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The Adventures Of Cpl Kermit — Iraq 2007 March 30th, 2007


I didn’t realize that Kermit the Frog signed up and is now serving his country in Iraq. But this video proves it. Amazing. Set to Guns ‘n Roses’ “Welcome To The Jungle.”

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Car With 40 Inch Rims March 27th, 2007

Car With 40 Inch Rims
WHY?

More and more car are showing up with the latest fad — larger rims with narrow sidewall tires. If someone would explain the appeal, I’d appreciate it. I fail to see the appeal. To me, it looks incredibly stupid.

B.C. On God’s Love March 25th, 2007

Today’s B.C. comic strip by Johnny Hart really hits home.

BC Comic Strip, March 25, 2007

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Houdini’s Body To Be Exhumed? March 23rd, 2007

Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini

From the AP:

Eighty-one years after Houdini died on Halloween 1926, his great-nephew wants to exhume the magician’s body to determine if enemies poisoned him for debunking their bogus claims of contact with the dead.

“His death shocked the entire nation, if not the world. Now, maybe it’s time to take a second look,” George Hardeen said.

Houdini’s family scheduled a news conference for Friday to give details on the plans. Hardeen said a team of top forensic investigators would conduct new tests on Houdini’s body.

My prediction?

They’ll open the casket and discover Houdini’s body missing and find instead David Blaine and Criss Angel inside fighting over who gets credit for “magically” getting into the coffin.

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Finding Nemo? March 3rd, 2007

Nemo sushiComputer
Just too funny…

How To Shut Someone Up On A Plane (Or Maybe Not) March 2nd, 2007

First of all I have to credit Planck’s Constant for the heads up on this humorous item (and PC got it from Sean Kennedy’s Journal). From Planck’s Constant:

You’re trying to read the in-flight magazine or just quietly enjoy listening to The Jim Dorsey Band’s rendition of “Green Eyes” [NOTE FROM CARL: I probably would be listening to Madness, Jimmy Buffett, The Meters, Bowling For Soup and a whole host of other artists rather than Jimmy Dorsey — I like big band music but not enough to put on my ipod] on your iPod when the guy sitting next to you on the plane starts talking to you, won’t shut up or stop yammering.

So what to do? Well, with a tip of the turban to Sean Kennedy’s Journal for the solution:

Simply follow these easy directions:

1 very calmly open your laptop case
2 quietly and calmly get the laptop out of your case
3 power the laptop up
4 make sure that your neighbour can see the screen
5 close your eyes
6 lift your head to heaven
7 move your lips as if you are praying
and

8 Click Here

Now I think this is quite funny but I seriously and sincerely don’t recommend actually doing this on a plane. Although it’s technically not illegal, I can imagine the passenger completely freaking out causing the stewards to freak out causing the pilots to freak out causing the plane to be diverted to the nearest airport causing the person pulling this little stunt to be detained, featured on cable news and other unpleasantries. Plus if the plane lands in Boston, Boston police would probably blow up the plane with you in it (based upon their recently history of overreactions to various items).

Blue Man Britney? February 23rd, 2007

Blue Man Britney [Spears]
Britney Spears Joins Blue Man Group?

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Civil War Part 2 February 21st, 2007

I’m not sure how to take this video however it’s worth it just for the cheesy “Thriller” spoof portion. However you take it, don’t take it seriously.


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Separated At Birth? February 20th, 2007

Separated At Birth - Britney Spears & Golum

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In Honor Of President’s Day February 19th, 2007

President Bush Boards Marine One

In honor of President’s Day, Butch over at 123beta shares a poignant story about President Bush. Enjoy.

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The 1/2 Hour News Hour February 18th, 2007

'President' Rush Limbaugh
“President” Rush Limbaugh

Tonight at 10pm EST marks the debut of Fox News’ new comedy/satire show The 1/2 Hour News Hour. With most all comedy shows on television being controlled by people with a marked liberal bent, it will be interesting how Fox’s foray into political and social satire will turn out. Already reaction is interesting. The Radio Equalizer blog reports mixed reviews with the Washington Post’s Tom Shales giving it a surprisingly good review while it was torn to shreds at the conservative Hot Air site. Also The Radio Equalizer has a video preview introduced by Sean Hannity featuring a look into the future where the President of the United States is Rush Limbaugh, something that would probably give many liberal extremists a coronary. If it doesn’t then the appearance of the “Vice-President” surely will.

