The Funny Farm

D'Oh!! Canada

^{Humpday, 29 Shivring 2006}

Russia 2, Canada 0. Zero. Naught. Bugger-all. Bupkis.

When does the NHL start again?

Decablogiversay*

^{Fryday, 25 Shivring 2006}

I finally got around to listening to the BartCop Radio Show 88 final fourth segment. This wondrous fine 37 minute-plus piece of mind candy has completed the latest rant from the Tequila Treehouse in K-Drag. Bart hits most of the keys with his analysis of the sound clips from the usual cast of adult cartoon characters**, and Tommy Mack performs his usual production and editing wizardry in pulling so many musical, spoken word, and homemade miscellaneous sound sources together into an aural collage that makes you think***. Dude, you can throw in as much Jon Stewart as you like into the shows. And as much of the media whores as you can stand, in order to rip them to shreds. You have found lots and lots of obscure music - including a cut from the Seeds in this radio segment - and clips from Meat The Whores This Weak in Washington The McNothingButConservatives Report a sampling of the media whore Sunday morning adult cartoons that some of us wouldn't even know about otherwise. Even a nice Zappa guitar riff or two in the mix, if my ears do not deceive me.

It's also nice to hear from a wide variety of people who read the web site on a regular basis. Bart is now letting anyone call him toll free for two minutes and give him something to think about. Apparently there are a lot of people who have looked at sites like BartCop as a island of sanity in a crazy world full of ditto monkeys for some time now. And he's been at it for over ten years...

So, to sum up [crowd screams with enjoyment!] - BartCop Radio 88 segment four: very nice segues and summing up of BCR show 88, excellent trip reports about places I will be spending my tourist dollars. Subscribe to BartCop Radio for pennies a day and get enough mental sunshine to face the dreariness of the Dark Lord Deadeye Dick and the rest of the Imperial Executroids for another year or two. If only we had a people who were more concerned with dying soldiers and less concerned with drying sperm. And congratulations to BartCop for ten years of giving ditto monkeys the red ass!

* - (y!wctw!) the modified version of blogiversary (y!tlctw!)****, at least...

** - I hearken back to the classical days of the WWF with the Macho Man and the Hulk and the British Bulldogs and all of the bad Ay-Rabs, when we had the good fortune to hear them all put out an album or two and treat us to their musical stylings. I always used to kid my dad that the characters he watches on those Sunday morning shows look very similar to the characters ranting on the wrestling shows, and the scripted parts of the show had a lot of common themes.

*** - although I have to agree with his two main points at the end of the segment - always back up your sensitive, mission-critical computer information, and never let your radio production engineer tell a joke at the end of the program.

**** - at least, according to skippy, who of course started a prototype of the google bomb when he coined blogtopia, and added a (y!sctw!) (yes! skippy coined that word!) link in a number of his blog posts.

CheneyQuidDick

^{Humpday, 22 Shivring 2006}

Was Pencil Dick inebriated when he shot his fellow hunter on the weekend? Since there were no sobriety tests done at the scene of the crime, we'll never know...

Thanks to Maru at WTF Is it Now? for the link to this pic...

A Shot In The Dark

^{Sunday, 20 Shivring 2006}

A funny set of coincidences took place over the weekend:

The Vice pResident of the United States shot someone on Saturday. For some strange reason, there were no blood tests done to determine whether the shooter was in some sort of impaired state. In fact, aside from informing Karl Rove, who then informed the Chimperor, there was not much of anything done at all on the day of the accident. No detaining in a holding cell. No messy questions from law enforcement officers to answer. No charges brought. No bail required. Funny, that... I wonder what would happen if a regular ordinary guy shot one of his "buddies" while hunting. Would they possibly check to see, and then verify, that the shooter was not impaired at the time? Would they possibly check for some sort of foul play?

The details about the person shot seem to be a little hazy, too, and some of them don't quite pass the smell test. Some reports say it was "over 10" pellets from a shotgun that hit the incidental target. Some say it was over 200. Some say the incidental target was hit at a range of 30 yards. Some say it was 30 feet. Some say that the shootee is doing fine in a hospital bed and is safely out of harm's way. Some others say that he barely made it out of the ICU and into a regular hospital bed.

Some who seem to have a bit of knowledge on the subject say that, if it was over 200 (out of about 300) pellets in that shotgun shell that caused the collateral damage, it would most definitely have had to be unloaded in an improper direction from about 30 feet. And some who have seen the results of a shotgun blast at a range of thirty feet say that the unintended target would be lucky to be functioning.

Ruh roh - it looks like somebody is not recovering quite as well as previously thought. It seems that some gunshot pellets lodged in a 78-year old man's heart have caused some sort of heart failure. Somehow that still seems to be the victim's fault in this case - as it miraculously seems to be whenever the perpetrator is a Repugnicant. I'm shocked, absolutely shocked, by this turn of events!

I wonder: if this guy dies, will that be his fault too? Will there be any sort of legal action taken against the person who accidentally blew half of the guy away a few days ago? Will there be any sort of outcry about another White House executroid who has taken someone else's life while in office?

Inquiring minds want to know...

Thnks to Rook's Rant for finding this picture.

Shameless

^{Humpday, 15 Shivring 2006}

In an amazing display of chutzpah (and, for this junta, that's really saying something), BabyDoc Putsch smuggles his failed Social Security cash grab reform into the budget after congress and the american people told him to go Cheney himself and leave SocSec alone. Hmmm. Anyone see a pattern here?

What do you do with a sitting congresscritter who's being prosecuted for improprieties when handing out tainted money to those in his party? If you're the Repugnicants, you let him dole out even more money. Just in case you think they couldn't go any lower...

And what do you do if somebody dares to show the public that you're full of kimchee when you try and rush the United states into an unjust, un-called-for war? You leak classified information about a covert CIA operative they're married to to the press. What is this legality thing that you speak of? It's can't be illegal by definition if a soulless Repugnicant does it - at least according to those in charge these days who are trying to rewrite the rules.

Finally, it just warms one's heart to see the United States Attorney General engage in obfuscation, and refuse to answer questions because he feels he don't need to answer to nobody. Such a wonderful example for the children! As well as a shining beacon of clarity, honesty, and straightforwardness whose conduct everyone would be proud to emulate.

Praise Koresh the week is all downhill from here...

Super Handjob

^{Fryday, 11 Shivring 2005}

Well, I have watched more than enough of this Super Bowl To see that the powers that be want Pittsburgh to win this game. The Roethlisburger "touchdown" didn't make it into the end zone, I saw three linemen holding on the pass to Hines Ward that set it up, and the offensive pass interference call on the first Seattle touchdown had to have been one of the worst calls I have ever seen in a football game. And I've seen a lot of them...

It's too bad, really. The only point of interest now is the commercials - and that's not enough to keep me watching this travesty. If you're going to hand the Super Bowl to the Steelers, then just do it and be done with it.

By the way, did anyone else notice that the commercials with players and coaches talking about how much the super Bowl means to them were all Steelers? What an amazing coincidence. Almost like somebody had decided before the game even started that the Steelers were going to win...

Update 8:57PM Eastern: I turned the Cheneying game on again for a brief moment, to see if I could catch any other cool commercials (boy oh boy would I like to have one of those magic fridges!). Guess which play was the first one that I saw? That's right - the 74-yard interception that has led to Seattle's first touchdown. Not that I'm saying that weird happenings like that (turning the dial to a game to see one of the defining plays of that game as soon as I turn it on) happen to happen to me all the time. Except that they do with startling frequency...