man of many talents and many aliases and has had his hand in a number of ventures out here on the Fashionable Left Bank of BlogistanTM. A while ago, he joined forces with a guy known as Symbolman, and formed Take Back The Media (TBTM), one of the bastions of the alternative online media.
Randi made it sound like Don was the entirety of TBTM, sounding like she was not aware that that website is a group effort.
- She then claimed that Don made a Flash movie just for her, with a split screen, showing the Chmperor pretending to read about his pet goat while the Towers burned. I am somewhat familiar with Don's Flash animations, and I don't remember him putting something like that together. I do remember seeing something similar to what she described, but I can't find it over in Don's Flash zone over at TBTM.
She also mentioned classical music being played in the background during the flash animation, and a timeline showing how badly the Torturer in Chief froze while the Towers burned. I think she might be referring to this flash animation by Don's partner over at TBTM, Michael Stinson (aka Symbolman). It fits most of the elements of what she was talking about - although that Flash animation showed stills of Putsch with stills of the Towers in a split-screen format.
- and of course she lost me as a listener because I went off on a snipe hunt trying to justify (with mondo linkage) calling her out on this based on my remembrances on the topic she was (ahem) misremembering on the air.
So, Randi, I'm calling you out. You're better than this sort of thing. You probably have forgotten more about Take Back The Media than most of us have ever known. Give credit where credit is due - Symbolman is the guy to give props to in this case for the awesome 9-11 Flash animation* asking questions about the bunnypants in the headlights, and Take Back The Media is the combined effort of Michael Stinson aka Symbolman and Don Waller of Blah3.com.
Although I also have to say that while you were showing your lack of knowledge in the case of TBTM, Don (from Guam?), and a most awesome flash animation that's been around for a long time (blogistically speaking), Randi, you were also putting my disappointment with Fahrenheit 9-11 into words. I thought that I would have handled that whole part of the movie differently, showing a split screen for all of the time devoted to 9-11. I would be willing to consider something along the lines of what was done in the film for that side of the screen, but show me film of the Usurper in Thief getting out of the cavalcade and walking into the school while the first tower is burning, cut to and play him sitting there when the second plane hits, then show him sitting there reading that frelling book for seven minutes while the rest of Mike's montage plays on the other side of the split screen. Which was pretty much what you saw as one of the flaws of the film, too. Just take a minute and give the right people kudos for their work, Randi. And maybe try not to let your aides ruin your show for some of your listeners. Some of the voices are having problems being heard. Even the ones who have been faithful fans of yours for some time now (not to mention Your Humble Narrator or anything like that).
It coudn't hurt to give a little plug to their weekly radio show, either. They interviewed Janeane Garofalo before she became the Queen of the Evening EarWaves over there on that liberal radio thang, after all...
* - which we have mistakenly had sitting in a linkrotted condition down at the bottom of the Links Zone to your left. At least creating this waste of bandwidth awesomely infotaining mind candy blog post got me to fix that before somebody called me on it.
We seem to have a number of possible problems with electronic voting. We also seem to have a problem with chronic unemployment at least until the election.
So why doesn't the government hire a bunch of people on a temporary basis, and run a completely manual election with a completely verified paper trail? Think of all the secondary opportunities arising from the project: studies to redefine cost-effectiveness, new methods of co-ordinating voting procedure to make the whole thing easier. I mean, the main ones go on every four years, and should be easy to plan for. Some places (not to mention Canada by name or anything) can announce an election and have it completely finished (including counting the votes) within one hundred days.
There has to be a better way - this computer voting scam proposal (the way it's currently laid out) is absolutely the wrong way to go.
I have just finished reading the BartCop reviews of the movie. I was struck by one review in particular that said,
But what I am more than anything is ANGRY. I got angrier with every passing moment of the film. It got to the point that every time I saw bush on screen, I muttered "f*(king @$$hole", only I got louder each time. I was angry before the film, but it is so powerful in it's images, the sounds, the obvious evidence of the incredible HUBRIS of the bush family and the administration, I felt my blood pressure rising with each scene. Angry doesn't really even begin to say it. I am almost breathless with anger and indignation, yes, and I consider it a righteous anger. That the bush family can do what they've done simply proves, to me, there is no god. No just god could allow these people to thrive.
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This echoes my feelings that this movie was done this way in order to ratchet up the rhetoric and pull on people's heartstrings instead of reasoning with them. Which of course is summed up by the final confrontation in the final scene (no more spoilers except to say) that was sounding an awful lot like the Charlton Heston scene at the end of Bowling For Columbine to Your Humble Narrator.
Most of the other reviews had spoilers in them, and we're trying oh so hard not to mention them to you until you get a chance to see the movie for yourself. So we'll leave you with this little gem towards the bottom of the page:
I loved the film...I felt that Michael Moore has articulated my anger perfectly...
Only one thing I would have wished...that Moore could have spoken out about the damage being done to the environment as a result of the Bush policies, but hey, that's a whole other movie!!!
Thanks,
J Russ
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I, too, was expecting to see a different film. Which might be why I'm am little hard in my critique of the movie (however sparse it may seem to be). Maybe I've become so sensitized to manipulation of this type that I'm upset with Mike's use of the technique.
I have to say that even though it wasn't exactly what I expected nor what I wanted it to be, I will still strongly recommend that everyone takes a gander at this film. Anybody who is experiencing difficulty in finding a seat to view this film should consider an immediate road trip to the Auburn Hills area. There's at least one place that I know of that you should have no trouble getting a chance to check it out at...
By way of my good friend Bartcop I'd like to show you something I will be watching very closely. A big update from a wild-eyed wannabe.
Even though we're not a big fan of PayPal, somehow I think we can manage to find a way to toss a quarter in this particular musician's cup from time to time...
The staff and infrequent contributors of the Funny Farm were taken to see Fahrenheit 9-11 last night (yes, we are a thoughtful, progressive organization that believes that, in order to make the customer happy, the company needs to make its' employees reasonably content. Plus, there's just the owner, operator, chief cook and bottle washer plus one Roulette Queen to have to worry about anyway...). We were a little concerned about a few things, what with the posts I read about some others having trouble getting tickets. So we called the theater ahead of time (about sevenish) to make sure there would be seating for some of the remaining shows (at that point there were four left : 19:50, 21:20, 22:40 and 00:10). I was told that I could show up at any time, but it would be best to get there ten minutes early - especially if I wanted to get a good seat.
