We May Have A Trifecta In The Works...

So, remember my mentioning the Australian kid who got Miss Universe 2004 to be his prom date?



He may have started a trend.



Because a DIFFERENT Australian kid has just gotten Miss Universe 2006 to be HIS prom date.



I can only say one thing about this, as it seems wildly unlikely, and yet it happened:



Pack up, honey, we're moving to Australia. Then, we're going to buy lotto tickets.

Now, THAT's Funny.

Not work- or family- safe, though.



Anyway, without futher ado, the "Fucking Short" version of the comedy classic, The Big Lebowski.




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...And They Wonder Why...

The media loves to portray those of us who disagree with them politically as "evil right-wingers, rife with paranoia."



I'd like to set the record straight. I'm not a right wing anything. I actually think both American political parties are full of corruption, idiocy, and general malfeasance, which I suppose is the inevitable result of a hereditary aristocracy. (Think it's not? Explain the Kennedys, then.)



But my distrust of the media isn't rooted solely in politics, per se; it's rooted in the fact that in service of their politics, journalists are willing to lie openly to the public, so long as it serves their agenda. This didn't used to be the case; in the past, the media was much more honest, or at least better at not getting caught.



I'm not alone in my disgust with the media. Even Mary Katherine Ham, writing for the Townhall.com site, had plenty to say about the subject.

Does the mainstream press ever wonder why conservatives distrust them so much?



If so, they need look no further than the “fauxtography” scandals of the last couple of weeks. Conservative bloggers have been hard at work sniffing out suspected fakery and staging in the photos sent back on the newswires from the Israel/Hezbollah conflict, and the investigation got pretty smelly.

This article sums it up nicely, I think; the MSM got busy faking news to support their agenda, they got caught red-handed, and now they're trying to pass this, too, off as the actions of "a few extremists."



It makes me honestly wonder how long the excuse of "a few extremists" will continue to suffice as a justification for something that is obviously systemic, pervasive, and persistent in nature, despite the repeatedly noisy denials of the MSM.

So, Ok, Torture's Not Funny, Buuuuuut......

...forcing Saddam Hussein to watch himself get assraped by Satan in the South Park MOVIE, over and over again, sure is.



And that's apparently exactly what his prison guards are doing.



Excuse me for a second.



ROFL.



*Dashes away a happy tear.*



Haaaaa, sorry about that.



So, anyway, torture is wrong, and evil. You shouldn't do it.



[*Edited to correct for clarity: it's the South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut MOVIE. I PROMISE. And by the way: NEENER.*]

More Fun With Hamas!

I'm sure you've all been waiting for me to come up with something political to rant about.

Wait no more!

Jesse Jackson is spending his time, and his adherents' money, hanging out in Gaza, meeting with Hamas leaders.
I would like to say, to everyone that is fooled by this, that the man is a fraud.

He does not care about his constituents, and in fact is willing to travel halfway around the world, at their expense, to meet with terrorists.

This no doubt advances the cause of "colored" people in America in some way that I'm not equipped to understand, considering I'm actually against terrorism.

If your premise is that you want to advance the role of black people in America, Mr. Jackson, then do so. Do so by staying here, in this country, doing things that will help. Raising the minimum wage isn't one of those; meeting with terrorists isn't one of those; traveling the world on the cheritable contributions of your gullible adherents isn't one of those.

Feeding the hungry IS.
Finding jobs for the unemployed IS.
Assisting the uneducated in receiving an education, so they can work for better pay, IS.

Your continued willingness to meet with, and accord legitimacy to, terrorist organizations like Hamas, the PLO, Hezbollah, and the entire government of Iran, merely indicates that your agenda is not as advertised. If you aren't out to improve the lot in life of black people in America, then what, I wonder, IS your goal?

Explain, please.

So, I Get Home From Work, And This Is What I Find...

The following picture, set to the desktop:







The middle reads: "Yeah, yeah, it's girly and cheesy. But I'm a girl, and I'm cheesy. And even if it's girly and cheesy it's still true. So neener."





I love you too, Tara.

Question: Asked, And Answered

So, Sheila, in a stroke of utter, stark coolness, decided earlier to add my page full of erstwhile ramblings to her feed list.



I said something along the lines of "I'm honored, and thank you," and thought this was great.



And then she and I noticed that the feed only showed entries since July 8th.



Oddly, I have posted quite a few times since then.



WTF?!?



So, I went to look at the feed, and see if I could figure out exactly what was the problem THIS time.



Turns out, Yahoo! 360 only adds posts NOT marked "Mature Content" to their feeds. Since I set my blog to default as Mature Content after the events of July, all my posts since then? Gone.



The best part? After unchecking that particular option, and doing some digging, I discovered that entries marked Mature Content STAY that way - even if you don't want them to, and they in fact contain nothing whatsoever that's objectionable.



That stinks, but mystery solved.