Archive for August, 2007
Satire: A Child’s Guide To United States Foreign Policy [July 19, 2003]
Flashback to 2003, amusing read today. Follow the link at the bottom, there’s much more!
Q: Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?
A: Because they had weapons of mass destruction honey.
Q: But the inspectors didn’t find any weapons of mass destruction.
A: That’s because the Iraqis were hiding them.
Q: And that’s why we invaded Iraq?
A: Yep. Invasions always work better than inspections.
Q: But after we invaded them, we STILL didn’t find any weapons of mass destruction, did we?
A: That’s because the weapons are so well hidden. Don’t worry, we’ll find something, probably right before the 2004 election.
Q: Why did Iraq want all those weapons of mass destruction?
A: To use them in a war, silly.
Q: I’m confused. If they had all those weapons that they planned to use in a war, then why didn’t they use any of those weapons when we went to war with them?
A: Well, obviously they didn’t want anyone to know they had those weapons, so they chose to die by the thousands rather than defend themselves.
Q: That doesn’t make sense Daddy. Why would they choose to die if they had all those big weapons to fight us back with?
Satire: A Child’s Guide To United States Foreign Policy [July 19, 2003]
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Pulmonary Plaque Pleasures
Cravings for an Angus ThickBurger or a sack of Krystals arise from the deepest reaches of my gut on occasion. Other than that, I’m not a huge Fast Food fan. I tripped over an amusing site describing fast food taste experiments that I probably performed as a teen. These guys detail some interesting creations such as the Triple Threat; a Big Mac, a Whopper, and a Wendy’s Classic all piled into a heart attack inducing monstrosity.
Linkage: Fast Food Fever
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Alice In Chains Fantasy Football Challenge
Up for a challenge this football season? Correctly answer the trivia questions and you may play fantasy football against Alice In Chains.
On September 6, the NFL is kicking off another season of pigskin action and we here at AliceInChains.com have decided to join in on the fun by organizing a fantasy football league. This league will see eight lucky fans pit their football knowledge (and luck) against Jerry, Mike and The Baldy’s expertise. All fantasy football league players will receive limited-edition Alice in Chains jerseys and the member with the most points will win an autographed guitar. That lucky person and two runner-ups will also receive a football autographed by the band members.
If you want to be a player in our fantasy football league, you need to first complete our fantasy football trivia contest. Everyone who correctly answers all 12 questions found below (and is over the age of 18) will be entered into a draw to become a player in the AliceInChains.com Fantasy Football League. On August 23, we’ll pick a total of 10 names (eight players and two alternates just in case one of our original eight flakes out). Those individuals will be contacted that same day with instructions on how to pick their players for the league.
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Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism
Excellent read, follow the link for all fourteen.
FOURTEEN CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM
Dr. Lawrence Britt, a political scientist, wrote an article about fascism which appeared in Free Inquiry magazine, a journal of humanist thought. Dr. Britt studied the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile). He found the regimes all had 14 things in common, and he calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The article is titled “Fascism Anyone?,” and appears in Free Inquiry’s Spring 2003 issue on page 20.The 14 characteristics are:
1.. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism – Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2.. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights – Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to ‘look the other way’ of even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3.. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause – The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe; racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists; terrorists, etc.
4.. Supremacy of the Military – Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
FOURTEEN CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM
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Indian cops go bananas over necklace thief | Oddly Enough | Reuters
Swallow the evidence! 40 bananas and it still hasn’t come out. Next up, the rubber gloves.
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) – Indian police forced a thief to gobble down 40 bananas in a few hours, hoping they would force him to excrete a gold necklace he had snatched and swallowed.Sheikh Mohsin, 35, grabbed the 45,000-rupee (546 pounds) necklace from a woman in the eastern city of Kolkata on Friday and popped it into his mouth when police and local residents caught him.
Indian cops go bananas over necklace thief | Oddly Enough | Reuters
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Kevin Smith Owns a Heckler
He’s at Comicon, so the wierdo’s will come out. This is a great example of why geeks shouldn’t try to pimp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou2mVnElp6c
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Google Wants
Posting a suggestion to Google seems rather tough to do. I can’t find a product suggestion link at Google or in the Labs. One product I am surprised they have not developed is a document summarizer. I’ve used Copernic’s before, but I refuse to pay the $80 registration fee for personal use. Surfing the web, I often come across long documents and I want to just get the key the concepts out of the document. Copernic Summarizer does this task very well. Google already has the logic created, just no interface to use it. Identifying concepts of a document is part of Google’s algorithm. So I post the request here. I think it would be a great addition to Google Docs.
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Eagles Fans Invade the Alamodome
Eagles fans, we are a rowdy bunch.
Props to VoodooChili over at the EMB.
ENEMIES IN THEIR MIDST: Six guys wearing Eagles jerseys, including a red No. 5 for Donovan McNabb, were loudly booed when they arrived. They responded with a chant of “E-A-G-L-E-S,” which was countered by repeated chants of “Eagles (Stink),” even after the group left.
And here’s video. MyFoxDFW
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Weird quotes & quotations
Quotes that remind me of how simple and natural life should be.
“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
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List of unusual deaths – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Death is inevitable. Personally, I’d like my death to be interesting at the least, if not amusing. Always trying to be different, yada yada yada… Wikipedia has a document of unusual deaths. Peruse, enjoy, and if you are like me, be envious. I hope to top them all in 60 years. I dunno, maybe I’ll poop myself, slip on it, and hit my head on the bathtub that my Playmate mistress is relaxing in.
If only I were so lucky…
458 BC: The Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone.
List of unusual deaths – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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