What with putzing around the zone for far too long and various other sundries, we didn't manage to make it out the door until fifteen minutes before show time. And we made it into the show with ease. We could have gotten almost any seat in the house, almost!
Mind you, the stated start time was when the blipvertsadverts and trailers began, not the feature. Good thing, too - otherwise three-fourths of the crowd wouldn't have caught the beginning of the movie. Let me digress for a moment and inform the casual reader that the Funny Farm staff are not enthralled with the modern movie viewing experience. We tend to get a bit annoyed with boorish behavior in public, and have seen too much of it the last few times we went to a movie. So the fact that we didn't wait for this to come out on DVD (like we have for The Return Of The King, ferchirssakes...) and instead braved the (we thought) teeming throng to see this film on opening weekend is a milestone in and of itself. Anyways... (and, yes, this is more or less the point of this little piece of code text) the blipvertsadverts seemed incredibly targeted to the projected audience coming to see the film. I couldn't tell you many of the (seemingly interminable) film previews - the remake of The Manchurian Candidate was pretty much the only big budget megastar Next Big Money Maker Cash Cow Industry Support Vehicle in the bunch. They had a Tim Robbins movie that looked interesting as well. But the sheer volume and obvious targeted marketing of the previews made this part of the experience somewhat unsettling from our perspective.
We also recognized the little Scion vehicle (we think) in the blipvertsadverts at the beginning - The Roulette Queen accompanied us to the Great White North once upon a time and there were a couple of these little cars driving around one of the armpits of Ontario. They looked interesting, and of course like what's been around Europe for quite a while. I didn't notice any microwave dishes, funky sails, or other unusual antennae on these cars when I saw them tooling down the road on a recent beautiful Sunday, either. I just saw something similar to those Cooper Minis in size, that looked easy to handle and comfortable. And of course what a good little liberal who cares about the environment wants. Funny how they know all about that, and now have a product ready at hand to meet that need.
So, anyways,... one of the other things about all the fluff before the actual, you know, movie - was that it allowed us to notice that the Star Theater we were in was almost as good as a CineSphere experience - the screen was covering our vision zones, the sound was nice - and drowned out most of the crowd chatter quite nicely, thank you! - and there were no worries about sitting behind people and having to look around them. Let the show begin!
They announced all of the previews, but they couldn't tell me the actual feature was about to begin? Good thing I was paying attention, then. Nice Pythonish touch to wait for a long time to get to the credits, too. And an important story to tell. But a bit of the drama queen got into this movie, and the film is exploiting a lot of the emotion by building up the case in such a way as to incite those emotions. In other words, it will probably upset liberals (even more than they already have been since the Torturer in Chief stole the WhiteWash House) and anger conservatives. I can see them throwing this in everyone's face just like they did the Wellstone memorial as a partisan ploy by the Democratic Party that the Republics should be allowed to censor. And I can almost hear the vile Pigboy talk it up (cough) to our troops on Monday...
Anyways,... if you find that you can't see this movie due to there not being enough seats in the house, and you want to view it in comfort, feel free to head down to the Star Theater at Great Lakes Crossing in metro Detroit Auburn Hills , MI. Call ahead to make sure that there are tickets (and be amazed when they say "Sure! No problem... just get here ten minutes before the show!"). And tell 'em the funny Farm sent you!
By way of our good friend Gus Pollak over at XOverboard, we found a site with Transformers breakdancing that we think might amuse you. Go take a look, and then tell us what you think!
This is personal note to my buddy Don Waller over at Blah3, whom I can't seem to find an email address for, and whose site I registered for, and now have lost the userid/password combination to login to his site as a user. D'oh!
So here's the deal, Don:
I have two requests:
First, if you could and I signed up with the Funny Farm email address (since it bounced when I tried to get my login info resent) - could you resend my login information? If you don't have me on file yet, can you send me an email using the Talk To Me! link in my links zone? I would like to make sure I am a registered user over there at Blah3.
Secondly, I like the Coalition of the Wild-Eyed idea. I really do. And I notice you already have a logo. But I would like to ask you to consider an alternate logo for the back of the shirt. Here they are, side by side:
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Any thoughts?
[Update: Actually, now that I think about it... could you update my link on your blog one of these days, too? Thanks...]
We prefer to praise rather than to slag here at the Funny Farm. And there are many sites out there who are expert at analyzing content. How do you talk about one of them?
Especially when they used to do the same thing at one time. And they were known far and wide for their, ahem, inspired analysis. Although I'm pretty sure they never got around to mentioning our old digs. And I see that they haven't mentioned my new ones, either (hint, hint).
And lately - since oh, around March or so - they've been dueling complementing the Funny Farm as we have created a haiku for every post over at busy busy busy since February 22 of this year (not that we've been keeping track or anything). There's also been lots of haiku at their site, along with many many different themed sets of posts, including a bunch of TV song theme parodies, as well as insightful commentary on life, the universe, and everything.
If you are like the other regular reader who has no clue about who I'm referring to yet, you need to go to this song parody. Check out the original post and follow the links within the song parody - all of the potions that are in bold text in the box below are linked to a bunch of stories you should take the time to impress on your memory engrams. Then click on the link at the top of the page that says Main and read the rest of the posts on his blog. It is mostly all pure gold.
June 25, 2004, Meet the Puppets
It's time to bomb Fallujah It's time to put on makeup Why do we always come here And now let's get things started |
The Funny Farm salutes the Talking Dog. We'll be there a lot more often now that they're in the Links Zone, and we hope you will be, too!
Destined to become a Super Scaife Saver 95% off Dagger Special!
We took a very few primitive liberties with the published cover of the collection of regurgitated slime new book to be released in October.
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Insipred by the uber-blogger atrios and the ever-popular but under-acknowledged (here at the Funny Farm, at least) World O' Crap.
Cross-posted at Open Source Politics
Kitty pics for a Friday:
Cleo the Drama Queen Basks in the Sun Bogart Brushes Up on His CatNap Technique  Liz Activating Her Kitty LaserEyesTM  |
I think the laser eyes are looking hungrily over at the Friday Bird Blogging going on at SKB's...
