Tuesday, 8 Reckning 2012
 |
If the Gods existDo you think they would createHell on earth for us?
|
Recently in Humor Category
Sunday, 9 Goodenuf 2012
Through the magic of the internets, I have been most privileged to be able to listen to radio stations from quite a few far away places. And, right as I am putting this post together, I am listening to CHOM-FM in Montreal, Canada, and their morning show describe an April Fool's prank by WestJet Airlines:
And then talking to the person responsible at WestJet Airlines - in Calgary, Alberta - and giving away a trip anywhere in Canada on WestJet.
There are two things I would like the studio audience (such as it is) to note regarding the wonders of the Great White North:
- point the first: this is not the first time WestJet has put together a commercial to be broadcast on April Fools' Day that was a tres bon prank. Here's another that I found on YouTube:
- point the second: up in the Great White North, things are both more relaxed and more stringent at the same time. It is relatively common for Canadians to watch their elected officials interact with the media, and it continually amazes me to see the things that happen there that would never take place in the american media. On the other hand, if one of the 99 per cent gets a little bit out of place, civil liberties can take a flying leap into the nearest snowbank.
As always, if you wish to comment on this post, please email me, as the spambots find and overwhelm my blog posts within an hour, so comments are closed until I can find a way to address the issue.
Sunday, 15 Premise 2012
 |
 |
Friday, 12 Premise 2012
About that blogging thing - it seems to me that the whole writering thing is not going to be feasable within a survival-mode lifestyle. At least that is the way I feel about it these days. Especially with the tremendous amount of feedback (cough) that has gotten through the cone of spammy silence I've put up around the funny Farm.
But, hey - I'm not here to ask you (again) to help me get through the Bush Depression. I might not be here soon at all if we get a Chinese-style internets policy like the one percent are trying to put in place.
I'm here to tout Get Your censor On, the latest effort by David Rees (I hope - I didn't see, during my brief mad scan before posting this, any accreditation for David* - that this is something he's put together). He has a ton of good stuff up already, and you can monitor his newest material through a new entry in the links zone over to the left. For as long as they let any and/or all of us stay on the internets.
A couple of haikus in honor of Get Your censor On:
Careful what you say - No more free speech internets Unless you gots coin Super toll thruway Gets you better internet Got to pay to play |
Go haiku yourself!
* - then again, I don't do Facebook and the Twitter so I didn't check out the facebook info associated with the Get Your censor On page...
Humpday, 3 Premise 2012
Hopefully this won't go the way of so many blog posts over the past year or so - a few graphs tossed out and then tossed away. But I'm running out of options and time, and I might as well put something down before the whole house of cards falls apart.
First of all, thanks to Marc Perkel for hosting this web site for me for free for the last few years - since I was laid off in 2009, I believe. Marc, please email me so's I can talk to you about the ongoing helping hand you've been giving me.
Second of all, thanks to the wonderful bloggers in my links zone for saying what needs to be said and pointing out the severe and persistent lies and hypocrisy foibles of the Republicants, the mainstream media, and the Democrats while they erode away what's left of the middle class and toss them into the bucket of crabs that is life in the less respectable areas of town. In particular, Hullabaloo, the Rude Pundit, and alicublog have been of immense help in fighting the gradually worsening depression that comes from trying to survive through the Bush Depression whilst being unable to find gainful employment in the real world. Was it something I said?
Third of all, thanks to the small and upcoming (warning: Google Chrome doesn't think this site is safe) businesses who have given me some small rays of hope and a bit of cash in my pocket since the unenjoyment ran out in October 2010. I don't really want to get into the details of how some (cough) businesses in this Cheneyed-up world pay cash under the table to their workers - especially as I am hoping to get more of said cash and don't want anyone to get into any trouble over it - other than to say I am intimitely aware that such businesses exist, and how they do business.
There is hope that I will be able to help in getting a mini hydro power station set up during the year, and some in my immediate circle have been making vague noises about installing solar and wind power. So the official business (which still does not have an official web site) and my official current position as starving up and coming CEO of a renewable energy consulting company might provide some small amount of gainful employment over the next twelve months.
Last (but most certainly not least), thanks to all of the family and friends who have offered their support should things become desperate enough that I would require it. Everyone (that I'm talking about here, I don't really know any really wealthy people) has been being squeezed and stressed by the Bush Depression for years. A lot of good people have snapped under the pressure, and most of us are getting close to fraying their last nerves. I'm not sure, from day to day, whether it's encouraging or frustratingly disappointing that I am managing to keep it together, and that I am making out better than most these days. All I can say is hopefully we can all help each other get through this mess and get to a world of hope and promise for most of the humans on the planet.
I'm not really sure how long and how much the desire to put forth more bloggy goodness will last. For now, I will leave you with a few haikus I put together for the Rude Pundit end of year haiku retrospective:
Where did the coin go? Rich got richer - poor got screwed History repeats. Class warfare has been The bane of humanity Since the dawn of time. Where to go from here? Is it time for the pitchforks? Or better Soma? |
Go haiku yourself!
