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Monthly Archives: September 2006

Hummerers call Hummerhaters “retarded”

September 30, 2006 – 4:00 pm

 
Yeah, that’s going to make the PR top ten list for sure. via Fark.
When Sonnie Martin recently broke down in Calgary in her Hummer H2, she said she was met with a string of horns, fingers, obscenities and rude comments.
“On that day, I was embarrassed to be a Calgarian,” she wrote to the Calgary Herald.
However, [...]

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Cafferty: what are we becoming

September 30, 2006 – 3:41 pm

Cafferty struck a somber tone tonight after the House passed legislation that includes a war crimes immunity clause. He rightfully asks, “what are we becoming?”Cafferty: President Bush is trying to pardon himself. Here’s the deal: Under the War Crimes Act, violations of the Geneva Conventions are felonies, in some cases punishable [...]

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the wild west lives on

September 30, 2006 – 3:20 pm

“A couple came up to me after it was all over and shook my hand and said, ’We’re from South Carolina, and we just want to thank you, that was the best bar fight and greatest entertainment we’ve ever had,’ ” said Scott Richard of Cody.
Forget Texas; don’t mess with Wyominginans either, apparently. Fark has the [...]

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on the road again

September 30, 2006 – 1:47 am

so blogging will be a little erratic. That’s okay, though: I know that if you’re a reader of this blog you’re very into the erratic arts.
FYI you know how the tarmac on runways and taxiways has those rubber tire marks, in big swooping circles and straight lines and some, heart-stopping times, a series of juddering dark grey [...]

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America 1776-2006: R.I.P.

September 29, 2006 – 9:28 am

Head over to Jesus’ General and pay your respects.
If you have no idea what this is about, check out this remix of a classic, by Karl, one of the General’s loyal soldiers, or the Colbert Report below it.

As long as we’re rewriting the values our nation has so long held dear (from liberty and justice [...]

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jet-set rednecks: incest, inheritance, and independence

September 29, 2006 – 7:34 am

Now, are they not a lovely couple, in a May/December way? But not so lovely when you realize it’s also in a child/progenitor way.
Say hi to Bruce McMahan, McMahan’s Furniture heir, former PaineWebber and Bear Stearns honcho and current (clock ticking) chief of McMahan Securities. She’s Linda Marie Hodge McMahan Schutt, PhD (Psych, natch; draw your [...]

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the middle east explained, in 90 seconds

September 29, 2006 – 4:54 am

No, really. This Flash animation from Maps of War and via Fark, shows five thousand years of history in ninety seconds, and all of a sudden things make a lot more sense. Heck, I’m Christian and even I’d forgotten about the Crusader Kingdoms; I guess in Iraq and Afghanistan we have version 2.0. Well, this puts [...]

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more canuck madness: The Last Saskatchewan Pirate

September 29, 2006 – 1:37 am

Yes, it’s the well-beloved classic from the Arrogant Worms, as enacted by a group of landlocked Canuckistani teenagers. These guys are evidently so Saskatchewani that they can’t even find a puddle to use as a backdrop, and make do with a playground and some barns instead. All in the adaptive, piratical spirit of the original, it [...]

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Canuckistani 2.0: The War of 1812

September 29, 2006 – 12:49 am

This is not the Arrogant Worms; this is Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, and they are performing The War of 1812. Do try to keep your Canuckistani Comedy Troupes straight. We wouldn’t want to have to invade!

O….Come back proud Canadians,
To before you had TV.
No Hockey Night in Canada,
there was no CBC.
In 1812 Madison was [...]

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giant blue lobster caught in Britain

September 28, 2006 – 2:14 pm

 
Bluey, they called him. I guess they’ve got creativity rationing in place in Blighty.  And maybe not so much “Giant” as “Really more than you could eat at one sitting.”
Anyhow, this Ananova report is the third in the “bizarrely-coloured lobster” series, a semi-regular feature on the raincoaster blog. He wins on sheer size and age; he’s [...]

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