We just found out about this while wading through AnnThraxx's latest slime-fest. You remember Annie's big blog, where we were going to get the amazing pearls of her wisdom? The one that remained pristine for so long?
Well, she's still an empty slate. But look what else has been googlebombed to the top of a search for Coultergeist: the K Files, one long screechtasically vile tossing of random slime against John Kerry. Their entire blog to date consists of:
two references (and one link) to Kerry's original 1971 testimony to Congress;
two references (and one link) to Kerry's flip-flops (cough) about CAFE and his personal hypocrisy (cough) in having an SUV;
two references (and multiple links) to Kerry's flip-flops (cough) about Vietnam
two references (and one link) to Kerry's flip-flops (cough) about the VeepStakes;
two requests (cough) for Kerry to resign from the Senate;
one post rasing questions about Kerry's religion; and
one post informing (cough) everyone that Sharpton is behind kerry one hundred percent!
We now present (with all due respect to Uggabugga) a mini-analysis of The K File's amazing twelve posts in their incredibly insightful blogging career to date:
posts (as of 2004-06-24 22:00): 2004-03-24 : one post 2004-04-23 : one post 2004-05-05 : one post 2004-05-07 : one post 2004-05-10 : two posts 2004-06-18 : five posts 2004-06-23 : one post |
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my regular dose of LandSnark...
Bombs Explode in Turkey Before Bush, NATO Summit. That must be some of those welcoming coalition members he keeps talking about...
This is an actual sign in front of an actual house in southern Ontario:
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For those of you not in the know, Red Green is the master of the zen of duct tape that hails from Canada (eh?). And one of the few imitaions I sorta almost have half down...
I am actually being noticed out there in the Fashionable Left Bank of Blogistan! Although quite a few of my fellow bloggers over at Open Source Politics (besides the ones who are MIA) have been somewhat lax (cough)* in updating their links to our new home on the web (hint, hint).
I just wanted to let you know, Beej (without having to create another userid/pwd so's I can comment on your blog - maybe some other day, but not tonight!), that I am absolutely tickled pink that you gave me props. It's good to get some positive feedback once in a while...
* - I know I'm not really one to talk about this sort of thing - being of the day late and dollar short variety of blogger myself - but I'm trying to get better. So I guess I figure it's okay for me to make some small rumblings on the subject.
Bush Claimed Right to Waive Torture Laws. Apparently he also claims that it isn't executive privilege the divine right of kings. Who knew?
Cross-posted at Open Source Politics.
[...Stupid Git!]*
*** Warning : Some May Find the Following Post Offensive ***
As a border child who was born and raised just south of Detroit over in Canada's Sun Parlour, Essex County, I was exposed to one of Canada's own hotbeds of bigotry and prejudice. Although we fit more of the other saying - we weren't prejudiced, we hated everybody!
Anyhow,... I wanted to preface this joke which I got from one of my good friends down in Tomato Town, Canada**:
Canadian Survivor CBC Television is developing a Canadian version of "Survivor" the popular TV show. The rules are simple: Each contestant must travel to Saskatchewan and go from Estevan to LaRonge through Weyburn, Stoughton,Carlyle,Moosimi, Grenfell, Indian Head, Regina, Moose Jaw, Swift Current,Maple Creek, Leader, Kinndersley, North Battleford, Saskatoon, Humbolt, Yorkton, Porcupine Plain, Melfort, Nipawin, Prince Albert, Shellbrook and back to Estevan again, driving a Volvo with a bumper sticker that reads: "I voted for Chretien. I'm from Ontario, I'm Gay, and I'm here to take your Guns". The first to complete the round-trip alive is the winner. |
* - With extra special homage to Eric Idle and Terry Jones for their most excellent contributions to the zeitgeist of late...
** - Do you know what the Tomato Capital of Canada is? And, no, I can't hum a few bars so you can fake it...
Just yesterday, I received a call while sitting at my desk from a telemarketer. After informing him that he was calling someone at their place of business, I asked him if he would (i) remove me from his organization's list of phone numbers to call, and (ii) who exactly it was that provided his company with my contact information.
Well, I was 0 for 2 on the attempt to make something useful come out of that call. And then I got another call from the same organization today. Surprisingly, (cough) I was once again reassured that I will no linger be receiving calls from the Mortgage Lender Network. Also, unsurprisingly, this company cannot tell me who is shopping my business information around the Web. (They did say it was a direct marketing agency in New York. That narrows it down to only half of the scumbags out there. Thanks!) And, finally, when I asked them for a way to contact their offices and put a complaint in about their business practices, the only contact information I was given pointed me to an unresolved host name. I did find this site for the Mortgage Lenders Network USA, Inc. They seem to be in the same line of work as the outsourced telephone workers from India who were trying to convince me to take out another loan on my recently purchased home.
So far the only harassment coming from whoever is writing my business information on the equivalent of the Internet's bathroom wall was a call from somewhere in New Orleans, trying to tell me I was somebody else, and asking me when was I going to drop by their office so I could answer some questions. It only took two calls to my desk to straighten that mess out.
Feel free to use the comments section to tell me all about your own office annoyances of the telemarketing variety...
Granny D is running for the U.S. Senate. I just listened to an announcement about it on Air America Radio.
Hey, stranger things have happened. She's running against Judd Gregg in New Hampshire.
Funny Farm Updates:
uggabugga diagrams the Torturer In Chief's (cough) logic (cough) about terra;
David Bossie is yet another Repugnicant being targeted by my friend Scoobie Davis for another google bomb (David Bossie! Oooga booga! David Bossie!)
Digby gives us the anti-Pickler; and
the Suburban Guerrilla catches us up on a number of fronts while catching up to the Funny Farm in a previous incarnation.
We have a lot of spirits around the Funny Farm. Of almost every type you can imagine. So it should not come as a surprise to any of the dozens multitudes that come to visit every day, that, after reading this post from Body and Soul, the ghost of Ray Charles came by for a spell.
He told me to tell Jeanne that he was never into politics too much in the first place, and that in no way should one stellar performance (out of thousands in his career) before a bunch of the elite be construed to mean that he is in support of the present bastardization of conservative politics being rammed down America's throat by the junta occupying the WhiteWash House at this time. He said you've just about got it right - he was never about feeling sorry for his lot in life, and mostly about making music. And he said you don't need to keep all those flags at half-mast for him anymore. Just get on with your lives, and try and help those around you get more out of life.