UPDATE: I watched the show and with the exception of the Limbaugh/Coulter skit and one joke early on in the show, the humor was a bit flat. It seemed too forced. The ACLU fake ads were sharp and made their points well, but it could have been done better. The running gag concerning the scheduled appearance of Ed Begley, Jr. really fell flat and wasn’t funny at all. Cute, but not funny. And definitely not worth being a running gag. The delivery by the two co-hosts was stiff and over-acted and at times reminded me of public high school acting class performers. It has potential but the first show really didn’t hit the mark it was aiming for. I will see if it improves on the second show. Anyway, that’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it.

UPDATE 2: Ratings numbers are in and The 1/2 Hour News Hour did remarkably well. According to a TVNewser report:

The heavily-promoted premiere delivered 499,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo and 1,478,000 total viewers.

The show gained about 170,000 demo and around 300,000 total viewers from its lead-in. Half the viewers immediately tuned out, giving The Line Up just 231,000 demo and 787,000 viewers at 10:30pm.

Even though the reviews have been mixed, the show’s debut pulled in quite a few viewers. Let’s see how much future shows do.

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Fauxtograph Of Iraqi Police Training Methods February 16th, 2007

archers
Iraqi Police Seen During High-Tech Weapons Training
–AP Fauxto

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Peyton Manning January 16th, 2007

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Peyton Manning, after living a full life, died.

When he got to heaven, God was showing him around.

They came to a modest little house with a faded Colts flag in the window.

“This house is yours for eternity, Peyton,” said God, “This is very special; not everyone gets a house up here.”

Peyton felt special, indeed, and walked up to his house. On his way up the porch, he noticed another house just around the corner. It was a 3-story mansion with a black and gold sidewalk, a 50 foot tall flagpole with an enormous Saints logo flag, and in every window, a New Orleans Saints towel.

Peyton looked at God and said “God, I’m not trying to be ungrateful, but I have a question. I was an all-pro QB, I hold many NFL records, and I even went to the Hall of Fame.”

God said “So what’s your point Peyton?”

“Well, why does Drew Brees get a better house than me?”

God chuckled, and said “Peyton, that’s not Drew’s house, it’s mine.”

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Are You Taking Strange And Wacky College Courses? Can’t Beat These! January 11th, 2007

The Young America’s Foundation has compiled their annual list of “America’s most bizarre and politically correct college courses” and it’s pretty shocking. Here’s their “dirty dozen.”

12. Swarthmore College’s Nonviolent Responses to Terrorism “deconstruct[s] terrorism” and “build[s] on promising nonviolent procedures to combat today’s terrorism.” The “non-violent” struggle Blacks pursued in the 1960s is outlined as a mode for tackling today’s terrorism.

11. Duke University’s American Dreams/American Realities course seeks to unearth “such myths as ‘rags to riches,’ ‘beacon to the world,’ and the ‘frontier,’ in defining the American character.”

10. Cornell University’s Cyberfeminism investigates “the emergence of cyberfeminism in theory and art in the context of feminism/post feminism and the accelerated technological developments of the last thirty years of the twentieth century.”

9. Johns Hopkins University offers Mail Order Brides: Understanding the Philippines in Southeast Asian Context, which is a supposedly deep look into Filipino kinship and gender.

8. Native American Feminisms at the University of Michigan looks at the development of “Native feminist thought” and its “relationship both to Native land-based struggles and non-Native feminist movements.”

7. Whiteness: The Other Side of Racism is Mount Holyoke College’s attempt to analyze race. The class seeks to spark thought on: “What is whiteness?” “How is it related to racism?” “What are the legal frameworks of whiteness?” “How is whiteness enacted in everyday practice?” And how does whiteness impact the “lives of whites and people of color?”

6. Border Crossings, Borderlands: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Immigration is University of Washington’s way of exploring the immigration debate. The class allegedly unearths what is “highlighted and concealed in contemporary public debates about U.S. immigration” policy.

5. Occidental College — making the list twice for the second year in a row — offers Blackness, which elaborates on a “new blackness,” “critical blackness,” “post-blackness,” and an “unforgivable blackness,” which all combine to create a “feminist New Black Man.”

4. Students enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania’s Adultery Novel read a series of 19th and 20th century works about “adultery” and watch “several adultery films.” Students apply “various critical approaches in order to place adultery into its aesthetic, social and cultural context, including: sociological descriptions of modernity, Marxist examinations of family as a social and economic institution” and “feminist work on the construction of gender.”