Saturday, 29 Wintring 2011
 |
 |
Humpday, 27 Falltring 2011
Last night's Daily Show was most awesome, and I was talking to one of my Canadian friends* and telling him that I would be imbedding it into my website for his (and his fellow Canadians) viddying pleasure.
Little did I know...
It turns out that imbedding infotainment content from Comedy Central in order to show it to my friends in the Great White North is more involved than meets the eye - The Comedy Network in Canada has the rights to broadcasting (among other things) The Daily Show in Canada as well as hosting the streaming video content in Canada. Which means that anyone trying to watch yesterday's Daily Show in Canada has to go to the Comedy Network to do it, and anyone not in Canada has to go to Comedy Central.
I have watched the online version of the show (they cut off Granholm's extended interview in the 'exclusive' online version - after making you watch the entire portion of the interview that was broadcast again in that exclusive extra clip only available online - just sayin' you could've shown us the whole interview instead of loading the edited broadcast interview twice and then cutting off the rest) using Comedy Central's feed. I cannot check that I have the proper web address on the Comedy Network until I get up to Canada again, and the lack of funds not available due to my living not paycheck to not paycheck for the last year or so curtails my traipsing off to the Great White North and verifying web links for the studio audience.
Hope you like the show no matter where you are watching it from.
* - Like, How's it goin', eh?
Tuesday, 16 Promise 2011
It's been almost a month now, and the wound is still fresh...
 |
...but I think I'll recover. I hope my good friend Doc up the Great White North will be able to hold up under the strain of having a son who's a Bruins fan who's had to put up with years of taunting from Habs fans. Plus, also, too - if the NHL has some sort of work stoppage, the Bruins could have the Cup for more than a year! The horror!
I also stumbled upon this whilst surfing the internets of late:
 |
Sunday, 28 Reckning 2011
...from some of my friends in the Great White North who might be suffering some buyers' remorse at this point in time:
GOOD TIMING ALWAYS HELPS! While walking down the street one day a "Member of Parliament" is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. “Welcome to heaven,” says St. Peter. “Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you.” “No problem, just let me in,” says the man. “Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity.” “Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,” says the M.P. “I'm sorry, but we have our rules just like you have yours.” And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him. Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people. They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne. Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly and nice guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go. Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises. The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him. “Now it's time to visit heaven.” So, the M.P. spends 24 hours joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns. “Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity.” The M.P. reflects for a minute, then he answers: “Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell.” So St. Peter escorts him to the lift and he goes down, down, down to hell. The doors of the lift open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and rubbish. He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more rubbish falls from above. The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. “I don't understand,” stammers the M.P. “Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of rubbish and my friends look miserable. What happened?” The devil looks at him, smiles and says, “Yesterday we were campaigning. Today you voted.” |
Thanks to my good friend Stu who passed this along to me and another friend after he received it from his sister in B.C.
I'm starting my own business, and I need your help more than ever. Please email me if you want to donate to this blog. |
Please support our advertisers!  |
Funny Farm Links Zone
Church Of The Afternoon Nap
Get Your Censor On
Bartcop
Crooks and Liars
MyDD
Americablog
Unclaimed Territory
Common Dreams News Center
Alternet
Move On
Buzzflash
Tom Paine
Suburban Guerilla
The Rude Pundit
The Hollywood Liberal
Bark Bark Woof Woof
The Smirking Chimp
Democratic Underground
3AM Magazine
Pacific Views
Scoobie Davis
Sadly, No!
Needlenose
ZendaBlog
Alas, a Blog
Bob Harris
ShakesVille
Blondesense
Mad Kane's Political Madness
Mad Kane
Follow Me Here
Maru (WTF is it Now?)
David Byrne's Journal
Fishwars Blog
Balloon Juice
Pharyngula
The Left Coaster
StoutDemBlog
Michael Moore
The Anti-Rush
Fark
No More Mister Nice Blog
World O'Crap
alicublog
The Talking Dog
Dogged Blog
Preemptive Karma
The Church of the Sub-Genius
The Sideshow
The Hammer of the Blogs
Sisyphus Shrugged
Fafblog
Make the World a Better Place
The Vidiot is pissed!
Rook's Rant
Political Animal
All Facts and Opinions
Wind Intell
Solar Intell
Dohiyi Mir
What Would Jack Do?
Modulator
Prometheus 6
Red Meat
Rick Mercer
|
|
TTLB Communities
Ecosystem Traffic Rankings
TLB Blog Showcase
TLB Funny Farm Linkage
[Shameless Self=Promotion: I'd really like to evolve to a higher form of life...]
BlogDex
AltaVista Funny Farm linksrpt
Web Clock
Debt Clock
Other Interesting Ads
9-11 Timeline: Unanswered Questions
Let the Eagle Soar
(brace your ears!)
Idiot son of an A$$hole
Helping the Terrorists
Technical Difficulties
Take Back The Media Flash
Grand Old Party Flash
Detroit Project Commercials
Headshots
George
Shameless Self Promotion
Zen Jeopardy
Recent Comments