We got to talking about these weblog thingys too, Jeanne, after I mentioned that you had some doubts about why you should continue pointing out the obvious to those who already know all about it. He mentioned a few things that we all might be wise to consider:
- it is not always the case that everyone always knows all of the dish on any particular topic. Or that the blogs they read on a regular basis will bring up the subject at all. Besides, you might feel differently, or emphasize one facet of the topic that others ignore.
- it is good to set an example for others. Talking about your views on a subject might help others articulate their own. And putting up commentary and links to interesting things to read helps spread the knowledge everywhere.
- the media whores have finally realized that they need to report on reality (instead of spinning Repugnicant propaganda) once in a while. They could decide tomorrow that they no longer need to perform this service for us, and then how will we find out what's going on?
There was probably more to the discussion, but that's all I could remember after the fever dream visit from the angels ended. That and something about how nice it was to finally see the ladies once again...
[Ed. Note: The first draft of this was made Thursday night, when I thought it odd that the flags were still flying at half mast for pRezNit Ray-Gun. They are still at half mast at the time of posting this...]
Here at the Funny Farm, we have an interesting piece of equipment we refer to as a 'cat tree'. It's got a few spots where the felines can climb up onto and play around in. Today , we're happy to show you a couple of action (cough) shots of the cats in the cat tree:
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Shamelessly exploited Appropriated and paraphrased from awesome lefty blogger of note Matthew Yglesias via awesome lefty blogger of note Jesse Taylor at Pandagon while they were both talking about the blatant hypocrisy of the 1600 Crew*:
The Bush administration has a longstanding practice of making technically accurate, but misleading and tendentious, statements in order to try and trick people into believing things that aren't true, while protecting themselves from criticism in the elite media.
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I think we have another sound byte to consider putting on top of the page...
* - all thanks and praise to Jo Fish at Democratic Veteran** for coining this phrase when referring to pResident Unelected's handlers.
** - [Ed. Note: We mistakenly credited the Democratic Underground and confused them with Jo's site. D'oh! D' oh! D'oh! D'oh! D'oh! D'ooh!]
In case you didn't already know, the current owner of the Detroit Pistons (among many other things) is now able to display four trophies from professional sports:
the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup, currently in the possession of the Tampa Bay Lightning;
the National Basketball Association's Larry O'Brien Trophy, currently in the possession of the Detroit Pistons;
the Women's National Basketball Association's WNBA Championship Trophy, currently in the possession of the Detroit Shock; and
the Arena Football League's Arena Cup, currently in the possession of the Tampa Bay Storm.
[Ed. Note: Spelling errors corrected. D'oh!]
The headline from Reuters says Hiring Plans Near Boom Levels-Survey.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. companies are gearing up to create jobs at rates not seen since the height of the 1990s boom, a survey released on Tuesday showed, adding to evidence that job growth will keep the U.S. economic recovery rolling.
[snip] Thirty percent of polled U.S. employers plan to add to their payrolls in the July to September period, the survey by Manpower Inc. showed. That is up from 20 percent a year earlier and 28 percent in the April to June period. [snip] |
But if you look at the Manpower Inc. summary of the report, or better yet the actual survey (warning: PDF file - Adobe Reader [aka Acrobat] required), you might see something a little bit different:
Here's the headline of the Manpower Inc. summary of the report:
Manpower Employment Outlook Survey for Second Quarter Reveals Strongest U.S. Job Prospects Since Nearly 16,000 interviews have been conducted with employers across the United States to measure anticipated employment trends between April and June 2004. All participants were asked, "How do you anticipate total employment at your location to change in the three months to the end of June 2004 as compared to the current quarter? [Ed. Note: so how would this help us determine payroll additions from July to September?] Of the US employers that were surveyed, 28% expect an increase in hiring in the second quarter, while 6% plan to decrease staff levels. This creates a Net Employment Outlook of 22% (as opposed to the 28% number they cherry-picked for the Reuters [snip] When seasonal variations are removed from the data, the job outlook in seven of the sectors is more robust than it has been in three years, since the second quarter of 2001. Those sectors include Construction, Durable Goods Manufacturing, Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing, Transportation/Public Utilities, Wholesale/Retail Trade, Finance/Insurance/Real Estate and Services. Employer confidence in hiring is most apparent within the Construction sector where the employment picture has not been so strong since 1978. [snip] Employment opportunities are expected to increase across the country in the second quarter. On a seasonally adjusted basis, employers in each of the four US regions plan to offer more jobs than they have since the beginning months of 2001. [Ed. Note: so we're back to where we were when this pinhead took office? And that's supposed to reassure me in what way exactly?]
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Just one more example of the conservative media attempting to spin things so the Sock Puppet in Chief looks good.
Apparently there are other people who are not completely enthralled with the way the Torturer in Chief has been mishandling things since the turn of the millennium. Who knew?
Jo Fish the Democratic Veteran* knew, that's who. He pointed everyone to this site which actually got this ad (pdf file - Abode Acrobat required) published in a newspaper. I guess even lying media nazi whores try to satisfy their customers once in a while.
Amazingly enough, this link goes to pretty much the same place. As I'm sure others do as well. Why don't you go, too?
[Update: You Gots To See This Too! Jeebus' General is having a party for the pRezNit!]
* - [Ed. Note: We did it again! We humbly apologize for the continued confusion in our minds between Democratic Underground and Democratic Veteran. D'oh!]
Great rents have opened up in the sky, and the end times are near.
I've been thinking of having a good round of word association of carpenters were pretty sappy stuff it up the cracks in the armor division of resources will run out one of these days, but I just haven't been able to find the inspiration for such a radical endeavor. I was hoping that this year's Blogathon would help me to reach the, ahem, inspirational state needed to truly engage in the pursuit of Python-like looniness worthy of splashing on these pages, as it were, but now I see they're not going to be having a Blogathon this year. I'm sure I'll find a reason to do it one of these days...
And all of this is just to introduce something I got in my email the other day...
[...Spam, spam, spam, spam,
Spam, spam, spam, spam,
lovely spam...
Wonderful Spam, spam, spam, spam...]