3. Amherst College in Massachusetts offers Taking Marx Seriously: “Should Marx be given another chance?” Students in this class are asked to question if Marxism still has “credibility,” while also inquiring if societies can gain new insights by “returning to [Marx’s] texts.” Coming to Marx’s rescue, this course also states that Lenin, Stalin, and Pol Pot misapplied the concepts of Marxism.

2. Queer Musicology at the University of California-Los Angeles explores how “sexual difference and complex gender identities in music and among musicians have incited productive consternation” during the 1990s. Music under consideration includes works by Schubert and Holly Near, Britten and Cole Porter, and Pussy Tourette.

And the number one most bizarre and politically correct college course in America as determined by Young America’s Foundation is:

1. Occidental College’s The Phallus covers a broad study on the relation “between the phallus and the penis, the meaning of the phallus, phallologocentrism, the lesbian phallus, the Jewish phallus, the Latino phallus, and the relation of the phallus and fetishism.”

It seems to me like all of these are courses created out of thin air with little to no backing fact checking by tenured professors in order to avoid having to actually teach legitimate and substantive information to students. A waste of tuition.

Young America’s Foundation Spokesman Jason Mattera remarks, “The Dirty Dozen demonstrates that professors still have an obsession with dividing people on the basis of their skin color, sexuality, and gender. They also can’t seem to shake off a strong admiration for Karl Marx and his murderous ideology — apparently the 100-plus million totalitarian regimes have murdered over the years is not enough?!”

Other courses that could have easily made the list (”Dishonorable Mentions“) include UC-Berkeley’s Sex Change City: Theorizing History in Genderqueer San Francisco; Cornell University’s Sex, Rugs, Salt, & Coal; Hollins University’s Drag: Theories of Transgenderism and Performance; and Hollins University’s Lesbian Pulp Fiction.

According to Christian Post Reporter Lillian Kwon the conservative foundation further cited recent studies that found only one in four Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment while more than half can name at least two family members of “The Simpsons.” Also, only 31 percent of college grads could read and comprehend complex books and 40 percent of college students need remedial work in math and English.

In an op-ed piece published in the L.A. Times, author Charlotte Allen wrote, in part:

The problem that the Young America’s Foundation list, first issued in 1995, highlights isn’t simply the hollowing-out of the traditional humanities and social sciences disciplines at colleges and their replacement by crude indoctrination sessions in whatever is ideologically fashionable — although that’s a serious issue. At Occidental, for instance, it seems nearly impossible to study any field, save for the hard sciences, that doesn’t include “race, class and gender” among its topics. Even the Shakespeare course at Occidental this semester focuses on “cultural anxieties over authority, race, colonialism and religion” during the age of the Bard.

The bigger problem is that too much of American higher education has lost any notion of what its students ought to know about the ideas and people and movements that created the civilization in which they live: Who Plato was or what happened at Appomattox.

Instead of the carefully crafted core programs that once guided students through the basics of literature, philosophy, history and the social sciences, most colleges now offer smorgasbords of unrelated classes for their students to sample in order to fulfill requirements. And the professors stock the smorgasbords with whatever the theorists they idolize tells them is the new new thing.

And our University system is laughed at by the rest of the world? Gee, I wonder why?

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Boudreaux And The Devil January 9th, 2007

Boudreaux's Country Store

Boudreaux died and was on his way down to Hell. In anticipation, the Devil turned up the thermostat to make it extra warm for Boudreaux. When Boudreaux arrived, the Devil asked, “Hey Boudreaux, how do you like the heat down here?”

Boudreaux says, “Mais, it’s jes’ fine. It reminds me of Bayou PonPon in July.”

That made the Devil mad. That night, he turned the thermostat up all the way it could go. Man it was hot! When Boudreaux woke up, the Devil asked him, “NOW how do you like it down here?”

Boudreaux says, “Mais, it’s fine. It reminds me of August on Bayou Lafourche.”

As you might expect, that made the Devil all the more mad. Well, that night, he turned the thermostat down all the way it could go! The whole place frosted over. Icicles started forming from the rafters. When Boudreaux woke up, the Devil asked him, “How you like it NOW, Boudreaux?”

Boudreaux, shivering, through blue lips, says, “Mais cher, I’m one happy Cajun!”

The Devil was infuriated! He yelled, “What do you mean you’re one happy Cajun?!!”

Boudreaux, still shivering says, “The Saints done won the Superbowl!”

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