[SHUT UP!
bloody Vikings...]*
No, not that stuff, this stuff:
Many years ago, in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only. Ladies Forbidden"... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
The first couple to be shown together in bed on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. Men can read smaller print than women can. Coca-Cola was originally green. It is impossible to lick your elbow. Q: The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work? The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400 The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000 Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. The youngest pope was 11 years old. The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until five years later. Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? Q. Which day are there more collect calls than any other day of the year? In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight." It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month... that we know today as the honeymoon. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down". It's where we get the phrase "Mind your P's and Q's." Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice. |
My question to you, gentle reader, is this:
Are some (or all) of these statements actual truth, truth with urban legend mixed in, of completely urban legend? Aside from the one mathematically proven statement, that is...which is accurate as far as my limited mathemagical skills are concerned. And the various logical puzzles which are also correct.
Inquiring minds want to know...
* - Yes, comments spam has reached the Funny Farm. You didn't think it would take them that long to find us, did you now? Hopefully we can keep a lid on it - and we'll try to avoid bringing it up too much.
The dating here is from the official proclamation of the intent to catch the mostest evilest dude out there. Which explains why we celebrate (cough) the momentous occasion of the thousandth day since the PrezNit's Crusade was officially started by featuring a wondrous cartoon here at the Funny Farm. This was penned a few days ago by Ann Telnaes:
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*** Extra-Special Ronnie Ray-Gun Historical Revisionist Marketing Edition ***
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[Ed. Note: Let the updates begin! There are some line feeds in the text of the original email from the conservative alert people that I see I've still missed! D'oh! Plus a little added emphasis is appropriate. Especially after seeing this (in the New York Post, no less!) and this and this and this and this and especially this... yeah, I know you need free subscriptions to the NYTimes and a few other places. And I'd like to thank this site and this site and this site and this site and this site and all the rest of you for showing me all these craaazy things to read about on a lazy Sunday afternoon!]
After poking around the Dialectizer's site a bit more, I felt strangely compelled to tell you both all about this fine web page with lots of other translators, including ValleyGirlspeak and the WebSmurfer, as well as real translators. So you could read the Funny Farm in its' native Esperanto, for example*...
* - I'm kidding you! I'm a kidder...
This is what happens when both the defense and the offense show up at a Pistons game. It doesn't happen often, but it's a beautiful sight to see when it happens. I hope, for the Lakers' sake, it doesn't show up again until next year.
That way, they still might have a chance...
Another kitty pic from the Funny Farm:
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It appears that a number of my colleagues over at Open Source Politics are missing in action. Could anyone affiliated with the following web sites please email me and let me know (primarily) you're still okay and (secondarily) whether you want to continue to be linked to over in the OSP section of the Links Zone:
A Rational Animal
Apathy Inc.
Courteous Miner
Interesting Monstah
Nurse Ratched's Notebook
Persian Garden
Rush Limbaughtomy
The Oregon Blog
Thank you. You may now go back to your regular daily activities...
It seems that the Vile Pill Popping PigBoy has been attempting to impugn the reputation of Ted Rall. Leaving aside the typical Repgunicant hypocrisy of trashing others for doing what you yourself are gulty of (that could be a master's thesis, or quite possibly a doctorate dissertation), it is very amusing to see Ted use philosphical jujistsu and turn El Chupa Cabra's own lies against him.
Read it and weep, FReepertrash...
'Tis the season: I have a Reagasm of my own to spew forth, but for now it's time for another trip with the Wayback machine... this time it's B Movie by Gil Scott-Heron.
[Grammar and emphasis courtesy of the staff at the Funny Farm]
[spoken]Well, the first thing I want to say is: Mandate my ass!
Because it seems as though we've been convinced that 26% of the registered voters - But, oh yeah, I remember. In this year that we have now declared the year from Sho-gun to Ray-gun, What has happened is that in the last 20 years, America has changed from a producer to a consumer. The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia. Come with us back to those inglorious days: when heroes weren't zeros. "Company!!!?" Cliches abound like kangaroos - courtesy of some spaced out Marlin Perkins, a Ray-gun contemporary. [sung in background, traililng off]"Macho, macho man!..." Put your orders in America. And quick as Kodak your leaders duplicate - with the accent being on the dupes - You go give them liberals hell Ronnie. Nostalgia, that's what we want! Lon Chaney, our man of a thousand faces - no match for Ron. So much for the good news... As Wall Street goes, so goes the nation. And here's a look at the closing numbers: [sung]You don't need to be in no hurry. [Refrain repeated about 25 times or more in an apocalyptic crescendo with a military cadence.] |
And now,...
A bonus to non-dialup (or non-patient dailup*) readers for your infotainment: A hand-tooled, classical musical experience in convenient (cough)** mp3 form. Many thanks to fellow OSP member Professor Kim for inspiring this post with her own recollection of the night Ronnie Ray-Gun got elected the first time.
* - Not to mention any of my less patient readers via dialup modem by name or anything. But we both know who you are - along with everyone else and their frelling extended family if they should ever become interested, when you get right down to it...
** : 14.1 Meg worth of convenience to you, yes indeedy (right-click, then Save Target As... on the link) . Whaddya want for a twelve minute song?
[This entry cross-posted at Open Source Politics]
Kerry Names 1969 Version of Himself As Running Mate
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News In Brief
Reagan To Be Honored With $5,000-A-Head Funeral
Texas Environmentalists Lobby For Solar-Powered Electric Chair
Congress Launches National Congress-Awareness Week
Leno's Voicemail Message Pauses For Laughter
Guys' Night Out To Include Several Key Non-Guys
Boss' Threats Hilarious
Just go, already!
We fondly recall our initial discovery and subsequent abusage of the Shizzolator. It was a good thing the Original Funny Farm wasn't able to be Dailecticized then, too - Blogger sites weren't eligible, and that left us out in the cold, so to speak. Until now! I initially like the Swedish Chef a lot, but I'm sure this site will look pretty frelling hilarious in any of the dialects there...
There's lots of fun stuff out there, General. You could turn off the gladiator movies once in a while...
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This CONSERVATIVE ALERT is a special message from the morally self-righteous Repugnicants to the Funny Farm
ALERT: As you've heard by now, the greatest president of the modern era (coughcoughbull$hitcoughcough) has passed on to be with his Lord. As a tribute to his legacy, we believe it's finally time before we even put the body in the ground to replace President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's image on the dime with Ronald Reagan's. According toWorld Rep. Mark Souder (R-Brownshirt) introduced the bill, the "Ronald Reagan Dime Act" (HR 3633), last year "It is particularly fitting to honor the Freedom President on this particular piece of coinage," Souder stated. "The faces on all coinage have changed and will continue to change (pay no attention to the fact that Lincoln has been on the penny since 1909). Were that not the case, FDR would not be on the dime, and Eisenhower would still be on the dollar coin Waaaaaah! They don't put Repugnicants on our currency anymore!. When the dime is again changed - as all other coins will be someday - it is my belief that Ronald Reagan's profile should be on it." And my beliefs need to be inscribed into the law of this land! "FDR believed the federal government should spend your dimes. (coughcoughrevisionisthistorycoughcough) Ronald Reagan believed the people should spend their own dimes. (coughcoughrevisionisthistorycoughcough) I think it's clear that the dimes in your pocket should bear Ronald Reagan's image,(never mind about that whole logic thing)" co-sponsor Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-Riding Ray-Gun's Coattails Since 1986) said. TAKE ACTION: The Ronald Reagan Dime Act currently has 88 It's time to get the bill to the House floor for a full vote. Go to our site to urge your Representative to support HR 3633, the "Ronald Reagan Dime Act" NOW: Go find these a$$holes yourself! NOTE: Franklin D. Roosevelt's image was placed on the dime in 1946, just after he died. Historically, images on coins are supposed to be on for no more than 25 years; FDR's has now been on for nearly 60 years. (pay no attention to the fact that Jefferson has been on the nickel since 1938). President Reagan was truly the |
I'd like to talk about the actual cost of gasoline as a component of your overall transportation costs for a moment, if I may.
Using my basic yardstick (which is surprisingly easy to do. Imagine that!):
If you drive 25,000 miles a year, and your vehicle gets 25 miles to the gallon, you will use approximately a thousand gallons of fuel in your vehicle each year.
Therefore, an increase of one dollar a gallon will cost you a thousand dollars extra. Is that really such a large burden to bear? Considering you're also already shelling out at least another $2,500 in payments and/or maintenance, and another $500 - $2,000 in insurance costs. And I am being very generous with those numbers - in the metro Detroit area, you wouldn't be buying much car with that kind of coinage.
Of course, the fuel costs would be quite different depending on a couple of variables:
driving a gaz-guzzler vs. a gas-sipper; and
driving significantly more or less miles per year than I used in my example. By way of comparison, a typical lease is 15,000 miles, which is 3/5 of the mileage in my example.
And that's pretty much all of the choices available as of this writing (where are the flying cars? They promised that we would have flying cars!). It would be nice to have a new source of motive power that could replace the internal combustion engine in our society...
It's time once again, ladies and gentlemen, for the Stanley Cup to get handed over again for another year. And there's a new name on the Cup at last - the last ten years or so have been a battle of a few dynasties (and it gets worse as you go back in time). Congrats to the Tampa Bay Lightning on their hard earned victory.
As usual, there was considerable controversy this year. The Phantom Goal will haunt Calgary for some time. And the chippy play by both teams left quite a bit to be desired. But it was certainly an exciting and entertaining playoff this year. Now it's just a ahort summer (in Canadian terms) until the World Cup (previously known as the Canada Cup) is contested in September.
I hope they have enough crying towels stocked up in the Great White North, eh?
*** Special Unification of church and State Edition ***
With emphasis of the original text and additional comments from the staff at the Funny Farm
This CONSERVATIVE ALERT is a special message from a religiously insane PAC supported by the Republican Party of The United states of America:
ALERT: Remember our hugely successful counter-protest against the "March of the Radical Liberals" in Washington, D.C.? (you don't? Me either) We were major sponsors of that effort, dubbed "Operation Witness" by Randall Terry, the president of the lead organization Society for Truth and Justice. (cough) We just received the following email from Randall, which we thought our members might want to read and take action on: Although, we here at the Funny Farm think you might take some actions other than those these wackos suggest... ------ Forwarded Message Does it bother you that Presidential candidate John Kerry is receiving Holy Communion while he promotes the murder of millions of innocent children? If it does, let's not forget that Rudy Guilani, the Gropenfuhrer, and a solid majority of the Republican Party promote the same thing, either! Oh, wait... I'm sure it does! I'm not, but then again I'm not religiously insane... The Catholic Bishops of America have the authority to intervene and end this scandal. - since the Word of God (never mind which one, Smarty Pants) is to be obeyed before the laws of man. Especially in this great nation where the seperation of Church and State is enshrined in our Constitution. Oh, wait... I am writing to invite you to be a part of a critical project that I and others across the country are working on. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is meeting in Englewood (near Denver), Colorado from June 14 through June 19 at the Inverness Hotel and Conference Center. Approximately 250 Bishops are expected to attend. At their conference in Englewood, we are presenting the Bishops with an open letter, "End the Kerry Scandal," imploring them to end the scandal of John Kerry receiving Holy Communion while he promotes the "choice" of slaughtering innocent human beings by abortion. Here are excerpts from the letter: "A Prince in the Church recently wrote: 'Denying anyone Communion is a very grave matter. It should be reserved for extraordinary cases of public scandal.' We agree. "Frankly, it strains the imagination to picture a more extraordinary case of public scandal. (cough cough murdering your country's soldiers so you and your 'base' can make a few extra billion cough cough) A wealthy, powerful politician is aiding in the murder of thousands of children; he is promoting the greatest genocide in the history of the human race; he is embracing homosexual marriage - something even pagan Greeks and pagan Romans did not stoop to. If this is not a case of extraordinary public scandal, then nothing is. (once you support abortion, you're going to be sodomizing little boys tomorrow. Does anyone else believe this?) "Every time John Kerry and Rudy Guilani and the Gropenfuhrer and the majority of the Republican Party receives Holy Communion it says that the Body and Blood of Christ are not that sacred, and that the murder of innocent children is not that evil: It says that Holy Communion is not that holy, and that child-killing is not that profane. Such a message is intolerable." [end of excerpts from letter] We are pleading with every Catholic Bishop in America to publicly state two things to his diocese: 1.) That any politician or candidate (including John Kerry and Rudy Guilani and the Gropenfuhrer and the majority of the Republican Party) who promotes 2.) That a Catholic cannot in good conscience support any candidate for any office who supports I am going to be leading an around-the-clock vigil in front of the Inverness Hotel and Conference Center in Englewood (near Denver), Colorado from Monday morning, June 14 to Wednesday afternoon, June 16. We will be publicly calling upon the Bishops to end the scandal of Kerry's treachery and betrayal. for some strange reason (cough cough money cough cough) we will be silent about all the Republicans' treachery and betrayal. You can participate as well... Vigils in Your Community On June 16, from noon to 1 p.m., we will be holding simultaneous vigils and press conferences across America at every possible Bishop's office we can. Our goal is fifty offices nationwide. (This is where you come in...) Imagine the impact of fifty press conferences and vigils happening at the same time across the entire country. The media impact and ensuing debate could be profound! (especially when the Media whores will be paid to broadcast our propaganda!) I am writing to ask you to participate in one or more of the following ways: 1.--- Forward this email to every person you know who you think may want to be a part of this project. 2.--- Join me in Denver, Colorado if at all possible. I am asking you to spend the money and the time to stand with me on the sidewalk in front of the hotel in Colorado, so that the Bishops can see and feel your presence. (Details are at our web site.) 3.---Host a vigil and press conference at the diocesan office closest to you on June 16 at noon. As you will see at our website, we will walk you through every step for you to gather a crowd and get the media to cover your event. My only request is that you follow our instructions explicitly. (See web site for step by step instructions of what to do.) 4.---Give as generous a contribution as you can to help our efforts. To oversee and put together events such as these takes several thousand dollars; travel expenses, man hours, press costs, and more. (In case anyone is wondering, I will not take one penny of income from this project for my time and leadership. Every penny you give will go directly to the costs of the event.) My friend, these are dark, desperate times, that call for great clarity and courage if we are going to withstand the tidal wave of evil that is washing over our nation. What we are doing is not for the fainthearted, nor for the timid. These are times that try men's souls, and call on the deepest convictions in our beings. If your heart beats with mine in this life and death struggle, then I beg you to fight along side of us in whatever way you can. Go to the website, ponder every word and action we propose, and then determine what you will do. From the Front, Randall Terry, |
[Editors' Note: Minor spelling corrections may yet be found. Some have already been corrected...]
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I wasn't going to tell you about this story, because so many of my fellow bloggers have covered it in excruciating detail.
But I couldn't help myself after seeing some of the comments from the more idiotic patriotic (cough) elements of our society (shown here in all their original glory):
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i regret that violance was the response to your vicious and unprincipalled display of simplistic anti-american grafitti by a loser.
while you richly deserved it, it is not in the american interest that freedom of speech be abrogated. i wonder if you and the members of the press who so delight in this story give a single damn about the american men and women who are going to die as a result of this public airing of dirty laundry. none of you gave a shit about america or americans, only about your selfish right to express yourselves at the cost of blood for others. you have the right, and should not have been injured. but the personal question for you is do you so easily compromise the safety of other americans by your expression that you have forgotten the pain of american families at 9/11. what of the certain fact that these muslim arabs would cheerfully dance in your blood and hang your dismembered body from a bridge as they did with innocent civilians who were helping to rebuild their country. where was your art on that singularly expressive event. with freedom comes responsibility unless your name is john walker and you hide behind your freedom only after you are caught aiding abetting and consorting with murderers. the founders of our nation would have seen what happened to you as simple justice. think on that next time you choose to repudiate america and hang anti-american art. Posted by: PAUL at May 30, 2004 10:11 AM ============== I was quite pleased in reading that the traitor Haigh was dealt a blow from a TRUE AMERICAN. It is a shame that our society would condem our own soldiers before realizing the atrocities handed down by these animal iraqi "soldiers". Our sons and daughters are dying each day while parasites like Cowell show sympathy for them. I do not belive in censorship that of haigh's or that of the TRUE AMERICAN who acted on his right to the persuit of freedom and happieness by expressing his dislike for the un-American work showed by haigh. Posted by: Frank B at May 30, 2004 10:11 AM [Ed. Note: Just in case the bigotry went over someone's head, Frank posts a clarification to his remarks: Just a clarification the them refered to after "Cowell show sympathy" was meant to refer to the iraqi dogs Posted by: Frank at May 30, 2004 10:13 AM Thanks, Frank! We never would have guessed you're a neo-Nazi stooge for the Repugnicant Party without you tossing in some more offensive name-calling...] ============== How stupid are you people? You paint a picture of people that are being tortured, then wonder why you got your ass beat? Look, art is great, my sister is an artist, but she paints landscapes, abstracts, fucking fuzzy kittens. not people being tortured by american soldiers. Are you proud those few soldiers disgraced our country? Are you proud these men and wemon were tortured? You bunch need to rethink who your callin terrorists. People arn't bad becouse they object to these paintings being presented in you front window. They just have commen sence, feelings, they see these pictures all over the news and think how terrible, not hey I should paint that! you call her a hero, I call her a fuckin dumbass. Posted by: Abe at May 30, 2004 10:20 AM ============== I think it's very wrong that you got attacked as you did. I don't think it's the American way to physically attack somebody for their freedom of speech. But you have had your chance to exercise you freedom of speech, now it's my turn. I think it's very wrong that you decided to paint only pictures of American soldiers abusing the prisoners. Posted by: Georgia at May 30, 2004 10:53 AM [Ed. Note: Here's another freedom-hater who thinks she might be misunderstood, so she seeks to clarify her statements: EDITING IN TO SAY.... Posted by: Georgia at May 30, 2004 10:58 AM Would that be the good things you are told about by Faux News, the Vile Pigboy Rush Limbaugh, the poor little rich boy Sean Hannity, or the Savage Wiener? If art was created in proportion to the good things vs. the bad things America has done in Iraq, half the globe would be painted in blood, and Crawford, TX would have one picture of a soldier getting a high-five from the natives...] ============== To me, art is accepting flaws and showing the beauty in something. Personally, I don't think taking scarce flaws and painting a picture of American soldiers in a horrible manner not respected by nearly all other American soldiers or Americans is art at all. Good job of helping to paint all soldiers with one brush. I'm glad you respect artists with controversial views which helped create their success. Hopefully you had some art of American soldiers teaching Iraqi's sports, opening new schools in areas that never had any, making more power available than was before the war, and all the good you probably ignore. 6 people don't represent our entire military; Every group has it's nut cases. Norman Rockwell is a real artist. I can't call a picture like the one you had up art. There is nothing artistic about a few bad apples abusing prisoners. Now, I do understand postive progress in civil rights did come from the minority and it will continue too. However, I hope you had positive artwork of soldiers in your gallery as well. At least this form of American hypocracy is also being delt with by American justice, unlike most abuse in other parts of the world. And finally. Who are you trying to kid? People become so myopic when surrounding themselves with a subculture of their own beliefs. First, you're in SF, notorious for being liberal. This artwork was extremely liberal. You say you respect the artist, which I'm sure you do. However, you ARE in SF and you chose to put this piece of art in the window. Call my crazy, but I happen to think you like the expression of art and like most people you're favorite art is something you connect or agree with. I'm not going to buy your bull that you didn't put 2 and 2 together, give me a break. Congratulations on learning that not everybody in the world is reasonable, in-turn, they can not be delt with reasonably. On a small scale the closing of your store shows how weak liberalism is in the face of challange. In some strange aspect it is artistic in itself. I think it is a symbol of liberalisms misconceptions of dealing with the world. Hopefully people will learn from this. Think of SF as your ivory tower, a place you are safe. Which helps your views and beliefs become myopic. You start to believe the entire world can be delt with by the same rules that apply to your world. Wrong. As soon as you're faced with a challange in your own backyard you tuck tail and run. If you can't use your own beliefs to deal with somebody in your house, how do you expect a country to use your views to deal with radical terrorists or countries? No, I do not want to hear from anybody saying this is art and has nothing to do with politics. That's complete bullshit. Lori is educated, she started a business, and I believe obviously she has political views associated with this picture. The black-eye was crossing the line. Being spit in the face? Well isn't that a form of art and self expression? I mean, if naked abused people is art, or peeing in a jar is art, then spitting in somebodies face IS a form of expression. According to liberal ideals I think that is art. Heck, even the black-eye is art. I mean, I don't consider it art. Now you know what it felt like for Vietnam soldiers who were returning. My dads friends came home, to have their feet stomped on, also spit in the face, ridiculed, and a number of other things. Some commited suicide because they couldn't live with the idea that people thought they were doing wrong. Where is the artistic form of American hypocracy there? I have never seen nor heard of a picture showing how liberal Americans who love to show American-hypocracy abused our own. Listen Lori. I disagree with this artwork. I think people are well aware of what is going on in the world and it doesn't take politically motivated art to get it across. I think these things are radical and off balance. Real americans don't give up their dream or back down in the face of challange. I am not going to apologize for your store closing because if it were me I would keep it open. (I'd probably be a little more smart about how I do business though) If you want to prove that your views can weather the storm, you need to open your store again. You have other options with your kids. Otherwise, go ahead and send a message to the people who helped shut up down that they can win in a city that disagrees with them. I'm sure they will have more courage to put other liberal stores out of business. Open it back up. Amazing, how the media likes to paint their pictures. PS - Reading these posts again actually made me smile. I love the liberal reaction that "there are dark days" and you had a damn ceremony for your store. Have you attended any ceremonies for the troops KIA? How about 9/11? Or were you attending the ceremonies that it is our fault and we deserve it? Thank you for giving me an additional arguement to point out how liberalism will also fail because it thinks it can appaise all people and succeed. Ever wonder why most business owners are conservative? This it's because they are evil conservatives or do you think that MAYBE the conservative principles work? If the horse knocks you off, get back on. Way to teach your kids a lesson! QUIT! Hope you're proud. Posted by: Jason at May 30, 2004 11:01 AM ============== I for one am glad to see this fool run like the liberal scum she is and supports. Hopefully more Americans will take actions to see that this kind of treason is dealt with accordingly. Posted by: Robert T. Gaffney at May 30, 2004 01:02 PM ============== You liberals have way to much free time. Why don't you all try to get real jobs, and actually try to benefit society. Your "art" is rediculous, and your politics are a failure. Posted by: Donald at May 30, 2004 01:55 PM ============== Ahh I just love reading the comments of typical socialist kalifornians. You should all move to north korea. Posted by: joseph stalin at May 30, 2004 11:16 PM ============== Sorry to give you leftwingers the bad news but your darling Lori is a phony. Embezzled over$100k in Tennessee as Lori Capobianco, worked the Catholics for $1.2 million to pay off the embezzlement debt, is way behind on her rent and has a habit of threatening herself and banging her face on the wall. Maybe she can break her lease without penalty if enough people believe this act. Posted by: Right winger at May 30, 2004 11:50 PM ============== The United States of America was founded by tough, gutsy individuals who sought freedom. Through many hardships and ultimately a great loss of life, these patriots finally emerged victorious. They developed the strong, proud nation that I love with all my heart. Our founding fathers would not have considered the perpetrators of hate crimes "True Americans," nor do I. I see them as nothing more than small-minded hoodlums at best. Early Americans fought hard to achieve a society where we're empowered to express ourselves without the threat of persecution. The opposition to Ms. Haigh's decision (and right) to display Mr. Colwell's art, resulting in violence and threats, is reminiscent of the Third Reich. Surely, this isn't appealing to the "True American." Posted by: Mark at May 30, 2004 12:14 PM ============== What about an art show on the Killing of Mr. Pearl or even the painting of Nick Berg getting his head sawed off by a group of islamofasist's done in human blood. Now that would be good. Wake up. Do you think that the people you support with your sympathy will allow you to just get away with a black eye? A woman with your ideas would be dragged into the street and stoned to death by the very people you support. (If you were lucky). Posted by: Raphael V at May 30, 2004 12:51 PM ============== Yes, she had the right to display that 'art'. But she also knew that she did it with a degree of risk. You liberals jump at any chance to display America and Americas in a bad light and many Americans are tired of it. So tired of it, they lash out at those that do it. I'm not supported the threats against her for a minute. But you are the same group of people that think a bullwhip up some guys ass is art. Keep bashing Americans, keep taking every opportunity to make America look bad, keep trying to label Americans as 'facists' and you'll see more of this. Ironic how you liberals will praise the bom |
